How many times have you tried to explain something current to your grandparents, and all you get in return is extreme confusion written all over their faces? We all know that social norms have changed a great deal in recent years. In fact, they change so often that sometimes it’s kind of hard to keep …
Seguir leyendo ‘No one is that dramatic’: 20+ Weird and Funny Behaviors that Became Socially Acceptable
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Manager walks in on direct reports whispering and gossiping about her: ‘They tensed up, looked guilty, and immediately changed the subject.’
Busted! Speculating that your coworkers are talking about you behind your back might be a paranoid perspective. Still, in professional situations, you really can’t know for sure how your coworkers feel about you or what your management will do next. You can certainly guess, and sometimes your guesses are right. If you have the instinct …
Seguir leyendo Manager walks in on direct reports whispering and gossiping about her: ‘They tensed up, looked guilty, and immediately changed the subject.’
Employee doesn’t reveal to coworkers that he speaks Spanish, they get upset when they realize he’s fluent: ‘The look on her face was genuinely something’
Speaking another language in a majority English-speaking country can feel like having your own secret code. The rate of native English speakers who can speak other languages fluently is pathetically low, so the likelihood of being understood in many contexts often isn’t that high. As a result, plenty of multilingual people enjoy the ability to …
Seguir leyendo Employee doesn’t reveal to coworkers that he speaks Spanish, they get upset when they realize he’s fluent: ‘The look on her face was genuinely something’
Manager accuses employee of skipping a meeting because she didn’t remember that he was there: ‘Apparently not contributing made me invisible in that meeting.’
His camera was off, and he didn’t contribute, so it makes sense his coworkers would forget he was there. Is it better to be quiet in a work meeting where you don’t have much to say, or talk in a meeting just for the sake of talking? It really depends on what kind of a …
Seguir leyendo Manager accuses employee of skipping a meeting because she didn’t remember that he was there: ‘Apparently not contributing made me invisible in that meeting.’
Dad shows up to 22-year-old’s retail shift, demands manager move him from closing shifts: ‘He knows how tiring night shifts can be’
Work and family are rarely a good mix. As soon as things get personal in the workplace, there is endless potential for things to go wrong. It can be hard to stay professional when relatives get involved, whether they happen to be coworkers or they manage to get entangled with work affairs for some other …
Seguir leyendo Dad shows up to 22-year-old’s retail shift, demands manager move him from closing shifts: ‘He knows how tiring night shifts can be’
Employee whispers all day long at his desk, having full-blown conversations with himself about things unrelated to work: ‘He was arguing with himself over his personal life or people he knew.’
This is almost as bad as having a whistler in the office. There’s nothing worse than having a coworker who is annoying in a way that you can’t quite call out without breaching professionalism. If you’re a higher-up, you have more leeway to tell your employees that they shouldn’t sing under their breath in the …
Seguir leyendo Employee whispers all day long at his desk, having full-blown conversations with himself about things unrelated to work: ‘He was arguing with himself over his personal life or people he knew.’
Man causes controversy complaining that he gets bored of girlfriend agreeing with everything he says: ‘She has virtually no original thoughts’
When it comes to who we choose to romance, everybody has slightly different priorities. For some, physical attraction is the most important, for others, it’s a sense of humor. Most people who date for a relationship are looking for the right balance of emotional, physical, and mental agreement—and to state the obvious, they don’t always …
Seguir leyendo Man causes controversy complaining that he gets bored of girlfriend agreeing with everything he says: ‘She has virtually no original thoughts’
14-year-old cries when his parents and older siblings speak only in Mandarin when he can barely understand it: ‘I told my mom that she is bullying me for not knowing how to speak our native language’
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that language immersion works. If you drop somebody into the French countryside to be a scullery maid for a family who talks a lot, they will probably be fluent in French within the next few years. It wouldn’t work if you know no French language and are barely exposed to …
Seguir leyendo 14-year-old cries when his parents and older siblings speak only in Mandarin when he can barely understand it: ‘I told my mom that she is bullying me for not knowing how to speak our native language’
Thoughtless man complains to friend that nobody came to cookout he invited ‘all his friends’ to, ignores the fact he didn’t invite her: ‘The invitees knew something that you learned’
As with all relationships, friendships take a dedicated effort to get right. Unfortunately, this is not something that everybody appreciates, and being disappointed by somebody we hoped we were good buddies with is something that most of us have experienced at some point. One of the ways in which this can happen is through exclusion—and …
Seguir leyendo Thoughtless man complains to friend that nobody came to cookout he invited ‘all his friends’ to, ignores the fact he didn’t invite her: ‘The invitees knew something that you learned’
Woman at restaurant disturbs other diners by talking loudly on the phone, diner teaches her a lesson by joining the conversation: ‘We can hear everything’
Talking on the phone in public is always awkward. Even if you are wearing headphones, and talking as quietly as you can, you never know who might be listening to your conversation, and how private it really is. Besides, it can be considered pretty inconsiderate to talk in places where your conversation might disturb other …
Seguir leyendo Woman at restaurant disturbs other diners by talking loudly on the phone, diner teaches her a lesson by joining the conversation: ‘We can hear everything’