This Week’s WTF Story Award Goes to... (2020 edition)

keoni · May 12, 2020, 4:38am

Why wait?
Create!

anon38216271 · May 12, 2020, 4:44am

Naw. Facebook is like that HS cafeteria table we all stayed away from.

marasan · May 12, 2020, 6:41am

Here we go again. (Old news. I just can’t stop laughing, though.)

yyy · May 13, 2020, 12:08am

Iirc the hurricane guy they mention near the end never claimed to be qualified – he was just the best they could find on short notice.

yyy · May 13, 2020, 12:16am

No pants? That’s so two months ago. The cool kids had already moved on to swimwear by April and will be going 赤裸裸 any day now.

yyy · May 16, 2020, 5:35pm

yyy · May 16, 2020, 5:38pm

So with all the extra handwashing, how many more rings will be found 80 years from now?

keoni · May 21, 2020, 10:50am

Parallel universe discovered???

RickRoll · May 21, 2020, 11:06am

Er… Not really…

keoni · May 21, 2020, 11:38am

shucks

yyy · May 21, 2020, 9:21pm

Thanks for setting your fellow Earth creatures straight, Ricky.

Now excuse me while I go back to the para-- ahem, back to my parallel-parked transport.

anon38216271 · May 23, 2020, 12:16am

Friday US time seems like the dump day for weird news right before a long weekend.

yyy · May 23, 2020, 2:10am

I can’t find a summary that isn’t behind a paywall, but this case is public record, if you care to search the BC Human Rights Tribunal.

A salesperson went into her CEO’s office because the thermostat for the whole floor was there, and she happened to notice a photo containing male genitalia, took a photo of the photo, and complained to the boss about it. She was terminated the next day.

Coast Storage says the Photograph was taken inadvertently by an employee [ Employee ] that was attempting to send a receipt to the company’s accounting department. It says the app used by the Employee (Expensify) was designed to take a picture of the receipt and convert the information into text format that could be directly entered into an expense form. It says the Employee unfortunately took a picture of the receipt while naked (before showering in a hotel room while travelling) and did not check the Photograph prior to sending it to the accounting department.

A copy of the Photograph has been filed with the Tribunal and its description is consistent with Coast Storage’s explanation. A large majority of the Photograph contains an image of a document that appears to be a receipt. The corner of the Photograph contains a small image of what appears to be a portion of a penis.

Coast Storage says it terminated its Chief Financial Officer (a different employee than the one who took the Photograph) [ CFO ] in early 2018. It says that following the termination, the CFO’s last day of working notice was Friday, July 27, 2018. On that day, the CFO posted the Photograph in the CEO’s office with a caption that said “Expensify: What could go wrong?”.

The company provided evidence that it was about to let her (the salesperson) go anyway, and the Tribunal found no sexual harassment or sex-based discrimination.

anon38216271 · May 23, 2020, 2:20am

She also displayed the president’s private bank account and routing numbers.

The $100,000 check she held up like a prop appeared to be a real check from Capital One, complete with the relevant details. An administration official said mock checks were never used in the briefing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-press-secretary-check.amp.html

yyy · May 23, 2020, 2:59am

So, we can’t see his tax returns yet, but we can see something.

anon38216271 · May 23, 2020, 4:22am

Well hackers alert. If they move quick enough, we don’t have to wait for the SCOTUS

yyy · May 23, 2020, 4:36pm

Did you just say Russia hackers, if you’re listening…?

Well okay then. That’s totally not a provocation, according to precedent!

slawa · May 27, 2020, 12:38am

RickRoll · May 27, 2020, 1:07am

It’s a 3yo news:

Yet, WTF!

slawa · May 27, 2020, 1:22am

Also 3 years old news. Coincidence?