People Break Down The Absolute Worst Things That Are Actually Socially Acceptable

People Break Down The Absolute Worst Things That Are Actually Socially Acceptable
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Society is an odd conundrum when you attempt to wrap your head around it. This phenomena typically occurs whenever you witness a new trend or share experience and everyone seems to go along with it. Only much later, when you think about it with a smigeon of critical thinking, do you notice something off.

Going against society can be strained, difficult, like pulling back a sticker that's been on way too long, however sometimes it's necessary to get rid of what we probably shouldn't be so welcoming of.


Reddit user, u/GoodBoyNSFW, wanted to know what we shouldn't be so accepting of when they asked:

What's the worst thing that is socially accepted?

How Do You Think You're Reading This Now?

the simpsons nerd GIFGiphy

Making fun of someone's intellectual/creative curiosity, cfr. the use of nerd or geek in the negative

atTheRealMrKuntz

World wouldn't be as advanced as it is without the geeks and nerds, so keep it up, I'm proud.

deadshotelite22

The Rat Race Ran By The Fat Cats

Spending most of your time working just to survive.

The fact that, if you are not rich enough, someone else owns most of your time, and in a sense, your life.

PrufrockGirl

Let The (Legally Allowed) Girls Have Some Fun

Hating TikTok or Instagram just because girls are on there having fun. Yes I understand sometimes they are underage, and that's not good, but the vast majority of them are of age or more.

Think about it, tell me one thing teenage girls can like without being made fun of, either by other teenage girls or by boys or by adults. Honestly, I can't think of any. Girls will be made fun of no matter what, and I think that incredibly awful because it means that girls are pretty much not allowed to like anything.

star-struck_artist

Take Care Of Everyone And Everything

Killing/mistreating animals for fun.

I have leftover empathy for everyone, but if you're one of these you better rot.

itslxcas

yeah dog fighting is so messed up

wowthatfood

It's Not Your Body

Asking women about their plans to have children and not accepting their answer.

I dont understand...why this is okay

thenewcounselor

A Mixing Up Of The Order

Serious relationships without actually knowing the other person.

Many, mostly young people seem to think it's important they get into a romantic relationship. They don't even bother taking it slow and get with people they shouldn't be with. So instead of it going stranger > friend > romantic partner, it goes stranger > romantic partner > friend.

And people wonder why there are so many "toxic" relationships.

Alpha_pro2019

Keep Your Kids Offline Until They Know

Posting dozens or hundreds of pics of your kids online and social media. That is so violative of their privacy and rights to grow up without the entire world creeping in.

llcucf80

When I was younger (11/12) my dad took a picture of me at the beach that I found really unflattering and embarrassing and revealing. I asked as he laughed at my appearance if he wouldn't post it and he said sure.

I saw it on his Facebook page the next day with several likes and several comments. I was humiliated and it honestly fed a lot into what is now hardcore social anxiety and close attention to how I look, including an eating disorder from a few years ago.

Please don't humiliate your children.

gracist0

Forever In A State Of Slight Inebriation

Excessive drinking/constantly drunk/high

CharlieMBTA

Agreed. It's quite literally one of the most unhealthy things I know of that is not only socially acceptable, but encouraged. Leads to countless health conditions, cancers, heart disease, GERD, Depression, just a ton of sh-t (that is all now super common in society) and yet if you don't partake, you're somehow no fun.

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Hypocritical Values

Being proud if your son got laid or confessed to having an S/O but judging your daughter if she did the same exact thing

lens_princess

This. So many tales of fathers fist-bumping their sons for soliciting BJs under the bleachers (metaphorically speaking) yet threatening to kill any boy their daughter brings home (100% serious). Mothers slut-shame their daughters too, definitely, and they can be even worse sometimes. But it just feels - it might not be true, but it feels like - boys are not criticized or judged nearly as much for being sexually active teenagers.

Hip_Hazard

Abuse Is Abuse. Doesn't Matter Who It's Against.

Women being violent to men. A lot of the time that gets brushed aside and laughed off.

StarryNovaSaiyan

When a woman slapping or punching a man is funny but the reverse makes him a criminal.

Totaler166

Prancing Around On Stage

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Pageant shows for little girls. Looking at you toddlers and tiaras...

ThePipeGang

That's nothing but a bizarre off-label Munchauson's Syndrome by Proxy, just using performances instead of diseases.

I mean, you notice how it's 100% mothers as the primary parent? TBH, you might get the extremely rare (and invariably subservient) father involved, but they're never the ones in charge. It's the mothers using their infant/young daughters as fantasy proxies. Get a psychiatrist to poke around, and I'll bet you dollars to dimes that some pretty serious issues will come bubbling out of the woodwork with these women.

rekabis

YEAH, WELL I HEARD--

People talking over each other. Its one thing to do it in the heat of the moment, its another thing to be looked in the eyes and watch people do it like "yeah b-tch" and then apologize as if it didn't mean anything.

theDart

Who's All For Legal Gambling??

I would have to say microtransactions.

Or the lootbox (the gaming community is part of sociaty too)

Suit_and_Tie_Audios

Why Keep It Behind Closed Doors?

Not discussing salaries and being told it is inappropriate.

It ain't. And not discussing it is a tool businesses use to prevent employees from getting what they deserve.

CaspinK

Wealth Should Not Be A Factor In This

garbage food as a normal diet for adults and kids

ese_man

Are We At The Point Where Billionaires Not Helping Is Ridiculous?

Owning literally billions of dollars and not doing a crap to help people or pay texas or treat your employees right because: If YoU JuSt WoRk HaRd EnOuGh YoU CaN GeT ThErE ToO or ThEy DoNt OwE YoU AnYtHiNg

Stop processing this fake illusion and start contributing to f-cking society.

DarksonicHunter

Size Doesn't Restrict Influence

Treating cigarette butts as if they are not litter

rumblepony247

As a smoker myself it just annoys me when I see them all over the ground. Definitely when it's next to a bin or ashtray. Just use it.

If there is nothing around while I'm smoking, I just put it out and put it in my back pocket until I get to a bin. That's probably gross but it's better than [littering].

ValhallaFalling

A "No" Means "No," No Matter What The Movies Say

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"Pursuing" someone after they have made it clear they are not interested. I blame most romantic movies.

loritree

100% agree, and reflecting on being a young man a long time ago... it's confusing as sh-t. That was so reinforced on TV and movies in the 80s and 90s... and when young guys are coming of age and just getting into dating, it's very confusing... lots of nerves and hormones and things, and even though your senses tell you that you should let it go, you have these voices all around you telling you to "not give up", or that "they're just playing hard to get"... or that "girls like it when you fight for them" etc...

Couple that by the fact that some women also actually do the whole "play hard to get, even though you're interested" thing (maybe because they're led to believe that's what they should do too?) and it's a big confusing mess for a lot of young people. I whole heartedly agree that it's really perpetuated by the media, and I really wish that sh-t would just stop...

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Companies That Shamelessly Make Terrible Products

Reddit user ricinonthecake asked: 'what companies shamelessly make sh*t products, year after year?'

Be it for clothes, household appliances, or food, sometimes you know you can be one hundred percent confident with certain brands or companies when shopping that you will be getting a quality product.

Unfortunately, this goes both ways.

Some companies have a reputation for exclusively selling and manufacturing low-quality products.

One would think that these companies might reflect on poor sales and bad customer feedback, and attempt to improve their brand with each passing year.

Unfortunately, even if they still get items on the shelf, reviews on Amazon and elsewhere still seem to remain at two stars or less.

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The paranormal is among us at all times.

The ghosts, the spirits, they "live" in their death.

Sometimes a coincidence or a phenomenon is something more.

Leftover essences have been seen and recorded.

Now not everybody is cool with every encounter.

I still have shivers depending on the mood.

But when will we all be on the same page and start living 'Beetlejuice?'

Day-OH!

That could help with the spookiness of it all.

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Everyone does stupid things, and it's not limited to when you're young either.

When I was 10, my best friend and I snuck out of her house in the middle of the night and hitchhiked to Tukery Hill for ice cream. I can't even count all the ways that could've gone wrong.

Eight years later, my friend and I drove his new car on the sheets of ice on our college campus, trying to see how fast we could go.

The tires skidded on the ice several times, and back then, we thought it was fun.

The stupidity spurred on by impulsivity doesn't ever truly go away.

Redditors can attest to that, as they are sharing what may be the stupidest things they've ever done.

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Customer service jobs are not for the faint of heart.

Dealing with people at their angriest and rudest does not breed a positive work environment.

Customer service can be a downright toxic job.

And if it's not the customers setting your spirit on fire, it's the companies themselves.

Some companies seem to revel in creating discontent.

That's why these types of jobs have such high turnover.

Redditor Psychological-Name15 wanted the customer service reps out there to give us some truths, so they asked:

"Customer service workers of Reddit, what secret can you reveal from your former company?"

I want to know about the inner workings of Comcast!!

I loathe them!

Oh Dear

Jennifer Lopez Smh GIF by American IdolGiphy

I used to work in tech support for Citi Bank. The people working there are not intelligent. My favorite interaction went like this..."

"Banker - How do I type the upside down I?"

"Me - Ma'am, that's an exclamation point."

slappy_mcslapenstein

The Crappy People

"In every CS job I’ve ever had: we will bend over backward to help a nice person. We will expedite any complaint, give maximum compensation, and harass other areas of the business for you."

"We will do the absolute bare minimum to help a shi**y person and if you’re really bad, we will do everything in our power to make sure you get nothing but what you’re legally entitled to and it will be a process to get that."

11catsinahumansuit

"I don’t work in CS but 100% the same for us in IT a nice person will get new stuff while a shi**y person will get questionable secondhand crap that will take 12 months to fix! I will make sure that you wait as long as humanely possible to have anything fixed!"

Sharp-Demand-6614

Go to Holiday Inn

"If you ask for a supervisor calling Marriott you will just get another person who is not a supervisor, but say they are."

cryptnificent

"Yep. I've seen this done numerous times across multiple industries. Usually, it only involves an actual sup if it's a genuine problem or if they want to make a point."

"The last job I had was in towing junk cars. Two of the inside buyers, one male, and one female, would bounce that sup card around constantly. Idk how no one ever put it together. We'd get repeat callers and repeat sellers so I don't know."

ItsBobFromLumbridge

Heartless

"Worked at a contracted call center for Centrelink. The manager told us to deny as many emergency payments as possible and they would back us no matter what. They were actively working towards a culture that despised the callers and churned staff to get heartless right-wingers who hated the poor."

Rizza1122

"I feel ya. My best mate is a quadriplegic. Centrelink denied his disability pension because he wasn’t disabled enough."

Less-Storage

Go to Home Depot

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"I worked at Lowes. I didn't know anything about anything in the electrical department yet that's where they put me without any training."

Eattherich187

Not training people is not just a Lowes thing.

There are too many unqualified people doing too many things.

Switcharoo

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"Can confirm it's an unwritten policy for deli departments in Coles Supermarkets to change the written expiry dates on their tickets so they can sell out-of-code products at full price."

REDDIT

A Little Sunshine

"I worked at a call center for the billing department of a major internet and cable service provider. We were authorized to give up to $90 credit per customer on their bill but only as a last resort. Always remember to be nice to all customer service workers. You never know just how much they can help with a friendly attitude."

Axel_Dunce

"Former call center employee here. Highly accurate. Use your manners, and well fix your issue. Anything else, just makes us want to take longer, and you won't get a credit. Just because we are authorized, doesn't mean you'll get the credit for being an a**hat. haha. I've been verbally abused a few times for asking them not to swear at me. Lol."

Ok-Ad-7247

LELU

"I worked for a major telco company for many years in something called a ‘LELU’ which stands for Law Enforcement Liaison Unit. This 'unit' is pretty self-explanatory, but it essentially is a team who worked directly with the police/FEDS to monitor people's information for things such as obtaining communications history of call logs, SMS loss, etc."

"However, most importantly, the software we used, we as agents could directly see all your SMS texts, including MMS and their explicit imagery of whatever you were sending. This would include sexting, naked images, family photos, and everything. There were instances where people abused this position by stalking or 'monitoring' their SO’s comings and going’s."

MidniteMischief

Cookies!!

"I worked at a cafe chain called 'The Cookie Man,' 95% of their cookies arrived in cardboard boxes layered with bubble wrap. The last 5% arrived as pre-made dough that we would bake on-site to make the place smell like fresh cookies."

"I also worked at a cupcake shop. It's literally just packet mix that you add eggs and oil to before baking/piping pre-made icing onto. Don't waste your money on these places, 90% of these chain shops are the same and most are severely underpaying their workers (this is for Australia btw). Just purchase some packet mix from the supermarket and call it a day."

Frequent-Selection91

Look in the Back

"I was a Store Manager for a very large grocery chain and I can tell you that 95% of the time when customers complain to the manager, we may be professional and show empathy, and even resolve the problem."

"But then we usually just make fun of or talk crap about the person who complained to the other employees. And when a customer is really rude when we go 'look in the back' for something, we legit just stand around and talk to other employees, and make zero effort to look for the item."

A_Womans_Thoughts

From the Box

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"I once worked at 'the area's premiere day spa'; the mimosas were made with Sunny D and not real orange juice, and the wines came out of a box."

SailorVenus23

Sunny D and champagne?!?!

What in the name of Lucifer?

Who does that?!

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