Man, why are people always telling us to do stuff? Okay, maybe it's our bosses, and maybe they're telling us to do our jobs, but still. Why can't they be more chill? It's like they're begging for a handful of "not my job" moments of professional apathy to come creeping into the workplace. Not working is a great time, especially while at work. Yeah, it produces a few "not my job" moments, but still.
Sure, he could have said "sorry there's been a misunderstanding" but where's the fun in that? This dude decided to make it a good time and take the interview offer. Luckily, his discrete disguise got him in the doors unrecognized. After that? Not so much. For some more surreal work garbage, here's the employee who was reprimanded for sitting at work with a broken foot and shocked their boss by quitting. And here are some of people's worst job interview fails.
This is an atomic test from 1958. Within 7 seconds of detonation, the spray dome hit 840 feet. It's also a reminder that it would be really great if we could put our collective intellect and energy into creating things or fixing potholes. Too bad the pothole challenge is too large to undertake. Look at the size of that explosion!
Commercials almost always suck. But when a product as supposedly dry and utilitarian as hearing aids are get the "actually funny" treatment, it's a good day. Man does that dad not care.
Isn't it interesting how once money is involved, people become a lot more willing to solve a problem? All these guys had to do was be reasonable, but that was too much for them. The lesson here is that if it's not in someone's best interest to admit their mistake, the next best course of action is to make that mistake their problem. For another fun one, here's the rural customer whose internet company refused to cancel their service and made them prove themselves wrong.
James Fridman is the guy you want on your side when you're trying to look good. Not when you want to actually look good, but when you're trying. Like a genie from an old-timey joke, he'll take your suggestions and spin them on their head in a way that will make you look non-photogenic at best. And that's what makes him great. Here are some more choice photoshop trolls from James Fridman.
We like to think that we're not affected by marketing campaigns proclaiming that "no, this new kind of hot Cheeto is going to put every other hot Cheeto in its grave and bury it. It's so Xtremely cheesy that you're going to blow the back out of your underwear and pants, so don't try this when standing in front of any children or old people." But we'll be damned if we don't see them at the store and go "ya got me." Peer pressure is strong, but human ingenuity can rarely live up to the expectations set by advertisers, so naturally we all half-remember hugely hyped things that came and went.
If spellcheck is making it impossible for you to make a sentence, there's a decent chance it's not spellcheck's fault. It's like this employee who insisted on their spelling of "Hampster." This exact issue is what births many dumb and creative spelling fails, but we're not here to tell people how to spell correctly. We're here to laugh at them. It's hard to tell a higher-level employee when they're wrong, but if they insist on being wrong, go ahead and let them. For another technical solution to a frustrating boss, here's an employee who wrote some code to comply with their boss who said employees can't idle.
Everyone's morning "coffee" ritual is a little different, and for some that means an ungodly amount of syrup slammed into their veins like it was being pushed in by a train. This barista thought they were getting revenge on a bad customer by seriously overdoing things, but as it turns out, that customer could look the grim reaper in the eye voids and say "the sweet embrace of death isn't saccharine enough for my tastes, Mister Jingly Bone Man." For another tale from the café, here's a customer who demanded hotter coffee so the manager went full throttle.
For the record, adult people aren't that smart. And that's when they've had decades to work on being less stupid. But kids have nothing holding them back from being absolutely weird morons. And that's not even including the ones who are utter psychopaths. It doesn't take much proof to realize that kids are almost a different species.
Traveling can be rough, especially when it's for work. In general, it goes a little something like this- you arrive at your destination, check into your hotel, go to work, come back to your hotel. Though, it does not always go like this. Sometimes, just sometimes, you return to your hotel after a long day of working to find all your stuff packed into a garbage bag and people that are very much NOT YOU in YOUR room. Such is this case here for this unlucky soul, all we can say is: well, that sucks.
Sometimes the best way to feel better about your own sloppy days at work, where you couldn't seem to perform your job up to the standard that was expected from you is to go ahead and read about other people's own tragic professional blunders. Just because there's a paycheck on the other side of all of that work, doesn't mean that it prevents people from failing at their jobs in a wild blaze of anything but glory, every now and again.
Speaking as human beings, we can attest that people are capable of an amazing level of stupidity. Sometimes when we witness a moment of absolute dumbness we just have to sit back, relax, sigh, and keep on keeping on. Whether it'sworkplace idiocy or parenting fails, humans have a way of impressing us with their optimal stupidity. Every. Single. Time. Enjoy this hilarious compilation of memes that highlight every aspect of dumbness, we've got a long way to go as a species, folks.
Sandwich shop workers are on the frontlines of having to field some truly far fetched sandwich requests. If you've ever given yourself over to imagining the grossest possible sandwich combinations that you can imagine, just rest assured that there's definitely someone out there who is eating that very sandwich. Some people just have remarkably strange tastes.
We can't go through life expecting that everything is going to work out perfectly. Spaghetti gets dropped down the stairs, gender reveals start forest fires, and frisbees keep getting stuck in trees. But while things have a habit of not going perfectly, we can still rest assured that things will still basically work out. Or they'll become a spectacular example of goofs, blunders, mishaps and facepalm moments.
