You know that one coworker who seems to evade being fired by the skin of their teeth? Yeah, this next story is about a manager like that. The good part? He gets exactly what he deserves after countless tantrums on the job.

Nobody wants to believe that bad people are their actions. At the end of the day, most people have a reason for acting the way they do—this doesn't excuse it, but it provides us all with some much-needed context. In the workplace, though… You have to leave your ego at the door. This applies especially to employees in positions of power because they have the ability to make or break any of their underlings. It's not their subordinate's fault they got broken up with last night, or their food delivery showed up two hours late…

Our deepest and most sincere apologies if this story sounds eerily familiar to one of your experiences in the workforce. Big egos aren't limited to office spaces and corporate ladders—they exist in every corner of the field. This story takes place in a fast-food restaurant, and the manager in question is over 10 years the employee's senior. What happened to respecting our elders?

When it comes to sales, retail, and food service, you'll constantly encounter the phrase "The customer is always right." Of course, any time it gets mentioned on the internet, there will be those who are quick to correct that this is only a portion of the "original" phrase and that the full phrase is "actually. "The customer is always right in matters of taste." This isn't necessarily true either, as there isn't a single definitive origin of the phrase, with there being many instances and origins from pioneering retailers at the turn of the 20th century. 

No matter the origin or version of the phrase to which you ascribe, it stands to reason that, if you've worked in any retail or service industry job in the last 30 years, particularly in one run by any large corporation, you've been told something to this effect by your superiors. And, over time, the horrifying reality has become that customers expect to be treated like this. 

The problem is that a large majority of the general public has no idea what they want, and more still are actively wrong about what they think they're asking for. They might even give you very specific instructions, only to be surprised and confused when you give them exactly what they asked for.

As the worker or customer service person, this is, of course, maddening. And you'll find yourself questioning your own sanity as you navigate through an interaction with someone who is clearly not living on the same planet as the rest of us.

In this latest example, this barista shared a bewildering interaction that she had with a Karen customer who insisted that the barista make her a frappuccino. However, despite desperately claiming she wanted one, she clearly had no idea what that word meant. When the barista handed her the frappuccino, she looked confused… she had actually wanted an iced latte, apparently, and it only goes on from there. The bewildered barista shared her story with a video on social media that has had some viral traction since.

Doctors and PhD grads don't always have the best life skills. So when this proud Harvard graduate, who loved to rub his degree in everyone's face, couldn't figure out how to use a simple kitchen utensil, suddenly the tables turned on who was the smartest in the household. Hilariously, their roommate, who was also a PhD grad, was able to put their functional brain to the test, maliciously complying with their roommate's demands before making a point about his useless Ivy League degree. 

Turns out, they don't teach you simple engineering mechanics at Harvard; they only teach you how to gloat. 

Everyone wants to feel valued at work, so when your boss repeatedly says that you could be replaced in a second, that has to sting after a while. Who does this guy think he is? Miranda Priestly from The Devil Wears Prada? I don't think so!

Let this story serve as a warning for any unreasonable managers out there who somehow still believe that negative reinforcement is going to make your employees work harder. If you're the type of boss who enjoys dangling the threat of termination or punitive treatment, then you just might end up like this dude. He was left scrambling for a replacement in the end after spending years making the author of this tale feel like there were a million other candidates lined up outside his office.

In truth, this guy ended up having to hire two employees to do the author's job, and neither was able to fulfill his needs. That's not because these folks were incompetent; rather, it was just proof that the author's former employer consistently made unrealistic demands in the workplace that would have the average employee scratching their heads as to how they were supposed to get everything done in time.

It's not healthy to work inside a culture where you should be grateful every day to be contributing your skillset to a company. In truth, given the fact that we now know most employees couldn't measure up to what this author was accomplishing at work, management should be grateful every day that they have the hard-working employees they do on staff. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from members of this online community.

Workplace politics are dangerous, and a game that many of us would sooner not partake in. The problem is that by choosing not to "play the game," you're actually still playing a role just so long as there is someone in the office still playing. It's easy to think that everyone will play by the rules, but so long as there's one person not playing above board, and those above them who are blissfully unaware, the entire game becomes rigged. 

Still, it's not only subversive plots that can tip the scales of the career ladder and succession. When we think of office politics, we often envision dramatic plots of betrayal and backstabbing in order to gain an upper hand, like two rats fighting to climb out of a bucket. But the reality is that it can be as simple as who is the favorite and gets more face time with the boss. It can be as simple as who tags along (or is invited) to after-work drinks more and works their way into an inner circle far above their station, netting them more influence than their experience and skillset properly deserves. Examples of this include finding that a junior staff member, whom the CEO has taken a liking to, perhaps because of their charisma, is offering advice that lacks the necessary experience to support it, which in turn directs the company's or department's course to folly.

This example is certainly on the more dramatic end of the spectrum, as this new coworker sought to frame a 5-year veteran of the company, presumably to get her out of the way and clear a path for her own career progression. It might sound outrageous to you if you've never witnessed something like this firsthand, but it really happens more often than you would think. People get their egos involved and decide that someone doesn't deserve higher standing than them in the pecking order ,and do mental gymnastics in order to justify dishonest behavior.

Imagine trying to get your beauty rest, you're already exhausted from all the changes that your sister's family moving back in with you and your parents has caused, and now you have to be awoken by a little messy human in your bed!? This 15-year-old is left super frustrated after being forced into sharing a bedroom with her 5-year-old niece, who needs lots of attention, especially when she gets scared at night…Refusing to walk down the hall to her parents' room, she demands climbing up the bunk bed and snuggling up to her teenage aunt…every.single.night. 

Whilst this may have been 'sweet' the first time, it's starting to get annoying having a sweaty child share a single mattress with you, when they've all already shaken up the house system…After many failed attempts to get her eldest sister to control her child's inconsistent sleeping patterns, she decides to take matters into her own hands.

What's the best way to stop a 5-year-old from climbing up to your bunk bed? Take away its climbing source…and so she did, bye-bye ladder…Petty? maybe. Genius? Totally.

Imagine going about your workday, only to discover that your boss is watching your every move. This CEO couldn't trust his employees enough to fulfill their daily tasks and responsibilities while he was away on a business trip. In fact, his lack of trust was so egregious that he decided to plant cameras and carefully monitor the CCTV footage of his team at their respective work stations in his absence. The fact that he had the audacity to film his employees without their approval and then to reveal that he has been watching them this whole time speaks volumes about the safety and health of this workplace environment. No one wants to work for an employer who is that dishonest, manipulative, and unnecessarily authoritative.

This kind of behavior also speaks to how out of touch this CEO must be. Clearly, this man comes from a generation and a culture where intimidation was the proper tactic to keep employees under his control. What he didn't realize was that his so-called "leadership tactics" actually ended up being the worst way to maintain loyalty and solidarity among his team members. 

Instead, it did quite the opposite. Now, his employees are calling his tactics into question. In fact, the author of this anecdote has already decided that he's going to quit. It's as if watching your employees like a hawk in order to keep them in check actually resulted in them wanting to leave the nest, so to speak. Keep scrolling for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section.

If you're going to micromanage a team of competent employees, you'd better have a good reason. But it seems that when the nitpicky type of boss steps onto the IT service department floor, suddenly all of those hype-boss books replay in their minds, hypnotizing them into asserting themselves over their inferior employees by taking away privileges. What those leadership books neglect to tell you is that sometimes, your employees need a phone to be reached. 

Turns out, without a cellphone, managers can't get a hold of their employees in an emergency. So when this manager told his employees to leave their cell phones in the car, but never bothered to give anyone a work phone, chaos ensued. Maybe send a pigeon next time there's a server outage? 1929 called, they want their communication techniques back!

A business district is important for every neighborhood. It keeps the economy rich within the community and brings everyone together. We're all about shopping locally. That being said, just because it is smaller business doesn't save them from big drama. In the case of these two neighboring business, a proper dose of entitlement quickly made them enemies. The windows here get dirty quickly due to the plants and trees. One of the businesses knew this and bought a special chemical to keep her windows clean longer. When the neighboring, more senior, business found this out, she demanded that they also clean her shop's windows free of cost. She said that her payment is the "clientele she brings." (Even though they sold completely different things, thus did not have the same consumer audience.) When the women refused, she got berated by the entitled owner. So you know what she did instead? She decided to take the petty revenge path and made her windows worse. It looked as if she were cleaning the windows, of course, she's not dumb. She just knew some things about the chemical cleaner that the entitled woman didn't. So she used that to her advantage, and now the other shop owner has much dirtier windows.

Siblings often complain about one sibling being the favorite over the other, perceiving different levels of attention, support, and offerings their siblings are getting as slights rather than happenstance. This can be difficult for even the most well-intended parents to balance to avoid having one kid feeling like the other is "the favorite." No matter how they try to balance things, the differing circumstances of their kids' ages, the opportunities they get, and the timing of them, and the resources available to the family at the time will always mean that there are differences in each kid's experience.

Of course, especially in the emotional stages of childhood, things can feel pretty unfair when you're comparing yourself to siblings. There's always going to be something that feels unfair or sparks disagreement and rivalry between them. There might be some truth behind some coincidental examples of one sibling receiving more opportunities than the other, but the reality is that you and your siblings are looking at the same scene, the same story, from different angles and through different lenses.

All that being said, in this instance, it sounds like there might actually be some serious favoritism going on in this family. In his account of events, the 17-year-old tells about how his parents would frequently pull his sister out of school just to spend time with her when they would never do the same with him. They would even let her pick where they were going for dinner when it was his birthday. When he called her out for this and her other entitled behavior, it brought everything to a head, and his parents, of course, sided with his sister and made him go stay with his grandparents.