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Published to Reddit’s r/AmITheA**hole forum, a boss under the anonymous username u/ExistingClaim6030 shared his story in order to get the opinions of the Reddit community. The viral post has over 4,000 upvotes and 1,000 comments. “Recently, I learned that our company is doing layoffs,” the original poster (OP) began, “I’ll have to let one person among my 4 subordinates go. It came down to choosing one of the 3 least-experienced ones who were all hired about 2 years ago....

Reddit user –Savathun– shared the story on the popular subreddit r/anitwork on Saturday, where they explained: “My boss told me I was fired as soon as I got into work, laughed and walked off.” In the post, which now has over 87,000 upvotes and thousands of comments, the employee explained: “I spent the last two hours shutting down my station and packing my stuff. Even destroyed my client list. When I got home three hours later, he called me…”...

Boston’s major educational institutions include Northeastern University, Suffolk University, Boston University and the University of Massachusetts Boston. In a letter sent to the U.S. Census Bureau this month, Mayor Kim Janey wrote that city authorities estimate about 5,000 college students weren’t accounted for in the census results, based on records Boston schools are mandated to provide to the city with the addresses of off-campus students. City officials believed that a considerable number of foreign-born residents were undercounted, while the county’s corrections department estimates that 500 jail inmates were missed, Janey said, according to the AP....

On-loan midfielder Wilshere is unable to play against his parent club, leaving Howe with a headache on how to fill the void. “Jack Wilshere will be a big miss for us. He’s been excellent, both with and without the ball,” said Howe. Wilson backs Howe for Arsenal “I feel Jack’s got better and better each week and was excellent last weekend.” Bournemouth won 1-0 at Stoke City last Saturday, but Howe accepts the Gunners – who sit fourth following an 11-game unbeaten run in the Premier League – represent a tougher challenge....

What Happens A Boutonniere deformity occurs after a very specific injury to the tendons of the finger Your fingers bend back and forth by tendons pulling on the bones. The flexor tendons are on the palm side of the finger and pull the fingers down–a motion called finger flexion. The extensor tendons are on the back of the finger and work to straighten the finger, a motion called finger extension. Each finger has its own extensor tendon, and each extensor tendon attaches to the bone in several locations....

Around 200 people were in attendance for the match, held outdoors at the Skyway Plaza in St. Petersburg, Florida. The event was organized by the Neighborhood Boxing League, an advocacy group dedicated to fighting gun violence by encouraging community members to take up boxing. The event was reportedly titled, “Tampa vs. St. Pete.” The group’s website reads: “With the rise of gun violence around the country, The founders of The Neighborhood Boxing League decided that change needs to be made within the community....

Usyk (19-0, 13 KOs) boxed circles around the former champ (24-2, 22 KOs), winning a unanimous decision victory over the Brit on his home turf in Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The judges’ cards read 117-112, 116-112, 115-113, all in favor of the fighter from Ukraine. MORE: Usyk stuns Joshua with unanimous decision to become unified heavyweight champion Although Usyk faced a significant size disadvantage against Joshua, he managed to throw several combinations against him while avoiding his opponent’s powerful punches to secure the victory....

Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore said that the attack seemed “purposeful,” but that it was not yet clear what spurred the shooting near Wilmington Park Elementary School on Monday afternoon. “This was a brazen assault in the middle of the day that, whether it was targeted in a pre-emptive manner or a premeditated manner or spontaneous, I just know that the amount of violence was just … It just boggles your mind when you think about an afternoon outside of a school,” Moore said....

Houston police officers arrived at a home on Corsair Road, near West Fuqua Street and Beltway 8, at about 10 p.m. on Saturday, September 24. Once there, officers found the child’s grandfather giving the boy cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), ABC affiliate WHAS TV reported. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), drowning is the second-leading cause of unintentional deaths among children aged between 1 and 14, behind motor vehicle crashes....

The Albany Police Department responded to reports of a shooting around 11:00 p.m. on the 1500 block of West Gordon Avenue on August 8. When officers arrived, they found the boy with a gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said the child was in bed sleeping when a vehicle passing through the area opened fire, striking the boy. The boy has not been identified, as there are no details about the suspect or suspects who opened fire, or the vehicle they were driving....

The 20-second-clip uploaded by Channel8 KLKN-TV reporter Yousef Nasser showed a large crowd standing in a circle, ready to do battle over who was the top Josh. As the video continued, numerous people launched themselves into the center of the circle and, armed with pool noodles, did battle over the right to be crowned winner of the Josh Fight. Dozens of Joshes were seen whacking each other with the foam battens at the Air Park Green Area in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Saturday....

Deakin Hawke, a student at Drouin Primary School in Victoria, Australia, had been on a week-long school trip to Canberra in Australia in October when he was bitten by an eastern brown snake, Sunrise reported. He collapsed and stopped breathing within minutes of being bitten twice on the leg by the snake, which is considered the second most venomous snake in the world. Paramedics said Deakin is alive and well because of his quick-thinking teachers, who provided life-saving first aid, according to Sunrise....

Boys have always been at high risk in wartime. Some primitive societies made taking part in mortal combat a central rite of passage to manhood. As recently as the 19th century, drummer boys marched into battle in both the United States and Europe. Twentieth-century American teenagers dreamed of running off to war and coming home as heroes, and a few actually did it (page 46). But history alone can’t explain the Samuel Bulls of the world, a growing legion....

Keselowski was celebrating his second win of the season when the accident happened. NASCAR announced the Penske driver needed four stitches after being cut by the glass on his pinky finger. MORE: Keselowski wins | Earnhardt salvages top 5 | Danica’s videobomb “We were playing around with some champagne bottles and as I told my good friend, ‘We should have stuck with beer,’” said Keselowski, who is sponsored by Miller Lite....

Those in the sparse crowd at Charlotte Motor Speedway saw the Team Penske driver take the lead from teammate Ryan Blaney with 14 laps to go and drive away from any challenges. MORE: Charlotte Cup picks | Tire failures at Kansas still a mystery | 500-miler a tough run “I told (crew chief) Jeremy (Bullins) over the radio it felt like we were playing prevent defense early in the race, everybody was waiting for who was going to blow the next tire,” Keselowski told ESPN....

A day in which 23 drivers broke Dale Earnhardt’s year-old mark of 183.636 mph in the first round of knockout qualifying alone ended with the 2012 winner of the 400-mile race shattering it by more than 5 mph. Keselowski overtook Penske Racing teammate Joey Logano, who turned a lap of 187.175 after leading the first two rounds. MORE: Full lineup breakdown | Picks | Odds Jeff Gordon will start third in a Chevy, salvaging a session in which Hendrick Motorsports teammates Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr....

Keselowski was low on the track and initially looked to have made a clean pass of Hamlin, but then he appeared to slow and Hamlin slammed into his car, sending Keselowski spinning. MORE: Early action at Kansas hot and fast His Penske Racing Ford then slid across the grass with heavy damage to the front end of his car. He headed straight to the garage, where his team began working on the car....

Not so valuable was recent success. He left out Chris Kirk, who finished higher in the final Ryder Cup standings than Simpson, and who won the Deutsche Bank Championship a day earlier by going head-to-head with Rory McIlroy the final 36 holes. “That was a snapshot,” Watson said of his decision not to take Kirk. The other two choices were not surprising. Even though Bradley has not won a tournament in two years and missed out by three spots qualifying on his own, he has raw power suited for this event and won all three matches in a partnership with Phil Mickelson two years ago at Medinah....

USA 80/1 to win World Cup Called in as one of six replacements for the U.S. after the group stage, Bradley went the full 90 minutes in central midfield in all three knockout round matches as the Americans claimed their sixth Gold Cup title. Blake was named the tournament’s top goalkeeper after allowing just two goals in six games, though he had to exit early in Jamaica’s 2-1 loss to the U....

Former Italian prime minister Bettino Craxi, 65, was his country’s longest-serving postwar leader, holding office from 1983 until 1987. But his life ended in self-imposed exile in Tunisia, where he fled to avoid a prison term for corruption six years ago.