There's no winning with some customers. If there's anything that working retail teaches people, it's to never expect decency or understanding out of another single person. Is that too harsh? Nah. When there's people like this scheming rotten salad lady walking around, there's no question why customer service can take on an adversarial tone.
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Being upset and miserable isn't always a choice, but sometimes we have the option to seek it out in the form of annoying and off-center imperfections. Maybe this kind of thing doesn't bother you. But it probably does. As people with free will, we have the freedom to sit there and gripe at images of sloppy imperfection or stare in delight at delectable images of satisfying perfection. The choice is ours.
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Is "likeability" a totally inherent trait or is it a cluster of behaviors? Probably a little of both. Basically anyone who acts selfishly, lies a lot or stirs up unnecessary drama is going to be a hard person to be around. At the same time, some behaviors feel rude but really aren't. For a shortcut into people's values, one good test is always the shopping cart theory of morality.
The world's in no short supply of rich, entitled, and painfully snobby individuals. Seriously, take a walk around the block and it's only a matter of time before you bump shoulders with someone who is living in a completely different reality from the rest of a rational and respectful society. Of course, there are plenty of people out there that have made their boatloads of money and didn't completely lose their moral compasses along the way. But that's not what this list is about. Nope, this list is about the dead giveaways that someone's a rich prick.
It's probably pretty hard to find a babysitter for four kids under the age of 5, but also, no one told them to have a mountain of kids. There's a surprising amount of babysitter drama, like this entitled mom who lashed out after her babysitter found a better job or this entitled mom who harassed her neighbor about free babysitting. The moment that takes the cake here is when they try to offer what seems like a better rate, but then underestimate that their baby sitter would know basic math.
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The internet is a generally beneficial thing, but it comes with unintended consequences. Notably, it gives a voice to thousands of people with the self-awareness of 7th graders. As it turns out, those people use the internet as an opportunity to brag about their own perceived intelligence, put people down, and aggressively not get jokes. These bragging brain lords believe their geniuses and no amount of self-reflection will convince them otherwise.
We are at heart, frugal, sometimes to the point of staggering paranoia. We're the kind of people who are inclined to look at an overpriced jar of pickles and say to ourselves "Big Pickle must be stopped." Just because a business, practice or concept has been operating for decades doesn't mean that it's not just a scam that people overlook. Stupid pickles are just vinegar and cucumbers anyway.
On the flipside, here are some things people think are scams but aren't really.
Sure, there are history memes for the already learned and work memes for those of us who made it out, but there remains a festering pile of memories in everyone regarding their time in school. The horrible group projects, the cringeworthy presentations, the stressful tests and the absurdity of it all left marks on all of us. Some of those marks are somewhat nice, like this nostalgic thread on elementary school, but a lot of them are just scars.
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Like Pixar movies and Harry Potter, the denizens of Tumblr have always had a strong knowledge of young adult dystopian fiction. For a while there it was like every new book for tweens was about a teenager in a messed up hierarchy forced to play games of death. There's nothing exactly wrong with that. It's just that like anything else, people's favorite books of their early teen years have become a coldly optimized version of themselves, designed to take advantage of a cultivated interest. Tumblr has a habit of noticing things, like when Tumblr broke down the nine types of movie posters.
Work comes with a distinct set of expectations. As long as people are basically cooperative and don't get on each other's nerves, everyone can walk away happy. But sometimes a person's explosive personality, annoying habits, or smell can get in the way of that. Particularly bad coworkers will even steal lunches or use sonograms to trick their boyfriend.
The internet's full of mind titans and obnoxious "brainiacs" that spew off half baked sentiments that are wrapped up in flowery words with the intention to flex those fragile egos. Unfortunately, these brainiacs are blinded by the love they possess for hearing themselves talk, and thus don't realize that everyone else is having none of it. Hopefully you don't find yourself realizing you say a lot of the things mentioned in this list. But, if you do, never too late to change.
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It's hard to know what to expect when crossing paths with an entitled person and their excruciating behavior. There are people out there who expect that they can pay rent with chill vibes. There are customers who will try to tip with monopoly money. There are people who will write a strongly worded email complaining about the free donuts they get at the office. The world is a show when entitled people are let out to play.
We don't live in a mathematically perfect world of right angles and whole numbers, and that's a problem. We're human, so off-center imperfections are the name of our game, and getting used to that reality never gets much easier. Just one "not my job" moment is enough to make something not work in a way that frustrates us completely, but there's not much we can do about it.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with being smart. The world needs smart people. Like a lot. The problem is that dumb people have a tendency to think that they're smart. It could be caused by narcissism. It could be due to the fact that social media gives people a whole lot of space to talk about themselves. Either way these brain tyrants who think they're literal geniuses have a peculiar way of somehow being condescending and stupid at the same time. It's maddening.
Nothing can quite sink the spirits like reckoning with the realization that you've had a couple wildly rude, genuinely insensitive human beings move into your otherwise peaceful apartment complex. It sounds like these neighbors just loved to stir up trouble. And then when they were rightfully called out for their antics, they just made it about them. Hopefully the fine that they ended up receiving was enough of a wakeup call for them to change their ways. For some more lovely drama between neighbors check out this story about some neighbors that stole from someone's garden, and then the plant puns wall of shame that ensued.
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Nobody likes to deal with obnoxious neighbors that refuse to be considerate when it comes to keeping the noise levels down. When you're spending time in your home, you don't want to end up feeling like it's a genuine struggle to actually find some peace of mind. Well, this guy decided to take matters into his own hands with the kind of invention that could annoy someone into a state of hopeless madness.
