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TikTok is a stage, and Bailey Spinn (@baileyspinn) is using it to put her acting and music skills to the test. 

The 20-year-old is known for posting acting challenges for her 14 million followers. Her challenges include only speaking in TikTok lingo, using song lyrics to tell a story, and speaking in rhyme. Spinn writes her own skits in “POV” style, imagining scenarios like what it would be like to wake up in a different year... Читать дальше...

A worker says her company had her work until 3pm before firing her in a now-viral TikTok.

A Walmart worker called last-minute holiday shoppers who get upset when items aren't in stock.

There are many perks to being a DINK, aka a dual-income couple with no kids.

In a franchise with as many offshoots as Star Wars, there can be some tension between the core canon and the more tertiary spinoffs.

There’s a ton of debate surrounding lunch breaks and how long they should be. Work It Daily compared the one-hour lunch break and the 30-minute lunch break, coming to the conclusion the one-hour lunch break is better. 

An Olive Garden waitress says that management at the store she works at didn't allow her to work her shift because she showed up to work wearing white socks.

Last week, ProPublica dropped a bombshell report about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gallivanting around the world on a billionaire's dime.

Renfield's entertainment value lives and dies on its inspired casting choices, pairing vintage freakazoid Nicolas Cage with underrated leading man Nicholas Hoult—an actor who combines Hugh Grant handsomeness with a talent for creeping, cringing, and generally behaving like a horrible little weirdo. (The fact that Hoult will follow this up by acting opposite a different Dracula in Robert Eggers' Nosferatu? Delightful.)

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

An employee of the bank in Kentucky where a mass shooting took place on Monday said they witnessed the attack unfold over Microsoft Teams.

A user on TikTok has a warning for Starbucks customers. According to TikTok user Rayah (@4rayah.sunshine), Starbucks will soon be charging customers for light ice, no ice, or no water modifications on Refresher drinks.

Right-wing commentator Ian Miles Cheong appeared to insinuate that something nefarious had taken place after a dairy factory in Texas exploded on Monday.

When Apple announced the development of Apple Pay, many companies were quick to jump on board and implement the payment system. 

A barista in a viral TikTok video tries to convince other coffee shop workers to leave Starbucks in favor of working at a local coffee shop. Commenters say the switch isn't worth it.

An Australia-based DoorDash driver on TikTok has sparked discussion after claiming he received his first “contract violation” on the platform after a customer lied about not receiving their food.

Analysis

Conspiracy theorists who believe the earth is flat are circulating clips of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in which she discusses the “glass ceiling,” a metaphor often used to describe an invisible barrier that holds women back in their careers.

But according to conspiracy theorists, Clinton is actually referring to a glass dome that covers the flat earth. Clearly, this isn’t true.

In one such speech from 2008, Clinton, who had just lost the Democratic presidential nomination... Читать дальше...

A job-hunting TikToker learned that her initial interview opportunity was a mistake, joining the ranks of workers struggling to find employment.

A woman says she hung up during a phone screening for a job after the recruiter said employees were required to answer emails after hours and work one day during the weekend.

A FOIA request by the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project to the FBI revealed the agency keeps a list of terms to be on the lookout for when tracking what it calls "Involuntary Celibate Violent Extremism."

The setup of A24’s new series Beef, now streaming on Netflix, is simple yet effective: two people seek revenge on each other following a road rage incident. The revenge presents itself in many forms, from pranks (peeing on the floor of one person’s house, vandalizing a car) to infiltrating each other’s personal and professional lives.