Brad Dickson

Managing Editor

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. Interested in exploring and writing about how technology and culture shape our social interactions both at home and in the workplace. I joined Cheezburger in 2016, first running Geek Universe and then Memebase before finally settling on Fail Blog. At that point, Fail Blog was all about classic “FAILs” and schadenfreude but has since become more about how the internet and its trends intersect with our lives and social experiences at home, out and about in the world, and in the workplace. In a sense: how society is failing us. I enjoy keeping up with our rapidly changing culture and technology. Writing, then, about how technology, the internet, and pop culture converge and how they influence (and 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 have a particular love for music and dedicate most of my spare time to making it. Also, 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.

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Customer shares their harmless petty method of getting back at the major bank that unceremoniously laid off their dad, who had worked there for 20 years: 'They wanted to maximize their profits'

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The Importance of Taking Time off Work—Boss Demands To Know Exactly What Employee Is Doing Before She Will Approve PTO in Viral Social Media Post—‘It Just Feels Weird That She Keeps Asking'

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Rural landowners face losing access to their longtime driveway when a new neighbor purchases the land adjacent on either side and begins preventing access and threatening legal action: 'They have lived in their house for over 10 years'

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Ex-employer asks employee to write a positive review for them on a third-party platform—employee leaves them a scathing 1-star review and gets their fake positive reviews removed: 'I reported the 3 new 4.5-star reviews for manipulation'

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One New Customer Support Policy Turned Every Problem Into Four When This Software Customer Support Worker Followed It to the Letter: ‘I Reminded Them That I Had Simply Followed the New Policy Exactly as Instructed'

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Rural landowner leases 80 acres of farmland to a neighbor, a politician, to farm—neighbor plants illegal corn, plows through the landowner's driveway—tries to deny ever signing a contract when cops arrive, loses elected seat: 'I showed him the contract'

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Bank teller surprised by a 47% pay increase after resigning, boss insists that it is not a counteroffer but a raise that had already been approved for them, but refuses to undo their resignation: 'I am honestly baffled'

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Woman decides she is not hosting this year's family 4th of July party after her sister turned up 3 hours late with 8 uninvited guests last year: 'I had to rebuy food twice to cover everyone'

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35-year-old Woman, owner of 2 large German Shepherds, hosts 4th of July Party and refuses to remove the dogs from the room when they pester guests, tells them to leave, which they do, creating a rift in the wider friend group

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Employees grow tired of constantly having to double-check and fix their AI-obsessed coworker's 100% AI-generated work output: 'It's low effort, low quality, and I don't want to be associated with delivering [low-quality] work as a team'