People Explain Which Movie Actually Teaches A Bad Lesson

I'm going to ask the question that will continue to bother humanity until the end of time: What is up with Ariel in The Little Mermaid? Isn't she like... 16? And she just willingly threw her life as a mythical sea creature away for some dude who she fell "in love" with after spotting him for only three seconds? Girl, get it together. I promise you there are other (mer)men in the sea.

What about all those teen films that require the girl to sacrifice the traits that make her interesting for some dude she'll probably break up with before she heads off to college?

Turns out there are many movies out there that impart problematic lessons, as we were so kindly reminded after Redditor sakurachan999 asked the online community,

"What's a movie that teaches a really bad lesson?"

"Limitless basically ends...

"Limitless basically ends with the protagonist winning and succeeding in everything he ever pursued in life while getting back together with the woman who previously wanted nothing to do with him because he did enough super Adderall to be high all the time."

zlide

I remember finding this so odd at the time it came out and could not figure out why it was so popular.

"They are always..."

"Any movie in the 90s with a stepdad. They are always the antagonist and gave a horrible expectation for separated households."

Kiljlik

And then you have a movie like Mrs. Doubtfire, where a man goes as far as to disguise himself as a nanny to be close to his kids (while painting the soon-to-be stepdad as a terrible person even though he's perfectly fine?!).

"Christmas with the Kranks teaches us..."

"Christmas with the Kranks teaches us that adults should not be allowed to spend Christmas however they like, and they must bow to peer pressure and do what other people want them to do."

QuietlySmirking

This is probably the most boring and pointless Christmas movie ever made.

Ya'll are retired! Do what you want!

"If you want some professional input..."

"The whole Twilight series. Edward and Jacob are both controlling pricks at best, and Bella is too spineless to put them in their place.

"My love dumped me, so I'm going to engage in reckless behavior."

"My love is dead, so I'm going to commit suicide by cop."

"My love is in a relationship with someone else, so I'm going to try to force myself on her so she will change her mind."

If you want some professional input about how bad the relationships are in Twilight, check out Cinema Therapy on YouTube."

DeadpanWords

"It's a movie about a guy..."

"Fifty Shades of Grey.

It's a movie about a guy who was abused perpetuating the cycle of abuse with the thin veneer of "it's okay because he's rich and this is how BDSM works." The f**k it does; almost all the characters are s**** people. Period."

Lentra888

After care is especially important in BDSM. Christian Grey is a terrible human being.

"You date a high school asshole..."

"Grease. You date a high school ahole, and his equally loser, no-good friends treat you like sh*t. What do you do? Oh, that's right, you become hopelessly devoted to him, and no matter how bad he treats you, you come back to him time after time. After the sh*t with Cha Cha Sandy should have known that he was no good for her and that her friends (I'm looking at you, Frenchy) are useless and not true friends.

I mean, it was one summer, Sandy. How endowed was he that you kept coming back?"

how_funny

To be fair... Danny did have a flying car.

"It's okay to catfish a guy..."

"Sierra Burgess is a Loser.

It's okay to catfish a guy because you're not cool and he seems to really like you anyway. He'll fall for your true self so it's all good."

JackiewiththeO

"Big leaves Carrie..."

"The Sex and the City Movie… and series. Big leaves Carrie time and time again over the years. This teaches that if you stick around your toxic relationship the man might finally change and commit to you…even after 10 years!"

mizzooo

Now there's a show that did not age well at all. Such a mess. The women on that show––and the men they involve themselves with––are all quite toxic.

"Another movie I think about..."

"Another movie I think about is Blank Check. Kids can't have fun without money; you can steal a million dollars and splurge for a few days with no consequences, and a grown adult woman can kiss a young boy on the lips and that is not weird or creepy because she's attractive and he's into her."

CarefulCoderX

"The story..."

"Raya and the Last Dragon made no sense!

The story "teaches" that you should learn to trust people. Literally everyone they meet gives them a reason not to trust them. Makes absolutely no sense."

LittleHobbit

Sorry to ruin your childhoods, everyone.

Or maybe we're not sorry at all.

Yeah, let's go with that. The lessons these movies teach are funky. Now get out of here before I launch into a dissertation about all the problems with Revenge of the Nerds.

Have some suggestions of your own? Feel free to tell us about them in the comments below!

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Professional Secrets From Customer Service Employees

"Reddit user Psychological-Name15 asked: 'Customer service workers of Reddit, what secret can you reveal from your former company?'"

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

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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

You Are Dumb Patrick Star GIF by SpongeBob SquarePantsGiphy

"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

Kaitlin Olson Brunch GIF by The MickGiphy

"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?!

Do you have anything to add? Let us know in the comments below.

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