Working retail and having to appease a Karen is not a fun time, but when you realize she's not even a customer of the place you're working at? That's a recipe for a good time. This employee had a run-in with a Karen they didn't even have to make happy, and proceeded to watch her own comedy of errors unfold.
There's a rich history of bosses orchestrating their own downfall and this one is a stellar example. This lady's genius idea was to make their product crappier while keeping prices high and treating staff like garbage. Where could that go wrong? Some bosses make it clear right away that playing along won't be worth it. Here are some job listing horror stories as well as reasons people quit their jobs on the first day.
The internet is a big place with all kinds of people who have amazing and dumb ideas, and boy if it isn't rife with stupid, random and brilliant Tumblr gems. People have hard opinions on architecture, werewolves and plastic chairs, and they leave these observations laying around like rats at the dump. It's a good time. There's always Tumblr gems to rifle through like a goblin.
When we're younger, we never think of ourselves as future old people. When you're 19, sleeping two hours a night and being an idiot, it's extremely hard to imagine yourself as someone with back pain and a lawn that these DAMN KIDS WON'T STOP PLAYING ON. It can happen suddenly. Most people can point to the moment they realized they were old. At least as people age they get to pride themselves on knowing things young people wouldn't get.
We know just enough about evolutionary biology to ascertain that these memes about cell development and terrestrial vertebrates are probably pretty funny to someone. Thank goodness for those stupid natural world credits we had to take to graduate. Now where are the memes we get to understand for taking that 3 credit course on volcanos? Here are some more vaguely scientific memes for nerds.
In a food service setting, it's important to take people's food preferences seriously. It's a thing that gets brought up a lot like this educational tumblr thread about a vegan girl being served a real burger. The thing is, this stance assumes that the person ordering said particular food actually knows what their choice entails. So what exactly do you do when a customer claims an allergy and then contradicts themselves? The story let people explain other times they've been just as confused by people who had a limited understanding of what different food actually is.
The sad thing is that as obvious a scam as this is, the reason they keep doing it is because someone has fallen for it. There's probably some poor dude out there waiting for that Monster logo to put on their car, still hoping that they didn't just fall for a completely dumb scam. For another guy who got clever with it, here's a scammer who claimed to be a CEO and got trolled.
It's a troubling tale like the one that we have here that can effortlessly convince someone to never consider taking up babysitting. You very well could end up having to deal with an aggressive, downright blindly ignorant individual like the mother in this story. I'm just trying to figure out why she continued to bother the babysitter with the pointless calls. Some people have a way of completely disregarding the very undeniable truth when they're repeatedly told it.
Scientists are people. And being people, they don't take their work as seriously as they maybe should. So naturally, we get things like extremely important primate language studies conducted by people who name their chimp "Nim Chimpsky." Hey, as long as the research is good. Here's a tumblr thread about the use of lucky shrines in the field of science.
Why do dads love puns? Because the other jokes they want to say are so disrespectful and abhorrently filthy that if they said them, no one would trust them with children. You make do with what you have. In the end, we have punny dad jokes that go father than ever before. So throw on those jeans, pile the kids into the car, drive to the soccer game and patiently sit through daderrific dad jokes that just nailed it.
It's pretty cool how people are willing to help each other out, even if the only thing they have in common is that they're from a similar part of the earth. Hey, people like building connections. It must be interesting to be in a completely new place and run into someone who just left the place that you came from. A lot of good can come from saying "I also understand that it's weird here, do you want to hang out?" For some more wholesomeness, here are wholesome memes.
It's not uncommon for customers to find themselves on the wrong ends of their own "fairness" tantrums, like this guy who asked for no ice and got less than that or this one pound cake Karen who was furious for getting what she wanted. At the same time, Kudos to managers who aren't gonna put up with all the nonsense, like this manager who went full throttle on a customer who demanded hotter coffee.
One of the biggest problems with talking online is that it's impossible to decipher someone's tone, but at the same time it's also very easy to assume someone is trying to be a jackass. On top of that, we never really know when we might "crossing the line" for someone who's freakout meter is set on a hair trigger. And to fuel the flames of this situation in particular, they decided to make like a chicken sandwich themselves and double down. What started as one chicken burger/sandwich correction rolled into a multi-day snafu that had people freaking out over nothing when everyone could have just gone outside or spent time with their families. Amazing. For some more stupid drama, here's a Tumblr thread on drama in the yarn community.
Making perfectly ethical dietary decisions is hard. Most people who refuse to eat meat on ethical grounds bring up the reasonable claim of "I like animals and hurting them makes me feel bad" which is their choice to make. But things aren't so simple when it comes to products made by animals themselves, and it becomes less clear still when it comes to bees. The claim of "is it ethical to steal the labor of bees" has a whole lot of twists and turns. Naturally, the people of tumblr took the idea and ran it into a wall, specifically with the whole hilariously dumb "bee centrifuge" thing.
Having your car towed absolutely sucks. But given the circumstances of having a repossessed car already up on the truck, most of us would consider it a lost cause. It's unclear what the plan was here, but "smash two cars and my own and drive off after being identified on camera" is not exactly a terrific choice to make given the options. Yikes.
One of our favorite things is when someone uses technical talent and uses it to turn a pretty sophisticated idea into the dumbest thing ever. Here's a video that took the Ken Burns Civil War documentary and remorselessly smooshed in a much E.T. as it could handle. Dear god it's so stupid and wonderful. Bravo.
It's hard to explain technology to someone even when they're actively trying to understand what's going on. But take some ignorance, maybe add a little bit of entitlement throw in a helping of utter fear and you've got yourself a recipe for someone who's not ready for a new computer monitor. People are naturally resistant to learning, but it doesn't have to get as bad as this company that plugged every ethernet cable into their router at random or this man who assumed that a literal fire was a feature of his computer.
There's a scam out there where a stranger pretends to be your boss. And, keeping in line with totally normal things CEOs do, he really wants some apple gift cards. It's such a sophisticated tactic that it's almost impossible to notice. With all the times our bosses have demanded gift cards and emailed us barely readable messages asking for our financial information, it can be hard to tell when you're being played. For some more fun scam moments, here are times incompetent scammers were their own worst enemies.
To put it in glaringly obvious and almost stupid terms, a lot of things have happened. And when a lot of things happen, the probability of incredibly improbable events occurring increases. So naturally, it would make sense that in all of human history, some extremely improbable things have happened. But damn if it doesn't really feel like someone with access to a DeLorean with a working flux capacitor would make it easier to accept these wild historical moments that are too bizarre to seem real.
The mere image of this dad walking around the house with a lovely cat draped around his shoulder/neck like an actual scarf is enough to make one smile. Now, you factor on top of that the fact that dad insisted on putting on a ridiculous show that he wasn't helplessly in love with the cat? Oh boy, you've got a winner. We're just glad that dad and this cat are actually best friends, after all. Check out some more gold from Tumblr with this Tumblr thread about the big, weird, and empty mansions of rich people.
Everyone thought the internet would free us. They said that with totally open channels of information, we could pull ourselves out of darkness and achieve global self-actualization. Well the internet is here and it seems like people use it to tell each other about weird dreams they had and show each other pictures of raccoon. So it's a close. Here are some more tumblr gems and funny tweets.
When did everyone start falling over themselves for impossible-to-eat hamburgers and pimple-popping videos? Why does a video of a family sloppily eating a lobster dinner have over 30 million views on YouTube? What's wrong with everyone else and why are they objectively incorrect about basic things? It takes all kinds. For some proof, here are the weirdest things people saw at other people's houses.
No one is ever exactly thrilled to deal with airport security, especially when there's still no 100 percent guarantee that all the inconvenience will be effective. So the moment that you're on your 10th hour of travel, have your shoes and belt off, and get told that you've been "specially selected" and ordered to gut your bags for dozens of pieces of equipment at the added inconvenience of everyone behind you, things get interesting. For another fun travel story, here's the passenger who was expected to entertain a fellow flyer's kids and was having none of it.
Neighbors are great. Where else do you get a chance to interact with cranky people whose only common interest is the physical space they're forced to exist in? The beautiful thing about apps like Nextdoor is that we get to peer into the complex innerworkings of the mind of the guy on your corner who stands there with the hose for hours, seemingly unaware that the water is off. Neighbors can get wild.
This guy must think that he's the next Gordon Ramsay. Bro, what makes for good television does not make for healthy interactions with real-life people.
That being said, I guarantee that if Gordon spoke to his significant other this way he would get the exact same reaction. As some of the commenters say, it's one thing to give her some constructive criticism in private if she's trying to improve. It's a completely seperate thing to rate her food in front of her family....
Just tag this onto the end of a long list of the ridiculous things guys have done to their partners.
Dietary differences can inspire some serious drama, like this vegan who refused to eat a coworker's suspicious cake. In this case there are no ethical and health grounds for this person making a spectacle of themselves, it's just good old fashioned adult picky eating. The internet didn't exactly take kindly to a legal adult who ordered Burger King to a hibachi restaurant.
There are a multitude of those bizarre products out there that immediately render you speechless when you lay your eyes on them. Sometimes, the product itself is so ferociously cursed that it pretty much gives off the vibe that it fell right out of a wormhole or something. You'll find yourself sitting there, scratching your head, furrowed brow, the whole deal, and completely blinded by confusion over how the product ever came to be in the first place.
The last thing that you ever want to find yourself confronting is the grim realization that you've ended up living under the same roof as someone who is a psychotically inconsiderate, genuinely toxic individual. These people's stories of their all-time worst roommates might make you feel better about the times you've ended up weathering where you really weren't sure how you were going to get through having to live with an unforgettably bad roommate. For a similar AskReddit thread check out these red flags to keep a weary eye out for to avoid problem roommates.
As lava continues to seep out onto the island of La Palma, things aren't showing any obvious signs of stopping. Maybe this is a good reminder that we're all fragile little blips on this planet, and if nature wants to it can start shooting hot lava at you. It's not every day that you get to see floating boulders.
That's all well and good, but we doubt he could make them harmonize. Impressive impressions generally aren't the first thing most people think of when they first think of Simon Pegg, but it's a notable feature that continue to confirm our approval of the guy. Now where's Nick Frost to do an impression of thousands of screaming girls?
