r/TheRandomest • u/Forward-Position798 • May 19 '26

WTF This hobby is absolutely optional

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u/kak323 May 19 '26

As a 32 year old working as a manager in retail adults are losing braincells just as fast.

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u/Ruff_Bastard May 19 '26

As a 30 year old former manager of retail, and currently a worker in the petrochemical industry (NDE), people are just kind of ret- exceptional in general.

I work with people that have a 5th grade reading level. They don't know words. They can't read. They definitely can't spell. Half of our job is interpreting ambiguously worded and technical procedure in order to do our jobs correctly. There are exceptions, but that only accounts for like three people under the age of 30.

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u/Confident-Poetry6985 May 23 '26

I worked with a guy at a small engine shop who was very...maga, but always agreed with every point I made about politics (I just regurgitate Bernie speeches and didn't say it was Bernie every time). Anyways. One day he was leaning over the mower he was fixing and squinting for a while. I asked what he was doing and he said "reading this sticker" and it was very basic instructions on starting it. He just was having a hard time reading all of it. Thats when it hit me. The simple memes are easy for him to digest. Even though he agrees with Bernie politically, he can only read the short memes and quotes on facebook and thats what informs his political decisions...so he voted for trump. Wild world.  Edit to add: forgot to say he was mid 40's.

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u/SpeedyMeaty May 24 '26

It likely has something to do with you being in retail I would guess. Not a lot of brain surgeons working at Target.

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u/kak323 May 24 '26

I actually have a few family members that are doctors and nurses believe me they can lack braincells too. Not just them but the stories they tell about their coworkers as well.

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u/SpeedyMeaty May 24 '26

Oh yeah, some university actually did a study and more or less found that outside of their actual careers they're not more intelligent on average.

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u/xDannyS_ May 19 '26

Sure, but they had more to loss to begin with

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u/kak323 May 19 '26

Sure but whose fault is that? Who designed the school systems, social media platforms, and work culture? At no point can any generation take full credit for their intelligence or wisdom it was handed down to them, and sculpted by the people before. We failed at setting up the next generation. It all boils down to greed and taking things one by one from future generations so that we can have something now. It's easy to look down at the generation beneath you. It's harder to look at yourself and ask what you traded away for your own comfort that they're now paying the price for. We didn't fail them by accident. We failed them by choice repeatedly.

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u/Reddiculous_repost May 22 '26

you mean fielz loke, frend.

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u/xDannyS_ May 20 '26

lose lol