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.

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Job candidate refuses to have Zoom interview recorded after recruiter won't turn her camera on: 'If cameras are required, both should have it turned on'

‘Who should be the next 007?’: Why James Bond traditionalists need to get over themselves

Employee forced to meet with HR because his "engagement score" dropped 7 points last quarter: 'This is about being graded by software that has no idea what my job is'

Manager wastes company resources building a case against an employee he personally dislikes, ends up getting put on a PIP himself

New homeowners next door scatter the entire neighborhood with "random car parts" and debris, neighbors are at a loss with no HOA to intervene

Entitled customer berates teenage barista for microwaving her muffin, he gets even by giving her a frozen one

Delusional high school senior shows up to graduation in her own cap and gown despite failing out of school: 'The Dean of Students walks over and tells her [...] this area is for graduating students'

Employee calls out lazy coworker in public for constantly making other team members correct her mistakes: 'There is no “we” in this. She is going to fix her own problems'

Update: Boss denies employee's July PTO request because it aligns with her vacation, employee refuses to cancel her trip, finds better job at competitor

Florida tourist gets sued by Airbnb host for destruction of property after he discarded the hidden camera he found in the bedroom