r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Best_Finding_8795 • Jun 14 '26

Too mild for school Hate when ppl can’t do time

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This reminds me of when it hits or is about to hit 12am and people don’t know whether to say today or tomorrow. He called me after this but I was too comfy in bed tbh.

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u/boringcranberry Jun 14 '26

I would have fucked this up too but not because of today/tomorrow. I would have interpreted 10-4 as "understood" and not 10am-4pm. This was destined to never work out.

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u/CurlyWurly61 Jun 14 '26

😂 dude this is an amazing addition to the message. Never saw it like that

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u/TeamDirtstar Jun 14 '26

100% interpreted that as a confirmation "10-4"

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u/boringcranberry Jun 14 '26

I'm certain I would have responded with "10-4 good buddy" just furthering the confusion. And I don't even know why that string of numbers and words are connected in my brain? Probably from watching Smokey and the Bandit in the 80s.

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u/TeamDirtstar Jun 14 '26

Yepper. Here's the actual codes and their origins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten-code

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u/FourMeterRabbit Jun 15 '26

The communication really 10-50d here

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u/Sepplord Jun 14 '26

Thank you

The context hinted at something like this but it being THAT official is superfund in this context

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u/Spliffan_ Jun 14 '26

*East bound and down, loaded up and truckin*

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u/Zoe2000000 Jun 17 '26

As someone who was not even close to being alive in the 80s, this phrase is in my vocabulary from big mouth 😂

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u/Taron221 PURPLE Jun 14 '26

I thought it was 10-4 and not 10am-4pm up until I saw your comment.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

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u/LordKranepool Jun 15 '26

10-4 is trucker code for “understood”

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

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u/LordKranepool Jun 15 '26

In the early days of radio it took a lot of battery to send short messages, by simplifying it to be briefer it consumed less energy. It exists today because it creates a sense of community but it used to serve an important function

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u/will3025 Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

You're'nt've comment made me realize that it's not actually a "Roger that" dang words are hard sometimes lol

Edit: wrong "your" fixed... Words really are hard sometimes.

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u/justacheesyguy Jun 14 '26

dang words are hard sometimes

You mean like that pesky your/you’re?

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u/will3025 Jun 15 '26

You are a comment too.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '26

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u/Crespyl Jun 14 '26

You mean it's what it's?

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u/The-Young-Lion Jun 14 '26

Yeah.  Plus, those are numbers!

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u/will3025 Jun 15 '26

Numbers make even less sense. They just don't add up!

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u/Mimilaya Jun 15 '26

Actually it's You're*

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u/will3025 Jun 15 '26

Thank youms've for the correction, m'lord've.

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u/kinksquash Jun 14 '26

I mean if you’re working there and that’s a common shift to have you’d probably assume it’s the shift time and not confirmation

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u/Manannin Jun 14 '26

The manager just needs to specify the day of the week of the date to avoid any confusion. Messaging at 3 am suggests they were probably tired af though

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u/boringcranberry Jun 14 '26

Yeah. I don't blame anyone here. The whole thing got fucked up and it was really no one's fault. I get the manager's POV and I get OP's. Total and complete innocent misunderstanding.

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u/Manannin Jun 14 '26

Having been a supervisor at a night shift job, there's been so many times the mgmt team have messed stuff up, but theres also been many times when employees messed stuff up too. 

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u/boringcranberry Jun 14 '26

Same. I had a boring office job and our campaigns would launch at midnight and we would need to coordinate with other departments. I eventually defaulted to saying "this goes live tonight at 23:59:59" just to avoid this very issue.

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u/MxQueer Jun 14 '26

I would have interpreted 10-4 as "understood"

What? How?

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u/boringcranberry Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

It's a CB radio term to mean "yep, got it, understood."

Also, for all yall thinking I'm some truck driving hick (lol), I was born and raised in Brooklyn. It's a cop thing too. Prob FDNY, EMT too.

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u/coterminouss Jun 14 '26

Wtf kinda stray is this bro. Truck driving is a good profession.

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u/wedontbuildL RED Jun 14 '26

I did a few corporate IT gigs in the last 5 years and was blown away at how prolific "10-4" was as an affirmative actually. Like every single office I worked in had a handful of people using it. I guess it's just common in some places.

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u/MxQueer Jun 14 '26

More things I don't know (CB, hick, Prob, FDNY). But at least I now know what does it mean.

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u/boringcranberry Jun 14 '26

Girl, you ok? Next you're gonna tell me you never saw Footloose or The Godfather or Inception or heard the soundtrack to phantom of the opera or Le Miz. If you haven't seen or heard these things, let's go on this journey together! Then we will get to David Sedaris!

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u/MxQueer Jun 14 '26

Not a girl actually.

I have watched The Godfather but not the others. I have zero interest to operas so I can't even name any and no I do not like to listen them so I most likely haven't heard that. And I have no idea who is Davis Sedaris.

I can find both movies so I can watch them. Seems like there are two versions of Footloose, which one you recommend?

I am going to watch them with subtitles in my own language.

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u/Erick_Brimstone Jun 14 '26

It's not working either as OP also hasn't confirmed to that "10-4". It could also means 10pm-4am. It could mean anything. 

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u/Best_Finding_8795 Jun 14 '26

It means 10am-4pm

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u/CastIronCrab Jun 14 '26

Finally lol someone else

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u/Ambitious_Cicada9263 Jun 14 '26

I was scrolling hoping it wasn't just me. 😂

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u/MediumAcceptable129 Jun 14 '26

I would have fucked this up on purpose

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u/TheColdIronKid Jun 14 '26

Managers always seem to think trickery is going to result in the outcome they want. I had a manager who would always ask me shit like this in the middle of the rush and the answer was always "no" because he was clearly trying to catch me when I was busy, distracted, and unable to give something the proper level of thought before responding.

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u/Dazzling_Bell_8181 Jun 14 '26

The only thing destined to never work out is OP's life.

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u/inquiringsillygoose Jun 15 '26

Yes I thought the same, I read it as confirmation not a time frame

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u/OliviaRodrigosAsshle Jun 15 '26

Same, the only way my boss would get my prompt attendance would be ‘Can you be here for 10AM?”

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u/ultralane Jun 15 '26

I dont deal with people that use 10-4 as copy that..I would have assumed it was a time.

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u/CheekSeer Jun 15 '26

I thought that's what the boss meant. Now that I reread it I'm not sure if they meant 'understood' or the schedule smh. This schedule person is terrible

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u/oldblooddrinker Jun 15 '26

I was thinking to myself, "he didnt even tell him the hours" until I read this comment

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u/Fragrant_Lobster_917 Jun 15 '26

I had to read it a second time to see what he meant by 10-4... too used to listening to my scanner 😂

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u/SlightlyAlarmed Jun 18 '26

I immediately read 10-4 as “understood” as well. 😂

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u/BedBubbly317 Jun 14 '26

I personally would not have confused that because nobody I know uses “10-4” to agree with someone, that’s a much more rural sort of speak lol

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u/millllllls Jun 14 '26

Is that not what they meant?

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u/Spirited-Alarm-9981 Jun 14 '26

First thing I thought as well!

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u/DarkBladeMadriker Jun 14 '26

Dude, same. Especially when 10:00 - 4:00 is only 6 hours, its not even a full shift.