David Hasselhoff will always be famous for two things: being on Baywatch and drunkenly eating a hamburger in front of his daughter. Does he want to distance himself from both these things by changing his name?
In the 8 second video below he explains he just wants to get the "hassel" out of his life. get it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT_9auja6FA
Hah! That would ruin so many great memes, so thank goodness it's not true. His nickname may be The Hoff, but his actual name is still Hasselhoff. According to his rep, the video is an excerpt from an ad campaign launching in Australia this coming weekend. The only way to truly escape life's hassle is death.
Another week has gone by, which has given celebrities seven more days to work hard at their crafts, enjoy their lives of luxury, and/or say a bunch of weird stuff. This week, public figures gave insight into Hollywood aliens, pretended to change their names, and demonstrated by example what not to say about Jews. Here's a round-up of the most ridiculous quotes of the week.
1. Singer Nick Jonas:
This was probably eight years ago. I was in my backyard in L.A., and I looked up at the sky and [saw] three flying saucers. I looked at my friend and said, 'Are you seeing this or am I losing my mind?' He was seeing the same thing.
Apparently Nick Jonas, the Jonas brother who won, believes in aliens. And he's seen a bunch. And it was in LA so they were probably hot aliens.
2. Actual presidential candidate Donald Trump:
This is the only election in history where it's better off if you stabbed somebody.
Referring to competitor Ben Carson's disputed story about stabbing someone in his youth but then turning his whole life around, Trump made a shocking and not true statement. Can you believe that?
I'm having such a problem with these conversations. I understand why they are coming up but maybe it's a British thing. I don't like talking about money; it's a bit vulgar isn't it? I don't think that's a very nice conversation to have publicly at all.
Jennifer Lawrence recently ignited a productive conversation about women in Hollywood earning less than male co-stars. But Winslet would rather we not talk about such garish topics like unfair wages, sexism, and equality. Those are peasant topics.
4. Former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann:
The Holy Spirit is speaking to each one of us to be faithful in the Kingdom and help bring in as many as we can. Even among the Jews. Because again, he’s coming soon.
While in Israel, Bachmann explained that Jews should convert to Christianity because Jesus is coming soon. A good rule of public speaking is that no matter the context, the phrase "even among the Jews" rarely goes over well. That didn't stop Bachmann, who also gave a few repeated friendly reminders that FYI, in case you forgot, the Holy Spirit will be arriving ASAP, so try to be ready on time for once in your life.
5. Actor David Hasselhoff:
I’ve been wanting to drop the Hassel from my life for years. Now I have made it official.
The former Baywatch star announced in a video that he was changing his name from David Hasselhoff to David Hoff. But, according to his rep, the video is part of an ad and he was "just having some fun." Presumably because his hobby is getting paid to encourage you to buy something.
Do you like adorably sad-looking pugs wearing clothes? Do you like zoning out to the TV for hours and hours on end until you don't know what day it is or when the last time you showered was? Well, lucky for you, Doug the Pug—Internet celebrity and adorable pup—combined the two, and recreated all your favorite streaming TV shows staring himself. He plays everyone from Phoebe from Friends to The Fresh Prince, and the video is too cute to handle.
https://youtu.be/jSAcfnSFH-0
This is probably the first time you've ever longed to hug someone wearing tighty whities.
Here are pranksters confessing their most heinous sins:
The internet is your priest.
1. The poop prankster.
in high school I went on the computer in my science class, opened word, typed the word poop, and then printed a hundred copies or so. the teacher told me I was very immature and I felt a little bad. then for the next week every handout we got in class had the word poop printed on the back and I stopped feeling bad, because that was hilarious.
-PM_ME_UR_LARGE_TITS(Note: If there's something he should feel guilty about it's that dumb username)
2. The "control-F" prankster.
Back on highschool I had a friend. Lets call him Tim. Tim and I were hanging out in the library in junior year scrambling to get our culminating assignments handed in for grade 11 english. In Canada culminating assignments are worth 15% of our grades so it was kind of a big deal.
When we finally finished he switched with me and I with him so we could proofread each others essays. After catching a few mistakes and showing him what he should fix he thanked me and gave me the go ahead to print it.
So I went ahead and did that for him. But before that happened I used the find and replace tool to replace every "and" with "penis" and every "can" with "AIDS". Luckily Tim's teacher thought it was funny and he only had to re hand it in, minus the obscenities of course.
I didn't really feel bad until I found out that Tim didn't know how to use the find and replace all tool and that he spent his next lunch replacing each word one at a time.
Ex-4channer here. We started a #prayforellen hashtag. Fake. We made everything up. It was about her (Ellen Degeneres) contracting aids. Tons of people believed it, she addressed it, it was crazy.
Some chick started an AskReddit thread asking how to keep flowers fresh for longer because she's getting married in a week and the flowers arrived early.
I told her I was a third-generation florist and that the best method to keep flowers fresh was to put them in a one-thirds mixture of bleach, salt, and worcestershire sauce.
I then mixed in some actual advice that I googled to make the bullshit advice seem legit. That advice was to cut any leaves off that would be below the surface of the water because it can produce harmful bacteria, and to store the flowers in a room no warmer than 65 degrees because the buds will open slower and the flowers will stay fresh longer.
I used to troll on Omegle by pretending to be different people. Sometimes I was a doctor, other times I was a policeman, etc.. I tried to get everyone to know I was bullshitting by getting more and more ridiculous as time went on. but this one time...
I pretended to be a publisher and it just so happened that one of the people I talked to was an aspiring author. To be honest, the little bits they shared with me weren't actually that awful. Of course me being the shit I was though decided that I couldn't outright say that I was lying, so I decided to make up a story saying that I would be happy to talk to others about publishing the story, I just needed some time. I made a new e-mail address, gave it to them, and told them I would get back to them within a week.
So a month later I remembered about this incident and decided to just tell them that I couldn't do it. I checked the e-mail of that account and saw 3 e-mails from the person. The first one was just asking if there was any update and saying how thankful they were that I was doing this. The second one was about how they had found another publisher and would go down that route if I didn't respond. Then there was the third one..
The person told me their life story. Tbh the details are a little fuzzy, but iirc they came from a poor family and their parents were super strict about them reading and writing for whatever reason. They had to go to the public library under the guise of hanging out with friends in order to get their reading time in. When they eventually moved out of their hometown they severed all ties with their parents and were struggling to get by day to day.
At the end of that e-mail though, they told me something I will never forget. "Two can play this game".
years ago, someone was hassling me for months on youtube so i created another account with a similar name to his and downloaded and reuploaded all his videos and pretended to be him. i then proceeded to isolate him from all his friends by leaving hate messeges for each and everyone of them. everyone turned on him and started calling him an attention whore.
eventually he threatened suicide and all his friends were pretty much "whatever" at that point. never heard from him again.
Freshman year of college, I'm enrolled in a class on Intercultural Education. First day of class, my best friend is visiting and attends class along with me. The professor says to everyone, "If you're name is not on the attendance sheet, please add yourself by hand, so that we can adjust it electronically." My friend, a very literal, playful fellow, decided to follow the professor's instructions. The next class session arrives, and surely enough he's added to the roster. I went ahead and checked his name on the attendance record.
Then about a week passes before our first quiz. I take two scantrons and fill them both out, one for him and one for myself. This escalates. Over the course of the semester, I did every homework assignment twice, every quiz twice, and every examination twice. I had another student mark my friend as present during days in which I was unable to make it to class.
Final semester projects arrive, and there's no way in hell I'm going to do two of them. So, I don't. After a couple of days, the professor addresses the class (consisting of about 75 students).
"Is First Last here today?"
The class is silent.
"That's strange. He hasn't missed a day this year. Does anyone know First Last personally?"
Still silent.
"That's strange. If anyone runs into First Last, let him know we need to speak."
The next class session my friend tells me that I need to own up to my crowning achievement, or he will tell the professor. After class, I approached the professor and the TA, admitting what I've done. Initially, he was relieved. He knew the student wasn't enrolled in the school and felt awful about the possibility that the student might falsely be under the impression he's gaining credit. Then, he said he was impressed. Then, with haste, he added, "Never do that again."
The TA's eyes turned from the physical gradebook to me, and she said: "He has a better grade than you."
I'm not an "internet troll" or anything stupid like that. However, I've said some stupid and careless things on the internet from time to time.
Once upon a time, on a website far, far away (4chan), there was a thread in which the OP was the best friend of a guy whom he accidentally blinded as a child. The basic premise was the the friend was fielding questions for the blind guy and answering some himself as well. Of course, doing something like that on 4chan, with a topic so potentially raw and emotion is just a terrible idea and so my idiocy surfaces.
I straight up asked this kid what it feels like to know that he permanently ruined a great many things in his friends life, robbed him of experiences and moments he otherwise would have had and altered his life for the negative until the day he dies. The response was unsurprisingly sad and regretful, as if I'd shaken him out of some denial he had been hiding in, pretending that whilst what he did was bad, it wasn't too bad. It was clear that saying those things had an impact on the kid and I still feel bad about it.
A buddy of mine was talking to this chick where he worked at. He wasn't really the smoothest person with the ladies, kind of tongue tied. She was a cashier and he stopped in one night to say hello, I happened to be riding along with him. He was on one side of her isle talking to her, I was on the other. While she was talking and not looking my way, I grabber her Bic lighter. I took it apart and adjust the flame to every bit of a foot high. Put the lighter back together and replaced it.
Enter the part I did not really think of: She went into the bathroom later to sneak a smoke in (mid 90's people could still smoke). Apparently she was one of those smokers who would cup the lighter in her hand while covering up her cig while lighting (think lighting in the wind). She flicked that Bic and the lighter blazed up, and set her hair on fire. Her hairdo required a lot of hairspray and she went up like the Hindenburg.
The next time I saw her, she had cut her hair short and was PISSED! She starts cussing me out, and I denied that shit. DENY, DENY, DENY. I felt bad about it, but was not about to own up to it.
Even though this was not an internet troll, I still felt like an asshole.
Back in middle school my friends and I found a picture of our math teacher in a speedo on Facebook. We printed out hundreds of copies at home and left them in various spots around the school. He got pretty upset, never found out who it was though. I felt kinda bad because he was a good teacher, it was pretty hilarious to middle school me though.
Not really a troll, but I do feel bad about this. When I was in my teens I started talking with this one girl on MySpace. I don't even remember how we became friends on there, because she lived in a completely different state, but it probably had to do with the fact that we were both going through this emo/punk phase. We would talk every day and even got comfortable enough to exchange phone numbers and talked on the phone a few times.
Then we started throwing around the word love. I was a dumb teenager and though that I did have feelings for her, but really I didn't know her that well and was more infatuated with the idea of being star-crossed lovers or whatever and it was nice having someone to talk to. We would always say how great it would be if we didn't live so far away from each other.
Then one day she tells me she's coming to Chicago. At first I'm excited and we plan to meet up, but then on the day of I get second thoughts. I had barely known this girl for like a month or so and here she was hundreds of miles from her home to see me. It became much too real for me and I was freaked out. So, I stood her up. She called my phone and left a few messages but I ignored them. I ignored her until I knew she was back home. I then said sorry and slowly started pushing myself away from her.
I still feel pretty bad about that, we were just two lonely kids and she went out of her way to see me and I broke her heart.
We took the time to painstakingly curate this list of the top ten ecards of the week. The best use of time at work today is definitely to send these to your friends and family on the company dime.
Over 100 women are suing Atlanta-based drug company Qualitest Pharmaceuticals for a 2011 error in their birth control's packaging, which the women claim resulted in unplanned pregnancies. Why? Because the worst mistake you could ever make while packaging birth control happened: the placebos were in the wrong place. As if that isn't bad enough, the name of the company is Qualitest. They combined the words "quality" and "test" to name their company, then failed to perform tests ensuring their product was quality.
Three years ago, Qualitest recalled its birth control pills after discovering the pills’ labeling had been placed upside down. As a result, many women took the placebo pills when they should have been taking the hormone pills. The lawsuit includes 94 women who gave birth after taking the defective pills, 17 who didn't carry out their unplanned pregnancies, and two others who did not become pregnant. It's not clear what the other two are suing for; perhaps they or their partners had heart attacks after learning about the recall.
Oh helllllllllllllll no.
According to the lawsuit filed on November 5, the women who took the pills are seeking millions in damages to compensate for their pain, suffering, lost wages, and child-rearing expenses. In Oregon, state law specifies that child-rearing expenses include the the child's college tuition. That could make possible settlements quite pricey if the kids grow up to be highly intelligent.
The company claims the recall was based on a small number of pill packs, and that the mistake was due to an external contract manufacturer. Either way, someone is totally getting fired.
Teaching seems like a pretty cush job. You get to be inside all day, earn a pension, and shape the growing minds of tomorrow's citizens. Children are the future! But in the present-day, and in the classroom they tend to be willfully ignorant jerks trying to troll their teachers (quite successfully, we might add).
1. Do you teach that class, too?
We all have that teacher who inspired us to work harder.
2. The fiercest of all weapons.
Better dead than red.
3. Put your hands up.
But Jupiter? Jupiter is thirsty.
4. Orange you glad I wrote this note?
[Falls asleep reading really long teacher's note]
5. The test ultimately received a Beeeeeeeeeeee.
Rage, Cage.
6. TL; DR.
This is pretty much how it works in Montessori schools.
7. Your suspicions are true.
Gym teachers are huge jerks.
8. Getting into a row.
How did they know?
9. Judy strikes again.
Yeah, and you're no Heather Locklear yourself, Judy.
10. Teacher's coffee smells funny.
This is why you weren't allowed in the teachers' lounge.
11. Cold-blooded.
And the teacher's bear is better drawn.
12. Pure evil.
Evil genius.
13. Canoe trip!
Yeah, reading sucks.
14. Well, maybe it was a heffalump.
And tales. Oh, the stories they can tell.
15. Too much homework for Jesus.
Don't get on Facebook when you're fairy pissed off.
16. Nobody hates school more than teachers.
Student shall never pass teacher.
17. A permanent solution.
That's not teacher talk. That's guidance counselor talk.
18. Let the student really know what you see in store for them.
Attach a fast food application to an F-graded paper. SICK BURN.
Alexa Rice of Matthews, North Carolina was biking home on Wednesday when she passed a truck with a Confederate flag bumper sticker parked in her neighborhood. She continued home, where she kept on stewing in rage over the controversial image, getting madder and madder as she thought about the racist implications of it. Finally, she decided she'd had enough. She wrote a very pointed note and returned to the truck. Peeling off the sticker with her bare hands (apparently this was the most easily-removed bumper sticker of all time), she replaced it with her message. She documented the entire operation in a Twitter video:
The Confederate Flag is inherently RACIST. Under this flag, the South fought to defend slavery. This version of the flag was reinstated in the segregation era, again to defend racism. I don’t care if it’s your “heritage,” racism is nothing to be proud of.
Sincerely,
A WHITE WOMAN
P.S. MY WHOLE FAMILY IS FROM THE SOUTH. BEING SOUTHERN IS NO EXCUSE.
Rice's video tweet quickly went viral, with almost 5,000 retweets and more than 6,000 likes as of press time. Many commenters supported her and her anti-racism message, while others pointed out that what she did was illegal, constituting theft and destruction of property. Of course, Rice was aware of that, which is why she identified herself in the video. She didn't want anyone else to get the blame (or the credit).
Fox 8 reports that since the tweet was posted, Rice's note has been removed from the truck (duh). However, reporters were unable to find the vehicle's owner for comment. There are just too many trucks with Confederate flag stickers and "Dixie" decals in North Carolina to sift through.
Recently, Cadence, a 7-year-old girl with autism, hid under her teacher's desk because she was feeling stressed out. She was feeling bad about herself because of some things that she heard adults around her say about autism. While she was under the desk, Cadence communicated with her mom, Angela, through a series of notes. Angela then decided to share Cadence's words to give people an idea of what a girl like her hears about herself regularly:
What 'messages' are children hearing - from ourselves, from other parents, at school, from media and in the general...
Angela wrote this to accompany her daughter's questions:
What 'messages' are children hearing - from ourselves, from other parents, at school, from media and in the general community? And what are the 'take home' learnings, spoken or unspoken, they are internalizing from these messages?
Cadence's sensory differences means she hears, sees and observes every detail around her - every conversation, every sight, every smell; as many autistic children do. This 'conversation', between Cadence and myself, started under her teachers desk - a 'safe place' where Cadence had put herself in her confusion that she was somehow 'bad' - a belief that had culminated from over-hearing other parents and hearing news stories.
Cadence is somewhat famous for her writing already. A short essay she wrote recently went viral. Though she has difficulty communicating verbally, she's pretty good at expressing who she is on paper:
Autism is why I’m different. Its why I don’t talk. Its why I get scared of people. Its why I like to know things before they happen. Its why I like sharp pencils. Its why I like mummy cuddles. Its why I get sad at parties.
Its why I like to hide in cupboards. Its why I like jumping and somersaults. Its why mummy speaks differently from me. Its why I need more time to do things.
It might be why I’m clever but my brain might have just been born clever just like it was born Autism. My hair was born blonde. I am Cadence. I am just me.
Autistic people can have wide variations in their abilities and challenges, but with all the negativity attached to the condition and the weird lies used to freak out anti-vaxxers, it's not surprising that kids are aware of how they're seen in popular media. Cadence and Angela's message is helping other kids with autism and making passing notes in class cool again. JK, it was always cool.
Chris Fleming plays the character Gayle Waters-Waters, a mom that becomes crazed and completely loses it while preparing for company to come over. There's a little bit of every mom in this performance. Watch it, love it, and send it to your mom. Or send it to your friends and siblings that have now become crazed moms themselves.
Fleming's character Gayle is the star of the web series GAYLE. Hopefully moms you know aren't as manic as she is with every other aspect of her life beyond company. And even though moms do get a little frantic prepping for an event, they still make time to help us with critical problems, like popping monster zits.
What did you do on Charles Manson's birthday yesterday? Lindsay Lohan shared a photo of herself dressed up as Sharon Tate. It's such a shame when a perfectly cute fashion pic on Instagram gets dragged into the legacy of a tragic murder.
The selfie depicts Lohan in matching floral shorts and a long-sleeved crop top, along with thigh-high boots. She wrote in the caption "I LOVE SHARON TATE" along with some sixties-inspired hashtags and emojis.
https://www.instagram.com/p/-ADrVpJc8X/
Tate, an actress and model, was murdered by members of Charles Manson's cult in 1969 when she was 26 years old and pregnant. Which is not something you want to think about when you're scrolling through Instagram. Yet here we are.
It's unclear if Lohan knew it was Manson's birthday or not. This could be another huge Sharon Tate outfit misunderstanding, like when Megan Draper on Mad Men wore a Sharon Tate-inspired shirt and everyone incorrectly theorized that her character would be murdered. That's probably the only other example in this category.
The sex toy company Get Fifi mainly sells "sex sleeves," aka knock-off Fleshlights. Their main claim to innovation is creating disposable plastic bags that fit into the masturbation tubes, for easy-breezy clean-up. They also likes marketing themselves on Instagram with goofy memes that make jerking off seem cool again:
But they went too far for some people when they posted this ad, which suggests that furiously sexing a plastic tube will keep you from *gasp* having sex with a fat woman. Because that would be soooo embarrassing:
Obviously, people were not pleased, and the image got yanked. But not before the hashtag #DONTgetfifi was birthed, and more questionable image choices by the company got called out on Twitter:
A teacher had his students Google pictures of dicks, but to be fair, it wasn't really his fault. Akn4bkn is a high school geography teacher who shared a penile mishap story on Reddit yesterday that made it to the front page. Here's how it went down: They were in the middle of a unit on South Asia and started discussing the kingdom of Bhutan. The dragon is the national symbol of Bhutan, so he asked them to Google "Symbols of Bhutan," with the expectation that dragons would come up. Instead they got "inappropriate" pictures of—well, just Google it yourself.
15th century Bhutan just became a whole lot more interesting than Renaissance Europe.
It turns out that Bhutan has another traditional symbol besides the dragon. Drawings of dicks are so prominent in Bhutanese history that there is an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to "Phallus paintings in Bhutan." According to the page, "[S]ymbols of an erect penis in Bhutan have [traditionally] been intended to drive away the evil eye and malicious gossip." Despite the fact that modern Bhutanese people find them to be a bit embarrassing, the drawings, which originated around the 15th century, can still be found in various villages.
An example of a Bhutanese phallus drawing on a house.
The teacher has already received"three emails from parents and one phone call." He went to see the principal this morning to "give her the um..heads up..."
"Dear lord."
Bhutan sounds like it has an interesting, rich cultural history, one that challenges the Western notion that human genitals should be treated as taboo. Bhutan also sounds like a 14-year-old boy's paradise.
Hotels bring out the worst in people. Because guests are not responsible for cleaning up after themselves and because they'll probably never see their fellow guests ever again, societal standards dissolve and true craziness is given free reign. Thankfully, someone on Reddit gave hotel employees an opportunity to share their craziest stories by asking them about the strangest things they've ever seen hotel guests doing. After reading them, you'll think about Airbnb'ing next time.
NCIS actress Pauley Perette was attacked on Thursday and tweeted the story of what happened, noting "My life changed tonight." Perette was walking on an LA street when "a VERY psychotic homeless man" grabbed her, repeatedly punched her, and said he was going to kill her. She couldn't overpower the man, but was able to get him to let her go by telling him that he had a beautiful name.
I was very hesitant about tweeting this,
Tonight was an awful night.
I was walking across my street to a new guest house I bought to meet my architect
On my street, I was jumped by a VERY psychotic homeless man.
He grabbed me so forcefully, pinned my arm, punched me in the nose,
forehead repeatedly telling me he was going to kill me.
Then he showed me how he was going to kill me. He kept repeating his name:
WILLIAM ____ _____, DON'T FORGET THAT! I'm Going to kill you"
I was alone, terrified and trapped.
There was an empty garage behind me and I knew if he got me in there I was dead.
I knew I couldn't over come him,
I prayed my heart out an then finally said, "William is a beautiful name,I have a little nephew named William".
That's all I said, all I did, other than praying my heart out.
He started to punch me again, and then said: "get the fuck out of here" And I did.
I went into shock. Collapsed on the sidewalk.
Some guy walked right past me with a dog that licked my face.
He was on his phone, annoyed. Did nothing.
I texted my friend next door and my church friend cop.
I immediately drew a police sketch of the guy
who was headed towards Hollywood Blvd with murder in his eyes.
My pal James took a pic of my sketch, found the guy, surveilled him,
The cops came and followed James to him. They got him.
Felony assault.
I am shaken and traumatized.
My house, my beloved Hollywood.
My beloved homeless people that I spend my
life protecting.
My life changed tonight.
My... I don't know.
We need full mental health care.
We need housing and help
for the homeless.
We need to support our cops.
We need to not walk alone.
I need to heal.
I almost died tonight.
From the sketch she drew, police were able to arrest a suspect.
Girls who spent their childhood feeling self-conscious about their freckles will look at the new product "Freck Yourself" and say something much more explicit. It's still in development, but the Kickstarter promoting the beauty trend of giving yourself fake freckles has already surpassed its $215,000 goal. Once it's out on the market, you too will be able to look like you've been out in the sun too long:
If you don't already.
Of course, it only works if you have fairly light skin. The kit used to create the natural effect of freckles seems to consist of triangular pieces of plastic and some brush-on dye. Kind of like henna? They describe it in their pitch:
Our team has developed a partnership with an industry leading manufacturer. Cosmetix West has decades of experience producing cosmetic products for companies of all sizes (PacSun, GLAMGLOW, Philosophy to name just a few). With this partnership we'll be able to produce a full run of Freck Yourself aligned with the prototype that the team at Cosmetix West has already produced.
The patented Freck Yourself formula & application method has been through countless iterations over the last 12 months. We are confident that this is the easiest application and most effective semi-permanent formula.
Simple...
Here are some ladies trying their freckles on:
Freckles are beautiful, but many girls who have them get teased as they're growing up. Other women being able to take them on and off at will must be an annoying concept. What will be the next hot thing in beauty that you once tried to hide on the first day of school?
An Alaska restaurant is being praised after its owner defended anautistic delivery driver who was berated by a customer. The misguided customer called Little Italy Restaurante in Anchorage to angrily complain that the delivery driver screwed up an order, claiming the driver was using drugs. Owner P.J. Gialopsos' daughter answered the phone, and assured the customer the driver wasn't impaired. She pointed out that he is actually autistic and has a speech impediment.
After this customer of the year learned the truth, he responded by saying the restaurant was lying. Bravo. Gialopsos posted a full account of the unfortunate episode to the restaurant's Facebook page:
This has been pondered for days now: should I write this post and HOW should I write this post?
Over the weekend we received a complaint about one of our delievery drivers. The customer wasn't simply complaining, he was ranting and foul. He informed us our driver was an idiot and strung out on drugs and was FURIOUS!
It was calmly explained to him, no, this driver is not on drugs....nor does he drink....he is autistic and has a slight speech impediment. The customer called the phone person a liar, had a few more choice words for her and hung up.
When the driver returned, he came into my office a little shaken because the customer was angry (he had mixed up the pouch of food but quickly retrieved the correct order from his car.Mistakes are made all the time in the course of a business life, and when we make them we do our very best to correct the problem immediately. )...that didn't satisfy this man....he berated him and then called him a name I won't even elude to here.
It isn't the first time I've had a comment about this employee, but normally, as soon as I explain, they are always VERY understanding that the mannerisms had a reason.
This driver has worked for us for two years. He is a seriously accomplished University student, has an amazingly inquisitive personality, a wicked sense of humor and one helluva work ethic!
You would think, in the year 2015 the majority of the population would have learned or at least heard about autism. I understand that there is a large portion of our population that is content to remain uninformed and uneducated, but that doesn't give them to right to take that ignorance and turn it into a foul mouthed rant on two of my employees!
Therefore, we have fired this customer. That address, that name and phone number will be tagged with a DO NOT DELIVER DO NOT ACCEPT ORDER message.
...... And won't that customer be surprised later in life to learn that his "idiot strung out" delivery driver long ago turned out to be the physicist, microbiologist or chemical engineer who could quite possibly make a discovery that will save his sorry *** someday.
Just sayin'.
Thank you for allowing my own little rant here.
Members of the Gialopsos family that own Little Italy.
Fired! Not banned, but fired. What an outstanding choice of words. No soup for him. Ever.
In Tampa, Florida, a mother is raising a ruckus over what she says are outrageous threats leveled against her nine-year-old son just because he's too clingy. The fourth-grader gave a love note to his crush, full of cute romantic kid stuff about how "her eyes sparkled like diamonds." Word got out to the kids in his grade, who started making fun of him and accusing him of wanting to see her naked. Then the principal got involved. As the boy's mother told WCSC:
That's when the principal proceeded to tell me that it wasn't appropriate that he was writing the note, and that if he writes another note they are going to file sexual harassment charges on my 9-year-old.
The mother was outraged, insisting that her boy doesn't even know what "sexual harassment" means (which is the same defense a lot of creepy dudes would use, but that's beside the point). The school says that he wrote multiple notes, and that they were unwanted.
Does this look like something a sexual harasser would write? Don't answer that.
But whether or not this kid doesn't know when to back off, people are outraged that the school's first action was to threaten to press charges. WCSC contacted a psychologist, Dr. Valerie McClain, for comment. She believes what he needs is positive education instead of threats he probably doesn't even understand:
It may be something he thought was very sweet and innocent… What needs to happen is education needs to be provided about how to relate to this young girl, or how to stay away from talking to her if that's the goal.
How young is too young to start teaching kids about romantic boundaries? Evidently, it's an issue in elementary school. And if the alternative is threatening to brand them as sexual harassers, maybe it should be part of the kindergarten curriculum. Otherwise you risk turning them into a bunch of bitter preteen men's rights activists. And that's terrifying.
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