San Francisco employers are hiring etiquette coaches for Gen Z - "They want to be promoted after only a few months, treat the office like their bedroom, show up in sweats or skimpy office-siren fits, FaceTime friends from their desks, and ghost their managers. This is the gist of employer complaints about Gen Z workers, who seem to be having a uniquely hard time getting along in the office — much worse, managers say, than the generations before them. In a December 2024 survey of 1,000 employers by Intelligent.com, 12.5% said a Gen Z candidate had brought Mom or Dad to a job interview. The bosses are fed up. Gen Zers, meanwhile, see things differently: From their perspective, millennial and Gen X managers have no work-life balance... The generational divide has become starker in the past few months, as return-to-office policies have brought in Gen Zers for the first time — in many cases after years of working and attending school remotely. In the Bay Area, the culture clash has led employers to a new solution: hiring etiquette experts to train young employees in basic workplace manners. Rosalinda Randall, a Marin-based etiquette coach, said inquiries have risen 50% over the last two months. The requests come from tech campus managers, winery execs, and even country clubs. All are a variation on the same complaint: Gen Z employees are treating the office like an extension of their homes... She charges clients — they include Stanford Research Park and Big Tech firms — up to $2,500 for 90-minute workshops for employees, covering everything from how to make eye contact to where to stick your name tag (always on the right) to how to ask for — not demand — things from your boss. She tailors her presentations toward clients’ biggest complaints. One Bay Area tech firm asked her to address personal hygiene, because two new hires did not shower or change their shirts for weeks. “They didn’t want to deal with it, so they hired me,” said Randall. She made her presentation to all new hires and added slides to hammer home the hygiene point. Melissa Franks, founder of On Call COO in Petaluma, was also flooded with “How do I manage Gen Z?” calls this spring. The most common tension: new hires questioning instructions. Employers feel like they’re being challenged by their young colleagues, said Franks; she urges the bosses to think of the pushback more as youthful curiosity than as insubordination. “Give them more context about why things are done a certain way, and you’ll get more respect,” she said. Another common complaint from staff who say they’re forced into “parenting mode” with Gen Zers are the special accommodations and extreme levels of hand-holding that young workers expect... An investment in training at the beginning of an employee’s tenure can be a net gain: 77% of companies report that soft skills training increases productivity, according to a January Future of Jobs report by the World Economic Forum... Across the Bay, Cal State East Bay hospitality professor Thomas Padron revived his pre-pandemic etiquette dinners this spring, citing similar complaints from employers, such as that Gen Z workers were texting and taking voice calls during meetings — even during job interviews. “When you do that, you might as well walk out the door,” he said. The good news, workplace etiquette experts say, is that young people are trainable and eager to learn. “Presence and presentation is everything,” said Padron. “Once they realize that their bosses aren’t mind readers, they put in the time.”"
Gen Z Are More Anxious Than Any Other Generation - they are experiencing poor mental health and a lack of hope for the future : r/Economics - ""I think there is just an overarching fear of failure or making mistakes or making the wrong turn in their career trajectory that would emotionally or physically set them back years," Prince told Fortune. "And so I think that anguish is just an anchor that’s holding them back."
It's pretty wild how much this fear seems to be shaping things. The idea that social pressures and economic issues are really the main reasons for all of this... well, maybe there's more going on than that. It feels like we're not doing enough to actually help people move forward instead of just talking about it. We need real actions, not just words, if we want to make a difference here."
"Also consider the massive spikes in depression and anxiety when social media took off among the general public, and realize that this is the first generation that grew up fully online and immersed in it. Real world communities are dying and the online space is full of curated perfection, ragebait, and slop. Everyone's fighting for every second of your attention to sell you more product. Consume, consume, consume."
Clearly, the Silent Generation, which went through the Great Depression, needed more "awareness" and less "stigma", because that would've improved their mental health, just like it's helping Gen Z today
S'porean man, 45, jailed for deceiving girl, then 16, into performing sexual acts by saying he'd pay her S$11,000 monthly when he couldn't - "After getting to know an underage girl through Carousell around June 2022, a Singaporean man, then 42, offered to pay her S$11,000 per month to have sex with her and told her that he had bought her an Apple handphone as a gift. Although the man, Chan Yan Tze Aaron, did not have the money to fulfil these promises, he proceeded to bring the girl, then 16, into a cubicle in a female toilet at his condominium and performed sexual acts on her... Chan got to know the girl through Carousell after she posted a listing in early 2022. It stated, "I'm 17 Female Chinese. I like my friends driving me in cars and I am bored, looking for friends". Around June 2022, Chan sent messages to the girl via Carousell, asking if she wanted to earn "extra pocket money". The pair continued chatting on Telegram. Chan repeatedly offered the girl money in exchange for her to meet and spend time with him. While Chan initially offered her S$2,500 per month, he increased his offer to S$5,000 after the girl ignored him. After the girl conversed with him again, Chan began asking about her boundaries, such as the "dos" and "don'ts" during their meetings. He also invited her to a hotel, but he decided not to follow through with the plan after he realised that she was only 16. He then made offers, such as S$100 for sex and S$150 per hour for platonic dates, to the girl. The girl rejected the offers as she felt that they were too low. But she eventually agreed to meet Chan at his residential unit at his invitation... Chan told the girl that his ex-girlfriend was a minor who was very open-minded and that he would have sex with his ex-girlfriend in public toilet cubicles. He also shared that he would have sex with three other people who were his "friends with benefits"... From the date of their meet-up till Jun. 23, 2025, the day of Chan's sentencing, he did not make any payment to the girl. Instead, he sent the girl fictitious screenshots showing a S$35,000 transfer to her bank account and lied that he had applied for a supplementary credit card in her name. Around Jul. 8, 2022, Chan also offered the girl a Rolex yacht master watch as payment for her sexual services, but the watch turned out to be a counterfeit... The girl was not the only person Chan had deceived in recent years. Court documents revealed that since Aug. 4, 2021, Chan had regularly shown a colleague screenshots of his alleged profits from online trading while at work... Although two police reports were lodged against him in 2022, Chan went on and deceived another colleague in January 2023. After learning that the colleague wanted to buy an iPhone from the Apple store, Chan told the colleague that he had a friend working for Apple, and he could buy the iPhone with a staff discount... Although Chan offered to make restitution of S$500 every month, he had not made any payment to the colleague as of Jun. 23, 2025."
Man gets jail for sexual act with 14-year-old girl arranged by her male teen acquaintances - "Terrance Teo Jian Xiang, 29, pleaded guilty to one charge of sex with a minor aged below 16. Teo is one of three men charged with sexual offences involving the same underaged girl over a few days in early July 2024. The other two men – Goh Shao Heng, 24, and Yong Eak Chung, 28 – are set to plead guilty in July. The identities of the victim and her acquaintances – two 16-year-old boys named A1 and A2 in court documents – are protected by gag order... A1 introduced the girl to A2, who then advertised sexual services in a Telegram chat group named "Watermelon"... Teo did not ask for the victim's name or age, and did not check her NRIC or other identification, added the prosecutor. The victim set a two-minute alarm on her phone and performed a sexual act on Teo until the timer went off. She then said she had to go, and left. Teo messaged A1 or A2 asking why the sexual act lasted only two minutes. When asked for a review, he said the service was not provided in full. Their Telegram chat was subsequently deleted."
Prince Harry used me, claims former Diana butler Paul Burrell - "The Duke of Sussex has described Paul Burrell as a “two-faced s---” whose treachery made his blood boil. Now his late mother’s former butler, who made a small fortune from selling stories about his time working for Princess Diana, has decided to get even. Burrell admits that his latest memoir, The Royal Insider, was written in part to publicly rebuke a “petulant” Prince Harry, whose truth “may not be the complete truth”."
At last, the Royals can relax – Meghan has gone properly bonkers - "This week Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex, Countess of Dumbarton and Baroness Kilkeel has been peddling her usual dual messages of TV promo and Royal-family reflections. The main thrusts of her message being that flower arrangements are better if they’re non-symmetrical and that when she was a working member of the Royal family she “had to wear nude pantyhose all the time”, and “that felt a little bit inauthentic.” And the mirth is so much sweeter because there was a time when these outpourings needed to be taken seriously. The Royal family was quaking, every hiss and yelp from Meghan and her husband Harry was dispatched to constitutional experts for analysis and counsel... It’s hard to believe now, but there were genuine concerns that Meghan was not only not going quietly but wanted to become a much larger noise on the international stage, with her eyes set on the US presidency. As her Suits co-star Erika Alexander once declared: Meghan was “heading to the White House”, because she had the courage to take on big causes and had been a lifelong activist. There were reports that she was networking with senior Democrats and she began to vocalise her thoughts on social and political issues, on gender, equality and racial justice. “Everyone should be afforded the opportunity to receive the education they want, but more importantly the education they have the right to receive,” she said during her first royal tour speech in Fiji in 2018. In September 2020 Meghan appeared alongside Harry in a video urging people to register to vote. “When we vote,” she said, “our values are put into action and our voices are heard,” triggering accusations that the couple had breached UK protocol demanding political neutrality from members of the Royal family. In October 2021 she advocated, in a letter to the US Congress, for paid parental leave. Then came an interview for Vogue in June 2022, where Meghan reflected on the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade, which meant abortion was no longer a protected nationwide right. She said she would take a trip to Washington DC, her metaphorical march on the capital arguing to push through legislation and do it, “not just because it’s what we need as women, but it’s what we need as people.” One needed only to add the words, “God bless you all and God bless the United States of America,” and we had a female US president-in-waiting. But then the timing went awry, Biden went gaga, America rejected woke and got Trumpian and Meghan quit the political path. She reverted to what she had really wanted all along, which was to be an easy-going daytime TV presenter, a Martha Stewart for the 2020s, a woman happier dispensing advice on Persian fruit leather-making than civil rights and using her Netflix With Love, Meghan series to proliferate the likes of strawberry jam under her As Ever brand. Now, with her latest series of With Love and and the inevitable royal reflections, she seems to have gone properly bonkers. So successful has the “unresolved trauma” therapy that she and Harry so espouse been, that she has now crafted a whole new absurdist memory of that short period between her marriage to Harry in May 2018 and the January 2020 Megxit rebrand."
With Love, Meghan season 2 review – Like being gaslit by a multimillionaire - "“There are easy ways to show up lovingly,” Meghan Sussex, nee Markle, says during the second season of her Netflix lifestyle show, With Love, Meghan. In fact, the word “easy” seems to be the watchword for the entire eight-episode run – and boy, is it doing some heavy lifting. Making homemade graham-cracker s’mores with vanilla-bean turmeric marshmallows and here’s-one-I-made-earlier tonal chocolate bark is, apparently, “easy”. Whipping up boba tea and persimmon-topped sourdough is “easy”. Crafting necklaces using pressed flowers for your children’s individual birth months and setting them in UV resin is “easy”. In the surreal and saccharine world created by the actor turned royal turned Instagram-grid-come-to-life, nothing, it seems, is complicated... It’s not her house, obviously, but a rental property down the street, which makes the whole “at home with” brand feel slightly bogus... Here, aesthetic is everything. Edible flowers are sprinkled with alarming abandon, ribbons are tied in perfect bows around colour-matched presents, and even when the bright, airy kitchen is being used to marinade steaks and pummel flatbread, it somehow never gets truly messy – thanks, one must presume, to the 80-strong crew who work tirelessly to curate the “effortless” vibe. It’s like an AI was fed every Nancy Meyers film ever made and instructed to burp out a TV series. I can just about see the appeal of a show that sells pure escapism at a time when the world feels increasingly uncertain and hostile. The stakes in With Love... are so low as to be non-existent. “Drama” comes courtesy of attempting to weigh out exactly 113g of water for a sourdough starter; “I don’t like the pressure!” squeals Meghan when Chang says he’s excited about trying her vinaigrette. But there is no pressure. Nothing can or will ever go wrong in this cossetted, fictional slice of California lifestyle. Netflix must be fairly confident, too, given that the streamer announced earlier this month the extension of a “multi-year, first-look deal” for future films and TV shows with Harry and Meghan’s Archewell production company. This, despite With Love...’s viewing figures hitting a paltry 5.3 million for the first season, meaning it didn’t even rank in the streamer’s top 300 shows for the first half of 2025. But the main takeaway word for the casual viewer is “inadequate”. For how else are the rest of us supposed to feel when gaslit by a multimillionaire insisting that constructing homemade necklaces or flower arrangements is a cinch – a statement she’s making from the comfort of her “craft barn”? When she lectures us while grilling French toast that “it’s not as complicated as most people think it is” to make a hot breakfast for your partner and kids every morning?... Recipes are only half explained; specifics of paints and craft materials aren’t actually shared. It’s as if they already know that no one in their right mind is going to attempt this stuff."
Welsh village Three Cocks censored by woke cycle chiefs - "Cycle chiefs have been accused of ‘taking wokeness too far’ after censoring the name of a village that happens to be called Three Cocks. In the listed schedule for a junior road race in South Wales, British Cycling replaced the historic name of Cocks with five asterisks. The cycling body’s decision to censor the Powys village – named after three male chickens at least 500 years ago – has been mocked by many people online. “Far too offensive to have cockerels crowing over the Welsh countryside, let alone three,” one social media user said... British Cycling has since apologised for the censorship which it blamed on “overly sensitive filters” on its website. “Clearly the system decided, inappropriately, to spare our blushes and auto-censored the historic Three Cocks village from the Junior Race of South Wales,” a spokesman said... The village name was taken from the coats of arms of former landowners the Williams family of Old Gwernyfed. Visitors to the village have been welcomed at the historic Three Cocks Inn for centuries, with the sign outside featuring three birds."
Girl, three, walks into hospital ‘with knife stuck in head’ - "A three-year-old girl apparently walked into a hospital with a fruit knife lodged in the side of her head. A video appeared to show the child entering Dongchuan People’s Hospital, in south-west China, with a six-inch blade stuck part-way into her skull just above her right ear... The child’s mother, whose surname is Hu, was changing bedsheets when she swung a sheet and sent a fruit-knife flying into her daughter’s head, according to the South China Morning Post. However, a member of hospital staff reportedly claimed that the mother had admitted to picking up the knife to “scare” her daughter, who was having a tantrum, before accidentally stabbing her with it... A doctor told Chinese Business View that the girl was able to survive because of the softness of her skull. “If the girl’s mother had recklessly pulled the knife out, the risk would have been enormous. The correct action was to seek immediate professional medical help,” the doctor said. Police are said to have ruled the incident an accident and confirmed that there was no criminal intent involved."
You're Following "Turn Halfway Through Cooking" Wrong - "other folks believe that the truth of “turning halfway” involves the tray. “Ok but why would it say flip instead of ‘rotate pan’” one person wrote. Someone else had the same idea: “Wait, are we supposed to turn the tray??????” There was one TikToker who responded to the aforementioned comment who was a bit skeptical as to what turning a tray around would do when it came to cooking french fries. “But still idk what turning the tray would do when it needs to be crispy on both sides,” they penned. Someone else explained how this would work, however: “The back of the ovens usually are hotter and cook faster so if you turn the tray half way thru it evenly cooks.” Others still agreed with @beheaving, arguing that you need to rotate whatever it is you’re baking onto the other side because if you don’t, you’re not going to get an even cook. “My nephew has been using a second cookie sheet on top and flipping it over to avoid turning each fry since he was 6,” someone said. Another penned: “No cause if I flip my nuggets they get browned on both sides rotating them does nothing.”... According to Bon Appetit, rotating or turning halfway through cooking or baking means that prospective gastronomists should flip their pan around to cook evenly throughout the oven. “Rotating your pans isn’t just a technique for baked goods and desserts—anything that you’d want to brown evenly could benefit from a quick switch. A recipe for a whole head of cauliflower, for example, where you’d want it to be golden-brown all around, may call for you to rotate your pans,” the outlet writes... “I got an air fryer to avoid this. Just give it an unnecessarily aggressive shake”"
Meme - Luca: "Apple engineers are perfectionists. We obsess over every tiny detail you'll never notice. When building offline Siri, we spent weeks testing edge cases like airplane mode handoffs, battery"
Tony: "This you? *Mighty Mouse charging and unable to be used*"
"You can just buy two mice and use one while the other one is charging. Is it so hard to figure it out??!?!?"
"Apple is not for people who buy at Walmart. Apple is for people with high status, prestige and good taste. People who can afford to pay twice or trice the market average"
Meme - "DATING IN YOUR 20s
"I can't stay long?" (translation: We're not having sex)
DATING IN YOUR 40s
"I can't stay long" (translation: We're skipping foreplay)"
Thomas Hern on X - "FMR OBAMA AID: I worked for an anti-war President
SCOTT JENNINGS: [Laughs] How many countries did you bomb the crap out of? Lord have mercy!"
Meme - Mike Mearls: "During the development of in the 1980s, the Golden Girls served as the template for the ideal adventuring party. #truedndfacts"
transjhonder: "this is the co-creator of D&D 5e. i just want to point that out, this isn't some random guy tweeting this. this is official staff."
Meme - *Exploring cave*
"Fascinating! these cavemen must've used these prints to communicate, it could've even been a form of art!"
900000 B.C. *Cavemen having sex with hands on wall*
Meme - "Freddie Mercury having a sleepover with some close friends, 1980s. *mustachioed men in bed*"
No crimes reported at Lincoln Park since basketball hoops removed | wqad.com - "There are no plans in place to bring back the basketball hoops at Lincoln Park in Rock Island -- at least for now. The hoops were removed this past August, after reports of gun violence at late-night basketball games in August 2018, May 2019 and August 2019. Rock Island Police confirm that no crimes have been reported at the park, which is known as a quiet area by neighbors."
Meme - GG Allin Turing @dubsteppenwolf: "tired of "your feelings are valid" discourse. sometimes my feelings are dumber than dogshit and I have a responsibility to get a grip."
Emil Kirkegaard on X - "20 years of growth mindset mania, millions of dollars spent on research, interventions, and hype. What have we learned? "We conclude that apparent effects of growth mindset interventions on academic achievement are likely attributable to inadequate study design, reporting flaws, and bias.""
Geoffrey Miller on X - "For decades, 'growth mindset' has been a central cope supporting the Blank Slate dogma - it claimed that the belief in heritable, stable traits ('fixed mindset') would handicap development and stunt potential. Growth mindset became a holy dogma in educational psychology, and shaped public school teacher training for many years. Turns out, like almost all Blank Slate copes, that it was always fake, bad science."
Meme - Rhys @RhysSullivan: "Been using this line on Facebook marketplace while lowballing people and it's a game changer"
Better Call Saul: "You really willing to blow up this deal over 20 bucks?"
Naked Dwarfs and Police Intervention: The Pinocchio Premiere Disney Wants You to Forget - "Back in 1940, the Pinocchio premiere in New York City spiraled into pure chaos when Disney’s publicity stunt went completely off the rails—literally involving nudity, drunkenness, gambling, and eventually police intervention... Inspired by the original dwarfs’ popularity, they hired eleven little people, dressed them in Pinocchio costumes, and staged them dancing and “cavorting” atop the theater’s marquee. But what started as a whimsical publicity gimmick soon became front-page-worthy chaos. Around lunch, food—and, curiously, alcohol—was sent up to the performers. Fueled by “spirituous refreshments,” the group quickly lost their inhibitions, removed their costumes, and began gambling in the nude on the marquee above bustling New York streets. By 3 p.m., theatergoers arriving for the family-friendly film were met with the shocking sight of eleven naked “Pinocchios” loudly belching and throwing dice while ignoring all demands to come down. The NYPD was eventually called. Officers scaled ladders, wrapped the inebriated actors in pillowcases, and escorted them down before a stunned crowd."
Meme - *Pyramid*
"How tf did they build this without Teams calls, pitch decks, or Al powered workflow optimization programs"
Topher Florence on X - "guy from the year 10,000 adding lead and microplastics to his meals for an anthropocene diet because ancient humans built the bass pro shop pyramid and the lost city of miami"
Moro Rogers on X - "People lived to be, like 80 on the anthropocene diet. They must have been doing something right."
Meme - "Yall not ready for this conversation"
*Pyramids as tips of massive obelisks*
Corn @upblissed: "yall gotta stay off them youtube shorts"
Officer Frenly (High IQ) on X - "A Russian friend told me that dating in Russia is easier because since all of the girls are attractive, you only date girls based on who you actually like and get along with and not based on their looks"
Meme - "I went to a bridal shower and they handed out cards to write advice to the newlyweds...
Always swallow
Never spit
DON'T FORGET TO pee after
A LASTING MARRIAGE IS BUILT ON THESE THESE THREE THINGS sex, drugs AND rock and roll
SOMETIMES YOU NEED To rub one out
I WISH YOU BOTH orgasms and good poops
Love, you know who"
Meme - "My neighbor with the big titties is out gardening while topless again. I just wish his wife would do the same."
Pakistan slams Muslim-only UN terror list, flags global rise of right-wing extremism - "Pakistan on Wednesday highlighted a global policy blindspot at the United Nations Security Council that was allowing right-wing and fascist movements to fuel extremist violence without attracting the same level of scrutiny as Muslim groups, despite posing serious threats in various parts of the world... “It is not understandable, and is indeed unacceptable, that every name on the Security Council’s terrorism lists is Muslim, while terrorists and violent extremists elsewhere escape scrutiny,” he said. “There is no non-Muslim in the lists. This must change.” Ahmad pointed out this approach ran counter to the UN’s own position that terrorism should not be associated with any religion, nationality, civilization or ethnic group. The Pakistani envoy also reiterated his country’s concern over the challenge of militant violence emanating from Afghanistan, calling it “the single most potent threat” to the region and the world."
Clearly, right wing terrorism kills the most people, so it's Islamophobic to focus on Islamist terrorism
Weird how they didn't identify any specific right wing threats themselves, if they're really so bad
Couple remodeling bathroom finds funny hidden message from former owners - ""Hi! We're the Shinsekis!" it said. "We remodeled this bathroom Summer 1995. If you are reading this, that means you're remodeling the bathroom again. What's wrong with the way we did it?!?!?'" Below it was a photo of their black-and-white rabbit. "Hi! I'm Cassie the Bunny Rabbit. I lived here too! (I'm potty trained!). I'm going to be the next Cadbury Bunny" it read"
Irish Independent on X - "RTÉ cancels flagship current affairs show Upfront with Katie Hannon"
MichaeloKeeffe on X - "I'll never forget the time they sat a homeless Irish woman beside an African woman who had just been given a house."
