For some reason it's always the least detail-oriented who are in charge of details. Maybe it's a lax attitude toward perfection that leads to some "not my job" failures of professionalism. Maybe it's just overconfidence that results in design failures that deserve some blame. Whatever the reason, it sure does not look good to have a big sign that reads "We will eat your family."
We live in a big world, and not everyone is willing to pay top dollar for "official" merchandise that may or may not be just as good as a knockoff. Yeah, you get a few incomprehensible spellings as well as some terrifying handmade statues of Shrek, but they all make for amazing and ridiculous knockoffs and bootlegs.
Kids are weird stupid people, and they have no excuse. Okay, they have one excuse and it's that their small, dumb minds aren't fully developed and they have no idea how the world works. As good as an excuse that is, it doesn't take away from the fact that there's too much proof kids are weird and dumb.
As much incentive as people have to do their own jobs, a certain proportion of us have the exact opposite going on. This HR person was trying to do the bare minimum in order to wrongfully reprimand an employee over their timesheets, and it just so happened when everyone had to compile a detailed report, things fell into place. For more work shenanigans, here's an employee who outsmarted HR by citing guidelines as well as an employee who had their wages docked illegally and crushed their boss's dreams.
Just because they're rules doesn't mean that they're logically sound. In fact, some rules end up creating more unwanted chaos than originally existed. The old saying about how "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", is still being passed around for a reason. There's a strange order to the things that we view in this life as being disorderly. Of course, there are plenty of exceptions, but sometimes folks can really help themselves out by not tinkering around too much with what's already there.
Pizza is a sacred dish. It should be treated as such. We're not sure what was running through the hazy minds of these folks when they went to craft their cursed food abominations. With that being said, everyone's got their thing when it comes to food, and sometimes that thing just escapes the rest of the world's understanding. Like, I don't know if I'll ever be able to fully digest the implications of putting Fruit Loops on pizza. Oh well, time heals all wounds.
You never know if you're going to end up moving into a new home that's plotted alongside an absolute waking nightmare of a human being. Some neighbors seem to have missed the boat for when it comes to how to carry oneself with decency, proper social etiquette, and not spew gross entitlement all over the place. This neighbor showed up at the poor guy's home to demand that he only let his dogs out at certain times so that her kids can play on his lawn. Um, what? Did you buy his house too?
For some more lovely neighbor drama check out this revenge story about neighbors that wouldn't turn down their heater, and ended up paying the ultimate price.
The world would be a very different place without a hefty measure of clever comebacks sailing through the online atmosphere to take down the sentiments of mind blowing ignorance and cluelessness that people tweet and text and post with stubborn persistence. A successful clever comeback will instantly silence the room, and hopefully encourage its recipient to look inwards, and momentarily reflect on what inspired them to say what they did in the first place. Sometimes, that happens. But other times, people miss the comebacks altogether.
Let this guy's harrowing tale about ignoring an unimaginably gnarly stomachache be a lesson to us all. If you have a stomachache, and the waves of pain have progressed to literal tidal waves of pain, then something is definitely not right. You might already know someone who has had to confront the unfortunate reality of having a ruptured appendix. The key with those occurrences is to be proactive in the response, and not let things escalate to a life-threatening extent.
Anyone who has ever worked a gig in the service industry knows that the job is most unfortunately stuffed to the brim with entitled customers that all seem to be on a war path towards creating as much emotional distress as possible, over a whole bunch of nothing. Because of that unfortunate and frequent predicament, many members of the service industry end up perfecting their very best "customer voices." This can get very, very exhausting after awhile.
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Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of a gig that you've invested a whole lot of training in, only to realize that said gig is speeding toward complete disaster. The imminent disaster could be the result of a rather terribly entitled customer, or perhaps the very thing you're expected to repair is honestly beyond salvaging. Such a situation can occur. These electricians, plumbers, and tradespeople had their run-ins with insurmountable jobs.
Sometimes, you can find yourself playing by all the rules in the book, and still you end up getting in trouble. In fact, there are cases where people that are bent on enforcing all the rules to an impossibly strict standard (or the rules might just suck to begin with) only end up being their own worst enemies in the end. One can only imagine what kinds of priceless expressions must've been written on the faces of this employee's bosses'.
Sure, arguing over semantics is all about dodging empirical facts and avoiding reality, but also it's kinda fun to be technically accurate. You're not gonna score high on any tests or win any real arguments being technically accurate, but at least at the end of the day you can tell yourself that your position, while stupid, was unassailable in its own little way.
If you've ever bought a used item off a seller from a realm like that of eBay or Amazon, you very well might've encountered a wildly unexpected packaging situation for your item. Honestly, it can be a humorous gift sometimes. Just adds some more character to your purchase.
For some reason, when people get a particularly stupid name in their head, it's a really hard time for the people around them to convince them that no, maybe "Tylenol van Halen" is a bad name for a baby, you stupid idiot. Some of these people weren't even convinced effectively, and still ended up naming their kid "Hot Wheels" or whatever. This kind of crap happens all the time, like this boyfriend who wanted to name his baby after a character from Twilight.
Tech support has to field some of the least tech-savvy people on the planet, like it's literally their job to help people who can't figure this stuff out. Technology is hard to grasp, but that's becoming less of an excuse when computers have been pretty ubiquitous in homes and offices for going on 30 years now. This difficulty leads to some absolutely absurd moments like people not realizing they're deleting all their files or Karens who try to bluff their way through the system. Sometimes the systems themselves are absurd, like this IT guy who learned a machine was stuck on "explode."
