Glorified Manager Tries To Monopolize Sales Calls, Lives To Regret It

Man oh man, some of the world's managers really never should've been put in the positions of power that they were in the first place. It sounds like Jeff was possessed by blind greed to such an extent that it was only a matter of time before he ended up engineering his own demise. I wonder how many moments Jeff had where he was up late at night, tossing and turning, soaked in sweat, bogged down by the burn of regret. It's like, he was the one who ultimately ended up complicating his own life. For another entertaining tale of malicious compliance, check out the time that a Karen presenter demanded a crappier hotel, and got it. 

An Enlightening Tumblr Thread On Dyslexia Friendly Fonts

So basically, Comic Sans deserves far more love than it's been getting. We're quite blessed to be living in an era that's been marked by the kinds of technological innovations that can ultimately make it easier for folks that are dealing with irritating situations like dyslexia. For some more gold from Tumblr, check out this Tumblr thread about the implications of a sleep starved society. 

Scheming Rotten Salad Lady Gets Banished From Deli Section

Anyone who has worked retail has probably crossed paths with a customer who's tried to pull the ol' return scam. They'll claim they bought something, it was defective, have no proof , but still demand a refund. It even works sometimes, like in this tale of employees getting bamboozled by the chicken lady. The thing is, people who pull this off once seem to get a taste for it and frequently try to recreate the scheme, often at the same store. Good luck with that.

Sparkling Tweets And Shining Tumblr Gems To Gander At

The days are long and sometimes we need strength against boredom in the form of tweets and Tumblr gems. The internet is like a Rube Goldberg machine of thoughts bumping into feelings, unleashing new ideas and possibilities. Of course, it almost always produces a dumb and ineffectual result. But hey, that's how it goes with Tumblr gems and tweets.

Dude Uses Fake Mail To Mess With Mail Thieving Ex

Clearly, sometimes, folks just aren't meant to be together. It would seem that these two are undeniably in that boat. So, if you ever find yourself in a situation where you're dealing with the grim reality of having a mail-stealing ex, you might just find yourself inclined to fight back against their BS by using some fake mail. 

Dogs With Embarrassingly Laughable Haircuts

Okay, sometimes dogs need to be shaved for medical reasons. That doesn't make them look less silly, but at least those ones have an explanation. The ones where you can tell people deliberately tried to make their dog look dumb? What's that all about? For some more funny looking dogs, here are some sleepy dogs in goofy positions.

Angry Systems Manager Learns He Engineered Own Nightmare

We've all lost some work to the fates of computer junk, but usually we have the benefit of blaming the system we're using. We get to say "damn this program, I thought I had that crap saved but it's done screwed me over again!" But not this time. IT gets some characters, like this guy who thought he knew better than IT but learned otherwise.

Entitled People With Their Fantastical Demands

The world is a big place full of all kinds of people. Unfortunately, some of those people are the kind of entitled people who want to play absurd games. The kind of people who will make their employees pay them for the privilege of working for them. The kind of people who will throw a tantrum because they are too old to get a free donut. Entitled people and their excruciating behavior are a phenomenon that is impossible to look away from.

Tumblr Thread: Implications Of A Sleep Starved Society

The name of the game in this educational Tumblr thread is to not sleep on sleep. Those zzz's are crucial toward maintaining some kind of balance in one's life. With that being said, we clearly live in a society that oftentimes operates at such a fast and competitive pace that actually locking down the proper amount of sleep every night can become a terrible challenge in and of itself. Keep the Tumblr vibes going with this collection of totally random, strange, and on point Tumblr gems. 

Man Assumes Computer Will Work During Power Outage

Yeah man, that's not how it goes. This guy apparently assumed that his computer would be able to function during a power outage, by running off of a watch battery. Suffice to say, that's not how it works at all. You've really got to feel for these poor folks that work tech support, and then end up encountering some truly, soberingly clueless individuals. For another tale from the tech support world, check out this story about a CEO who assumed his computer had been hacked, and then learned how a keyboard works. 

History Memes To Explore The Depths of Time

We can only watch 90 Day Fiancé and reruns of Doug for so long before we start to long for some dense historical texts, and these history memes to become with time seem to fit that need alright. Who needs social skills when we can chortle heartily over references to various Mongol invasions and treaty signings? History memes are the light in the darkness.

A Couple Wonderfully Petty Parking Lot Revenges

Parking lots effortlessly bring out people's nastiest sides. There's just something about the way that so many people operate in this world, where it amounts to them turning into completely frantic animals when it comes time to exercise just a little bit of social decency while navigating a parking lot. Maybe you'll end up taking a note out of these people's books for the next time you find yourself confronting a parking lot bully, and ready to enact a petty revenge to "make things right." 

Crazed Customer Demands Their Subscription is Cancelled, Customer Service Representative Does Exactly What They Ask

All is fair in love and war. The same principle applies if you're going to be abusive and make demands from a customer service rep. 

It's amazing that people still fail to realize that the best way to get a good result from a customer service rep is to be as pleasant as you can possibly be to them and go out of your way to make this the one call of their day that is a real human experience. If you can tell that you are getting stonewalled by the process they have to follow for a call then it is ok to escalate in order to get the necessary result. But you can be nice while you do it. You know?

Props to this call rep for giving the customer exactly what they asked for. The ensuing meltdown was well deserved. 

Highly Questionable Design Fails

We love us some good old-fashioned design fails here. It's fun to take that moment and try to determine what kinds of misled thinking went into these. Maybe they're just very ahead of their time, or something. Check out some more dumb design failures that somehow got through, over here. 

The Worst Work Suck-Ups People Witnessed

Everyone has different instincts for how to stick around at their job. Some people just do a good job. Other people try to maintain a low profile. And then there are the brown-nosers. The people who's personalities change on a dime when the boss is around. The guy who buys his boss lunch. The coworker who will do anything for a shot at sniffing their manager's shoes. People have enough work horror stories to go around. Maybe some work memes would help.

People's Craziest Neighbor Stories

What's with people messing with other people's lawns? Also, it seems like there's a pattern with all of these "crazy neighbor." Specifically, a whole lot of them seem to be right out of the HOA. There's something about the dang HOA that just brings out the very worst in people. Boundary issues run amok. For some more juicy neighbor drama check out this quick story about a woman who reported her nightmare neighbors, and the righteous fine that ensued. 

Tyrant Manager Fires Employees Over Hair, Whole Staff Quits

It's a mystery how so many angry and unreasonable people hold positions of power, but nevertheless we get moments like this monstrous manager who snapped on an employee. Hierarchies break down when power is wielded unjustly, and it's interesting to learn about an entire staff just saying "screw this, I'm out." If only manager/employee relationships could be more cartoonish, like this fed up manager's many notes for their troublemaking employee.

Weird and Impressive Bootleg Toys

Copyright is a hell of a beast, so these toy manufacturers threw some toys together with dollop of word salad to try to squeeze in as much brand recognition as possible without having to deal with any of that pesky legal infringement for their amazing and ridiculous bootlegs. Like Beasts by Mr. Dre, Mike shoes or Dulcho and Garbanzo bags, the world of knockoff and of brands is rich and varied.

Psychological Tricks To Get The Most Out of Social Situations

There are always things we could improve with our demeanor or social skills. So if you want people to trust you (for non-nefarious purposes) or just get a leg up when playing tennis, there are some things we can all do to get that coveted psychological edge. A pretty simple psychological hack like knowing when to speak or how to make the right kind of eye contact can be a total game-changer.

Technically Correct Moments That Are Literally Accurate

Everyone worries so much about "empirical evidence" and "factual accuracy" as if some degree of clever, technical accuracy isn't at least 40% as good. Yeah, being technically not wrong has some degree of inherent reliance on puns, but it's like no one says: "It's better to be kind of correct than actually right most of the time."

Tumblr Thread: Humans And Their Ridiculous Superstitions

Ah yes, the wonderful wandering minds of the Tumblr community pull through yet again with a ridiculous little thread about the wild superstitions that humans can end up being possessed by. We can all fall prey to carrying assumptions about people just because of the industry that they work in. Like, some folks might assume that scientists aren't as silly as the rest of us. Well, that couldn't be further from the truth. Check out some more Tumblr gems and sweet tweets to battle boredom over here. 

Citizens Of The World Bond Over Their Potholes On Twitter

As citizens of the world, we may not all speak the same language or have exactly the same values. But one thing we can all agree on is that we all resent the state of our infrastructure. After NoContextBrits insinuated that they had singularly bad roads, everyone chimed in in a display of funny yet extremely damning examples of the world's collective road quality. Potholes, sinkholes, and tomato-infested roads abound. For some driving themed insanity, here are some incompetent drivers who should be banned from the road.

Babysitter Forced to Call Police on Parent After She is Abandoned With the Children

There's irresponsible... and then there's this mother. Just from this little insightful window into her life it is probably safe to say that she shouldn't be entrusted with children. This baby sitter definitely did the right thing in contacting the police and leaving the children in their care. There is a certain point where the obligations she agreed to have been exceeded and it sounds like this mother was consistently willing to push past them. 

CIO Karen Buys Wrong Software, Won't Admit It, Pays 5X Service Hours Needed, Gets Fired

It sounds like it was only a matter of time before this CIO Karen ended up hitting her own self-destruct button. The thing about some of these particularly ignorant people is that when they're called out for this misguided antics, they just assume the belligerent, defensive stance and only ever end up making things far worse for themselves. Let's just send all the good vibes to Paul. Poor guy really went through it. For some more sloppy nonsense from the world of tech support check out this tale about the time that a department manager assumed that their monitors didn't need computers to work. 

People's Moments Of Pure Wonder While At Work

We've all experienced those moments amidst a typical day at work when it seems like nothing outside the ordinary is going to occur, and then suddenly, the floodgates open to let in complete chaos. Or, maybe it's not chaos as much as it is an unforgettable moment involving an impossibly clueless customer. Life loves to keep us on our toes. If anything, it can feel like the bigger surprises present themselves right when you're otherwise sinking into a comfortable routine. 

Nostalgic Foods And Drinks For The Geriatric Millennials

This is just the kind of dump that'll probably really hit home for some folks out there. You might be a millennial who is still busy eating some of these foods that the kids of the younger generations don't even know about. The Hi-C Ecto Cooler looks just a little bit sketchy. 

Reasons People Quit Their Jobs On The First Day

Sometimes, you show up for a new gig, and your gut instinct starts bellowing and roaring all kinds of warning signs. It's as if your literal bones are shaking in discomfort over the environment you've walked into. Maybe you unfortunately missed the red flags that only later on when it was already too late, seemed obnoxiously bright. Fact of the matter is, some folks just don't waste any time with dipping out from a terribly toxic, overall nasty job. Maybe these people's reasons behind why they quit their jobs on the first day will make you feel better about any kinds of career blunders or misjudgments that you've made. 

Deceased Mother’s Son Has Horrifying Encounter With The Contents of Her Phone, Witnesses the Unmentionable

Remind me to organize the immediate destruction of my electronics following an untimely demise.

Not that there is anything worth mentioning on my devices... but the sheer volume of saved TikTok videos clogging up my iPhone would bring my unmentionable shame. 

This very scenario is very easily in each of our own, or our children's own, futures and the horror of that is something that even the likes of Black Mirror couldn't dream up.

You may laugh. You may cry. But the image will be burned into your brain all the same.

Intriguing and Sometimes Inadvisable DIY Solutions

Human ingenuity is an amazing thing, especially when you're looking for DIY solutions on a budget. That said, welding together your very own chop saw is probably a bad idea if you don't know exactly what you're doing. Also, there are probably safer ways to haul a boat than tying it to your car. That's not to say these methods don't work. It's just often a better idea to choose the DIY solution that leaves you with fewer tickets and more remaining fingers.

Informative Tumblr Post On Proper Texting Etiquette With Blind People

So well, apparently, emojis can be a blind person's waking nightmare due to the "read text" function. Apparently, the phone describes each emoji in detail. This can make for quite the time-consuming process. Hopefully folks read this, and spare future conversations from the pains of emojis being vividly described. Check out some more terrific Tumblr gems to keep things tumblin, over here.