greenmangostudio

Me and my co-worker are always playing harmless little jokes on each other, with the purpose of trying to embarrass one another. He's probably late 60's balding, short been married for most his life. Even though he was at work today, I put on his out of office. Something along the lines of "I will be out of the office so me and my wife can enjoy our ""lifestyle"" cruise. We are always interested in making new friends, please reach out if you ever want to get together. I thought it was pretty harmless and wasn't too over the top, figuring most people wouldn't even know what i was talking about. I was wrong. It was on for most of the day until he realized what was going on and turned it off. The next morning, he ends up getting called into HR office, to explain his email about inviting co-workers to his sex party. Instead of ratting on me or explaining the story he simply decided to say "I am sorry I overshared, I should have thought t...

I received a message on my main account which I now no longer have access to (more on that later) The message was from someone claiming to have been a victim of an impersonator pretending to be me on reddit while phishing people. He then told me that he sent a report to the reddit admins about it, then revoked the report once he realized that the impersonator was not me (he showed me a screenshot of the impersonator's profile, which freaked me out) He then showed me a screenshot (which I now realize must have been doctored) supposedly from Reddit support instructing him to forward me a discord account to add, with the name Benjamin Cisneros (who is an actual reddit staff member with a LinkedIn page) Of course I shouldn't have accepted the page as proof that it was him, nor should i have fallen for something like this over Discord But when I was told that this was a fraudulent activity case involving federal authorities and potential legal charges, including scary walls ...

I was a manager, and there was an employee I'd been building a case to let go of. It had been going on for weeks — performance conversations, documentation, HR in the loop. Everything above board and, honestly, entirely justified. He emailed me about something routine. I don't even remember what. I went to forward it to two other people on my team with a bit of commentary, because I was tired and frustrated and I wanted the release valve of saying something unprofessional to people I trusted. What I typed was some variation of "can't wait until this idiot is gone." What I hit was reply. I noticed roughly four seconds after sending, which is exactly long enough to be useless. There's a particular feeling when you realise what you've just done and your hand is still on the mouse — like the floor has quietly been removed but you haven't started falling yet. He read it. Of course he read it. He replied. Then it went to HR, and the fairly clean pr...

This actually happened yesterday, but I'm just processing it today. Throwaway because I know I was the asshole here. I've been working a desk job at a tech company for about 18 months. I get paid pretty well, but lately I've made some very big purchases and did not really budget well. As a result, my bank account is pretty low and I'm overdue on some bills. So lately to save money I've been trying to buy as little as possible, which includes skipping meals. I don't mind it, I've lost a few pounds, but generally I skip breakfast and lunch and just have a cheap dinner. Yesterday though, I was starving all day. At around 2pm, my stomach was audibly rumbling from hunger. I knew I had to eat something but even McDonald's is too expensive for me right now. I looked in the employee fridge, almost everyone had eaten lunch but I saw a wrapped deli sandwich in there. It didn't have anyone's name on it, and it was late afternoon so I figured someone mus...

This happened a week ago and I'm still dying from embarrassment. A while back, I came up with a silly thing of setting a reminder on my phone anytime me and my girlfriend were about to have sex. I would put really corny things like time for sex or time to hook up with the girlfriend. Then I would show these notifications to her and she thought they were funny. So last week my girlfriend said her mother was gonna stop by one day at noon for lunch. Since I would be there early that morning we decided we would fool around a bit. I put the reminder on my phone. But the night before, my girlfriend's mother called and ask if she could come a bit earlier for brunch because something came up. Girlfriend said no big deal. By the time I got there the next morning, we were not gonna have time to have sex. Then her mother came over. My girlfriend and I were in the kitchen making brunch. I had my phone on the coffee table. My girlfriend's mother was sitting on the couch in the livin...

A lesson for all us glasses-wearers, perhaps… For a few years now, I've been finding holes on the right side of my t-shirts, towards the hem at the bottom. It's been driving me slightly crazy, albeit with the benefit of greatly improving my sewing skills. At first I thought it must be the dogs jumping up at me when I get home from work, although it was weird that the holes were always in the same spot. The living room is to the right of the front door though, so it would make sense that the holes would be on that side. Then I thought, it must be something I'm doing at work. The way I'm carrying something, maybe. For the past week or so, I've been very careful to carry heavy items out in front of me so they can't snag on my clothes. But now, today, I finally caught myself doing it, and everything finally makes sense. I was wiping my glasses on my t-shirt, and I felt the fabric get caught in the hinge. I immediately went to check the spot I felt getting ...