Yup, that’s my experience as well.

Ouch, yes, you’re right.

I still think that one should pass the shame on to the employers but I’ll amend that to not put the employee in the middle of it all.

Pass the awkwardness on and place yourself on the side of the employee and shame the employer:
“Oh man this is wild! Just to think that your employers has the audacity to instead of raising your salary to compensate inflation, they just passed that cost onto your customers. I would be so mad if I were you, to be forced to hope for the kindness of strangers instead of getting a liveable salary.”

The glass cliff…

I’ve had my fair share of fixing on my Linux box, but I never get anywhere near as angry/frustrated as I do any time I have to fix things on my kids windows computers.

It’s easy to get stuck in a filter bubble though.

I recently had the misfortune of trying to fix a problem on my kids windows computer and it’s striking the difference between Linux and windows forums.

A Linux forum:
“RTFM but here’s four commands that will fix your problem plus fix a bunch of things you didn’t even know you had a problem with”

A windows forum:
"My name is Mr Anderson and has been awarded high quality question answerer three years running plus best cut lawn by the HOA. I am not affiliated in any way with Microsoft so don’t go running to them if you mess up your computer.

Here is fifty eleven things to click on that is highly dependent on the language set on the computer and which is likely changed by Microsoft since I wrote this. The instructions are also highly general and in no way specific for your actual problem."

With deep fakes all around you can’t really trust a phonecall just because you believe that you recognise the voice 😉😆

My wife is like that, she can still function (though I guess it costs her) while I’m totally knocked out by mines.

I like the malicious compliance but I find that to be a bad way to do a poll. Better would have been one comment with the text “Upvote if you want John Oliver pics, downvote if you want it to go back to normal”.

The way they did it if one group only upvote their alternative and the other also downvotes the opponent then the result isn’t representative. Or at least could be claimed not to be.

This is due to a murder that happened at an IKEA a couple of years ago. The murderer used knives from the department store.

That won’t help, you need scissors to open the packaging for knives from IKEA.

My colleagues while brainstorming: “That was good. Say it again!”.
Me: “Sorry, I don’t listen to me when I’m talking”.

I wish, I really liked G+. My sharing is based on common interests, not relationship.

People who believe that adhd meds are addictive have apparently never met someone with ADHD.