it's the little things

[gorcorps]

Some dumb little things that recently brought a smile to my face:

putting a new screen protector on my phone, and having absolutely no dust and it's perfectly aligned in every direction

Driving at night, and somebody turns on their brights thinking yours are on as well... then you actually DO turn yours on and unleash their blazing hellfire straight into their retinas. Seeing them sheepishly turn theirs off once they realize their mistake is one of life's little joys. Doesn't count if you put high intensity bulbs in... that's cheating.

What little events made you smile today?

 

[IronWing]

I smile when people properly adjust the aim of their headlights as to not blind the oncoming drivers. It makes night driving safer and more enjoyable for everybody.

 

[CraKaJaX]

Not really a 'little thing' ... but definitely funny today:

A coworker sent me a picture of white castle on his desk @ 530 or so last night. He came in this morning and I said something along the lines of "I see you're trying to keep the feminine figure with 6 belly busters, a large fry and a giant coke..." he replied that he's "trying to bulk up." I told him I've actually never had their fries, and he was like.. "wait, you didn't put this on my desk as a sick joke?" We both kind of looked at each other to see who would give first, because I thought he legitimately bought it last night cause maybe he was working late for some reason. Now we're trying to determine who the hell sat at his desk and stuffed their face with white castle during the middle of the night. LOL.

 

[kranky]

A recent "little thing" that brought a smile was this. It's TL;DR but it gives me great pleasure to tell it.

A former co-worker used every Machiavellian trick in the book to soar up the ladder at my last company where I keep in touch with some people. He left quite a few fired co-workers in his wake for being an obstacle to his continued promotions. Was brilliant at moving into a new job, devising an entirely new method of doing the work, promising huge results "as soon as the group adapts to my innovations", firing those who could see through his crap and raise legit objections, then being adept enough to move into a different but higher level job just before everyone realized it was smoke and mirrors. He was careful to change jobs so his new higher-ups knew little about his previous gig. So when the thing fell apart, it got blamed on his successor who happened to be in that seat at the time.

Smooth-talking buzzword-flinging artist who loved to use terminology from any field that you weren't familiar with. If you were an engineer, he'd talk in accounting terms. If you were an accountant, he'd talk about "soft skills". If you were an HR-type, he'd talk in engineering terms. And he never stopped talking other than to say he had to run off to do something else, so rebuttal or demanding clarification was not possible. This guy could have been a professional con artist. He was very quick on his feet.

This worked for a few years and just before the SHTF at a point when he had nowhere else to hide, he parlayed his meteoric career into a high-level job at a megacorp in a different industry. I mean really high. He probably went from making $50K to making $600K in 8 years.

So, just two years after his move to Megacorp, someone finds out that the Boy Wonder is now CEO at a little company that makes some mundane thing like wheeled trash cans. Seems that at Megacorp, he couldn't fool anyone with his fast-talking BS. If he got the axe that fast from a job that high up, it must have been brutal.

I don't like to wish ill on people but this guy got people fired for no reason other than his own ambition and greed. So yeah, I'm smiling a bit.