Everyone has wondered if their life would be more peaceful if they worked in an animal shelter, or got to play video games all day. As it turns out, a job is still a job, and there's a reason people don't do it for free. For more insight into other people's jobs, here are bad stock photos of people's jobs getting roasted, as well as stories of the worst things people's coworker's did without being fired.
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As it turns out, it's hard to formulate a decent representation of a lab tech when all you have is a model and a few beakers of colored liquid. It's like everyone's job is a cartoon. For more funny an accurate criticism, here are people's questionable haircuts getting roasted as well as some hilariously precise rare insults.
Work in any field long enough and you'll see your fair share of wonderfully unprofessional "not my job" moments. There's slides that go right off buildings, misspelled signs and extremely lazy line painting, just to name a few. It makes you feel good about yourself to see people's majestically incompetent "not my job" moments.
It seems like when you get down to the nitty gritty of just about any industry, there are some shady parts of it that no one wants to talk about. Even the most fun and simple seeming industries like avocados or tropical fish have seriously dark sides. When it comes to how a company treats it's employees, there are some definite red flags when it comes to looking for a job.
Someone got an AskReddit thread going about the red flags to keep a watchful eye out for while job hunting. Taking note of these might come in handy next time you find yourself looking for a new job, and don't want to end up in a difficult situation that could've been avoidable from the get go, if you but knew what to steer clear of from the start.
This fun thread had people describe times they witnessed lazy people be tasked with the notoriously difficult jobs, and from there, dig up the easiest ways to perform those hard tasks. The mind is an impossibly complex machine, and one that can craft ingenious ways for accomplishing tough tasks, through the use of shortcuts. This thread brought to mind that one time a lazy navy officer ended up being a lazy genius, while on the job.
Someone on AskReddit asked for people to share their experiences with working jobs that were so bad, that they quit on the first day. Sometimes, one ends up working a job that they feel is so polluted by negativity and ridiculously unnecessary BS, that they ultimately decide to remove themselves from the environment. For these folks, that walk out the door took place on the first day. At least they didn't waste time.
Twitter users share some of their best tips for how to lose a job, in four words. Well, not every one of these dishes out the lose-your-job advice in four words, but still. Maybe you're fed up with your gig, and looking for something new, and weren't sure how to make the most glorious of exits. Maybe you'll find yourself trying out one of these.
Many of us have found ourselves in the middle of a job we didn't like because we failed to ask the right questions during the job interview process. It's essential to use that job interview to ask worthwhile questions of your own. These might help with a framework for what to ask.
Interviewing for a new job can be a terrifying and soul-draining process. We put ourselves out there and try to do a decent enough job at selling ourselves to a willing company. Sometimes it goes well, and sometimes you leave the room with a sour taste in your mouth, convinced that you'll never be seeing that person again. These job interview memes speak to the struggles of the job interview process.
Shoutout to the folks at The Chive for discovering the goldmine of ridiculous human behavior that runs rife throughout this "help wanted" ad for a babysitter. Twitter user @honeystaysuper, unearthed just the kind of "help wanted" ad that leaves the rest of the world speechless. I don't even know where to start with this one. The attention to detail is honestly admirable. Nothing seems to be overlooked in terms of what constitutes a suitable babysitter.
Someone on AskReddit asked for people that like their jobs to share why. If you find yourself in the middle of a job situation that's just sapping all your energy and leaving you a miserable mess, you might stand to benefit from taking a look at these jobs that are actually making people excited about life.
Some things seem incomprehensible if you don't have a background in them, but just giving it 30 minutes of effort or following directions makes a lot of things surprisingly easy. If this made you feel even slightly motivated, here are life hacks and tips for becoming a slightly more effective person.
Everyone has their breaking point, and some people lack the kind of common decency that's necessary to be able to see when you've pushed things too far. This customer just sounds like an awful person. Fortunately, things end up working out for the employee who was originally fired for not putting up with someone just being a terrible person.
This rude startup company has take it upon themselves to design toilets intentionally tilted to such an angle, that workers won't want to sit on the toilet for longer than five minutes. Apparently nothing is sacred after all. Is it really any surprise that companies might want to aggressively attack those areas of productivity in the workforce, that they see as coming up short? Unfortunately, no, it's not.
