She needs to leave her coworkers alone, but she never will. How much should you talk on the job? Some jobs are so boring that there’s nothing else to do but talk to your coworkers. If you’ve ever worked at a store or a frozen yogurt store that doesn’t get a lot of customers, having …
Seguir leyendo 65-year-old clerk constantly talks all throughout the workday, interrupts coworker when she tries to get a word in: ‘She never calls off and never shuts up or stops complaining.’
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Stay-at-home mom refuses to take her 5-year-old son out of speech therapy because her husband thinks she can do it at home: ‘It’s costing us $700 a month.’
Can an untrained mom teach her kid how to say his «Rs» on her own? Where can you cut corners financially while raising a family? It’s pretty obvious that your growing 5-year-old doesn’t need designer clothes, but where do you draw the line? Should he only have a week’s worth of clothes? Is it worth …
Seguir leyendo Stay-at-home mom refuses to take her 5-year-old son out of speech therapy because her husband thinks she can do it at home: ‘It’s costing us $700 a month.’
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.’
Job interviewer tells job interviewee to shut up after he spent 5 minutes explaining his background and interrupted the interviewer 7 times: ‘John, you really have to shut up and listen.’
In this situation, he really needed to be told to shut up. Unfortunately, we aren’t really taught how to interview for jobs in school. There are a lot of things that you’d think would be common sense not to do in job interviews, but people make the same mistakes over and over again. One of …
Seguir leyendo Job interviewer tells job interviewee to shut up after he spent 5 minutes explaining his background and interrupted the interviewer 7 times: ‘John, you really have to shut up and listen.’
‘You’re just a sad sandwich’: Office worker talks to her lunch every day, gets embarrassed when coworker points it out
Whether we realize it or not, we all have our personality quirks that are a part of what makes us exactly who we are. For some, it’s more obvious than others, and try as we might to practice professionalism in the workplace, they are usually apparent there as well. As anyone who has seen enough …
Seguir leyendo ‘You’re just a sad sandwich’: Office worker talks to her lunch every day, gets embarrassed when coworker points it out
‘SHE IS NON-VERBAL, WHY ARE YOU LYING’: Daycare teacher audio records her 3-year-old student speaking to prove she’s not non-verbal, gets berated by the girl’s mom and aunt
So many parents don’t want their kids to grow up. They want them to stay in the easy baby stages of life so they don’t have to do the work of taking care of a more autonomous person. I’m not even talking about going from being a kid to a teenager. A lot of growth …
Seguir leyendo ‘SHE IS NON-VERBAL, WHY ARE YOU LYING’: Daycare teacher audio records her 3-year-old student speaking to prove she’s not non-verbal, gets berated by the girl’s mom and aunt
Snobby dad refuses to let 2-year-old talk to any other kids in the playground: ‘I don’t want you associating with them’
When it comes to what kind of childhood most parents desire for their kids, having friends is usually featured on that list. You can’t expect somebody to grow up into a well-adjusted person without some serious exposure to how unbalanced everybody else is. However, it’s also true that there are plenty of parents who hope …
Seguir leyendo Snobby dad refuses to let 2-year-old talk to any other kids in the playground: ‘I don’t want you associating with them’
‘I don’t think you guys realize how cooked we are’: Concerned relative causes controversy complaining about 14-year-old Gen Alpha cousin’s use of slang
Hand-wringing about the state of youth today is not a new phenomenon, but some like to treat it as one. It’s fair to say that the advent of the internet has only intensified this, seeing as it has multiplied the number of stupid things that impressionable young brains can absorb countless times at this point. …
Seguir leyendo ‘I don’t think you guys realize how cooked we are’: Concerned relative causes controversy complaining about 14-year-old Gen Alpha cousin’s use of slang
People ponder whether the art of conversation is lost among people over 25: ‘I might as well carry a mic around for all the interviews I conduct’
Objectionable social skills: they aren’t just reserved for the youth of today. According to some, there are plenty of adults out there who just don’t appreciate the art of conversation like they used to. Ever got talking to somebody at a party and realized that all they want to do is give you a monologue …
Seguir leyendo People ponder whether the art of conversation is lost among people over 25: ‘I might as well carry a mic around for all the interviews I conduct’
‘Gen X decided not to bother teaching their children how to have a conversation’: Older generations complain about Gen Z’s communication skills
The generation wars are always a rich source of online conflict, and that is never truer than when people are finding reasons to criticize Gen Z. We’re still a few years off the first Gen Alpha cohort entering young adulthood, so it’s the 2000s kids that still remain in the spotlight when it comes to …
Seguir leyendo ‘Gen X decided not to bother teaching their children how to have a conversation’: Older generations complain about Gen Z’s communication skills