30 Of The Most Entertaining ‘It Doesn’t Work Like That’ Stories, Told By Professionals

I saw a guy interviewed about being homeless and he was asked "Why don't you go to the shelter?" and he said "Because they lock the doors at 7pm, don't unlock them till 6am and we're not allowed to bring in food". Shelters are too often run to nonsense BS rules that do not serve the people they're supposed to serve.

🥰😓oh my heart.. Yes. Yes. F***K YES..!! I am homeless, live in a shelter, (tiny house village), and even still have issues with transportation to important appointments and theft of personal belongings and food. I thank you kindly and appreciate you for posting this. -L

Sadly most ‘solutions’ are just band aids. Need to look at the long term solutions like the poster has suggested in order to make any significant improvements.

The way to fix homelessness is to give them housing and a basic income. As soon as they have a home, a huge portion of their problems go away. They can shower and wash their clothes, they have an address, so they can get a job, social services, a doctor, a bank account, etc. They have the safety and security to sort out their lives. Yes, substance abuse, criminal history and mental illness are still going to impact their lives, but they have a better chance at getting therapy, medication, treatment, stability, and eventual employment. Studies show that it's actually cheaper to give homeless people housing and support than it is to deal with the cost of homelessness in terms of policing, emergency healthcare, enforcement, anti-homelessness measures. Also, unlike when you give tax breaks to rich people, when you give money to the poorest people, they spend it, usually locally, so it goes right back into the local economy and makes everyone better off.

What was said is very true. I have a master's degree and have now had four strokes. I just got out of the hospital and disabled. I would be out on the streets in a week if it was not for family. Also, I owe 10s of thousands of dollars in hospital bills this year alone. All saving gone over the past eight years due to healthcare cost.

Flipping burgers with speed while maintaining quality and service is HARD. I'd love to send those people who are saying "Oh burger flippers are lower than me" to do a couple of shifts and see how they get on.

People in fast food are working so hard and get mistreated so often. I don't get why people are so disrespectful to them. They deserve better treatment and better pay

I think everyone should work in food service for a while to learn some humility. Also, customer service and cash handling skills are great for a resume.

If you have worked 40 hours, those 40 hours are gone. That piece of your life is gone forever. You should be paid a fair share of the wealth that your work generated, no matter what the job was. Fast food chains make billions every year, after all the costs have been deducted, because they steal their employees lifetime and don't pay that accordingly. No job that takes 40 hours from your life every week should pay so little that you need a second one to pay your bills. Especially not when it earns billions for the investors. Even if fast food chains paid every single employee triple of what they earn now, the owners would still be millionaires without having to lift a finger. So how is it fair that the people who create all that wealth with their labour can't live comfortably from their wages?

I have two jobs. One is a "real job" working a clerical position in a major US hospital. The other isn't in fast food, but I wait tables at a higher end chain restaurant. I've worked in lots of fast food places though. I will say, between the two (my "real" job and fast food), most of the people working in fast food are by far the harder workers. It isn't close.

Janitors never get the respect they deserve, especially given the number of disgusting people there are who feel they can do whatever they please in a public space.

As a school custodian, Covid was a major wake up sanitation wise. I STILL spray and wipe common touch points, desks, daily. On snow days(Michigan) we catch up on maintenance issues or deep cleaning, like rest rooms. Always get the question "what do you do when there is no kids?" We recover from when there were :)

Janitors and cleaners should unionise, like sanitation workers. It's an essential job, and someone has to do it.

I'm a teacher. The custodians are the people who help us keep whatever is left of our sanity. We couldn't do it without them.

When I was like thirteen I got a new classmate who's father was the new janitor of our school. From the first day my other classmates saw her as less because of this - and that even though at least a third of the guys were farmer kids. I never got this but also felt kind of the way it is a lower job but couldn't explain why (I think society just told us that days that janitos and cashiers and also cleaners are the lowest....). But as an also bullied kid we became kind of friends. And of course I never expressed this feeling towards her father's job because the feeling was just tiny and not understandable to me and had nothing to do with her

My sister is a librarian - she works for a large corporate law firm. Librarians manage information in a huge range of industries.

Hey, fellow librarian! 💕

The shelf arrangement in the image just feels wrong

Retired librarian here.. Head of tech svs/cataloger. This really does say it all. The most I got to read were book reviews for book purchasing and the dust covers/index for indexing in the cataloging system.

Milwaukee Public Library is killing it on Insta. And Michael Threets is just an awesome guy.

Geology rocks!

Rocks are cool

This is fascinating. I never knew that geology was this intensive.

I did a geology course, a good proportion of the later sections were about oil and the finding therof.

Sooo its about rocks and rocky things

A lot of IT folks know how to look up and apply information better than most people, so there is some crossover that can seem like magic to people who are not tech inclined.

Nor does it mean you know why literally any other software isn't working. You really only know the code you wrote. And even then sometimes not even that.

Hardware ≠ Software

But you are dependent on that machine to be able to do your job. Don't you want to be able to fix at least small things?

question for anyone who does troubleshooting for hardware. does telling a person to turn it off and then back on ever actually fix the problem? genuinely curious

the bass is the lifeblood of a song, sometimes you don't hear it as much as the drums and other guitars etc, but if it wasn't there, there is absolutely no way that song would sound as good as it does.

I learned how to play bass because I idolized Phil Lynott from Thin Lizzy. Later I also learned guitar because I found myself playing in bands with terrible guitar players and I had to teach them how to play their parts.

I can play a little guitar, but I'd love to try the bass. I feel like I'd have some sort of advantage as a cellist, but also it would just be fun.

A walking bass line is gorgeous.

That's just wrong. Bass players are just as important as, if not more so than, other instrumentalists. Some songs would simply suck without that killer bass line. 🎶 Because you know it's all about that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble! 🎶