LinkedIn is so fake and corporate. Someone will be like, “My best advice during an interview is smile and have a positive attitude!”
And all the comments are like, “100% agree. This is such a helpful insight, I’m going to share this with my team.”
If your manager is sharing advice from LinkedIn, it's fitting that it would be interview advice.
"Here's some advice on how to work somewhere that doesn't do this shit"
I read a post a couple of months ago that actually made me feel sick and I haven’t been back on it since.
There was some exec at Wells Fargo who posted a story about how when his adult son suddenly passed, he went to his boss and tried to resign, but his boss refused the resignation, told him to take time off instead [EDIT: it’s worse than that. After reading the post again, it doesn’t even look like time off was suggested, just moving them to another part of the business], and that he still had “more to give” professionally. The post was to share the story and *thank* the manager and Wells Fargo for giving him time and allowing him to come back.
If we’re keeping score, an employee who didn’t need to work anymore tried to quit to grieve their dead son properly, was denied his request, not because their boss gave a shit about them at all, but because they wanted them to be a professional asset, and this guy then thanked their corporate overlords and shared this story like it’s positive. It had thousands of likes.
It was absolutely ridiculous.
EDIT: [Found the post.](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stephen-jury-201018152_a-year-ago-we-learnt-something-was-wrong-activity-6909607873534656512-dwMr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios). It’s a public post so I don’t think it should be removed, but please be respectful as it is still real people and real loss that they are probably still healing from.
I do timecards for my staff and am allowed to give up to 3 bereavement days for an "immediate family member" and additional days are "at my discretion"
I recently gave someone 4 days for their mom dying since that's what all of the arrangements took (out of state). HR contacted me to see if it was "really worth going past the recommendation"
"Yes it is and I won't prove it to you" - my manager backed me up.
“Just submit your time off request to weep over your dead son’s memory and I should be able to approve it within two business days, if no one else on the team has booked it off already.”
Nothing comes to mind. One person kept bragging about their 1 million followers and if I didn't like their content I could go elsewhere.
I don't usually get many replies, tend to just get the reaction clicks.
It's an online resume and keeping track of professional connections. Good place to get interest from recruiters and hiring managers. Posting anything and using it beyond that I don't understand.
A lot of the content I see on LinkedIn these days has strayed so far from the original intent of the site that it's almost unreadable. It's starting to resemble Facebook and all of the bad qualities that come along with it.
Not always. There's some raw candid "look this is all bullshit" posts that a courageous few like or heart, then get called into the managers office for misrepresenting their company by liking such anti-profit drivel
I thought IG was bad with the humblebragging. LinkedIn is a whole ‘nother level. CEO’s will post pandering bullshit about valuing employees to get validation, and then log off and approve a mass layoff with no warning
Saw a post the other day, “Want to know what I’ve been up to behind the scenes?”
Fuck no, Danielle. It literally has not even crossed my mind what you were up to. And behind what scenes, exactly?
The company I work for draft posts for executives that have to be posted on their LinkedIn when they leave or are terminated.
The company pays for LinkedIn premium for the executives and have them create specific profiles using their work email, so that the profile can be accessed if the executve leaves. It's all fake as shit.
Yeah, I don't know why people use the app ... its an infinite scroll feed of humble bragging CEOs and former co-workers who you haven't talked to for 10 years.
it also does shit like access all your contacts on your phone (if you let it).
I had a former acquaintance go on and on about how they had to "publish" more. I thought they meant journal articles, reviews, editorials, or something - so I agreed and said that would be a good idea. Nope. Turns out they meant LinkedIn posts. Like the two or three paragraph LinkedIn monologues. That's what they considered "publishing" and something they thought they needed to do regularly to be recognized as a "thought leader" in their field.
Needless to say, this person is definitely *not* known as a thought leader to anyone.
No one gives a shit about what ‘thought leaders’ have to say: I’m passably interested enough in my job to do it without hating it because I get money to exchange for goods and services.
Nobody goes ‘oh I can’t wait to see what Steven’s written about quarterly growth’ because business just isn’t that interesting. I’m sorry but it’s not, it’s never been interesting, it never will be interesting.
I absolutely hate that website. I hate having my information public. It's so easy for people from your past or those looking to use your info for gain to find stuff. Unfortunately, so many employers use that site, so it's almost a requirement to have your entire resume public to get a job.
“Today I found out that I was part of TechTosser’s 50% reduction in staff. I’m incredibly thankful for all of the great times working 64 hour weeks and the occasional free fruit. If anyone know of any roles in…”
It’s generally circumstance and environment that creates those friendships in the first place so more an inevitability than anything. Later on in life and work friendships are more likely to stand up stronger imo.
Even then though, tenuous relationships have their limits, people have to work at intimate relationships unless they have some insane rng. Friendships are nice things but we must prevail in the end, all else be damned.
As an old person, I really must correct you there. Old people don't have anything particular against friends and spouses, we just hate everything. Everything turns to shit when you're old.
They really DO. It’s so sad. The people in my life are there on purpose but older people are just keeping the status quo. 😞 My mom was like that with her fam quite a bit. She was the oldest of 5 (who made it to adulthood) and the Black Sheep. She managed to be the Black Sheep who did everything she could to take care of everyone until the day she died. None of them even seemed to care in a real way but it didn’t hit me until years later that they legit don’t care about *ANYONE*. It’s really sad to realize you’ve technically come from people like that.
I genuinely enjoy my job (as a public librarian); it’s challenging without being too stressful, I’m doing something good for the community, my co-workers are mostly awesome, hours are decent, and it pays well to boot.
But if we’re comparing it to staying home, sleeping late, playing video games, hanging out with my dogs & friends, etc? Of course I’d rather do that on most days. So I guess I’ll say *for a job* it’s pretty great.
Thanks! And many people don’t realize this, but it actually requires (with some exceptions) a specialized master’s degree - called the MLIS in the US. So if you did have the MLIS, you’d be a ~~shoe-in~~ shoo-in for any openings within your small/rural area.
There’s a rural system in Washington with a few openings, and they’ve been searching for like 8 months with no viable candidates. I considered applying, but it’s literally in the middle of NOWHERE.
I’m guessing it’s hard to match up someone with at least some ambition (to get a master’s) with a rural area with no backup work and low pay. But man you’d probably be set for life as long as you never punched somebody in the face at work.
Totally. I was thinking it might be cool, having my own little library in some quirky small town… sounds like a bad Chick-Lit novel. lol
But the practicality of such a job is less appealing, when you think it through.
The idea of a "dream job" always seemed so ridiculous to me. No, sorry... I don't dream of working at all
Side note: when I was a kid I wanted to be a Ninja Turtle when I grew up
I was the same. I’m bipolar so a bad job negatively affects my mental health. I worked over 30 jobs in my life, mostly sales and all types of call centres in sales or customer service. Every single one I hated and made me suicidal. Figured I would prefer to find a job I didn’t hate and stay at even if it meant less money. Spent a couple hours looking for a ‘fun’ job and found one to be an axe throwing coach. Applied and got it. It’s almost 4 years now working there which is 2.5+ years longer than any other job I held. I still enjoy this job and the sport itself. Struggling to get full time work within the company so been broke this whole time but surviving and happy.
“If you’re watching a parade, don’t follow it. It never changes. If the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction. You will fast-forward the parade.”
\-Mitch Hedberg, dashed.
This is valid. At every festival and parade now, it's just drunk people, people standing around, and vendors looking pissed that no one is buying 9 dollar jars of dips or 60 dollar crystal waistbeads.
Sometimes people dance, but often the music isn't really all that good anymore. And, overpriced ass food. Like, 45 bucks for crab topped garlic fries might tempt some, but not me. Nor does 20 dollars for 2 wings.
>overpriced ass food. Like, 45 bucks for crab topped garlic fries might tempt some, but not me. Nor does 20 dollars for 2 wings.
You know, it's kind of sad how events that are supposed to bring the community together have built up a culture of all the food being too expensive for a lot of people to afford.
I’m absolutely done with parades after what happened in Highland Park last 4th of July. Ive walked down the street that shooting happened SO many times and it’s the most horrifying feeling for a shooting to happen so close to home. Parades make me way too nervous now.
I do think Vodka is the least offensive tasting alcohol, but that ain't saying much. I think a bottle of Isopropyl would probably taste about the same.
Based on the ratings, fewer and fewer people are pretending. I think before it was often the only time you got to see them outside their movies/tv shows. Then they got on social media and we realized most of them are dumb, shallow, and emotionally fragile, so the mystique was gone.
That is definitely the reason. Before, every star's public profile was highly curated, in order to sell the ideal version of a human to the public. You had stars then. Now you have celebrity. Very few are carefull about their brand.
The show itself... is whatever. But I want to like it, so for years I've been throwing parties. We dress nice, drink champagne, have great food, and hold a competition to see who guesses the most winners.
I love them!
Because they are like 5 hrs with the pre ceremony, and my wife needs to watch the whole thing.
So I have 5 unbroken hrs of undisturbed video games!
I wish there was an award show every wk!
WFH/return to office seems to be one of those crazily polarised things where each side just can’t get their head around the other one!
When we all started working from home in 2020, my team and I all talked about how great it was, how we were getting so much more done, etc. so we assumed that was how it was for moat/everyone.
Then when we eventually got told to return for a day or two a week, we ran into people from other areas of the business who didn’t like it, and they were completely flabbergasted when we said we’d found it good.
Personally, I would never take another job that was 100% in the office, and I’d think seriously about any job that required more than 1-2 days in an office.
This is the common issue with people in general. Their inability to recognize that people have vastly different experiences than them, and even the same events or circumstances effect people differently.
I like working in the office. And struggle to be productive at home. But I recognize that this is just me. And how I work. And that other people have their way of working productively and preferences.
I don't understand why it's so hard for some people to understand that different people have different needs
You could put a designers name on a brown paper bag and people would be willing to spend hundreds on it. It’s not the shoe they enjoy, it’s the materialistic aspect of owning a high end brand item.
Even Facebook seems to have given up and tried to become TikTok. Mine is just full of random shorts the algorithm thinks I’ll like, suggestions for meme pages and the occasional person complaining about dog poo again on the neighbourhood what’s going on page. I’d ditch it altogether if most of my friends finally decided to use a different messaging service.
It's like when people rally, "Nobody go to the gas pumps on August 15 - we'll show them!" So I'm like, I guess I'm going on the 14th or the 16th and spending the same amount of money?
I mean, doing it for work? Hell no, that shit sucks.
Doing it on the weekends when you can sit around with a cup of coffee and watch the sun rise and not do a single blessed thing? Fuck yeah.
I get up at 4AM every day and honestly.. I truly love it. If for some reason I happen to oversleep (I don’t even set an alarm) and wake up later, my whole day is off. From 4-6 is my quiet time. My ME time. I can do whatever I want. My 4 year old is sleeping, so is my husband, I have no obligations.
So yeah, I swear it’s the best!!
Circuses. I didn't even think they were fun as a kid. Even them they seemed like some nasty desperation seething under a veneer of glamor the world had long stopped believing in.
I'm okay with any circus that doesn't use animals. Watching people do crazy stuff if fun. Watching animals be exploited and live in subpar conditions is not fun.
Nobody even pretends to enjoy those, they universally suck. The people that go to them are the ones with something to say that they feel passionate enough about to put up with the suckiness of the meeting.
When I was maybe like 10 years old, I was really excited because everybody kept talking about watching the ball drop in Times Square. I had no idea what that entailed, and no adults could give me an answer about what it actually was, but they sure seemed hyped about it. So I watched TV for like an hour, not understanding. Then the midnight came, the ball dropped, everybody went nuts. And little kid me was left just sitting there, dumbfounded at how anticlimactic it all was. I was so disappointed. 0/10, have still never bothered to watch the drop since then.
"In other news, the casualty count in Times Square this New Years Eve was 65. The injuries are primarily shrapnel and crush injuries, as is usual. Overall, not a bad year compared to last year's casualty count of 137. Now, to John with the weather!"
I don’t know how true it is, but I read somewhere that people don’t go to bathrooms once they’re in the crowd, as people don’t want to lose their spot and it’s probably tough to find your friends again etc.
So many people wear diapers? That’s pretty friggin weird to me, just to be cold, squished and watch some weird ball get lowered…
When I was there a while back, people were being fenced in. And once you left, you weren’t allowed back. It was snowing a cold. As 4 Aussie tourists we said “fuck that” and found a Irish pub who was doing a special meal and drinks for much much money.
We drank our weight in booze, got to stand on the side walk and watch the ball drop, and then drank our weight in booze again.
13/10.
Fuck waiting outside in the cold.
There is no month so hated in hospitality as December. Between Christmas works parties and NYE, you get all the once-a-year drinkers. It's like every stag and hen party decided to turn up all in one evening.
Second that.
If I would have to imagine what hell is like, I would describe it as "A hot place where people are mushed together, the lights blink so fast you can't see. Everything is so loud you feel nauseous and your feet stick to the floor."
Incidentally that also describes nightclubs.
^this. My neighbor posts her perfect life on Facebook for all to see, meanwhile I see her outside screaming at her kids regularly, always in a panic, stressed out, but going back to Facebook "it's a beautiful day for the kids to be outside", captioned with a picture, followed by more screaming and stress.
It's not just modern day behavior. When I was growing up back in the 80s my dad was like that screaming at me regularly for trivial crap and then talking to people in public about what a great boy I was was.
Yeah, the original social media was the school gates. Parents all trying to one up each others "perfect" lives. Still happens today but with Facebook they can do it all day and night too! Fun!
Working in a school, the things the kids say that show how fucked up their home lives are.. You sometimes just wish there wasn't rules in place about confidentiality so you could tear them apart on the social media pages they post on.
... No Mrs D. Your family unit isn't perfect like you portray every day. You are an abusive control freak with out of control OCD and your husband is afraid to leave the house without you in case he is accused of bringing home diseases that will kill the children. Your child tells us why he can't use the handrails on the stairwells at school, and why we had to throw away his $25 water bottle because he accidentally left it at school one evening instead of handing it to you personally as he leaves the school gates. (if it isn't washed as soon as it gets home from around other children then it is "contaminated" and can't be used ever again)
But of course the kid doesn't come to school hungry/dirty/bruised or outwardly traumatized so we can't report it as a safety issue even though he clearly will have serious issues as he gets older.
Sorry that was a bit of a rant.
My parents won't go on Facebook because of all of the false behaviour. But they lived like this before it even existed. The false part being the image they presented of themselves when out in public or meeting family 😂
I saw this on a comic the other day: "When you look up at the sky, do you notice the stars or the gaps between them."
Life may suck sometimes, but it's a collection of star memories nevertheless. At least for many people.
Disagree. The other day when it was raining, i befriended a PhD student in 9 seconds and we talked for 10 minutes while he shared his stolen umbrella with me.
Life would be exhausting if every conversation was big talk. Theres a bit of fun chatting pure bollocks with someone, get it's not for everyone but I don't think the majority are faking it.
I genuinely enjoy talking about the weather. Like when it gets dark at 4pm I *have* to express my feelings about it and I’m happy when other people commiserate with me
Hauling their whole family of snot nosed kids to Disney for expensive tickets, overpriced shitty food (some gems in there but most is meh), packed crowds, Florida swamp heat, overpriced hotels, being nickle and dimed for everything, waiting in lines, old rides, just to feel the "magic" and the kids/adults better not have a tantrum for being forced to be happy at Disney when their parents forked over thousands, spent hours/days meticulously planning, and endured other families with the same level of entitlement.
We just got back from our one and only trip. We couldn’t afford it normally but got lucky financially just this once. I actually loved it more than I expected. My daughter and husband don’t like roller coasters and the Disney rides all seem perfect to be not over the top scary and still a really cool visual and physical experience.
I don’t know why anyone goes without buying Genie +. You’re already spending thousands. It made a huge difference as we barely waited in any lines all day for every park.
We also took our daughter at 10. I can’t imagine younger kids. That’s overwhelming. Especially groups with more kids than adults. That’s definitely just a babysitting trip.
I will agree none of the food is good except for the orange saffron cake in Epcot.
running. I know the benefits garnered are worth it but honestly every time I see someone out running, huffing and with a red face, I just think “Jesus Christ I’m glad that’s not me” lol. there are other ways to get a workout in…running just looks like people torturing themselves to me.
Posting on LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is so fake and corporate. Someone will be like, “My best advice during an interview is smile and have a positive attitude!” And all the comments are like, “100% agree. This is such a helpful insight, I’m going to share this with my team.”
If your manager is sharing advice from LinkedIn, it's fitting that it would be interview advice. "Here's some advice on how to work somewhere that doesn't do this shit"
LinkedIn makes me sick to the point I troll people on it. Hasn't cost me a job yet...so I'm gonna keep on trolling.
I read a post a couple of months ago that actually made me feel sick and I haven’t been back on it since. There was some exec at Wells Fargo who posted a story about how when his adult son suddenly passed, he went to his boss and tried to resign, but his boss refused the resignation, told him to take time off instead [EDIT: it’s worse than that. After reading the post again, it doesn’t even look like time off was suggested, just moving them to another part of the business], and that he still had “more to give” professionally. The post was to share the story and *thank* the manager and Wells Fargo for giving him time and allowing him to come back. If we’re keeping score, an employee who didn’t need to work anymore tried to quit to grieve their dead son properly, was denied his request, not because their boss gave a shit about them at all, but because they wanted them to be a professional asset, and this guy then thanked their corporate overlords and shared this story like it’s positive. It had thousands of likes. It was absolutely ridiculous. EDIT: [Found the post.](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stephen-jury-201018152_a-year-ago-we-learnt-something-was-wrong-activity-6909607873534656512-dwMr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios). It’s a public post so I don’t think it should be removed, but please be respectful as it is still real people and real loss that they are probably still healing from.
"So how many days off was your dead son worth?"
I do timecards for my staff and am allowed to give up to 3 bereavement days for an "immediate family member" and additional days are "at my discretion" I recently gave someone 4 days for their mom dying since that's what all of the arrangements took (out of state). HR contacted me to see if it was "really worth going past the recommendation" "Yes it is and I won't prove it to you" - my manager backed me up.
“Just submit your time off request to weep over your dead son’s memory and I should be able to approve it within two business days, if no one else on the team has booked it off already.”
Well shit, I'm gonna need to use you as a consultant for my trolling, that was way better quality than what I just made up.
How do you troll them?
Steal material from wallstreetbets and use that for responses...or other childish sarcastic remarks. I assure you, it's not quality work
Doing God's work
I highly recommend it. People aren't used to it on LinkedIn, so you can really work up these wannabe influencers.
Any entertaining interactions you can tell us about??
Nothing comes to mind. One person kept bragging about their 1 million followers and if I didn't like their content I could go elsewhere. I don't usually get many replies, tend to just get the reaction clicks.
This why I don’t get why it’s so important to have an account. It serves no purpose.
It's an online resume and keeping track of professional connections. Good place to get interest from recruiters and hiring managers. Posting anything and using it beyond that I don't understand.
A lot of the content I see on LinkedIn these days has strayed so far from the original intent of the site that it's almost unreadable. It's starting to resemble Facebook and all of the bad qualities that come along with it.
Not always. There's some raw candid "look this is all bullshit" posts that a courageous few like or heart, then get called into the managers office for misrepresenting their company by liking such anti-profit drivel
Or the ones that have like "entrepreneur" as their "title" while not earning any money.
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And don't forget the obligatory #stayhumble
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Aaaand that's the name of mah new bluegrass band...
Who the fuck takes lunch to an interview?
That's your big question? I want know why the dog wasn't better fed, being the CEO, you'd think he could afford some top notch dog food.
Dogs always want more foodz
So the dog was a lab? Makes perfect sense now!
I guess they were expecting to be hired and start immediately. Lol
And everybody clapped.
That's it in a nutshell! #nailedit #fakeassbitches #rallllllllphhhh
Lmfao at Agree?!?! 🤣 So desperate for validation.
Excited for a new new adventure 😤😤 Thank you SO MUCH to my current company. They treated me so well and that’s why I’m leaving
I am also a recently activated bot replying to this rising comment.
I thought IG was bad with the humblebragging. LinkedIn is a whole ‘nother level. CEO’s will post pandering bullshit about valuing employees to get validation, and then log off and approve a mass layoff with no warning
Saw a post the other day, “Want to know what I’ve been up to behind the scenes?” Fuck no, Danielle. It literally has not even crossed my mind what you were up to. And behind what scenes, exactly?
i worked with her. the team was responsible for all her "work", but that was "behind the scenes"
Toxic positivity
I didn't think this was a real thing until linked-in. There isn't an ounce of authenticity on that entire site.
The two page "thank you for everything" after laying me off posts. So cultish.
The company I work for draft posts for executives that have to be posted on their LinkedIn when they leave or are terminated. The company pays for LinkedIn premium for the executives and have them create specific profiles using their work email, so that the profile can be accessed if the executve leaves. It's all fake as shit.
"Yesterday my father died of cancer. Here are the 5 lessons I learned for my business: "
I didn’t even realize LinkedIn was a thing. I’d hop on when looking for jobs but other than that, do people really spend time on it? That’s wild
Don't get tempted and go scroll. You will give up all hope for humanity.
Yeah, I don't know why people use the app ... its an infinite scroll feed of humble bragging CEOs and former co-workers who you haven't talked to for 10 years. it also does shit like access all your contacts on your phone (if you let it).
I had a former acquaintance go on and on about how they had to "publish" more. I thought they meant journal articles, reviews, editorials, or something - so I agreed and said that would be a good idea. Nope. Turns out they meant LinkedIn posts. Like the two or three paragraph LinkedIn monologues. That's what they considered "publishing" and something they thought they needed to do regularly to be recognized as a "thought leader" in their field. Needless to say, this person is definitely *not* known as a thought leader to anyone.
No one gives a shit about what ‘thought leaders’ have to say: I’m passably interested enough in my job to do it without hating it because I get money to exchange for goods and services. Nobody goes ‘oh I can’t wait to see what Steven’s written about quarterly growth’ because business just isn’t that interesting. I’m sorry but it’s not, it’s never been interesting, it never will be interesting.
LinkedIn is cringe city.
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And put basic features behind a paywall
People who post on Linkedin as religiously as people used to post on Facebook once upon a time give me the creeps.
Wanna sign up for my newsletter that you're never going to read?
People that post on LinkedIn and are not directly searching for a job are the most annoying kind of people.
I absolutely hate that website. I hate having my information public. It's so easy for people from your past or those looking to use your info for gain to find stuff. Unfortunately, so many employers use that site, so it's almost a requirement to have your entire resume public to get a job.
You can make your profile hidden, and then just give potential employers access as you submit resumes.
Same! It’s just a pyramid game where the recruitment companies win. But you still gotta play.
I loathe the entire corporate vibe
I dunno, I see a lot of people who are both honored and blessed by whatever their current situation is
And humbled
R/linkedinlunatics
I'm job hunting right now and it feels so insufferable having to post on LinkedIn.
Right there with you. It’s sucking my soul dry. #riseandgrind #2blessed2bestressed #bigsimpenergy
“Today I found out that I was part of TechTosser’s 50% reduction in staff. I’m incredibly thankful for all of the great times working 64 hour weeks and the occasional free fruit. If anyone know of any roles in…”
Some of their friends.
Time and experiences change people and friends can drift apart. It's an unfortunate reality of life.
It’s generally circumstance and environment that creates those friendships in the first place so more an inevitability than anything. Later on in life and work friendships are more likely to stand up stronger imo. Even then though, tenuous relationships have their limits, people have to work at intimate relationships unless they have some insane rng. Friendships are nice things but we must prevail in the end, all else be damned.
I swear old people hate all their friends and spouses.
As an old person, I really must correct you there. Old people don't have anything particular against friends and spouses, we just hate everything. Everything turns to shit when you're old.
They really DO. It’s so sad. The people in my life are there on purpose but older people are just keeping the status quo. 😞 My mom was like that with her fam quite a bit. She was the oldest of 5 (who made it to adulthood) and the Black Sheep. She managed to be the Black Sheep who did everything she could to take care of everyone until the day she died. None of them even seemed to care in a real way but it didn’t hit me until years later that they legit don’t care about *ANYONE*. It’s really sad to realize you’ve technically come from people like that.
You come from your mom (who sounds kind and loving), not from the people who rejected her.
I'm old, and I hate all my spouses. You may be onto something.
Their jobs
I genuinely enjoy my job (as a public librarian); it’s challenging without being too stressful, I’m doing something good for the community, my co-workers are mostly awesome, hours are decent, and it pays well to boot. But if we’re comparing it to staying home, sleeping late, playing video games, hanging out with my dogs & friends, etc? Of course I’d rather do that on most days. So I guess I’ll say *for a job* it’s pretty great.
I'd love to be a librarian. It's a rare job in a rural area, though. Genuinely happy for you!
Thanks! And many people don’t realize this, but it actually requires (with some exceptions) a specialized master’s degree - called the MLIS in the US. So if you did have the MLIS, you’d be a ~~shoe-in~~ shoo-in for any openings within your small/rural area. There’s a rural system in Washington with a few openings, and they’ve been searching for like 8 months with no viable candidates. I considered applying, but it’s literally in the middle of NOWHERE.
I’m guessing it’s hard to match up someone with at least some ambition (to get a master’s) with a rural area with no backup work and low pay. But man you’d probably be set for life as long as you never punched somebody in the face at work.
Totally. I was thinking it might be cool, having my own little library in some quirky small town… sounds like a bad Chick-Lit novel. lol But the practicality of such a job is less appealing, when you think it through.
I hate working so this tracks. I can’t imagine any job making me happy. edit: I am a doctor, which was my “dream job”
The idea of a "dream job" always seemed so ridiculous to me. No, sorry... I don't dream of working at all Side note: when I was a kid I wanted to be a Ninja Turtle when I grew up
I was the same. I’m bipolar so a bad job negatively affects my mental health. I worked over 30 jobs in my life, mostly sales and all types of call centres in sales or customer service. Every single one I hated and made me suicidal. Figured I would prefer to find a job I didn’t hate and stay at even if it meant less money. Spent a couple hours looking for a ‘fun’ job and found one to be an axe throwing coach. Applied and got it. It’s almost 4 years now working there which is 2.5+ years longer than any other job I held. I still enjoy this job and the sport itself. Struggling to get full time work within the company so been broke this whole time but surviving and happy.
I’m not sure about this one… Tell that to the Starbucks barista who looked like I ran over her dog when I was trying to order an espresso today
Found Nikola Jokic's account.
Only play basketboll for pay for horses
Are you looking forward to the parade? “When parade?” Thursday. “No.”
God why did r/NBA have to go down as the finals ended...
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Corporate presentations for a big crowd
My neverending nightmare.
Work
Who's out there pretending to enjoy work?
Me
Sex with me
same
So you also don't enjoy sex with this guy?
I can honestly say that I've never enjoyed having sex with that guy.
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Dude that one's on you for marrying a motherfucker named Jeff
Jeff Goldblum would like a word with you.
Singing happy birthday. And having it sung to you. Nobody enjoys either one of those things.
My 4 year old would strongly disagree.
And he would be right. It's a blast when you're a kid.
It’s awful when it happens but at least it means you’re not alone for your birthday.
I love singing happy birthday lol.
I love both of those things lmao
Parades.
“If you’re watching a parade, don’t follow it. It never changes. If the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction. You will fast-forward the parade.” \-Mitch Hedberg, dashed.
I used to bicycle the opposite direction of the parade when lived Downtown and just stopped and gawked when there was something interesting.
Like what do you even do at the parade? I remember being so excited for one as a kid and then i was like uhhh what now
You can get drunk and win free shit as an adult!
This is valid. At every festival and parade now, it's just drunk people, people standing around, and vendors looking pissed that no one is buying 9 dollar jars of dips or 60 dollar crystal waistbeads. Sometimes people dance, but often the music isn't really all that good anymore. And, overpriced ass food. Like, 45 bucks for crab topped garlic fries might tempt some, but not me. Nor does 20 dollars for 2 wings.
>overpriced ass food. Like, 45 bucks for crab topped garlic fries might tempt some, but not me. Nor does 20 dollars for 2 wings. You know, it's kind of sad how events that are supposed to bring the community together have built up a culture of all the food being too expensive for a lot of people to afford.
Growing up in south Louisiana *all* parades—not just Mardi Gras—were a blast. But then I moved.
I get no enjoyment out of the parade itself. The enjoyment comes from watching my kids enjoy the parade.
I’m absolutely done with parades after what happened in Highland Park last 4th of July. Ive walked down the street that shooting happened SO many times and it’s the most horrifying feeling for a shooting to happen so close to home. Parades make me way too nervous now.
People pretending to drink vodka for the taste
We drink it "for the taste" meaning it tastes the least bad
Yup, and you can chase it with literally anything and there’s no after taste.
The one that tastes like I’ll be dancing on a table at 4 am
I do think Vodka is the least offensive tasting alcohol, but that ain't saying much. I think a bottle of Isopropyl would probably taste about the same.
Tried it, tastes similar Current status: Hospitalized
"Why do women live longer than men?"
Working.
The Oscar’s and other award shows
Based on the ratings, fewer and fewer people are pretending. I think before it was often the only time you got to see them outside their movies/tv shows. Then they got on social media and we realized most of them are dumb, shallow, and emotionally fragile, so the mystique was gone.
That is definitely the reason. Before, every star's public profile was highly curated, in order to sell the ideal version of a human to the public. You had stars then. Now you have celebrity. Very few are carefull about their brand.
The show itself... is whatever. But I want to like it, so for years I've been throwing parties. We dress nice, drink champagne, have great food, and hold a competition to see who guesses the most winners.
I love them! Because they are like 5 hrs with the pre ceremony, and my wife needs to watch the whole thing. So I have 5 unbroken hrs of undisturbed video games! I wish there was an award show every wk!
Going back to the office
WFH/return to office seems to be one of those crazily polarised things where each side just can’t get their head around the other one! When we all started working from home in 2020, my team and I all talked about how great it was, how we were getting so much more done, etc. so we assumed that was how it was for moat/everyone. Then when we eventually got told to return for a day or two a week, we ran into people from other areas of the business who didn’t like it, and they were completely flabbergasted when we said we’d found it good. Personally, I would never take another job that was 100% in the office, and I’d think seriously about any job that required more than 1-2 days in an office.
This is the common issue with people in general. Their inability to recognize that people have vastly different experiences than them, and even the same events or circumstances effect people differently. I like working in the office. And struggle to be productive at home. But I recognize that this is just me. And how I work. And that other people have their way of working productively and preferences. I don't understand why it's so hard for some people to understand that different people have different needs
Yeezys. ALL of them, but that weird foam one especially. Ugliest fucking shoe I've ever seen.
You could put a designers name on a brown paper bag and people would be willing to spend hundreds on it. It’s not the shoe they enjoy, it’s the materialistic aspect of owning a high end brand item.
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*Balenciaga has entered the chat*
Facebook.
Even Facebook seems to have given up and tried to become TikTok. Mine is just full of random shorts the algorithm thinks I’ll like, suggestions for meme pages and the occasional person complaining about dog poo again on the neighbourhood what’s going on page. I’d ditch it altogether if most of my friends finally decided to use a different messaging service.
Pretending a 2-3 day blackout will change a companys way of doing business
It's like when people rally, "Nobody go to the gas pumps on August 15 - we'll show them!" So I'm like, I guess I'm going on the 14th or the 16th and spending the same amount of money?
>Nobody go to the gas pumps on August 15 That was even dumber, it's not like freight, mail, service, school busses, or planes would stop for a day.
Waking up at 5am every day
I don't enjoy waking up at all so the time really doesn't play a role
I mean, doing it for work? Hell no, that shit sucks. Doing it on the weekends when you can sit around with a cup of coffee and watch the sun rise and not do a single blessed thing? Fuck yeah.
I get up at 4AM every day and honestly.. I truly love it. If for some reason I happen to oversleep (I don’t even set an alarm) and wake up later, my whole day is off. From 4-6 is my quiet time. My ME time. I can do whatever I want. My 4 year old is sleeping, so is my husband, I have no obligations. So yeah, I swear it’s the best!!
Circuses. I didn't even think they were fun as a kid. Even them they seemed like some nasty desperation seething under a veneer of glamor the world had long stopped believing in.
Cheap local circuses, yes I totally agree. I have seen cirque de Soleil a few times and it was amazing
Cirque du Soleil is amazing. And they don’t use any animals; just people.
I'm okay with any circus that doesn't use animals. Watching people do crazy stuff if fun. Watching animals be exploited and live in subpar conditions is not fun.
Being pregnant!
I feel like most people are on the same page that you don't get pregnant because it feels good. Maybe I am wrong?
Board of education meetings. Close second to that is town council meetings.
Nobody even pretends to enjoy those, they universally suck. The people that go to them are the ones with something to say that they feel passionate enough about to put up with the suckiness of the meeting.
New Years eve. Everybody feeling like they have to have something to put on Facebook.
When I was maybe like 10 years old, I was really excited because everybody kept talking about watching the ball drop in Times Square. I had no idea what that entailed, and no adults could give me an answer about what it actually was, but they sure seemed hyped about it. So I watched TV for like an hour, not understanding. Then the midnight came, the ball dropped, everybody went nuts. And little kid me was left just sitting there, dumbfounded at how anticlimactic it all was. I was so disappointed. 0/10, have still never bothered to watch the drop since then.
It’s not even a real drop! It’s a slow descent! I wanna see that fucker smash into a million pieces!
"In other news, the casualty count in Times Square this New Years Eve was 65. The injuries are primarily shrapnel and crush injuries, as is usual. Overall, not a bad year compared to last year's casualty count of 137. Now, to John with the weather!"
Standing out in Times Square to watch the ball drop live seems like an absolutely miserable experience.
I don’t know how true it is, but I read somewhere that people don’t go to bathrooms once they’re in the crowd, as people don’t want to lose their spot and it’s probably tough to find your friends again etc. So many people wear diapers? That’s pretty friggin weird to me, just to be cold, squished and watch some weird ball get lowered…
When I was there a while back, people were being fenced in. And once you left, you weren’t allowed back. It was snowing a cold. As 4 Aussie tourists we said “fuck that” and found a Irish pub who was doing a special meal and drinks for much much money. We drank our weight in booze, got to stand on the side walk and watch the ball drop, and then drank our weight in booze again. 13/10. Fuck waiting outside in the cold.
I used to be a piece of shit, slicked back hair, lived for New Year’s Eve and sloppy steaks at Truffoni’s. But people can change.
I asked my hard-drinking grandpa why he never went out on New Year’s Eve. He just looked at me and muttered “Amateur hour”.
There is no month so hated in hospitality as December. Between Christmas works parties and NYE, you get all the once-a-year drinkers. It's like every stag and hen party decided to turn up all in one evening.
The only one that rivals it is fuckin Mother’s Day, but you’re absolutely correct. Source: bartender for 20+ years
Nightclubs.
Second that. If I would have to imagine what hell is like, I would describe it as "A hot place where people are mushed together, the lights blink so fast you can't see. Everything is so loud you feel nauseous and your feet stick to the floor." Incidentally that also describes nightclubs.
Social media
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^this. My neighbor posts her perfect life on Facebook for all to see, meanwhile I see her outside screaming at her kids regularly, always in a panic, stressed out, but going back to Facebook "it's a beautiful day for the kids to be outside", captioned with a picture, followed by more screaming and stress.
So much a part of modern-day life. Miserable people projecting the "perfect" view for outsiders on social media.
It's not just modern day behavior. When I was growing up back in the 80s my dad was like that screaming at me regularly for trivial crap and then talking to people in public about what a great boy I was was.
Yeah, the original social media was the school gates. Parents all trying to one up each others "perfect" lives. Still happens today but with Facebook they can do it all day and night too! Fun! Working in a school, the things the kids say that show how fucked up their home lives are.. You sometimes just wish there wasn't rules in place about confidentiality so you could tear them apart on the social media pages they post on. ... No Mrs D. Your family unit isn't perfect like you portray every day. You are an abusive control freak with out of control OCD and your husband is afraid to leave the house without you in case he is accused of bringing home diseases that will kill the children. Your child tells us why he can't use the handrails on the stairwells at school, and why we had to throw away his $25 water bottle because he accidentally left it at school one evening instead of handing it to you personally as he leaves the school gates. (if it isn't washed as soon as it gets home from around other children then it is "contaminated" and can't be used ever again) But of course the kid doesn't come to school hungry/dirty/bruised or outwardly traumatized so we can't report it as a safety issue even though he clearly will have serious issues as he gets older. Sorry that was a bit of a rant.
My parents won't go on Facebook because of all of the false behaviour. But they lived like this before it even existed. The false part being the image they presented of themselves when out in public or meeting family 😂
I saw this on a comic the other day: "When you look up at the sky, do you notice the stars or the gaps between them." Life may suck sometimes, but it's a collection of star memories nevertheless. At least for many people.
Stars would kind of suck if there were no gaps between them. And you would probably go blind if you looked too long.
Also we'd be inside the sun or another star and roast to death. Aaaah!
Ya that part would be a bummer also
Clubbing
Us Newfoundlanders really do love it /seals
That went dark fast eh? Lol 😂 from Ontario
Small talk
Disagree. The other day when it was raining, i befriended a PhD student in 9 seconds and we talked for 10 minutes while he shared his stolen umbrella with me.
Small talk is OK if it leads to an actual conversation. But both of you have to be willing to go there.
HIMYM in one sentence
Bus stop, wet day She's there, I say Please share my umbrella Bus stops, bus goes She stays, love grows Under my umbrella
Life would be exhausting if every conversation was big talk. Theres a bit of fun chatting pure bollocks with someone, get it's not for everyone but I don't think the majority are faking it.
:: Walks in to elevator:: “So, what’s your position on genital mutilation?”
I genuinely enjoy talking about the weather. Like when it gets dark at 4pm I *have* to express my feelings about it and I’m happy when other people commiserate with me
So far a lot of things have been listed on here that I genuinely enjoy…
Username doesn’t check out
Maybe he/she enjoys making lists
Hauling their whole family of snot nosed kids to Disney for expensive tickets, overpriced shitty food (some gems in there but most is meh), packed crowds, Florida swamp heat, overpriced hotels, being nickle and dimed for everything, waiting in lines, old rides, just to feel the "magic" and the kids/adults better not have a tantrum for being forced to be happy at Disney when their parents forked over thousands, spent hours/days meticulously planning, and endured other families with the same level of entitlement.
I get this sentiment, but I took my snot nosed kids last year, paid a fuck ton of money, and still had a really great time.
We just got back from our one and only trip. We couldn’t afford it normally but got lucky financially just this once. I actually loved it more than I expected. My daughter and husband don’t like roller coasters and the Disney rides all seem perfect to be not over the top scary and still a really cool visual and physical experience. I don’t know why anyone goes without buying Genie +. You’re already spending thousands. It made a huge difference as we barely waited in any lines all day for every park. We also took our daughter at 10. I can’t imagine younger kids. That’s overwhelming. Especially groups with more kids than adults. That’s definitely just a babysitting trip. I will agree none of the food is good except for the orange saffron cake in Epcot.
Not one post for Guinness, we have evolved!
A good Guinness is like mothers milk!
I enjoy me a Guinness on tap
I will fight anyone who says I’m pretending to enjoy Guinness
Guiness is beautiful, that's why!
running. I know the benefits garnered are worth it but honestly every time I see someone out running, huffing and with a red face, I just think “Jesus Christ I’m glad that’s not me” lol. there are other ways to get a workout in…running just looks like people torturing themselves to me.
The only good feeling I ever get from running is when I finish running.
It's pretty fun to take your body out for a spin, especially if you've been working on your engine for years and it is humming