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Loopholes—like holes in Swiss cheese, they’re everywhere, and they’re giving some people real-life cheat codes that border on dishonesty and even stealing. But you need to be very perceptive and to have the cunning of a Slytherin to notice and use them to your advantage.
Redditor SterlingBoardman asked their fellow internet users to share what loopholes they’d exploited for years before someone found out. Some of these are devilishly delightful and we’re not sure if we should be angry or impressed. Check them out, dear Pandas, and give the ones that impressed you an upvote. Let us know what loopholes you’ve exploited in life in the comments and what you think about people who use them in real life.
However, just because something is technically allowed doesn’t mean that it’s done in the Spirit of the Law. [Add holy chanting sounds.] While loopholes can help some people live a better life, others can use them for less than admirable purposes. And, in some ways, using loopholes is a lot like cheating. Besides, somebody ends up getting the short end of the stick in most cases. Whether it’s a small mom and pop store or a mega-million multinational corp.
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#1
Used to work at starbucks like 7 years ago and they used to print these receipts where if you filled out a survey it would give you a 6 digit code which you could then exchange for a free drink.
However when you gave in the receipt with the code we would just toss it in the garbage and then give the free drink. So over a shift I would just keep all the survey receipts when people didn't want them, write random numbers on them, then keep a wallet full of free coffee. Since I already got tons of free drinks, I would give them to homeless people and explain it was good for a free coffee. Probably gave away like 100 free drinks.
JessG 4 years ago
You got downvoted, but you’re right. It’s for a good cause, but it is stealing. On the other hand, the company gives free drinks anyway, this is just a loophole for not doing the survey. So I see it both ways
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Chris Hardtke 4 years ago
Nothing like stealing from the company that employs you. And yes, it’s stealing, because the condition to get the free coffee, completing a satisfaction survey, was not met.
Federico Marin 2 years ago
Definitely better to give the coffee away rather than tossing But then again ; you wouldn’t have to toss it if a busy employee hadn’t made it for no reason (really) other than give you glory at their’s and the owners expense.
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#2
I paid three hundred dollars a month to park a really pimped out van in a heated garage in Boston. If you parked front in no one could see you. Found a spot near an electrical outlet and ran a line into the van. Paid for a $10 gym across the street that was open for 24 hours so I had all the hot showers I wanted. Served at a nearby restaurant so ate most of my meals for free. Watched tv on my laptop with the free WiFi from the coffee shop above me. Literally lived in downtown Boston for 310 dollars a month while I went to college.
Katinka Min 4 years ago
I'm really impressed by this, but also so damn grateful I was so privileged and didn't have to live like that as a student. Unassmunign town in Germany, no tuition, very basic living expenses paid by my parents, small job for extras, freindly flatshare - good times.
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
Incredibly smart and innovative. I have to wonder what the author's college major was.
Colin Mochrie At Its Finest 4 years ago (edited)
How much did the van cost to pimp it out (for a lack of better way to phrase it) ? If nothing then this is amazing.
Sean Alaback 4 years ago
Having lived in downtown boston, I'm also just impressed that you managed to find parking for only 300 a month!
#3
I grew up down the street from universal studios and went there everyday after middle school. Eventually we learned to go into the VIP line for rides which nobody was ever in. When the guy stopped us and asked us for our vip tickets, we just told them a high up employee named "Rick" should've called it in. After two seconds on the radio trying to verify, every employee just gave up and let us through. We skipped lines for years with that method, and eventually ride attendants came to know us and just let us through. It was beautiful.
One day we got bold though and snuck into the studio area. Guards caught us and asked us who we were with. We told him our fictional "Rick" told us we can be here. Well the guards took radio verification way more serious, and managed to get a real Rick on the line. We waited for Rick to show up, knowing we were busted. Rick showed up, turns out he was actually the backlot manager at the time and gave us a strange look. The security guard asked us if we were with him and this dude said yes! He took us aside and asked us what we were doing and we told him we just loved film and the studio atmosphere. He loved that two young kids were interested in his job and began taking us all around to the studios, allowing us to sit in on tapings of various shows and so on, giving us a free pass to come back anytime, and also....vip line access.
Vikram Bedi 4 years ago
Once at the dubai airport with a group of college buddies... my luggage was singled out for being over weight and I was asked to pay for it at another counter... the others moved on. I asked a guy with a walkie talkie in a suit about the counter... he was kind enough to get my luggage checked in without fees and get me priority security check ( no queues) ...so I was able to reach the shopping area before my friends😄...
Mike Symse 4 years ago
Wow. That’s quite a story. I had that happen to me when I used to fly around telling everyone I was Superman and one day the real Superman showed up and asked me what I was doing. He loved that I was interested in being a superhero and took me around to meet all the other Superheroes. Made me his apprentice eventually. I’m just about to graduate.
SterlingBoardman’s thread got 64.7k upvotes and several hundred awards on Reddit. This just proves that the question they shared on the Ask Reddit subreddit was unique, out-of-the-box, and got our noggins jogging. It really made us think long and hard about using and abusing loopholes and whether it's right or wrong.
Personally, I’m a big believer in the Spirit of Justice. Not all rules, laws, and regulations are just and good. Similarly, not all things that are just and good have been written down and packaged in a neat and tidy stack of papers.
That’s why we use our common sense and why we have cultural customs and conventions (known as mores) to help guide our morality and how we behave in society. In other words, life is never as easy as following the rules as written. You can’t shut off your brain and your sense of what’s right. That’s why some legal loopholes can make us feel guilty inside—we know we’re doing something wrong by ‘gaming’ the system.
#4
When I was a kid there was a pay phone down the street that if you put your quarter in made a call but no one answered it would give you back two quarters. Went there all the time and called home when I knew no one was there to answer.
NK 4 years ago
I used to work for Sears Canada (catalogue orders over the phone - company went bust a few yars ago) in the 90's and in the call center's cafeteria, the machine that gave change for a 5$ or 10$ bill was defective and gave double the amount. I milked it almost every day. I was a student in need of money and hated that job.
Wanna-be Vegetarian 4 years ago
In middle school our payphone loophole was to dial 0 and ask the operator for the time, when the operator hung up you could dial any number for free. Worked for quite some time before they caught on. After that the operators would threaten to call the cops if we didn't hang up lol
#5
I used to live in an apartment across the road from a casino whilst at University. They released an app where if you "check-in" you get points that go towards free food and drinks.
Because I was close enough to the casino I could just check-in without going to the casino itself.
Every Saturday I used to get a free burger, fries and drink and watch sport in the sports bar.
They eventually scrapped the app; it was awesome considering I was a broke Uni student.
Candace Fitzpatrick 4 years ago
I read once about a woman who worked across the street from a casino. Workplace parking was $20 if I remember correctly, but the casino parking was free if you showed proof of play. So she would go in before every workshift and spend $10, sometimes she won a bit of money back.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Casinos HATE people who can do basic maths like that...
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Candace Fitzpatrick 4 years ago
Where I live, if you work at some places like a university or hospital you can pay to park daily or pay for a monthly pass.
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Gaurav Beck 4 years ago (edited)
There was a Waitrose nearby my student housing,they had an offer that if you registered with them you get free coffee everyday,as a broke student, my generous friend would lend her card to me Nd I would fill the cup with milk no coffee just milk Nd be on my way to uni
#6
My Aunt and Uncle were trash collectors both professionally and as a hobby. My mom had pulled one of her epic [screw] ups (again) and we ended up living with them.
Most of our food came from the trash, however Dominoes had a rewards system where the boxes had blue or red tabs depending on the size of the pizza.
Collect enough tabs, get free pizzas.
Aunt and uncle collected thousands of those tabs. We ate pizza every weekend for months before the company caught on and they put an end to it. I was 11 at the time but I remember hearing that their address was banned for life from delivery. I'm pretty sure Dominoes also stopped the promotion shortly thereafter.....
It was awesome while it lasted.
Stille20 4 years ago
I get that they were taking advantage, but they followed the rules. So dominos needed a new system.
I Liquored On 4 years ago
Never underestimate the basic pettiness of billion dollar companies
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Hear that, Dominos ? They ate trash. Give them pizza for life. In today's world it would "go viral" and Dominos would give free food for life.
Sasha Kuleshov 4 years ago
One of my friends built his house from things he collected from the trash :D
Katie Zumbrink 4 years ago
Lived in a college area. Every day we'd collect those little 'dots'.
Katie Zumbrink 4 years ago
I lived in a college area. Every day we'd be collecting those 'dots'.
In case you needed more persuading that loopholes aren’t all that Legal (notice the capital ‘L’) even though they’re legal (small ‘l’), Investopedia defines them as technicalities that let people or businesses “avoid the scope of a law or restriction without directly violating the law.”
You might not be breaking the law (technically), but you’re using a “flaw or defect” in it for your own gain because the people who drafted the law didn’t see the cracks in the legislation. The fact is, loopholes get closed all the time as some glaring limits of rules and regulations become obvious over time. No law will ever be perfect, so it’s a constant uphill battle against those who find the teeniest loopholes they can exploit.
And though it’s all fun and games on a small scale when you get a free burger because of some quirk in the rules, it can lead to some seriously dangerous things like tax evasion because of how complicated (and full of loopholes) things like tax codes are. At the end of the day, it’s up to us to decide if we use loopholes or end up relying on our conscience.
#7
Because I was a good student and rarely got into trouble, I was allowed to have my own phone extension in my room. So, if I was out past curfew, I'd call home. When my mom answered, I'd say, "It's for me. I've got it." And she'd think I was up in my room.
She never did catch on. :D
Edit: It was 1976. My mom never knew. I know that because I confessed to it years later. She was very shocked and mad, and she grounded me. But I was forty and had my own house by then. My parents were the early-to-bed and early-to-rise type, and my room was a converted attic two floors up from the rest of the bedrooms. I often came home after everyone else was asleep because I had a part-time job, so I was used to sneaking in like a ninja. It was a bright yellow Princess phone. And finally, I knew a good thing, so I did not abuse this technique, just a few times when it was absolutely necessary, like the time we hitchhiked to see Peter Frampton.
Eemeli Saarelainen (Molter) 4 years ago
Could be daughter. It doesn't say anywhere.
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Vikram Bedi 4 years ago
What is a land line... and how does it work...😆😂...took me a sec to figure out you brilliance...
Danieletc 4 years ago (edited)
Stock shot is NOT a Princess phone! Olds know! Keep Olds happy! Do you feel, feel like I do?
Tami 4 years ago (edited)
Right, keep olds happy 'cause the older we get the less life in prison is a deterrent, LOL!
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Meyer Weinstock 4 years ago
You were grounded at 40? Wow. I was grounded at 13 and 40 years later, Mom still hasn't lifted my grounding. -Rev Dr M, parent of adult children, divorcee, former politician, retired teacher
#8
In high school, our p.e. grade was based on improvement. We took a skills test at the beginning and another at the end and your grade was based on how much you improved. So, once I learned that, I always sucked at the first test and then did miraculously better at the second, so I had a massive "improvement" and thus, a better grade.
A.M. Pierre 4 years ago
So if someone was a naturally good athlete and tried their best at the beginning and end would get a worse grade than someone who didn't try at all at first and then kinda tried later. That is pretty darn stupid (the policy, not the student who outsmarted it).
Ingrid Moore 4 years ago
My daughter learned that you got c in PE if you dressed in gym clothes. For whole semester she dressed but did her homework. The teacher attempted to flunk her, but she whipped out her syllabus and showed it said dress NOT participate and was awarded her C. I can’t lie - I still smile about that!
Alexandru Bucur 4 years ago
Not related to the loophole, but rather to the picture used to illustrate it - reverse image search reveals it's a high school PE hall in Yakutsk, Russia, but it's almost identical to the the one I had in my high school in Constanta, Romania, from the colour scheme to the benches and mats. I guess communism really did make everything the same...
Adam Hart-Dyke 4 years ago
I signed up for a remedial handwriting class at school so I could get out of playing sports in the rain during winter. After Easter holidays I came back and said I'd been practicing really hard and my handwriting had miraculously improved so then I could play the summer sports I actually liked 🤣
Pearl Of the SeaWing RainWings 4 years ago
I already suck at P.E., I don't have to fake it... no seriously.
Katinka Min 4 years ago
That is a really dumb system. Of course, you need to reward improvement, but if someone is already really good at somethign there is not much room to improve. So you go punish that? Stupid.
Niffler_13 4 years ago
In elementary school, we had to do the Presidential Physical Fitness Test.
Owen Sayaman 4 years ago
When I was a scrawny college kid back in Manila, our P.E. instructor (RIP Mr Bonus) always instructed us to do laps around gym. ...after I ran the first loop, I'd sit comfortably in the quadrangle, wait for the run-suicides to stop, then go to a faucet to drench myself & my shirt, as if it's sweat, before attendance. Worked until the end of the semester.
Aeon Flux 4 years ago
I figured this one out, too. If you act slightly slower and perform a little worse than is possible in your classes at the beginning of the semester/school year, then your teacher won’t expect as much from you, and they’ll be extra impressed when you’re performing on a normal level.
#9
Arby's used to have a "take a survey on the back of the recipt and get a free roast beef sandwich". But when I got the free one, I got a recipt then too. I bought one sandwich got literally dozens for free over the course of a year or so.
Aahzmandus Pervect 4 years ago
If this is true, that was such an obvious loop hole that some one at Arby's must have been a blithering idiot to allow this to happen, for a year or so. But somehow I don't think this is a true story.
Aleksandra Elias 4 years ago
It was explained in that thread on Reddit that they were making money on drinks that a lot of people bought with those free sandwiches
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A.M. Pierre 4 years ago
I had this happen for a while at a Chick-fil-a. Some customers - not all - would receive surveys on their receipts to answer for a free sandwich. For some reason, I fluked into getting it each and every time for a couple months. Turn in my receipt for a free chicken sandwich, get a new receipt with a free sandwich survey. It was AWESOME.
Vikram Bedi 4 years ago
May be the cashier had a crush on you... and wanted to see you back again and again...😃
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Aragorn II Elessar 4 years ago
I love Arby’s because they always forget to take my coupons. I’ve saved ≈$150 over the course of a year with the same coupon.
Sasha Kuleshov 4 years ago
I did this when Burger King followed, I gained weight like crazy :P
M.A.D. 4 years ago
I visited KFC right in front of our office quite often after hours. One time I've had a streak of survey receipts that after filling-in would get you a free regular Twister. Basically after each purchase I made I'd get another survey receipt. It was a good add-on to the regular menu set.
Niffler_13 4 years ago
This is why a lot of customer surveys on receipts are now randomly given, instead on every printed receipt.
#10
Was living near & attending our local university. While working full-time in an economy in the midst of a recession I barely had enough money to pay the bills, let alone eat. Where I live is very well known for its tourist industry & casinos so I had quite a few friends who worked in it & would tell me about these MASSIVE employee luncheon cafeterias. At that time there were no id cards or lanyards to be scanned or checked, all you needed was to find it & be dressed appropriately to the employers dress code. After my friend & I did a dry run on one of those trips, in order for me to find it without getting lost I would go it alone. For almost 3 years I had lunch/ dinner for free, learning the peak service times & the dead zones. Even got along with some of the cafeteria workers and custodial crews.
zims 4 years ago
Speaking as someone who did setup/breakdown for these kind of events, this is actually fine. As long as it's not the kind of event where they get individual lunches per person, they typically order a lot more food than gets eaten. Sometimes you get people to eat up the leftovers, but often enough you have to throw perfectly good food in the trash at the end of the day. Please do take the extra sandwiches off our consciences.
Tami 4 years ago
My company would waste lots of food after events. It'd just sit on the tables overnight, or even over the weekend, then get tossed. I started keeping plastic containers in my office and would load them up with leftovers before going home. That's one thing I miss in retirement, all the free food!
M.A.D. 4 years ago
One time I've noticed that meetings in the management room always ended with a number of leftover sandwiches, cookies, sweets, drinks, etc. Those meetings usually ended late, so when it was over soon the cleaning shift would come in and throw away everything. I've learned to check in Outlook calendar when those meetings took place. It wasn't long before corona happend, but it was nice while it lasted.
JessG 4 years ago
Ugh, really? Probably had lots of leftover food anyway, sheesh
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I used to work at a grocery store and we had this era of the steak discounts. Hundreds of coupons for $5 off a steak were just everywhere for some reason. I found out that if I used the self checkout and bought a steak that was less than $5 while using the coupon, the machine would give me back the difference in change. I ate dozens of free steaks and filled my change jar up nicely.
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
Most of thse are loopholes that are accessible if you follow the rules. This one is just theft.
Kiss Army 4 years ago
I found a loophole at CVS when I was couponing. They had $5 off coupons on any razor of a certain brand and I would pick up the travel pack for $0.99. They would not give money back but the additional $4.01 would apply to balance of the purchase. You could use up to 5 of each coupon and they usually had them for men's and women's razors so I could do this 10 times each trip. I did this for months and bought all kinds hygiene of items with the extra money and donated it all to a local shelter.
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Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
Why don't ya share some of that steak with homeless people and peeps that need to be paid to eat steak? Just a nice thought I had <3
WangTang 4 years ago
I worked at a radio station that had a commercial deal with the local dairy, and so they would bring us these stacks of coupons for free dairy products from their brand. They would sit in the break room and no one would ever claim them, but I was a broke college student so consequently I drank a lot of milk and ate a lot of ice cream. A few days before the coupons expired, I would take the bulk of the remaining stack and hit up a couple grocery stores, then donate the milk and ice cream to local shelters. I did this every month for over a year, got to help people out and claim it on my taxes as a charitable donation.
Monika Rhodes 4 years ago
I guess depends where you live. I've watched so many 'extreme couponing' from usa and people would pay almost nothing or even got money back on items that should cost hundred or more. But it's on selected items and you have to know what you pick up. Still kind of awesome.
#12
I went to a sporting goods store and they asked me for my phone number when I was paying. I was in a bad mood and didn’t want to fight with the clerk so I told them our local area code + 555-1212 (which is the old number for directory assistance), clerk accepted it and I left. When I checked my receipt I had a huge number of loyalty points - because apparently a ton of other people did the same thing. I called the office the next day and switched the “account” to my new address. A half-dozen times over the next few years, I went and got free stuff with all the points that I kept racking up as one of their most loyal customers.
meowgie catster 4 years ago
my mom and her friends use (area code) 8675309, like the song, and whenever I go out to grab something from the store, I just put it in and there's always a s**t ton of points
Katchen 4 years ago
My aunt turned me on to this. It works most places in the US, so if you’re buying something that’s only on sale if you’re part of the loyalty program, you can probably use Jenny’s number instead of signing up yourself.
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i guess they figured this Loophole out... here they send a code on your cell when you try to redeem points... and that code needs to be entered into the register for redemption.
Kate Pappas 4 years ago
555-1212 was actually the number in Los Angeles/Hollywood for the correct time. 411 was a directory assistance. I also used to work as a telephone operator on Gower St in Hollywood.
Candace Fitzpatrick 4 years ago
They didn’t ask for your name to match the account that they already had on file with that phone number?
#13
Way back when, I did the grocery shopping for my large family as a teenager. Mom didn’t drive, dad didn’t shop. I drove, so she send me for groceries. Deal was I could keep the coin part of the change from the purchase for doing the shopping for the family. Didn’t take me long to figure out to ask for a $10 roll of quarters each time when I was given change.
Went on for a few years; Mom didn’t know about it until I fessed up in my 20’s. “You little s**t,” she said while laughing.
I miss her.
Don Quixote 4 years ago
If they didn’t notice that you had wayyyyy over a dollar in change I’m not sure they cared
#14
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Obligatory not years but I can't believe I got away with it- My mum gave me £20 to buy a big thing of a certain brand of cat food which normally costs £10.99. Now heres the thing- when I entered the store I was given a coupon for £5 off that particular brand of cat food. The store was ALSO doing £5 off the type of cat food I entered for. I got to the till and the food was priced at £5.99, I handed over my coupon and it was scanned so that the food was 0.99p. I couldn't believe my luck because normally it says "not for use in conjunction with any other offer". But here's the real kicker - the lady behind the till gave me ANOTHER COUPON so you can bet your goddamn life I went round again and left the store with £22.98 worth of cat food for £1.98, with a third coupon in my hand. The only reason I didn't keep exploiting the loophole was because I had to carry it all home on my BMX
JessG 4 years ago
Totally store’s fault. Lots of stores accept double coupons, if you’re smart enough to figure it all out, you deserve the reward
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Also nice to have a cashier angel who made it even better, instead of being a nasty, stingy, Grinch.
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Mary Ridings Guarino 4 years ago
There was a grocery store where I went to college that had double coupon days every wednesday. At one time, the soda I liked had a 55 cent coupon under the label, and it'd be on sale for 75 cents with their loyalty card. I racked up a bunch and got paid 20 cents each. I also bought other things, so I never walked out the store with extra cash, but it was nice to get that when you're a poor college student. I often printed up online coupons using the school's printers too.
Debbie Burton 4 years ago
The is a whole series on Foxtel about these coupons and the amount of stuff people get free OR even a refund :O
#15
This is super weird and I haven’t thought about it in years, but I suppose it was a loophole... Soda companies used to run giveaways where they would put a code under the cap and then you could enter the codes for points, and get free stuff once you had banked enough points. I was a stock boy at a local grocery store and we had to take care of the bottle return machines also. Any loose caps (and nasty soda juices) would settle in the bottoms of the bags, so on slow nights we would cut the corner of the bags to drain, and collect any loose caps which I would then wash in the mop sink and take home to bank the codes. I ended up getting some sweet stuff like a few CDs, a zip up sweatshirt, and even some decent noise cancelling headphones lol
Don Quixote 4 years ago
Pepsi used to do a similar contest where the caps would actually say on them if you won and you would mail in caps for prizes like hats. I’m sure I’m not the only one who realized that if you tilted the bottle you could tell if it was a winner without opening it.
Capn_Ahab 4 years ago
In the UK before they banned it we had cigarette cards that you could trade in for rewards. I used to work in a club in London (pre smoking ban) and when we were cleaning up afterwards we'd all pick them up off the floor. Used to get loads of electric items for free, I think the largest was a massive convection oven/microwave worth about £200.
Deer dipper is so cute uwu 4 years ago
I remeber my old 3rd grade teacher would get a soda and drink it and recycle it for a nickel and get another soda for a nickel and just do that all the time or was it a dime I can't remember well 🤷♀️
#16
Staples used to let you recycle an infinite amount of ink cartridges at $2 a pop. My old job used to run through ink cartridges at an insane rate and it happened to be my duty to recycle them. I brought them to Staples and recycled them under my Staples rewards account to what amounted to 1000s of dollars over time. If there wasnt something in the store I wanted to buy with the coupons, I could buy from their online store which had video games, tvs and other non office items. If I still didnt see something I wanted, I could buy a Visa giftcard or giftcard to another store via their website to translate the money in to direct cash. Staples eventually put a 10 cartridge per month cap on recycling which ended my madness. All technically legal mind you.
Aeon Flux 4 years ago (edited)
Yeah, ink cartridges are an insane ripoff.
Load More Replies... Stille20 4 years ago
Your old job wasn't paying attention. It could have gotten you fired because technically it's not legal or ethical.
Mary Ridings Guarino 4 years ago
If the company wasn't expecting the money, only that the cartridges be thrown in recycling, they're technically covered under the trash law... that once something is thrown out, it can be picked up by someone else. Cities that try to say that people cannot take cans out of recycling bins to recycle always lose that battle in court. If the cartridges are put in anything with the intent to be thrown out or recycled without the expectation of money being returned, then it's trash, and anyone can take it.
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Vikram Bedi 4 years ago
That’s cool...one man’s trash is another man’s gold... I wonder if it was a goodwill thing / some new green law or staples had a use for used cartridges.
Lena Flising 4 years ago
If the company bought the cartridges, the company ought to get the recycle rewards too? Technically stealing from your employer, in other words...
Tequila4Two 4 years ago
He also could have made a company account and use the money for office parties or gifts for colleagues.
#17
Not years, but when I was broke and had just relocated to a new city, I couldn’t afford WiFi for a few months. The first weekend I was laying around my apartment playing on my phone, and I noticed there was a WiFi network in range that was named ‘Gandalf.’ Well, I attempted to join and after being asked for the WPA, without hesitation I plugged in ‘youshallnotpass’ and was surfin’ the web for free for the next few months.
H Edwards 4 years ago
I know it's illegal, but they almost deserve it for making it that easy.
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Jarno Flinkers 4 years ago
If people ask me they are more than welcome to use my wifi. I have a guest account (secured). But to use someone elses wifi without so much of a howdoyoudo is just bad.
Ffaelan Condragh 4 years ago
I had downstairs neighbors in college who were huge partiers and slobs. Then I found their WiFi had never been reset from the company defaults. I changed the settings to turn off the internet between 7p and 7a.
#18
Part-time retail worker for big chain.
Work gives employees a 5% discount over all purchases, increasing to 10% on store products.
Gift cards are store products. So are vegetables and a lot of groceries.
By paying $45 on a $50 gift card and then using said card for my shopping, I can purchase $55.55 in groceries, for an effective 19% discount on almost all my essential shopping (and 14.5% on everything else). I have on occasion bought a card online on my phone while queueing at the checkout.
Four years strong and still wondering when they’ll realise they’re giving me a discount on money.
Sasha Kuleshov 4 years ago
Did you know that some stores give away their "old" bread to charities? I remember bringing tons of small chapatas to my local shelter :')
Niffler_13 4 years ago
You get 5% off on gift cards, if you purchase them using your Redcard at Target. I did this when I went to Disney. I bought $100 Disney gift cards for $95 at Target.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Indeed, otherwise you'd sell them online for 47.50 and split the difference... Supermarket margins being 3-4% they're losing money on the stranger while paying you 2.50 each time.
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Local casino issued a $20 free play coupon in the newspaper with no expiration date. I talked to the newspaper delivery guy and asked him about that copy and he told me he's got 100's of them in the van as they were a few days old now. I got all of them, clipped out the coupons and proceeded to make $19.50 every day after work for around 500 or so days. Not quite years, but pretty damn close. The casino never printed a coupon without expiration/one per customer rules ever since.
Candace Fitzpatrick 4 years ago
Casinos here in Ontario give free play coupons that cannot be cashed out. You must play the full amount that the coupon is worth.
H Edwards 4 years ago
Yeah, you wouldn't catch any casino doing that kind of deal these days. Online casinos don't even let you keep your winnings from a bonus, you have to play it through a minimum number of times (average is about 35x) before it can be converted to cash.
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I'm still exploiting this one:
Whenever I need a shoulder and neck rub, I offer one to my partner.
He usually accepts, and I spend some time rubbing his shoulders while we watch TV. Then we switch and I get an awesome rub.
I find that if I just ask for one he will definitely do it but loses steam after a few minutes. I think when I give him one first it loosens his muscles up so he's more relaxed, plus maybe he feels more obligated.
I intend to keep on exploiting this for as long as I can.
miten sasmita 4 years ago
Wish I could do this. I never have massage session with my hubby. He is super ticklish nobody could massage him, but he also has giant hands with uncontrollable force that any massage turns into painful squeezing. My mother in law once had a sprained neck after asking him to massage her.
Colin Mochrie At Its Finest 4 years ago
My husband doesn't like massages, I used to always receive.one but I wont ever want it to stop so I just had to stop asking because I didnt like how it was hard on his untrained hands. But he still gave long massages. Good husband.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
I found a better loophole: I clean the house once a week plus the toilets an extra time, and they cook almost every day. I iz Genius.
#21
At my current apartment complex, they just changed the laundry machines so you need to use this super s**tty slow app. I found out if you press start on the app and start on the machine and then back out of the app while it’s “chatting” with the machine, the machine will start but won’t charge any money.
Been washing and drying for free for a few months.
App name is similar to smallGS or smallPayments
#22
Bank of America would give you 3% cash back points on gas purchases. Back when I did this, I was a heavy smoker, and realized by coincidence that if I paid for gas inside and made other purchases, that I would still get 3% So buying like $1 of gas and cartons upon cartons of cigarettes became my thing. Now I dont smoke anymore though, which is even better savings :)
Debbie Burton 4 years ago
Cigarettes are never included in any discount or sale or coupon/voucher in Australia
#23
Whole Foods used to have bacon on the Breakfast Bar. Cooked bacon weighs almost nothing! I would get a pound of cooked bacon for $8.00 It lasted almost a week! Bacon crumbles for the salad, for the turkey sandwich, and the 100 other things that you can toss bacon into!
I used this method for almost a year, then they stopped putting bacon out....sigh......
Stille20 4 years ago
Aside from slowly killing you, yea, that's totally within the rules. high five for cheap bacon!
Laurie Turner 4 years ago
Most any salad bar has way better pricing on "ingredients"... shredded cheese, lettuce, bacon crumbles, etc.
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Aeon Flux 4 years ago
*Cooked* bacon. A pound of cooked bacon is a lot more than a pound of uncooked bacon!
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Worked out how to get the jackpot every time on a Connect 4 fruit machine in a pub I used to drink in.
It would cost about £5-£10 before you'd get into the bonus round, then when you did, you'd play a connect 4 game against the machine.
You place the first counter, and then after the machine places the next counter, you mirror the machines move. Every game ends in a draw, and you win the jackpot, which was £50.
The pub landlord removed the machine after around 3 months as it was regularly empty, basically paid for my drinking and more for 3 months!
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
In many places the machines cashflow is split 50:50 between publican and company --- whether income or loss. So yes the landlord would normally keep an eye, and know if you're too much "up" on average (and whether it's compensated by your drinking --- then the games company loses their half but his loss covered by your spending? He's OK with that).
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
Lol I guess "st*pid" (yes I censored it purposefully) can be considered a bad word, but like... Censoring it? XD
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About 10yrs ago American Eagle distributed $10 off $10 purchase coupons on my campus. No restictions. I asked nicely and one of the reps gave me a STACK of them. Guess how much socks and underwear were? $10.50. It was years before I ever paid more than .50 for a pair of either. Sunglasses were like $2. Flip flops. The accessories world was mine for the flaunting. Never saw that deal again.
#26
When we had a daily limit of one hour on our AOL account my sister figured out if you unplugged the phone line during your session and logged back in it reset your hour
Jacob Babashoff 4 years ago
Similar, but it involved Customer Service. I'd get the CD for the X number of hours for free, of course you had to give your payment info. So, right before I hit the limit, I called and asked to be canceled. The representative of course would ask why I was cancelling and of course, my response was I was just using the free internet they provided. Then the rep would say, since your not yelling at me like every call I get, I'll give you another X amount and a bonus Y amount. Worked every time.
Phunny Philosopher 4 years ago
Thank goodness those days are gone. I racked up so many charges using above-limit internet time.
#27
At my old job we had a vending machine in the basement that gave change back when you bought something. Sometimes it gave more than you paid. No one used this machine as the basement was being reconstructed but it was regularly filled.
Philly Bob Squires 4 years ago
Had a soda machine at work... if you put the 1.00 in in coin (not a bill, that didn't do it for some reason) and push your button of choice, it would give you your soda, push it again... soda.... and again and again... You could get like 8 to 10 cans then it would quit. It did this for weeks. We even told the company but they never fixed it so my partner and I had Coke, Iced Tea etc for quite some time.
meowgie catster 4 years ago
the vending machine at a hotel we always used to stay at would always give us 5 cents extra. We always were with a big group (10-15 people) so everyone bought their stuff and we always ended up with 50 cents or so, then got a pack of gum or something cheap for everyone to share
Mean Red B 4 years ago
At my old work we had a hot drinks vending machine (coffee, tea, cocoa and stuff) that used to accept tokens made for this vendor. I - as the managing person- got 100 tokens a month to use it for the stuff from the machine. I soon found out, that if you put too much tokens for a drink it would return change in cash lol I barely drank coffee from it, it was crap, but never had free tokens at the end of the month, wonder why? lol
Isabel Care 4 years ago
We had a drinks in cups vending machine. Everyone knew the trick to getting more than you paid for. The new general assistant was greedy, emptied the machine and got caught.
#28
The thing we clocked in on when I worked at Kmart would round to the closest quarter hour. So by clocking in 8 minutes early, and clocking out 8 minutes after my shift, I got paid for 30 minutes rather than for the 16 minutes. By exploiting this, I was paid 2.5 hours of overtime a week. Cumulatively, during my time there, this added up to about 6.5 weeks of extra pay. I wasn’t ever caught, though.
A.M. Pierre 4 years ago (edited)
I can see it being fairly easy to leave exactly 8 minutes past your clock out time, but checking in exactly 8 minutes early? That's super precise, and makes me think you would end up getting there earlier than that but lingering until exactly 8 minutes before check in to actually click the time clock. And what's the point of getting there early enough to get the extra time but not actually clocking in until you only have 1 minute to spare and might miss your window? Edit: I'm sorry that I wasn't clear - I am NOT judging this person or saying they were right or wrong to do this. I'm asking why they made it harder on themselves in a way that made it more likely they wouldn't get paid for their extra work every morning.
JessG 4 years ago
Yeah, I would think get there early to clock in but just wait a few minutes until starting work?
Load More Replies... Mary Ridings Guarino 4 years ago
I once had a job at a summer day camp that paid well. However, during the school year's after school program, I was supposed to be moved to a position that paid less. My boss told me that they were going to reduce my pay. I said ok, because we were in the middle of the recession and I needed any job I could get (although I was looking for a better one). After a couple of paychecks, I realized my pay didn't change. Never said anything. Acted like, if they didn't notice, I'd play ignorant. They treated me like crap anyway, and I ended up quitting once my husband got a good job.
Mary Hunt Peret 4 years ago
Managers are generally aware of time clock exploits, however unless your company wants to spend hours of someone's time auditing clock records or pay for software to do it, it goes fairly well ignored. You have to be careful, though, because it is not hard to identify, it just takes time to go through records and a manager or supervisor who is motivated to catch you can do it easily.
Chris Hardtke 4 years ago
Are you working during those 8 minutes of early punching in and 8 minutes of late punching out? If so, you’re only getting a free 14 minutes per shift. So, you could not have gotten 2.5 hours of overtime unless you were working 11 shifts per week. And if you weren’t working when you were on the clock early and late, you’re just a thief.
Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
I did this and you do not work during these times. Especially call centres where you have a definite end time on the phones. It works brilliantly.
Load More Replies... Colin Mochrie At Its Finest 4 years ago
My old work did that and we knew. Told my employees how it worked and to be aware so they did not clock early or late by mistake. I was always with them-can see them clock in as we had the same shifts- and trusted them so never had an issue of someone gaining time.
#29
Circa Late 80s. You could make a long distance collect call from a pay phone, and charge it to a private number. The operator would call the other number to confirm. We’d ask the operator to call the number of another pay phone nearby,and have a friend authorize the call. Free long distance for almost a year.
Rose the Cook 4 years ago
Weren't the numbers of pay phones different to private home numbers? If they were, did the operators not recognise this or just not care?
Jonathan 4 years ago
Certainly where I live payphones had completely different numbers. Our local dialling code is 0131 but payphones would be business numbers like 0900/0845 etc. Probably different in 1980's America though!
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Kate Pappas 4 years ago
I knew someone who had a bag of Australian pennies....decades ago.....they totally worked as dimes in the US...pay phones, candy machines etc.
Phunny Philosopher 4 years ago
For the life of me, I have never been able to call a payphone. There are so many things I could have done with that. Too late now.
#30
Got keys to a new flat on a Friday afternoon, the place had electric but it wasn't in my name.
Went to the electric company just before closing and the lady said "flat 8 you say....... Hummm we only have record of 7 flats on that building. Tell you what (glances at the clock) come back Monday with the serial number on your meter, and we'll get you all hooked up"
I never went back and enjoyed free electric for over 2 years until i moved out.
Guy Levin 4 years ago
Hmm yeah that wasn't free, you were probably connected to a neighbor's meter and they paid for you, unknowingly. That's illegal in most countries, and a pretty shitty thing to do.
Premislaus de Colo 4 years ago
yeah, most of these stories is basically stealing
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Brent Riggs 4 years ago
Sign of the times: say "loophole" instead of STEALING... almost every one of these "loopholes" cost SOMEONE else... we live in a world of rapidly decreasing honesty and integrity. Everyo0ne has a "if I can screw you over, too bad for you stupid" mentality.
Franc Esca 4 years ago
My company got my name wrong on my account but I'm still responsible as "tenant who lives in ap x and y" regardless of your name. The employee didn't know how to find your flat but you're still liable retroactively when they find out.
Mark Howell 4 years ago
As an electrician in the UK, I once saw a house with their 10.5kW shower not connected to the meter, by no one less than the electricity suppier. Told them to keep quiet as they had the seals and reciepts.
Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago (edited)
When Broadband first started I was with a company that allowed a single internet connection and it was £30 a month the modem looked a bit like a. Manta ray. I asked to be connected and when connected a light on the modem went a solid green but for weeks it just flashed on and off meaning no connection so after weeks of no connection I cancelled the contract. The day I cancelled the modem light went solid so I had a connection but had cancelled the contract. So I had free broadband for four years and it only stopped when a larger company took the small company over. I received an email from the new company saying they had lost my bank details during the transfer and could I give them my details again I did this and they just started a new contract.
#31
When I was in college they had this deal where if you signed up for a free trial of Netflix you could get a $10 giftcard code for Papa John's.
They didn't even ask for a credit card back then, just an email, so I would just make new email addresses to use and would get a code every time.
Not only did I get free Netflix for a while, but I also got a lot of free pizza.
#32
One week the local Chick-fil-a put a coupon in a local coupon magazine flyer which was Buy 1, Get 1 Free, any item on the menu. Next to that coupon they had a 50% off any menu item. I carefully checked, and neither coupon mentioned "Cannot be combined with any other offer" anywhere on it. So I ran out to the local grocery store and grabbed a stack of these flyers. Sure enough the next week the offer was gone, but it was too late to stop me.
I spent almost 2 years as a grad student living almost exclusively off of 128-count nugget platters that I would get for 25% of the cost (1st half off, 2nd free). Place went under new management and they put up a sign saying they would no longer be accepting those coupons. Not entirely sure if that was due solely to me or if anyone else was pulling the same thing. I had about 20 coupon pairs left when they shut it down.
#33
Not intentional, but once I found out I didn't stop.
Years ago I used my card to pay for Xbox live during a period before I could pick up a manual 1yr subscription, but when I tried to remove my card details it wouldn't let me and said I had to call MS directly.
Being lazy but smart, I decided to just change the security numbers that were saved so it wouldn't process any future payments. And it never did. But somehow I still kept getting Xbox Live access. This went on for about a year and a half before it stopped.
I was never contacted about paying anything for what I'd used either.
PearlsNotSecretRapCareer 4 years ago
I had a 360 but we soon replaced it with a One. My gamerscore on the 360 was really high so when I played something mobile I used the 360 account. Little did we know that we did the exact same thing on accident and we've been getting free Live for 4 years.
Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
When broadband first started in our area you got a single connection broadband modem. You had to wait for it to be initialised by the company and a light on the modem Would stop flashing when you finally had a connect. It cost around £30 a month at that time. I waited for weeks for the flashing light to stop but it never did so I cancelled the subscription that same day the light stopped flashing and I ended up with free broadband for four years until the company was bought by another company. The other company contacted me saying that due to a billing error they had lost the record of my payments they where very sorry and could I register again which I did and paid normally every month after that.
#34
Ok, pretty amazing stuff I got a friend who worked for a year at EDF, the main French electricity company. When you work there you pay only 10% O your electricity bill Fun fact, you can use this ava'tage on 3 résidence Fun fact 2,for some reason, 10 year after quitting your jobs there you still have the advantage
#35
When we moved into our new house we put our trash out like everyone else and routinely it was taken every Wednesday morning for 12 years. One afternoon we heard the neighbors complaining about the increased cost of trash removal and learned it wasn’t free at all. We thought it was county sponsored the whole we lived there. We called the trash company, explained the mistake and offered to make amends - they seems disinterested but just took our name and address down and told us they’d begin billing. The never did. We stayed another 10 years before selling the house and never paid for trash service. Hey we tried...
#36
The McDonald's app used to have an entry in the order book for "garlic parmesan fries" that you only found through the search option. It cost $0.00. Every time I ordered it I got free regular fries.
Also you can set the drink option on happy meals to coffee, which is not really a loop hole but handy.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 4 years ago
At Wendys after 4 their kids meals are $1.99. You can swap out the drink for a small frosty.
#37
Two from college, not exactly loopholes but playing the system.
Pizza chain had coupons printed on their larger boxes, with 10 coupons you could get a free cheese carryout pizza. Used to raid every single trashcan of their pizza boxes in the dorms, or offer to throw away someone's box for the coupons. Rarely paid for a pizza, but got plenty of cheese carryouts for free.
Campus paper printed a coupon for two free game tokens in the bowling alley/arcade in the student union, limit one coupon per day. I got a stack of coupons (free campus paper), twice a week I had to go through the student union for class and was usually with a friend. She was a good sport, and the two of us cashing in coupons meant four game tokens a day, eight per week. I made her a pair of earrings out of two game tokens for being a good sport.
#38
My old job i worked at a pretty large gym (gold level, like the 3rd highest level). Monthly fee was $79 for the gold membership but employees got a free diamond membership. Worked there for a year and a half before i quit, but my account was never deactivated. Been going there for a while completely free, still not found out. Diamond membership is like $200 a month
#39
My friend used to restock condom machines in pubs and collect the money from them. The machines would always break and get jammed all the time but because it was condoms no one would ever tell someone that the machine ate their money. He would just count how many condoms were gone and give that amount of money to the company and pocket the rest.
Vikram Bedi 4 years ago
People got lucky and your friend got lucky in a different way... win win anyways...
Cyan 4 years ago
I feel like this could be illegal except for the fact that he paid the company for however many condoms were used, so he only took money from people who didn't get a condom. However, since they could have told someone and got their money back, they chose not to, so it's there fault the money was in the machine and he could take it, so it's not really bad per say.
#40
Printers at the university had a flaw that let you print out any number of pages while just paying for a single page. I told too many people about it and they eventually fixed the problem but I was able to print for really cheap and save a ton on printing. I normally am not the kind of person to do this, but our professor made us print out 20 page state diagrams instead of just submitting them electronically, and I wasn't going to pay for that.
Gwen 4 years ago
Back in the early 2000s, I went to community College, and they had free unlimited printing in the library! I printed of a lot of extra stuff that I didn't want to print off at home! After I left, they started charging per page for printing. I think that I broke the system! I miss free unlimited printing!
Vikram Bedi 4 years ago (edited)
Library gave free paper + computer lab/ cad lab had free printouts but bring your own paper rule... 😀 ... so basically free printouts
A Random Panda 4 years ago
Dormitories, maybe? The parents could've been across the country, and this could've been from a time when painters in houses weren't common. IDK, I've only existed for a really short amount of time.
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My parents didn‘t want me to use my phone for hours when I got one in sixth grade. So they installed an app called screen time. It only allowed me to be on gaming apps etc. for a certain amount of time and they could see how long and what apps I used too which bothered me like hell. I accidently found out that there is a safe mode that you can start your phone in, where third party apps are deactivated. It was a bit annoying because some games were also gone but if i was quick enough i could still start them before the app dissapeared from the screen or find them if i googled the app on my phone. My parents somehow never found out and I taught my little brother this strategy as well.
#42
Not really a loop hole, but more so employees that didn't care/weren't trained well. Saw a movie back in high school and mid way through the audio cut out. The theater handed out vouchers to everyone so they could come back and see another movie. I ended up just flashing the voucher to the ticket takers for months and just walking in. Eventually someone told me I was supposed to use the voucher to buy a new ticket at the window. Probably saw dozens of movies by doing this lol.
#43
I used to buy books on Amazon Kindle with a debit card that had no money on it. The transaction would take a little time but you could download immediately. The problem was if you payment bounced they would remove the book from your device, so if you downloaded the book then turned your wifi off on your device you could read for free.
#44
I got Amazon prime for free in high school and still have it... I graduated in 2017. Idk why they haven’t caught on, my high school email is long gone and not even on my account anymore.
#45
There was a soda machine that was really old that would still charge $.25 for a can of soda. Pretty soon I realized that it would give you a can for free if you just mash the buttons repeatedly. It was the best part of grocery shopping.
#46
Not years but 2 weeks. I was on vacation in the Dominican Republic with my wife for 2 weeks. At the Resort they would give every adult $20 a day to gamble at their little casino. We would go to the Roulette table and put $20 on red and $20 on black. Made $280 those 2 weeks.
#47
There was this thing for t mobile called T-Mobile Tuesday’s and every Tuesday they would give you stuff/ offers. Well one week they offered a free whopper at Burger King. I used it and a few weeks later they gave it again. But I noticed the code was the exact same one. So me and my fatass brain thought, what if I can screenshot it and use it every Tuesday? So I did, and it worked. I eventually started to use it on days that weren’t even a Tuesday. It was fun while it lasted but Burger King removed the offer.
Savannah Mcquillan 4 years ago
... as long as you're stealing from big companies I guess it's ok. 😂
#48
When I was in school they sent us home with a form for our parents to fill in. The idea was to collect updated contact information in case anything had changed (phone numbers etc). If you were late to school, the school texted your parents to let them know. For myself, the usual punishment was a grounding. I was frequently late, so I filled the form with my own phone number and started to receive the text messages that were intended to tell my parents that I was late. Got grounded far less frequently after that
#49
Spoons old menu. if you ordered 2 sides of "half rack of ribs" and a portion of chips. It would work out cheaper than if you ordered the ribs meal. You gotta sacrifice the 2 or 3 of onion rings you get with the meal. But the instead of a dash of chips you'd get a whole basket. And it was a couple quid cheaper.
#50
When I would commute to work I would have to pay to park at a nearby lot that would change $5 per day on a prepaid card. When the amount would get low I would use the ticket machine to reload money onto my card. Well one day, unknown to me, they were doing a software update right when I reloaded my card with $40 cash into the machine. As a result it didn't register to new amount on my card (I think my card had something like $10 left). I went into the parking office to complain but they told me they didn't believe me and that I was out of luck. Well the next day I use the card but instead of deducting $5 it instead added $5 so my new balance was $15 and the next day I had $20 left on my card. I used that card for almost 2 years and the final balance was thousands when it finally stopped working one day. And, honestly, I would have let them know about the issue right away if they hadn't been total jerks about my initial $40 issue. Net gain.
Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
Good for you pity you could not have claimed the balance. But free parking was good as it saved you thousands.
#51
Jack in the box used to have a “Get 2 free tacos with any purchase “ coupon on the bottom of their recipes. A group of my friends found out that we would buy the cheapest item which was a slice of cheese we could get 2 free tacos everyday for 20¢.
#52
Back in 1999/2000 there was this web advertising company called AllAdvantage. You could install their ad banner on your computer and it would occupy like the bottom 15% of your screen and show you ads and AA would pay you for the time you were exposed to the ads. Of course they had basic measures in place like stopping your accumulated time if your screensaver came on or your computer went to sleep. But all it took was a simple program that would keep your mouse slowly moving while you're actually away IRL and the AA clock would keep on ticking. Not sure if it keeping it running at all times I was away IRL ended up being cost-effective in regards to cost of electricity but I was a teenager living with my parents so I didn't care about that. I think I pulled maybe $500 or so before the company went under.
Stille20 4 years ago
Surprised it didn't burn your screen...also if you were using your parents electricity, it's less of a loop hole and more just taking advantage of living with your parents.
Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
You did not need to leave the monitor switched on.
Load More Replies... Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago (edited)
The cost of electricity to run a home computer was not much more than the cost to power a light bulb so it would not even be noticed on the bill. And just leaving the monitor switched off while the computer was still running cured any screen burn issues.
#53
There is an app for a local burger chain where it allows you to "roll the dice" to get a code for a free double-patty burger upgrade. It was designed so you could only try it once per day and it even shows the date of the roll on the code so the cashier could verify it.
However, I found out that you can just change the date on your phone and try again immediately. If you got nothing, change it again and just keep going until you get the code. Then, when you got the code, you change the date back to current date and the app updates the code so it looks like you rolled it today.
I got free burger upgrades for years until they finally got rid of the feature alltogether. I don't know if anyone ever figured out this exploit, they removed it for other reasons.
#54
My high school counselors told everyone we needed two years of a foreign language to graduate. It was common knowledge, everyone just listened and took the classes. Everyone. I read the student handbook and it listed the graduation requirements and it said nothing about foreign language. I never took one. My friends didn’t catch on until senior year and when I told them, they warned that I would be in big trouble and might not get to graduate. They freaked out. One girl called me an idiot. I showed them the graduation requirements, available for anyone to read in the student handbook or counselor’s office. No one ever said a word. I graduated. Always read the terms and conditions, y’all.
Dwayne Dixon 4 years ago
This one is definitely not something to brag about.
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Levi Gordon 1 year ago
Same with my high school. I’m not wasting my time with german or something that I’ll never use
DramaDoc 4 years ago
This is why I've never learned calculus. Found out I only needed 3 years of math and science to graduate. I only took physics my final year because I wouldn't legitimately take any more art classes or study halls. 14.5 years of higher ed later, and I still have never learned calculus nor have I ever needed it...
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
Most colleges required two years of foreign language in high school.
#55
Years ago I was a season ticket holder for an awful NBA team. My tickets came electronically via PDF. I had OK seats in the upper part of the lower bowl, but nothing great. Anyway, on nights where I knew it would be empty (which was most nights unless a superstar like Kobe or LeBron was in town), I would use the full version of Adobe Acrobat to edit the PDF's to indicate a much better seat location than mine. The bar code still scanned just fine because I didn't mess with it, but when the usher took my print out all he saw was that I was sitting on the floor. Got away with it for years until the team actually got good for a while and the place was packed.
#56
My Spanish homework in high school would often have three possible answers while allowing three attempts by default, so you could trivially get a perfect score. I got through three years of Spanish class with that and I don't think the teachers have realized that loophole even to this day.
Savannah Mcquillan 4 years ago
oH nOoOo A kId ChEeAtInG oN sPaNiSh HoMeWoRk!!! WhY?? No OnE wOuLd EvErRrRr!!!
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Growing up I worked at a chain grocery store. They had a policy in place that if an item price label didn’t match the scanned price in the computer, the first item was free and any subsequent items would be for whichever price was lower. Every few months an elderly woman would come in and spend 4-5 hours shopping. When she would come up to the register, she would have a full cart and near everything would be free. I had to ring her out a handful of times and only caught a few items overall that she was wrong on. At one point, she found a comforter BBB mislabeled and got it for free ($40-50 sticker price). More than once the store manager would watch her on the store cameras to ensure she wasn’t switching the stickers but never saw her do anything sneaky, just very calmly looking over every item shelved one at a time. Eventually the policy changed and she stopped coming in at all.
JessG 4 years ago
Yeah, store’s fault here, she was just a smart/frugal/patient lady
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Ashley Wilkins 3 years ago
Ours is similar, but it limits you up to $10 off the first item and the rest for the shelf price.... and obly if the customer mentions it. Has to be regular shelf and not sale tags, too.
JP Doyle 4 years ago
heheheh. Michigan had a customer reward by law to prevent stores from cheating people with mispriced scanned prices: If you purchased an item and the UPC price didn't match what was on the price tag you got 10x the difference back, minimum $1, maximum $5. You only got 1 reward for each discrete item, so 10 cans of mispriced beans only gave you 1 reward. You also had to pay the wrong total, go out and come back in with the offending items and the receipt. It didn't count if the cashier caught the goof and manually entered the correct price. I worked retail inventory at the time, so I saw prices without thinking about it. And when the price tag didn't match the shelf tag... I bought a can. Many times I would walk out of the store with more money than I went in with and a full load of groceries.
#58
parking meters took credit cards. But they weren't actually connected to a live network at all times. The machine just confirmed the card number was valid and was not expired, then spit out a valid pass. So when my card number got stolen and replaced, I kept my old, cancelled card. Of course when the system tried to run the card later it would be declined. My car and I were long gone by then. Sadly they wised up and now it charges your card before giving you a pass.
JP Doyle 4 years ago
Had close to the same thing with some coin operated meters downtown. You got 10 mins for a nickel, 15 mins for a dime and 20 mins for a quarter. What most people didn't know was the meters were remastered and had a 5 min setting (unlabeled on the meter) for a penny... Most people were dim enough not to do the math and used quarters. 7 cents got you maxxed out at 1 hour.
#59
There used to be a third party warranty you could get at Newegg that was called "replacement or refund". It was for laptops that were under $500. The warranty cost like $75 for two years. At the end of two years, I would file a claim for whatever small thing was wrong with the laptop (headphone jack, card reader, bad key, etc), I would send it to them, and they would refund me the full $500. Then I would just buy a different laptop and get the warranty again. I rolled the same $500 for three different laptops. I basically rented a laptop from Newegg for $37 per year.
JP Doyle 4 years ago
I had a Dremel tool that had a 90 day full replacement guarantee, no questions asked. Just call them, get the return code, send them the Dremel and 2 weeks later, brand new one. Well, I burned out 3 Dremels in a row between 30 and 60 days of use each. Finally, after looking at my history in the computer, the service rep asked me "What the heck are you doing to burn these things out so fast? That shouldn't be possible!" I told her "I'm using the cutting disks to slice apart galvanized steel springs to make medieval chain maille armour." They had never, EVER heard that one before. Only took 4 Dremels to cut the almost 3 miles of wire I needed for my hauberk and coif. I took pity on them and didn't send them the 4th one after it burned out. Tough little tools those Dremels.
SunofSpringtime 4 years ago
I'm sorry but that's exactly what other people can't have nice things. You exploit a system that's supposed to help customers.
#60
I have always lived in a different city/town than where I work. I’ve also always worked in an industry that gives preference to my coworkers who are parents. I learned early on that when asking for time off, if I listed ‘going out of town’ as a reasoning there would be no question or hesitation to grant the time off. I’m rarely ever traveling as that label suggests.... I’m merely at my home... in another town. I have one coworker I have told but the vast majority have yet to ever figure out my system.
Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
None of their business. If you have PTO to take, you have no responsibility to tell them what you're doing. That's BS. It's YOUR TIME! Shame on them.
#61
My boss was always late and patients would always show up early for the first appointment of the day. I started letting staff know I would be changing it on the schedule to show our first appointment starting 15 minutes earlier. We ran like clockwork for a year until the doc decided to randomly be on time more often. I had to admit patients weren’t late I had just been shifting the schedule to make things run more efficiently.
Jade Lynn - Panda's Brat 4 years ago
That would honestly make me so mad. I would tell my boss that I was changing the start time if he was going to be late every day. Who gets the calls about the doctors being late? The admin assistant! One of my bosses used to make me pack the clinic so full that people were waiting for hours after their appointment time, and they would call and scream at me.
LuckyL 4 years ago
They gave the patients different times than were shown on the schedule. So the doctor thought the first appointment is at 8 but comes to late anyways. And the real appointment is at 8:15,so the patient arrives when the doctor is there
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My family used to go to this campground in the summer and rent a little cabin for like a week. In the main building there was a little arcade - mostly older games, and a foosball table, and an air hockey table.
What most people didn't know was - the air hockey table was broke. If you put quarters in, you could push the plunger to start the machine and then get your quarters back if you did it juuuust right.
A couple of years in a row were SUPER fun because me and one other kid that knew would keep air hockey going for the entire time. The arcade would be filled with kids who would often play other games while waiting their turn at air hockey. They must have found out after a few years though because one year we went back and it was fixed - the arcade was also a complete ghost town, and the campground made no money off it after that. That's when I fully realized and understood the concept of a "loss leader" at like 13 years old.
Nico C 4 years ago
I am supremely good at Air Hockey.. to the point it's maddening for people to play me. I always warn people "I'm really good at this game." I figured out my winning strategy when I was about 10-years-old.. feels a little like a loophole.. I've told very few people my secret but, here you go. To be insanely good at Air Hockey, the trick is to never actively try to get a goal.. sounds crazy but hear me out. Focus all of your attention on the angle of your opponent's puck as they hit it toward you and simply guard your own goal. That's your one job, guard your own goal with a laser focus. Eventually one of your rebounds will hit your opponents goal and you will earn points toward your inevitable win. By simply never allowing an opponent to get a puck in your goal.. you will win every time. If you focus on getting a puck in your opponents goal, you will eventually be distracted and they will score.. never let them do that.
Isabel Care 4 years ago
Same with pinball. Don't let the ball down the hole, ignore all the bells and lights.
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Still ongoing. Thanks to a charge card i was granted top tier elite status with a hotel chain. I downgraded 6 years ago but the status remained. The hotel chain went through a merger but since I had retained the status for over ten years I was given lifetime top status in the new program that was created.
#64
Used to work for the BBC - they have (as you’d expect) their entire archive digitised. I was working on some cloud stuff so needed access to it to check some access rights. This was literally everything ever shown on the BBC ever downloadable in a ton of video and audio formats, iPlayer is just a fraction of what was in that archive. Took them about 6 years after I left to remove my account , so 6 years free access to probably the largest tv and movie database around Edit: blimey that was a lot of activity while I was asleep! For those asking I used it mainly to watch documentaries , I’m a bit of a history bore so would just search something like “world war I” and see what popped up. You could download as video or audio, I’d drop stuff out as MP3s and listen to it in the car! Yes it was called Redux and good to see other ex BBC’ers who had access for years! Yes you have to pay for a TV licence in the UK, yes it’s crap to be forced into it, but that does mean there are zero adverts on the channel which is nice when you’re watching a program Oh and yes BBC these days also stands for something else, hilarious.
JessG 4 years ago
So, you don’t believe a guy that actually worked for them?
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I don't know if this counts as a loophole but back when I was an unemployed college student and before public transport tickets became electronic where I live, I used to cover my ticket in a thin layer of glue (glue stick) so when I validated the ticket the ink would stay on top of the glue layer. I would then wash the ticket very carefully with water and the ink would come off. I'd let it dry and I magically had a brand new ticket. This would last about a week before the ticket started looking too weird.
#66
Worked a s**tty part time job with no benefits, career growth, etc. that let you clock in 10 minutes before and 10 mins after your scheduled shift because it involved a lot of walking. Extra 2.5 hrs per paycheck for virtually no effort.
#67
Tudor's Biscuitville once did a promotion at a minor league ball game: everyone got a coupon for one free biscuit sandwich, and it didn't say limit one per customer. Attendance was low, so at the end of the game the guy came up to me and offered basically a box of these coupons and told me to pass em out to my friends. For the next year and a half my friends and I were rolling around with money clips of free biscuit coupons, passing them out, and getting tons of free food for ourselves. I still think it was weird that at no point did a manager ask why we had so many coupons, or try and tell us that we couldn't get twenty sandwiches at a time for free.
#68
This was back in the 90’s but many major websites used to have affiliate click link subscriptions you could make and put them on your website, and get paid a few cents for each click that was made. Now at the time, me and my buddy were getting into learning stupid JavaScript alert prompt prank pages at the time. I wish I remembered the website, it was something like “monkey coding”? Wish I could remember. An early resource for learning to code. Anyway, I changed a lot of the basic annoying prank alert stuff we’d been using into clicking the affiliate link repetitively for me. Now I wasn’t too wise of either coding or network security at the time but I thought, surely, it won’t count if the same computer (IP), or same few IP addresses have clicked the link thousands of times... Sure enough, for a few months at least, I got cheques sent to me for $20-30 usd a month. Not much, but I wasn’t even in high school at the time, and was so proud of actually receiving them that I don’t think I ever cashed them I just hung them up on my wall.
#69
kept a cancelled credit card in the car for "paying" for parking on city machines that never actually validated the card. Eventually word spread and the city added cellular tech to validate the card.
#70
Many, many years ago I was the manager at a Texaco station. This was circa 2004ish. We didn't have electronic dispensers, they were all analogue, although the prices were controlled from a computer in the office. Whenever we had a price increase, we had to close the station for about 10 mins as it took that long for the dispensers to update to the new price. I happened to be on the forecourt during an upgrade and picked up a pump to see what price was being shown. I very quickly put it back down again and ran to get my car. During the update, petrol was priced at 5p per litre. I filled my tank for less than £5. At the time, our receipts only showed the pump number, type of fuel and the amount due - there was nothing about the price per litre or the quantity dispensed. After that, I don't think I spent more than £50 in total for petrol across a few years.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 4 years ago
Something like this happened a few years ago. We paid cash for $10 in gas and it stops automatically at $10. My husband was facing in the car talking to me and after a few minutes we realized it didn't stop. We look at the pump and it was almost at $5 but we had over 10 gallons pumped. I ran in and the cashier said she couldn't do anything about it. We filled up and she gave me like $2 cash back. All the cashier idea. The guy pumping next to us did it, too. I even tried to get her to keep the change. It had to have been set on like 50 cents a gallon or something.
Jade Lynn - Panda's Brat 4 years ago
The guy I was dating when I was 18 was working at a gas station and he would always call me to let me know if the gas was going to go way up in price that night so I could fill up before it went up.
Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
Well done you. Not theft as you paid the pump price just ignore the moaners in the post.
#71
It’s a small one but in high school I didn’t want to wear glasses while playing football (the only had glass contacts back then - and we couldn’t afford them) so I memorized the standard eye chart. The line you needed to read was D-E-F-P-O-T-E-C
JessG 4 years ago
Oh, lol, thanks, I didn’t get it. Had no idea that they had glass contacts
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Parked in a reserved space that never had a car in it at work. It eventually became mine because I just kept parking there.
#73
Not really for years, but I used to make tons of money on coupons driving for Pizza Hut. I lived in an area that didn't tip for s**t, and one on delivery this lady gave me a coupon after having paid and said "whatever it takes off the price, keep it as a tip"
So I started answering the phones as often as I could (this was before online ordering), take the customers order, tell them the total and hang up. Then I'd apply whatever coupon I could find that fit their order and print out the ticket. It only worked when I was the closing driver because you have to remember the total you told them, but it wasn't uncommon to get $15 + whatever they tipped for driving a half mile down the road using this method.
#74
There was a machine at an arcade similar to Dave n Busters called Round 1. One day, im there with a group of friends, and I go to the prize area. I see three kids with funko pop dolls stacked over there heads, headed to the register. I jokingly ask what their secret was. They won't tell me, so I said I'd tell them my ticket making secret in exchange (mine sucked) They inform me there's a machine giving more tickets than normal. I go find it and it's one of those mobile games turned arcade machines that no one would ever play. I play it once and get 700 tickets for probably $0.50. To put in perspective, a 3DS was 40,000 tickets. I play it for about an hour, and get enough for a 3DS. We got so good at the game, wed win the jackpot everytime and itd give us 6000 tickets. It would take 15 minutes for the machine to just count it all. Long story short, my friends and I stayed all day the next day and made enough tickets to get 2 PS4s, 2 Wii US, and 2 3DSs. It was such a lame game, no one ever bothered to try and play it besides us. They eventually found out later that day, as they walked over to me while I was plahing to observe the game. I just walked out, drove to one a town over just to be safe and redeemed all my tickets. Tldr: got 6 consoles for about $80
Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
In the uk these machines that give out tickets but it takes thousands of tickets to get a decent prize. But no consuls or games are ever offered just cheap junk usually. It worked out that about 2000 tickets are worth a pound so even if they did do consuls you would need about half a million to get a Wii at that time.
#75
My local Groupon website had always a 30% discount coupon that changed every day. Once a month you would get one in the mail (Coupon was processed on top of the normal 40% discounts that Groupon has in restaurant’s, so it was a real 70% discount). I noticed that it always started with an L and then four numbers. So I wrote a python script that every day would send me the daily 30% coupon by testing the 9999 posibilites agains the website API that wasn’t properly secured, this took 4 hours to code and less than 20 minutes to run. That year we had dinner at restaurants like if we were middle class, then they patched it, but my GF and I remember it as the golden year
Marya Ander 4 years ago
Yo, that's amazing. Apply to Google or one of those big tech companies and put this "project" on your resumé. I guarantee you, if you prep enough, you will get in!
#76
Used to wait tables at an old steakhouse that would put buy one get one free steak coupons in the local newspaper, the first Sunday of every month. Early Sunday morning like clockwork I would drive around and buy as many as I could, sometimes all of them, cut them out and keep a couple in my server book as needed for each shift. Then shift after shift, anytime someone would pay cash for their tab, and before the customer got up (or I'd bring back change if needed) I would walk up to the manager and ask for a "comp" showing the ticket and coupon, and that extra cash went straight into my pocket. Turned $100-$150 nights into $250-$300 nights. Very quick and honestly too easy. Did it for over a year and a half. Managers never caught on.
#77
Wife and I financed a very nice fridge. They did their financing through a bank that sends you a CC after the fact with the item already charged. Card showed up, no balance. Called the card issuer, never been a balance. This was over 6 months ago, still no balance or record on either of our credit reports.
#78
I worked with servers who would collect the coupons printed in the paper, then when a customer paid cash, they'd apply the coupon and then close the check. Extra $5 several times a day. I only realized what they were doing close to the time I left. Working for chain restaurants is a special hell full of special devils. On a related note, I once worked for a restaurant where I got called in because a customer called to complain about being charged more for tip than he left. I double check the tips, and at checkout, the manager double checks the tips. I had to go apologize to the man at his business. I realized only years later that the managers can Alter tip amounts and one or more of them was adding a few bucks to tips here and there to servers tip out amounts before closing the checkout and then giving the server the actual amount while keeping whatever amount they added. I'm pretty sure one of the managers was a psychopath and drove a super expensive car, so it seemed plausible. I work in the film industry and used to work in the hospitality industry. Hospitality industry was shadier by far.
#79
In my middle school they had a Snapple machine. Someone figured out if you unplugged, plugged it back in and pushed a button you could get a free Snapple. It lasted for a few weeks until the Snapple machine guy came to refill it, opened the machine and yelled “Eleven Dollars?” at the top of his lungs. The machine was moved in such a way that you couldn’t reach the plug anymore.
Stille20 4 years ago (edited)
Literally this guy could have been fired over that so some kids could scam a machine.
Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
He had witnesses when opening the machine so he would be fine.
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It was only once. Bought a game (license) on steam for a game which was on a different launcher. Tried out the game, didnt enjoy it and refunded it.
Later i checked the alternate launcher and while steam gave me my money back, they never canceled the license at the other company. Got a game with it's newest expansion (€70,-) for free.
#81
HP used to have an employee shop where they sold all of their stuff at 50-70% discounts to employees. Remarkably you didn't need to log in to anything. If you had the URL, you could place an order, whether you were an employee or not. Delivery was also free and came with the standard HP warranty. Naturally I listed everything they sold on Amazon for marginally less than everyone else. Made about £5k from that in the second year of uni
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
HP didn't suffer any losses, you just helped them to clear out their warehouses.
Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
I worked for HP and what you say is 100% correct.
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I worked for HP for a while in there printer division and sadly I was never offered this perk
#82
Back in the day, I built a red box out of a Radio Shack phone dialer and made free long distance calls for literally years. Payphones back then made a different sound for each denomination of coin that you put in and the red box just made that sound into the mouth piece to fool the phone into thinking it was getting real money. Weird, stupid trick, but worked almost all of the time.
#83
When Lyft first came out, they were giving away free rides up to like 20-30$ if I remember correctly, all you had to do was refer a friend.
So me and my college roommate just made a few email address, and somehow my free rides glitched and I just kinda had free rides for the year
Edit: I remember what caused the glitch: I had lost my debit card that was linked to the account, so I had to cancel it and get a new one. For some reason, Lyft kept processing payments to my old card, but it never came out of my bank account
#84
Phone phreaking to call long distance BBSes for free. Yeah that hasn't worked in a long time, it's all digital now.
#85
I used to go to this Mongolian bbq spot at the mall that had those thinly sliced frozen sheets of meat that they let you pick yourself and they cook it for you so long as it fit in the bowl they gave you, then choose your veggies etc, so they used to be kinda “folded” into like ribbons so they’d take up more room in said bowl, well it’s stupid but I realized if I just used the back of my hand/ knuckles I could kinda “crunch punch” the folded frozen meat down and I would back in like a pound of meat when that wasn’t what they had intentioned at all, but since it was in the bowl they had to cook it. So good. Anyways me and my ex would go like 3 times a week and just get one of those and it would feed us both pretty good for like 5$. Eventually they caught on after like a year and one time we went I proceeded to do the same good ol back handed meat punch in my bowl when one of the workers yelled out to me to get my attention and pointed to my right at a printed paper that had a fist on it saying “no to fist meat” with a circle and a cross going through it. That was my legacy there and the food was never the same when it was 99.5% noodles. Me and my ex broke up that was the only good thing in that old toxic ass relationship
#86
Me and my friends used to sign into each other’s PSN accounts (back in the PS3 days) to download each other’s DLC. We’d pay for one each, then get all the rest for free. Think Sony found a way to stop you doing it by the time the PS4 came out though.
#87
I got tons of free food from Moe's Southwest Grill by doing their online survey daily from my phone and computers at work and home.Then put the codes into the app for points. Did this for a few years. Along with $5 burrito during Moe Mondays, It was a no-brainer.
#88
On the original Kindle, you could purchase a book with an expired card and Amazon would send you the book. A minute later, you'd receive a notification saying the payment didn't go through. You had to select something stating you were aware of this, and then they would take the book back. If you hit the home button, it took you out of the notification and you could continue reading the book, 'unaware' that the payment didn't go through. I did this once a month my junior year in high school. The summer before Senior year, I could not do it anymore. Coincidentally, my passion for reading died around that time.
Jessica Davis 4 years ago
Sears used to have a program on children's Levi's (Jeans). If they got too worn, they would replace them for the same size. They left the tags on the new item so I used to replace them and then a few weeks later return them saying someone had given me the wrong size. I would pick up used ones at yard sales and Goodwill and return them for brand new, then exchange them for the correct size. I didn't pay for a pair of jeans for my son until he wore adult clothes.
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Radek Suski 4 years ago
I used to work at McDonald's in my school holidays and was pretty broke at that time. Employees at McDonald's usually prepares popular meals in advance to speed up the process and puts in under a heating cabinet. But only for short time.If within the time it wouldn't be sold, it went into trash. I ensured that the trash was only for food and not drinks and after my shift I would bring the bin to the junk container. But instead of throwing it into the container I would take it home. At home I would warm it up in the microwave and my entire family had a great meal
Sasha Kuleshov 4 years ago
Back when I was in high-school my family was poor -very poor- and whenever we had no money to buy natural gas we would stop taking showers as that would deplete our stove reserve, our options basically coming down to eat food or take a hot shower (and being a cold area you can guess me and my sisters regularly stank), luckily my school had showers next to the pool with the only requirement at the time being wearing a swimsuit (as in wear googles, swim cap, etc), teachers and janitors didn’t check as there were a LOT of students so my sisters and I would regularly shower in the morning before school or after practice on weekends (Sunday was a “dirty” day), now we all know how to swim and one of my sisters is a diving competitor :D
Troux 4 years ago
A year after graduating I did liaison work for a customer with a long-term contract, so my company would send me to be on-site with them for 2 weeks at a time. Our normal travel policy was to take the company credit card and be trusted with it to cover reasonable expenses, but this customer didn't trust so easily, instead insisting to pay the "per diem" rate of $141 per day to cover hotel, food and gas in a semi-rural area. I stayed in the cheapest airport motel, drove the smallest rental car, and bought groceries instead of going out to eat. As a result, I was pocketing about $95/day including weekends, on top of my regular salary.
Shelby P 4 years ago
In my senior year of HS I had my own car so didn't need the bus. I'm also not a morning person. I was late almost every day of my senior year. Technically if you were late to home room 6 times you were supposed to get after school (or Saturday) detention. But they didn't care how many times you missed home room and they took attendance in all the classes. So I just hung out in the bathroom till the 1st period bell rang and went on my merry way. No-one ever caught on or cared...
Hazel Waring 4 years ago (edited)
Working at a big chain pizza place - was a delivery driver and since the only driver who spoke english would be sent on problem call outs or asked to help in the production line when busy. Anyway - set up a thing where a colleague would "accidentally" make the wrong pizza, I'd spot it, obviously couldn't deliver it. Wrong pizzas get thrown in the bin, but would be free for us to take and eat! So lots of free pizza for us and for the homeless guy who lived on the corner.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
I accidentally discovered when I was a young teen that if I had run out of texts, i could still send it if i timed it perfectly, resending it just as a text came in to tell me my message had failed, it would somehow slip through. I did feel a bit bad, and tried to only use it for when I really "needed" to, but being a teen it was coz I wanted to chat with friends. The loophole lasted only a few months before they closed it. Not proud of exploiting the loophole, but kinda proud I found it, if that makes sense?
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
Poorly thought out and badly monitored policies that have loopholes are one thing but way too many of these are people stealing from the place they work. Most are petty theft that isn't worth it for the business or police to prosecute. That doesn't make it excusable. I don't steal because I'm afraid of getting caught.I don't steal because I have integrity and it's wrong.
Mary Ridings Guarino 4 years ago
When I was in high school, I got my license in November. I went to pay for a parking pass, and no one was in the office to take it. I tried several times, each time, no one would be there. I gave up and put the application in my windshield. I figured if they wanted my money, they'd have to find me because I was tired of having to try to catch someone. I never got a ticket. Even got called to move my car once when there was going to be some repaving and no one said anything.
Radek Suski 4 years ago
I used to work at McDonald's in my school holidays and was pretty broke at that time. Employees at McDonald's usually prepares popular meals in advance to speed up the process and puts in under a heating cabinet. But only for short time.If within the time it wouldn't be sold, it went into trash. I ensured that the trash was only for food and not drinks and after my shift I would bring the bin to the junk container. But instead of throwing it into the container I would take it home. At home I would warm it up in the microwave and my entire family had a great meal
Sasha Kuleshov 4 years ago
Back when I was in high-school my family was poor -very poor- and whenever we had no money to buy natural gas we would stop taking showers as that would deplete our stove reserve, our options basically coming down to eat food or take a hot shower (and being a cold area you can guess me and my sisters regularly stank), luckily my school had showers next to the pool with the only requirement at the time being wearing a swimsuit (as in wear googles, swim cap, etc), teachers and janitors didn’t check as there were a LOT of students so my sisters and I would regularly shower in the morning before school or after practice on weekends (Sunday was a “dirty” day), now we all know how to swim and one of my sisters is a diving competitor :D
Troux 4 years ago
A year after graduating I did liaison work for a customer with a long-term contract, so my company would send me to be on-site with them for 2 weeks at a time. Our normal travel policy was to take the company credit card and be trusted with it to cover reasonable expenses, but this customer didn't trust so easily, instead insisting to pay the "per diem" rate of $141 per day to cover hotel, food and gas in a semi-rural area. I stayed in the cheapest airport motel, drove the smallest rental car, and bought groceries instead of going out to eat. As a result, I was pocketing about $95/day including weekends, on top of my regular salary.
Shelby P 4 years ago
In my senior year of HS I had my own car so didn't need the bus. I'm also not a morning person. I was late almost every day of my senior year. Technically if you were late to home room 6 times you were supposed to get after school (or Saturday) detention. But they didn't care how many times you missed home room and they took attendance in all the classes. So I just hung out in the bathroom till the 1st period bell rang and went on my merry way. No-one ever caught on or cared...
Hazel Waring 4 years ago (edited)
Working at a big chain pizza place - was a delivery driver and since the only driver who spoke english would be sent on problem call outs or asked to help in the production line when busy. Anyway - set up a thing where a colleague would "accidentally" make the wrong pizza, I'd spot it, obviously couldn't deliver it. Wrong pizzas get thrown in the bin, but would be free for us to take and eat! So lots of free pizza for us and for the homeless guy who lived on the corner.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
I accidentally discovered when I was a young teen that if I had run out of texts, i could still send it if i timed it perfectly, resending it just as a text came in to tell me my message had failed, it would somehow slip through. I did feel a bit bad, and tried to only use it for when I really "needed" to, but being a teen it was coz I wanted to chat with friends. The loophole lasted only a few months before they closed it. Not proud of exploiting the loophole, but kinda proud I found it, if that makes sense?
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
Poorly thought out and badly monitored policies that have loopholes are one thing but way too many of these are people stealing from the place they work. Most are petty theft that isn't worth it for the business or police to prosecute. That doesn't make it excusable. I don't steal because I'm afraid of getting caught.I don't steal because I have integrity and it's wrong.
Mary Ridings Guarino 4 years ago
When I was in high school, I got my license in November. I went to pay for a parking pass, and no one was in the office to take it. I tried several times, each time, no one would be there. I gave up and put the application in my windshield. I figured if they wanted my money, they'd have to find me because I was tired of having to try to catch someone. I never got a ticket. Even got called to move my car once when there was going to be some repaving and no one said anything.
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