Driving off someone from being online, as a troll, because it gives you a thrill.
This is an awfully specific flex, but it is a flex nonetheless, that people do feel to boast about. Because it’s just another form of a power-trip. Congratulations, you’ve driven away someone who could’ve been a contributory member of a community to make yourself feel better by orchestrating lies, performing witch hunts and huddling with your troll buddies in ways to figure out how to process this.
There’s nothing prideful about this to flex over.
Never using their PTO at work.
Going into work sick too.
On a related note, as a parent I think school perfect attendance awards are perverse. Congratulations, we’re rewarding a kid for being a disease vector and being sent to school miserable and snotty, or at best making other kids feel less-than because they received proper treatment and isolation. I would guess that the average perfect attendance kids costs the rest of the school at least half a dozen absences per year.
As a kid I also hated the perfect attendance award because
- My mom was really into it and made me go to school when i was sick
- I was always the only one who was awarded it and the other kids already thought i was weird
- Not as great a reason, but my best friend in elementary school told me that sometimes his parents gave him a day off school so he could do something fun with them :/
That gets other people sick and is counter productive too. You end being sicker for longer, it’s a loss for you and the company. It’s just dumb.
One of the contracts I worked wouldn’t pay out holidays if I missed more than a day in the prior 2 months or some such. So in protest I vowed to come in to work no matter how sick I was. Even brought a change of clothes in case I’d need it.
Then of course I didn’t get sick again until after the contract ended.
My friend working retail figured out that if he came to work obviously disgustingly sick, they’d send him home.
What I didnt realize is that if you did it that way, it didn’t count as “calling out sick”.
When I actually did call out sick a few times because i had a cold, my sick days got brought up at my performance review, which affected the tiny incremental raises we got. I said should i do it like <emoloyee> and bring my germs to work? And they said don’t try to be like <employee>, he’s always figuring out the loopholes.
I was a department manager who shared office space with another department. One of the guys from the other department came in bragging that he had been throwing up all morning but was able to come into work. I told him he either needed to sit somewhere else or go home because I’m not risking my health or the health of my colleagues/associates because of his dumbassery. He eventually went home after I gave him a verbal dressing down that his manager backed me up on.
So selfish to come into work sick like that!
“I got 12 femtoseconds of sleep last night”
Okay, but like turn off your phone and go to bed, that’s super bad for you and you are intolerable because you’re grumpy from not sleeping
It’s literally misery Olympics with my mom about sleep. I can’t mention anything about sleep without her cutting me off trying to 1-up me.
Me: I got called and had to remote in for work last night, didn’t get to bed until after 4a…
Mom: Welcome to my world I was awake until after 5 and maybe got only 2 hours of sleep so I sat up in bed with my iPad on full brightness reading
Welcome to (peri)menopause.
I’ll only mention that at work so people know why I’m stupid and irritable and I precede it with an apology.
“Oh I don’t understand politics” or “oh I don’t do politics” that’s embarrassing.
See also “I don’t see race”.
Ignorance isn’t a defense or a flex, that’s on you.
I say “I don’t do politics”, but that’s because I don’t feel like discussing politics with the person I’m saying it to.
If you’re in my inner circle or are paying attention to my online posts, you know my political stances very well.
See my comment about dating profiles. :)
“I don’t do politics” = conservative
There’s a completely different set of assumptions outside the US.
I am very anti-conservative, lol. The amount of good feeling I got seeing the bluenami has been amazing
One notable exception I’ve encountered; Liberal women will say that on their dating profile. Dated hot and heavy a few years back, in a very red county. “I don’t talk politics” was code for “Keep your MAGA shit to yourself.”
On the phone with a potential date, laughed and said, “Well, I’m kind of a redneck.”
“…just how redneck?”
“I fucking loathe Donald Trump if that’s what you’re asking.”
“Oh! Whew. Just had to ask.”
She was a really neat woman, but it didn’t work out for long.
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On one hand, race isn’t real. On the other hand, things that people believe are real can still hurt you.
Race isn’t real the same way money isn’t. Try saying “money isn’t real” to a homeless person and see how that works out
Pretending you don’t know how to use a computer or a smartphone nowadays. It’s not the 70s/80s/90s anymore, you look stupid. Same with books as if they were boring devices for nerds.
Or they got an iPhone 10 years ago but still treat it like they’re an early adopter.
That they don’t read books.
I used, to be that guy. Every time I tried reading a book suggested by someone, it was boring for me.
Turns out books were just like movies and tv shows, I just needed to find books I enjoyed and not blindly following trends.
INTJ or whatever your 16 personalities result is
That shit is so embarrassing
I got that outcome from MB a couple of times and happened across an entire INTJ web forum. It was a hive of insufferable incel twats. Next time I did business person astrology I got a different result.
I don’t understand the strong drive people have to be put into a box in general. I get how getting a result that says only 2% of the population share it and that can make you feel unique and rare, but it’s still really stripping away a lot of the complexity of being human, no?
I remember getting ENTJ as a young teenager that completely bought that this was real and valid and being low key kinda hurt and trying not to show it.
I often play devils advocate and I get your feeling but then there is also peoples drive to understand themselves. Who they are and how they function. this technically does that. I mean the trans and neurodivergent folk do it all the time along with furries.
But it’s demonstrably not real
what makes it not real. that people have personality tendencies? I mean I don’t really know what that thing is I sorta assumed it was like disc or being a type A or whatnot.
I bet you get a lot of people really, really mad playing devil’s advocate for things you know nothing about, but I do appreciate the honesty lmao
well context in conversations suggests things. Like this suggests a personality testing type. So yeah assumptions were made.
The only personality test I will accept is your ideal Magic: The Gathering EDH deck and commander.
Nothing exposes someone’s whole soul like that does.
Damn. You’re dropping truth bombs.
But I’m not sharing mine, both because it is embarrassing, and I would dox myself as the world’s 3rd worst MTG player.
That whole personality test thing is bullshit anyways. Any quiz online that claims to evaluate your IQ, your personality .etc are no different than the many many social media quizzes we saw, that determined what Harry Potter house you belonged to.
Tbf that one is less than a few percentage of the world population.
They all live in my town and have bumper stickers announcing it
It’s however many people are determined to get it, my friend, that test is pseudoscience
Anti-intellectualism.
I don’t trust all these scientists! They want to trick me and do something bad for some reason. I don’t understand what’s really happening because I can’t fathom anyone I don’t agree with being smarter than me.
wut u meen, i am dum an porud!
Working a lot
Dad?
Someone’s got to pay for your posts about beans.
Waking up extremely eary, something like 4 a.m.
Either that is your regular sleep cycle or you trained yourself to fight your regular sleep schedule. That isn’t impressive any more than staying up until 4 a.m. is impressive.
I have never really heard it as a flex. my neighbors are like this and its their natural sleep cycle. My wife and I are kinda the opposite although the work world bs schedule have trumped up our natural cycle.
This one drives me crazy:
“I am TOP contributer of the community support!” … for a multi biliion dollar company
That is nothing to be proud of. That just means the vendor sucks and you are free labor.
I read a job listing recently bragging about the company’s AI usage by saying “One of our engineers hasn’t hand-written a single line of code in 18 months”
Like okay dude…
Their car.
Overall I agree, but it can depend. If you put in a bunch of work to build, design, or restore a car then that’s worthy of bragging. But if you’re just some jagoff who simply bought a mustang, then it’s just weird to brag about
Hah, I bought a car that will leave your rustang in the dust! More power, but enough tr toon control that I won’t put it in the ditch
… for example
Anything related to their genetics (height, skin/hair/eye color, … etc) or inheritance.
Show me something you did, not something you’re born with.
mmmm. I mean most times I see this its in the way I might do it. Conversation is about something that seems bad and you say somewhere that your lucky because your X which is not like the bad thing. too short, too tall, fair skinned, etc.
If they don’t like cats, and the reason they give is “they’re mean”. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
We can all agree that some cats can be mean though, right?
For sure, but even mean cats can get along with people. It’s more about respecting and understanding then. That’s why people use them as that test, if they can respect the asshole cat’s feelings then you know they’ll respect yours.
Just like all animals sure 🤷♀️
Just like humans.
Actually, adding most people don’t know what mean cats actually act like and it’s almost always a communication failure on the humans part. Hissing isn’t aggression it’s just them being “easy, chief I need some space” and there are usually body language indicators waaaaaaay beforehand. Unless you’re fostering cats or around feral cats often you’ve probably never met an asshole cat, just a stressed one (especially if you’ve never met them before, it’s like a dude on the street suddenly going in for a hug, a push away isn’t being mean it’s like back off a lil I wasn’t aware that was happening idk who you are)
edit, dogs are very similar and we just don’t watch their body language close enough to properly read how they’re trying to communicate. it’s very frustrating when you notice cause it’s kinda like, how else would you know unless someone chronically online told you or you know a pet behaviorist
Well said!
Yes, they can. That’s why we like them! (“Or else…”)
Bad/illegal driving. You contribute to an unreasonably high crash rate to be 2 minutes faster, good job.
