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CommonShore
Jun 6, 2014

A true renaissance man



Oh poo poo. I did some SE Asia touring this summer and at every airport the Chinese tourists were like really lovely locusts. For pretty much every queue - check in, boarding, food, even once at security - a group of Chinese tourists would come forward and try to swarm-cut to the front, just shouting and shoving boarding passes / money / passports into the face of whoever was working, pretending (?) to not understand when they were told to GET TO THE BACK OF THE loving LINE, obviously just hoping that they'd be told
"well since you're here you can just go first".

And then there was their kids.... :sigh:

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Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

.

KingSlime posted:

Maybe, but is someone who specifically points out an employee's experience and ability to connect with clients/be liked by other higher up as flaws really oblivious? Or is she pulling our collective leg?

She writes well and has a graduate degree as per the story. Definitely reeks of troll, oblivious people don't leave so many giant obvious breadcrumbs for strangers to really dig into. This troll checked too many boxes. You gotta calibrate!!

Every follow up just gets more obviously tastier too. I don't buy it either even though I am all too familiar with the phenomenon of perfectly mediocre, insufferable, and downright terrible people generally finding a whole lot more success in middle management than in any other role they have ever held.

Yeah, same here. Any one of those things would be believable but stacked together is just too much. I've had poo poo leaders and managers that were like all of those things, but not all at once.

canyoneer
Sep 13, 2005


I only have canyoneyes for you

Bethamphetamine posted:

I've just discovered the Paramotor Community.

It's a group of white male libertarians who don't need no book-lernin. They record themselves in their self-taught flying, during which they bitch about FAA regs and persecution by licensed pilots who sight them and report their ill-advised and illegal ventures into the national airspace to the FAA. Which is hilariously easy to prove as they love to share videos of themselves for likes and subscribes and prosecution.

And then they crash and post their crash to YouTube. And they learn precisely nothing. And every single one of them eventually crashes. And none of them know how to edit their videos for time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCrFrhrNj1Q

I don't know how I've missed out on these beautiful tedious dumb people with broken legs.

This is great.
The one at 3:19 is unmissable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCrFrhrNj1Q&t=199s

I love how it's a slow buildup of comedy, grinning passenger, fan blades getting vaporized, puzzled and terrified look on the operator's face, and then you see the crash and realize he's wearing Crocs

Enos Cabell
Nov 3, 2004



Baylor is lucky to still have a football program, but this dude seems pretty cool.

Freudian slippers
Jun 23, 2009
US Goon shocked and appalled to find that world is a dirty, unjust place

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Having had some comically loving terrible supervisors, that story is absolutely plausible. Some people are just oblivious shitstains who cannot believe they aren't the center of the universe.

Parts of the story may be plausible, but no terrible supervisor would write a story where they are so blatantly the bad guys. How can you write that story and not immediately go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU

MageMage
Feb 11, 2007

I SUCK AND LOVE TO YELL PERFORMATIVE HOT TAKES AND NONSENSE LIES WHEN I GET WORKED UP. SOMETIMES AUTOBANNED IS BETTER. MAYBE ONE DAY WHEN I STORM OFF I'LL ACTUALLY STOP SHITTING UP THE SITE FOR REAL

Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:

Okay, he's not sick, he's just running out of ideas. "Let me do several things at once to see how it goes!" Best bit: "I SPENT $200 ON THESE CACTUSES!!"

It's like french fries, you gotta get some on the drive home

Lime Tonics
Nov 7, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
Man gets angry as grouper keeps stealing his fish,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ia376QKMHM&feature=youtu.be

Tanith
Jul 17, 2005


Alpha, Beta, Gamma cores
Use them, lose them, salvage more
Kick off the next AI war
In the Persean Sector

Lime Tonics posted:

Man gets angry as grouper keeps stealing his fish,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ia376QKMHM&feature=youtu.be

The gurgling screams of rage in this are amazing.

joedevola
Sep 11, 2004

worst song, played on ugliest guitar

Powaqoatse posted:

sorry accidentally posted some offbrand channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvLiGZaUtWY

I hold as an organising principle of the universe that The Funniest Thing is dogs having sex, but that bunny getting with that chicken was pretty close.

Also horses getting to jumps and being like "nah fam, you jump" is great too.

Randaconda
Jul 3, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Lime Tonics posted:

Man gets angry as grouper keeps stealing his fish,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ia376QKMHM&feature=youtu.be

Amazing

Trivia
Feb 8, 2006

I'm an obtuse man,
so I'll try to be oblique.

Lime Tonics posted:

Man gets angry as grouper keeps stealing his fish,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ia376QKMHM&feature=youtu.be

There is nothing about this I don't like.

NiceGuy
Dec 13, 2006

This is my BOOMSTICK
College Slice

Tanith posted:

The gurgling screams of rage in this are amazing.

It really is :argh: + :krakken: personified.

Tony Phillips
Feb 9, 2006

Lime Tonics posted:

Man gets angry as grouper keeps stealing his fish,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ia376QKMHM&feature=youtu.be

This could only get better if the grouper swam off with the spear gun.

Cobweb Heart
Mar 31, 2010

I need you to wear this. I need you to wear this all the time. It's office policy.
If you swallowed that story about a "professional millennial" cruelly Snapchatting their only hope (both the oldest and the only competent employee) and eagerly retelling the tale to a community of middle aged Internet managers, you're a complete rube. Here's some more delicious yarns that just happen to be exactly the type of fantasy sorta nasty, stupid people like hearing.


loving unbelievable! Well, never underestimate the selfishness of the young... Hell in a handbasket I tell ya.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC35FAJDFpY
This young idiot can't even use a can opener! Our country is doomed! Seems a little weird, almost like it's staged for an audience, but I've seen kids eat dirt on purpose, so it's totally plausible.


Who woulda guessed - the big man himself! Shocking, but you can tell it's true. I know because I once met a gay person.


Like it's soooo hard to find instances of children (and a cop) brutally owning themselves that you don't need to play pretend for












Aerdan
Apr 14, 2012

Not Dennis NEDry

quote:



That's a reenactment of an illustration, chief, not something that actually happened.

zakharov
Nov 30, 2002

:kimchi: Tater Love :kimchi:

Aerdan posted:

That's a reenactment of an illustration, chief, not something that actually happened.

WHOOSH

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo

Cobweb Heart posted:


loving unbelievable! Well, never underestimate the selfishness of the young... Hell in a handbasket I tell ya.

Let's be honest, this would probably work

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat

Powaqoatse posted:

sorry accidentally posted some offbrand channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvLiGZaUtWY

A bit late on the draw here but AIIEEEEE! AIIEEEEEE! SCARY rear end in a top hat! at 2m19s I think is the funnest thing I seen in a while

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvLiGZaUtWY&t=2m19s

Good job good birb.

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

Last I heard millienials were killing participation trophies!!

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

The one thing I wish "Millennials" killed: suits and ties. Schadenfreude's on me for still having to wear that poo poo in tyool 2017.

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.
http://nypost.com/2017/08/05/generation-x-needs-to-save-america-from-millennials/

The shortenfruit is on all of us for living in a timeline where the post is still in business.

Zamboni Rodeo
Jul 19, 2007

NEVER play "Lady of Spain" AGAIN!




gschmidl posted:

The one thing I wish "Millennials" killed: suits and ties. Schadenfreude's on me for still having to wear that poo poo in tyool 2017.

Perhaps you're just wearing the wrong suits. These are where it's at.

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

Volcott posted:

http://nypost.com/2017/08/05/generation-x-needs-to-save-america-from-millennials/

The shortenfruit is on all of us for living in a timeline where the post is still in business.

I like my suits. I'm 32 though so I guess I don't count as a REAL millennial.

Inspector Gesicht
Oct 26, 2012

500 Zeus a body.


EmmyOk posted:

Last I heard millienials were killing participation trophies!!

I'm hoping they kill all the Baby Boomers next.

canyoneer
Sep 13, 2005


I only have canyoneyes for you
http://i.imgur.com/cNOX8FL.mp4

Howard Beale
Feb 22, 2001

It's like this, Peanut
https://twitter.com/RobinWigg/status/893765820530266113

Weatherman
Jul 30, 2003

WARBLEKLONK
What happens when you tell butthurt old people that millennials didn't develop the educational strategies that they were educated under? I.e., someone had to give them those apocryphal participation trophies.

im pooping!
Nov 17, 2006


im a willennial

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo

Weatherman posted:

What happens when you tell butthurt old people that millennials didn't develop the educational strategies that they were educated under? I.e., someone had to give them those apocryphal participation trophies.

Yeah, helicopter parents are the true villains here

EvenWorseOpinions
Jun 10, 2017
Helicopter parents never had a choice; society has moulded them and their parents before them

I blame the universe for giving rise to the conditions that allowed life to exist

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

Oul lad on the left doesn't start clapping until she falls lmao

Randaconda
Jul 3, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://i.imgur.com/001gEpY.mp4

KoRMaK
Jul 31, 2012



Azhais posted:

Let's be honest, this would probably work

Get off my lawn!

Lol if you think that "millenials" would accept some gift and get distracted from the same olds that gave us AppleBee's and the interstate highway system

NorgLyle
Sep 20, 2002

Do you think I posted to this forum because I value your companionship?

Solice Kirsk posted:

The dude bailing out like his push box car is going to explode on impact is the best part.
It's a real life version of one of the greatest MST3K moments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LibG5oW5yPM

Senior Woodchuck
Aug 29, 2006

When you're lost out there and you're all alone, a light is waiting to carry you home

Freudian slippers posted:

Parts of the story may be plausible, but no terrible supervisor would write a story where they are so blatantly the bad guys. How can you write that story and not immediately go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU

Dunning-Kruger?

I mean, if your question is "Do you really believe someone can be that stupid?" then my answer is "Yes."

Randaconda
Jul 3, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://i.imgur.com/Gz7Wyb4.gifv

Sexual Aluminum
Jun 21, 2003

is made of candy
Soiled Meat

Homey don't play dat.

in LIVING color!

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic

Freudian slippers posted:

Parts of the story may be plausible, but no terrible supervisor would write a story where they are so blatantly the bad guys. How can you write that story and not immediately go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU

Malachite_Dragon posted:

oblivious shitstains who cannot believe they aren't the center of the universe.
"I did it, therefore it was cool and good to do it, and there is no problem :smug:"

BOOTY-ADE
Aug 30, 2006

BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

Freudian slippers posted:

Parts of the story may be plausible, but no terrible supervisor would write a story where they are so blatantly the bad guys. How can you write that story and not immediately go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU

Because Ask A Manager also gave us this lovely gem:

http://www.askamanager.org/2016/07/my-best-employee-quit-on-the-spot-because-i-wouldnt-let-her-go-to-her-college-graduation.html


quote:

my best employee quit on the spot because I wouldn’t let her go to her college graduation
by ALISON GREEN on JULY 5, 2016
A reader writes:

I manage a team, and part of their jobs is to provide customer support over the phone. Due to a new product launch, we are expected to provide service outside of our normal hours for a time. This includes some of my team coming in on a day our office is normally closed (based on lowest seniority because no one volunteered).

One employee asked to come in two hours after the start time due to her college graduation ceremony being that same day (she was taking night classes part-time in order to earn her degree). I was unable to grant her request because she was the employee with the lowest seniority and we need coverage for that day. I said that if she could find someone to replace her for those two hours, she could start later. She asked her coworkers, but no one was willing to come in on their day off. After she asked around, some people who were not scheduled for the overtime did switch shifts with other people (but not her) and volunteered to take on overtime from others who were scheduled, but these people are friends outside of work, and as long as there is coverage I don’t interfere if people want to give or take overtime of their own accord. (Caveat: I did intervene and switch one person’s end time because they had concert tickets that they had already paid for, but this was a special circumstance because there was cost involved.)

I told this team member that she could not start two hours late and that she would have to skip the ceremony. An hour later, she handed me her work ID and a list of all the times she had worked late/come in early/worked overtime for each and every one of her coworkers. Then she quit on the spot.

I’m a bit upset because she was my best employee by far. Her work was excellent, she never missed a day of work in the six years she worked here, and she was my go-to person for weekends and holidays.

Even though she doesn’t work here any longer, I want to reach out and tell her that quitting without notice because she didn’t get her way isn’t exactly professional. I only want to do this because she was an otherwise great employee, and I don’t want her to derail her career by doing this again and thinking it is okay. She was raised in a few dozen different foster homes and has no living family. She was homeless for a bit after she turned 18 and besides us she doesn’t have anyone in her life that has ever had professional employment. This is the only job she has had. Since she’s never had anyone to teach her professional norms, I want to help her so she doesn’t make the same mistake again. What do you think is the best way for me to do this?


The reply was loving gold though

quote:

What?! No, under no circumstances should you do that.

If anything, you should consider reaching out to her, apologizing for how you handled the situation, and offering her the job back if she wants it.

I’m not usually a fan of people quitting on the spot, but I applaud her for doing it in this case. She was raised in dozens of foster homes, used to be homeless, has no living family, and apparently managed to graduate from college all on her own. That’s amazing. And while I normally think graduation ceremonies are primarily fluff, I’m hard-pressed to think of anyone who deserves to be able to attend her own graduation ceremony as much as this woman does. You should have been bending over backwards to ensure she could attend.

Rigidly adhering to rules generally isn’t good management. Good management requires nuance and judgment. Sometimes it requires making exceptions for good employees so that you don’t lose them. Sometimes it requires assessing not just what the rules say but what the right and smart thing to do would be.

One of the frustrating things about your letter is that despite rigidly adhering to the rules with this person, you were willing to make an exception for someone else (the person with the concert tickets). I’m at a loss to understand how concert tickets are an obvious exception-maker but this person’s situation wasn’t.

And you note that she was your “best employee by far”! She never missed a day of work in six years, she was your go-to person, she covered for every other person there, and she was all-around excellent … and yet when she needed you to help her out with something that was important to her, you refused.

There’s a lesson to be learned here, but it’s not for her.

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grumplestiltzkin
Jun 7, 2012

Ass, gas, or grass. No one rides for free.
Nah, that makes total sense. I mean, concert tickets are expensive but college is free:downs:

double dose of schaden for people reading this in countries where it actually is

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