The legend of the silver screen, Steven Seagal, is an unforgettable monument on the mountaintop of the wasteland of cinema. He's excellent at pretending to do martial arts, and even worse at cocking a gun. Back when he used to run in movies, he had an interesting, noodly kind of thing he did with his arms that really drove home the fact that he was acting super hard about getting to wherever he was going fast.
Society has soft rules that are hard to follow, maybe because they aren't literally written on the wall. Ones that we were supposed to be taught as kids, or basic functions of reality, like not blocking traffic. And there's no official manual for not being an annoying burden to the people around you, so here are some tips for the folks who keep getting called asses in public and "have no idea why." For some more frustrating little things about being a human, here are bone-jarringly frustrating double standards.
"What 9000? There's no way that can be right!"
Get ready for the fight of your lives against these final bosses. These are the bosses that await you when you have already defeated all others of their kind.
Afterward, check out these Lord of the Rings memes that are more fire than the Balrog.
Who would think that separating kids in school by reading level could result in some of those kids becoming huge jerks to their own peers? Kids are all basically sociopaths anyway, so giving a talented one a tangible reason to be an ass isn't exactly gonna help their social development in the long run. The internet weighed in on this sibling giving their sister the straight facts about her attitude toward other people. For another one like this, here's the condescending genius brother who finally got told he's a jerk.
There's something to be said about following through on promises here. When this company promised this worker a raise a year ago and then refused to follow through all they were doing was stacking dominos.
It doesn't seem unfair to expect a promised raise especially in the light of dramatically increased production. Honestly, it's hard to see what the company was expecting here other than the loss of this valuable employee.
It's going to cost them a lot more than the raise that he was asking for to train someone new up for the role. By then they will have probably lost this $3 million project for good too.
Read on and then check out this overworked employee who negotiated what he was owed after working 90+ hour weeks.
You want a raise? How about a pizza party instead.
Nothing is more frustrating than when you work your butt off, you go above and beyond for your job, and your reward is nowhere near worth all of the effort you put in. TikTok creator @domer0421 posted a video asking what ridiculous thing everyone got instead of a raise and it instantly started trending and going viral with responses. Yes, lots of people have unfortunately gotten pizza parties at their workplace instead of better pay, but also so many other absolutely absurd things. We're talking monopoly games, cans of soda, gift cards, and, of course, lots of emotional damage.
We could have spent our childhoods outside or doing things, but when "talking to girls" is competing with "converting an entire army of Persian war elephants to blue" those ladies stood as much of a chance as a men-at-arms has against a Cobra with a machine gun. Here's to all the time we spent trying to get out of the dark ages as quickly as possible. And here are some more video game memes.
If anyone needed a reason to lie silently in bed with their eyes open, consider "the heat death of the universe" or "Victorian Brits ate all the mummies" as decent insomnia fodder. The universe we live in is plagued with injustice, cruelty and gross realities, but hey, some of them are kind of cool to know. So here's some stuff to alienate your family at dinner. Here are some more freaky facts to feel weird about.
Strap in and buckle up. Now boarding for a one-way flight to Glasgow. Return flights are not available. Scroll through this collection of clever Tweets (and other social posts) that come straight out of Scotland.
This wee collection o cleva lads and lassies ae sure ta get yaw tae giggle.
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Afterwards, check out another collection of gems from Scottish Twitter.
This worker, who was the sole person at the company who was capable of doing his job, ended up on the wrong side of a malicious manager. When the manager made an extremely obvious error and let an entire (now unstaffed) department fall over he was sure to hang it on u/PeaceNGrease.
The thing is... since u/PeaceNGrease was the only person capable and qualified of doing his job, they quickly realized that they were going to lose millions of dollars. Which left u/PeaceNGrease in the ideal position to negotiate a high contracted rate to train the new hires.
The big takeaway from this story seems to be that he should have asked for more. But $20,000 is a pretty penny and will pay for a nice vacation that he wouldn't have gotten otherwise!
For more stories about appalling management check out this guy's story about being fired for asking for a raise.
It's a personal choice to spend your whole day learning about mistakes and horror, but at the same time it can get to be an enormous bummer that makes you lose faith in people. That's why it's a decent idea to clear the air every once in a while with some wholesome memes. It's important to remind oneself that people are still basically decent, and we could use a wholesome shot of niceness.
This mechanic, u/Ok_Relationship3160, specializes in older vehicles. He tried to take on a job on a newer vehicle to replace a timing chain. He didn't know that he needed to reset the sensors for the valve train and ended up basically totaling the engine.
At least he is doing the honest thing here and paying to get the engine repaired. Sounds like the customer is handling it well too.
For more ridiculous incidents with cars check out these morons who shouldn't be allowed to drive.
There is so much to unpack here it's hard to even know where to start.
First off, the mom is clearly an a-hole if she is willing to cheat on her husband and possibly birth two children who were a result of that affair. Who does she think she is... Cerci Lannister?
Second, the dad is obviously a scumbag too if he honestly thinks that it's ok to cut off the kids that he just spent 18 years raising just because their mother is a dishonest cheater.
Either way, these kids parents are a-holes and man that's rough. These parents are worse than the ones who told their son that he couldn't get married on his entitled brother's divorce anniversary.
Put simply, there are a lot of things out there that can kill you, such as electricity, fires, electricity fires, strong currents, loose animals, and accidentally wandering into firing ranges. Even a big hole can be ridiculously dangerous if it's deceptively placed. It's better that we have spooky signs to remind us that, while we're basically at the top of the food chain, we aren't invincible. The signs can get pretty creepy though.
Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place. This is an unimaginably hard position to be in with your employer, especially when your coworkers start to turn against you too. It can feel extremely isolating and you start to wonder if maybe you are the one in the wrong. The gaslighting can be real.
Things need to get done, but sometimes we take shortcuts that result in safety failures of OSHA-defying boldness. Walk around any job site for any length of time and there's bound to be cartoonish moments of dudes climbing into running woodchippers, hanging off dangerous ledges with no safety gear, and strapping together ladders into a horrible yet effective "superladder." Sadly, time is money, and that time gets turned into unsafe maneuvers that would make OSHA cringe. It just sucks to have to be the schlub risking their knees, back and fingers for 12 dollars an hour.
No one can force you to buy a car, but being a burden on your loved ones isn't something you should do if you can avoid it with a little effort. It's not too hard to read between the lines and see that even if this guy's gf essentially "bought herself a gift," it's definitely something that's important to her. For some more domestic bliss, here's the guy who refused to do dishes so his wife stopped doing chores to make a point.
The world already has plenty of genuine rich people that stink up the air with their gross displays of delusional entitlement. The last thing that we need tossed into the mix is a bunch of other people that are possessed by such haunting levels of insecurity that they end up insisting on pretending to be rich. Many of us have just enough awareness to be able to sniff out someone who is clearly putting on a front. Maybe these people's stories about their own experiences with encountering fake rich people will ring some bells.
Anyone in search of drama should highly consider any case of bad faith legal shenanigans. We don't know enough about law to know if people are allowed to do crap like this, but lawyers are experts in absolutely hammering at the rules to suit their needs, so anything could happen. Here are some things people later discovered were illegal.
It's not fun to be singled out, but sometimes the universe or our own actions make it something that's impossible to avoid. Sometimes a coworker just gets on everyone's nerves and something public must be done. Other times life just decides that your deck should be destroyed by an endangered species. There are absurd times people and things can't avoid being singled out.
What's worse than being ordered around by an entitled customer? Being told by your old manager that you need to help an entitled customer when you don't even work there anymore. This person played it off cooler than they had to. As a fellow customer, they were well within their own rights to have told this fellow customer that the milk aisle is up her own ass. Here's a time a Karen tried to bully a fellow customer and got mocked.
With every great joke uttered, there's always someone out there with the potential to miss that joke by miles. Not only that, but they'll have the sheer audacity to treat the joke teller like they're the moron. It's obliviousness like that that feels like a kick in the teeth to humanity in general. Is there helping bozos who didn't get the joke? Maybe, but only if they want to be helped.
Dorm life is a double edged blade of debauchery (cool dnd item name btw) and dissonance. I guess that's what happens when you cram a bunch of barely post-adolescent young adults -who have never taken care of themselves on their own- into close quarters living conditions. It's like a poorly optimized training simulator for adulthood.
Some of us were too focused on video games and consumption to learn any real lessons from this time of our lives but we all get their at some point.
Anyways, we love a little petty revenge and kudos to this lass for getting the ol' leg up on the competition in this edition of Malicious. Compliance.
Weddings. Events designed for debauchery and poor decision making.
There's something about the atmosphere and temporality of a wedding that leads us to do things that we wouldn't normally do. Nothing like being in a room filled with someone else's family and varied strangers to make you forget your senses. One thing is certain at weddings... there is bound to be some drama.
These classic wedding blunders are sure to get a cringe or a chuckle.
Sometimes, you just find it within yourself to meet someone's toxic, nasty BS with nothing short of aggressive niceties. Honestly, if the cloud of ignorance isn't too thick between you and the entitled Karen that you find yourself sharing a room with, the kindness can actually end up being effective. Like, what we have here.
This odd assortment of delightful wonders is a bizarre trip into antiquity. View them with observational contentment as you go about your day.
If these re-captioned antiques are your buzz then check out another hearty helping here.
THREE YEARS. Yes, you read that right. We will hand it to sis and BIL that they underwent a terrible tragedy. We cannot begin to imagine the pain and suffering of losing a child, let alone three. However, they have been overwhelmingly supported by OP for three whole years. Three whole years of financial and emotional support. That's over 1000 days for those who need extra clarification. Is OP supposed to put her life on hold forever? We think not, and Reddit users overwhelmingly agreed. Even in the midst of tragedy, let's try to respect one another and not be entitled individuals plz.
Why did our parents and siblings lie to us so much? Right now, there are parents telling their kids that if they touch the wrong button in a car, the whole thing will explode. Kids are being told that "the soda that dad drinks" is a magic elixir that makes you have to pay taxes. Today, someone's younger brother probably "learned" that reading gives you super powers. And what's it all for? Convenience? The most reasonable explanation is that lying to your kids is easy to do and pretty funny.
These managers should be fired for their incompetence. Not only did they refuse to adequately staff their operation; Their utter lack of care and thought resulted in at least $21,000 worth of damages. If not more.
For them to try to pin it onto this laborer, who was extremely overworked when the "accident" occurred is just plain wrong. It's business management 101 that things go wrong when labor is too thinly spread.
Props to this guy for turning the tables and getting what he was owed after working that many hours.
This reminds me of the woman who got paid out when she sued her former employer for trying to fire her for being pregnant.
Education is challenging for everyone involved. For students, it's a matter of being able to pay attention when you're almost certain you could be spending your time more wisely. For teachers, it's a matter of being engaging while dodging all the garbage the parents and the district try to throw at you. So here are some memes for the teachers and the people who deal with them. Honestly, these are pretty much a lot like work memes but with the added challenge of having to deal with stupid people's kids.
