Wait, does wine actually make balloons float?

The coworkers are onto something ❎
The coworkers are on something ✅

Honestly, I don't consider people stupid for not knowing something. What I do find stupid is when they refuse to learn from that, and refuse to acknowledge that they were wrong

i had a 16 y/o coworker at my last job who complained about getting pulled over for hitting another car and driving away. he somehow didn't know that you're not supposed to do that

Had a coworker say she didn’t believe dinosaurs existed because they were ‘too big’. I tried to explain that there were lots of small dinosaurs and that the blue whale, which exists today, is bigger than the biggest dinosaur that ever existed but she just looked confused and wouldn’t believe me.

my old manager tried to convince me that there were 60 cents in a dollar. we worked in a store as cashiers. she was in her 60s

"How fast you're going doesn't have anything to do with the time it takes for to get there." Ah, traveling at the speed of plot, whether it's on foot or via starship.

my absolute favorite is "you know history didn't actually happen right?" still don't know what she meant by that, I was too afraid to ask.

Not a co-worker,a classmate,but still stupid: he GENUINELY believed spiders weren’t real. This was in middle school.

6:20 This confirms that Matt Rose is in fact impossibly radioactive and undergoes alpha decay at ludicrous speeds to produce unexplainable amounts of helium nuclei.

Someone in my class asked where the titanic was, she refused to believe it was underwater.

not a coworker, but my sister's boyfriend thought ducks grew into geese and swans (males were geese, females were swans) like some sort of pokemon evolution

i love how even if 'croissant' started with a q, it would still be followed up with a u: quossant

I have a co worker who genuinely believes that water is sentient and has emotions.  She then continued to explain that, if you talk nicely to it, it will rid itself of bacteria or any contamination within the water.  I wish I was making this up.

I was at a post office in Texas and the postal employee was asking a customer: "Now, is that in EASTERN Europe or WESTERN Europe?  It makes a difference in how we ship it, so is that in EASTERN Europe or WESTERN Europe?"  My dad asked "Which country?"  The employee replied "Korea".

Worked in internal tech support. "Hi, my monitor isn't working anymore". 30 minutes of talking her through the common steps (is it plugged in, have you turned it on, is the light blinking etc.) and one walk into a neighboring building in the middle of winter later and I figured out that it was, in fact, NOT plugged in. She didn't actually check if the cable was plugged in, she just said "Yes" so I'd "figure out the problem faster" 🤦Guys, when we ask you to check if it's plugged in, please actually check if it's plugged in 😩

The woman who said that all months began on a Monday lives in a more perfect world

Worked at a fast food place when I was a teenager, and during a rush one evening, the fry basket accidentally swung back at one point and burned my arm.  Later I was working with the burn bandaged and a coworker came up and asked if I'd cried when it had happened, because she had cried when she had gotten burned by the boiling fry oil.  I said no, it didn't hurt that much.  I found out later that the way she had gotten burned was that she had accidentally dropped the fry scoop into the boiling oil...and then reached into the boiling oil with her bare hand to retrieve it.

Some of these are adorable misunderstandings, some are legitimately not necessarily known things, and some are scary because these people can vote.

I have a coworker who was CONVINCED that a "quarter past the hour" meant 25 minutes. His reasoning?
"A quarter is 25¢."

He would angrily defend this even when proven wrong.

Edit: missed a typo, oop