20+ Freshly Harvested Tweets For Your Absorption

These Tweets are hot off the press and ready to be consumed by your eyes. It's been a crazy week in the world with ol' Queen Lizzy passing on, and there has been no shortage of memes to go along with that. A few of my favorites have been the ones that center around Charles and his chance to finally claim the throne. I am completely indifferent when it typically comes to news of the royal family, in no way would I ever celebrate someone's death or wish anyone harm, but no Cheezburger editor can pass up the chance for some new memes when it presents itself. Maybe I'll next take a list at making a list that exclusively is comprised of these memes. 

Outside of that, you have the usual Twitter brand of humor which ranges from quick quips to excessively detailed stories people have made up about their children for internet clout. So scroll and enjoy this selection, there's a whole lot of fun to be had. 

Funniest Job Interview Memes for People Who Can’t Stand the Small Talk

Job interviews are low-key romantic when you really think about it. You get all dressed up for them. Have to calm down your nerves right before. And some pretty intimate questions tend to be asked on both sides. it's a wonder how we don't end up falling in love by the end of them. Just kidding of course, the major difference between an interview and a date is that they are not meant to be fun, and if you get laid afterward you probably are going to get an uncomfortable call from human resources afterward. Which is frankly, not very sexy if you're curious about our humble opinion.

 

So whether you're currently interviewing, currently thinking about interviewing, or currently thinking about thinking about interviewing, we believe you'll get a kick out of these spicy memes. Will these help you get a job? Probably not, but they'll probably make you giggle.

Mom Calls the Cops After Husband "Steals" the Motorcycle She Got Her Son For His Birthday

It's rare that a parenting disagreement actually escalates to police involvement in the investigation of theft. At least, I would hope and assume that this is the case, but maybe it happens with a higher degree of frequency than you'd anticipate. 

There are a lot of working pieces and ethics to consider when it comes to the inter-workings of this story. First of all, this husband is not the son's biological father, and we are led to believe that he came into the son's life fairly recently considering the fact that the biological father passed away when the boy was 12. Had the husband been involved in the boy's life for longer, by either being the boy's biological father or step-father from a young age, this would be an open and shut case. I would say, undoubtedly, that the father had a point and a role to play in protecting his son from what he deemed to be a dangerous activity and I would probably say that the wife/mother was the a-hole for buying the motorcycle without the two parents reaching some agreement on the subject. But, since he is not a more prominent father figure in the boy's life, the argument becomes open to the fact that he might be controlling and overstepping here.

It might be an unpopular opinion among you motorcycle enthusiasts out there, but I'd still hold the opinion that the step-father is doing this family a service by refusing to let the son ride a motorcycle. He has gone around it in completely the wrong way, but I will hold that there is an argument to be made that he has done an ethical net benefit by possibly saving the son's life.

I was raised by a motorcycle enthusiast who was lucky to walk away from and still be alive after, a collision with a distracted driver. He insisted that despite his love for them, I was never to go near one. I used to resent this, but after my own collision with a distracted driver, I can see that he was completely justified in this position.

The statistics are startling when it comes to the comparative risk of motorcycles and other road vehicles. 

This graph shows the comparative occupant fatality per billion vehicle miles traveled in 2015 and 2016. Before you say that these statistics are outdated, the fatality rate of motorcycle occupants has only increased since this data set.

 

So, honestly, despite everything he has done wrong here I'm going to go against the Reddit hivemind and say that the mother is the A-Holehere. Both for blindly enabling her son to take up a statistically condemned hobby, for not listening to the person she selected to help raise her children, and then for escalating things to another level by getting the police involved. 

We've seen far worse instances of parents stealing from their children. What's your take?

Student Given a "Work Ethic Quiz" at School That Smells Like Indoctrination 101

Whether we like it or not, quizzes and tests are part of the whole experience of going to school, but this was the last quiz we expected someone would have to take, and perhaps it's the most disturbing one as well.

 

This student shared a question that was marked as incorrect from the "work ethic quiz" he had to complete. u/_FractalHeart posted this thread to Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit and let's just say, Redditors were quick to drag whoever made this stupid quiz and accuse them of indoctrination. The question "in question," so to speak, was a hypothetical one about whether or not an employee should be expected to come in on a Saturday to finish a presentation if the client is coming earlier than expected. The student elected the first answer (get someone to cover for you) when the "correct" answer was likely "reschedule your plans." 

 

Here's why this concept is damaging. First, if a client comes earlier than expected, they should not expect people to rush a process and have it completed earlier than planned. The work simply won't be of the same quality. No employee should have to suffer because someone else wouldn't stick to the plan. Furthermore, if that employee did choose to come in, they better be fairly compensated for that extra work and should perhaps be rewarded with time off later the following week. 

 

If students really have to take a quiz about work ethic, they should be learning how to advocate for themselves in the workplace and how to ensure that they are being treated fairly. Otherwise, this class is just encouraging kids to embrace outdated values.

 

We've seen plenty of instances of workplace drama. For more, take a look at these top trending infuriating LinkedIn posts.

'If you miss even one shift you get demoted': Father/Boss forces son to miss the birth of child

It's never a good thing when an employer forces their employee to miss a significant life event in order to assert their authority over the employee's life and ensure that they never dare to question the importance of their work again. Such instances are dehumanizing and toxically reinforce the bizarre idea that our work is more important than our family and health. It's shocking then to think that a parent could do this to their own child who works for them.

Well, that's exactly what happened in this thread initially posted to Reddit's r/AITA subreddit by a worker who was forced to miss the birth of his child. His post was then crossposted to the workplace subreddit r/antiwork by an outraged reader, there the post went viral, earning over 20k upvotes and reaching Reddit's top trending page, r/all. "Holy cow, this sh#t's way too common," the title of the r/antiwork post proclaims.

Commenters lambasted the worker in the original thread for not standing up to his father and leaving his job at his dad's restaurant long ago. They felt that he should have made the call at that moment to end things with his father and go be at his wife's side. They definitely have a point, but it's easy enough to tell someone to leave their job with their parents from behind the safety of a computer screen. The reality of doing something like that is far different. If he were to leave his parent's restaurant, he would be facing unemployment along with probable disownment from his entire family. It would have been difficult to take this step knowing you must take care of your pregnant wife and prepare for the child's arrival. No doubt, the father uses exactly these considerations to exercise control over the entire family. 

Yes, the moment he was told by his father to stay should have been when he called it quits and walked out, but it's hard to expect someone who has suffered a lifetime of abuse to be able to walk away from their abusers. 

What's your take here? Is the original poster in the wrong as well? Or does the blame rest solely on the shoulders of his father?

 

 

Broke Memes for the Financially Challenged and Emotionally Damaged

Does it ever feel like you and your friends become competitive over how broke you are? When we were growing up it was our literal worst fear that people would perceive us as poor, and now every week whenever we go out we all just love to talk about how little money we have chilling in our bank accounts. Then there's also always going to be that one friend who likes to cosplay as poor just to fit in. they pretend to wince whenever it's their turn to pay for the uber when in reality they've never spent a single cent of their own money in their entire life. It's frustrating, but they'll never get it. Instead of getting angry, just tell them that they forgot to pay you back for something from a while ago, and they most likely don't pay attention to their finances anyway, so they'll just sauce over that cash.

 

But for all the broke people out there, these memes are for you.