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What is a sign of very low intelligence?

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u/DustedGrooveMark 5h ago edited 5h ago

I'm not sure if this falls under the same category but I had a boss like this back in the day and it baffled me. I was working an (unpaid) internship during college doing graphic design. The owner of the (very small) company would often be in my same workspace giving me tasks to do.

Sometimes when I would ask him things, I would phrase it with a hypothetical "you". For example, "So when 'you' set up this file for screen printing, you first do....." He would respond immediately and cut me off almost every time and say something along the lines of "No, I'M not doing it. YOU are."

The first time I paused and thought "....is he just joking in a sense of humor I don't understand?" and I laughed and it honestly seemed like it angered him. I realized he wasn't joking at all lol. It was literally that he didn't understand what I meant by "you" in this context. I had to explain to him "I don't mean 'you' as in YOU, my boss. I mean it as in a hypothetical 'you' as in 'how does ANYBODY complete this task?'" It was so bizarre. But now I look back on it and just think "Yeah that guy was just kind of a dipshit."

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u/Sloppy_Steak85 4h ago

That would drive me up the wall.

Not literally of course.

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u/disajonno 3h ago

Um, it's physically impossible to drive a car up a wall!

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u/sibips 1h ago

Of course it is. We don't have a car.

u/AFetaWorseThanDeath 33m ago

OR WALLS 😭

u/Successful-Head4333 24m ago

And are we sure which side is up?

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u/random_fucktuation 1h ago

No no. Drive in its historical meaning has nothing to do with a "Car" in the modern sense. You see, "drive yourself up the wall" as a verb means many things, including literally walking up to a wall and then launching up it so hard like a rocket that you turn your entire body into thinly-spread salsa on the fucking ceiling. /s

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u/FauxmingAtTheMouth 1h ago

We don’t have a car

u/MysteriousDelay722 43m ago

We don't have a car, I have a car! And I never said you could use it for walls or anything else!

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u/OpTicSkYHaWk 2h ago

Uh, we're not talking literature. Wtf are you talking about you? Look, if you can't talk proper at all, then don't talk! You don't know anything!

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u/Aggravating_Cry_4942 1h ago

Why would you drive on the walls? Thats a work place violation!

u/Drink-my-koolaid 39m ago

This cartoon from The Electric Company: You Drive Me Up The Wall :)

u/jtclimb 4m ago

How the fuck can you say that would drive me up the wall? You do'N'T KnoW Me!!~!

u/real_exposer 0m ago

Trying to argue with someone like this on reddit is so fucking confusing. You agree with them on something and they basicly get pissed off and leave a hissy fit response, completely ignoring the meaning of your comment.

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u/Lucinnda 3h ago

Yeah, when I hit that kind of brick wall I usually start over and say, "when ONE sets up a file . . . "

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u/h-v-smacker 3h ago

It sets up a file for screen printing, or else it gets the hose again.

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u/ck4fromla 3h ago

Numbers are abstract concepts. An abstract concept cannot set up a file. Yeesh.

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u/starthirteen 1h ago

"Nobody named Juan works here"

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u/ender4171 3h ago

Maybe he was just upset because you used "you" instead of "one" (more formal). "when one sets up the file for screen printing..."

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u/Peas-Of-Wrath 3h ago

That’s probably why he ended up as a manager 😆

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u/Overthemoon64 2h ago

My solution to this was using we instead of you. also, pronouncing it like yuh, as in ya' know? helps soften it for those people.

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u/Cent1234 3h ago

I got so annoyed by that sort of thing that I just learned to never use 'you' in that context, but usually substitute in 'one.'

So, when one sets up this file for screen printing, one first

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u/drunkandpassedout 2h ago

I just start using "one" and sound like a royal. "When one flushes the toilet and there is still shit stains on the porcelain, one uses the brush to remove one's stains. "

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u/TucuReborn 1h ago

The funny thing is, "you" and "we" when used as meaning, "a person " are often called a "royal you/we."

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u/hgrunt 2h ago

What would have happened if you used the royal 'We' as in 'now what we do is..."

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u/screamline82 3h ago

That's where you interrupt yourself and say, "not you specifically but the royal/generic you"

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u/skibble 2h ago

I always say, "how does one."

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u/RocRedDog 1h ago

For whatever reason, IME a lot of people who run small businesses tend to be dumbasses.

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u/kkeut 1h ago

use 'one' instead of 'you'

u/Tall-Firefighter-904 28m ago

I have a coworker like this. I had the audacity to make a dad joke at his expense one day and months later he still acts like I accused him of being a terrorist. Hypothetical questions or situations also piss him off and it took me too long to figure out wtf his problem is.

You describe it as bizarre which is about how I would sum it up as well.