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Quackles posted:Ferrari has always been like this. The story goes that in or around 1963, Ferruccio Lamborghini (whose business was making tractors at the time) had bought a Ferrari, and had found various minor issues with it after driving it. He decided to tell Enzo Ferrari. Ferrari replied that he didn't want advice from a tractor mechanic. In modern times Lamborghini decided that if you want a Lamborghini and you have money to buy one, they will sell you one. Surprisingly this increased sales by a ton. Jay Leno, perhaps the worlds best known car collector, does not own a single Ferrari, because he does not like how they treat their customers.
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Scenarios like this are perfect when you're a messy bitch who thrives on drama because no matter what the other party does, it's wrong and A Big Deal.
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Enemabag Jones posted:Scenarios like this are perfect when you're a messy bitch who thrives on drama because no matter what the other party does, it's wrong and A Big Deal. A lot of commentors think she wanted something she could hang over his head for their marriage. Either way it's some idiot soap opera poo poo.
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May 15, 2024 13:25
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StrangersInTheNight posted:Yeh but then he loses it all and his poo poo gets repossessed, and I always remember he's like gasping over them taking this plastic bird statue away. That was an earlier season, he then gets re-written into his soap opera show. I've watched too much of that show.
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May 15, 2024 13:29
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It’s about controlling your partner and making them paranoid to interact with people of the opposite sex for fear of it being some concocted scenario. Run for the hills.
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PizzaProwler posted:Alas poor Lenny thought of rabbits and died. Don't send me to the gay horse farm, George mailorder bees posted:the aztek does have its die hard supporters. or maybe just my friend that really likes them. While it was ugly, the Aztek at least had some practicality to it
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May 15, 2024 14:01
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OneSizeFitsAll posted:I guess her first loyalty should be to her sister, within reason. But I'd want to know if my future wife was this crazy and she sure did Mark a solid from that perspective. He should just explain to her that she failed his loyalty test. I am sure she will understand and gracefully concede.
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Mordiceius posted:It feels like, in that situation, wife was somewhat forced by husband into a situation she didn't want. But then.. she did nothing about it but act lovely and spiteful? But assuming she's not just making poo poo up, the info he leaves out of his posts makes him out to be a manipulative slimeball. He's just tuning out anything that contradicts the narrative of himself as the big hero holding his family together. The way he talks about "unconditional love" patching over these obvious problems he won't actually address, it makes me want to kick him downstairs. He wants her to adopt his niece but doesn't seem to regard her kids as his own. At least, he has no issues exposing her kids to a cruel, manipulative bully. Basically, you should never be in a position where you're patiently explaining to your children that they don't matter, indefinitely, because this other kid needs your help more. (Look, to be honest, I was just bored with random sentences about TV shows I don't watch.)
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AITA For "Hiding" A Family Heirloom Before Giving It To My Daughter?quote:I (35m) have a beautiful little girl "Leana" (4f) with my wife "Tammy" (35f) who was gracious enough to support my request in giving our daughter a variation of my great-grandmother's name "Lena." She cared for me as a baby while my parents worked and passed away when I was 7. I was heartbroken and the only one I felt who could truly understand my pain was my grandfather (Nana Lena's son). We grieved for her together and became best buddies ever since. AITA for not making my kids go with my ex's wife and their children or inviting them to join us on Mother's Day? quote:My ex and I broke up, and were never married, when I was pregnant with our youngest child who is now 12 and our oldest is almost 14. Ex moved 20 hours away when our youngest was five months old. He was following a better job. Plus he was bored of our home state and wanted a change. He told me this before he left and when I asked about the kids he told me he'd still be an involved dad, just at a distance. I have primary custody. He sees them for three weeks in the summer and every other Christmas/Thanksgiving. It's not a lot and the kids aren't very close to him and have grown to enjoy the time with him less as they get older. Part of this is because they don't feel like he makes enough of an effort. Another part is the fact he got married 2 years after the move and he has more children with his current wife. So the kids feel replaced. I can't blame them. So I put them in therapy to help them through this. Kurieg fucked around with this message at 15:55 on May 15, 2024 |
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May 15, 2024 15:46
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AITA for telling my coworker that her clothes were inappropriate for the office?quote:Throwaway because I feel like she’ll find me
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May 15, 2024 16:00
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wheatpuppy posted:AITA for telling my coworker that her clothes were inappropriate for the office? Lmao, just lmao Dress codes are stupid, especially if you're not client facing.
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May 15, 2024 16:08
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wheatpuppy posted:AITA for telling my coworker that her clothes were inappropriate for the office? Dear Reddit, I have a grudge against the cool lady who also happens to be the one person keeping everything in the office running. I think it's totally unfair that I got in trouble for trying to pick a fight multiple times.
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May 15, 2024 16:08
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wheatpuppy posted:AITA for telling my coworker that her clothes were inappropriate for the office? World's youngest boomer
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May 15, 2024 16:09
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Kurieg posted:AITA for not making my kids go with my ex's wife and their children or inviting them to join us on Mother's Day? My guess would be using the 12/14 yr old OP’s kids as free child care.
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May 15, 2024 16:13
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wheatpuppy posted:AITA for telling my coworker that her clothes were inappropriate for the office? Dear reddit, why doesn't the company I work for kill their goose that lays golden eggs over piety BS?
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May 15, 2024 16:15
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Most Power Alex posted:Dear reddit, why doesn't the company I work for kill their goose that lays golden eggs over piety BS? Dear reddit, I did an age discrimination. Why is HR so mad?
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May 15, 2024 16:18
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quote:My manager told me after that they could replace me by next week but replacing her would be a nightmare which is a horrible thing to tell your employees and I think maybe a violation of worker rights but I haven’t checked yet LOL at thinking of this comment as a violation of worker rights. I'm pretty sure even in countries with strong worker protections that's not illegal to say, and it's certainly not in the US. I always wonder where people get the idea that there are elaborate systems of restrictions on what companies can say or fire you for - protections are extremely limited, and what protections there are often aren't even enforced in practice. Also I put these two together because OP got the answer, they just don't like it. Coworker is keeping stuff together and that's worth more to the company than enforcing a dress code that doesn't really matter anyway. OP isn't the one who gets to decide what's appropriate, and OP's comment comes into the zone of age discrimination which is something a company can get in trouble for.
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May 15, 2024 16:20
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wheatpuppy posted:AITA for telling my coworker that her clothes were inappropriate for the office? I think I found the problem. OP is 26 so her brain just finished, this might be the first time she's had to take it for a spin since it became feature complete. We all made some mistakes in this period of our lives, but I hope mine weren't as embarrassing as this one, and this person learns to default to assuming others are worthy of the same respect she overly extends to herself.
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May 15, 2024 16:21
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My favorite part of this story is that in this person's mind it's completely acceptable to harass someone and look up their personal info online to do it, but going through proper channels and talking to HR about someone harassing you is tattletale behavior.
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May 15, 2024 16:21
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wheatpuppy posted:AITA for telling my coworker that her clothes were inappropriate for the office? I might be thinking of a different story, but I swear this was posted before and a commenter or someone recognized the description of “Hannah” and said she was actually a very well-known and connected person in those circles, not some lowly IT worker that the OP seems to think she is. Also she was a consultant or something, hence her setting her own hours and working from home.
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May 15, 2024 16:22
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wizardofloneliness posted:I might be thinking of a different story, but I swear this was posted before and a commenter or someone recognized the description of “Hannah” and said she was actually a very well-known and connected person in those circles, not some lowly IT worker that the OP seems to think she is. Also she was a consultant or something, hence her setting her own hours and working from home. quote:our IT person/web developer She's the head of IT. Critically important rule of any office job, you do not gently caress with the IT people and you let them get away with whatever they like.
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May 15, 2024 16:28
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wizardofloneliness posted:I might be thinking of a different story, but I swear this was posted before and a commenter or someone recognized the description of “Hannah” and said she was actually a very well-known and connected person in those circles, not some lowly IT worker that the OP seems to think she is. Also she was a consultant or something, hence her setting her own hours and working from home. I think that's a different story, but it jangled my brain from the previous thread too. I think it was a younger rockstar creative who the OP decided was a silly little girl wearing dumb non-compliant clothes...and maybe they got fired for making a huge fuss? E: found it, didn't get fired, but nearly https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3982535&pagenumber=2065&perpage=40#post530181888 Bobstar fucked around with this message at 16:36 on May 15, 2024 |
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May 15, 2024 16:31
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The sloppier someone is dressed at a corporate office the more critical they are to the success of the business. Stained jorts and socks with sandals? That's the man who invented the device that the whole company is built on.
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May 15, 2024 16:33
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wizardofloneliness posted:I might be thinking of a different story, but I swear this was posted before and a commenter or someone recognized the description of “Hannah” and said she was actually a very well-known and connected person in those circles, not some lowly IT worker that the OP seems to think she is. Also she was a consultant or something, hence her setting her own hours and working from home. Yes, different story, that "Hannah" was younger and some sort of client-facing rockstar who just wore hoodies and jeans or some poo poo
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May 15, 2024 16:35
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Most Power Alex posted:Dear reddit, why doesn't the company I work for kill their goose that lays golden eggs over piety BS? Gosh, why is the company siding with the irreplaceable veteran IT person and not the eminently replaceable low-level cog who showed up just last Wednesday?  e: Also funny is OP's bafflement at why a middle-aged woman would dress to make people think she was younger than she actually was. FMguru fucked around with this message at 16:43 on May 15, 2024 |
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May 15, 2024 16:35
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Also, it's absurd to expect a dress code from an IT person who has to do actual grease monkey IT work. "Sorry boss I have to go home so i can change into a different set of clothes after I unearthed the city of dust living in Bill's computer."
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May 15, 2024 16:40
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Even if it feels fake I'm certain it happens almost daily when high school overachievers finally encounter someone whose job requires actual skills.
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FMguru posted:My favorite little detail is that OP is a newly-hired customer service rep. it's weird bc like, is she a time travelever from the past? this stuff is so far gone, you can denote movies which are older just by how dowdy and weird they've dressed the adults. I recently rewatched the Ron Howard movie "Parenthood" from 1989, and all of those people are technically my age and holy poo poo, everything they're wearing looks like it should smell like mothballs. No current human adult wears that poo poo, unless you're middle-class white and you're on you way to church on Sunday.
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Kurieg posted:Also, it's absurd to expect a dress code from an IT person who has to do actual grease monkey IT work. "Sorry boss I have to go home so i can change into a different set of clothes after I unearthed the city of dust living in Bill's computer." I had a similar thing happen to me a few years ago. A women I worked with put a complaint into HR for the way I dressed; although I'd wear a full suit to work most days there was more than a fair few times where I'd come in with just a shirt, jeans and a pair of overalls. Her complaint was that whenever I was meeting customers/visitors I always dressed down and this reflected the business in a poor light. I work in health and safety (think OSHA) and yes, whenever I was overseeing the installation or movement of heavy machinery I wouldn't wear a three-piece loving suit. I'd know I would be standing around outside most of the day in full PPE and hardhat. I would be dressed exactly like everyone else involved the the projects. The bonkers thing is that the women worked for me as part of my team. After HR had a quiet word I arranged to have her moved on, we didn't sack her but I made it clear there was no longer a space on my team so we shuffled her to another department.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Even if it feels fake I'm certain it happens almost daily when high school overachievers finally encounter someone whose job requires actual skills. It's funny to see the illusion of, like, Suits shattered by someone this dumb. Attacking her choice of clothes and her age is bold, lol Like, I think she's quite upset that this woman doesn't want to look like the OP and doesn't think her age is a bad thing. Insecurity writ large
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why the gently caress do people even care about how you're 'damaging the reputation of the business'. it's not like if the business does well, you're seeing a single goddamn penny - the reward you get for working so hard to keep the company open is getting to keep the job you have right now, and that's it. it's like when someone is all weird about spending company money - I just don't get it. it's not your money! you should literally only ever care about this if a part of your job description to give a poo poo about how much the company spends. everyone else is just being a free corpo cop who is crab bucketing for their worker-time-thievin' cheap-rear end bosses.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:why the gently caress do people even care about how you're 'damaging the reputation of the business'. it's not like if the business does well, you're seeing a single goddamn penny - the reward you get for working so hard to keep the company open is getting to keep the job you have right now, and that's it. I completely agree with everything you just said. As a sidenote: The same lady once tried telling me that my holiday hadn't been authorised because she hadn't written it on the wall calendar she kept behind her desk; she needed to keep note of where everybody was so we had enough coverage. I had to explain that she submitted her holiday requests to me and I was the one who approved leave and ensured coverage. So no, I didn't in fact have to ask her if I could go on holiday.
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wheatpuppy posted:AITA for telling my coworker that her clothes were inappropriate for the office? Haha I know two people irl who have been repeatedly written up/ fired for gobbing off at far more experienced/capable employees about how they ought to be doing their jobs. This genius decided to throw in a personal attack as well. Really want to know how many jobs she’s been fired from for the exact same thing.
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May 15, 2024 17:08
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When you are good enough at something difficult, you often get to bypass lovely rules. Instead of getting jealous of Hannah get her skills so you can wear a hoody all day if you want. That's it, right, you're jealous? Then get good. There's no reason to be upset about it besides jealousy because it doesn't affect you.
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Kurieg posted:Also, it's absurd to expect a dress code from an IT person who has to do actual grease monkey IT work. "Sorry boss I have to go home so i can change into a different set of clothes after I unearthed the city of dust living in Bill's computer." We have had complaints to IT management because of how people were dressed. They are in the Standard IT Uniform that is polo and khakis and someone got mad that it wasn't professional enough. These people were installing pcs and crawling under desks, you don't need a button up for that.
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In this context the Southern is a dead giveaway. OP is ex-sorority, dressed as the 2024 equivalent of Elle Woods, and resents that IT Woman isn't playing the game at all. How dare you not follow The Rules?
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My friend used to work IT at a law firm where the female dress code is skirts and heels, no exceptions. She told them to go gently caress themselves and they did.
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Halloween Jack posted:My friend used to work IT at a law firm where the female dress code is skirts and heels, no exceptions. She told them to go gently caress themselves and they did. Can you elaborate on how they hosed themselves, like were there cascading consequences of her walking or did the fold
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I’m kind of curious how the thread will land on this one. Personally while I think the OP may have some kind of sorta point about how her family doesn’t like her, she picked the stupidest hill to die on over it and is insufferably whiny and self-absorbed. My (F30) relatives planned my grandmother's funeral for my birthday. She died months ago and my birthday is this Saturday. How do I navigate this painful feeling? quote:My grandmother died in February. I hadn't seen her - or many members of that side of the family - since 2018, the year I got married. After my divorce in 2020, I moved to NYC. I've had a rough past few years, emotionally and financially. My Nana and those relatives spent their time in Florida, Texas, and Alabama (where I am from originally). Whenever I visited my immediate family, the extended family wouldn't be there.
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I worked (very briefly) for an investment bank. My boss sprained (broke? Not sure) her ankle and insisted on wearing a high heel on the not-in-a-cast foot so as not to be visibly out of uniform.
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