Someone on AskReddit asked for people that have endured working retail, to share their biggest customer service nightmares. You know, those moments when you're at your breaking point and the Karen in your vicinity is testing the very outer limits of your sanity.
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Billy Cobb did this striking rendition of Radiohead's "Creep," except the last half of every line was replaced by the google autofill results from the first half. Sounds pretty good. It's fun to know what people are searching.
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This is what the internet was made for. Creative innovation at its very finest.
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These scary signs are not messing around at all when it comes to handling their jobs in a serious matter. It'd take some kind of careless lunatic to consider ignoring the warnings in these.
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People are bonding on Twitter over just how long January has felt. It could be something to do with coming fresh off the holidays, or maybe just the actual number of days, but one thing for sure is that January certainly feels like one very long month.
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This security guard found themselves in a terrifying, potentially life-threatening situation with an employer that wasn't going to budge. Eventually, things shook out in their favor. Sometimes employees take a more direct approach, like the way these workers responded to their boss saying they were unqualified for their job.
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PETA is facing a bit of backlash after sharing their Super Bowl ad that was rejected by the NFL, on Twitter. The comments are pouring in, and would seem to carry the common theme of general outrage and confusion over a display of clueless stupidity. I mean, fish don't have knees. Come on.
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Being a land of creativity and obsession, tumblr has its favorite things, on of them being looking at human nature from a humorous outsider's perspective. This series of Tumblr threads explores humans as space orcs, and this Tumblr thread imagines an alien invasion being fought off by Earth's wildlife.
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IKEA employees are sharing the most impressive or overwhelmingly discouraging meltdowns they've seen from families and couples shopping in their store. There is something about IKEA that really puts a couple's relationship to the test. If you're really serious about someone, you might as well plan a date to IKEA to see if the relationship is going to stand the test of time.
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This Tumblr thread explores the ways that men get objectified by society and throughout the media. Additionally, it covers the whole part about how bodybuilding culture can be a load of BS. Good stuff.
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Every now and again the world throws us a moment of such impressive ignorance that we find ourselves instinctually responding with a good old-fashioned facepalm. Facepalms are always going to be there to remind us that there is always someone else out there just a little bit more lost than ourselves.
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This tutor schooled himself. Sometimes you get caught up in the motions of the job, and you end up being a "tutor" who can't even get their student's name right. To make matters even better, you botch their name to such an extent that you're literally calling them the name of their laptop. Beautiful stuff, really.
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Well, we learn something new every day. In this case, we're dealing with the revelation that magenta doesn't exist, and is actually just imagined by our brains.
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You think you have to be a big spender Mr. Rockefeller fat cat to afford a toilet seat warmer? Not when you have some socks lying around! With a wish and a prayer, some technical know-how and the ability to overlook installations that look like they are literal garbage, you too can be a DIY master. Not everything has been invented quite yet, hence these useful and interesting innovations to make life easier.
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This guy just took home a huge L. Especially the moment that his girlfriend literally tells him to stop crying while he's off camera.
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Life might seem a little bleak in a cup. This octopus is literally viewing life as a cup half empty. At first the octopus was confused and hesitant about not living in a cup, but it eventually came around.
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Can't even imagine what this guy would accomplish with The Sims and a free hour of gameplay.
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Imagine being denied a promotion because you're deemed unqualified for a job you already do. Sometimes, when work is unfair enough, overworked employees can revolt by literally just doing their job description. When people apply themselves they can become lords of efficiency, opting to work smarter and not harder.
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Personally, we'd wish we could move money around as recklessly as banks themselves do and get bailed out with no repercussions, but anyway here are some stupid and weird things people wanted to invest in. People have stupid business ideas that are worthy of sitcoms, and generally make bad decisions. For some more people who were interesting with money here's an entitled mom who lashed out when her baby sitter quit and times that spoiled rich kids had their world burst by real life.
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This guy's seemingly innocent discovery about how our brains work when it comes to the "internal monologue" process ended up inspiring quite the ripple effect. People were shook. To learn that other people in the world are able to have an internal narrative, while others aren't, was too much for some folks to fathom.
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The coronavirus has left many streets across China empty. It looks like a ghost town out there. There are pictures of vacant subway stations in the middle of the afternoon, and apparently even KFC and Starbucks are closed. Chinese residents are working on maintaining their sanity during lockdown by getting real creative with the indoor activities. Good to see some triumph of the spirit during such a troubling and frightening time.
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You might think everything has already been invented, but you would be wrong, you dumb idiot. Here are some devices and things that make life easier and more efficient, or are at least clever. And on the opposite end, here are relatable and dumb times people accidentally invented things that already exist.
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Tumblr users apparently have a lot of time on their hands, and they use it for amusingly specific and labor intensive thoughts like the relationship between elves eyes and the curvature of middle earth, or discussing the full versions of classic sayings. We're glad people get so into stuff, like this Tumblr thread that makes history fun.
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Twitter user @Fobwashed started a thread about just the kind of console gamers really want from Nintendo. Things quickly spiraled into people getting all kinds of creative when it came to how they envisioned desirable modifications.
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The anonymity of the internet allows a lot of people to pretend to be experts on things, as well as pass massive judgement and throw accusations around like a furious ape tosses fresh hot crap. Here are times that people were sorely mistaken and didn't realize they were talking to someone who knew a hell of a lot more then they did. Sometimes these end decently, like when the writer of Men in Black was told not to mansplain Men in Black.
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This bridezilla came out strong with her request for gifts over $250 from anyone who wanted to attend the wedding. Sounds like the wedding was serving as a convenient way to ask people to empty their pockets; but only if their pockets had over $250 in them.
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People that have worked as pizza delivery employees are dishing out their strangest experiences while on the job. Whether it's opening the door to scantily-clothed lunatics, or being greeted by a dude with a literal ball python, you never know what kind of curveball that job might throw you. Working as a pizza delivery guy puts you on the frontline of navigating people's weirdest habits, to get them their damn pizza. Sounds like a fun job.
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