Why is playing with barbies such a "girl" thing and playing with cars such a "boy" thing? It's sad that it keeps otherwise passionate individuals from pursuing something they could really love for fear of being judged.
u/T-Spin_Triple asked:
Here were some of the answers.
It's Sad When We Shun Affection
GiphyIf it would be okay for me to be more affectionate to people without them thinking that I'm either gay or into them, because I say I love you a lot to my friends (because I care about them!) but some of them get uncomfortable so I don't.
No Good Choice
GiphyI mean the women in my life hate when I talk about feelings.
Happy=nothing to report
Sad=some sh-t I gotta deal with on my own
That only leaves anger, and considering the stereotype for men to be an angry sort... yeah. We only want to talk to you about feelings when it's something that's pissing us off, and after a while you just think we have anger problems so we don't do it too much.
More Floofy Hair
GiphyWhen I was 15-16 and I had long hair I was messing around with the 30 different hair things my mom had
I did something right cus I looked like Naruto for a week
So floofy
So ploofy
I'm pretty sure I looked like a paintbrush but the Combs couldn't comb it down at all...
Just Wanna Look Pretty
GiphyMani-pedi. I could really use one, but I'd have to go with someone, preferably a woman, because I just cannot handle that particular brand of social anxiety alone.
Why Are Leg Positions A Gender Thing?
GiphyI cross my legs sometimes when I sit. It's just more comfortable to me until I have to switch but it's pretty rare if I ever see any other guy sit in the same position. Usually it's the skinnier guys who are more likely to do it.
Sometimes I'll sit properly with both feet on the ground or cross my legs like a guy when I get conscious of other people around me even though it's less comfortable.
Danse La Femme
GiphyFunny story. Made a promise to my gf that if they couldn't find a male for the male part in their dance for the dance team (like art dance no cheerleading sh-t) that I'd join. 3 weeks later they didn't find anyone so I kept to my word and joined. I was the only guy with 15 girls and my friends couldn't believe it when I told them. To be honest, it was awesome. I got to experience something that I've never done close to in my life. It took emotion, execution, and some physical strength. I gained so much respect for dance as an art form from this experience and it is something I highly recommend guys to try out. Through six competitions, I only say like 6 guys. Don't be scared to jump into it even if you're a little bit interested
More Cooking Pleeaaaaase
GiphyIt's less that I don't do it, but more that I don't talk about it with most folk I know.
But I f-cking LOVE to cook and bake. Main dishes, side dishes, desserts (I REALLY like making desserts,) breads, muffins- f-ck, I've even made my own home-made donuts using an old recipe that called for LARD. I love cooking and baking. Love it.
Looking Fabulous Has No Gender
GiphyMakeup.
Not, like, blue eyeshadow and lipstick, but maybe some stuff to cover that annoying zit. Or stuff to make my beard look more full and thick
Maybe even a touch of eyeliner to make my eyes pop. Who knows.
Yas Smooth Skin
GiphyA few weeks back I was with my niece when we somehow got on the topic of razors and shaving and stuff. She only started shaving her legs in the fall, and mentioned how she hadn't done it all winter since, because she wears pants all the time in the cold, nobody would see and judge her for it. I said that's funny, because I only shave my legs in the winter since, because I wear pants all the time in the cold, nobody would see and judge me for it. She burst out laughing, she thought it was the funniest joke I've ever told.
I wasn't joking.
It Fits.
GiphyFor me I golf the women's tees. My favorite golf balls are "women" balls. Baseball, women's softball bat was always the best. Fit best in women's size shoes. The list goes on and on. My only problem is why do so many of them have to be pink or bright neon. Well it used to be, it is getting better.
"What did your company do to “save money” but ended up costing the company lots of money instead?"
You May Get A Little Hot...
"Shut off the HVAC system to save on electricity costs during the summer."
"Had to pay over half a million in mold remediation costs."
"F*cking morons."- dinosore
Never View People As An Expense
"Lay off a bunch of veteran people so they can bring in newer workers for cheaper."
"They find they couldn't bring in newer people for cheaper so they hire newer people at close to the same price as the veteran workers."
"Veteran workers are mad they have to train somebody making almost the same as they are with no experience and start leaving."
"Company has to pay fewer remaining veteran workers even more to get them to stay while paying inexperienced workers close to what the workers they just laid off were making."
"To my knowledge, prior to the lay offs, the veteran workers weren't even complaining about pay."
"Now the department is at a worse state and more expensive than what it was prior to their plan to save money."- Frankie__Spankie
Simply Illogical
"The roof of our building was leaking bad."
"Got quotes for doing just a third of the roof and for doing a whole new roof."
"They choose to do third of the roof."
"All it did was move the leak."
"A month later they did the whole roof."
"They would have paid a lot less had they done it right the first time."- sonsonmcnugget
Cat Olympics GIFGiphyLocation, Location, Location! Or Not...
"Business travelers must fly to the closest airport to the destination."
"Is Airport A one mile closer to the destination than Airport B?"
"Yes."
"Are the airline tickets 2x as expensive?"
"Also yes." - Reddit
A Hospital Is Nothing Without Its Nurses!
"Underpaying the nurses so they quit and had to pay agency 3x the going rate."- junotinychonk
The Dangers Of Outsourcing
"Moved 'corporate' phone support from UK to India for a very large fizzy drinks company, despite the contract saying guaranteed UK support."
"Over 50k phones canceled and moved to their rival."- WimbleWimble
"Someone I know worked for the 'oldest American' hoist company."
"They decided to outsource production to china."
"The cost of transport, losses, customs, etc made the Chinese hoists just as expensive as their American-made ones and then the Chinese company stole the plan to make and sell themselves for less."- Diabetesh
You Never Know When You're Going To Need Them...
"Company ran a campaign for 'outside the box' ideas in cost cutting, with stock awards for proven savings."
"Our facility maintenance manager claimed a $300k savings by eliminating unnecessary capital spare parts in the warehouse and received a $30k award."
"Six months later a critical compressor failed resulting in the plant reducing to half capacity at a $500k per day profit loss."
"It would only take two days to repair, however, the parts were no longer in the warehouse."
"They were among those eliminated and sold for scrap."
"It took 90 days to receive replacements."
"Total loss to our company was just over $50 MILLION."- eron6000ad
God Forbid People Are Rewarded For Good Work
"I used to work at a place with a sizable distribution center and thousands of SKUs."
"The warehouse's team of pickers was a great group of folks."
"They were fast, extremely accurate, and very good at their jobs."
'I brought them cookies on a regular basis and made sure to take good care of them."
"One day, some f*cking walnut decided that they were 'making too much money' in incentive pay (they got a bonus for accuracy and for picking above and beyond their normal quota of items) so they canceled the picker incentive plan and bumped up their quota, saying 'it's their job, we're getting robbed paying them extra to do what they should be doing anyway!'"
"Pick rates began falling sharply within the first week or two, because the incentive pay for being an outstandingly fast and accurate picker made the otherwise crappy base pay for that job turn into a living wage."
"Warehouse staff was enraged by having their pay jacked with and now being unable to pay their bills while still being expected to perform as well as they did before, so they started performing to the old quota."
"Management did much finger wagging and tried to write up a couple of the top pickers for 'deliberately underperforming and hurting the company'."
"Those top tier workers refused to sign the writeups, walked out of our warehouse, walked into the warehouse of our direct competitor, and had new jobs that same day."
"The rest of the high performers followed over the next couple of weeks."
"Delivery routes got delayed because of the short staffing and loss of the best workers, customers got upset because they were receiving the wrong items or not getting them at all, and the sales team, which wasn't paid enough to get screamed at by angry customers, was furious."
"Cue a meeting with the sales team and the f*cking walnut, who proceeded to lecture everybody about how 'picking is an entry level job' and 'anybody could do it' and how they're going to bring in a bunch of temp labor 'because they will actually appreciate the opportunity'."
"Fast forward a few months and it turns out the temps are idiots and caused the number of pick and 'not on pallet' errors to increase, customers are now leaving in droves, and sales people are bailing out too."
"The company lost millions of dollars in business and had to lay off half the staff because they were going to go bankrupt otherwise."
"All this because some f*cking walnut thought they could squeeze the people at the bottom of the pile who actually did the work that made the company money."- nancybell_crewman
From $75 Max, To A $75 Steak...
"We used to get a travel per diem for our meals."
"Most people would eat cheap like get a free breakfast at the hotel and get a $5 footlong and split it for lunch and dinner and bank the rest."
"I traveled a lot so it was like a nice perk."
'The company got wind of this and changed their policy to we had to buy and expense all our meals."
"The problem was they had to have the same policy for all employees so they couldn’t put a cap on meals due to the sales guys having to take out clients and stuff."
"We took full advantage of it and ate like kings."
"My meals expenses were twice what they were paying in per diem."- velvet_satan
Woman Like Me Fine Dining GIF by Little MixGiphySafety First
"I used to be the head of security for a club that had the most tight-fisted owners I’ve ever heard of."
"I kept telling them that we were dangerously understaffed."
"The police told them the same."
"So did the fire brigade, they said there wasn’t enough of us to evacuate the venue if we had to, they were right too."
"The owners wouldn’t listen."
"The club was taking around 45k per week but they wouldn’t pay for radios for us to least be able to communicate."
"We had so many incidents there that it was just insane."
"There just wasn’t enough of us to actually watch the whole club and even when we did see something we couldn’t call for back up."
"I found a set of second hand radios for under £200 but they refused to buy them I ended up buying whistles for the team to at least give us something to use to get each others attention."
"They also wouldn’t pay to get CCTV installed which upset the local police."
"One night a bartender came out to the door and told me there was a fight inside, there was no security inside just 2 of us on the door."
"When we went in there was around 60 people brawling on the dance floor."
"We did what we could but it was beyond our control."
"Eventually the police arrived but wouldn’t come inside they stood outside and essentially instructed us to kick everyone out and they would keep them out."
"We spent 45 minutes dragging people out of there."
"Many people were injured and after the fight one of the guys who had been fighting came back and stabbed a guy he had fought with."
"The police decided enough was enough and approached the council who as expected revoked the premises license."
"They lost the club altogether."- operative87
Gig Economy...
"Not giving the guy doing 2.5 full-time jobs a slight raise, instead letting them walk and paying 3 new people (combined) at least twice what they were paying him to do all the same work at like 65 percent the quality level."- BigPZ
Experience Matters...
"Consolidated the sales departments and made salespeople stop selling the stuff they knew how to sell and forced them to try to sell products they weren't familiar with to customers they had no history with."
"Company almost went out of business in a matter of months, and this was not a small company."- MostBotsAreBad
Sell Salesman GIF by Ryan SerhantGiphyNeedless to say, a business needs money to operate.
But money should never be the driving force behind the decision.
At least not over quality, practicality, and the well being of your employees.