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 promised a promotion for 6 months, only to learn another colleague was given the same promise: 'I worked so hard and delivered way beyond my targets'

High school student gets even with principle by painting his office door bright pink after getting denied his free lunch: 'Don't play with my lunch of chicken nuggets!'

Employee forced to "prove" himself or get fired, he hands in his resignation instead: 'You were lucky to have me!'

'I owe the HOA 1 cent': Resident of 20+ years in the neighborhood refuses to pay the $0.01 he owes in HOA fees on principle

Management removes automatic login access for widely used tool, employee maliciously complies until they restore access: 'It took about an hour before they sent us the login info'

Job seeker circumnavigates 1,000 character minimum application essays, manages to land an interview: 'Your application box wanted 1,000 characters, so you got exactly that'

27-year-old calls out boyfriend for telling how to act in front of his friends: 'He literally told me to be myself and then shushed me when I tried'

Employee forced to pass messages between two coworkers who refused to talk to each other, then he starts trolling them both: 'I started making up messages to give each of them on behalf of the other'

Employee uses all 37 days of PTO at once before quitting: 'Is there anything stopping me?'

Tenant loses it at downstairs neighbor after she hosts a "Girls Night" until 1:00 AM on a Tuesday: 'Some of us have work in the morning!'