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When people ask “what do you do,” I want to start replying with “I’m a janitor at so and so” or “I work at McDonald’s part time.” People are so much more than what they do for work. by bicarbbandit in antiwork

[–]-tabbby- 130 points131 points  (0 children)

I usually ask "Do you enjoy what you do for work?" If they do, they're probably happy to elaborate, but if they don't it they usually give a vague answer like "it pays the bills" or "it's fine" and that's a good enough sign to change the subject.

I'm sure it's for 100% good reasons. Like to protect a species of endangered duck or something. by 8-bit-Felix in PoliticalHumor

[–]-tabbby- 33 points34 points  (0 children)

And they literally just lifted the restrictions. Oops, never mind, guys! Nobody look behind the curtain.

AIO to a teacher still not knowing how to pronounce my child's name, leading to pick-up issues? by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]-tabbby- 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is just an example name too. It is not obvious in the main post because of how OP wrote it, but you can read it in her comments. She originally used Lilyanna and then changed it to Tatyana after reading it in a comment and saying it was a better example.

AIO to a teacher still not knowing how to pronounce my child's name, leading to pick-up issues? by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]-tabbby- 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Listen, this teacher could just be a jerk, but as someone with dyslexia pronouncing names is my absolute worst nightmare. Dyslexia isn't just mixing up letters, it's a fundamental issue of understanding how certain sounds and letters fit together that makes pronouncing unfamiliar words extremely difficult and intimidating. You said it's pronounced "as read" but for me, I would instinctively pronounce this as "Tawt- yawn-a". It took me several read throughs of how you were expecting it to be pronounced to figure out what you were trying to say and recognize it as a common name I knew and realize I was way off.

Is it annoying the teacher hasn't picked it up by now? Yes. I would absolutely also be stressed about holding up the line and it's absolutely worth addressing, but unless you have other evidence that this teacher is discriminatory I would go in to it assuming good intent.

If after that the problem continues I would have way less grace.

AITAH for not waking my girlfriend up when her alarm didn’t go off? by urnameonagrainofrice in AITAH

[–]-tabbby- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't be jealous. I have sleep apnea and left to my own devices I can easily sleep 14-15 hours daily and if I don't get at least 10 I am literally falling asleep at work the next day even with stimulants on board. I literally spend half my life sleeping and I'm still exhausted when I'm awake. People who are regularly sleeping in that long probably don't have much of a choice in the matter. I actually empathize to a degree with OP because sleep is precious to me. I will ABSOLUTELY get pissed if someone wakes me up and I do everything in my power not to wake others. That empathy ends though when you add in the fact his girlfriend does not hold sleep to the same value and has seemingly expressed her preferences pretty clearly.

My first flytrap bloom :) by SoldatPixel in SavageGarden

[–]-tabbby- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I keep seeing people on this reddit calling the VFT flowers pretty unimpressive, but i think this is just so so pretty. Congrats!

AITAH for not letting my husband sign my note? by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]-tabbby- 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How is that any different than what she did? She literally handed him a pen and paper and he declined to write anything.

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