"Not My Job" Moments That Left The Hard Stuff To Someone Else

A group of philosophers once said "Late night, come home, work sucks, I know." And in that vein, we shan't be asked to go above and beyond for any reason. If it's not in the job description, it's by default, someone else's job. Want road lines painted? Sure thing, but don't expect them to be straight. That would require a "paint line straightener" position. Want a toilet installed? Can do all day every day. Just don't expect it to be connected to any plumbing. Congratulations on your new fashionable white chair that, by god, you better tell people isn't connected to plumbing before it's too late.

It's not that we're vindictive, horrible people. Well we are. We don't really like anything, we're petty, and we need to take a bath. But it's not like that's the prime motivation for misspelling stop signs and painting over light bulbs. It's just not my job, man.

For some more times workers lost the motivation to go above and beyond the barest of minimums, here are some more unprofessional "not my job" moments of failure.

Mean Girl Kicks Girl Out of Her Birthday Party, Stellar Mother Irate, Takes Back Presents

An important part of being a kid is learning that your actions have consequences. When you behave or treat someone poorly, poor things will happen to you. 

These lessons classically condition us to behave well and treat others with the respect they are warranted. Hopefully, they will also teach us to respect ourselves and the way that others treat us too. 

This was an important lesson that this girl hopefully learned when u/WovenAesthetic's mother took back their gift. Although, maybe that's optimistic and this birthday brat is still a mean girl to this day. 

It all happened u/WovenAesthetic was invited to a birthday party for one of the girls who lived on her street. u/WovenAesthetic was a military child and moved around a lot so her parents thought that it would be important for her to keep in contact with other kids. 

When u/WovenAesthetic was kicked out of the party by the birthday brat herself she went home confused and upset. That's when mom stepped in and marched over to the girl's house, taking back the gift that had been given.

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For more childhood birthday drama check out these crazy in-laws who didn't want to attend a child's vegan birthday.

Baby Boomer Coworker Quits After One Shift at Food Service Job, Shocked at the Low Pay for "All That Work"

They say that the only way to truly understand someone is to walk a mile in their shoes. I subscribe wholly to that. It is our duty to each other to seek to understand our differences in experience and consciousness. That understanding, however, is an asymptote that we will be infinitely approaching. We will never truly be cognizant of another's experience, for even should slip on their shoes and take a walk we shall never be able to fully embody them. 

That walk, even if taken with the best of approaches and intentions, still takes place with our feet in their shoes. It doesn't teach us what their foot feels inside of that same shoe. How could we possibly know how that feels? Adding to that, how could we possibly know how they interpret that feeling?

The apparent futility of the exercise, when shone in the light of the inability to fully embody another, does not mean that it is one that is not worth undertaking. When we take that journey we expand ourselves and achieve a new perspective of understanding. Bettering ourselves through our attempts to empathize with another. Growing ever closer to the unachievable.

There are those around you who haven't once considered undertaking this process of understanding. The thought hasn't occurred to them. Chances are that they are uncomfortable with being confronted with the reality that is their small part in the larger puzzle of coalescence. They prefer to keep within the limitations of discernment that their blinders offer, comforted by the obstruction of their conscious isolation. 

When someone is forced to take a walk in someone else's shoes for the first time, as this coworker was. They are often astounded by what they find. Sometimes the perspective that is thrust upon you is so jarring and brutal that the dissonance is too much to handle. Oftentimes people will choose to ignore and suppress the experience or find some other way of discrediting it in order to save their psyche. 

In the coworker's case, at least it seems as if she has gained a new understanding. 

Dude Ditches Wife In Economy Class, Wonders Why She's Mad

This guy and his wife scheduled a month long trip. While booking the tickets, he realized he could upgrade his seat to business class, get some extra legroom and have a peaceful 12 hour flight. What he failed to realize was that this is an excellent way of displaying to your wife that you'd jump at the first chance to not spend time with her on your vacation.

From the outside looking in, it's obviously not a terrific move. And from the inside looking in, it should have been pretty straightforward too. It took the moral philosophers and common-sense-havers of the internet to tell this dude exactly why his wife might be just a little upset about his escape attempt. 

But most importantly, what made this guy think that it's a good idea to start off a vacation by pissing off his wife?

For another fun story of marital bliss, here's the tired dad who got caught eating cake in his car so he didn't have to share it with his family.

Tinder Lady Demands Dinner Date And Gets Hostile, Guy Dodges Bullet

Online dating is a by default a weird thing. Up until only very recently were so many people all expected to get along with complete strangers. And honestly, this exchange is in its own way, successful. These people both realized that they probably wouldn't get along in real life. So in a sense, it's a huge time saver for one person to go totally crazy before ever having to see them in person. And from her side of things, she doesn't have to see "the guy who insulted her IQ and didn't even offer dinner."

On a more fundamental note, it's important to understand that not everyone knows what you're thinking all the time. Everyone has slightly different expectations when it comes to dating, and it's important to acknowledge that if things don't go the way you expect them to, it's likely because the other person has a different idea of what constitutes proper etiquette. If you go around thinking that people's opinions, ideas and quirks are an assault on your character, you're going to spend a lot of time being upset. Like this person.

Boy is it nice that this kind of behavior isn't standard? Here are some glaring red flags that made people dip out of relationships.

Construction Workers Are Showing Off Their Fake "Skills" and "Pro Tips" On TikTok Right Now, Going Hilariously Viral

They take pride in their work! But also, after working such a physically and mentally demanding job, you need some time to joke around with some people who really get it. 

The Dumbest Things People Heard Out Of Another Person's Mouth

None of us can say that we're always at our best. We've all had idiotic moments where we say something like "I have a million dollar idea, they should put wheels on garbage cans." But those moments are usually met with ridicule by our peers and the understanding that our brain just slipped on a mental banana peel. And that's fine.

Then there are the moments we have with people who are so reliably dumb, it makes us wonder if we're taking crazy pills. There are people on this planet who will look at you in the eyes and insist that turtles are just lizards that found a shell, like a hermit crab.

"Nah man, they're a whole different species," you say, trying to clarify.

"But you can't prove that it's not true" they say, completely missing the fact that you actually can.

It's hard to live in a world where people can say some of the dumbest things you've ever heard, but at the end of the day, at least we can ridicule their incompetence. It doesn't make them less stupid, but at least it gives us a sense of control over our own lives.