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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Employee gets written up for going to his 2:00pm dentist appointment during working hours

Flight attendant refuses to entertain disruptive influencers on a domestic 5-hour flight by getting their beverage privileges revoked: 'There is a volume threshold in shared spaces'

Boston-based employee's remote status revoked, forced to come into a WeWork twice a week with no one from his company on site: 'No one from my team is within 500 miles!'

Homeowner gets even with gossiping neighbor by refusing to help jump-start her car, leaving her stranded: 'Some people only look out for themselves'

Hiring manager laughs in job candidate's face after he requests exact same salary range that was in the online posting: 'Yeah, that's not going to happen here, we were thinking more like $62k for someone at your level'

Employee spends $500 of his own money to throw coworker's going-away party, cancels the event because no one paid him back in time

Boss writes 3-page document critiquing working mom's productivity, she responds by handing in her resignation

Absent boss gets backlash for demanding fully remote team to come into the office "5 days a week (8 AM - 5 PM)"

32-year-old confront 30-year-old girlfriend after losing access to their shared bank account: 'Removing my access without even telling me wasn’t just a small change, it completely shifted control'

Neighbor pours bacon grease onto homeowner's property after disapproving of the forsythia on their property line: 'I was picking up leaves, felt something greasy, smelled it and sure enough…'