Who's the most out-of-touch person you've met?

what is the most severe case of someone being completely out of touch with reality you've ever seen the pastor of a small town church insisted that members set up the parish hall and provide food and beverages for 125 people after every sunday service even though the average attendance was only around 20 people week after week month after month much food would be disposed of and large ones of coffee dumped down the sink and all because the pasta was in denial about the reality of weekly attendance this was from a regional manager of starbucks after they removed merit-based raises that could go up to a five percent increase changed to a flat two percent increase when she asked if people liked the new raise plan i said actually no they feel unmotivated with no reason to perform any better than just normal regional manager your staff need to realize working isn't about money i will never forget the man who angrily told me a wheelchair user with no feet and no prosthetics to go down the stairs if i didn't want to wait for the elevator i had been talking to my friend and mentioned we were going to be a little late because of the huge line fine i will rolls toward the stairs and just falls down all of them parents of a 35 years old woman who was hospitalized after suffering severe and toxic brain damage 20 years ago she had been in the same ward since barely conscious they refuse to get her transferred to a more suitable facility for 20 years saying that there's no reason to do so those facilities are for lost causes and their daughter is going to make a full recovery finish school get married and be totally fine working in hospitals got me quite a collection of these stories but this one i thought was one of the saddest ones this story really hit me personally i'm a ghost on reddit but something about this post made me very eager to respond my parents were both in a very bad car accident head-on collision about four years ago luckily my mother was able to make a full recovery my father on the other hand got a severe injury to the brain as well and is that a sub acute being taken care of and as much as i don't want it to be true i don't think he's ever gonna come back my mom every day since says he is gonna be back with us and we are all gonna be happy i miss you dad in college i had a roommate from the most sheltered part of long island we met an exchange student from switzerland and i swear to god she said this in complete seriousness oh wow i didn't know people actually lived in switzerland i thought there were just banks there there is a girl at my work that always bs about not making enough bc she makes 200-300 a paycheck then is always the first to leave early and always shows up late and has other ppl take her shifts she asked me how i make 600-800 a paycheck i said bc i work more i'm currently at work taking over her shift she doesn't realize if you don't work more you'll be paid less my cousin was spoiled and sheltered her entire childhood through college then her parents stupidly cut the leash without any preparation and released her into society she quickly got in trouble for bouncing checks all over town my mom picked her up and asked why the hell she was writing bad checks everywhere turns out my cousin was under the impression that as long as you had checks in your checkbook you had money in your account she didn't understand that you deposit in a number and then can spend or withdraw up to that amount please teach your kids basic finance note this was like 1996 before it turns into a who writes a check any more discussion my sister grew up with everything handed to her and literally cried when her first car wasn't the color she wanted mary drake can't fathom why i can't take off work whenever it suits me and says stuff like i wouldn't ask my boss for a week off i would tell him i am taking the week off work with a girl who is a flat earther and on top of that denied the existence of space when the topic came up and i disagreed she asked if i had ever been there obviously i haven't i told her i have also never been to japan and that does not mean it doesn't exist she complained to management about my intolerance of her beliefs my old boss at the time was a girl of 26 who got four million dollars from her mama year to play with her mom is very wealthy in china her daughter is here trying to be a ceo of a company for funsies i accidentally got a job at that company one day she told us we were all going on a group outing for bonding she took us to an outlet mall four hours away told the rest of us seven people that she was going to go shop and she'd see us later that was code for don't follow me f s every two hours she'd let us know she was going to go unload her bags to the giant van they rented and would group textures telling us we can meet her there to unload as well we all get paid under 50k we have nothing to unload by lunch she had proceeded to fill up the van with shh she then asks me where all my new stuff is and i said i'm budgeting right now she goes take out a credit card and go shop that's the american way seriously okay by 9 pm her bags were taking up people's seats and they had to sit with her stuff she spent 30k the rest of us spent about 70 dollars we were tired and bored and cold to this day i still believe she thinks she did something nice for us and doesn't understand how polarizing and not at all team bonding that was my parents paid for half the down payment on my house pay for our landscaper house cleaner child daycare car insurance and give my wife in our monthly allowance we are completely self-sufficient human beings who even try and give other friends financial advice obviously written in the voice of someone i know had a friend who insisted she was in a relationship with a seeless celebrity whom she met once during a comic convention all the celebrities instagram and twitter posts were for her and everything had a meaning behind it when the celebrity got married she said that it was just for the media so she and celebrity could live a quiet life when he didn't do anything for her birthday she had a breakdown she went to therapy not long after my sister-in-law kicked out by her boyfriend comes to stay with us for a few days we suggest looking for a flat cheap house to rent near us she won't live in the scummy part of town near us she'd like a three-bed house with garden in the best part of town she has no savings and isn't sure if she has a job was a part-time cashier in a supermarket stopped going to work when covet came note not fair load supermarket's still open she's just not going in when i suggested maybe she couldn't afford 500 pounds k on a family home on her salary she suggested she'd just get a council house disregarding the huge waiting list and the fact that most council properties are either ghetto parts of town this is just the crust of a deep layer of unhinged fantasy world that she lives in my parents neighbor thought that her garden was too small for her sons to play in so when she met my parents for the first time the first thing she actually said was can you give me some of your garden so my sons have more space to play in thankfully my parents just said no for context they live in a very expensive neighborhood where houses cost on average from 750 000 pounds to 1 million pounds the gardens in that neighborhood are a lot bigger on average than the majority of gardens in the uk i've never heard a story of somebody being as painfully out of touch as that woman my step-brother got into a weird gnostic religious group and thought he could convert people by talking to them harassing them socrates style except without any ability to carry out a philosophical conversation also assuming workplace is a fine occasion to do this when he'd get fired from his temp jobs he'd assume it's a conspiracy and fight against enlightenment this is more funny than deluded as a side note but one of the group activities is to have to rewrite their religious book by hand which he diligently did and it wasn't a small book either turned out to use the wrong coloring which for some reason invalidated the whole thing got a job in a restaurant as a waiter assumed for whatever unimaginable reason that the proper way to act for waiters is to bow after taking the order when his supervisor asked him to stop he lectured the supervisor on proper wait staff manners wanted to propose to a 50-plus year old woman who has until then shown no signs of being interested in him luckily he believed in the tradition to first ask father's permission so he asked his dad who talked him out of it had an idea to join the military to convert them from the inside at one point believe the sun rays can sustain you but luckily never really bothered to practice it is totally against capitalism and wants to live a free life as a wandering philosopher rather than live as a working drone like everyone else however does believe the working drones in his family should support his noble pursuit while also chastising them for selling out and more i used to work at a software company in downtown boston one of the best perks of the job at the time was the flexibility in ours many folks had regular wfh days myself i knew i could drop my kids off at school get into the office by 9 30 and my boss had no issue with it whatsoever others with kids had similar arrive late or leave early schedules depending on their child care after a few years a new ceo comes in spends a month observing how the office works then calls for a company-wide meeting during the meeting she tells everyone she believes having a full office 8-5 is the most productive environment and at the start of the next month all wfh was cancelled and she wanted everyone in the office during those set hours no showing up late or leaving early a lively debate ensued with discussions of there being very little warning to please of flexibility to concerns of making necessary child care arrangements especially given that in many cases that is schools we couldn't adjust those times plus commuting into boston sucks after listening to all of these arguments she finally responds with a long speech of appreciating the sacrifices everyone has to make to better the company everyone doing their part blah blah blah she ends it by saying i understand where you're all coming from years ago when my kids were little my husband and i had to hire three nanas to cover all of the times we had to work i remember we all looked around at each other speechless it was also the moment i realized i would have to start looking for another job when the millionaire ceo thinks hiring three nana's is a relatable example to her middle class employees it's pretty clear she's not going to change her mind i worked on shifts with a guy for years who thought every single person was out to get him i've never met anyone who had such a warped sense of reality he would joke on with someone then go away for the weekend and stew on one particular thing then come in on monday absolutely raging overtaking something the complete wrong way i've seen him attack two people and heard about a third thing is he's so dopey everyone thinks he's harmless and that's just the way he is a guy i trained as an apprentice has just started on shifts with him doesn't take anyone being in a hole well at all i think they'll do well together haha i went to a private international school in london as a teenager most kids there had parents working good jobs but in between them were some filthy rich kids with parents in the oil industry or something similar in eighth grade we were talking about our easter break and my friend from belgium was talking about how his family had decided last minute to go there over the break but had decided to drive there because there were no flights available then this russian billionaire classmate of mine asked him why don't you take a private jet she was so clueless when we started laughing one bully of a boss asking the three people who suffered most from his behavior if they would want to move to a new employer with him as a team hmm how about no way in hell i knew someone who unironically tried to convene that not only is pokemon demonic but they exist in real life and there are reported cases of then attacking and harming people annex became really religious and i'd still talk to her sometimes somehow the topic of flat earth theories came up and she said she thinks it's actually possible that it could be true i tried to explain that we have more than enough imagery and data indicating that the earth is round and she said it could all be planted there by satan you just can't come up with a response to that my soul legit believes she's a strong independent businesswoman who owns three major businesses she does three mlm gigs my friend stole my card information and bought loads of expensive stuff i asked her if it was her before reporting it knowing that her she was going through a tough time and i wanted to give her a chance to make it right and be that i could be in trouble for conspiracies a fraud if i reported it and they believed i'd got stuff delivered to my friend to claim fraud for the money back she said no i thought someone else had done it so i reported it when she got arrested she said she didn't think they'd take the fraud thing so far she thought you could just call up banks to get the money back and they wouldn't investigate browsing radic provides me a daily dose of people completely out of touch with reality my friend suffered a psychotic break when we were teenagers he'd been smoking weed constantly for a couple of weeks not eating or sleeping and i think he had some underlying mental health issues anyway but that routine just sent him over the edge before his parents had him admitted to hospital he came and met us before we were going out to a gig he was wearing a pink silk pajama shirt and jogging bottoms and just looked very unwell he was rambling on about the discoveries he was making and that he was going to meet some scientist in america then he laid on the pavement in the middle of the street and told us we all had to lie down to conserve the earth's energy that was about 15 years ago he runs a successful business now i was a stable hand of a very upper tier barn in a wealthy part of the country the staff have to sign non-disclosure agreements to protect clients on one particularly scorching july day i overheard a client venting to another about how she was incredibly stressed and going to have mental breakdown because her first choice catering company was all booked up for the weekend of her last minute yacht party i'm paycheck to paycheck and had probably a total of three days off since christmas i would love for a yacht party to be my basis for a mental breakdown needless to say the staff had a healthy chuckle on that one i'm fairly convinced that my current shift supervisor thinks anyone who works in overtime shift is doing it out of loyalty to the company and not because of the 1.5 x pay rate this is my time to shine so i grew up with a lot jurisdictions that at the moment had no idea the options existed for example i was only allowed two options of shoes but the catch was that i need to make the right choice or that i can make friends on my own not needing to be told this is your new friend now so go play with them sadly my dad kept me in a small box and he was the only one allowed to control what would go into that box or come out so when i was 10 cps was involved and was taken into foster care that's when my world exploded i didn't know truly how bad it was until they took me to a shoe store and told me to pick out ones i liked i swear for the life of me i had no clue what to do i stood there for what felt was ours until they noticed and asked what my favorite color was i said green because that was what my father told me i liked but i guess i was too overwhelmed that i just remember saying yes to everything and ended up with ugly brown and pink sneakers what children learn to do at their normal age is what i am just figuring it out in my 20s so reality was a hard thing to live because the whole time i was in my dream [Music] world [Music] you

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Published: Sat May 30 2020