The history of humanity knows many cases when literally one person ruined everything good for all other people. Whether it's a traitor opening a hidden gate in a besieged impregnable castle, a coward who abandons formation, rallying against a cavalry charge, or a kicker who misses a decisive field goal in the final seconds of the Super Bowl...
A distinctive feature of such situations is that they are remembered, cut into the public memory no less than a cavalry wedge bursting into a gap in the infantry monolith of Roman legionnaires, or, for example, the desperate commentator’s cry: "It goes wide!" And then in threads like this one by the user u/KeanKho, netizens eagerly bring up this and many other similar stories. And we, Bored Panda, then collect for you a selection of the best...
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The guy who claimed vaccines caused autism has some serious blood on his hands.
Maybe this isnt a single persons fault. But, i feel like for those of us with chronic pain from major accidents (or syndromes or diseases), the people who abused opioid use has made it hard for everyone with legit problems.
I broke my neck, hip, and 20 other bones in a car accident. My drugs are so tightly regulated, that if theres a hang up of even 12 hours, i can run out of meds. And im not even taking heavy pain meds just enough to work. I feel like im the lucky one vs stories i hear of cancer patients, people with longer term issues, or diseases. Between the pill mills and the pharmacies, those with real issues were f****d.
And don’t even get me started on ADHD meds. Every single time, I must be a drug seeker because I have ADHD and StiMuLaNtS bAd
I feel ya. I recently started on them so I can get through school, and the pharmacies outright refused to give them to me for about a week, despite my prescription
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This isn't the fault of the people who are addicted; blame the Sacklers for treating opioids like a get-rich-quick scheme instead of a vital but dangerous substance.
This. They *knew* from the beginning how dangerous thos3 drugs can be and intentionally and with full understanding pushed them as "safe." It's disgusting. It's the reason I don't blame anti-vaxxers for being so skeptical. (And for the record, I'm very pro-vax and pro-vax requirements for school, healthcare, etc; I just get where they're coming from.)
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I hate this argument. I work in the addiction treatment field, and roughly 80% of the opiate addicts I work with started taking pain pills out of legitimate medical necessity. Some people can take opiates as prescribed without a problem; others, even if they take them as prescribed, are in trouble from the get go. In addition, lots of opiate addicts really do have chronic pain that they have to deal with when they get sober. Addiction is a multifaceted, complicated disease with strong genetic components. No one sets out to be an addict. Instead of blaming people who become addicted, blame the pharmaceutical companies who lied about the addictiveness of opiates like OxyContin, and doctors who prescribe them indiscriminately.
I'm really lucky as I have zero addictive traits regardless of the fact I take very strong opiate painkillers that can be super addictive. I take them as needed and don't even think about them in between and I often find myself wondering what about them makes then addictive to so many people but I know I'm an exception rather than the rule. It's definitely not the people who become addicted that are the fault but the medical community treating people with suspicion with no evidence that is the case. I have zero issues getting my meds but my condition is chronic and not something that will ever be cured but those who have injuries yet get strong painkillers unmonitored for years are set up for addiction
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I'm a chronic pain sufferer because of RA and most times I can handle a flare up. However, Occasionaly I need a steroid shot and a very low dose of morphine to get me thru it. Not a lot, just a day or two. I can go two years between flare ups this bad.and have no scrips for pain meds at all. I'm STILL treated like a drug seeker every damn time and am treated like lower than dirt by the ER staff.
Don't blame addicts for this. Blame pharmaceutical companies (Perdue)who advertised oxycontin as none addictive while knowing full well it was and the doctors who over prescribed these opiates for years and then cut patients off without getting them resources to deal with the addiction they caused.
friend's father dying of pancreatic cancer was told they couldn't approve morphine because "he could get addicted". Dude had 3 months to live. He'd pass in 2. Who cares if he's addicted at that point?
I had a PHARMACIST literally mock me because I waited at the pharmacy to pick up my pain medication. It humiliated me. Like I want to be 43 and have RA
I had back surgery for a 14mm herniated disc on my tailbone. When I was released from the hospital, my surgeon prescribed pain meds, I had to pick them up myself. Im hobbling in with a cane and Wallgreen's wouldn't fill it because I had never been to their pharmacy before that. It was the closest one to the hospital. They treated me like a drug seeker, so I called my surgeon and he called them and tore them a new one lol. I was so stressed out.
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YES, THIS!! And diabetics who are now in competition with people trying to lose weight and taking things like Mounjaro & Ozempic, originally made as diabetes meds. Now they're prescribed for someone to lose 10lbs. Diabetics everywhere can't get these meds because everything is on back order!
Again, not the fault of the people taking the drugs. The company failed to scale up their production to meet demand.
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Every chronic pain patient has horror stories like this. And we are not all addicted to our opioid pain meds; we legitimately need them to function.
I have chronic pain due to several autoimmune conditions and physical issues, but my team of providers will not prescribe pain meds, muscle relaxers or sleep aids. I have to see a pain specialist every month for my one approved pain med, take a urine test, and sign a contract stating I will not seek pain meds from any other provider including hospital ERs. Yet I know people whose doctors prescribe controlled substances right and left, and hear "oh yeah I give them to my family members because I don't really need them" and I just don't understand.
You probably have been through all the options, but just in case you haven't heard of them, amitriptyline and mirtazapine have helped me with sleep and some fibromyalgia pain.
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My mom was treated like a fUUUcking drug addict last time she needed a combo acetaminophen and oxycodone for her broken back. She had to jump through hoops to get 5 pills.
Insurance pays the bulk of my rheumatologist's $340 office visit fee every single month became won't prescribe my one pain medication without seeing me every single month. We've been doing this for EIGHT years now. I'm afraid to think he might retire or just decide he won't prescribe it anymore. I admit to being physically addicted, but the opioid makes you dependent after only one prescription. What are you supposed to do? Suffer excruciating pain and not be able to participate in life or work?
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I have been studying both the use and abuse of opiates for over 20 years. Doctors have become so cruel that they have lost the plot. What is the point of withholding opiates from a 70 year-old patient in chronic pain? Is there an actual medical reason? Because from what I see, there isn't one and it boils down to bigotry. They elevate addiction above all other illnesses and don;t take into consideration quality of life. Personally, I'd rather be addicted, and able to procure medicinal opiates, than suffer indescribable pain day and night. But they don't care. As long as you die sober, they could care less if you spent the last few miserable years of your life in torture-like pain. And for what? Because some people took drugs for fun? Does it really make sense to take a whole class of patients and refuse them proper therapy just in case one or two of them get high? And these are the same doctors that gave them away like candies 20 years ago. F**k them and the horse they rode on.
I agree with you but for one exception. It's not the doctors, it's the government. They have made so many rules for doctors that prescribe pain medicine. The doctor has to jump through hoops or risk losing their licenses.
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This is so true! It's gotten to the point where you won't even receive opioid medications unless it's cancer pain or surgical pain. My son spiral fractured both bones in his lower leg roller skating, and he was sent home in a foam splint with nothing but Tylenol. And if the doctors can't figure out what's wrong causing the pain , you're definitely screwed. Maybe you'll get a shot of something in the arm in the ER, but that's it. If they can't figure out the cause of your pain, you'll be accused of just having anxiety and you don't get pain relief.
I'm glad to see someone finally pointed this out. The people who really need these medications should not be lumped in with those who sell or abuse them. In other words, if a person is a medically proven chronic pain sufferer tell them the pros and cons and then let them decide for themselves if they want to use opiates. BTW in situations like this, Tylenol is useless.
I wish this was more common knowledge. I have 3 separate chronic pain conditions to the point I'll probably be in a wheelchair in a few years and junkies have absolutely ruined it for responsible pain patients. There is a difference between addiction and dependence. A lot of us depend on pain relief just to be able to function and have a slight quality of life. I hate that the system has lumped us all together. I dread ever having to go to the hospital for anything. They'll see the rx's I'm on and just write me off as drug seeking before even speaking to me.
Amen. I can't go to an ER any more with an absolutely killer, wanna tear my head off, migraine because they look at me like I'm a druggie. I have to suffer and possible have a brain aneurysm cause it's a waste of time to go to the ER.
Definitely!! I've been in chronic pain for 20 years. I was given opioids when I couldn't handle it anymore. Now I'm on 1 painkiller. I use my wheelchair more now, shower maybe once a week, eat crisps cuz I can't cook, in bed by 3pm, drank for 2 years, self harmed and tried to k!!! myself. I'm now with a different GP, still only 1 painkiller but I'm on really strong antidepressants, got counselling, quit drinking and hopefully volunteering at my local zoo. Still in lots of pain but mentally, I'm getting better. Plus, my pain specialist is going to be implanting a permanent TENS machine in my spine to help. So coming off opioids messed me up but how many others are going through this or worse because of not having the meds they need because of the opioid epidemic? I dread to think!!
chronic pain patient here...I get 20 pain meds a month..not 30 just 20. Dr says if I want them to last a month, I need to cut them in half...most times one pill doesn't help very much and i basically have to decide if it is a bad pain day or not to make them last till my next refill
I have always had a very high tolerance for pain meds (and several other types of meds). No history of addition / being due to tolerance build up. The trend mentioned above makes it more awkward when I actually need a pain med. Not with every doctor but it has come up before. Like in the military when they pulled all four wisdom teeth and gave me a grand total of FOUR tylenol 3s and expected that to last me until the pain from the stitches healed. For anyone who doesn't know - the generic standard dosage of these is "Take 1 to 2 tablets every 4 hours as needed for pain." So four was not enough to get me through a day, let alone several days.
It is so bad for meds, and they treat the legitimate people who use them at addicts. It's awful to feel like your doing something wring when your NOT!
Understand. Have been waiting on mine. Call the pharmacy today. They told me it was delivered. It wasn't. It was probably delivered to someone else. I probably won't get them. I'm not a happy camper.
I have a chronic pain syndrome and was hit by a car, breaking my back and pelvis in several places. I take one moderate opioid, which allows me to work (because I HAVE TO WORK). It's increasingly hard to get through the pharmacy because there are so many obstacles to getting it. I usually have to take half a day off every month to wait for my legal prescription. I take only the amount prescribed - and have done so for 22 years now. I've never run out early, which is a good thing because they'd rather you hurt like h*ll or go through withdrawal than let you fill your prescription a day early.
I've had 4 discs removed from my back, at aged 40. I never expect to get back to full mobility, but I was given opiods when I awoke from surgery. I had no idea about the power of these meds until I was robbed and had these stolen (not knowing street value) and I had to produce a police report to get my script early. The feeling of not having them suddenly and I'm on a low dose is unbelievable. They terrify me as does the thought of not having them if I run out. It makes me feel so dirty and I never asked for or wanted for a single substance before 😪
Not just *getting* the meds, period, but getting them at the right dosage. Someone who's had chronic pain for years will be taking huge doses of pain meds, because over time the body develops a tolerance. Well-meaning pharmacists and/or techs, who might not know the patient's history, will look at the dosage they're on and, at best, try to convince the patient to take less (when a lower dosage is no better than a sugar pill), at worst, they'll accuse the patient of "drug seeking." It's not the patient's fault that they've developed a tolerance to a "normal" dose of pain meds. They're not "drug seeking," they just want to be able to live life as normally as possible without suffering.
The majority of people who are addicted to opioids, started taking them for legitimate reasons, they just got addicted to them, that's not their fault! Opioids are so incredibly addicting, the number of people who have gotten addicted before even renewing their first prescription, is absolutely staggering. Don't blame them, you just happen to be lucky that you're one of the people that didn't get addicted, the reason that you're not in their situation is not because you did anything better than them, you just got lucky.
100% and now it's almost impossible to change pharmacies because the new one can't order more. So I drive clear across Las Vegas to pick mine up from where I used to live. ie, Walmart can't fix this? I feel lucky to at least have a good dr that's willing to help me. Most ppl don't.
When my Dr. suggested I try yoga and meditation for my pain, I gave her the dead-eye stare.
I have Fibromyalgia, connective tissue disease, Celiac disease, and a hypermobility syndrome that has damaged/destroyed most of my joints. When they started the opioid hysteria a lot of us with chronic pain were suddenly taken off our pain meds. I'm lucky I found out about Kratom before my taper off finished. I've added a couple other herbs that help too. It takes the edge off enough that I can function some and not be bedbound. The thing is they don't even have an alternative to offer.
Yes. I just "discovered" kratom. I get a set amount of tramadol per month, and that amount hasn't changed in almost 15 years, but my tolerance has increased. The kratom allows me to usually skip one dose of my three doses of tramadol so that I can stretch it out to last the whole month. Before, I used to run out by about the 26th day and was in withdrawal sometimes for a day or two because I couldn't fill the tramadol early.
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Three years ago my husband needed a new hip and he was only 51 years old. I called around to different doctor's offices and I would say "Hello, I'm trying to find a orthopedic doctor for my husband" and they'd immediately say "We don't prescribe pain medications" and I was just like "He's not looking for pain meds....he needs a new hip". It was ridiculous!
I live this every day. My doctors know I need opioids because my spine is slowly falling apart, but they're terrified to give me more than 5mg of oxycodone a day, and they know I'm still in unbelievable pain. If I go to the ER, I get lectured about how "pain meds only make things worse." I'm basically f****d in the a*s.
Well then blame the pharmaceutical company who pushed them for profit, getting people addicted, and the out of control doctors writing these prescriptions, months, and sometimes years past any reasonable time needed for a temporary pain. Four of the largest U.S. corporations have agreed to pay roughly $26 billion to settle a tsunami of lawsuits linked to claims that their business practices helped fuel the deadly opioid crisis. Johnson & Johnson, the consumer products and health giant that manufactured generic opioid medications, will contribute $5 billion to the settlement. The company announced in 2020 it would get out of the prescription opioid business in the U.S. altogether. Three massive drug wholesalers — AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson — will pay a combined $21 billion. Many Americans with opioid use disorder have shifted from taking prescription pain pills to street fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is far more powerful and lethal. Drug overdoses now kill
Or the doctor won't give you certain meds because "you can get addicted". Sure, there's a risk, but people usually need medication because they're ill.
There are many cases where it's better to have to be in a lot of pain for a while, than risk screwing up your life by getting addicted. There are so many people who are addicted to opioids who say they wish the doctor had never prescribed them in the first place, that they'd rather have gone through the intense pain for a couple of weeks than for their whole life to become the mess it is now because of their addiction.
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As a disabled veteran i feel this pretty hard too. I have chronic back pain that i have just learned to live with because lawmakers decided to overcompensate with regulations so i cannot get effective pain meds that would have the added benefit of letting me sleep. I once had a severely pinched nerve in my neck, so bad i couldnt lift my head and had radiating pain and numbness down my left arm. Went to veteran hospital urgent care. They at first prescribed me 800mg motrin (of course). When i asked for something stronger i got a stank eye from the dr and only 5 days worth of low dosage vicodin. I had been in excruciating pain for weeks up to that point (thought pain was just a "crook" in the neck til it got worse). I understand need for caution but if people are already in the med system and are in genuine pain and are not actually drug seeking, they should be given what they actually need
Opioids may possibly help to cause some negative health benefits but the positives are a lot better than the negatives, because chronic pain is MUCH, MUCH worse (I imagine, not speaking from experience) than whatever negative thing it is that opioids can cause that people may unluckily develop anyway from some other reason. Just let the people who need them have the pain meds because that is 8,000,900,000 times better than being in pain everyday and so miserable they’re not even living.
Yeah, I have to pee in a cup to get my ADHD meds. Makes me feel like a criminal.
OmG Thank you do much for posting thus, it's something I have been saying to my family for years. My issue is that my pain started at 29. So now at 53 I am.at a high dosage of opcodes. I recently had one of them.increasee by my doctor but when I went to the pharmacy he told me that because of all the lawsuits they had capped the morphine equivalent at 200, I was just over, so the solution became to lower the dosage of the other med. OK so that is working OK right now, not as good as it could have been, but what am.i going to do in the 5 to 10 years that I can stretch out the diminishing relief I get, I will have nowhere to turn and will basically have to go as long as I possibly can before I take my own life after the pain has driven crazy. Thanks a lot Pfizer.thatnks doctors who wanted free trips in exchange for posing the drugs on patients. Look I knew that these drugs were seriously addictive, so how is it u bought the sacklers b******t about none addictive at any dosage (limi4less)
AFTER the government decided to crack down on opioid abuse, the number of people dying from opioid overdoses exploded. And the government's response is to treat people seeking relief from extreme pain like manic cocaine dealers. And to promote "pain management." Know what "pain management" is? A bureaucrat telling you "suck it up, b***h!" Oh, and to tell you to advocate for legalized suicide.
cont..... Drug overdoses now kill more than 100,000 people in the U.S. every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In some cases, drug wholesalers continued shipping vast quantities of pills to small rural communities despite red flags that drugs like OxyContin were being diverted and sold on the black market. One email shared among executives at AmerisourceBergen — made public for the first time during a state trial last year in West Virginia — disparaged people addicted to opioids, describing them as "pillbillies" and referring to OxyContin as "hillbilly heroin." With this $26 billion settlement now approved, negotiations continue over a separate opioid deal involving Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, and members of the Sackler family who own the private company. https://www.npr.org/2022/02/25/1082901958/opioid-settlement-johnson-26-billion
Unfortunately, many people have gotten addicted from being prescribed meds for pain.
Couldn't agree more, I am on a non scheduled med that can cause seizures if I run out. They make me wait until the absolute day I am out to get it filled, (because some people abuse it, and some people think it should be scheduled) but I dont, and its not, and it could literally kill me.
Me too. Sudden withdrawal could cause seizures, but can't fill my prescription until the day I run out. Makes no sense at all.
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Seriously. I had a prescription for tramadol on an emergency basis for when I had a migraine that the other meds weren't touching. I moved, and my new doctors refuse to prescribe it even though it is sometimes the only thing that worked. Currently on day 3 of a bad migraine.
I am a fellow sufferer and this is 100% legit. Major pain does follow the schedules the Dr gives u. Some days ur pain is really severe and u need more or sooner than ur "6 hours" (joke ad I was lucky to get more than 3 hours), and some days u need less and can do maybe 1/2 ur normal dose. But WHATEVER U DO, u CANNOT share that with ur Dr. U will either have ur meds cut because "u don't need all them all the time" or "u r clearly becoming an addict because sometimes u need more". And u learn VERY fast NOT to b honest with ur Dr. These corporations made the problem and now, as always, you he public r the ones to suffer with no assistance or recourse
Totally with you. Fast roped out of a helicopter and landed 30 feet below flat on my feet. Bottom 3 vertebra are completely ruined and every day is agony. Take only the minimum to function ( about 40% pain relief) and get treated like a pariah by pharmacies WHEN I can get my meds on time.
It's all true. It is not only a daily struggle because of the pain issue but having to be extra stressed at the end of the month because you fear what happens if there's a hang up at the pharmacy is adding insult to injury. I also love being drug tested randomly.
My best friend of 35 years died of ovarian cancer in February 2020. She also had RA. When she found out she had 2 weeks to live, she was allowed 1 5mg Vicodin every 6 hours. They didn't want to give her more because "she might get addicted". Her last 24 hours was absolutely horrific.
The doctors & insurance agencies are part of the problem. There are doctors out there who would rather prescribe pain medication then find the right medical techniques or refer to specialists to help their patient. And then there are some insurance agencies that will do everything they can to fight a patient not getting the medical techniques that work or specialist. They need to get their mobility back or just help them relieve some of the pain.
I have been through he'll with this issue. Without my pain meds I would be bed ridden, and still people look at me like I'm an addict. I don't get any high off them at all, just pain relief. I take what I'm prescribed only. Thanks alot to every doctor that was to much of a pussy to help these people.
I broke my ankle in three places. Legit have a plate and 12 screws. Before I could have the surgery - like hours after the accident on a Friday - the hospital sent me home with enough meds to make it to Sunday morning using the bare minimum as prescribed. I couldn't see an orthopedist until minimum Monday morning! Worst pain of my life, and they worried I'd get addicted or abuse on 4 additional pills?!
As someone who has been taking anti-seizure medicines for 2 years, yeah, few people really understand the magnitude of the side effects they cause. And it doesn’t exactly help that they’re nearly invisible to anyone else.
I get migraines. I used to take a medication that was brilliant for it. Fast acting, I usually only had to take one dosage, and the migraine would be gone and stay gone. Now, I'm making do with subpar painkillers (one landed me in the hospital, since it didn't work, my migraine just spiraled out of control), all because my original meds had codeine and obviously opioid+self managed medication will lead unavoidably to addiction. 🙄
So, so many of "the people who abused opioid use" also had/have legit problems. That's *why* we have the epidemic. People went to their doctors, their doctors prescribed. They prescribed under the premise that "you cannot know someone else's pain." Who started *that* premise? The drug manufacturers. This has been discussed extensively in court, and you'll learn all about it if you take naloxone training.
I wish opiods worked for me. But there is such misuse of drugs that people need to survive, that it is hard to get them Bad, bad, bad.
And it turns out some health plans are too cheap to use the drugs that work the best. "Use the cheapest generic", they say. "It will be just as good." they say. Nope, they are not the same, don't work the same. Generally, I think generics are great. But some must have active ingredients from the slush pile, and some have garbage supposedly inactive ingredients or I don't know what, not being a pharmacist. And this year's lesson has been not all generics have the same quality. Good times.
This is on the DEA needing something to replace marijuana so they can keep their jobs. Yes, the pill mills were a factor as well. But in the early days of the pill "epidemic", both the DEA and the CDC would use data that lumped deaths caused by heroine overdose and pill overdose together to sell to congress and the American people. The DEA has visited every damn general practitioner doctor and threatened them with jail if one of their patients was caught selling pills. This "epidemic" was pure BS. But the results? Well that did cause an epidemic. Cutting off legitimate people turned them into criminals. They started with heroine but when fentanyl came around, boom problem solved and a real epidemic started. That is everywhere. It is killing at a horrible rate. They took healthcare away from doctors and made a criminal class. They created a market for a deadly pill all so the poor DEA could keep their budgets up. Screw them. They are the villains in this story.
I can't get my cat's life-saving seizure medication shipped even a day early so if i run out i'm screwed.
Yep. Drop a pill and if you can't find it, you just have to suffer. Heaven forbid you have arthritis or shake and spill your pills down the drain. Then you get to go into withdrawal!! BTW, Hoosier here and Pence made it waaaaay worse for legit pain sufferers. Pill counts at EVERY visit and if you are unreasonably short, you lose pain med access. Even if someone steals your pills. You just go into withdrawal and suffer or die. Pence 2024 y'all...
One of my usual jokes when picking up 2-4 of my usual prescriptions is asking the pharmacist if I'm "exhibiting drug seeking behavior"? Usually gets a laugh (my meds are for asthma, allergies & high blood pressure but I have a lot of them).
AMEN! Add the names of the physicians who wrote script after script for narcotic pain medication for acute pain issues to the Big Book Of Blame. I broke my ankle really bad and got 2 weeks of pain meds, no refills, and didn't use it all at that. That is how it should be done for acute pain.
This is a very narrow minded opinion. There is a lot of evidence that opiates are not the best option for pain management. They were over prescribed but I do know what OP is saying. There is a lot more to this than just this. I do think there was too much being prescribed even to people who could legally use them. THey were not explained how addictive they can be. I know more than a few people who ended up hooked on Oxys because of legal and legitimate reasons. One if now dead from moving to heroin/fentanyl. I hope the sacler family burns in hell
Just because someone takes pain medication does not mean they are addicted. While I agree that opiods should only be taken consistently for end of life care, they are also very useful for handling break through pain when other methods of pain control are not enough.
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That executive at HP who said, "You know, people love our printers. They are tough and reliable and work for decades. We should make them suck, break constantly, license the ink, make it all internet-linked so the printer won't even work when the wifi is down."
In fact, traditions and precedents play a big role in such stories. After all, if something unpleasant happened once, then it definitely can happen again and then over and over. And if so, it should be prevented. And it is not in vain that they say that every line of the army charter is written in blood - this is absolutely true, just to ensure that one person does not later ruin everything this exact way. And it actually works... or that guy ruins everything in another way. That happens as well, you know.
The religious fruitcake mother who said that Halloween was satanic so that ended the kindergarten costume parade.
The guy who attempted to smuggle a bomb in his shoe in 2001
Now we all have to suffer taking our shoes off at airport security every damn time we fly
A man wearing a cow costume tried to smuggle a bomb in his cow shoe. It was a Moo Shoe Guy Plan.
The American bastard who said “all cashiers must stand for their entire shift because that’s good customer service”
Because OBVIOUSLY when you’ve got a s****y worker that treats customers like c**p, you blame the damn seat. Now get back out to the front of your register Samantha, I don’t care that you’re recovering from foot surgery, if I gave you a chair, I’d have to give everyone a chair and that’s not good customer service.
It's so wild that I never even thought about it before until I started seeing questions about sitting vs standing on BP. And I was a cashier for years (in the US). I think it's part of our "it's a privilege to work" and "you can't just work, it has to also look hard" type of attitude. Sitting down is associated with lazinessness in non office jobs. It would be cool to see it change.
What can I say, after all, we all know one story about two people who ruined everything for literally everyone on Earth. As Paul Anka sang, “there was a story I'm sure you all know, I'm sure you remember and I know you believe - the story of Adam and Eve!” And if the whole of human history, at least according to one of the common versions, began with something like this, what can we expect from the humble and imperfect descendants of Adam and Eve?
My primary school used to do relatively frequent trips to a local zoo, until one boy decided to vault the fence and punch a penguin.
I wish I was joking.
There is a beach on the West Coast, near Cambria, (Pismo Bob is correct, it is just north of San Simeon/Heast Castle)that has elephant seals, which like to bask in the sun. One girl was there with her family and she was throwing small rocks at one of the seals. Her family said nothing so I had to yell " CAN YOU PLEASE NOT DO THAT ! " to get her to stop.
Other firefighters constantly ruin any sort of appreciation restaurants give out. We had a BBQ restaurant that would give a flat 10$ off your meal. If you didn't spend 10$ it was basically free. One guy ruined it on an 8$ order by demanded the 2$ be given to him as well.
Had people going in uniform on days they didn't work. Had one guy have a family reunion at a local restaurant then made a big issue they wouldn't give his entire party the discount.
I don't understand how out of touch people can be.
I worked at an office that had casual Fridays. One day a lady came to work on casual Friday in her gym clothes, and management was uptight and appalled by it. Instead of telling her that she couldn’t wear gym clothes to work, they abolished casual Friday for everyone. It pisses me off to this day.
“Probably, each of us has a similar story behind us, and sometimes we ourselves act as such a weak link,” says Valery Bolgan, a historian and editor-in-chief of Intent news agency from Ukraine, whom Bored Panda asked for a comment. “In any case, when we are in a hurry to stigmatize the guy who suddenly made everything bad, we need to try to put ourselves in their place. After all, in the end, it is they who often feel the worst of all, desperately trying to overcome such a burden on their soul."
“A classic example can be cited from sports. In 1994, the FIFA soccer World Cup was held in the USA, and it was marked by two dramatic stories. In the match between the Colombian and the USA national teams, the Colombian defender Andres Escobar, by coincidence, sent the ball into his own goal. Colombia lost - and a few weeks later, Escobar was shot dead in his hometown, and with each shot, the attacker hysterically shouted: 'Goal! Goal! Goal!'"
“But in the final match, another tragedy broke out, though not fatal. In the penalty shootout that determined the world champion, the best player on the planet and that tournament, the Italian Roberto Baggio, missed at the decisive moment. He was subjected to devastating criticism, but he managed to cope with nerves - and at the next World Cup, when he went out to shoot a penalty (and this happened several times), he scored every time. Therefore, when we accuse someone of causing us inconvenience - just think, how do they themselves feel at that moment?" Valery ponders.
Previous job I had used to be hybrid twice a week. One person, on their hybrid day, decided to slack off work and go out. They got a call from their manager because they were late for a virtual meeting and the manager heard a lot of background noise like they were at the mall or something. Said person eventually admitted they were not home working, got fired, and now everyone had to be in the office 5 days a week.
My third grade bully got mad because I didn’t want to include her in my version of tag game. She went to the teacher and told on me and then it had to be announced in front of the class that my game was officially banned. F**k you and your big onion head, Rayna.
Be that as it may, among the stories that are collected in this list, there are both small and completely epic, global scale, sad and funny, great and petty... So please feel free now to scroll and read this selection to the very end, comment on your favorite submissions and perhaps add your own stories of how anyone ruined everything - even if it was you yourself... After all, self-irony is a great feeling inherent in truly outstanding people!
At a previous job, we got full uniforms. Shirts, pants, hats, hoodies, winter coveralls, winter coats, gloves. But we dont get shoes or boots.
Turns out a couple of years before I was hired on, they used to give boots. But one guy would take his boots and sell them, then request a replacement, then sell those. He did this about 20 times before anybody caught on because of municipal bureaucracy being slow to notice. When they caught on, they stopped giving out boots to their employees.
Edit: I worked as a park maintenance groundskeeper for Parks & Recreation
edit edit: No it is not like the show.
Why not put a limit on the number of shoes someone could get instead? Such a shame.
This is going to be buried but I have to share it in hopes someone sees this and laughs.
I used to work for state government in Alaska. I was reviewing some department policies to update and I noticed a particular statement in the employee behavioral policy about adhering to basic hygiene (expected) and wearing clothes at work (not expected). I went to my boss to ask him about that and the look on his face told me I was in for a good story.
Our department had satellite offices all over the state and in some very rural, very isolated areas, these were nothing but glorified shacks. Local fire brigade shows up to one of our shacks in middle-of-nowhere to find a department employee standing outside the burnt building, in the nude. In February. Turned out that the guy, who was the only on-site employee, happened to be a nudist. Now, no one can work naked for the state of Alaska. What a bummer. 🥲
Just exercising his right to bare arms. And bare legs, bare hips, bare shoulders, bare junk...
The Tylenol poisoner—I figure he’s directly responsible for the ridiculous amount of overpackaging in otc drugs, vitamins, etc. Plastic lid wrap seal, cap, sealed bottle, cotton…all inside another box or (shudder!) clamshell package. What a jerk.
The name Adolf has gotta be up there
Used to know a guy named Attila. Apparently a popular name in Hungary.
I'm going to go with red baseball caps. It's tough being a KC Chiefs or even a Limp Bizkit fan these days if you are not a conservative.
Edit to add: I should have specified MAGAt instead of conservative in general. I do know quite a few conservatives that would love to go back to supporting a sane political party. They don't wear the hats.
The elementary school I went to let 6th graders go on an overnight trip to a lodge where we could go skiing and snow tubing. My dad volunteered as a parent and was “supervising” by letting me and 5 other girls pile on top of one tube down a steep hill and we all went flying. Two of the girls busted their arms when we all landed in a pile. It looked like a cartoon. Anyway, after that no more sleep overs at the lodge and tale has it 30 years later everyone at the school still blames my dad lol.
Yeah that’s justified. Your dad shouldn’t have let you do that.
Every policy at every company I've ever worked at or owned was because of one person abusing something. So whenever you wonder "why the hell do we have to do this?", it's because of one a*****e who ruined it for everyone else.
HR HERE - that is absolutely the truth. Look at every policy. Why can't you and your SO work for the same boss? Because of physical fights that had to be broken up by leadership. Why is there a Solicitation policy? Because some idiot strong-armed his peers into buying that gross band candy, ruing Girl Scout cookie sales for the rest of us. And the list goes on.
At one of my previous workplaces, management played music as a way of promoting good mood. They played all sorts of genres so everyone got a chance to listen to something they liked. *One* person complained that *sometimes* they had to listen to music they didn't like, so they stopped playing music altogether.
That one kid in the classroom that can't just leave their f*****g phone alone. Now they're all in a box at the front of the class.
Lately, artists who are performing on stage are not having fun anymore.. why?
Because One clown threw an object that actually hurt the artist and suddenly it started happening over and over again, along with making more artists reluctant to perform or interact with the crowd...
Edit: I guess I need to clarify, I mean throwing phones, ashes and other objects directly at the artist to hurt them, not harmless things that used to be thrown like panties and bras...
People have always thrown things at people on stage. People used to save rotten tomatoes and eggs specifically for that. When you see a stage surrounded with wire fencing, it's to protect them from things being thrown at them. I've seen 2 guitar players hit in the head with bottles in 2 separate incidents. So, who ever that one person was, it was centuries ago.
The guy who [cut] the most isolated tree on Earth. Same with that woman who burned down the oldest tree. Imagine the history the trees lived through.
Or that guy who married a tree and then cheated on it with a bush. Kidding of course, but these general, rando statements aren't all that great. Who cut the isolated tree? Where was it? Why did he cut it? What was the oldest tree that the lady burned down? Why did she do it? etc. Otherwise it's just random meaninglessness.
That influencer who jumped into the alligator habitat at Busch Gardens, now there's a big chain link fence and you can't see the alligators anymore
Back around the mid 2000s I was around 10 years old and I used to go to this place after school called “the Boys and Girls club”. They had an area with multiple basketball hoops on a court which we used to play all kinds of games in; one of those games being dodgeball. These were not those big rubber balls but instead the styrofoam filled balls with kind of a thin layer of plastic so otherwise… harmless. One of the kids thought it would be a good idea to shove a rock into one of the balls and throw it at someone he didn’t like; well he ended up throwing it right into that kids face and broke two of his front teeth. We never played dodgeball again.
Had a job where as a dialysis nurse where we added a position to pick up add ons and emergency cases that came in later in the day. In this role we worked noon to midnight which helped us cut down from needing a nurse on call every night to maybe once or twice a week. Whoever took this role didn’t have to take call and had weekends off. We loved rotating through this role and enjoyed taking a break from having to be on call and enjoyed having weekends off.
Then there came the nurse who went out at 7 am instead of noon, and finished at 5 pm. When there was an add-on or an emergency case she wouldn’t answer her phone, which meant which meant everyone had to go back to picking up extra patients and being on call again.
She did this every time it was her turn to go through the rotation so they eliminated the position and we went back to having to be on call all the time.
Why not just fire the b!tc# and re-clarify the hours of the position? For so many of these things there were simpler solutions available if someone had the fortitude to just punish the culprit instead of the entire population. Pure bureauocracy at its worst.
Not one person but two people ruined my work’s break room. I work at a YMCA as a swim instructor, so two people decided to [make love] in their break room at a different Y in another city. Apparently the higher ups decided that every other YMCA in the area or state should lose their break rooms because “it could happen again.” Like yeah, it could happen again but don’t take our break rooms away, at least get rid of theirs and not ours! It’s so frustrating, now when we’re all cold and damp in between lessons, and after lessons are done, we can sit in the lobby, or sit somewhere on the pool deck which takes away spots for kids or parents. Thanks Milcreek YMCA, you guys suck, go somewhere else and have sex but don’t do it at the Y!
That's a stupid over reaction on management's part. Which really is the case in most of these posts. Zero tolerance policies are asinine.
The person who apparently choked on a lollipop at my bank and now we don't get lollipops anymore.
The guy in Texas (I think?) Who ordered a huge meal for his last meal on death row and refused to eat it. They no longer offer a last meal request because of him.
That guy is an even bigger dirt bag because he was a racist who killed a black man just because he was black.
At a certain point in US Army basic training, your platoon is givin the "opportunity" to sit and eat without having to wait for the entire company, AND with that comes the fact that if one person is finished eating, we're all finished eating.
This one trainee who happend to sit early finished his dinner before the other side of the table even got to start. He stood up, the the DS promptly made everyone else get up too, eaten or not.
This same trainee did the exact same thing the next day, except now it was breakfast, so a few people didnt get dinner OR breakfast.
I'll never forget the nasty s**t they did to his bunk and locker dude. Couldnt really feel bad for him, and you best believe NOBODY stood up early for the rest of BCT.
Edit: Wow this blew up overnight! Im gonna try to answer a couple questions I've read.
What'd they do to his bunk?
They took the used/dirty mop bucket water, pissed in it, and dumped over his bunk and foot locker. This happened on a Sunday morning which is the one day the DS will leave u alone till noon. The perpetrator was at church lol
Was it intentional?
No. The first time was a genuine mistake as it was a brand new rule. I actually watched him the second time. He started to stand and realized his mistake, but the grumpiest DS saw him do that awkward stand-sit movement and that was it for the table. Luckily I wasn't on the table that lost the breakfast, but I still felt no sympathy for him. No dinner + "whatever you can eat out the door" breakfast woulda had me join in too.
Was he stupid?
Yes.
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I hate the fact that so many people and places (schools, businesses, etc), will bow down to 1-2 people and cater to their wants of being anti-whatever. They don't care about the majority of people, nor will they ask those 1-2 people to leave or deal with it. Eff those anti-fun turds!
Exactly. I'm a librarian and at our branch a local church would donate a basket of water and snacks to put out on the table because we have a set of regular homeless that came in throughout the week and would use it. Well, from what I heard it only took two people to shout at the city that CHURCH and STATE should be separate and not together. And we had to tell the church they couldn't bring it any longer. I felt bad for our regulars who looked forward to that when they came in.
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For some of these, specifically involving wild animals, I think it's an excellent thing that the freedom got ruined.
The a-holes who keep buying up all the Ozempic just to make a profit from the 'rich and the wide' at the expense of diabetics
Hey how are you? And do you still have the tab to open at 39 posts? It's seems to have gone for me.
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So many of these are cases of the people in charge deciding that they should punish everyone for what one AH did. That's one of the stupidest ways of handling problems, because it just pisses off everyone. Discipline the errant dumbass, and leave everyone else alone.
The first guy who sued a doctor. Responsible for the high price of medical treatment in the USA.
The enormous parasitic bureaucracy of lawyers and insurance companies.
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Oil companies. Republicans. Leaders of organized religion. Reagan. Billionairs. Global corporations.
We had a personal mental health day(like a day off that is planned outside of vacation/sick time) at my old job. This one woman, who constantly had to be "different" (main character syndrome) said that due to her mental illness she needed more mental health days more than anyone , and began demanding that using her sick time after the one day was discrimination. They removed that one day because of her, and now we had to use sick time just to have a day off for ourselves.
I graduated high school in 1978. Each year, the senior class took an overnight field trip. The class of 1977 went to Gettysburg and screwed up so badly it was the last class trip. You know, there's going to be sex, drugs, rock-n-roll... chips, dips, chains, whips... You know, your basic high school orgy type of thing. I mean, uh, I'm not talking candlewax on the nipples, or witchcraft or anything like that, no, no, no. Just a couple of hundred kids running around in their underwear, acting like complete animals.
Our HR gave us an enormous break on our PTO. All of our time, sick, vacation and personal without expiration, was distributed to us evenly and timely, into one bank. A handful of guys out of 60 treated it as 51 sick days a year. They called in when they saw a difficult task coming. They clocked out early without asking permission.They string multiple days together. They'd leave on vacation and then call in additional days. Staffing became a nightmare. Payroll became hassle. So back to the archaic system we went. On the very first day of the revision the biggest offender called in and told the manager that he was using his last two available days. That guy mows lawns now.
My secondary school class was banned from one of our local science museums after a bunch of kids were caught having sex and making out in the "star tunnel" during a dance event. Our school had rented part of the museum for a dance and fun end of the year event...yeah that went well.
Summer between my jr and sr years in hs, a group of us would rollerblade downtown at night after everything closed down. Our friend with a truck would drive to the top of any given parking garage with us hanging on to the back so we could let go from the top level, spiral down, and shoot out into the street. By the start of the school year, every downtown parking garage was gated and locked at night. This was mid 90's. Sorry to the hooligans who came after us, but as an adult, I'm glad we had that effect.
In the early 90s we were picked for an experiment for trying out 4-10 hour days a week. The way it worked was that a couple of us would get the weekend plus Monday off. The others would get Friday off, plus the weekend. The next week it switched so now you got Friday plus weekend, and the we got Monday, plus the weekend. The rotation worked so that once a month you would only get the weekend, but the following one you would get Monday AND Friday off, so that was 4 days in a row. We LOVED the schedule, but some a*****e screwed it up by saying she could only schedule doctor's appointments on the Monday or Friday she was scheduled to work, or she'd just call in sick on those days. Because we were a small group, it meant that I had to cover the extra day she wasn't there, so they were forced to pay me overtime, which they hated to do. It was also exhausting for me. So they said," F**K IT!" and returned us to regular 8 hr/5 days a week. All because one idiot tried to game the system.
I got one for you. This guy I used to work with used to listen to podcasts over his airpods all the time. Like ALL the time. Well one day he tried to back the forklift out of the our wearhouse walkin with the mast up and managed to collapse the ceiling. So my first words were, "So Levi, which podcast was it?". No more airpods at work.
The most stupid person is the one who made the decision to make life miserable for everyone. Stupid individuals exist everywhere. To make decisions based on their actions leads to total paralysis of everything.
We used to be allowed to bring our dogs to work....a new girl got hired and complained because she wanted to ALWAYS have her dog there and didn't wanna share time with other people so she went to HR and now guess what.....no one gets to bring their dog anymore.
The kid who was placed in a local authority care home. No one was let out of any council run care home after a certain time and staff could restrain anyone trying to go out. This kid decided to challenge this ruling and won which had a huge impact on the sexual exploitation of young girls by gangs in such places as Rotherham because staff can no longer restrain them.
Supermarkets using covid hoarding as an excuse to up prices by 150%. The covid hoarders who stripped supermarkets and made it so everything is now either band, restricted or cut down.
Reminds me... of a high school thing that used to happen. Used to be a weekend getaway of sorts... very little chaperoning, full on cabins, a large, safe firepit area, nice lake... it was awesome. Activites were like, 'here's information about the wildlife/plantlife. Look and describe." Many of us took advantage of staying up later, playing penny-poker at each other cabins, etc. The teachers who were there didn't mind/didn't care - they expected it. Then ONE YEAR.... this ONE guy decided he'd sneak in something to get high, got high... then whacked off all over the curtains in his cabin. Obviously, the trip never happened again, forever and ever. What REALLY gets me is that it was 'marketed' by the loud kids as 'ha ha, that's so cool' and 'wtf, that was a stupid trip anyhow' ... like 5 people would bleat that. The rest of us just (and future kids) lost out.
I hate the fact that so many people and places (schools, businesses, etc), will bow down to 1-2 people and cater to their wants of being anti-whatever. They don't care about the majority of people, nor will they ask those 1-2 people to leave or deal with it. Eff those anti-fun turds!
Exactly. I'm a librarian and at our branch a local church would donate a basket of water and snacks to put out on the table because we have a set of regular homeless that came in throughout the week and would use it. Well, from what I heard it only took two people to shout at the city that CHURCH and STATE should be separate and not together. And we had to tell the church they couldn't bring it any longer. I felt bad for our regulars who looked forward to that when they came in.
Load More Replies... For some of these, specifically involving wild animals, I think it's an excellent thing that the freedom got ruined.
The a-holes who keep buying up all the Ozempic just to make a profit from the 'rich and the wide' at the expense of diabetics
Hey how are you? And do you still have the tab to open at 39 posts? It's seems to have gone for me.
Load More Replies... So many of these are cases of the people in charge deciding that they should punish everyone for what one AH did. That's one of the stupidest ways of handling problems, because it just pisses off everyone. Discipline the errant dumbass, and leave everyone else alone.
The first guy who sued a doctor. Responsible for the high price of medical treatment in the USA.
The enormous parasitic bureaucracy of lawyers and insurance companies.
Load More Replies... Oil companies. Republicans. Leaders of organized religion. Reagan. Billionairs. Global corporations.
We had a personal mental health day(like a day off that is planned outside of vacation/sick time) at my old job. This one woman, who constantly had to be "different" (main character syndrome) said that due to her mental illness she needed more mental health days more than anyone , and began demanding that using her sick time after the one day was discrimination. They removed that one day because of her, and now we had to use sick time just to have a day off for ourselves.
I graduated high school in 1978. Each year, the senior class took an overnight field trip. The class of 1977 went to Gettysburg and screwed up so badly it was the last class trip. You know, there's going to be sex, drugs, rock-n-roll... chips, dips, chains, whips... You know, your basic high school orgy type of thing. I mean, uh, I'm not talking candlewax on the nipples, or witchcraft or anything like that, no, no, no. Just a couple of hundred kids running around in their underwear, acting like complete animals.
Our HR gave us an enormous break on our PTO. All of our time, sick, vacation and personal without expiration, was distributed to us evenly and timely, into one bank. A handful of guys out of 60 treated it as 51 sick days a year. They called in when they saw a difficult task coming. They clocked out early without asking permission.They string multiple days together. They'd leave on vacation and then call in additional days. Staffing became a nightmare. Payroll became hassle. So back to the archaic system we went. On the very first day of the revision the biggest offender called in and told the manager that he was using his last two available days. That guy mows lawns now.
My secondary school class was banned from one of our local science museums after a bunch of kids were caught having sex and making out in the "star tunnel" during a dance event. Our school had rented part of the museum for a dance and fun end of the year event...yeah that went well.
Summer between my jr and sr years in hs, a group of us would rollerblade downtown at night after everything closed down. Our friend with a truck would drive to the top of any given parking garage with us hanging on to the back so we could let go from the top level, spiral down, and shoot out into the street. By the start of the school year, every downtown parking garage was gated and locked at night. This was mid 90's. Sorry to the hooligans who came after us, but as an adult, I'm glad we had that effect.
In the early 90s we were picked for an experiment for trying out 4-10 hour days a week. The way it worked was that a couple of us would get the weekend plus Monday off. The others would get Friday off, plus the weekend. The next week it switched so now you got Friday plus weekend, and the we got Monday, plus the weekend. The rotation worked so that once a month you would only get the weekend, but the following one you would get Monday AND Friday off, so that was 4 days in a row. We LOVED the schedule, but some a*****e screwed it up by saying she could only schedule doctor's appointments on the Monday or Friday she was scheduled to work, or she'd just call in sick on those days. Because we were a small group, it meant that I had to cover the extra day she wasn't there, so they were forced to pay me overtime, which they hated to do. It was also exhausting for me. So they said," F**K IT!" and returned us to regular 8 hr/5 days a week. All because one idiot tried to game the system.
I got one for you. This guy I used to work with used to listen to podcasts over his airpods all the time. Like ALL the time. Well one day he tried to back the forklift out of the our wearhouse walkin with the mast up and managed to collapse the ceiling. So my first words were, "So Levi, which podcast was it?". No more airpods at work.
The most stupid person is the one who made the decision to make life miserable for everyone. Stupid individuals exist everywhere. To make decisions based on their actions leads to total paralysis of everything.
We used to be allowed to bring our dogs to work....a new girl got hired and complained because she wanted to ALWAYS have her dog there and didn't wanna share time with other people so she went to HR and now guess what.....no one gets to bring their dog anymore.
The kid who was placed in a local authority care home. No one was let out of any council run care home after a certain time and staff could restrain anyone trying to go out. This kid decided to challenge this ruling and won which had a huge impact on the sexual exploitation of young girls by gangs in such places as Rotherham because staff can no longer restrain them.
Supermarkets using covid hoarding as an excuse to up prices by 150%. The covid hoarders who stripped supermarkets and made it so everything is now either band, restricted or cut down.
Reminds me... of a high school thing that used to happen. Used to be a weekend getaway of sorts... very little chaperoning, full on cabins, a large, safe firepit area, nice lake... it was awesome. Activites were like, 'here's information about the wildlife/plantlife. Look and describe." Many of us took advantage of staying up later, playing penny-poker at each other cabins, etc. The teachers who were there didn't mind/didn't care - they expected it. Then ONE YEAR.... this ONE guy decided he'd sneak in something to get high, got high... then whacked off all over the curtains in his cabin. Obviously, the trip never happened again, forever and ever. What REALLY gets me is that it was 'marketed' by the loud kids as 'ha ha, that's so cool' and 'wtf, that was a stupid trip anyhow' ... like 5 people would bleat that. The rest of us just (and future kids) lost out.
