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This student's group project debacle is only further proof that blindly trusting your classmates to do their fair share of the work is never a good idea.

Of course, in an ideal world, you shouldn't have to worry about your partner's ability to do their bit. You should be able to focus on your own responsibilities, and that should be enough. However, if you were a high achiever growing up, you probably learned early on that instilling your trust in a classmate with whom you were randomly paired by your teacher for a group project is a gamble. 

Sure, they might impress you. They might even knock it out of the park. But if you don't check in on them throughout the process, then you might show up on the day the assignment is due with no way to repair or correct that partner's shoddy work. 

This college student had the unfortunate experience of learning in the middle of the night right before the due date that his partner's portion was partially plagiarized. But wait, it gets worse. The other portion wasn't original material either; it was fully generated by ChatGPT. Somehow, this guy thought their professor would not use the plagiarism checkers she literally told the whole class she would use. 

This diner has a few bones to pick with the local restaurant scene, which has been rather ridiculous for their past few meals out. 

Eating at restaurants with your friends or family members is a great part of life. You really do have some of the best conversations while you're sitting around waiting for your food to arrive. Since you don't have to cook, you get to have plenty of time to chat about your day or make plans for the future. 

But obviously, you and I both live in current day, and it's expensive out here, so going out to eat is a treat for a lot of people. It's not something they do every day, or even every week, so when people do get the chance to eat at a restaurant, they hope that their experience is really great. 

For this person, though, dining has recently brought a few challenges along with it, as you can read all about below. They're not impressed with the level of customer service they've been getting, which seems to be an ongoing problem. There are lots of people looking for work, yet a lot of businesses also seem chronically understaffed. And that means when you go out to eat, you're facing long wait times to be sat, grumpy waitstaff who have been berated by customers all day, and food that you just know used to taste a lot better before restaurants started cutting corners and slimming down their portion sizes. It's not all bad, but… it could certainly use some improvement. 

This person shared their strange experiences recently, and commenters commiserated with them. Check out both stories down below… and weigh in about the whole tea debacle. Was it weird for this waitress to try and charge someone $8 for drinking "tea without the tea?" Maybe she didn't get any sleep before her shift or something, because it's one of the silliest things I've ever heard. Maybe she should try charging them a few pennies for the electricity needed to heat the water, instead of just arguing about whether or not hot water constitutes tea. 

Did you survive the holidays? Congrats! Now, you deserve memes. 

What a wild ride it has been. We don't know about you, but we are SO ready for 2026. Time to shed the old and start the transformation into the new your. New year, new you, and you actually mean it this time, right?! We sure do. One thing we will not be changing, however, is our meme intake. We are constantly scrolling though memes. One could say that us Cheezburger employees are made of memes. Cut us open and all you'll see are LOLs! We even lol at the dark, because it's all about balance, baby! 

So… Like, what are we supposed to do during these days between Christmas and New Years? I'm already eating too much sugar and carbs. If I have one more espresso martini my heart might explode. And don't even get me started on the survival of the mentally fittest in my family home. Like, yes mom and dad, you're right. I AM a grown adult. So quit telling me what to do and how to do it! You're just leading me to want to turn my brain off for even longer and scroll 'til my fingers fall off. 

But we won't let that happen! We're here to share just the right amount of memes with you. Just a dash of memes! That way, you won't get lost in the sauce that is doom scrolling. Here you can enjoy LOLs with the safety of a finite number. So buckle up and get ready to laugh, bestie! 

In the work world, you can never truly trust anyone. Your coworker "besties" are there for you to bond with over the same unfortunate happenings in the office, but that doesn't mean you can count on them to be trustworthy individuals who are looking out for your best interests. At the end of the day, the method of survival in any workplace is never to play all of your cards. You just might end up kicking yourself for all the times you told your coworker one too many crazy stories… Or, you can do nothing at all, and colleagues will still have it out for you. Your choice!

How do we win if, no matter what we do, we are promised coworker relationship dissonance? One-sided "beef" is one of the trickiest to navigate because you can't change what you are, and they can't change how they feel about you. Some people are simply miserable, and unfortunately, that makes for a rather unpleasant experience in a work setting.

Nothing hurts more than a colleague immediately taking a dislike toward you, even more so when they try to paint you as some incompetent fool who shouldn't have been hired in the first place. The proof is in the pudding (or, workplace output), so you're not necessarily in any work danger, but the passive knowing that someone believes you to be a terrible employee feels terrible. Do you tell your boss? Feign contentment until it all blows over, if it ever does? Such situations are tricky; a lot of the resolutions might be too emotionally expensive to afford.

After all is said and done, it's your word against your angry colleague's. Does your boss see what's going on, too? They might, and are just waiting for you to make the first complaint. Such is the case in this next story, where a coworker targets their colleagues and deems them incompetent, only to take credit for the work they've done. Scroll to read.