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If you don't mind, I'd really not like to say. Thank you though. There were already problems that affected jobs for me just for mentioning it at a function. One person did lose a concept job, though. They're located in NorCal.
This is absolutely infuriating. It's manipulative and audacious to think putting anyone through that to be told they're "short-listed" makes them look good. They know no one is going to flip their shit in their offices if they value their place in an industry they're good at. That is one of the most unprofessional things I've heard of, not just the action, but the fact they don't view people's time or life as valuable to begin with.
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No problem is too big to work through. You can get yourself out of this and look back and realize it was a learning experience.
5th grade.
At the time, everyone was into watching the WWF. Our teachers made it a point to tell us that we weren't allowed to any of the moves we've seen on TV. "Too Cool" was my favorite tag team and I wanted to be like Scottie-2- Hottie so bad. I learned how to do "the worm" and really perfected it. One day, when my teacher had left the room, I wanted to impress my friends and show them how I could worm from one end of the classroom to the other. When I finished I got up, and there my teacher was in my face screaming at me. She said "YOU KNOW SOMETHING?! YOU ARE MENTALLY ILL!" as the whole class just looked on in awkward silence.
Definitely stuck with me and I get embarrassed just thinking about it.
At the time, everyone was into watching the WWF. Our teachers made it a point to tell us that we weren't allowed to any of the moves we've seen on TV. "Too Cool" was my favorite tag team and I wanted to be like Scottie-2- Hottie so bad. I learned how to do "the worm" and really perfected it. One day, when my teacher had left the room, I wanted to impress my friends and show them how I could worm from one end of the classroom to the other. When I finished I got up, and there my teacher was in my face screaming at me. She said "YOU KNOW SOMETHING?! YOU ARE MENTALLY ILL!" as the whole class just looked on in awkward silence.
Definitely stuck with me and I get embarrassed just thinking about it.
I think I was the equivalent of a Junior in HS (premiere in France, about 16-17), and I was sitting in a row of 2 in front of 2 classmates (a boy and a girl) I was considering my friends. Not super close, but fairly reliable.
One day, during Math (which I hated since my Freshman year) the girl, let's call her Amy -not her real name- was in a jokey/prankey mood and it seems the "pen trick" was all the rage back in those days.
The pen trick is to have a pen right next to someone's cheek as they are looking away, and call their name.
Normally, what happens is you end up with a large horizontal streak of ink on the middle of your face, across your cheek.
If you use a soft tip or marker, that is.
This idiot used a hard ball point pencil, extra pointy.
So what actually happened is that when she called my name from behind me, I turned around and literally impaled my yop upper cheek on the pencil, and started bleeding from right under my eye.
I was a bit in shock, and must have said something like "What the hell?", because at that point the teacher thought I was messing around and that the best to show me the error of my ways would be to call me to the front of the class, to solve an equation on the board.
Which I proceeded to do, while bleeding, with everybody inclusing the teacher wondering wtf was happening and why I was bleeding from under my eye.
Aftwr I sat back down, Amy (and her colleague) proceeded to tell me I had been hilarious and a good sport.
I'm not sure this specific event was the cause per se, but we did not stay friends for very long afterwards, and I learned a few years later that Amy actually had some psych problems (which did not rejoice me at all, but just made me think that maybe it would explain a certain lack of empathy. Maybe).
One day, during Math (which I hated since my Freshman year) the girl, let's call her Amy -not her real name- was in a jokey/prankey mood and it seems the "pen trick" was all the rage back in those days.
The pen trick is to have a pen right next to someone's cheek as they are looking away, and call their name.
Normally, what happens is you end up with a large horizontal streak of ink on the middle of your face, across your cheek.
If you use a soft tip or marker, that is.
This idiot used a hard ball point pencil, extra pointy.
So what actually happened is that when she called my name from behind me, I turned around and literally impaled my yop upper cheek on the pencil, and started bleeding from right under my eye.
I was a bit in shock, and must have said something like "What the hell?", because at that point the teacher thought I was messing around and that the best to show me the error of my ways would be to call me to the front of the class, to solve an equation on the board.
Which I proceeded to do, while bleeding, with everybody inclusing the teacher wondering wtf was happening and why I was bleeding from under my eye.
Aftwr I sat back down, Amy (and her colleague) proceeded to tell me I had been hilarious and a good sport.
I'm not sure this specific event was the cause per se, but we did not stay friends for very long afterwards, and I learned a few years later that Amy actually had some psych problems (which did not rejoice me at all, but just made me think that maybe it would explain a certain lack of empathy. Maybe).
Back in HS we were playing Ultimate Frisbee in gym class. I took a backward-sideways leap to catch the frisbee, and when I landed I landed horizontally on my side/back. The friction of the grass pulled both my shorts and boxers down, exposing my dick balls to the chill of the early spring air. I don't know about other dick havers, but my dick shrivles significantly when I exercise, so at that point my already unimpressive dick basically looked like a small stubby thumb.
It was only exposed for like a second, as I quickly pulled my shorts up, but that second of exposure was enough for people to see. It also didn't help that I landed by the sideline where a bunch of people were standing. Some started laughing openly, others I could tell were trying to hold back, but the person standing closest to me, who got the closest look, was the gym teacher. When I looked up she quickly looked away, but I could tell she felt embarrassed for me judging by the look on her face, which somehow made it worse.
A few people in gym class wouldn't shut the fuck up about it for the next couple days. Being half Asian didn't help, of course. The worst thing that happened afterwards though, was a couple days later someone came up to me at lunch and was like "dude, check this out haha", and took me to one of the lunch tables. He pointed at a spot on the table, and someone had discreetly written "TickleMeElbow has a small penis" in pencil, and next to it someone wrote in small girly letters "and he's uncircumcised".
Luckily after a week or so people seemed to have dropped it. None of my friends brought it up, so either they didn't hear about it, or they felt bad. I'm thinking it was the former, because I'm pretty sure a few friends of mine would've ripped on me if they heard the story.
It was only exposed for like a second, as I quickly pulled my shorts up, but that second of exposure was enough for people to see. It also didn't help that I landed by the sideline where a bunch of people were standing. Some started laughing openly, others I could tell were trying to hold back, but the person standing closest to me, who got the closest look, was the gym teacher. When I looked up she quickly looked away, but I could tell she felt embarrassed for me judging by the look on her face, which somehow made it worse.
A few people in gym class wouldn't shut the fuck up about it for the next couple days. Being half Asian didn't help, of course. The worst thing that happened afterwards though, was a couple days later someone came up to me at lunch and was like "dude, check this out haha", and took me to one of the lunch tables. He pointed at a spot on the table, and someone had discreetly written "TickleMeElbow has a small penis" in pencil, and next to it someone wrote in small girly letters "and he's uncircumcised".
Luckily after a week or so people seemed to have dropped it. None of my friends brought it up, so either they didn't hear about it, or they felt bad. I'm thinking it was the former, because I'm pretty sure a few friends of mine would've ripped on me if they heard the story.
This sounds so American. Wasting time and effort on needless punishing instead of helping, and in the end, you have accomplished nothing (at best) or made everything worse.
It's the almighty dollar. Public schools are completely dependent on federal funding, and will do anything to protect themselves from anything that might harm that.
Literally 5 minutes ago
My boss: "So we're returning these rental lamps back to the company. We have 13 lamps and 14 boxes."
Me: "Where did the extra box come from?"
Doesn't help that she told her assistant and one of the summer students like, 5 minutes later. I'm a fucking idiot
My boss: "So we're returning these rental lamps back to the company. We have 13 lamps and 14 boxes."
Me: "Where did the extra box come from?"
Doesn't help that she told her assistant and one of the summer students like, 5 minutes later. I'm a fucking idiot
On the way to a holiday with a bunch of friends I stupidly didn't do my business before getting our train. we were sat next to the toilets so I went for a poo. there are these sliding door toilet on some UK trains where you push a button to open and close it it instead of moving a latch or whatever. Muggins here forgot to press the lock button, and this shows on the outside, so naturally one of my friends pushed the 'open' one. I panicked like fuck at this, let out a yelp, jumped up for some reason and was flailing at the door, hands and other bodyparts flailing up and down until I reached the button. Those doors slide so fucking slow, so I had to watch for what felt like an eternity my friends doubled over laughing plus the poor Chinese businessman who was just trying to get through life with out seeing that shit.
I got ripped for this the whole trip, which only caused to get even drunker than usual, which only added to my ability to make a fool out of myself
I got ripped for this the whole trip, which only caused to get even drunker than usual, which only added to my ability to make a fool out of myself
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Middle School 6th Grade is when it happened to me,
There was this girl Patricia that i had a massive crush on, she obviously didnt know but her friend knew. One day i was having lunch with my buddies and her friend comes up to our table and asks to speak to me. She told me that Patricia liked me as well and that I should just ask her to be my girlfriend.............. This is where things start going downhill... So I tell my buddies and everyone's like awesome its a sure thing, so i wait until my Science Class to ask because me and her sat together. So finally were in class working on a project and i guess the word had spread that I was going to ask her so everyone's attention is focused on us. I finally turn to her and say "Patricia I like you a lot and I know you like me too, do you want to get with me?" Her friend bursts out in laughter which i find strange......Patricia turns to me and says "Im sorry Cristian but I dont like you that way, I just want to be friends ok"..... Everyone erupts in laughter, I look over at our Science Teacher for comfort.....he has this look on his face like someone was just killed. Apparently the friend had set all of this up as a joke and I fell for it, I didn't hear the end of that ever while i went to that school.........
God I cringed so hard remembering / typing that out.
There was this girl Patricia that i had a massive crush on, she obviously didnt know but her friend knew. One day i was having lunch with my buddies and her friend comes up to our table and asks to speak to me. She told me that Patricia liked me as well and that I should just ask her to be my girlfriend.............. This is where things start going downhill... So I tell my buddies and everyone's like awesome its a sure thing, so i wait until my Science Class to ask because me and her sat together. So finally were in class working on a project and i guess the word had spread that I was going to ask her so everyone's attention is focused on us. I finally turn to her and say "Patricia I like you a lot and I know you like me too, do you want to get with me?" Her friend bursts out in laughter which i find strange......Patricia turns to me and says "Im sorry Cristian but I dont like you that way, I just want to be friends ok"..... Everyone erupts in laughter, I look over at our Science Teacher for comfort.....he has this look on his face like someone was just killed. Apparently the friend had set all of this up as a joke and I fell for it, I didn't hear the end of that ever while i went to that school.........
God I cringed so hard remembering / typing that out.
Grade 7, I was voted "King" of the class along with a very popular girl that got voted Queen. I was surprised for sure, but didn't find out until years later that it was a cruel "ironic" joke on me because I was the least desirable guy in the class. I knew I wasn't popular but had no idea they thought that little of me (that to gross out the popular girl they paired her up with me).
Another thing I found out later was that the teacher took an opportunity while I was out of the room to scold them all about for mean they were being, which I'm sure didn't help my social standing.
At the time I genuinely thought they were being nice. The truth was only revealed to me in my early twenties, which made me feel even worse for not knowing what they actually thought of me that whole time.
Another thing I found out later was that the teacher took an opportunity while I was out of the room to scold them all about for mean they were being, which I'm sure didn't help my social standing.
At the time I genuinely thought they were being nice. The truth was only revealed to me in my early twenties, which made me feel even worse for not knowing what they actually thought of me that whole time.
Self-inflicted. Drank way too much bourbon at a friend's 40th birthday party, without eating enough. Didn't vomit or get violent or anything, but definitely lost portions of the night. I was informed that I kinda just passed out on the couch in the hotel suite that we were in, and that I was pretty sloppy towards the end. That was the last time I drank like that. It wouldn't have even been so bad, but there were a few people there that I had met for the first time that day, so I'm sure I will be forever known as "that guy" who drank too much and passed out.
Dude that's fuckin' awful. Kids can be real assholes, at any age, really.
Dude that's fuckin' awful. Kids can be real assholes, at any age, really.
I had just watched Samurai Shodown's movie and went running down the hall mimicking Nakoruru & Mamohaha's attack while repeating what she said.
My mother had walked into the hall, stared at me, then just walked out without saying a word.
My mother had walked into the hall, stared at me, then just walked out without saying a word.
Yup. We start being terrible creatures at a really young age. Just seems to be human nature.
In high school I had to take a note from our class into the library where all the girls from my year were having a lesson.
Walked in, over to the teacher at the front next to the projector screen and waited. Handed over the note, glanced over at the screen and I was stood in front of a six foot diagram of a vagina.
Every girl in my year was laughing at me. I went every shade of red in front of them.
Fun times.
Walked in, over to the teacher at the front next to the projector screen and waited. Handed over the note, glanced over at the screen and I was stood in front of a six foot diagram of a vagina.
Every girl in my year was laughing at me. I went every shade of red in front of them.
Fun times.
When I was in seventh grade I had a teacher that use to split the class into groups and make us compete with each other in various tasks for a prize. Which ever team won would be taken off campus to get lunch as a reward. Well it just so happens this time my group won and we were taken to a fast food restaurant. I remember ordering the cheapest thing off the menu, I didn't want to seem greedy. I had a fun time and thought that was the end of the story. Nope.
Cut to the end of the year and class is winding down, my teacher calls me to the front and proceeds to tell me passive aggressively and openly to the classroom that I owe them money for the restaurant trip. It was something like 3.50. I didn't have it. I was a kid I didn't have money I was poor. The teacher kicked me out of class and demanded I go to the office and call my dad and tell him to bring me the money.
So here I am nervous wreck on the phone trying to reach my dad and explain the situation to him except I can't reach him because he is working. After several times I gave up and made the dreaded walk back and explain I can't reach him. I just remember slinking off to my desk humiliated as the treacher angrily dismissed me and the stares and snickering I got because I didn't have any fucking money. Being poor sucked.
Cut to the end of the year and class is winding down, my teacher calls me to the front and proceeds to tell me passive aggressively and openly to the classroom that I owe them money for the restaurant trip. It was something like 3.50. I didn't have it. I was a kid I didn't have money I was poor. The teacher kicked me out of class and demanded I go to the office and call my dad and tell him to bring me the money.
So here I am nervous wreck on the phone trying to reach my dad and explain the situation to him except I can't reach him because he is working. After several times I gave up and made the dreaded walk back and explain I can't reach him. I just remember slinking off to my desk humiliated as the treacher angrily dismissed me and the stares and snickering I got because I didn't have any fucking money. Being poor sucked.
Some people just take too long to reply. If this happened last night, I wouldn't call it ghosting.
Back in highschool a kid in my class burnt some of my hair with a lighter during class once, upon which we were both carted to the principals office where I was told in no uncertain terms that what happened to me wasn't a big deal compared to what he had to deal with that day ( apparently someone set a firecracker off in one of the toilets) he sent us both back to class telling us not to screw around and end up in his office again or else, and as far as I know the other kid faced no punishment for what he did.
There's nothing humiliating about doing what you have to do. I'm sorry you had to experience that, especially so young. Nice devilgotchi avatar, btw.
Not sure about humiliating...
I was banging my girlfriend and she wanted me to cum on her. She was laying on the bed so I just stood on the bed over her and with one hand on the wall the other was beating my dick. Her roommate had movers in the apartment moving her stuff out. The bedroom doors didn't have locks and suddenly one of the movers, an older man, just opens the door... I had the deer in the headlights look and said WTF. He quickly closed the door apologizing. We both burst out laughing. I was cumming all over my hand and the wall when he was opening the door...
I was banging my girlfriend and she wanted me to cum on her. She was laying on the bed so I just stood on the bed over her and with one hand on the wall the other was beating my dick. Her roommate had movers in the apartment moving her stuff out. The bedroom doors didn't have locks and suddenly one of the movers, an older man, just opens the door... I had the deer in the headlights look and said WTF. He quickly closed the door apologizing. We both burst out laughing. I was cumming all over my hand and the wall when he was opening the door...
One time in high school the girl I had a crush on noticed me and started joking with her friends loudly about how I looked like a bird.
I was in middle school and was waiting for my friends to show up for the guy's basketball game, and I was sitting pretty far up in the bleachers. There was a bunch of cute guys further down that were from the opposing team's town cheering them on.
So while I was heading down them to go buy a drink, I was paying attention to them and not where I was stepping and stepped on someone's jacket, slipped, and ended up tumbling down a bunch of the bleachers. Not only was I wearing a skirt that flipped up to show my panties to the whole gym while I was sprawled out in pain near the bottom of them, but I heard those jackasses cracking the fuck up at me. The gym went super silent besides them cackling at me.
If that wasn't enough, the referee actually stopped the game and him and the coaches ran over to check if I was okay. No broken bones but ouch my pride lol. When my friends showed up I made an excuse to call my parents to come pick me up and left asap.
I went to a pretty small school so it traveled around anyway and I had people come up and ask me about it for a good week after it happened.
So while I was heading down them to go buy a drink, I was paying attention to them and not where I was stepping and stepped on someone's jacket, slipped, and ended up tumbling down a bunch of the bleachers. Not only was I wearing a skirt that flipped up to show my panties to the whole gym while I was sprawled out in pain near the bottom of them, but I heard those jackasses cracking the fuck up at me. The gym went super silent besides them cackling at me.
If that wasn't enough, the referee actually stopped the game and him and the coaches ran over to check if I was okay. No broken bones but ouch my pride lol. When my friends showed up I made an excuse to call my parents to come pick me up and left asap.
I went to a pretty small school so it traveled around anyway and I had people come up and ask me about it for a good week after it happened.
I hiccup like a pterodactyl screeching. My siblings refer it as my "mating call". It caught on with my friends, oh and every time I meet new people at a get together for some reason I always have to hiccup one way or another. Yippeeeeee!
I still remember the day I got them in grade 8, it was so strange because I used to hiccup like a normal person but, on that day people will look what that sound was, and it was my pterodactyl sounds.
I still remember the day I got them in grade 8, it was so strange because I used to hiccup like a normal person but, on that day people will look what that sound was, and it was my pterodactyl sounds.
I went to Ireland with a friend to visit some distant relations for the first time, but I'd neglected to do my research and didn't realize that the money exchange would be closed by the time our ferry got in. With only change in our pockets, we tried calling the 80 year old aunt we were to be staying with, but she didn't answer so a bus driver took pity on us and dropped us at the address we thought was correct (there were about 20 variations of "Deer Park ___" to choose from). No one answered the door, it was getting very late, and had started to snow. After walking for hours trying to wait out the daylight, we returned to the house we thought was right and broke into the yard and then greenhouse for shelter. There were two small dogs 'guarding' the place which we stuffed under our shirts for warmth. My friend then lay between some potted plants and I piled all of our travel clothes on her to keep her warm. I paced back and forth with the dog until it hit 6, then knocked on the greenhouse door that connected to the house until someone noticed. An old woman eventually opened the door. She said, "Oh my." Nearly 20 years later I'm still the laughing stock of our overseas cousins.
tl;dr - Idiot American teenager goes to Ireland for family visit during snowstorm, ends up in random greenhouse with dog under shirt.
tl;dr - Idiot American teenager goes to Ireland for family visit during snowstorm, ends up in random greenhouse with dog under shirt.
It was all in high school of course.
I was in theatre and I forgot it was my line on stage and in front of so many parents and classmates I said "oh shit!" pretty audibly. Fortunately everyone laughed (including the director) and I rebounded quickly. No one was mad.
My second one bothered me a bit more. I had a reputation as a great reader and maybe a bit of a know it all. So I had a current even thing about Pontius Pilate in front of class and I mis pronounced Pilate similar to Pilates and everyone thought that was the most hilarious thing ever.
I was in theatre and I forgot it was my line on stage and in front of so many parents and classmates I said "oh shit!" pretty audibly. Fortunately everyone laughed (including the director) and I rebounded quickly. No one was mad.
My second one bothered me a bit more. I had a reputation as a great reader and maybe a bit of a know it all. So I had a current even thing about Pontius Pilate in front of class and I mis pronounced Pilate similar to Pilates and everyone thought that was the most hilarious thing ever.
Thats funny because ive been in that reverse situation and i was super embarassed
I once got to my bar on my badass Kawasaki, parked, and fell. I thought I was going to make such a cool entrance. Only time it happened as well, in front of many of my everyday costumers.
About 10 years ago I was working two jobs and all of my colleagues were about my age, so we all got along pretty well. My birthday falls on a major drinking holiday so I invited all of them plus my normal friends from college to meet up at a bar to celebrate. Two birds one stone kind of thing.
So I arrive at the bar and I wait and wait and wait and no one ever showed up. There I was in a bar sipping a drink by myself looking up every couple of minutes at the door to see if anyone I knew had showed up. Nope.
Not even my girlfriend at the time came.
So I arrive at the bar and I wait and wait and wait and no one ever showed up. There I was in a bar sipping a drink by myself looking up every couple of minutes at the door to see if anyone I knew had showed up. Nope.
Not even my girlfriend at the time came.
I was once yelled at by a military officer in front of dozens of other soldiers and other superiors because of a stupid little mistake. He was the highest ranking officer in a group of people I addressed and I didn't see him at first because he was completely covered by another guy when I arrived...but it wasn't just some chewing out... he screamed at me at the top of his lungs and I stood there frozen, unable to do anything. I was 19 at the time and completely in shock afterwards. Nobody has ever screamed at me like this since or before and I felt horrible.
After that I swore to myself I would never let that happen ever again.
After that I swore to myself I would never let that happen ever again.
That time when I was chained to a bed the entire night against my will and ended up pissing myself because of it