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It's an obvious joke, isn't it, why is everybody falling for it? Plus it says she's the employee with the lowest seniority, but worked 6 years there, that's ha
by pingou 10y ago
It's an obvious joke, isn't it, why is everybody falling for it?
Plus it says she's the employee with the lowest seniority, but worked 6 years there, that's hardly believable, the whole thing is hardly believable.
- carlmcqueen 10y agoI started my career on the phones, while six year seniority isn't actually that rare it would be very rare for that to be lowest seniority. Additionally it felt like a twist, I was waiting for this to be a mid-manager issue, where the mid manager didn't have the power to give the permission, not that they just decided to deny the two hour gap themselves and wanted them to apologize and come back.
- ac29 10y agoIf you read more stories on that site, you'll see that they all have a remarkably consistent writing style, which suggests they are, at best, heavily edited. Its not beyond belief that some, even many, of them are completely fabricated.
- jupiter2 10y ago> employee with the lowest seniority, but worked 6 years there, that's hardly believable That was my gut reaction too. It's essentially a call center. Also, I have a hard time believing that the type of person/manager that would handle a situation in such an inhumane manner (the sociopathic boss) would paint themselves in such an obvious bad light. Two different personality types. It would have been slightly more believable if the girl (orphan?, dozens of foster homes, homeless, best employee by far, graduates against all odds by working nights, made-for-tv Lifetime Sepcial...) had written it.
- fizx 10y agoThis story is screaming "no one wrote in this month so I had to make something up."
- soft_dev_person 10y agoThe cynic in me is divided on the issue. There are certainly trolls out there who could conjure such a story just for the heck of it, but I also believe there are people out there who would do this for real. Also, some companies don't hire very often, so the seniority part is not the biggest red flag. The fact that a concert was concidered more important than a graduation ceremony "because cost" might be the biggest red flag for me.
- FVIIIvWF 10y agoInterestingly, this [fn:1] video just explained how emotion-triggering content, in particular anger, will spread the fastest. Clearly, clever marketing/propaganda people have used this technique well. [fn:1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
- enimodas 10y agoMaybe the people who think this is just some troll should read a bit of /r/raisedbynarcissists
- choko 10y agoWhat makes you think that there aren't a metric ton of trolls there as well?
- Caprinicus 10y agoJust go to /r/raisedby/r/raisedbynarcissists
- chengiz 10y agoAka /r/teenagers