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Restaurant work isn’t for the faint of heart, especially if it’s a short-staff situation. One woman found herself in the thick of this very thing when she shared a video on TikTok of her unnamed restaurant’s kitchen literally overflowing with dirty dishes, and her being the only one to clean it up… in one hour.

The caption in the video says “Who is doing the job of 3 people and only getting paid for the job of 1?” “Not me!” she titled the video, with the hash “idontgetpaidenough.” Do any of us? Well, besides Bob Iger, I guess.

“So tonight,” she says as she surveys the damage, a closer “called in sick and they never scheduled us with a dishwasher.” It really does look like a kitchen from a movie about a teen summer camp.

There are dishes that I don’t even think I’ve seen before. Metal and aluminum overflowing from every crevice in this poor kitchen. It’s enough to make you want to take a bath and get cleaned up.

“You know what’s funny is they expect me, the grill closer, to be the one who does all these dishes. But where’s the dishwasher? Where’s the pre grill closer?” she asks as she points out more and more dirty dishes.

“Oh yeah, they expect us to do it in one hour? Not to mention I have to make all the sandwiches for the store until it closes. By myself. Who’s doing this?”

It’s hard not to feel bad for this person. It’s also hard to not think about how a restaurant company expects its employees to basically be indentured servants for very low wages. Adding injury to insult, grill cooks traditionally don’t get health care or benefits.

If anything, this video is a nice microcosm of how labor works in the United States in general; underpaid workers are expected to do the brunt of the work of a corporation and be happy to do so. We treat workers like crap. Even actors. We even treat actors terribly. By “we,” I mean corporations, not the royal we.

The commenters on this one are on her side, too. “I would just keep doing my job at my pace and clock out on time. not my fault,” one said.

“Baby, I’d walk right out that door and never look back! That kind of stress isn’t needed in life!,” said another. Who wouldn’t want to flip their boss the proverbial bird and leave? Unfortunately, most of us — closer to all of us — have to work to pay for things. We got bills to pay!

Didn’t mean for this to turn into some dystopian view on humanity, but it’s pretty clear how things work in this world. Happy Wednesday, everyone.

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As any retail worker will tell you, customer service is a tough business. It doesn’t matter if you’re a barista, a bartender or a fast food employee, it can be strenuous, dealing with humans — especially entitled ones. In modern slang, an uptight, officious know-it-all — specifically, a woman — is known as a “Karen.” We’ve all met one, even if we’d prefer not to have.

Karens are like cockroaches; you hope never to see them, but when you do, it’s an unpleasant experience for everyone involved. Although it’s common knowledge that customer service representatives encounter the most Karens, you can find yourself in a screaming match with one at your local Stop & Shop, if you’re not careful. They’re everywhere.

Julie, a TikTok content creator and salon owner, acted out her own encounter with a Karen on the video-sharing platform. Intuition tells us that the below video isn’t a real-time event, but rather a reenactment of a past encounter. That’s not to say that the TikTok couldn’t be a playback of a real interaction, but it does appear scripted to a degree.

In the video, we see Julie giving a manicure to a customer that we’ll fittingly call “Karen.” After asking whether Karen liked the chosen color, the customer informed the manicurist that she’d prefer a different one, so the latter accommodated the request with a different shade.

Halfway through the manicure, the nail artist asks again if Karen likes the color. This time, Karen informs her that she does, so Julie finishes off the new color. Afterwards, Karen starts a confrontation about how she doesn’t like the nails, even going as far as to call them “sh*t.”

“She literally asked if she liked it and she said yeah some people man,” one user commented.

“I’d charge double and never make another appointment for her again,” another wrote.

Julie sets her boundaries, calmly refusing Karen a refund and also refusing to re-do the nails.

And that, folks, is how you run a business. Karen 101.

Admit it, we’ve all taken a joke too far sometimes. When it’s for the sake of entertainment, sometimes we laugh at the expense of others. When we consider TV shows such as Impractical Jokers, Jackass, and Punk’d, there’s our irrefutable evidence that pranksters thrive on the ‘bigger and better’ mentality. If the last joke didn’t land or received a so-so reaction, they’ll amp up the fear and confusion to produce more desirable results.

TikTok has become a hub for pranksters to share their greatest accomplishments. And by ‘greatest accomplishments,’ we mean scaring the pants off of unsuspecting passersby. The TikTok profile @georgia_pranksters has been uploading videos since December 2022, containing “Bush Man” camouflaging himself in foliage and scaring the wits out of regular citizens.

No one is safe from Bush Man’s rampage, be it dogs, the elderly, children — anyone is a target. In a video posted on July 3, Bush Man waits in anonymity as a father and daughter duo pass by. He initiates the prank by making a snorting noise reminiscent of a pig, causing the father to look over his shoulder and suspect the daughter.

Shortly after, once the daughter enters his line of sight, Bush Man emerges and snorts again, causing the daughter to flinch instinctively. What he could have never predicted, however, was how the daughter proceeds to violently cry and scream. This appears to be an involuntary reaction from her, but the Bush Man feels immediately guilty.

While the father consoles his daughter, the prankster profusely apologizes, but the man is all smiles, so he doesn’t seem to have taken the joke personally. After reassuring Bush Man that his daughter is fine, the father leads her away, still finding the whole thing amusing.

It’s been highlighted in the comments (not always sensitively) that the daughter may have some form of special needs disability, which would explain her excessive reaction.

“She’ll never trust a bush again,” one user said.

“Bro out of all the people lmao,” another wrote.

Although the video was all in good fun, the perpetrator did “feel bad” for triggering the uncomfortable episode.

An airline taking off from London’s Heathrow has experienced some trouble with an embittered passenger. The middle-aged woman, who arrived late to the boarding gate, wound up missing her flight. When an airline worker attempted to explain that regulations won’t allow passengers to board after the allotted time, an altercation occurred in which the woman verbally attacked the gate agent.

In similar fashion to Marvel’s Team Iron Man and Team Captain America debate, the original content creator who uploaded the video (below), posed the question of Team Lady or Team Airline to the comment section. Thankfully, with one small step for TikTok and one giant leap for humanity, fellow TikTokers rallied together in full support of the airline worker.

During the exchange, the gate agent explains that they aren’t permitted to allow passengers through security at a certain time. The woman responds by attempting to convince the worker that they arrived on time. The latter replies, “No you weren’t, you’re still here,” motioning to their place in an overflowing line.

The passenger doesn’t want to take ‘no’ for an answer, so she raises her voice for the next reply: “Oh my god, we were. Don’t you dare call me a liar. That’s not true.”

In a display of solidarity, the comments took the side of the gate agent. Some TikTok users merely wrote “Team Airline,” whereas others said, “You weren’t at the gate by the cutoff time. We aren’t sitting around waiting for you,” or simply, “Team worker. Always.”

There’s a moral grey area here, but it does seem fairly obvious who’s right and who’s wrong.