30 Times When People Received Hate For The Weirdest Things Ever, As Shared In This Online Community
Michael Corleone once said in The Godfather 3: "Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment." If you change "enemies" to "people" in this quote, then you get, perhaps, perfect advice for behavior in any society. The problem is that no matter how perfect the advice is, few people really follow it.
In fact, people love to hate and express their hatred - even if this feeling is fleeting, and tomorrow they will forget what or whom they hated. Often behind this hatred is just fear. Fear of what seems too different from the usual things, of opinions that are incomprehensible, of decisions that one does not share. So hatred is incredibly often expressed for reasons that are not really worth a damn.
Recently, a thread appeared in the AskReddit community, where a topic starter asked just one question: "What is the dumbest thing you've ever received hate for?" Right now, the thread has nearly 19K upvotes and about 15.5K comments with tales ranging from funny and absurd to bitter and hurtful.
Bored Panda compiled for you a selection of the most popular comments from this thread, a real quintessence of human stupidity, proof that one can literally hurt a person just for nothing. So read these stories, scroll to the very end, share your opinions in the comments... and please try to just love, and not hate!
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Not me, but my husband. He has a fondness for BRIGHT NEON COLORS. Which is so opposite to his quiet, reserved personality that it tickles me to death.
So, he came home from work. We spent an hour of, “No, what do YOU want for dinner?” He ran and threw some non-work clothes on… NEON YELLOW-GREEN shirt and navy shorts and his NEON ORANGE sneakers and ran to get takeout. The lady in front of him in line, turned around, looked my husband up and down, and proceeded to excoriate him for his choice of clothing: How on earth could he go out in public like that? What was he thinking? That doesn’t match at all! Those colors are insulting and his wife should be ashamed of herself for letting him dress like that!
My husband, who is normally so polite, looked HER up and down and told her he could change clothes, but she’d always be an ugly b***h. I was SO proud of him! Though he may have had to convince me to not go driving to find this woman so I could punch her in the nose. 🤣
Having a very old , sick cat put to sleep instead of just letting her slowly die. She had stopped eating and wouldn't move. She just sat in the same spot dying. I took her to thr vet and we wound up euthanizing her.
Apparently I am an evil b***h for not just letting her starve herself to death.
She was 15 years old.
I painted my nursery with an under the sea theme and then was told the blue would make my daughter a lesbian.
"Reading too much" my mom used to get mad at me, an elementary school kid, for going to the library and getting a big stack of books and reading through them all in a day. And I mean she was PISSED, she'd kick me out to go play and I would just sit outside in the grass for a few hours and wait to go back to reading lol
I got in trouble for bringing books into the primary school canteen because the teachers said I should be "engaging with other people, not sitting with my face stuck in a book." Ma'am, I've been engaging with people all day in the classroom? I'd like some time to myself, please? There's also the fact that no one would sit with me so who was I supposed to engage with in the canteen?
My mom encouraged me to read. I was reading before preschool. I still love reading
Same, I spent my weekends and summers reading as a child. This is so sad.
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When I was a kid, I would always read on public transport. If I were traveling with my grandma, she'd always make me put my book away because "...it's embarrassing and indecent to read on a train!" I still can't see how it could be those things 🤷♀️
Indecent? Grandma, what kind of books do YOU read...?
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I once had someone tell me “Every time I see you, you’re reading a different book. Like I was committing a crime or something.
The one time my cousins visited me in my home, one of them looked around in open disgust and sneered, "Do you REALLY read... ALL those books?!" I said a lot were for research, so I have a bunch of theoretical stuff. She made one of those "tch" sounds with her teeth and said "Well, *I* only read magazines, and I think I turned out fine!" Um... okay? She was literally offended by the books in my home, and took them as a personal affront. That's some serious insecurity.
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I got this, too. "Quit sticking your nose in a book...and go outside!" Little did she know that I'd just go up in my brother's treehouse and read there...
I used to get interrupted in public all the time by people telling me to "go play" when I was just reading. Most girls/women have these stories. I was once made to apologize to an adult man at a family gathering who was so deeply offended by my "snobbery" for reading during a pool party that he spent the whole time complaining about what "a b***h" and "snot" I was until my mother finally came and got me to apologize to him and "not be so unfriendly." I was ten or eleven.
My mother was the same way. So I’d just take my book with me and read it outside. Killed two birds with one stone.
Impressive that you found those hunting skills without putting down the book!
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I got detention once for finishing a book before the rest of the class. My superpower was reading. I did the same thing as OP. The Book Mobile was my favourite place to be.
I loved book mobile visits too! Pro: Each kid could pick out a book and all thirty books would be placed on a shelf in the classroom so that you could read all of them if you wanted to. Con: The bookmobile only came once a month. As a teacher later on I bought books and also checked out as many as possible from the school library as well as the town one. Because of the bookmobile experience as a kid a recognized the benefits of having books of all reading levels and covering a variety of interests! Lot if good readers came out of my class!
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Growing up in a Conservative family, I can assure you this is exactly what one of the primary fears is.
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I got in trouble in elementary school for reading during lunch instead of talking with friends like everyone else. We went out to recess after lunch, THAT’S when I’d talk and play with them. I just wanted to eat in peace and read before hand. Dumbass teachers even called a parent/teacher conference to discuss my “social issues”. This was the early ‘90’s, I feel like all that CAUSED social issues
I grew up in a crappy neighborhood where I was bullied and beaten up regularly. During the summer I would take out the limit of 5 books per day from the library, read them and get 5 new ones the next day. Eventually my father banned me from reading and forced me to go outside to play with the other kids. Spent the rest of the summer getting beaten up and bullied.
My husband can sit in front of the tv all day watching motorsport while I putter around cleaning, cooking etc and wont say a word to me.......UNTIL I pick up a book. THEN he wants to have a conversation.....about the cars, which I am totally not interested in lol
My teacher got mad that I would read a book after finishing my work, because everyone else was still working. She confronted my mother, who had brought my lunchbox in when I forgot it in the car. My mother had just had a hysterectomy, and was on hormome replacement shots. My mother told her that it wasn't a good time and she would call and make an appointment. My teacher continued to berate her about me. (There were several students she had been bullying; her husband had just initiated a divorce, because he had been having an affair with a younger woman) So, anyway, my mother LOST IT and pinned her against the wall with her hand around the teacher's neck. She doesn't remember anything for several minutes of the encounter. So, after she came back to herself, and had let go of "teach", she made an appointment, demanded a state psychiatrist come in and observe me and the other students she was targeting, to evaluate whether the teacher's claims had value. The psychiatrist found no value.
Being a big reader as a kid I can understand but, my parents let me read all I wanted to. They bought me books at the grocery store. I read the classics like Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz and Moby D**k. Condensed versions but nothing a 6 yr old would normally read. Spent a lot of time outside on sunny days also. Best of both worlds and still love doing both at 61. Still have my original library card.
I started reading when I was 3 years old. I'll be 55 in December and I'm pretty sure not a day has gone by that I haven't read a book.
ME TOO!!! Now, even in my 50's, I'm an avid reader! Taught my kid early on that books can be your best friend. She's the first to get a full college degree in the family line. Hey...Isn't there an anime called "Read or Die"?
I got in trouble for spending all my time in the library instead of socialising during lunchtimes at school.
I don't know your mum, so I can't really pass judgement, but there is definitely a line between being a bookworm and doing nothing but read books. I always used to enjoy reading as a kid and would devour books, but I managed to balance it with doing other stuff as well, such as riding bikes and building dens.
My mom reads as avoidance, and did then, too. So her kicking me out of the house and insisting I needed to "go play" before she'd plonk in front of the TV with another horror/true crime paperback was one of her big hypocrisies.
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2nd grade on a Tuesday. Teacher copped out and set us to reading the book she'd handed out the previous Friday so she could do some paperwork. I had read the book immediately, and I had another book with me from the school library. So I was sitting there reading that book, and she caught me. Why wasn't I reading the book she had handed out? I said that I had read it on Friday. She called me a liar and sent me down to the office. My mother was called, and she came, was told that I had lied to the teacher, and that I had an inappropriate age level book from the school library. My mother told them that I had in fact read the book on Friday, had talked to her about it, and couldn't see what the problem was with me reading something else. The school librarian chimed in that I was reading a sixth grade book. My mom zeroed in on the fact that the teacher had called me a liar, and insisted on an apology.
My grandmother was a children's librarian, she would tell her supervisors that books were too tatty and needed to be discarded, and would then give them to us. When I went to her house for a weekend or longer, she would check out a huge pile of books. The other librarian would say, "Your granddaughter must be coming again!"
I'm going to say the obligatory line of "playing outside is good for you too" but overall, read as much as you damn well please. Exercise your brain as well as your body.
I was grounded from reading once. My smart a*s then failed to do a book report. Extension to reading grounding commenced ;)
I will never understand this. I was fortunate to have a mother who loved to read and a father who was a writer. My mother would get me stacks of books. Encouraging children to read is one of the best gifts you can give them. I hope OP is still an avid reader.
My mom set a limit that I can only read 1 book per day. Today I read 2 hehehe (but one was a graphic novel, so it doesn't count)
It counts! KEEP READING, and screw your mom's limits!
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My dad and many of my teachers were the same way. The teachers mainly because we picked up our textbooks a week before school started and I was done with the literature books before the first day of class.
I got in trouble for reading the next years English text book in free period. My teacher said it was “cheating”
That is so sad. I learned to read very early because my parents were readers. I had my first library card before I started first grade.
My parents let me read as much as I wanted. I usually had a half-read book in every room of the house. They did have to ban me from reading at the table during meals. Because I would forget to eat and ignore everyone else. :) As an adult now one of my favorite things is to read while I eat dinner. We were on a family vacation a few years ago and my dad tried to pull the "no books at the table" rule on me while we were there. I was like "Dude really? I'm a grown up. You don't get to dictate that s**t any more."
Reading was my escape from my abusive childhood. I did the same as this poster, every day after school I'd return the books I'd borrowed the day before, usually 6, because I'd read them, usually 200 pages a book, and get 6 new ones. On Friday I'd be allowed to borrow 20 books to keep me going for the weekend. This was infant and junior school, 5 - 11 years old. Learnt how to read at 3 and never stopped reading. When I went to high school my English teacher was also the librarian and taught me how to speed read and made me a bet that I couldn't read every single book in the large school library with random essays on the books. Prize was a £200 voucher to spend at a local bookstore. I got to T but then my circumstances changed and I moved away for the last year of school so never got to win the bet but we both knew I would have won. Thanks Mr Stonehouse for everything
Sounds like my eldest daughter. She used to hide to read -- her dad had the idea that she should be "doing" something. I simply used to grab a book and disappear. Up a tree preferentially, or the car in the garage if necessary. My mother never found me there :-)
This was me! When I wasn't bad enough to be beaten for an infraction, my books were taken away. "Go outside, play, you're too pale & fat to not spend time playing in the sun like NORMAL kids!" I still have PTSD
Lol, my parents were pretty strict about rules, and I wasn't allowed to have my light on after bedtime or they'd show up like hawks to tell me to turn it off. So it took me by complete surprise when I asked for permission to read a little if I woke up at night and they said "Yes." Now I understand that parents love for their kids to read, and in fact many parents struggle to get their kids to read. And then... There's your mom. WTAF.
I was raised by readers but I think they think they created a reading monster with me. My grandmother wasn't happy when I wanted to use big words "If you use big words, others won't know what you're talking about." "Tough Nouggies for them then." And I wasn't praised when I strained my eyes under the covers with a night light to read vs going to sleep or playing video games. Now I stay up playing video games. Overall, my family was never proud of anything I did. Such as not getting pregnant, staying away from drugs, etc.
I was a lucky child,I love to read always have. My mom never forced me to go outside and play. Now I spend most of my time indoors playing sims on my laptop or on my phone
I was the child with the book. I do agree being mad about a child reading is stupid (my mom was just mad when she'd forget to tell me to go to sleep and I'd read until 3am on a school night). YET, I regret not taking a bigger interest in any kind of physical activity. It would have spared me some pains for being overweight, and I wouldn't have had to try to get fit starting in my 20s. We should stop hating on jocks or nerds and give our children a balanced education.
I got in trouble in elementary school for reading at lunch instead of socializing with friends. We went out to recess right after lunch, I’d play with them then! I wanted quiet reading time at lunch before playtime. Idiots even had a parent teacher conference to discuss my “social issues”
I'm somewhere in the middle here. Also from a family of readers but was also pushed for more socializing. Have a great big group of friends that are exactly the same. There are just a few social interactions or events that you would be better off experiencing at a young age. Break ups and peer pressure for example. The older you are when you experience a few things - the more devastating they can be. Some of the things (and fights) from childhood that I learned to avoid in adulthood would be disastrous now.
Should have been allowed to read outside. Under a tree with a pile of books. heaven.
Yeah I used to get yelled at for reading too much, too. But then they were happy when I got good grades. Why do you think I got good grades, people?
There wasn't a library in our town. Most of my books came from yard sales.
Not being able to have children. A guy took it upon himself to “introduce” me to concepts such as IVF and surrogacy. When I told him those wouldn’t work, he basically told me, “well, it’s no wonder you have no children if you won’t even consider the most basic of options.”
My eggs work perfectly fine, as far as I know. But pregnancy would literally kill me, and I’m on life-saving medications that would cause severe birth defects. But f**k me, amirite? Just a choosy beggar, a wannabe victim.
ETA before someone tells me “just adopt/get a cat” because *someone always does,* you’re not nearly as helpful as you think you are.
I don't drink alcohol, not preachy about it, I just don't like the taste or the effect.
I get this all the time. I actually have a very strong skin reaction to alcohol, I can't even have chocolates with alcohol, yet people get really upset by it. I've been called a child. Ironically, by a low-key alcoholic.
For putting pink or pastel rainbow fleeces in with my male guinea pigs. They’re guinea pigs…they literally don’t care. They want lettuce.
For not being gay enough. Apparently having sex with guys doesn't make you gay. You also have to mirror whatever the gay club's current fashions are, down to acting like a diva with an attitude problem to be accepted.
For talking to a guy I met on a dating site not knowing he was in a relationship.
Dude was messaging me on a dating app, we met up and he seemed cool. We hung out once, he wasn’t my type and we parted on good terms and then his fiancé called me.
I said I was sorry, I had no idea. I stopped talking to the guy instantly but I still faced 6-8 months of harassment from this woman and her friends. I got told I wouldn’t live to see my next birthday, I got told I was fat and a s**t, they called me non stop they said that they knew where I lived, where I went to uni.. I even got threats on my blog that I had set up for uni. It was intense. I ended up getting the police involved.
From what I know she stayed with him but somehow I was in the wrong even though I had no idea she existed. He did nothing wrong, it was all me…f*****g ridiculous.
Why are people always taking it out on the other person? They usually don't know they're work someone in a relationship, and even they do, it's not nice but they didn't promise you anything. Your partner did
Being introvert. Got a looooooooooot of hate for that.
A lot of people automatically assume that introverts are snobbish or arrogant just because they are quiet. I think they take it as a personal insult when an introvert is not all that interested in engaging.
Being a boy and liking horse riding. It's a frickin hobby people?
For having lunch with my grandma on my lunch break at work. Not joking. I serve a wide area of my state and when I’m in her part of the state, which was historically underserved by the person in my position before I was, I eat lunch with her during my lunch break. The other administrators I work with in parts of the state that I serve are now complaining that the only reason that part of the state is getting more attention (ie. Equal treatment to them rather than being neglected) is because I like to have lunch with my grandmother.
So you think it's ok to eat on your lunch break? Seriously? My grandma is in heaven now. Enjoy yours.
For making hot chocolate last year's Christmas some lady was criticizing me for being a adult making hot chocolate saying that's for children.i was having a nice romantic Christmas dinner with my fiance so I wanted to make a Dutch hot chocolate with a chocolate liqueur whipped topping. I just looked at her like she was crazy.
Edit this happened at a store I was telling my fiance what we needed to make dinner and dessert and the lady was eavesdropping. I needed the hot cocoa so we could have cookies and cocoa and watch some Christmas movies together.
During my early days of the internet, there was a post on a livejournal page about some woman who still breastfed her kid until he was like, 5. i commented on it saying “i didn’t even know that was possible” and boy did people come at me. calling me a troll just trying to rile people up, saying it was offensive.. like dude, i was just 15 and honestly had no idea it was possible to breastfeed a child for that long.
Getting the side eye for holding my gfs hand in public (we're interracial).
It's just so silly. It wasn't even someone of our races being all "stop stealing our people." It was another minority!
Video games back when I was a teen, so about 10-15 years ago.
My parents did not know jack s**t about it, so they chose to tried to squash it out of me instead of understanding it. Sucks when all you want to do on your free time as a teen was play with the boys.
Today I am still very much a gamer, and they kinda accepted it. Just last week my Mom asked me why I didn't pursue a career in video games because I love it so much.
I simply answered: You never supported my love for it, and since you paid for my college I never thought you would have approved.
The look of guilt and realization on my mother's face was kinda bittersweet.
Few months back, my mum looked disapprovingly at me - mid 40's- settling down some some gaming. She said she couldn't believe I had not grown out of games yet. As she sat there with her Suduko, Wordle, crosswords - and still stopping every few minutes to check out her FB and what's app.
For being 5’9. Someone at work mentioned me being tall for a woman and I said that 5’9 isn’t super tall and they called me a liar and got pissed at me because obviously I was at least six feet tall because he was 5’11 and I’m taller than him. Buddy, I know how tall I am and it ain’t 6’.
For telling someone that I’m allergic to a certain food. (I extremely allergic to it).
How dare you inconvenience someone with your desire to live! What a moron that person was.
Back during the height of the pandemic, I had my kid on the back of my bike. It was a little on the chilly side so he wanted to wear his mask. Some f*****g moron yelled at me that it was child abuse. We were stuck at the lights so he gave me the beans for a red hot minute. Told him I’d consider his parenting advice in the same way I do all the advice I get from crazy people screaming on the street.
Ok, but was he mad at the mask or the bike? The title says bike, but like why was mask mentioned there? Please help I'm confused XD
Scoring good marks in an exam.
In one of my college classes, some fellow students loudly complained (in class with the teacher present) that my high exam scores were "ruining the grading curve for everyone else" My teacher snapped back immediately that they're just mad because it means they need to step up their game and stop phoning it in. She also said to me directly: "Don't ever play dumb just because someone else can't handle it." That is excellent advice!
I don’t like many sweets, I’m more of a carbs and lasagna person.
Try telling people you don’t like cake when it’s offered. Just f*****g try it. It’ll be a 19 minute back and forth where they refuse to believe you, and the 5 variations of “just take a bite”.
I don’t care if this is your nans famous recipe or if this is your personal favorite cake. I’m going to hate it.
Not going to a birthday party.
I know this sounds rude of me, and I did feel bad. But, I had my reasons. Back in high school, my friend was having a birthday party. At the time my dad was really ill, he was in the hospital and I wanted to be by his side.
I told her my reason and that I wouldn’t be able to make it, but once my dad was better, I would celebrate with her in a different way. She didn’t like this, and threw a fit about it.
To this day, I still don’t understand why. But, we’re no longer in contact.
My really good memory. Like, people don't believe it so much that they think I lie and make up things.
Mooooom! He's lying again! Seriously, though, remember not to argue with an idiot. You can't win.
Being a working actor. There’s a whole Reddit thread about how ugly and stupid I am in r/commercialsihate…. Making fun of the way I’m dressed (I didn’t get to pick it out, that’s the wardrobe person), my hair (same, hair person), and how dumb “I” am…someone even said I looked like I was having a stroke. I was literally doing my job.
As a former people pleaser, making my own life choices instead of following others' pushy advice... Life choices that only concern me.
That's called taking responsibility. I rather thought it was a major goal.
Not me but my dad. So my dad used to have trouble remembering names so he would call people Boss. Some dude went up to him one day and got really mad at this nickname. When my dad asks why the dude no joke says: “Boss backwards means Sorry Son Of a B***h.” And that is the most pathetic cry for attention I’ve ever heard. This was in a bar to so maybe the dude was drunk but still that was a hilarious story.
Edit: I edited for the typo but also to say what my dad did after: he just laughed which further pissed the guy off but he really couldn’t help it. Dude wanted to fight my dad and my dad was just laughing, imagine how embarrassing that would be.
I had explained to someone that nurses are mandatory reporters
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Not wanting children
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I once got threats for having a gaming PC. Because I’m a woman and…apparently that was taking a graphics card away from a ‘proper’ gamer (aka male). Definitely the most bizarre.
I too am a woman gamer. Hearing that almost makes me want to collect graphic cards just for fun.
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A guy at work helped me with a flat tire. I'm a crafter so I made him a crochet hat as thank you. He returned it with a note from his wife saying it was inappropriate. What?? I didn't crochet a thong for heavens sake!
Strangely enough it was on here for Thanking an American pilot for his service, i've never seen so much hate from other people
Made a joke once that referenced America, got jumped on by the 'Murican populace of BP for being part of the supposed Anti American hate group that exists on BP. The joke did not even insult America, it made reference to it. Got some love from the American's that understood the joke and also understand the cross cultural banter and taking the p!ss that exists between countries on BP.
On an online game I was playing, someone shamed me for not answering a question. They started spamming the chat wanting to know my name, age, address, etc., And apparently if I didn't answer, I would be a fat ugly bald black 60 year old man, that spent all of my time playing that game because I didn't have a life. The one thing they didn't know was that I was an admin...
For knowing the names of "unusual" plants and flowers. It was on a Girls scouts jamboree, I was a (quite bratty) leader's kid but took part in most activities with the scouts that were 2-3 years older than me. One of the activities included listing plants and flowers found in the neighbouring fields and woods. Most got somewhere between five and fifteen plants, we (I) got close to fifty. The reason I knew so many flowers was that I used to hang around with my grandmother and I "collected" nice sounding words like latin names
That brought back memories of o level biology. A lot of wild plants pressed and identified etc. in a binder as part of the required practical. 1961. I missed the written exam because i got ill from wandering around the countryside in a heat wave with my friend when there was nothing new in bloom to find. We were reduced to roaming a dehydrated cracked bare field in the end. And that was the best part of biology for me. 😉
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The site needs active moderators, that monitor listings and not rely on a 10 downvote instaban
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For not wanting or having kids. I'm 36, I was diagnosed with JRA at 3. My coworker was brave enough to ask well are your parts still work right? Dumb for not wanting kids. I clapped back said I had a hip replacement at 33, and it's none of your business. With you being a female you should know and understand that you should never ask another woman about kids because you don't know their health. She hasn't spoken to me since 😆.
I was the relief carrier (T-6) for this one guy. He HATED me AND WOULD NOT LET ME KNOW WHY! Turns out, the costumers committed to him how I delivered the mail so much earlier than him and it drove him crazy. He would call me b***h, pig ,etc. When I complained to management they told me he can hate who ever he wants. Makes for a shitty work environment.🙄
I was once called a lier and a "showoff" 🤔 for answering why I was so happy by saying I was on my period. 🤷♀️ I don't know why, but before my period I always get in a good mood and are almost silly happy. Not when I'm in pain obviously, but other days. I have never met anyone that feels like that. BUT instead when I ovulates I want to eat lots of sweets and feel sad and depressed. It's weird.
Lol I used to take antidepressant for the 2 days before getting my period and after that I was just happy again, especially the first two weeks, during and after my period.
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I earned a BA and was exploited for 16 years on straight salary. So I qualified for an hourly non-exempt position as a technician and took it. I got paid for my overtime finally, hooray! The net pay was sometimes as much as double what I was getting on salary. I was hated by the other hourly workers for having more formal education than they had. They said anyone who worked hourly with a BA was a fool and useless idiot. I proved them wrong every day, but they never stopped the hate. Don't be a hater.
Oh forgot this one: for buying a 3 bedroom house despite not wanting children. Apparently that’s ‘unfair’.
So many of these are about "gay" things. Where is this handbook of gayness anyway? i don't think I understand the rules.
I get hate from one friend for not wanting to go to every movie she wants to go to. Sorry, I don't care for comic book movies and really I hate the loudness of any movie. I can barely understand the dialogue and have to wear earplugs. And for wanting to go horse riding on my birthday. Something I wanted to do and she didn't.
For saying California is the third largest state. The response was “All you Californian think you’re so much better than everyone. Idaho is waaaaay bigger than California”. And then she acted confused when I was offended.
She's wrong and dumb on TWO counts, even. CA is bigger in both population and physical size.
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For my vocabulary. I got yelled at for 45 minutes for using a word the other person didn't know. Apparently I'm a pretentious m**********r for knowing the word "anodyne" instead of reading the other person's mind for a synonym they knew.
We really need to figure out scripts for dealing with insecure people who project that insecurity all over the rest of us.
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I used to work at after-school programs, mostly for middle school kids. We were getting complaints from parents that kids weren't doing their homework. So we were told by our boss to make sure kids did their homework. So when a kid said they didn't have any, I made them show me their teachers' lists of homework on their schools' sites. Then I got fussed at for being too tough on the kids. I also got fussed at for helping them too much when they needed it. So uh, what's the purpose of our program? If we weren't doing sports with the kids, we weren't good employees. I should've quit trying.
Oh, and at another program, I got fussed at for not engaging with the kids much when watching them... so I started engaging more, then got fussed at for not being able to watch the whole room if I was engaging with them. I really love kids... I loved the jobs.... I hated my bosses.
Load More Replies... Got a good two weeks of pm'ed hatred and banned from a question answering subreddit for...answering the question instead of flaming the asker. Flames are against the sub's rules, and the question did need a calm and rational response (which the asker thanked me for doing) so why I got banned for following the rules instead of breaking them I don't know. And yes, a mod did tell me that I was banned for answering a question instead of flaming the asker.
It's true! Guys really do get sensitive about my being 5'10 and claim I'm lying because Mr Dude who's 5'9 wants people to believe he's 6'. My hubby is 5'8 and has no problem. He says he's married to a model and always thrilled when I wear heels
I get hate all the time off my family for having a chronic illness apparently I’m ‘putting it on’ baring in mind I’ve had major brain surgery for my illness. Also due to said brain surgery I struggle with memory loss so I forget to do simple things sometimes which p**s people off.. like I can help it 🤦🏼♀️ Best one is I’ll be better if I loose weight…. Alrighty then Karen… I’ve dealt with this for 9 years but loosing a couple of pounds will make it go away 🤦🏼♀️
I'm sometimes treated like a liar on the internet when I say I'm on both sides of an argument, I'm a very logical person for that kind of situations so I'll always have some way to validate/reject every point (if I really can, not arguments with an obvious winner). Ppl will be like "oh yeah, sure, everyone believes you" and decide were can they put me on the spectrum of the conversation (?)
I am flight attendant and once one of the passengers was screaming at me that it is my job to put stairs to the aircraft (it was one of a greatly understaffed UK airports, so even we've arrived on time, we were waiting for around 50 minutes for the stairs to be brought by GH). I had an attempt to explain him that this is actually an airport responsibility, but guy was highly sure that was my job. Like, he thought I would jump out of the plane and go bring the stairs just because he was mad at me. 😅 I knew that if I would be listening to this for one more minute I would just burst out laughing, and other passengers were laughing already and it made it harder to keep myself. So I just apologized for his experience and walked back to my jumpseat (in the middle of the cabin btw). I heard he was screaming something at my back, but really I couldn't stand it anymore. It's actually normal for me to be accused of something people do not fully understand. Just funny 😅
No...LOL. You're just explaining the "how" of show business. I grew up on stage, my friend. Singing, dancing, acting, auditioning, rehearsing, competing. I get it. And I understand that it is cutthroat. But WHY must a human being sacrifice any part of themselves for the sake of a career? Or more specifically, what gives anyone else the right to take a part of a person's humanity just to make money?
For expecting coworkers to do their friggin' job. Look, you don't need to do anything beyond your job description, and you don't need to be a gung-ho, get-'er-done dynamo, but also don't leave a mess for other people to clean up.
I get a lot of flack for not wanting to drive. I live in a small city with a lot of sprawl and a so so bus service. I have my bus routes planned and manage well. I know how to take a taxi. I won't refuse a lift from someone but am in no way bothered by a slower travel pace. Hubby does drive btw and we have a car I just find other drivers terrifying.
I once got threats for having a gaming PC. Because I’m a woman and…apparently that was taking a graphics card away from a ‘proper’ gamer (aka male). Definitely the most bizarre.
I too am a woman gamer. Hearing that almost makes me want to collect graphic cards just for fun.
Load More Replies... A guy at work helped me with a flat tire. I'm a crafter so I made him a crochet hat as thank you. He returned it with a note from his wife saying it was inappropriate. What?? I didn't crochet a thong for heavens sake!
Strangely enough it was on here for Thanking an American pilot for his service, i've never seen so much hate from other people
Made a joke once that referenced America, got jumped on by the 'Murican populace of BP for being part of the supposed Anti American hate group that exists on BP. The joke did not even insult America, it made reference to it. Got some love from the American's that understood the joke and also understand the cross cultural banter and taking the p!ss that exists between countries on BP.
On an online game I was playing, someone shamed me for not answering a question. They started spamming the chat wanting to know my name, age, address, etc., And apparently if I didn't answer, I would be a fat ugly bald black 60 year old man, that spent all of my time playing that game because I didn't have a life. The one thing they didn't know was that I was an admin...
For knowing the names of "unusual" plants and flowers. It was on a Girls scouts jamboree, I was a (quite bratty) leader's kid but took part in most activities with the scouts that were 2-3 years older than me. One of the activities included listing plants and flowers found in the neighbouring fields and woods. Most got somewhere between five and fifteen plants, we (I) got close to fifty. The reason I knew so many flowers was that I used to hang around with my grandmother and I "collected" nice sounding words like latin names
That brought back memories of o level biology. A lot of wild plants pressed and identified etc. in a binder as part of the required practical. 1961. I missed the written exam because i got ill from wandering around the countryside in a heat wave with my friend when there was nothing new in bloom to find. We were reduced to roaming a dehydrated cracked bare field in the end. And that was the best part of biology for me. 😉
Load More Replies... One time I told somebody on here that the foam on beer was natural... I got downvoted to hell and back haha
The site needs active moderators, that monitor listings and not rely on a 10 downvote instaban
Load More Replies... For not wanting or having kids. I'm 36, I was diagnosed with JRA at 3. My coworker was brave enough to ask well are your parts still work right? Dumb for not wanting kids. I clapped back said I had a hip replacement at 33, and it's none of your business. With you being a female you should know and understand that you should never ask another woman about kids because you don't know their health. She hasn't spoken to me since 😆.
I was the relief carrier (T-6) for this one guy. He HATED me AND WOULD NOT LET ME KNOW WHY! Turns out, the costumers committed to him how I delivered the mail so much earlier than him and it drove him crazy. He would call me b***h, pig ,etc. When I complained to management they told me he can hate who ever he wants. Makes for a shitty work environment.🙄
I was once called a lier and a "showoff" 🤔 for answering why I was so happy by saying I was on my period. 🤷♀️ I don't know why, but before my period I always get in a good mood and are almost silly happy. Not when I'm in pain obviously, but other days. I have never met anyone that feels like that. BUT instead when I ovulates I want to eat lots of sweets and feel sad and depressed. It's weird.
Lol I used to take antidepressant for the 2 days before getting my period and after that I was just happy again, especially the first two weeks, during and after my period.
Load More Replies... I earned a BA and was exploited for 16 years on straight salary. So I qualified for an hourly non-exempt position as a technician and took it. I got paid for my overtime finally, hooray! The net pay was sometimes as much as double what I was getting on salary. I was hated by the other hourly workers for having more formal education than they had. They said anyone who worked hourly with a BA was a fool and useless idiot. I proved them wrong every day, but they never stopped the hate. Don't be a hater.
Oh forgot this one: for buying a 3 bedroom house despite not wanting children. Apparently that’s ‘unfair’.
So many of these are about "gay" things. Where is this handbook of gayness anyway? i don't think I understand the rules.
I get hate from one friend for not wanting to go to every movie she wants to go to. Sorry, I don't care for comic book movies and really I hate the loudness of any movie. I can barely understand the dialogue and have to wear earplugs. And for wanting to go horse riding on my birthday. Something I wanted to do and she didn't.
For saying California is the third largest state. The response was “All you Californian think you’re so much better than everyone. Idaho is waaaaay bigger than California”. And then she acted confused when I was offended.
She's wrong and dumb on TWO counts, even. CA is bigger in both population and physical size.
Load More Replies... For my vocabulary. I got yelled at for 45 minutes for using a word the other person didn't know. Apparently I'm a pretentious m**********r for knowing the word "anodyne" instead of reading the other person's mind for a synonym they knew.
We really need to figure out scripts for dealing with insecure people who project that insecurity all over the rest of us.
Load More Replies... I used to work at after-school programs, mostly for middle school kids. We were getting complaints from parents that kids weren't doing their homework. So we were told by our boss to make sure kids did their homework. So when a kid said they didn't have any, I made them show me their teachers' lists of homework on their schools' sites. Then I got fussed at for being too tough on the kids. I also got fussed at for helping them too much when they needed it. So uh, what's the purpose of our program? If we weren't doing sports with the kids, we weren't good employees. I should've quit trying.
Oh, and at another program, I got fussed at for not engaging with the kids much when watching them... so I started engaging more, then got fussed at for not being able to watch the whole room if I was engaging with them. I really love kids... I loved the jobs.... I hated my bosses.
Load More Replies... Got a good two weeks of pm'ed hatred and banned from a question answering subreddit for...answering the question instead of flaming the asker. Flames are against the sub's rules, and the question did need a calm and rational response (which the asker thanked me for doing) so why I got banned for following the rules instead of breaking them I don't know. And yes, a mod did tell me that I was banned for answering a question instead of flaming the asker.
It's true! Guys really do get sensitive about my being 5'10 and claim I'm lying because Mr Dude who's 5'9 wants people to believe he's 6'. My hubby is 5'8 and has no problem. He says he's married to a model and always thrilled when I wear heels
I get hate all the time off my family for having a chronic illness apparently I’m ‘putting it on’ baring in mind I’ve had major brain surgery for my illness. Also due to said brain surgery I struggle with memory loss so I forget to do simple things sometimes which p**s people off.. like I can help it 🤦🏼♀️ Best one is I’ll be better if I loose weight…. Alrighty then Karen… I’ve dealt with this for 9 years but loosing a couple of pounds will make it go away 🤦🏼♀️
I'm sometimes treated like a liar on the internet when I say I'm on both sides of an argument, I'm a very logical person for that kind of situations so I'll always have some way to validate/reject every point (if I really can, not arguments with an obvious winner). Ppl will be like "oh yeah, sure, everyone believes you" and decide were can they put me on the spectrum of the conversation (?)
I am flight attendant and once one of the passengers was screaming at me that it is my job to put stairs to the aircraft (it was one of a greatly understaffed UK airports, so even we've arrived on time, we were waiting for around 50 minutes for the stairs to be brought by GH). I had an attempt to explain him that this is actually an airport responsibility, but guy was highly sure that was my job. Like, he thought I would jump out of the plane and go bring the stairs just because he was mad at me. 😅 I knew that if I would be listening to this for one more minute I would just burst out laughing, and other passengers were laughing already and it made it harder to keep myself. So I just apologized for his experience and walked back to my jumpseat (in the middle of the cabin btw). I heard he was screaming something at my back, but really I couldn't stand it anymore. It's actually normal for me to be accused of something people do not fully understand. Just funny 😅
No...LOL. You're just explaining the "how" of show business. I grew up on stage, my friend. Singing, dancing, acting, auditioning, rehearsing, competing. I get it. And I understand that it is cutthroat. But WHY must a human being sacrifice any part of themselves for the sake of a career? Or more specifically, what gives anyone else the right to take a part of a person's humanity just to make money?
For expecting coworkers to do their friggin' job. Look, you don't need to do anything beyond your job description, and you don't need to be a gung-ho, get-'er-done dynamo, but also don't leave a mess for other people to clean up.
I get a lot of flack for not wanting to drive. I live in a small city with a lot of sprawl and a so so bus service. I have my bus routes planned and manage well. I know how to take a taxi. I won't refuse a lift from someone but am in no way bothered by a slower travel pace. Hubby does drive btw and we have a car I just find other drivers terrifying.
