Just about everything is a little bit of a racket. Hell, if everything was sold at cost, there'd be no reason for anyone to run a business. It's when businesses use brand sway and deceitful practices to drive insane markups that things start to seem unfair and hairy. Even if you are spending a lot on movie theater sodas and designer eyeglasses, at least you're not following these bits of the dumbest financial advice people have gotten. On the other side of it, here are reckless uses of money that people didn't regret at all.
By 'this', I mean the lady giving you the huge wad of bills.
Tag your boss in these memes! He could probably use the distraction as well. Bosses at Uber could as well, they've lost $1 billion dollars in 3 months, so they started asking drivers to look in between seat cushions for the missing cash. Sometimes there is really nothing you can do. You've tried to be as flexible as you can, you have talked to your shrink, and taken pills, all to try to avoid accepting the simple truth: You hate your job. Embrace it, and you will feel so much better. Check out some of these hilarious work memes that are all about the best and worst parts of the work day. You might find someone to commiserate with.
It's amazing how quickly stupid tasks become irrelevant the moment it starts costing the company money. The powers that be came down and told this part-timer that they'd have to check their email daily, so naturally, for this employee, it seemed like that should count on company time. For another one, here's a micromanager who demanded too many updates, so an employee fought back with even more updates.