People Share Work Secrets About What They Do When the Boss Is Away
Every once in a while you’ll come across someone who has their absolute dream job. You know that old saying, “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life?” Most of us never fulfill that prophesy to its fullest. But occasionally, someone will. And when you meet that someone, you kind of want to punch them,...
10 Perspectives from Real Exchange Students
There’s a wonderful quote attributed to Mark Twain that goes: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” We can...
13 Foreign Exchange Students Reveal What It’s Really Like
Last year, there were about a million foreign exchange students in the United States alone. It’s a very popular program among many nations, giving people a chance to experience other cultures and perspectives while they’re young and learning. There’s an aura of romance around it, and adventure. But is it all it’s cracked up...
13 Insights from Real Costco Employees
It’s pretty rare that anybody works at any kind of retail/big box store as, like, a “career choice.” These are more of what most of us would call a “survival job,” the kind of gig you take because it pays money and you can make it work. But just because these jobs are referred to rather casually doesn’t mean...
13 Costco Employees Talk About What It’s Really Like
Costco is an absolute life saver for so many of us. But every time I think about the people working there, my mind immediately jumps to the scene in Idiocracy where an exhausted, dead-eyed greeter repeats his monotone mantra to each customer that enters; “Welcome to Costco. I love you.” Obviously the real employees aren’t dumb...
Doctors and Nurses Dish on the Dumbest Patients They’ve Ever Had
I’m not a medical professional of any stripe, I got my degree in theatre because I hate having money and love disappointing my parents. But I imagine that if I had gone into that more noble arena of healthcare the hardest part would likely be simply being patient with patients. Imagine you’ve spent nearly a decade in school and God...
10 Medical Professionals Share Their Weirdest Patient Stories
Being a medical professional isn’t easy, especially right now. The only thing likely to make a health crisis worse is a population who doesn’t understand medicine and seems to think they know more about it through a few google searches than the highly trained professionals trying to take care of them. It’s no surprise, then, that...
10 Times Texts Went Hilariously Wrong
If you want to be weird and pedantic about things you could say that the first electronic text message happened all the way back in 1844. It was on May 24th of that year that inventor of the telegraph Samuel Morse sent the first message by wire using dots and dashes from Washington D.C. to Baltimore. That message was four words: “What hath...
10 Tweets the Prove That Men Are Really Something Else
Men are really something else. And I say that as a man. Like, a typical dude man. A cis, straight, no fashion sense, only really knows how to make macaroni and tacos kind of dude. I’m fine with that. I own it. And I understand when people look at creatures of my ilk and say “What exactly…is going on here?” Here are 10 great...
10 Tweets for the Hopeless Romantics in All of Us
There are a lot of love songs out there that I’ve never quite understood. Some of the lyrics to these romantic melodies just baffle me. Like, “When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore.” First of all, how often are you getting hit with pizza to the face? Second, as Iron Man once said, “If you...