I used to work with a guy who was constantly bragging about his son's accomplishments. The teacher said his son was really smart. He got the highest grade in the class on some test. He felt the need to tell people he barley knew--and who had certainly never met his kid--these things all the time. It came across as "my kid is smarter than yours" but he was a nice guy generally so I just smiled an nodded. Eventually I learned his son was developmentally disabled and in special education classes. Those things meant something to him in a way they don't for most parents.
As someone who worked with people with Developmental Disabilities, Downs Syndrome, Autism, Fragile X, Mental Retardation, etc, all throughout college, I think it's fantastic that he likes to brag about his son, because unfortunately, I often saw the flip side of that....familes that abandoned their loved ones at institutions/group homrs, rather than care for them on their own. Now don't get me wrong, I realize it wasn't always possible for them to do so, especially as the parents got older, but come on, not even a phone call every once and awhile?!?! In fact, I would bring a few of the women home with me, to stay at my parent's house, over Thanksgiving break, just so they didn't have to be alone for the holiday. So it honestly makes me so happy to see there are parents out that who rejoice in their child's successes, regardless of how small, and inconsequential they may seem to everyone else. I hope that the son is able to fully understand just what a great man his father is.
Friend gets pulled over for speeding in another state. Police officer asked him if he knew his license was suspended. No. So he gets home and calls his Dept. Of Motor Vehicles. Them: It's because you don't have insurance on your 1989 Chrysler LeBaron. Him: I sold that car 5 years ago. Them: Yes we have that on record. Him: So you're telling me you suspended my license for not having insurance on a car I no longer own? Them: Yes, that's correct. Him: Are you people smoking crack? Rather than take several hours out of his life wading through pointless DMV paperwork to correct their error he paid a $5 fee instead. I wonder how many other $5 fees they've collected since then.
I had just landed in Portland, Oregon at 10:10 PM. OBVIOUSLY DARK. I left the airport and pulled over to put the address in my phone to my bosses house. A guy approched my car and asked, "do you know what time it is?" I cracked the window and said, "11:27." Then he said, "at night?" I said, "this isn't my neighborhood, man. So, I dunno." 🤣🤣
Had a colleague who wouldn’t use the scanner when making deliveries, just got the signature on the paper list. He was a summer temp and had ridden along with the regular driver for several days, but claimed he didn’t remember how to use the scanner so I went through it with him again and made a step by step list (7 steps total) and he still didn’t use it. I thought he was just lazy and old-fashioned (he was a pensioner working extra because he was bored). Turned out he was completely tech illiterate to the point where he couldn’t figure out the purpose of a button marked ok. He even struggled with answering his own phone occasionally. Two weeks in he absolutely had to use the scanner because the printer broke and there was no list. Of course the scanner froze so he had restart it and log in again and I tried to walk him through it over the phone. Five times I reminded him that the 0 in his login was the number 0 not the letter O. After 30 minutes I got him to hand over his phone and scanner to a very bewildered stranger and she had him logged in in one minute just following my instructions.
Never attribute to malice, what you can attribute to stupidity. However, in cases of repeated stupidity, malice can be the only attribute. "No one's THAT stupid!"
Some old people are just entitled and dumb Customer at work: Can you help me order a dishwasher? Me: *explains I’m in the flooring department and I can’t help them order a dishwasher and points them in the direction of people that can* Customer: Are you just lazy? Why can’t you order me a dishwasher? Me: I’m not certified in that and it’s not my department and I just explained to you I can’t do that. Customer: you’re just lazy and don’t wanna work. Where’s your manager? Me: I am a manager and I am manage a completely different department. Please go talk to the people at the desk down there. Customer: You’re just lazy. I’m taking my business elsewhere. Me: Be my guest. You made this harder because you don’t understand what not being certified to work in a department means.
This is partly their fault but it's also because of the different commercial culture that exists now with the big box stores. Back in their day certifications only mattered when they lawyers showed up and if you worked in a store you usually part owned it so you did everything
Yeah, I worked at a deli/bakery and was in the deli department. I had so many people who got mad at me because I didn't know the price of the cakes or if their order was ready.
I once worked at a store that used an old freight elevator as a regular elevator. Thing was designed to lift hundreds of tons of weight and barely moved 15 feet up or down. But people were terrified of it because it wasn't a perfectly smooth ride. Also, the doors weren't automatic but did have windows. The amount of people who would all but tear the door out of the frame trying to get into an empty elevator shaft that they could SEE was empty while exclaiming "YOUR ELEVATOR'S BROKEN!!" was staggering. x_x
22:31 Unfortunately, the responsibility of of fostering a safe environment often falls to those most threatened by the problem at hand. We wouldn't expect children to manage pedophilia awareness, and yet we expect black people to manage the Klan when the only actions that could stop the abuse requires appealing to the people who hate us most. From someone who had to explain why "shemale" is not the appropriate term for my condition 3 times last week, and who is currently being held responsible for "seducing" the man who raped me 2 months ago, I sympathize.
@@brucesuzannesb never going to happen. I was his aide and next door neighbor. People were already saying I was sleeping with this paraplegic, so he drugged me,compelled me to submitting, and got what he wanted. He sells coke to half the building and they were already suspected I would sleep with someone my mom's age.
3:30 Not quite as bad, but when I was in college, the school would receive my financial aid, deduct my tuition for the semester and then cut me a check for the difference. Somehow, someone misread one digit in my SSN and my financial aid got returned one semester saying I wasn't a student there. Took most of the semester to fix the issue but at least I was able to take out a loan to cover the tuition which I was now on the hook for.
I think the one that I remember the most was my father passing away and getting a call from the life insurance company. They were calling to complain they haven’t received any payments on dads life insurance. I told them he had just passed away and won’t be needing any more life insurance. The lady on the phone asked to speak with him.After telling her the second, third, and fourth time that he is dead I hung up.
One coworker of mine at an old job years ago was utterly shocked that I had a vape. She was under the impression that nicotine vaporizers are solely for women, and that men never use them.
I worked as a service clerk for my local transit. So, stupidity abound, but this was one of my favourite customer interactions: Customer: I need the route information and pricing for the (provincial) bus Me: sorry, but we only have information about our local city busses Customer: well, what time is the provincial bus supposed to be at X location Me: I don't know, ma'am; I do not have the information for the provincial bus; you have to call them Customer: how much will it cost me to get from local Y to location X on the provincial bus? Me: I don't know, ma'am; I do not have the information for the provincial bus; you have to call them Customer: what are the timings for the provincial bus at location X Me: I don't know, ma'am; I do not have the information for the provincial bus; you have to call them Customer: how much is it going to cost me Me: I don't know, ma'am; I do not have the information for the provincial bus; you have to call them Customer: why are you giving me the same answer to my questions?! Me: because I do not have the information for the provincial bus; you have to call them
You with the childish mom, I understand your pain. I thought I was a rough kid to parent, but when you look at my mom‘s circumstances at the time, well, I was difficult, it was nothing compared to my father. Of course, now we know why I was so difficult. I would offer you a mug of tea and a warm blanket and big hug, but I have no idea where it is. You live.
So many of these situations (both in the video, and in the comments) are living proof of the ‘Peter Principle’, (look it up, it is a real thing), which is summarized as : ‘In a hierarchy, people will be promoted to their level of incompetence’.
I do this with my online posts. If I feel like I have something to add, I say my peace. If I get a response that I get the need to follow up on, I continue the conversation. But if things start to go in circles, I simply stop replying because it's just a waste of my time at that point.
I once had a person asked me if they're in Rome yet during our Europe tour group ....we were in Rome yesterday and on that they asked me, we were already in Florence..😬
I worked for a trucking company who kept their most expensive shipments under a big sign that said "High Vale Loads". I told them that they might as well paint a big red bullseye on the back of their trucks.
I Work With a Guy Who Puts Tin Cans of Food in the Microwave. Very Dangerous. These Cans Always Start Flames. He Repeatedly Does This Even Though He's Been Told Not To. He Tells Everyone to Behave. But He's The One Annoying People. He Says Be Good then Says Cut Cut Cut. He Displays His Hands Like Angel Wings In Front Of Himself Continually. He Starts Arguments. He Stares At People At Their Bottom Half. Trying To See What Everyone Looks Like. Touches Himself While Speaking To a Certain Lady With Obvious Physical Health Issues.
McGriddles are delicious, omg. Also if it wasn’t for my medicine, quitting smoking would have been so much harder. My older sister, who never smoked, had a heart attack at age 41. She later passed after a car accident. It just wasn’t worth my health or money. It’s an expensive habit. This isn’t me judging those who still smoke. It’s your choice. But after that I wanted nothing to do with it anymore
A Man Who Enters Burger King and Asks Are You Open... When There Is Obviously a Crowd Inside. He Also Says So I Suppose There is No Potatoes In The Apple Fries. This is Something He Says At The Counter When Ordering.
I have a boss that can ramble on, so when she says something that I have an answer for, I interrupt. Not because i'm socially clueless, but because by the time she finishes, we will be 14 topics down the road and no one wants to go back to revisit the topic.
That Hanlim's razer with the addendums is a very good way of looking at life. The understanding that most "stupidity" is in fact ignorance, and is thus curable is better BTW, ignorance is not worse than stupidity. Thinking otherwise is either at best ignorant, or at worst malicious.
I used to work in IT support. I got a support ticket reading all the computers in quality control are faulty please come fix ASAP. Me wonders down to QA department knowing 14 computers don't just stop working without having a common cause. I had a quick look in the COMM's room as it was on route, everything was as it should be minus the connection flash. Long story short I get to the QA room and the first thing I notice is, its dark, very dark. I flick the light switch no lights. Now I am not an electrician but I did recall the facilities management guy once tell me the QA room had its own spur. So I look around the room and see someone has switched the mains power off. So no lights and more importantly to me no power for the computers, surprisingly enough when I hit that switch, which I had to stand on my tip toes to reach (I'm 6,2) the lights come on, the printers start to power up and when I hit the power button on the pc's they all fire up no problem at all. I hung around for a minute or two to make sure the QA staff could logon and as expected everything was fine. This goes on for 7 days including the weekend, I have spoken with the QA team leader, I have stuck a sticky note next to the spur, I have asked facilities to come and cage it off or in someway stop the QA staff from turning off the power. But nope the QA manager insists that his department is being neglected by IT because for 7 days in a row they have had this issue and demands I offer a better explanation to him other than his staff are turning off the mains. Day 8 I ignore the ticket and instead phone the QA manager, telling him I am going to swing by his desk and we can both go to the QA room together. I walk in to the room with him, point to the wall say look it switched off, it should not be switched off, I turn the power on and low and behold power, I leave the room. QA manager copies me in on a mail later that day, the mail is something along the lines of any person found turning off equipment at the mains is liable for disciplinary action, do not touch power sockets. Day 9 yeah they did it again, accept this time when I walk in to QA and go to switch the mains power their team leader shouts at me you are not allowed to touch the power, you were in the email. Me yeah.. I was, it was for me not to me. Flicks power, I then went straight to facilities and bargained with the FM to do something about that room, in exchange I upgraded his monitor and installed a free 5 click app. Good trade I should have done that on day 1. Never worked out if it was done by malice, or stupidity, I did have a word with the cleaning manager on the first day. Just a casual your guys wouldn't turn off power would they, she said no, I believe her.. I don't know if this constitutes dumb, but at the time it really annoyed me. I was really annoyed at the implication that I didn't know how to fix computers properly.
My dear, this situation can not be managed in any way except thru divorce. That mother in law will never change the son will always be a son and not a husband. Stay strong
At my last job, I used to get a lot of what I call " Here's The Keys" training...just told to do some particular job , with zero training. Sometimes I guessed my way through it successfully, sometimes not. My guess is this happens more often than not across the planet...
I used to say that "Management thinks training is viral." Because _supposedly_ someone would instruct the first guy on site what to do, or give him the gist of it. Then he'd tell others, and each retelling lost a generation. So when a boss or supervisor stops by and asks why you aren't doing this, it was always news to me. Fortunately they didn't want to get in trouble either, so they'd say if "If anyone asks, you've been doing _this_ all day," but still. It's amazing how like 99% of the jobs out there are just fake it 'til you make it.
There is a huge difference between stupidity and ignorance. Stupidity is a lowered ability to think. Ignorance is choosing not to think. The vast majority of people - 99%, at least - are ignorant. Ponder then that the ability to think is what separates mankind from the animals. _I think, therefore I am not a cow._
Yeah, I think you're conflating accidental ignorance, such as institutional racism; and willful ignorance, like uh... bigoted racism. One is not knowing that it isn't okay to just touch someone else's hair because it looks all cool and stuff. The other is claiming that ten percent of the population commits most of the crime, despite being shown tons of data to the contrary. Also, America almost _has_ to be more than 1% stupid. Just look at the comments on any RUclips video, and I believe that speaks for itself.
Some of these (e.g., 3:30) don't sound like stupidity so much as deliberate laziness and indifference to the well-being of others, which isn't much better than malice, IMO.
well it was my friend and classmate we were at school and i was helping him with math. and no matter how much i explained it to him even to the point that i basically gave him the answer he wouldnt get it. it took 40 minutes till break and he still didnt get it. fortunatly thats the dumbest person i have had to encounter. other then myself of course, like inschool n stuff i consider myself to be above avarage in terms of iq. but when it comes to life goddamn im stupid.
I Could Write a Book About So Many Stupid People I Have Encountered. There Is a Woman Who Sits For Hours At Restaurants and Pretends To Be a Manager. She Barks Out Complaints At Servers And Customers. She Herself Has Lunch and Dinner And Stays From Open Hours Till Closing Hours. She Does This At Every Restaurant She Eats At. Every Day. Yet She Speaks Of Meals She Makes. Don't Know When She Has Time To Make Her Supposed Wonderful Meals As She Is At Restaurants Open To Close.
3:00 I wish I could do that. I can't think like other people, not even just stupid people. These so called normal people online will say things, and I'll just be completely lost at how they got from point A to point B via logic. And of course questioning them only causes them to become verbally abusive, because "questions" mean you're "attacking" them, apparently.
23:30 “oh it was her turn my days today (or next week)” or similar reaction, might send him for a loop whether a mean or oblivious/ignorant joke or hell say huh thats cool. Or w/e 🤔🤷♂️
My worst conspiracy coworker was convinced the cure for aids exists, but is depressed because the people who have it would rather kill Black people then become trillionaire‘s from curing HIV, and then continuing to profit off those patients for their drastically expanded lifespan. Anyway, it turns out you actually can cure HIV but the cure is so horrific and dangerous You really are better off using management therapies. It turns out a surprisingly high number of people have corky bone marrow that produces cells which can deal with HIV. All you have to do is get some bone marrow from someone like that who is a match for donation get it installed and you and write it down on the operation doesn’t kill you or your body kill you by having a freak out at the fact your blood is now being made by a completely different person. Bone marrow transplants are agonizing and you’ve got a roughly 50% chance at best odds of surviving and that’s just the operation before your body starts being mega weirded out by the fact I was blood is technically from a different person, but also have a huge chance of killing you, if not doing tremendous damage to your organs, which will be permanent and agonizing there’s a reason they don’t sell this has the cure to HIV. It’s because it’s honestly way worse than taking a pill and much more likely to kill you then help you. Anyway, she got physically violent when I was explaining to her how this works why they don’t market it and the fact that there is no easy OTC cure to HIV. She called me racist and tried to slash my face with her nails. Why yes I pressed charges. Not because of the violence, but because I wanted to punish her for being a fucking dumbshit. And yes, she was one of those Thug Lies Matter MOSTLY PEACEFUL rioter types Who carried a massive nothing is my fault everything is because of evil racist white people chips on her shoulder..
I have to tell people all the time I'm sorry I didn't mean to be rude interrupting you it's just I was going to forget and it was really really important that I remembered to tell you this
Im wondering if the guy who missed social cues and added on questions might be autistic. Im autistic and I've had to sensor myself from doing the same things. Im high functioning, but i can still have problems with missing social cues and taking things literally.
Naw, pronouns have been used for millennia without issue, you're just having trouble with a certain group of people's right to exist. Also, as a fun fact: *you* is a personal pronoun. Specifically, it's a second-person pronoun that can be either singular or plural and is used as both the subject and object pronoun.
I used to work with a guy who was constantly bragging about his son's accomplishments. The teacher said his son was really smart. He got the highest grade in the class on some test. He felt the need to tell people he barley knew--and who had certainly never met his kid--these things all the time. It came across as "my kid is smarter than yours" but he was a nice guy generally so I just smiled an nodded. Eventually I learned his son was developmentally disabled and in special education classes. Those things meant something to him in a way they don't for most parents.
He has us in the first half not gonna lie.
@@cassiethewolf1570 🤭
well ...he is nice supportive parent so there's that..
As someone who worked with people with Developmental Disabilities, Downs Syndrome, Autism, Fragile X, Mental Retardation, etc, all throughout college, I think it's fantastic that he likes to brag about his son, because unfortunately, I often saw the flip side of that....familes that abandoned their loved ones at institutions/group homrs, rather than care for them on their own. Now don't get me wrong, I realize it wasn't always possible for them to do so, especially as the parents got older, but come on, not even a phone call every once and awhile?!?! In fact, I would bring a few of the women home with me, to stay at my parent's house, over Thanksgiving break, just so they didn't have to be alone for the holiday. So it honestly makes me so happy to see there are parents out that who rejoice in their child's successes, regardless of how small, and inconsequential they may seem to everyone else. I hope that the son is able to fully understand just what a great man his father is.
At least he's supportive
Friend gets pulled over for speeding in another state. Police officer asked him if he knew his license was suspended. No. So he gets home and calls his Dept. Of Motor Vehicles.
Them: It's because you don't have insurance on your 1989 Chrysler LeBaron.
Him: I sold that car 5 years ago.
Them: Yes we have that on record.
Him: So you're telling me you suspended my license for not having insurance on a car I no longer own?
Them: Yes, that's correct.
Him: Are you people smoking crack?
Rather than take several hours out of his life wading through pointless DMV paperwork to correct their error he paid a $5 fee instead.
I wonder how many other $5 fees they've collected since then.
Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
Kind of the same thing.
I had just landed in Portland, Oregon at 10:10 PM. OBVIOUSLY DARK. I left the airport and pulled over to put the address in my phone to my bosses house. A guy approched my car and asked, "do you know what time it is?" I cracked the window and said, "11:27." Then he said, "at night?" I said, "this isn't my neighborhood, man. So, I dunno." 🤣🤣
Had a colleague who wouldn’t use the scanner when making deliveries, just got the signature on the paper list. He was a summer temp and had ridden along with the regular driver for several days, but claimed he didn’t remember how to use the scanner so I went through it with him again and made a step by step list (7 steps total) and he still didn’t use it. I thought he was just lazy and old-fashioned (he was a pensioner working extra because he was bored). Turned out he was completely tech illiterate to the point where he couldn’t figure out the purpose of a button marked ok. He even struggled with answering his own phone occasionally. Two weeks in he absolutely had to use the scanner because the printer broke and there was no list. Of course the scanner froze so he had restart it and log in again and I tried to walk him through it over the phone. Five times I reminded him that the 0 in his login was the number 0 not the letter O. After 30 minutes I got him to hand over his phone and scanner to a very bewildered stranger and she had him logged in in one minute just following my instructions.
Never attribute to malice, what you can attribute to stupidity. However, in cases of repeated stupidity, malice can be the only attribute. "No one's THAT stupid!"
Some old people are just entitled and dumb
Customer at work:
Can you help me order a dishwasher?
Me:
*explains I’m in the flooring department and I can’t help them order a dishwasher and points them in the direction of people that can*
Customer:
Are you just lazy? Why can’t you order me a dishwasher?
Me: I’m not certified in that and it’s not my department and I just explained to you I can’t do that.
Customer: you’re just lazy and don’t wanna work. Where’s your manager?
Me: I am a manager and I am manage a completely different department. Please go talk to the people at the desk down there.
Customer: You’re just lazy. I’m taking my business elsewhere.
Me: Be my guest. You made this harder because you don’t understand what not being certified to work in a department means.
Man, that's some serious stupid you had to put up with. So stupid that it physically hurts.
This is partly their fault but it's also because of the different commercial culture that exists now with the big box stores. Back in their day certifications only mattered when they lawyers showed up and if you worked in a store you usually part owned it so you did everything
Yeah, I worked at a deli/bakery and was in the deli department. I had so many people who got mad at me because I didn't know the price of the cakes or if their order was ready.
Easier way to explain. "Would you ask plumbers to wire your electricity?"
@@jacob3988 Except what do you do when they say "Yes"?
"Politicians are like diapers. Both have to be changed often, and for the same reason." - Mark Twain
Good ol' Sam
They're most of them greedy power hungry b*stards ( in Mexico like 90%)
Oh, I get it. It’s because they’re full of poop, right? And politicians do tend to be soaked in urine.
That vacuum story is classic. It's amazing the depths of ineptitude you discover by living with someone. 🤦🏼♀️
Hearing the word "droppef" (dropped) said by my favorite British robot, made my day. 😀
Which part?
I once worked at a store that used an old freight elevator as a regular elevator. Thing was designed to lift hundreds of tons of weight and barely moved 15 feet up or down. But people were terrified of it because it wasn't a perfectly smooth ride. Also, the doors weren't automatic but did have windows. The amount of people who would all but tear the door out of the frame trying to get into an empty elevator shaft that they could SEE was empty while exclaiming "YOUR ELEVATOR'S BROKEN!!" was staggering. x_x
22:31
Unfortunately, the responsibility of of fostering a safe environment often falls to those most threatened by the problem at hand.
We wouldn't expect children to manage pedophilia awareness, and yet we expect black people to manage the Klan when the only actions that could stop the abuse requires appealing to the people who hate us most.
From someone who had to explain why "shemale" is not the appropriate term for my condition 3 times last week, and who is currently being held responsible for "seducing" the man who raped me 2 months ago, I sympathize.
I'm so sorry that happened to you. I hope justice is served against your attacker.
@@brucesuzannesb never going to happen. I was his aide and next door neighbor. People were already saying I was sleeping with this paraplegic, so he drugged me,compelled me to submitting, and got what he wanted. He sells coke to half the building and they were already suspected I would sleep with someone my mom's age.
3:30 Not quite as bad, but when I was in college, the school would receive my financial aid, deduct my tuition for the semester and then cut me a check for the difference. Somehow, someone misread one digit in my SSN and my financial aid got returned one semester saying I wasn't a student there. Took most of the semester to fix the issue but at least I was able to take out a loan to cover the tuition which I was now on the hook for.
7:28 I thought in the "Have a nice life" story one of the older couples would turn out to have a deadly illness or something like that.
I think the one that I remember the most was my father passing away and getting a call from the life insurance company. They were calling to complain they haven’t received any payments on dads life insurance. I told them he had just passed away and won’t be needing any more life insurance. The lady on the phone asked to speak with him.After telling her the second, third, and fourth time that he is dead I hung up.
Did they not notice when _paying_ out his life insurance to the beneficiaries?
When we were kids, we used to say, "when God was handing out brains, you were standing behind the door holding it open for everyone else." lol
One coworker of mine at an old job years ago was utterly shocked that I had a vape. She was under the impression that nicotine vaporizers are solely for women, and that men never use them.
She wasn't right, but she should be.
@@chainsawsubtlety9828 Smoll pp energy post
is that not correct?!?
@@svanasutcliffe5879 Pointlessly gendered vaporizers.
I worked as a service clerk for my local transit. So, stupidity abound, but this was one of my favourite customer interactions:
Customer: I need the route information and pricing for the (provincial) bus
Me: sorry, but we only have information about our local city busses
Customer: well, what time is the provincial bus supposed to be at X location
Me: I don't know, ma'am; I do not have the information for the provincial bus; you have to call them
Customer: how much will it cost me to get from local Y to location X on the provincial bus?
Me: I don't know, ma'am; I do not have the information for the provincial bus; you have to call them
Customer: what are the timings for the provincial bus at location X
Me: I don't know, ma'am; I do not have the information for the provincial bus; you have to call them
Customer: how much is it going to cost me
Me: I don't know, ma'am; I do not have the information for the provincial bus; you have to call them
Customer: why are you giving me the same answer to my questions?!
Me: because I do not have the information for the provincial bus; you have to call them
The brain cells were on lunch break.
I feel like most of these people dont actually know what the word stupid means.
You with the childish mom, I understand your pain. I thought I was a rough kid to parent, but when you look at my mom‘s circumstances at the time, well, I was difficult, it was nothing compared to my father. Of course, now we know why I was so difficult. I would offer you a mug of tea and a warm blanket and big hug, but I have no idea where it is. You live.
The mouth-breathers that write "should of"".
I actually want to sock whoever writes/says that with a burning passion
I work at a University. Incompetence and stupidity is rampant here, but the admin people are seldom malicious.
That's what they want you to think
So many of these situations (both in the video, and in the comments) are living proof of the ‘Peter Principle’, (look it up, it is a real thing), which is summarized as : ‘In a hierarchy, people will be promoted to their level of incompetence’.
AKA, "The cream rises until it sours."
I do this with my online posts. If I feel like I have something to add, I say my peace. If I get a response that I get the need to follow up on, I continue the conversation. But if things start to go in circles, I simply stop replying because it's just a waste of my time at that point.
I get that every time i respond to a young earth creationist and flat earthers
You know what they say, “A mistake plus Keleven gets you home by seven”.
Haver never heard of it
I once had a person asked me if they're in Rome yet during our Europe tour group ....we were in Rome yesterday and on that they asked me, we were already in Florence..😬
I worked for a trucking company who kept their most expensive shipments under a big sign that said "High Vale Loads". I told them that they might as well paint a big red bullseye on the back of their trucks.
I Work With a Guy Who Puts Tin Cans of Food in the Microwave. Very Dangerous. These Cans Always Start Flames. He Repeatedly Does This Even Though He's Been Told Not To. He Tells Everyone to Behave. But He's The One Annoying People. He Says Be Good then Says Cut Cut Cut. He Displays His Hands Like Angel Wings In Front Of Himself Continually. He Starts Arguments. He Stares At People At Their Bottom Half. Trying To See What Everyone Looks Like. Touches Himself While Speaking To a Certain Lady With Obvious Physical Health Issues.
Wow, I’m guessing that you really have no room to criticize others. Your post is written in pure bat shit crazy.
I know it’s pretty dumb to end titles of videos on a preposition. So there’s that.
McGriddles are delicious, omg. Also if it wasn’t for my medicine, quitting smoking would have been so much harder. My older sister, who never smoked, had a heart attack at age 41. She later passed after a car accident. It just wasn’t worth my health or money. It’s an expensive habit. This isn’t me judging those who still smoke. It’s your choice. But after that I wanted nothing to do with it anymore
A Man Who Enters Burger King and Asks Are You Open... When There Is Obviously a Crowd Inside. He Also Says So I Suppose There is No Potatoes In The Apple Fries. This is Something He Says At The Counter When Ordering.
I have a boss that can ramble on, so when she says something that I have an answer for, I interrupt. Not because i'm socially clueless, but because by the time she finishes, we will be 14 topics down the road and no one wants to go back to revisit the topic.
The poor guy admitting he shat himself 😩
That Hanlim's razer with the addendums is a very good way of looking at life. The understanding that most "stupidity" is in fact ignorance, and is thus curable is better
BTW, ignorance is not worse than stupidity. Thinking otherwise is either at best ignorant, or at worst malicious.
I used to work in IT support.
I got a support ticket reading all the computers in quality control are faulty please come fix ASAP.
Me wonders down to QA department knowing 14 computers don't just stop working without having a common cause. I had a quick look in the COMM's room as it was on route, everything was as it should be minus the connection flash.
Long story short I get to the QA room and the first thing I notice is, its dark, very dark. I flick the light switch no lights. Now I am not an electrician but I did recall the facilities management guy once tell me the QA room had its own spur. So I look around the room and see someone has switched the mains power off. So no lights and more importantly to me no power for the computers, surprisingly enough when I hit that switch, which I had to stand on my tip toes to reach (I'm 6,2) the lights come on, the printers start to power up and when I hit the power button on the pc's they all fire up no problem at all. I hung around for a minute or two to make sure the QA staff could logon and as expected everything was fine.
This goes on for 7 days including the weekend, I have spoken with the QA team leader, I have stuck a sticky note next to the spur, I have asked facilities to come and cage it off or in someway stop the QA staff from turning off the power. But nope the QA manager insists that his department is being neglected by IT because for 7 days in a row they have had this issue and demands I offer a better explanation to him other than his staff are turning off the mains. Day 8 I ignore the ticket and instead phone the QA manager, telling him I am going to swing by his desk and we can both go to the QA room together. I walk in to the room with him, point to the wall say look it switched off, it should not be switched off, I turn the power on and low and behold power, I leave the room.
QA manager copies me in on a mail later that day, the mail is something along the lines of any person found turning off equipment at the mains is liable for disciplinary action, do not touch power sockets.
Day 9 yeah they did it again, accept this time when I walk in to QA and go to switch the mains power their team leader shouts at me you are not allowed to touch the power, you were in the email. Me yeah.. I was, it was for me not to me. Flicks power, I then went straight to facilities and bargained with the FM to do something about that room, in exchange I upgraded his monitor and installed a free 5 click app. Good trade I should have done that on day 1.
Never worked out if it was done by malice, or stupidity, I did have a word with the cleaning manager on the first day. Just a casual your guys wouldn't turn off power would they, she said no, I believe her..
I don't know if this constitutes dumb, but at the time it really annoyed me. I was really annoyed at the implication that I didn't know how to fix computers properly.
‘Gurthy’ I’m totally using that from now on.
My dear, this situation can not be managed in any way except thru divorce. That mother in law will never change the son will always be a son and not a husband. Stay strong
At my last job, I used to get a lot of what I call " Here's The Keys" training...just told to do some particular job , with zero training. Sometimes I guessed my way through it successfully, sometimes not.
My guess is this happens more often than not across the planet...
I used to say that "Management thinks training is viral." Because _supposedly_ someone would instruct the first guy on site what to do, or give him the gist of it. Then he'd tell others, and each retelling lost a generation. So when a boss or supervisor stops by and asks why you aren't doing this, it was always news to me. Fortunately they didn't want to get in trouble either, so they'd say if "If anyone asks, you've been doing _this_ all day," but still. It's amazing how like 99% of the jobs out there are just fake it 'til you make it.
If you are not perfect, why do you expect others to be perfect? Give people a break.
From time to time, every so often, I see the dumbest person in the mirror...
What was I thinking 🤔
There is a huge difference between stupidity and ignorance. Stupidity is a lowered ability to think. Ignorance is choosing not to think.
The vast majority of people - 99%, at least - are ignorant.
Ponder then that the ability to think is what separates mankind from the animals.
_I think, therefore I am not a cow._
Ignorance is _literally_ the lack of knowlege, though.
Yeah, I think you're conflating accidental ignorance, such as institutional racism; and willful ignorance, like uh... bigoted racism. One is not knowing that it isn't okay to just touch someone else's hair because it looks all cool and stuff. The other is claiming that ten percent of the population commits most of the crime, despite being shown tons of data to the contrary. Also, America almost _has_ to be more than 1% stupid. Just look at the comments on any RUclips video, and I believe that speaks for itself.
5:21 I agree with the adhd guy I'm the same
Some of these (e.g., 3:30) don't sound like stupidity so much as deliberate laziness and indifference to the well-being of others, which isn't much better than malice, IMO.
Saw a wet floor sign on carpet, didnt question it
Good afternoon. Thanks for the stories. Have a great day
well it was my friend and classmate we were at school and i was helping him with math. and no matter how much i explained it to him even to the point that i basically gave him the answer he wouldnt get it. it took 40 minutes till break and he still didnt get it. fortunatly thats the dumbest person i have had to encounter. other then myself of course, like inschool n stuff i consider myself to be above avarage in terms of iq. but when it comes to life goddamn im stupid.
I Could Write a Book About So Many Stupid People I Have Encountered. There Is a Woman Who Sits For Hours At Restaurants and Pretends To Be a Manager. She Barks Out Complaints At Servers And Customers. She Herself Has Lunch and Dinner And Stays From Open Hours Till Closing Hours. She Does This At Every Restaurant She Eats At. Every Day. Yet She Speaks Of Meals She Makes. Don't Know When She Has Time To Make Her Supposed Wonderful Meals As She Is At Restaurants Open To Close.
3:00 I wish I could do that. I can't think like other people, not even just stupid people. These so called normal people online will say things, and I'll just be completely lost at how they got from point A to point B via logic. And of course questioning them only causes them to become verbally abusive, because "questions" mean you're "attacking" them, apparently.
23:30 “oh it was her turn my days today (or next week)” or similar reaction, might send him for a loop whether a mean or oblivious/ignorant joke or hell say huh thats cool. Or w/e 🤔🤷♂️
11:22 Hey, I saw some of that movie. Missed the ending though
I feel like Hanlons razor is such a valuable tool in modern society.
Im about to introduce my conpiracy inclined coworker to the concept.
My worst conspiracy coworker was convinced the cure for aids exists, but is depressed because the people who have it would rather kill Black people then become trillionaire‘s from curing HIV, and then continuing to profit off those patients for their drastically expanded lifespan.
Anyway, it turns out you actually can cure HIV but the cure is so horrific and dangerous You really are better off using management therapies. It turns out a surprisingly high number of people have corky bone marrow that produces cells which can deal with HIV. All you have to do is get some bone marrow from someone like that who is a match for donation get it installed and you and write it down on the operation doesn’t kill you or your body kill you by having a freak out at the fact your blood is now being made by a completely different person. Bone marrow transplants are agonizing and you’ve got a roughly 50% chance at best odds of surviving and that’s just the operation before your body starts being mega weirded out by the fact I was blood is technically from a different person, but also have a huge chance of killing you, if not doing tremendous damage to your organs, which will be permanent and agonizing there’s a reason they don’t sell this has the cure to HIV. It’s because it’s honestly way worse than taking a pill and much more likely to kill you then help you.
Anyway, she got physically violent when I was explaining to her how this works why they don’t market it and the fact that there is no easy OTC cure to HIV. She called me racist and tried to slash my face with her nails.
Why yes I pressed charges. Not because of the violence, but because I wanted to punish her for being a fucking dumbshit.
And yes, she was one of those Thug Lies Matter MOSTLY PEACEFUL rioter types Who carried a massive nothing is my fault everything is because of evil racist white people chips on her shoulder..
I work at a County library.
13:05 Was OP stupid or malicious?
Good stuff there lol
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I have to tell people all the time I'm sorry I didn't mean to be rude interrupting you it's just I was going to forget and it was really really important that I remembered to tell you this
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Im wondering if the guy who missed social cues and added on questions might be autistic. Im autistic and I've had to sensor myself from doing the same things. Im high functioning, but i can still have problems with missing social cues and taking things literally.
The person who brought up talking to their famoly about politics sounds insufferable
Trying to discuss anything with (pro/nouns)
Naw, pronouns have been used for millennia without issue, you're just having trouble with a certain group of people's right to exist. Also, as a fun fact: *you* is a personal pronoun. Specifically, it's a second-person pronoun that can be either singular or plural and is used as both the subject and object pronoun.
Anyone siding with QuantumTV. Or RUclips.
Generation Z
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