A first shift is supposed to show you what a workplace is like, and sometimes that’s exactly the problem. Four and a half hours into washing dishes at her bakery trial shift, this 21-year-old finally had a quiet moment. She checked her phone for roughly 30 seconds, something the manager had explicitly said was fine. …
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‘Don’t lose your streak!’: 20 Duolingo memes for learning languages and escaping notifications
Learning a new language can be an adventure… Especially if the green owl doesn’t let you go. Many of us have had that language-learning bug bite us at some point in our lives. Perhaps we read that learning a new language is good for our brains, or maybe we have family and friends living abroad, …
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Family gets kicked out of ‘Toy Story 5’ screening after refusing to stop using phone inside the dark movie theater: ‘He was arguing with the employee’
Why come to a movie theater if you’re not going to watch the movie? We all had to sit through some boring movies in a theater, the kind of movies that, within the first five minutes, we know are going to be a struggle to get through. Everyone has different tactics for this situation, from …
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Passenger Takes Selfie On Airplane With Flight Attendant in the Background, Airline Employee Takes His Phone to Delete The Photo
Was the airline being over-the-top about this? I wonder how many pictures are out there that feature me in the background. I know for a fact that I am a background character in so many photos, not only because I live in New York City and am around big groups of people all the time, …
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Dad tells mom that he felt sick to his stomach when she turned away from their 4-month old baby for 5 minutes to check her phone: ‘Caring for my mental health by taking breaks is sickening?’
Why can’t he let his wife have a five-minute break from engaging with their baby? There’s no way of knowing how crazy it is to have a baby until you actually have one. Everyone talks about how stressful it is to feed them, hold them constantly, and wake up every 2-3 hours at night to …
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HR department demands employee’s personal phone, installs location tracking app on it: ‘I questioned this’
How far should work be allowed to expand outside the workplace? In most jobs, there is a good argument to be made that the personal and professional should be as separate as possible. However, as the working-from-home revolution has swept across the world, the barrier between the two has been further broken down. A remote …
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Man goes through 3rd dates phone while she was in the bathroom, doesn’t understand why she’s freaked out
What would you do if someone went through your phone without looking? Your phone is an exceedingly private place. It’s where your whole life lands. It’s where you correspond with people, where you make plans, where you write down your deepest, darkest thoughts. It’s where you talk smack about others behind their backs, and it’s …
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‘Need a recharge?’: 21 Low battery memes for people running on 1% but staying awesome
Shout out to everyone who runs on low battery and still makes it through the day with the same good vibes and confidence as if everything were completely under control. Why do you wait until your phone battery drops below 10% to plug it in? And why does your dad get so mad at you …
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Fast-food worker wakes up to 11 missed calls from her boss asking her to come in 1 hour early: ‘This was all at 9 AM!’
Nobody should call someone 11 times unless there is an actual emergency. If you’ve been in the workforce long enough, you’ve probably worked with an employer who thinks that every small thing is a matter of life and death. If you show up a minute late, the whole store is going to go under, even …
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Job seeker considers skipping phone interview because she doesn’t have enough money to pay her phone bill: ‘I desperately need a job.’
You need money to go to the job interview, and the only way to get money is to have a job. It’s no fun that literally everything in life costs money. The bare necessities like food, shelter, utilities, and transportation usually account for more than half of our money spent every month, if not more. …
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