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AskReddit is a popular subreddit on Reddit that allows any user to post interesting questions for anyone to answer, often generating funny discussion threads. These are their stories. 

'He was fired within 15 minutes of showing up': 10+ times coworkers got fired immediately after starting their jobs

Ben Weiss

'They were expecting about 125 people to relocate with them; they got 3': 20+ Workplaces whose employees quit together all at once

Remy Millisky

Guy refuses to hang out with leech friends after footing the bill for countless dinners, prioritizes his ‘financial boundaries’ instead of their conditional friendship

Lana DeGaetano

20+ entitled Karens and their first world problems: 'I'm so sorry that your 3500 calorie meal was missing the side of ranch you asked for'

Ben Weiss

'My boss invented a fake employee that he would blame all problems on': 20+ Workplaces that hid their tricks of the trade from their customers

Remy Millisky

Woman puts overbearing mother and aunt on a "Schoolwide ‘Intervention Watch’ List" after they sneakily pull her 8-year-old daughter out of ‘unladylike’ classes and modify her diet

Lana DeGaetano

'[He] spent like $20,000 on fidget spinners': 30+ People who let money burn holes in their pockets

Remy Millisky

'[I said] "Okay, I’ll go get another job elsewhere then" and quit immediately': 20+ Entitled bosses who got on their employees' last nerves

Remy Millisky

Micromanager boss insists reliable employee finish urgent project by ‘strictly adher[ing]’ to company manual, so the employee takes his sweet time and purposefully flops on deadline

Lana DeGaetano

Woman bails on Thanksgiving dinner when wealthy friend expects her to cook and pay for most of the groceries for the meal: ‘Her miserly ways are ridiculous’

Lana DeGaetano

Petty boss refuses employee's request for paid sick leave, then fires employee when she puts in her 5-week resignation notice: ‘At this point I’ve had enough’

Lana DeGaetano

'You can't return the shorts that you're currently wearing': 30+ Times customers asked inexplicable questions

Remy Millisky

Woman gives ‘perpetually busy’ friend a taste of her own medicine after she fails to make an effort in their 12-year relationship, friend tries to flip the script: ‘I'll pass’

Lana DeGaetano

'My mom walks away from me while still talking': 20 of the Most Annoying Parenting Habits

Ben Weiss

'Ants in the salt shaker': 20+ Diners who realized they had to leave a restaurant as quickly as possible

Remy Millisky

'A guy bought a car on the company card and... got fired': 20+ HR professionals share the wildest moments they had to fire an employee

Remy Millisky