The Not Always Right 2023 Mid-Year Retrospective: 23 Top-Voted Stories (Other Categories)
Dear readers,
As you all know, while Not Always Right will always focus mainly on bad customer stories, we publish a lot more than just those! From all our other categories, such as workplace, family, healthcare, or legal settings, we’ve published more than a few new reader favorites in 2023 so far! To continue our mid-year retrospective, here are the top-voted stories from the other categories on the site!
Today: The 23 highest-voted non-customer stories of 2023 so far!
Touch My A** And I’ll Sue Yours Into Oblivion – Hits from the comments: “That’s not just sexist. It’s just plain stupid.”
If You’re Gonna Do It, Do It Smart – We hope that every kid with a parent like this one also encounters a doctor like this author!
No One Messes With My Librarians – Supervisors like this are why we added the “Managers With A Spine” tag!
The Worst Helicopter Parent To Have Ever Helicoptered – Hits from the comments: “I mean, there’s ‘helicopter parenting’, and then there’s ‘Black Hawk helicopter parenting’…”
Sweetness, Take The Wheel – Hits from the comments: “Someone needed to be pushed, and it wasn’t the guy in the wheelchair.”
Time To Go, Daddy’o – Sometimes the universe just comes together for some delicious instant Karma.
A Different Kind Of Fairytale – We hope everything worked out to sunshine and rainbows for these two!
Trying To Make (Gas)Light Of It – If anything, we almost feel like this author was underreacting.
Standing Strong In The Face Of Reckless Hatred – Hits from the comments: “This did not go the way I thought it was going to, but that girl was amazing.”
Cargo Pants Overflowing With Revenge – Sometimes the only way to make change is with a lot of change.
It Really Does Take A Village – We want to live in this town when we get old!
We’ve Never Hoped So Hard For Someone To Get Fired – We stand by our title.
Silly Newbie, Being All Human And Stuff – It says a lot about working in today’s world that this is such a refreshing change of pace.
Best Not Zoom In On Those Opinions – Hits from the comments: “He doesn’t just play by the rules, he plays with the rules.”
The Unicorn Of Doctors – When you find a doctor that treats you like this, hold onto them!
Really Phoning In That Phone Pick-Up – If you feel like you need to remind people that you’re an adult… are you really?
I’m Getting That Data One Way Or Another! – Hits from the comments: “Gatekeeper, meet traffic flow.”
There Will Be Consequences – Hits from the comments: “I love this story so much, I want to laminate it and frame it.”
Take Her To The Zoo Yourself, You Animal! – Hits from the comments: “Sadly, it is illegal to feed these parents to the lions at the zoo, as much as we would like to do so.”
You Don’t Protect Your Workers, You Don’t Protect Your Job – STOP. ENABLING. CREEPS.
That Problem Is Taken Care Of – What kind of monster denies time off for someone’s mother’s funeral?!
That Consequence Must’ve Felt Like A Slap In The Face – Would it be insensitive if we said we kind of want to slap this manager?
Keeping Loyal Customers Is No Game – This is the best kind of squeaky wheel!
We hope you enjoyed this collection of the highest-voted non-customer stories in 2023 so far! Check out our other 2023 retrospective roundups!
The Not Always Right 2023 Mid-Year Retrospective: 23 Top-Voted Stories
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