Subjective situations welcome
Basically everything i ever heard from job advisor.
Being told to tip your head back if your nose is bleeding.
How to drown with your own blood. Whomever came up with that one definitely knew and was just pulling a prank or something
Pretty much everything I was told about employment when I entered the work force (2005ish). New workers seem to have wised up a bit, seeing us go through the hoops with nothing to show for it, but all the absolute bullshit about hard work paying off, take care of your employer and your employer will take care of you, etc.
…and it’s hard to shake off that programming when you hear it your entire childhood from older folks who apparently actually did benefit from that advice.
Hearing Gen Z’ers and such say things like “act your wage” or complain about the rug being pulled out from under them without needing to stand on it for 20 years first is fucking awesome! The younger workers aren’t just bending over and taking it in the hopes things will get better someday like we did. Gen Z is going to go down as a major contributor to workers’ rights.
The flip side is that workers are getting treated worse.
I hear about people having to go through three or four rounds of job interviews, and having their social media scoured. There are fewer and fewer non-corporate jobs, and forget about a boss who pays you off the books.
Not even going to start on the fact that money is pretty worthless
and having their social media scoured
Any advice on how to google myself?
I use separate emails but sometimes I mix my username and real name so theres no 100% separation.
I couldnt find anything besides the obvious but I am interested but a bit of sleuthing can do if you are determinded enough.
The things I have tried in various combinations: Paranthesis around words/names, combinations of search terms which shouldnt be known (e.g. nickname + city or general living area) and some platforms I have used or activities/events I would probably be mentioned in by name.They’re trying to preemptively hire people who don’t give them a hard time when they treat them like peasants. When the boss says it’s getting harder to hire means the rest of us are harder to fire. Keep up the pressure!
Anecdote
Boss says he called twenty people in for an interview at 7 am. Hired the one person who stayed until 9 pm because they showed persistence.
People in comments said he hire the person who was most desperate.
many items listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions are often presented as advice
Lemmings do not engage in mass suicidal dives off cliffs when migrating. The scenes of lemming suicides in the 1958 Disney documentary film White Wilderness, which popularized this idea, were completely fabricated. The lemmings in the film were actually purchased from Inuit children, transported to the filming location in Canada and repeatedly shoved off a nearby cliff by the filmmakers to create the illusion of a mass suicide.[448][449] The misconception itself is much older, dating back to at least the late 19th century, though its exact origins are uncertain.[450][448]
Hmm, humanity sure has great ideas!
That was def a consideration in deciding the name of this platform. I was playing a lot of lemmings at the time, and learned that them being mindless suicidal drones is just ridiculously false. SO why not just own it and let the redditors think that they’re the unique brain-geniuses, and have them call us something that is easily disproven.
But… Why? Why would some Disney muckety muck buy a ton of live lemmings and shove them off a cliff, and put it in a movie?
Guess they couldn’t find a proper fairy tale to put that scene on, so they had to go with a “documentary”
“Just push through the pain.” Yeah, great way to turn your minor injury into a major one.
I was advised by a group therapist, when having “cold feet” about commitment in a relationship, to just think about how bad the alternative might be. She had a friend who had reservations about getting married, and then thought not getting married would be stressful too, so she went ahead with the marriage. It was terrible advice, especially from a therapist providing guidance for some very troubled people. The only good reason to commit to a relationship is because you really want it, not because you’re afraid of what will happen otherwise!
That’s shockingly bad, wow
Half of everything my mom ever told/did for whatever ailment I had.
Also that it was easy to get a job in Brazilian IT in the early 2010s. Out of some 40 companies I’ve sent my resume to, zero called me for an interview.
Just ignore the bullies and they’ll stop.
Nope, they just hit you harder
I once got this advice and got so offended by it that I tried rerouting the bullies to target him instead.
It worked and never did I have so much fun proving someone wrong.
In defense of this, there are situations where it’s good advice. Bullies that only use insults and social pressure are easily dealt with this way. Find a friend group with no connection to them, then ignore them to get rid of anything they can use against you. This is basically how I dealt with the people bullying me at school.
But I agree, if they do anything beyond insults and social pressure, you need some way of confronting them or leaving them entirely.
In my case ignoring insults lead to violent escallation. They wanted the reactions badly.
Ah what a nice advice.
Worked unsurprisingly bad from grade 1½ to 4 and could only get rid of them by advancing to the secondary school.
We are offered to choose with whom we’d would like to be in class and my request was who I’d like to net get together with.
Apparently this was a very exotic request but thwy made it possible.
When I was younger, I told my therapist that I kept accidentally saying insulting things and offending my friends without realizing it. She didn’t ask for any examples and I didn’t think to give any.
She told me that my friends should understand that being homeschooled and autistic, I’m going to miss some social norms, and if I explain what I meant and ask a nicer way to put it, they’ll be able to explain.
Yeah this just made my friends really mad because I wasn’t saying anything rude, they were just picking fights. Real “I like pancakes”, “so you hate waffles?!” type conversations. It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out why it wasn’t working.
ETA I think my sister convincing me not to go to college was worse advice, but that’s not much of a story. Spoiler I didn’t go to college.
No pain, no gain.
Got rhabdomyolysis from working out too hard, that saying is crap.
I’m sorry this happened to you! Yes, I think workouts need not be painful. It’s best to ease into it and ramp up according to what’s comfortable until you hit your goal, rather than trying to make drastic changes real fast. It would be good if more people were aware of this. I’m sorry you had to learn the hard way!
Thanks
Looked it up and it sounds horrendous. Thank you for new knowledge and good luck with that thing
When I was about to graduate high school a uncle in law told me to make sure I pick a college with a football team I’m comfortable rooting for for the rest of my life.
When a trailer starts oscillating because it was loaded rear-heavy, “going full throttle will straighten it out”. It didn’t, car spun, load flew in a ditch.
The trailer did feel restless after turns, so I assumed it’ll be fine if I steer smoothly. The first 10km went okay, but then there was a downhill, and that somehow increased the instability and it went mad. Speed was constant 80km/h.
Trailer weight distribution demonstration:
https://imgur.com/gallery/trailer-weight-distribution-3PQFK7Y
or
https://www.reddit.com/r/GoRVing/comments/6xfe7x/everybody_who_tows_an_rv_should_check_out_this/
(same video clip)When you start investing, just put your money in and just don’t worry about it. It’ll grow. Just keep adding to it. You’ll get there.
Probably some of the dumber advice i’ve received.
You have to look at your Stocks. You have to look at your 401(k). You have to look at your investments.
Unless you like to wake up one day and discover you don’t have enough money. Then go ahead and follow that advice of just set and forget it.
The only one that might make sense with is if you’re putting your money into the S&P.
Even then, I still would pay attention to what it’s doing.
Most people aren’t talking about investing with stocks. They’re talking about mutual funds and 401ks, which will grow if you just leave them be. If you try mucking around with them you’re going to be much worse off.
They’re talking about mutual funds and 401ks, which will grow if you just leave them be.
Wrong. If you switch jobs your place of employment will offload your 401k funds to the world’s shittiest scummiest organization that will steal as much as they can in the form of fees.
To be fair that advice does work for Index Funds which are low risk and meant to be gathering interest over many many years. For stock trading yeah, you have to be on top of things
Why do you look at your investments? What do you do with the information? I don’t want to predict the market and I can’t. Looking at it is more likely to make you panic buy/sell than make you do anything useful. But I’m curious why you don’t agree with the advice.
It’s a conscious effort to not panic. But once that investment goes up as far as i think it will. (I set that point before I even buy) then I sell and buy something those that is low and ride that up. If I don’t watch them that stock get go WAY down before I realize I’ve lost anything.
If it’s gone down I have to figure out if I think it’s coming back. Then decide, cut my losses or hold out until it comes back
Okay so individual stocks then. But the advice is for index funds I think. But good on you if it works. I wouldn’t try to predict individual stocks personally, too much stress and probably won’t do it better than randomly guessing.
Some old redneck man who was a friend of a family member, who was in a failing marriage with a woman 10-15 years older than him told me “Don’t treat a woman like gold, treat her like shit and she’ll never leave you” or something to that effect. That sounded horrible even to 13 year old me.
Unfortunately it isn’t wrong it is just horrible and abusive advice. Destroying the self worth and confidence of a person can trap them in a relationship because they feel they can do no better so they stay. I feel bad for that person’s wife, I hope she ended up dumping his ass
It was my understanding they separated. In any case, dude died of cancer a few years later. Not sure about much beyond that.
Anything that is founded on karma or divine retribution. That shit is just diffusing accountability.
Good karma? Yeah sure whatever.
Bad karma? No thanks, we cannot take the chance that they get away with it. We make them find out right now after they fuck around.
