It's amazing how quickly stupid tasks become irrelevant the moment it starts costing the company money. The powers that be came down and told this part-timer that they'd have to check their email daily, so naturally, for this employee, it seemed like that should count on company time. For another one, here's a micromanager who demanded too many updates, so an employee fought back with even more updates.
A lot has pissed us off in 2020. Y'know, the pandemic, racism, unemployment, natural disasters. But through it all, there's one thing people can't seem to let go of. And that's starting emails with "Hope this email finds you well." The near-meaningless phrase verges on insulting. No, this email is not finding me well, Susan. We live in hell!
Earlier this week, Twitter users started meme-ing the well-meaning sentence by showing the world how the email really does find us: miserable, losing our minds, and with very little hope. And speaking as someone behind a computer just trying to stay calm, the memes are extremely relatable.
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What is there to do when you're wrongfully terminated from an employer that doesn't respect you in the first place? Sure, you could just wash your hands of the whole thing, but where's the fun in that? For more times people took the law into their own hands, here are some acts of gloriously petty revenge.
Probably should've kept this one in the drafts folder. In case you missed it, Aziz Ansari's been getting some heatever since a young lady released a scathing 'review' of her date gone wrong with him. Suffice to say, it's been met with equal parts backlash against and support for Ansari. Since then, she hit the internet with a particularly triggered response when asked if she'd go on HLN to talk about everything.
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We're always afraid that people are talking about us behind our backs. It's not fun to find out someone doesn't like your personality or thinks you're weird. But when it's your boss, one of the only people in your life that it really makes a difference how much they like you, that's a bit of a nightmare. By the way, the world has no shortage of crazy stories about their bosses.
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It’s the last Friday before the election, and things are getting crazy. Could they get crazier? Sure. We’d all love that.
Well, Julian Assange of Wikileaks is here to stir the cauldron if you will with a little “Spirit Cooking.” What is “Spirit Cooking,” you ask? CNET has a really handy explainer:
“The top trend on Twitter on Friday morning comes from an alleged WikiLeaks email of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta discussing spirit cooking. WikiLeaks tweeted that it involves "blood, sperm and breastmilk." Spirit cooking refers to performance artist Marina Abramovic's "cookbook" of recipes to cook up thoughts -- not meals. However, some on Twitter are taking it to the extreme and accusing the former secretary of state of devil worship. "This is not the first or last time that WikiLeaks has tweeted propaganda while doing Putin's bidding," a Clinton campaign representative wrote in an email. CNET cannot independently verify the information in the alleged email, and it is be entirely possible that someone altered the email before it was publicly released.”
Here's the tweet:
via @wikileaks
Here's the gif:
Ok. So, I guess, Hillary Clinton and her team are a bunch of witches now. If she is a witch, please, Hillary, make me a potion that will make me sleep for 1,000 years or, at least, the next week.
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You know how everything connects to the Internet these days? Well, it looks like the refrigerators from Samsung aren't very smart about it.
A group of hackers discovered that they can easily scrape the fridge's information for Gmail passwords, thus giving you yet another reason to not trust your refrigerator, or techonology, or anything really.
The internet fridge now has an email address. Say hello please, or fuzz...
@IoTvillage @_defcon_ pic.twitter.com/O4u9Ibf3mm
As Daily Dot reports:
Security researchers at the firm Pen Test Partners found a flaw in Samsung's smart fridges that lets anyone with the right technical know-how intercept the Gmail username and password of the fridge's owner.
Ken Munro, one of the researchers, told the Register that the hack—known as a "man-in-the-middle" attack because of the way it intercepts the data—takes advantage of the fridge's Google Calendar feature.
"It appears to work the same way that any device running a Gmail calendar does," Munro said. "A logged-in user/owner of the calendar makes updates and those changes are then seen on any device that a user can view the calendar on."
As with all these new fangled things onto which we are just throwing all our über-personal information, we should really take care.
Don't tell your fridge your secrets or who knows what could happen.
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Kids, just don't drink and email. It's as simple as that.
You would surely not be lucky as lucky as Patrick Davidson here. He went out for a night and had more than a few drinks it seemed. Then, he decided the best thing to do was to acknowledge how hungover he would be to his teacher and ask for an extension on a paper.
Antsped shared the (hopefully real) email on Imgur. It is beautiful.
Where it really gets good is Mr. Martin's response, which is thoughtful, funny and kind enough to actually grant poor Mr. Davidson that extension he so deserves.
Now, even though everything looks like it worked out for the best, students should really take heed and not email their teachers while drunk.
Or, actually, you know what? Yeah, go ahead and do it! We'll have more gems like this in our life and most will surely not end half as well.
Good yard, everyone.
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