Dear readers,

Today is Leave the Office Earlier Day! This day was invented by Laura Stack, a specialist in employee productivity. She noted that working longer hours and overtime is actually detrimental to productivity! The US works about 350 hours more a year than their European counterparts, so she decided that a day to leave early was required!

Now 2020 is proving to be a weird year for workers, but that still doesn’t mean you can’t less your boss know what today is, and maybe take a longer lunch break for yourself if you can! If you do get some more time today, we hope you can use it to enjoy the 23 stories selected from our archives, of demanding bosses, lazy coworkers, and oblivious customers who do not respect a decent work/life balance!

Okay, That Was A Little Mean – Mean it may be, but this is soooo satisfying to read!

Overtime Crime – We’re pretty sure a federal court would love to hear about what’s happening here.

Dads: Gotta Love ‘Em – Remaining calm in the face of their ever-increasing fury is a joy to behold.

Off The Clock, Customer Block, Part 2 – Making them sound like a jerk is easy because they are.

Overtime Crime, Part 2 – There’s a reason why our ‘Overtime Crime’ title became a series…

Replacing A Labor Coach With A Labor Couch – Nothing screams work/life balance like labor pains!

Overtime Crime, Part 3 – We were hoping this series could end on a trilogy. How wrong we were…

Don’t Commit The Crime If You Can’t Do The Overtime – So this is what happens when you go from a sweatshop to a real place of work!

Mourning The Morning – Some people are just not morning people.

Overtime Crime, Part 4 – When the boss is hoping the two-hour movie has a one-hour intermission.

The Key To Avoiding Overtime – If you have to SNEAK OUT to avoid mandatory overtime, something has gone horribly wrong.

A Storm Of Protest – We’d like you to risk your life for a minimum-wage job by driving in a blizzard. KTHXBYE!

Overtime Crime, Part 5 – The important thing is the manager got home to his hot dinner – nothing else matters!

A Professor That Gives You The Time Of Day – “For the love of Sagan” – read this story!

Dress Down For Lunch Or You’ll Get A Good Dressing – When a lunch break is purely theoretical.

Overtime Crime, Part 6 – The store can’t be run without overtime. The store cannot afford overtime. You see where this is going…

This Extra Working Just Isn’t Working – The cold coffee is just the icing on the cake.

A Weak Week Off – Notarizing still counts in pajamas, right?

Overtime Crime, Part 7 – Sometimes to work with a bad boss you have to work over them.

No Such Thing As A Free Lunch – They thought they could get away with it. NOT TODAY!

Short Nights Lead To Short Temper – Having a bit of a rant does work sometimes it seems!

Overtime Crime, Part 9 – What’s more important? Your daughter’s health or that your shift gets covered?

A Rose By Any Other Customer – When a lunch break isn’t.

We hope you enjoyed this collection of stories! Know any that we missed? Let us know in the comments! Want to submit your own story? Do it here!

Stay safe, everyone!

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Dear readers,

Today is World Milk Day! You drank it as a child to make you strong. It goes into cheese and cake, which some of our editors can’t live without! Even Vegans can get in on the action, with Rice, Soy, Oat, Coconut, and many other types of plant-based milk ensuring they can get their coffees just how they like them! (Yes, we know they’re not technically ‘milk’ but they serve the same purpose and we’re not that picky.)

So, when you’re celebrating today with a nice cold glass of milk, enjoy our 23 selected stories that show how some customers like to ‘milk’ their ignorance.

The Dark Chocolate Knight – We have to start with a classic!

A Mockery Of The Language – If you can learn how to say milk in two languages you’re already better than these two…

Got Brains? – This story is really going to get your goat.

Buffalos In The Mist – We think if someone really tried to do this, they would go ape!

How Cows Order Coffee – Sadly, too much milk can be a bad thing.

You’ve Got To Be Kitten, Part 2 – Oh, dude…

Cows Live Off The Fat Of The Land – The growing market for pure cow oil.

The Land Of Milk And Money – You argued logic with a bigot… and won!

Milk That Lie Dry – I am only allergic to things I don’t like!

Clearer Than Black And White – Vanilla racism is still racism.

Sure, We Have A Cow Out Back (Part 2) – Only if the customer can provide the cow!

Gotta Try It Sooner Or Latte – Milk? With coffee? How scandalous!

Batty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder – A story from 2011 about panic buying – sheesh!

You (Could Have) Had Me At Hello – She thinks she has to foam at the mouth to get her milk.

There Is No Meat But Where Is The Proof – Every single thing she just said is wrong.

Milking A Complaint For All It Weighs – Expecting 2% milk to be 2% of the weight.

There Is No Expiration On Your Stupidity – We’re going to label you ‘idiot.’

Beans From The Third Rice – We don’t know what the drink of fascism is but we’re pretty sure it’s not soy.

Skimmed Milk, Skimmed Brain – This is what happens when customers just skim over the details and then label themselves experts.

The Cow Goes Moy – If you thought chocolate milk comes from brown cows…

Guess Whose Picture Is Next To “Pyrrhic” – You get more per gallon for petroleum!

One Coffee Conflagration, Coming Right Up – For this customer, hypocrisy just comes organically.

Make That A Triple Non-Fat Sexy Latte – It’s a foam party!

We hope you enjoyed this collection of stories! Know any that we missed? Let us know in the comments! Want to submit your own story? Do it here!

Stay safe, everyone!

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Dear readers,

Today is No Tobacco Day! It’s a day to encourage those who are trying to quit smoking to survive the day without having a puff! There’s no denying it is an unhealthy lifestyle and so we hope if you’re trying to cut the habit, these 23 smokin’ stories from our archives will help you a little – if for no other reason that you don’t want to be associated with these people!

Please Take A Health Tip – Who wants to be the one to tell him?

Tat Settles That – No good deed goes unpunished.

Where There Are Smokers, There Is Fire – It’s not the smoking that’s going to get him killed.

Smoking Before She Even Gets Cigarettes, Part 2 – The ‘T’ in EBT does not stand for tobacco.

Finally Gets The Joint – Oh, we know what he’s been making with them…

Getting The Wrong Smoke Signals – An addictive-free cigarette is as false as those people who say they can quit whenever they want.

Smoked Sausage – Forget nicotine – it’s the lecithin that’s gonna get ya!

Went To The Wrong Joint – Before it was legal, this happened all the time!

Don’t Know What They’re Smoking – When you have so little going on in your life you take time out to scam a few cigarettes.

That Chicken Is Smoking Hot – It’s not the chicken that’s burning, it’s pure smoking hypocrisy!

That Return Is A Pipe Dream – Sadly, this kind of entitlement is always in the pipeline.

Smoked Out The Scammers – Give them an inch and they’ll smoke a mile.

A Sleepwalk To Remember – When you smoke so much your brain is cloudy.

Weeding Out The Truth – They got hookah’d on the wrong thing.

One Point Stupid – Reading, Writing, and Rolling!

It Never Hurts To Ask…And Ask…And Ask, Part 2 – We had to read this one twice just to make sure the customers really were that stupid.

Where There’s Smoke, There’s Backfire, Part 2 – When the police are exactly where they need to be.

Getting Chesty – He has so few chest hairs you could individually name them.

Close, But No Cigar – That customer has some weird personal branding.

Nothing To Tip Him Off – This customer finally reached their tipping point.

How To Spot A Smoking Gun – We hope that Grandma did that on purpose.

No ID, No Idea, Part 21 – If you’re old enough to be someone’s grandfather then start acting like it!

Biting The Hand That Feeds You – If they make a point of your stuttering, you can make a point of their suffering.

We hope you enjoyed this collection of stories! Know any that we missed? Let us know in the comments! Want to submit your own story? Do it here!

Stay safe, everyone!

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Dear readers,

Today is Water a Flower Day! While many in the Not Always Right editing team know the lazy pleasure of owning a plastic plant, we are all in agreement that they’re no substitute for the real thing! If you do have some friends in bloom at home right now, use today as an opportunity to give them all a decent watering, and help them to provide some green positive energy!

Sadly, the 23 stories gathered here from our archives showcase that there are many people out there who would somehow get their plastic plants killed…

This Refund Is Cut And Dried – Sorry dude, but it wasn’t the flowers…

About To Be A War Of The Roses – She’s going to find an interesting place to stick those flowers…

Pan-bi-a-trans-homo-heterosexual, Part 2 – Cross-Pollination-Hub!

Barking Up All The Trees – The flora version of “I am looking for a book, it’s blue.”

A Chance To Play God – Just choose the flowers that don’t labor or spin.

An Offering To The Literary Gods – Methinks she’s following the letter of her anger management classes, if not the spirit.

Up His Own Perineum – He’s looking for some chloriniums.

Those Who Have Impotence Will Never Lose Their Flower – Good luck trying to get those to cross-pollinate!

Nature Abhors A Vacuum-Head – A ‘natural’ teenage behavior.

Your Garden-Variety Idiot – She’s growing baaaah-gonias.

The Richer They Are, The Cheaper They Become – The title says it all. Rich people got rich because they expect everything for free.

How About We Toilet Paper Your Lawn Instead – Just redo a whole lawn – it’s nothing!

Digging Your Tree Out Of A Hole – It’s literally six feet under.

The Problem With Dirty Words – Unable to get the dirt on what is actually happening here.

Accusations Wood Require Hard Proof – Somehow we think turning up an hour later wouldn’t have made much difference…

Someone Needs Sensitivity Training – Ebinezer Scrooge needs his flowers!

We’d Love To Cut Your Lawn, But— – Can we just say–

Not A Turf Decision – The plants never forget.

H2-D’oh! – What grassless planet has he been living on?

Time For Them To Make Like A Tree And Leave – The karma will be the cherry tree on top.

How To Make The Customer Blossom – You catch more flies with honeysuckle than violas.

Set Fire To The Rain – But we do! We really, really do!

Will Get It Done Come Rain Or Shine – He needs to learn how to read the landscape-ing.

And finally, a feel-good story with an awesome customer who deserves all the flowers!

Momma Raised Him Right – We wanted to end this post on a smile – after all, your plants can tell when you’re frowning!

We hope you enjoyed this collection of stories! Know any that we missed? Let us know in the comments! Want to submit your own story? Do it here!

Stay safe, everyone!

Dear readers,

In our continuing coverage of workers that keep our world running when things all go a bit 2020 (yes, it’s an adjective now) we move on to taxi drivers. When everything else has shut down, we can rely on them to get us to places in an emergency – yes, we know there’s occasional price gouging but that’s a completely different roundup – think positive today!

Lately, many health workers and essential staff have counted on them to get them where they need to go, so we’ve included them in our shout-outs, like we have to grocery store workers, postal workers, healthcare workers, truck drivers, teachers, police, emergency services, airline staff, waitstaff, and movie theater staff already!

Having A Business Discussion – We really don’t think they understand how this whole taxi thing works.

At The Corner Of Me & Myself – Just tell them you’ll meet them at the corner and that they should know which one.

GPS: Great Practitioners Of Stupidity – When ‘GPS’ has become a verb you know you’re in for an interesting ride.

I Left My Job In San Fresno – That’s going to be a big fare!

We Can Either Do This The Long Way Or The Long Way – Sometimes you just have to give the passenger exactly what they’re asking for.

Lawless And Clueless – We feel sorry for whoever is her driver.

Doesn’t Know One’s (Gas) Station – Not getting any mileage out of admitting they were wrong.

Taxing Taxiing – We feel that maybe they should be going away from the liquor store.

Got A Taxi-ing Search Ahead Of Them – The same old guy story…

Misadventures In Time And Space – Why do they need a cab when it sounds like they already have a tardis?

The Weather Outside Is Frightful And The Customer Is Not Delightful – Nothing ruins Christmas like a big load of entitlement.

How To Drive In The Tips – The obligatory story to make you go ‘awww.’

They’re Uber Demanding – When they’re expecting you to be a 7-Eleven on wheels.

Taxing Pranking – When a coincidence is so beautiful you think its a prank.

One Of Them Is Not Very Personable – Are they a ghost?

Kicking Up A Stink – Talk to them in a language they understand – i.e. a selfish one.

Doctor Very Strange – Hopefully he doesn’t leave his patients waiting as long as he does his taxi drivers.

This Taxi Entitlement Condition Is Terminal – Wrong passengers, entitled tourists, backseat drivers, and this is all one person!

An A-mall-ing Lack Of Attention – A rare case of the passenger realizing that THEY are the problem!

Taxiing Day At The Gym – This taxi driver is about to be very disappointed.

Getting Your Priorities Straight – Taxis are great because if one of them crashes you can just get another one!

(Ursa) Major Pain In The A** – Narrowing down the pickup point to this spiral arm of The Milky Way.

Fairly Foolish Fares – Taxi drivers love a good conversation… but this is not a good conversation.

And finally, a bonus story that isn’t about a taxi driver, but still showcases what they have to put up with:

Driving Miss Crazy, Part 3 – If this car had an entitlement-meter it would be off the scale!

We hope you enjoyed this collection of stories! Know any that we missed? Let us know in the comments! Want to submit your own story? Do it here!

Stay safe, everyone!