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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Who determines appropriate attire in the workplace? — New mother becomes the target of workplace complaint about her appearance from an anonymous coworker shortly after returning to work, despite her dressing business casual according to the dress code

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Boss Demands Employee “Stop Thinking and Follow Instructions” After Accusing Them of Working Too Slowly When Checking Orders for Errors, It Immediately Backfires When Employee Complies and Ignores Obvious Errors

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31-Year-Old Tenant Surprised When Her Live-in Landlords Demand She Cook for Them After a Single Shared Dinner— She Makes Them Regret It

A townhouse tenant’s attempts to establish boundaries meet resistance from a neighbour who considers years of unrestricted access a reason to keep using the property

How do you handle entitled neighbors as a renter? — Neighbor claims rights to tenant's driveway and garden, claims he has lived there for 15 years and has always had access: 'My neighbor treats both my backyard and my driveway as an extension of his.'

After repeatedly watching her coworker present her ideas as his own, this employee publicly reclaimed ownership of her work and was criticized for doing so.

Coworker "Jake" steals credit for employee's project that she built from the ground up — he joined the project only 6 weeks prior, contributing just 10% of the work — she interjects to reclaim credit, the director reprimands her: 'Today I finally snapped'

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Team lead publicly humiliates employee and tells her to stop "overstepping" after previously expecting her to do her work, then the lead’s boss tells the employee to apply for a new senior job

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24-year-old daughter declines to pay the $6000 necessary to save her parents’ family home after they still owe her $500 from a previous loan, instead she asks her siblings to step in and help out: 'I have $2,000 in my checking account'

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Texas towing company tows a resident's vehicle out of his assigned parking spot claiming that his parking pass was backwards, then demand $420 in cash payment: 'I thought it was stolen'

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Employee tells current boss about the opportunity they have been offered with another department, boss jealously insists salary cap for department transfers is 12%, employee gets offered a 28% pay increase leading their boss to consider them a traitor

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Two brothers demand to know what happened to the missing $700,000 from their grandmother's estate when their uncle contacts them on social media and offers them $10,000 instead of $100,000