Is there a quicker, more sure-fire way to sabotage your own company than firing everyone and deleting all of your valuable work-related data? It's like this owner was trying to ruin himself as fast as humanly possible. It's never a good idea to screw over the IT guy. Case in point, this time management illegally banned overtime pay and IT got it all back.
When you're already going above and beyond to cover someone else's loose ends, it's a breath of fresh air to be ordered to just do your job. This boss didn't know what they were getting into when they tried to tell this employee to simply work their scheduled hours. For another dumb boss story, here's a boss who orchestrated their own downfall.
Sure, you're allowed some creative license when it comes to designing a living space, but some of the unprofessional "not my job" moments and low budget solutions involved in building that place can get to be a bit much. It's hard to choose between having a permanent kitchen toilet or a permanent unmovable rafter ladder. What about a repurposed jug door handle? No?
Some baby names are far worse than others. You might've encountered a baby name out in the wild that left you mystified, troubled, helplessly confused. It's as if the parents had a terrible lapse in judgement, and for whatever reason decided to curse their poor kid with a name that would go on to haunt them into their later years. Hopefully none of these ring a bell. For a similar AskReddit thread check out some dumb baby names that parents (somehow) had to be talked out of.
It can be a real wakeup call to hear what a total stranger thinks of the place you and your family have lived their whole lives. For all you know, every person you live with, work with, know and love could be summed up in someone's brain as "the place with all the corn." Depending on where you live, your culture might measure space and time differently than someone else. Here are some non-americans' biggest culture shocks they felt when visiting.
When we're told that something just can't be done, there's a powerful few of us who look at the rules in play and take another whack at it. It might err on the side of deception, but at the same time, it's not against the rules. For an awesome one, here's a student who took advantage of a dry ice loophole that made a mockery of a robotics competition.
Dogs are blessed with their own unique personalities, and in Prancer's case, that's a major problem. We've all met dogs (and people) who are so maligned, so antisocial, so petty, vindictive and hateful that their search for any semblance of love sounds laughable. Prancer is advertised as that kind of being. Given his exposure, he'll probably find a loving home after this. But who knows if his little, shaking, snarling body has enough love in it to ever reciprocate the sentiment. For a story about a much nicer dog, here's a tumblr tale of a dog who figured out how to herd a lawn roomba.
The fact that this manager ended up quitting after unsuccessfully trying to humiliate an employee, is the real icing on the cake. It's a true mystery how some of these incompetent managers end up being in the positions of power that they are. At least this particular manager was ultimately defeated.
In any system that claims it pays you based on your output, it's important to know what you're worth, and 80 cents is something most people would see as an insult. This person weighed his options and decided what a better use of his time would be. It's not uncommon for employers to make workmore difficult than it has to be, as evidenced by situations that made people go "screw this, I'm out." For more shenanigans over miniscule amounts of money, here's a dude who got hounded over trivial debt and ended up mailing them a dime.
Oh boy, this sounds like a nasty Karen of a boss indeed. This guy put in a very reasonable request for a day off to attend a Slayer concert, and the request proceeded to set off a chain reaction of highly unanticipated toxicity. Fortunately, the guy was able to pull off a satisfying victory in small claims court.
I just wonder what was going through the mind of the seal when it pulled up to chop it up with the cat. Was it a simple, "hey how's it going?" Or perhaps, something more incendiary.
It's rare to be in love with your job, so naturally, most of us are going to try and get by with the absolute bare minimum. Usually it works out, but sometimes the cracks begin to show and the "not my job" moments start to pile up. Oh, we'd all love to to make everything look perfect, lined up, spelled right and on point but frankly, that's not my job.
Our hearts truly go out to anyone who is working a customer service job, and has to deal with an onslaught of ferociously entitled, wildly irrational customers who just want to out their rage on whoever exists on the other end of the phone line. In this case though, the call center employee was fortunately able to clap back against the belligerent customer by giving them exactly what they asked for, which resulted in a whole lot of time being wasted. For another satisfying tale of malicious compliance check out this story about a sweeper who was being given grief by a couple rude dudes, and then decided to send them on a totally unnecessary, lengthy journey to use the bathroom.
It's remarkable how some folks end up in the positions of power that they do. It sounds like the manager in this tech support tale was proactively playing with fire, and eventually all of their lazy, deceptive antics caught up with them. The employee getting the promotion is really the icing on the cake. If you're looking for some more entertaining tech support content, check out this tech support tale about a belligerent customer who refused to cooperate with tech support.
Wrong number texts are a handful. Sometimes, you receive a wrong number text and when you try to clarify for the sender of said text that they're not talking to who they think they are, they just get angrier. It sounds like this girl needs to have a serious chat with her wandering boyfriend. Kudos to the guy for kind of playing along with the whole messy situation.
Most every parent wants to teach their kid to be self sufficient, but there's a lot of disagreement on how to get there. Some parents opt for the "tell my child to tie their shoes without telling them how" approach and needless to say, there are mixed results. Making your kid try something and fail at it is a way to make them learn, but most parents would agree it's usually better to set them up with situations where failure doesn't mean death. Traumatizing your kids may come to bite you in the end when it comes to the dumbest things people had to convince their parents not to do.
It can be a daunting process crossing paths with a remarkably lost individual who has gotten it into their heads that something glaringly false is in fact true. It really just ends up being up to you whether or not you're going to exert the time and energy to convince them that they're terribly misled. Maybe some of these sentiments provided in this AskReddit thread will remind you of your own experiences dealing with profoundly clueless individuals.
The internet can oftentimes be a place where people break out the kinds of questions you'd never encounter in a real life scenario. This can make for quite the absolutely ridiculous series of interactions. Due to the recent news that Yahoo News will be closing its gates forever come May 4th, we decided it was only right to pay homage to the strange land with all of its comical absurdity, by spotlighting some of the best interactions to come out of the site.
Bring a new little human being into this world is easily one of the most profound and difficult experiences that someone can experience in their lives. With the experience of raising a baby comes regular, delirious phases of pure sleep deprivation, and overwhelming exhaustion. Of course, all the struggles and pain can be offset by those humbling moments of beauty that a parent can witness as they watch their baby familiarize itself with this strange world. But, with all that being said, the parenting process can get to some folks more than others. And some people like to vent on places like social media to destress themselves. It sounds like this dad's decision to do that social media venting wasn't exactly met with approval.
Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about people's craziest "you don't see that every day" moments. Life has a funny way of surprising us just when we're settling into our respective routines. As you get older and grow more accustomed to being endlessly surprised by whatever life decides to throw your way on a given day, you pretty much can just settle on into a philosophy of expecting the unexpected.
