María Cetra

Writer

Writer, reader, and literature student. Skilled in writing and editing academic papers, articles, and essays. Aside from my weird relationship with books, I love animals, especially cats. I go out to run quite frequently, and I love watching sitcoms.

overreaction office pranks horrible coworkers boundaries Workplace - 45948165

Employee gets pranked by her 50-year-old coworker by getting her water bottle mixed with coffee cream, she is very upset and worried she's overreacting: 'I feel like it’s not okay for anyone to mess with someone's drink.'

aunt figurines collectibles nephew Family - 45947141

Aunt locks her bedroom to avoid her 11-year-old nephew from breaking his collectibles, hurting the little boy's feelings, her brother says: ‘[she] was more concerned about plastic than the boy's mental health.’

steak talesfromyourserver free stuff entitled people Service Industry - 45933061

Customer demands a free steak, as it wasn't cooked as he asked, even though he had already eaten it, he gets his way, plus a free dessert and "jokes" it's for the kids in the car: 'A coworker came up to me and said a kid jumped out of their minivan.’

management service industry Bad Bosses malicious compliance food service - 45931013

Employee contacts his manager because of an important incident, boss forbids everyone from contacting her in her free time, but also requests things from employees in their free time: 'She will have to come in on her days off if she wants to talk to me'

lunch break boundaries entitled people workplace Coworkers - 45930501

Coworker gets asked to pick up another coworker's lunch all the time, once he did, but never got paid for the food, and now he doesn't know how to set boundaries: 'There is no reason that he can't drive to a restaurant during lunch'.

workplace-stories time off union bad bosses Employment - 45918725

Restaurant employee gets denied vacation even though she had approved time off by management, she tries to fix it, but the union rep is on vacation: 'Ever since one of my coworkers got fired, we've been working 6-day weeks and doing two people's jobs.'

hotel guest reservation tales from the front desk karen Customer Service - 45917701

Guest reserved two hotel rooms and then got mad when front desk employee explained she had, in fact, two rooms that she had to pay for, she's blaming the employee: 'Why didn’t you call me and ask if I really needed the second room?'

relationship advice bad boyfriend splitting the bill restaurant Relationships - 45916421

Girlfriend gets mad at her boyfriend because he invites her to dinner and then expects her to pay for half the bill just to prove a point: 'Now he's saying I'm making him look cheap over "one joke".'

corporate malicious compliance bad bosses blue collar Workplace - 45901829

IT employee gets reprimanded over not taking his lunch on time, so he complies during a critical outage that turned down the network in which he can't really do anything: 'Boss is standing at my desk when I get back today.'

family feud hypocrite in laws moving out Family - 45901061

Family argues with in-laws because they are moving out of the country, and now they can't see each other very often, even though they never got together when they lived close by: 'You already see each other just once or twice per year.'