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60 Of The Dumbest Things Coworkers Said That Left Folks In Disbelief That Such Stupid People Exist
It’s fair to think that most of us want smart people on our team at work. Or let’s rather say we’d prefer not to have dimwits. Quite frankly, it’s just easier to get the job done when the pencils are all sharpened properly, and none of the tires are flat, if you know what we mean…
Sadly, we can’t always get what we want. And while we can choose our friends, we cannot choose our coworkers. From the one who asked whether the stairs go up or down, to another 38-year-old who admitted to playing Barbie in her head, people have been outing their not-so-bright colleagues for all the world to see.
Bored Panda has compiled a list of shockingly stupid things to come out of the mouths of the gainfully employed. And even HR might be stumped. May these stories give you a newfound appreciation for any of your coworkers who have more than half a brain cell.
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 5 months ago (edited)
Imagine having to physically look through encyclopedias and reference books.
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Jenna Kay 5 months ago
🤬 this is why people don' get the help they need! My father would tell me I didn't have a reason to be depressed, get over it. He's not a bad person, he was told this his whole life by his toxic mom. He has severe PTSD and wouldn't get help because it wasn't acceptable. I DID get help, after a complete meltdown.
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Michael Largey 5 months ago
I stunned a fellow teacher by showing her that. She was our Computer Ed teacher.
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Bill Swallow 5 months ago
... and these people vote, and breed, and hold positions of authority ...
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Michael Largey 5 months ago
Wait till she finds out that euthanasia does not refer to the young people there.
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Michael Largey 5 months ago
Well, I've hung out with stupid people and felt stupid for doing so. So there's that.
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Bill Swallow 5 months ago
Kneecap them and make them park at the back of the lot. That *might* get the point across - but it's not guaranteed.
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Michael Largey 5 months ago
Being the oldest child is completely irrelevant to the parents' age.
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Peter Bear 5 months ago
I hear there's a trail you can take, but you might get dysentery on the way, so be careful.
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Earonn - 5 months ago
It's just like teens since the 60s dreamed of being discovered on the street as a 'pop star'. It looks like an easy way out of a not very rewarding treadmill, plus the admiration people usually enjoy. Not saying it's right, but treating it as something unusual or stupid is just dishonest at best, stupid more likely.
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amy lee 5 months ago
I don't think we should go beyond 12 months, I don't think your child being 96 months adds anything to the conversation and makes it feel like I'm living in a maths question... Only time it's acceptable to use months beyond 12 m it describing age is cheese age... 24 month aged cheese sounds delicious, 2 year old cheese not so much... That is my hill.
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meeeeeeeeeeee 5 months ago
The idiot here is OP who can't understand that adults can play and have imaginations. Boring f****r,
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Michael Largey 5 months ago
Only because it precedes Black Friday. (Which is always on a Friday.)
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Seonag Udell 5 months ago
I have neices but i am an only child. They are my husbands sisters children
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Elladine DesIsles 5 months ago
I'm sorry, but what exactly is "concrete" ice cream, which does not sound remotely appetizing? I'm imagining those hard, chalky, foil-wrapped lumps of "astronaut ice cream" sold as a novelty in science museum gift shops.
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Caroline Nagel 5 months ago
It never occured to the coworker to just look it up? He has so many ways of finding out.
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officerripley 5 months ago
A co-worker: This stapler has quit working! Me: Ah, it's out of staples. Here. let me put more in it for you. Co-worker: You have to put staples in it?
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Ace 5 months ago (edited)
TBF fridge and AC controls are easily confusable, depending on whether they're labelled in degrees or just arbitrary numbers. I have one fridge that can be set between 1 and 10 degrees and another one with a manual control knöb going from 1 to 5, for example. (Edit, who'd have thought BP would censor knöb ?)
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Bill Swallow 5 months ago
I gotta quit reading lists like this. They're sapping my will to live.
Melody 5 months ago (edited)
One time I mentioned my desire to convert to Judaism to a coworker. She proceeded to tell me that the Jews today are not the same people as the Jews in the Bible and that the Bible says so. (This is NOT TRUE, to be clear.) Arguing felt unsafe, so I was just like, "Okay..." Maybe I should've gone to HR, but I was the one who'd brought up religion to begin with. Another time, while talking to that coworker and a Guatemalan-American coworker, I mentioned that I'd read that the quesadillas we eat here in the US aren't authentic Mexican quesadillas. So dumb coworker asked Guatemalan-American coworker if they're authentic. I said, "She's Guatemalan." Dumb coworker said, "Yeah, I know. But are they authentic?" So I said, "She's Guatemalan, NOT MEXICAN." Dumb coworker said, "Oh! Really?!" She didn't understand that Guatemala and Mexico are different countries... This was Walmart, btw.
Ryan Mercer 5 months ago
Yeah, this is MAGA. They think the word "Mexican" is a pejorative adjective. They don't like all those Mexican countries.
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Powerful Katrinka 5 months ago
I once had to explain to a coworker what “alphabetical order” meant. She finally got it… but then I discovered that she didn’t know the alphabet. She grouped all the letters that have an “eee” sound together. B, P, V, C, G..,
KatSaidThat 5 months ago
Only one thing up there made my eyebrows shoot up. Right now I'm frowning so hard I have a monobrow.
Load More Replies... Bill Swallow 5 months ago
I gotta quit reading lists like this. They're sapping my will to live.
Melody 5 months ago (edited)
One time I mentioned my desire to convert to Judaism to a coworker. She proceeded to tell me that the Jews today are not the same people as the Jews in the Bible and that the Bible says so. (This is NOT TRUE, to be clear.) Arguing felt unsafe, so I was just like, "Okay..." Maybe I should've gone to HR, but I was the one who'd brought up religion to begin with. Another time, while talking to that coworker and a Guatemalan-American coworker, I mentioned that I'd read that the quesadillas we eat here in the US aren't authentic Mexican quesadillas. So dumb coworker asked Guatemalan-American coworker if they're authentic. I said, "She's Guatemalan." Dumb coworker said, "Yeah, I know. But are they authentic?" So I said, "She's Guatemalan, NOT MEXICAN." Dumb coworker said, "Oh! Really?!" She didn't understand that Guatemala and Mexico are different countries... This was Walmart, btw.
Ryan Mercer 5 months ago
Yeah, this is MAGA. They think the word "Mexican" is a pejorative adjective. They don't like all those Mexican countries.
Load More Replies... Powerful Katrinka 5 months ago
I once had to explain to a coworker what “alphabetical order” meant. She finally got it… but then I discovered that she didn’t know the alphabet. She grouped all the letters that have an “eee” sound together. B, P, V, C, G..,
KatSaidThat 5 months ago
Only one thing up there made my eyebrows shoot up. Right now I'm frowning so hard I have a monobrow.
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