Recent Posts from Brad Dickson

Editor, Writer, Content Producer, and Biologist originally from the Pacific Northwest. Managing Editor of Cheezburger, Lead Editor of Fail Blog, and Memebase. Long-time member of the site, contributing since 2016 on Geek Universe, Memebase, and Fail Blog. After studying internet culture and memes while distracted from university lectures, I joined Cheezburger, first running Geek Universe and then Memebase before finally settling on Fail Blog. At that point, Fail Blog was all about classic “fails,” but has since become more about how the internet and the social experiences we have there intersect with our everyday lives at home and out and about in the world, especially in the workplace. I enjoy keeping up with the current landscape of employment discussions online, as it applies both in the United States and globally. Writing, then, about how the landscape of the internet and pop culture are influenced by current employment, economic, and workplace issues. Owing to my background in the sciences, I have grown particularly fond of exploring the impacts of science and technology on our lives, creativity, and productivity. I actively pursue search trends to stay up to date with the latest changes. I have an interest in and approximate knowledge of many things, but have a particular love for nature and the outdoors, which is great for getting outside and touching grass after spending most of the week online plugged into the internet. I also love music and have an obsessive appreciation for both progressive rock and the melodic and progressive genres of house and techno. When I’m not writing or outside, I spend most of my free time pursuing musical interests. My favorite author is, and remains, J.R.R. Tolkien—unoriginally and unapologetically.

Brad Dickson

Job candidate sends pointed email to HR over company's hiring process, gets a scathingly unprofessional response from the CEO

HOA demands trash be placed at the curb at precisely 7 AM, homeowners comply even though the truck comes at 6:30 AM, forcing HOA to change the rules when the neighborhood starts to stink: 'Bins stayed full all week. Smelled great in the heat'

Manufacturer helps client with urgent order by supplying differently specced parts at client's agreement, client still makes official complaint because the parts weren't to normal specification, manufacturer delays their orders thereafter in retaliation

Employee realizes how miserable they are in their current role after being appointed temporarily to another team: 'I wasn't waking up dreading the day [anymore]'

Manager repeatedly ignores developer's warning, resulting in $228k of incorrect transactions: 'The system did exactly what it was told to do'

Mother gives 3-year-old an iPad in a crowded restaurant, drawing "the look" and judgment from her mother-in-law and husband: 'Back in our day, we didn’t need screens to sit still'

Employee realizes that they have taken less PTO since the company instituted "unlimited" policy due to the implied threat from HR: 'It's just this weird psychological thing where you feel like youre being watched or judged'

Micromanaging Warehouse Supervisor tells employee to start "documenting everything," they comply and use their paperwork to save themselves from being scapegoated: 'I started writing down every single thing'

Neighbor's 21-year-old entitled daughter demands that homeowner move her vehicle from in front of her father's house so that she can park there: 'You need to do it now'

Sleep-deprived sibling repeatedly sabotage's the family WiFi to curb his younger brother's late-night gaming rampages: 'If he got too loud then I could just boot him off the game and it would look like an outage'