Most people with day jobs know that work-related memes are about as essential to one's survival as a lunch break and days off. So firing someone for the crime of enjoying a meme—especially on their day off—seems cruel and unfair. But that's what happened to Cody Hidalgo, pictured below.

Cody recently took to Facebook on his day off to post this meme that touches upon two universal experiences: wage discrepancies, and office pooping.

"Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. Thats why I poop, on company time," reads the meme, which naturally features a pic of Elmo pooping.

Seems like a relatively harmless meme, but his boss didn't agree. After seeing the post, he fired Cody on the grounds of him playing "bullshit games," telling him "why don't you do your shitting elsewhere." Cody shared a screenshot of their conversation on Facebook, writing "I legit got fired for this," and it sparked viral outrage.

Cody's post wracked up thousands of likes and hundreds of comments from supportive strangers. Many are encouraging Cody to "sue" his boss for wrongful termination.

While others are roasting "Andy" for his inability to take a joke and his poor grammar.

This guy even accused Andy of giving "boomers a bad name"—the ultimate shade.

The internet did their research, figured out the place Cody was fired from and shared the Facebook page as well as Andy's contact info. Many people attempted to seek revenge on Cody's behalf by bombarding the place with one-star reviews in which they criticized Andy for his bad attitude. The business has since taken down their Facebook page. You almost feel bad or Andy. Almost.

If there's one lesson to be learned today, it's this: don't get in between a young person and their God-given right to post memes online. Or the internet will come for you.

Announcing a pregnancy can be a really emotional experience for anyone, but it's weighted with more significance if you've lived through miscarriages or lost children in the past.

While some share the news through a series of phone calls or a flashy social media post, a lot of people prefer to kick off the chain of congratulations with an IRL announcement to loved ones. Finding the best time and place to tell the family can be tricky to coordinate, but when everything goes to plan, it can be a memory for the scrapbooks.

In a recent post on the Am I The *sshole subreddit, a mom-to-be asked if she's unreasonable for feeling frustrated that her younger sister announced her pregnancy the same day OP was planning to.

AITA for being upset my younger sister announced her pregnancy first?

I know the title makes me sound like an asshole but please here me out.

To contextualize the situation, OP shared that she's been married 12 years, and during that time she's had six miscarriages, two stillbirths, and two failed surrogacies.

Because OP's husband has felony charges from his younger years, adopting or fostering is not an option for them. Her younger sister, on the other hand, has had three kids in six years with no problems.

I've been married for 12 years and we started trying for kids 2 years in. In the ten years that we've been trying I've had six miscarriages, two stillbirths, and two failed surrogacies. Naturally, my husband and I have been pretty devastated by all of this but try to move through it. My younger sister got married six years ago and now has three kids with no troubles. I try not to be jealous, and I genuinely love her kids and her, but I'm human and every time she announced a baby my heart broke a little more. We can't foster or adopt, my husband has a felony charge from when he was 18. He was stupid but he turned his life around and is a law-abiding citizen now.

After a lot of heartache, OP and her husband stopped trying for awhile, and then gave it one final try this year.

This time they successfully got pregnant and she's already five months along. She wanted to wait past the first trimester to share the news, because telling everyone and losing the pregnancy would trigger past grief.

We had stopped trying for a while but decided to try one more time this year. It took and I'm now five months along. We didn't tell anyone for fear of losing it but our doctors and ourselves are incredibly confident that this will be the winning pregnancy. The one person we did tell was my mom. She was planning my dad's 70th birthday bash and she asked if I wanted to use the party to announce it, since it would make my dad, who adores his grandkids, incredibly happy. I agreed.

When OP told her mom, it was suggested that she tell the whole family at her dad's 70th birthday bash since he loves being a grandpa so much.

However, when her sister arrived OP could immediately tell she was pregnant again. The two sisters celebrated and OP told her sister how excited she was to make an announcement.

The day of the party I'm hiding my belly when my sister and her family come in, and I can just tell looking at her that she's pregnant again. I take her aside and tell her in secrecy that I'm also pregnant. She was happy for me, we danced around, I may have peed a little. I told her we couldn't wait to tell everyone.

A couple hours later, when OP and her husband went to find her dad to share the big news, her sister quickly swooped in.

Couple hour later the party is in full swing, my husband and I find my mom and we go to find dad so we can make the announcement. My sister runs up to my dad and delightfully announces that she's eight weeks along with her fourth child. My dad was so happy, he adores kids and babies. When the excitement died down a little he came up to me, mom, and my husband said, "another niece or nephew for you, Jess, isn't that nice?" I said, "yeah it is, especially now that MY baby will have someone to play with." My dad was happy but, and please forgive me, not as happy as he would have been had I been able to make a big announcement.

When her sister made a pregnancy announcement first, it made OP feel overshadowed and like she lost a special moment.

She's aware that pregnancy in itself isn't unique to her, but given her loss this moment felt especially significant.

When my sister announced I felt crushed. I know I'm nothing special and in the grand scheme of things, who really cares about another pregnant person. But I've got two babies in the cemetery and several miscarriages that lead up to this, and damn it, I just wanted one moment to celebrate. My sister has had three previous moments, I just wanted one. This will probably be the only baby I have. I took my sister aside and explained to her how hurtful it was to have her announce her baby when I've never got to do it before. Basically she told me to get over it and that the world doesn't revolve around me. I told her to f*ck off and we haven't spoken in the week since. I know this is a trivial matter.

When confronted, OP's sister told her to get over herself and that she's being unreasonable, and the two are now currently at odds.

AITA for feeling like she stole my thunder and getting upset?

friendlynea completely understands why OP is upset, but doesn't think the sister was malicious.

Info: when you told her you were pregnant, did you tell her you were planning to announce it at the party?

I am so sorry for everything you have been through. I can't even imagine how strong you and your husband had to be to get through it. And as someone who has had a stillborn, I know the feeling when everyone around you is having babies. You're happy for them and excited, but there's always that part of you that's sad and devastated.

You're NTA for being upset. I would like to think that maybe your sister just didn't know you were planning to announce it that day.

But trust me, you're mum and your dad are probably just as excited for you. My guess is youre thinking that because you're disappointed with how it all went down.

Anyway, congratulations! Stories like yours make me really happy and give me hope for my future. I'm sorry it didn't go the way you wanted, but it's definitely not any less special because you didn't get to announce it the way you want.

Ishdakitty thinks OP's reaction to her sister's announcement dampened the moment for everyone.

I'm picturing this family, excited to hear another grandbaby is on the way, and then older sister snaps "That'll be great for MY baby to play with." I cannot hear OP's words without hearing the snark and nastiness that comes with how she must have been feeling.

How is her family supposed to react? If she got a muted response to her announcement, I think it's likely a result of OP snapping rudely in reaction to her sister announcing first instead of adding to the sense of celebration with her own news. I know I'd have felt awkward as hell.

rhinocerospartayyy asked OP if her sister was aware of the announcement plan, since that greatly paints the situation.

INFO: did you tell her you were planning to announce that day? did your sister see you with your dad and then barge in or did she tell him unaware that you were simultaneously walking towards him to do the same?

OP responded to clarify that her sister didn't overly know her plan, but it was strange she sprinted over to make the announcement and didn't feel out the moment.

I can't say what my sister was thinking when she announced, but she was running up to my father at the moment me, my husband, and my mom came outside. Like, full on sprinting. So, IDK. I didn't outright specify I was going to announce at the party but I did say that I was excited to tell everyone. My sister is not an idiot, I had hoped she would have understood. I know I should have specified but, I was hoping she would, ya know, understand.

3Diglett thinks that OP's sister was being petty and selfish.

NTA

Her saying “the world doesn’t revolve around you” is pretty telling.

She deliberately stole your thunder and announced it without you because she actually thinks the world revolves around her.

dobemomma86 thinks OP's sister was being deeply insensitive about the situation.

NTA... Any reasonable person, especially a close sister and especially one who is a mother and has seen her sister lose baby after baby.... She should have (and let's be honest - probably DID) know you'd planned to announce that day hence the pulling aside to tell in confidence.

You're FIVE MONTHS along... She's 8 weeks. Most docs say not to announce til 12-13 wks due to chance of loss. She could have waited a few weeks, much less a few minutes for you to have a moment. Who knows why she did it but I'd say it was definitely intentional especially how she belittled you. "World doesn't revolve around you"? Of course not, but that's still a very shitty thing to say anyone much less a sister.

FrugalChef13 truly feels for everyone in the situation.

NAH- I cannot imagine what you've been though. I cannot imagine what your entire family has been through. The heartbreak of multiple miscarriages and two stillbirths and two failed surrogacies (and that can mean so many things), it's unfathomable to me. I grieve my own fertility struggles and losses in my own way, and my grief is just a tiny drop in the ocean you're swimming in. I cannot in good conscience call any of you an asshole, I really can't.

All I can offer is my own perspective, as a woman from a large family where you're either one or the other- you get pregnant at the drop of the hat and have 2 or 3 or 4 completely easy pregnancies, or you struggle with miscarriages and stillbirths and birth defects that are "incompatible with life" over and over again. You just keep on hoping one day they'll have a healthy, living baby and you can't do anything to help. It's hard. I never know what to say to my cousins- some of them are just trying over and over again, and some are annoyed that they used two methods of birth control and still got pregnant and they can't really afford another baby but they're Catholic so... There's always babies coming, and some people are happier than others.

In my family, you don't bring a single baby thing into the house till you're a certain point along. It's seen as bad luck (we all know it's silly, but people cope how they cope).

My cousin K, she lost her first during labor and her second in the late second trimester. She got pregnant again about a year later and we all knew, cause hyperemesis gravidarum is pretty obvious when it lands you in the hospital twice in a month. She said "no baby stuff in the house, no one mentions I'm pregnant, no celebrating, no showers, no putting furniture in the nursery, no nothing." She said "I'm just getting fat. One day I'll go to the hospital and get skinny again, and maybe I'll bring a baby home and maybe I won't, so hush your mouth."

So that's what we did. The aunts bought some baby diapers, someone had a crib, someone else had bottles and blankets, and we all had baby clothes to share. We let her cope and have space, and we prepared in the hope that all would go well. That's all you can really do as a future auntie or uncle or cousin or gramma, you just hope.

I know you're hurt and sad and angry. I know you feel like your sister stole your thunder on purpose. I know you're confident that this pregnancy will end in a happy, healthy mom and baby. I really really really want you to be right. But I want to put in your thoughts that while you have two babies in the cemetery, your parents also have two grandchildren there, and your sister also has two nieces/nephews there. Maybe your sister tried to steal the spotlight on purpose, maybe she f*cked up because she had a plan for the party and didn't know you had one too, maybe she's just terrified at the thought of you and your whole family losing another much loved, much wanted baby. Your anger and hurt at your thunder being stolen is understandable, and I hear you. There are no assholes here, and no easy answers.

I really really really hope you and your baby have a safe, healthy pregnancy that ends in a safe, healthy birth and a happy, healthy family.

Hopefully OP and her sister are able to make amends, and the whole family can return to celebrating both pregnancies.

5. Donald Trump, because a whole stadium booed and chanted "lock him up!" at him.

Donald Trump ventured outside the MAGA rally bubble to watch Game 5 of the World Series at Nationals Park, and upon being shown on the JumboTron, was met with a chorus of boos.

The president got a taste of his own medicine—and from people in red hats, to boot. Videos from different vantage points throughout the stadium started flooding Twitter, and it quickly became ASMR for anti-Trump types.

Melania Trump has spent years perfecting her fake smile, but Trump has spend too many decades surrounded by "yes men" that he has little experience in reacting to the discontent of people who don't support his child-imprisoning agenda.

It's only a matter of time before the White House releases a statement that says, "The crowd was saying 'boo,' in character as spooky ghosts in honor of Halloween. The public loves and reveres our Very Stable Genius President."

4. Stormi Webster, because her mother Kylie Jenner dressed her up as herself, and she looked absolutely miserable.

When you're a Kardashian Kid, you don't have the privilege of just being a kid—you also have to serve your family lineage and be a part of A Brand™. Kylie Jenner unleashed her inner Kris Jenner when she dressed her one-year-old daughter Stormi as herself, and Stormi did not seem to happy about it.

Stormi looks like she has just seen a ghost...a costume she'd much rather wear than this kiddie couture.

Stormi's cosplay wasn't just any old Kylie outfit. Kylie dressed her daughter up in her "Camp" ensemble from this year's Met Gala. The one-year-old seemed unamused, as she likely has yet to read Susan Sontag's iconic 1964 essay.

Even with all the money in the world, it can't be easy being a Kardashian Kid. Not only does the whole world have access to your baby photos, but because you can never just relax and put on a basic Elsa costume from the Disney store.

When Stormi is old enough to know that she's famous, will she resent her mother even more than the average teenage girl?

Only time will tell.

3. Ben Affleck, because TMZ caught him being a drunk skeleton, and now the tabloids are talking about his alcoholism.

Ben Affleck and his chin have been famous for decades, and people have watched the ups and downs of his relationships with multiple Jennifers. TMZ spent the weekend following him around, catching him on camera stumbling into an SUV and off the wagon.

E! Newspicked up the story, and got a statement from a source on the matter.

"Sobriety is difficult and elusive for everyone struggling with addiction, and Ben has acknowledged he's going to slip up from time to time," the source said. "He slipped up and he knows it. He isn't happy about it. He has a sober coach with him now and intends to get right back on track."

Affleck was most recently in rehab in the summer of 2018, which was his third visit in 17 years.

TMZ caught up with him after the Skeleton Incident, and he said that he won't let the setback derail him. That's the spirit!

2. The housekeeper accused of stealing Lady Gaga's dress after she put Lady Gaga's dress up for auction.

Just in time for Halloween!

Lady Gaga's Valentino dress in which she won a Golden Globe is currently up for auction, after she allegedly left it behind at the Beverley Hills Hilton. The dress was then "found" by a housekeeper, who is selling it through Nate D. Sanders Auctions.

After the auction went live, Valentino has accused the woman of stealing the gown, and according to TMZ, "either gone to the police or plans to go to cops."

The housekeeper, on the other hand, wrote a letter explaining how she got the dress:

Hello, my name is Sara. I work as a Housekeeper at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. I’m always present working in the Golden Globe events on January every year for 24 years. The artist “Lady Gaga” left me this dress that she used for the day or the awards. I turned in the dress to lost and found on the 8th of January 2019. After the time legally held [...] they gave it to me as a gift from her and today I want to auction the dress.

Lady Gaga would have kept the dress if she had a one-year-old daughter she could force into it.

1. The Kentucky teacher who was arrested for teaching under the influence.

Christopher Viars was arrested on Friday for allegedly lecturing while totally hammered.

WVLT reports that there was an "odor of alcohol" in his class, and states deputies pulled Viars out of the classroom and gave him a breathalyzer test, which he failed.

That's right: teachers fail tests, too.

If you're ready to quit your job, like really really ready to quit your job, these memes are for you. If you just can't handle even one more second of work, take a minute to laugh at these hilarious memes. They perfectly nail exactly how you feel right now. Laugh now, send out some resumes later.

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If you've ever wondered what it feels like to answer a casting call for an "ugly" role, you're not alone. Given how brutal the world of acting can be on those considered conventionally attractive, it feels reasonable to assume it's far worse for people considered "average" or "ugly" (I include quotations since looks are deeply subjective).

While it might not feel flattering to answer a casting call with a less than flattering description, landing a gig on the screen or stage is a huge accomplishment and most dedicated actors are far more interested in embodying a role rather than protecting their vanity.

In a recent Reddit thread, actors who have played "ugly" roles share what it felt like, and most of them would do it again.

1. CasherNZ was smiling the whole time.

I had spent a couple of months trying to get a talent agency to work with me, and was excited to finally get signed up. After a month of anxiously checking my emails, I decided to call them.

"It's hard to get a booking without a professional headshot. I recommend creating a more appealing portfolio."

Sure, good advice I thought. Not a knock on my appearance at all. So I booked a shoot, and uploaded my headshots a week later.

My excitement when I received a casting call was impossible to contain. My agent said I had been picked by the director himself to replace a role at short notice, and would I be available for a 16 hour shoot tomorrow morning from 6am?

Hell yes I was! I just asked for the location and wardrobe, to which I was told just turn up and it will all be provided. The scene details would be emailed to me immediately.

I raced to my laptop and opened the attachment.

"Underworld resident, dead, face down in a field"

That was it. The lead actor stepped over me 12 times to get the take right. It had rained the night before, and my face was numb from the Vancouver fall morning. No one saw me, because the hood of my costume covered my face.

I smiled the whole time. It was my first ever role.

2. Alpha_Sluttlefish got the waddle down pat.

I was the "ugly duckling" in my high school's production of Shrek the Musical. I was mostly concerned with perfecting my waddle.

3. Drcynic22 dried their tears with cash.

I got a role once for being ugly and obese. I was okay with it. I know what I am... And the paycheck certainly salved any sad feelings I might've had.

4. Halorym's mom woke up like this.

Ha. My mother had a casting call that specifically told her to "just roll out of bed" and not wear makeup.

She is in position in a barroom and the scene begins. It's a detective noir theme with the protagonist actively narrating his actions via asides.

He walks in, "I'm in a room full of unattractive women..."

5. rayzillaaa killed it.

Took a role as the comedy relief/homely sister for a shitty play where I was the butt of most of the “jokes.” It kind of killed my self esteem during rehearsals, especially since the girl playing my supposedly Hollywood Starlet-esque sister liked to brag about being the center of attention and getting a bunch of solos. But I put work into the role nonetheless and tried to have fun with it as best I could. When it came time to actually perform on stage, I got the most laughs and the most praise after each showing — while my “sister” awkwardly stood off to the side.

In the end, it didn’t feel so bad after all.

6. HobGadlingson focuses on the fact that they're doing what they love.

I do some acting here in Los Angeles. Usually, garbageman, or mechanic, or hardware store guy. I get calls for diabetes medication commercials. That’s kind of depressing. Other than that, I don’t mind. We all have a type. And I get to work with people who I have idolized my whole life sometimes. The thrill of being on a movie or TV set far overcomes any self-conscious feelings I might have because I look like a shabby nobody.

And when I die, my kids will be able to see me on Netflix or wherever, doing something I really loved. I wish I got to do it a lot more often. But I’m grateful for everything that has come my way because of how I look. My wife is super cute, and she doesn’t mind how I look, so that’s really all that matters to me at the end of the day.

7. Soupallnatural found love in a hopeless, rotting place.

I was once cast as a at least month old dead elderly man, I was a 16 year old girl at the time. The only shirt that fit me was grossly to big so they made me wear a fat suit. I also met my first boyfriends family dressed as a rotting fat old dude.... so just regular high school theatre stuff.

8. cat9tail's makeup was quickly undone.

It wasn't "ugly" per se, but I showed up thinking I was an extra wandering through a fertility clinic (put extra work into my makeup & hair because you never know) and there was a slight scene switch. I was tapped to play "woman giving birth", so the first thing the crew did was mess up my hair and make it look like my makeup was running. I ad-libbed a few lines during the 2 hours it took to capture my 25 seconds on screen, but I got in the credits!

9. lanismycousin's friend profited off his look.

My friend was an aspiring actor and made a career of mostly playing scumbags for two decades.

He's a big bald white dude with a beard, so if you needed a big scary dude he was your guy. Had a handful of small speaking roles but most of his parts were things like "outlaw biker #2", "bodyguard #1", "skinhead guard", "scary jailhouse rapist" etc. Plus plenty of extra and background parts. He's been in a bunch of movies, commercials, and TV shows, some credited and some not credited. Also gotten killed on screen a few times.

One of the nicest dudes I know, so him playing so many scumbags is hilarious to us. Especially hilarious since he's a teacher now.

10. yohowithrum's acquaintance got their big come-up from an unflattering casting call.

I know a guy who got the part in a major motion picture that was described as “Albino-looking inbred kid”. It launched his career.

Edit: Nobody actually guessed it yet.

11. Astrox13's friend got done dirty.

Had a friend who played Beast in Beauty and the Beast in high school and there was a kissing scene at the end that involved beast and belle, but since my friend (beast) was butt ass ugly the actress playing Belle didn’t want to kiss him so they got a different actor to do the kissing scene as the post beast prince and lmao my friend was so fucking pissed and insulted. He had the beast costume on the whole show so no one saw him they only saw the transformed prince (other actor) who kisses belle in the end.

12. dankmoms doesn't mind all the work.

I do background/extras type acting and despite being late a 30s, average everything woman, I get more work than a hot college girl because I look more like the “average diner customer”, “mom in a grocery store”, “wife of older biker gang member at a wedding”, “weathered bartender” etc that most movies and tv shows need. I don’t mind in the least. Sure, I’m not sharing any on screen kisses with whatever A list actor but guess what, I got to meet them and that’s cool as fuck to me.

13. i_only_eat_nachos has resting snarky face.

I wasn't assigned an ugly role, but I was told that I looked snarky. The director and produce both told me, "At a first glance, you look like a major dick."

I wasn't exactly flattered by this, but it helped me land my first acting gig...so I dunno.

14. CMGwameA knows a secret from Home Alone.

There’s a scene in Home Alone where Kevin woofs at a picture of his brothers ugly girlfriend. The producers decided not to insult some young girl by putting her into that roll just to be laughed at, and instead the art director had a son who was more than willing to put on an ugly girl look.

15. RainHaven has gotten used to the bonkers casting calls.

I’m an actor, but I wouldn’t say an ugly one. Just average. Casting calls are hilarious with the ways they describe female characters. There’s usually a height requirement with the “other worldly beautiful” woman roles, and I’m 5’2”, so that’s out the window anyway. Movie roles are usually more of that, but I get a lot of commercial work where I respond to casting calls like “Pretty, but not a model.”

Still kind of bums me out, but I know where I’ll be cast and I want the paycheck! I still work consistently, so I guess it’s not so bad, but just once I wish I could get a callback for the “unattainable goddess” role.

16. swinglomagellan has learned a lot about who their real friends are.

A director asked me a few months before holding auditions for his play if I would stop trimming my beard and cutting my hair. He cautioned that it didn't mean I was cast, but he'd simply like me to keep it in mind.

Obviously, I went full natural. I didn't want to tell anyone I'd been asked to do it in case I wasn't cast. As things started looking wild, friends kept begging me to clean myself up. I'm not ridiculously good looking... but I'm alright looking and youthful when clean-shaven, and I could feel people begin to treat me differently. Im gay and, uh.. my sex life suffered. It became very isolating to feel that sort of superficial distance for the first time. (I was only in my early 20's) When I looked in the mirror, I didn't recognize myself. It started to shake my confidence, but I was committed to the journey.

I eventually was cast in the play as a homeless alcoholic. My character entered the play at the top of the second act, got drunk, fabricated colorfully long-winded stories, and remained on stage uninterrupted until the curtain. I lived and breathed that role, and I was completely humbled by the praise I received for my work. It changed my life--my friend group changed, my tastes changed, my identity shifted--it altered how I perceived myself.

17. habloconleche knows it's all part of the job.

When you get into the world of acting you're told certain things about yourself by people trying to help. They might sound insulting, but you shouldn't take them that way. The goal is to get work, so you push certain aspects of yourself to be whatever it is that they want for the role you're going for. It doesn't mean that's who you are.

You aren't being told that you're ugly just because you were cast as an "ugly person," you're actually just being told that you can play an ugly person. It might not sound like that big of a distinction, but it is.

That's the world of acting and if you can't handle people saying things about what they see when they look at you, than you probably shouldn't be in it. It's definitely not for the fragile.

High school is supposed to be a place for learning—not a place for teens to explore their budding hormonal urges. But no matter how strict the rules, a lot of inappropriate and NSFW things are bound to happen when you put a bunch of teens together in one place.

Someone asked Reddit: "what is the most memorable nsfw thing that happen in high school?" Here are 22 responses from former (or current) students or teachers who will never forget their high school's NSFW scandal. And now, neither will we.

1.) From anon577321:

Two sophomores got suspended for recording themselves having sex in the distance learning classroom. Some online classes required video camers for lectures. They used that and recorded a sex tape.

2.) From Zaralfim:

Some guy was caught masturbating in the girls bathroom. Imagine our surprise when another was caught soon after. After that, they had a teacher stand outside the bathroom during lunch and had it locked during class so they'd need to go the staff room instead. Felt bad for the girls

3.) From forsheeee:

My math teacher told us if we all got A’s and B’s on our test, he’d dye his hair green and rollerblade down the hallway.

We all passed, and sure enough, he showed up to school with green hair the following week. During class transitions he was out rollerblading down the hall, when he thought it would be funny to mess with the “jokester” student.

So he grabbed him and tried to push him in the girl’s bathroom as a joke and another student trying to to help ran up behind them and shut the door.

The tip of my teacher’s pinky finger was near the hinges, and it was sliced off. Blood was everywhere and the tip of his finger was just lying there in the floor.

To make matters worse, they sent the severed finger to the wrong hospital. But he had good spirits when he came back, even naming the finger “Quasimodo”

4.) From picksandchooses:

The social studies teachers boobs fell out of her dress on stage in front of the whole school.

5.) From BlurredFlashbacks:

Two kids got caught in the wrestling room.... they were totally wrestling

Narrator: they weren't wrestling.

6.) From devospice:

With no warning at all a girl in my class threw up a stomach full of blood all over her desk and books. The teacher went pale and stared at her. She just softly said "sorry." The teacher just pointed to the door and just said "Go to the nurse." Then pointed to the girl next to her and said "You go with her."

I don't remember what was wrong with her, but she ended up missing about 2 months of school after that. She recovered and is fine now.

7.) From Drip-Gawd:

A girl got caught sucking dick in the theatre room. Twice

8.) From TalkOfSexualPleasure:

A freshman gave a blowjob to a senior behind the busses. Never even realizing that while they were out of view from the first floor, that entire side of the school could see them from the second floor.

The guy got in some legal trouble because he was 18, and that day was literally the last time anyone at our school saw that girl. We assume she transfered or moved or something.

9.) From PyroBoio:

A freshman kid at our high school has been collecting pictures of naked assholes from students, so far he has 37. He got them from other people or getting them himself. The only reason I found out was because the dude was sitting at a table I was at and had placed his phone flat on the table. He then proceeded to open up his private pictures in snap.

Edit: he now has 38

10.) From Assimilator82:

Computer teacher opened Whitehouse.com on the projector during a follow along class. This was in the late 90's when that site was porn based.

11.) From Allrayden:

Another school in our district had an "orgy" and filmed it in the school bathroom. I put quotations around that because it was like 7 guys to 2 girls. Worst part was that they were barefoot in the men's bathroom. Almost threw up seeing that.

12.) From ivysaurus0101010:

This is a different kind of nsfw, probably, but once a freshman shat all over a bathroom stall and wrote some other kid's name on the wall to try and frame him I guess? Well that kid wasn't even present that day so the culprit was caught pretty quickly and had to transfer out.

The dean had sat all the boys in the school (freshmen and sophomores together and then juniors and seniors together) in our conference room and showed them the stall to try and scare a confession out of them (I guess it worked).

I only know this because my husband (bf at the time) was in the conference room and almost got in trouble for this mess because he thought it was hilarious and couldn't stop laughing at the Dean's poop presentation. He still, to this day, doesn't know what the poor man expected. To just show a bunch of teenage boys a poopy slideshow?

13.) From gigalongdong:

So this didn't actually happen at high school, but it is still relevant.

About two weeks before we graduated, I decided to throw a field party on a farm as a graduation party. I was expecting 30 or 40 people, but lo and behold well over a hundred showed up. I wasnt worried about any police or whatever so we all just had a great time. Drinking way too much and just goofing off.

Anyway, there was this one girl that was ostracized from most our graduating class. She had the tendency to make sexual assault claims that were obviously false (as in, saying xyz guy groped her at abc's party, but the dude wasn't there or she didn't show either), needlessly starting fights, and had a very grating personality. Whatever.

I made it very clear to people that I didnt want her on the property because I didn't want any trouble to start. Well guess who shows up? That chick. So we were all pretty liquored up and I just told her to have fun and don't cause trouble. Within 15 minutes she had downed way too much booze and was picking fights with several people. I told one of the DD's to take her ass home. All good right? Wrong.

I went and bumped uglies with a "friend" for a couple hours and came back. The fires dying down, only about 30 people are left and most of those were crashing in their cars or in tents. Then I hear a groan at the edge of the woods about 30 feet away (this area was at the back of a field and on three sides were woods). Well fuck. I walk over to see guess who? That girl I thought had gone home hours before. The person that I tasked with taking her home later told me she got violent in the car before they left and made her get out.

Anyway, I walk over and this chick is wallowing around in half rotten leaves and sticks just freaking out. She has soiled herself in every way imaginable. Vomit, shit, piss; the glorious trifecta. Turns out she had taken a bunch of benzos before coming and then drank, which is a big no-no as it can cause fatal respiratory depression. So me and a friend are wondering how the hell we're going to get her home and she starts accusing me of shitting in her pants while she was passed out, I shit you not. The smell was rancid and made my friend throw up.

To wrap it up: I calmed her down, gave her some sweatpants, called a friend I knew would be awake and sober at 4am, and paid them to come get her and take her home. That turned what was a fun end to an awesome graduation party into a shitshow.

Pun intended.

14.) From JohanCzaczke:

English teacher got pregnant by my high school quarterback who was also the police chiefs son for my town.

15.) From heppyscrub:

During psychology class, this girl had her phone between her skirt and I guess every time she got a text or something, it would vibrate and she would kinda squirm.
It was interesting to watch since I was across from her.

16.) From flareglare:

A girl was doing a cartwheel while in a skirt and her p*ssy was in full view

17.) From 2cats0fucks:

A small group of students at my high school was convinced aliens were observing us because a certain corn field near the football field would have "crop circles" every year.

It was flattened out patches from where kids would sneak off to have sex during football games.

18.) From Sid15666:

2 of our married gym teaches got caught having sex in the weight room after school. One male and one female teacher. They weren’t married to each other

19.) From diversify-ur-blondes:

2002, teacher was unzipped and giving a lecture... valedictorian had to tell him that his balls were showing.... bumblebee tuna

20.) From SuperSoakU:

Senior prank gone wrong...

Every once in a while the school olympic sized pool needed to be chlorine killed for cleanliness and it was unusable for a few hours until the chlorine adequately dispersed. (this is important)

Senior prank time rolls around and a bunch of the seniors decide to buy pick up tuck loads of dry ice to dump in the pool to mist up the school.

Well these geniuses accidentally timed it with chlorination schedule of the pool and blanketed the whole school with chlorine gas. It was shut down for a week. literally NSFW

21.) From Rowe_boat:

Senior year. Biology IB 2. The teacher is kinda chaotic and isn’t very structured, late a lot (it’s his first class of the day), sorta lets us do our work at our pace. So he was late one morning and we were all just sitting and chatting waiting for him. We got in the topic of piercings and one girl said she recently got one of her nipples pierced. We were confused why she only did one and then SHE SHOWED US. In class, at her desk she just lifted her shirt and bra to show us her single pierced nipple. It took me a second to realize what just happened, then me and my buddy high fived or something idk.

22.) From Nomadic_Pixel:

A few come to mind;

1. lots of the sporty couples often hooked up in the wrestling rooms after school / practice. Like even after staff found out and started making sure everything was locked they still managed to get in. There was a sorta unwritten rule to leave one of the rooms doors the exited outside propped open slightly so that couples could sneak in. Happened all 4 years and honestly most likely still happens.

2) The theater, so many kids hooked up in the theater. Like, holy shit. The most memorable one for that would be a couple was going at it in the catwalks while a play was happening.

3) I was a peer ed/sex ed student. The idea being that if students taught students about sex education they would be more receptive of it. Fun times and stories for another day, but one of my responsibilities was talking with or helping students with questions. The most memorable one was a young freshman, shy, stopped me in the hallway and asked me to help her with a problem. She had been exploring her body with an object and managed to get it stuck. I asked her what the object was....It was an ipod nano. At that point I was out of my depth and went to go ask another female member to help her out.

These people's Halloween costumes absolutely win Halloween. Whether you're in need of a laugh today, or a last-minute costume idea for the big day, these clever costume memes will do the trick. What a treat!

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When it comes to meeting the parents, is it better to hide your true identity, or let your freak flag fly?

That's a question without a one-size-fits-all response. But one thing we can seemingly all agree on is that it's not okay to order your partner not to be themselves in front of the people who spawned you.

One man asked Reddit if he was an a-hole for doing exactly that, after he told his parents she's not allowed to "debate" his parents about weighty topics that they bring up in front of her.

The boyfriend says he's been dating this woman for six months and "she is a VERY opinionated woman. She studies political science and is very informed about everything that's happening. I love to listen to her political rants and so on."

Recently, they decided to meet each other's parents. When he met her parents, topics like politics and religion didn't come up. But when she met his parents, who are "Christians and rather conservative," she engaged in conversations about both with them:

We sat down to eat and my parents asked her normal questions. They then asked her if she goes to church on Sundays. My gf says that she is an atheists so it would be hypocritical. I squeezed her hand a little because for me a simple no would have sufficed. But now my mom was "debating her". I managed to make them drop the issue.

Then Trump came up, and all hell broke loose.

But then my dad made an offhand comment about how he agrees with something trump said and my gf said that she saw that statement as offensive. Soon they were discussing it all. I tried to make her stop but she wouldn't drop the topic.

When we left I told her she should keep her opinion to herself when we see my parents. Politics and religion have nothing to do at the dinner table. She called me an asshole and left alone and hasn't talked to me since. AITA??

He adds that he didn't "tell [his] parents off" because "I respect them enough." It's possible to express disagreement with your parents in a respectful way, but whatever. So is he the a-hole?

The people of Reddit responded with a resounding yes.

User bklynpeter points out that if he truly believes interesting topics shouldn't come up at the dinner table, he should take it up with his parents:

Your mother is the one who brought up religion at the dinner table. Your father is the one who brought up politics at the dinner table. Why are you telling gf not to share? Why not your parents? Just kidding, the answer is obvious: You are afraid of your parents' disapproval, and you don't really care about her disapproval.

And freshfew points out that making the dinner table a politics-and-religion-free space is oddly specific:

Where else should they be discussed? Only in the living room? Outdoors? In a special politics and religion room?

Indecisive_maybe pointed out that the boyfriend has a pretty glaring double standard:

It's obvious OP is hiding his girlfriend's views from his parents, not avoiding the arguments, so he's being an asshole to her. It's only ok if he tries to get all of them to stop, not just her. Just as easily as he squeezed her hand to get her to stop, he could have groaned out "moooom" to get her to stop bringing up religion, but he didn't.

Rackalackin pointed it out, too — why is his girlfriend fair game for criticism while his parents aren't?

He didn’t tell his parents off because he respects them.

Not sure what that means about his girlfriend. Who he told off. Even though the parents started it.

BlondeStalker pointed out that asking his girlfriend to hide her politics from her parents will only set them up for disappointment down the line:

Yeah... and then years go by and your SO is still not allowed to express themselves and your family thinks that they are someone they aren’t.

In my long term relationship where I wasn’t allowed to discuss my opinions because they were “a Christian, conservative family,” they had no idea who I was or who my family was. Because all the details about my life were “liberal and sacreligious,”

That relationship was awful. OP, don’t be shocked if you guys break up.

A few people, like illini02, saw the boyfriend's point:

I tend to agree that when you first meet parents, politics and religion shouldn't be brought up. And if one person does bring it up, its best to try to not debate them. I feel like I would probably agree with your girlfriends opinion, but I agree that its best to not debate that stuff.

But the overwhelming response was that the boyfriend's in the wrong — and that the mom was clearly hoping for the girlfriend to be Christian and church-going, and probably wouldn't have approved of any response other than "yes, I go to church."

Best wishes to the happy couple... but it seems like their relationship might not be destined for success.

The general consensus seems to be that if a married couple sleeps in separate beds, the end of their marriage is nigh.

But as these couples can attest, sometimes married couples sleep in separate beds for practical reasons — or just because they prefer it. And it doesn't always spell trouble. In fact, some of these people say separating at night time saved their relationship.

Here are their stories.

1. This story of separate sleeping will warm your heart.

My grandparents do this. My grandfather built a small apartment on the second floor of their house. They do it because they have different sleep schedules and in general they spend much of the day apart because they like it that way. But they always eat lunch and dinner together, and my grandfather loves to listen to her soft footsteps throughout the day. He calls her “the woman next door.” It’s really cute. - kthrynnnn

2. Some people need the TV to fall asleep, while others find TV noise torturous.

My parents do this

My Mom likes to sleep with the TV on, my Dad snores and steals sheets.

My mother claims sleeping separately saved their marriage - Slay_Vapor

3. Snoring is also a big culprit when it comes to separate bedrooms.

Girlfriend’s parents do this. They both snore and do it to get away from each other’s snoring. I didn’t think it was that bad until they talked about having to sleep in the same bed during their trip in Europe. They were at each other’s throats because if one fell asleep, the other couldn’t. - OverthinkingMachine

4. Screen lights are the enemy of sleep for many.

I have a hard time falling asleep without something to distract my brain from thinking. I usually watch a show/documentary or do some repetitive game on my phone to accomplish this. She can’t stand the lights from the screen. - Syk013

5. This person has a wild sleep preference that no partner should have to deal with.

During the Summer I move to another room we call “the wind tunnel”. Basically I have a ceiling fan going almost 24/7 and a window fan above the bed I run from 7pm-8am.

She has allergies and easily gets runny nose and sneezes from any moving air. My body temp will skyrocket and I’ll sweat like crazy in a room devoid of moving air. So she sleeps in a stuffy no air movement master bedroom and I sleep soundly in the Wind Tunnel.

During the winter I move back, cause then I become the ultimate body warmer for her. - SpiffyWerks

6. Some people just want to flail in their sleep, okay???

My parents slept in separate beds as did my great grandparents. For my great grandparents it was a comfort thing. Grandma didn’t like not being able to move around the bed at will. She and grandpa loved each other dearly and she passed not long after he did because she missed him so much. - Wyogirl79

7. CPAP machines are also the enemy of restful sleep.

For my parents it was a couple things. As my dad aged his sleep cycle went weird. He would be able to sleep a couple hours and then be up half the night and fall asleep again about the time my mom was getting up for work. Also my mom has sleep apnea and uses a cpap. It made hella noise back then. Dad was half deaf and the sound still bothered him. Out of respect for each other they decided it was better to have separate bedrooms. - Wyogirl79

8. Anyone with misophonia will understand the "noise of someone's existence" filling you with rage.

Sometimes I have to sleep on the couch cuz I get hypersensitive to sound, especially human sound, and don’t like the noise his whole existence makes. He gets it luckily - kharmatika

9. Snoring, again, is always a big one.

I know an older couple that have separate rooms. From what I can tell, they’re very much in love, and very clearly and openly affectionate with each other. Apparently her snoring is next level. Like, their dog starts barking if he’s nearby. - jslfs

10. This guy took one for the team and set up a mattress in his office.

I am an absolute terrible person to share a bed with. I snore like a passing semi truck and apparently (I'm told) flail wildly in my sleep. When we first got married I kept waking up to an empty bed. She would join me for an hour until I was asleep, then retreat to the couch. After a week or two I got fed up and just went to the couch first. Then started several months of us trading off for the couch. Eventually I just went and bought a twin mattress and tossed it in the office. That became my bed. And when we got a bigger house, I just setup in a separate room. - pineappleasarepeoplet

11. Sometimes it starts with simply having too much stuff to fit in one room.

We blended two households. His bedroom was fully furnished and the furniture and closet were full. It made sense for my stuff to go in a different bedroom. We started out sleeping in one room or the other but I realized pretty quickly that, if I ever wanted to get a full night’s sleep, it wasn’t going to be in the same bed with him. I’ve been known to call him a sweating, snoring, slant sleeping sonofabitch after a night of his sweating, snoring, and slant sleeping. We do a “your place or mine” thing for nonsleeping activities but gtfo when it’s sleepy time. - Virgowitch

12. And for one couple, a woman's MS-related vertigo was the catalyst.

my wife has MS - one of the primary issues she has is vertigo. when i'm in the bed with her, the motion of my breathing/heartbeat/movement really fucks with her vertigo while she sleeps.

also, i snore, so an isolated coil mattress wouldn't quite do it(they aren't total isolation, either, you feel movement) or two beds in one room.

also, honestly, it spices up the sex life. adds an element of pursuit and some illicit atmosphere to it, we're sneaking around the house to each other's beds to bang. - buttery_shame_cave

No matter what the reason, seems like we can all agree there's no shame in separate bedrooms.

Congratulations on choosing to click on this article. Your decision-making skills are on point. As a reward, here are 23 randomly hilarious memes that will definitely make you laugh this morning. Way to go. You rule!

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The holidays can be pretty stressful.

While Halloween is arguably an easier, low-stakes event as an adult, the pressure to find a good costume can be a challenge. Do you go for a sexy costume? A scary one? Do you find something witty and topical that will force you to explain it to everyone or do you just settle for "ghost" for the third year in a row? Decisions, decisions.

If you have children, there's a whole new load of Halloween-related stress. Not only do you have to find them a costume, but you also have to make sure they stay warm during Trick-or-Treating. Plus, then you have to spend the next month monitoring their candy intake.

Luckily, "Spooky Season" is almost over. If you've been barely surviving October, you're not alone...

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A photo of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during the Congressional hearing where she questioned Mark Zuckerberg has quickly made the rounds as a meme paying homage to Italian mob tropes. The photo captures Ocasio-Cortez visually expressing the finger kissing passion of someone who has just eaten a good meal.

The picture was obviously taken mid hearing while Ocasio-Cortez was in the middle of speaking, but the placement of her hands and even the way her head is positioned while talking created the perfect cinematic parallel for endless memes.

Unsurprisingly, most of the AOC memes referenced Italian food, which makes this meme is dangerous to scroll through if you're hungry. If a restaurant doesn't jump on this image for a cheeky promo, they are missing an opportunity.

Others likened AOC to a wheeling and dealing mafioso who is doing the work to get Trump out of office.

New Yorkers jumped onto the meme thread to clarify that any native New Yorker is bound to make this gesture, regardless of ethnicity.

Given AOC's high level of visibility and her status as the obsession of trolls everywhere, this harmless meme is a welcomed departure from the lashing out she regularly receives.

Working in the service industry or retail truly teaches you a lot about people.

Unfortunately, most of the time it's not the most uplifting news. Customers can be entitled and rude and sometimes treat service workers like they're not even human. Pro tip: the best way to order a drink isn't to shove an empty glass in a server's face or snap your fingers.

Using your words as a customer can really go a long way! Instead of wagging your hand in the air when you want the check and making a confusing gesture that could mean you want another round or you're just practicing shadow puppets, you can simply ask for your check.

Of course, servers, baristas, bartenders, caterers, and retail workers need to have a little fun sometimes too. Here are some ways to get revenge on terrible customers:

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It's incredible what you can accomplish when you have a lot of money! Celebrities and their bank accounts go all out for Halloween, with impressive cosplay and even more impressive stable relationships*.

*Some of these couples have since broken up. The costumes are still great, though.

1. Chrissy Teigen and John Legend as Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip

2. Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas as Morticia and Gomez Addams

3. Jessica Biel as Justin Timberlake and Justin Timberlake as a microphone

4. Ariel Winter and Levi Meaden as Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock

5. Beyoncé and Jay Z as Florence Griffith Joyner and Tommie Smith

5. Bella Hadid and the Weeknd as Beetlejuice and Lydia Deetz

6. Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake as Trolls

7. Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry as Bill and Hillary Clinton

8. Gabrielle Union adn Dwyane Wade as Milli Vanilli

9. Zoë Kravitz and Karl Glusman as Marla Singer and Tyler Durden

10. Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson as Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo

11. Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady as Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion, who weren't even a couple, but we'll let them have this

12. Kylie Jenner and Tyga (remember him???) as Chucky and his bride

13. Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. as Andie and Duckie

14. Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik (awwwww) as Spider-Man and the Black Cat

15. Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady as Avocado Toast (this one works better)

16. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West as Mermaid and Captain

17. Jamie Chung and Bryan Greenberg as Yoko Ono and John Lennon

18. Kristen Bell and an impressively strong Dax Shepard as another Khaleesi and Khal Drogo

19. Brooklyn Decker and Andy Roddick as Lorena and John Bobbit, something they probably regret after now after the docu-series

20. Kate Upton and Justin Verlander as Sandy and Danny

21. Beyoncé and Jay Z as Barbie and Ken

22. Beyoncé and Jay Z as Queen Aoleon and Prince Akeem from Coming to America

23. Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson as the twins from Twins

24. Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann as Black Widow and Captain America

25. Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka as Wesley and Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.

26. Brad Falchuk and Gwenyth Paltrow as Jackson Maine and Ally

27. Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. as Margot and Richie Tenenbaum

Racism is a common problem in the U.S., but due to our country's deeply racist history and flawed justice system, racists rarely receive the justice they deserve. But on the rare occasion that they do, it is a beautiful thing to behold. A story going viral on Reddit this week is about a racist restaurant manager receiving her Just Desserts and it's just about as sweet as you can imagine.

The woman who shared the story used to work as assistant manager at a "fairly well known restaurant" in a "small, northern New England city."

Racism?! In the restaurant industry in New England?? Why yes, I believe it.

I worked at a fairly well known restaurant in a small, northern New England city as an assistant manager. The owners were very successful restaurateurs with several successful (non-chain) establishments, and spent maybe a day or two a month in our location. The rest of the time there was a general manager in charge. We'll call her "Jan".

The story focuses on the restaurant's general manager, who we're calling "Jan."

Jan was about as "type A" as they come. She was a middle aged woman, but beautiful and petite and she always looked put together and primped. Jan had started with the owners a decade earlier in their first restaurant as a server and had worked her way up to general manager over the years. At first I just thought she had extremely high standards which I respected. I have high standards as well and take pride in my work. I had been impressed by how the kitchens were spotless, the staff was immaculate (like run a white-gloved hand under the back of the oven and it comes back white kind of clean) and the food was always top quality. I had frequently been a customer and was thrilled that I got the job there. I had been in the business for a decade and that restaurant was THE place in our area. I was so excited. Unfortunately I quickly learned why everything is so shining and perfect.

Like so many restaurant managers to come before her, Jan kept things running smoothly by being a "tyrant."

Jan was a tyrant. She was the kind of boss who soured the mood of the entire staff like a storm cloud hovering over us that never went away. Nothing was ever good enough and the standards changed from day to day. On a good day, she would shut herself up in the office and then leave early. Good days were very rare and could turn into bad days at the drop of a dime. On bad days you couldn't be perfect enough and she would come up with new rules and regulations just to punish people. If a host called out sick (they were literal children), she would berate them on the phone and make them cry. If a cook made a mistake on a plate, she would humiliate them in front of the staff, accuse them of doing it on purpose and then give us all the silent treatment for hours after (seriously). If someone's cash out was off, even by a few cents, she would accuse them of theft and force me to cut down their hours.

Jan was not only needlessly cruel and vindictive, she was also a racist. One way this manifest was her targeting of a "hard working dishwasher" named "Raoul," who had moved from Puerto Rico a few years earlier and was not proficient in English.

As a fellow manager, I was mostly spared her awful behavior, though I had to hear about her treatment from my staff almost every day. All of this was just run-of-the-mill bad boss stuff until it came time for our yearly staff evaluation meetings. This is where "Raoul" enters the story.

Raoul was a hard working dishwasher who had moved to our state from Puerto Rico a few years earlier and spoke English with some difficulty. Whenever I had to go over anything official with him, we would have a coworker translate between us to be sure we were both communicating clearly. Jan refused this courtesy to Raoul. This made his evaluation pretty difficult. Raoul managed to communicate to us that due to recent cuts in his hours, he would be forced to get a second job to pay the bills. Something about this absolutely set Jan off. She told him she would fire him if he dared. I could see plainly on the intake paperwork in front of me that Raoul had been hired with the understanding that it would be a full time position, so I pointed that out. Jan was furious, but agreed through gritted teeth that if Raoul agreed not to get a second job, she would bump his hours up to "at least 35 hours a week". It was stated as clear as day and I documented it in my daily manager log book. Work went on as usual after that and I didn't think much of this meeting again for a few months.

Jan also lashed out at Rosa, the restaurant's "most talented chef" who was also Puerto Rican, accusing her of being an "illegal," and asking her "where is your green card?"

As the post's author explained to her, Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory. Like so many racists, Jan was also dumb.

Another time a while later, while filing out information for tax returns, Jan called me into the office. I could tell she had pulled the tiny room apart looking for something. "All the information about our Puerto Rican employees is gone!" she told me with a mixture of panic and suspicion. I looked at the files in question and they all seemed to be in order, so I was confused and told her I couldn't help. A few minutes later I walked back in the office to find her arguing with "Rosa", our most talented chef and a Puerto Rican native. Rosa was perfectly fluent in English.

"Noooo Rooosaa." Jan was speaking to Rosa as though she were hard of hearing or mentally slow. "Where. is. your. green. card?"

"What are you talking about?" Rosa was confused.

"Are you an illegal or something? Is that why one of you broke in here? To hide the proof?" Jan wasn't yelling, but her eyes were cold and flashing with rage.

"WHAT?!?" Rosa was starting to get angry now. It suddenly clicked for me, so I interrupted.

"Jan... uh... You do realize that Puerto Rico is a United States territory, right?"

"Of course I know that!" Jan snapped back.

"Okay, so you know that Rosa has a social security number like any other American native."

"Oh. Right. Never mind Rosa, you can go back to work." Jan did not apologize for accusing Rosa of theft. I was so done with this place after that.

Things came to a head when Jan eventually fired Raoul for taking on a second job to pay the bills, telling him "all you illegals are the same." So the assistant manager encouraged him to sue her for wrongful termination.

Jan did all kinds of little things like that and she never apologized. I had already gotten a job offer for a place closer to my house when the final straw came. I was the closing manager one day and got in just before the dinner rush to see Raoul storming out the back door. He didn't speak much English, but his "fucking bitch" was very clear. Jan had lied about raising his hours to 35 per week, so Raoul had gotten the second job he talked about. When Jan found out, she fired him, but not before saying something about how "all you illegals are the same." She was really fixated on these American citizens being illegal aliens for some reason. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ By this point, I fucking hated this woman too. (She once told me my clothing made me look poor in front of the whole staff. I was wearing what she made me wear. Meanwhile she wore open-toed shoes behind the line which is against the health codes, and once her fake nail fell off into the coleslaw and she wouldn't let anyone toss it out after she retrieved it. This is just the tip of the iceberg, but I have a life to live). Since I knew I would be leaving soon anyway, I told Raoul he should go after our boss for wrongful termination since I had documented proof (with Jan's signature!) that he had been promised more hours and that Jan had broken the agreement, not Raoul.

Raoul hired a lawyer and sued Jan for wrongful termination as well as violation of labor laws. The post's author also gave a deposition about Jan's violations; and it was during her court deposition that she learned that Jan was a Canadian whose green card had recently expired. She was sent back to Canada as a result of this case.

The last time I saw Jan was on my way out of Raoul's lawyer's office after giving a deposition about several labor laws she had violated. At least the ones that I knew about. Apparently there were many others she had broken in front of other employees. She couldn't even look me in the eye. The best part? At my deposition I learned that Jan was actually the one who was illegally in the country. Her green card had recently expired. She was Canadian. She ended up being sent back to Canada as a result of this case and no one has heard from her since. Raoul was granted six months of unemployment pay, plus the restaurant had to pay his legal fees. They closed that location not long after. Maybe they should hire their managers more carefully next time?

Jan, if you're reading this, I hope you got your shit together. I also hope you learned to wear closed-toe shoes behind the line. You wouldn't want to end up a huge, gigantic fuck up due to your own negligence, now would you?

A beautiful ending to the story, although not everyone is happy about Jan's deportation. Canadians are sounding off in the comments.

Koladi-Ola writes:

I'd just like to say, we didn't want her back.

- a Canadian

s0ilw0mb adds:

I'd also like to add, Jan; get fucked bud

• another Canadian

While other Canadians are weighing in to do what Canadians do best: apologize.

Charrsezrawr writes:

Canada appreciates your warranty return of your Canadian Citizen. We will send you a replacement with a functioning "Canadian Friendliness" feature as soon as possible.

Sincerely,

Canada, Eh.

And JoshuaPearce says:

"She ended up being sent back to Canada as a result of this case and no one has heard from her since."

And they never will again. Sorry for the trouble.

Others are just enjoying the irony of it all. BloodAwaits writes:

Man, the fake nails in the salad made me dry heave a little. Classic narcissist, everyone else has to be perfect but any mistake she makes can be excused.

Love the irony that she was the illegal and got deported in the end.

I'm hoping Raoul got a big payday from all this?

Hasta la vista, Jan.

"I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids."

-Robert Brault

If you are a parent you know the joys and pains of taking your kids out for Halloween. This holiday can be stressful, but hey, at least you get to raid their candy stash.

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Donald Trump is an incredibly normal human president who has done incredibly normal human things. He knows how to interact with humans in a human manner, and has done so for years.

Among the many human things he has done is participate in his semi-annual interaction with children at the White House (the Easter Egg Roll being the other one).

A trick-or-treater—or should I say Trump-or-treater?—approached Trump and the person in costume as Melania, and rather than place candy in the kid's bucket, Trump placed the goods on top of the Minion's head.

Covering for her husband, Melania placed a chocolate bar on the kid's head too, and then the candy proceeded to fall to the floor.

Trump is no stranger to minions—that's what Republicans in Congress are for. He is, however, knew to trick-or-treating, which might explain why his adult children are the way that they are.

People are in awe of the president's total ineptitude at such a simple task as putting candy in a bag.

Another video shows Trump handing a candy bar directly to a child in a dinosaur costume, suggesting that he has some understanding of how trick-or-treating works. Was putting candy on the Minion's head his idea of a practical joke? You can see him do a little "boop" with the bar, and then giggling when it falls to the floor.

People on the right found the Minion gambit charming.

Like all the Minion memes you see Baby Boomers post on Facebook, it's all a matter of taste.

We all know that social media is a curated slice of other people's lives, but it's still hard to not fall down the rabbit hole of comparison and sadness. Other people's lives will always seem more interesting and glamorous form a distance.

Since we don't see all the grooming that goes into the selfies, or the hours of cleaning that preface a picture of someone's house, it's all too easy to forget their lives are just as messy or mundane as ours.

After a trip to the local pool, the artist and mother of six Jen Flint took to Facebook to share an anecdote with her followers that quickly went viral.

While at the pool, Flint witnessed another mom setting up an Instagram photo shoot with her daughter before promptly returning to a phone call and ignoring her daughter's requests to swim.

While chilling at the pool, Flint saw a young mother and her daughter arrive in perfectly coordinated swimsuits.

Yesterday while at the pool I watched a young Mama and her little daughter enter the pool area dressed in very nice coordinating swimming suits. The mom, with her perfect loose curls tied up in a coordinating scarf, spent the first few minutes talking loudly on her phone to a friend while her daughter stood waiting to get into the pool. Mom ended the phone call and proceeded to spread out pool toys and sunscreen on a matching towel. Then after finding just the right angle and the right light, Mama pulled out her tripod and took a few selfies with her daughter. Little One asked to get in the pool. Mama said wait and then posed her daughter in front the pool, then going in to the pool and then coming back out of the pool.

The mother quickly laid out a spread of sunscreen and toys out, got out her tripod, and took selfies with her daughter.

Once the photos were done, the mom hopped on the phone and ignored her daughter's requests to swim.

Little one smiled big and said "cheese" like she'd done it a million times. Then Mama told her she could play. Little One walked in and swam around for a couple of minutes. Mama called a friend on her phone and began another conversation while Little One politely and repeatedly asked "Mama, can you come in the water with me, please?" She was ignored. "Mama, come play with me?" she asked 4 more times. Mama glanced over at her but never got off the phone. After 10 minutes Mama ended her call, collected the sunscreen that was never applied, the water toys that never touched the water, and then her daughter and left the pool.

Ten minutes after taking the photos and making a call, the mom packed up the toys and sunscreen and hauled her disappointed daughter off.

I sat there thinking about what I'd witnessed for awhile afterwards. I imagined the photos she took being perfectly edited and posted to social media with a caption like "Pool time with my girly! #Makingmemories".

Flint thought about what she witnessed and how the Instagram representation of that mother-daughter pool session would likely make other moms feel inadequacy or FOMO (fear of missing out).

Somewhere another Mama is going to be at home with her children, the house a mess from their play, her hair unruly from a day of mothering and her clothes dirty with spit up or peanut butter. She's going to be tired because she's spent her day cooking, caring, cleaning and playing with her children. She's going to look at that photo and she is going to compare herself to the perfect Mama at the pool. The Adversary is going to whisper into her ear "you aren't good enough... You don't look like that Mama at the pool... You don't have money to buy expensive swimming suits like that and you don't have time to make memories like she is" and that young Mama is going to believe it. She's going to feel like a failure. Ugh!! She'll never know that how she spent her time that day was so much better in God's eyes and in her children's eyes than that "perfect Mama" at the pool.

Flint wrote that it's all too easy to scroll through Instagram and make stories about other people's lives that are inaccurate, and likewise, it's easy to present a version of your life that is glossed over.

What we see on Social Media isn't always real. Sometimes and often it's a complete set-up. It's staged and filtered and it's counterfeit.

Even the glamorous moments that are real are just that: moments that quickly pass into the next thing.

Sometimes we do see absolutely real photos of vacations and beautiful homes and freshly done hair but it's only ONE moment. It's the very best moment out of a whole day spent much like our own. Working, cleaning, and messes...

Flint finished off her post by sharing that moms shouldn't feel bad about themselves for having messy houses or not living a photo perfect life, especially if that means you're getting real quality time with your kids.

Mamas, don't compare yourself. You ARE enough! You are amazing and the very best part is that you are REAL! Your dirty shirt and your messy house and your happy children are real and they are proof that you are doing it right!

A lot of moms chimed in to thank Flint for the reminder that comparing your life to someone else's social media feed is toxic and inaccurate.

Still, others thought that Flint's post effectively mom-shamed the other woman.

In fact, Flint's post blew up with so many comments that she made a follow-up post a few days later to clarify that her original story wasn't mean to shame the other mom, but instead shine a light on how misleading Instagram can be.

She wrote:

Ho. Ly. Moly!

A girl puts a few thoughts to words and decides to share them with her 700ish Facebook friends and y'all go crazy with it.

My "pool" post has officially gone viral. That's just madness.

But, since I have your attention, I'd like to add some thoughts about the post because it appears that the context of my words had been misconstrued.

While I do feel like our children deserve our attention and we all do need to put our phones down and really be present with our family and friends, that was not the message I was sharing.

Flint shared that she had no intention to shame the other mom, and knows she was doing her best as all parents do.

I, in no way, meant to shame or judge this pool Mama for her actions. I don't know why she behaved the way she did and honestly I don't care. I'm sure she had her reasons. We all do. She is just a Mama doing her best too. Shaming her was also not what my post was about. I was not pointing fingers. I was not insinuating that I was better than her. I was not pinning stay-at-home moms against working moms. I was not shaming anyone for taking photos of themselves or their children. C'mon y'all, preserving memories is often just as important as making them, right?! I was not shaming people for reading a book at the park while their little ones play on the swings. Please don't hate on others for doing things differently. Don't judge the mom at the pool who couldn't get in the water with her kids that day so she played Candy Crush on the sidelines (Hello! That was ME!!)

The purpose of the original post was to remind other moms that the gorgeous and jealousy inducing Instagram photos are never the full story.

The sole intent of my post and what I hope you take away from it is this... The beautiful, perfect, filtered photos that pass by our eyes as we scroll on social media are not a full depiction of real life. They are staged (either for someone else's self worth or because a company is paying for those staged photos to entice you to buy whatever it is they are selling). They may also just be a beautiful photo of a child laughing, a momma having a good hair day, an exquisite meal or a tropical paradise, but they are just a glimpse of a perfect MOMENT. Is there harm in taking photographs of those moments and sharing them? No! Y'all know that I do it too!

At the end of the day, Flint just wanted to remind herself and others to stop comparing and have a little more grace for themselves.

The ONLY take-away that I intended for you to get from my "pool post" is not to compare your whole self and your whole life to one perfect moment that you see on social media. Don't feel less than enough because what you see on a screen looks "better" than your real life. The scene that I saw at the pool was the opposite of what I would have imagined had happened had I just scrolled social media and saw her beautiful photo. That is the point. That is why I painted the detailed picture for you to see. So that you understand that what we see on social media is not the whole truth. THAT is the only point I intended to share with y'all.

"We spend so much time and energy comparing ourselves to others—usually comparing our weaknesses to their strengths. This drives us to create expectations for ourselves that are impossible to meet. As a result, we never celebrate our good efforts because they seem to be less than what someone else does." - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We are enough, just how we are. Remember that YOU at home with your kids or YOU at work supporting your family or YOU with the spotless house or YOU with the small apartment or YOU with an extra 30 lbs of weight that's you'd rather not have, YOU are enough. Don't compare yourself or your situation to anyone else's. Comparison is the thief of joy, y'all!

If you share my post, remember the intent. Please don't share it with the intent of shaming a mother for doing it differently than you do.

Much love to y'all.

Based on how many responses both her original and follow-up post have received, it's safe to say that Flint has touched on a topic that a lot of people feel strongly about. Social media can be a fantastic tool for meeting people and maintaining friendships, but it can also easily transform into rabbit hole of shame and FOMO. It's healthy to remember that no picture represents someone's whole life.

Not all women who get married are bridezillas—in fact, the vast majority are not. But every so often a woman gets engaged and the act of planning a wedding transforms her into the entitled sadistic Queen of the entire f*cking universe. A recent story on the aptly-titled "bridezillas" Reddit page highlights this bizarre and terrible phenomenon perfectly.

A woman says her "best friend" is getting married and asked her to be her maid-of-honor at the wedding. But since the "best friend" (you'll understand the quotes in a second) has gotten engaged, the woman has also gotten engaged, and married.

Apparently the bride, instead of being happy for her friend, is angry that she got married first—she even told her "so many times" that she "hates" it.

And that's how you know your "best friend" is more of a worst friend.

My best friend asked me to be her MoH about 18 months ago. In the time she has been engaged I have got engaged and married which she hates as shes told me so many times! She seems to think as she got engaged first she should have got married first but is waiting for money off her in laws so has to wait and expects everyone else too as well.

The bride apparently expects her friend to have postponed her own wedding—and that's not the only thing she expects her friend to delay for her.

She also wants her friend, who already has a toddler, to delay her second pregnancy until her wedding—because her pregnancy would "spoil the dresses" which she already ordered.

HOLY ENTITLEMENT BATMAN.

I already have a soon to be 2 year old, me and my husband have always said we want our kids to be close in ages but she and her boyfriend have said that I'm not allowed to be pregnant for their wedding as it would spoil the dresses which she has already ordered. I've told her that its extremely likely that I will be pregnant as we're currently trying, she's definitely not happy! Everything is a massive deal and is putting so much pressure on my and the other bridesmaid , I'm more stressed out about her wedding then I was about my own. I'm seriously considering telling her to shove it but my husband is their best man which makes it even more awkward.

The maid-of-honor clearly realizes her friend is being unreasonable, and says she considered telling her friend to "shove it," but she fears it would be "awkward." Especially because her husband is also the best man.

Commenters, who care about this woman more than her so-called "best friend" does, are encouraging her not to put up with this psycho woman's bullying.

Someweirdgirl2 explains:

This has 0 to due with the dresses and her not wanting to be over shadowed. It's the same reason that she was upset you got married first, it hurt her ego. These brides that feel that everyone needs to put their lives on hold for 2-3 years while they plan their wedding is so crazy. Don't put your life on hold to make this woman happy when she couldn't be happy for you about being married and made it all about herself and her feelings.

Many are encouraging her to back out of the maid-of-honor role, and get a new best friend.

ugghyyy says:

You have plenty of time to back out of the wedding as MOH, this way she can find another replacement to meet her ridiculous demands and you can enjoy your pregnancy.

ShanzieJens agrees, writing:

I’d bow out. If she can’t see how ridiculously selfish her actions are, that’s on her.

comfymistake points out:

She’s not your friend. Friends don’t care about all of those things, the support you.

And dirtyjeff is in shock, writing:

I'm kind of new to this sub and have read a bunch this morning. Where do you people all find your "friends"? I can't imagine anyone being like this over a wedding?

I'm not one to give unsolicited advice, being a lowly blogger. But if you have a "friend" who treats you like this, get a new friend. There are lots of women out there who will not treat their friends like an unpaid servant just because someone put a ring on their finger.

Women with big online platforms often receive insult filled DMs from angry men who disagree with their opinions. While it's normal and healthy to discuss varying view points online, there's a huge difference between posting a critique and verbally abusing a stranger. Sadly, there is a well-documented pattern of men hurling abusive insults at women online, and it appears the anonymity emboldens this behavior.

While it's often advised to ignore the trolls, it's unreasonable to expect someone to somehow flush their brain of online abuse without ever calling it out or responding to the offenders.

Tired of dealing with the disrespect, the video game reviewer Kallie Plagge took matters into her own hands and sent screenshots of a man's expletive-filled message to his mom.

Given the immaturity and cruelty of his message, Plagge reasonably assumed he was a teenager still living with his parents.

So, Plagge found his mom online and alerted her of the son's unruly behavior.

The troll's mom was quick to respond by revealing that her son is in fact 37-years-old, and he'll be receiving a talking to.

Plagge's Twitter followers admired her tactic for handling trolls, while also expressing dismay that a full grown 37-year-old man sends women DMs like that.

The Twitter art decider account was quick to deem the exchange art.

This is not the first time a woman has used this tactic to confront a troll, and it likely won't be the last, sometimes the best way to get through to someone who uses anonymity to spread abuse is to let the people in their physical life know what's going on.