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Good old Westerns had a wonderful, yet cliched, ending where the heroes, having done all they could, rode off into the sunset. That's rarely done these days, but people have changed, too. And very often, we also ride off into the sunset long before the life plot should have concluded.
Perhaps many of you have experienced similar moments. When someone, tired of the injustice and mess around them, just quits and says, "This isn't my problem anymore." Well, please, feel free to read this selection of the weirdest similar stories, made for you by Bored Panda.
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#1
Once I was walking to pick my daughter up from school and I saw this lady jogging with the most beautiful dog and I complimented her on her dog. She replied with “that’s not my dog!” In an irritated tone. And just like that the dog was my problem and following me. Long story short, she was my dog for 16 years and such a good girl.
Peeka_Mimi 4 days ago
Yes I say as I sit here with 5 dogs and 4 cats. None of which i went looking for.
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Kristiina Männiste 4 days ago
Something similar happened to my sister, but with 2 goats. She was NOT amused. I only saw the aftermath - came home from work on a normal spring day to see the dog loose staring at his enclosure with utter confusion and inside his enclosure 2 random big white goats. I must have stared as confused as the dog.
Kristiina Männiste 4 days ago
Apparently my sis was walking home from the bus station and the goats just started following her. She started walking faster (not a fan of goats) and the goats got faster too. All parties were equally desperate I guess. Followed her all the way home and ate the first spring flowers from our flowerbeds - hence the goat jail I witnessed.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 week ago
Could have been born a stray, or had been abandoned by owners who were irresponsible and didn't have her chipped. My oldest cat, Kohl, walked into my family's business office one day through our open back door and made herself at home. She was wearing two collars (a red bow tie and something that looked more like a charm bracelet that had "MEOW" on it) so she was obviously owned/had been owned. I took her to my vet and they scanned her - no chip. I posted online, put up physical "Found Cat" posters, called the shelters to see if anyone was looking for a lost black cat - nothing. So she's been my cat for 9 years ;) And yes, I had her chipped XD
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#2
When my ex left she drained the bank accounts. When she called me three years later and wanted to get the divorce out of the way (she was engaged) she told me what it was going to cost. I told her this one was on her.
Probably won't make the top ten here but it felt SO good!
#3
Maybe not the weirdest but quite unusual, i saw (what looked like) a homeless person stealing sandwiches from a local Tesco on Christmas Eve, I looked at the security guard who was watching the man, as the man approached the exit the security guard decided to go and tidy some shelves.
Detroit Citizen 1 week ago (edited)
When i worked at a gas station, something similar. This one guy, unhoused but the kindest most helpful person i had met was always rooting around the outside trash for cans and bottles for money. He would find enough for a coffee. I started saving the food that was expired the night before ( sandwiches and such, which were still edible, we had to waste them the after their sold by date). He was so very grateful. One small act of kindness can be life changing for another. My mom always said "Dont judge people, but for the grace of God goes you"
Spencer's slave no longer 6 days ago
It's been a long time since I've heard "there but for the grace of God...", something my kids heard from me as they grew up, and some very judgmental co-workers heard it too.
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Binky Melnik 5 days ago (edited)
Some of the grocery stores in my neighborhood (Spanish Harlem) post photos of people holding the food they’ve tried to steal, and it breaks my heart that they’re shaming people for being hungry or TRYING TO FEED THEIR KIDS. It’s one thing to stop them; it’s another entirely to shame them to the whole neighborhood. 😰 How cruel must one be to think that’s appropriate?
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Lee451 Henderson 5 days ago
I would not consider this "chaos". The guard probably dealt with this man in the past and had some compassion for him.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 3 days ago
Good for that security guard. If you see someone stealing basic necessities like food…no, you didn’t.
K Barnes 4 days ago (edited)
Our grocery bills are getting higher week after week due to increased costs across the sector and rampant price gouging by grocers who are pulling in record profits quarter after quarter and passing it onto shareholders while gouging customers. You have no idea if that man smokes or drinks at all, not all homeless people do despite what your fear mongering news might tell you. (edit to add the word mongering)
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Each of us has our own ideas about what's best to do in the couple of hours before the New Year. Some are summing up the past year, some are making new resolutions, and some are simply preparing to watch the Stranger Things finale.
Well, the user u/AdWilling4308 decided the best thing to do on New Year's Eve was to ask netizens: "What's the weirdest 'this isn't my problem anymore' moment you've ever witnessed?" And you know what? It seems the topic starter was right - at least, the thread already has over 2.1K upvotes, and the number of comments is soon approaching 1K.
In this collection, we've tried to pick the most interesting and sometimes downright ridiculous situations, revelations, and stories. So enjoy reading them with us, because why not?
#4
Not what I witnessed, it was what I did.
My then husband called me and told me he’d been arrested for drunk driving, as happened way too often, and needed a ride. He was at the police station and they’d charged him but were letting him go on his own recognizance (things were very different back then). I don’t know why I agreed as we were already separated and living apart. A misguided sense of duty maybe?
When I got there I told him I’d give him a ride back to his car but he was not coming home with me. A cop overheard and said “Ma’am you can’t take him back to his car, he shouldn’t be driving.” I said “OK, fine. You keep him then” and turned around, got in my car and drove away without looking back. I was just so done. I was so done with his alcoholism and everything that goes with it. I’d been enabling him and propping him up so he was semi-functional for far too long.
He was unavailable to attend our divorce hearing because he was in jail for the DUI.
Papa 4 days ago
A coworker told me that her husband had gone out and gotten drunk, leaving her at home with their toddler. At one point he was questioned by the police, who would have been happy to help him get a ride home (he was not driving), but arrested him when he kept running his mouth and being belligerent. When they called her she said she wasn't getting the baby out and to let him stay there until the next morning. They divorced shortly after, for a variety of reasons.
Upstaged75 4 days ago
People talk their way into jail all the time by being jerks to the police. They don't know when to keep their mouths shut.
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Jane Doe-Doe 4 days ago
Drunk drivers are so selfish , they could cause an accident and k**l somebody but all they care about is drinking
#5
I held my husband together for 25 years. One day I just stopped. We separated, his crash was swift.
Funny thing was everyone loved him and thought I was a witch.
Then the calls started, where is he, he doesnt return calls, he misses events, he doesnt show up for work, is he ok?
I told them now you see who he really is without all my effort. I am done, not my problem.
Deborah Brett 4 days ago
The stressed out, snapping controlling wife is often that way because she's carrying the weight of a whole family while the husband takes zero responsibility.
#6
My cousin had recently divorced her husband, but they were throwing a joint party for their daughter's First Communion. At the restaurant, their younger son started to get antsy and act out in front of the dad. He yelled my cousin's name, clearly expecting her to jump up and rush over to parent their kid. She just looked at him from her table and asked, "what is it?"
Ooo, the look on his face when he realized she no longer had to come running when he yelled for her!
Teutonic Disaster 6 days ago
He's your kid as well, dumb@ss. You can tell him to knock it off, too. 🤦🏻♂️
Nicole Weymann 4 days ago
Yupp, but I'm not sure why she had to divorce him for that. Or get married to someone with that attitude in the first place. "OUR kid, OUR responsibility - not just mine".
Load More Replies...A significant portion of the tales you'll find in this collection tell of people quitting their jobs out of the blue, either because they couldn't stand the unbearable work environment any longer, or because they were completely indifferent to the company and their job responsibilities.
While the former has unfortunately always been a global problem, the latter is partly due to the high turnover rate in the modern economy. Gallup cites statistical data showing that members of younger generations are more prone to job-hopping.
For example, according to Forbes, the average tenure for Gen Z employees in one job during the first five years of their working career is currently around 1.1 years. This is 2.5 times less than that of Gen X employees, and almost three times less than that of Baby Boomers. This doesn't mean that young people are worse performers - they're just different, and this must be taken into account.
#7
At my last job the manager didn’t let me take a day off for a funeral, so I offered to leave early instead. They agreed and a few days later, three days before the funeral, they told me I couldn’t leave early, or, more literally, "the manager said there’s no leaving early, you can’t go". The next day, before my shift had even started, I brought a resignation letter written in pink glitter pen. I just left, not even waiting for the manager to arrive.
For the record, the job was sorting used clothes, not something really important where being away for 4 hours would break the system.
Helena 6 days ago
Lots of them actually, and the ones who do have rules like immediate family only which they define as parents and grandparents. They apparently don't consider aunts and uncles and cousins family, and they really and truly do not care if one of your friends dies.
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R Dennis 4 days ago
When I was 19-20, I worked in a restaurant and was cleaning the dining room. My girlfriend (now wife for 25+ years) called and she was on her way to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy. I told the kitchen manager (my main boss) that I had to go: she had three small children from her first marriage and I needed to go take care of them and her. He told me if I left, I was fired. I handed him the apron I was wearing and the broom and said "I guess I don't work here anymore." Between the kids and the hospital, I didn't sleep for almost three days. After she recovered, the restaurant owner hired me back and wouldn't let me work for the kitchen - I cleaned the restaurant and was his assistant from then on...
Albert Roberts 2 days ago (edited)
No it doesn't at least in the US. There's separate bereavement acts in some states but family medical leave acts have no provisions for funerals. If they were sick sure but it stops as soon as they die.
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#8
Myself....many years ago I managed a KFC store. For reasons (small community, they paid bad and expected a lot so hiring enough help was an issue) I ended up working open to close 7 days a week for months. Not surprisingly things went downhill in the store to the point the district manager came in one day and fired me. I'd never been fired before and I was devastated...for about 30 seconds. Then I realized none of this mess is my problem anymore, walked out with a smile.
Mike F 3 days ago
Just about the time the pain sets in from shooting themselves in the foot.
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The Other Guest 1 week ago
Should've ordered some popcorn chicken & sat down to watch them deal with the chaos.
Anne Roberts 1 week ago
Fast food management is a brutal business. My big sister did it for 30 years until she said "Enough!". She is much happier now.
Scott Rackley 4 days ago
"You know what will fix our staffing problem, Fred?" "Firing the only people showing up for work. It's brilliant, I tell you."
#9
Watching my manager quit mid meeting and calmly walk out while the chaos continued behind him.
Detroit Citizen 1 week ago
I worked in the plumbing section of that orange store. I was the FT associate, not to sound arrogant, but i was good at my job and could handle multiple customers, questions, etc at a time. This one subzero day several hot water heaters broke. Unusually cold snap. I had about four or five ppl that needed hot water heaters (had to use a machine, close the aisle, etc) plus i had an asile full (10 ish ppl) of people either needing pipe threaded or general assistance with the plumbing parts (elbows, traps ect). I called and call management for some help. I got "DetroitCitizen, youre that good you can handle it". If im calling for help, i need help. Period. So I walked out of the aisle straight for the time clock and punched out. Caught my bosses boss on the way out and told him im taking a PTO Mental Health day. Management HAD to handle plumbing. The next few days i apologized to my regulars, told them what had a happened and they understood.
Papa 4 days ago
I went into the orange store's blue competitor a few years ago looking for pipe insulation when we had a cold snap. They had run out, but had a good supply of pool noodles which they had moved to the front of the store to be used for the same purpose. I bought some, and it worked very well.
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A separate category of stories on our list is related to education. More specifically, situations where teachers sadly realized they couldn't teach anything to students who often had no desire to study. Some educators pack up their belongings and leave the classroom forever, while others sit and silently watch the frantic class, hoping that this contrasting behavior will work.
We've previously cited educators' opinions about students' reluctance to learn and their inability to do so. This applies, incidentally, to both children and adults - for example, the National Literacy Institute cites data that today 54% of adults have literacy levels below a 6th-grade level (20% are below a 5th-grade level).
Overall, as the source notes, low literacy costs the United States up to $2.2 trillion annually. So, the problem is more complex than just tied to individual students or even entire classes. And the solution to this problem must also be complex - only then will it take any effect.
#10
Quite a while ago, I worked part-time at Krispy Kreme. I had this job more as a paying hobby than as a necessary source of income.
I worked the overnight shift to make the vast majority of the following (& current) morning's donuts.
I use to be an internal auditor for the government, tasked with (believe it or not) finding ways to simplify and/or improve various systems. This is actually my approach to nearly everything in life...there HAS to be a better way.
In fact, I had even improvised a recipe improvement for the signature dough, which DRASTICALLY eliminated over 80% of our stores food waste for the product.
All this to say...
I came in one night to a complete mess. A different (and larger store) had lost the ability to make any product. They told me, I would need to not only make my own production run, but the other's as well.
I asked:
Who from the other store would be assisting...No one; who from mgmt. would be assisting...no one; how would I be additionally compensated...I wouldn't.
On top of that, they had messed up the machine settings, trying to increase the production speed (HIGHLY improper), and were causing about a +10% failure rate in production.
I saw all this. Took off my apron, and said, "No. I'm not doing this. I quit." And, simply walked out, not looking back.
Andrew Keir 1 week ago
I sympathise. "Do more with less" echoes Pharaoh's "make bricks without straw" command in Exodus ch 5; it's either worker a***e, or an admission that management's clue-meter is currently reading zero. Probably both, in fact.
Svenne O'Lotta 3 days ago
No, you did not fúcking "improve" the recipe for Krispy Kreme donuts, you utter fantast 😆 as if they'd allow you to touch that. One of the main principles for chains and franchises is that the product will taste exactly the same no matter which one of their stores you get it in.
Brian Droste 4 days ago
I always wonder what the fallout is when people quit like this. I would like to hear what happened afterwards.
For All Pedernity 3 days ago
"In fact, I had even improvised a recipe improvement for the signature dough, which DRASTICALLY eliminated over 80% of our stores food waste for the product". And still you just had this job as a "hobby"? I think not.
#11
My kid was playing another team and one parent was really having a go at the opposition coach as he subbed their kid so another kid could get some game time.
He just handed them the clipboard, told them to sort it out so everyone was happy and walked off.
UnclePanda 1 week ago
Unless you want to be the new camp cook, whatever the cook is cooking is just right.
Mel in Georgia 1 week ago
Understandable, especially if the coach was a volunteer. Parent problems are much worse than kid problems in youth athletics!
Andrew Keir 1 week ago
Kids have (mostly) learnt to behave themselves; some parents seem to think they can get away with anything . I used to referee judo at various levels, and the only time I had difficulty with the crowd was when certain parents seemed to think that their kid was entitled to score points without using a proper judo technique. Kids were mostly embarrassed by this - I felt sorry for them.
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Papa 4 days ago
One of my friends umpired baseball games when his sons were playing. At one game one of the mothers kept yelling, and he finally told her that if she didn't stop he'd make her leave. She apparently didn't believe him, so she kept it up, and got thrown out. After the game her husband approached my friend, who assumed he was going to hear more yelling, but the husband just said "Thank you."
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#12
My mom wanted to buy a bread maker for $250 on sale on target. My parents had a small argument about it, but my mom decided on it anyway (my dad's concern was mostly a "are you actually going to use it"). Get to Target check out. It rings up for $2.49. Checker is visibly confused, calls over a manager and goes on a break.
Manager could only get it to ring up for $2.49 as well. Eventually let me my buy it for 2 and a half bucks, then got someone to go take them all off the shelves. Checker just booked it though - way above their pay grade.
Mel in Georgia 1 week ago
Did the mom ever use it though? I used to have one ... it got used maybe 2-3 times. Not sure I'd have another one even if it cost $2.50!
Huddo's sister 1 week ago
I borrowed one from my mum, so if I didn't end up using it I wasn't wasting money, and I only used it once. Pretty sure my mum had only used it a couple of times too. It's just as easy to bake bread in the oven (especially if you have a dough hook on your mixer) and it doesn't come out with a hole where the mixing attachment is (that you can't remove for some reason).
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Lisbeth Guz 4 days ago
I have one, I use it twice a month to make homemade pizza dough. Sometimes I make bread too
For All Pedernity 3 days ago
I think all cash registers have the possibility to manually input the code of a product and its price. I call BS.
Well, some folks also decide to leave dysfunctional relationships, whether with partners or family members, realizing that the people around them have been overusing their trust, productivity, or skills for years.
Sometimes, when we unwittingly witness something like this, it seems like everything just happened out of the blue - but it could be only the last straw, logically bringing a long process to an inevitable close.
#13
My “uncle” (dad’s lifelong friend) was married to an absolute terror of a woman, a little while after they divorced we all (my family and my uncle and his ex) were invited to my “cousin’s” school play. After the show (my cousin was an excellent turkey btw) the ex wife gets into some squabble with the people sitting in front of her, and I remember seeing him just kinda standing there with a “this is my life now” face, then he got a smile on his face and just….walked away. Went and collected my cousin and we went for dinner.
#14
After 28 years at my company, my manager called loss prevention saying I stole a $.99 hand soap.
I got a union rep, and video proved that I did not steal a soap and the person that set me up was the liar.
I’ve been planning on retiring in the next three months, but instead I quit immediately, two weeks before Christmas, the busiest time of year at my business. My manager asked me for a dept hand off ($1 million week store.)
She did not get it.
Bonus content: the woman that replaced me thought my job wasn’t that hard and she could do it easily! Within 2 weeks she has stepped down and my manager begged me to come back and train my replacement haha.
Andrew Keir 1 week ago
Asking someone to train their replacement is the clearest signal management can give that they shouldn't have let you go.
Child of the Stars 4 days ago
Unless you're leaving on good terms. I replaced my trainer who was being forced into retirement (by her husband's health, not the organization), and I'm moving to a new position in a couple of weeks and plan to train my replacement if they can hire someone before I leave.
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The Other Guest 1 week ago
Passing on pertinent information/files/etc to the person/department who will be handling your job after you leave. It's not training, it's just updating them on where things stand before you walk out the door.
Load More Replies... Mike F 3 days ago
Boy that sounds familiar, except the part about swiping a soap. The "director of operations" decided he was too good to come to work even though there was stuff he was supposed to do for his portion of month end. I wrote my letter of intention to retire on November 1st, he finally showed up and read it in mid December. He said he figured he could run things with just 2 in the office, I said SURE you can (haha). He was in over his head before the middle of January. I laughed.
#15
I warned my manager for six months that our legacy server was going to crash if we didn't upgrade it. He ignored me because it "wasn't in the budget." I quit for a new job, and three days after I left, the server was gone and took the client database with it. Hearing about the panic from my former coworkers was the most peaceful moment of my life.
KatSaidThat 1 week ago
Me and the IT department currently warning big boss same. Big boss still thinks it will just sort itself out. IT are going to let me know the anticipated failure day so I can be out of office.
Michael Largey 1 week ago
Some things do sort themselves out by expanding into disasters.
Load More Replies... Teutonic Disaster 6 days ago
For a moment I thought they were talking about a server in a restaurant... 🤦🏻♂️🤣 forgive me, it's been a long day...
MalayDragon 4 days ago
Sorry i had a little laugh at this one because of Legacy Server, All i can picture now is the stereotypical older lady working at a diner, you know the movie trope "Calls you Dahl, often the best worker there".
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Overall, the thirty-five stories we've shared here encompass a whole world, with its joys and tragedies, selflessness and pettiness. And, of course, some blatant entitlement. What unites them is that they're genuinely interesting and sometimes instructive.
So now, dear readers, please feel free to look at all these stories, and probably add your own in the comments below. After all, we truly believe you, too, may have encountered something similar in your own life. So why not share your personal tale with others in case it's really eye-opening or interesting?
#16
We were getting divorced and preparing to move out. My soon-to-be ex husband announced to me that someone was coming tomorrow to pick up our refrigerator. The following day, the guy showed up. My husband opened the fridge and turned to me angrily. “The fridge still has all food in it!!” I replied, “Yeah, what’s your point?” He screeched, “You jerk!!!”
So glad he’s in my rear view mirror.
Laugh or not 4 days ago
For people planning to move a fridge, it should be emptied, (ideally clean) and unplugged two to three days before the move. The fluid inside should be not be cold when moving. And you should wait at least 6 hours once it is moved before plugging it again. Otherwise it could be damaged.
DH 3 days ago
I did not know this. In Sweden, fridges are part of the building and are almost never moved.
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Trashy Panda 3 days ago
I wish I could see the looks on some of these ex's faces when reality hits
The Other Guest 1 week ago
I interpreted the story as ex-hubby had sold the fridge to the guy coming to pick it up.
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#17
During my exit interview for a company I left after 10 years, I explained that the reason that our department of ~22 engineers/managers had the lowest employee satisfaction survey results in the entire company of 100k people was because we were continuously having to deal with our Sr Mgr position opening and very qualified people within the department getting passed up four times in 6 year span. In fact, we hadn't had a vertical promotion within the department in 5 years and the one prior was 4 years before that. It was absolutely destroying morale because we had tons of very experienced, very knowledgeable, very capable, very good employees in the department whose careers had stalled out because of multiple executives seemingly refusing to vertically promote us. I wasn't even passed up for a promotion and I was sick of it myself.
The HR rep's response was to ask me if maybe the reason we're so upset is because we vent our frustrations to eachother and create an echo-chamber that is creating a toxic environment.
I just looked her in the eye...thought about tearing into her about how idiotic that question was...and realized it didn't matter anymore, so I just said "no" with absolutely nothing to go with it so she could think about what she had just asked.
Austzn 1 week ago
I got to pull something like this a while back at one of those endless temporary contract positions. They underpaid and overhassled us and asked me why I thought no one would stay longer than like 2 months so I laid it out bare for them. The response was, "Other than hiring people on and giving raises above poverty level, is there anything else you can think of?" 🤦🏽
Andrew Keir 1 week ago
So, they recognise the problem and are specifically unwilling to solve it. Time to say 'goodbye ' ...
Load More Replies... John Dilligaf 3 days ago
you have "very experienced, very knowledgeable, very capable, very good employees in the department" which is why none of you can be promoted. You're too good at your current job and the company doesn't want to lose that. To the company's way of thinking skilled, experienced, knowledgeable, and capable engineers need to be doing engineer work and so make a profit for the company. They'd be wasted doing manager work. Managers are dime a dozen, you can get them anywhere. .
Asher Tye 2 days ago
That just sounds like a good reason to leave. If you can't advance and make more for yourself what's the point of sticking around?
Load More Replies... Jane Doe-Doe 4 days ago
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Crystalwitch60 3 days ago
Your point is what exactly ! I’ve had mine that mix over the years , !
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Not entirely weird…but I saw a pack of Sharpie markers in every color at Michael’s with no price. I took it up front to checkout, knowing I’d take it out if it was too high. It rang up for $0. The cashier looked at it, shrugged her shoulders, and kept going. Free markers!
I went back a couple of days later to see if I could get it to happen again. I took it up front, they got the inventory to come up for a price check. It can up with nothing again. This time, I got the second set for $5.
Kent Fletcher 2 days ago
My wife bought some picture frames at Target, tags said $15? They rang up at 99 cents. Then we went back for the rest.
#19
I was a shift manager at a sandwich shop in college. Boss was a monster so one day I gave him my two weeks notice. He got so mad he said “forget it. You’re fired!” I said ok no problem.
The next day I’m getting phone calls from coworkers asking where the hell I am. The GM hadn’t told anyone he fired me. The daytime manager was panicking because she wasn’t supposed to leave until I got there, and she actually had a flight to catch.
“I’m sorry, but I got fired. I don’t work there anymore. There’s nothing I can do.”.
Trashy Panda 3 days ago
The guy in the photo looks like he doesn't always drink beer but when he does he drinks Dos Equis
#20
My photography teacher tried explaining some of the principles of photographies after she'd tried to shut up a whole classroom which never went quiet.
At the end, she picked up her stuff, took her pursue and left the building after screaming us "we didn't want to learn anything."
I felt so bad for her at the time and even now, because she was so passionate for photography and she was teaching a bunch of kids who didn't want to even be there but needed an easy compulsory elective subject.
Andrew Keir 1 week ago
Some blame may be due on the school's policy of 'compulsory' yet 'elective' courses. It takes a lot to make kids not want to learn but some school boards manage it, year after year. And , of course, it's the teachers' fault ... never the policy-makers who ordered that "No kid is a failure so we will pass every kid in every course". ( / rant ).
Nicole Weymann 4 days ago
We had a very limited number of compulsory elective courses (maybe five or six for an estimated 150 pupils) when I was a kid. Every semester you could pick your #1, #2 and #3 choice, ranked by preference, fot which course you'd take. I suspect they got sorted alphabetically, because I (last name starting with W) only ever got my #3 choices, and a classmate - last name "S-something" - ended up with the *same #3 choice* in three consecutive semesters.
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Lila Allen 4 days ago
It s***s on levels most cannot understand to be the elective teacher that lands a bunch of students who only took it because it fit their schedule. It's like being slowly set on fire. The few who do want to know can't learn because the majority don't want to and it's soul crushing.
Huddo's sister 1 week ago
Reminds me of one ceramics lesson. My class was always unruly, but this day the teacher was trying to explain how to construct something and many of the students started throwing clay around and it got all over the walls, ceiling and floor. My teacher ended up walking out and didn't come back for the rest of the lesson. The people sitting at my table were the only ones who wanted to be there, so we got on with our work, while everyone else kept mucking around. I didn't like the teacher (I had her for about five classes during high school), as she just wasn't good at actually teaching any art concepts, but I thought she made the right choice that day.
Huddo's sister 1 week ago
I had a maths teacher where a similar thing happened, but it was chairs the class threw around. The teacher also walked out, but she had a mental breakdown and didn't come back all term. I was the one thinking it's not my problem, because just after that I was switched to an accelerated maths class. I failed the first exam (honestly, I was never good at maths, but I was able to ignore the rest of the class and just go through the whole book at my own pace and that was considered good enough), but I was just glad to be out of the other class. (I was in a legal studies class with the same people the next year, and the pattern was completely confirmed, as they gave the teacher such a hard time that she quit teaching after her first year. Says a lot about my school.)
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I just told the kids - your parents paid money for you to learn about art history. You should get as much knowledge as you can out of this course, so that you get your moneys worth. Amazingly it worked! I almost saw them counting the euro bills in their little heads and deciding to get some art effing history for their parents money.
Sue User 3 days ago
My teacher told them how much each class was. Did the math on tuitiom, credits, number of classes. Eye opening.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 6 days ago
When I was at Wits (in Johannesburg, Mzansi) in the '80s, during my teaching degree you had to do two compulsory short courses and one elective. One of the compulsory ones was Religious Insturction. (Yes, yes, I get it but this was the '80s when the apartheid government was still doing "Christian National Education".) A bunch of students didn't want to do it and complained they were being discriminated against because they weren't Christians (which was a lie - they just decided to use Wits' non-discriminatory policy in their favour). So the next year they made the students do TWO compulsory and TWO elective, with Religious Instruction moved to the elective side. Way to go, they made every student from then on do an extra course because they were lazy. (And it was a super easy course.)
#21
Weirdest, maybe not, but from personal experience:
I used to run a hemp-based confectionary with my ex husband and an old friend of ours (yes, this was post-divorce.)
Ex husband brings his new girlfriend on to the team because what could possibly go wrong, right?
Well of course this causes conflict, and he's not a good leader, and was volatile at the time due to personal reasons that I'm sure running a business with his ex wife didn't help.
Whatever baggage he carries into work one day seeps out and it's clear he's not compartmentalizing his life or the fact that his ex wife and his new girlfriend begrudgingly get along for the sake of work flow. He flipped out on all of us, mostly on her, and I, in the middle of making a batch of gummies, said, "I think you should talk to a therapist about this."
Which of course works out about as well as you'd think. Him slamming his hands down on the counter, yelling at me, storming off to go to the gym or whatever.
His poor girlfriend looks over at me and goes "what do we do?"
I look at her with a smile, quit what I'm doing and was my hands and say, "He's your problem now," and left.
Asked him to buy me out of my share the next day for a pittance and went back to bartending.
K Barnes 4 days ago
I'm curious if OP actually made hemp-based confectionaries or made pot confections...I've never heard of hemp-based confectionaries.
Zach Taylor 3 days ago
Hemp Gummies: Made from hemp seed oil, which is derived exclusively from the seeds of the hemp plant. These gummies contain no cannabinoids like CBD or THC, focusing instead on the nutritional benefits of hemp seeds, including omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids.
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#22
I had accidentally punctured a drink on the railing in front of my neighbor's apartment next to my place. I rushed back to my apartment to throw the drink into the sink and grabbed a bunch of towels and bottled water to clean it up. I rushed over to the neighbor's first to clean it up and was scrubbing away for a bit.
About a minute later, she storms out, hollering at me for making the mess that I was actively cleaning. I tried explaining that I was fixing it, but she just kept yelling and I snapped. Yelled back at her, threw my hands up and "You know what, I'm done!" and walked away to clean up in front of my door. She tried to complain to the bldg manager but he sided with me on that one. She flips out over everything and I don't think anyone's ever matched her energy back at her.
Tabitha 1 week ago (edited)
Crying over spilled milk. The milk was spilled and was actively and competently being cleaned up, and there was no mention of damage that a cleanup couldn’t make right, so why TF cry over it now? Not everything that happens requires time spent playing the Blame Game. Accidents happen, ffs. Make it right as best you can, and everyone just STFU and move TF on. Maybe it’s just my 65 years of exhaustion from putting up with other people’s constant unnecessary drama speaking, but the world is a f*****g soap opera anyway, so why add to the b******t when there’s no point to it? (If there IS a point to to be made, cool. Make it. But if there isn’t, then leave everybody else alone.)
Andrew Keir 1 week ago
There are a sad lot of people who pick on those of us who are working to improve matters, presumably in the misguided mindset that shouting at us gets the job done faster and better. But there is a special circle of Héll reserved for the ones who , faced with a solved problem, come up with the imperious question "Why wasn't this done earlier?" The world needs a knock-down answer to this - preferably one that insults the questioner. Any ideas, Pandas ?
#23
Watching someone quit mid shift and walk out smiling while chaos continued behind them. Instant freedom.
#24
In second grade a bee was in the classroom, a lot of kids were freaking out running around. I’m very allergic to bees and one of my neighbors was in the classroom and had seen me have an allergic reaction to a bee sting before so he started screaming for everyone to cover me (sweet boy 🩷😭) and girls started scream-crying thinking I was going to be gone.
The sub kept yelling at us to shut up, shook one of the kids near her to shut up, started crying herself and left the classroom. A few minutes after we continued to scream, a different teacher came in to see what was going on and asked where the sub was, we heard a car peel out of the parking lot (it was in front of our classroom window) and it was the sub leaving 😭
We had a different sub after that lol and kept the windows closed.
Rick Murray 1 week ago
If that was the reaction to a 🐝, imagine what would happen if the sub saw a 🕷️!
tori Ohno 1 week ago
It was the children's behavior, not a bug, that made the teacher leave.
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MeFromTheFBI 1 week ago
One time in elementary school we had a horrible sub (so bad that us students started a petition to sue her) and she got fired in the middle of the school day, 3 of the staff had to teach the class for the rest of the day 🙃
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 6 days ago
We also had a horrible sub in elementary school, he called one of the boys that everyone liked stupid and made him cry and insinuated that the boy was gay for wearing a pink shirt (keep in mind we are literally ten years old), amongst many other things. Every single kid in our grade signed a petition to get him banned, and he didn't teach there for at least as long as I was there.
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Big Chungus 1 week ago
My toddler is in a phase where everything small that moves is a bee...proceed to tantrum
Nicole Weymann 4 days ago (edited)
When my nephew was learning to speak every animal was a "wau wau" (barking in German), including the caravan of ants parading across our the floor, where he was lying, watching them, fascinated. The first break in that animal naming pattern came when he introduced himself to my aunt's cat by pestering it, despite repeatedly being told to leave it be. The cat finally had enough and swiped at him. Minor injury, but she made her point. From then on all animals were wau wau, except cats were "wau wau aua" ("bow wow ouch") - (edited for typos)
Load More Replies... Lila Allen 4 days ago
I once had a sub come into my class and apparently she read the note and walked to the office refusing to stay saying she wasn't getting paid enough. To clarify I taught students with severe behavioral issues and a standard sub never should have been sent....but that was the day I realized I wasn't getting paid enough either.
Mel in Georgia 1 week ago
I've been a substitute teacher and this sounds about par for the course. (Not really, but kids - especially middle schoolers - really love to mess with subs.)
Julie S 3 days ago
Bee's and wasps are easy to catch they don't see you coming like flies do. Wait till they land a glass over them a bit of card slid under the glass and release outside.
Jp@nda 2 days ago
Yeah that's not the issue, it's my severe irrational fear of them that makes them hard to catch, lol
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Alex Martin 3 days ago
One of my few everyone clapped moments. I was working as a high school assistant principal and we kept getting good kids, the kids who NEVER got into trouble, sent up to the office for misbehavior by a substitute teacher. The kids said the sub just started screaming and started sending people out of the room. I went to the classroom and from the hallway I could hear this substitute screaming at the remaining kids who were just sitting there in stunned silence. I asked the substitute to speak to me in the hallway. I asked her what happened and she said they wouldn't listen to her so she started sending people to the office. I told her to collect her things and report to the office, her services were no longer required. I had the kids who were in the office sent back to the classroom and taught the next two periods until relief could be found. I didn't have a single problem with either class. Some folks just aren't made to be teachers.
Lola July 2 days ago
I'm allergic to bees and I would have protected that child! As an adult it's MY responsibility to calm them & keep them safe. Yes, even at the risk to my life. I'm fairly certain most of us Boomers would. Of course not the Karen's or Kevin's. Every generation has them + too many soy boys these days.
Helena 6 days ago
Given how expensive they are, and no knowledge of whether or not the sub would know where it was let alone how to administer it.
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#25
Me and my last attempt to see positivity in having a relationship with parents or dad and him just basically saying he won't change, he doesn't care, and I should have known I was treated so poorly. Something in me decided with relief that this relationship isn't my problem anymore. Made it a lot easier to respond to "but they're your parents" well they decided not to be so they aren't.
Tabitha 1 week ago (edited)
A cat is a better parent than my parents could ever have dreamed of being, though they never even thought of being good parents, so they wouldn’t have dreamed of it anyway. The reality is that they were our (my brothers and I) s***m and egg donors who should never have had kids, at least not with each other. If they’d never met and ended up married to other people, or divorced and got married to other people, us kids would’ve at least had a shot at having ONE good stepparent. Instead we just had the two bad parents, and had to endure them until we turned 18 and could leave. Kudos to my brothers who kept up the charade with our parents until I—-the baby and only girl—-turned 18 and they could help me get away too, before all five of us permanently shut the door on the s***m and egg donor, and wine t on to have our own happy lives. The s***m and egg donors ended up with only each other, which they fully deserved. Oh, did I not mention that, by the time I was born, they fully despised each other? The hitch is that, the f****d up ”values” those two were brought up with in their generation, meant they wouldn’t divorce while they still had kids at home. Thing is, they were already 40-ish when I was born, so when I turned 18, they were already two senior citizens who hated each other and shared an address even though they slept in separate rooms, but it was too late to change anything. Boo-hoo for them that Karma can be a real b***h. You reap what you sow.
Crystalwitch60 3 days ago
I was same with my father ( very diff reasons ) n anyone as says but but they are family , n you can choose your friends ,but you can’t choose your family , THE HELL YOU CANT !! it’s quite easy really. NO not my problem anymore n there you go sorted , x
Lee Gilliland 1 week ago
Yup. If you have a narc parent, chances are you wind up no contact eventually.
my sox are in flux 2 days ago
"Well, they're your parents!" "Well, I'm their kid, what's your point?"
#26
I was in IT and we supported a client and they had a printer that would sometimes go offline. My desk phone number was on the printer as a contact to bring it back online. The client took IT back in house so we no longer supported them. A year later I get the “our printer is offline” call. I told the woman that I couldn’t help her. She said “then who should I call?”. I said “somebody that cares” and hung up. As soon as the receiver hit phone I regretted my answer, but I really couldn’t help.
Michael Largey 1 week ago (edited)
Better response -"Your company's IT department, of course. And please take my phone number off that printer."
#27
I was once on holiday in a hotel in Madeira. Service was a bit wonky on and off, there were some really strange vibes.
On my 2nd to last day, the manager and half of the staff quit and simply walked out. I think there were only four or five employees left. The janitor was doing breakfast service. They completely quit serving food after that.
A bus full of guests arrived and one of the employees still working refused check-in.
I was relieved that I was leaving the next day.
JL 6 days ago
"The janitor was doing breakfast service." Now I'm really curious about the menu.
Nicole Weymann 4 days ago
"Catch of the day", he said, waving a mousetrap. 😂
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10th grade English class with a sub. Class started normal with roll call because of the sub, then she asked us to take our books out. The sub had a student read a passage of a book and it started "Peter picked..." The nicest guy in class (not even the class clown) half whispered, "Peter picked a patch of pickled peppers." And the sub says loudly, "pack your things and go to the principal's office.
He sat there looking around to see if it was actually him getting kicked out of class or someone else and his friend asked, "did you just kick him out of class?" The sub replied, "You can go join him!" To which two other students asked, "What did he do?" They were asked to leave as well. The class clown, who always got kicked out of class, just stood up and announced that he was hedging his bet and just going to the principals office now as well.
The sub started saying we are a bad class and trying to mutiny, to which everyone in class is just asking, "what is happening?" The sub left the room and five minutes later the principal came in. He looked around and said, "I have no idea what happened here, but I honestly know most of you here and know you are all good students. I think we will just all sit quietly until we can get a replacement sub in."
Five minutes later, the usual building sub came in. After the principal left, she wanted all the details and we spent the rest of the class laughing and having a normal class. Was one of the craziest days at school I ever had.
No idea what was going on with that sub and never heard anything about it. She must have had some issues in the past and was anxious or something.
Tabitha 1 week ago
Evidently the first sub’s behavior spilled over into the Teachers Lounge, everyone figured they were going to start some s**t, and the regular sub—-who the students obviously liked because they were cool about it—-wanted to get the good gossip to take back to all the other teachers and subs. Nice lesson in how to call out someone who is abusing the tiny little bit of power they’re given.
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 6 days ago
I remember once we had a substitute bus driver in middle school who made us line up after school, boys and girls, before letting the girls get on the bus first. I got on with the girls, as I hadn't come out yet, and found my seat and pulled out my book. Once everyone was on, the bus driver came to the back and gave us this lecture and said if anyone didn't behave, they'd have to sit in the front behind him- starting with me. Everyone stares at him, because I was the goody-two-shoes on the bus- I just sat in my seat and read my books. But I just stood, confused, and his eyes go wide and he tells me to sit back down. When the bus started, everyone asked me what had happened. (continued in reply)
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 6 days ago
Well, I had short hair back then and I have a fairly androgenous face- he thought I was a boy who had decided to get on with the girls to get a better seat, but he realized when I stood up that I was very much (biologically) a girl (I'm not small chested, even back in middle school). Everyone was so offended on my behalf that he thought I was a boy, but I didn't care at all. Hell, looking back on it, I'm pleased he thought I was a boy.
Load More Replies... Papa 4 days ago
On one of the last days of the school year in my last year of high school one of the teachers became frustrated because some of the students were being too loud, and shouted "All of you leave. I don't care where you go, just leave!" We looked at him like he'd lost his mind, but he repeated it. I happened to be sitting close to the door, so I promptly got up and left. Most of the class followed me. No one got in trouble.
#29
Guy finding out hes not the father at the supermarket, then walking away.
UnclePanda 1 week ago
His eyes glossed over briefly as his life suddenly went down the other leg of the trousers of time. ~ Pratchett (paraphrased)
#30
A drunken domestic dispute. I was at a party and a couiple started fighting. It started as just yelling, then they started hitting eachother. It started with the girl wailing on the guy and he just took it until it became too much and he fired back. Punched her once and the whole party piled on the guy. They were perfectly ok with her hitting him 10x but as soon as he retaliated, all hell broke loose. Really gross and the cops came and a bunch of us had to give statements so the guy wouldn't go to prison.
Andrew Keir 1 week ago
I do feel that those who are OK with violence from female to male, should rethink their position. "Equality" ought to mean "what's not OK one way is equally not OK the other way" . I'm not persuaded by the occasional offer of "Well, it used to be OK one way so now we're just evening things up a bit the other way". Seems to me that's just perpetuating the violence, but that's just my take on it.
Renay T 2 days ago
Y'all defending the man really don't understand how different men and women are. I could hit my boyfriend as hard as I can for hours and all he'd get would be a headache. He hits me once, and he could k**l me. He's a gentle giant and never would, but there's a BIG difference.
Inigo Montoya 9 hours ago (edited)
So it's okay to a*****t someone, as long as the injuries aren't life threatening?
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Laura Gillette 3 days ago
I don't think it was right for her to hit him, but he was not justified in hitting her back, not only because hitting in general is wrong, even if someone is actively hitting you, but because he would have been much stronger than her. Her strikes might have hurt, but unless she had martial arts training, it's unlikely she could have seriously injured him. But even an untrained man can hit hard enough to cause serious injury--even if he also injures his hand in the process. He could have restrained her hands to stop her from hitting him, or even just walked away. The other people there are also at fault for not doing anything to stop her from hitting him, too. Someone could have stepped between them to block her, for example.
Jp@nda 2 days ago
Equal rights, equal lefts. Said as a woman that doesn't believe in hitting someone because you think they can't hit you back. I'm sure if kids started whipping their parents asses right back, there would be a lot less child a***e.
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#31
I was working in the dairy department of a supermarket on a Sunday morning. I had to go up front to clock out for my break. The young cashier was ringing up a large (full cart) of groceries for this rather large woman in a flowered shirt and bright green stretch pants.
Seventy-five percent of the groceries were bagged and in the cart, but the belt still had a lot on it.
Suddenly, the woman just looked at the girl, said “I’m sorry, dear, our karmas are clashing today,” and just walked out, leaving everything in the cart and on the belt. The poor cashier just started crying and didn’t know what to do or think!
Callum Young 4 days ago
I'm waiting for someone to weigh in on the relevance of the customer's size and clothing choices so pointedly mentioned...?
Sue User 3 days ago
To make her less palatable. Without it, someone just pictures hippy chick and think " bit off". With it, they get to villify her more.
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Chris Jones 1 week ago
Well, a lot of people don't use the term karma correctly, if we're being truly pedantic. It's much more than the idea that people get some kind of relevant comeuppance for their misdeeds. If it truly existed, all murderers, rapists, child abusers etc would be suitably punished. Far too many get away with it. No, I don't believe they are all living miserable lives as an outcome of their crimes, no I don't think they'll be punished in another lifetime. If karma existed, none of them would be getting away with things. Admittedly, that is my take on it.
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#32
Someone walking away from a half filled grocery cart and just leaving. No phone call or anything just left.
Rika 1 week ago
A relative of mine has gastrointestinal issues and they had to do that several times: leave the cart to rush to the store bathroom and come back later to continue shopping. That's why I don't find it weird when I see people do it, a lot of disabilities aren't obvious from the outside.
Load More Replies... David Paterson 3 days ago
In my case my back was k*****g me, nowhere to sit and I couldn't stand up any longer. In too much pain to explain.
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Janissary35680 3 days ago
I've seen half-filled carts abandoned in odd places inside a supermarket from time to time. I check out the contents and try to come up with a backstory based on them.😄
#33
I once watched someone struggle for more than 5 minutes trying to lodge a shopping cart near their parking spot rather than just walking 10 seconds to the shopping cart return spot. Her parking space had a slight slope. She kept trying and failing to get the cart stuck on something so it doesn't slide away. Eventually, the car next to hers with a more level parking space left, so she left her shopping cart there and drove away.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 week ago
I'm Chaotic Neutral for a lot of things, but I always take my cart to a return corral. You should always return your shopping cart to one of the return corrals (or to the front area of the store if there are no corrals.) If you have mobility issues and can't walk the cart a couple of yards to the nearest corral... then at least ask a courtesy clerk to assist you out to your car. If you've ever had a shopping cart ding your car in a parking lot and have angrily cursed whomever left it there, then don't do the same thing yourself XD
Dilly Millandry 1 week ago
As a disabled person, in pain and with poor mobility, I do find the 'can't return it to the corral' a bit of a worrying excuse, though I'll allow that there are bound to be some situations that I can't think of that would justify it... 🤷 I'm concerned because if you are THAT bad, the trip round the supermarket worsened pain and fatigue to the extent you can't return a shopping trolley, then what are you doing getting back behind the wheel of a car? Pain and fatigue are absolute shockers for causing accidents. If the pain and fatigue is no worse, then you can return the cart. If it's mobility, then you managed to get around the shop and can return the cart. As Lakota said, you can ask for help. I really do know life as a disabled person isn't easy and I'm fortunate that where I live (South East, UK) that I have several supermarkets near me that deliver.
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Robert Trebor 3 days ago
I was in New Mexico during a high wind, and went to a k-mart. Parked just downwind of the closed end of a cart corral. Carts loose all over the place. Came out to find phones out all over the parking lot reporting chaotic cart collisions to various insurance companies. Reminded me of the Far Side cartoon on the subject.
#34
When my almost ex-husband called me to tell me he had been so drunk the night before that he passed out a few steps after he got out of his truck, landed in the snow and didn’t wake up for several hours.
He had driven drunk about 3 miles from the tavern. He is a professional truck driver.
#35
Right infront of my work at 7:40 am i saw some guys trying to open a parking meter with an angle grinder,
I took one look and walked into work, not my problem.
Apatheist 1 week ago
Not their problem, but it doesn't mean you can't do your civic duty. People letting crimes happen are encouraging them.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 week ago
I agree. Go into work, but at least call the police. Even if they don't make it there in time, local businesses may have had cameras.
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Rika 1 week ago
I had to take the bus but I had no money for a ticket so I told the driver about it. He shrugged his shoulders and replied, "I don't care, it's not my job to make sure people pay." To this day, I wonder if he said that because he understood I was in a bad situation (I was homeless) or because he doesn't care to work as a ticket inspector on top of driving the bus.
Sally Moen 6 days ago
In my town, drivers typically will allow anyone to ride even if they present no pay card or cash payment. There's been way too many drivers being assaulted, it's not worth it
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Retep Elpmet 2 days ago
Gawd, I've had so many of these in my life. Just being this passive aggressive type of person. I remember one time I was in the checkout at a grocery store (before self checkout was a thing), and the cashier and customer in front of me were just having a long conversation. The customer was going to move along so I could get checked out, but the cashier, quite loudly, said that I can just wait. At this point, I just left the handful of items right there (a tub of ice cream and some soda) and walked out without saying a word. I hope the ice cream melted.
Rika 1 week ago
I had to take the bus but I had no money for a ticket so I told the driver about it. He shrugged his shoulders and replied, "I don't care, it's not my job to make sure people pay." To this day, I wonder if he said that because he understood I was in a bad situation (I was homeless) or because he doesn't care to work as a ticket inspector on top of driving the bus.
Sally Moen 6 days ago
In my town, drivers typically will allow anyone to ride even if they present no pay card or cash payment. There's been way too many drivers being assaulted, it's not worth it
Load More Replies... Retep Elpmet 2 days ago
Gawd, I've had so many of these in my life. Just being this passive aggressive type of person. I remember one time I was in the checkout at a grocery store (before self checkout was a thing), and the cashier and customer in front of me were just having a long conversation. The customer was going to move along so I could get checked out, but the cashier, quite loudly, said that I can just wait. At this point, I just left the handful of items right there (a tub of ice cream and some soda) and walked out without saying a word. I hope the ice cream melted.
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