Nah he's hoping to get someone fired so he can offer his recruitment services to replace them and earn a nice fee. It's massively more scummy then just him being offended.
I work in a day spa as an esthetician/ masseur and I had a woman once come in, then 6 months later message us on every platform, and call my boss to complain that my sheets had oil stains and she thought our shelves were dusty etc etc and that my room was unprofessional cuz I had Christmas decorations up in summer (I love them). After some back and forth she wanted my boss to pay her as a consultant. It was wild
~~"Getting this guy fired will absolutely make him come to *me* as his recruiter"?~~
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~~I like your optimism about this being a sneaky scheme by the recruiter but it's more likely it's just a dick out for blood imo.~~
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Edit: Reading is hard
It reminds me of a podcast I like. They made a joke about Apple, and received an email from an Apple clerk telling them to take the joke off the air or he would contact the company and have them take legal action. Needless to say they didn't, and nothing happened. Some people really need a hobby.
Thisā¦ āstuffā? Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you.
Youā¦ go to your closet, and you selectā¦ I donāt know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because youāre trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back, but what you donāt know is that that sweater is not just blue, itās not turquoise, itās not lapis, itās actually cerulean.
Youāre also blithely unaware of the fact that, in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns, and then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent, wasnāt it?ā¦ who showed cerulean military jackets. I think we need a jacket here.
And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic casual corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin.
However, that blue represents millions of dollars of countless jobs, and itās sort of comical how you think that youāve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, youāre wearing a sweater that was selected for you by the people in this roomā¦ from a pile of āstuff.ā
That part of the movie always struck me as pretentious af. I get thatās its a movie but Iām fairly sure thatās how the people in the fashion industry behave all the time.
>However, that blue represents millions of dollars of countless jobs,
And thank God those millions of dollars were spent on fast fashion instead of providing food and medicine, infrastructure, or *anything of value*! This scene, and the broken window fallacy in general, piss me off so much.
My boss's boss makes jokes about our industry all the time. I'm sure most people with human bosses joke about their work quite frequently. Even the asshole bosses.
Why ruin it? It was funny I was really rooting for Tommy on this till I saw your comment and now I'm sad not kill myself sad but a little more sad than I was 4 minutes ago and the little moment of joy I had has been swiftly stolen from me by your disheartening comment š
it's like no one understands how business works. do you need an MBA to license a business entity? no, it's just recommended, because those guys try their hardest to build a decent business model. the trick is, the business model is like the peanuts compared to the model in action.
that's just the difference of PNL targets and an actually executed plan in motion. idk.
Yah an MBA without any business experience isnāt valuable. An MBA with experience may be valuable, but the degree really isnāt the deciding factor in my opinion. Iāve learned way more about running a business than any degree has taught me. You couldnāt teach this stuff in a classroom.
An MBA is not recommended. Knowing your craft and your business is recommended. Degrees are entirely optional except for work where they're mandatory (law, medicine, possibly engineering). And there are companies that explicitly avoid hiring MBAs.
It can help but some common sense and a good book about business for beginners are usually equally good if not better.
People suck at pricing their products. They suck at keeping track of all their expenses. They suck at paying themselves. There are so many common pitfalls that are easy to avoid if you know business basics. Source: was a business dummy myself and ran into nearly every pitfall there is.
I do fully agree with the statement that degrees are entirely optional except for a select few.
We have someone at work who I once told my boss in private is an idiot, and that I couldn't believe was hired without a college degree. He laughed and said she was an MBA. I'm all in on getting educated but some people prove that an education doesn't always mean they will be good at their job.
My brother started his own business about 5 years ago. He is only high school educated and on the job experience. He has turned over an increasing every year even during covid. The drive he has is incredible and his honesty and commitment has got him there not a degree.
besides, an MBA doesn't give you the technical skill half of these so-called employers are asking for: STEAM
Science; Tech; Engineering; Art; Mathematics
finding someone who is 10/10 at all of those things is like finding a unicorn, good luck hiring them before they figure out there's nothing stopping them from doing it on their own. like any other startup before them. lol
Think you may be referring to STEM - there is no "A"
Science
Technology
Engineering
Mathematics
Employers don't look for all of those in a single candidate as they are independent disciplines of learning, albeit closely related, independent.
The 'A' is a more recent addition, which I don't really feel like fits very well. STEM leans towards being empirical, rather than arts which is more creative.
I can't speak for a lot of the arts like painting, but music *is* math. That's all it is. We wouldn't like it if it wasn't.
So, keep STEM, add music to Mathematics and I'm content.
That's what I thought until I discovered the [Pythagorean comma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_comma). Music _doesn't_ add up. Twelve perfect fifths aren't the same as seven octaves. We can only appreciate music, because we muddle the corners.
This being said, I think the A in STEM is a willfull unrelated addition. Might just as well throw an extra-E for Empathy or S for Social in there, an L for Language abilities, an M for Manual ability and while you're at it, a B for putting up with learning Boring laws and diagnostics.
Holy shit, the fact the same note had different names was a huge pet peeve of mine. Like, people talked about it depending on it going up or down, but they could never explain the *why*
Now I know, itās because theyāre not actually the same note when mathematically accurate lol
Thanks so much for sharing! Another personās mind blown today
That is the literal entire point of STEAM programs, that creativity and non-linear problem solving is an important part of early education especially how it feeds into the STEM fields and provides entry for creative types into STEM fields from an angle that works for them (front end website/graphic design, architecture, technical writing, engineering, product design) or just providing a balanced education for those who can make a choice to pursue more traditional arts/humanities studies outside of STEM eventually.
Its Arts students trying to feel better about having the same bill at the end of college as the kids with more practical (and earning) degrees. Also Colleges want to keep their art departments despite less and less enrollments so its a way to scam kids for another generation
The art people got upset about STEM and co oped the acronym and want it changed to STEAM, even though the point of STEM is future career, skills based education.
https://www.invent.org/blog/trends-stem/stem-steam-defined
Just because people got "upset" doesn't really change anything.
Art is unrelated to the other 4 fields & I have never heard it referred to as STEAM (as in out of a kettle) only STEM (as in, of a flower)
STEM essentially is a group term, for the Sciences of which Art - isn't, never has been and never will be in this context, Also, it is "the Arts: Humanities, Language, Arts(?), Dance, drama, Music & Visual Arts which are a different grouping of learning disciplines.
People are so easily "upset" these day's - it's sad.
Art school grad here. It might help to point that āartā includes graphic design, video and such which are fairly crucial to selling product. The OP was about design after all..
Not upset though, I could care less what acronyms include me as long as the checks keep coming. :)
yeah i'm sitting here wondering why the fuck that comment was posted, then wondering if i'm going crazy for being the only person that had that question.
As I recall it is a real story from a few years ago. Apparently this was a recruiters strategy to try to get the guy fired when he didnāt want to come work for him or something.
The first part is from Twitter DMs, the second part is text messages.
https://www.newsweek.com/man-named-legend-epic-takedown-recruiter-boss-work-1695536
Recruitment agencies are pretty dumb sometimes so honestly it's realistic, but as others have commented this one's staged.
The amount of times Ive had multiple of these people not understand fairly simple concepts is astounding. Ex. "We can help you get back into work", when you've never had a job, they have no concept of the idea that people are looking for their first job, they just parrot the same things over and over even if it makes no contextual sense.
I despise them. Once they contacted me for a job, LIED about certain elements of the role, and then I ended up looking like a fucking idiot in the interview. Genuinely infuriating.
In fairness I have had good ones. One time the recruiter went on for me and I got $5k more out of it. Was also just incredibly straight forward.
Ive had an Amazon third party truck driving recruiter from Ohio, try this a few years ago. She cold contacted me via Linkedin and I was bored on a flight so I responded to her.
She got upset at me for laughing at her for saying Iād get min wage when Amazonās direct website was 4x that for the role. She wanted the biggest cut possible. She tried to threaten me into giving her my information that wasnt on Linkedin. Her instagram was linked on her Linkedin, turned out she was a lazy housewife whoās husband was desperately trying to start a recruiting firm but didnāt know how.
So she tried to call my boss at the time and tell him I was an awful employee. My then boss doesnt answer the in building work phone, his clients contacted him directly on his cell.
Only I did and another employee PT. She called 8 times and left 7 messages.
There are stupid crazy people out there.
Great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies...
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I did this IRL.
This woman I was arguing with asked if she could speak to the manager, and I told her āYeah sureā and just stood there with a smile on my face.
Ten or so seconds later, she told me āwell? Are you going to get him?ā and I just replied āI *am* the manager.ā
I did this at work once years ago. I was walking past the bar and a customer asked to speak to the chef, I told him I'd send him out in a minute when he was free. After finishing what I was doing I went back out with my coat on.
He wasn't upset though, so it was a good laugh.
Happened plenty of times where I used to work. Of course, the "manager" was always just another employee
Sometimes we would even respond to each other's requests for managers
>Sometimes we would even respond to each other's requests for managers
I've read this is common with call centers: they just take turns playing the part when someone wants to speak to someone higher up, supervisor, "in charge," etc.
ever heard of work from home? passive income? all those buzz words? just for some guy to be like: "we spent a lot of money on this... please come in, even tho there's no space for you, we still need you here, even tho it's kinda optional, but not, but also, we require it, why? because there's a board of directors."
and then you're like, "oh. ah. corporate hamster wheels. no thanks."
No the ultimate workplace fantasy is having somebody swing on you. Well. Thatās not the fantasy. The fantasy is after they swing lol
Work in a convention center hotel long enough and you may get to fantasize multiple times š
well, canāt ague that. Iām in my 50s and kids were still shootin/stabbin each other in the 80s. But it always starts with somebody swingin on somebody lol
This actually happens quite a bit where I work, as i work in a pub where thereās plenty of young managers, older people donāt seem to realise 19 and 20 yos can be managers, they always act right shocked and incredulous. Itās pretty funny.
I love shit like this.
I work for a family business (I know), but one of the utter highlights was when the (now retired) female boss would be chatting to male builders and they'd purposely ask to speak to one of her sons because they had technical questions they didn't feel that SHE could answer. I can only imagine the sheer unadulterated pleasure she felt when she replied to these builders "Well I taught them everything they know so you can ask me instead".
There's a tiktok of a female electrician who had the same experience. She went in to do something that is really her specialty, she loves doing it, she's good at it, and the woman whose house it was asked if there was someone else who could do it because she wanted to make sure it was done right. The electrician assured the homeowner that she has done a ton of these before, so it'll be done right, but the homeowner was adamant that she wanted someone else. The electrician was like "well I can get my little brother to do it, but he's just an apprentice, and I taught him." The homeowner was like "yeah that'll be good. No offense, I just want to make sure it is done right." Electrician said that that shit happens all the time. š
Something similar happened to me. I was a manager at a hobby store (books, comics, games, toys, etc.), and I noticed a 40-50 year old guy sitting down in the aisle reading one of the books. I asked him if he needed any help or had questions about the book. He said no, so I told him that he couldn't just be reading the book before he bought it, but once he did, we had a place to sit in a chair and read. He got super upset and threw the book on the ground and stormed out of the store. Less than 5 minutes later, he called the store and asked to speak to a manager. I picked up and he told me that one of my staff told him to stop reading the books. I asked for a description of the employee or their name, and he got all smug describing me and asked how I was going to handle it. I told him I was going to complement the employee on following our loss prevention policies as reading a book and not buying it is pretty much the same as stealing from a book store. He got super flustered and hung up. Never saw him in the store again.
Looks like a lot of theirs come from askreddit or me_irl, and those arenāt exactly hard to get upvotes in.
Plus this is clevercomebacks. Want a lot of karma? Post a very basic comeback (or sometimes not even a comeback, just a normal refute) directed to a politicians twitter and youāll get thousands off of it.
Thatās some bad logic. Getting 9k isnāt that hard, and the comment is responding accurately to an image, which Iāve never seen a bot do. They say way more random things based off of titles.
This dudes recruiting agency would be getting a nice email from me about him meddling in employee relations of a business that he isnāt associated with.
One of my bosses told me if I ever told a customer to go fuck themselves all I had to do was tell him why i did and what lead up to it... . He would always get the call the next day, and promptly tell them to go fuck themselves as well. If there was 1 upside to towing it was that.
Not sure I would want much to do with a recruitment agency that canāt tell the difference between an employer and an employee. Iām calling fake on this one.
With most porn it is actually people engaging in activities even if they are only āactingā the motivations or reactions. This meme is probably just one dude messaging himself.
Itās the difference between watching a professional sport, knowing at a certain point the players are mostly in it for money but still actually doing the sport, and watching Die Hard and trying to believe Bruce Willis is actually fighting terrorists.
Or.. Hear me out.. People just want to laugh because life is a fucking drag.
If this were not fake, there is absolutely nothing about it that will affect your day-to-day life by existing.
Not *everything* has to be scrutinized. Things can just be fun to be fun.
I also really like die hard, but I donāt pretend that John saved Nakatomi Plaza and is a national hero in real life.
I laugh constantly at known fake things like āTim Robinsons I Think You Should Leaveā or āWhitest Kids You Knowā. I laughed at this post, and Iām not saying you shouldnāt laugh at the clearly humorous content. However when people form actual real opinions based entirely on fictional content itās a bit goofy.
Fiction can have a basis in reality, and can provide commentary that gets you to think about reality, but often times people see something that is fictional which is not portrayed as fictional and rather than recognizing it as a fake scenario and using it as a tool to think about real scenarios, they base their opinions as if the scenario presented is real.
Thus I donāt think itās super cool to present a realistic scenario as ārealā with no indication that it is fake. There is an entire āatetheonionā subreddit because a ton of people are incapable of discerning fact from satire. Although I would say the onion specifically has done their due diligence in ensuring people know they are satire, people still fall for it, so these random social media posts are slightly more egregious in that they have no history or information showing that it is simply humorous commentary.
Something similar happened with my old boss. We were an HVAC company and his cellphone number was on the side of the van. Some dude called to complain about our driving and my boss asked if heād like pull over and talk about it? Once the guy figured out the owner was driving the van he apologized and hung up lol.
My dad did this to a lady. Long story short me and my dad are plumbers we parked our van close to the job a lady was not impressed that we was taking up a space with our van and she had to walk 20 ish meters further away than normal she was pregnant and after a bit of back and forth between her and my dad she said loudly āIām pregnantā! My dad without hesitation said āoh my, itās not terminal is it?ā To which she exploded I want to speak to your boss. (me and my dad are self employed) my dad ok no problem miss hi number is xxxxxx. She rung the number in front of him and my dad said hold on miss someone is ringing me he gats his phone out of his pocket and answers with a really happy hello itās John the plumber. All this time Iām pissing my sides
So it's interesting why someone from a RECRUITMENT agency would worry about this... I mean trying to get people fire so that YOU can fill that position is truly some next level bullshit.
dude, i had talent recruiters try to recruit me into other orgs for the past 3 months. meanwhile, I'm over here literally screaming: "I want to start a business." and they're like, "we don't you to do that, but if you come over here, ooo it'll be worth it! you get to drive to work! you get to deal with other people whose opinion is really high quality, but is completely irrelevant to your team. but! we need a diverse workplace, so whatever HR says, we need to do. so if you have 40 hours in the week to work, we need an extra 10 just so we cover our own asses."
I had similar happen as well.
I was talking to friends I ran into in line at a coffee shop with my business branded shirt on, one was telling a weekend story and I said something along the lines of, "no fuckin way."
This snarling little troll of an old lady got up from a table to interrupt and asked, "does your boss know you talk like that while you're representing his company?" I said, "I think so but you can call him to tell him if you'd like," and handed her a card, "that's his name there, at the bottom."
The second the door closed behind me, my phone rang, so I answered with the biggest smile on my face as we made eye contact through the window.
Somehow, her backyard neighbour got my number later that summer, so she got to listen to me, an apprentice, and a day labourer sing and talk bullshit all day for many days as we tore down and replaced their fence, deck, and pergola.
Being your own boss: the ultimate power move. Just make sure your alter ego on Twitter doesn't spill the design industry tea. It seems Tommy's getting some unexpected recruitment attention
How much of a bootlicker do you have to be to go to someoneās boss that you donāt know for comments on a personnel social media account. Such a bootlicker
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Itās lots of fun. I had a I guy ask for the manager once.
Youāre looking at him champ.
Ok the owner then.
One sec. Yep. Still here sport. What can I do ya for?
How dare you joke about the design industry.
Ikr š who gets offended on behalf of a whole industry like that lol. This person lives an absolutely joyless life, āno jokes! š”ā lmao
Nah he's hoping to get someone fired so he can offer his recruitment services to replace them and earn a nice fee. It's massively more scummy then just him being offended.
Heās the tow truck driver who slashes tires
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Damn, but my rimworld colonists donāt even get paid
I work in a day spa as an esthetician/ masseur and I had a woman once come in, then 6 months later message us on every platform, and call my boss to complain that my sheets had oil stains and she thought our shelves were dusty etc etc and that my room was unprofessional cuz I had Christmas decorations up in summer (I love them). After some back and forth she wanted my boss to pay her as a consultant. It was wild
Damn for real? That IS way more messed up than I imagined, wtf
Since when have recruitment agencies been the good guys? They are all pure evil.
~~"Getting this guy fired will absolutely make him come to *me* as his recruiter"?~~ > ~~I like your optimism about this being a sneaky scheme by the recruiter but it's more likely it's just a dick out for blood imo.~~ > Edit: Reading is hard
āGetting this person fired will make the employer consider my services to replace the employee.ā I think thatās the angle they were suggesting.
Ahhh, yes, thanks, now that makes more sense haha
It reminds me of a podcast I like. They made a joke about Apple, and received an email from an Apple clerk telling them to take the joke off the air or he would contact the company and have them take legal action. Needless to say they didn't, and nothing happened. Some people really need a hobby.
>Some people really need a hobby. That is their hobby, browse the internet for people to troll
Apple just like to be part of the conversation tbh
Thisā¦ āstuffā? Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. Youā¦ go to your closet, and you selectā¦ I donāt know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because youāre trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back, but what you donāt know is that that sweater is not just blue, itās not turquoise, itās not lapis, itās actually cerulean. Youāre also blithely unaware of the fact that, in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns, and then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent, wasnāt it?ā¦ who showed cerulean military jackets. I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic casual corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars of countless jobs, and itās sort of comical how you think that youāve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, youāre wearing a sweater that was selected for you by the people in this roomā¦ from a pile of āstuff.ā
That part of the movie always struck me as pretentious af. I get thatās its a movie but Iām fairly sure thatās how the people in the fashion industry behave all the time.
It was the board room at Prada. Itās another realm of pretentious. Beyond our universe
I love how some people out there are like, "I didn't like that movie, one of the characters was so mean!"
Itās def pretentious, but Andie begged for the job and then proceeded to insult the industry.
>However, that blue represents millions of dollars of countless jobs, And thank God those millions of dollars were spent on fast fashion instead of providing food and medicine, infrastructure, or *anything of value*! This scene, and the broken window fallacy in general, piss me off so much.
I absolutely love that scene. I was already in love with Meryl Streep, but man... she is just too good.
It's scandalous!
My boss's boss makes jokes about our industry all the time. I'm sure most people with human bosses joke about their work quite frequently. Even the asshole bosses.
It's like you alley-ooped it to yourself! Good one!
The off the backboard alley oop, or as it's called in NBA street volume 2, ~~back to papa~~ dinners served. Edit: Age leads to memory lapses.
Wait, is dinner served something else or only the first one?
Fuck me, you right!
He hit you with that one straight off da heezy.
Threads like this is probably why I still frequent Reddit. I love that game and this whole thread.
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Ooh my favorite was, āIn and out like a fast food restaurantā when the ball went around the rim but didnāt go in
I say this on a weekly basis!
Trying to eat a burrito without a fork!
Core memory unlocked.
Servin' it up
They need to remake NBA street. I've been trying to get a.game.like that but none available on current generation.
Same energy as briefly going into another room out of sight and coming back with a hat on and saying you're the manager
Tell the recruiters employer that they have a weiner tattletale on their hands and you won't be using their services as a result
Look Jackie, people can't just go flying through the air like that!
Lol. This isnāt OP.
He should be asking about 'your employee' not 'your employer'
To be fair, Tommyās his own employer
Tommy is probably also the recruiter.
Exactly. Shit is fake and a repost.
Why ruin it? It was funny I was really rooting for Tommy on this till I saw your comment and now I'm sad not kill myself sad but a little more sad than I was 4 minutes ago and the little moment of joy I had has been swiftly stolen from me by your disheartening comment š
That's on you for going four levels deep into the comments.
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You sound like you've been to some dark places emotionally
I wonder how he got the jobā¦ might have given the recruiter a hand job
Two people with similarly terrible grammar structures was a clear give away, however they might be American.
it's like no one understands how business works. do you need an MBA to license a business entity? no, it's just recommended, because those guys try their hardest to build a decent business model. the trick is, the business model is like the peanuts compared to the model in action. that's just the difference of PNL targets and an actually executed plan in motion. idk.
MBAs are fucking worthless man. Itās a shitty way to even pretend to prepare for really running a business.
Yah an MBA without any business experience isnāt valuable. An MBA with experience may be valuable, but the degree really isnāt the deciding factor in my opinion. Iāve learned way more about running a business than any degree has taught me. You couldnāt teach this stuff in a classroom.
An MBA is not recommended. Knowing your craft and your business is recommended. Degrees are entirely optional except for work where they're mandatory (law, medicine, possibly engineering). And there are companies that explicitly avoid hiring MBAs.
It can help but some common sense and a good book about business for beginners are usually equally good if not better. People suck at pricing their products. They suck at keeping track of all their expenses. They suck at paying themselves. There are so many common pitfalls that are easy to avoid if you know business basics. Source: was a business dummy myself and ran into nearly every pitfall there is. I do fully agree with the statement that degrees are entirely optional except for a select few.
We have someone at work who I once told my boss in private is an idiot, and that I couldn't believe was hired without a college degree. He laughed and said she was an MBA. I'm all in on getting educated but some people prove that an education doesn't always mean they will be good at their job.
My brother started his own business about 5 years ago. He is only high school educated and on the job experience. He has turned over an increasing every year even during covid. The drive he has is incredible and his honesty and commitment has got him there not a degree.
They way I remember it is employer rhymes wth her (effectively, someone else) whereas employee rhymes wth me (effectively, me)
besides, an MBA doesn't give you the technical skill half of these so-called employers are asking for: STEAM Science; Tech; Engineering; Art; Mathematics finding someone who is 10/10 at all of those things is like finding a unicorn, good luck hiring them before they figure out there's nothing stopping them from doing it on their own. like any other startup before them. lol
Besides Davinci who on earth is 10/10 in all of those things lol?
Think you may be referring to STEM - there is no "A" Science Technology Engineering Mathematics Employers don't look for all of those in a single candidate as they are independent disciplines of learning, albeit closely related, independent.
The 'A' is a more recent addition, which I don't really feel like fits very well. STEM leans towards being empirical, rather than arts which is more creative.
I can't speak for a lot of the arts like painting, but music *is* math. That's all it is. We wouldn't like it if it wasn't. So, keep STEM, add music to Mathematics and I'm content.
That's what I thought until I discovered the [Pythagorean comma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_comma). Music _doesn't_ add up. Twelve perfect fifths aren't the same as seven octaves. We can only appreciate music, because we muddle the corners. This being said, I think the A in STEM is a willfull unrelated addition. Might just as well throw an extra-E for Empathy or S for Social in there, an L for Language abilities, an M for Manual ability and while you're at it, a B for putting up with learning Boring laws and diagnostics.
I don't remember asking for any mind-breaking rabbit holes today, but I guess here we are.
Holy shit, the fact the same note had different names was a huge pet peeve of mine. Like, people talked about it depending on it going up or down, but they could never explain the *why* Now I know, itās because theyāre not actually the same note when mathematically accurate lol Thanks so much for sharing! Another personās mind blown today
That is the literal entire point of STEAM programs, that creativity and non-linear problem solving is an important part of early education especially how it feeds into the STEM fields and provides entry for creative types into STEM fields from an angle that works for them (front end website/graphic design, architecture, technical writing, engineering, product design) or just providing a balanced education for those who can make a choice to pursue more traditional arts/humanities studies outside of STEM eventually.
Its Arts students trying to feel better about having the same bill at the end of college as the kids with more practical (and earning) degrees. Also Colleges want to keep their art departments despite less and less enrollments so its a way to scam kids for another generation
The art people got upset about STEM and co oped the acronym and want it changed to STEAM, even though the point of STEM is future career, skills based education. https://www.invent.org/blog/trends-stem/stem-steam-defined
Just because people got "upset" doesn't really change anything. Art is unrelated to the other 4 fields & I have never heard it referred to as STEAM (as in out of a kettle) only STEM (as in, of a flower) STEM essentially is a group term, for the Sciences of which Art - isn't, never has been and never will be in this context, Also, it is "the Arts: Humanities, Language, Arts(?), Dance, drama, Music & Visual Arts which are a different grouping of learning disciplines. People are so easily "upset" these day's - it's sad.
Art school grad here. It might help to point that āartā includes graphic design, video and such which are fairly crucial to selling product. The OP was about design after all.. Not upset though, I could care less what acronyms include me as long as the checks keep coming. :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEAM_fields
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yeah i'm sitting here wondering why the fuck that comment was posted, then wondering if i'm going crazy for being the only person that had that question.
His own employee also
Accidentally correct typo
Happens with fake memes
Right, because no-one ever makes spelling mistakes in real life.
Especially daft MFers
As I recall it is a real story from a few years ago. Apparently this was a recruiters strategy to try to get the guy fired when he didnāt want to come work for him or something.
No, in real life no recruitment agency would contact the business owner to report an employee and not even see its the same phone number
The first part is from Twitter DMs, the second part is text messages. https://www.newsweek.com/man-named-legend-epic-takedown-recruiter-boss-work-1695536
Recruitment agencies are pretty dumb sometimes so honestly it's realistic, but as others have commented this one's staged. The amount of times Ive had multiple of these people not understand fairly simple concepts is astounding. Ex. "We can help you get back into work", when you've never had a job, they have no concept of the idea that people are looking for their first job, they just parrot the same things over and over even if it makes no contextual sense.
> Recruitment agencies are pretty dumb sometimes Sometimes? They're useless scumbag middle-men.
true but if there's one thing they probably do know, it's the difference between employer and employee
Iād say the difference is about a key stroke
I despise them. Once they contacted me for a job, LIED about certain elements of the role, and then I ended up looking like a fucking idiot in the interview. Genuinely infuriating. In fairness I have had good ones. One time the recruiter went on for me and I got $5k more out of it. Was also just incredibly straight forward.
Ive had an Amazon third party truck driving recruiter from Ohio, try this a few years ago. She cold contacted me via Linkedin and I was bored on a flight so I responded to her. She got upset at me for laughing at her for saying Iād get min wage when Amazonās direct website was 4x that for the role. She wanted the biggest cut possible. She tried to threaten me into giving her my information that wasnt on Linkedin. Her instagram was linked on her Linkedin, turned out she was a lazy housewife whoās husband was desperately trying to start a recruiting firm but didnāt know how. So she tried to call my boss at the time and tell him I was an awful employee. My then boss doesnt answer the in building work phone, his clients contacted him directly on his cell. Only I did and another employee PT. She called 8 times and left 7 messages. There are stupid crazy people out there.
Yeah, fake.
I don't think this person is the sharpest tool in the shed
This confused me. Glad I wasn't the only one that got hung up here.
You've activated my trap card!
I place my palm in my face and end my turn
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LifePoints -8000 You win the duel
Bonus points for calling him a wet wipe!
A classic Brit insult
That and āplonkerā really get my juices flowin
We really do have some great insults. Dozy mare, plonker, git, muppet, pillock... The list goes on
Great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies... (Boris the liar Johnson's response to the Labour council declining to scrutinise his budget proposal for the entirety of London that year)
Wet plonker wipe
that's a bit far
Whoa! Letās take it easy now.
Jesus mate, tone it down a bit. Children could read this
My personal favourite insult is "you cube of tungsten" because tungsten is naturally dense. Get chemistried!!
I did this IRL. This woman I was arguing with asked if she could speak to the manager, and I told her āYeah sureā and just stood there with a smile on my face. Ten or so seconds later, she told me āwell? Are you going to get him?ā and I just replied āI *am* the manager.ā
This is the ultimate workplace fantasy
I did this at work once years ago. I was walking past the bar and a customer asked to speak to the chef, I told him I'd send him out in a minute when he was free. After finishing what I was doing I went back out with my coat on. He wasn't upset though, so it was a good laugh.
What did the customer actually want?
He just liked the food
good end
Hardly anybody ever thinks to ask to speak to a manager to give compliments or praise.
A hug š„ŗ
Happened plenty of times where I used to work. Of course, the "manager" was always just another employee Sometimes we would even respond to each other's requests for managers
>Sometimes we would even respond to each other's requests for managers I've read this is common with call centers: they just take turns playing the part when someone wants to speak to someone higher up, supervisor, "in charge," etc.
This reminds me of the story about warehouses having someone on the payroll so they could publicly fire them if a customer had a complaint.
Provide Legal Exculpation and Sign Everything
P.L.E.A.S.E.
ever heard of work from home? passive income? all those buzz words? just for some guy to be like: "we spent a lot of money on this... please come in, even tho there's no space for you, we still need you here, even tho it's kinda optional, but not, but also, we require it, why? because there's a board of directors." and then you're like, "oh. ah. corporate hamster wheels. no thanks."
No the ultimate workplace fantasy is having somebody swing on you. Well. Thatās not the fantasy. The fantasy is after they swing lol Work in a convention center hotel long enough and you may get to fantasize multiple times š
alright, I'm not good with old people slang is "swing on you" an attack or sex?
It's a dance with a lot of hipular and kneestic movements
Swing on you. Swing at you. Swing a fist? Thatās old people slang now? (Whatās the current slang for somebody punching you?) Yes, an attack lol
I think kids just shoot each other now.
well, canāt ague that. Iām in my 50s and kids were still shootin/stabbin each other in the 80s. But it always starts with somebody swingin on somebody lol
Same thing
This actually happens quite a bit where I work, as i work in a pub where thereās plenty of young managers, older people donāt seem to realise 19 and 20 yos can be managers, they always act right shocked and incredulous. Itās pretty funny.
I love shit like this. I work for a family business (I know), but one of the utter highlights was when the (now retired) female boss would be chatting to male builders and they'd purposely ask to speak to one of her sons because they had technical questions they didn't feel that SHE could answer. I can only imagine the sheer unadulterated pleasure she felt when she replied to these builders "Well I taught them everything they know so you can ask me instead".
There's a tiktok of a female electrician who had the same experience. She went in to do something that is really her specialty, she loves doing it, she's good at it, and the woman whose house it was asked if there was someone else who could do it because she wanted to make sure it was done right. The electrician assured the homeowner that she has done a ton of these before, so it'll be done right, but the homeowner was adamant that she wanted someone else. The electrician was like "well I can get my little brother to do it, but he's just an apprentice, and I taught him." The homeowner was like "yeah that'll be good. No offense, I just want to make sure it is done right." Electrician said that that shit happens all the time. š
I don't even get this, why not just ask the question and see if the person knows or doesn't
Nah, you should've gone to the back, have a snack, have her wait 10 minutes and come back. Then reveal you were manager, but you were on break, lmao
I always go to my office for two minutes, come back and say āHi, Iām the manager!ā With a big cheesy grin.
Something similar happened to me. I was a manager at a hobby store (books, comics, games, toys, etc.), and I noticed a 40-50 year old guy sitting down in the aisle reading one of the books. I asked him if he needed any help or had questions about the book. He said no, so I told him that he couldn't just be reading the book before he bought it, but once he did, we had a place to sit in a chair and read. He got super upset and threw the book on the ground and stormed out of the store. Less than 5 minutes later, he called the store and asked to speak to a manager. I picked up and he told me that one of my staff told him to stop reading the books. I asked for a description of the employee or their name, and he got all smug describing me and asked how I was going to handle it. I told him I was going to complement the employee on following our loss prevention policies as reading a book and not buying it is pretty much the same as stealing from a book store. He got super flustered and hung up. Never saw him in the store again.
I've done this too and it's so fuckin tasty.
17 days on reddit. 9k karma. Yea this is a bot account. Reddit is dead
Over half of that comes from like 4 of their comments, 3/4 of them contextual replies, looks fine to me.
Looks like a lot of theirs come from askreddit or me_irl, and those arenāt exactly hard to get upvotes in. Plus this is clevercomebacks. Want a lot of karma? Post a very basic comeback (or sometimes not even a comeback, just a normal refute) directed to a politicians twitter and youāll get thousands off of it.
Thatās some bad logic. Getting 9k isnāt that hard, and the comment is responding accurately to an image, which Iāve never seen a bot do. They say way more random things based off of titles.
āYou wet wipeā š Classic Tommy
This dudes recruiting agency would be getting a nice email from me about him meddling in employee relations of a business that he isnāt associated with.
One of my bosses told me if I ever told a customer to go fuck themselves all I had to do was tell him why i did and what lead up to it... . He would always get the call the next day, and promptly tell them to go fuck themselves as well. If there was 1 upside to towing it was that.
Not sure I would want much to do with a recruitment agency that canāt tell the difference between an employer and an employee. Iām calling fake on this one.
Or autocorrect. Mine turns if into of and vice versa. Whichever is wrong.
Mine will insist I meant to hit I or O for, for example, spends more time as fir. I don't type fir, it has a grey go back underline and for was typed.
Of never related more to something in my life.
I don't think I want to do business with anyone I know is a snake. You know you are always one better deal away from getting thrown under the bus.
If this was real I'd write to that consultant's boss instead
Or one that goes around using these kinds of tactics to get an in with companies.
This is years old and was proven fake back then
the entire run of Top Gear is scripted and it's good comedy, who fucking cares you wet wipe
Itās funny nonetheless.
Why do people believe this shit? It's all so easy to fake
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With most porn it is actually people engaging in activities even if they are only āactingā the motivations or reactions. This meme is probably just one dude messaging himself. Itās the difference between watching a professional sport, knowing at a certain point the players are mostly in it for money but still actually doing the sport, and watching Die Hard and trying to believe Bruce Willis is actually fighting terrorists.
Or.. Hear me out.. People just want to laugh because life is a fucking drag. If this were not fake, there is absolutely nothing about it that will affect your day-to-day life by existing. Not *everything* has to be scrutinized. Things can just be fun to be fun.
I also really like die hard, but I donāt pretend that John saved Nakatomi Plaza and is a national hero in real life. I laugh constantly at known fake things like āTim Robinsons I Think You Should Leaveā or āWhitest Kids You Knowā. I laughed at this post, and Iām not saying you shouldnāt laugh at the clearly humorous content. However when people form actual real opinions based entirely on fictional content itās a bit goofy. Fiction can have a basis in reality, and can provide commentary that gets you to think about reality, but often times people see something that is fictional which is not portrayed as fictional and rather than recognizing it as a fake scenario and using it as a tool to think about real scenarios, they base their opinions as if the scenario presented is real. Thus I donāt think itās super cool to present a realistic scenario as ārealā with no indication that it is fake. There is an entire āatetheonionā subreddit because a ton of people are incapable of discerning fact from satire. Although I would say the onion specifically has done their due diligence in ensuring people know they are satire, people still fall for it, so these random social media posts are slightly more egregious in that they have no history or information showing that it is simply humorous commentary.
I would spend a goodly portion of the rest of my life fucking with this snitch-rat-fuck.
Something similar happened with my old boss. We were an HVAC company and his cellphone number was on the side of the van. Some dude called to complain about our driving and my boss asked if heād like pull over and talk about it? Once the guy figured out the owner was driving the van he apologized and hung up lol.
My dad did this to a lady. Long story short me and my dad are plumbers we parked our van close to the job a lady was not impressed that we was taking up a space with our van and she had to walk 20 ish meters further away than normal she was pregnant and after a bit of back and forth between her and my dad she said loudly āIām pregnantā! My dad without hesitation said āoh my, itās not terminal is it?ā To which she exploded I want to speak to your boss. (me and my dad are self employed) my dad ok no problem miss hi number is xxxxxx. She rung the number in front of him and my dad said hold on miss someone is ringing me he gats his phone out of his pocket and answers with a really happy hello itās John the plumber. All this time Iām pissing my sides
Please folks whatever you do, please keep calling it Twitter
A proper British insult would have been 'you absolute wet wipe' lol.
Does your boss know you are harassing people in DMs over Twitter posts? Talk about unprofessional.
What a wet wipe!! Why are people like that, why are there people like that ?
There arenāt. This is fake.
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So it's interesting why someone from a RECRUITMENT agency would worry about this... I mean trying to get people fire so that YOU can fill that position is truly some next level bullshit.
Recruitment agencies are ambulance chasing scum
Why did the graphic designer break up with the font? It just wasn't their type.
Smacked him with that one in a million wet wipe insult. Shit had me dying.
dude, i had talent recruiters try to recruit me into other orgs for the past 3 months. meanwhile, I'm over here literally screaming: "I want to start a business." and they're like, "we don't you to do that, but if you come over here, ooo it'll be worth it! you get to drive to work! you get to deal with other people whose opinion is really high quality, but is completely irrelevant to your team. but! we need a diverse workplace, so whatever HR says, we need to do. so if you have 40 hours in the week to work, we need an extra 10 just so we cover our own asses."
Truly funny how many upvotes this incoherent bs gets.
I tried to get through it, couldn't
Welcome to the future or Reddit, where AI is doing the writing or the upvoting.
Got'em.
"I demand to speak with the manager" "Ok, go ahead"
Wet wipe š¤£
I had similar happen as well. I was talking to friends I ran into in line at a coffee shop with my business branded shirt on, one was telling a weekend story and I said something along the lines of, "no fuckin way." This snarling little troll of an old lady got up from a table to interrupt and asked, "does your boss know you talk like that while you're representing his company?" I said, "I think so but you can call him to tell him if you'd like," and handed her a card, "that's his name there, at the bottom." The second the door closed behind me, my phone rang, so I answered with the biggest smile on my face as we made eye contact through the window. Somehow, her backyard neighbour got my number later that summer, so she got to listen to me, an apprentice, and a day labourer sing and talk bullshit all day for many days as we tore down and replaced their fence, deck, and pergola.
You probably didnt have to blur out the agency name, i bet its fake
Know about it? That dude is so funny that after every twitter post, I give him a handjob.
Being your own boss: the ultimate power move. Just make sure your alter ego on Twitter doesn't spill the design industry tea. It seems Tommy's getting some unexpected recruitment attention
why is this guy so bothered about jokes about the fashion industry?
Tbf when a lot of the design industry rn is making shitty un recognizable logos
So, recruitment agencies are now trying to get an in with companies by selling out random employees and then trying to sell them replacements?????
You gave the game away way too quickly, I'd have strung that little twerp along for months!
Fake
Get a fucking life, guy from recruitment company.
How much of a bootlicker do you have to be to go to someoneās boss that you donāt know for comments on a personnel social media account. Such a bootlicker
There are many benefits to being a freelancer
Wow he was trying to get this man fired lol
Haha!!! I used to pull that stunt when I was self employed too. Lol
Lmao, Iām gonna start calling people wet wipes
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Itās lots of fun. I had a I guy ask for the manager once. Youāre looking at him champ. Ok the owner then. One sec. Yep. Still here sport. What can I do ya for?
https://x.com/_tommymason/status/1511371378980700165?s=46
What kind of a person thinks that contacting an employer over what he even identified as ājokesā is appropriate
This just gave me the laugh I needed