Brad Dickson

Managing Editor

Editor, Writer, Content Producer, and Biologist from the Pacific Northwest. Managing Editor of Cheezburger, Lead Editor of Fail Blog, and Memebase. Long-time Section Lead and Staff Writer, contributing since 2016 on Geek Universe, Memebase, and Fail Blog. 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. As a writer, I explore where modern technology and culture intersect with our working, personal, and social lives. I examine how changes in public values, technology, and social discourse reshape the way people work, live, and interact. For the last 5 years, I have covered modern labor movements, social discourse, and the influence of cultural shifts on our working and personal lives. Without a doubt, we are facing unprecedented times at the crossroads of these topics. And while digital technology has existed for just a microsecond of relative human history, the last 30 to 40 years have reshaped not just the way we work but the way we think about our work. The technology has also shaped our social lives into something unrecognizable that previous generations of humanity would have found startling. Where is this all going? Who knows, but it is fascinating to explore how culture has evolved in the last 5 years alone and will continue to evolve in the coming decade in ways we can't possibly anticipate.

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27 Skills That Are No Longer Relevant in Today’s World and Workplaces, Shared by Workers Who Were Really Good at Them

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New manager demands employee dress professionally or “go home” during an office Casual Friday—employee complies, goes home, still gets a full day's pay—HR sides with employee, and the whole team is mad at the manager

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Foreman Tries to Scapegoat Civil Engineer After Pouring Wrong Concrete Foundations, Refused To Take Mere Minutes To Refer to the Drawings Despite Being Asked 3 Times—Gets Fired When the Engineer Comes With Receipts

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28-year-old worker learns coworker, with whom she privately vented frustrations, secretly recorded their conversations for over a year—HR blindsides her, firing her and promoting him—When is private venting ok and when is it a workplace issue?

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Neighbors' Strange Request, Turned Demand, Leaves Apartment-Dwelling Tenant Puzzled and Wondering if She Should Have Acquiesced—Even 2 Weeks Later, the Neighbors Continue to Press the Issue

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Elderly 70s Neighbors Refuse To Stop Parking in Homeowner’s Driveway and Tell Him He’s Being “Too Rigid”—Began Parking There First for a Few Hours Then Began “Straight up Occupying” It

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Employer Cuts Overachieving Employee’s Pay in Half When They Switch Them From Flat Rate to Hourly Pay— I Work Fast and Efficient and Can Get Most Jobs Finished in Half to 3/4 of the Allotted Time

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Supermarket Manager Calls 20-Year-Old Employee Demanding He Show Up for His Shift, Except He Never Worked There Having Declined an Earlier Job Offer There After a Chaotic Interview—I Don’t Think I Want That Minimum Wage Paycheck

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CEO says employee's prototypes are bad, lays her off and then steals her ideas: 'I should have just quit'

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Restaurant Manager Demands 26-Year-Old Employee Get a Doctor’s Note When They Try to Call Out for 1 Day, Doctor Writes Him off for 4 Instead—"Well, you need a doctor's note or it's an unexcused absence"