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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Influencer Insists on Paying With “Exposure”—Then Demands Public Apology From Fitness Trainer After the Program Fails To Meet Her Unrealistic Expectations

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35 Hiring Managers Share the Thing That a Candidate Did That Made Them Instantly Decide Not to Hire Them—”They Brought Their Parents”

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Update: “I Got Everyone Towed”—Annoyed Homeowner Tows “Half the Neighborhood” Filled With Airbnb Guests, Shares an Update 2 Days Later When They Threaten Lawsuits

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Manager charged $718 in hotel expenses on his employee's card in April, he still won't pay them back months later in August: He told me he'd pay me back the next morning as soon as accounting fixed the issue. That was April 27'

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Cell Phone Store Employee Gets Manager and District Manager Fired for Defrauding the Company, Then Quits After Getting Passed Up for Their Manager’s Vacant Role, Leaving the Store With 2 Employees Remaining

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Airbnb guests and their hosts are threatening to sue him for the towing cost—Fed-up resort town homeowner tows the vehicles of “half the neighborhood” of Airbnb guests after getting the parking code rewritten to deal with their errant parking

When should you go above and beyond at work, and when should you know to stop? When is your extra effort simply being taken advantage of? These workers gathered in a viral thread to share the thing that made them stop putting in the extra effort.

22 Workers shared the thing that made them finally stop caring about "going above and beyond" at work—It is often seen as an important trait, but when should you stop?

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They thought their new top-floor apartment was a dream, but it quickly became a nightmare—Couple moves into new apartment, after 1 week gets 2 mysterious sticky notes complaining about noise with demands they stop, escalates to complaints to the landlord

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She is considering charging her 72-year-old mother rent to live with them—a 45-year-old woman has had enough of her entitled mother, who, after 11 years of living with them, has mounting debt again, despite having no living costs, and doesn't help out

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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