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Only a tiny fraction of society are born with a hustler gene. Not only do these people find ways to bypass the rules, they seem to rewrite them altogether. And what for? If not for the thrill, then for getting what they want.
Call it a selfish code in their DNA or a Wolf of Wall Street phenomenon, you can’t help but wonder how it’d be different if we too could learn a little bit from them. Turns out, it all starts with spotting the loopholes, big and small, and learning to use them to your advantage.
“What is a loophole that you found and exploited the hell out of?” someone asked on Ask Reddit, and the thread got people sharing how they managed to milk the system, to get away with things, to attain something that wasn’t theirs and so on and so forth. Read below for the most interesting stories!
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#1
Had intermittent anemia in college that I was trying to improve. But the blood work was about $100 each time.
I started donating blood and if I was too low they’d turn me away and I’d keep trying to up my iron. If I was high enough, I got to donate to a good cause.
Win win!
Astrius 3 years ago
Kinda sad that they had to find a method to replace essential healthcare. That is clever though.
June Gem 3 years ago
Welcome to the US, where if you have insurance that means you are paying out the bottom and still have extremely high copays.
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Jeffrey Diehl 2 years ago
USA. Other countries on the continents are also "America."
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SmooshyFries 3 years ago
I donated aprox every 60 days for almost 2 years and they did the iron test every time. Apparently there are different components of iron levels in our blood( absorption, ferritin and I don't remember what else) and while the pre-test they do to check your iron may seem ok, it might not be. My levels got so low, my doctor ordered a colonoscopy to see if that was why I was so depleted. When I told the colo Dr I was absolutely sure I was NOT bleeding internally and he wouldn't find anything he said We'll see soon! Then I told him Ya know, I donate blood regularly but I always always pass that painful finger prick iron test! He actually sat back and laughed and said I have never thought to ask someone with low iron levels if they donate blood! BUTT we went ahead with the colo cause, why not-I already did the horrible prep
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
UUGHHH! That dang finger stick is worse than the donation! I have to get them to stick the side because the tips are so calloused over.
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Šimon Špaček 3 years ago
Blood donation is amazing. Recently I found out what you get here for it. 1) your employer must give you day off, 2) you get nice snack, 3) if you don't get it paid (which is about 800 crowns), you can deduct it from taxes (3000 crowns deduction for EACH donation of blood or plasma (up to 15% of your annual tax base)). Our employer didn't want to provide any benefits, so I convinced my colleagues to start donating plasma. Free day every other week and 70000 crowns as tax break? Cool benefit. Not to mention that being the donor feels great. And the people taking your blood are all smiles and genuinely happy to have you there.
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
I remember being turned away from donating in high school since both of my parents had Hep C. I could have it so they wouldn't let me donate, even though all the blood has to be screened for it anyway. I was annoyed because A. I could find out if I had it and B. If I didn't have Hep C, my blood could be useful. I got tested years later in a other country for work, I don't have Hep C.
Rahul Pawa 3 years ago
I donate regularly, they don't ask me about whether my parents had Hep. Maybe it's time to try again.
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Cyber Returns 3 years ago
A quick simple way to check if your iron levels are too low is to look inside your lower eyelid and see if the skin area is reddish pink. The whiter it is, the lower your iron levels are
Rachel Ainsworth 3 years ago
Sounds like an urban myth as donating blood would immediately make your blood iron low again so it would be self defeating ti do this.
Pittsburgh rare 3 years ago
You can only donate blood three to four times a year, so donating alone won't make you anemic. I suppose they were taking iron supplements between donations.
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#2
Right out of college I worked a job that had a 100% match to any retirement contributions. I was young, lived rent free with my parents, Had no student debt, and could grab OT nearly every week. After some budgeting I figured I could throw 80% of my paycheck into retirement. I did so for 9 months until my supervisor called me into the office to sign a policy change that limited retirement contributions to 50%. I'd stashed away nearly $35,000 on about a ~$32,000 annual pay. I had no life for about a year, but damn if it didn't jump start my retirement.
Marianne Brinkley 3 years ago
Most young adults wouldn't have had the discipline to use their money so wisely. This was such great planning on your part!
Alexandra Comeau 3 years ago
if you have absolutely no expenses, no obligations, pretty sure a lot of people would do that.
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Mark Waters 3 years ago
One time I asked my niece what she was putting into her 401k when it was early in the start of this program. She said 15 percent (fed limit) I was amazed,so I asked why? Profound mount for one so young, she said uncle Mark, "I would rather be poor now than when I'm old". I went and increased I and my wife's 401k immediately. Today in retirement I'm not poor, although not rich we are comfortable and able to do things and help our adult children.
Lyone Fein 3 years ago
So smart. By doing this at a young age, even if you don't contribute any more for years, your dividends will build up quite substantially.
Dee 3 years ago
I'd like to know what company this was for, most I know of Max out at 6-10% match, if anything
Panda-riffic 3 years ago
You beat me to it! 100% employer match is totally unbelievable. The company I worked for offered 4% and it was based on the profitability of the company.
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Okatango 3 years ago
How unusual that the company's policy did not have a cap from the start. Each organization i have worked with capped in the single digits or up to a certain amount.
madbakes 3 years ago
I haven't worked for a company that matches more than 3%
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Tikitalk 3 years ago
Omgosh, I meant 100% matching! You got limited to 50% of your income but that is incredible, really.. until you hit your max.. which is going up this year,,so even better news!
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I used to frequent a sandwich shop (they've since closed) that could be very busy at times due to how close it was to a convention hall. The process for ordering food was much like that of Subway: approach the counter, tell them what you want, you get to sit there and watch them construct your sandwich. They had room enough for three sandwich makers: two people behind the counter and one guy manning the back area for pick up orders. They almost always had a guy dedicated to the pickup window and during peak times he would help out, but his priority was phone orders. The window was marked "Pick up for phone orders only!"
There were many times (when the inside was packed with customers) where I would literally stand outside this window placing an order on my cell phone with the phone order guy laughing and shaking his head while he took my order and made my sandwich. I could see the customers in line inside and they could clearly see me.
One time, a customer in line got pissed and started complaining about me "cutting the line" and that I couldn't place my order at the window since it was for phone orders only. The guy behind the counter said that there wasn't anything wrong with what I did since I did place my order over the phone, I just happened to be standing at the window when I did it.
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
This is like being angry someone went through the drive thru instead of queuing inside!
Iva Kazalova 3 years ago
But this is f****n genius and whoever complained should’ve copied instead!
Kel_how 3 years ago
I found out you could join the wait-list on the Cracker Barrel website (some other restaurants have this feature, too). When my sister and I got seated before most of the people waiting, I felt the anger/hanger building! But I happily ate my breakfast and didn't have to wait in the hoarder's dream gift shop.
Stephany Stapelberg 3 years ago
Here's a neat loophole I found while working at a coffee shop right across the movie house. First off I had a movie club card. For every 10 movies you watch on your club card you get a free movie + a large popcorn and soda. Mondays to Thursdays you get 25% discount on your club card except Wednesday was ½ price. 🤔 I soon realized that a lot of my coffee shop client just pop in for a quick cuppa before the movies. I then, after enquiring whether they're on the way to the movies, offer them to use my club card. They score the discount and I score another point on my way to a free movie, popcorn and soda. That year I worked at the coffee shop I didn't pay for a single movie
NotACookieCutter 2 years ago
My late Cousin Ralph went to place an order for ribs at Hecky’s BBQ years ago. He went up to an empty counter and the woman told him that it was for phone orders exclusively. So he went outside to the pay phone on the street and placed his order. Then he went back in and up to the counter to pick it up (thinking that’s a stupid system). He went up to the same counter and the employee again repeated “this is for phone orders only.” He said “I know, I just called it in outside.” That ‘s when she informed him he just needed to go to the OTHER counter to place an in-person order. That’s a lesson learned that only cost him a quarter.
Muhammad Zulkhairi Mohd Nasir 3 years ago
I don't think people would know this loophole, even though it's easier now with apps.
#4
When I was at university, the pay-for campus printers all worked on a system where you'd print your documents, release them at the printer, they'd print, then after they've finished printing, it would then contact the server to get the cost deducted from your balance. That final step always took a while and I discovered in my first year that if I cancelled the print job as the final page was rolling out of the printer, it wouldn't deduct the cost from my balance. With this method I got free printing for nearly two years before they upgraded the system!
Soph the Loaf 3 years ago
And they would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling system updates!
Kirk Evans 3 years ago
I'm not trying to criticize this person, but rather to raise a philosophical point about many of these entries. Using this entry as an example, what's being described here, justifiable or not, is theft. If I found a way to poison someone and not get caught, could you really call that "exploiting a loophole"?
David H 3 years ago
my college there was one printer in the room that if you did a certain setting ended up printing for free. I always went into setting to make sure I got that printer and then did the trick. I had free printing for months, until someone caught on and fixed the system. No more 5 cents a page (though they did give every student $25 free printing on their ID Card, but it was 5 cents a page after that). I literally printed out the PDF of an entire textbook during those months
Bear Family 3 years ago
It was YOU! Someone tied up the printer in the library one day. Slow printer (many years ago). Yep, indeed printing a whole textbook from a PDF on the front of each page only...
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John Carr 3 years ago (edited)
Good scam. Thankfully that didn't happen at the university where I used to work. A hell of a lot of students would print off massive files, root through the pages and just take one or two pages. Such a waste of paper, toner and electricity. The printers were massive units that would take 5 reams of paper a time and I'd regularly have to refill them at least 3 times a shift. And then dispose of thousands of discarded paper. Edit....the management solved the problem by massively increasing the print cost.
Just a Purpler 3 years ago
Mm can't help but feel uneasy about this, whether or not the company is corrupt and overcharging is up to the individual, but i wouldn't be able to feel guilty knowing it's not just the rich people on top I'd be scamming, but the lowest level paid people in the company id be stealing from too. Just doesn't sit right for me, if it's too expensive, then just don't?
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Telepathetic 3 years ago
The tuition uni's charge today is the real stealing
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Michael Gmirkin 2 years ago
The copiers at a certain University in Oregon used reloadable cards that you'd put money on, do your copies and the money would be deducted from the card balance. When you were done, you pressed the eject button to pop the card out of the copier. But, there was a glitch You could press the eject button at basically the same time as you made a copy, and it was timed just right that it would like read the card, see there was a credit balance, start the copy job, but then eject the card before it updated the actual credit balance on the card. It was one of those cards with a magnetic stripe and before everything was all networked and web connected. So, basically, if you had good timing, you could repeatedly make copies for free... Occasionally, if you were too slow it would deduct $0.05. But as long as you pressed both buttons at the same time, the balance would never go down, and you could simply rinse/repeat until you were done making copies without ever going to a $0.00 balance.
Michael Gmirkin 2 years ago (edited)
For broke college students / researchers, it was a nifty hack. Easy way to keep costs down and save a little money when it was tight. Don't think anyone ever noticed or caught on... I think only a few people knew about it. ;)
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Muhammad Zulkhairi Mohd Nasir 3 years ago
I like the trick, but I heard it would bite you back in the future... At that time, be patient if people question about your credentials and credibility, cause you got them by this way. Consider giving the uni the amount you have taken them if karma happens.
Mike Robinson 3 years ago
Years ago, the photocopier in the library had a bypass key for free copied when the librarians wanted copies. The lock was so loose, you could turn it enough to get free copies. A lot of costly study aids got copier when I was broke in school.
#5
Not sure if it counts as a loophole, but I worked at a books/music/video store when I was in high school. We were supposed to remove the "in training" portion of our name tags after the first two weeks. I just left mine on so that customers wouldn't ask me questions. A full year of hardly anyone talking to me at work was the best full year of my life
Sara W 3 years ago
My job has the same name tag. I never got one when I first started. :(
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thatlesbiantacocat 3 years ago
I know! Going to work for a year and not having to talk to no one. Paradise.
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Wood Carver 3 years ago
Worked in retail at Bowring a home decor company. If we didn't recognize you as a regular and you got mad another employee would say she's or he is new and isn't going to last long at this rate and swap in for you. The angry customer then complained about you to other worker but loved new person almost every time especially if you gave them 10 percent off on a candle that cost 5c to make and sold for 35 dollars.... we could discount anything at the store for 20 percent without a manager at my store so they were still doing fine. Meanwhile nice customers regularly got 20 percent off without asking because they were so pleasant to be around.
Wondering Alice 3 years ago
I left the green L plates on my car (to indicate new driver) for 2 years, because everyone gives new drivers more space. My dad got annoyed and stopped me eventually.
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
Really? Where I live, people are much more impatient with cars that say "driving lessons", even if those don't drive very slow...
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Just a Purpler 3 years ago
Another "loophole" that just doesn't sit right with me tbh:( I know I'll probably be annoying a lot of people here with my opinions, but I can't help but think about the extra work they might be making for their coworkers by doing this? I work in retail too, having to pick up the extra work from coworkers who pretend to be incompetent is draining. When it's innocent I'm happy too, but the thought that someone is happy to add to my workload simply because they don't want to do something they're fully capable of themselves is sad to me:(
Microwaved Robot 3 years ago
As Hotel Manager, I told my Front Desk Staff to keep their IN TRAINING badge on for as long as possible. Hotel Guests can be extremely rude for whatever their reason flights/transportation/bumps/delays, etc. None of them wanted to even wear the badge but clung to it like a life preserver after seeing some of the H3LL the 'out-of-training' were put through.
#6
Not me, but a friend of mine (among others I'd assume) managed to get an entire sales campaign cancelled that a bank in my country did.
IIRC the bank tried to promote one of their debit cards (which are basically prepaid credit cards) via some bonuses and gifts you'd get as customer, e.g. one of 20 products you can choose for free if you start using it etc.
One of these bonuses they offered was a small payback, you'd get after each purchase. What they did was basically rounding up the amount you paid (to full Euros) and give you the difference. So if you bought something for 27.63€ you'd get 37 cents gifted from this bank.
What he then did was only possible because we were university students back then, had very flexible work time and some of our friends were temping in super markets... he went to the super market our friends worked at at times when basically no one else was there and purchased hundreds of single potatoes. Each one = one purchase with the card. Depending on their weight each of these potatoes was like 2ct or 3ct, so for each purchase he got 98ct or 97ct gifted from the bank, making him profit about 94-96ct for each potato. He got about 250€ (plus an unreasonable amount of free potatoes) in 2 days with this until the bank called him like "uh... could you like maybe stop that...?" and he just shamelessly responded "why?" to which the bank person on the phone had no good answer. So then he just went on and made some more money until the whole incentive thing got completely cancelled a few days later.
Fun times.
Marianne Brinkley 3 years ago
I'm surprised the bank didn't just put a daily, weekly, or monthly limit on the number of times it could be used. That, or a a limit on the total amount of money you could collect per month.
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
I take issue with this post - there is absolutely no such thing as "...an unreasonable amount of potatoes".
memyselfandI 3 years ago
Just an unreasonable amount of potatoes for one person with a small kitchen. Maybe they donated the extras to a food bank, that would have been smart.
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The store owner must have been happy too. For every transaction by card is a fee charged And a percentage. In my business it is 17 cent every transaction.
AlwaysMoreLaundry 3 years ago
Reading this as a business owner, my brain is screaming OH THE CREDIT CARD TRANSACTION FEES 😂
Panda-riffic 3 years ago
Most stores have a minimum charge for debit or credit card purchases.
#7
I bought a card once for $10 that had 16 coupons for a BOGO pizza from Dominos. They were little stickers that you were supposed to pull off and hand in when using them, but they never asked for the stickers. They also didn't have an expiration on them. They also didn't tell anyone it was supposed to be one per order.
We'd order 8 pizzas at a time, used them for two years. Thousands of dollars of free pizza really help when you're a broke college kid.
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
hmm although this cost a franchise store business/profits and affected their ability to operate, so not entirely ethical.
Ashbug 3 years ago
Colleges charging so much for education that people have to do this isn't really ethical either
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Josh David Whitmore 3 years ago
The real unethical thing here is Dominos claiming they sell actual PIZZA!!
Josh David Whitmore 3 years ago
Yeah, but then you had to eat Dominos Pizza. Which was punishment enough.
Rahul Pawa 3 years ago (edited)
I doubt they saved as much as they think they did. My reason for saying this is that pizza places usually don't let you use two deals at the same time. So if you're using a BOGO deal, you have to pay full price for that first pizza. Domino's in particular has had an ongoing special for more than a decade that cut the price per pizza way down from the menu price. So if you use a BOGO coupon, you can't get that special deal at the same time.
ChingoChango 3 years ago
Sounds like a lot of sucking up to the man in these comments. Hooray for the free pizza
Erica Vandegrift 3 years ago
But at Dominos that usually means you have to pay for one pizza at menu price. It's cheaper to get 2 pizzas using their always active coupon for $5.99 each if you buy at least 2 items (medium pizzas, cheesy bread, sandwiches, etc. mix and match) So this guy thought he was getting a great deal but Dominos was actually most likely making more money.
#8
In college there was a parking garage that charged around $2/hour. I couldn't get a parking pass but learned the heated garage that charged $2/hour had a $20 fee for a lost ticket. I would park my car in there for a few weeks at a time and when I had to leave would lose my ticket and be forced to pay the $20 lost ticket fee.
A parking pass was around $500 to park outside and I ended up paying around $300 in lost ticket fees to park in the heated garage.
Squirrelly Panda 3 years ago
He would only pay $20 for a 10 hour stay (claiming he lost his ticket) even though the car had been in the garage for many days or weeks. At the end of the semester he had paid $300 for parking in a covered heated garage instead of $500 that a semester parking pass that gave access to outdoor parking would cost. It worked because he seldom used his car.
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Nolgoth 3 years ago
Wow that is robbery any which way you look at it. My school charges 2 dollars for the whole day and a pass is like 30 dollars for the semester
Na Schi 3 years ago
You hVe to pay for parking? When going to school and using the parking facilities of said school? That's wow. Simply wow. First time I heard of this.
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DeoManus Argentem 3 years ago
They had something like this at a downtown parking garage I frequented in college - the first fifteen minutes were free, but after that it was like $7/hour... It was never manned except if somebody was trying to leave and they had a payment issue and used a call box to summon help (you stuck your ticket in the feeder (or hit the no-ticket button and got slammed for max charge) and then your cash or card as you left)... We just parked for the day, then walked up to the entry lane to get a fresh ticket and left within our "free 15 minutes". I feel bad about it now, but saved a lot of money back when I had very little!
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
We did something similar on campus. If we parked in the library and left after 10pm, the gates were up and you could leave for free
Gary Geracci 1 year ago
Sure beats paying what the overall expense would've been for the parking garage, say for two or three nights!
Temporary Dork 3 years ago
Sounds like a European train journey I know of: for the fines to be higher than the ticket price you'd have to be discovered four times in a ten-hour ride.
Bear Family 3 years ago
Parking fees at universities are ridiculous. My better half works at one. Hundreds of dollars every year she works there just to park at work.
Stephany Stapelberg 3 years ago
A friend of mine spend almost an hour everyday in traffic getting around a few blocks size mall to get onto the highway. By chance he realized there's a entrance and exit on both sides of the block. Which charge $2 per hour parking. He saved himself a whole hour in traffic by just entering the one side and exiting the other side and it cost him only $2 per day. His fuel consumption also nearly halfed
#9
Several years ago AT&T was running a trade-in promotion increasing the value of old iPhones way beyond what they were selling for on eBay/ CL at the time. This promo thankfully wasn’t bundled to a new phone purchase and could be done on any active line of service with AT&T - so no limits on phone trade-ins.
I ended up buying 31 old iPhone 4s for about $70 each on eBay and trading them all in to AT&T on promotion for $200. Worked out to $6200 in AT&T credits (got myself 2 iPads, a 2 new iPhones at the time, and enough of a credit on my bill I didn’t pay for cell phone service for almost 2 years).
I really miss this type of promotion!! 😭
Dr Meatbeefs 3 years ago
Seeing the abbreviation "CL" made me feel all nostalgic and homesicklike
Bear Family 3 years ago (edited)
Wife and I figured out we should buy our phones unlocked outright (used even better). We buy them directly from the manufacturers if new. Phones are cheaper within I think it was 9 months as compared to contract phones. We keep our phones longer too. Look up MVNO on Wikipedia for how we get service cheaper. She uses Cricket. I use Red Pocket. She is running a three year old iPhone. I'm running a three year old Asus Zenfone 6. Both are working quite well without all the bloatware some brands put on phones they sell.
Terri Antula 3 years ago
Yeah but people like this are the exact reason we don’t see these kind of promotions anymore? When did being a swindler become a good thing in our society? Wtf?
Bear Family 3 years ago
Don't miss Nashville. It has grown so much it is not its old self.
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When I was in college they had this deal where if you signed up for a free trial of Netflix you could get a $10 gift code for Papa John's.
They didn't even ask for a credit card back then, just an email, so I would just use make new email addresses and would get a code every time.
Not only did I get free Netflix for a while, but I also got a lot of free pizza.
Texas Gonzo 3 years ago
I did this, but with free Roku's. I would subscribe to Sling every year for football season. Changed my email every year to get a free Roku when subscribing to Sling.
Michael Gmirkin 2 years ago (edited)
Not really sure where to post this one, but figured maybe someone else could get some use out of it... So, Disney is dumb. They have a rewards program where when you get DVDs/Blu-Rays with Digital Copies you can redeem the codes for Disney Movie Rewards points. I think it's like 100-200 per disc for DVD & Blu-Rays respectively? Well, one of the "rewards" is DVDs/Blu-Rays that include a digital copy. So, an enterprising person might be inclined to buy a few Disney movies and redeem the codes for movie rewards points, and then redeem the points for additional movies with included digital copies, which partly replenish the reward points. It's a diminishing returns game, sort of, since it's not quite 1-for-1, but with I think it was Blu-Rays you got slightly more points, and so just by getting a few of them as "rewards" and the feeding the digital copy codes back into the system it's pretty easy to get a few extra blu-rays and ofcourse the actual digital copies to bump up your collection.
Michael Gmirkin 2 years ago (edited)
Still works by-and-large. ;) I think a bunch of movies can be gotten for just a few hundred points. like 600-800, with some being a little more expensive (1000-1500). But, when you get back like 100-200 points on the ones with included digital copy, well, it's nice to get some extra bonus rewards replenished reasonably quickly. The selection isn't all that great, but free is free, right? ;) And if you link in your Movies Anywhere account and/or maybe your retailer account(s), you also get points for some of your digital purchases of movies online, so you can rack up quite a bit of points to feed back into the "free blu-rays with digital copy" rewards game. ;)
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#11
Kroger used to have a thing where if you found something expired on their shelf, they would give you the expired item, and a fresh one for free. In college we would go to the local Kroger at midnight and hunt for expired stuff. Mainly ended up finding breads, other bakery items, meats and cheeses as those were the hardest items for them to keep track of. My roommates and I would walk out with a full cart of free food every week.
Manomnomnom 3 years ago (edited)
In college I worked for the vending restocking service. I hardly ever had to buy groceries because whenever I would find expired food in a vending machine, I could delete it from inventory and was allowed to have it. There were a few times I got extra lucky since there would be items like sandwiches that were to expire that day and all I had to do for them to be fine was occasionally remove the wilted lettuce before eating them.
Nikki Angulo 3 years ago
Safeway in Canada did that when I was in university. And that's why when I went to visit friends one day I had goat cheese for the very first time. I never did it because I lived at home, and Safeway was/is expensive.
Alison Hell 3 years ago
Still ridiculously expensive....but they are remodeling some of their stores, again...so someone has to pay for it 😣
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Bob La Capra 3 years ago
Someone with access to the dumpster I use works at one of the grocery stores in town and throws away about a cart's worth of bakery / deli stuff every week. It's all on the same day so they must rotate who gets to take the Gone By stuff home.
Bear Family 3 years ago
Not food, but we used to do this behind a bookstore that threw out their old magazines. Sometimes paperback books. There was a hardware store that did it too. Sometimes they would trash weedwackers and pushlawn mowers rather than have them repaired under warranty.
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nuberiffic 3 years ago
...they'd give you the expired one? Surely that's a health hazard, and a lawsuit waiting to happen?
NakNakNak 3 years ago
Not so! Companies are required by law to put a "Best By" date on foods, but even tha tis more like a "Tastes Best By" date. Things like milk and bread may start to go gross after that date, but shelf-stables--crackers, cookies, certain baking goods--will keep and keep long after that date. I work a Dollar store, and whenever we damage out expired goods we have the option to keep them in the back for lunches. I've been eating out of the same two cheesy cracker boxes since they expired back in September
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Was on a cruise ship a few years ago that had a pay-per-minute Internet policy. You’d buy like 200 minutes of wifi access for $100 or whatever crazy price it was. They had a little portal that you went to, to start and stop the timer, and tell you how much time was remaining.
I quickly realized that the timer counted by whole minutes. That is, if I started at 12:00:01, and stopped it at 12:00:58, then it counted as 0 minutes of internet use.
For the entire cruise I took advantage of this. Start the timer, fire up your internet apps like Facebook and Instagram and let your timeline and emails download, or launch a website and let it load. Stop the timer. Browse your feed and photos and read your website and emails offline, compose posts and replies etc. Start the timer again to send/upload, stop it again within a minute.
I milked those 200 minutes for an entire 3 week cruise and still had 45 minutes left over at the end.
JB 3 years ago
Because cruise ships are giant floating casinos designed to extract the maximum value from its captive audience by any means necessary.
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Carla Phillips 3 years ago
Why not just enjoy the vacation and stay off the internet? I'm saying that like I could possibly do it but I'm pretty cheap so I don't think I could pay that much for access anyways.
Willem Oosterhof 3 years ago
This could be in the infancy of off shore internet which was very expensive back then. These days internet is more available at much greater speed. And probably free as well.
Eric Beebe 3 years ago
Nothing is free on a cruise ship. Internet is by the minute. Even in 2022.
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#13
My school had uniforms, it was kinda strict with those... but nowhere in the rules it stated that girls should wear the female uniform and boys the male uniform. Sooooooo, I bought the male one and wore it. A lot of teachers wanted to give me detention, but when I went over the school rule book and s**t, they had to stay steaming mad because I was not breaking any rules. They assumed it was implied, but the only think stated was that the uniform was to be worn properly, be clean and fit well, but that's it.
By the time I graduated, a lot of students were doing about the same s**t I was.
That rule changed shortly after my generation went off to university. sorry kiddos, maybe you will find new loopholes to give the inspector an aneurism
Soph the Loaf 3 years ago
Sad they changed it. I never understood schools that are ridiculously strict about their uniforms. As long as everyone has roughly the same look, isn't the goal being accomplished?
$cagsy 3 years ago
I believe that one of the reasons for a universal school uniform is to combat bullying. If the rich kids and the poor kids are all clothed identically it makes it more difficult for the bullies to find a victim. They still will find a victim but it's one less reason to single people out.
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censorshipsucks 3 years ago
pathetic gendering stuff. Women wear trousers these days, why does a school think women can't learn unless they're wearing a skirt??
Sasy 3 years ago
I was wearing sandals to school once and got 'in trouble' from the teacher, who said that the rule was closed in toed shoes...I told them that I had done the reading, and that the rule was closed in toes if doing either Science or Home Science classes where there could be risk of a spill, as I was doing neither class types I was allowed to wear the sandals. I look back on this now and am not surprised my teachers did not like me much. Thing is when you are a kid, you do not realise that being right on something when it comes to engagement with an adult is not really doing you any favors.
barbora_malcova 3 years ago
Had this win in highschool over "slippers". It used to be mandatory to change into indoor shoes for school (we are a post-soviet country, it was a reminiscsnce of those times and it's luckily dying out and for anyone older than kindergarten mostly optional now). While everyone wore ugly dad slippers with thick leather soles, cause that was what everybody did, I bought a special pair of pretty comfy black high-heels that I'd wear in school only. When being called out for not complying, I insisted on going to the principals' office to revisit the rules and bazinga, there was no rule what a slipper is supposed to look like, only that it's meant to be a clean shoe for exclusively indoor use. Teacher who especially liked to nag people over unimportant s**t like this yelled so hard at me that I was an arrogant no-good who will never make it anywhere with "nibbling at loopholes" the principal told them to take the rest of the day off. Three things happened. They tried to push a slipper description into the code but since major changes to code have to be approved by Ministry here, it got scrapped and the rule got cancelled eventually. I wore my pretty heels till graduation. And I still do, mostly to the courts - being an attorney at law, making my life nibbling at loopholes.
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I want to hear about boys wearing the female uniform :-)
Jay Son 3 years ago
There kind of is: https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/school-boys-skirts/
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The Happy Hijabi 3 years ago
Ooh, that's the same with my school. I would do that, because the boys get to wear long pants and not mid length skirts (so I have to wear pants underneath my skirts, and in Australian weather, it's not great), but there's already enough rumours that I'm trans, so I might leave it.
Debby Keir 3 years ago
This happens in the UK occasionally. Some schools won't let girls wear trousers on cold days, so they wear boys uniform. Conversely during the recent hot weather, loads of boys turned up in skirts....
Carlotta Müller 3 years ago
It is not a loophole, it is sexist to force a student to wear a special uniform because they have a special kind of genital. Don't they see that? Oh you have a penis, you have to wear this one and you with the vagina over there have to wear the other one? Are they mad?
Invisible Potato 2 years ago
"oh no, you are girl, you cant wear pants with pockets, that might give you the idea that you can own things and can fill those pockets with stuff"
#14
When my brothers and I were 6-10 years old we found a crane candy game where you were “guaranteed to win” something. We found a laser sensor in the area where you pick up your prize. This indicated whether or not something had dropped. So, by holding the flap door open at the bottom the sensor was never triggered so for 25 cents we nearly emptied the machine. Thanks Red Robin!
Mel The Axolotl 3 years ago
We have a claw machine filled with rubber ducks (with like sports ducks, minecraft ducks, non-duck-animal ducks, etc.) that's winner every time in our local Fred Meyer. One day it was kinda late and my dad, brother and I were there and decided to get a duck. So we put a dollar in (it's $1 per play). Turned out the sensor was not functioning very well, cause we got 17 ducks off of $1, and then 4 more ducks off one more dollar. That was a fun night :)
Marie Dahme 3 years ago
Back in the 90’s, there was a claw machine in a grocery store where I put my quarters in and actually won! Me and my sister were so excited we squealed with excitement. We got a lion with a baby lion in its mouth. About a month later, we played again and noticed that the tension on the claw was made way loose. Damn cheap bastards. Lol. That was the only time I ever won something from a claw machine.
Leoninus Fate 3 years ago
first time in the USA, and the first time I saw a claw machine {i was "sheltered"}, and I was told I could spend money on it, so... I had 40 bucks left over when I went in to get milk for my mom, and I put a buck in....back then Ummm 1 dollar looks a lot like a 5 or 20.... and I used it all and I never again used a claw machine with my moms money again
#15
Early in the smartphone world there was an app that gave you points for watching TV shows and ads that you could turn in for gift cards or discount codes. The rewards were not great but over time and by waiting for gift card restock you could make out like a bandit. However, the shows they wanted you to watch were not my cup of tea (a lot of prime time shows and reality shows) and I wasn't home for a lot of them so I thought I was SOL. Turns out, the app had a grace period where if you had recorded the show on your TV you could still get credit, so I just pirated the shows and set my phone up to "watch" them while I did something else. Then I realized it only listened for about 2 minutes before it gave you credit so I was able to get through the log of shows in about 40 minutes and make a killing. Because of that app I was able to get a kitchen aid stand mixer, a smoker and a bunch of other stuff because of the gift cards.
Muhammad Zulkhairi Mohd Nasir 3 years ago
There should be a reality show about people using loopholes... That would be great to watch!
Little king trash mouth 3 years ago
I did this too! I remember it was during the summer Olympics (can't remember which one), but I would sync the app to the all day live streams and just let it go. Once it registered you were "watching" something, it counted as minutes watched and wouldn't stop until the program was over. However, the live streams went like aaaaaalll day. Lol. Got many gift cards to Old Navy and got summed clothes for me and my husband.
Michael Gmirkin 2 years ago
In the early days of the internet, there was a web site called "FreeRide" which was basically something like an ad-supported "get free credits to exchange for stuff" site where you basically clicked on ads and got like 5-20 "points" and then you could like exchange several hundred or a thousand "points" for like $5-20 gift certificates to various places. I swear, I got *so many* basically free CDs in college from that place (via I think it was "CD Now" gift certificates). I was sad when it finally went under or changed its policies / payouts 'cause it was a like completely unsustainable business model. But hey, it was fun while it lasted. I don't think I ever *truly* exploited it to its full potential (this was before it was easy to just make up a thousand fake free e-mail accounts), but I definitely got a lot of utility out of it for a few years in college.
GoldfishCrackers 3 years ago
I like the list of things you bought with this money. You must like cooking!
#16
I was visiting a hospital on a daily basis for many weeks ( premature twin babies) but they didn't do multi-use discounts. "There's the hours you were here - pay up" type of thing. And it was costing something like £5 - £10 per day
Until a few days in I realised that the hospital had only recently appointed the car parking company and they haven't yet installed the "arrival time" machine at the car park entrance but had only put a temporary machine in the Hospital lobby . . . . which you were meant to use on your arrival.
And from that day on I got my "arrival time" ticket when I was leaving and only paid minimum stay.
Rachel Ainsworth 3 years ago
Charging people everyday to go visit a close family member (including chosen families) in hospital should be a crime.
Natalie Bohrteller 3 years ago
Just because it's not prosecuted, doesn't mean it's not a crime. At least from a moral point of view.
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Tams21 3 years ago
NHS (health) workers also have to pay for parking, even though they're chronically underpaid and overworked. This really goes beyond just making money but into exploitation of both the people most in need of help and those that help them. It's absolutely disgusting.
DaveR38 3 years ago
Parking is free in Welsh hospitals - crowded car parks, but I don't miss the daylight robbery of English hospital parking.
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Texas Gonzo 3 years ago
You are charged exponentially more here in the US, but parking is mostly free. I'd happily pay $10 to park to avoid the hundreds and sometimes thousands per visit.
firecrackershrimp 3 years ago
Yes in some US hospitals you have to pay for parking, especially in a city where space is limited. Sometimes the department you are there for will give you a pass, depends on what your there for. When daughter was younger we would get a pass when in pediatric ICU, but when she got older (multiple disabilities so we were regulars in the hospital) and was in adult areas we weren't given a pass. Husband and I just timed out visits to swap the car at the curb as we always made sure one parent was with her at all times, because when someone can't communicate for themselves some one has to be there at all times to advocate and oversee. The things we've seen in hospitals over the years . We were there at the beginning of COVID, scary times.
Cyber Returns 3 years ago
One of the hospitals I visit has a day pass for parking that costs £25 for 24 hours, but if you parked on the roadway in the hospital grounds near the car parks then you would get a £15 fine and a notice to move the car by midnight. Then the timer for your number plate would be reset, and you could keep doing it. It was encouraged by the hospital staff because they were subject to the same rules. This overloaded the system with parking tickets to the point that they dropped the price of parking to £10 for 24 hours or free for disabled
Claire B 3 years ago
Awful hospital policy. This would discourage parents from visiting their babies in the NICU and screw up breastfeeding:( but no hospital bill? Just parking ? Still.
kath morgan 3 years ago
I understand why they want to limit use of their parking (stop commuters clogging it up) but you should be able to have someone validate your ticket and get it free if you actually use the hospital.
Richard Coy 3 years ago
My dad's recently started cancer treatment. They've given him free parking when he has to go in for appointments
#17
Carl’s Jr. app offered something like 10 points for “checking-in” each time you visited. Once you had 100 points you could get a free $6 burger
Well, I figured out the “checking-in” counted as long as your cell phone was within maybe 100 yards or so of the restaurant.
And I drive past a Carl’s Jr. right before my house
So I would check in on the way to work each morning and check in again on the way home
Free burger every 5 days
Then they changed it so 100 points was a BOGO instead but it was good while it lasted
Telmo Belo 3 years ago
I'm doing the same with IKEA. Takes time, though... Every time you use your card you get at least two points. 150 gets you a €10 voucher. The thing is you get the points even if you just get their free coffee. Great when you work in the same shopping center.
Xenon 3 years ago
Just an FYI, BOGO you don't have to actually buy two. The first will ring up %50 off.
Demongrrrrl 3 years ago
Not always. Sometimes there's small print that says "Must buy two." But I've only encountered that in grocery stores, not fast food.
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Not really a loop hole I guess just a way I ripped Pizza Hut off for a couple thousand dollars in food and drinks. Back many years ago when places were just starting to set up their websites for online ordering I found a way to refresh the page the right way where I could enter a coupon code to take 10% off as many times as I wanted to. We did a practice order to make sure it worked. We did like a $30 dollar order and brought it down to like $7 and paid with a $20 and let the driver keep the change. Since it worked we started doing bigger and bigger orders. We would only get like 2 pizzas but we got lots of wings, deserts, cheese bread and drinks and other random side items. Our orders were coming out around $90 and we ordered every single day and many days twice. A couple of times the delivery guy said "your total is . . . . wait that can't be right . . . . $8?" We told him our uncle worked for corporate and gave us really awesome coupons and always tipped the driver really well. This went on for about 2 weeks of ordering at least $100 from Pizza Hut every single day. Some days we would order twice. All good things must come to an end though and one day it just stopped working. Some nights I lay awake tossing and turning thinking of how awful a thing I did to Pizza Hut . . . jk I regret nothing, it was awesome and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. It was part of a great summer. We were tired of pizza after like 1 week but we kept on ordering just because we knew it wouldn't last forever.
Xenon 3 years ago
Except you weren't ripping off an anonymous giant corporation but an independent franchise owner.
Piper 3 years ago
Exactly. As a franchise owner for another type of business, this really hurts us and affects our ability to hire more employees. It’s stealing from someone who doesn’t have huge margins to start with.
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michael Chock 3 years ago
I worked at a Taco Bell when they had a reward card. Since customers never used it the GM asked me to swipe a store card every day just so it would record something. A while later I got yelled at for an hour by both the district manager and the GM when I dared approach the district manager when the GM refused to fire an 29 year old employee who got caught with a 14 year old, but family refused to press charges. (Outside of work, but we employed many highschoolers). I quit the next day,, took the reward card, and with the Pizza Hut cross promotion I cashed it out for over 50 coupons for free large pizzas.
Jennifer Whittington 3 years ago
Even with the huge discount they were still making money. I know someone who was a manager at pizza hut and their food cost literal cents to buy/make
Piper 3 years ago (edited)
This just isn’t true. I am sorry, you have to account for rent, payroll, insurance, utilities, etc But I got rid of your negative vote anyway as it was an improper use of the system in place here. To help, my monthly rent on my very small store front is $3000, my utilities another $500, my liability insurance $600, workers comp another $200, my payroll $15,000, advertising, $1600, retail, $4500, misc like snacks for events for customer care, $600. Plus my business loan for purchasing the business, another $2500. If everyone did what this clown did, I would be out of business in a month and 6 people would be unemployed.
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My city council is offering 3 years of unlimited public transport throughout the 6 transportation areas (around 200km radius), if you give an old motorcycle or car to the city council for its destruction. They are doing this in order to reduce the amount of polluting cars on the road. They do not require for the vehicle to be insured, to pass any certification or to work by the time you give it to them. As long as it's in one piece, they'll accept it. They'll even pick it up from wherever you leave it. Bought 2 absolutely trashed motorbikes that were not even in use for around 350€, waited 6 months (minimum ownership period they require), then called the city council for pickup. I should receive 2 unlimited transport cards in a couple of weeks (one for me and for my wife). As they last for 3 years, it'll come out for around 5.5€ /month. The equivalent 6 area month card goes for around 113€/month, so pretty good deal overall.
#20
I worked at a restaurant in a hotel where you could collect "employee bucks" of sorts for going above and beyond at your job. You could use them to pay for things like a room stay or food in the hotel restaurant. They were worth a dollar each, but you obviously couldn't cash them in for real money. I saved up about $450 worth, used $100 worth to pay for a hotel room on a day I was working, bought a soda from myself at the restaurant and tipped myself the extra ~$350 and signed it all to my room bill. Upon checkout it just shows that I spent $350 at the restaurant, not a breakdown of the bill. So then I used my employee bucks to pay off the hotel bill and got an extra $350 on my paycheck (minus taxes of course)
JL 3 years ago
He used the hotel fun bucks to give himself a tip. His tips are paid as part of his paycheck, so he got real money. Basically a variation of money laundering.
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Kimberleia 3 years ago
I feel like this could backfire as most companies don't let you ring out your own transactions, so depending on the policy of the employment, they may get in trouble for ringing themselves out.
Kiki’sNotLookingBack 3 years ago
But if all the employees stay in the rooms, who is going to take care of the hotel??
#21
Coming to school 3 hours late. I found out that as long as you have a parent’s note, you could come in late unlimited times. The only restriction is that after 15 days missed for a class, you’d fail it. So, at the beginning of the year I pressured my guidance counselor to move my two study periods to period 1/2 and a blowoff class (which I didn’t need the credit for) to period 3. Came to school at 10-10:30am every day my senior year opposed to 7am. Extra 3 hours of sleep, bringing fast food into lunch, and avoiding the hectic metal detectors made it well worth. Props to my grandma for writing 140 late notes for me at the start of the year. That my friends, is how you play the system.
JB 3 years ago
School start times are not designed for students, they are designed for the adults. Teens need more sleep, and sleep later into the morning. Forcing them to get up at 7 feels cruel.
Lord Mysticlaw 3 years ago
It's not even getting up at 7, you need to be at school at 7. It's ridiculous. I've never understood how kids need to be at school earlier than adults need to be at work.
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S Mi 3 years ago (edited)
Everything about this school set up is really sad. 7 am, metal detectors, failing students who miss class (likely some of the most vulnerable). Sigh
madbakes 3 years ago
I'm guessing this is the US. I'm an American and sounds about right.
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I had a nice little business going at school of forged notes from parents. Students would bring in a legitimate letter from home where I would copy the signature a few times until I had it perfect, then I would store the signature with the student's name and tutor group and give them back the note to hand in. After that, for a small fee, they could get days off or be excused from PE or jump the dinner queue
Debby Keir 3 years ago
There was some recent research showing that older teens performed better in the afternoon than the morning. I know one UK school trialled late starts for a while, but didn't see the outcome. However, I would imagine the teachers weren't keen....
tara 3 years ago
NICE! I did something very similar! I had already fulfilled the credit requirements eariler that semester, so I chose Art class (even though I had already aced it) again, and would show up once in a while and work on stuff or putter about and help the art teacher clean up. It was a double period! I also couldn't choose a class to fill in the rest of my empty blocks, and somehow they never bothered to do anything about it, so I had two free periods (blocks) everyday, followed by 2 periods of art class that I didn't NEED to attend! Some days I didn't have to be at school till almost lunch time! Home room teacher used to get angry....but we didn't even have to stay in homeroom for the full block of time! So I would sign in at the office when I would saunter in at lunch time :)
Nunya Bidnits 3 years ago
Didn't need this at my high school; you only had to take enough classes in your senior year to graduate. For most that meant about half the usual academic workload. Some kids took half days, others half weeks. Me? I finished senior 'year' in just over two months.
#22
Moviepass was $10 a month and you could use it to get 1 movie ticket a day. I lived next door to a Regal, and I went everyday because Regal would give their reward points for every ticket purchased. They didn’t care that Moviepass was paying for the tickets then giving them to me as part of my subscription. In 8 months I spent $80 on the subscription and saw everything that came out and I racked up enough Regal rewards points for about 50 free popcorns or drinks. Moviepass went out of business but I still had all the Regal rewards.
SarBow 3 years ago
This time of MoviePass was such an amazing phenomenon. I will never forget how many movies I watched in the theater. It's something I imagine one day telling my kids, "once upon a time there was this app that greatly underestimated the amount of money it would make and it let me watch all the movies I want for $10 a month."
Debbie Downer 3 years ago
I did this exact same thing for my family of four. It was so awesome I miss it!
April Stephens 3 years ago
Wow, can you imagine going to the movie theater every day? I have only had the chance to go once this year (to see Jurassic World).
#23
At the Game Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, Google had these tablets setup with quizzes about their products. The fastest time + the most correct answers would win a new several hundred dollar Tablet and some other goodies, each day. I found a loophole/exploit that when you finish the quiz, you can just press the back button and take the quiz again. The questions and answers were in the same exact order this way. I memorized the location of the correct answers and would make an unbeatable time for the day. I did this three days in a row, but after the first day, I put my co-workers names down, and won us all the tablets. There was some other guy from Lockheed Martin that was pissed off at me because I didn't allow him or his friends to win. He was using a different exploit to get fast times, but his exploit made his questions randomize the order of the answers, which slowed him down. I did not feel bad one bit. He was exploiting too, I just did it better. F**k him and his b******t posse he was with. The employees at the booth did not care one bit. They were all contract workers.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
If Google was smart, they should have offered you a job. You demonstrated the exact skills they needed at a conference where they should have been scouting.
Muhammad Zulkhairi Mohd Nasir 3 years ago
This should be a secret test for a career at Google!
#24
I once bought a gorgeous, solid oak dresser with attached mirror accent that was priced at $1200 for only $1. I was on a website surfing for dressers for my newborn and came across a free shipping promotion. So I filtered results for dressers for the lowest priced item. Up pops this dresser for only $1. Upon further inspection I realized that the same dresser in other finishes were priced correctly at $1200. But this oak dresser was priced in error. I reluctantly added to my cart half expecting it to update the price... but it remained $1. Plus they had free shipping that day, so my cart total was $1.06. I completed the transaction and then called their CS number. I explained and was put on hold for almost 20 minutes. The woman came back and confirmed it was an error but that they had to honor the price. The page it was on went unavailable before I could let anyone else in on my find... **An after thought to mention... freight shipping was normally $399 so it was a truly an amazing score.
Donkeywheel 3 years ago
« The woman came back and confirmed it was an error but that they had to honor the price » They legally do not. Not if the price is undeniably an error.
Chloé-Louis Beaugrand 3 years ago
It depends on the country. In some countries, they do have to honour the labelled price even if they have to lose money for this error. However, even if it happened in a country where they don't have this obligation, I don't think the OP would have taken any risk because they would have just had to tell they don't want to buy it to the real price and been reimbursed.
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Lucretia Yuckmeister 3 years ago
Why do people feel the need to make companies aware of their mistakes, especially if they are huge companies?
Nightshade1972 3 years ago
My wife used to travel a lot for work. She became a bit of a luggage snob. At one point, she needed to replace one piece of luggage. She went to Amazon US (where we lived at the time) to look for the luggage she wanted. She found it, in three different colors. Two of the colors were very expensive, IIRC around $350 USD. The third color was significantly cheaper--something like $220 USD. My wife looked at the specs for that color very carefully, and didn't notice any significant difference between that one and the other two, so she ordered that one. Maybe a week later, when she was checking the tracking for her order, she realized that the third color was now the same price as the first two. However, they didn't insist my wife pay the difference. She got a very expensive, very good piece of luggage for basically 40 percent off, because whoever entered the prices the first time made a mistake.
Joshua David 3 years ago
The problem in America is a LOT of people do these sorts of things which makes working at them even more unbearable. 20 years ago I worked at a kmart in the trashes town of streator IL and what I went through from trash is next level.
K.A. Hansen 3 years ago (edited)
They talked to customer service to let them know, and was told the company would honor the (incorrect) price, plus allow the free shipping. OP's conscience worked perfectly fine.
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When Bank of America first offered it's keep the change program, I went to the gas station, pumped 5 cents, then restarted it over and over. I was there for an hour and made 300 bucks. They stopped matching 100% very shortly after.
Sterling Johnson 3 years ago
I remember the Keep the Change campaign, but BOA rounded up and put the round up FROM your checking account, into the savings. The bank didn't give it to you. So I'm confused how the OP "made" the $300... To my knowledge, it was always your money. The bank was just showing that everybody can save money, a teeny bit at a time.
#26
1 Credit Card point for every dollar spent. But up to 5X for every dollar spent abroad. I've been on a 6 year "holiday" abroad and they haven't brought it up.
Ziggyc 3 years ago
Don't understand it..surely they can see the transactions are now coming from abroad
wifeofweasley 3 years ago
They sure can but it seems to be that OP moved to another country still using their credit card from their home country. OP never told them or cancled the card and the bank thinks they are just on vacation
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Cold Eagle 3 years ago
Ships stuff from places link Amazon Canada to Amazon US, or online purchases maybe? Or could it be in reverse? Account set at one, living in another for work etc,
#27
Before the pandemic hit, I used to sometimes go to Taco Bell between classes for a snack. One day I got a receipt with a code to fill up an online survey for a free taco on your next purchase (which is what I was buying anyways, since it was just a small snack). I decided I'd fill it up and buy a soda (which was cheaper) next time just for the free taco, thinking it wouldn't give me a new code, but it did. Anyways, I started doing it so often that the employees started recognizing me, and one even told me "normally I tell customers to remember to fill out the survey, but I'm sure you'll remember."
Sharon Ingram 1 year ago
McDonald’s does this now. Every receipt has a survey that if you fill out online, you get a code for BOGO on McMuffins or burgers. I do it every time and the next day get two muffins for the price of one.
Kimberleia 3 years ago
In college my friends and I would do this at Burger King. There was also a pizza place nearby that did a promotion for a free pizza if you applied for their credit card or something, but they weren't doing it by computer, it was paperwork so we would just write fake information like Jessica R.Abbott or something else ridiculously absurd.
#28
Years ago, Burger King sold mugs that you could refill for free any time at all. With soda or even shakes. My friends and I would bring a single mug, go in and get a chocolate shake, go back to the car to move the contents to another mug, go back in and repeat until all of us got free chocolate shakes. We did this regularly for about two years of high school.
Sasy 3 years ago
They had it so that you could just refill any soda cup at Hungry Jacks which was the Aussie Burger King, but then they got rid of it because occasionally homeless people would come in to refill them...big meany heads
Cat Palmer 3 years ago
And anything that helps a homeless person is of course immediately a bad thing. /s
Load More Replies... Muhammad Zulkhairi Mohd Nasir 3 years ago
This is literally the answer to "How to bring in more customers?" Question, the higher-ups asked at the company meeting. They didn't count the stuff that the customers buy everytime they went!
#29
I remember being young and going to Chuck E. Cheese. When you were pulling your tickets out, if you found this sweet spot then you could just keep pulling the tickets out. My mom had a hard time figuring out how I got 10,000 tickets in under an hour
Nolgoth 3 years ago
Pier 39 in san fransisco had an arcade (dunno if it is still there or not, its been a few decades since i last went) that had a few skeeball machines my aunt and i found did the same thing.
David 3 years ago
Wow. memories. I didn't game the skeeball but I've been in that arcade many years ago.
Load More Replies... NakNakNak 3 years ago
Not sure if it's the same elsewhere, but the last big arcade I went to (Enchanted Castle) has traded the tokens and tickets for a digital card system. Swipe the card to play, get the tickets credited to the card. Possibly due to the virus, probably to stop stuff like this lol
Leoninus Fate 3 years ago
oh man, this, i learned this, taught my sister and brother..... then my lil brother ratted us out, mom made us to give the tickets to the ticket counter, we didn't get to use them....
Muhammad Zulkhairi Mohd Nasir 3 years ago
Chuck is teaching the young-uns how to gamble... This is how you teach em' back!
#30
In college, I had a full scholarship that paid for everything, including textbooks. All I had to do was show my scholarship coordinator the receipt for the purchased supplies, and she'd apply the credit to my tuition bill as a paid expense and I'd get reimbursed. I'm sure all of you know how expensive on-campus bookstores are compared to getting that same book on Amazon or Chegg. Like easily 30-40% more. My bookstore had a price-match program that would give you back the difference if you showed them the cheaper Amazon price online. So I'd buy all my textbooks at the ridiculous bookstore price, using my credit card (getting cash back points btw). Take the receipt to scholarship coordinator, she'd credit the entire cost to my account, I'd be reimbursed in full. Then I'd go to the campus bookstore with proof of all the cheaper textbooks on Amazon, and they would credit me the difference I "paid" back on my card. I made roughly $300 a semester doing this. Tldr: I made a profit in college buying textbooks, getting them reimbursed by my scholarship, then getting price-match credits back.
Nicola Koh 3 years ago
probably had to be for classes op was registered for, and only one copy each. otherwise a lot of people would be getting their friends textbooks
Load More Replies... Lord Mysticlaw 3 years ago
I don't know how the people who charge ridiculous prices for textbooks sleep at night.
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Robin Childers 3 years ago
Maybe not a loophole, but back in the day my college professors tended not to change books for years on end, so students would sell them between outselves. A few people even let others borrow the textbooks the following semester becuase if you sold them back you didn't get a lot, so it wasn't a big deal. Heck, I even let another student use my fancy calculator for Econ classes.
#31
Years ago I would buy a few games at a time. Some of the games I'd play for a few hours before deciding I didn't like the game. Since the games were opened, the store I bought them from wouldn't take it back. HOWEVER, I learned that Walmart would exchange the game for you, no questions asked without opening the new game. So I'd go to Walmart to 'exchange' a defective game, take the new, unopened game to the store I originally bought it from and return it for full price. Oops.
Bubs623 3 years ago
I'm good with any action that screws over the Walmart corporation and family. They literally ruin lives and bankrupted thousands of downtown business in towns across the usa. They are corrupt in employee practices, health insurance, and so much more.
Jen Hart 3 years ago
They also have patriarchal pharmacy practices. Got shingles age 45, and when recovered, my doc sent a prescription for a shingles vaccine. Walmart refused to give it because I was a woman under 50, due to "fetal risk." Setting aside that I can't get pregnant anymore, I found it really condescending of their policy to presume to "know better than" my doctor and her recommendation for me. Thankfully, Rite aid had no problem giving me the vaccine.
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Cyber Returns 3 years ago
Read Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett. Big Mac goes off on a shopkeeper about returning an opened game because it does not work, but the shopkeeper says it can't be returned as it has been opened, to which Big Mac argues how can he tell if it works without opening the game
Raumpfleger 3 years ago
To prevent theft, a book store franchise over here used to open all sealed game DVDs and remove the discs leaving just the booklets in the shelves. Well, we didn't need the DVDs, what we needed were the product keys printed on the manuals for our already downloaded copies - which would not have been accessible to us, hadn't the store broken the seals to prevent ...
Walter Brameld 3 years ago
For the younger folks reading this, PC and console games used to be distributed on physical media like CD's, floppy disks, and cartridges which you bought at brick-and-morter stores. There were no digital distribution services like Steam for PC because dial-up internet was slow. Consoles didn't even have an internet connection.
#32
We had a situation at my old job (a huge, international company) where we’d work shifts, either 8/10/12 hours. Anything after 8 hours was overtime.
Sometimes we were scheduled for the next shift quite soon after the last one had ended, for example 05:00-12:00 and then 19:00-00:00.
Someone discovered that if there were less than 8 hours between shifts in a 24-hour period, anything after 8 hours total was paid the overtime rate.
We did it for ages and then in the context of some team chat, some twat asked one of the managers whether the above scheduling would still be feasible.
Turned out the management hadn’t even noticed and stopped it immediately. And back to minimum wage we went.
DE Ray 3 years ago
Um. I think that is a legal requirement (not that I'm a labor law expert or anything), not just the company scheduling mess-up. At least in some US states, you work more than 8 hours in a 24 hour period you get overtime, doesn't matter if those 8+ hours aren't contiguous. Many businesses which operate in several states find it easier to apply the same pay rules across the entire company rather than spending time and effort to develop pay policies for each state (and deal with employees complaining about it being unfair people doing their exact same job get paid differently across some imaginary line).
Lori w 3 years ago
In the US, the federal law is anytime worked above 40 hours in a week is to get overtime pay. There's only a couple states that have an 8 hour rule- CA, NV, AK, & PR. Paying employees extra that don't work in those states would be a glitch, not something done to avoid complaints. Generally, if a company is paying overtime for more than 8 hours in a shift, it's due to company policy.
Load More Replies... Veronica Michelle 3 years ago
Ugh. I worked at Starbucks for 5 years (Texas) and they would constantly schedule us for an 8+ shift, six hours after ending the last shift. I would ask how I’m supposed to manage that and be told it’s fine because it’s not illegal. My other half works at Heb in the mornings (ten years now) and they work a minimum 9 hours, every day a week, with zero breaks or lunches. Labor laws are a joke and I really hope you found a better job ❤️
Rahul Pawa 3 years ago
I'm surprised HEB treats their employees like that. That's sad to hear, I thought they treated their employees better.
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Dave Hinckley 3 years ago (edited)
I did IT support a long time ago. We would do computer moves after hours and on weeekends. Has a manager once who said that the hours worked after midnight on Saturday were to be put on the next week's pay period. We said, "OK, we'll stop working at midnight and come in on Sunday afternoon." It didn't take long for THAT policy to stop. Other than that he was a good manager.
Bob La Capra 3 years ago
When I was employed by the postal service the requirement was 8 hours between shifts. I don't remember if that was specific to the PO because of the union or because of a federal regulation.
#33
The soda machine at a dorm I lived in had a weird glitch. If you put in five cents more than the asking price and pushed the product select button, the machine would empty all of its change out at once. We did this a few times and got $20-40 each time!
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
again this is unethical, you are probably depriving some small entrepreneur of his money. most of those machines are owned by individual guys.
Marie Dahme 3 years ago
Well then I was worse. My dad had a universal key that unlocked vending machines. He had it when he worked in the coal mines in Wyoming. I was a poor university student so in the middle of the night, me and my roommate would take just a little bit from each machine….on every floor of our dormitory. Never bought chips, candy, soda pop or any of that stuff for years. I privately sold the key and made BANK when I graduated. Good times.
Load More Replies... Jon Zinsmeyer 3 years ago
This is a fantasy -- coin mechs don't work like that. When a transaction is completed the coins dump into a collection bin. That bin does not connect to the coin return in any way
David H 3 years ago
Many of these college vending machines are owned by small local companies. My college used a small business that owned a few dozen machines on several college campuses. The owners would come around in a panel van to refill the machines themselves. Many other colleges use small businesses for this.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
We had a promo soda machine in in our school that gave you 20oz cans of Cola for 10 cents. They'd fill up the machine the night before while the school was locked up. I was usually one of the few students that got to the school before the teachers when the janitors unlocked the doors. I would take a large bag with me and get 20 sodas ($2 worth) and hoard them in my locker until I could take them home at the end of the day. By the time summer rolled around, I had enough cola for me and my sister for the summer months since my mother always refused to buy soda for us from the store.
Leoninus Fate 3 years ago
my uncle owns a bunch of soda machines, he said he didn't care if people stole the sodas but please dont brake the machine
#34
Opened an Amex credit card and the introductory offer was 10% cash back in restaurants for the first year. I worked for a sh**ty chain restaurant as a server, so I would just stack a few of my large cash tables and put them on my card, then pay it off every week. Made an extra $20-$30 a shift
#35
Microsoft used to have (still might for all I know) online training for videogame retailers in order to train store employees on current and upcoming products that they could sell. The training gave points for each video and knowledge quiz you took, which could be exchanged for free games, computer hardware, store gift cards, etc. By signing in under a random Gamestop store ID number (which was posted online), skipping the video, and brute forcing the knowledge quiz, was able to rack up a whole bunch of points and get several XBox games and simple computer hardware for essentially nothing. Never worked a day of retail in my life.
Bobby 3 years ago
Worked for a cable company that ran an incentive on selling showtime. $3 bonus for each subscription. The tracking system sucked though and there was no minimum time the person had to have the subscription. I'd pitch showtime to everyone and add it to their account then when they said no I'd remove it. Customer didn't get any charges and because it was on there less than a minute it didn't even show on the bill. However the system would show that I did add it to an account and would net me 3 bucks each time
#36
Not me, but my dad. He was building a deck on their house. If the deck attaches to the house, you need a permit to build one in our city, since it's considered an addition/improvement. If the deck doesn't attach to the house, it's a free-standing structure, and you don't need a permit. So he built the deck right up against the house, but it doesn't actually attach to the house, so he didn't need a permit. All he had to do was add a few extra posts under the side of the deck nearest the house.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
This is what my step dad did too, but there is also a clause that it can't have a solid roof on it, so he had to use mesh.
Full Name 3 years ago
I used to live in a rural community where I saw something similar. If you have a deck of any kind, it gets appraised and the value added to the house. However, objects on wheels do not get appraised at all, because they could be gone tomorrow. So I saw a mobile home with a 1-ton farm trailer, full of patio furniture, lights, etc, parked right up against it.
Max Robitzsch 3 years ago
To be honest, I doubt that was an exploit. That was probably exactly what the rule intended.
Meebumitches 3 years ago
yup! Same with electrical to a workshop. If it's hardwired, you need a permit. If it's hardwired to a post and the workshop 'Plugs in' to the post, you don't need a permit as it's considered temporary. Permits are BS anyway. I shouldn't need permission from a city or county to build something on a piece of property or home that I own.
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
Well, you do you, but there's a reason they ask you to update it. If your tax isn't right for your building, that's fraud.
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At wingstop, if you order on their website(for delivery or to pick up), you can order wings by preset amounts but they usually restrict you on how many flavors you can have so naturally, the more wings you order, the more flavors you can have. I usually get 15 wings; however, if you do this, they restrict you to 2 different flavors only. If you upgrade to 20 wings, you can have up to 3 flavors but 20 wings is too much for me. If you order 10 wings, it is still restricted to 2 flavors, but 10 wings is just not enough for me. The thing is, I want 15 wings with 3 different flavors though(5 wings per flavor) so I can have a nice time eating my wings, and enjoy 3 different flavors. But clearly this option isn't available. My workaround is to order the 10 wings with two different flavors. But the last 5 wings? At the end of ordering before you checkout, they offer you the option to add 5 more wings of one flavor to your order, so I do this to get my 15 wings with 3 different flavors. All for the same price. Nothing too profound lol. I just like taking my passport to Flavortown.
#38
On Airbnb, some hosts allow you to change the date of the booking without any additional charges, (but would charge you if you cancelled the booking within certain hours) so if i had to cancel my booking without losing money i would change the date of my reservation to a month ahead of what it is currently and then in a couple of days cancel my reservation and get a full refund.
Rachel Ainsworth 3 years ago
I just had to move my booking because my budget airline "rescheduled" my flight the day before so I'm against this person ruining it for everyone else.
F. Jeske 3 years ago
If proof is provided, I am the last to not cooperate to find a solution, no tricks needed. Also in early corona times, people cancel because they were afraid, and travelling in Europe was still possible,every reservation that got in contact with me didn't loose a cent. Whilst the ones push cancel got charged by the travel companies a lot.
Load More Replies... F. Jeske 3 years ago
That keeps happening to me. People ask a few hours before arrival to change the date well behind free cancellation. Nowadays I refuse that. I tell them that to many people do that to cancel free. I write: I can offer you to complete the reservation now, and you can visit another time as long as you tell me any changes 3 days ahead of time. That pays me, my room is not empty and unpaid and they can use their "credit"later, 80percent don't come. But that at least gives a fair treatment to the 20 percent that use the function because they have to.
Okatango 3 years ago
Tried Airbnb once. The host cancelled less than twenty-four hours before I was due to arrive, leaving me stranded, without a penny of compensation. I would have had to have paid the amount in full if I cancelled. The reason given was that building work was being done and the water would be off for the weekend. How can someone not know this? Then I realized that the "host" was likely one of those companies that buy up everything driving up local housing costs. Never again.
Sarah Richardson 3 years ago
I’ve done this before too. Had a spa holiday booked, but my friend cancelled on me and I didn’t want to go alone and couldn’t find anyone else with time off to go. It wasn’t in the free cancellation window so wouldn’t have got any money back. The rep on the phone said to move it out by six months and call back tomorrow to cancel. I did, and got a full refund.
Piper 3 years ago
And yay! You made someone lose money and others maybe miss out on 2 bookings because the dates looked filled up! Go you! I am honestly stunned at the number of people who find stealing, which is what all this post is about, just funny and fantastic. It’s really sad commentary. ,
#39
I lived near a casino that would let you get chips using your credit card. I liked some if the show's and restaurants there but never gambled. So every time I went I'd charge $5K to my credit card for chips. Then I'd cash out at a different teller swing by the bank on the way home deposit the money and pay off my credit card. I did this maybe once a week.
Boom $5K of free points / cash back.
David 3 years ago
Wouldn't most credit cards count buying casino chips as a "cash advance" and charge fees?
Sasy 3 years ago (edited)
If you pay off a cash advance in full with any outstanding credit in time, then it doesn't incur the crazy fees. He wasn't going into debt for more than he bought in chips, he was doing it for the additional perks of using the card and paying off the card :)
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West Hermans 3 years ago
Goodness, I'm slow! Or hungry... I spent almost a minute wondering what anyone wanted with $5k of potato chips.
Jay Son 3 years ago
They were likely getting 5000 credit card reward points for buying 5000 chips. They returned the chips immediately, and paid their card the money owed right away, so they never went into debt or paid interest fees. If they do this a bunch of times, they can get a lot of free stuff :)
Load More Replies... El MasChingon 3 years ago
I don't get how this is a loophole? Aren't you just paying back what you owe?
Nikki Angulo 3 years ago
I think he was getting points on his card. Like some credit cards have reward points, so he was earning points by using the card, and then paying it off right away, therefore avoiding interest charges.
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Jessa Birch 3 years ago
I thought op meant like potato chips bc I'm an idiot and I was very confused over how u would buy 5k worth of chips 💀
JL 3 years ago
I remember reading once people could purchase currency not usually seen in circulation (like one dollar coins and two dollar bills) from the U.S. govt. at face value. People started making huge purchases, rack up a ton of airline miles, deposit their purchase in the bank then place make more big orders. The U.S. govt put a stop to the sales.
#40
Worked for a Uber a while back. They had a promotion for drivers where they guaranteed you $20 an hour. The stipulation was that you had to average at least one ride per hour. I lived in an area that I would never get ride requests, but close to an area that was always busy and I would get requests for very short rides back to back. So, I would drive to this area, do like 10 quick rides within about 2 hours. Then I would head home and leave the app on for an additional 8 hours, not receiving any ride requests, and get paid for 10 hours. Basically, drive for 2 hours, make $200. This lasted a year before they changed the promotion rules.
Carla Phillips 3 years ago
I got screwed by Grubhub with their promotion similar to this. You could schedule blocks and if you worked the entire time and had a low rejection rate (I forget exactly what it was) but they guaranteed you $15 an hour. I used this exactly one time. I scheduled blocks all day and accepted every order that came through. Since my total money made for the day didn't equal $15 they paid me the difference. I think it ended up being like $80. A couple days later I can no longer schedule blocks because "I engaged in activity that has been known to be fraudulent " it gave me a chance to appe but as it didn't tell me what I did I really couldn't defend myself. They real kick in the pants is that I can still deliver for then, but I'm banned for life from scheduling, which makes me ineligible for the guaranteed $15 an hour.
firecrackershrimp 3 years ago
They did that on purpose, let you use it once, then never again. They have no intention to guarantee people a living wage.
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This pizza place local to us had a glitch in their online ordering service for a while. You could technically combine 2 deals of 50% off. One was 50% off for any XL pizza of an order that was normally $30 or more, and the other was 50% off on a XL Pizza, with two 2-liter drinks, wings, and cheese fries at regular price. If you put both of these coupons in, you only paid for the wings, cheese fries and pop which would be about $18. With delivery charge + tax it would be about $25. Plus 2 Extra Large Pizzas for literally free. Normally this would be $70+. Any other coupon you could not combine, but this one worked together for some reason. For some other reason it would mark 50% off 2x on each pizza. We discovered this when we were ordering food the day we moved in. Feeding our friends that helped us move in. We thought it was a 1-time thing. Tried it a few weeks later and it worked. We did this at least once a month for the year or so we lived there. We always gave the driver a $10-$20 tip and he knew what we were up to. The place never said anything about it for years. Eventually they updated their site a couple years ago, and we had moved out by then.
AJ Fallgren 3 years ago
Why they were able to use it for an extended period.
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#42
The Starbucks subsidiary Teavana (now out of business) would let you use your Starbucks rewards ("stars" or whatever they're called) to get loose tea by the ounce. However, there was an error in their point-of-sale system that only deducted 1 reward point, no matter how many you spent in a given transaction. My wife and I spent 32 rewards on a couple pounds of the most expensive loose tea they had. She checked her rewards balance the next day, and holy s**t, she still had 31 reward points left. So we drove to a different Teavana and got a bunch of loose tea from them, and then another, and then another. We were in Los Angeles, so there were a lot of Teavanas within driving distance. At retail price, we took a thousand bucks or so of free tea off their hands before the loophole was closed.
VodkaInMySweetTea 3 years ago
To be clear, Teavana was an amazing tea shop with good quality tea, gorgeous tea pots and tea sets for sale, AND an incredible tea app with a timer that was beautifully designed. Starbucks bought it, sucked it dry, and then drove it into the ground. Starbucks is the absolute worst.
LinkTheHylian 3 years ago
"I am the Tea King!" "You're antiquing?" "No... I'm the Tea King... I have all the tea..." "...Why?"
#43
There’s software that generates credit card numbers. Now you can’t actually buy anything with these numbers, because when the system tries to charge them, it gets rejected. However, there was a website (like many others) that would give free amazon gift cards (via email) for trying out partnered subscription services that offered free trials. You’d click the offer link, get redirected to the partner site, fill out all the information and use the fake number, and it would confirm on the offer site before getting rejected by the partner site. About a week later, you’d get a digital amazon giftcard in your inbox. Got enough to buy a PS2. Long time ago, haha.
#44
Sears has a program called Shop Your Way Rewards. They had some electronics items back in the day that would give you roughly the same amount of points back that the item cost. So a $40 pair of headphones would come with $30-$40 worth of the SYWR points. Well a group of enterprising folks found out how to generate as many coupons as we wanted and that $40 item became $25-$30 and the $30 in points became $40 by using coupons. You could also use points to pay for the item in question as long as you spent $0.01 in cash. So I was getting +$9.99 for every order placed. Sometimes it was order 5 of these things for $200, use 2 awesome coupons and you’d get back $250 for $160 in points spent on the items. I bought so much stuff from Sears over the course of 2 years. Made roughly $50,000 selling the junk electronics on amazon/eBay. And was able to stock up on craftsman tools, clothes, new appliances, and a couple of recliners using the points I acquired. I ended up on a first name basis with Shelley (or Sheila maybe?) the SYWR rep that ended up banning all of my accounts lol.
F. Jeske 3 years ago
I also delete names faster then I should. If I haven't seen you in 6 months and I don't greet you with your name.... It is gone.
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Cody Wisner 3 years ago
I was a manager at a Sears back in the day and they do those same promos with stuff all over the store you just couldn't spend them the first purchase, but you could on the next and it still gave you the same amount of points again. There was a lot of free or dirt cheap stuff I got from the store lol
Bear Family 3 years ago
There were a number of people in my town selling Sears items cheaper than expected. I was sure they were warranty returns or something. Guess I just found out. I miss Sears. We have one less good hardware/tool source since they closed.
#45
I used to have a Suntrust debit card that offered Delta Skymiles rewards with every purchase ($1 purchase = 1 Sky Mile). Walmart would let you buy a $1500 money order for 70 cents. I would drive around, buy $10000 worth of money orders, fill them out, deposit it into my bank account, and then buy more money orders. I would often have to call Walmart managers and ask them to refill the ATM machine with money orders. I bought a few million dollars worth of money orders and got a few million Delta Skymiles that I've used to travel across the world that cost me almost nothing (time + gas + $0.70 money order fee). One day I got a random call from my bank asking "what's going on with all these transactions?". I didn't have a good answer and they presumably thought I was a drug dealer or money launderer and canceled my account. The Skymiles are probably worth a few hundred thousand dollars. A few years later I applied for a credit card from Suntrust and I was rejected due to "previously unfavorable business relationship". I took that to mean they finally figured out what had happened.
Lyone Fein 3 years ago
Me neither. You need the funds to purchase money orders.
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Jordan Green 3 years ago
Back in the day, the Giant Eagle grocery chain used to have really good fuel perks (so many cents off gas for so many dollars spent in the store). At one point my dad was remodeling his house and would buy Lowe's gift cards from Giant Eagle, use those to buy supplies for remodeling, then rack up lots of free gas. I believe they changed the system recently.
Kimberleia 3 years ago
Yeah this type of thing is tricky, because depending on the amounts too, you could get in a lot of trouble from the government. Banks track your deposits. Would have made more sense to have the money orders made for his bills and take advantage that way.
#46
The first three SimCity games: * Build a modest-sized town * Set tax rates to something high, but not high enough that it reduced the population * Turn off disasters * Set speed to super-fast * Go to sleep * Wake up a zillionaire
Sasy 3 years ago
I used to just play the regular sims, but got all the hacks, I had this career generator thing that you could not only choose the career but it had how long per day you worked and for what amount per hour, so I would just work for 1 hour at 500,000 an hour, then I also had the baby painting that instantly gave you back all your energy at the front door. I also had hacks that made the drinking fountain make people frisky during a party, but when I got the pet add on, suddenly a dog drank from the fountain and was caught in bed with a party guest and I stopped playing, because things like that should not happen.
ZombieSushi386 3 years ago
I love Sims stories, and this is probably the funniest one I've ever read
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#47
In college I worked at a dining hall with a parking deck right next to it. Parking pass would have been several hundred dollars a year, and to park in the deck without a pass would have been $10/day for the hours I would be at work and in class. But it wasn’t automated, and the booth workers went home at 11pm, so after that they had to leave the gates open for residents to get in and out. Being a college kid, staying on campus until 11 was easily doable, so I parked for free for two years.
Dillon Brown 3 years ago
If they don't want to pay for round the clock people or installing automatic gates that take tickets that's on them I say
#48
At my work, if you want to purchase more holidays they calculate the cost via what they pay you per day and then spread the total cost over a 12 month period to make the purchase easier for you. So if you buy 1 extra day and your rate is £50 a day, you only pay £4.16 a month for example. If your pay increases the cost scales with it which gave me an idea. I knew i was in for a pretty big payrise so I bought 10 holidays just before it happened and asked if I could pay for them upfront, they agreed but thought I was mad. I got the payrise but all the holidays were paid for upfront on my old salary and they didn’t clock on so I saved about £400. Noice.
BirFromHH 3 years ago
Vacation days. For example my job contract states that I can take 30 working days (6 weeks) off. I usually want more. My salary will be cut If I do, but I am contractually allowed to take up to 10 more. Probably seems weird for US workers, but not unusual here. The attraction compared to unpaid time off ist that all they things that are dependant in you working just continue.
Load More Replies... Carla Phillips 3 years ago
This person is literally bragging because they "bought" their time off at a cheaper rate. They need to say that first part real slow.... they.had.to.buy. their. Time. Off
Kimberly Weixel 3 years ago
“Purchase more holidays” not “any holidays”. Ie they want more time off than their contract allows, so they need to relinquish the excess pay.
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Phasmainmachina 3 years ago
Wherever I’ve worked, it’s always been a 5-day week of however many hours per day, with so many days of annual leave, usually a set starting amount with an additional day added after each year of employment. Where I work now, that was the case, until the company was taken over, then after a while we were told there would be a new shift pattern introduced, which involved the work day increasing from 10 hours to 12. I wasn’t keen on the extra hours, but then after speaking to work colleagues, I could see the advantage - the shift pattern is 5/5/4, meaning I work 5 days, get 4 off, work another 5, then I get 5 days off, work 4, then have 5 off, then the pattern repeats. We also get an extra day off for our birthday, plus a Wellbeing day, so 27 days in total. By using holiday allowance carefully, I can use 4 days and have 3 weeks off! I’ll only work 5 days through the whole of December, because I hadn’t used all my holiday allowance, and only 5 days can be carried over to next year.😎
#49
When searching for sources on essays teachers warned not to use Wikipedia.
On the other hand,he said noting about Wikipedia's own sources.The final product is so different that not even an software can make find similarities.
in.love.with.taylor.swift 3 years ago
idk… i’ve looked at wikipedia’s sources and not been able to find much useful information
No Name 3 years ago
It's very field dependent. Astronomy articles usually have decent, if dated, sources. Political pieces might cite very dodgy rags. And the maths and statistics pages just read like graduate level textbooks that assume you know all the notation and conventions a priori.
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Another Amy 3 years ago
This isn't so much a loophole as it is just doing what should be done in the first place.
memyselfandI 3 years ago
On the contrary, I was told specifically to look at the Wikipedia page for something and use the sources that they used. I don’t know what teachers you had that wouldn’t have liked that…
Let’s Be Kind 3 years ago
I understand this concept of clicking into the Wikipedia source, but you need to be careful to look at the type of source used by the author. There’s a huge difference between primary, secondary and tertiary sources. Just clicking on the source document doesn’t guarantee that you’re getting the most accurate information.
#50
Dating myself here, but in the late 80s, soda machines had just begun accepting dollar bills. You could take a bill and apply a piece of clear packing tape to it. Once the machine took the dollar, you could pull it back out using the tape. Free coke, but the best part was that you got change back! Paying you to drink a coke.
Wood Carver 3 years ago
I believe the early solution was just to install a counter further into the chute of the vending machine. Modern machines have all kinds of tool to try to solve the faking that was prevalent back then. We had one in the local gym that would spit out a quarter if you jammed the coin return up and down a few times, used it to call mom after swimming at the public pool. We had one at the trailer camp ground we'd visit every summer that would take washers instead of quarters. There was also a switch on the top of the mortal combat arcade cabinet for adults to turn it on and off. As a tall child I could reach it and figured out that it also let you play a game free, I assume a test round for technicians. All sorts of exploits in early or no computer machines that were fun to find
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#51
Whenever I don't meet the required criteria for free delivery, I just add anything, ANYTHING to my cart and checkout. And then cancel that extra product after placing the order and recieve full refund for it within an hour. This also works with coupons which have minimum spending amount. Note: before using this make sure to check the cancellation policy about cancellation charges.
#52
One time I was at McDonalds with a friend and I got a McWrap for 2€, and I decided to try out filling out the survey at the bottom of the receipt for a free drink. I got my drink and to my surprise on the receipt I got for the drink there was another code for a survey, so I tried it again and it worked. We did it about 5 times until we decided to leave. The next day I decided to try it again and for some reason it didn’t work. A month ago I was at McDonalds but unfortunately didn’t work again.
#53
At the neighborhood swimming pool there was a vending machine. If you held down the root beer button for awhile the machine would give you 2 root beers. Just needed to scrounge up 3 quarters... Miss those days.
WoodenLion 3 years ago (edited)
on the 1965 payphones if you dropped a penny in and hit the plunger type coin return with the receiver at the right time, it would give you a dial tone.
#54
In high school when I had a page count for an essay I would make the font size for periods, commas, apostrophes, etc. 2 numbers bigger than the essay text. In a decent sized essay it would tack on a page which was nice. For word count essays I would just make random words at the bottom and then make the text white. Didn’t work as well on online submissions like Turnitin
Soph the Loaf 3 years ago
Lots of HS teachers now would be breathing down your neck for not formatting properly, even for just periods/commas. Not that they shouldn't - just unfortunate for slackers like me lol
RandomFrog(He/They️️) 3 years ago
Started using MLA format this year and my english teacher was very strict abt it. Size twelve specific font, and it was online submissions so he could see if we changed any font or size or any of that
Load More Replies... Nikki Angulo 3 years ago
I mean, that punctuation thing sounds like a lot more work than just writing a decent essay.
JMil 3 years ago
I have an acquaintance that would plagiarize to no end when in Uni: they would submit largely plagiarized essays and change lower case l's to uppercase I's and the online check would not identify anything problematic. In a sans-serif font, the professors were, apparently, none the wiser. This was when automated plagiarism checks were new, I wonder if any have updated code to find this "hack".
genevieve.honor 3 years ago
ohh i’ve seen that hack! i’ll be using this when i start getting more essays 😏
#55
The local Wendys had a survey on the back of their receipt that would get you one free burger of your choice with the purchase of any other "premium" burger. They also had a special on where the Dave's classic single, considered a premium burger, was $2. There was no specification that the free burger had to be "Of equal or lower value". The first time I didn't even make a purchase, just went into the store, found a receipt near the garbage, filled out the survey, got my code, and then ordered their Asiago cheese chicken burger (their most expensive item) with a Dave's Single. 2 burgers for $2. Then of course I had a receipt for that purchase, which lead to infinite $2 for 2 burger deals.
Lyuben Petkov 3 years ago
Doing something a bit similar - going to Mcdonalds, grab a receipt just to use the toilets and if I need some wi-fi or charge for my phone - can stay at some table with left unfinished order (not consuming it) just to look like regular customer "swimming" in his phone. I do respect Macdonalds for their bussiness model, but the palm oil in their products is a No for me
#56
The Mc Cheapy. McFlurries were like 4 bucks. All it is is ice cream in a cup with some shots of topping. They dont even mix it. So we asked for a soft serve, 30c, two shots of toppings, $1, a cup and a spoon (free)
Sasy 3 years ago
yeah the McFlurry is honestly the biggest crime ever, when it is mixed it collapses giving you less icecream just so you can have some stale toppings.
OnAFreakingRollercoaster 3 years ago
When the ice cream machine is actually working 😏
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There was a local haunted house set up for Halloween in my hometown. It took place at a nature center, so was usually a big deal being in middle school and going out at *night* AND around spooky trees One thing they did to help encourage folks to participate was have a vote for the spookiest encounter in said haunted house. My friends and I saw this poll on the haunted house website and thought it was utter b******t that the witches at the end of the house were getting all the points, when chainsaw guy was clearly the best. Being a youth with limited computer time (home computers were starting to become more common, and I was limited to an hour of computer time after school), I got through what I needed to for homework and spent the rest of my time refreshing the page and voting for chainsaw guy, as there was no limit on how many times you could vote. After a few days of this, I guess someone noticed just how many more votes chainsaw guy was getting, as chainsaw guy was easily 100+ points more than the witches, as I was only allowed to vote once more before it cut me off. He still won, and I wonder if they know it's mostly because of a bored 12 year old
PattonPawter 3 years ago
The haunted house was at a nature center, so the trees probably looked spooky in the dark.
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Domino's pizza Australia. When ordering online, delivery charge was added to the first pizza. So I'd buy garlic bread, hot chips, chicken wings, a drink and some deserts and skip the delivery fee by paying by card online. Kept it up for 2 years before they "updated their terms" and shut the loophole
Sasy 3 years ago
Delivery drivers in Australia get a proper per hour wage, so not really poor anything there, the fees if charged are not for them anyway, its for the convenience of the store providing delivery. Dominos does not usually charge a fee at all, Pizza Hut does though
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#59
There was a summer where I got free chipotle all the time. I had a gift card that had like 2 dollars left on it. I hadn't updated the app yet so it still had the "use my gift card and pay the rest in store". However either the computer at the store said I already paid the full amount ahead of time or I always came in during a time that they were swamped so no one ever asked me to pay. They also never charged my gift card. I got away with it until the app made me update it.
#60
Mexico. Lays Chips. I was 12 years old. Every bag had a scratch it card. Payout ranged from free sodas, chips, candies to cookies. I shined a laser pointer under the card to figure out where to scratch the card in order to win. Won every time. Left a lotta room in my budget for sex, drugs and alcohol.
Blurryface 3 years ago
To respond to the last sentence… but you were 12? I know it’s a different culture, but… 12?
Mat O'Dowd 3 years ago
There is a fair chance we are witnessing what some call humor... A hard to grasp concept, quite alien to some humans.
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BART (local lightrail service in the Bay Area) has just started rolling out reusable cards that you could load money on instead of having to use the one-and-done tickets. BART works by buying a ticket for the exact amount you need to get from A station to B station, putting said ticket into the entrance booth, riding BART, and putting your ticket into the exit booth. Some distances are super expensive, upwards of $15-20 each way. So when they first started allowing people to buy the reusable tickets, they didn’t associate any purchase fees with it and you could buy one at most BART stations. I bought one with $10 on it and wanted to take a trip to the financial district of SF, but I must’ve spaced out cuz I ended up in the Mission, which would’ve cost me over $10. At the time I just went through the station without thinking about the lack of funds to cover my ride and since the ticket worked, I just forgot about it until I checked the balance the next day and saw a negative balance. This got me thinking...if BART allows for the reusable cards to have a negative balance, why not just buy several $2-3 cards and use those for long trips? Man I must’ve saved hundreds for the first few months it was working, but then they fixed it thanks to all the damn news media reporting it.
#62
I worked guest services at a mall and had been there long enough that the name tags had changed from first & last name to just first name. But I never got the new one and never brought it up because who cares? Only two of us had the old style. If we got a belligerent customer that demanded to see a manager, but no one else was around, I'd walk up and just my confidence (having been there for years) would calm them down. They'd take one look at my name tag, see the longer name, and think I was the manager. I'd repeat what my newer coworker said and apologize for inconvenience due to company policy, they'd apologize and do whatever we suggested. If I or the other employee with the old tag weren't there, someone would fish out the supervisor's tag from the drawer and put it on, do the same thing. Saved a lot of heartache, tears, and time. Confused the management team when they got a complaint/compliment card about a manager that didn't exist though. They usually just threw those out
Amused panda 3 years ago
But surely they would still been able to recognise the name of the employee from records of who worked at the store?
#63
In high school if you missed a class period, at the end of the day an automated message would call your home phone for your parent to hear and leave a message about the classes you missed. "A student in your household in grade 11 was absent for the following periods: 2...4...5" or whatever you had missed. I skipped a lot sophomore and junior year but at the start of sophomore year after the message called my house a few times I tried to be a little more sneaky. My parents would always ask if I skipped and I would lie and say the teacher must have made a mistake or that the system must have picked the wrong student and called the wrong house. They believed me at first but I could tell they were starting to get suspicious. One day I had a dentist appt and missed periods 1 and 2. My mom drove me so she knew I would miss my first 2 periods. Later that day when the message called it just said I missed 4th period. On that particular day I actually had gone to 4th period but since the message was supposed to call rehardless of whether or not your absence was excused, my parents completely lost faith in the message system after that day since it should have reported I missed periods 1 and 2, yet it didn't. After that I was able to skip whenever and blame the messages on bad technology. It turned out fine in the end as I graduated with a decent GPA.
Dr Meatbeefs 3 years ago
Skipping school is a sign the teen is overwhelmed or needs a mental health break from it, and tbh parents and educators should be more accommodating and allow "hooky days" imo
#64
If a stat holiday falls on a Tuesday or Thursday, book the corresponding Monday or Friday off and have a 4-day weekend. Never thought of it as a loophole to be exploited until a co-worker called it one as he filed a complaint with HR, saying I was using it to get more vacation time than him.
Jason 3 years ago
Wat. I thought this just fell under the "using your vacation days like a smart person" category. Though I did work at a place that offered flexible Fridays for a while. Work 4x10 hours. I combined that and holidays could get almost a week off for 10 hours of vacation. No one complained about me but did on one of the other guys who booked like 3 months of 3 day work weeks in a row
Stephanie Did It 3 years ago
My employer caught onto that in a hurry and prohibited scheduling PTO the day to before or after federal holidays, unless the holiday fell in the middle of a planned & approved vacation.
Donkeywheel 3 years ago
Wait.. that means that you cannot use your vacation days as you want?! How crazy is that. This country is a living hell
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Chris Keller 3 years ago
Most places I worked had a policy that you had to work the day before and after a holiday to get paid for it.
#65
Used to go to the casino for a night out. My friend and I would go to the heavily subsidised gamblers restaurant at the back and get a really nice meal for $10. After which we would go to the sports betting room and play free billiards for an hour or two. The coffee machines made great hot chocolate (also free), so we availed ourselves of that service heavily. Once we were done, we would wander the floor of the pokies and usually find a few stray coins which we would place in the nearest machine and see what we could get. Never won anything, but it wasn't our money, so no loss. Then they took the billiards table away. Didn't seem worth it after that.
David 3 years ago (edited)
Not sure if it is still a thing but in Vegas and Monte Carlo they used to give me free drinks while I was gambling. (to anyone). I'm not a professional gambler or anything, just a tourist. But I think the idea was get you liquored up so you lose your money. . Many years before that - my step dad told me about a place that would give you free hot dogs if you were gambling. (depression times or whatever). He would play roulette and bet on both red and black so he'd always break even, but he was 'gambling' so he got the free food.
Russell Rieckenberg 3 years ago
You don't always break even betting on red & black. You lose both bets when zero (or double zero on wheels so equipt) comes up.
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I've done similarly with swagbucks. Now they limit it a bunch more, but a few years ago when I used it a lot more often I'd pull up the ad videos either on phone or computer, mute it, and let it run while I watched tv/did chores/etc. I got a bunch of free stuff from Amazon with it (for a while amazon gift cards were cheaper than all others at the $5 rate, so I'd trade it in for a bunch of $5 GC until they built up enough to buy more. definitely made a few hundred dollars off it for the 6-8 months I used it consistently, virtually all by just letting it run silently while I did other stuff on another device. Now they cap the amount you can earn daily by video to some low amount
#67
Loopholes 101 - look for specificity and then go around it. I grew up in a “strict” house where we signed contracts at the beginning of every school year. This is where I learned to find loopholes in contracts for fun to test and exploit. Example from our contract: Process for when you get home from school: 1) snack time - 30 minutes (1500-1530) 2) in room for homework from 1530-1700 3) dinner at 1800 4) chores after dinner 5) bedtime at 2030 Exceptions: if you have a job or play a sport that occurs within those hours. This one was fun because it assumed I got home, if I didn’t get home then I wasn’t subject to any of this until I did. Additionally the exception called for a sport or job. So from the age of 5 through 18 I played a sport and/or worked after school. Additionally part 2 of that process didn’t say you had to do your homework or that dinner was at the house. I simply made assumptions based on the rules and my parents would amend the contracts accordingly. As long as I could justify my action I was rarely punished for this; Just scolded and told to stop. These contracts got pretty detailed by the time I was in high school.
nuberiffic 3 years ago
Sounds like your parents found a loophole to keep you from messing the house up and / or keep you fit and healthy
#68
I have asthma, nothing crazy but in high school I was able to fill out some paperwork with the nurses office related to my chronic illness. In short I was able to write my own excuses without a dr note and I would be able to write excuse notes for past absences. I think I raked up 20-40 excused absences my freshman year alone.
Jason 3 years ago
In high school we had a "absent for anything x times and you fail" rule. I was in AP classes, was hospitalized for surgery a few times, and my mom was diagnosed with MS. Auto failed me and held me back a grade and put me in remedial classes. I decided to drop out then
Faramir10 3 years ago
That's the trouble with zero tolerance policies or auto-whatever. No real human to look at what's going on.
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#69
In England there’s a shop called Tesco’s, all year they sell terrys chocolate oranges, but at Christmas they raise the price and give it a discount to encourage people to buy them despite it being the same price. Last year there was a loophole with stacking sales, so when you bought a toothbrush and three chocolate oranges, they gave you 50p. Between all my shopping there I must have bought about seventy. I was going to give them as gifts, but they’re really good haha
Fish Fingers 3 years ago
Didn't Terry's get taken over by an American firm (Kraft) that *obviously* doesn't understand European chocolate standards and made it all taste like crup?
Bill Dolman 3 years ago
The Terry's brand name has been bought out on many occasions: in 1993 it was bought by Kraft Foods; the Terry's name became part of Mondelēz International in 2012; and in 2016 it was bought by investment company Eurazeo that formed French confectioner Carambar & Co [fr]. Products using the Terry's brand name are now produced in the Carambar facilities in Strasbourg.
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At an anime convention I used to go to, parking at the convention center would cost like $80 for the weekend. And the attached hotels used valet parking, that also cost a lot. But we found that if you parked all weekend but “lost” your ticket, they’d only charge you the daily max of like $20. We did this for several years before the convention center wised up and started not allowing lost tickets on the convention weekend. Though around the same time, we started using hotels not attached to the convention center so there was other close parking available.
Hemera Setuna 3 years ago
A few years ago, I was working at a company under a temp contract that can last for about 21 to 28 months at a time depending on the demand. Anyway the way it work is when you work weekends you work 3 x 12 hours plus we covered for the holidays. And the way it work is that on holidays they pay you an extra 8hour for a pending holidays that you can't take at another time up to a week of pending floating holidays and 4 hours in overtime that you can put in the overtime bank for up to 40 hours plus. And after a year you have the usual 2 weeks vacation time, so after a few months of this my bank was full. We were the one that input our vacation and times off on the computer. When your time off bank was full the system that would block and force you to take your vacation but they didn't notice that if you input that you will, take off the end of x month off you can still accumulate more time in your bank because that frees up you bank . Anyway, at the end, I had 3 months off in total with
#71
Not sure if it's a loophole but I was remoting in from home to work because of COVID. Since I'm salary I don't log in or submit a time card. Instead they require all employees (hourly or salary) to log in on Skype so they can track how long you're online. Except that they didn't disable the settings so I have my status remain "Available" for 20 minutes of inactivity so I can take 50 minute lunches and not get docked for it.
Sasy 3 years ago
the fact that your lunch time is 20 minutes is the crime here, never had a job that it isn't one hour, salary or not.
nuberiffic 3 years ago
I've never had a job with longer than half hour lunches. Pretty standard in Australia
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Thor Haugen 3 years ago
The salaried jobs I have had have always had set duties that had to be done. You could take a two hour lunch if you wanted, but you would just end up putting in the time later. The only time people covered your duties was if you took paid time time off and even then it was just the urgent things that they did. It always irritated me because vacation never was really vacation; you ended up working longer hours for weeks after you got back to catch up.
#72
This isn't something I did, but this a pretty good story for this thread. This guy owned a pizza shop which was eat-in and takeout only - no delivery. But he would occasionally get calls from people complaining about their food after placing an order for delivery. After some investigation, he had found that Doordash had listed his restaurant without bothering to ask for permission. In looking at the listing though, he realized that one of the prices on the site was wrong - they were selling a pizza for only $16 that he charged $24 for. So he just started ordering huge amounts of that pizza, because with each one, Doordash was paying him more than they were charging him. And since he owned the store and didn't care about eating the pizza, he just started delivering himself plain dough to save on costs to make even more of a profit with each one.
Sasy 3 years ago
I do not even understand how this is possible, door dash drivers do not turn up and order the food, so how was the ordering of the food done so that the store actually made the product, also how were they paying him at all, if he did not sign up and had no affiliation with him, then they were taking 24 dollars off customers, delivering goodness knows what, and he didn't get paid at all, until he suddenly started scamming them ? I am confused
Carla Phillips 3 years ago
Actually. Sometimes we do have to go to the store and place the order. We have a work credit card that is pre loaded with the amount it will cost. Also, doordash has an option to pick up your order instead of a driver bringing it to you so I guess he could have done that but even with that the OP's post doesn't make sense. I think maybe more info is needed for it to fully make sense.
Load More Replies... Amused panda 3 years ago
Probably, I can't imagine he had the delivered to his place of work. But I kinda wish he'd had them delivered to a homeless shelter or something so he wasn't the only one benefitting from Doordash's error.
Load More Replies... #73
I worked at a place where you could request any day off with pay according to what you had accrued. We would ask for a day off with pay and then work our regular scheduled day off. 6 days paid. Work 5. Anything over 40 was OT. Few of us did this for years before management did the math.
#74
When I was a kid and we used real mail, I figured out if you reverse the addresses, you don't need a stamp. The postal service will just "send it back" to the return address. Haven't bought stamps in over 20 years!
Jay Son 3 years ago (edited)
Reusing unstamped envelopes also works :) Edit: I mean envelopes with stamps but that didn't get a stamp on it, if that makes sense at all lol
memyselfandI 3 years ago
Envelopes with sticker stamps but not ink stamps.
Load More Replies... Chris Keller 3 years ago
I discovered that they will usually deliver mail without a stamp, I'm guessing that they figured out it costs more to intercept it and return it. Twice I sent the same person a letter and forgot the stamp it arrived anyway in normal time.
WoodenLion 3 years ago
i had the post office return a thing to me that was 4 cents short on postage. this thing, when i tracked it, went to where i was sending it and then returned to me for the 4 cents. this thing traveled about 1000 miles one way.
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Alex Martin 3 years ago
I'm gonna get downvoted for this but what a bunch of thieves and cheats. Taking advantage of employers, retailers, and restaurants and then celebrating because they got away with it. I just can't imagine doing what these folks did and not feeling intense guilt.
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
Being super poor helps. At least it did for me when I managed to get free gas for a while in college. Broke college student with a single parent going through chemo, unsuccessfully, really helps with the guilt. Plus, many of these posts are just gaming the system of large corporations that either went bankrupt or made bank off of COVID
Load More Replies... similarly 3 years ago
I had to stop reading. A few were interesting and clever, but I saw some that were just plain stealing and/or fraud.
Bob La Capra 3 years ago
I agree. I enjoyed reading at first but after awhile all I saw was theft. You got 75 free hamburgers? Good for you but the rest of us ended up paying more for ours. Someone always pays.
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Roald 3 years ago
I'm a company owner. Sometimes you just want to offer something nice to your customers as token of appreciation for their business. Sure enough, there is always somebody who tries to 'max out their benefits'. Result: instead of a general offer available to all, I now hand-select the customers. "Hey, you've been our customer for so long, i see you ordered this xyz service (we're in accounting and taxes) - how about I don't send you an invoice for it".
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
This seems like a good idea all around. It gives an extra personal touch for the customers
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wowbagger 3 years ago
Just a small note: vending machines are often serviced by independent contractors who buy the products from the company and then sell them through the machine. So if you cheat a vending machine, you're not stealing from "Pepsi," for example, but from some independent contractor who has a very small profit margin.
Barbara Cochrane 3 years ago
What a bunch of crooks! I don't care how poor you think you are compared to others, you are still a thief!
BonnyDK 3 years ago
Also an exBIL who, I agree here, had a big premeditated plan to steal big screen TVs. The massive ones. He would order them online from the companies directly. Then report they were damaged upon arrival. The companies did not want to pay to ship them back so he was told to just dispose of them and was given a refund. There was one in every room of their house. Nothing wrong with them at all.
West Hermans 3 years ago
I loved the college kids who got free or cheap parking and the others along those lines. But driving all over town to get thousands of dollars worth of tea! Why? Those weren't poor people, otherwise they'd not bought expensive looseleaf tea in the first place... tea has a shelf life, there's a limit to how much of that you can drink. That gig definitely got the person fired who came up with the marketing idea. Or stealing all the money and the sodas out of a vending machine: that's some small guy who invested everything he could borrow in a group of 10 vending machines. Getting robbed while still paying for gas and restocking: his family went hungry that week. I wish people had some compassion. Figuring out how to get free pizzas and repeating that several times: awesome! But to keep doing it to where it has to hurt the business: why?! I can smile about the ones that took a small profit margin from Walmart, since they treat their workers and communities terrible. But some hurt to read!
Alex Martin 3 years ago
I'm gonna get downvoted for this but what a bunch of thieves and cheats. Taking advantage of employers, retailers, and restaurants and then celebrating because they got away with it. I just can't imagine doing what these folks did and not feeling intense guilt.
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
Being super poor helps. At least it did for me when I managed to get free gas for a while in college. Broke college student with a single parent going through chemo, unsuccessfully, really helps with the guilt. Plus, many of these posts are just gaming the system of large corporations that either went bankrupt or made bank off of COVID
Load More Replies... similarly 3 years ago
I had to stop reading. A few were interesting and clever, but I saw some that were just plain stealing and/or fraud.
Bob La Capra 3 years ago
I agree. I enjoyed reading at first but after awhile all I saw was theft. You got 75 free hamburgers? Good for you but the rest of us ended up paying more for ours. Someone always pays.
Load More Replies... Roald 3 years ago
I'm a company owner. Sometimes you just want to offer something nice to your customers as token of appreciation for their business. Sure enough, there is always somebody who tries to 'max out their benefits'. Result: instead of a general offer available to all, I now hand-select the customers. "Hey, you've been our customer for so long, i see you ordered this xyz service (we're in accounting and taxes) - how about I don't send you an invoice for it".
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
This seems like a good idea all around. It gives an extra personal touch for the customers
Load More Replies... wowbagger 3 years ago
Just a small note: vending machines are often serviced by independent contractors who buy the products from the company and then sell them through the machine. So if you cheat a vending machine, you're not stealing from "Pepsi," for example, but from some independent contractor who has a very small profit margin.
Barbara Cochrane 3 years ago
What a bunch of crooks! I don't care how poor you think you are compared to others, you are still a thief!
BonnyDK 3 years ago
Also an exBIL who, I agree here, had a big premeditated plan to steal big screen TVs. The massive ones. He would order them online from the companies directly. Then report they were damaged upon arrival. The companies did not want to pay to ship them back so he was told to just dispose of them and was given a refund. There was one in every room of their house. Nothing wrong with them at all.
West Hermans 3 years ago
I loved the college kids who got free or cheap parking and the others along those lines. But driving all over town to get thousands of dollars worth of tea! Why? Those weren't poor people, otherwise they'd not bought expensive looseleaf tea in the first place... tea has a shelf life, there's a limit to how much of that you can drink. That gig definitely got the person fired who came up with the marketing idea. Or stealing all the money and the sodas out of a vending machine: that's some small guy who invested everything he could borrow in a group of 10 vending machines. Getting robbed while still paying for gas and restocking: his family went hungry that week. I wish people had some compassion. Figuring out how to get free pizzas and repeating that several times: awesome! But to keep doing it to where it has to hurt the business: why?! I can smile about the ones that took a small profit margin from Walmart, since they treat their workers and communities terrible. But some hurt to read!
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