10+ Top Tinder Moments of the Week From the Wild World of Dating (April 11, 2023)

Welcome to this week's edition of the hottest trending takes from online dating… It's a wild world out there, and entering the arena of online dating can be especially treacherous. This week, there is a whole slew of desperate individuals looking to find a match amidst the sheer chaos of unsuitable candidates.

A personal favorite of mine this week is our "incredibly average" Joe in item #3. There's no point in trying for a long-term relationship if you can't be honest with your partner and yourself, so you might as well get it all laid out there—which he certainly did with his tell-all bio.

Scroll through this week's selection, and for more, check out this previous iteration. Good luck out there!

'My software had been rolled out to all staff against my wishes': Boss steals worker's program and takes credit for it, reprimands worker for undesired features

Finance is probably one of the least "metal" things out there… picturing stuffy workers wearing formal outfits in a sterile stark-white office, balancing spreadsheets and hedging investments doesn't evoke an image of the rebellious ideals and counter-culture movements that rock n' roll was built on.

That being said, this story delivered what its title promised: Heavy Metal Finance. Redditor u/Psygnal shared this riveting tale of an entrepreneurial program they created which led to theft, betrayal, and revenge at their place of work in the late nineties. 

They tell how they worked as a financial compliance officer and created a tool to make their work easier for themself, allowing them to maintain a more consistent application of policy and process. This worked well until their boss decided that they would take the tool and distribute it to the entire company, taking credit for its development in the process. Further, when it came to the boss's knowledge that there were certain aspects of the program (which the whole company was now using) that they didn't like, they decided to reprimand the worker for it.

Keep reading for some screen grabs of the Reddit thread where the story was originally shared. For more, check out this worker who was sent home for wearing shorts and proved that their boss was wrong and it wasn't actually in the policy.

'LOL, He Blocked Me' : Top Dating App Flops of the Week (April 11, 2023)

Dating app convos tend to go one of two ways; either people put in little to no effort, begging the question 'Why did you swipe in the first place?', OR people put in a little too much effort… AKA, take everything personally, overcommit, and emotionally involve themselves before they've even met you. The first type of conversation stated is a one-sided conversation, the classic one-word response. But the second is the exact opposite. These conversations will look more like, 'It's been five minutes, why haven't you replied? I'm blocking you. But I'm waiting for you to reply. But then I'll block you. For sure, yeah, I'm blocking you'.

Dating in the modern world is tough. Between getting ghosted, blocked (and perhaps unblocked?), left on read which is kinda ghosted but really, not getting matches at all, getting stood up or canceled on last minute… it's a graveyard out here for us single folk. Quite literally. But Tinder knows how to make money, how to reel you back in, just when you've 'given up all hope'. Plus, at least you've got a lot of good stories to share with your friends, and it does motivate people to work on their relationships to avoid getting back on dating apps.

These cringe-worthy chats below are enough to make anyone delete their profile faster than you can say 'swipe left'. Scroll down and check 'em out. For more dating app fails, here you can take a look at last week's.

'TIFU by lying to my wife for 13 years': Husband's little white lie to his wife about candy totally backfires

This is one of those times that a little lie snowballed into a much bigger lie! 

To keep the peace in a romantic relationship, sometimes you need to fudge the truth. Not all the time, only for certain things, and it's best if you can avoid lying about anything big. However, once you're married for 13 years (!) like this guy was, even a small fib can quickly spiral out of control. 

After reading the OP's story below, check out a few comments, where people shared their own funny stories of lies that were uncovered. 

While we're on the subject of small things that could cause damage to a marriage, check out this story. This woman wanted to get a tattoo so badly, but after her husband's strong negative reaction toward her upon seeing the new ink, she's unsure what to do. 

'The charge was... malicious compliance': Tyrannical boss demands employee 'print out the internet', employee jams boss's office with 6 feet stack of paper

This may be one of the best malicious compliance stories we've read to date, and the reason for that is the novelty, hilarity, and downright relatability of the details. A tyrannical boss had taken her reign over a government department where she was less than kind to her employees, OP included. At the time, OP was a technical writer and had been slowly transferring an old employee handbook into a modern and actually useful doc (ex: one page with policies and links to useful websites, like Office of Personal Management, forms for workman's comp, etc). OP's boss wanted the whole thing printed out ASAP, or rather, the next morning.

For those wondering 'what the heck', it might be worth mentioning that this was well over a decade ago. OP's boss wasn't happy with the 200 or so pages that OP printed, and proceeded to scream her lungs out, saying something like 'Do you think people can just go to a website when it is on paper? NO! Print everything out', and OP replied calmly (bless them) that the sites were pretty dense and deep, so it would be about 10,000 pages. Obviously, this boss did not calculate the meaning of those words, let alone think about the consequences, so all she said was 'I don't care'.

Alrighty then! OP began printing… and printing… and then printing some more. In fact, they printed so much that the piles of paper began exceeding 6 feet. What happened next is absolutely hilarious, scroll down and read all about it for yourself. For more stories like this, here is an employee who saved their company 20 million dollars in profits, but was offered a 2% promotion. The kicker is this was a Fortune 500 company, who were doing ridiculously well financially at the time.

‘She wasn’t missed’: Nepo baby takes credit for everyone else’s work, ends up getting fired

You know you must be particularly bad at your job when your Daddy is best buds with the CEO and you still can't help but get fired. That's what happened to this Redditor's coworker, who was hired with next to no experience yet found a way to boss literally everyone around her and take credit for their work.

 

One day, OP wrote up a report and handed it to her, only to watch her immediately head directly into the CEO's office and give it to him, all while acting like it was her report. Well, you can guess what happened next. The Redditor decided to come up with a brilliant professional excuse to join her in the CEO's office and reveal that he was the author. Keep scrolling below for the full story and be sure to read the comment from OP about the fallout.

 

For more stories like this, here's one about a difficult customer in a toy store.