"Honestly, your Honor, I'm curious to see where opposing counsel takes this—let it ride." These are actual real life things people said in a court, read in vocal fry by a real life lawyer.
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Company Tells Woman She is Replaceable, She Starts Her Own Business and Makes Them the Replaceable Ones
The classic "You are replaceable." power play. It has to be one of the oldest tricks in the book. In fact, I'm willing to bet that if we consulted that 3,200-year-old Egyptian attendance list it would probably have some glyphs somewhere on it describing that, "Ramses the stone shaper asked for a raise today, I told him he was replaceable." Even if the supervisor knew full bloody well that nobody could shape a stone like Ramses could.
It might be a tale as old as time but, sadly, a lot of companies would rather cut their nose to spite one's face. They will go full nuclear and lose one of their best performers just to avoid having to pay one of their employees a living wage.
Have you ever been told this by an employer?
Well, u/anon-cant-quit has and she made them eat their words for breakfast, lunch AND dinner.
Using her spouse's business savvy and her knowledge of the business's operations she was able to successfully relieve her terrible boss of his clients and prove that he was t he replaceable one.
Boyfriend Brings Little Bell To Restaurant, Says Fellow Americans Do It All The Time
So this lady's been dating an American guy for a few months, and he decides to test out his terrific, brand new way to get the attention of waitstaff at a restaurant. That idea? Bringing a little tiny bell to ring every time he wants attention. Upon scrutiny, he reassures her that no, having a little bell to ring at your server is completely normal in the U.S. and is totally fine.
If any Americans want to chime in and corroborate this absolutely stupid method, then by all means go for it so the rest of us can call you an obnoxious jackass just like this guy. No one brings little bells to try and train the waitstaff like you are Pavlov trying to get your dogs to bring you free bread. What a dork.
Of course basically everyone gets why this behavior isn't standard, but we all know some folks who truly wish it would be this way, and we regret that some of them make it out of the country or really, even out of their house. This might be even more demeaning than having a customer snap for your attention. Here are some obnoxious things done by American tourists.
Science Facts That Show The Terrifying Scope Of The Universe
It's important to, at least every once in a while, reflect on the nature of one's own existence. Not just in terms of "today I am being mindful and manifesting getting the good parking spot" but more broadly than that. Thoughts like "isn't it wild that there are elements in my own body that were forged in the heart of a star? Billions of years of particles crashing into each other has culminated in me, a being that can think and feel and most importantly, fret over parking?"
Frankly, it's weird to acknowledge the fact that, galactically speaking, you're nothing more than a figment of a cosmic blip. That everything you know and love is so catastrophically small, it would be foolish to think that you are worthy of note. That your finely crafted opinions and excellent sense of taste even matter for a second.
And we can have these thoughts in one moment and acknowledge the universe and its leviathan authority, it's dizzying scale whose sheer size eclipses even the biggest moments of our lives, but in the very next moment we can also choose to say "nah man, I'm gonna go get a burrito." It's kind of a beautiful thing.
If you want to spend some more time freaking out about it all, here are some more science facts to ponder.
Insane Company Suspends Worker For Not Participating in “Mandatory” Company TikTok
Nothing is better for worker morale than mandatory fun. There's just something about being forced to wear a smile and laugh for company dollars while your mind internally reflects the picturesque wonderment of a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
There's just something in the artful construction of the phrase "company social event" that just really gets my motor humming.
You want me to do what? Maintain my carefully crafted workplace persona after hours AND socialize? I can hardly manage to maintain this facade for the 8 work hours in a day as it is. I'm crumbling mentally and really don't want to be here any longer than I have to. Please god just let me go home.
Really, what I'm saying, is that there's a little bit of Nate in all of us. Not all of us are ready or willing to put our jobs on the line to say so, but at a certain point enough is enough.
When you're earning bottom dollar, and coping with terrible leadership, you too might find yourself one mandatory TikTok away from drawing the line in the sand like Nate.
Minecraft Player Reveals Their Most Vile, Underhanded Act
Videogames will let you do some pretty fantastically heinous things. Hell, without even thinking about it, we've destroyed entire civilizations of bug-men, beat up our closest friends, and driven busses down crowded sidewalks with reckless abandon. But that's all in-game. Very few things you can do in a video game will ever actually affect a real-life person, and that's for the best.
This person answered the question "What is the most messed up thing you have ever done in any video game?" and while one would think that the scope was limited to trapping Sims in their own burning houses or not petting the dog in Fallout, this person actually came up with something that makes us lose our faith in humanity. And that's hard to do man, we didn't realize that we had a whole lot of that left.
People spend a whole lot of time on video games, and one way to truly affect someone through a videogame is to attack their time. Which is, in a sense, what this person did. They are not the good guy in this story.
For some more not great behavior, here are the stories of how people got banned from places.
A 3,200-Year-Old Attendance Record Has Been Making Rounds of the Internet and You’d Be Fired For Missing Work For These Reasons Today
This fascinating archeological artifact has been circulating the internet recently. Popping up in a multitude of sources.
It is a limestone etching dating back to 1250 BC that, as the reddit post below describes, is a workplace attendance record that also contains a myriad of somewhat comical excuses.
Of course, the internet has been having a field day with this. It's amazing to think that, after so much time, we still share things like this in common with our ancestors.
If you do call out of work for brewing beer, please let us know how that works out for you.
The artifact is currently housed at the British Museum, posted with the following description:
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- Ostracon with register of attendance at work. Labelled 'Year 40' of Ramses II, it provides a workmen's register for 280 days of the year. There are twenty-four lines of New Egyptian hieratic on the front and twenty-one lines on the back. A list of forty names is arranged in columns on the right edge of each side, followed to the left by dates written in black ina horizontal line. Above most dates is a word or phrase in red, indicating the reason why this individual was absent from work on that date."
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