Funny internet marketing and business stories

[RiskyStuff]

Post your funny internet marketing and business stories.

Or stories of other people.

We'll see if this thread makes it past 1st page.

I want to see the beauty in the industry. Have good mindset... and all that stuff.

 

[TheVigilante]

Let's start with you first!

 

[RiskyStuff]

Let's start with you first!

Funny story: I made this thread because I have only negative news to tell in internet marketing. And I want to fill my mind with something exclusive and beautiful, so I can connect with this whole world in a pleasant way.

It's not funny at all.

I once read a business story on reddit that methamphetamine saved his business company...
That made me laugh.

 

[Dopious]

Ok, we had a client once about 20 years back that after we built him a website and he paid some $3K for it decided to go for a cheaper coder to maintain it, then one day he wanted to sue us for creating a new coding languae since his new php coder did not understand the CodeIgniter framework and said it was not php. Funny as fck, he ended up not suing us after some talks, weird mthrfckr with to much money.

 

[t2van]

Years ago when I first started out and had a small commercial unit. I was online and decided to buy some foam packing peanuts I ordered something like 30-50 cubic square meters of the stuff it used to come in bags. I thought great I need some of that for all the packing lets order a bunch of bags.

I didn't understand the size nor volume of what I was ordering.

What I didn't know at the time was I ended up ordering I think it was 5 overhead hopper bags. When this HGV driver turned up he looked at my unit and looked at me and said:

"I think I have the wrong place or you fucked up."

I explained no was the right person but when he said how much he had I didn't understand the problem. He removed the side curtain and when I saw what I done I just laughed. I ordered enough foam packets to fill my starter unit 3x over I think it was.



**

Doing my first interviews years ago for a warehouse operations guy.

During the interview I asked him if he had any issues taking instructions from a younger person (as that used and can be the case still)

He looked up in total amazement:

"woah thats amazing how old you do you think I am then?"

me: 53

"woah, how did you know that, you should go into show business you would make a fortune with that trick"

I explained that his DOB was on his CV and I done the quick maths of taking his birth year away from current year and worked it out.

He just looked and said "oh I didn't know that my mom done it for me"

I didn't hire him.

 

[t2van]

Me again..

Another miss calculation on volume.

Asked a close farmer friend to deliver the largest volume of manure he can to our local farm.

Thinking how big can it be.

We had 40 ton of cow shit dropped off outside our gate because he couldn't get through the gap.

Took the lads 3 days to move enough to make access. That bit in jarassic park (first film) where they go that's alot of shit.

Doesn't even come close to what we got delivered.

**

I got a few funny (but it's sad as it almost destroyed me) ones I share when talking to seo people but it also cost me 1m in turn over if I share publicly somone with half a brain can work out who I am so no good for public forum...

 

[demonic_man]

I do business, but unfortunately, I do not have a story like the above

But my teaching job's story can be shared here

So, as you must know by now, I am a very young teacher. So, months ago, I got a student. She was a girl, or maybe 3 to 4 years older than me. And she was a bad child. I want to say that she was very overconfident. At the first interaction, she started questioning about my personal life, like which grade I am in, and what are you studying right now, in which college, etc. i don't think these are personal questions, but she was asking in a mocking way, but I answered each question kindly. Then I gave her a lecture and she said that I couldn't get anything, so I said "No issue, it's totally normal to get nothing in the first lecture of your programming class, let's try again". I gave her a lecture for the 2nd time and she finally understood something. (I explain things well and all of my students understand my lectures well.

On the 2nd day, she came early and I went to the Institute from my office so it took a little bit of time. So, she went to the administrator and asked, "That child hasn't reached yet."

Admin said: "Which child?"
She said, "The one who was teaching me yesterday."
Admin said: "He(I) is a teacher and you should be respectful towards him."
She said: "But he is a kid, and i am older than him, how can i call him SIR?"
Admin strictly said: "he is a teacher who has been teaching in our institute for a long time and has a great reputation here and we haven't received a single complaint about his teaching or lecture."
Then she quietly returned to the class i reached the centre in time, my fellow female teachers came to me laughing by saying that she was saying these things about you to the admin. I said, " Okay", what can I do to her? I said nothing and simply gave a usual class. She was being very weak in programming, she was very very weak in Maths, so she was a real headache for me but while being a teacher i was giving my best.

Then, the admin called her and said that you have to be respectful to him and he is the best programming teacher here, we cannot change our teacher but you can surely change the institute. Leave the institute if you have any issues with his age. She left.

This moment felt a bit discouraging at first, but then I reminded myself of something important. If others need to learn from you, it reflects your value and the skills you’ve built. Age does not define capability. Even as a kid, you can have knowledge that others seek and that is something to be proud of.

I made a quote,
Respect is not earned by age but by the value you bring and the knowledge you share

Old ones can be stupid also

Thank you for giving your time to read this

 

[RiskyStuff]

I do business, but unfortunately, I do not have a story like the above

But my teaching job's story can be shared here

So, as you must know by now, I am a very young teacher. So, months ago, I got a student. She was a girl, or maybe 3 to 4 years older than me. And she was a bad child. I want to say that she was very overconfident. At the first interaction, she started questioning about my personal life, like which grade I am in, and what are you studying right now, in which college, etc. i don't think these are personal questions, but she was asking in a mocking way, but I answered each question kindly. Then I gave her a lecture and she said that I couldn't get anything, so I said "No issue, it's totally normal to get nothing in the first lecture of your programming class, let's try again". I gave her a lecture for the 2nd time and she finally understood something. (I explain things well and all of my students understand my lectures well.

On the 2nd day, she came early and I went to the Institute from my office so it took a little bit of time. So, she went to the administrator and asked, "That child hasn't reached yet."

Admin said: "Which child?"
She said, "The one who was teaching me yesterday."
Admin said: "He(I) is a teacher and you should be respectful towards him."
She said: "But he is a kid, and i am older than him, how can i call him SIR?"
Admin strictly said: "he is a teacher who has been teaching in our institute for a long time and has a great reputation here and we haven't received a single complaint about his teaching or lecture."
Then she quietly returned to the class i reached the centre in time, my fellow female teachers came to me laughing by saying that she was saying these things about you to the admin. I said, " Okay", what can I do to her? I said nothing and simply gave a usual class. She was being very weak in programming, she was very very weak in Maths, so she was a real headache for me but while being a teacher i was giving my best.

Then, the admin called her and said that you have to be respectful to him and he is the best programming teacher here, we cannot change our teacher but you can surely change the institute. Leave the institute if you have any issues with his age. She left.

This moment felt a bit discouraging at first, but then I reminded myself of something important. If others need to learn from you, it reflects your value and the skills you’ve built. Age does not define capability. Even as a kid, you can have knowledge that others seek and that is something to be proud of.

I made a quote,
Respect is not earned by age but by the value you bring and the knowledge you share

Old ones can be stupid also

Thank you for giving your time to read this

Woah man, you overwhelmed about a decade years older person than yourself who is... yes, me.

Maybe you speak too fast and don't teach people in very small chunks.

I taught people and I know giving them loads of knowledge at the same time is biggest issue.

If complexity of information is "I don't understand" for your learning partner and there is more than 1 information at the same time, they just say "fck off bro".

I don't know about your teaching methods, but I see how long your text is and I'm frightened!

I used to read and write stories in this way 10 years ago when I used to hang out on Reddit. It was crazy, stimulatory, intense, but did I take any information with myself? Nothing.

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I explain things well and all of my students understand my lectures well.

If you meet someone like me, they don't.

Or maybe they pretend?! I know people pretend a lot... especially in 1 to 1 situations. Don't let them fool ya..

Oh fck, I slept 4 hours and after 3 beers I forgot it. My whole post is just... extreme example. A classic edge case!

 

[RiskyStuff]

Old ones can be stupid also

Haha. Here are only old ones... so you shot at least one.

Imagine you find someone like me, pure intuition, zero intelligence, just straight "invent everything from scratch" manipulator.

For example, if I was to learn chemistry, I would only read about it, then buy glassware (or even better, invent my own!), play with it, blow it up and come to conclusion "ah, just exothermic reaction, I forgot about it". Zero theoretical exercise or equations.

But it's probably something like 1 in 1000 or less. No reason to get obsessive about edge cases, not even in programming.

 

[demonic_man]

Haha. Here are only old ones... so you shot at least one.

Imagine you find someone like me, pure intuition, zero intelligence, just straight "invent everything from scratch" manipulator.

For example, if I was to learn chemistry, I would only read about it, then buy glassware (or even better, invent my own!), play with it, blow it up and come to conclusion "ah, just exothermic reaction, I forgot about it". Zero theoretical exercise or equations.

But it's probably something like 1 in 1000 or less. No reason to get obsessive about edge cases, not even in programming.

I teach programming languages and I accept that not everyone can learn them at once. It takes time to gain the power of logic building.

It is impossible to fool me into thinking that you understood my lecture because I give students a project or program to make after every lecture, and you can only make that program if you truly understood my lecture.

I no longer speak fast while giving lectures. I say every word calmly, and I am not one of those teachers who lose their temper after two or three questions. I answer every question my students ask, but there are some who do not want to learn, who do not want to understand the lecture, and who do not want to study. There are also some weak students who want to learn but their brain is not on their side, so I focus extra on them and make them programmers.

And about old people, I know that on this forum everyone is older than me. I am just a kid here and I respect you all. I do not know about your families, but in brown families some old dumb people think they are smarter just because they have consumed more oxygen than me. You cannot even argue with them on a topic because they will say that you are disrespectful, mean, a bad boy, a bad son, and blah blah. I do not know why, but I really like talking to these kinds of dumbasses.

I am really proud of myself that I am a programming languages teacher at this age and not a typical MS Office teacher. I teach people older than me, and their ego or self respect does not allow them to be taught by me.

It has been almost two and a half years since I started teaching, and now I am really good at it. In the beginning it was very hard for me because I was very introverted and not that confident, but now I am used to it and good at it.

Now it is almost time for my class. I have to go.

I have another story that happened two days ago. I will share that later.