Good things about bad things.

[Mister K]

So, bad things happen, but that doesn't mean that they are all absolutely negative, right?

Case in point: Youtube's consumption by Google+. Yes, new comment system is garbage. Yes constant tries to make me use "my real name" are annoying.
But, hey, I finally got to change the name of my account from the childish one that I had to something relatively nice.

What about you? Can you name some positive aspects of bad stuff that happened?

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Well there's the very old adage of "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger".
So all those times I got beat up... I guess they added towards something?

 

[Generalissimo]

strict teachers: motivate you to show them up through superior work

Fear: warns you of potential danger, and can give increased mental clarity

"that guy": finally, something we can ALL agree sucks

game glitches: can be funny sometimes, and as a wannabe programmer i find them fascinating.

 

[tippy2k2]

I got "let go" from my previous job because I didn't "fit in with the culture". I was there for a year and a half as a temp when they finally cut me loose. I was devastated. Though I never "technically" got fired because I was a temp, it was the first time that I was fired from a job. It hurt. It killed me for the two weeks it took to get placed at my new job (same job but at US Bank instead).

Now? Thank GOD that I got out of there. It helped me in two ways:

1. I realized how shitty I was at that job. I had absolutely no clue how bad I was doing (a boss probably should have said something...) and seeing myself in hindsight has really helped me work harder at this current job.

2. I'd have crumbled and died with that culture. It was way too serious (think "Office Space") and I'd have hated it. While I don't love my job, I LOVE working at US Bank and the corporate culture. My desk is filled with toys; what got me funny looks and stink eyes at my old job gets people over to my desk to talk nerd with me at US.

Getting "Let go" from the old bank was a blessing in disguise.

 

[Guffe]

I'll go on a little bigger scale than the OP
War, it's shite, but it usually brings a lot of new stuff.
Closest in history I'd say WWI and WWII, those two wars were hell of course, but thanks to them the species advanced greatly in many areas.

 

[Risingblade]

The holocaust brought some brilliant scientists to the states? idk

 

[Lionsfan]

Hitler started one of the first anti-smoking campaigns in a Modern Country

 

[Generalissimo]

The holocaust brought some brilliant scientists to the states? idk

"brilliant scientists" who had done their work in human experimentation and other unethical methods. hardly good.

 

[Gaijinko]

In my case getting a food intolerance to deep fried foods, means I cant eat delicious chips in quantities BUT it kick started my healthy eating and exercise campaign and I have gone from 19 and a half stone to ten stone (with muscle), but still no chips.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

strict teachers: motivate you to show them up through superior work.

Most of the strict teachers I've ever had were strict because they genuinely wanted their students to succeed. In fact one of my favourite teachers would come down on you like a tonne of bricks if you didn't do your work, but was one of the easiest guys to get along with if you did.

 

[Flutterguy]

Near death experience. Followed by self understanding and improvement, eventually self-acceptance.

 

[Radeonx]

In a general sense (At least for me), rejection. Life experience always contains some degree of rejection from relationships, jobs, whatever, but I've always been able to analyze whatever it is I was rejected from and figure out why, and then better myself in some way because of it.

Career wise, this was especially useful, as I was initially denied from a huge internship in college but was able to pull my act together and get a fantastic job at the same company once I had graduated. Analyzing why you didn't get a job or why you were fired and correcting those mistakes is a fantastic trait to have in the career world.

 

[frizzlebyte]

strict teachers: motivate you to show them up through superior work.

Most of the strict teachers I've ever had were strict because they genuinely wanted their students to succeed. In fact one of my favourite teachers would come down on you like a tonne of bricks if you didn't do your work, but was one of the easiest guys to get along with if you did.

In college one of my history professors was like this. Great guy, fantastic teaching, but I bombed with zero marks for the essay portion of the first test. After a bit of fuming and then soul-searching, I figured out what I did wrong (and it *was*, in fact, my fault), and from then on out made straight A's in the class.

To this day I appreciate that lesson.

 

[Sealpower]

The holocaust brought some brilliant scientists to the states? idk

"brilliant scientists" who had done their work in human experimentation and other unethical methods. hardly good.

Eh, I'm pretty sure he meant all the brilliant scientists of Jewish decent who fled Germany at the beginning of the regime. Einstein for example.

 

[TakerFoxx]

On Friday night, I had crazy insomnia. Finally at 5AM I threw in the towel and drove over to Walmart to pick up some Zzzquil. When I got home, I immediately began throwing up, and threw up again the first thing in the morning.

Silver lining? I got to call in sick!

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I got a double-hernia around my groin...and just had surgery a few days ago...This sucks because I'm still waiting for medical bills...oh Gods, how that sucks...ANYWAY! This is a good thing since I've essentially been given a month or so off work which leaves me free to tackle my backlog of games!

This happened to me a few years ago but I'm sure it happens to everyone at least once in their life: Being fired (or more specifically, being released from a failing work place) lead me to a better job. When Blockbuster died I couldn't find work immediately after but I did get to work as an actor in a Halloween Trail. Then when Gamestop couldn't transfer me to a store in the state I moved to, I got a job at Target...which is like going from a friend's closet in a crappy neighborhood to a tiny one-room loft in a slightly-less-crappy neighborhood.

 

[Strazdas]

Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

Plenty of times bad things lead to good things, but thats not always true. Sometimes bad things are just bad. There isnt always two sides of an argument.

strict teachers: motivate you to show them up through superior work.

Most of the strict teachers I've ever had were strict because they genuinely wanted their students to succeed. In fact one of my favourite teachers would come down on you like a tonne of bricks if you didn't do your work, but was one of the easiest guys to get along with if you did.

lucky you. most i met were strict because of reasons they only themselves can understand. I especially "loved" one math lector that would go around praising how exellently you solved this and then give you 6/10 for it. because good grades does not exist.

Closest in history I'd say WWI and WWII, those two wars were hell of course, but thanks to them the species advanced greatly in many areas.

There is no reason to believe that we would not have made advancements without those wars.

 

[Guffe]

Closest in history I'd say WWI and WWII, those two wars were hell of course, but thanks to them the species advanced greatly in many areas.

There is no reason to believe that we would not have made advancements without those wars.

That is also true, but if WWII would never had happened, I doubt we'd have the same technological advancment we have today. I'm not saying we'd be back in the level of 70s or 80s, no one can say anything about that. But during the war many new things were created to have the upper hand over your enemies which later have been "altered" to be used in our everyday lives.

But yes, we'd still get there eventually, that I agree on.

 

[Strazdas]

Closest in history I'd say WWI and WWII, those two wars were hell of course, but thanks to them the species advanced greatly in many areas.

There is no reason to believe that we would not have made advancements without those wars.

That is also true, but if WWII would never had happened, I doubt we'd have the same technological advancment we have today. I'm not saying we'd be back in the level of 70s or 80s, no one can say anything about that. But during the war many new things were created to have the upper hand over your enemies which later have been "altered" to be used in our everyday lives.

But yes, we'd still get there eventually, that I agree on.

Why? Technoligical advancement didnt slow down after WW2. In fact, it speed up. Many new things are created all the time. Its just during war time it is much more advertised and more destruction focused than during peace time. We may have had a different outcome, sure, but highly unlikely be less technologically developed barring a nuclear apocalypse or something.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

I'm sure you've all heard about the Target credit card breach by now, yes? Well, I work at Target, and while that entire thing was bad, there was an upside to it that I greatly enjoyed.

We were no longer required to pester (yes, that's the word I use) customers about signing up for a Red Card. In fact, we were told to not even mention the card because people didn't want to hear about it. No longer were our supervisors constantly hovering over us. No longer did we have to suffer the withering glares of, "I just want to buy my gum and go" from people. It was nice. I loved it. I could go into work, do my job, and not worry about being dragged into the office because I wasn't bugging every single person who came through my line. For three months, life was good.

Today I got pulled into the office and talked to. The break is over. We have to start bugging everyone again. And I mean everyone. "Would you like to save five percent on your purchase of 3.00 today? No? But you get an extra thirty days to return your three dollar purchase, and online shipping is free!" Worse, our supervisors now have a checklist that they use when they hover over us. Break's over I guess. Time to find a new job.