The Not Always Right 2025 Retrospective: 25 Readers’ Favorite Stories!
Dear readers,
The 2025 retrospectives continue! Today, we are going to look at all the stories that you, our readers, enjoyed the most this year.
Today: 25 of the Readers’ favorite stories of 2025!
B-I-N-G-O, I Think I Need A Raise, Oh! – Oh… you won. Yay?
Sell That Sign As A Shirt And Spin It Into A Positive Outcome! – When will managers realize that if they force one person to come in sick, then EVERYONE will get sick?!
Now THAT Is How You Manage Complaints! – We do so love it when the customer’s entitlement is turned back on them.
Giving Grandma The Straight Dope Pope – Oh… so it can be that easy!
Driving The Point Home, Part 3 – We wish that with every entitled customer who insists on shopping past close, there was a long-suffering child of theirs forcing them to be decent human beings…
The Meal That Launched a Rebellion – The noodle is the spark that will light the fire that will burn this Order down…
If They Had Opposable Thumbs, They’d Be Unstoppable – Manners maketh the cat.
A Crash Course In Compassion – When you career off the road, and your manager just careers off…
The Pawsome Foursome – I suddenly need to start thinking… all day… every day…
Sorry, But Was Your Mother Literal Satan? – This got dark!
Knife, Camera, Legal Action – Might want to sit down for this one. It… uh… escalates.
This Kind Of Overreaction Does Not Cut The Mustard – You know things are effed when 911 call operators prefer that job to dealing with customers.
When Fast Food Slows Down – Keep that challenge coin forever!
Taste Buds, Taste Blood – A chip on their shoulder big enough to throw a Big Mac through.
Drawer-ing the Wrong Kind of Attention – When managers almost WANT you to be killed.
Kevin McCallister’s Neighborhood Watch Is Growing In Numbers – A neighborly misunderstanding is still neighborly.
Helping Them Reach New Heights – Sometimes, we have to stop and help those trying to get through life one meep at a time.
Order 66 Meets Section 31 – The crossover we really needed last year… 🖖
Don’t Run Off, Or Grandpa Will Find You… – We need to be asking our grandparents more questions in general…
People Power Versus Power Plays – Workers unite! And then cause satisfying consequences!
The Opposite Of A Wretched Hive Of Scum And Villainy – Small town folk. They’ll either save you, or end you.
The Boss Wins That Closing Argument – After closing time, you’re no longer a customer. Why can’t it be that simple?
According To The HOA, Community ≠ Residents – Y’all love it when HOA’s get their karmic comeuppance, don’t you?
Beep. Smile. Forget. Repeat. – If someone tells you’re being THAT customer, it’s time to stop and reconsider.
Silver Hair Lining – From the comments: “Now THIS is professional haterism.”
We hope you enjoyed this collection of our readers’ favorite stories of 2025! Check out our other 2025 retrospectives below:
The Not Always Right 2025 Retrospective: 25 Top-Voted Stories
The Not Always Right 2025 Retrospective: Top-Voted Stories (Other Categories)
The Not Always Right 2025 Retrospective: The Top Feel-Good Stories!
