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Who knew salad could be so sweet?
These cookies are simply too beautiful to eat.
These astounding cake creations are mesmerizing to watch come to life.
Since very few people now stay in the same workplace for their entire career, it's likely a person will work at least one unfulfilling or toxic job in their lives.
But for some people, there was that one job that especially left a scar.
Already cringing, Redditor TheJasonWiseman asked:
"What's the worst job you've ever had?"
"I worked Sprint support. I was one of the top in my call center of 500+ people. I was good at it but hated it with a passion. Couldn’t wait to get out of there. Also, that’s when I learned that I lack empathy."
"There’s nothing like getting screamed at because some lady refused phone insurance and lost her phone the same afternoon."
- tatuado_
"Call center. Enough said."
"Call centers are peak late-stage capitalism. A place where all you do all day is get yelled at by customers who have run up against your company's labyrinth of bulls**t they've erected to keep anyone from squeezing an ounce of money from the shareholders."
- gogojack
"I did ONE summer as a housekeeper in a Bed and Breakfast in a beach town, and it was foul! It was the kind of place with one bathroom per three bedrooms, and people would wait until you scrubbed everything and then take the most horrifying s**t in there. Worst job!"
- boatyboatwright
"Bottling wine in southern France."
"Big wineries would pay an outfit like ours to do it in the summer after the grape harvest. The crew would show up in an 18-wheeler with an assembly line in the trailer. Pallets of empty wine bottles would be waiting for us."
"The n00b (me) would be placed at the start of the line to manually load bottles on the conveyor belt. The trick was to put a bottle between each finger of both hands and load as fast as possible. The shift started at 4:00 AM and wouldn't end until 10:00 PM, sometimes midnight."
"Bottles would shatter often on the line, wine spilling (something to do with the speed of the line; can't recall). The line would stop, the foreman would yell at me, and I had to sweep glass (sometimes without gloves, glass shards in hands, face, etc, no googles, to be expected), and start again. No OSHA in France."
"I sucked so bad at the beginning, the foreman hated my guts. He'd pull my slow a** off the line and assign me on 'box duty.' Basically to ready cardboard boxes to be packed. A pallet of cardboard boxes would take an hour. There were (sometimes) up to four pallets."
"I'd come home with messed up, bloody hands, covered in blisters. And reeking on wine. I did this for a whole summer. I was 18 and barely made enough to buy me a used car."
"I also have f**ked up stories about the grape harvest."
"When I hear people bloviate about wine, I have to grit my teeth and walk away. Brutal work. Thankless. Made me hate wine."
"Stay in school, kids."
- BatCommercial7523
"I worked as a dishwasher for like five years or so, with three years at a hotel. On a Saturday, we would have two weddings going on in two rooms where I'd have to run between both to do the dishes all night. And then work brunch at 7:00 AM the following Sunday morning where we would go through 400 people in four hours. I remember the bus bins being piled 14 high in some kind of exhausting endless dish prison."
"I got paid the worst and at 18 had to endure the alcoholic older cooks. I'm in my 40s now and whenever I get sick I always have at least one stress dream about being a dishwasher."
- 1_art_please
"I think I win. My career was as a casino dealer and then management in table games."
"However, during the pandemic, my casino shut down and I found a job cleaning up homicide and suicide cases directly with the police department."
"The pay was good. The stories, the smell, the memories, and the visuals are extremely depressing, graphic, and can turn anyone into an alcoholic."
"People don't understand. People die all the time. People are sometimes found weeks or months after the fact."
- meowmeowsss
"Customer service for a medical insurance company."
"The call center had a two-minute call limit, and you would be reprimanded for volunteering information that might be helpful beyond answering only the question that the customer asked you."
"Bathroom breaks were strictly scheduled unless you were pregnant."
"Never admit there might’ve been a mistake."
"The rules of the different Insurance policies, as well as of the company, were extremely complex, and the stress level for performance metrics was excessive."
"Competition between 'teams' of representatives to see who could get the better statistics each week and each day(!)."
"It’s the only job I ever walked out of!"
"You don’t go into customer service and have the boss basically telling you not to help the customer, or you will be fired (that was what Their paranoid rules amounted to)!"
- Live-Froyo-393
"I strung Tennis Rackets. Hard on hands. I didn’t last long; I got strung out."
- thandrax
"I’ve done this on the side and part-time at a club for years. Never thought it was that bad. Then I got set up to string at the Canadian Open (as it was then known) for a couple of years."
"It was eight to ten hours a day with your back just ever so slightly bent and various other uncomfortable positions… teaching tennis in the blazing Sun was easier than this for more than eight hours a day. Even though you burn many more calories, you can move around. That single stationary stance is killer."
"The tournament started on Wednesday or Thursday and was supposed to run to the following Sunday. Luckily, by Tuesday the need for 'extra stringers' was usually gone as enough people had been knocked out and the top 10 pros usually had their own dedicated stringer."
- Randomquestions12947
"Assistant Manager at Walgreens. Lord!! This was a few years ago but you work days, midnights, and afternoons and they switch almost weekly."
"You never feel rested. You work holidays and weekends. You deal with all the complaints, and you fill in for employees who call in. And, they transfer you a lot."
"I lasted a little over a year. It was the only time I quit a job with no notice and no job lined up. Gives me the Willys just thinking about it."
- Birdy304
"The job I'm at now. I serve food to old people at an assisted living home. Most of them are cranky a**holes, though I can't blame them, it all sucks so much."
- Sensual22Queen
"I’ve literally had that same job! I was a server and was promoted to cook after six months. The place I was working for was super cheap and didn’t hide the fact that they were cutting corners."
"They refused to give me my one-dollar raise after one year of employment because the minimum wage in my state went up fifty cents. One of the few jobs that I didn’t give a two-week notice."
"The old people themselves were either the sweetest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing or they were literally the devil."
- Key_Bank_3904
"Those places creep me out, especially memory care. The workers are so jaded that I literally heard a supervisor tell a worker to just push them up against the table so they couldn’t get up. It’s just a sad place."
- Ambush_24
"When I was seventeen (late '80's) I worked at a personal care home, after school and on the weekends. I would come in and most of the residents were in gerry chairs with the trays up and strapped to the chairs. I would go around and release them. They were capable of walking but the other workers didn't want to deal with them."
- mycatlovescatnip
"Personal assistant to an incredibly rich family. Their 'we can do whatever the h**l we want because we own everything and everyone' attitudes went far beyond what I’m comfortable disclosing."
- autasty
"It was a nannying job for a wealthy family for me. The mother was condescending and insanely critical. I quit after two weeks."
- LabExpensive4764
"Picking Daffodils. Bent over all day with your feet bent at awkward angles because of the mounds on either side of the row you were currently picking."
"I could barely walk after two weeks. Thankfully another job called and I never went back."
- Rythameen
"Student teaching. Put me right out of the business. I see why so many new teachers break so quickly. Parents, kids, endless paperwork, worthless administration, and never any respite."
- AdorableMadam15
"I got through student teaching, but my first year broke me. I was a middle school band director in the middle of nowhere, the admin was worse than useless, my mentor teacher only reprimanded me and told me horror stories, I had no planning period and helped with marching band after school, parents wanted nothing to do with me. I was put on antidepressants one month in and was having regular panic attacks by Christmas. Definitely my worst job."
- ComplexWest8790
"I was a furnace helper in a steel factory. We made bumper mounts and hinges for truck hoods and other heavy steel parts. I unloaded red hot parts from the furnace with a pair of tongs, I used to catch fire two or three times a day. I hated that."
- Scary_Leader_6690
"Working at Circuit City during its death spiral in 2008. Imagine watching a company actively decompose while you're still required to sell extended warranties on products that might outlive the actual store. Management got increasingly desperate and unhinged as the end approached."
"The best/worst part was when they made us put up 'EVERYTHING MUST GO!' signs but told us to keep telling customers we weren't closing. Like, my brother in Christ, there's literally a guy with a clipboard inventorying our ceiling tiles for liquidation."
- Survival_man
"Every job. I've never had a job that I've liked."
- iasip1986
"Same. I can't understand the concept of a 'dream job.' I'm happy for people who have found their calling, but I just can't ever imagine being happy at any job."
- fouxdefafa
There's no question why these were the worst possible jobs in history for these Redditors. From physical turmoil to emotional trauma, these jobs would not be worth working again, no matter the pay raise.
When a person loses a parent earlier in their life than expected, one concern they may have is not having their parent around for the special moments: their graduation, the birth of their first child, and of course, their wedding day.
But every once in a while, even when someone we love is gone, we might get the feeling of them still being there with us.
One of these moments was recently caught on camera by TikToker Ever After Unplugged (@everafterunplugged), an event and wedding content creator.
The first video shows a bride at her bridal shower, standing with two men. The text overlay on the video reads:
"When your late father’s best friends coincidentally end up at your bridal shower location for a completely different unrelated event.”
The bride's father had tragically passed away and could not be there for her bridal shower or wedding day. But on the same day and at the same time as the bridal shower, an unrelated event was happening across the hall, which his two best friends were attending.
When the bride realized the two men were there, she had to invite them to take part in her moment.
The caption of the video read:
"When I say [there was] not a single dry eye in the room, I mean it. The most incredible sign that our loved ones are still here with us."
You can watch the video here:
@everafterunplugged when i say not a single dry eye in the room, i mean it. The most incredible sign that our loved ones are still here with us 🕊️🤍 #weddingtok #signsfromtheuniverse #heaven #bridalshower #daddysgirl #love #heaven #invisiblestringtheory #bestfriends #weddingcontentcreator
Because the first video was overlayed with emotional music, viewers could not hear that the bride or the men were saying.
In a second video, the bride can be heard introducing the two men:
"They were at an event next door, totally unrelated, but these are my dad's best friends."
"My dad couldn't be here today, so he sent them instead."
The bridal shower audience erupted in "awws" and applause. Throughout the rest of the video, the bride expressed her thanks to the two for attending her bridal shower, while the men were grateful for the invitation.
She exchanged hugs with both of them, and the second friend accepted a long hug, clearly still missing his dear friend.
You can watch the second video here:
@everafterunplugged Replying to @Savanah | TX hairstylist✨ such raw emotion for a beautiful day 😭 • I am also not the bride! Im just the CC. Bride is @kelsey d • #emotional #bridalshower #daddysgirl #signsfromtheuniverse #bridal #weddingtok #heaven #invisiblestringtheory #bestfriends #weddingcontentcreator
Fellow TikTokers were overcome with emotion from the pair of videos.
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Some were sure the best friends needed the bride just as much as she needed them.
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Of course, it would have been incredible for the bride's father to be able to be there for her special events, but there's something so sweet about the timing of his best friends being in the same building and being willing to attend in his place.
A truly beautiful moment.
If you had money to burn, you wouldn't hesitate to purchase a variety of goods and services you don't need but you want, just because you can.
For those who don't have that luxury, they are cautious with their spending habits.
However, what you can buy under $100 can surprise you, even half the amount can nab you something so good, that you can't put a price on it.
Redditor Every-Technology-747 asked:
"What was the best fifty dollars you ever 'wasted'?"
Sometimes, you get lucky.
"Bought a 1974 Honda XR 200 motorcycle from an old guy... He said it didn't run... Took it home, cleaned the carb, and put a new spark plug in it . That was twenty years ago . Still ride it every summer."
– Altruistic-Captain45
"In my experience, at least 80% of the time, a motorcycle that 'ran when parked' needs a carb clean, a new battery, and a spark plug. If you have like 4 tools and a few hours it's almost a money glitch lmao."
– wRIPPERw_
"I bought a Pepsi machine for $50. Got it home and had to crack it open and inside was $261.37 in change box."
"Here's the pic: https://flic.kr/p/2qs29d1"
– AppleJacks70
"Ridiculous pink suede ankle boots. I've had them for 24 years and counting 🤣"
– Softbombsalad
"I live in sneakers, and I love anything iridescent. So, I spent about $50 on iridescent sneakers. I pretty much never wear them."
"But, then I learned that my (then fiance's) favourite shoes ever were converse hitops. So, I got him a pair, and we both wore our favourite sneakers to get married in. Even if I never wear them again (because I don't want to mess them up) my favourite wedding pics show the shoes off nicely. Money well spent."
– xenchik
It's not always about the material things.
"Lent some money to an annoying cousin. Dude went out of his way to avoid me as much as possible afterwards. Money well spent."
– btstfn
"One day I was sitting on my stoop outside of my house in Philadelphia when this guy approached pulling this scrawny dog behind him by a large rope and chain, reeking of gasoline and garbage."
"When he got closer, without even thinking, I blurted out 'Can I buy that dog from you?' "
“ 'How much you got?' he replied and knowing I maybe had ten dollars to my name, I told him to give me a minute and ran into my house as quickly as possible."
"After ransacking my room and borrowing whatever I could from my roommates I ran back outside and handed him about $48 in mostly singles. He handed me the rope and just walked away."
"Diesel was one of the best damn dogs I have ever known and he had a great 7 years with us. Wish I could come home from work to find him waiting at the window for me one more time."
"EDIT: Since everyone wanted to see the good boy, here he is. https://imgur.com/a/dOnqqT9"
– shrimpdetective
"My dog was a rescue with a $50 rehoming fee. She's been my absolutely best friend for the past 7 years and I often call her the best $50 ever spent."
– Virtual-Nobody-6630
"Spent 50 dollars to access a lounge with a shower during a layover before a 12h flight. It literally changed my day and my mood for the rest of the flight."
– thebluedeepheart
"Spent under $50 for a business lounge at the Cancun airport. Free food and drinks. Always pay for the lounges. It’s always worth it!"
"Edit: Food included pork, chicken, beef, veggie dishes buffet style. Pastries and desserts. Some sort of sandwich. Canned sodas and beers, open bar of 20 different liquors, Lemonade and some other non-alcoholic beverage. The place was immaculate with employees roaming to keep it clean."
"In my honest opinion, $50 was an absolute bargain for the amount of food/drinks I consumed (username checks out). Also got to charge my phone and watch some sports."
– sadthick
"I bought $50 worth of Bitcoin back in 2014 to buy something off the darknet but never actually spent it. Ended up cashing it out a couple of years ago for $6400."
– eggzima
"Had about $50 worth of bitcoin back in 2010. It was on my hard drive in my old computer. I had mined it as a novelty to test out my processing power and how much I could make. Forgot all about bitcoin and later sold that PC. It’d be worth about half a mil these days."
– Pliskin01
"$50 happens to be the amount I bet on my first spin at roulette on my 21st birthday (that's the age for being able to visit the casino in my home country)."
"I bet on black, came up red 🤷♂️ that $50 was worth a bit to me back then as a student and totally put me off gambling - none of us won anything that night and a couple do still gamble frequently but not me, I've never gambled since 😊"
– ravensierra
"I accidentally got on the toll road out of Houston once. Avoided miles and miles of congestion. charged $50, got it down to $35. worth it!"
– Diligent_Writing_820
"Most toll roads in the Us nowadays use automatic billing systems either scanning the car's license plate or using an RFID tag to detect cars. So you use it and get a bill afterwards (or it just charges your credit card if you've registered one with the service provider). Presumably he called up customer support and haggled with them afterwards."
– adeon
"I bribed the hostess at a very busy restaurant in Hawaii. The wait was supposed to be more than an hour, but I offered her $50 and she took me and our party straight to a table in front of the band."
"When I thought about it, if we had to wait for an hour at the bar and had at least two rounds (4 people) it would cost us close to $200. It seemed like a reasonable amount in comparison!"
– mmaine9339
Feel-good stories were shared.
"Was leaving Walmart once about 7-8 years ago and some young man, looked early 20s, was going around asking for money because he needed to buy a jacket, it was early winter in NE Florida so not very cold, but getting colder at night. I had a $50 Walmart gift card that I was holding onto for a rainy day."
"I give it to him and tell him how much was on it and he almost broke down crying, tears were welling up, as he said that he'd be able to eat that day too."
"He told me he had just gotten out of rehab, was homeless, and had nothing to his name. He clearly wasn't making it up and I hope his jacket kept him warm and the food kept his stomach full for a few days at least."
– humancanvas79
"First date with my husband was at waffle house, romantic I know but it was honestly the best date I've ever been on. He was so much fun to talk to and be around that I didn't want it to stop so I just kept ordering food so the wait staff wouldn't be mad at me while we sat there and talked for ages, looking back we probably could have gone somewhere else but it was already late and pouring down rain."
"I think the final bill after 4ish hours was around 50 I don't remember the actual number but I do remember eating waffle house for the next few days."
– littleinasl666
"Walking to the bus from work about ten years ago, I spotted a girl crying sitting on the sidewalk. She could not have been older than 14 or 15, a little older than my son at the time, and was completely distraught. I asked her if she needed help and she sobbed that she wanted to go home."
"Apparently she had run away from home after a fight with her mom, and she ended up hundreds of miles away, alone, with no money, no food, no help. I got her something to eat and got her to the Amtrak station where the first train home would leave in an hour. I made sure she would call her mom and tell her that she was coming home."
"Her mom was beyond distraught, and I had never heard anyone with a huge weight lifted from their shoulder as that woman. They both called the day after, in tears, this time of joy. Her dinner and the ticket were less than 50$. I cannot think of any money better spent."
– Old_fart5070
Some of these examples served as a reminder that there are many more less fortunate than us who don't have the luxury of being in a pickle of what to do with spare cash.
It also puts things into perspective about the things and experiences we place value on.
Every now and then, we find ourselves with the urge to splurge.
Spending a large amount of money, sometimes more than we can afford on a vacation, on a fancy dinner, or an outfit we know we will wear exactly once.
Few would argue that there is no worse feeling than discovering your purchase wasn't worth it, and your money essentially went down the drain.
On the flip side, there is no better feeling than realizing the hefty amount of money you spent was truly worth every penny.
Redditor Cool-Change7987 was eager to hear the things people considered to be more than worth their hefty price tag, leading them to ask:
"What seems too expensive but is really worth the price?"
"If you fly, even occasionally, noise cancelling headphones are worth every penny."
"With just the noise cancelling on without playing any music it significantly softens most sounds."
"When you listen to music/videos/whatever with the noise cancelling on, you can't hear anything else, even crying babies."-dystopiadattopia
"A quality pillow will change your life."- BigD4163
"Quality work shoes if your job requires you to be on your feet for long stretches of time."- skywalker777
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"Good tires."
"Good wiper blades."
"Good mattress."- MyPrimaryAcct
"Not really that expensive, but a good shower head."
"Even if you rent, swapping out the default shower head for one that will help with low pressure is a life changer."
"Swap it back when you're moving out."
"When I was renting, money was tight but it is a necessary splurge."- Leafy1320
"An Uber if you've been drinking."- KnitBrewTimeTravel
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"Regular visits to the dentist."- evieinthebath
"Good shoes all day."- BigD4163
"Not that it's too expensive but costs more."
"But real maple syrup is leaps and bounds better tasting than the flavored corn syrup replicas."- photoguy423
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"A decent divorce attorney."- VXMerlinXV
"Movers."
"Save your friends and spend some money."- lizardpotter
"Regular visits to the dentist."
"It can literally kill you if you ignore dental problems."- Voyager5555
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"A good laptop."
"Or in some cases desktop computer."- FlowJoeX
"A good bra!"- Embarrassed_Age7706
"Good headphones and a good speaker."- seamon3y
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Needless to say, staying on top of your finances is the responsible thing to do.
However, there's also nothing wrong with going a little over every now and then is also perfectly fine.
As the long-term payoff will more than justify the sizable investment.
Paul Simon shared with CBS Morning News that his hearing loss has made some songs, like “You Can Call Me Al,” too challenging to perform live.
Half of the legendary Simon and Garfunkel and a wildly successful solo singer-songwriter, Simon, now 83, said:
“I’m going through my repertoire and reducing it to quieter acoustic versions....I can’t do that one anymore.”
Simon, who suffered sudden hearing loss last year, admitted to feeling anger and frustration at the change.
The track was a live staple, performed over 400 times, according to Setlist.fm, with its last appearance in 2019.
While Simon retired from touring in 2018, he continues to perform in smaller shows and remains hopeful about returning to full-length concerts despite his condition.
- YouTubewww.youtube.com
The organization doing the work thanked CBS Mornings for the attention paid to their research.
People thought it might have been a side-effect of COVID.
Folks said it was particularly devastating for musicians.
Referencing one of Simon's earlier hits with Art Garfunkel, someone summed up the situation.
Simon performed a farewell tour in 2018, but the adjustments he's making to his repertoire lately may signal a return to touring, at least in small spaces.