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There is a version of yourself that only exists when nobody is watching. The version that drinks out of the milk carton and uses the handicapped bathroom. That version of you is not a bad person; it is simply operating in the space between rules and consequences, and it is between you and the universe. The concept of ethics is a wonderful and important one that has occupied philosophers for thousands of years.

But morality is nuanced, and context is everything. And the line between unethical and understandable is very thin. These people all did something that fell somewhere on the wrong side of the moral ledger, but they decided they were fine with that. No guilt, no apology, no 3 am crisis of conscience. Just the clean, uncomplicated peace of someone who made a choice and stands by it. We are not here to judge, just to relate.

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    No-Deal7075 Report

    DH73
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This should be the norm. I always tell my employees that family comes first. None of us are doing brain surgery here and I don't want anyone living to work.

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    Hambrienta Report

    Michael Largey
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Commendable of the company to have such a program. Even more commendable that they did not shut it down or restrict it after it was used as intended.

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    LearningtoKnowMyself Report

    Beth Wheeler
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well that's what you do with a kid that bites. Do it just hard enough that it hurts & they won't do it again.

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    Papa
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's nothing ethically questionable about this. It was completely justified.

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    skorchedangel Report

    Chrystina Sumpter
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Manager was stupid and short sighted. A restaurant without servers and dishwashers isn’t going to last long and food is generally the lowest cost item in running any food service.

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    Canongirl88 Report

    Michael Largey
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Animal rescues don't happen only in shelters.

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    ikadell Report

    Karl der Große
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Putting an exceptional emphasis on grades often leads kids to cheat or to find other ways to bump up their grades without really learning better.

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    Yamiras89 Report

    Megalodon Meg
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OP very likely kept this man from dying. Homeless folks d*e from exposure during winter in horrific numbers if they are in places that experience a "true" winter.

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    quiet_night87 Report

    Lacy
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Should have been put in a grave.

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    Infamous-Dare6792 Report

    tori Ohno
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hey David. It's nobody's business if it's a he or a she, so calm down.

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    Delicious_Bicycle527 Report

    Wendy
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some angels wear stripes ♥

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    nonsenseword37 Report

    BrunoVI
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's all fun and games until you get framed for someone's m****r.

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    BiscuitLove14 Report

    Michael Largey
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At the high school where I taught, a yearbook was considered part of the tuition package.

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    kellbell408 Report

    Holly Fraser
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    if everyone is failing then they're a bad professor

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    Missyome Report

    BrunoVI
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The boss is guilty of wage theft in the US (and I'd presume most of the developed world). It is a crime, and can be a serious felony depending on how often the boss committed it and how his actions prove culpability.

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    ProbablyGonnaEatYou Report

    Don't listen to me
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Always keep your receipts and the boxes. For at least 6 months !

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    NosDarkly Report

    Discovermyview
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you're qualified to do the job, I don't really care how much you "lie" about work history to get past our jacked up system. I moved back in with my parents to finish college. I ended up filling my resume gap with a "care taker" position paid by room and board. My dad had extensive back surgery, and I did help a lot. Otherwise, any interview I got made a huge deal out of the gap. Apparently, going back to school is not a good enough reason for a person to not have a full time job. Gotta love the US.

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    Nevermind04 Report

    Lily bloom
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They threw away vintage Tupperware? May they always have an itch they cant reach and a pebble that appears in their shoe daily (yes the same exact pebble they thought they removed the previous day)

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    IndividualLoquat3777 Report

    Michael Largey
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A rental car company was selling some of its excess inventory in a bank parking lot. (The bank was handling the finances.) There was a car a woman and I both wanted, but I was early enough to get the first test drive. She sneered at me "It's not who drives it first - It's who gets their money down first!" I said to myself "You know, she's right." so I never brought the car back after the test drive. I parked it a few blocks from the lot, walked back, and closed the deal with the first salesman I could find. That lady may still be at that lot waiting for her test drive.

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    43Duckies
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This idea of trying to work two full-time remote jobs during the same 8 hour period took off about a year into Covid, but all the viral discussion about it alerted employers to the trend. It's one of the justifications that suspicious, overly controlling employers use for installing extremely intrusive monitoring software onto employees' remote computers.

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    P0sitive_Outlook Report

    C. S. M
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As presented, someone has a bicycle sabotaged for using a bicycle. Seems perfectly rational to place deterrents on places a saboteur unreasonably targets.

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    Right-Adeptness-4845 Report

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    EXTRAVAGANT_COMMENT Report

    Heffalump
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep. 'Was instrumental in the successful completion of ....'. Well, the people working on it would never have got it done without the coffee I made for them.

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    djhin2 Report

    Crystalwitch60
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Erm duckies the point is DO NOT TOUCH OTHER PEOPLES FOOD AND DRINK END OFF !! sorry but they deserved that!! if they do it’s their own dam fault for stealing in first place !

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    SlobZombie13 Report

    Key Lime
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Higher Education is a money making scam. The University "suddenly " changed the rules and my kid was short a couple of credits. He had to go another whole year but at least he got a double minor for it..

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    Michael Largey
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    4 months ago

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    Thus telling prospective employers that hiring OP was the kiss of d***h.

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    KatSaidThat
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, freshly defrosted in the microwave (chicken popcorn)

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    Different-Network957 Report

    Michael Largey
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Many of the country club members the OP drove paid their dues and more by stealing a lot more from people than milk and Snickers money.

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    BrunoVI
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We've drifted from ethically complex to simply evil.

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    43Duckies
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can *almost* see the justification for stealing (let's call it what it is) supplies like soap or toilet paper (except during a shortage), and *maybe* a couple of towels. But a projector? A MINI-FRIDGE? Being underpaid doesn't justify that, dude.

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    FewWrongdoer654 Report

    antoinette maldari
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Good, then you and your job are a match made in heaven!

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    Michael Largey
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OP, you need to know that whoever told you to "Tend to your own knitting" meant something else entirely.

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    Jen Mart
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    (ba, da, ba, ba, ba) I'm not lovin' it

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    No_Birthday_7585 Report

    Crystalwitch60
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you didnt work there ,that would be classed as SHOPLIFTING!! So🤷‍♀️

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    Zazenp Report

    Petra Peitsch
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't wanna be "friends" with OP, or even know him ....

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    General_Lack5699 Report

    patricia patricia
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What an utterly idiotic thing to do!!! You knew those people were criminals. What if there had been d***s in the bag? Or something related to a big crime, and the police stopped you? Also, criminals don't find being robbed funny. You could have ended up in a ditch. What a pair of idiots!

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    A_single_droplet Report

    Gia SDP
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd be utterly bored. There's nothing worse than being at work with zilch to do.

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    oneofeach1016 Report

    43Duckies
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At minimum, your parents should have installed a lock on your door for the duration of their stay.

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    808goddess Report

    Jay Rankin
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    4 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is questionable due to its impact on the dolphin. Do what you will in this life but leave those babies alone.

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    neocondiment Report

    ghtqbmfs5q
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not the most egregious thing to happen on POF. That place is a cesspool!

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    KatSaidThat
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    how big was this little dab that it went all over her pillow and completely matted her hair. I'm sensing some embellishment here...

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    TooShiftyForYou Report

    Papa
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is not ethically questionable. This is outright theft.

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    Jay Rankin
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Could you not have stolen a sandwich for her, too?

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    43Duckies
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This was cruel and unfair, no matter how obnoxious he may have been.

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    Unethical-Thing-Done-No-Regret

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    Bec
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank you to the folks who stayed at rental houses before me and didn't log out of their streaming service, I really appreciate that you sprung for ad-free. Sorry that you may have some random stuff in your algorithm now. 😂

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    CrotchWolf Report

    Papa
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "I just saved $60.00." No, you just stole $60.00.

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    Any_Sport3353 Report

    antoinette maldari
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People like this are the same people screaming against free school lunches.

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