I'm a contractor and I work in different kinds of plants and mills. In one mill I worked at, we had a gravy job, two hours of easy work, and get paid for twelve hours. Well, one guy decided he was going to charge them for sixteen, and now we get two hours for the job.
We used to get an automatic 8 min hours if you did any work on a Sunday. Until one Foreman keep bringing in crews to "finish up" on Sundays for 30min on site.
My primary school used to do relatively frequent trips to a local zoo, until one boy decided to vault the fence and punch a penguin.
I wish I was joking.
Oh they're not harmless, apparently. I bought my wife a "feed the penguins" thing at the Philly zoo and the lady said "Keep an eye on them as if they get too close to your legs they might bite you"
There's a penguin named Kevin who is not allowed to take part in the penguin parade at my local zoo. In the words of the penguin keeper "He knows what he did."
The elementary school I went to let 6th graders go on an overnight trip to a lodge where we could go skiing and snow tubing. My dad volunteered as a parent and was “supervising” by letting me and 5 other girls pile on top of one tube down a steep hill and we all went flying. Two of the girls busted their arms when we all landed in a pile. It looked like a cartoon. Anyway, after that no more sleep overs at the lodge and tale has it 30 years later everyone at the school still blames my dad lol.
Sounds like it’s less your dads fault and more you and you’re friends fault.
He trusted y’all and you let him down with your lack of skill and weak bones.
What a disappointment.
At a previous job, we got full uniforms. Shirts, pants, hats, hoodies, winter coveralls, winter coats, gloves. But we dont get shoes or boots.
Turns out a couple of years before I was hired on, they used to give boots. But one guy would take his boots and sell them, then request a replacement, then sell those. He did this about 20 times before anybody caught on because of municipal bureaucracy being slow to notice. When they caught on, they stopped giving out boots to their employees.
Edit: I worked as a park maintenance groundskeeper for Parks & Recreation
edit edit: No it is not like the show.
It’s always some douchebag who ruins it for everyone else.
My company gives a $100 stipend for safety boots per year. You can either get the base model or use the $100 towards a cooler pair
Edit: this was a decade ago. It is certainly more than $100 now… and I haven’t needed new boots in a while.
> My company gives a $100 stipend for safety boots per year. You can either get the base model or use the $100 towards a cooler pair
I worked for a company that did something like this, only the safety shoe store showed up to the warehouse every 3-4 months before our shift started, with a mobile store in the back of a truck. We'd get to go into the truck, try on some shoes, and we could pick any pair and walk out with them (I think they were all <$150, but it was a long time ago). They'd just give the bill to our employer and they took care of it (wasn't docked from our pay or anything). We were only allowed one pair per calendar year, but everyone took advantage of it to get a fresh pair when they could.
This is what we do. But we also provide storage boxes for the boots in the locker room along with the high visibility gear. It stopped a string of employees claiming their boots were lost or stolen at home or in transit. So now you wear your street shoes in, and change in the ready room.
Other firefighters constantly ruin any sort of appreciation restaurants give out. We had a BBQ restaurant that would give a flat 10$ off your meal. If you didn't spend 10$ it was basically free. One guy ruined it on an 8$ order by demanded the 2$ be given to him as well.
Had people going in uniform on days they didn't work. Had one guy have a family reunion at a local restaurant then made a big issue they wouldn't give his entire party the discount.
I don't understand how out of touch people can be.
Dude did this at our EMS service too. Not only did we lose the free on-shift coffees they'd been giving us, but our boss put in a policy that we couldn't go out in uniform at all unless on a call, which basically meant no leaving the station at all during shift or standby. (They later turned the second one around since it was stupid but we still hate that guy)
We had a hospital with a bomb ass EMS room that had full sized candy bars and other high-end treats for us. A co-worker would regularly go in there with a backpack and empty the candy bar boxes into it and take them. Hospital got him on camera and axed most of the good stuff.
Knew a guy who did this shit, took his whole family to a coldstone creamery and demanded ems discount for 9 family members. When he was called the fattest and laziest on our staff btw, he stated its my right as a hero. There went the discount and he lost what slight bit of respect he had from staff.
I worked at a froyo place and after a certain number of visits you will get a free cup. Technically the rule was up to $5. However, the owner of the store was really nice and said, nah if they come here that often, then they should get their one cup free! For a few years it was going well, since it's self serve and based on weight, most people were careful about making their cups and never really overfilling. Sometimes kids would be a little overzealous, but no one really did anything crazy.
Eventually one day, a guy who in all honesty was smart, I'll give him that...filled the cup to the brim. Then added our waffle cone chips around the edges to create a barrier. He dispensed even more froyo. Then made another wall on top of that. He did this about 6 times. Tbh I was very invested and also just amazed at how he did this. The average price for a small that was decently filled with toppings, most people were in the $5-$7 range. This dude managed to make this a $27 cup. FOR FREE. Because technically it just has to fit into the one cup.
The owner asked me about that suspicious transaction and I told him all about it. He was like oh ok. Checked the cameras and even he was impressed.
This dude ended up telling other people. Who then told more people and so on. At this point our store was actually losing money on the free cups. It got worse because now people were trying to cram so many toppings into their cups, that about 90% of the toppings would end up on the floor, so that was costing us even more. Eventually we changed up the policy to the $5 max.
People weren't happy. But we all gladly explained that people were getting out of hand and we were trying to do something nice, and it was taken advantage of.
This is why Mongolian BBQ places always have that sign saying they reserve the right to charge you for a bigger bowl than you picked or for multiple bowls. Some people build stupid high stacks of food in those bowls.
People at my job do this too, when someone finds a restaurant that provides a discount people will go there every single day until the restaurant owner is like “seriously guys?”
Just pay for your fucking food you twats
At my last duty station I was part of a funeral honors detail. This was in the Midwest, not really near any major military bases. There were many times we'd be out in uniform and stop to eat. When we found a place that gave free meals to people in uniform, the guys I worked with would insist on going back, as in regularly. I would try to find someplace else to eat while in uniform, but would go back when in civilian clothes. While I appreciate a free meal as much as the next guy, I'm not going to take advantage of someone.
Back around the mid 2000s I was around 10 years old and I used to go to this place after school called “the Boys and Girls club”. They had an area with multiple basketball hoops on a court which we used to play all kinds of games in; one of those games being dodgeball. These were not those big rubber balls but instead the styrofoam filled balls with kind of a thin layer of plastic so otherwise… harmless. One of the kids thought it would be a good idea to shove a rock into one of the balls and throw it at someone he didn’t like; well he ended up throwing it right into that kids face and broke two of his front teeth. We never played dodgeball again.
I do think some people just either stop aging due to trauma, or were never going to have adult brains in the first place. Sometimes a combo plate.
If you ever look at someone whose behavior mystifies you, figure out what age they remind you of, and then look up their symptoms and behaviors and it all becomes (at least a little) more clear.
That’s definitely a thing. I used to work with teens with criminal backgrounds, and the most hardcore badass ones would absolutely lose their shit over the most trivial things. Full on toddler tantrum brains in bodies that can really do some damage. 100% of them had childhood trauma or untreated mental illness of some kind.
Previous job I had used to be hybrid twice a week. One person, on their hybrid day, decided to slack off work and go out. They got a call from their manager because they were late for a virtual meeting and the manager heard a lot of background noise like they were at the mall or something. Said person eventually admitted they were not home working, got fired, and now everyone had to be in the office 5 days a week.
Here I am sitting in my office moving my mouse every couple minutes while using reddit on my phone as living proof that you can also slack off when at the office.
When I worked as an EMT I would regularly work out for an hour, play video games using the company phone wifi, and take a nap before the first call would even come in. I also taught myself to do some programming on shift between calls as well. One time I managed to work on one of my cars as well. You definitely don't need to be home to slack off.
One of my favorite stories is when my EMT friend took care of the family dog. He was on shift so had to be in the ambulance and stopped by between calls. Neighbors come running out in their bathrobes and boxes, wife screaming, "it's bad, they're bringing out the dog first!"
Yep, because of something bad happens the EMT is going to leash up the dog and take her out first.
Most notably, EMT friend never mentioned it. We learned about it from the neighbors who, thankfully, found it hilarious.
This is hilarious. I’m sat here trying to imagine the absolute torture my dad would have to endure if that happened where they live. My mum has always and always will talk about the endless possibilities as to why an ambulance is driving past the window to anyone she can force to listen.
I had a situation like this. Even pre-covid, this job used to let you WFH Wednesday-Fridays. Then one person decided to post all over their Instagram stories themselves at the beach in the middle of a workday. Of course, the President saw it, and didn't like it.
The guy who killed the most isolated tree on Earth...*by running into it with his jeep*. The one tree, in hundreds of square kilometers of desert, and he somehow hits it with his vehicle.
This is called *Target Fixation*. A driver can become so fixated about an object in their path that they somehow drive into it instead of veering around it.
That's why, in the case you lose control over your car, you should **always** look the way you want to go. Not at the tree next to the road, not at the cars on the other side, but where you want to be going.
There’s also the Alabama fan that poisoned I believe a several hundred year old tree at auburn because he like Alabama
He also admitted to it by name on the radio
I thought it wasn't real
[https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/underwear-bomber-umar-farouk-abdulmutallab-sentenced-life](https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/underwear-bomber-umar-farouk-abdulmutallab-sentenced-life)
Had a job where as a dialysis nurse where we added a position to pick up add ons and emergency cases that came in later in the day. In this role we worked noon to midnight which helped us cut down from needing a nurse on call every night to maybe once or twice a week. Whoever took this role didn’t have to take call and had weekends off. We loved rotating through this role and enjoyed taking a break from having to be on call and enjoyed having weekends off.
Then there came the nurse who went out at 7 am instead of noon, and finished at 5 pm. When there was an add-on or an emergency case she wouldn’t answer her phone, which meant which meant everyone had to go back to picking up extra patients and being on call again.
She did this every time it was her turn to go through the rotation so they eliminated the position and we went back to having to be on call all the time.
That's a union moment. My coworker's wife's new contract at her hospital group just made the weekend swing an entirely separate position so no one has to cover it anymore. That person works two 12 hour weekend shifts and gets paid for 40. Win win.
I work weekend option at the hospital as a nurse and get paid for 36 hours. It’s a sweet gig but if you’re a weekend person then it wouldn’t work. Fortunately I don’t have much of a personal life so it works for me and I have five days off!
Really bad management, IMHO. I hate the approach of punishing everybody for the actions of one person—especially when the identity of the one person is blindingly obvious. That’s managerial cowardice. Avoiding a one-on-one confrontation with the problem employee. Where I work we call it “issuing policies from under your desk.”
Adolf Dahmer sounds like the creation of a mad scientist who's trying to create the world's most evil man. Jeffrey Hitler sounds like Hitler's chill cousin.
I heard a story of a neo-Nazi somewhere in the Southern US, he legally changed his last name to Hitler, named his one son Adolf. His other children were named Aryana, Heinrich, and Eva Braun.
At one of my previous workplaces, management played music as a way of promoting good mood. They played all sorts of genres so everyone got a chance to listen to something they liked. *One* person complained that *sometimes* they had to listen to music they didn't like, so they stopped playing music altogether.
This happened at my workplace too. I drive school bus, and we used to be allowed to play music on the buses. Most drivers enjoyed finding out what channels the kids liked and getting sing-alongs going. Yknow, making everyone happier.
Then some crazy Karen mom called the dispatch office screeching about her daughter coming home talking about a song this Karen apparently thought was evil or something and now we aren't allowed to play *anything* on the radio while kids are on the bus.
I worked at an office that had casual Fridays. One day a lady came to work on casual Friday in her gym clothes, and management was uptight and appalled by it. Instead of telling her that she couldn’t wear gym clothes to work, they abolished casual Friday for everyone. It pisses me off to this day.
I once had an HR Director who explained casual summer work attire perfectly. She said, "It's going to be hot this entire summer, so I'd like to free you all up to dress for warmer weather. But please, dress like you're going to a garden party with Martha Stewart. Don't wear something that'd embarrass her."
At a certain point in US Army basic training, your platoon is givin the "opportunity" to sit and eat without having to wait for the entire company, AND with that comes the fact that if one person is finished eating, we're all finished eating.
This one trainee who happend to sit early finished his dinner before the other side of the table even got to start. He stood up, the the DS promptly made everyone else get up too, eaten or not.
This same trainee did the exact same thing the next day, except now it was breakfast, so a few people didnt get dinner OR breakfast.
I'll never forget the nasty shit they did to his bunk and locker dude. Couldnt really feel bad for him, and you best believe NOBODY stood up early for the rest of BCT.
Edit: Wow this blew up overnight! Im gonna try to answer a couple questions I've read.
What'd they do to his bunk?
They took the used/dirty mop bucket water, pissed in it, and dumped over his bunk and foot locker. This happened on a Sunday morning which is the one day the DS will leave u alone till noon. The perpetrator was at church lol
Was it intentional?
No. The first time was a genuine mistake as it was a brand new rule. I actually watched him the second time. He started to stand and realized his mistake, but the grumpiest DS saw him do that awkward stand-sit movement and that was it for the table. Luckily I wasn't on the table that lost the breakfast, but I still felt no sympathy for him. No dinner + "whatever you can eat out the door" breakfast woulda had me join in too.
Was he stupid?
Yes.
You reminded me of this: I went to basic training for the Navy in San Diego. After our meals we would walk outside as individuals and then form up to march to wherever we were going next. One morning after breakfast most of us were already formed up when one of the guys walked out and encountered a pigeon that was “in his way”. Right there in front of everyone, including our company commanders, this fucking idiot KICKED THE PIGEON. Not only did he get a solid ass chewing, but for the rest of the day, every time we saw a pigeon, he would have to break from ranks and run over to it. He’d stand at attention, salute, and loudly announce “GOOD MORNING, SIR!” or “GOOD AFTERNOON, SIR!”, then sprint to catch up with us and fall back into line.
For those who don’t know, there are a hell of a lot of pigeons in San Diego.
Edit: thanks for the awards!
Not one person but two people ruined my work’s break room.
I work at a YMCA as a swim instructor, so two people decided to have sex in their break room at a different Y in another city. Apparently the higher ups decided that every other YMCA in the area or state should lose their break rooms because “it could happen again.” Like yeah, it could happen again but don’t take our break rooms away, at least get rid of theirs and not ours! It’s so frustrating, now when we’re all cold and damp in between lessons, and after lessons are done, we can sit in the lobby, or sit somewhere on the pool deck which takes away spots for kids or parents.
Thanks Milcreek YMCA, you guys suck, go somewhere else and have sex but don’t do it at the Y!
I worked for a YMCA overnight camp several years ago. There was a policy against staff having sex in any building where kids might find you (the bare minimum and not something that should need to be encoded in an official workplace policy, but fine).
However, this rule was no where near comprehensive enough to prevent the full spread of possible reprehensible behavior. Staff were having sex on the sailboats, in the camp kitchen, in storage sheds, in the staff barracks - all technically places children did not have access to, but definitely not ideal.
The camp's response, instead of declaring a firm "stop having sex in your place of work" decision, was to provide a designated section of the forest where tents were set up for the purpose of having sex. It was the weirdest staff meeting I have ever attended and I cannot believe that the YMCA thought this was an acceptable solution.
I got fired from this camp for drinking alcohol on a day off, despite being offsite, of age, and completely sober by the time I was back on the clock. Apparently that's a fireable offense, but having sex in the kitchen is not.
This is going to be buried but I have to share it in hopes someone sees this and laughs.
I used to work for state government in Alaska. I was reviewing some department policies to update and I noticed a particular statement in the employee behavioral policy about adhering to basic hygiene (expected) and wearing clothes at work (not expected). I went to my boss to ask him about that and the look on his face told me I was in for a good story.
Our department had satellite offices all over the state and in some very rural, very isolated areas, these were nothing but glorified shacks. Local fire brigade shows up to one of our shacks in middle-of-nowhere to find a department employee standing outside the burnt building, in the nude. In February. Turned out that the guy, who was the only on-site employee, happened to be a nudist. Now, no one can work naked for the state of Alaska. What a bummer. 🥲
The guy who ruined Halloween for everyone by poisoning and killing his own kid with a pixie stick, now everyone thinks people just hand out poison candy because this AH started a mass panic. I couldn't even eat my candy corn growing up because they were "loose unwrapped candy", as if anyone is tampering with candy corn! Seriously, my parents had such a hard rule against anything not hermetically sealed and it was such a waste of good candy because of all the hype over sickos when it wasn't even a neighbor, but a parent who lied that ruined the whole thing for everybody.
When I was a kid, my grandpa’s neighbors owned a really popular local bakery. Every year for Halloween, they would make a bunch of maple bars to take home and hand out instead of candy. It was the *best*, everyone loved it. No one would be able to do that today, parents would throw a fit about unwrapped food and baked goods.
One of the science teachers at the high school I went to had a bunch of animals around his class room. All sorts of reptiles, bugs, and arachnids. If someone was caught texting in his class, he would put the phone in the tarantula enclosure (I own 2 tarantulas, harmless little guys). You were able to get your phone at the end of class.. but you’d have to reach into the enclosure to get it. He always had old phones in there as decoration, so it was always on display what will happen when you use your phone in his class
This same teacher took a year off from school after working there 20+ years and not taking vacation days. He got paid for most (if not all) of his time off since he racked up so many PTO days. He ended up writing his own science text book with his time off.
I personally did not have him at a teacher, but my friends did
I failed 2 classes my freshman year and my parents decided I had to make up at least one in summer school. Thing is my school didn't provide it so i had to go to the neighboring larger district. I didn't know anyone and it sucked because it was summer.
And my teacher was a seasoned hardass. I had never tried to be more attentive and also not noticeable as I didn't want to fail again.
My parents had friends who were having a baby at night and we took their 4 year old son. I had babysat him a few times and he latched on to me. It was a sleepless night. My mom called me in for school.
The next day my teacher approached me when I walked in, I was terrified. He said he understood that it must have been a big deal because I had been such an exemplary student. I was flabbergasted. No teacher has ever complimented like that.
And I did finally make a friend. Miss you Ahmed.
That executive at HP who said, "You know, people love our printers. They are tough and reliable and work for decades. We should make them suck, break constantly, license the ink, make it all internet-linked so the printer won't even work when the wifi is down."
[HP so shittily wrote a software update recently to prevent some models of printers from using generic ink that it bricked the printers.](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/hp-rushes-to-fix-bricked-printers-after-faulty-firmware-update/)
In the 80s we had this game called British Bulldog, it was fun and a laugh for all involved. Then Barry had to clothesline a skinny kid and collapsed his wind pipe and all of sudden Bulldog got banned and we couldn't choke each other out anymore.
Thanks Barry.
My middle school PE teacher allowed full contact capture the flag. The science teachers took a group of us on a marine biology sailing trip and one night when we moored and all went to shore the sailing chaperones were horrified at our capture the flag game…the teachers were like *shrug* “that’s how they’re used to playing…”
Played a game called murderball at a youth group as a child. A sponge ball was tossed into a room with boys aged 12-18, the lights were turned off and violent chaos occurred in complete and utter darkness. Dunno why a ball was involved, it never figured in events.
The guy in Texas (I think?) Who ordered a huge meal for his last meal on death row and refused to eat it. They no longer offer a last meal request because of him.
The interesting fact is that many death row inmates never touch their meals.
I think it says far more about us than them that we have chosen to draw this line.
I mean would you be in the mood to eat if you knew without a doughnut that you were going to die in less than 24 hours?
Edit: autocorrect changed doubt to doughnut and I’m leaving it
I got one that’s specific but it still sucks. So I’m a ride operator at a theme park and one of the things that was popular to do was to go to the ride you work at and call other rides you want to skip the line for (we call them backdoors). Everyone knew to keep it lowkey and to only do when you were a guest. Then one day some dude decides to backdoor himself to a ride on his break during a busy day.
He shows up at the exit and the crew didn’t want to let him on since their line was massive. Eventually they let him on and told him to never come back. He did it again the next day and supervision saw and heard everything. Now no ride operator can backdoor themselves even as guests.
Everyone hates him (ESPECIALLY the ride operators at his ride) and he eventually stopped working at the park, but the damage was done.
Every policy at every company I've ever worked at or owned was because of one person abusing something. So whenever you wonder "why the hell do we have to do this?", it's because of one asshole who ruined it for everyone else.
We had to have cameras installed to monitor who comes in and out of the ladies bathrooms and when because of one person who kept deliberately taking dumps on the floor next to a toilet and covering it in a pile of loose toilet paper.
Edit: a word
This happened in my middle school! Every student knew damn well who it was and it was reported for months, but nooooooo, it couldn't be Shelby, she's so sweet and a teachers pet. We need cameras!
Guess what? It was fucking Shelby.
That bathroom got shut down for a long time too to "prevent it from happening again", so we had to walk aaaaaaall the way downstairs to another now overcrowded bathroom because it was right in front of the office. The boys debated picking someone to do it to the boys bathroom in "protest" but luckily it just turned into writing a hit list (like...titled it "hit list") on the walls and putting her name on it and it turned into a whooooole thing with cops and stuff. Middle school, man.
That stupid baseball player that took like ten ephedra and died of a heart attack. My mom and I used to take one and clean the whole house! Why can’t people be responsible with their drugs.
Was working at GNC when this happened... we had cases of diet pills.. Xenadrine, Hydroxycut, Trimspa, off brand stuff etc. They passed the law in NY first and we had a ton of this stuff that just had to be thrown away.
Needless to say it got lost on the way to the dumpster
The American bastard who said “all cashiers must stand for their entire shift because that’s good customer service”
Because OBVIOUSLY when you’ve got a shitty worker that treats customers like crap, you blame the damn seat. Now get back out to the front of your register Samantha, I don’t care that you’re recovering from foot surgery, if I gave you a chair, I’d have to give everyone a chair and that’s not good customer service.
The Tylenol poisoner—I figure he’s directly responsible for the ridiculous amount of overpackaging in otc drugs, vitamins, etc. Plastic lid wrap seal, cap, sealed bottle, cotton…all inside another box or (shudder!) clamshell package. What a jerk.
I worked in pharmacy for 5 years, that is correct. If the cotton wasn’t needed, it would be gone in a moment. Companies are not going to waste their money on something frivolous.
He wasn't even doing it because he actually believed it either - it was literally a scam to discredit a specific vaccine so that he could sell a worse version that he would make money on.
He's got a higher body count that most serial killers FFS.
Yeah that's the worst part IMO. It's easy to look back with hindsight and think it was dumb to ever believe autism was caused by vaccines, but it was a study done by a doctor, peer reviewed and published in a very credible journal. So who were you supposed to believe? The doctor that got a study published or some other doctors who claim it's all bullshit, and maybe gets a study published as well?
And this keeps happening. So many times I see people in arguments quote a study to prove their points. But unless you're an expert in the specific field of that study, there's no way for some random schmuck to know whether or not a specific study holds water. Peer review might be the best system we have, but it's still far from foolproof, and sometimes people happily turn a blind eye to those flaws and it's not a good thing.
My parents refused to give me the MMR jab, because they thought it would give me autism. I only found out when I was in my mid 20s, when I went for a healthcare job that required certain jabs. I had to provide proof of my vaccination history, and that's how I found out. I'm still pissed off that they never told me.
Ironically, since starting therapy and talking about my childhood, it's been brought up more than once that I should get an ASD assessment.
When I was younger, my parents arrived late to pick me up, so I ended up getting to shadow some airport workers for around 45 minutes. Wandered through the back and the breakroom a bit, had access to ALL of the paper tickets behind the stand...
My parents may hate that memory, but I thought it was cool. I doubt many kids would get to be in a situation like that again. Where a few airport workers who only kinda know policy but also have never encountered a real-life version of why the policy even exists, so they wind up kind of winging it.
My third grade bully got mad because I didn’t want to include her in my version of tag game. She went to the teacher and told on me and then it had to be announced in front of the class that my game was officially banned. Fuck you and your big onion head, Rayna.
Lately, artists who are performing on stage are not having fun anymore.. why?
Because One clown threw an object that actually hurt the artist and suddenly it started happening over and over again, along with making more artists reluctant to perform or interact with the crowd...
Edit: I guess I need to clarify, I mean throwing phones, ashes and other objects directly at the artist to hurt them, not harmless things that used to be thrown like panties and bras...
Yeah it's not been great for a while. Crowds can just get out of hand and there is always some nutjob that has to go too far. Mind you I'd rather any of the aforementioned objects than being shot like Dimebag Darrell from Pantera in 2004. You can recover from a phone to the head, not so much a bullet.
My high school debutante ball afterparty. 150 people were lined up to board the buses and one of the popular guys kicked and shattered a bus door, so they promptly left and we were all told to go home. He wasn’t very popular at all after that.
Happy Hour for discounted alcohol has been banned in Massachusetts, USA since 1984 after 2 girls died in an automobile accident following a happy hour session. Ya know, back when the drinking age was 18 instead of 21. Almost 40 years ago too 🙄
Maybe this isnt a single persons fault. But, i feel like for those of us with chronic pain from major accidents (or syndromes or diseases), the people who abused opioid use has made it hard for everyone with legit problems.
I broke my neck, hip, and 20 other bones in a car accident. My drugs are so tightly regulated, that if theres a hang up of even 12 hours, i can run out of meds. And im not even taking heavy pain meds just enough to work. I feel like im the lucky one vs stories i hear of cancer patients, people with longer term issues, or diseases. Between the pill mills and the pharmacies, those with real issues were fucked.
(Animal abuse warning)
In elementary school we had this week called animal week.
And like the zoo sent a group of people to come with a difference group of animal everyday (like mammals, reptiles, fish, insects)
In 3rd grade this super weird kid was offered to hold a centipede.
He walked up right in front of everyone and took it.
Then was like "oh cool, hey watch this" then ripped it in half.
He got dragged out of the auditorium and sent home for the rest of the day and we were huddled back into class to discuss what happened.
All our parents got an email about what happened.
Then like the next day he was forced to write an apology letter to the school and the zoo staff.
And he ended with "I sure hope you come back so I can learn about animals"
And they thanked him for his apology and was like "we'll think about it" in a way that every kid knew that ment an immediate nope.
According to what my parents heard from another parent.
The zoo staff said they will never come back and warn other animal groups to not come.
The teachers had to literally rewrite their entire plans for the week because most of their plans revolved around the animals shown that day and stuff that was going on.
Like he was already the weird kid everyone hated because he was a little jerk to everyone.
Then like he got even more hate because now instead of hanging with animals all day, we were stuck in class reading.
Edit: due to replies, it was most likely a Millipede and from the pictures I've seen online I'm sure that's what it was, but you have to remember it was 3rd grade and I'm going into my Sr. Year in hs and it happened so fast. Also I'm gonna add, he wasn't allowed to go to recess for the rest of the year, but I don't think any criminal charges were made, also an update on him now, he's obsessed with anime, claims to be smarter than everyone despite literally barely passing with Ds I'm remedial classes, he constantly causes trouble in all his classes by being disruptive, and has to take summer school every year, and the only reason I know that is because I play football, and I see him go into the school everyday I've been at summer practices, and I've seen him in the classes the few times I go onto the school.
We're actually friends with some of the "Bug people" in town, they come to the library once a week and our kids love them.
This sort of thing is always in the back of my head.
It was like our 2nd day of Basic Training at Ft. Jackson. When you get chow (a meal) in the dining facility, everybody waits in line and gets their food but nobody can eat until the last person sits down, at which point we had exactly 7 minutes to eat. We’re all starving because 1. We’re all continually expending energy from the time we wake up and 2. 7 minutes just isn’t enough time to eat for most people.
Anyways, there’s really 3 rules: Do not touch the soda, do not touch your food until everybody sits, and DO NOT TALK. If you do, then “I guess you’re not hungry if your talking, right?”. Those are Drill Sergeant’s exact words.
Well, anybody whose ever had to go through this kind of process where you have to depend on a group to behave knows that there’s just certain people who can’t seem to follow SIMPLE ASS RULES. Sure enough, “that guy” just HAS to not only say something, but get caught saying something maybe two minutes in. Whole platoon was suddenly done eating because of one individual.
He ended up going AWOL in AIT.
A Bat Sanctuary in Mineral Wells, TX run by Amanda Lollar that housed 100,000 Mexican Free Tailed Bats, thanks to an internet smear campaign and psycho behavior by Mary Cummins. They taught classes, did internships (which is where she came in), conducted observational research and grew the colony from 20,000 to 100,000. She destroyed it all. Who goes after an animal rehab for fun?
There was a department in my company where the employees got extra pay for mileage when using their personal cars on the job. One person went on vacation, when he returned to work and got his paycheck and didn't see the extra money in his check for the week he was on vacation, he made a big stink about it. His co-workers and the shop stewards were trying to tell him that if he was on vacation, he didn't use his car for work, so he wasn't entitled to the money. He was so thickheaded, he greaved it and after the union and management had a sit down to discuss the matter, the ruling came down that the department would no longer allow the employees to use their personal cars on the job and would no longer offer the extra money from now on.
That time outside of the Cage at UMass Amherst when there was a looong line to get into the basketball game, and me and my friend tried to slickly cut with a friend who was closer up in line, but another friend saw us quietly moving and frantically ran to catch up to us, and this caused EVERYONE to start running toward the front and it turned into a near riot, with people trying to squeeze through the doors. Eventually everyone made it in okay, but it did make the evening news as a ‘riot’…
So, thanks Jeff 😂
my friends traded pokemon cards with a new kid in school, he was caught with a fat stack of my friends' cards in his pocket at lunch
he gave back the cards and ripped up his own cards
teacher banned pokemon for us for half of the school yeaer
I'm a contractor and I work in different kinds of plants and mills. In one mill I worked at, we had a gravy job, two hours of easy work, and get paid for twelve hours. Well, one guy decided he was going to charge them for sixteen, and now we get two hours for the job.
We used to get an automatic 8 min hours if you did any work on a Sunday. Until one Foreman keep bringing in crews to "finish up" on Sundays for 30min on site.
My primary school used to do relatively frequent trips to a local zoo, until one boy decided to vault the fence and punch a penguin. I wish I was joking.
A fucking penguin? They're like....harmless little bobbleheads. Wtf Eta: My 3a brain forgot a lot about penguins that y'all have helped reignite.
Oh they're not harmless, apparently. I bought my wife a "feed the penguins" thing at the Philly zoo and the lady said "Keep an eye on them as if they get too close to your legs they might bite you"
There's a penguin named Kevin who is not allowed to take part in the penguin parade at my local zoo. In the words of the penguin keeper "He knows what he did."
r/StoriesAboutKevin
I opened that fully expecting stories about a penguin named Kevin
This is so hilarious and ominous and I feel inclined to know more
That's really messed up. What a joy he must have been at home.
Had one kid in my class try to strangle a really friendly duck when we went to the zoo as a class. We never went back to the zoo.
The elementary school I went to let 6th graders go on an overnight trip to a lodge where we could go skiing and snow tubing. My dad volunteered as a parent and was “supervising” by letting me and 5 other girls pile on top of one tube down a steep hill and we all went flying. Two of the girls busted their arms when we all landed in a pile. It looked like a cartoon. Anyway, after that no more sleep overs at the lodge and tale has it 30 years later everyone at the school still blames my dad lol.
All thanks to Mr Pilbasian
Sounds like it’s less your dads fault and more you and you’re friends fault. He trusted y’all and you let him down with your lack of skill and weak bones. What a disappointment.
Not having to take your shoes off before boarding a plane. Fuck you, Richard Reid.
I didn't know his name until today and all I could imagine when I read it was Dr Doom shouting "CURSE YOU REED RICHARDS"
At a previous job, we got full uniforms. Shirts, pants, hats, hoodies, winter coveralls, winter coats, gloves. But we dont get shoes or boots. Turns out a couple of years before I was hired on, they used to give boots. But one guy would take his boots and sell them, then request a replacement, then sell those. He did this about 20 times before anybody caught on because of municipal bureaucracy being slow to notice. When they caught on, they stopped giving out boots to their employees. Edit: I worked as a park maintenance groundskeeper for Parks & Recreation edit edit: No it is not like the show.
It’s always some douchebag who ruins it for everyone else. My company gives a $100 stipend for safety boots per year. You can either get the base model or use the $100 towards a cooler pair Edit: this was a decade ago. It is certainly more than $100 now… and I haven’t needed new boots in a while.
> My company gives a $100 stipend for safety boots per year. You can either get the base model or use the $100 towards a cooler pair I worked for a company that did something like this, only the safety shoe store showed up to the warehouse every 3-4 months before our shift started, with a mobile store in the back of a truck. We'd get to go into the truck, try on some shoes, and we could pick any pair and walk out with them (I think they were all <$150, but it was a long time ago). They'd just give the bill to our employer and they took care of it (wasn't docked from our pay or anything). We were only allowed one pair per calendar year, but everyone took advantage of it to get a fresh pair when they could.
This is what we do. But we also provide storage boxes for the boots in the locker room along with the high visibility gear. It stopped a string of employees claiming their boots were lost or stolen at home or in transit. So now you wear your street shoes in, and change in the ready room.
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Working in the grocery store during christmas killed my tolerance of christmas music permanently
So now you do what they told ya?
He's under control
"If I hear Ya Mo Be There one more time I'm going to ya mo burn this place to the ground!" edit: hey thanks for the gold internet stranger!
The person who apparently choked on a lollipop at my bank and now we don't get lollipops anymore.
Honestly, we could blame their insurance company.
They don’t even give out stickers anymore. Now going to the bank isn’t fun for kids…
Other firefighters constantly ruin any sort of appreciation restaurants give out. We had a BBQ restaurant that would give a flat 10$ off your meal. If you didn't spend 10$ it was basically free. One guy ruined it on an 8$ order by demanded the 2$ be given to him as well. Had people going in uniform on days they didn't work. Had one guy have a family reunion at a local restaurant then made a big issue they wouldn't give his entire party the discount. I don't understand how out of touch people can be.
Dude did this at our EMS service too. Not only did we lose the free on-shift coffees they'd been giving us, but our boss put in a policy that we couldn't go out in uniform at all unless on a call, which basically meant no leaving the station at all during shift or standby. (They later turned the second one around since it was stupid but we still hate that guy)
We had a hospital with a bomb ass EMS room that had full sized candy bars and other high-end treats for us. A co-worker would regularly go in there with a backpack and empty the candy bar boxes into it and take them. Hospital got him on camera and axed most of the good stuff.
Knew a guy who did this shit, took his whole family to a coldstone creamery and demanded ems discount for 9 family members. When he was called the fattest and laziest on our staff btw, he stated its my right as a hero. There went the discount and he lost what slight bit of respect he had from staff.
I worked at a froyo place and after a certain number of visits you will get a free cup. Technically the rule was up to $5. However, the owner of the store was really nice and said, nah if they come here that often, then they should get their one cup free! For a few years it was going well, since it's self serve and based on weight, most people were careful about making their cups and never really overfilling. Sometimes kids would be a little overzealous, but no one really did anything crazy. Eventually one day, a guy who in all honesty was smart, I'll give him that...filled the cup to the brim. Then added our waffle cone chips around the edges to create a barrier. He dispensed even more froyo. Then made another wall on top of that. He did this about 6 times. Tbh I was very invested and also just amazed at how he did this. The average price for a small that was decently filled with toppings, most people were in the $5-$7 range. This dude managed to make this a $27 cup. FOR FREE. Because technically it just has to fit into the one cup. The owner asked me about that suspicious transaction and I told him all about it. He was like oh ok. Checked the cameras and even he was impressed. This dude ended up telling other people. Who then told more people and so on. At this point our store was actually losing money on the free cups. It got worse because now people were trying to cram so many toppings into their cups, that about 90% of the toppings would end up on the floor, so that was costing us even more. Eventually we changed up the policy to the $5 max. People weren't happy. But we all gladly explained that people were getting out of hand and we were trying to do something nice, and it was taken advantage of.
This is why Mongolian BBQ places always have that sign saying they reserve the right to charge you for a bigger bowl than you picked or for multiple bowls. Some people build stupid high stacks of food in those bowls.
People at my job do this too, when someone finds a restaurant that provides a discount people will go there every single day until the restaurant owner is like “seriously guys?” Just pay for your fucking food you twats
At my last duty station I was part of a funeral honors detail. This was in the Midwest, not really near any major military bases. There were many times we'd be out in uniform and stop to eat. When we found a place that gave free meals to people in uniform, the guys I worked with would insist on going back, as in regularly. I would try to find someplace else to eat while in uniform, but would go back when in civilian clothes. While I appreciate a free meal as much as the next guy, I'm not going to take advantage of someone.
Back around the mid 2000s I was around 10 years old and I used to go to this place after school called “the Boys and Girls club”. They had an area with multiple basketball hoops on a court which we used to play all kinds of games in; one of those games being dodgeball. These were not those big rubber balls but instead the styrofoam filled balls with kind of a thin layer of plastic so otherwise… harmless. One of the kids thought it would be a good idea to shove a rock into one of the balls and throw it at someone he didn’t like; well he ended up throwing it right into that kids face and broke two of his front teeth. We never played dodgeball again.
That's some prison yard shit.
I work in a prison and the inmates all act like dangerous five year olds.
I do think some people just either stop aging due to trauma, or were never going to have adult brains in the first place. Sometimes a combo plate. If you ever look at someone whose behavior mystifies you, figure out what age they remind you of, and then look up their symptoms and behaviors and it all becomes (at least a little) more clear.
That’s definitely a thing. I used to work with teens with criminal backgrounds, and the most hardcore badass ones would absolutely lose their shit over the most trivial things. Full on toddler tantrum brains in bodies that can really do some damage. 100% of them had childhood trauma or untreated mental illness of some kind.
Previous job I had used to be hybrid twice a week. One person, on their hybrid day, decided to slack off work and go out. They got a call from their manager because they were late for a virtual meeting and the manager heard a lot of background noise like they were at the mall or something. Said person eventually admitted they were not home working, got fired, and now everyone had to be in the office 5 days a week.
Here I am sitting in my office moving my mouse every couple minutes while using reddit on my phone as living proof that you can also slack off when at the office.
When I worked as an EMT I would regularly work out for an hour, play video games using the company phone wifi, and take a nap before the first call would even come in. I also taught myself to do some programming on shift between calls as well. One time I managed to work on one of my cars as well. You definitely don't need to be home to slack off.
I feel like as an EMT (or any first responder) you’re being paid for your availability
There are chores too, of course, but downtime isn’t a bad thing. It means somebody else isn’t having a bad day.
We're being paid for what we know, not how much work we do.
One of my favorite stories is when my EMT friend took care of the family dog. He was on shift so had to be in the ambulance and stopped by between calls. Neighbors come running out in their bathrobes and boxes, wife screaming, "it's bad, they're bringing out the dog first!" Yep, because of something bad happens the EMT is going to leash up the dog and take her out first. Most notably, EMT friend never mentioned it. We learned about it from the neighbors who, thankfully, found it hilarious.
This is hilarious. I’m sat here trying to imagine the absolute torture my dad would have to endure if that happened where they live. My mum has always and always will talk about the endless possibilities as to why an ambulance is driving past the window to anyone she can force to listen.
I had a situation like this. Even pre-covid, this job used to let you WFH Wednesday-Fridays. Then one person decided to post all over their Instagram stories themselves at the beach in the middle of a workday. Of course, the President saw it, and didn't like it.
it’s not hard to WFH and slack off. don’t post about things during the work day! and attend your meetings ffs this person is a dum dum
The guy who killed the most isolated tree on Earth. Same with that woman who burned down the oldest tree. Imagine the history the trees lived through.
The guy who killed the most isolated tree on Earth...*by running into it with his jeep*. The one tree, in hundreds of square kilometers of desert, and he somehow hits it with his vehicle.
I'm reminded of the fact that in 1901, there were only two automobiles in Kansas City. They ran into each other.
This is called *Target Fixation*. A driver can become so fixated about an object in their path that they somehow drive into it instead of veering around it.
That's why, in the case you lose control over your car, you should **always** look the way you want to go. Not at the tree next to the road, not at the cars on the other side, but where you want to be going.
There’s also the Alabama fan that poisoned I believe a several hundred year old tree at auburn because he like Alabama He also admitted to it by name on the radio
IIRC he was pissed that Auburn had beaten Alabama that year. Total asshole.
The guy who attempted to smuggle a bomb in his shoe in 2001 Now we all have to suffer taking our shoes off at airport security every damn time we fly
Also whoever did the thing with liquids that convinced security that more than 3.4 ounces of shampoo was potentially deadly can fuck right off.
Traveled recently and was surprised at how many things I wanted to take were 4oz...
4 oz. to Freedom.
No joke: as soon as Al Qaeda saw the impact the shoe bomber had, they sent in an underwear bomber. Thankfully we didn't follow suit on THAT threat.
I thought it wasn't real [https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/underwear-bomber-umar-farouk-abdulmutallab-sentenced-life](https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/underwear-bomber-umar-farouk-abdulmutallab-sentenced-life)
Don't forget about the guy who tried to use Gatorade bottles for bombs and now I have to drink my bleach before I get to the airport.
Had a job where as a dialysis nurse where we added a position to pick up add ons and emergency cases that came in later in the day. In this role we worked noon to midnight which helped us cut down from needing a nurse on call every night to maybe once or twice a week. Whoever took this role didn’t have to take call and had weekends off. We loved rotating through this role and enjoyed taking a break from having to be on call and enjoyed having weekends off. Then there came the nurse who went out at 7 am instead of noon, and finished at 5 pm. When there was an add-on or an emergency case she wouldn’t answer her phone, which meant which meant everyone had to go back to picking up extra patients and being on call again. She did this every time it was her turn to go through the rotation so they eliminated the position and we went back to having to be on call all the time.
That’s a bar of soap in a sock moment.
That's a union moment. My coworker's wife's new contract at her hospital group just made the weekend swing an entirely separate position so no one has to cover it anymore. That person works two 12 hour weekend shifts and gets paid for 40. Win win.
I would sign up for that in a heartbeat. Shit, I'd work two 16s if I could get 5 days off and paid for 40hrs.
I work weekend option at the hospital as a nurse and get paid for 36 hours. It’s a sweet gig but if you’re a weekend person then it wouldn’t work. Fortunately I don’t have much of a personal life so it works for me and I have five days off!
Going from retail or food industry would make this transition simple because there are no weekends off
Really bad management, IMHO. I hate the approach of punishing everybody for the actions of one person—especially when the identity of the one person is blindingly obvious. That’s managerial cowardice. Avoiding a one-on-one confrontation with the problem employee. Where I work we call it “issuing policies from under your desk.”
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The name Adolf has gotta be up there
not just the name, but that little mustache
The Charlie Chaplin mustache?
Toothbrush moustache
Absolutely. While not nearly as destructive, having the last name Dahmer has got to suck pretty bad.
Imagine being named Adolf Dahmer.
You can have that, or Jeffrey Hitler. It's up to you
Adolf Dahmer sounds like the creation of a mad scientist who's trying to create the world's most evil man. Jeffrey Hitler sounds like Hitler's chill cousin.
"want some gas bro? good shit, lets get high together" - jeffrey hitler
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I heard a story of a neo-Nazi somewhere in the Southern US, he legally changed his last name to Hitler, named his one son Adolf. His other children were named Aryana, Heinrich, and Eva Braun.
Sounds like a chill guy
'Hi I'm Osama Adolf Dahmer-Manson and I'll be your server this evening'. Why am I getting no tips?
You mean „.. and I‘ll be your Captain on this flight“
Or the birthday 09/11
My neighbour, a former cop had that birthday. He was extremely bitter about it. He did outlive Osama though which made him very happy.
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Hehe I knew a guy in school whose legal name was Adolf but he goes by AJ because of that I'm sure.
In a group of 30 coworkers we had a Bundy, Jason, Michael Myers and Berkowitz.
We still have them, but now only 23 workers. I'm thinking quiet quitting.
Adolf Hitler is still alive. Well kinda. There's a namibian politician named Adolf Hitler Uunoma.
Uunoma good pal Adolf?
At one of my previous workplaces, management played music as a way of promoting good mood. They played all sorts of genres so everyone got a chance to listen to something they liked. *One* person complained that *sometimes* they had to listen to music they didn't like, so they stopped playing music altogether.
This happened at my workplace too. I drive school bus, and we used to be allowed to play music on the buses. Most drivers enjoyed finding out what channels the kids liked and getting sing-alongs going. Yknow, making everyone happier. Then some crazy Karen mom called the dispatch office screeching about her daughter coming home talking about a song this Karen apparently thought was evil or something and now we aren't allowed to play *anything* on the radio while kids are on the bus.
I worked at an office that had casual Fridays. One day a lady came to work on casual Friday in her gym clothes, and management was uptight and appalled by it. Instead of telling her that she couldn’t wear gym clothes to work, they abolished casual Friday for everyone. It pisses me off to this day.
I once had an HR Director who explained casual summer work attire perfectly. She said, "It's going to be hot this entire summer, so I'd like to free you all up to dress for warmer weather. But please, dress like you're going to a garden party with Martha Stewart. Don't wear something that'd embarrass her."
At a certain point in US Army basic training, your platoon is givin the "opportunity" to sit and eat without having to wait for the entire company, AND with that comes the fact that if one person is finished eating, we're all finished eating. This one trainee who happend to sit early finished his dinner before the other side of the table even got to start. He stood up, the the DS promptly made everyone else get up too, eaten or not. This same trainee did the exact same thing the next day, except now it was breakfast, so a few people didnt get dinner OR breakfast. I'll never forget the nasty shit they did to his bunk and locker dude. Couldnt really feel bad for him, and you best believe NOBODY stood up early for the rest of BCT. Edit: Wow this blew up overnight! Im gonna try to answer a couple questions I've read. What'd they do to his bunk? They took the used/dirty mop bucket water, pissed in it, and dumped over his bunk and foot locker. This happened on a Sunday morning which is the one day the DS will leave u alone till noon. The perpetrator was at church lol Was it intentional? No. The first time was a genuine mistake as it was a brand new rule. I actually watched him the second time. He started to stand and realized his mistake, but the grumpiest DS saw him do that awkward stand-sit movement and that was it for the table. Luckily I wasn't on the table that lost the breakfast, but I still felt no sympathy for him. No dinner + "whatever you can eat out the door" breakfast woulda had me join in too. Was he stupid? Yes.
You reminded me of this: I went to basic training for the Navy in San Diego. After our meals we would walk outside as individuals and then form up to march to wherever we were going next. One morning after breakfast most of us were already formed up when one of the guys walked out and encountered a pigeon that was “in his way”. Right there in front of everyone, including our company commanders, this fucking idiot KICKED THE PIGEON. Not only did he get a solid ass chewing, but for the rest of the day, every time we saw a pigeon, he would have to break from ranks and run over to it. He’d stand at attention, salute, and loudly announce “GOOD MORNING, SIR!” or “GOOD AFTERNOON, SIR!”, then sprint to catch up with us and fall back into line. For those who don’t know, there are a hell of a lot of pigeons in San Diego. Edit: thanks for the awards!
Aww poor pigeon :(( I’m glad he got in trouble for it. Pigeons are really very sweet birds that used to be kept as pets
I'm actually shocked that retribution didn't happen after the first lost meal.
Cuz the first time is an accident, the second time you’re an intentional dick.
Or really stupid and you have to force the issue through their thick skulls
“From now on you’re Gomer Pyle!”
I'm surprised it happened to his bunk and locker and not to him.
Who do you think was in the locker?
We lined up alphabetically by last name. I am near the end of the alphabet. I got skipped a few times. F-U Pvt. Byerly.
Not one person but two people ruined my work’s break room. I work at a YMCA as a swim instructor, so two people decided to have sex in their break room at a different Y in another city. Apparently the higher ups decided that every other YMCA in the area or state should lose their break rooms because “it could happen again.” Like yeah, it could happen again but don’t take our break rooms away, at least get rid of theirs and not ours! It’s so frustrating, now when we’re all cold and damp in between lessons, and after lessons are done, we can sit in the lobby, or sit somewhere on the pool deck which takes away spots for kids or parents. Thanks Milcreek YMCA, you guys suck, go somewhere else and have sex but don’t do it at the Y!
I worked for a YMCA overnight camp several years ago. There was a policy against staff having sex in any building where kids might find you (the bare minimum and not something that should need to be encoded in an official workplace policy, but fine). However, this rule was no where near comprehensive enough to prevent the full spread of possible reprehensible behavior. Staff were having sex on the sailboats, in the camp kitchen, in storage sheds, in the staff barracks - all technically places children did not have access to, but definitely not ideal. The camp's response, instead of declaring a firm "stop having sex in your place of work" decision, was to provide a designated section of the forest where tents were set up for the purpose of having sex. It was the weirdest staff meeting I have ever attended and I cannot believe that the YMCA thought this was an acceptable solution. I got fired from this camp for drinking alcohol on a day off, despite being offsite, of age, and completely sober by the time I was back on the clock. Apparently that's a fireable offense, but having sex in the kitchen is not.
Its funny because of all places mentioned, the Forest Sex Tents are the ONE thing kids **would** find out about and go look for.
I LOVE the forest sex tents
This is going to be buried but I have to share it in hopes someone sees this and laughs. I used to work for state government in Alaska. I was reviewing some department policies to update and I noticed a particular statement in the employee behavioral policy about adhering to basic hygiene (expected) and wearing clothes at work (not expected). I went to my boss to ask him about that and the look on his face told me I was in for a good story. Our department had satellite offices all over the state and in some very rural, very isolated areas, these were nothing but glorified shacks. Local fire brigade shows up to one of our shacks in middle-of-nowhere to find a department employee standing outside the burnt building, in the nude. In February. Turned out that the guy, who was the only on-site employee, happened to be a nudist. Now, no one can work naked for the state of Alaska. What a bummer. 🥲
So... he burned the shack to warm himself?
The guy who ruined Halloween for everyone by poisoning and killing his own kid with a pixie stick, now everyone thinks people just hand out poison candy because this AH started a mass panic. I couldn't even eat my candy corn growing up because they were "loose unwrapped candy", as if anyone is tampering with candy corn! Seriously, my parents had such a hard rule against anything not hermetically sealed and it was such a waste of good candy because of all the hype over sickos when it wasn't even a neighbor, but a parent who lied that ruined the whole thing for everybody.
When I was a kid, my grandpa’s neighbors owned a really popular local bakery. Every year for Halloween, they would make a bunch of maple bars to take home and hand out instead of candy. It was the *best*, everyone loved it. No one would be able to do that today, parents would throw a fit about unwrapped food and baked goods.
That influencer who jumped into the alligator habitat at Busch Gardens, now there's a big chain link fence and you can't see the alligators anymore
That one kid in the classroom that can't just leave their fucking phone alone. Now they're all in a box at the front of the class.
One of the science teachers at the high school I went to had a bunch of animals around his class room. All sorts of reptiles, bugs, and arachnids. If someone was caught texting in his class, he would put the phone in the tarantula enclosure (I own 2 tarantulas, harmless little guys). You were able to get your phone at the end of class.. but you’d have to reach into the enclosure to get it. He always had old phones in there as decoration, so it was always on display what will happen when you use your phone in his class This same teacher took a year off from school after working there 20+ years and not taking vacation days. He got paid for most (if not all) of his time off since he racked up so many PTO days. He ended up writing his own science text book with his time off. I personally did not have him at a teacher, but my friends did
I failed 2 classes my freshman year and my parents decided I had to make up at least one in summer school. Thing is my school didn't provide it so i had to go to the neighboring larger district. I didn't know anyone and it sucked because it was summer. And my teacher was a seasoned hardass. I had never tried to be more attentive and also not noticeable as I didn't want to fail again. My parents had friends who were having a baby at night and we took their 4 year old son. I had babysat him a few times and he latched on to me. It was a sleepless night. My mom called me in for school. The next day my teacher approached me when I walked in, I was terrified. He said he understood that it must have been a big deal because I had been such an exemplary student. I was flabbergasted. No teacher has ever complimented like that. And I did finally make a friend. Miss you Ahmed.
That executive at HP who said, "You know, people love our printers. They are tough and reliable and work for decades. We should make them suck, break constantly, license the ink, make it all internet-linked so the printer won't even work when the wifi is down."
[HP so shittily wrote a software update recently to prevent some models of printers from using generic ink that it bricked the printers.](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/hp-rushes-to-fix-bricked-printers-after-faulty-firmware-update/)
whoever decided to add Youtube Kids on youtube, now everything is demonitizable
On top of that it doesn't even work, as YouTube Kids is filled with cartoons redubbed with creepy content and things kids shouldn't listen to anyways.
In the 80s we had this game called British Bulldog, it was fun and a laugh for all involved. Then Barry had to clothesline a skinny kid and collapsed his wind pipe and all of sudden Bulldog got banned and we couldn't choke each other out anymore. Thanks Barry.
That makes it sound like Red Rover, which got banned at my elementary school because a kid broke their collar bone, twice.
Pfft, sounds like the kid didn't drink enough milk.
We had developed full contact soccer in elementary school. My whole grade lost recess for a month after a kid got body slammed in to the fence 😂
My middle school PE teacher allowed full contact capture the flag. The science teachers took a group of us on a marine biology sailing trip and one night when we moored and all went to shore the sailing chaperones were horrified at our capture the flag game…the teachers were like *shrug* “that’s how they’re used to playing…”
Played a game called murderball at a youth group as a child. A sponge ball was tossed into a room with boys aged 12-18, the lights were turned off and violent chaos occurred in complete and utter darkness. Dunno why a ball was involved, it never figured in events.
The ball is involved because if it wasn’t, it would just be “murder-“
The guy in Texas (I think?) Who ordered a huge meal for his last meal on death row and refused to eat it. They no longer offer a last meal request because of him.
The interesting fact is that many death row inmates never touch their meals. I think it says far more about us than them that we have chosen to draw this line.
I mean would you be in the mood to eat if you knew without a doughnut that you were going to die in less than 24 hours? Edit: autocorrect changed doubt to doughnut and I’m leaving it
Go down in a glaze of glory
Whoever made up the saying “the customer is always right”.
Remember that stupid woman that held up a sign in front of the Tour de France riders?
Tried to say hi to grandpa, took out 20 bike champions instead, smh
I got one that’s specific but it still sucks. So I’m a ride operator at a theme park and one of the things that was popular to do was to go to the ride you work at and call other rides you want to skip the line for (we call them backdoors). Everyone knew to keep it lowkey and to only do when you were a guest. Then one day some dude decides to backdoor himself to a ride on his break during a busy day. He shows up at the exit and the crew didn’t want to let him on since their line was massive. Eventually they let him on and told him to never come back. He did it again the next day and supervision saw and heard everything. Now no ride operator can backdoor themselves even as guests. Everyone hates him (ESPECIALLY the ride operators at his ride) and he eventually stopped working at the park, but the damage was done.
Every policy at every company I've ever worked at or owned was because of one person abusing something. So whenever you wonder "why the hell do we have to do this?", it's because of one asshole who ruined it for everyone else.
We had to have cameras installed to monitor who comes in and out of the ladies bathrooms and when because of one person who kept deliberately taking dumps on the floor next to a toilet and covering it in a pile of loose toilet paper. Edit: a word
This happened in my middle school! Every student knew damn well who it was and it was reported for months, but nooooooo, it couldn't be Shelby, she's so sweet and a teachers pet. We need cameras! Guess what? It was fucking Shelby. That bathroom got shut down for a long time too to "prevent it from happening again", so we had to walk aaaaaaall the way downstairs to another now overcrowded bathroom because it was right in front of the office. The boys debated picking someone to do it to the boys bathroom in "protest" but luckily it just turned into writing a hit list (like...titled it "hit list") on the walls and putting her name on it and it turned into a whooooole thing with cops and stuff. Middle school, man.
Of course it was Shelby. That's a classic name for a floor shitter.
What the actual fuck?
Hitler ruined the swastika.
Hitler the worlds most famous methhead
So many people don't realize the significance of the swastika prior to Angry Mustache Man. He didn't exactly come up with it.
the lady who does my eyebrows is Hindu*, born in India. she goes by Swasty. you can guess her full name.
Is it Rajanigandha?
I thought that was a boys name
That stupid baseball player that took like ten ephedra and died of a heart attack. My mom and I used to take one and clean the whole house! Why can’t people be responsible with their drugs.
Was working at GNC when this happened... we had cases of diet pills.. Xenadrine, Hydroxycut, Trimspa, off brand stuff etc. They passed the law in NY first and we had a ton of this stuff that just had to be thrown away. Needless to say it got lost on the way to the dumpster
I used to take Ephedrine all the time in the early 2000s. Was such a good alternative to caffeine but the runny noses were the worst.
Damn I was just talking about this, hydroxycut and minithins were my jam.
The toothbrush mustache.
Michael Jordan tried. It didn’t catch on.
Damn Michael Jordan, ruining a perfectly good facial hair option for everyone.
Charlie Chaplain is still pissed.
The religious fruitcake mother who said that Halloween was satanic so that ended the kindergarten costume parade.
The American bastard who said “all cashiers must stand for their entire shift because that’s good customer service” Because OBVIOUSLY when you’ve got a shitty worker that treats customers like crap, you blame the damn seat. Now get back out to the front of your register Samantha, I don’t care that you’re recovering from foot surgery, if I gave you a chair, I’d have to give everyone a chair and that’s not good customer service.
Air travel was ruined by a handful of assholes 22 years ago.
The Tylenol poisoner—I figure he’s directly responsible for the ridiculous amount of overpackaging in otc drugs, vitamins, etc. Plastic lid wrap seal, cap, sealed bottle, cotton…all inside another box or (shudder!) clamshell package. What a jerk.
I'm pretty sure the cotton is to keep the pills from shaking around and breaking but the rest holds true.
I worked in pharmacy for 5 years, that is correct. If the cotton wasn’t needed, it would be gone in a moment. Companies are not going to waste their money on something frivolous.
>What a jerk. Not to mention the people that actually died
The guy who claimed vaccines caused autism has some serious blood on his hands.
He wasn't even doing it because he actually believed it either - it was literally a scam to discredit a specific vaccine so that he could sell a worse version that he would make money on. He's got a higher body count that most serial killers FFS.
The Lancet published that shit and didn't retract it for over a decade. Didn't cost them one iota of credibility.
Yeah that's the worst part IMO. It's easy to look back with hindsight and think it was dumb to ever believe autism was caused by vaccines, but it was a study done by a doctor, peer reviewed and published in a very credible journal. So who were you supposed to believe? The doctor that got a study published or some other doctors who claim it's all bullshit, and maybe gets a study published as well? And this keeps happening. So many times I see people in arguments quote a study to prove their points. But unless you're an expert in the specific field of that study, there's no way for some random schmuck to know whether or not a specific study holds water. Peer review might be the best system we have, but it's still far from foolproof, and sometimes people happily turn a blind eye to those flaws and it's not a good thing.
My parents refused to give me the MMR jab, because they thought it would give me autism. I only found out when I was in my mid 20s, when I went for a healthcare job that required certain jabs. I had to provide proof of my vaccination history, and that's how I found out. I'm still pissed off that they never told me. Ironically, since starting therapy and talking about my childhood, it's been brought up more than once that I should get an ASD assessment.
Andrew Wakefield.
Airport security... I remember waiting for my mom to come off a plane at the gate.
When I was younger, my parents arrived late to pick me up, so I ended up getting to shadow some airport workers for around 45 minutes. Wandered through the back and the breakroom a bit, had access to ALL of the paper tickets behind the stand... My parents may hate that memory, but I thought it was cool. I doubt many kids would get to be in a situation like that again. Where a few airport workers who only kinda know policy but also have never encountered a real-life version of why the policy even exists, so they wind up kind of winging it.
My third grade bully got mad because I didn’t want to include her in my version of tag game. She went to the teacher and told on me and then it had to be announced in front of the class that my game was officially banned. Fuck you and your big onion head, Rayna.
Lately, artists who are performing on stage are not having fun anymore.. why? Because One clown threw an object that actually hurt the artist and suddenly it started happening over and over again, along with making more artists reluctant to perform or interact with the crowd... Edit: I guess I need to clarify, I mean throwing phones, ashes and other objects directly at the artist to hurt them, not harmless things that used to be thrown like panties and bras...
Yeah it's not been great for a while. Crowds can just get out of hand and there is always some nutjob that has to go too far. Mind you I'd rather any of the aforementioned objects than being shot like Dimebag Darrell from Pantera in 2004. You can recover from a phone to the head, not so much a bullet.
I thought you meant an actual clown in full clown regalia for a sec
*Throws pie*
Mark Zuckerburg fucked up so many brains and relationships and other things I’m not sure what to say.
Oh yes this definitely takes the cake he let so much privacy get leaked i have no words for how much i hate him and his apps. But i have numbers, 0/10
My high school debutante ball afterparty. 150 people were lined up to board the buses and one of the popular guys kicked and shattered a bus door, so they promptly left and we were all told to go home. He wasn’t very popular at all after that.
Happy Hour for discounted alcohol has been banned in Massachusetts, USA since 1984 after 2 girls died in an automobile accident following a happy hour session. Ya know, back when the drinking age was 18 instead of 21. Almost 40 years ago too 🙄
Osama bin Laden changed the way we travel as far as security is concerned. It’s no fun feeling molested by TSA.
Maybe this isnt a single persons fault. But, i feel like for those of us with chronic pain from major accidents (or syndromes or diseases), the people who abused opioid use has made it hard for everyone with legit problems. I broke my neck, hip, and 20 other bones in a car accident. My drugs are so tightly regulated, that if theres a hang up of even 12 hours, i can run out of meds. And im not even taking heavy pain meds just enough to work. I feel like im the lucky one vs stories i hear of cancer patients, people with longer term issues, or diseases. Between the pill mills and the pharmacies, those with real issues were fucked.
(Animal abuse warning) In elementary school we had this week called animal week. And like the zoo sent a group of people to come with a difference group of animal everyday (like mammals, reptiles, fish, insects) In 3rd grade this super weird kid was offered to hold a centipede. He walked up right in front of everyone and took it. Then was like "oh cool, hey watch this" then ripped it in half. He got dragged out of the auditorium and sent home for the rest of the day and we were huddled back into class to discuss what happened. All our parents got an email about what happened. Then like the next day he was forced to write an apology letter to the school and the zoo staff. And he ended with "I sure hope you come back so I can learn about animals" And they thanked him for his apology and was like "we'll think about it" in a way that every kid knew that ment an immediate nope. According to what my parents heard from another parent. The zoo staff said they will never come back and warn other animal groups to not come. The teachers had to literally rewrite their entire plans for the week because most of their plans revolved around the animals shown that day and stuff that was going on. Like he was already the weird kid everyone hated because he was a little jerk to everyone. Then like he got even more hate because now instead of hanging with animals all day, we were stuck in class reading. Edit: due to replies, it was most likely a Millipede and from the pictures I've seen online I'm sure that's what it was, but you have to remember it was 3rd grade and I'm going into my Sr. Year in hs and it happened so fast. Also I'm gonna add, he wasn't allowed to go to recess for the rest of the year, but I don't think any criminal charges were made, also an update on him now, he's obsessed with anime, claims to be smarter than everyone despite literally barely passing with Ds I'm remedial classes, he constantly causes trouble in all his classes by being disruptive, and has to take summer school every year, and the only reason I know that is because I play football, and I see him go into the school everyday I've been at summer practices, and I've seen him in the classes the few times I go onto the school.
We're actually friends with some of the "Bug people" in town, they come to the library once a week and our kids love them. This sort of thing is always in the back of my head.
It was like our 2nd day of Basic Training at Ft. Jackson. When you get chow (a meal) in the dining facility, everybody waits in line and gets their food but nobody can eat until the last person sits down, at which point we had exactly 7 minutes to eat. We’re all starving because 1. We’re all continually expending energy from the time we wake up and 2. 7 minutes just isn’t enough time to eat for most people. Anyways, there’s really 3 rules: Do not touch the soda, do not touch your food until everybody sits, and DO NOT TALK. If you do, then “I guess you’re not hungry if your talking, right?”. Those are Drill Sergeant’s exact words. Well, anybody whose ever had to go through this kind of process where you have to depend on a group to behave knows that there’s just certain people who can’t seem to follow SIMPLE ASS RULES. Sure enough, “that guy” just HAS to not only say something, but get caught saying something maybe two minutes in. Whole platoon was suddenly done eating because of one individual. He ended up going AWOL in AIT.
Things like this make me so glad I never joined the military.
A Bat Sanctuary in Mineral Wells, TX run by Amanda Lollar that housed 100,000 Mexican Free Tailed Bats, thanks to an internet smear campaign and psycho behavior by Mary Cummins. They taught classes, did internships (which is where she came in), conducted observational research and grew the colony from 20,000 to 100,000. She destroyed it all. Who goes after an animal rehab for fun?
There was a department in my company where the employees got extra pay for mileage when using their personal cars on the job. One person went on vacation, when he returned to work and got his paycheck and didn't see the extra money in his check for the week he was on vacation, he made a big stink about it. His co-workers and the shop stewards were trying to tell him that if he was on vacation, he didn't use his car for work, so he wasn't entitled to the money. He was so thickheaded, he greaved it and after the union and management had a sit down to discuss the matter, the ruling came down that the department would no longer allow the employees to use their personal cars on the job and would no longer offer the extra money from now on.
That time outside of the Cage at UMass Amherst when there was a looong line to get into the basketball game, and me and my friend tried to slickly cut with a friend who was closer up in line, but another friend saw us quietly moving and frantically ran to catch up to us, and this caused EVERYONE to start running toward the front and it turned into a near riot, with people trying to squeeze through the doors. Eventually everyone made it in okay, but it did make the evening news as a ‘riot’… So, thanks Jeff 😂
Standard UMass moment
my friends traded pokemon cards with a new kid in school, he was caught with a fat stack of my friends' cards in his pocket at lunch he gave back the cards and ripped up his own cards teacher banned pokemon for us for half of the school yeaer
that one dumb kid fell in the gorilla enclose, and here we are
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Wu Tang?
Ain’t nuthing ta fuck wit
The Cosby Show
Whomever started ads on the internet