rules

'If you cook, someone else does dishes': 20+ Family rules that make every household better

Jesse Kessenheimer

17-year-old moves in with his grandparents because he doesn't want to follow his dad's girlfriend's rules: 'I told her she's not my parent and she doesn't get to demand respect.'

Emmy Pratt

Longtime import client lashes out when faced with a $200K tariff bill, demands her importer cover the cost, when they refuse she attempts to handle it herself, racking up higher error costs: 'Come back to kindly ask us to do her imports again'

Emma Saven

Manufacturing manager refuses to allow his employee to bring her 7-year-old daughter to work: 'I do not want the liability.'

Emmy Pratt

Rule-obsessed neighbor repeatedly reports woman to HOA for minor violations, so woman reads the whole rulebook, discovers that her neighbor's garden gnomes are too tall, so she reports her to HOA in retaliation: 'She got a fine for $200'

Emma Saven

'Dropping a book you're not enjoying is elite adulthood': What's something you didn't realize was optional in life?

JR Atkinson

Female roommate, Kelly, gets served eviction papers by allergic homeowner after she sneakily adopts German Shepherd from shelter despite living in a "no pets allowed" condo: 'This wasn't a surprise rule I made up'

Blake Seidel

New HOA board member goes power-hungry, gets hit with 30 rule violations after neighbor digs up old 47-page handbook out of spite: 'Rules are rules, right?'

Isabella Penn

Mid-20s relative agrees to cat-sit while the pawrents are away, but breaks every rule possible: ‘I checked footage and she threw a party AND had overnight guests!’

Ayala Sorotsky

Boss demands employees follow protocol by the book, only to have the entire office shut down after discovering “the book” hasn't been updated in a decade: ‘Nobody noticed because nobody followed it’

Bar Mor Hazut

'I had a boss who expected me to lay out his lunch': Employees share the most absurd rules they had to follow at work

Isabella Penn

21 Riotously Ridiculous "Made-Up Rules" Our Doggos Demand We Obey (and Yes, We Follow Them)

Blake Seidel

'Door 1/4 way open = It better be urgent and very brief': The strangest 'unwritten rules' from workplaces across the globe

JR Atkinson

Warehouse workers comply with a strict hair-length policy of "can't touch the collar", by wearing increasingly absurd wigs, forcing management to eventually drop the rule: 'The wigs became more and more ridiculous'

Emma Saven

'It really isn't my responsibility to enforce her rules': Entitled neighbor gets mad at dog owner for letting kids pet his dog after she leaves them unsupervised in her yard

Blake Seidel

Inconsiderate mother rents Airbnb under daughter's name, invites 20 guests over the limit, furious daughter claims she will not be held liable for damage or have strangers near her children: 'The agreement says no events or parties'

Emma Saven