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

Entitled college professor drops 22-year-old senior from his class after just one absence, student gets the administration to intervene: 'The look on the professor’s face still makes me chuckle to this day'

29-year-old bartender stuck on closing shift gets even with work enemy by sabotaging her opening shift the next morning: '[She] completely has it out for me'

Employee books $623 flight for boss on his personal credit card after the company card was declined, boss never pays employee back: 'I got scammed by my own boss'

Teacher makes entitled student regret complaining about upcoming quiz after she had nearly forgotten: 'Everyone, thank [Student] for reminding me we had this quiz!'

Employee gets even with petty coworkers after they keep misspelling their name: 'It’s been effective at making sure they don’t do it again'

29-year-old refuses to come to Thanksgiving this year because he and his partner don’t want to do the dishes: ‘We are the only people ever expected to help’

24-year-old refuses to switch desks with entitled coworker, she forces manager to intervene: 'I picked it first!'

27-year-old confronts 32-year-old fiancée after she keeps letting her family extend their welcome: 'Her mother hasn't left in 4 months!'

HOA fines resident for planting "unapproved" flowers, resident uses his neighbor's broken Christmas lights to dispute it: 'I plant a few flowers and get hit with a $75 fine'

Woman feuds with sister after she lets her 15-year-old stepdaughter's Mom get the guest room for the Holidays: '[I] should have the guest suite!'