I absolutely hate how infantilized everyone is now like it’s not funny that you don’t know how to boil water you dumb bitch
Teach your children household duties. Cooking, cleaning, gardening etc are very important skills.
Had to show my roommate how to use our stove the other day. Took some convincing for her to believe that no, you don’t put anything between the stove element and the pan.
First job I ever got, the boss was ecstatic to learn that I can pick up a knife and chop up fruit unsupervised because apparently that was how low the bar had been set.
It’s literally impossible for you to make yourself known to everyone you meet. Some people will just get the wrong impression about you and you have to let it go.
I was walking down the street with my brother on a hot day on our way into a bookstore and I said “I hate the sun. It’s too hot. Name ONE reason we need the sun. Literally I can’t think of a single reason why we can’t just figure out a way to block it”
And a guy turned and looked at me with the most dumbfounded and horrified expression Id seen since the last time someone looked at me like that (about a week before) and then turned to the girl with him and they both looked mistified in the worst way.
They really thought I don’t know what the sun’s for.
I could’ve told them I work in environmental science but I was having a conversation with my brother.
Those two people think that’s the day they overheard probably the stupidest thing any human being has ever loudly said in a bookstore.
I was once having an argument with a classmate of mine and we were talking about the capacity for humans to do good or bad
we were history majors, so I was bringing up various man-made famines and genocide and how the human collective capacity for cruelty was vast and often underestimated
I remember very vividly that she said ‘yeah, but the capacity for humans to do good is underestimated too.’
I was a bit of a pessimist at the time, so I was like ‘I mean, sure, people do nice things for each other every day, but it’s not really on a large scale.’
and she was like 😦 and showed me something on her computer, it was an article about Opportunity
she said ‘we made a robot that we said would last 90 days, it’s lasted 13+ years. We underestimate our own capacity to create, humans ability to create for the greater good is larger than we think.’
the current global predicament is often clouded by pessimism and fear, but here is a little robot that defied the most optimistic of predictions for it’s life
Opportunity is down, but I will always remember how we can still surprise ourselves with an ability to create for good
do you think we as a society can finally acknowledge that “this thing didn’t have a name until recently” doesn’t necessarily mean “this thing did not exist until recently” or (worse) “this thing doesn’t exist at all”
Let’s also agree that “this thing did not have an English name until recently,” does not necessarily mean it was nameless.
And while we’re at it how about we add “You don’t get to systematically destroy the evidence for this thing and then claim that because there’s no evidence, the thing doesn’t exist and has never existed.”
Marie Kondo is full of anecdotes about the weird ass shit that she not only lets people keep but encourages them to elevate in their lives. She says one of her clients ended the process with a bedroom full of vintage pinball machines because what sparks joy in that particular woman was basically sleeping in the middle of an arcade.
Marie Kondo would never make you throw away your weird shit! She wants you to pare down to just your weird shit.
She wants you to decide which weird shit is meaningful to you and which weird shit doesn’t need to be in your life.
Usually the people on the show end up telling a story about their weird shit that justifies an attachment, too.
I really wish there was an option on those Customer Service Surveys that says specifically, “The representative I spoke to was lovely and helpful and deserves all of the raises but I think that you, as a corporation, should die in a fire.”
hey as somebody who works in one of those companies that sends out those surveys, never, NEVER mention how much you hate the company in them. just talk about the representative. then, go to the company’s social media page and blast your bad reviews there
those surveys decide our pay, they decide whether we get bonuses or not, they decide if we get to keep our jobs or not. i’ve read transcripts on surveys where it’s has been praising the representative but mentioned one bad thing about the company. that fell to the representative because they should have been enough to sway the customers opinion.
Hey just to add on, if you liked the representative, and the survey is asking for opinions on a scale of 0-10… please give the rep 10′s across the board. Don’t try to be thoughtful and detailed and put down a 7 or an 8 or a 9. A lot of times anything below a 9 or 10 counts as a zero (no, for real) and guess who it comes back to? That’s right, the customer service rep.
At my job anything below a 10 is zero and our store is graded on our survey % so if anyone even puts 9s across the board it’s a 0 in the end and heavily brings down our stores score- which can lead to firings,
corporations: more horrible than i thought
Saw this at a McDonald’s once and when my dad worked at Kohls they had a similar policy. Always mark highly satisfied if you were happy with your service
corporate is full of insane morons that lack humanity for charts like this to exist
Oh is this not common knowledge yet??
This applies to literally any situation in which you’re asked to give customer feedback on any kind of scale. Anything short of pure 10/10 can get someone written up, cost them some pay or cost them their entire job.
I was doing food delivery a year ago and enough people gave me 4/5 instead of 5/5 on the app that my overall score bordered on only a 90% or whatever and if it dropped just a point below that I’d have been booted permanently out of the system. This was also my only source of income at the time other than patreon, which just covered our rent, so this was my only source of money for gas or clothes or anything else. For some people it’s their only source of income INCLUDING rent……..or they literally just live in their car that they use to do these deliveries.
Give perfect 10′s to every single employee of every type of business if you don’t want to risk putting somebody out on the street, for real.
Whenever i deal with a CS rep on the phone i make sure to ask for their manager to compliment them.
Autistic people with multiple complex comorbidites who need extensive daily support and can’t make their communications understood deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
They deserve to live their lives with proper respite care, proper medical care, proper mental health care, proper daily support and without somebody exploiting their vulnerable moments to the internet without their consent.
They don’t deserve to be scapegoats to shut down the neurodiversity movement.
They don’t deserve to be trotted out as negative examples of autism.
They don’t deserve to only be talked about in the most negative, dehumanizing ways possible.
They don’t deserve to have their inability to advocate for their rights used against them.
They aren’t a bunch of behaviors or a pawn to move around a chess board, they are people with feelings like you.
I will fight for their right to be treated and talked about as the people they are for as long as I have breath in my body.
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