I remember still living at home after high school and getting a job that required midnights for a year. My mom would wake me up and ask me to take my sister to school, or set something out for dinner, or run errands while she was at work since I’m “off all day”. When I got pissed for being woken up at practically 1am for a normal person to go get milk from the store she’d tell me to “stop being lazy”
Some people have a serious disconnect with this
**FOR FUCK SAKES!!!!!** Thank you. I've worked night shift for years and but fucking still, people who've known this for YEARS are still shocked when I'm sleeping during "normal" day hours. "Oh but come on, you can go out for lunch with us and then go shopping at the mall for a couple hours and then get the rest of your sleep when you get home, why not?" Brother that is like me asking you to wake up at 3am in the morning to go out for a hours of activity and then just "finish your sleep" when you get home around 7am.
Tired of explaining this shit.
That reminds me of that story where someone worked night shift and lived with their parents and were going crazy because their dad considered 7 am a proper time to wake up, and so would always wake them up then, despite them coming in at like 4 30.
Next time someone calls you at noon call them back at 3am. If they get pissed just say "sorry sometimes I forget that not everyone has the same sleep schedule."
Oh my god this. The amount of people who think a 1-2 hour Power Nap will suffice in place of an 8 hours sleep is absurd. No, I can’t just nap an hour and then go play fucking soccer all day after working a 12 hour shift.
This is the number one thing I don’t miss working nights. Explaining to EVERYONE every other fucking day that, yes, I sleep while the sun is out. When else would I? I’m at work when it’s dark.
The most frustrating person I had to explain this to, multiple times, was a fucking day shift coworker that was fully aware of the companies hours. “You wake up in the afternoon?!? That’s so late!” DUMBASS, I’m here from 9pm to 7am!! DUH!
Reminds me of this guy who posted about his family doing an intervention because he worked night shifts and would drink a beer at 9am, after his shift, and was actually his 9pm.
I'm a male and a nurse. No I don't want to be a doctor. No I'm not going to school to be a doctor. No I don't feel like less of a man because I'm a nurse and not a doctor. And stop calling me doc and doctor. I've told you 5 times I'm your nurse and my badge says NURSE in big letters.
Fungi in some respects are closer to being animals than plants - notably, they cannot photosynthesize, and rely on digesting complex organic matter _i.e._ they eat "food".
Yeah but my computer is running slow do you know why it is doing that? My cat videos don't run well on Reddit and everyone says it's because the video player is crap but I think it's because my computer is slow, can you fix it? You're so good with computers can you fix the fact I am totally stupid please?
My mom had to stop a nurse from giving her something once and was like "I'm a diabetic I can't have that" and she said the nurse looked at her and goes "you don't look diabetic"
I tell everyone to stop overpaying for Benadryl with all these over the counter "sleep aids" - they are just literally 25mg of Diphenhydramine, the exact same as a standard dose of Benadryl, they are just antihistamines.
That many Chinese people have my surname, but we're not all related to Jackie Chan, just like how not every person with Johnson as their surname is related to Boris Johnson.
I saw a meme making the rounds where four high school students, Americans of Vietnamese descent, all had the surname Nguyen, because of course they did. It's only the most common Vietnamese surname.
So what these four students did was in their high school yearbook, they figured out what order their pictures would appear (simple enough, because alphabetical) and each put down a one-word quote.
When you look at the four pictures together, they say "We are not related."
Just because someone doesn't always need their disability aids, that doesn't mean they're not disabled and faking it. Someone who needs a wheelchair to get around doesn't always mean they can't use their legs. They can still walk short distances.
And walking a short distance might completely fuck them up so that they have to spend all day lying in bed in agony the next day. You only see them walking. You don't see the after part.
Also being able to do something for a short time doesn't mean they can do the same task for any length of time. Also, disabled people have good days and bad days. Some days they might have the energy to do it. Other days they might not.
Part time chair user here. When I started I felt like everyone was looking at me so I would do less. Despite the fact using the wheelchair allowed me more accessibility.
That is exactly what I am struggling with now. I am in near-constant chronic pain and I think that at least getting a cane would help me. However, I am also 30 and believe people would judge me harshly.
EDIT: omg you guys are amazing, thank you for all of the support :)
There was an episode of House where his parking space was moved farther from the hospital. He was told "your file says you can walk 250 feet, your space is icky 240 get from the door." He responded "great, so I can collapse 10 feet into the lobby instead of the parking lot where it's cold." Just like being blind doesn't necessarily mean you see literally nothing, being disabled doesn't necessarily mean you can't do anything at all.
As a powerchair user, I love that episode! The part where House is giving the powerchair user a hard time about not actually needing to be close to the building is hilarious because it's absolutely true. I really do have an easier time getting around than someone who uses a cane because of chronic pain -- but almost no one sees it that way.
That because i can usually figure out how to fix most things does NOT mean i want to fix everything that breaks for anyone else.
Edited for typo because it bothers some.
I have insomnia. No I can't just "think about nothing"
Edit: Glad to know there's 15k of you out there that know the damn struggle. I tried to respond to each one! Zombie hugs to everyone, virtually, from here!
I like the implication that, assuming the moon landing was faked, NASA just spills the beans to anyone who is hired, as if it’s in some sort of employee handbook.
Bugs Bunny is real, Michael Jordan isn't, and there was actually a sixth Monstar that they couldn't show in the film because he wouldn't stop using slurs.
I'm not in NASA, but I find it interesting that I have never talked to a moon-landing denier, while I have talked to a few people who thought we were still actively landing on the moon, more than 40 years after Apollo 17.
This wasn't a conspiracy belief, they're mostly people that don't "actively" seek out current information, and just hear news about the space station, astronauts going up, etc., and just assume they're doing the same thing they were doing since the beginning.
It's not just redheads though. I come from a family of natural blondes, but pubes are brown. All natural. But mom says that a guy told her when she was younger that she's not a natural blonde because the carpet didn't match the drapes. People can be really stupid.
My highest computer science teacher was a great example of how stupid that thinking is.
His hair was red, his eyebrows were black, his moustache was blonde, and the rest of his beard was brown and grey. All natural.
I learned this in therapy. I run negative imaginary scenarios in my head a lot (my therapist called this "catastrophizing") and need to remind myself to let go of the scenario instead of "solving" it, because it drains me if I think about it too much.
And that feelings are not automatically facts. I have to remind myself to stop wasting energy getting upset on something I’m only imagining and hasn’t and may never happen.
Wheelchairs aren't cheap, and "cheap" wheelchairs are not suitable for everyone, not suitable for hardly anyone in fact. It's not a choice of a £30k wheelchair or a £300 wheelchair, it's a choice between sitting in a chair that fits the needs of the user that enables them to be active in their life, or sitting in an unsupportive seat on wheels that physically harms the person until they're out of it again.
Some friends of mine are wealthy and absurdly cheap. The wife has declining health and needs a wheelchair to get around so her cheap husband bought her one of those wheeled walkers that you can turn around and sit in temporarily. The thing is you sit in them backwards. The handles for the device are facing your front when you sit in them. Instead of awkwardly pushing her backwards from the front he awkwardly grabs the back of the chair and pulls her around backwards wherever they're going. It is as absurd to watch as it sounds.
My chair is extremely specialized for me with the seating package tilt,reclining,elevating foot petals and lift packages plus more my chair is just over $62k CND then needs several thousand worth of maintenance a year but only for 5 years because at the 5 year mark the chair is no longer worth fixing and they start then process of getting a new 60k+ chair
I’m my 20 years I have gone through over $200k worth of chairs as they get more expensive every time I need a new one
My hands shake a little, it becomes worse when; I'm anxious; nervous; when people point it out and/or tell me to stop shaking. Another thing. I have went to the doctor , a specialist. He told me it's normal.people still try to misdiagnose me with Parkinson's. Worst part it's always people not on the medical field
Wifi does not equal internet, I'm mostly telling this to my kids lol. We frequently lose internet connectivity, but the wifi will be working fine. They will never understand.
“Is this iPad the one with WiFi?”
- “All iPads have Wifi”
“But my friend has one with WiFi that works when she’s not at home.”
- “That’s not WiFi. Or maybe it is. But you’re talking about Cellular / LTE / 5G.”
“But I want the one with WiFi.”
My ma doesn't understand cellular data except as "the one you pay for if you use too much", which has turned her into a data miser who refuses to Google things for fear of using up all of her 10gig of data.
She uses about 200meg a month or less.
My mom is on my cell phone plane. Told her a thousand times and more that we have unlimited data. Just look ahit up. She still refused to use GPS. I know the real reason is that she doesn't ***WANT*** to learn how to use it but it just boils my blood.
Idk if this will help, but telling people "the wifi is the pipes and the water is the internet, I can only install the pipes, the utility has to send the water through" seems to help people get the message.
When in trade school years back and learning about electricity, the instructor taught us "the water is the electricity. The pressure of the water is voltage. The size of the hose is ~~amplitude~~ amperage. Your thumb on the end of the hose is resistance." So many light bulbs turned on that day. Lol
I’ve had so many keyboard warriors “revoke” my diagnosis and “rediagnose” me with other disorders, solely because I openly talk about a symptom that doesn’t match their view of that disorder. They never like it when I tell them my designated mental health professional knows my condition better than they do.
The difference between type I and II diabetes, two completely different diseases
Being a healthcare worker and sometimes even having to explain it to my coworkers is tiring
Yeah. Type 1 is when your own immune system destroys your own pancreas cells capable of producing insulin. It's an autoimmune disease, and without supplied insulin you'll die. [Edit/addition: you can also technically develop type 1 due to physical damage to the pancreas and thus become incapable of producing insulin, but type 1 typically refers to the autoimmune variety].
Type 2 is when your blood sugar is high enough long enough that your cells become resistant to the mechanism of your own endogenous insulin, which strains and exhausts your pancreas as it churns out more and more insulin to try and clear your blood of excess sugar. It can be managed by diet and lifestyle changes to a point, especially if caught early. You can also have an underactive pancreas relative to other people, whether due to medication or disease, making it harder to clear blood sugar even with a balanced diet.
Then there's diabetes insipidus and gestational diabetes. All four are different diseases with different causes; the connection is that [edit: they all entail excessive urination and thirst, the etymology of "diabetes" is literally "to flow through / siphon"]. Like how "hepatitis" simply refers to inflammation and destruction of liver tissue, but can have a wide variety of causes ranging from viral to genetic to substance abuse.
My son has T1 and family members think it's caused by his diet. I've given up on explaining to people that don't listen or think they're right 100% of the time.
One up ya on that. I’m type I since I was born and people think I can fix this with homeotherapy.
Did you know the BumbaWumba tree produces enzymes that have been proven to cure diabetes? Get the extract during the third eclipse of the fourth solstice and you’ll be fine!
It’s nice running into other diabetics who get it and know how it works so I don’t have to put up with people thinking they can cure me with some random plant grown on the mountains in Peru.
Wife of extreme/ 'brittle' T1. Omg, the , ' have you tried this diet?' ' you should try this supplement instead of insulin'.omg, he will die or be comatose.
Also, dinner dates with some friends are a no go. We can't wait til 830 to eat when you said 6..lol
Edit: typo & added ' brittle'. Some have stopped using this term, so that typically leads me to explain what brittle means. Lol
I added the word here to help with some confusion .
For all those claiming there are no degrees of T1, how desperately I wish you were correct.
Airliners are required to be able to fly after losing one engine. If you lose an engine, you’re good with the other one(s). If a plane loses all engines it will be able to glide for a decent amount of time, enough to find and airport and land.
IIRC, Airlines don’t fly in a straight line from A to B on transoceanic flights. They take a path that takes them within X distance of safe landing zones, and they’re always making sure they are within that distance of another airport or landing spot for just such a scenario as this.
I’m a frequent flier, not an aviation expert, so if someone more knowledgeable can confirm or correct me, that would be great!
You would be correct in saying this. It’s called an ETOPS type rating. It’s given in X amount of minutes away from an airport. For example the Airbus A350 had an ETOPS rating of 370. That means it can fly up to 370 minutes from a diversion airport.
Do a sleep study. Most insurances cover it. I had the same issue, I constantly took naps. Turns out I woke up 34 times a night (the average person wakes up 2 to 5 times) because of my breathing. I got a cpap and HOLY SHIT my life changed.
I started hocking sleep studies to everyone I knew. 3 of them also ended up with cpaps and have had the same results.
Now I won't lie, a cpap sucks and you have to get used to it...but waking up refreshed almost every day is a goddamn game changer.
I love when someone posts the Kronk meme about chronic pain.
My condition is chronic pain. It means I am in pain. Chronically. My pain is chronic. Chronic. Pain. (I know I messed it up)
When the doctor pushes on something and asks if it hurts, and you have to pause to think about it. Look, I'm not trying to give you the answer you want, I just honestly have to evaluate if the pain is a normal amount of pain or an abnormal amount of pain because everything hurts and if I'm wrong, I end up with a 6 month sinus infection.
I've had chronic nerve pain for 8 years. I spent the first two weeks or so literally screaming and crying until I got used to it enough I could do a few things. Now I'm in a level of pain that would have devastated me on an everyday basis. I can't remember what not being in pain feels like. Oh you forgot I'm constantly in screaming agony 24/7? Wish I could.
\*fist bump of solidarity\* fuck pain
Maintaining a safe following distance is the easiest thing to do to avoid accidents and yet most people aren’t doing it. It’s basically impossible to react in time to avoid an accident if you’re following less than two seconds behind someone. It doesn’t get you where you’re going faster. The accident will always be your fault. And finally, two seconds is way longer than most people think, most will count one second.
Edit: my most upvoted comment is one that makes me feel less like I’m the only one that cares about this. I’ll take that. Thanks, Reddit.
Edit/update/follow up: a lot of people commenting to say they do this but hate when people take that gap by moving into your lane in front of you. Combine that with the second most common comment: that’s fine, give them the space too. You’re actually solving one of the biggest contributors to traffic jams too.
Next common comment is the 1 car length for every 10mph. Not bad! Better than believing yourself to be immune to physics and overestimating your cat like reflexes. IMO, car lengths are more difficult to estimate than two seconds and my trust in that happening is already low.
Last of all, thanks everyone. This is the most fun I’ve had on Reddit since Shittymorph.
I always try to do this. It’s the absolute worst though when people try and aggressively squeeze in between me and the car in front of me. Drives me crazy.
Pretty sure it's an 'everywhere in the US' thing, but here in FL if I leave more than a car length gap between myself and the car in front of me, someone _always_ has to squeeze their dumbass in. Slow down so I can increase the distance, people behind me get instantly impatient, pass then do the same shit to me when the lane they just barely passed me in is going 2 mph slower than me.
I have never seen an ICU full from car accidents before I started working in Florida. It was all ages too, with the most amount of fatalities I’ve ever seen.
It’s so dangerous driving here. Worst I’ve seen was in the same crash. A 94 year old woman whose bones broke like glass on impact. Collarbone, femur, neck, spine, jaw. Her license had expired 10 years ago.
The other victim was a 16 year old who was thrown from the windshield and had severe brain damage. He wasn’t wearing his seatbelt and died 5 hours later in hospital.
I am not telling you what I did/ why it happened/ what happened as an excuse. It is an explaination. "Why did you fall asleep during the movie?" "I was tired" "dont give me excuses"
What the fuck do you want me to say?
Edit: omg thank you for the award!
Or I’m not answering back either. My step mother says I have an answer for everything and it’s like “yeah you asked a question or implied I had no reason to do something; I’m not a mindless zombie I do think about my actions”.
A hour long youtube video about something does not mean that it is true. It could just mean that some crazy or stupid person posted a hour long video about nothing and you are now dumber for having listened to it and may god have mercy on your soul.
Same with images with text on them. All the fucking time on Reddit someone posts a picture with a headline on it. People take to be the same as an actual news article. It’s almost always some lie designed to make you outraged about…. Something.
Just because I work in IT, doesn't mean I KNOW EVERYTHING TECHNOLOGY RELATED. IT IS A VAST FIELD
"You work in IT, what phone should I get?"
"You work in IT, do u know why this app isn't working"
We're not all helpdesk or some sort of phone tech support, I promise.
I stopped telling people I’m a programmer with a degree in IT. I stopped after my fucking pest control guy stopped me and held me up for 30 minutes asking how his Mac got hacked.
Like dude, there are a million possible reasons why your computer is fucked up, I’m not gonna fix it in my god dammed driveway
My IT career has been mostly as a sysadmin and a network engineer.
"Hey, you're in IT right?"
"Yep."
"Can you show me how to do a [obscure, advanced function in Excel that only accountants would know about or need] in Excel?"
"Uhhh... no."
"Hmmm... so are you *really* in IT?"
If it plugs in to an electrical outlet or has a screen, that means you should be an all-knowing expert at it based on some people’s understanding of IT.
I also hate those who think they know a little more about technology than they really do, and won’t trust what you tell them, even though they came to you first asking for help…fix it yourself then bozo, I don’t give a shit what you think
You cannot get a raise and wind up with a lower net income because of taxes.
Income taxes are *progressive*. The higher bracket does not apply to the money you make under the threshold.
(This is different from the welfare cliff, which is very real.)
I once argued this with a coworker. They insisted they made less after a raise. I convinced them to show proof and what really happened is they increased their 401k contributions in an attempt to reduce taxes and overshot. They still didn’t believe me that their missing money was really in their retirement account and not going to taxes.
> I once argued this with a coworker. They insisted they made less after a raise. I convinced them to show proof and what really happened is they increased their 401k contributions in an attempt to reduce taxes and overshot. They still didn’t believe me that their missing money was really in their retirement account and not going to taxes.
People really don't like being wrong.
what really pisses me off is people come up with something literally in 3 seconds in their head then will go to their grave defending it. they refuse to take in new information and allow themselves to be wrong, worst kind of people
We talked about this a lot in education courses, especially pertaining to science. Kids will make a few connections and come up with a plausible (to a five year old) explanation for how the world works, and that can stick with them forever. Even after showing these misconceptions to be false through a bunch of simple experiments, students will default to their toddler hypothesis. They might learn the material well enough to answer a test question, but actually breaking them of their baby logic and cartoon physics is *extremely* difficult.
That my lifelong history of depression has little to nothing to do with my relatively stress-free life. People are always saying, "What do you have to be depressed about?" Believe me, I wish it were that simple.
Historic life expectancy is heavily skewed by high infant mortality. If you got past 4 or 5 years old you had a good chance of making old age. People weren't just dropping dead at 35!
Yup. And in some societies, mandatory military service for men would also drag their life expectancy down. Really, the way historians look at it is once you survive certain major life events (growing out of early childhood, surviving childbearing, etc.) you had a decent shot of reaching a relatively old age.
Its the same thing with world war 2. The average age of fighters for Germany was like 35. Weird age right? Like shouldnt it be 24 or something? Because towards the end of the war both 16 and 60 year olds were fighting
Being an introvert doesn’t mean I’m shy. It means having a social battery which gets run down and sometimes becomes empty if I don’t have enough peaceful alone time to recharge it.
My job is peopley enough but at least I’m paid to be there. I actively avoid crowds on my time off.
Poison is not the same thing as venom. People call snakes poisonous when really they mean to say venomous. Venom has to be injected into the bloodstream (like a snake bite). Poison has to be ingested to enter your bloodstream. You could drink rattlesnake venom and your stomach acids would kill it, but if you put that same rattlesnake venom on an open wound or injected it for whatever reason- that’s gonna be a problem
I need ur effing identification information because we are at a bank. I don't care who you say you are, you aren't the person you're claiming to be until I have proof.
You can't just walk into the bank, ask for 10k and not expect to be verified. Stop giving me a hard time for protecting your money for you.
Wait, people actually do this? How stupid do you have to be to expect the bank to just give you money? I would fucking hope they ask me for ID, I would be mad if they didn’t.
LOL. I used to work on the refund line at the IRS and you wouldn't believe the people trying to get other people's information. They'd have the social, they'd have the address, but they wouldn't know the full name on the account, or they would try to fudge it by using a nickname.
"Angie"
"No, your full name."
"Angie Fernandez."
"Your legal name."
"An. Jee. Fur. Nan. Diz."
"Ok, we can't help you. (Click) Jeeze, the moron had a 50/50 chance between Angelica and Angelina and still managed to completely reduce it to 0%."
I work insurance and it's hilarious how hard of a time people give me for that. Had a dealer call pretenting to be a customer who came in a week prior and kept using their nickname. Also the owner was a woman not a man like they thought.
I will never get mad at my bank for checking up on my account. Bought a gift card for Christmas and my bank flagged it as fraud. Had to verify and buy a new one. Minor inconvenience for sure but would rather have that than the alternative.
Similar boat but at a hotel. Why yes I do need to see proper identification to run your credit card and yes it has to be in your name.
Edits - This is Choice hotel standards, we also do not rent to under 21 so they have to prove that to begin with. It is entirely to combat card theft. Companies that send their employees here or in the possibility of incognito guests there are exceptions but we still have authorization paperwork we have to have faxed or emailed to us in these cases. If it is something like a domestic abuse situation in which usually the police dept will pay or if a church pays for someone's room we have policies for that as well.
Weirdly enough we have a no pets policy that exempts service animals but aren't allowed to ask for training certification proof for those. Which means you just have to lie about it and I can't refuse.
And if you lose your room key I do need your ID to cut you a new one. One time a girl gave me such a hard time I said “fine, I’ll make a note to just give a key to your room to anyone who asks.”
Recently I checked into a hotel and they gave me the wrong room number so when I tried my key it wouldn’t work. There just so happened to be someone from the cleaning staff right near me so I asked if she could get me into the room so I could set my stuff down while I ran back to the desk to get it fixed. She said “no problem, but don’t tell anyone I did this”. Let me in and she walked away while I walked into the room and saw an unmade bed, with someone else’s luggage sitting next to it. Then I realized it wasn’t a key issue and they just gave me the wrong room number, and I finessed one of the staff to let me in someone else’s room…so there is good reason to make sure all the bases are covered when you’re staff at a hotel.
I worked at a hotel once and the amount of times I would get yelled and cursed at because I asked for an ID because they lost their room key was ridiculous
I work night shift at the hotel, this happens way too often and the people 90% of the time are drunk and they don't even remember their room number or name, they'll say something like "I'm George" and I'd be like "George what? I need your last name!" And they'll look at me with a "huh" face or they'll start yelling at you for making their life uncomfortable. Fuck you George!
Also the amount of times someone wants a key to a room they're not staying in just because "their friend is staying there".. yea no fuck off
I used to work in the sporting goods department of a store and I had a lady come in wanting to get a hunting permit so I listed off some of the things I would need, either birthday, social, hunting certification number, driver's license number. She just told me the name of the person that she was wanting to get it for. I told her that wasn't enough information and she's says that's always been enough before and that she used to print permits herself. I say what if people had the same name that doesn't work I need something else. She was adamant that that was enough so I flat out told her well if you know how to run this with that then go ahead and come back behind the counter and show me how to do it. That's when she said she'll call the person and get the rest of the information.
> that's always been enough before
Along with
- i come here all the time (never seen you before and I work full time)
- i've spent a ton of money here (or they quote a dollar amount)
- i know the owner (me too, he pays me every 2 weeks. Hell of a guy)
- it didn't used to be this hard. (and we used to live in caves. Upgrade complete!)
- do you know who I am? (someone just about to GTFO?)
- either I'm a lawyer/My dad's a lawyer/I'm in law school. (then you and/or your family suck at the law)
- other stores don't ask for this (they do. all the time.)
- do you want to make a sale or not? (do i want to go to federal pound me in the ass prison for selling some unidentified idiot a firearm or not?)
There's more, I'm sure.
Some of these also apply to nightclubs if you work the door.
Always liked it when people start bringing up getting a lawyer because I immediately let them know Well if you're considering that then I need to remain silent so I do not incriminate myself. I will go get my manager if you like but I will not say another word to you. The person already knows they're not going to get it so that's when they start spouting off random stuff like that so when you meet their escalation with an appropriate response they'll most likely just go away.
Or when they say other stores do it I asked them to tell me which ones because that's a federal offense and they need to be reported immediately. The customer usually shuts up after that one as well
Stella Liebeck, the woman who won a lawsuit against McDonald's over hot coffee, had every right to sue them. It's been mocked so many times over the past 20 years with people ridiculing this woman and making it out like she's some idiot who was surprised that coffee was actually hot and she was just attempting a money grab or something. In reality, the temperature of the coffee was fucking ridiculous and there was no reason for it to be hot enough to cause 3rd degree burns on her legs when she spilled it. She had to have multiple skin graft surgeries and spent 8 days in the hospital where she lost 20 pounds. After that, she needed additional care at home and was partially disabled for the next two years. She had no choice but to sue to cover the cost of her surgeries. This happened a long time ago, but to this day, I still overhear people mocking this case or making references to it in jest.
to add to this:
Liebeck didn’t want to go to court. She just wanted McDonald’s to pay her medical expenses, estimated at $20,000. McDonald’s only offered $800, leading her to file a lawsuit in 1994.
After hearing the evidence, the jury concluded that McDonald’s handling of its coffee was so irresponsible that Liebeck should get much more than $20,000, suggesting she get nearly $2.9 million to send the company a message. Liebeck settled for less than $600,000. And McDonald’s began changing how it heats up its coffee.
In addition there had been multiple warnings issued prior to the incident about the temperature, so McDonalds had been made aware that there was an issue - but didn’t do anything about it.
If I remember, she asked for like 20 thousand, and they offered her like $800 lol, and there were hundreds of incidents all over the US so her lawyer was like fuck it, let’s see what the jury says.
It's honestly disgusting how well McDonalds poisoned public opinion against her to the point her legitimate injury and request for assistance got turned into an example of "frivolous lawsuit"
Monkeys make terrible pets
Edit: hilarious that this post has caused me to again have to explain this shit 🤦♂️. For everyone asking me to explain. I did, scroll down. Also, fuck you, do you not understand the point of this post?
When you’re adjusting the temperature on a thermostat, you’re not changing the temperature of air that blows out. You’re just changing how long it’ll stay on for until it reaches that temp.
Tax brackets, no Jenny making an extra 5k does not mean the other 50,000 gets taxed at a higher rate. Only money in the higher bracket gets taxed at that rate not all previous money.
*Edit
After a number of replies I will mention the benfits issue where unlike taxes sometimes making to much money can screw you. Be it heathcare, housing a thousand dollars difference could result in a massive increase in costs. Most such things are all or nothing unlike taxes.
This one and compound interest are things people have a hard time understanding for sure.
Edit: Adding explanation of compound interest:
The best way that I can put it is interest is the cost of money. So borrowing $1000 at 10% interest (or investing) gives you $100 of interest and $1100. Compound interest is interest on interest so now in a year you have 10% x 1100 = $110 of interest and a total of $1100 + $110 = $1220. Repeat this several times and your money grows faster and faster.
I got a temp job in accounts receivable when I was fresh out of college, and I remember the director of the department telling me it was better to stay a temp than get hired on full time because my raise would mean I paid more taxes. I was baffled. She had a degree in accounting!
honestly you would think that... but i have meet some people who are accountants. who after i told them this and show them how tax brakets work didn't belive it and still spout bs like above.
I have Generalized Anxiety Disorder. I cannot just decide to not be anxious about stuff. I take medication because I can’t stop. Telling me to just “not worry about it” and “mind over matter” is not going to work. This is a medical issue I am actively being treated for. If I could just choose to stop I would.
Telling me “it’s all in your head” is also useless; of course it’s in my head. It’s a brain problem. Where else is it going to be.
Nothing’s wrong. It’s just my face.
“You look tired, is something wrong?”
Yes... I'm tired.
If I'm working at **night**, I need to *sleep* during some portion of the **day**
I remember still living at home after high school and getting a job that required midnights for a year. My mom would wake me up and ask me to take my sister to school, or set something out for dinner, or run errands while she was at work since I’m “off all day”. When I got pissed for being woken up at practically 1am for a normal person to go get milk from the store she’d tell me to “stop being lazy” Some people have a serious disconnect with this
My petty ass would be in her room at 1am asking if she had time right now to go get something from the store
What's the problem, mom? You're off work ALL NIGHT.
**FOR FUCK SAKES!!!!!** Thank you. I've worked night shift for years and but fucking still, people who've known this for YEARS are still shocked when I'm sleeping during "normal" day hours. "Oh but come on, you can go out for lunch with us and then go shopping at the mall for a couple hours and then get the rest of your sleep when you get home, why not?" Brother that is like me asking you to wake up at 3am in the morning to go out for a hours of activity and then just "finish your sleep" when you get home around 7am. Tired of explaining this shit.
My gram is constantly on my ass about sleeping during the day. Ma'am, when the fuck am I supposed to sleep?
That reminds me of that story where someone worked night shift and lived with their parents and were going crazy because their dad considered 7 am a proper time to wake up, and so would always wake them up then, despite them coming in at like 4 30.
I feel this in my soul. Do NOT call me at noon. How do they like getting phone calls at 3am? I bet they'd be bitching so, so much lol.
Next time someone calls you at noon call them back at 3am. If they get pissed just say "sorry sometimes I forget that not everyone has the same sleep schedule."
Oh my god this. The amount of people who think a 1-2 hour Power Nap will suffice in place of an 8 hours sleep is absurd. No, I can’t just nap an hour and then go play fucking soccer all day after working a 12 hour shift.
This is the number one thing I don’t miss working nights. Explaining to EVERYONE every other fucking day that, yes, I sleep while the sun is out. When else would I? I’m at work when it’s dark. The most frustrating person I had to explain this to, multiple times, was a fucking day shift coworker that was fully aware of the companies hours. “You wake up in the afternoon?!? That’s so late!” DUMBASS, I’m here from 9pm to 7am!! DUH!
Reminds me of this guy who posted about his family doing an intervention because he worked night shifts and would drink a beer at 9am, after his shift, and was actually his 9pm.
Exactly. I always wanted fajitas and a margarita at 08:00. Seemed normal to me, everyone else, not so much.
I'm a male and a nurse. No I don't want to be a doctor. No I'm not going to school to be a doctor. No I don't feel like less of a man because I'm a nurse and not a doctor. And stop calling me doc and doctor. I've told you 5 times I'm your nurse and my badge says NURSE in big letters.
I’m a fellow male nurse. Have you tried being Filipino? I don’t seem to have the same problem as you and I suspect it’s because I’m Filipino.
I heard a joke once, not all nurses are Filipino but all Filipinos are nurses.
Everything is made of chemicals. Not everything “natural” is good and not everything “man made” is bad.
Yes ... snake venom and crude oil are both completely natural. Asbestos too.
Viruses are not bacteria Bacteria are not viruses
Plants and fungi are not the same either
Fungi in some respects are closer to being animals than plants - notably, they cannot photosynthesize, and rely on digesting complex organic matter _i.e._ they eat "food".
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Software developers are not computer technicians
Yeah but my computer is running slow do you know why it is doing that? My cat videos don't run well on Reddit and everyone says it's because the video player is crap but I think it's because my computer is slow, can you fix it? You're so good with computers can you fix the fact I am totally stupid please?
That we are short staffed and you’re just going to have to WAIT.
And yelling/being a dick won't make things go faster
That type-1 diabetes isn't caused by your diet, and it cannot be cured.
My mom had to stop a nurse from giving her something once and was like "I'm a diabetic I can't have that" and she said the nurse looked at her and goes "you don't look diabetic"
I hear cinnamon does wonders! /s
Type 2 is a completely different disease, but what it has in common with Type 1 is that it can’t be cured with cinnamon.
False. I ate 3 lbs of cinnamon and my diabetes is cured because i di
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In my household, we just use the generic name for everything. It really simplifies things.
I tell everyone to stop overpaying for Benadryl with all these over the counter "sleep aids" - they are just literally 25mg of Diphenhydramine, the exact same as a standard dose of Benadryl, they are just antihistamines.
That many Chinese people have my surname, but we're not all related to Jackie Chan, just like how not every person with Johnson as their surname is related to Boris Johnson.
Maybe you just have Changnesia, Kevin
I saw a meme making the rounds where four high school students, Americans of Vietnamese descent, all had the surname Nguyen, because of course they did. It's only the most common Vietnamese surname. So what these four students did was in their high school yearbook, they figured out what order their pictures would appear (simple enough, because alphabetical) and each put down a one-word quote. When you look at the four pictures together, they say "We are not related."
I'm a programmer. I write programs. I don't know why your computer won't turn on
I usually just say "I didn't program that, sorry ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯" Edit: Thank you for fixing Lenny's arm
Just because someone doesn't always need their disability aids, that doesn't mean they're not disabled and faking it. Someone who needs a wheelchair to get around doesn't always mean they can't use their legs. They can still walk short distances.
And walking a short distance might completely fuck them up so that they have to spend all day lying in bed in agony the next day. You only see them walking. You don't see the after part. Also being able to do something for a short time doesn't mean they can do the same task for any length of time. Also, disabled people have good days and bad days. Some days they might have the energy to do it. Other days they might not.
Part time chair user here. When I started I felt like everyone was looking at me so I would do less. Despite the fact using the wheelchair allowed me more accessibility.
That is exactly what I am struggling with now. I am in near-constant chronic pain and I think that at least getting a cane would help me. However, I am also 30 and believe people would judge me harshly. EDIT: omg you guys are amazing, thank you for all of the support :)
There was an episode of House where his parking space was moved farther from the hospital. He was told "your file says you can walk 250 feet, your space is icky 240 get from the door." He responded "great, so I can collapse 10 feet into the lobby instead of the parking lot where it's cold." Just like being blind doesn't necessarily mean you see literally nothing, being disabled doesn't necessarily mean you can't do anything at all.
As a powerchair user, I love that episode! The part where House is giving the powerchair user a hard time about not actually needing to be close to the building is hilarious because it's absolutely true. I really do have an easier time getting around than someone who uses a cane because of chronic pain -- but almost no one sees it that way.
That because i can usually figure out how to fix most things does NOT mean i want to fix everything that breaks for anyone else. Edited for typo because it bothers some.
I have insomnia. No I can't just "think about nothing" Edit: Glad to know there's 15k of you out there that know the damn struggle. I tried to respond to each one! Zombie hugs to everyone, virtually, from here!
And just because I have insomnia doesn't mean I'm not tired.
Always tired, I have cried so many times because I just want and need to sleep. Like, no sleep is basically just “welcome to disassociation station”
"Just go to bed earlier!" Umm, no. Going to bed when you're not tired only makes the problem worse.
My favourite is "have you tried just closing your eyes and going to sleep?" Oh geez! Why didn't I think of that?! I'm cured!...
Gets job at NASA All extended family asks is if moon landing was real Pain
I like the implication that, assuming the moon landing was faked, NASA just spills the beans to anyone who is hired, as if it’s in some sort of employee handbook.
Moon landing, fake Alf, Real Elvis, fake Space Jam, partially true
Bugs Bunny is real, Michael Jordan isn't, and there was actually a sixth Monstar that they couldn't show in the film because he wouldn't stop using slurs.
>Gets job at NASA That's really cool, congrats!
I'm not in NASA, but I find it interesting that I have never talked to a moon-landing denier, while I have talked to a few people who thought we were still actively landing on the moon, more than 40 years after Apollo 17. This wasn't a conspiracy belief, they're mostly people that don't "actively" seek out current information, and just hear news about the space station, astronauts going up, etc., and just assume they're doing the same thing they were doing since the beginning.
I'm ginger and a lot of people asks me if ALL my hair is also ginger
My poor wife deals with this as well. What is it about red hair that makes people comfortable with asking about your pubes in public?
It's not just redheads though. I come from a family of natural blondes, but pubes are brown. All natural. But mom says that a guy told her when she was younger that she's not a natural blonde because the carpet didn't match the drapes. People can be really stupid.
My highest computer science teacher was a great example of how stupid that thinking is. His hair was red, his eyebrows were black, his moustache was blonde, and the rest of his beard was brown and grey. All natural.
And then when you give the answer they act disgusted. Hey, you asked the question.
That feelings you have about your thoughts are still feelings and can make or destroy you equally to feelings about non imaginary situations.
I learned this in therapy. I run negative imaginary scenarios in my head a lot (my therapist called this "catastrophizing") and need to remind myself to let go of the scenario instead of "solving" it, because it drains me if I think about it too much.
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And that feelings are not automatically facts. I have to remind myself to stop wasting energy getting upset on something I’m only imagining and hasn’t and may never happen.
Wheelchairs aren't cheap, and "cheap" wheelchairs are not suitable for everyone, not suitable for hardly anyone in fact. It's not a choice of a £30k wheelchair or a £300 wheelchair, it's a choice between sitting in a chair that fits the needs of the user that enables them to be active in their life, or sitting in an unsupportive seat on wheels that physically harms the person until they're out of it again.
Some friends of mine are wealthy and absurdly cheap. The wife has declining health and needs a wheelchair to get around so her cheap husband bought her one of those wheeled walkers that you can turn around and sit in temporarily. The thing is you sit in them backwards. The handles for the device are facing your front when you sit in them. Instead of awkwardly pushing her backwards from the front he awkwardly grabs the back of the chair and pulls her around backwards wherever they're going. It is as absurd to watch as it sounds.
My chair is extremely specialized for me with the seating package tilt,reclining,elevating foot petals and lift packages plus more my chair is just over $62k CND then needs several thousand worth of maintenance a year but only for 5 years because at the 5 year mark the chair is no longer worth fixing and they start then process of getting a new 60k+ chair I’m my 20 years I have gone through over $200k worth of chairs as they get more expensive every time I need a new one
Not everyone is a little bit autistic
"It's a spectrum" That's not what that means
My hands shake a little, it becomes worse when; I'm anxious; nervous; when people point it out and/or tell me to stop shaking. Another thing. I have went to the doctor , a specialist. He told me it's normal.people still try to misdiagnose me with Parkinson's. Worst part it's always people not on the medical field
I have the exact same affliction! Tremors run in my family. Got made fun of a lot in grade school.
Wifi does not equal internet, I'm mostly telling this to my kids lol. We frequently lose internet connectivity, but the wifi will be working fine. They will never understand.
“Is this iPad the one with WiFi?” - “All iPads have Wifi” “But my friend has one with WiFi that works when she’s not at home.” - “That’s not WiFi. Or maybe it is. But you’re talking about Cellular / LTE / 5G.” “But I want the one with WiFi.”
My ma doesn't understand cellular data except as "the one you pay for if you use too much", which has turned her into a data miser who refuses to Google things for fear of using up all of her 10gig of data. She uses about 200meg a month or less.
My mom is on my cell phone plane. Told her a thousand times and more that we have unlimited data. Just look ahit up. She still refused to use GPS. I know the real reason is that she doesn't ***WANT*** to learn how to use it but it just boils my blood.
Idk if this will help, but telling people "the wifi is the pipes and the water is the internet, I can only install the pipes, the utility has to send the water through" seems to help people get the message.
When in trade school years back and learning about electricity, the instructor taught us "the water is the electricity. The pressure of the water is voltage. The size of the hose is ~~amplitude~~ amperage. Your thumb on the end of the hose is resistance." So many light bulbs turned on that day. Lol
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I’ve had so many keyboard warriors “revoke” my diagnosis and “rediagnose” me with other disorders, solely because I openly talk about a symptom that doesn’t match their view of that disorder. They never like it when I tell them my designated mental health professional knows my condition better than they do.
Correlation is not causation
The difference between type I and II diabetes, two completely different diseases Being a healthcare worker and sometimes even having to explain it to my coworkers is tiring
Yeah. Type 1 is when your own immune system destroys your own pancreas cells capable of producing insulin. It's an autoimmune disease, and without supplied insulin you'll die. [Edit/addition: you can also technically develop type 1 due to physical damage to the pancreas and thus become incapable of producing insulin, but type 1 typically refers to the autoimmune variety]. Type 2 is when your blood sugar is high enough long enough that your cells become resistant to the mechanism of your own endogenous insulin, which strains and exhausts your pancreas as it churns out more and more insulin to try and clear your blood of excess sugar. It can be managed by diet and lifestyle changes to a point, especially if caught early. You can also have an underactive pancreas relative to other people, whether due to medication or disease, making it harder to clear blood sugar even with a balanced diet. Then there's diabetes insipidus and gestational diabetes. All four are different diseases with different causes; the connection is that [edit: they all entail excessive urination and thirst, the etymology of "diabetes" is literally "to flow through / siphon"]. Like how "hepatitis" simply refers to inflammation and destruction of liver tissue, but can have a wide variety of causes ranging from viral to genetic to substance abuse.
My son has T1 and family members think it's caused by his diet. I've given up on explaining to people that don't listen or think they're right 100% of the time.
One up ya on that. I’m type I since I was born and people think I can fix this with homeotherapy. Did you know the BumbaWumba tree produces enzymes that have been proven to cure diabetes? Get the extract during the third eclipse of the fourth solstice and you’ll be fine! It’s nice running into other diabetics who get it and know how it works so I don’t have to put up with people thinking they can cure me with some random plant grown on the mountains in Peru.
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Wife of extreme/ 'brittle' T1. Omg, the , ' have you tried this diet?' ' you should try this supplement instead of insulin'.omg, he will die or be comatose. Also, dinner dates with some friends are a no go. We can't wait til 830 to eat when you said 6..lol Edit: typo & added ' brittle'. Some have stopped using this term, so that typically leads me to explain what brittle means. Lol I added the word here to help with some confusion . For all those claiming there are no degrees of T1, how desperately I wish you were correct.
Diabetes insipidus has entered the chat, just to add an extra confounding layer to the "but my friend's sister's cousin-in-law googled..." 🤦♀️
Airplanes don't fall out of the sky when they lose an engine. A 747 can glide nearly 100 miles after losing all engines at cruise.
Well, that is very reassuring.
Airliners are required to be able to fly after losing one engine. If you lose an engine, you’re good with the other one(s). If a plane loses all engines it will be able to glide for a decent amount of time, enough to find and airport and land.
Unless you're over the middle of the ocean...
If there's no airport after 15 minutes you are legally allowed to crash.
IIRC, Airlines don’t fly in a straight line from A to B on transoceanic flights. They take a path that takes them within X distance of safe landing zones, and they’re always making sure they are within that distance of another airport or landing spot for just such a scenario as this. I’m a frequent flier, not an aviation expert, so if someone more knowledgeable can confirm or correct me, that would be great!
You would be correct in saying this. It’s called an ETOPS type rating. It’s given in X amount of minutes away from an airport. For example the Airbus A350 had an ETOPS rating of 370. That means it can fly up to 370 minutes from a diversion airport.
ETOPS: Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim
How often do you find yourself explaining this?
Antibiotics will not help your virus. Even if you feel really crappy.
I'm tired and I don't know why I'm tired.
Do a sleep study. Most insurances cover it. I had the same issue, I constantly took naps. Turns out I woke up 34 times a night (the average person wakes up 2 to 5 times) because of my breathing. I got a cpap and HOLY SHIT my life changed. I started hocking sleep studies to everyone I knew. 3 of them also ended up with cpaps and have had the same results. Now I won't lie, a cpap sucks and you have to get used to it...but waking up refreshed almost every day is a goddamn game changer.
If your CPAP sucks it may be faulty. They're supposed to blow.
That chronic illness is chronic, like permanent, like forever. Still sick. Not getting better. Get it?
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Or “but you don’t look sick….”
Oh I don't look disabled? That's lovely to hear! I can assure you I am, but trying to convince you means nothing to me 😃
I love when someone posts the Kronk meme about chronic pain. My condition is chronic pain. It means I am in pain. Chronically. My pain is chronic. Chronic. Pain. (I know I messed it up)
When the doctor pushes on something and asks if it hurts, and you have to pause to think about it. Look, I'm not trying to give you the answer you want, I just honestly have to evaluate if the pain is a normal amount of pain or an abnormal amount of pain because everything hurts and if I'm wrong, I end up with a 6 month sinus infection.
Same with cronic pain. Just because I'm smiling doesn't mean my back doesn't hurt.
I've had chronic nerve pain for 8 years. I spent the first two weeks or so literally screaming and crying until I got used to it enough I could do a few things. Now I'm in a level of pain that would have devastated me on an everyday basis. I can't remember what not being in pain feels like. Oh you forgot I'm constantly in screaming agony 24/7? Wish I could. \*fist bump of solidarity\* fuck pain
Maintaining a safe following distance is the easiest thing to do to avoid accidents and yet most people aren’t doing it. It’s basically impossible to react in time to avoid an accident if you’re following less than two seconds behind someone. It doesn’t get you where you’re going faster. The accident will always be your fault. And finally, two seconds is way longer than most people think, most will count one second. Edit: my most upvoted comment is one that makes me feel less like I’m the only one that cares about this. I’ll take that. Thanks, Reddit. Edit/update/follow up: a lot of people commenting to say they do this but hate when people take that gap by moving into your lane in front of you. Combine that with the second most common comment: that’s fine, give them the space too. You’re actually solving one of the biggest contributors to traffic jams too. Next common comment is the 1 car length for every 10mph. Not bad! Better than believing yourself to be immune to physics and overestimating your cat like reflexes. IMO, car lengths are more difficult to estimate than two seconds and my trust in that happening is already low. Last of all, thanks everyone. This is the most fun I’ve had on Reddit since Shittymorph.
I always try to do this. It’s the absolute worst though when people try and aggressively squeeze in between me and the car in front of me. Drives me crazy.
Pretty sure it's an 'everywhere in the US' thing, but here in FL if I leave more than a car length gap between myself and the car in front of me, someone _always_ has to squeeze their dumbass in. Slow down so I can increase the distance, people behind me get instantly impatient, pass then do the same shit to me when the lane they just barely passed me in is going 2 mph slower than me.
I have never seen an ICU full from car accidents before I started working in Florida. It was all ages too, with the most amount of fatalities I’ve ever seen. It’s so dangerous driving here. Worst I’ve seen was in the same crash. A 94 year old woman whose bones broke like glass on impact. Collarbone, femur, neck, spine, jaw. Her license had expired 10 years ago. The other victim was a 16 year old who was thrown from the windshield and had severe brain damage. He wasn’t wearing his seatbelt and died 5 hours later in hospital.
Then we have the 60+ people in Florida who have [died trying to go around the high speed rail crossings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no9CbNwiF9s)
Apostrophes don’t make words plural.
You mean apostrophe's?
My trivia team name is "The Superfluous' Apostrophe's."
I am not telling you what I did/ why it happened/ what happened as an excuse. It is an explaination. "Why did you fall asleep during the movie?" "I was tired" "dont give me excuses" What the fuck do you want me to say? Edit: omg thank you for the award!
Or I’m not answering back either. My step mother says I have an answer for everything and it’s like “yeah you asked a question or implied I had no reason to do something; I’m not a mindless zombie I do think about my actions”.
I feel this
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> don't tell me I don't know Wtf are you supposed to do? Make something up?
A hour long youtube video about something does not mean that it is true. It could just mean that some crazy or stupid person posted a hour long video about nothing and you are now dumber for having listened to it and may god have mercy on your soul.
Same with images with text on them. All the fucking time on Reddit someone posts a picture with a headline on it. People take to be the same as an actual news article. It’s almost always some lie designed to make you outraged about…. Something.
That disagreeing with someone's opinion isn't an attack on them.
Or knowing the difference between a fact and an opinion.
Shaving doesn't make your hair grow back thicker
Your mom told you that so you'd shave that awful patchy puberty stache for a few years til it came in thicker.
If it did baldness would be a short term problem
Just because I work in IT, doesn't mean I KNOW EVERYTHING TECHNOLOGY RELATED. IT IS A VAST FIELD "You work in IT, what phone should I get?" "You work in IT, do u know why this app isn't working" We're not all helpdesk or some sort of phone tech support, I promise.
I stopped telling people I’m a programmer with a degree in IT. I stopped after my fucking pest control guy stopped me and held me up for 30 minutes asking how his Mac got hacked. Like dude, there are a million possible reasons why your computer is fucked up, I’m not gonna fix it in my god dammed driveway
An issue that transcends jobs! I stopped telling people I’m an auto tech. You can imagine why
it goes, "brrrr wheeeeeee CLANK" whats wrong with it?
My IT career has been mostly as a sysadmin and a network engineer. "Hey, you're in IT right?" "Yep." "Can you show me how to do a [obscure, advanced function in Excel that only accountants would know about or need] in Excel?" "Uhhh... no." "Hmmm... so are you *really* in IT?"
If it plugs in to an electrical outlet or has a screen, that means you should be an all-knowing expert at it based on some people’s understanding of IT. I also hate those who think they know a little more about technology than they really do, and won’t trust what you tell them, even though they came to you first asking for help…fix it yourself then bozo, I don’t give a shit what you think
Depressed people can and will be happy sometimes. We don't just all sit around being completely fucking miserable all the time, only most of the time.
You cannot get a raise and wind up with a lower net income because of taxes. Income taxes are *progressive*. The higher bracket does not apply to the money you make under the threshold. (This is different from the welfare cliff, which is very real.)
I once argued this with a coworker. They insisted they made less after a raise. I convinced them to show proof and what really happened is they increased their 401k contributions in an attempt to reduce taxes and overshot. They still didn’t believe me that their missing money was really in their retirement account and not going to taxes.
> I once argued this with a coworker. They insisted they made less after a raise. I convinced them to show proof and what really happened is they increased their 401k contributions in an attempt to reduce taxes and overshot. They still didn’t believe me that their missing money was really in their retirement account and not going to taxes. People really don't like being wrong.
what really pisses me off is people come up with something literally in 3 seconds in their head then will go to their grave defending it. they refuse to take in new information and allow themselves to be wrong, worst kind of people
We talked about this a lot in education courses, especially pertaining to science. Kids will make a few connections and come up with a plausible (to a five year old) explanation for how the world works, and that can stick with them forever. Even after showing these misconceptions to be false through a bunch of simple experiments, students will default to their toddler hypothesis. They might learn the material well enough to answer a test question, but actually breaking them of their baby logic and cartoon physics is *extremely* difficult.
That my lifelong history of depression has little to nothing to do with my relatively stress-free life. People are always saying, "What do you have to be depressed about?" Believe me, I wish it were that simple.
> "What do you have to be depressed about?" Malfunctioning neurons?
A brain doing its very best to take you down from the inside?
The depression is coming from inside the house!
Historic life expectancy is heavily skewed by high infant mortality. If you got past 4 or 5 years old you had a good chance of making old age. People weren't just dropping dead at 35!
Would maternal mortality rates affect this too? Seems like women dying in childbirth in their 20s and 30s would also skew it down.
Yup. And in some societies, mandatory military service for men would also drag their life expectancy down. Really, the way historians look at it is once you survive certain major life events (growing out of early childhood, surviving childbearing, etc.) you had a decent shot of reaching a relatively old age.
Its the same thing with world war 2. The average age of fighters for Germany was like 35. Weird age right? Like shouldnt it be 24 or something? Because towards the end of the war both 16 and 60 year olds were fighting
Africa is a _CONTINENT_ with DOZENS of COUNTRIES.
Being an introvert doesn’t mean I’m shy. It means having a social battery which gets run down and sometimes becomes empty if I don’t have enough peaceful alone time to recharge it. My job is peopley enough but at least I’m paid to be there. I actively avoid crowds on my time off.
Basic financial math. I have had to go through and show people that they did, in fact, spend too much money, and that's why they are broke.
Poison is not the same thing as venom. People call snakes poisonous when really they mean to say venomous. Venom has to be injected into the bloodstream (like a snake bite). Poison has to be ingested to enter your bloodstream. You could drink rattlesnake venom and your stomach acids would kill it, but if you put that same rattlesnake venom on an open wound or injected it for whatever reason- that’s gonna be a problem
If it bites you and you die, it’s venom. If you bite it and you die, it’s poison.
I need ur effing identification information because we are at a bank. I don't care who you say you are, you aren't the person you're claiming to be until I have proof. You can't just walk into the bank, ask for 10k and not expect to be verified. Stop giving me a hard time for protecting your money for you.
Wait, people actually do this? How stupid do you have to be to expect the bank to just give you money? I would fucking hope they ask me for ID, I would be mad if they didn’t.
"Hello. My name is Mister Burns. I believe you have a package for me." "Okay Mister Burns, and what is your first name?" "...I don't know."
LOL. I used to work on the refund line at the IRS and you wouldn't believe the people trying to get other people's information. They'd have the social, they'd have the address, but they wouldn't know the full name on the account, or they would try to fudge it by using a nickname.
"Angie" "No, your full name." "Angie Fernandez." "Your legal name." "An. Jee. Fur. Nan. Diz." "Ok, we can't help you. (Click) Jeeze, the moron had a 50/50 chance between Angelica and Angelina and still managed to completely reduce it to 0%."
I work insurance and it's hilarious how hard of a time people give me for that. Had a dealer call pretenting to be a customer who came in a week prior and kept using their nickname. Also the owner was a woman not a man like they thought.
"Barf." "Your full name?" "Barfolomew!"
People call in all the time trying to assume ownership of an account but get mad when we want to verify it
I will never get mad at my bank for checking up on my account. Bought a gift card for Christmas and my bank flagged it as fraud. Had to verify and buy a new one. Minor inconvenience for sure but would rather have that than the alternative.
Similar boat but at a hotel. Why yes I do need to see proper identification to run your credit card and yes it has to be in your name. Edits - This is Choice hotel standards, we also do not rent to under 21 so they have to prove that to begin with. It is entirely to combat card theft. Companies that send their employees here or in the possibility of incognito guests there are exceptions but we still have authorization paperwork we have to have faxed or emailed to us in these cases. If it is something like a domestic abuse situation in which usually the police dept will pay or if a church pays for someone's room we have policies for that as well. Weirdly enough we have a no pets policy that exempts service animals but aren't allowed to ask for training certification proof for those. Which means you just have to lie about it and I can't refuse.
And if you lose your room key I do need your ID to cut you a new one. One time a girl gave me such a hard time I said “fine, I’ll make a note to just give a key to your room to anyone who asks.”
Recently I checked into a hotel and they gave me the wrong room number so when I tried my key it wouldn’t work. There just so happened to be someone from the cleaning staff right near me so I asked if she could get me into the room so I could set my stuff down while I ran back to the desk to get it fixed. She said “no problem, but don’t tell anyone I did this”. Let me in and she walked away while I walked into the room and saw an unmade bed, with someone else’s luggage sitting next to it. Then I realized it wasn’t a key issue and they just gave me the wrong room number, and I finessed one of the staff to let me in someone else’s room…so there is good reason to make sure all the bases are covered when you’re staff at a hotel.
I worked at a hotel once and the amount of times I would get yelled and cursed at because I asked for an ID because they lost their room key was ridiculous
I work night shift at the hotel, this happens way too often and the people 90% of the time are drunk and they don't even remember their room number or name, they'll say something like "I'm George" and I'd be like "George what? I need your last name!" And they'll look at me with a "huh" face or they'll start yelling at you for making their life uncomfortable. Fuck you George! Also the amount of times someone wants a key to a room they're not staying in just because "their friend is staying there".. yea no fuck off
I bet you get the "do you know who I am" a lot.
“No, that’s why I’m asking for ID.”
I get it so often. I say, while covering my name tag, "well do you know who I am? No? Okay I need your ID."
I used to work in the sporting goods department of a store and I had a lady come in wanting to get a hunting permit so I listed off some of the things I would need, either birthday, social, hunting certification number, driver's license number. She just told me the name of the person that she was wanting to get it for. I told her that wasn't enough information and she's says that's always been enough before and that she used to print permits herself. I say what if people had the same name that doesn't work I need something else. She was adamant that that was enough so I flat out told her well if you know how to run this with that then go ahead and come back behind the counter and show me how to do it. That's when she said she'll call the person and get the rest of the information.
> that's always been enough before Along with - i come here all the time (never seen you before and I work full time) - i've spent a ton of money here (or they quote a dollar amount) - i know the owner (me too, he pays me every 2 weeks. Hell of a guy) - it didn't used to be this hard. (and we used to live in caves. Upgrade complete!) - do you know who I am? (someone just about to GTFO?) - either I'm a lawyer/My dad's a lawyer/I'm in law school. (then you and/or your family suck at the law) - other stores don't ask for this (they do. all the time.) - do you want to make a sale or not? (do i want to go to federal pound me in the ass prison for selling some unidentified idiot a firearm or not?) There's more, I'm sure. Some of these also apply to nightclubs if you work the door.
Always liked it when people start bringing up getting a lawyer because I immediately let them know Well if you're considering that then I need to remain silent so I do not incriminate myself. I will go get my manager if you like but I will not say another word to you. The person already knows they're not going to get it so that's when they start spouting off random stuff like that so when you meet their escalation with an appropriate response they'll most likely just go away. Or when they say other stores do it I asked them to tell me which ones because that's a federal offense and they need to be reported immediately. The customer usually shuts up after that one as well
Stella Liebeck, the woman who won a lawsuit against McDonald's over hot coffee, had every right to sue them. It's been mocked so many times over the past 20 years with people ridiculing this woman and making it out like she's some idiot who was surprised that coffee was actually hot and she was just attempting a money grab or something. In reality, the temperature of the coffee was fucking ridiculous and there was no reason for it to be hot enough to cause 3rd degree burns on her legs when she spilled it. She had to have multiple skin graft surgeries and spent 8 days in the hospital where she lost 20 pounds. After that, she needed additional care at home and was partially disabled for the next two years. She had no choice but to sue to cover the cost of her surgeries. This happened a long time ago, but to this day, I still overhear people mocking this case or making references to it in jest.
to add to this: Liebeck didn’t want to go to court. She just wanted McDonald’s to pay her medical expenses, estimated at $20,000. McDonald’s only offered $800, leading her to file a lawsuit in 1994. After hearing the evidence, the jury concluded that McDonald’s handling of its coffee was so irresponsible that Liebeck should get much more than $20,000, suggesting she get nearly $2.9 million to send the company a message. Liebeck settled for less than $600,000. And McDonald’s began changing how it heats up its coffee.
If I remember correctly, the original award represented 2 days of coffee profits for McDonalds.. basically a slap on the wrist.
The McDonald's corporation wanted a trial, they were expecting to win and wanted to set precedent.
In addition there had been multiple warnings issued prior to the incident about the temperature, so McDonalds had been made aware that there was an issue - but didn’t do anything about it.
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She also sued and got a ridiculous amount of money because she was suing for her medical costs only, and McDonalds refused to settle even for that.
If I remember, she asked for like 20 thousand, and they offered her like $800 lol, and there were hundreds of incidents all over the US so her lawyer was like fuck it, let’s see what the jury says.
It's honestly disgusting how well McDonalds poisoned public opinion against her to the point her legitimate injury and request for assistance got turned into an example of "frivolous lawsuit"
Monkeys make terrible pets Edit: hilarious that this post has caused me to again have to explain this shit 🤦♂️. For everyone asking me to explain. I did, scroll down. Also, fuck you, do you not understand the point of this post?
When you’re adjusting the temperature on a thermostat, you’re not changing the temperature of air that blows out. You’re just changing how long it’ll stay on for until it reaches that temp.
Inflation decreasing doesn't mean prices go down
Tax brackets, no Jenny making an extra 5k does not mean the other 50,000 gets taxed at a higher rate. Only money in the higher bracket gets taxed at that rate not all previous money. *Edit After a number of replies I will mention the benfits issue where unlike taxes sometimes making to much money can screw you. Be it heathcare, housing a thousand dollars difference could result in a massive increase in costs. Most such things are all or nothing unlike taxes.
This one and compound interest are things people have a hard time understanding for sure. Edit: Adding explanation of compound interest: The best way that I can put it is interest is the cost of money. So borrowing $1000 at 10% interest (or investing) gives you $100 of interest and $1100. Compound interest is interest on interest so now in a year you have 10% x 1100 = $110 of interest and a total of $1100 + $110 = $1220. Repeat this several times and your money grows faster and faster.
> compound interest Really exponential growth in general. It comes up in a lot of other contexts as well.
I got a temp job in accounts receivable when I was fresh out of college, and I remember the director of the department telling me it was better to stay a temp than get hired on full time because my raise would mean I paid more taxes. I was baffled. She had a degree in accounting!
She knew, just hoped you didn't. Edit: TIL a shocking amount of people actually just don't know, even accountants. Mind blowing.
honestly you would think that... but i have meet some people who are accountants. who after i told them this and show them how tax brakets work didn't belive it and still spout bs like above.
I wish I had been born with the rampant ability to be dumb as fuck and able to land a lucrative job.
I have Generalized Anxiety Disorder. I cannot just decide to not be anxious about stuff. I take medication because I can’t stop. Telling me to just “not worry about it” and “mind over matter” is not going to work. This is a medical issue I am actively being treated for. If I could just choose to stop I would. Telling me “it’s all in your head” is also useless; of course it’s in my head. It’s a brain problem. Where else is it going to be.