“Is This Real Water?”: 45 Of The Dumbest Things People Have Ever Been Asked

Nobody gives anyone a job. They purchase labor. And more often than not, if they weren't doing it, someone else would take over the market share.

My work clocks hours on the quarter - so you can sign in or out every 15 mins (11:00, 11:15, 11:30, 11:45 etc and nothing in between). I recently c finished work at 11:10 and asked if I could clock it for 11:15. Manager said no, got mad and said “can’t you just swallow the extra 10 mins?” I said “um, can’t YOU? The store makes so SO SO much more money than me, why do I have to “swallow” the extra minutes when you’re the only ones who benefit, I actually get screwed over by this, and you could easily afford to just pay me the couple dollars? If this will be the case moving forward I’m dropping everything at exactly closing time and refusing to do anything else but go home, you can figure it out from there.” He had no response lol, I got paid. Like JFC.

To translate to non-Americans. "Salary" positions differ from "wage" positions in that you are paid for the position, not the amount of time you work, so successfully completing your job can mean occasional substantial overtime for no extra pay. Most types of work are prohibited from being salaried positions, to prevent abuses such an unpaid overtime. Those that can be salaried include management, teaching, and certain types of technical positions. (My jobs software engineering and chemistry lab work were not eligible for salaries.) Teachers, for instance, don't get paid for staying up all hours grading papers and filling out IEPs, but get several weeks in the summer when they have little or no work at all.

If you work a salaried position, you don't get paid overtime. You should have figured out how to fulfill your obligations in 40 hours. That's how it works.

When you are salaried you work until the job is done, you get X per pay period whether you worked 40 hour weeks or 100 hour weeks... But you also get those 15 hour weeks. I much preferred being salaried bc I often finished my responsibilities way early and could just leave, take the day/rest of the week off, etc... there were 12hour+ days if there was a crisis, but you gotta sometimes take the bad with the good!

This is the same person who would try to make bookings for the 0th of any month and the 31st of April, June, September, and November

Repeat after me - 30 days hath September, April, June and November .....

Kinda embarrassed it took me a second to understand 😂

February only has 28 days.

The randomly chosen woman with a green sweater smiles broadly at what an idiot she is talking to and how she stays sane by working at home.

I can relate. My native language is not English. For a long time, ehen I saw K-9 I just understood it as a random letter and number. Once I said it out loud in English, I realized it's Kay-nine (canine).

I thought k stood for kilometer when I saw 5k.

Yeah, kilometers are a foreign concept.

Seems like an appropriate spot for this; my first wife asked me what the lights in the sky were. It hurt me to the core, but I did explain as best I could.

Why metric? 1m³....naaahh I say 226 camelbladder 45 goatvomit and 746/2598 spit

"when do you expect them back?" "when the zombie apocalypse begins."

We used to get those calls all the time while living in the family home after our parents died. My brother would answer the telemarketers query with "Nope, still dead."

Was this before caller ID was invented?

Bank kept sending promo stuff to my wife in dead daughter's name. Her daughter never had an account with them, just a mail list the bank bought from someone. First time wife was nice about asking them to remove her from the mailing list and why. Person was apologetic and said they would remove her name. After a few more mailings wife decided they never removed her name. Second time wife wasn't so nice about telling them to remove the name.

When I worked in the life assurance industry back in the day, there was a letter sent out to a "Mr Deceased". (someone had changed the Surname field to "Deceased" and forgotten to tick the "deceased" flag and the system just sent out the letters.)

I was once told by my then boss, "Don't stand so straight! It makes you look proud." Well, excuse me for not wanting to mess up my back, I guess.