'I Was Promptly Ghosted': Top 21 Dating App Flops of the Week (August 2, 2023)

It's hard to meet people nowadays, and it's impossible to pin it on one single reason. There is so much to take into consideration when it comes to dating and romance. People can look deceivingly normal in their bios, but once you get to talking, all of the ugly comes out. It is surprising what people will put in writing when given the chance. It makes me wonder, does this ever work for them? Yeah, I am in the same old dating game as the rest of the world, bound to depend on dating apps. Where else am I supposed to meet someone? It's hard out there for introverts.

If you can empathize with the emotional exhaustion that dating causes, then you have certainly come to the right place for some good old validation. Scroll down for the funniest, weirdest, and wildest dating app flops of the week. For more, here is a Karen who stormed out of a hotel without paying because she was refused a refund by the hotel clerk. People these days…

'What can we do to get you to stay?': New manager tells worker they're useless, begs them to stay when they quit

Well, which one is it? Useless or essential to the business? Contrary to what some managers believe, you don't get to have it both ways. If you treat your staff poorly, they're probably not going to have your interests—or the interests of the business—close to heart. Conversely, treating staff with decency and giving them agency will help you maintain a thriving and successful business. No one likes to have their hand held, no one likes to be micromanaged, and certainly, no one is going to react well to being berated and talked down to.

At the same time, why is it always new managers who have been promoted to a leadership role for the first time who feel it's their duty to be cruel to workers who have more skill, experience, and likely leadership experience than them? Maybe it's something to do with their own insecurity—in fact, it most certainly is. Anyone with true leadership skills and management experience knows that you need to watch and listen before jumping in and making changes. 

I've written this no less than 1,000 times: Just because you're in charge doesn't mean you know everything or have the right answers—so don't act like you do.

 

'You only brought in 21 clients': Cold-caller maliciously complies with boss by extending phone call times

This person made their cold-calling job extra easy with a life hack of sorts. 

As a cold caller, you're signing up for a job that's both repetitive and competitive. You have to make the same exact sales pitch dozens of times per day, but you can't let the monotony get to you. Instead, you have to convince potential clients to purchase your company's service. For those with the charisma of a salesperson, this job can be great. However, this OP, u/Unashamed_Outrage, writes that they strongly disliked the gig. And, weirdly, their boss kept switching their role between contractor and employee, "when it suited him." That seems less than legal, but at least this cold caller got some incredibly satisfying malicious compliance on their boss. 

In addition to maliciously complying their boss's desires, this person also made the world a better place by preventing cold calls from happening in the first place. These types of calls are super annoying to most of us. In this day and age, most of us aren't shopping via phone calls, it's just way too sketchy. Check out the entire story below!

Up next, this employee shared the reason their micromanaging boss was fired — and the employees are partially to blame for her downfall. 

'What the [hey] was I supposed to do?': AP Supervisor of small company scoffs at manager who's upset that he can't control the WiFi

Well, well, well. How the tables have turned. We millennials and Gen Z might have needed help from an adult or two when we were growing up and didn't know how to boil an egg. But look who STILL doesn't understand new technology—how many times do we need to show you how to use the remote?

Reddit user u/GoGoNJDevil recently shared a moment with his manager that truly had him "laughing in millennial." It isn't new to OP that this manager is toxic and rude, and, frankly, annoying. He is already on the hunt for a new job. So it wasn't just this recent interaction that made him reconsider his employment there, but it truly does add the cherry on top. OP is the AP supervisor for this small company. The AP supervisor is the "accounts payable" supervisor, so he deals with all the paying stuff, which means he figures out how to pay for the company wifi. So when Comcast had to do some work on their end at 8 am, and it cut out the service, the boomer manager called OP. He demanded that OP call Comast and remedy the issue immediately. Ok, so, like… Just call Mr. Comcast? Say, "Hey man, can you do me a solid??" LOL

Nope, OP just rolled his eyes and tried his best. He called Comcast, and they told him exactly what he thought they would tell him, that there was nothing they could do. He relayed this to his manager, and apparently, now the wifi not working was HIS fault. What a wild rollercoaster of a job it must be to work for an entitled boomer. 

Update: ‘Instead of getting promoted, I got fired’: Employee comes home from vacation, finds out they lost promotion, then gets fired

Despite finding it difficult to fathom, I am fully aware that coworkers have the tendency to try throwing you under the bus, and you can either sit there and take it, or hatch a clever plan to dodge their attempts. But sometimes, the bad guy wins… we aren't exactly living in a corporate fairy tale. Before we get into u/TroaAxaltion's story of petty revenge that actually ended them up being fired, you can check out their first original post for some extra context, here.

OP was working in the contracting department for a medical equipment company. There he had a coworker we'll call Hank, who was an account manager. Hank was caught not doing his job, got in trouble, then tried to throw OP under the bus and pin his incompetence on him. But, tough luck, as OP had kept the receipts and proved that Hank was the real problem. Now, all that was good and dandy, but as it turns out, Hank wasn't the only problematic employee at the company.

Enter Mary, a conniving sort of person, to say the least. She teamed up with Hank, who already disliked OP for dodging his attempt to get him fired. Unfortunately, this time around, they were both successful. Scroll down to read exactly how OP was once again, thrown under the bus. For more, here is another OP who got fired after refusing a promotion.

'I got fired yesterday': Employee shares their experience of being fired from their job where they were being berated and micromanaged

We're not always going to be successful at everything we do or attempt to do, and—whether our failure is actually by our own standards or someone else's—that's ok. Similarly, (my fellow people pleasers, please brace yourselves) —you're not going to be loved by everyone you meet… Heck, not everyone is even going to like you. Some people, even within your own family, may not be able to tolerate you—and it might not be because of anything you've done or anything that you can change or control. And that's ok too. Not ok in the sense that it's going to be particularly productive or enjoyable for you; ok in the sense that it's a part of life and will happen one way or the other—no matter how much energy you put into controlling it. The sooner you figure this out, the easier life becomes, as you can save that energy for the other things in life that are going to require it.

This means that, yes, you may not be good enough at something, and that something might be your hobby or a sport that you're passionate about progressing in, or a job that was once your dream. If it's a job, you might even find yourself fired from it, but this doesn't mean that it's the end necessarily—merely another step along a crooked narrow path. The sheer number of famous successful persons who have given interviews about being fired from a number of previous jobs stands as a testament to this. But this is because they learned that the only way to move is forward—and walk the path of life.

This worker found themself failing in their job, constantly being micromanaged and berated by their boss to a point where they could see the writing on the wall—I mean, their boss literally told them they'd better hurry and find another job. Finally, the axe fell when they had a 1-on-1 scheduled with their boss under dubious pretenses, and they found themselves unemployed.

They shared their experience with a popular online community for discussion of employment issues, telling how their firing came to pass and sharing their initial hopeless feelings afterward—before ending with the silver lining that they now see. 

Commenters shared their thoughts and experiences of their own, commiserating with the original poster and offering their advice. 

Read on to see the thread that inspired this post, originally shared on Reddit's r/antiwork community. Next,