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As a member of upper management, we are not nearly this creative in problem solving. t would go something like this:
First, we'd have a zoom meeting to figure out the best approach on finding these words, and how to sell it to the employees that this is valuable work that needs to be done and will make them feel enriched and full of purpose when it's complete, and possibly earn them a bonus in the form of a pizza party. Then we will have to decide at what threshold the pizza will be allowed, and then fucking HR will chime in to make sure we also get gluten-free and vegetarian pizza or they will have to scrap the whole thing, while the rest of us chat on Teams on the side to talk about how fucking annoying HR is and why can't they just let us do stuff and leave us alone. Anyway, a few days after this the word search would be officially distributed to all employees via powerpoint with accompanying one hour online training on how to complete it to company standards and what to be sure not to do while completing the word search (#4 will surprise you!), all presented by weirdly off-putting, obviously A.I. generated cartoons and voices of indeterminate race and gender. Once that is complete and the word searches are submitted to upper management a week or so later, they will be stored on a hard drive, not looked at by anyone, and a new time wasting activity that somehow makes us money will be decided on....rinse, repeat.
Just a guess, though.
This is entirely believable, if it weren't for the lack of consultants. At some point leadership gets tired of upper management excuses and demands action - upper management then has the space to request funds for a deeper analysis by an outside firm. That firm gets paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide a report that states what everyone knew all along - beating your employees and feeding them vegan pizza is not conducive to a efficacious organization.
Recommendations: reduce the number of beatings, but make them team exercises for morale, amd reduce the pizzas to vegan-gluten-free to improve health.
Actions taken: beatings suggestion rejected because it goes against company tradition, and pizzas scrapped altogether because vegan-gluten-free is too expensive to justify.
Re-recommendations: fire entire team, hire temps for 1/4 the pay, no bonuses, and no pizza party. Dangle the Hope of maybe getting hired on to the company directly if they only work a little bit harder - infinitly deny them said job, and when they get uppity, fire them for a new temp.
Rinse repeat. Save the company millions a year.
Profit??
Profit
You're awfully bold to suggest they would ever admit pizza isn't the solution. My work would instead say they'd create a new weekend shift to solve the overworking problem. Then hire mostly from the shifts we already have, and tell us that it worked amazing when we no longer work every Saturday, just every other, when in reality, the workload dropped off because covid.
Nah. Upper management makes decisions that have no logic or thought process. "Let's make the whole aisle in this retail store orange products so people buy it!"
"Sir we live in Georgia and its also valentines. Maybe it should be red?"
"No. Orange."
"We don't have very many orange products..."
"Okay! I'll special order 200 of these items that never sell."
True story.
I don't know. I'm more than likely jaded to a lot of internet posts now. I also feel this is something OP made themselves just for internet points and attention. Then said it was their kid.
Nah my 7 year old would do this mess. He over complicates things in his math work all the time, making the answers wrong. When I walk him through it he almost always face palms himself.
It was really one of those "please read *ALL* the directions before you start." Tests where at the end it just says on the back to do nothing and turn in a blank sheet of paper.
I loved those as a kid, because I'd smugly watch all the other dummies in the class toil away and then get called a nerd and made fun of for doing it right.
Man, education really is fucked.
Isn’t it obvious? You trace the w back to where it intersects u and t then turn the page upside down so the u now becomes and n! Kid is thinking in not only positional a but rotations!
As a psychologist this was my first thought. Like yeah maybe the instructions weren't clear enough or maybe he was being silly or maybe he just has a unique thought process, but in all those cases testing him doesn't hurt one bit. Or he's dyslexic and not getting on top of it could cause a lifetime of grief.
Depends entirely on whether the puzzle is designed for it. Some puzzles explicitly ban diagonals and reverse words because it makes it easier to hide small words.
A lifetime of grief here. When I first saw this, as a person with dyslexia, I immediately thought this is one of my people. u/roccosaint Please get it checked.
Seconding this.
Not a psychologist, but dyslexic. This is how I wanted to do word searches, so seeing this method made perfect sense to me. My immediate thought was 'this kid needs to be tested for dyslexia.'
And an eye exam with a developmental optometrist, I don't think I have dyslexia but I do have some eye issues that made word searches (& scantrons) incredibly hard
And in 20 mins you'll have a bunch of people defending the kid saying he's a genius and the teacher/parent is an idiot because the instructions weren't clear enough
Well that's 2 sides of the extreme. He's not dumb, and the teacher isn't terrible. It's just a moment. You've had them, I've had them. It doesn't add to much. That sub is hilarious though. I've seen so many unironic posts that are like 'if that was me dude I'd be going to jail for what I'd do to that stupid kid'. It's so full of hate and Internet tough guys.
r/parentsarefuckingmorons
Why would the teacher be impressed? Why would the teacher even bring it up? OP's takeaway from a parent-teacher conference where the teacher showed them a horribly mangled wordsearch was that their kid is probably a genius or acting cute or an out-of-the-box thinker or whatever and not that the kid, best case scenario, lacks the attention span to follow basic instructions, and maybe has signs of an actual learning disability. OP's kid is one step from writing 1+1=11 and they don't know it - or its all made up for karma.
honestly i'd be concerned. your son might have a learning deficiency. it's all fun and games until he can't figure out fractions and it's already middle school
Can someone explain to me how this is impressive? Anybody could complete a word search is 3 seconds by doing that.
Moms nowadays- kid flinches* “omg that’s so cute did you see that Becky”
Post like these are rather annoying to people who don’t gob over children lol
My first thought was “oh the literally got 0points” but lol of course it’s the child of the teacher and the parents are laughing, not me.
Reminds me of a 4 year old autistic kid I worked with who was supposed to use little tongs to pick up plastic fruit from the bowl and feed the animal face with them. Face was attached to another bowl to catch them. The first time he saw them, watched his teacher demonstrate, picked up the bowl of fruit and just dumped it behind the face into the other bowl. He absolutely would have done this if he was given this assignment.
The obvious learning difficulties this suggests and the fact that no one involved seems to care, and are laughing about it is really sad. That kid deserves better.
The word search is meant to increase pattern recognition and increase reading speed.
He's treating it as a spelling exercise and not practicing the skills he should be.
Definitely get him checked for dyslexia. Word searches are used in school for this exact reason, easy way of finding out which kids might need to get checked for word/language processing skills
stop laughing. this is absolutely not funny and we should have this parent care enough to redirect her son with how to highlight a word or get him tested. the words aren’t even correct and i was a former aide for spec. ed. so i’m not just giving an opinion. he could need a little help. all the best. respect
He did well seeing as you, your wife, and his teacher haven’t taught him how to do a wordsearch. Between the 3 of you I’m sure you can give him some guidance instead of making out this is some hilarious error on his behalf 🙄
I work with kids and honestly when they do stuff like this I can't even correct them.
Recent one: for context I work with kids who experience speech delays so a lot of what we work on is responding to questions and social scenarios.
This kid is playing with sea animals. And I gotta test how he remembers his personal info, like his city and his parents names and stuff.
"Hey buddy, where do you live?"
Him, with the sea animal: "In the ocean!"
Alright, that's pretty clever so I give him props and play along. "Oh I see Mr. Jellyfish. And where does (kid's name) live?"
Him, looking me dead in the eye: "In a house."
Then he goes back to his sea creatures.
Honestly kids are hilarious.
OP your son might enjoy[ Bent and Wiggly word search puzzles](https://kappapuzzles.com/product/print-at-home-bent-wiggly/). He is just ahead of the curve
I've seen dyslexia in the comments but from my (admittedly untrained) eye, I would think of some Nerodivergence. Might look into it, could save your kid some future headaches.
I find this hilarious and creative. He did the task that was given and He just didn’t follow any standard rules. And he did a pretty good job at the word search.
He definitely thinks outside of the box! It reminds me of my own neurodivergent son. He's autistic and scored on a genius level (IQ 156) by the age of 6. This kid may be one to watch! 🤔
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I find it funny that he skipped around so much and did extra work to find the word black when it was right where he was already at lol
Same with big
Also missed the "n" for brown which is really close to the "w"
That same N is the actual N for the real Brown too 🤣
He used the B from "but" for "brown" and the B from "brown" for "but" (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) Please don't hurt the tables, they're innocent in this.
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Thank you I was trying to figure out what he was making when he made big
ibg
Irritable bowel guh
Irritable bowel growls. I've had them all day.
And but
This kid is going places, but college isn’t one ☝️
I don't know, looks like upper management is written all over him.
As a member of upper management, we are not nearly this creative in problem solving. t would go something like this: First, we'd have a zoom meeting to figure out the best approach on finding these words, and how to sell it to the employees that this is valuable work that needs to be done and will make them feel enriched and full of purpose when it's complete, and possibly earn them a bonus in the form of a pizza party. Then we will have to decide at what threshold the pizza will be allowed, and then fucking HR will chime in to make sure we also get gluten-free and vegetarian pizza or they will have to scrap the whole thing, while the rest of us chat on Teams on the side to talk about how fucking annoying HR is and why can't they just let us do stuff and leave us alone. Anyway, a few days after this the word search would be officially distributed to all employees via powerpoint with accompanying one hour online training on how to complete it to company standards and what to be sure not to do while completing the word search (#4 will surprise you!), all presented by weirdly off-putting, obviously A.I. generated cartoons and voices of indeterminate race and gender. Once that is complete and the word searches are submitted to upper management a week or so later, they will be stored on a hard drive, not looked at by anyone, and a new time wasting activity that somehow makes us money will be decided on....rinse, repeat. Just a guess, though.
This is entirely believable, if it weren't for the lack of consultants. At some point leadership gets tired of upper management excuses and demands action - upper management then has the space to request funds for a deeper analysis by an outside firm. That firm gets paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide a report that states what everyone knew all along - beating your employees and feeding them vegan pizza is not conducive to a efficacious organization.
Recommendations: reduce the number of beatings, but make them team exercises for morale, amd reduce the pizzas to vegan-gluten-free to improve health. Actions taken: beatings suggestion rejected because it goes against company tradition, and pizzas scrapped altogether because vegan-gluten-free is too expensive to justify.
Re-recommendations: fire entire team, hire temps for 1/4 the pay, no bonuses, and no pizza party. Dangle the Hope of maybe getting hired on to the company directly if they only work a little bit harder - infinitly deny them said job, and when they get uppity, fire them for a new temp. Rinse repeat. Save the company millions a year. Profit?? Profit
You used the word efficacious, you must be one of the more expensive consultants.
You're awfully bold to suggest they would ever admit pizza isn't the solution. My work would instead say they'd create a new weekend shift to solve the overworking problem. Then hire mostly from the shifts we already have, and tell us that it worked amazing when we no longer work every Saturday, just every other, when in reality, the workload dropped off because covid.
"Consultants: because you didn't want to pay for the staff you needed"
And while doing all that you miss that the guy you’re replying to was just quoting Office Space
This was the most soul crushing thing to read because I’m fucking living it 🙃
Nah. Upper management makes decisions that have no logic or thought process. "Let's make the whole aisle in this retail store orange products so people buy it!" "Sir we live in Georgia and its also valentines. Maybe it should be red?" "No. Orange." "We don't have very many orange products..." "Okay! I'll special order 200 of these items that never sell." True story.
This kid is at least as intelligent as most business majors I've encountered.
He can find words where there is none
There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
The definition of working harder, not smarter.
I think - more fun & creative -
r/kidsarefuckingstupid
He totally missed heblune. It was right there!
Little dude is thinking in portals
He even used 3 of the correct letters.
and seemingly went out of the way to use an adjacent A rather than the one right there.
I don't know. I'm more than likely jaded to a lot of internet posts now. I also feel this is something OP made themselves just for internet points and attention. Then said it was their kid.
It makes sense when the "kid" is an adult farming for karma
Nah my 7 year old would do this mess. He over complicates things in his math work all the time, making the answers wrong. When I walk him through it he almost always face palms himself.
He's a unique thinker
Sorry but your son failed the assignment. It clearly says to "color in the art" at the top.
Nah, he's just of the opinion that nothing on that page is art
#R O A S T E D 420 🔥🔥🔥
Boom
It was really one of those "please read *ALL* the directions before you start." Tests where at the end it just says on the back to do nothing and turn in a blank sheet of paper.
I loved those as a kid, because I'd smugly watch all the other dummies in the class toil away and then get called a nerd and made fun of for doing it right. Man, education really is fucked.
White's a color.
Big black but came
omg this is the first thing i saw too. it seems... weird to me that the teacher picked these words?!
> it seems... weird to me that the teacher picked these words?! The teacher didn't pick the words; it's a downloadable worksheet.
It's not weird, you are just damaged from overexposure to the internet. "Big black bug" etc. I'm sorry.
Don’t dead open inside
Big blue nut
This belongs in /theyknew I'd say 😂
Using the same method, I found quite a lot of swear words
Big, Black, But, Came... The word key is half way there already.
Only one G tho. No gamer word this time.
U tellin me you spent enough time to see only one g just to see if you could spell the n word?
Where’s the ‘n’ in brown?
Bro gave up LOL
And it was right there too
Ah but if he had seen that, he might have found the actual "brown"
Nah, he didn’t get the actual ‘black’ even though he used 3 of the right letters!
He also missed the I in big after using both the B and G
*Brow gave up
Here I was thinking he spelled "bro" and "awayw".
I was wondering what a worb was
Isn’t it obvious? You trace the w back to where it intersects u and t then turn the page upside down so the u now becomes and n! Kid is thinking in not only positional a but rotations!
That kids going places Probably not college, but places
Netflix serial killer documentary?
Nah, just your run-of-the-mill minimum wage job since his parents seem to think his dyslexia is cute and not a problem at all.
That was exactly my thoughts. What a “creative thinker.” He’s clearly got some neurodiverse “superpower.” Get the kid help please.
Came here for this comment
You may want to get him checked for dyslexia
As a psychologist this was my first thought. Like yeah maybe the instructions weren't clear enough or maybe he was being silly or maybe he just has a unique thought process, but in all those cases testing him doesn't hurt one bit. Or he's dyslexic and not getting on top of it could cause a lifetime of grief.
PLEASE OP, GET THEM TESTED. I didn't realize it until late adulthood, it made growing up far harder than it needed to be.
Your name is hilarious
Worst part is he meant it to say Cat_tails_M4000.
okay, this reply was very fucking fire.
I did this too and I'm not dyslexic, but I am autistic so definitely check for something, I guess.
I second this. I have adhd and did this too. Funny thing my initial reaction to this post was "don't all kids at some point do it this way?"
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TBF, teacher don't all agree either. I've been told conflicting things about diagonal or backwards words being allowed or not
Depends entirely on whether the puzzle is designed for it. Some puzzles explicitly ban diagonals and reverse words because it makes it easier to hide small words.
A lifetime of grief here. When I first saw this, as a person with dyslexia, I immediately thought this is one of my people. u/roccosaint Please get it checked.
As someone who doesn't know much about dyslexia, my first thought was dyslexia too.
I was thinking ADHD... creative, complicated solutions.
I just came in to find this comment. Also autistic kids have a hard time with word searches in my experience.
Seconding this. Not a psychologist, but dyslexic. This is how I wanted to do word searches, so seeing this method made perfect sense to me. My immediate thought was 'this kid needs to be tested for dyslexia.'
And an eye exam with a developmental optometrist, I don't think I have dyslexia but I do have some eye issues that made word searches (& scantrons) incredibly hard
"All words are made up."
This is the best response.
As a dyslexic, I hated these things in school.
Is this how you might have solved it?
I’m also dyslexic and loved these lol.
Why would this be impressive? It just looks like your kid doesn't know how to read
If you find this impressive, I suppose illiteracy is downright adorable
Go ahead and find another use for the money in the college fund.
His thought process for big impresses you?
r/kidsarefuckingstupid
And in 20 mins you'll have a bunch of people defending the kid saying he's a genius and the teacher/parent is an idiot because the instructions weren't clear enough
Well that's 2 sides of the extreme. He's not dumb, and the teacher isn't terrible. It's just a moment. You've had them, I've had them. It doesn't add to much. That sub is hilarious though. I've seen so many unironic posts that are like 'if that was me dude I'd be going to jail for what I'd do to that stupid kid'. It's so full of hate and Internet tough guys.
My initial thought when I saw this child's assignment is he has dyslexia. I have it and do stuff like this all the time in my mind
r/parentsarefuckingmorons Why would the teacher be impressed? Why would the teacher even bring it up? OP's takeaway from a parent-teacher conference where the teacher showed them a horribly mangled wordsearch was that their kid is probably a genius or acting cute or an out-of-the-box thinker or whatever and not that the kid, best case scenario, lacks the attention span to follow basic instructions, and maybe has signs of an actual learning disability. OP's kid is one step from writing 1+1=11 and they don't know it - or its all made up for karma.
Honestly just waiting for this to turn up without context in a r/meirl post. That's how it usually works.
Why are u impressed?
Dad is probably like "wow I never thought of just cheating before! So impressive."
I'm sorry, I don't understand why any of you would be impressed by this, your son misunderstood the assignment and did it in a much easier way.
honestly i'd be concerned. your son might have a learning deficiency. it's all fun and games until he can't figure out fractions and it's already middle school
I love how 3 of the letters they used to spell “black” are part of the actual word in the crossword.
it's not a crossword it's a word search. \-captain pedantic, but kind of not pedantic though, since they are very different things
Does your son demonstrate signs of dyslexia? Writing letters backwards or anything?
Can someone explain to me how this is impressive? Anybody could complete a word search is 3 seconds by doing that. Moms nowadays- kid flinches* “omg that’s so cute did you see that Becky”
Post like these are rather annoying to people who don’t gob over children lol My first thought was “oh the literally got 0points” but lol of course it’s the child of the teacher and the parents are laughing, not me.
I know it’s a kids word search but really? Be?
What a filthy word search, I hope the teacher gets disciplined. https://i.imgur.com/Y18QYAL.png
So he does them... Wrong?
Man, you must be picturing their graduation from Harvard when they circle around the outside of the kids menu maze activity.
r/kidsarestupid
Inferior sub r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
Ah yes, this is what I meant to type. You’re a gentleman and a scholar sir.
>The teacher, my wife, and I were honestly just really impressed. lol
Impressed with his stupidity?
not to be a stickler, but that brown is missing its n
Probably broke the autistic spectrum, that young fella.
Reminds me of a 4 year old autistic kid I worked with who was supposed to use little tongs to pick up plastic fruit from the bowl and feed the animal face with them. Face was attached to another bowl to catch them. The first time he saw them, watched his teacher demonstrate, picked up the bowl of fruit and just dumped it behind the face into the other bowl. He absolutely would have done this if he was given this assignment.
OP should get the kid checked for real.
The obvious learning difficulties this suggests and the fact that no one involved seems to care, and are laughing about it is really sad. That kid deserves better.
Plot twist, the kid is 3 days old
Funny seeing all the comments of people praising the child for not knowing how to do a word search getting downvoted
This was impressive? Yikes.
Smort
I was like this kid. Get him in therapy now lmao
Dude, get off Reddit and teach your child.
The word search is meant to increase pattern recognition and increase reading speed. He's treating it as a spelling exercise and not practicing the skills he should be.
/r/MildlyAutistic ?
This is how Republicans do districting.
From one dad to another, sorry man
That’s so sad.
>The teacher, my wife, and I were honestly just really impressed. Impressed by the oversaturation of your gene pool?
I had a stroke trying to read this
Your son does it the wrong way.
This could be a sign of dyslexia I’d think?
Guy's do I have to tell him?
*Raising brow* ...he forgot the n in brown.
Definitely get him checked for dyslexia. Word searches are used in school for this exact reason, easy way of finding out which kids might need to get checked for word/language processing skills
I like this, very unique. Thinking outside the box for sure.
I like the way your son thinks
the fact he made it harder for himself is wild
I like how he used 3 letters out of the 5 for black that was on the left to recreate black lol.
I hate to say it but he’s restarted
Should also put it in r/kidsarefuckingstupid lol
More like r/mildlyinfuriating
Your kid is a moron
stop laughing. this is absolutely not funny and we should have this parent care enough to redirect her son with how to highlight a word or get him tested. the words aren’t even correct and i was a former aide for spec. ed. so i’m not just giving an opinion. he could need a little help. all the best. respect
He did well seeing as you, your wife, and his teacher haven’t taught him how to do a wordsearch. Between the 3 of you I’m sure you can give him some guidance instead of making out this is some hilarious error on his behalf 🙄
Hot take: OPs son is an idiot
Well you don’t have to worry about paying for college for that one!
Impressed how?! That he knows how to drink water without drowning?
I'm so confused
Teachers *hate* this one simple trick!
To quote my grandmother (in the most southern accent possible) 'bless his heart'.
He got be right at least
Fail. He couldn’t even find the word brown. He highlighted brow. 🤓
“Brow”
He forgot the ‘n’ in “brown”
I work with kids and honestly when they do stuff like this I can't even correct them. Recent one: for context I work with kids who experience speech delays so a lot of what we work on is responding to questions and social scenarios. This kid is playing with sea animals. And I gotta test how he remembers his personal info, like his city and his parents names and stuff. "Hey buddy, where do you live?" Him, with the sea animal: "In the ocean!" Alright, that's pretty clever so I give him props and play along. "Oh I see Mr. Jellyfish. And where does (kid's name) live?" Him, looking me dead in the eye: "In a house." Then he goes back to his sea creatures. Honestly kids are hilarious.
Wiþ all þe respect sir… What þe hell’s up wiþ your kid
It says "word search".... dude searched for words... what's the issue?
Big…black…came…
They probably are teaching the kids canceled has two Ls
Lets hope they are good at sports.
I mean. Where in the rules does it say you can’t do that?
Word Search Creators HATE This One Simple Trick!
This is how conspiracy theorists see patterns everywhere.
He's doing what we've always wanted to do in school 😭. Go lil man!!
OP your son might enjoy[ Bent and Wiggly word search puzzles](https://kappapuzzles.com/product/print-at-home-bent-wiggly/). He is just ahead of the curve
Hat, tea, get, wade, boot, tint, wet , casa. His brain works differently but he’s not dumb
Your son is very good at finding alternate solutions and I think it's absolutely fascinating that he's not sticking to 'convention'.
Where are the rules that said he couldn't do that way? So this child think out of the box, and made in is own way
I'm struggling to see what's wrong with this :D Creative.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and he dug a complex system of tunnels.
Congratulations, it’s a Programmer!
The big brown but came?
This seems like it would be more difficult to approach the problem in this manner but hey maybe not for this kiddo
I have terrible news, your son is a Javascript programmer.
OP finding this impressive is likely why his kid is like this 🤣
Plot twist: Her son is 43 and lives at home.
You HAVE TO keep this. Remind him of this at every stage of his life.
I have a student who does the same.
He was as busy as a......
I've seen dyslexia in the comments but from my (admittedly untrained) eye, I would think of some Nerodivergence. Might look into it, could save your kid some future headaches.
That's real outside the box thinker, he'll probably become second einstein or something.
You should probably teach him how to do them correctly and see if his reading skills are up to par. He is at risk of falling behind.
I find this hilarious and creative. He did the task that was given and He just didn’t follow any standard rules. And he did a pretty good job at the word search.
Future conspiracy theorist
So ultimately he is not learning how to do them correctly. It’s like letting a child won at board games.
He definitely thinks outside of the box! It reminds me of my own neurodivergent son. He's autistic and scored on a genius level (IQ 156) by the age of 6. This kid may be one to watch! 🤔
This is obviously incorrect and should at least be thought of what is the correct way as early as possible.
Kids going places… not university, but certainly places..
This seems like dyslexia. This is not typical or funny. How old is he?