Sunday, August 16, 2020

Tumblr Story: Teacher Underestimates Students in Social Experiment


And with that, maybe there's evidence the world won't completely slip into utter chaos. Sure, the strangeness of students can result in some weird and stupid school stories, but that doesn't mean students are necessarily complete animals all the time. Sometimes it can be teachers who say weird and wild junk.

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Text - solarmorrigan So. 10th grade English class. We all come in one morning to find a balloon and a perfectly sharpened pencil on each of our desks. No instructions, no explanation, which is strange, because our teacher is meticulous about that sort of thing. A couple of people try to ask her and she says we'll get to it. She takes role and then announces that she needs to go to the copy room and she'll be back in a couple of minutes

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Text - Kinda unorthodox, but no one is complaining because this is advanced English and the teacher usually goes kinda hard. So, y’know. Brief respite. We all sit and chat; one of the boys teasingly steals a girl's balloon, but gives it back to her easily enough; it's quiet and kind of a nice break. Then the teacher comes back, stops in the doorway, and just stares at us

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Text - After a long moment, she says, confused, "You didn't pop the balloons." To which one of the guys about two rows over exclaims, "We're allowed to pop them?" and immediately turns around and stabs his friend's balloon with the pencil

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Text - There is a vicious revenge balloon-stabbing, and a few more people pop seatmates' balloons or their own, and the whole time the teacher is just shaking her head. "I can't believe you didn't pop your balloons." Apparently we were starting Lord of the Flies that day and she wanted to demonstrate the basic concept of kids turning on each other when there are no authority figures present and it was basically my favorite failed social experiment ever

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People Who Actually Like Their Jobs Explain Why


In this day and age, it's sadly rare that people actually enjoy what they do. It also makes you wonder if it's not necessarily the job but the type of person and their outlook that makes their job worth it. Interestingly enough, it's often not the jobs that look fun that grant the most satisfaction. Here are some jobs that look fun but aren't.

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Text - Metallic-Blue 33.6k points · 6 days ago · edited 6 days ago & 6 More Public Library Everything is free. I don't have to sell anything. People come in because they want to be there. I get to help people who want to be helped, or provide and environment where they can chill and relax. They only owe money when stuff is late.

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Text - comicalcameindune 23.7k points · 6 days ago Facilities-a glorified janitor. The position has morphed, I started by cleaning floors and toilets. Now so many of my creative strengths are used. We're updating our campus, so we build furniture, construct new walls and stages, choose paint colors, engineer unique solutions for an aging campus, and so much more. I've learned electrical, concrete work, welding, sound engineering, drywall, installation of floors, ceilings, doors, stage backdrops,

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Text - Lethal_Hobo 21.3k points · 6 days ago Seaplane pilot - charters, sightseeing, fly-in-fishing, & seaplane flight training

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Text - how_do_nouns_work 18.4k points · 6 days ago Waste management. I drive a garbage truck. I start early but there are days I'm off at noon. A full 8 hours for me ends at 1:30 and I work 5 minutes from my house. I am in the AC all day and left alone. It's wonderful.

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Text - Ipsguy 14.5k points · 6 days ago I think up and draw cartoons. Every day. A syndicated comic for newspapers. Only learned to draw at age 43 so it's been a cool midlife turn. I'm one of those handful of people trying to be at least a fraction of what Gary Larson was/is.

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Text - loadblower831 12.8k points ·6 days ago 3 2 i work in a homeless shelter. i was homeless like 10 years ago and it feels good to help the marginalized community i was once a part of

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Text - princessyumyum17 794 points 6 days ago I'm an epidemiologist, first year out of school. Certainly an interesting first year, and I'd say I probably have some job security right now.

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Text - RandomHuman191817 11.6k points · 6 days ago I'm a locomotive engineer. It's badass controlling thousands of horsepower and tons all with my hands. I love running with the window open listening to the power working and waving a people when they wave with more than one finger.

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Text - systor 10.3k points · 6 days ago edited 5 days ago I work at a doggy day care. I left vet teching after 12 years for something less stressful.

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Text - spiz_1 948 points · 6 days ago This will probably get buried, but I'm a winemaker. Plenty of cool things about it - especially if you actually enjoy drinking wine.

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Text - amark96 8.2k points · 6 days ago I'm a Meteorologist. I look at weather all around the world and work directly with Fortune 500 companies to help them prepare for natural disasters. Considering I've wanted to be a Meteorologist since I was 5, it's a dream come true and I feel blessed.

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Text - Katy-L-Wood 7.8k points · 6 days ago I make replicas of dinosaur fossils for museum display. The company I work for does full sized replicas, but I primarily work in the division that creates teeth and claw replicas, and a few scaled down skull replicas, for gift shops.

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Text - snydert317 6.7k points · 6 days ago I have worked in zoos my entire career (mostly as a zookeeper) and now get to travel and work in conservation. Incredibly gratifying and truly feel I have never worked a day in my life with this career.

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Text - I_AM_A_BABOON 6.6k points · 6 days ago I'm currently a factory worker making sheet metal roofing and siding, it's one of the easiest jobs I've ever had. The work is relatively repetitive, but there's enough variation to keep it from getting boring. The people I work with are kind and funny, management actually gives a shit about us, and the benefits are fantastic. I love working manual labor, I could never have a desk job.

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Text - hacktheself 5.4k points · 6 days ago · edited 6 days ago This will sound sad, but at the moment I'm enjoying working as a delivery driver. For clarity, I work for a wage unlike, say, food delivery couriers who are paid piecemeal. It's well below my education level (a BA, second degree in progress). And it's nowhere near my passions (information security). I enjoy the job mainly because I'm gaining rapid familiarity with where I live. I get to see small businesses I didn't know existed (li

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Text - DeadliestSaiyan 4.9k points · 6 days ago · edited 6 days ago Im a loss prevention person at Burlington. All I do is stand at the door, wipe off carts, and say hi and bye to people coming in or out. Easiest job in the world, most of my coworkers hate me for the job Edit: I have conquered the art of being bored. I went through elementary through high school being this bored in a class so this job was no different for me.

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Text - BitOfAZeldafan2 3.9k points ·6 days ago I'm a night shift worker at a manufacturing facility. I love being able to set all my machines, read a book (or play on my 3DS), and be by myself. Once all my machines are set, I just need to change finished parts for new blanks every 15-20 minutes.

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Text - Mowglis_road 3.2k points · 6 days ago Before the pandemic shut everything down I was a Broadway dresser! I got to work backstage on some awesome shows with pretty costumes and be a part of the magic, it was such a rewarding feeling

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Text - HSTeacher1987 2.9k points · 6 days ago I teach history and government at a small rural high school. My students are extremely polite and respectful (it's not often the younger generation calls their elders, "sir"), I love what I teach, and I get along with all of my co-workers.

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Text - maruffin 2.7k points · 6 days ago I am a speech therapist working with stroke patients. I love rehab. I tried pediatrics but it was not my thing. Rehab is for me.

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Text - RussianSpaceSkeleton 2.0k points · 6 days ago Freelance illustrator and graphic designer. I've always liked the idea of making things that are useful to people in any way, and I always try to apply this mentality into my work. Not to mention that stimulating my creativity is something I've always enjoyed, and something this line of work requires on a constant basis. Of course, creative blocks are an issue occasionally, but it's still something I truly enjoy.

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Text - hobbyanimal 1.9k points · 6 days ago I'm a sales executive for a utility company. Its a job that most people imagine would be soul-crushing but I genuinely enjoy it. That's not to say it doesn't have its bad moments but it's mostly pretty fun. Plus it's a relatively well paid job in a very recession-proof industry, so at the moment I'm fucking grateful to have a stable job. As a rather solitary person who doesn't particularly like people trying to talk to me I take a perverse satisfaction

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Text - feedmaster 1.8k points · 6 days ago Software developer and I absolutely love my job. I literally can't say one bad thing about it. I don't even have a degree and I learned everything on my own.

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Text - Stie5894 1.6k points · 6 days ago The job I loved. Retail at an adult store. On an almost daily basis I could be helping an 18 year old just start the discovery of what they wanted, to helping a 70 year old grandma find something to stave off the effects of menopause (side not the grandmas were always the best, no shame, no fears and would flirt and joke with us constantly) I served ten years in the military and that one job selling sex toys I probably did more to help that community then

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Text - cdb5336 1.1k points · 6 days ago Park ranger I work for the national park service. I started off seasonal and got to visit 6 different national parks, getting paid to live peoples vacation and be in most beautiful places. Now I am settled permanently on The National Mall where i get to work with special events, getting to see first hand all the amazing events that go on in Washington dc and be apart of it all.

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Tumblr Thread: The Curse of The Doctor Who Robot Prop


We try to not be superstitious, but sometimes it's hard to notice when certain objects are so deeply associated with consistently unfortunate goings-on. And it doesn't help that this robot looks creepy as hell. For some more strange and interesting tidbits, here are some random golden moments from the world of Tumblr.

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Facial expression - Admit it. You al think robots arejust machines built by humans to make their lives easier. Well, aren't they?

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Head - Fve never made anyone's life easier and you know it. arabellesicardi im the robot

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Text - titleknown Again, this is even funnier if you know what a fucking production nightmare, with a possible curse attached to it no less, this robot prop was for the Doctor Who crew... bogleech I want to know about the cursed robot choppers-top-hat So the robot isn't a guy in a suit, it's an animatronic/puppet thing, and it wasn't built for the show. In fact, no one knows who built it, one of the producers just FOUND IT ONE DAY in a building near the studio. It had apparently been built for a

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Text - Kamelion was incredibly complicated to operate, so they assigned a guy named Mike Powers to figure out the best way to go about it. Apparently he did a great job streamlining Kamelion's operation, and then he promptly died in a boating accident (which is where the "curse" idea comes from.) He didn't leave any notes or instructions, and the show was already behind schedule, so they had to rush Kamelion's scenes into production with no idea how it worked. It was a gigantic pain in the ass t

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People That Went Full Petty Revenge Mode


Everyone gets wronged by someone at a point in their lives. Some folks hold onto that bitter rage and let it fester, and eventually end up letting it out into the world in an act of pure petty revenge. A well executed petty revenge is its own kind of art form. It takes patience and impressive strategic planning. 

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Text - r/pettyrevenge + Join u/poppypowidl• 4d You refuse to do your job? Watch me weaponize bureaucracy. Last semester, I went abroad and studied at a tiny university. Due to it being so small, all paperwork was handled by one single secretary. Let me stress this: she did not have a lot of work to do. When I arrived, I needed to get my student ID. In this case, it was a simple, small piece of paper - just printed and cut out, not laminated, nothing. I went in and asked her for my ID, since I ne

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Text - out. It would have taken 3 mins, but okay. I said sure and left. A week later I show up again. She goes: "Oh, sorry, I didn't get around to it yet. Come back in a week." I leave, a lot grumpier than the week before. I go to her office a week later, only to hear the same excuse. Not only did she not do it, she is acting visibly annoyed, loudly sighing upon seeing me. At this point, I'm mad - l'm on a budget and have been paying full prices everywhere, just because she can't seem to print o

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Text - I go back for her to correct it. Again, I'm sent away and told to wait another week. When I turn up again, SHE HANDS ME THE SAME ID WITH THE WRONG NUMBER. At this point, I hold a special hate for her in my heart and start to think about a plan to steal her time as much as she has stolen mine. When exam period comes around, I decide to mix it up a bit. I use both my real and fake ID number in my papers and confirmations of attendence. Those are all corrected and signed by professors, but h

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Text - professors can confirm everything has been turned in and graded. It's now her responsibility to find the glitch and fix it. This might have been an easy task for a compentent person, but she could not figure it out. I delighted in regularly asking her about individual courses and papers and watching her get more and more desperate. Eventually, she realized that the ID numbers were faulty - she wrote me an angry email, essentially asking how this could happen. I sweetly replied that I must

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Text - r/pettyrevenge u/MrRikkles • 5d + Join 1 My uncle's neighbors threw a party and took over his driveway, so we boxed them in. This happened today within the last two hours. A bitbof backstory: my uncle is now 81, and is a tough, short, elder Italian gent who keeps hisnown garden annually and routinely maintains complex machines on his own time. His neighbors call themselves his "cousins", and are the most selfishly entitled people we know. Their kids have been guven vehicles he was going t

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Text - So this year marked his 81st birthday (July 27), and my 31st (July 30). He's also my godfather, and my mother often says that I was his 50th birthday present. This past week, around the middle of the week, my aunt and I made plans to visit my uncle today and finish off the sausages we brought over for a celebration party at the beginning of the week. Well, apparently today is some kind of party for my uncle's neighbors, as there are SIX vehicles parked outside their house, whether in thei

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Text - So, pulling up to my uncle's tonight, my aunt sees the parking and loses it. With a grumbling of "That's the way you want to play, that's how we'll play," she pulls up and starts backing in, but not to park behind them... she parallel parks right behind the offending vehicle, boxing them in. Up until JUST NOW, none of them seemed to notice, but onenof the "cousins" just came up to ask if we could move so they can leave. My aunt's words just now? "She can come over and ask herself. She has

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Text - r/pettyrevenge + Join u/ImknucklesDeep • 4d Don't steal candy from me Okay so this happened back when I was in high school I've always been a chill guy but an Asshole if you crossed me. So I was doing a fundraiser for a class outside of school it was a CTE class for criminal justice funny enough and we were selling candy bars they came in a box with 60 bars at a buck a piece and me being the chill guy I was if someone didn't have a dollar that day I would say "just pay me back tomorrow" a

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Text - sold all the bars). Here comes the revenge weeks go by it's sometime after Easter the incident happened in March I was riding the bus back to school from my CJ class when I found this nasty caked on dusty, gnawed on, left over piece of a chocolate bunny. I didn't know how long it was there for but it had to been awhile, I break off the gnawed pieces and slide it into my pocket and head to lunch. I take my seat and wait for everyone to be seated, I pull it out of my pocket and ask everyone

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Text - r/pettyrevenge + Join u/london_br1dge • 5d Impatient lady honks 0.1 seconds after the light changes. SoI make her wait longer. I drive a manual car. I've been driving standard for a little over two years now. Anyway, I was at a red light and saw that the light was going to turn green soon and popped my car in first gear. Getting ready to go. The moment the light turned green, some lady behind me honked. So what do I do? I purposely let out my clutch and stalled my car so I would have to s

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Text - Well she ended up flipping me off (btw I have a sticker on my car saying it's a manual and that I may stall or roll back) and all I did was tell back "Your impatient honking startled me and my foot slipped off the clutch." Honestly never had a more satisfying stall out. TDLR: Impatient lady honks right when the light changes, so I stall my car on purpose to make her wait longer.

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Text - r/pettyrevenge + Join u/mynutsaremusical • 24d 1 Builders dump stuff in front of my office door. Builders lunch now paints the walls. I work alone in a small office in a public building that is undergoing some renovations while its closed to the public. There is an office space in front of my office that is usually unoccupied (think of an office space with a managers office attached at the end, I just rent the managers office.)

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Text - Building managers were supposed to notify us if they ever intended to rent out the space in front of my office so we could build a temporary wall or something so i didn't need to walk through someone else's office to get to mine. But i guess they thought they didn't need to do this because the builders are only there temporarily. So now the space is occupied by the site office for construction. I'm slightly annoyed at the building management for not notifying me of this, but I'm WAAAAY mo

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Text - I ask them to keep it clear as its the walkway to my office and not a storeroom, and they say sure but basically roll their eyes at me and do nothing. So I took some pictures of the mess and reported it to building management and one week later they tidied up SLIGHTLY, and gave me a sassy "Ah we cleaned up a bit around here for ya mate, no need to thank us" as i walked in that morning. A few later and it was almost worse than it was before, to the point i couldn't leave my office without

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Text - I loose my composure for a moment and say "F%^& it", open the door and trip on the bowl of spaghetti, causing it to spray all over the room and the two builders in the room. Spaghetti gets on everything! Sauce on their computers, noodles in the bloody toilet bowl, its in the carpet and most impressively all over the builders. They start to shout at me but i get just as mad saying "Who the hell puts a bowl of spaghetti on the floor in front of a door!". I kind of snapped at this point and

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Text - They sheepishly say yes and i go get my coffee. When i return no one is in the office and the mess is still on everything (i think they wiped the laptops down) but i don't care at this point and retreat into my office and focus on work. Fast forward a few hours and i get an email from the building management. I crack a huge smile as i read an email basically saying "The builders reported your conduct and had us come inspect the damage. However, we noticed the

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Text - unacceptable amounts of mess in the office space had not been cleared up from the last time we asked them to, and they admitted the food was placed on the floor in front of the doorway, so we expect them to cleanup the mess, pay for cleaning and place no blame on you in this case. If the mess comes back call us directly, as they are on their last warning from a few other incidents in the building". It was a longer and more Official email, but you get the point. So now l'm occasionally loo

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Text - r/pettyrevenge + Join u/tedcase • 26d Thanks for the great teaching materials, guys. Have fun using them! Short background, I work for an education company providing supplementary classes to rich kids. I just quit after 2.5 years. 2 weeks ago, my company asked me to deliver a history course. No problem says I, I haven't taught history in a while, so I'll need some time to prepare the course, but otherwise, sure, happy to. don't worry says my company, We have prepared the material for you,

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Text - F*ck. So I look at the material. It couldn't be more useless. Just a couple of pages photocopied from some random "billy age 5 guide to history" book. random shit picked with up no coherence. I'm F*cked. I then spend the next few nights making a complete two week course on WW2, planning the course as I teach it. The plan involved going through all theaters and major events of the war from start to finish. Lots of interactive maps I made on Blender, video clips from movies, lesson plans et

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Text - I completed the course on Friday, coincidentally my last day at the company. Kids are happy, I'm happy. Well done everyone! Just got a message from the company on Sunday night (just now) asking me for the material for the 3rd week. The third week? ...of a two week course. Now that I have left, they want to keep the course running because it went so well. So i sent their random textbook pages back to them. "You're welcome".

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