Amazon Flex delivery driver Eric Elrod (@deycallmeel) outed a colleague for marking packages as missing and undeliverable. In a viral TikTok that’s accrued more than 226,000 views on the popular social media platform, he records a worker hovering over a cart of parcels. A device is in the worker’s hands and the clip appears to have been captured in a storage facility.
“Look at this,” Wavy says at the onset of his clip. According to a caption in his post, the Amazon Flex Delivery driver is marking a multitude of packages as being undelivered. Furthermore he claims that at least two other delivery drivers for the online retailer returned a slew of boxes back to the warehouse too.
A woman who felt slighted by a Coach employee shared her shopping experience on TikTok, only for the response not to go the way she expected.
Brittnee (@__lavishbeautylounge) is a reseller, often selling fashion items, including Hello Kitty products and Labubus, on her TikTok page. Her latest clip reveals her attempting to return items at a Coach outlet, but being told about a “policy” that prevents her from doing so.
A woman’s horrific experience at a Phoenix Target may have led her to forgo shopping in person for life. TikToker Jaz (@realbadjaz) issued a PSA for women in a 9-minute video relaying how she was secretly recorded without her consent–and women rallied everywhere for Jaz to get justice.
As of Saturday, her story has earned more than 700,000 views on the platform.
Disgusted doesn’t even begin to describe how Shelby Barton (@shelbybrookeee) felt when she cut open her oat milk and found a surprise inside.
In a viral TikTok, Barton makes her coffee like she does every morning: with some Elmhurst Unsweetened Oat Milk. However, something tasted “a little off,” Barton says.
A woman says she found something in her cheeseburger that should never be there: a pill. When she showed staff, she says they essentially shrugged it off.
Now her TikTok of the unsettling experience is going viral.
Netflix has drawn the ire of its customers ever since the streaming platform cracked down on password sharing in May 2023. The streaming giant has been unabashedly criticized online for canceling cult favorite shows and funneling money into projects not deemed worthy. The password sharing ban was just the icing on the cake of what folks had already been dubbing “Netflix’s flop era.”
Netflix and password sharing
Several users found fault with the shared household password policy—and it wasn’t because they couldn’t freeload from friends anymore. College students who left their parents’ house to study now find themselves without access to their family’s Netflix. Other family members constantly traveling found it inconvenient to have to update their profiles just to catch up on a new season of their favorite show.
Here is an extremely incomplete list of songs that were written, produced and/or performed by Pharrell Williams: “Alright” (Kendrick Lamar), “Hot in Herre” (Nelly), “Blurred Lines” (Robin Thicke), “Hollaback Girl” (Gwen Stefani), “Get Lucky” (Daft Punk), “Milkshake” (Kelis), “Shake Ya A–” (Mystikal), “Rock Your Body” (Justin Timberlake), “I’m a Slave 4 U” (Britney Spears), and “Happy” (Pharrell Williams).
Until I watched Piece by Piece (aka, the Pharrell documentary that’s animated entirely as LEGO), I was unaware of just how influential the Virginia-born artist really was. We all know “Happy,” of course, and most of us are probably aware that Pharrell was in the hip-hop group N.E.R.D. and produced a few hit songs. However, Piece by Piece makes a convincing case that he might just be the most influential musician of modern times. It’s also, even more surprisingly, a great documentary that uses its unique LEGO-focused format to push the entire genre in a smart new direction. This makes it a worthwhile watch for any documentary fans (even if they’re not into hip-hop).
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When it comes to classic literature, the classics can be hit or miss. Sometimes a “classic” is groundbreaking novel that truly stands the test of time, other times it’s a book that reads like something you Sparknotes’d your way through in high school English. While not every novel hailed as “great” is actually so, these time tested sci-fi novels are certified bangers even in the modern era – and will stay that way for decades to come. These are the 10 best classic sci-fi books that still hold up.
Brave New World
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Aldous Huxley modified the meaning of “dystopia” when he wrote Brave New World. When you think of the term, I’m sure your mind jumps to an Orwellian police state or a Handmaid’s Tale style theocracy. Brave New World‘s London is none of these things – it’s an on paper paradise… for some. Society has advanced to a point where genetic engineering has been perfected, and human beings are created to fulfill social roles. The select few that rule society are free to enjoy a life of pleasure, made all the more euphoric by the mood stabilizing drugs that they take on the daily. Menial labor meanwhile is performed by people who are mentally engineered to do so – simpleminded humans who can’t conceptualize of a live beyond picking up garbage or operating an elevator. While society is free from violence and want, Brave New World is an example of how toxic ideologies pertaining to eugenics and social stratification can create dystopia without a single bullet being fired – a dystopia upheld by the opiate of simple pleasures.
Free food is always good, right? Not according to some viewers. One Kroger shopper went viral for chronicling his journey trying to get free shrimp from the grocer, but some think a store offering free seafood means there’s something fishy going on.
“They wrote ‘Free. Reduced. Free’ on this package, so take a little journey with me and find out whether it’s really free,” Michael McDaniel (@michaelmcdaniel16) says in a viral TikTok while holding a small styrofoam tray of shrimp at Kroger.
Standing in line waiting for the newest tech drop can be exciting, but one woman says Best Buy’s poor management turned it into a nightmare.
“So after waiting in line for four hours, Best Buy turned us away with no Switch,” begins Maeve Hutchins (@maeve_hutch) in a viral TikTok. “They gave out these ticket vouchers, saying that if you got one, you’d be guaranteed to get a Switch, but then all of a sudden at midnight they said, ‘Oh, we’re closed. Goodbye.’”
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