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At the start of the Vietnam War, the South Vietnamese government favored Catholics over Buddhists so much that some Catholic priests ran private armies that forced conversions and demolished Buddhist pagodas with mortar fire.
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In 1648 an angry mob of Parisians once broke into the royal palace, demanding to see the king. They were led into the bedchamber of Louis XIV, who was pretending to be asleep. Satisfied, the mob quietly departed.
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The best time to plant a tree was 50 years ago. The second best time is now.
My dad always used to say this when I was growing up and I never had a clue what he was talking about until he explained it to me.
Basically, it means that you should get started today and stop putting things off if you want to get them off the ground and rolling.
And I think those are words to live by!
What quote forever changed the way you look at things?
Here’s what folks on AskReddit had to say.
“I had a professor in college he called it the 10/90 rule.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Changed my life.”
“Honesty without kindness is brutality.
Kindness without honesty is manipulation.”
“You might be the sweetest peach on the tree, but some people just don’t like peaches.”
This helped me get over my lifelong desire to be liked by everyone, and allowed me to focus on becoming someone I actually liked.”
“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life. Most of which never happened.” – Mark Twain.
Found it on a workbook for anxiety disorders.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle.
And yes it isn’t the real quote but elementary school aged me internalized that thought and I have applied it to everything ever since then.”
“If you look for the light, you will often find it, but if you look for the dark, it is all you will ever see” – Uncle Iroh, Legend of Korra.
Has helped me through some dark times in the past, just looking for that small bit of good in a heap of bad.”
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
–John Steinbeck, East of Eden.”
““Let go or be dragged”.
An old Zen proverb I heard at a meditation class.
Really changed the way I let myself worry about things.”
“My grandfather once told me, “no matter where you go, there you are”.”
We refer to that a geographical cure — which doesn’t always solve things — so sometimes you have to work on yourself so you don’t repeat your mistakes.”
“Don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm.”
This helped a lot with my guilt and burgeoning martyr complex.”
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us.
It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
Carl Sagan.”
“Graveyards are full of irreplaceable people”.
That quote helped me stop going down the path of working myself to death because “my job needs me”.”
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes it is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” -Maryann Radmacher
I came across this a long time ago, at a point in life that I really needed this lesson. It’s okay if I feel sad and resigned, if my depression beat me for today and I wasn’t able to function. I didn’t fail, I’m not weak, I will try again tomorrow.”
“If you’re trying to break a habit, don’t say ‘this is the last time I’m doing it’ to yourself. Instead, say ‘this is the first time I’m not doing it’.”
“When people show you who they are, believe them.”
– Maya Angelou.”
“That mountain you’ve been carrying, you were only suppose to climb.’
Really helped me overcome a lot of traumatic experiences and difficult chapters in my life.
I hope it helps someone else out there.”
“Dear Abby’s response to a writer thinking of going back to school but worried that she will be 40 by the time she got her degree –
“How old will you be in four years if you don’t get your degree? You are going to be 40 anyway with or without your degree.“
It reminded me that letting age stop me from my plans was just silly. Also, working at a community college and seeing so many people going back to school in their 30s, 40s, 50s and thriving, the quote really spoke to me.”
“Some people d** at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.”
– Ben Franklin”
“The axe forgets; the tree remembers.” —Zimbabwean proverb.
People don’t forget how they were treated; that’s why it’s so important to be kind.”
“Just because you lost me as a friend doesn’t mean you gained me as an enemy.
I still want to see you eat, just not at my table.”
“Your kid isn’t giving you a hard time, they’re having a hard time.
The only way out is through.”
“Don’t let a wishbone grow where a backbone should be.”
“It’s no use wasting time worrying what other people think about you. No one is thinking about you.”
and
“Remember to take care of yourself. You can’t pour from an empty cup.”
Been living up to those ideals recently and I feel I have just started living.”
“I understand there’s a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons and old movies. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid and outwit that guy.”
– Anthony Bourdain.”
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” – Terry Pratchett
I’m not sure why this quote struck me so hard, but it completely changed the way I approach writing. Just get your ideas down in run-on sentences and asides to yourself and loads of [???] at parts you haven’t figured out yet.
It took me more than 30 years to realize that a first draft isn’t just a rough version of the final draft. It’s a map for yourself, and no one else.”
“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”
– Cheryl Strayed.”
“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity” – Hanlon’s Razor.
Not everyone’s out to get you, there are a lot of stupid people in the world.”
“I visited Pearl Harbor this week and the one that struck me was: “There were many acts of heroism that day, not all of them recorded.”
It reminds me that even when nobody is watching, it’s still important to put forward your best.”
“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.”
C.S. Lewis”
“Honey, I hope it’s the worst thing that ever happens to you.”
From my dad when I was complaining about something. He probably didn’t intend for it to be deep or anything but it puts things in perspective. I think of it all the time.”
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
John Shedd”
What quote do you think changed your life?
Talk to us in the comments and let us know.
Thanks a lot!
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When you run a business, it’s all about building the brand the best way you can. And one of the best ways to do that is through your logo and your signage.
There’s nothing worse than when something goes wrong–it seems like it could cost you a lot of money to do over. Some businesses choose to live with it rather than paying to have it redone.
And who can blame them. When you mess up your only job, how do we know you’ll get it right the second time?
Here are 14 classic examples of cringe-worthy sign fails from the subreddit r/NotMyJob.
It’s fine as long as they can read it, right?
Signs up, Boss! from NotMyJob
But at least they know their weaknesses, I guess.
Image credit: r/NotMyJob via Pleated Jeans
Either way, the signs might be the easiest part to fix.
No cheating now.
Image credit: r/NotMyJob via Pleated Jeans
You might have to read it again.
Image credit: r/NotMyJob via Pleated Jeans
This one is maybe not the sign’s fault.
Will accept years worked in childhood and earlier.
Image credit: r/NotMyJob via Pleated Jeans
They did their best.
Bald action stars everywhere are taking offense.
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Even reading white paint on a white background.
Try harder.
Image credit: r/NotMyJob via Pleated Jeans
Honestly, maybe it’s a hidden message to scrappy local teens in need of wholesome mischief.
These things really need to come with ‘this way up’ markers.
Image credit: r/NotMyJob via Pleated Jeans
But you still have to read them.
Quick tip: road signs should face the road.
Re-installed the speed limit sign facing our backyard, instead of the highway. from NotMyJob
These mistakes are absolutely cringe-worthy, but what can you do?
We’re all just doing our best, even when the best we have to offer isn’t the best we’re capable of.
Have you seen any great sign mishaps?
Share them in the comments.
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The luxury goods market is definitely interesting.
I mean, I’m as guilty as the next person of spending my hard-earned money on ridiculous things.
But there are definitely some items for sale that make you go “what?”
Last month, mother and hockey fan Lexi Brown, PhD, went viral for her Tweet about random and ridiculous luxury items, spawning a thread of similarly themed responses.
Lexi found a… well, they call it a “bag” (but it doesn’t actually hold anything) shaped like a diamond-encrusted folding chair, and the reviews were hilarious.
A hobby of mine is finding ridiculous items for sale at Nordstrom’s. This might be my best find yet. pic.twitter.com/racNtYs0jB
— Lexi Brown, PhD (@lexilafleur) April 21, 2021
Users were similarly dumbfounded by the weird little purse:
WHY WOULD YOU CARRY IT WITHOUT THE STRAPS?! pic.twitter.com/buorU6g4nU
— It Was Ashley All Along
(@AshleyJayReid) April 21, 2021
Lexi’s post went viral, and soon her followers were chiming in with ridiculous finds of their own.
User Raahina Somani shared a similarly bizarre purse that I’m still trying to wrap my head around, but check out that price tag!
This is, by far, the most ridiculous item I’ve ever seen. Given the price tag, at least there’s interchangeable fruits
pic.twitter.com/d2JaaWLhAp
— Raahina Somani (@raahinasomani) April 22, 2021
But it gets better. Zaza Chilvers found a Louis Vuitton bag and I honestly LOVE it, but it costs more than my car.
This LV bag costs $39,000. pic.twitter.com/nPZEnSogT5
— Zaza Chilvers (@ZazaChilvers) April 22, 2021
And for people who really love their veggies, there’s this hideous broccoli bag.
Girl yes. pic.twitter.com/5bMuLPU3v8
— Jenny (@jennyofohio) April 22, 2021
But I think I’ll take the broccoli purse over the shrimp cocktail one.
I……. pic.twitter.com/AOvOesmiEP
— Jamie (@jamiesanpedroo) April 23, 2021
Danielle P. chimed in with another absurd bag she found at a different online shop:
not from nordies, but today i found a bra shaped purse. pic.twitter.com/JoDrSLVFv5
— danielle p. (@drdpdo) April 22, 2021
Moving on from bags, there was the $280 (each) hair-roller for wealthy grandmas the world over.
But Lexi, have you seen….the Golden Roller? pic.twitter.com/gD4Cg4lV9K
— la la la Lee-Lee (@killahconverse) April 21, 2021
And Greg never does explain why he owns this, but it comes with its own little pocket.
I own a $100 rock from Nordstrom. pic.twitter.com/kZGltAx9Mp
— Greg
(@DoumaGreg) April 21, 2021
And then @Kristin_wrote was perplexed by this unusually shaped ping-pong table, but I guess it would add another level of complexity to the game.
YES. I have been doing this at Anthropologie for years. My favorite find so far is the ping pong table shaped like Easter Island. $4000. pic.twitter.com/aPvaGDPsxh
— Kristin (@Kristin_wrote) April 21, 2021
Getting into the spirit of mocking Nordstrom, one user shared diamond-lined ski goggles.
I don’t think this tops the chair, but this showed up in my FB ads one day. I don’t ski, but from what I understand about snow reflection, this is a really terrible idea. pic.twitter.com/KoYgrTnC1z
— kermelbar (@kermelbar) April 21, 2021
Several users found something to balk at from Tiffany, where nothing comes with a small price tag.
Did anybody post the oversized paperclip or soup can from Tiffany’s yet? pic.twitter.com/P06qRP8PW3
— Not A Very Nice Person
(@strickhedonia) April 21, 2021
And don’t forget the lovely but possibly useless sterling silver greenhouse.
Tiffany & Co slaps their name on anything and says “that will be $275,000”
pic.twitter.com/YrKLzMGvLh
— lilo (@chinny_says) April 22, 2021
One that really set the bar was shared by @thaisaustin.
Who, in their hour of grief, wants to commemorate their lost love with a 3D version of their head for the mantle?
— Thais Austin (@thaisaustin) April 22, 2021
No price tag here, but I’m guessing these don’t come cheap.
The winner of Twitter that day, though, was definitely @MsModernity who added Bernie Sanders to the OP.
— MsModernity (@MsModernity) April 21, 2021
I’ve seen all I need to see.
I honestly can’t even with most of these. What’s the most ridiculous (and ridiculously expensive) thing you have ever seen? Tell us in the comments.
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If you’re a big Disney fan – or even just someone who watches a lot of movies and pays attention to detail – it’s probably no secret that Disney’s animators recycle some of their animations into multiple subsequent films.
If the only reason they do that is to save money, it turns out they save alot of money, because as the internet is learning to come to grips with, Disney recycles a ton of entire scenes.
And I’m sorry to say that once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
Let’s go!
First, did you know that this sequence from Snow White was entirely repurposed for Robin Hood?
It is very interesting to look at recycled animation at times to see which scenes from movies were used as templates for later animated movies. One example was the dance scene in Snow White being used again in Robin Hood. pic.twitter.com/ziz6kCT6E6
— Animated Antic (@Animated_Antic) November 24, 2018
And this animation in Beauty and the Beast hasn’t aged in 30 years!
Animators reused 30-year-old animation from Sleeping Beauty, in Beauty and the Beast #beourguest #disney #disneyland #disneyhack pic.twitter.com/ykwFLrTPk2
— Disney Easter Eggs (@EasterEggDisney) May 23, 2017
Anyone think Christopher Robin looks a little bit like young Mowgli??
my entire childhood was a lie
pic.twitter.com/LUNXqJbVJE
— TmarTn (@TmarTn) May 1, 2021
The process is called rotoscoping, which is sort of like current animators asking the smart kids of the past whether or not they can copy their paper, according to Business Insider.
“It involves animators drawing and tracing over old footage to create anew,” and traces its roots back to Wolfgang “Wollie” Reitherman.
The classic and legendary Disney animator lived by the motto “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” and I think we can all agree everything about early Disney films were working.
Another Disney legend, Floyd Norman, claimed that it was actually tougher and cost more to redraw an existing sequence, but that it was also the safe choice, and one Reitherman and others were sure would land with audiences.
my entire childhood was a lie
— TmarTn (@TmarTn) May 1, 2021
That said, there were plenty of animators hankering to draw something besides little boys and dancing princesses, and eventually, they would get to use some of their own creative genius to make new sequences.
Hopefully none of this has ruined your childhood.
I think those people are being a bit dramatic, don’t you? I mean, if anything, it just reinforces how much Disney influenced your childhood – again and again and again.
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I’ve seen a few documentaries about people who used to hold hardcore r**ist views and how they completely changed their minds and decided to dedicate the rest of their lives to helping other people and spreading messages of peace and love.
And I think that if guys who used to be that into a r**ist subculture can do it, there’s hope for everyone out there.
AskReddit users who used to hold r**ist views talked about how and why they changed.
Let’s check out their stories.
“The Army forced me to live with black people.
Turns out I didn’t h**e anyone, I was just afraid of what I didn’t understand and had some very stupid notions passed on to me from my dad and his dips**t friends.
I will forever be grateful for the opportunity to understand a greater sample of people than my tiny hometown afforded me.”
“From birth I was raised to be r**ist in a ra**ist household in Virginia. I was ignorant. I used the “N” word, antisemitic, h**ophobic, r**ist language everyday.
My immediate family and extended family all share the same ignorance. At family gatherings if one of my older cousins let slip they were dating someone new, the first question would be “Is s/he white?” Followed by laughter, but the question was serious.
Then I started middle school. 6th grade. On the first day of class I set down my backpack against the classroom wall (like every other student) while we found our desks and had a small Meet & Greet w/ new classmates. I made sure to only speak to the kids (white) whom I knew from elementary school.
Our teacher told us to take our seats. I’m 42 yrs old and I remember this like it was yesterday. I picked up my backpack, found my desk, before I could open my bag the girl behind me told me she liked my earrings, her Mom wouldn’t let her get her ears pierced until high school.
Then I heard another voice from further behind me say, “Ms. Kay, this isn’t my backpack”. The backpack sitting on this girl’s desk was identical to the one sitting next to my desk. We both opened our backpacks and realized we’d grabbed the wrong bag.
Internally I rolled my eyes in disgust, this girl was a “N”. But I was taught to never let it show. So we met each other to quickly exchange. Her smile was beautiful. She wore glasses the same shape as mine. She wore her hair in a pony tail, just like mine. In our back to school shopping we picked the exact same backpack and we picked the exact same Nikes (pink/white).
Her name was Jacinda. I found myself genuinely smiling back to her, and giggling like young girls do. That day she asked to sit together during lunch, and we sat beside each other for lunch every single day of middle school. She was my very first best friend. Jacinda taught me about her Sunday School classes (my family never attended church), we talked about everything important in the life of middle school girls.
She wasn’t allowed to attend my birthday parties, and I wasn’t allowed to go to hers, but we always celebrated together at school. I loved her so much. When it was time to go to high school I continued in public school and her parents chose to homeschool her. I thought homeschooling was the coolest idea. Jacinda was (is) brilliantly intelligent.
God, she was going to do great things for this world. Long before the age of social media, we lost touch sadly – but I still think of her often. After meeting Jacinda I never used another r**ist or derogatory word. Meeting Jacinda changed my life for the better.”
“I grew up in a very small town in Iowa. Couple of hundred people. All white.
So I guess I was raised not to discriminate against people that were different from me because we were all the same. Once I got older and moved to the city, oh yeah. R**ism is alive and well in Iowa.
I didn’t fall into that trap. I didn’t understand it. Ended up in Alabama. My best friend was black. We just had the same sense of humor and liked the same things. I credit him with my kids being non r**ist. He would crack jokes about racial things and they would be shocked.
As they got older they just rolled their eyes. Funniest thing was one of my daughters date shows up and he opens the door and introduced himself as her dad. He moved to Michigan. I miss Charles.”
“It’s simple really.
I was raised in a r**ist family. Growing up I was kinda r**ist.
Once I actually spent time with people of different races I quickly realized how stupid that is.”
“My dad has some pretty xenophobic points of view and that definitely rubbed off on me when I was younger.
Meeting actual people of color through my teenage years made me realize I was being dumb.”
“I grew up thinking I was not a r**ist. I didn’t think badly of blacks or Hispanics. But r**ist jokes didn’t hurt anyone.
Then I moved to an area with about a 90% Hispanic population. The little things that weren’t r**ist, were. The “How many Mexican” type jokes were hurtful and I felt bad. So I stopped.
The easy same thing with blacks , Asians etc, etc. was about the same time.”
“I was not raised by r**ist parents but you can’t help growing up with r**ist messages all around society and tending to believe some of them. I had ideas about indigenous people, Muslim people, all sorts of poisonous ideas.
When I got into my early twenties I started to make good money and began traveling, and all of my r**ist notions disappeared with that. Nothing made me realize how similar human beings are regardless of race, than traveling.”
“I definitely had some r**ist ideas about native people in my city growing up. There are a lot of native addicts and vagrants but it’s very much a result of a system that’s rigged against those communities.
I didn’t know any of that growing up so when I saw a group of drunk, native people in the park or something, I was generally unimpressed or even frightened.
And I definitely applied those feelings to all the native people I came across. It’s hard to change those reactions but we can all identify the bad reactions and try to curb them.”
“Grandfather on one side would drop jokes with hard Rs, grandmother on that side would talk about how (whisper) Mexicans were ruining South Dakota long before complaining about illegal immigration was mainstream.
Father wasn’t nearly that far gone, but after one failed relationship with a Chinese woman he encouraged me to marry a white woman, and my mother once vehemently objected to my sister having an openly gay man as a roommate.
So where did it all go wrong? Basically, I traveled to different places and met different people. The town where I grew up had a pretty large Indian population, and I had an Indian best friend growing up (he was also a bit r**ist at the time, frankly).
Went away to Boston for a summer, and through some random set of circumstances found myself going to a black church for the summer. They were just like the white church I had been going to, one kid wanted to grow up to be a programmer just like I wanted to at the time, etc etc. Went off to California for school and was exposed to a wide variety of people.
Hispanic roommate and Hispanic RA freshman year… one was an a**hole, one became a good friend, and I realized it had nothing to do with their ethnicity. Made a good friend sophomore year, and he later came out to me, and either I wrong the whole time about Josh or I was wrong about whatever leftover prejudices I had about gay people.
Now I’m married to another Chinese woman, one of my best friends is black, another is gay, one of my daughter’s best friends is Hispanic, and I’m still here in the bluest part of CA.
There was no liberal indoctrination in college like conservatives are always b**ching about. There was just meeting people and realizing that whatever reasons I had for disliking them or distrusting them from the beginning were false.:
“When I was going into college I was ignorant, bitter, and certainly not on a good path.
I had a roommate in college who was a person of color, who really helped me understand and put into context a lot that I had been ignorant about.”
“My situation was complicated growing up. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant with Egyptian roots and he was so ungodly r**ist towards anyone not considered white as he considered himself white.
The thing is, my dad has dark brown skin, dark brown eyes and black kinked curly hair. He looked EXACTLY like the people he was r**ist against. And he hated Arabs…. all Arabs…. and he is part Arab. This was so confusing. He also hated gay people, Muslims, “commies” and any type of alternative lifestyles.
My father hated black people the most. He told me if I ever brought home a black boyfriend he would disown me. He told me, as a small child, that if I misbehaved I would be sent to live with a ****** family in the ghetto.
He was equally misogynist and held onto a strong patriarchal mindset.
I admit, as a kid I repeated his words. All the other kids did too on my neighborhood so I thought he was right. It wasn’t until I was literally in my 30s did I realise the internalized r**ism I still held onto.
All my partners and friends were white my entire life. I felt unsafe near a group of black men. It was only until I moved to northern Europe that I realized that I am not considered white here and experienced r**ism myself and oooooo wow what an eye opener.
I began to dismantle my entire thought process and honestly, I am so repulsed by my father now I can’t even speak to him without feeling disgusting inside. He’s really old now and much more calm and probably won’t live more than 10 years. I have not returned to my birth country to see him in almost 7 years because I am so angry at him.
Because of his r**ism I missed out on friendships, relationships and understanding cultures different from my own. I am making up for it now as the immigrant community that I live in is amazing and supportive but I will never get back that lost time and I will never know fully the extent of damage that my hateful words may have done to people who didn’t deserve it.”
“Joined the military, left home and experienced cultures around the world.
I was severely lacking in cultural awareness due to growing up in a small town surrounded by openly r**ist people.
Luckily, my children are able to grow in a completely different environment than the one I did.”
Now we’d like to hear from you.
Do you know anyone who has changed their radical views like these people did?
If so, please tell us about it in the comments. Thanks in advance.
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Most of us are overworked and underslept.
My dog insists on waking me up earlier on the weekend than I have to get up during the week, and she refuses to be ignored.
So I totally get how people can be just too tired, although I do worry about some of them being out on the road.
Here are 13 people who were too tired to do much of anything.
I mean, mostly… 
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I’ve been so tired I couldn’t remember if I washed my hair or not, but man…
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I could totally see myself doing this one.
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I have 100% been here before.
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I have fallen asleep mid-conversation many times, and boy did those conversations get weird.
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I do that frequently. Also the whole “where are my glasses?”
(Hint: usually on my face.)
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Maybe just enthusiastic about new bling.
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Is it the rambling that’s an indicator of exhaustion or the subject matter?
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Also, how old is the elevator?
Is it possible that you’re sensing the spirit of the elevator operator of yore?
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Sometimes I call scallops “little round fishy things” when I’m tired.
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But you know, at least it was soap and not deodorant… or toilet cleaner.
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Honestly, even before the pandemic timewarp, this was frequently a problem for me.
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There’s something almost poetic and Quixotic about this one.
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Honestly, it made me tired just reading all of those. I hope these people all get some sleep soon.
What about you? What is the most tired you have ever been? Tell us about it in the comments.
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The Office is an extremely popular television show because it’s hilarious, but listen – none of us would actually like to work in that office, right? Michael Scott is cringe enough to watch on television; can you even imagine having to deal with him in real life?
I’m sure some of you have had similar experiences, because it these 28 stories are enough to go on, it seems like there’s a lot more cringe going on in the workplace than we’d like to admit!
“We had mice. Boss man was terrified of mice and a total skinflint who didn’t want to pay for an exterminator. His big idea (I s*%t you not!) was to give me cotton to put in my ears and a blow horn.
He then opened the back door, closed all other doors in the little shop, and I had to attempt to herd mice out of the store with a f****** air horn, with cotton balls sticking out of my ears.
I tried to explain why it wouldn’t work, but he essentially told me not to worry my pretty little head over it, and that was my entire afternoon. Most ridiculous s*** I’ve ever done at a job ever before, and ever since.”
When I was in my early 20s, I was working at a restaurant with the world’s nicest and most innocent group of guys. One weekend, we threw a bachelor party for one of the waiters who was marrying his HS sweetheart.
Beer! Strippers at someone’s house! Crazy!
We all hooted and hollered when the strippers tore off their clothes and walked around the room to each guy. We whistled and giggled when the bachelor got a personal show with whip cream. Good times!
As the girls were ending the show, they asked if anyone had any requests before they packed up. One of the cooks, who was at least 20 years older than most of us, walked over and had a serious, five-minute conversation with the girls. He then turned to us and said that we all had to cough up $300 if we wanted to see something special.
Without hesitation, we handed the money to the girls and sat back in anticipation for what was sure to be a lovely show!
He laid down on the floor and both girls p%*sed and s*%t on him for the next five minutes. Guys were gagging. The bachelor started crying. I screamed in terror. One guy walked over to them and yelled, “Why, Why, Why???” It was if the devil himself, in mere seconds, had snatched the innocent souls of 15 naive idiots.
The show ended in silence. The girls freshened up and left with their “ride”. The cook slid on his jacket over his soiled clothes, walked out into the cold night and never returned for his shifts.
“It was this guy’s last day with the company, and the managers brought in a cake for everyone to share. A very nice farewell gesture.
Except he wasn’t moving to a new city or leaving the company for a new job. He had gotten fired. The managers literally fired this guy, then called everyone into the kitchen and said “Okay, today is Steve’s last day with the company, let’s have some cake!”
Most oblivious, socially awkward, tone deaf moment imaginable.”
Just recently went to my girlfriend’s vet office xmas party at the owner’s very nice house. The party is known for everyone getting extremely wasted.
I’m driving so i stayed relatively sober, my gf on the other hand did not. She was already quite tipsy off of all kinds of mixed drinks. I head to the bathroom down the hall for 5 min, come back to realize she had taken 3 shots (2 is her total drinking limit). Fast forward about 10 minutes and she’s absolutely sloshed.
She requests to go to the bathroom and starts asking everyone the quickest way to get there like we’re about to go on a road trip or something. I escort her carefully and let her do the business. While waiting i got caught up talking to a bunch of coworkers and kinda forgot she was in the bathroom.
About 15 min later she comes rushing out saying we have to leave because she does NOT feel good. I inform everyone we are going to head out when i hear someone yell, “Oh F**k” from the bathroom hall.
Turns out in that 15 min, my girlfriend managed to completely break the toilet in half causing the plumbing pipe from the wall to explode as well which started flooding the room. As an added bonus she decided to start throwing up at the front door as well.
Lets just say i sobered up real quick.
Anyways, the folks were super supportive of it, even though they had to replace the flooring plumbing, and the toilet. Didn’t even make her pay anything. The owner also posted pictures on facebook of his broken toilet and said it was the best party they’ve had in awhile.
“After a successful project, owner of the company invited everyone out to lunch (about 12 employees) at a nearby restaurant by the office. Little did she know, the place was very expensive, so she bounces early before the check comes, stating that she had a client call.
She gives us money to pay for her meal and takes off, leaving the rest of us to figure out the check. It also turns out she didn’t give us enough money to pay for her potion of the check so someone had to throw in a few extra bucks to cover that.”
I work with a woman who cc’s her boss on all emails.
Her boss follows up on all of the emails 5-10 minutes later.
They looks like this:
Woman: “Hey Ganglebot, we’re starting this new thing so can you send us X, Y and Z when you have a chance – thanks!”
Her boss, 5 min later: “Ganglebot, as per [woman’s] initial request, we need these things to move forward. In our previous meeting on May 4th, at 2pm you indicated you could send these to us. I ask you to please send these along ASAP as our initiative depends on good information. Please confirm receipt and indicate when we can expect these documents.”
“I used to work graveyards. Once a month I was required to come in on Friday afternoon for a staff meeting at 1PM. This was essentially forcing me to come into work at 3AM for regular people, just so I “felt included in the warehouse”.
Also, since I did not work Friday/Saturday nights, it was essentially having me show up on a normal persons Saturday at 3AM. She had the gall to yell at me for showing up in my pajamas, and not proper warehouse clothing….”
I was offered a job at another location. I told my boss about it and my current company offered me a raise to stay. I took it. It’s been 2 months and I haven’t seen the raise in my paycheck yet.
UPDATE: I emailed my boss and asked for an update. They assumed I understood that the raise would begin at our new fiscal year which starts July 1. So it will be in my next paycheck.
“A few coworkers and I competed in a local Office-themed trivia contest. We came in second place, and one of the prizes was a “World’s Best Boss” mug. We brought it into work and displayed it proudly like a trophy in one of our offices.
My boss–who was not involved in the contest, has never seen The Office, is not friends with or well-liked by any of us, and is a huge idiot–saw the mug in someone else’s office and just took it.
None of us could figure out where it had gone until we saw her drinking out of it.”
Lately whenever the mother of one of my students tees off the father (they divorced >4 months ago) he will send all three of their kids in mismatched clothes with shirts that have some variation of “I love my Dad” or “Daddy’s kid”.
I have not seen the same shirt twice and believe mom throws the shirts out and dad just keeps buying more.
“I had a boss who got a promotion to senior manager. The very next day he pulled into the parking lot with a BMW 1-Series. No one on my team even knew they made a 1 series (cheapest possible BMW/badge car). He gets out wearing a BMW polo and a white BMW hat. He offered to take me to lunch in it.
He jumps on the highway, adjusts his BMW hat and says to me, “I don’t exactly do 60 in this thing!” does a little triumphant laughter and starts going 80. There was a cop on the bridge above us. We were immediately pulled over. I will never forget the look of defeat on his face.”
I manage all the tools, parts, and materials for a small electrical company. We have a ton of little fittings, couplings, and such that are very small and have multiple parts. We recently let one of our journeymen go, and I’m in the process of clearing out his van.
Turns out he was hoarding tens of thousands of fittings in his van, all mixed together with absolutely no organization. To top it off, at least 60% of them were completely disassembled before being just chucked in to drawers, boxes, and bags along with mixed bolts, nuts, fasteners, etc., so it is now my job to take these collections of assorted hardware and dump them out, separate them, and reassemble as many as I can before restocking them in my already overflowing shop.
“One morning my boss walks out of his office asking if anyone wants the other half of this huge bran muffin he had for breakfast.
Everyone there said they were fine and the boss went back into his office.
Later, around 12, an employee comes in for her shift with a box full of doughnuts to share with the office. Everyone came up and took one thanking the employee for bringing in the treat. The boss was visibly mad that everyone went for the doughnuts and no one wanted his half of his bran muffin. He was just a big grump for the rest of the day.”
A third party keeps insisting that an individual worked for my company. They did not. We have searched everywhere. We have punched in every variation of their name, birthday, social security number into our system. Dude didn’t work here, and “Well this other woman says he did” isn’t an argument.
ETA: As much as I appreciate all the replies, this is not my first rodeo as an attorney, and I wouldn’t be complaining if this had a simple fix like “tell them to f**k off” or “stop replying.”
“My manager tried to get the nickname he had chosen for himself to catch on. The nickname in question was “Hollywood”. He would introduce himself to new workers/visitors/etc. as Hollywood, one of us would say “no one calls him that” and he would just be like “well…. everyone calls me that.”
Bar manager and 20% of the staff quit. Owner hasn’t hired anyone. It’s been 3 months.
No one can take unexpected days off or call in sick and inventory is at an all time low. (Except the kegs. So. Many. Kegs.) We keep running out of f**kin everything. I (and others) have offered to help over the summer and nothing has come of it.
The restaurant is expanding and we need more employees but my boss is too focused on having us dust (during construction), replacing glassware with crystal, and setting up public accessible training courses to bother with actual management.
Oh, and communication is non existent, so I regularly show up to work and have no idea where s*%t is or what the new procedures are.
“As a blizzard approached, he offered to drive home anybody who needed a ride because he’d just bought a new “badass” Hummer H2 that “could drive through anything”.
And hour later, he and three of my coworkers are sitting in his new SUV in a snow drift on the side of the road, waiting for the wife of one of them to pick them up.”
It’s my bosses birthday, not a lot of folks respect her. I’m new to the department and was asked by Don to collect money on Friday to get her flowers. He was going to bake a cake and bring it in. He was sick yesterday so didn’t come to work. I collected a measly 19$ from others, awkward af because no one even likes her, topped it up with my own 10 to get a decent bunch of flowers, bought yesterday evening and brought in this AM.
Don is in and says “I couldn’t find the money you collected, do you have it” I said “I used it yesterday to buy the flowers, wasn’t that the plan?”
He replies with an attitudey “well no…”
I ask why it matters and he says “well I couldn’t bake the cake because I was sick so I don’t know what we’re going to do now if the money’s used up, we can’t get a cake now”
Another girl nicely chimes in that she will run out and grab a cake and don’t worry Don it’s all fine. Don’s a snippy guy so I don’t bother asking him how I was to know he’s too ridiculous to go get a cake himself.
Others are running around asking me if I’ve seen the money because apparently Don’s making it well known that I was supposed to collect money but no one has seen the envelope (obviously, I took it yesterday), then I have to explain that I used all the money so I look stupid.
Keep throwing in that I was doing exactly as was asked of me but jeez, Don, would it kill you to communicate your change of plans to people???
Our payroll manager got trashed at a Christmas party a few years ago and started insulting people and telling them that they weren’t worth how much they were getting paid (while quoting the actual salaries).
She was fired the next day, but didn’t even remember what she’d done.
Everything is done in an improvised fashion even when it’s identical to something we’ve done a hundred times before. They refuse to create any kind of system or structure for doing anything and it drives me up the wall. Every single time, every question, every form, every action, everything, needs to be run through a hundred different people and approached as if it’s a brand new thing, even if it’s routine paperwork we do multiple times a week. It’s the most incredible waste of time.
Let’s say I traveled from Phoenix to Tucson and I need to be reimbursed for gas.
I’ll go pull out the exact same piece of paperwork I used last time. I’ll fill in the extremely basic blanks that I did last time. Name, travel date and time, mileage, gas receipt, sign and date. Submit the form.
A day later, I get an email. Oh hey here you put “Tucson” but you need to put “Tucson, Pima County, AZ.”
Make the change. Ask if there are any other changes. Nope, looks good. Resubmit.
A day later, I get a phone call. Oh hey here you put “Jay J. Jameson” but you need to put “Jay Jonah Jameson.”
Make the change. Ask if there are any other changes. Nope, looks good. Resubmit.
A day later, someone pops in my office. Oh hey here you put “Pima County, AZ” and “Jay Jonah” but it needs to just say “Tucson, AZ” and “J. J. Jameson” oops.
Make the change. Ask if there are any other changes. Nope, looks good. Resubmit.
It finally goes through.
Two weeks later, I travel from Phoenix to Tucson and need to be reimbursed for gas.
I pull out the final version that finally went through last time, just two weeks ago, after all the changes. I change nothing except the date/time and attach the new gas receipt.
A day later, I get an email. Oh hey here you put Tucson, AZ but now it just needs to say Tucson. Oh hey here you put Phoenix but you didn’t include the zip. Oh hey here you put J. J. Jameson but it needs to say J. J. Jameson Jr, Esq. Oh hey here you put that it’s 113 miles but we decided to start rounding to the nearest five so it should should 115 miles. Oh hey here you put 115 miles but an hour ago we decided it needs to be rounded to the nearest ten-thousandth of a mile. Oh hey we decided to do away with zip codes on these forms.
Every. Single. Time.
First year at the company. Married CEO all over an employee pretty much in front of the whole company. Awkward AF. Both really trashed.
The fact that they didn’t start making out in front of everyone was a Christmas miracle.
I have a vendor who gives me the same answer every day that I email him: “Let me check and get back to you.”
His shipment has slipped by over two months at this point and it’s driving me nuts.
He’s doing the same thing to other people in my office on other projects. He’s on a quick list to be blacklisted, but unfortunately, the clients love his stuff.
When I used to work for a large corporate law firm – a guy and a girl who both worked in the accounts team got in an argument. One thing led to another, and the girl threw her glass of red wine over his white shirt.
Without missing a beat he just grabbed her by the throat and started choking her.
This was just off the side of the dance floor, in front of 300+ staff.
“Do this task. What do you need?
– I need 30 computers and 20 USB3 flash drives.
– Here’s 15 computers and 7 USB2 flash drives.
– What? I need 30, where’s the other 15? And these flash drives won’t do, the system won’t even work with those.
– Budget cuts, sorry.”
Later…
“How’s this task going along?
– Everything is set to go, but as is it won’t fulfill the task.
– What’s keeping you from doing the task?
– I need 15 more computers and 20 USB3 flash drives.
– Ok, we’ll order more ASAP, they’ll be here in two years. Make sure everything’s running by September though.”
Are things like this everywhere or is it just at my job?
We had a “Mardi Gras” themed holiday party. One guy decided to bring his saxophone and be a “jazz man”. Normal enough, right?
Well, he also thought that to be a “jazz man,” he needed to show up in bl**kfa*e.
Girlfriend took the time off in advance to see a best friend she hasn’t seen in two years for literally one day.
Work is currently telling her that they’re scheduling a mandatory employee meeting everyone needs to go to or else you get fired.
Keep in mind there is barely anything important that ever gets announced at these.
I worked at Maccas and we had a work party. Some of the crew volunteered to run the night shift while the rest of us went 10pin bowling and drank scrumpies. I was a manager, so I got to see the camera footage the next day…
It was of me, walking around the restaurant and kitchen with my pants down, shaping my b**ls to look like a brain and making people look at my taught scrote. There were also brown-eyes and squashed-rats, which is where you press your d**k and b**ls up against the glass. That was me in the drive-through window. I woke up horrified and knew I was in trouble.
There was a small fallout. I miraculously didn’t get fired; no one formally complained.
My punishment was to wash car windows as they went through drive thru on my day off and donate the tips to the Ronald McDonald House charity.
“My boss makes me walk 2 meters behind him because I’m tall and he’s short.”
Man, I have so much secondhand embarrassment from this post, y’all! Argh!
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There are many reactions to posts on the internet – righteous outrage, solidarity, social change – but for most of us, I think it’s a place we know we can go when we need to blow off some steam.
You know, when we need a laugh.
If you ask me, the best of those funny tweets are the ones that can coax a smile from anyone who runs across them – anyone with a sense of humor, I mean – so if that applies to you, we think these 15 tweets will tickle your funny bone.
And if you live with males you know the candles are just that.
Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Candles $3,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying— wint (@dril) September 29, 2013
They’re existing in the world as a cat, for one.
WHEN CATS ARE SAD
Bartender: What'll ya have?
Cat: Shot of rum.
[Bartender pours it]
[Cat slowly pushes it off the bar]
Cat: Another.— phil (@PhilJamesson) March 17, 2015
Just ask any dad that you know.
*sees New Balance 609s hanging on wire*
"Gangs?"
Worse.. Dads.
"I'm scared"
*hears faint "hi scared, I'm dad" echoing through neighborhood*— luke [from online] (@internetluke) November 22, 2014
Because it seems like the deal is done.
ME: honey, it's really muggy out today
WIFE: if I go outside & all our mugs are on the front lawn, I'm leaving u
ME: *sips coffee from bowl*— Duke Max “Carnival Lawyer” Ash (@mynameisntdave) June 15, 2015
She’s definitely going to run for the hills.
date: So what do you do?
me: *pulls out stuffed fox* I'm a taxidermist
date: Oh wow
fox: and a ventriloquist— dan mentos (@DanMentos) April 28, 2015
It happens spontaneously when the baby is born.
Son: "Mom, Dad.. I'm gay"
Mom: *staring at dad
Dad: …*clenches fists
Mom: …don't!
Dad: *sweats profusely
Mom:
Dad: HI GAY, IM DAD
— Guy Dangerous (@Lerky) October 24, 2015
If you did, you’re definitely laughing.
"So terribly sorry to hear of your ninety and nine problems." pic.twitter.com/S2zxEAhicd
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) December 9, 2014
You know it’s not going to last.
When you’re cutting wrapping paper and your scissors start to glide is what I imagine heroin feels like.
— Bryan Donaldson (@TheNardvark) December 25, 2013
Unless you’re a parent, then you say it all the time.
[losing badly in a contest]
guys its not a contest— dan chamberlain (@amfmpm) November 18, 2015
It would make as much sense as anything.
What should we call this giant advertising board?
PHIL: A philboard
BILL: I have a better idea— Being nice, feeling nice (@InternetHippo) April 6, 2015
You can’t help but laugh.
me: goodnight moon
moon: night<3
me: goodnight stars
moon: wtf
me: sry wrongnumber
moon: whos stars
moon: who is stars
moon: answer me— new york times best selling AUTHOR JONNY SUN (@jonnysun) October 21, 2014
And why would he?
i enjoying mysekf by the lake, but then i remembered instances of regret in my life, and pain i have caused others pic.twitter.com/KASFAIIQWc
— BAKOON (@BAKKOOONN) April 8, 2015
I’m just saying.
My body is a temple, but it's one of those temples in Thailand where they let monkeys shit all over the place
— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) October 21, 2012
They’ll definitely tell you.
These two books contain the sum total of all human knowledge pic.twitter.com/MF8ME8tJOM
— James Kirkpatrick (@James_Kpatrick) April 5, 2013
Except it wasn’t his idea to begin with – just saying.
thomas edison: i have an idea
[a fucked up rough draft of the lightbulb appears above his head]— Sage Boggs (@sageboggs) April 7, 2015
Don’t you just feel all the more ready to tackle your day.
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