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Toilet wobble? Landlord's fix: carpet over tile.

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Oct 30, 2025

You told your landlord the toilet wasn't level and needed caulking or a plunger adjustment. He solved the problem by ins...

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How a $5 frying pan exposed the sacred art of following dumb rules

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Oct 29, 2025

They ran a promotion that read like a social experiment: spend $50, get a frying pan for $5. The prose was immaculate, t...

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Optimal Resource Management: A Case Study in Inverse Logic

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Oct 28, 2025

The internet, in its infinite wisdom, occasionally coughs up a case study so perfectly absurd it demands formal analysis...

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# The Owner Who Speedran Her Own Firing Argument

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Oct 27, 2025

There's a specific flavor of management failure that deserves academic study: the boss who issues an order, watches it e...

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You want me to carpool in my one-charge EV? Buckle up, cupcake.

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Oct 26, 2025

Manager: “You’ll carpool.” Me quietly, like a firmware patch: sure — that’s a very specific demand. Principal firmware ...

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# The Fitting Room Whisperer: How Retail Workers Discovered the One Weird Trick That Actually Works

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Oct 25, 2025

The fitting room is where human dignity goes to get folded incorrectly. This is established fact. But one retail worker ...

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They told us to stop reporting burnout. They should have given clearer instructions.

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Oct 24, 2025

They literally said, “Stop reporting about office burnout.” So I stopped. Meticulously, cheerfully, and in writing. For...

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# The Supervisor Who Weaponized His Own Stupidity

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Oct 23, 2025

Here is a neat model of management failure: A new supervisor inherits a unionized maintenance shop where the old supervi...

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IT Wanted Process. They Got Panic.

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Oct 22, 2025

A few years back, a Reddit user got shuffled from the "business side" into IT during a re-org. The official reason was "...

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The Maliciously Compliant IT Employee and the Panic at the Cisco

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Oct 21, 2025

Suppose, for a moment, a large organization aims to optimize its operational workflows by enforcing a rigid "process-ove...

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