Incompetent people are often so
incompetent, they donāt even realize
their own incompetence. According to
the Dunning-Kruger effect, people who
are ignorant or unskilled in any area
are too inept to notice, so they end up
thinking theyāre far more competent
than they actually are. SourceSource 2Source 3
that post about how you can basically follow any tv show based on what your mutuals who have watched it post in tumblr doesnt apply when it comes to riverdale. ive never seen an episode of riverdale and literally not a single one of the countless out of context screencaps ive seen on my dash since it first aired has managed to clarify for me in any way what this show is about. you could literally tell me anything about riverdale, true or fake, and iād just have to take your word for it.
iāve been vaguely formulating words for a post for months about theĀ āglowupā trend specifically when someone uses a photo from like age 10 or 13 and then a photo now of them as an adult and everyone is likeĀ āthere is hope!!!!ā
bc the subtle (even if unintentional) message that itās possible to Be ugly at age 10 and that we shouldāve somehow been what??hotter?? more attractive,Ā as literal children, is EXTREMELY disturbing and definitely part of why weāre seeing elementary and middle schoolers doing makeup and wearing clothes to present themselves as adults on social media like instagram.
everyone shares thoseĀ āme at 14 vs. 14 year olds nowā memes with a modern 14 yr old perfectly contoured with puckered lips but nobody considers that by sharing photos of ourselves as children and suggesting that we were ugly and lame and embarrassing, weāre teaching kids who are that age now that they should AVOID looking their age.
and then today I saw a glowup post that literally featured a photo of a 20 year old now and a photo of them as an Actual Toddler and I realize maybe I just donāt even HAVE the words
stop saying you were āugly as a kidā where kids can hear you. kids canāt be ugly, because no one should be holding them to any standard that judges them by their looks! and people will say āokay, but be honest with yourself, some kids just are prettier than others.ā
No! Some kids are considered āprettierā than others based ona set of made-up standards set by adults!
No child should ever be viewed through the lens of āattractiveā or ānot attractive,ā because theyāre children, and when you refer to your childhood self as ugly or lame or embarrassing, the children around you look for the features youāre referring to in themselves and try to avoid/erase them. And if they canāt, they just settle for hating that part of themselves.
It isnāt about you anymore. The children are listening. Theyāre watching. Be mindful.
Workers, when have you said āfuck this, I quitā?
I used to work at McDonalds (I know). Opening usually involved me at the front counter with a headset on so I could do drive-through orders and handle making coffee / putting orders together / taking money at the front from the little old people that came in at the crack of dawn every morning. We would also have a manager who was there to be important and one person in the kitchen. Weāre a small rural town so usually this is fine but we were on kind of a major highway so sometimes it would get busy out of nowhere.
Depending on the manager the amount of help we had would vary wildly. One morning we got super busy and I started cracking under the pressure. Iām a fantastic multi-tasker but my drive-through line was backing up since I was trying to juggle them and all the walk-in folks from my front registers and when it gets packedā¦well, itās fun. I glance around trying to find my manager for help. I see him on one of our cameras ā heās outside smoking a cigarette around the side of the building. Mind you, this is like his third trip out to smoke this morning. Iām absolutely dying trying to get caught up. Customers are being passive aggressive saying they will come behind the counter and get their own coffee and stuff. I have people yelling at me in my headset from the drive through. I end up having to remove the headset just to try to get the frontline sorted. I start making progress with the front but I basically had to sacrifice the drive-through customers for two minutes.
Apparently the cars outside start yelling at my manager and interrupt his smoke break so he comes in, sees me with my headset off and goes berserk. Heās like āWHOS TAKING THE DRIVE-THRU ORDERS?ā Iām in the middle of trying to get a fresh pot of coffee going so I sort of auto-respond āNo one. Hang on.ā as I continue to dash around behind our counter to grab a fruit & yogurt parfait for an order. He basically gets in my way and starts giving me shit. Loudly, talking to me like Iām a dog. I point to the camera and yell, loudly enough to disrupt the entire inside of the restaurant. āIām these two registers, first window, second window, and Iām bagging. Iām like FOUR PEOPLE and youāre out behind the building not doing SHIT!ā
His eyes go wide. I can tell he knows Iām holding on by my last thread. Heās sighs. And heās like āYouāre in a ton of trouble but we can talk about this later.ā No. Fuck him. Iām done. Iām all riled up from random customers yelling at me. I toss him the headset. āYou want to give me shit for not being able to run like four stations with no support? Run five. Iāll watch.ā I remove my name badge.
He went to say something to me. I turn away, facing the one girl working in the kitchen who is watching this all play out. I remember telling her āIām so sorry.ā and then I dropped my name badge, toss my hat on the counter, grab a water cup, put on (and zip) my jacket so my uniform is covered up. I go to the drink fountain, fill my water cup, and then I go sit on the far side of the seating area and watch him go down in flames. He ends up ALSO taking off the headset and picking up the phone so he can spam call the whole workforce one by one trying to call for help. Itās like 5AM so no one is going to accept a call from their work number. About ten minutes into his struggle he ends up very loudly pleading with me to come back from behind the counter. I canāt even see him on the other side of the sea of people swarming the counter at this point.
I call back āI need a smoke first!ā and I go outside.
I donāt smoke. Iāve never smoked. I drive home.
Sunshine and Shit Jokes 