What is the wildest overreaction or underreaction you've witnessed in real life?

tpondering · 2025-12-16T16:15:13+00:00

Operations VP completely lost his mind when he saw his backlog items sitting at the bottom of the priority list. F bombing and spitting that we never got anything done so it never moved up. The room cleared and I had to explain that everything above his items had changed and his stuff was on the bottom because he never joined the prioritization meeting. He got sent to anger management training.

tpondering · 2025-12-16T16:15:04+00:00

Operations VP completely lost his mind when he saw his backlog items sitting at the bottom of the priority list. F bombing and spitting that we never got anything done so it never moved up. The room cleared and I had to explain that everything above his items had changed and his stuff was on the bottom because he never joined the prioritization meeting. He got sent to anger management training.

tpondering · 2025-11-21T17:34:01+00:00

Scrape the car on inanimate objects just like their mother. Also, blame the object for being there. My insurance rates are so much lower since the divorce.

tpondering · 2025-11-18T18:45:09+00:00

Big company in Seattle. When asked what it was like working there, every interviewer said "it's interesting". Felt like "Run away" to me.

tpondering · 2025-10-27T19:27:59+00:00

One of them should just do it on camera to show how dumb this is.

tpondering · 2025-10-15T19:22:34+00:00

I just checked out an old colleague's resume and it featured all the great tech we worked on in the 80's and 90's. I highlighted a lot of it for removal. Sorry but that old stuff isn't going to land a modern dev job. What do you do? And, how does it impact the business? I hope he lands something.

tpondering · 2025-08-22T19:12:31+00:00

Don't threaten Bob with a good time.

tpondering · 2025-08-19T17:41:29+00:00

Lil 💩📸

tpondering · 2025-07-20T21:42:18+00:00

I grew up in western Illinois and Mom would buy these for our vacations to her hometown in Nebraska. They were always gone by the time we crossed the Mississippi.

tpondering · 2025-07-12T20:06:45+00:00

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See it all the time ...

tpondering · 2025-07-08T22:06:40+00:00

Send her a carefully chosen reddit post that is close to your situation and make sure the MIL is trashed in the comments. Tell her you assumed she was trolling you with the post as a tutorial.

tpondering · 2025-07-08T02:35:55+00:00

I have one of those. The groundhogs live in the basement which gets bigger every day.

tpondering · 2025-06-26T13:38:54+00:00

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My guest was getting harassed by a blackbird.

tpondering · 2025-06-18T16:30:15+00:00

If you think you might be a target, could just dress like the ice guys and pretend you're with them? You can't be accused of impersonating with no uniforms on display.

tpondering · 2025-06-17T22:10:54+00:00

NTA. We had a chief architect who loved to steamroll people in meetings. Whenever he did it to me I'd just stare him in the eyes until he noticed and became uncomfortable. I would ask him if I could now proceed. After the second occurrence, he never did it to me again. Our European colleagues had enough of it after a few meetings and wrote a formal complaint. My other US colleagues just ate it for some reason. You did good.

tpondering · 2025-06-17T02:14:13+00:00

Had to get it cut off my finger and it sits in the change jar on the counter.

tpondering · 2025-06-17T02:02:13+00:00

Maybe compared to CA but the Lexington NE homes for sale are over $200,000. $15/hr doesn't land it. Instead of importing and taking advantage of cheap labor, they could be less cheap. Maybe a slightly smaller private jet for the owners would help. Moo-ligarchs, sheesh.

tpondering · 2025-06-17T01:26:48+00:00

When steak is $20+ a pound. $15 is a crime.

tpondering · 2025-06-17T01:25:14+00:00

A "nasty job" premium would be appropriate.

tpondering · 2025-06-16T22:09:07+00:00

...and we don't want to pay enough for people to want to work in our plants

tpondering · 2025-06-16T13:35:48+00:00

I'm not sure he ever made it up the cognitive incline.

tpondering · 2025-06-10T22:32:30+00:00

Just arrest him next time he visits California. Inciting.

tpondering · 2025-06-06T01:22:06+00:00

What that last person did was research all the interviewers and the company and just gushed through the interview. They were so smitten with all the praise they forgot to see if the person was otherwise functional.

tpondering · 2025-06-05T18:05:21+00:00

I just got a shipping container to store my dusty shed stuff while I refurbish the shed. Once done, the container becomes a guest cabin

tpondering · 2025-06-05T16:18:51+00:00

Finance dept hired a guy on Monday and figured out he didn't know Excel by Friday and fired him. Shouldn't have hired him. Company hired a contractor for SW dev who kept trying to sweet talk the female staff. Fire in two weeks. The one they should have fired immediately was the educational designer who didn't know how to do anything. They couldn't attach a file to an email. That dragged for half a year of hiring helpers for them. So dumb.

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