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“Now She Can’t Walk At Graduation”: 29 Times Karma Instantly Caught Up With People
Interview With Expert
Most of us were taught the "Golden Rule" from a young age: treat others the way you want to be treated. Despite how simple this sounds, plenty of people still have trouble being kind, considerate and empathetic. But it can be comforting to know that if someone has wronged you, karma will definitely come for them. And sometimes, it’s incredibly fast-acting!
Redditors have been sharing their best “instant karma” stories, so we’ve gathered the most amusing ones below. From people being punished for their selfishness to others being rewarded for their generosity, this list is full of stories that might convince you that karma is real. Be sure to upvote the ones that inspire you to behave a little bit better, and keep reading to find a conversation with Gina Vild!
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#1
I've worked at the same company for over 6 years. I was a loyal, good employee with a perfect track-record. Over the 6 years I've only called in sick twice. I had the best results, the least amount of errors on paperwork in the whole region and quite possibly the whole country. My new boss decided that that wasn't enough. He minimized my hours (they get a bonus to keep labor low), expanded my workload and never had anything nice to say. He seemed to think ruling with an iron fist is the way to go about this. Even after all this, I'm the one who kept his head above water, fixing his errors along the way.
So today I resign my position with immediate effect, which in terms cancelled his vacation plans for next week. On top of that, there is no one to fill my position. As soon as I mouthed the words "I quit" you could see the terror in his eyes. I've never felt such a sense of instant karma as today. I never meant to cancel his vacation, but I wasn't going to put his needs before mine.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 month ago
Unrelated, but when I first the pic for this I thought it was Ted Cruz. Now I feel as though I owe the model a personalized letter of apology.
Snazzy Smurf 1 month ago
In a quick glance there is a bit of resemblance.
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WalterWhiteSavannah 1 month ago
This is a great part of the reason modern day work culture is f****d beyond reason. The best employees who are the most reliable don't get rewarded for it. They make management rub their hands and go "how much more can we get from them?" Not all companies but literally the majority will see that and say "what else can we squeeze out of them?" Rather than reward it. Also i can't understand 2 call ins in 6 years. That just feels wrong. That feels overly devoted to the company.
Lisa Sturgiss 1 month ago
selfishness is not always a bad thing! Sometimes you must be selfish for your own good and happiness.
Dog Mom to Zoe 2 weeks ago
I think it was here that someone wrote, "Don't set yourself on fire to keep someone else warm"
Seadog 1 month ago
I've left jobs where they regretted me leaving. The best was a lazy DM not doing his homework and could only watch as roughly 75% of my customers followed me right up the street to a competitor. This accounted for around 40% of the entire stores sales. He got demoted. Can't say if it was due entirely over this but corporate had to notice and ask w*f happened to lose that much business? That was 17 years ago, they never regained those sales even after I left that industry completely.
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#2
Today I missed my bus to help an elderly woman with her groceries only to have a friend pass me driving and offer to give me a ride home.
Hugo 1 month ago
If you look up karma in the dictionary you'll see that everyone has misunderstood what it means.
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KatSaidWhat 1 month ago
Karma is basically the "rewards" reaped from the energy you put out there. It's not revenge. It never was. This guy was nice, something nice happened to him later.
#3
Worked for a small lottery parlor chain for the better part of a year back around 2008. It was a single employee operation, so I worked a 10 hour shift with no breaks or a lunch. All in all, it wasn't a bad job and had good tips.
One day, out of the blue, the region manager calls me into the store and tells me that I'm suspended. No warning whatsoever. I asked her why, and she flat out tells me that I'm frightening away the patrons because of my sexuality (gay). The next day, she calls me to say that I'm no longer needed. I tried for a lawsuit, but it was he said she said kinda thing.
Flash forward to last month. I get a call from a lawyer asking me if I want to take part in a class action lawsuit against this company for discrimination and unfair wage compensation practices. I told them my story and now I'm a class representative for the case. I'm so ready for this court case.
**TL;DR, Fired from company for being gay. Years later, part of lawsuit against said company. Delayed karma, but oh so sweet.**.
TruthoftheHeart 1 month ago
Good for Op that company deserves to pay for their hatefulness. Hopefully they'll learn not to discriminate.
Lee Gilliland 1 month ago
People learn not to discriminate if you make it economically unfeasible. That's why we fine them.
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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 month ago
Not a d**n thing. Homophobes make me SICK. Lifelong straight ally.
Load More Replies... Tonyah Mcanelly 1 month ago
People need to put their beliefs aside I know alot of gay people and they are hardworking amazing people . Thier sexuality has nothing to do with doing thier job duties.
Fungus John 1 month ago
as if a gambling a****t would be put off by a workers sexuality. "I really wanted to go play the lottery but I'm too scared of the gay person that works there. Oh well, I can do without gambling"
KatSaidWhat 1 month ago
This sort of is karma. Their actions had later consequences. It wasn't revenge, it was a build up of stupid decisions not one person getting revenge, they are getting justice.
Janet Sparrow 1 month ago
I don’t get this. Was he like acting flaming, gay all day and scaring people? w*f
To learn more about this topic, we got in touch with Gina Vild, co-author of The Two Most Important Days, How to Find Your Purpose and Live a Happier, Healthier Life, and the upcoming book Buoyant, The Art and Science of a Resilient Life. Gina was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda and discuss whether or not karma is real.
"Not only do I believe in karma, but researchers have something to say about it," she shared. "First, let’s define karma as the concept that every action, whether beneficial or detrimental to others, creates consequences that shape our future experiences. In essence, good deeds that enrich others will boomerang back to us, while actions that inflict harm will, in return, sow negative outcomes."
" Science increasingly echoes that our behavior shapes outcomes," Gina explained. "Studies show that belief in karma influences behavior, inspiring generosity, ethical behavior, and prosocial action. In one cross-cultural study, people who believed in karma were more likely to help others and reported a stronger sense of purpose and well-being."
#4
I worked at a Kmart in high school. It was a small store, so I worked everything, electronics, stocking, cashier. You name it, I did it. I asked a woman and her son, about 12 or 13, if they needed help finding anything as I was out on the floor, and the kid immediately bitches me out for annoying him. I ignore it, and go about my business. Right after that I get called to checkouts. As I'm working there, here comes the pair. The kid has gone all out back in the electronics area, with some EA sports titles and a GTA game. I'm checking them out when the age prompt comes up for the M rated game. I decide to take a chance. I flip the game over, and inform the mother that "This game has been rated M for the following reasons" and read the list off the back of the case. There is an awkward silence, then she angrily informs me that the son said it was only a little violent. Kid wasn't able to get anything that day.
Crystalwitch60 1 month ago
Parent problem right there !! not teaching her little brat manners n respect ! Glad he lost out he deserved nothing
The Other Guest 1 month ago
Not just in failing to teach him manners, but in failing to read the back of the game case herself. She's RIGHT THERE and doesn't know what he's buying?
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Imagine being willing to let your kid buy a game and you didn't even look into what the game was or what it was about beforehand. My kids are not allowed to play or watch something until I have fully checked it out.
Joe Reaves 1 month ago
I mean never mind looking into it - she didn't read the back of the game. Like literally the least amount of effort you could put in to it.
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#5
I was stopped at a red light waiting to turn right. I couldn't see if there was any traffic coming because of how the intersection was set up and the bus in the left turn lane so I was just waiting for a green. The person behind me clearly wanted me to turn because she was honking, yelling and giving me the finger. After a couple seconds she decided to drive around me and was immediately T-boned.
Geoffrey Scott 1 month ago
Wife and I worked for the local schools. Volunteered for a Saturday gig clean-up after an event. Turned on the road the school was on, my wife said "that guy is tailgating me". Looked in the R outside mirror and..yup, WAY too close. She slowed to turn into the school drive and BAM! rearended. He pulled around and passed as if nothing happened. What neither of us saw, was the county boy right behind him, who promptly pulled around us and lit him up. Watched as the guy was cuffed and stuffed on outstanding warrants.
Lady Eowyn 1 month ago
Something similar happened to me. I was waiting to make a left turn at an intersection with a turn arrow. A woman in a red truck pulled out from behind me, going into the opposite lane, to wedge her way forcefully to the front of the line. We made that left turn...and she was immediately boxed in by other cars going the speed limit (a known speed trap area) and couldn't go any faster for the several miles to where she turned off.
#6
I ran into a guy I went to high school with at a bar one night. Always found him attractive and I had been drinking so I went to talk to him. He was very very drunk and I was not into it at all, but I'm a polite little butterfly who will suffer through horrible conversation I started.
I'm trying to tell him where I work when he suddenly interrupts me and asks if I got a college degree. I said no. He is DISGUSTED. Said he would never have talked to me if he knew that and I was a piece of trash. I went to the bathroom and cried. My inability to pay for college was a sensitive subject for me.
The very next day I am at work as a branch manager of a large local bank. One of my tellers needs me to do an override. I leave and go to the teller line to notice him standing with an older lady. Grandma, it turns out. She was there to transfer money from her account to cover his negative balance and wanted to know if any could be refunded.
I refunded all of them. The fact that he couldn't look me in the eye was the best karma I ever got.
Joe Reaves 1 month ago
Sounds like he needed women with college degrees because he assumed that would mean high paying jobs - hobosexual.
"Research also confirms that doing good benefits not only the receiver but also the giver," Gina continued. "The benefits are social, psychological, and even biological. Here's how it works: Kind acts release endorphins, which boost happiness, reduce stress, and strengthen our sense of connection and meaning with others. Doing good quite literally changes the brain. For example, people who spend money on others report greater happiness than those who spend it on themselves. They experience what psychologists call the 'helper's high.'"
"Even when kindness is offered with self-interest as the goal, which rather misses the spirit of karma, the act itself will be transformative," the expert continued. "The goodwill and psychological benefit to the giver will likely prompt a spiral of generosity that ultimately reshapes the intent. There is abundant evidence that one good deed generally inspires, on average, three additional generous acts by the recipient, creating a ripple effect that spreads far beyond the original act. In this way, science affirms that goodness begets goodness – regardless of original intent."
#7
My kid was trying to throw sand in her cousin's hair, and a wind gust blew it back in her eyes. I shrugged and said, "instant karma, baby".
Beak Hookage 1 month ago
When I was a kid I dropped an itchy seed pod down the back of another kid's shirt (I forget the kind of tree, but the seeds have these tiny hairs that itch like crazy). While I was laughing about it, the kid sneaked up and did the exact same thing to me. I ran over to my mother in great indignation and was immediately laughed at.
#8
I tried to explain to my company how they were breaking the law with one of their procedures. They didn't listen, said somebody up the line would have caught it. Later, illegally fired me whilst I was on FMLA leave. Was, statistically at least, their best employee at my position out of 500 people.
They got fined 250K for the violation I brought up several times. I'm still unemployed but I go hiking all day and love my life. Have enough saved up to last me until I do find work.
Tabitha 1 month ago
OP should sue for unlawful termination. You can NOT fire someone while they’re on FMLA leave.
Bookworm 1 month ago
Actually you can. This is a very misunderstood part of FMLA. You can't be fired for being on FMLA. You can be fired for something unrelated to FMLA. Like if you have poor work performance, violated their policies, have excessive absences (not covered by FMLA or something else protected by law like ada accomodations). Basically if they can show they've fired people for the same thing in the past you can be fired for it. Even on FMLA. They're not obligated to wait until you're back to do so. Most of the time I've seen this has been when they've been planning on firing the employee before they went on leave. FMLA isn't a magical 'get out of consequences for your actions ' card. It simply means the leave itself is protected.
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It isn't a job related story, but my little sister's friend was being real mean to me; following me around, mocking everything I said, making rude commentary on everything I did. I told her she shouldn't do things like that to someone older than her, because it could have dire consequences. Anyhow, they conned me into playing hide n seek with them and the rules were to STAY IN THE HOUSE.
I searched high and low and couldn't find her anywhere. My sister had no clue either, and neither of us heard the doors open, so we didn't think she could be out there. Turns out the kid decided to go outside. Well... she hid in the back of my mom's truck. It has a camper shell that can be locked from the outside.
I guess someone saw it open and locked it while the kid was hiding inside. She ended up pissing her pants.
I volunteered to unlock it and I took my sweet time, staring at her with this grin.
It was great.
BewilderedBanana 1 month ago
i like the bit where OP tells the friend that she shouldn't be doing things like that to someone older than her. i guess it's ok if the they're younger :D
KatSaidWhat 1 month ago
ha, I would normally have caught that... well spotted.
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So is there anything we can do to improve our karma? "It is this simple: As the Dalai Lama said: 'Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.' This mindset will put your thoughts and actions in harmony," Gina shared.
"To enhance your karma, always act with the intention to do good. Pause and ask yourself: What can I do right now to make someone's life a little better? Kindness can show up in both small acts and large," she explained. "You might let a hurried shopper go ahead of you in the grocery line, allow another car to merge in front of you, volunteer to clean up a beach, or become a mentor to a child. Even the simple act of smiling can elevate someone’s day. Remember, nothing is more contagious than a smile."
#10
My Karma comes from my last few days at secondary school, we are all around 17/18 years old and have been in the same morning registration class for 6 years every single school day. Everyone seemed to be emotional about it, with most of the girls crying, even a couple of the guys.
The head boy in our year, who was in our registration class, had a surprise, and had hired a bouncy castle just for us! Now I had always been the biggest guy in school, 6 foot tall and around 20 stone (300 lbs to you Yanks) but I was also one of the quietest, and I only went on after most of the other folk had their turn and gone to do something else.
I pluck up some courage because this looked like so much fun, and I start bouncing and bouncing higher and higher, and then this p***k Paul pushes me when I am at my highest and I land on my side on the ground, which was thankfully grass.
I slowly sit up in a little pain, and Paul is laughing his head off and pointing at me, trying to get as much attention so other folk can start laughing at my misfortune. I get up and go back inside and sit there on my own, while I think about how s**t school has always been, nearly on the brink of onions.
Here comes the karma.
The head boy comes in a minute later, and tells me he saw the whole thing and that he knows how to get my own back...
Paul is still bouncing around like a p***k, and I get back on at the furtherest end of the bouncy castle, I get into a bounce which is timed slightly behind Pauls, and then I do the biggest jump I could, curled up into a cannonball and hit the castle floor with all my weight.
Paul ended up bouncing RIGHT OVER the wall of the castle and landing hard on the other side, he was ok though, only his pride was dented, but everyone who saw it was in absolute hysterics. Everyone started to tell the story of Paul flying over the wall of the castle, and classmates who I had never really gotten on with came up to me and told me how awesome it was. It was the only day where I felt accepted at school, just a shame it was one of the last.
Mark Alexander 1 month ago
Forget that. How much is it in bananas. They have weight too. Not just length.
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Beak Hookage 1 month ago
It's the same in Australia; a good number of my highschool classmates left after Year 10, usually to go to trade school and get jobs in construction and plumbing and such. Most of them are probably more steadily employed than my multiple degree holding self.
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When I was a kid, I was the youngest of all the kids on my block. The other kids (including my sister) would have fun tormenting me. They would try and exclude me from things on the basis of "you have to be X years old to do it."
The worst of them was Marcus. One day Marcus and I, along with some of the other kids, went to a nearby school to ride around on our scooters (oh yeah). Marcus convinced me that to be "cool" I had to jump down a flight of 5 stairs. I succeeded, but broke my scooter in the process.
As the kids rode off, laughing at me for not being able to join them, Marcus' front wheel caught in a crack in the concrete. He FLEW over the handlebars straight into a flagpole. I nearly died laughing. I broke my scooter; he broke his face.
#12
My ex-wife got pregnant by some other guy. I took my son and moved out and he moved in with her. I stepped back, did nothing vindictive at all, and just let the two of them wreck each others' lives. They were so thorough about it, I wound up feeling bad for them. It wasn't quite instant but it was something that took care of itself. I never did anything to move it along.
Spocks's Mom 1 month ago (edited)
I have done this so many times. Just sit back and watch people demolish themselves. It's very satisfying.
"Also, be the force that puts an end to bad karma," Gina says. "While we can't rewrite the past, we can transform negative energy. Remember that resentment and envy are forms of negative karma. When you feel wronged, resist the urge to respond in kind. Choose forgiveness and understanding. Remember the adage, 'Be kind. Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about.' Each act of understanding and restraint creates its own gift of goodness."
#13
Today was the all day food drive I had spent months planning (we raised 13,000 pounds of food). On may way back from lunch I stopped to fill up my gas tank and left my wallet on top of my car, drove 30 miles down I-5 and back to the site where we were having the food drive. I got a call from the Anderson City Police. My wallet had fallen off the car, right as I reached an overpass, someone saw it fall and brought to the local police station. Not a thing missing. Instant karma for the good deed of the food drive.
g90814 1 month ago
I left my wallet in the shopping cart at K-mart, just a few hours before I was leaving on vacation for a week. A young girl found it, they found my phone number, called, and brought it over to me like 30 minutes before I had to leave. I gave her a $20, and asked her parents to let her buy something nice for herself (they were Jehovah's Witness, had to give me the pamphlet). I figured otherwise they'd make her give it to the church.
#14
As the low man on the totem pole, I got to do all of the grunt labor and random tasks that required working on weekends and such... as a master engineer working in a 9-5 job... being paid less than a pizza delivery driver. Then my boss decided that I no longer got to comp time (leave early or whatever to get back some of the time spent working on weekends), because I was salaried and "it was part of the job."
So, when I quit to go get my PhD, they realized that I hadn't used any vacation time. The ultra penny pincher had to write me a check for two extra months worth of pay as I walked out the door.
Plentyofoomph 1 month ago
Fun fact: a totem pole is actually set up with the most important totem on the bottom
Duh 1 month ago
Well, since Karma doesn't exist, none of these are Karma. But you're still reading them.
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Georgia Kemp 3 weeks ago
When I left my job the boss could not afford to and he paid me like I worked for him still for FOUR months
#15
My sister tried to punch me once ever. I ducked and she broke her finger hitting the wall.
KatSaidWhat 1 month ago
Ah, me as a kid trying for my brother and putting my hand through a window. I still have pretty hectic scars - there is a distinct X scar on my little finger. Then it reversed - he aimed for me a couple of years later, when I went to hit him back, he swivelled, straight into a wall. Broken tooth. We finally made peace and stopped smacking each other around 12. Products of a violent drunk mother.
Brian Droste 1 month ago
Short story of this is when I was around 12I believe I put my right arm through a glass screen door. I have three scars on my left arm. That was how I was able to learn my left side from my right side.
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But it's important to remember that karma won't always be as fast-acting as it was in these stories.
"Karma is not inherently transactional," Gina noted. "Yet goodness generally returns to us more quickly than we realize. When we act with kind intention, we feel its reward almost instantly by experiencing a lift in our mood, a sense of connection with others, and satisfaction that we have been the source of something positive. This is the first wave of karma. As our positive actions ripple outward, they will eventually circle back to us in unexpected forms of goodwill and opportunity."
#16
I did that once. Worked for a company that moved out over the weekend, cuz they were locking us out that Monday.. Yep, no movers. Moved into a new office, and being an internet company, it was important The internet worked.. Ever try to get someone out on a weekend from the phone company, the provider for our T-1.
Got everything hooked up, and gosh, no internet. So he called me in on Sunday to talk to tech support. I'm a family man, and we had a very nice dinner planned. But no, work was more important to my boss. Told him ok, but he'd need to meet me at the office. I did the tech support call, and still no boss.. Called him again, and told him I really needed him in the office.
I handed him my key, the list of passwords to the server, wrapped in my resignation letter. Told him I had a family, and being pulled away from Easter Sunday dinner to talk to tech support to only have them confirm what I'd told him Friday and Saturday was the last straw. To.d him that I was sure he could find another java/php/linux admin on short notice, or he could figure it out himself.
tl; dr: Left a sleezy boss after he forced me to come into the office to make a tech support call on Easter weekend, to get them to confirm what I'd been telling him all along.
Plentyofoomph 1 month ago
Dude was called in to work on a public holiday, despite telling the boss how wouldn't be able to do the work.
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#17
I'm an IT consultant, and have a rep of being really competent with Microsoft Exchange Server. A couple of years ago I bid on but did not get a project to upgrade an Exchange 2003 environment to Exchange 2010. Multiple servers, multiple sites and right up my alley. The firm that won the bid did so by pricing it extremely low, about 40% below my price which was on the low end to begin with. Totally unrealistic pricing but they thought they could pull it off with their people. Their people were good generalists but did not have a handle on Exchange 2010.
I told the customer - who I'd done work for before and who I'd had a good relationship with - that it was not going to end well for them. They took it as sour grapes on my part. Fair enough. I had plenty of other things to do anyway so I just moved on.
Two weeks after they started the implementation phase of the job the other consulting firm augured in. The entire email system stopped working. No mail coming in or out, no mail flowing between any of the Exchange servers, everything just dead in the water. I find this out when I get a call late one evening at my home from the other consulting company begging me to pull them out of the fire. I told them no thanks. An hour later the owner of the other firm is at my front door trying to convince me to help them "for the sake of the customer". This is well after dark and the conversation does not go well. He ends up screaming at me and I slam the door then call the cops because I'm tired and afraid that I'll do something stupid if I continue to interact with the guy.
Cops come, he loses it, they arrest him for disorderly conduct and I have his d**n car blocking mine in my driveway. I have it towed off (I had to pay for the privilege too). He spends the next 24 hours in jail, about average for getting through the Dallas County jail I'm told.
The customer called me the following day and I again declined to fix the mess. By this time I'd decided I didn't want any of that s**t on me, period.
The customer ends up getting Microsoft Services in to fix everything (cost them about 5 times what I was going to charge by the way). The customer sues the other consulting firm, which promptly files for bankruptcy / closes its doors rather than deal with the lawsuit.
Seadog 1 month ago
Cheaper is never better. Especially when it's mission critical. Bank I worked for put a mortgage loan officer in charge of networking the bank and it's branches and affiliates. We had an IT team, why they put this officer in charge was beyond anyone's comprehension. This was the early 90's, so it's not like she'd ever had any experience with such things before. She gets a some company out of Florida who sends in a bunch of equipment that all had to be assembled on site. Yes, even the desktop PC's, nothing was factory built. I left in 92 when it was still being installed. By 94 they had to trash every bit of it and start over. No one found it strange this loan officer suddenly showed up to work driving a new car in the middle of this fiasco.
Jane Doe 1 month ago
And how does each company know who the other bidders are? Did the hiring company provide a list? Why and how would solo guy (OP) know they were bidding on the same job?
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#18
We were driving to Tulsa, Ok from Alabama in 2004 for Christmas. During the trip it started to snow...a lot. Now my spouse learned to drive in snow, so he was following the rules, drive cautiously and not be an idiot.
However there were a lot of people that apparently missed that. My favorite was the guy in the SUV who decided he had a big ol car and he was going to get pass that idiot driving slowly in the icy snow. He gunned around us, attempting to hit 60 mph...which he did, immediately before spinning a 360 off the road and getting stuck in the ditch.
We stopped counting cars in the ditch when we hit the mid 100's.
Tabitha 1 month ago (edited)
I’ve had that experience too. I worked in enough “essential personnel” jobs that I can drive in just about any conditions. I have been the first car on snowy roads—-the one making the original tire tracks in the snow that everyone else ends up following. Of course there were always the idiots in SUVs or Jeeps who thought they knew how to drive in snow, but were banking on 4 wheel drive to get traction and do it for them. Well, where I live, snow is usually preceded by sleet, which puts a nice inch or two of ice underneath that fluffy snow. You can’t get traction on ice, no matter what you’re driving (unless you have snow chains on your tires), so you HAVE to drive really carefully and slowly. Every time one of the idiots would get impatient and zoom on past me in those conditions, I would just shake my head and keep an eye out for them in one of the ditches up ahead, because that’s where they would invariably end up.
Geoffrey Scott 1 month ago (edited)
Until we got our latest vehicle, we've never had 4 WD. I've always driven 2WD trucks w/snows, wife FWD cars. 4WD does little more than stuff you further into the ditch if you drive as if on dry roads, especially on overpasses.
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Apatheist Account2 1 month ago
Definitely sound advice to learn to drive in the winter, so you'll experience snow, ice, rain and dark in the company of a professional teacher, and know how to handle it. Pilots aren't allowed to fly at night or in bad weather unless they have the appropriate training; it should be the same for car drivers.
Cheryl Ramsay 1 month ago
Years ago I was travelling back to college on I-89 in Vermont. Roads were snowy and icy and a l-o-n-g line of traffic was going very slow. A guy with Quebec plates passed us all going like a bat out of h#ll. About a mile up the road he had gone off the road into the median and was stuck bigtime and waving for help. All of us he had passed just drove on . . .
Reemerger 1 month ago
I can't wait for the day when ego is eliminated from traffic. Automated, coordinated vehicles, please.
Tabitha 1 month ago
Yeah, but then you have to contend with the egos of the manufacturers and programmers of those cars, which is even worse.
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When I was younger I was a little reckless in my driving in snow. Imwas impatient at the time. As I got older Imsee the folly of trying to drive fast in snow. Still get impatient with people driving slower than I want but always see the wisdom in driving slower in snow. I rather be a little bit late and get where I am going than end up in a ditch. I am retired now so if the roads are slippery I don't have to drive on them If I don't have too.
GalPalAl 1 month ago
I live and drive in South Florida. We don't have snow, but the same kind of drivers who think it is okay to drive recklessly. I wish I had an instant karma button to give them a dose of reality when driving like that. May not teach them a lesson, but any damages caused by their dangerous behavior would be nice to see.
Jay Cee 1 week ago (edited)
Our branch manager in Germany drives a Land Rover Discovery. Come the winter he swaps wheels for ones with snow tyres on them. Sitting at a red light in ever increasing snowfall we see a Jeep in front of us with a sticker in the rear window: You Can Go Fast - I Can Go ANYWHERE. Branch manage laughs and say "Not with those tyres Buddy!" Light changes, Jeep driver floors it and the car fish tails violently. He hits the brakes and does a 180 - W T F?
#19
My first job out of high school was working for a rather famous and nation-wide guitar store chain. At first I thought it would fun, getting to be around guitars all day, and talk music with fellow musicians. Turns out I was wrong, that 10-hour shifts 5-6 days a week while listening to slighty-too-loud overhead music and 14-year-olds play the first 5 bars of "Crazy Train" over and over and over again wasn't actually all that great. But I stuck it out, I needed money and I have one of those "don't quit ever" attitudes.
When I got hied, the store was in serious trouble. They had recently fired a huge chunk of the staff for skimming profits nd selling pot out of the warehouse. Their numbers were really low, and corporate as breathing down their necks. But, as it turns out, I have a penchant or selling stuff that I know about. I was the accessories guy, and got really, really good at it. I was routinely rolling $30k or better a month out the door, and the most expensive thing I had in my department was only $500. I also had one of the lowest return rates on the west coast, and a file with several letters from happy customers saying how much help I had been. Eventually, the store's numbers improved, especially my department. Eventually, we were #1 for our district, and #3 on the west coast, behind Hollywood and San Francisco.
However, NONE of that mattered to the GM or anyone from corporate. All they wanted was more from me. My numbers had to be better every month, or I'd get yelled at. I was written up for having a low sales month one January because I went on vacation. I would get daily emails and phone calls from the district and regional managers, demaning to know why I hadn't hit $xxxx in sales yet. My hours got bumped up to the point where my days consisted of sleeping, showering, eating, and working. I had zero social life. My gf at the time would go weeks without seeing me. Eventually, because of the stress, I developed a ulcer. So I decided to quit.
I threw myself into my last month, which just happened to be December, the month all retail workers hate. I worked extra hours, sold as much as I could, contacted old customers, you name it. Blew everyone out of the water, rolling just shy of $80,000 in gear. My boss called me in to his office, and said I was doing a good (not great, good) job, and to keep it up. I pointed to the sales numbers screen, pointed out how well I had been doing and how well liked I was by the customers, and asked for a raise. He laughed and said no. So I handed him my resignation letter. 2 weeks later I was done and starting classes in college, something I'd had to put off since work wouldn't allow me to cut hours for school.
I came back to the store a couple months later, as someone who had worked with me called and said they'd found a jacket of mine in the warehouse. When I showed up, the GM wasn't there. I asked, and what I wastold was that apparently, corporate HAD noticed me, and when my GM had failed to retain me, they'd fired him. Also, that department went from #1 to #9 in the district, out of 11 stores. The district managers were scrambling to recover, a few got demoted because of how things panned out, and the extreme higher-ups were not happy that the district was in such a state. I laughed the laugh of the vindicated.
**TL;DR** - Quit the Evil Empire, people got fired or demoted because of it, and I had a good belly laugh over it.
**EDIT:** Jesus Christ, Mother Mary, Joseph, and all their dancing little midgets, I was NOT expecting this kind of a response, let alone someone sending me reddit gold!! I have a big dumb grin over here.
And for those of you who work retail, take a chapter from my book. Work hard, become indespensible. Eitherthe company will be decent and reward you, or they'll be corporate douches and you can f**k them by quitting. Stand up for yourself, you don't need to be treated like a machine or worse.
Phantom Phoenix 1 month ago
Alright, I'm totally stealing "Jesus Christ, Mother Mary, Joseph, and all their dancing little midgets" 🤣
Lily bloom 1 month ago
And if you do great work, you will be rewarded with...more work
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Cara Vinson 1 month ago
"I laughed the laugh of the vindicated" I've seached the whole internet for my next tattoo and have found it.
Seadog 1 month ago
I've been there and done that. OP is right, it is so gratifying to watch as upper management realizes how bad they f'ed up by not doing everything possible to retain you. When I walked, so did 75% of my customers. That mounted to roughly 40% of the entire stores business. 17 years later, they still havn't recovered those numbers. Many times, upper management forgets one thing about retail. People don't buy from companies, they buy from people. People will pay more for a better buying experience over saving money and dealing with a jerk.
Amanda Reinstatler 1 month ago
Love love LOVE THIS!!!!! Its amazing how often people dont realize they need YOU waaaaay more than you need them.
Joanne Marrs 1 month ago
BP censors words such as d r u g but allows the slur Mi**et?? Discriminatory language is the only type of language that I agree with being censored in this setting.
Plentyofoomph 1 month ago
Right? Also it doesnt even make sense in this context.
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#20
I was dating this awful girl for awhile, because ya know, I was stupid. She had a temper and was always flying off the handle. One of those people who is never happy. Complains about everything. We had a fight that morning about her irrational temper. Later that day I called her to tell her I had to work late. She freaked out and punched the wall as soon as our conversation ended. Turns out she punched a part of the wall that was solid behind the drywall and shattered her hand. She was promptly dumped.
Joe Reaves 1 month ago
When someone punches a wall during a fight it usually means they *really* want to punch YOU. The only thing stopping it happening is their self control and if they're mad enough to punch walls (outside of rare circumstances were being very mad is a proportional response to whatever is happening) they probably don't have great self-control.
Panda Cat 1 day ago
Because she’s screaming. The talky part is for talking. She is not talking.
Load More Replies... Brian Droste 1 month ago
She must have punched where there was stud behind the drywall. That is whst it sounds like to me.
#21
Once quit a job to only then have the boss chase my jeep on foot screaming at me. He repeatedly called to get me to go back. Felt great.
Seadog 1 month ago
As I left, the DM stopped me to tell me I wasn't allowed to contact any of my customers. I told him that not only am I related to some of them, I've known most of them longer than his company has even been in business. He knew he had screwed up as I drove off. Population of the city and county combined is about 55000. People don't take kindly to corporations treating people or employees badly. And word spreads fast.
Chewie Baron 1 month ago
Just let them view it as karma. It’s not as if it is going to physically affect you it is? Or are you so morally outraged that you have to hit small children in retaliation?
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moggiemoo 1 month ago
A Range Rover would probably have broken down and the boss would've caught him.
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#22
I was targeted for firing. It had nothing to do with my performance, everything to do with my manager's manager that took a disliking to me. I walked the line of perfection for about a month until I found another job. I handed in my 2 weeks' notice. That was victory number one. I stole about a half-dozen of their employees and got them hired into my new company, that was victory number 2 (yes redditors, sometimes being in a right to work state works for the little guy, non-compete clauses are almost completely unenforceable). I'd like to think that victory number 3 was the 30 or 40 employees they lost in the following year, but I cant claim direct responsability for that. Thing is, when you have employees with high-demand skills like software engineering, you best treat them right.
Amanda Reinstatler 1 month ago
Most jobs are 100% replaceable. Most companies are too stupid and too greedy to see irreplaceable employees when they have them
Seadog 1 month ago
That's usually because those higher up think their way is the best/only way and refuse to accept the fact that quite often, someone further down the chain is much more knowledgeable/capable of doing the job than they are. They just don't want to move to be higher up the chain or don't want the headaches that go with the position. Corporations want puppets, not people with skill.
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#23
Some guy at a gas station pulled the "stare aggressively at you from my car as I go past to assert my imaginary dominance" move as I was walking across the parking lot and he was pulling into the pump. He hit a pole that didn't budge and knocked his headlight out.
Tabitha 1 month ago (edited)
Alan, the older and more experienced you get, the more you realize that there are a******s ALL over the world. Assholery is not a nationality trait, and it’s not a cultural trait. It’s a human trait, and some people are chock full of it. Additionally, a huge marker of the assholery trait is assuming someone lives in a shithole country just because they tell about an encounter with an a*****e.
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#24
My ex husband installed a key logger on my computer before moving out. When busted in court he claimed he had implied permission because he could have figured out my passwords anyway. And he wished he didn't have to read them because of all the hurtful things I said about him. Judge fined him 500 bucks an email, ordered him to reimburse me for a new laptop and told him if it ever happened again he'd spent a day in jail per email. In the six months that he'd been reading my email I'd sent almost 2000 emails on that machine. It was gorgeous.
#25
I was working at this hosting company (System Administrator), 8 years. First 4 years was pretty good due due to being mediocre 50k job and didn't have a life to live except playing FFXI 20 hours a day for 3 days, then back to a 4 day 12 hour shift. 5 years after that things started going down hill, a 1500% increase in work load (according to companie's own slides), 3 people of a 15 people team left, and well, dealing with customers over the phone who liked to lie to get their $100,000 bill free for the current month (really, the company that didn't like to spend money on its employees, was getting bilked tons of their own cash due to their own f*****g 'guarentee')
After the 4th year 15-20 hour days (hourly but they didnt want to pay OT), took ONE vacation in 8 years which was 4 days; they barred me from using the rest due to 'no coverage' they never hired anyone for weekend work was the ONLY guy at night. Long story short the crappy customers I couldn't deal with anymore, and got stressed to the point of multiple panic attacks and declining health.
Started looking for a new job, which the company found out, and promptly fired me when I took 2 sick days (took 10 in a total of 8 years) because a friend 'tagged me at home' on facebook (we are roommates). Go figure, and their reasoning was 'dropped a call from a customer 5 days back' when I was on a lunch break. I knew who set me up, but really didn't care in the end.
Golden lining was:
* I had already passed my 3 interviews to this rather large tech company, I was just waiting on their offer letter, so the job was mine (almost at the 100k mark so 2x my old pay)
* Got hired on, then recruited people from my old company "to get out of that shithole and get paid real money" which I got them paid 20-30k more. (2x 2300, and one $3500 bonus)
* Filed for unemployment which they denied first time around, just to overturned it once they found the company lied, and the history of no vacations, minimal sick days, came back to haunt them. They paid for my unemployment plus a check for ALL my vacation time accrued for 4 years (due to their OWN policy).
* One year into my current company, I had worked the same as I did at the old company. Result, 3 bonuses, an award, and a promotion.
JL 1 month ago
If you were about to join the new company, what unemployment was there to be paid?
ZombieMommy 1 month ago
If we got fired every time a call dropped there would be no employees left lol
#26
I worked selling shoes for 2 years on a weekend-only basis during school at a national chain. Never offered a raise, never offered to open the store, never given any recognition. When I asked for some more responsibilities, I was told I was unimportant, as two new outside managers were coming in. One managed a section of Petsmart, and the other had no prior experience. I put in my two weeks notice. Both people came in on my last day, so I showed them everything I learned and all the small quirks of the inventory that we had. Both quit within a week, and the store closed within 4 months.
Mike F 1 month ago
Lady Eowyn, apparently it's yet another example of a store closing because a high school kid quit. 🤷
Zoe Vokes 1 month ago
This one seems more delusional than the others though. OP is a weekend only high school student. That means that there were other staff members who worked the weekdays. And it was a national chain - if they were short staffed or undertrained then they could definitely have asked another store manager to come in and do some training, etc
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My friend Collin and I were playing Mario Kart once and I kart slammed him in the last corner and won. He pulls his arm back and punches me as hard as he can in the arm.
The karma part: **His hand bounced off my arm and made him hit himself in the eye with full force. Bout knocked himself unconscious.**.
#28
Kind of lame compared to these.
Once when I was a kid, I was on a ferry traveling between some islands in Canada (the thousand islands I think? I'm not sure if that was a joke the guide made or if she was serious). There's a guy on the deck smoking a cigar and being loud, rude and surly to everyone including me and my friend. Later on I saw him cursing in front of a soda machine that ate his dollar.
Brian Droste 1 month ago
I thought this was going in another direction where the guy got motion sickness from the ferry and puk ed over the side of the ferry.
#29
One time, I was at the Burger King drive- thru and since I am a vegetarian I politely requested a cheese burger deal minus the meat along with fries. I believe it was 1.99 for the burger deal of the day, and the manger told me I had to pay 3.99 because that is technically a veggie burger. However, I was still not getting a veggie patty. So, I told him that I would just take the fries, and to please forget the burger. But, the other staff had already put it in my take-out bag so I got it anyway! And since I didn't pay for it, it was extra good.
Seadog 1 month ago
Local Hardee's, If you asked for your burger any way other than the way it came, the manager had trained the staff to remove everything then charge for each item you wanted on the burger. You know, the stuff that was already on it, you just didn't want some of the other stuff.
What do you think ?
royal crablets 1 month ago
I randomly punch people in the face. Karma means they did something to deserve it.
royal crablets 1 month ago
I randomly punch people in the face. Karma means they did something to deserve it.
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