vacation

Loyal employee is denied PTO request for their birthday, rewards it instead to employee who asked for it verbally because it's 'tradition': 'She had multiple weekends off [...] but my request was denied'

JR Atkinson

Kind mountain man loans his car to strangers, heroically rescuing them from roadside car trouble and saving their holiday vacation: 'He didn't have to trust us, but he did, without hesitation'

Jesse Kessenheimer

Healthcare worker can't take vacation when colleague takes vacation, colleague makes last minute requests every time she takes vacation time: 'I reviewed the entire calendar... I noticed it's a pattern'

Ally Perry

Father stands up for 18-year-old daughter after 25 and 28-year-old stepsisters hide her passport to sabotage family vacation: 'I tried to get her to tell me where it was'

Remy Millisky

Dad defends his parenting tactics, clashing with his brother-in-law when he mocks the rules he set for his kids on family vacation: 'Go ahead and assume I never want parenting advice from you'

Jesse Kessenheimer

Healthcare employee on two-person team is fed up as coworker repeatedly requests last-minute PTO on the same days she's off, leaving her to carry the unfinished workload when she returns: 'Reviewed entire calendar of 2025 and noticed that it’s a pattern'

Emma Saven

Woman's family books an Airbnb for a vacation to Mexico that is short one room, expects her boyfriend to sleep on the couch: ‘I offered to pay whatever necessary’

Lana DeGaetano

Middle-aged passenger tries to claim a 5'5" teen’s aisle seat, gets shut down by staff, and ends up stuck in the row behind her for 11 hours: ‘The flight attendant told him his ticket was for the seat behind me’

Etai Eshet

Planner of friends' international group trip demands to add her family to the vacation, other participants refuse to allow them to join: ‘She didn’t tell us she’d be bringing extra people’

Bar Mor Hazut

Group of 5 women each refuse to pay back friend $150 for vacation, spend it on her friend's birthday instead, are confused when she's upset: 'Oh… so I paid for everyone for my birthday dinner?'

JR Atkinson

Dad promises 14-year-old son a Japan trip if he maintains a 3.5 GPA and saves $3000 by the time he's 18, reneges on offer after he maintains a 3.7 GPA and saves $5000: 'Let's do a road trip somewhere in the US instead.'

Emmy Pratt

Boss forces manager to require that his assistant join team meetings during his vacation: '[We] need to attend meetings for free on our days off'

Ben Weiss

31-year-old takes her first vacation in years, aunt crashes it with her kids and tries to get her to switch her ocean view room with her: ‘I told her I was not a travel charity!’

Elna McHilderson

Entitled mother tries to change the itinerary of her child's 3-week dream trip to Germany into something she wants instead, child tells her to get over it or get out: ‘Get on for the ride or not come at all’

Lana DeGaetano

'I'm trying to enjoy my hard-earned PTO': Resort Karen dethroned by another vacationer after leaving the best pool umbrella unattended for 7 hours despite claiming it at 6 AM; gets taught a lesson

Jesse Kessenheimer

‘I've been teary and crying all day from happiness! My baby boy's okay!’: The heartwarming tale of the lost Australian Shepherd who was found in New Mexico a year after escaping a dog sitter to find his family who’d gone on vacation

Laurent Shinar