‘GREAT! I don’t want to work after hours’: Beancounters nearly lose $100,000+ after abandoning clients after hours because they corners on company phones for tech support staff to save $50/month
Entry-level positions should never be expected to be available to clients 24/7– that’s the work of upper management jobs who send one email a day and make a quarter million (+) per year. Life’s all about balance, and when your work-life balance is disrupted, company hierarchies can get challenged and clients can feel the rumblings…
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Tolkien Tuesday: The Best Lord of the Rings Memes This Week (September 26, 2023)
Greetings, fellow Tolkien-heads! It’s Tuesday and you know what that means. As always, we’re bringing you the best Lord of the Rings memes scavenged from the deep caves and rolling hills of Middle Earth. If you’re after a meme or two to go with your second breakfast, elevenses, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner, or supper, you’ve…
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‘We only do deliveries over the phone’: Cashier refuses to take delivery order in person, customer calls from the lobby
Rules usually exist for a reason. Generally, they come into being because someone did something and learned the hard way that the way they chose wasn’t the way that it should be done, so it’s decided that this way should never be attempted again by either them—or those surviving them—depending on how poorly their attempt…
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (September 26, 2023)
I try not to indulge in too much nostalgia for what the internet was like when I was growing up, but one thing that was better about it was that most people weren’t using it to market themselves. Nowadays, it seems like every smalltime screen addict comes with a built in instinct for turning themselves…
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‘The landlord requested a new paint job’: Sailors get back at landlord by painting his rental property from floor to roof
This sailor is sticking to the honor code to help people in his community. Not everyone agrees with his hands-on methods, though. The people of the internet are divided over this guy’s grandfather’s story of malicious compliance. It’s a classic tale of landlord versus tenant. Unless you live in a rent stabilized building, your landlord…
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25+ Memes Recovered From The Annals of The System
We’ve got a lot of memes in the system here at Memebase. Most of them are floating around in one drawer or another, waiting to be used later. It’s my job to find all the memes stuffed in a filing cabinet and decide which ones deserve to breathe the sweet air of spring. It’s not…
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