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

'I wouldn’t sell her MY sandwich': Elderly woman throws a tantrum at cafeteria employee for refusing to give her the breakfast sandwich she made hours ago for herself

Woman refuses to babysit entitled sister's son while she's on vacation after he broke his aunt's work laptop: 'I asked how it was that they had money for a vacation but never had money to pay for the things their son broke'

Employee calls out coworker after she gets glowing performance review for sending weekly email to upper management summarizing everyone else's hard work

Elderly homeowner forces new neighbor to pay for damage to her fence that someone else caused, neighbor refuses, sparking neighborhood feud

New manager requires hand-written approval of every repairs request, causing massive delays in repair jobs, CEO steps in to reprimand management

Fast food employee told by manager to stay out of the kitchen, employee follows her orders, denying service to customers: 'I’m sorry, I would get that for you but I’m not allowed back there right now'

Matt Damon and the Cast of ‘The Odyssey’ Should Not Be Reprimanded for Using American Accents

Entitled neighbor begins parking dispute with new resident who is 7-months pregnant and following their landlord's policy correctly

Teacher punishes student for texting his grandmother well wishes while she was in the hospital: 'This was right BEFORE class, OUTSIDE the classroom'

Employee leaves company after 14 years for better opportunity, only for his offer to be rescinded at the last minute: 'Now I’m left unemployed with no severance or healthcare for my family'