True Story It’s never a good idea to give up Six months ago, I was fired from my job as an engineer – our factories don’t need engineers nowadays. We don’t need engineers, that’s all. Unless you want a quarter-time job, and if you don’t like it, quit. It was scary, but it was simply impossible to live on a quarter of the wage. I […] Written by Мария 08/25/202108/24/2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
True Story Discarded document In a good way, I should apologize to my mother, but I don’t dare to do that, so I’m confessing here. I can hardly tell it to her face. But maybe she will read it and see that I am really ashamed. My mother worked as a secretary at a cool firm. And one time, […] Written by Igor 08/19/202109/29/2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
True Story Faucet repair, appreciation and love Last month, in September, my neighbor Elena Pavlovna called me. She is an elderly, lonely woman. She lives with her father, who is 90 years old. So she calls and says: – Kostik, I don’t know what to do. The faucet in the kitchen broke. The water hits the ceiling. A locksmith came, shut off […] Written by Kostya 07/27/202107/27/2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
True Story I hate kids. I want to confess, because the nasty part of my character, which appeared in my childhood, began to manifest itself again. No matter how hard I tried to clean it up. I understand that after my story, curses and scolding will fall on me, but I have wanted to share it with someone for a […] Written by Rina 07/25/202107/25/2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
True Story What do they teach at school? I work in a Ukrainian school as a teacher. Do you think they teach children in school? No, they don’t. The school produces and sends out papers that are called Papers. Everyone has seen what a standard stack of paper looks like. Well, a stack like this at school lasts for 3 days. In a […] Written by Sergey Vladimirovich 07/21/202107/21/2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
True Story On the quality of modern medicine It’s no secret that we usually go to the doctor only as a last resort. Most often, when the ambulance takes away unconscious. Okay, I’m not even going to speculate on the banal competence of the “treating comrades”. But how really tired (not to say worse) stupidity of the system as a whole. Let me tell […] Written by Ludmila 07/21/202107/21/2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
True Story How to overcome laziness Recently I’ve begun to notice that I’ve become terribly lazy. I live the same way as before, but now I have to force myself to do everything. It’s hard to get up for work, lazy to cook, lazy to iron, lazy to go to the movies, I can’t even make myself go to the shower […] Written by Маша 07/19/202107/20/2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
True Story Women will never have the same salary as men I read in the comments to this confession the opinion of women who are sure that “pregnant women are owed everything,” and bitterly realized that my mentor at work was right. Despite her cynicism and lack of even a hint of female solidarity, she is an excellent professional and does her job well. She is […] Written by Jeanne 07/19/202107/20/2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
True Story Fears and doubts of a young teacher I graduated from university three years ago. My education is philological, in short, no one needs philologists in my city, a teacher, a philologist and an English translator – and yet it is impossible to find a normal job. I never wanted to go to school, I was afraid. At first I looked for a […] Written by Passerby 07/19/202107/20/2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
True Story Options for a promising job for an older woman My relationship with my husband has seriously deteriorated and I have to think about work. I am still married, have a grown son, but I have never worked, so no real experience. At first I couldn’t because my son was young and I had no education (I gave birth when I was 19). And then […] Written by Inga 07/19/202107/20/2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
True Story Confessions of a Future Programmer Summer is coming to an end and very soon I will have to go back to school. I’m a third-year student at a famous university in Kiev and I’m studying to be a programmer. Or rather, I thought I was studying, but in fact… But first things first. I joined this horrible faculty because my […] Written by Anna 07/19/202107/20/2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
True Story Why companies sometimes don’t like pregnant women I read a story about how hard pregnant women work and decided to write an alternative point of view. I understand that I automatically fall into the category of insensitive men who do not understand what it means to be pregnant, but maybe there will be objective people who think about this problem and will […] Written by Dima 07/19/202107/20/2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
True Story Access to the supervisor’s mail A week ago, I accidentally found out the passwords to my boss’s corporate email account. Once I checked to see if the password fit, I couldn’t stop until I re-read all the mail there. What’s more, the box is constantly filled with new important emails, from which you can learn a lot of interesting and […] Written by Sophie Hayes 01/10/202107/20/2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
True Story Confession of a candy saleswoman For three years now, I’ve been working as a candy saleswoman at a stall on a busy Moscow street. At first the job seemed to me interesting, not hard and challenging. But gradually the crowds of customers, all of whom had their own cockroaches in their heads, began to annoy me. Yes, there are some […] Written by Sophie Hayes 01/09/202107/20/2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
True Story Grandmother’s gift I don’t know my friend’s father, and I don’t think Inka has ever seen her biological parent before, either. And what the hell with it, her stepfather is normal – a good man, works as an engineer, doesn’t drink. In general, everything is just like everyone else, an ordinary family. Recently Inka turned 18. Naturally, […] 09/29/202109/29/2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
True Story Love is blind, but one day there comes an epiphany I spent New Year’s 2007 with my mother. The guy I was dating didn’t wish me a Happy New Year and even turned off his phone. I was in no mood. On January 1 my cousin and his girlfriend came to visit, we sat down. And they started going to visit his cousin with his […] 09/20/202109/20/2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
True Story How I stole my own grandmother’s money My grandmother is not very old and works as a part-time secretary in a small office. I love my grandmother, and she is very fond of me. She always gives me expensive gifts, for which she starts collecting money right after my birthday. She helped me, as a student, to get a job in my […] 09/20/202109/20/2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
True Story Is it worth flirting with a teacher for a grade? I decided to write my little confession, too. Eight years ago I graduated from high school. I was going to enter the Polytechnic Institute. It would seem that my knowledge was not bad, but they said that for admission a big role has a score on the exam in the major subject, i.e. physics – […] 09/20/202109/20/2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
True Story My friend’s story I will tell you a real life story about a difficult family relationship. Irina lived with her husband Victor for 11 years. He is a very peculiar man. With unusual views on life, on health. His first wife lost a child in childbirth, such a misfortune. She had, as I understood, some serious illness, the […] 09/20/202109/20/2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
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