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Part of trying something new requires being OK with not being good at it right off the bat. One bartender shared an experience of not knowing how to make a drink for a customer two hours into their first day on the job in a small town.

There's an unlimited boneless wings promo happening at Applebee's, apparently for a limited time—though it appears the end can't come soon enough for some workers.

Sometimes, being able to put together a nice snack with limited ingredients is a helpful skill, even with unofficial recipes.

With a TikTok clip seen more than 746,000 times, Chrissy (chrissypips) lets viewers in on the strategy to quickly cancel Xfinity services without the hassle and how to benefit from new customer promotions.

If you're willing to spend some time in a store looking for deals, thrift stores can be exciting places, as you may be able to get your hands on a cool item for an even cooler price.

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

If you're heading into a Starbucks thinking you're going to get a free cup of water with some fruit dumped into it, think again. TikToker Jace Mazzucco (@jacem4zzucco) learned this the hard way after they visited the popular coffee chain and were slapped with a fee for the price of a "custom lemonade."

Working in retail can oftentimes be a mundane experience filled with repetitive tasks that aren't exactly exciting. This is something that a Lowe's employee and TikToker named Chris (@ludichrispeed) captured in a viral post that's accrued over 1.1 million views as of Saturday.

TikTok viewers are calling out Anytime Fitness after a branch allegedly tried to charge a member for inadvertently allowing a non-member to sneak in.

Viewers of a recent TikTok video are coming to the defense of a worker who said he was called in to cover a co-worker's shift after working two overnight shifts in one week.

A user on TikTok is calling out McDonald’s after claiming that the restaurant served them a raw Caesar Chicken McWrap.

With more people becoming concerned about the environmental impact of meat, there has been a growing interest in animal meat alternatives. For example, companies like Beyond Meat use plant-based products to simulate the taste and feel of meat, and others are experimenting with methods of recreating the experience of meat without having to raise and slaughter an animal.

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Something interesting happens when a post from one social site makes it to another—you see completely different responses to the post. That was the case when a Reddit post went viral on X (Twitter) this week. The post originated from a subreddit that askes “Am I the Asshole?”—not the original subreddit, but an offshoot of it. 

AITA posts are regularly shared beyond Reddit—and that’s because they are often divisive. On some posts, redditors almost unanimously agree that a poster is an AH. Читать дальше...

If you're eating meals in order to maximize muscular growth, then you'll know the struggle of food getting really bland, really fast.

A 58-second clip from a TikToker working at a cigar shop saying, "College is a scam," has added to the discussion around the value of higher education and the realities of the service industry.

At first glimpse, this management training video appears to be a "very special" episode of some sitcom that never made it out of pilot season. Only the lack of a laugh track proves that it is a legit McDonald's training video that resurfaced thanks to TikTok.

A woman vented her frustrations about male Instacart shoppers' incompetence in a recent viral TikTok.

A TikToker who applied to be a flight attendant for Emirates Airlines posted a video claiming that the company rescinded her job offer after she disclosed that she had an eating disorder in her youth.

This restaurant consultant just ruined your diet forever. In a viral TikTok video, she explains just how you can skip the middleman and have the delicious cookies you thought were only available at restaurants delivered to you directly.

Some servers swear that pigtails help them rake in more tips during a single shift, and have even documented the success that they've attained in trying out the hairstyle that apparently puts diners in a more generous mood.

The key to getting your order quickly from a drive-thru is perhaps to be patient—at least, according to a McDonald's worker.

A pest control professional has shared a surprising hack on how to treat bee and wasp stings using a common kitchen ingredient. User Pest Pro 618 (@pestpro618) claims that Adolph’s meat tenderizer, a product used to soften meat before cooking, can also help to draw out the venom from insect bites.

Meal prepping, while a frugal and responsible practice, can be time-consuming. If you don't prepare your lunch beforehand, you're either left trying to stick it out without food when you're at work or school, or scouring local takeout options and hoping there are some leftovers hanging out in the break room.

It might look a little odd to strap a headlamp to a gallon of water, but according to one person prepping for a recent hurricane, it's one of the best things you can do if the power goes out.