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We’ve all been there: Your boss asks you to work on a day that they didn’t schedule you. One TikTok recently went viral for just such a scenario, because people understood the feeling.

In a viral video, a UPS worker clapped back at a commenter who said delivery drivers don't "deserve" to make $42 an hour.

A fast food drive-thru employee posted a viral TikTok showing he wasn't exaggerating when he said some customers pay for their orders entirely in change.

The saga of the Edmonton, Alberta, Canada ban on single-use bags—even paper ones—has created a firestorm of videos on TikTok. Customers online are sharing their creative ways of ensuring their drive-thru McDonald's orders get from the window to their car all in one piece.

Hello fellow citizens of the internet! Andrew here. Welcome to today's edition of web_crawlr. 

Receipt paper has been the subject of a variety of viral social media posts recently. Some workers have urged customers to stop asking for their paper receipts, claiming that prolonged exposure to the paper has led to medical issues.

Sanjay Soni, a popular right-wing social media figure and self-claimed crusader for the Hindu community, constantly engages in online tiffs with critics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, tweets in support of his party, and shares a constant stream of cybersecurity-related content to his 44,000 followers.

The Ninja Creami has been one of the most sought-after kitchen appliances of the last year, but a dad on TikTok showed how his destructed after a few uses.

In the United States, it’s fairly common to be required to clock out for one’s lunch break.

A user on TikTok has gone viral after showing what they allege to be Walmart’s security system.

Facial recognition is becoming common in everyday life. While the average person may be aware of facial recognition technology such as Apple’s Face ID, which scans a user’s face to unlock their phone, they may not be aware of the many other ways facial scanning technology is being used around the world.

If one has ever worked in food service, they’re likely familiar with this common axiom: “If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.”

What is cringe? These days, it can be just about anything. 

Cringe is ultimately an emotional and physical response: A secondhand embarrassment to a situation or experience, and you know it when you feel it. It can be used as a verb, an expression we wore on our face or made with our body. 

But now, you know it when you see it, because it’s everywhere and anything. On the internet, it's a noun ("posting cringe") and adjective ("That's so cringe.") It’s a whole genre now, and a profitable one at that. Читать дальше...

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A Taco Bell customer is perplexed about a location they recently frequented that used kiosks to take customers' orders instead of workers.

Six pounds made all the difference for an airline passenger who got charged a $200 bag fee by Delta Airlines because his luggage was overweight.

Two girls are shedding light on an interesting ingredient they allegedly found in their frozen fruit treat— ants.

Despite industry-wide understaffing and labor shortages, one job seeker is claiming McDonald’s wouldn’t hire her because she said she couldn’t work on Sundays.

One woman is being celebrated on TikTok for starting her own business after her job ghosted her for two weeks.

Declaring "McDonald's employees have the best stories," a former McDonald's worker recounted the time that a customer threw a Filet-O-Fish in her face—and it wasn't even his Filet-O-Fish.

We guarantee that this is far from the strangest thing that's ever happened in a Waffle House.

If you thought you were a deep sleeper, think again. 

A woman on TikTok says that she slept through an intruder breaking into her apartment, eating her bananas, and smoking cigarettes on her couch.

TikTok user Gracie (@gracie.mcura) put on a brave face as she detailed the strange string of events in her viral video, which by Thursday had been viewed more than 598,000 times. The Daily Dot reached out to her via TikTok comment. 

A woman says that after booking a flight through Kiwi, a travel website, she was unable to get on the plane because her boarding pass was labeled fraudulent.

A food delivery worker on TikTok was told by the app he was using that his "trip was too short" to complete.

A TikToker went viral after posting a video about using the McDonald's point of sale (POS) training app for fun.