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Live Edition 100% Satire · Sunday, July 26, 2026 · 34 stories live

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Issue · Jul 26
Blog / Filed under: Jul 9
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Their small-town bakery’s oven has been running continuously since 1974. Nobody has been willing to turn it off.

A family bakery in central Pennsylvania has an industrial oven that has been running, without shutdown, since 1974. Nobody working there today knows what would happen if they turned it off. Nobody has been willing to…

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Money / Filed under: Jul 8
02

Her employer accidentally paid her twice for six months. She has not told them.

A woman in Minneapolis discovered in her second month at a new job that HR had set her up on two payroll systems simultaneously. She has been receiving her salary twice, every month, for six months.…

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Modern Life / Filed under: Jul 7
03

She has been receiving the wrong Amazon packages for three years. She now gives them as gifts.

A woman in Tulsa has, for three years, been receiving one wrong Amazon package per month — small items intended for a person with a similar address. She has stopped trying to return them. She has…

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A man expensed his therapy as "professional development." It worked.

Good morning. It's a Tuesday, which means somewhere out there, a person is right now justifying a purchase they cannot afford with a logic they cannot defend.

This morning's offender: a project manager in Austin who put twelve weeks of therapy on his corporate card under "leadership coaching." Finance approved it. His therapist had no idea.

Today's lesson in the great American workplace: the line between a perk and a heist is mostly just confidence...

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