I was on a contract that ended on Sept 30. They offered an extension 2 months earlier and I said no. Sept 30 would be my last day.

From the day I turned down the extension I was person non grata in the office.... I was removed from group emails, never invited to the weekly lunch out, ignored on breaks, went to the office and the department was empty...they had gone on a 2 day 'Team Building" exercise and didn't even tell me. I spent 2 days reading and playing online games.

On my last day I went around saying bye to other departments. My boss came raging after me saying we are having a team meeting and I HAVE to be there. I asked someone to take a peak and they had a gift and cake for my last day.

So after 2 months of being treated like c**p, they wanted to ease their minds by giving me a cake.

I snuck to my desk, got my jacket, went out the front door and drove away. Apparently they were PISSED and were paging me over and over and sending people all over the office to look for me.

BTW...the department I worked in was HR.

The week before I was due to go on holiday, my boss completely dropped the ball on a project. He said "Oh, it's OK, we'll just cancel WitShortage's holiday."

I reached for a post it note, wrote a number on it, and handed it to him.

He said "What's this?"

"It's my wife's mobile number. You'll need to call her and tell her why she's not getting to go to France next week.".

My appendix ruptured a few weeks after my company had been bought out. The managers had all been replaced by goons from the new company. The day I get home from the hospital I get a call from my new boss saying I'll receive a conference call in a few minutes to discuss some non important topic. I was annoyed. So during the conference call, I held the phone over the toilet and flushed. Over and over and over. A good 20 minutes worth. I had already secured another position and gave zero f***s at that point.

I used to be a teacher, i used to teach something that wasn't teached s lot back then. (mobile design, specialized in ui/ux) it was popular and after 3 years i've build up to yearly 50students. Which was huge and gave me a lot of hours. Suddenly they gave my position to another teacher, she had seniority and her course died down (she was useless, had no idea what the mobile landscape was,had no real world experience, never launched an app,...)

Because It was new, there was no course material and everything i used (course papers, digital assets, mobile engines,...) i made it all myself. Took me 3 years and it was a lot. My replacement asumed it was all ready to use and did not prepare anything.

The last day of summer break i went to clean my class, take everything that was mine, including course material. She had to start from scratch 24hours before classes started, without any knowledge or experience on the subject.

The principal came begging for the material on day 4, told him he could buy it, he refused, i went to a different school took everything and most students came soon after.

Not much but I worked at a golf club and one of the members asked if I could make them some popcorn.
It was the end of my shift but microwave popcorn doesn't take long to make so I was fine with doing it before I left.
I looked at him and nodded to let him know I would make it.

But as I started to walk away he called out to me saying, "you answer yes when talking to me". Granted, I probably should've given a verbal answer but the way he said that to me made me instantly mad. I turned my head, this time without looking at him, and gave him the most deadpan "yes".

I then proceeded to walk through the doors to the kitchen.

Then I walked past the popcorn

I walked past the microwave

Proceeded to clock out and went straight home.

My ex boss, who tried to get me fired for taking paternity leave, was a c**t and not well liked. The problem was, I always used to respect him and had a great relationship with him for many years til that episode

Anyway, he left the company before I did and moved around jobs. A large company in our space contacted me because he had gone for a VP position there, and his references he were all SVP and CRO roles (his buddies, but high up).

Anyway, the company contacted me as their "unofficial" background check and asked me to give an unofficial character reference, and I very objectively destroyed him - and he didn't get the position.

That was my f**k you to him, only he never knew why.

Proximity to Russia. It's literally the only thing that I feel threatened by there as otherwise it's maybe not the best but still a chill place to live (Latvia).

USA - I freak out at the thought that a young woman who was sexually assaulted must then (if impregnated) give birth to the child she never wanted because some bastards and their poisoned offspring are “pro-life”.

China - the Uyghur concentration camps. I’m from that area and I couldn’t believe it when the news first came out. As a matter of fact, I didn’t learn about many negative historical events of China until I left, and I can never look at the CCP the same way.

Iraq - Teen marriage and teen moms as a teen.

Norway - S*icide season is coming up :/.

As have been stated already Seasonal depression is pretty real when the sun disappears from your life (even when the sun is out, it's very weak and the vitamins you might catch from it in summer is literally just gone). Add the "most wonderful time of the year" over commercializing, and everyone seeing their family and loved ones will put a massive looking glass on your possible lack of loved ones and the fact this time don't feel too wonderful for everyone. "everyone else is happy, but I'm not" but supercharged.
I first started noticing the trend in 2017 when 4 people I knew personally left in the span of 3 months. It was even mentioned in the Kings speech the year after

Indonesia: Religious extremism and increasing taxes.

Men, religion, politics and pollution.

I'm Indian.

Ukraine - Oh god. Missiles and drones that try to kill us every single day. F**k russia.

I am from the United States—I don’t care about people having different political opinions or beliefs but there is a massive issue on people being misinformed and wildly uneducated on certain topics.

Nepal - Corruption is something that has killed my country over the years.