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Companies that work with toxic waste need to be very careful about how they dispose of it, so that it doesn’t cause damage to the surrounding environment.

What would you do if your boss started trying to dump a certain type of waste down the drain, but that ended up clogging your machine, which led to you being fired?

That is what happened to the guy in this story, so he is thinking about filing a complaint with the EPA, but he is worried that it would get the company shut down, and he still has friends and family who work there.

I think that he has to tell the EPA. If he doesn’t, the toxic dumping could go on for years, resulting in untold damage to the community. Read through the full story below and see if you agree.

AITA for ratting out former employer about toxic waste after being fired.

I was informed by the foreman at a metalworks factory that tomorrow would be the last day I would be working after 4 years of casual work.

Dumping toxic waste is never allowed.

I was planning on quitting soon, so I am not that upset but I feel like the past 4 years have been a complete waste of my life and that I deserve better.

Part of my job is recycling silica based sand into a machine. It was a wet day and my boss recently realized that pouring hazardous industrial waste water down a rain was illegal.

Shortcuts often make more work down the line.

He has been trying to dispose of it unsuccessfully nearby the machine, and as a result the water ended up in the sand I recycle.

Due to the weather and the toxic water, the wet sand clogged up the machine, which has never happened before in the 4 years of working there.

His forman is blaming the wrong person.

I knew the wet sand was a problem and tried to seperate the wet from the dry without any luck.

It took all day to unclog the machine and as the machine is my responsibility I got a tonne of flack from my foreman who was furious and says tomorrow’s my last day.

He needs to find a way to stop this illegal dumping, that’s for sure.

My boss is still dumping the waste water down the bathroom sink and I am wondering if I should alert the relevant environmental agency to get back at my jerk of a boss.

I think it is a no-brainer that I should do it, but I’m worried the place will be shut down and I have family and friends who work there.

WIBTA?

At the very least, he needs to tell upper management about the situation. If they don’t fix it, then going to the EPA or another agency might be the only option.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a mom who is irate after she gave a group leader money for her daughter’s lunch, only to have him pocket the cash and ask all of the kids to pay their own way.

Read on to see what the people in the comments have to say about this story.

I definitely agree with this guy.

Everyone is at risk if he doesn’t report the company.

This commenter says he should have reported them as soon as he found out about it.

His motives are not good at all.

Why didn’t he report them right from the beginning?

He will be doing the right thing, but for the wrong reasons. Honestly, he should have reported this illegal dumping to the EPA after the very first time he saw it. The fact that he is only doing it now because he was fired is just crazy.

While it is true that this might end up hurting his friends and family in the short term, it would protect them from the toxic waste down the road, which is good.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a stepmom who says stepson isn’t doing enough, despite the fact that he’s working 12-hour shifts to pay for his own college.

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Breakups can get messy when pets are involved. Unlike furniture or a car, you can’t just split a cat in half and send each person home with their share.

That’s what this man discovered after adopting two cats with his ex nearly a decade ago.

At first, they shared responsibility for the animals after the relationship ended. However, years passed and life went on, so the cat settled into a new routine.

Now his ex wants the cat back, and he has no intention of handing her over.

The only problem is that his ex has a history of making difficult situations even more stressful. So, he’s unsure how to tell her.

Read on for the full scoop.

AITA for not give up my cat that my ex and I got when we were together after she hasn’t seen her or asked about her in the past 3 years?

We adopted 2 cats 9-10 years ago. We broke up 5 years ago and shared responsibilities for them for about a year.

After that, she moved in with her new bf and my gf moved in with me. She couldn’t take the cat that she considered more so hers, because he had a dog that was a known animal killer.

We have been civil since. She asked about the cats here and there but didn’t want to visit, as she thought it would be like “teasing” the cats that she is back only to leave again. She wanted to take the cat but couldn’t do so, though she could after his dog passed.

Now she doesn’t have a dog, she wants the cat back.

Fast forward to today, and his dog has passed, and she said it’s time to bring her home.

Since my new gf has moved in, we both have grown very attached to the cat. The kitty was very depressed after her adoptive mother passed late last year, and then my mother’s cat, that I brought home 4 years prior, passed earlier this year.

She has just gotten used to her new normal and is now a senior, solo kitty, and I don’t want to do anything that would distress her.

He has no plans of giving her up.

We have decided we will not give her up and not offer visitation in fear that she will take her and we won’t ever see her again.

I had gone to a lot of therapy because of my ex, and manipulation was at the forefront of a lot of those sessions.

I paid for her when she didn’t have a job and still gave her money after we broke up and let her use my car until I could no longer financially sustain it.

Now, he’s stressed and unsure how to tell his ex.

I feel like she is again trying to manipulate me into giving her the cat, and I am fearing that she will make this a tumultuous experience when I say no. I’m trying to figure out the gentlest way of saying no to try to avoid a confrontation.

This whole thing has me so stressed out, and I haven’t replied. All I know is that she isn’t getting her.

My ex has since had a child of her own with the guy she left me for, and I feel that it’d be best for her to get a kitten from the shelter like how we got the cat she is wanting to take back. I just have no idea how to tell her any of this without her blowing up on me.

I have even gone as far as changing my lock because I can’t remember if she has a key to my place.

AITA?

Yikes! It’s too bad he can’t just ignore her.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a young woman who struggles with her new reality after learning her adoption story was a lie.

Let’s see what the people over at Reddit think he should do about it.

This reader thinks the cat is best off with him.

Exactly. The cat doesn’t know her anymore.

So true!

This person thinks he should block her.

He should keep the cat and stop worrying so much about what his ex thinks.

Five years have passed! During that time, the cat built a life with him and his girlfriend, and that’s the home she knows.

At some point, he needs to stop treating this like an open negotiation. The answer is no.

He doesn’t owe a long explanation or a compromise. Tell her the cat is staying where she is, wish her well, and move on. End of story.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a family who is resisting pressure from the HOA to remove their tree and lights.

The post The Ultimate Pet Custody Nightmare: Woman Sparks Bitter War by Demanding the Return of an Aging Cat She Abandoned Half a Decade Ago appeared first on TwistedSifter.

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Most neighbor disputes start with something minor: noise, property lines, overgrown bushes. But when one neighbor repeatedly damages your property and refuses to take accountability, frustration can build fast.

This homeowner says trouble started shortly after a new neighbor moved in next door. From the beginning, the relationship felt tense. According to OP, the neighbor entered their yard without permission, cut down part of a bush near the property line, and tossed the trimmings back into their yard without explanation. Things escalated from there.

The bigger issue involved a retaining wall in OP’s front yard that had been professionally installed as part of landscaping gifted by family. Not long after moving in, the neighbor allegedly began running over the edge of the wall with her lifted truck, causing repeated damage. Even after repairs, the same thing kept happening. OP says the neighbor never apologized, denied responsibility at first, and only agreed to reimburse repair costs after being confronted directly.

Now, after another repair, OP is considering installing a metal post on her own property to protect the wall, but her husband thinks that crosses a line.

WIBTAH if I put a post in my yard that could damage my neighbor’s truck?

My husband (29M) and I (28F) have lived in our home for over six years now. Our house is over 100 years old and we’ve slowly been making improvements when we can.

When we got married my father-in-law gifted us landscaping for our front yard. We planned out what we wanted, talked to a landscaper, and he wanted to pay for it as a wedding present.

The landscaping was completed over three years ago and we were very pleased and appreciative for such a great gift. The landscaping included a much needed retaining wall where there was a low patch in our front yard that previously turned into a mud pit when it rained.

What a lovely gift.

Fast forward to last year and our neighbors sold their house to a new owner. Almost immediately after she moved in she made it clear that she was going to be unpleasant to live next to.

In the first week or so living there she came into our backyard and chopped the top off of one of our juniper bushes and threw it into our yard. The bushes were next to her garage, but clearly in our yard.

It’s an old neighborhood and a lot of the garages were built long after the homes so everything behind the houses is very close together. Her garage is very close to the property line and maybe even a little bit on our property.

Not very neighborly.

We would’ve understood if she didn’t like the bushes. They were looking scraggly and landscaping for our backyard was next on our list for improvements. However, she gave no explanation and she hadn’t even introduced herself to us. I knew she did it because I could see her from my dining room window.

We ended up clearing all three of the bushes out by her garage because they were unattractive (especially after having the top lopped off of one).

About a week later she ran over our retaining wall with her lifted truck. It damaged the wall, but her truck is so tall it did no damage to her vehicle. Again, she never talked to us about it or apologized but I had seen her do it because I’m home all day.

How rude.

That summer we had the same landscaping company do work on our backyard so we asked them to add on a repair for the front yard retaining wall. The repair cost $100 and we paid it because we didn’t want a confrontation with our neighbor. One week after the wall was repaired she hit it again. Still we had no apology from her.

We’re outside a lot, so we thought eventually she would approach us about it so we gave her time. She never did.

One day I saw her walking her dog and came outside to discuss it. I just opened by saying that I wanted to talk about our retaining wall and she responded back by saying that she didn’t know how the wall was damaged.

Bracing myself for the response…

When I said I’d seen her run over it with her truck many times she started making excuses. She said the wall is too close to her driveway and that it could’ve been a delivery driver or any random person who used her driveway.

I stayed firm. Initially, I was just going to ask her to pay for the next repair, but I decided that since she didn’t even apologize, I would ask her to reimburse us for the initial repair as well as the upcoming repair.

She agreed, but said it wasn’t a big deal and she couldn’t make any promises she wouldn’t just hit it again.

Wow.

The wall was repaired again yesterday and this is the part that my husband says I would be the AH for. I put an ornamental iron post at the edge of our wall, but completely on our side of the property. That way it would be easier to see where the wall is, but if she hit the wall again she would also hit the post and it would probably damage her truck.

My husband told me to take the post down. He said I was being vindictive and immature. I took it down immediately after I put it up, but I really want to prevent further damage to our property. I don’t want her to hit the wall again, but if she did hit it and our wall wasn’t the only thing being damaged I think she’d be less likely to do it again.

So, would I be the AH if I put the post back?

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Reddit came down firmly on NTA, with commenters overwhelmingly agreeing that OP has every right to protect her property after giving this neighbor far more patience than most people would have. Many readers were stunned by the neighbor’s repeated behavior—not just damaging the retaining wall multiple times, but cutting plants on OP’s property, refusing to apologize, denying responsibility, and openly admitting she might continue hitting the wall in the future.

For most commenters, that was the key issue: this stopped being an accident a long time ago. At this point, the neighbor is fully aware of the wall, fully aware she’s caused damage, and still refuses to change her behavior. That made many feel OP is well within her rights to install a post, marker, or barrier on her own property to prevent further damage.

A lot of commenters also pushed back on the idea that protecting your property is somehow vindictive just because the neighbor’s truck might get damaged if she hits it again. Their view was simple: if the post is clearly visible and entirely on OP’s property, any damage caused by hitting it would be the neighbor’s responsibility, not OP’s.

The overwhelming takeaway was that OP isn’t creating the problem, she’s responding to one.

This person says the only way OP is the AH is if they DON’T put it back up.

This person agrees.

And this person says it was literally a hit and run…no questions here.

If your neighbor keeps driving into your property after multiple warnings, whatever she hits next is on her.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a man who got creative with his parking after his neighbors started using his extra spot without asking.

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It’s pretty interesting when you get out into “the real world” and you see how different companies operate.

Heck, I even thought it was eye-opening when I started working in high school and learned about how some businesses function…and it wasn’t always pretty.

And, let’s be honest: in the corporate world, there’s a lot of sucking up and kissing up going on.

The person who wrote this story got their first adult job recently and they’re pretty shocked at what they’ve seen so far.

Read on and check out what they had to say about this.

First real job and the brown nosing culture is insane, is this normal?

“I’ve been working at my first “real” job for about 6 months now.

It’s a small-ish company (around 50 employees), in-person. Before this I only did an internship, so this is my first time seeing office culture up close.

It’s not pretty out there…

What’s blowing my mind is how intense the brown-nosing is towards the bosses. I knew this kind of thing existed in theory, but seeing it daily is another level.

I’ve seen this kind of behavior from multiple coworkers (not just one person), but here are some of the most extreme examples:

Every single day, they go to the CEO’s office door at the end of the day just to knock and say good night. They’re literally the only person who does this, and it’s every day.

This is kind of hilarious.

They got the exact same haircut as one of the female managers.

In the team WhatsApp group, they agree with and laugh at everything one of the bosses says, even when it’s not funny at all.

They adopted a cat just because one of the bosses adopted a cat. They don’t even like animals that much.

Good lord, this is dumb.

They started going to a super expensive gym just because the bosses train there, bought a Whoop because our manager bought one, and even started smoking just to join him on smoke breaks.

They even came to work on a public holiday. Like, actually showed up at the office on a holiday.

And there are more little things I’ve seen but can’t even remember all of them right now.

Meanwhile I’m just here doing my job, being polite and professional, but not trying to become the bosses’ best friend or copy their lifestyle. Watching this stuff every day makes me feel like I’m in some weird simulation.

What’s the point?

Is this kind of brown-nosing actually common/normal?

Does this actually work long-term in terms of promotions, or is it just cringe?

I’m genuinely curious about your most absurd brown-nosing / bootlicking stories.

Make me feel less alone, please.”

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Reddit users shared their thoughts.

This person weighed in.

Another individual shared their thoughts.

This Reddit user spoke up.

Another Reddit user shared their thoughts.

And this person had a lot to say.

As annoying as it can be to see how places like this operate, the best thing to do is work hard, keep your head down, and not get involved in any kind of office politics.

Well, that’s my advice, at least…

But that’s just me! To each their own!

Brown-nosing is alive and well in the workplace, friends!

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a man who stops speaking up in his Zoom meetings after getting constantly interrupted.

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It’s a tale as old as time itself…

I’m talking about people having to deal with crazy neighbors who make life a living hell!

It’s a sad state of affairs, folks…

But here we go again!

A woman talked about how her neighbor is driving her crazy…and she’s tired of dealing with this nonsense!

Read on and get all the details below.

Neighbor insists vibrations/noise are coming from my place.

“I (F26) live in a condo and my upstairs neighbor (female, probably in her 50s or 60s) has repeatedly complained about “constant vibrations” and noise supposedly coming from my unit.

Phantom sounds, perhaps…?

The problem is… there is no such thing that could be causing this.

The first time she approached me was shortly after I moved in (~3 years ago). She told me my TV was too loud past 10 PM on a Saturday and said she could feel vibrations in her wall.

I was honestly shocked because I barely had anything set up yet, and I keep my soundbar at an extremely low volume. After that interaction, I basically tiptoed around my own condo for months because I didn’t want to come across as the inconsiderate new neighbor.

That sucks…

This was also my first purchased home, so I was pretty sad that it felt like all my sounds were being closely monitored. Our walls/flooring are no where near paper thin or poor quality either and i have carpet floors, which i know helps with noise.

A few months later, she came down again while I had two of my girlfriends over. She complained, once again, about noise right around the time of our town quiet hours (10/11 PM on weekends).

Since then, I haven’t really had people over because I didn’t want more issues or to feel anxiety about simply laughing and watching a show with my friends.

Since then, she has also come down to tell me to stop slamming my door and I kindly told her it was the neighbor below me who is doing this (it’s quite loud, but not often enough that I care).

This lady is something else…

Then this past January, she came down..holding our printed HOA rules…and told me she’d been hearing and feeling vibrations in her floor for months. She specifically said she thought it was “100% caused by my fans or an air purifier in my condo”.

Pretty specific thing to accuse someone of when she has no idea what I do and don’t have in my place. She was decently polite, even though it was a strange interaction. I told her multiple times I had nothing running of this capacity to be causing such a disturbance.

This is pretty ironic…

She mentioned it was “starting to drive her crazy.”

I told her I had nothing running like this besides a fan at night and if this problem kept up, to come down and talk to me again.

I even told her she could come in and see for herself, which she responded “I’m not doing that!”, as if i was crazy for trying to show her I’m not the problem here.

During this chat, she also brought up hearing drilling one week, which was true — my boyfriend had installed two light fixtures for me during the daytime.

Get your facts straight, lady!

I believe she brought this up thinking that I’m a renter and I’m not allowed to be drilling in walls. What she doesn’t know is that i own the place. I know from research online, that she is renting.

Fast forwarding to this month (May 2026), my boyfriend had already been living with me for almost a year, and we are genuinely very quiet people.

We don’t host people/parties, don’t vacuum late at night or early morning, barely even use the TV, and we literally keep our microwave beeper turned off because we both dislike unnecessary noise ourselves.

Things escalated recently this past week. She stopped my boyfriend outside while he was leaving for work. He simply said a friendly “hello” to her, and she immediately started yelling at him saying that we “need to turn our fans off” and that we were “violating the law by creating an unlivable environment for her.”

I overheard and saw the interaction from inside my condo on my ring camera and was honestly shocked by how aggressive it was, especially because this was basically the first time she had ever interacted with him.

Just really gross entitled behavior.

What’s confusing is that after her earlier complaints, I told her multiple times to please let me know if problems continued. I never heard from her again for months, so I assumed things were resolved.

This lady have some issues…

Then suddenly she’s acting like we’ve been continuously disrupting her life this entire time on purpose.

Meanwhile, over the past several months, I’ve regularly heard extremely loud banging or heavy objects being dropped from her unit, often in the exact same spot.

I never complained because after our first few interactions, I just wanted to avoid conflict and contact with her. But after the way she spoke to my boyfriend, I’ve honestly started wondering whether some of it is intentional frustration being taken out on us.

Another factor is that she appears to almost never leave her condo. I mean maybe once every couple of weeks from what I’ve noticed.

So part of me wonders whether she’s become hyper-aware of normal condo/building noises and vibrations (pipes, HVAC systems, neighboring units, structural sounds, etc.) because she’s home 24/7.

We recently spoke to a few other neighbors, and multiple people told us they’ve had negative interactions with her too, complaints about doors closing, carrying furniture upstairs, normal living noise, etc.

So now I’m realizing what type of person this really is.

Since the incident with my boyfriend, we’ve tried knocking on her door twice to calmly talk things through, but she never answered.

I ended up leaving her a polite note explaining that I have genuinely tried to respect her concerns, but there is truly nothing in my condo that should be causing ongoing vibrations like she describes.

She’s doing her best here!

I also explained that I don’t want us living in a hostile environment where neighbors are yelling at each other. I told her she was welcome to reach out if she wanted to discuss things further, but I never heard back.

I did see her taking out the trash the other day as I was getting out of my car, and once she saw me and my boyfriend, she just stopped in her tracks and starred at us. It genuinely creeped me out bad.

At this point, I’m considering contacting the HOA just to formally document everything and ask whether there could be some other building-related source causing these vibrations because I’m tired of being afraid of seeing this lady and scared of the next time she’s going to come downstairs to complain about something.

Being that I’ve seen that she has been renting this unit for 4 years now, and I’ve owned for 3 years here (as well as lived here), is there anything you all would suggest I do, if anything at all I guess?

Just getting ready tired of all these interactions one after another.”

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a townhome owner who is at his wit’s end with the noise from next door.

Now check out what readers had to say about this.

This person weighed in.

Another reader had a lot to say.

This Reddit user asked a question.

Another individual shared their thoughts.

And this person spoke up.

I think one of the commenters here might be on to something…

Perhaps this woman is deteriorating mentally?

It sure doesn’t look good, whatever the case is.

Her neighbor is genuinely starting to creep her out…

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a man who reported some missionaries after frustration over lack of parking boils over.

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For most of us, hair grows back.

That’s one reason so many people see a haircut as a low-risk way to try something new and express themselves.

Unfortunately, though, not everyone sees it that way.

This young woman had wanted shorter hair for a long time, and she couldn’t have been happier with the result. But her mother, on the other hand, reacted as though she’d done something terrible.

Sadly, the criticism didn’t stop after the first haircut either. Instead, things escalated when she decided to make another change a few months later.

Read on to see what her mother said.

AITA for cutting my hair short, knowing it would cause distress in my family?

A couple of months ago, in April, I (18F) got a haircut without telling my parents. I went from long hair to a mullet-esque style.

When I got home and my mom saw, she was immediately very upset. She was yelling and calling a bunch of people in the family to tell them about how I ruined my hair. Telling them that I want to look like a boy now. Then ignoring me for weeks.

Flash forward to today. I had told my mom that I want my hair shorter at the sides and front, to which she offered to do it herself. I didn’t want that because I know she wouldn’t cut as much as I’d like or would try to control the style even if I didn’t like it.

Suddenly, her mother barged in her room.

So I went and had it done (still the same length in the back, just slightly shorter bangs, and a piece on both sides of my head is shaved) and came home, to which she stated multiple times that she didn’t like how it looks.

I told her that’s fine that she doesn’t like it.

I go to my room, and she comes in crying and asking why I can’t just “conduct myself properly for myself, the family, and society.”

She went on to say that the haircut is so ugly and everyone will talk about me behind my back. And then she added that she is okay with me being a ******* (she’s not), but why can’t I just be feminine?

And she didn’t stop there.

She said she hates that I’m doing this to her and to stop immediately or else. What this “else” is has yet to be determined.

It’s complicated because, of course, I don’t want to upset my parents, and I do still live with them, but that situation is not changing anytime soon. They’re Indo-Caribbean and carry those values, though I was born and raised in Canada.

Honestly, I’ve loved having short hair. I’ve wanted it for so long. I’ve gotten more compliments than I can count on it, and a few from absolute strangers even. It’s easier to manage the heat, maintain, wash, and work out with it. I think it looks great, and I definitely feel more like me with it. I don’t think I’d ever want to go back to having long hair.

AITA?

Wow! It sounds like her mother has some issues that need worked out.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a stepmom who says stepson isn’t doing enough, despite the fact that he’s working 12-hour shifts to pay for his own college.

Let’s see what the readers over at Reddit suggest she do.

Technically, a down payment could be toward a rental too.

That’s a very valid point.

For this reader, it’s just hair.

It does say a lot.

Her mother needs to take a step back.

We’re talking about hair. It isn’t permanent, and it will grow back if she ever decides she wants a different style.

So, rather than turning it into a debate about family values and what other people might think, her mother needs to accept that she likes the haircut and it’s not going anywhere.

If she loves it, that should be enough.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a stepmom who says stepson isn’t doing enough, despite the fact that he’s working 12-hour shifts to pay for his own college.

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My fellow Americans…

What the hell are we doing?!?!

We’re working ourselves to the bone and it seems like the concept of enjoying ourselves has fallen by the wayside…

And this person is done dealing with it!

He wrote the story below and he decided that he didn’t want to play by the American rules anymore.

Let’s take a look at what they had to say!

I have a new goal, work 1.5 hours less each day at work.

“I was listening to Planet Money today and they cited a statistic that I took major note of and turned it into a goal of mine.

Due to PTO policies, Europeans work 1.5 hours less each day at work than Americans do.

5 days a week, that’s 7.5 hours per week, (basically a 32.5 day work week), and 390 hours a year, or 48.75 work days a year, if you consider 8 hours to be a work day.

We’re getting the shaft!

I’ve been in the US workforce since 2010, putting in over a month of extra work in comparison to our neighbors across the pond, and I’m officially done, and I’m taking it back starting today.

Here’s the plan…

So, while I can’t simply not be at work 1 extra day a week, I can, and intend to, commit to not doing work 90 extra minutes a day, on top of my 75 minutes of current break time (45 minute lunch, plus two 15-minute breaks).

I will be setting an hour and a half timer on my phone each day, pausing it if something immediate comes up, and starting it again once I get done.

I will make sure that 90 minutes is filled with non-work related activities (Internet, reddit, going outside, etc).

Go on with your bad self!

I have no more intention of waiting around until we make the system as a whole, better. I’m simply going to make my system of work better, and I encourage others to do the same, if at all possible.

I welcome any and all ideas on how to do this even better than my current plan.”

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about an employee who works fast and helps her coworkers, but is met with disapproval from her supervisor because of this practice

Check out what readers had to say about this.

This person weighed in.

Another Reddit user shared their thoughts.

This reader had a lot to say.

Another individual spoke up.

And this reader chimed in.

Hey, if you can pull this off, more power to ya!

Let’s just hope their boss doesn’t catch on.

But one thing’s for sure, remember to treat yourself every once in a while.

Hopefully they don’t get caught trying this out at work…

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When you first start at a new job, the sheer number of new people you need to get to know can feel quite overwhelming. But over time, as you settle in, people will start revealing their true characters to you, just as you will to them. And as you become more and more relaxed around one another, you’ll be able to find out who in the office are truly your people.

The woman in this story has been at her job for some time, and is knowledgeable about the folk she does and doesn’t want to spend her time with. Unfortunately, another woman who works in the office has decided that she very much is her person – even though the feeling is not reciprocal. That would be fine on the surface, but when the other woman’s behaviour becomes increasingly annoying, this woman knew she had to take further action.

Read on to find out what happened.

My coworker has zero boundaries, stalks me to prayer times, and treats my desk like a playground. I’m losing my mind.

I (female) need to rant because I am at my absolute wits’ end with a female coworker in my office, and I’m starting to feel like I’m losing my sanity.

For context, she is a bit older than me (late thirties) and comes from a very privileged background. At first, I tried to be nice and polite, but she quickly turned into a complete energy vampire.

She uses me to dump all her emotional baggage, but the second I ask a simple question about her life—like asking for her Instagram handle—she literally lies to my face and says she doesn’t have one (spoiler: she does, she just wants to keep her life exclusive while invading mine).

Lately, her behaviour has crossed from annoying into completely suffocating and weird.

Let’s see what else she is doing to be so unsettling to this woman.

She is not a punctual or regular prayer-goer at all. But the *second* I get up from my desk to go for Namaz, she suddenly materialises and follows me there. It’s like she’s tracking my exact daily movements just to force her presence on me during a time meant for peace and reflection.

She constantly walks over to my seat, peeks directly at my monitor to see what I’m working on, and offers totally useless comments.

I keep a plushie and my personal diary on my desk. She will literally come over, grab my plushie without asking, and start playing with it. Last week, she took the thumb pins out of my stationery organiser and started sticking them directly into my diary cover!

I literally had to remove the pins from my table just to stop a grown woman from vandalizing my stuff.

But her behaviour gets even worse than this.

If things don’t go her way, she gets aggressive, rude, and starts misbehaving in the office.

Just today, she got into a massive, petty argument with another guy in the department because she missed his lunch call, giving some absurd, childish excuse that “school kids were too noisy” downstairs (our office is above a mall).

I have tried giving polite corporate hints, but she has absolutely zero social awareness. Today, she texted me to make lunch plans, and I finally just decided to choose peace: I didn’t even open the chat. I’m completely ghosting her messages now because it’s the only way to save my mental health.

I feel a little guilty because I’m naturally a polite person, but I cannot set myself on fire just to keep this woman entertained anymore.

Whether she’s trying to be a friend or not, this woman’s behaviour has gone far beyond what is appropriate.

It’s clear that these two don’t have the same vibe, and she’s finding the other woman’s behaviour overbearing.

She needs some boundaries, and she needs them fast.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a hotel guest who complained about noise from an event, then reported the employee who agreed with him.

Let’s see what folks on Reddit made of this.

This person agreed that she needed boundaries.

While others shared similar situations they’d been in.

Meanwhile, this Redditor thought it would be a good idea to ask for her seat to be moved.

Honestly, getting moved is not a bad idea – especially if there are spaces in different areas of the office or even in different offices altogether. Because while she’s still close to this woman, this bad behaviour is likely to continue. Of course, if she’s happy where she is, it’s absolutely okay to simply try to have an honest conversation with the woman, tell her that her behaviour is bothering her and explain that she needs some space – but whether or not that will work depends a lot on the co-worker herself.

But if she does confront the issue, explain what is bothering her and how she’d like to be treated going forward, at least her co-worker’s refusal to do so (if that were the case) can become an HR issue. Because this woman deserves to have her space, deserves not to have her things touched or damaged, and deserves to pray in peace. Any decent person would respect that – regardless of how upsetting it might be.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about an employee who just let clients complain after her boss refused to approve overtime.

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If you hand a fragile, expensive item to a six-year-old and tell him to carry it somewhere, you’ve accepted a certain level of risk. That’s not a controversial opinion — that’s just how kids work.

They drop things, they trip, they grip too hard, their hands are dirty.

But one woman’s sister did exactly that, handing her boyfriend’s expensive fast charger to her nephew and asking him to bring it downstairs to their dad instead of walking it down herself.

So when the wire snapped in transit, the sister immediately blamed the child, claimed he did it on purpose, and then pivoted to demanding the mom pay for the damage.

Considering the fact the mom wasn’t even aware her son had been asked to carry anything, she’s refusing to pay for a decision she had no part in making.

Keep reading for the full drama.

AITA for refusing to pay back my sister for her expensive charger?

I (F30) work from home as a single mum and live with my sister (24) and son (6).

Our dad came to visit us from abroad and was downstairs watching TV with my son whilst I was working.

The drama all started with a charger.

Our dad asked to borrow my sister’s expensive fast charger (unbeknownst it actually belongs to her boyfriend), so my sister (who was in her room) called my son upstairs to bring it to our dad and gave it to him to do so.

I was unaware of this.

In this time, he went to bring it to our dad and the wire snapped.

All chaos soon breaks loose.

My sister at first claimed he did it deliberately because he “always breaks things like his toys.”

So then I pointed out that breaking a toy or something he is playing with whether on purpose (which I have never seen myself) or not is different because it’s his.

If she asks him to do something with her belongings, he wouldn’t just take it and break it for no reason instead of just giving it to my dad.

Then the matter of repayment arises.

Then she said regardless he broke it so I should pay.

I am refusing because I didn’t agree to him giving our dad the charger as I wasn’t aware of this agreement and it could have been something even more expensive and I cannot afford this.

She thinks the whole thing should have gone down differently.

He’s 6 and clumsy and if the charger was so expensive and belonged to her boyfriend, I think my sister should have given it to our dad.

She’s saying she had no idea he was so clumsy/would have broken it and regardless expects me to pay and says her boyfriend agrees.

AITA?

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a woman who stirred up family drama by finally choosing her own mom over her in-laws.

What did Reddit have to say?

This user has their own theory entirely.

This user shares where they think the responsibility lies.

Her sister really needs to pick a lane.

Kids and breaking things practically go together.

Blaming a six-year-old for being six years old after you handed him something fragile and expensive is just low.

It’s not like the kid snuck into her room to grab the charger. He was only doing exactly what was asked of him.

It’s telling that her sister’s argument changed the second her first one fell apart, going from “he did it on purpose” to “doesn’t matter, pay up.”

The mom is right to refuse. She wasn’t consulted and she didn’t consent.

It’s high time her sibling own up to her shortcomings.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a middle schooler who was totally frazzled after being left to babysit alone for 3-plus hours, and swears she’s never doing it again.

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I don’t like HOAs. A lot of people feel that way. But if you live in an HOA, sometimes your dues go towards community amenities such as a swimming pool, playground or a lake stocked with fish.

In this story, one homeowner shares that she lives in a neighborhood where the HOA dues go towards maintaining a private lake and keeping it stocked with fish. The lake is for HOA members only, but apparently it’s not gated or fenced off because sometimes people who don’t live there use the lake too.

The homeowner noticed a family fishing at the lake, a family who is not a member of the HOA, so she asked them to leave. Now, she’s wondering if she was wrong to enforce the HOA rules.

Keep reading for all the details.

AITA for having a family removed from a private lake neighborhood?

I live in a private neighborhood built around a lake. Essentially, the lake is in the middle and a road runs in a circle around it with houses on the road.

Everyone who buys a house here pays an HOA fee to help take care of the neighborhood. Fixing docks, stocking the lake with fish, clubhouse maintenance, etc. Not a big body of water, about 1.5 miles around.

There are lots of signs, including a big one right when you drive in, saying that the neighborhood is private for members and guests only.

Only people in the HOA are supposed to use the lake.

In the past month, all homeowners have gotten letters from the HOA saying to be on the lookout for people who don’t living coming to fish since a lot of public parks have been closed.

If we see someone who doesn’t live here and doesn’t have lake tags signifying that they are a guest, we should tell them to leave or call the maintenance guy who will handle it.

You can see where this is going.

OP encountered a family fishing.

A week ago I leave my house and see a pickup pulled up to the dock in front on my house. There is a guy (dad) and his two small kids there fishing.

I have never seen them before, so I go up to them and strike up a conversation. I ask where they live and they say that they don’t live here but heard about the lake from one of their friends who also doesn’t live there.

We talk for a few more minutes and I tell the dad (whispering so the kids don’t hear) that this is a private neighborhood and that they technically aren’t allowed to fish here if they aren’t a member or guest. I then say that they must not have known that and tell them to finish fishing for a day. I even offered to give them lake tags if anyone else hasseles them about being there.

The guy thanks me, says he didn’t know, and continues fishing the next few hours that I could tell after I went back inside.

The same family came back.

Two days later, I am going for a walk around the lake and I see the same family fishing at another dock (not in front of my house). I ask the dad if he has tags and he says he doesn’t, but that his kids want to fish and they aren’t hurting anyone.

I say I understand that, but the people that live here pay for the lake, the docks, and the fish in it and it isn’t for just anyone to come here and use.

We get into it and I tell him to leave.

We can do this the easy way or the hard way…

He refuses, calmly, and I tell him that our maintenance guy will be here in 10 minutes and he better find some tags in that time period or else he’s getting dragged out.

I get back to my house, call the maintenance guy, and I see the maintenance guy drive up to them from my window and presumably tell them to leave which they do.

Am I a jerk here? On one hand, it is private property and I let them stay and finish the first day when I could have easily kicked them out. On the other hand, they weren’t hurting anyone.

It’s one thing when the family clearly doesn’t know they’re breaking the rules, but when they came back, they simply didn’t care about the rules. I don’t think OP did anything wrong.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a homeowner who responded to an HOA violation letter by investigating the bylaws and having the whole board removed.

Let’s see if Reddit agrees.

This is a good point.

This person knows how the maintenance guy feels.

It could’ve been worse!

Here’s another good point.

Their HOA dues are paying for the fish in the lake, so when the family who doesn’t live there trespasses and fishes, they’re really stealing the fish the HOA members own.

It’s unfortunate to end a family’s fun, but they were breaking the rules. In this case it was two strikes and you’re out.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a family who is resisting pressure from the HOA to remove their tree and lights.

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When you get fired from a job, it is normal to take your personal belongings home with you when you leave, even if they were used as part of the job.

What would you do if you put together an art supply kit to use with the kids you watched as a live-in nanny, but when you took them with you after being fired, the family said you were being shady?

That is what happened to the young woman in this story, but she doesn’t think she did anything wrong since she paid for the supplies with her own money. Her family is split on the subject.

Personally, I think the only reason it might have been a bad idea is that she will want a good reference from the family. Read through all the details and see if you agree.

AITA for taking my craft bag back after I was fired?

I was recently fired from my live in nanny job after a week, being told that they decided a “live in nanny just wasn’t for them”.

It is terrible that they just changed their mind after a week.

They said it was nothing personal, it was all them. They gave me 2 hours to clean out my things.

Before I started this job, I created a huge art kit for the kids with my own money.

She put a lot of time and money into this.

I bought paints, paper, crayons and coloring books. The kids and I used some of it but I had more plans for the coming weeks.

I decided to take the stuff we hadn’t used for a future job. I left behind the colored in coloring books and used paints, but took the unopened things and the reusable tote I put them in.

It is not shady to take your personal belongings with you after you’ve been fired.

As I was leaving, the dad saw this and said the kids would be sad if I took that. I said it was property to use with the kids that I paid for.

Later when I was at my parents’ and looking for a new job, the mom texted and said that was a shady thing to do. I didn’t respond.

How can it be wrong to take your things with you?

My parents are torn. My mom says I was in the right, my dad says I should’ve just left it.

AITA?

The only way that Dad is right here is that it might make it so that the family won’t give her a good reference, which would be very important. Beyond that, she did absolutely nothing wrong.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a mom who is irate after she gave a group leader money for her daughter’s lunch, only to have him pocket the cash and ask all of the kids to pay their own way.

Check out what the people in the comments have to say about this story.

Here is someone who has lots of experience working as a nanny.

I agree. Why didn’t they offer to buy the art supplies?

The family is in the wrong here, but there are several reasons at play.

This family was way out of line. I wouldn’t want to work for them.

I agree, this was a low blow.

What kind of person expects someone to leave their personal belongings behind after getting fired? If the family wanted them, they could have offered to buy them from her, but they didn’t seem willing to do that.

I think she did the right thing by taking her things with her. And if the family gives her a bad review because of it, that is on them.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about an employee who rejects a low contract offer and leaves the company instead.

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We’ve said it before and we’re gonna say it again, folks…

Some people just have too much time on their hands!

Instead of being productive, they choose to spend their free time bothering other folks.

What a way to live, right?

In today’s story, a person went on the record and complained about a neighbor of their who makes a HUGE deal…about EVERYTHING.

Take a look at what they had to say.

Harassing me over a parking spot.

“This lady is the definition of a Karen.

Narcissistic

Entitled

Old

Bitty

She has been harassing me over “these” parking spots since Day One and now my mental state is being affected.

Things aren’t going well, that’s for sure!

I have lived in my complex for 6 years, never have had a problem until she moves in, and now she wants to say I’m the problem?

It’s me? I started this?

She spies on me, she acts like she knows my whole life story from staring at me through her windows. Thinks she knows everything about me.

This is pretty creepy…

When I go outside there she is, when I come home from work there she is.

I’m outside playing with my dog and she’s on her porch lurking at me. One day I caught her taking pictures of my license plates for who knows what.

The Property Manager has never said anything to me about anything. Not once. Even our maintenance guy can’t stand her and says she’s just a miserable old lady with nothing else to do but make problems.

I loathe a person who tries to make everyone’s business theirs.

She’s doing this just to cause problems…

Mind you, there is zero assigned parking and none of these spots are handicapped marked. We as tenants can park where ever whenever (first come first serve).

The tipping point for me was when I came home from being gone all weekend. I came home, unloaded my bags and decided to go get food.

This lady has way too much time on her hands.

So I went back out to leave and there she is pulling up, parked in an empty spot 3 spots down from me. As soon as she realized I was leaving she backed out of that spot, and waited for me to back out and leave so she could take the spot I was in.

What the hell?

As if it matters!

This lady will literally park, wait for me to leave, and then come back out just to move her car into the spot I was in.

So after I came home from getting food, she’s outside waiting for me so she can start throwing insults in my face, calling me a fat pig and how I need to move my vehicles so she can park there.

I told her to get away from me, grow up, stop harassing me for a parking spot when she has 50 others to choose from and all she can say is “go to Hell.”

Not very intelligent either apparently, never has anything to say about why she does what she does. She just likes to call me names like a 5 year old. I can’t stand her anymore.

I’ve filled a couple claims against her for harassing/insulting me but they haven’t done anything.

She finally started parking in a spot thats on the very end of the parking lot, so I can at least be glad she’s not in between me and my other car.

It’s definitely helping my mental (having peace) like I can breathe again.

I just want her away from me.”

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a townhome owner who is at his wit’s end with the noise from next door.

Reddit users spoke up.

This person weighed in.

Another reader shared their thoughts.

And this individual has an idea…

Have you ever had to deal with a neighbor like this?

It ain’t pretty, friends!

In fact, it can make a person not even want to go outside for fear of having yet another run-in with that person.

This neighbor is totally unhinged! Yowza!

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a homeowner who responded to an HOA violation letter by investigating the bylaws and having the whole board removed.

The post “She Tracks My Every Move”: Stressed Resident Exposes the Unhinged Neighbor Who Files Complaints Over Literally Everything appeared first on TwistedSifter.

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Imagine feeling sick and testing positive for Covid. You obviously wouldn’t go to work.

What would you do if you called in sick, but your supervisor insisted that you had to go to work anyway unless you had a doctor’s note? Would you go in sick or call your doctor?

In this story, one employee was in this situation and decided to call his doctor. I love how the doctor handled that situation. It was definitely malicious compliance. You can tell from his response that he doesn’t like employers who insist on a doctor’s note.

Keep reading for all the details.

New supervisor asked me for doctor’s note

My company is very busy and very short of staff and is asking everyone for overtime and imploring to come and work on their days off.

I got sick last week was feeling very poorly and took a Covid test and it was positive, this was on my day off,called work said I’m positive for Covid and won’t go to work on the next couple of days.

They said ok no problem.

It can take awhile to get over Covid.

Two days later on Monday I’m feeling worst and called again and asked for my supervisor.

He wasn’t there and I talked with the new assistant that started 2 weeks ago and tell him I’m taking another couple of days since I’m feeling very bad with coughing and muscle pain.

And he tells No,I have to come to work sick or get a doctors note(it’s very hard to see a doctor where I live if you have Covid) where I am the government asks employers not to ask for doctor’s note for Covid since all doctors are busy and overworked.

The supervisor insisted on a doctor’s note.

I asked him are you sure you want me to get a doctors note for Covid and since when do we need a note.

He keeps affirm I need one.

I said sure I will call my doctor.

Called my doctors office and asked for appointment with doctor reason I have Covid and I need a note.

This doctor is awesome!

Secretary tells doctor will call me in a couple of hours (I was very lucky ).

When I talked with the doctor he tells me sure no problem I’m putting you off sick for 10 days.

I emailed the note to my supervisor and Human resources saying instead of the 2 extras days that I asked to be off work,my doctor decided that I needed more time off so I will be back only next week. Here is the note.

Haven’t heard a peep from them.

That was definitely malicious compliance on the doctor’s part. He didn’t even need to see OP. He understood the workplace rules and proved what he thought of them by giving OP a generous amount of time off. I love it!

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a man who stops speaking up in his Zoom meetings after getting constantly interrupted.

Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story.

One person points out a scenario where this situation doesn’t work.

Another person thinks the time off is wise.

This person shares what happened when they needed a doctor’s note.

An urgent care employee weighs in.

I love that some doctors give their patients too much time off when they ask for a doctor’s note. It’s nice for the employee. It’s revenge on the employer.

What I particularly love about this situation is that the employee didn’t even have to go to the doctor’s office. A simple phone call was all it took.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a team that agreed to work overtime, but then not everyone showed up, leaving the rest holding the bag.

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