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i waited for 20 minutes. i heard people come in and out of the room several times. i even shook the door handle to try to get their attention. not a single person checked the bathroom. the director of nursing later told me she herself stood behind the curtains in another room and it took them ages to notice her.
i dread the day there's actually a fire here.
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She pointed to the word "pensive" and told me she couldnt even pronounce it, had never seen it or heard of it before ergo I must have made it up.
I told her the definition. She wasnt having any of it
A little frustrated at this point I leaned over to the office PC to bring the word up on Google for her
She blocked me and ordered me to rewrite the whole thing.
I literally found another job and left within the month
She was English so no language barrier there apart from utter stupidity and willful ignorance.
Growing up, we assume adults are intelligent because they do things with such confidence.
Parents give instructions like they have decades of certainty, while teachers hand out punishments with no hesitation — and that’s when we start to assume that confidence means knowledge.
But then we gradually might start to notice the little cracks — an uncle who confidently gives financial advice but is always borrowing money and never paying it back, or a neighbor who hands out health tips while constantly falling sick themselves.
The truth is most adults are no experts, they’re just humans doing their best with the information they have.
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I have a clear memory of sitting in a pew and listening to the minister talking about Jesus walking in water, and it slowly dawning on me that all the adults in the room believed this and I was in a room full of crazy people. Really unnerved me.
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The hospital tech could not understand what she was saying, claimed to have no idea what she was talking about and said he had never heard of that antibody. Sometimes we get lab assistants on the phone when we call so she tried asking for the blood banker and he confirmed he was the only blood banker on duty. This man was in charge of transfusion for an entire 170 bed hospital. Absolutely terrifying. It's so easy to end someone by giving them the wrong blood.
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The hospital did everything and walked you through everything the day or two you are there. Super careful, security on the maternity ward, everything.
Then you check out, they walk you out the door, and ate like "ok, bye".
I mean, I knew everything we needed to do, but there was a moment there that I was just stunned, like, Dude, you're trusting me with a baby?
A recent survey of UK adults found that a lot of people struggle with everyday adulting tasks like filing taxes, cooking from scratch, and fixing simple things around the home.
About 30% say they don’t know where to start when it comes to filing taxes and 23% don’t have a clue about basic life admin like understanding contracts.
“There’s a lot of uncertainty when it comes to adulthood and taking on ‘adult’ tasks for the first time can feel overwhelming, especially with the pressures of today’s modern society,” says money expert Charlie Evans.
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Don't mess with electrics. Get a professional...
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The nurse struggled to put in the IV. I asked for another nurse and when she came she said, "Oh, you have a PITA" and, I think deliberately, jabbed me painfully as she worked over my arm.
That was the moment I realized I shouldn't expect anything from someone because of their profession. Just because they were a nurse or doctor it didn't automatically provide them with compassion. Just because they were a policeman didn't guarantee that they were calm and cool in a crisis, just because they were a politician didn't mean they were working for the public good or even their own best interests.
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I was probably 5 or 6 and I was playing with a few other kids away from our parents while my brother’s soccer practice was going on.
All the sudden my nose started bleeding! Like a lot! It had never happened to me before…so I just went back to where my parents were. I think my dad saw me coming with blood running down my face so he came jogging up, alarmed. I said my nose started bleeding! He said, “Who hit you?” I was like…uh nobody it just started bleeding. Then he said, “Don’t lie to me. Tell me who hit you.”
I knew I wasn’t lying. I also knew we got spankings for telling lies. And I knew I couldn’t prove anything. I felt totally trapped and powerless. I don’t remember the rest of what happened.
But I do remember realizing I couldn’t trust my dad with my problems or I wouldn’t be believed. I had periodic heavy nosebleeds for years—a couple times a year—clear through to middle school. I never told anyone or asked for help. Eventually they went away.
It’s been years since I graduated from high school, but from time to time I still wish they could have taught us actual life skills — such as filing taxes, how and where to invest money, or how to handle everyday crises without losing my mind.
That’s probably why “adulting” classes exist now.
Several universities including Michigan State University and the University of California, Riverside are trying to help equip young people with essential life skills.
JCI Santa Clarita, a non-profit organisation in California, literally lets people simulate adult life — they give you a fake salary, fake bills, and let you practice life without panicking.
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A spokesperson for Michigan State University's Adulting 101 programs says their main goal is to give teens and young adults simple and practical information to help them handle everyday adult responsibilities in a better way.
“We try to focus on practical life skills often not taught in traditional classes. We have found some of the most popular classes relate to financial literacy: credit, investing, banking, and budgeting.”
“Since this program started in 2019, we have had an amazing attendance overall ranging from 50 to 1000 attendees each session,” he adds.
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Even then, at 17, I was like 'there is a lot you can catch from saliva...but HIV isn't one of them.'.
At Canada’s University of Waterloo, they’ve launched “Adulting 101,” a free online resource that teaches students budgeting, grocery shopping, career prep — in general they learn how to do life.
“The campaign encourages students to prioritize their mental and physical health, take on new responsibilities, and explore opportunities for personal growth. It serves as a creative and engaging way to connect students with existing campus supports and resources,” a spokesperson for the University of Waterloo tells Newsweek.
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If I had been a couple of years older I think I probably would've punched him out, but I was a kid and I trusted my doctor to do the right thing. That was over 50 years ago, and when I think back on it I still think, "That jerk!".
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Many of us grow up thinking that once we’re a certain age, we’ll magically have it all figured out — but the truth is, being an adult is a lot harder than it looks, and nobody really teaches you how.
Research shows that there is something called as “invisible load” that makes daily life harder than it looks.
Some of the examples of mental invisible load include organizing tasks, household responsibilities, childcare and scheduling appointments — these can increase everyday stress and fatigue for a lot of people.
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We'd talk to politicians about really good initiatives, get their buy in for the good of their constituents, and then, when it came time to vote, they'd go vote the other way. When we came back to follow up why this vote was not what we discussed, they told us they forgot about the talking points/why they should support this Oral Health effort, or whatever.