Recent Posts from Ben Weiss

Ben Weiss is a New York-based writer/editor for the FAIL Blog team at Cheezburger. He holds an MFA from NYU Tisch and a BA from Northwestern University. His favorite topics to write about at Cheezburger are workplace drama, neighborhood feuds, celebrity news, and his greatest love of all, movies & television. Ben has also contributed to "Puppet Regime," a weekly political sketch comedy segment that airs on GZERO World with Ian Bremmer on PBS, for which he won a Telly Award for Best Online Comedy Series as part of the writing team. In his free time, Ben moonlights as a screenwriter and filmmaker. He was a semifinalist for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship and a finalist for the Humanitas Comedy Fellowship. He worships at the altar of Nicole Kidman.

Ben Weiss

19-year-old pressured to give $2k of her savings to her mother: 'She called me ungrateful and said I’m acting like a “tenant” instead of a daughter'

Employee calls out coworker for taking credit for her work in front of an important client: 'If I hadn’t spoken up, it would’ve just been accepted that he did everything'

Student calls out entitled classmate for trying to plagiarize their work: 'I'm never offering to help him again'

Micromanager tries to blame project delay on employee after employee reports her to HR: 'She now questions everything I do'

Neighborhood kids think they're entitled to using new homeowner's trampoline whenever they want: 'Maybe you shouldn't of gotten a trampoline if you didn't want neighborhood kids on it'

Employee forced to take meetings during his lunch break, makes his boss regretful by eating obnoxiously during meetings: 'My 1:00 to 2:00 PM slot has been completely free of meetings ever since'

'They panicked when I resigned': Top-performing employee quits after getting no raise in 3.5 years, suddenly management counteroffers with a 37% pay raise and profit sharing

Tenant fakes being sick to gross out roommate and get him to stop eating his food: 'On Sunday he broke and asked me if I always handled food like that'

Retail worker reprimanded for working overtime, then gets reprimanded again for staying exactly on schedule: 'He’s threatening a write up. For doing exactly what he told me to do'

Entitled ex-roommate refuses to come and pick up his table after landlord evicts him: 'If I sell it he'll sue me'