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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Boss denies employee’s bereavement leave, schedules "mandatory fun" team event after working hours instead

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Supervisor demands analyst complete report unpaid on a Saturday, analyst logs in just to CC the VP of the company in his reply—supervisor gets reprimanded, analyst gets 3 hours pay: 'After that, no one ever tried calling me outside of working hours'

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New manager suggests getting rid of entire department because "AI is going to do it all soon anyway": 'Why would this information be shared if not to make people anxious?'

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Las Vegas homeowners agree to a neighbor's request of a 50/50 split of costs for a new fence along the shared boundary, $5,000 for the 85-foot section—neighbor has it built with all the framing on homeowner's side, ignoring existing "Good Neighbor" design

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2nd-shift factory worker forced to come in for 1 hour on his day off to help cover gaps in shift handover after the 1st shift complains about overtime, raising the issue of the personal cost and burnout

Inheritance and real estate sale in parent-adult child relationship between daughter and mother becomes family conflict

Wealthy mother blocks sale and demands full repayment of her $450k investment into 40-year-old daughter's Florida family home after son-in-law loses his job in a return-to-office mandate and the family is forced to sell: 'She is refusing any compromise'

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Employer demands all employees return to the office 4 days a week despite there not being enough desks or even seats for everyone—this marks a brutal end to the previous 2-day flexible working policy: 'People often have to work at the cafeteria'

Statistics professor demands improbable equal effort for 4-student group project—1 doesn't help, all 4 claim an impossible 33% equal share—group invents new math making 132%=100%

Statistics professor demands improbable equal effort for 4-student group project—1 doesn't help, all 4 claim an impossible 33% equal share—group invents new math making 132%=100%: 'The professor was confused. "That adds up to 132%, how is that possible?"'

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Storage facility drops Texas man's storage fee autopay during software update, auctions off $14,000 of his belongings for $420 without sending him a single notification—offers him a $200 gift card in compensation, citing a clause in the original lease

Texas man returns home after 6 weeks out of state, spending the summer caring for his father, finds that his neighbor has sold his $7000 motorcycle for $2,800, claiming it was “abandoned”

Neighbor sells Texas man’s $7000 motorcycle for $2800, claims it was “abandoned” because the owner spent 6 weeks of summer out of state caring for his father in hospital: ‘He had it towed to a friend's garage first, then sold it’