On the bee sting story, if you are stung by a bee, you never ever use tweezers to remove the stinger. All that will do is squeeze the venom sacks forcing more venom into the stinger hole. The best thing to do is to use a credit card, a playing card, a business card, or some other thin semi-rigid material to scrape the stinger out. This will get the stinger out without adding more venom to the wound. My dad was stung over 200 times by a bee swarm and, thankfully, was not allergic though he did go into shock and required a hospital stay overnight. He was in his early '70s when this happened, so they were very concerned about it. Their treatment in the ER? Yep, just using a piece of thin plastic to scrape the stingers out and giving him fluids and I hefty dose of antihistamine, just to be sure.
Stories like these remind me of why I love my boss so much. And how freaking scared I am that she's getting ready to retire. I've been in this job 28 years, and really do not want to start over somewhere else if the new boss comes in like in these stories.
I had my "Kevin" boss straight-up tell me once "I think you're after my job." Note that at the time I was not even eligible to take the promotion exam for his job title. I replied "Of course I'm after your job! I make you look like a rock star, you get promoted, and I get your old job. Is that a problem?" Yes, Kevin had a problem with that. I was SO glad when I got a different job with the company by acing the promotion exam.
As a former public sector employee, it s always fun to see people come in from the private sector and spectacularly flame out while trying to apply knowledge that simply irrelevant to the public sector mindset.
I understand the heat stroke story very well: I had a "minor" heatstroke 38 years ago, I remember well because my son will be 38 next month & I didn't know about him at the time. Anyways, I was working at a warehouse club about 3 years layer and the heat was getting to me. I tried to tell an assistant manager a couple of times I was getting sick because of the heat. He told me twice I was fine. The 3rd time, as he started yelling at me that I was fine, I turned ar and proceeded to throw up all over his shoes. I looked up, and said I really feel ill. After that all I had to do is tell him I was getting too warm, IF he didn't pull me off when he thought it was too hot for me, lol!
Bicycle shop story reminds me of my ex. His family owns (or owned? No idea - haven't been in contact in years) a shop that mainly matches and sells car paint. My ex wasn't all that interested in the business, but a job is a job, and it was steady work. When his colleague answered the phone, the customer often asked to speak to a man, so she'd hand the phone off to my ex. He'd listen to the questions, know that he was thoroughly unqualified to answer them, and offer to get an expert. The customer would get pissed off when he'd hand the phone right back to his female colleague. They both got a kick out of it.
Short-term care story: This Karen should NEVER have been allowed to even get into any kind of medical care field. She very obviously doesn't have the temperament or compassion to do such a job. Mechanical engineer story: Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face, the boss was an idiot!
@@Radicalbeast I tend to look at these stories with an eye towards being "just a story", but will comment as if they are real unless I see some real outstanding contradictions or obvious bs.
I had an employer demand that I come in when I was sick once. When I threw up on her shoes and passed out she freaked! I had not taken a sick day in 12 years, but was always the person tasked to cover for other employees when they were sick. I was the only man in the company site. Turns out I had walking pneumonia for about a week before this all went down. She actually had the nerve to try to write me up. Oh, and when I passed out, she was the one to call 911 and watched them take me to the hospital. I refused to signed the write up and dared her to get the HR/CEO or anyone else involved.
Pointy-haired boss: "I saw the code for your computer program yesterday. It looked easy. It's just a bunch of typing. And half of the words were spelled wrong. And don't get me started on your overuse of colons." Dilbert: "They remind me of you, sir."
20:59 when I was a new EMT, my boss(owner of the private ambulance), told us to go stage around town during a confirmed, long tracked tornado. She told us we had to stay in the ambulance in gas station parking lots. We were in a building with a basement. I told her the only way I was leaving was in my own car to go next door for shelter. I quit very shortly after because this wasn’t the last stupid decision she made. I can always find a job, but can’t get another life.
During a tornado warning, a local wannabe politician who was running for state senator was going door to door to solicit votes. The sirens were going off and this idiot was at my front door, wanting to visit and leave campaign material. Fortunately, there were no touchdowns. He did not get my vote.
I don't know the politician, but to me this sounds like a good vote. He fearlessly stands up for his goals despite the risks. Does what he was planning to do, even if others were saying it could go wrong (the meteorologists) and he was right. Lol
@danielwi8653Incapable of properly assessing risks? Puts others in danger in the process? A terrible example overall? I mean, not my idea of a good candidate to vote for, but... I guess the rest of the country may disagree.
First story: Highly illegal in my country. In fact usually bosses here don't want people to come in sick for good reasons. Nobody want's people to pass around whatever they are sick with.
"Boss gets it in his head that my Dad is going to replace him, because... (basically he's excellent at his job and keeping the company running smoothly)." Reminds me of the story of Princess Pingyang. Now, I don't remember all the particulars, and the website where I read the story is gone, and I don't feel like hunting down all the information and reading it again, so I will simply summarize, to the best of my memory. Sometime in China before the Tang dynasty, there was a general who was REALLY good at his job. He had a daughter. They were both EXTREMELY LOYAL. And she was VERY COMPETENT doing her womanly things. After all, she was raised by a highly competent man, who taught her about her worth as a woman in China. That is, he taught her that she HAD WORTH. She loved him. She loved him almost as much as she loved China! And likewise, her father loved the Emperor, almost as much as he loved China. But the Emperor got a bee in his bonnet. "This general is SOOOOOO competent! He's MUCH more competent than I am! Surely, he will stage a coup and take over rulership from me, because that is what I would do, if I were the general, and I were that competent and my Emperor were as incompetent as I am!" A little mixture of self-awareness mixed with stupidity. So, while the general was far from the capital, doing his job (excellently), the Emperor declared him to be a traitor. He declared the general's daughter to be a traitor, too, because why not go for all the man's relations, as well? I don't know about any other relations, but I DO know about this daughter, Pingyang. She bundled up her husband and they escaped. Then, Pingyang decided that they would go across the country to meet up with her father. And, along the way, she would stop off at the General's home, gather everything that would fetch a price, and bring it along to sell or trade. And she used this to hire every mercenary she could, along the way. And she gave rousing speeches to the populace, and convinced a great many of them to enlist with her, to serve in HER army, eventually to report to the General and join HIS army. She INSISTED and ENFORCED the rule that NONE of her soldiers would rape, pillage, plunder or loot. In fact, they were ordered to be polite to everyone they met, and PAY FOR FOOD. And when they came across a village that was suffering, largely due to the Emperor's incompetence, they GAVE THE VILLAGES THEIR FOOD. And then used the General's private fortune to purchase more, at the next opportunity. So, now, there were well-fed villagers, who were impressed with her, and DECIDEDLY UNIMPRESSED with their Emperor. Meanwhile, the General is saying, "Well, if you INSIST that I MUST usurp your power, I suppose I MUST usurp your power. Brace yourself, you fool. For the good of CHINA, the LAND I LOVE, I will take this incompetent fool off the throne, and rule myself, even though I was loyal until literally five minutes ago, when you declared me to be your enemy! I can't argue with crazy or stupid, but I CAN BEAT THEM BOTH INTO SUBMISSION." So, Pingyang swept across the country, gaining a huge army as she went, and soon enough, her army met with her father's army, and she handed her army over to his (and probably told him HOW IT RAN, while she did so. "OK, Daddy. I love you, but you MUST NOT break MY rules with THESE men. They are used to things being a certain way, and I WILL NOT ACCEPT change in that department. These men will come back to their wives, PROUD, having served WITH HONOR, and made the villagers HAPPY TO SEE THEM, because they are KIND and POLITE and NO DANGER TO THE WOMEN." So, the giant army swept a new path across China, continuing to feed the hungry and impress the poor with their excellent manners and kindness, and EVEN MORE PEOPLE joined the cause. By the time the army reached the Emperor, he had zero chance of winning, because NOBODY WANTED HIM. Why would they, when they had Pingyang and her father, and FOOD and HONOR and COURTESY? So, the General deposed the Emperor and started his own brand new dynasty (it MIGHT have been the Tang, but all I remember for sure was that the former Emperor was definitely NOT Tang. Unless I'm totally wrong and got it reversed. Haha). Since the General was now Emperor, his daughter was now Princess Pingyang. And she was THE ONLY WOMAN BURIED WITH FULL MILITARY HONORS, including music! Music was NEVER done for women, only for warriors. But she got it. Unfortunately, being a woman, she died due to complications in childbirth, or something. I know she died young, and there was much sadness in the land, because she WAS a beloved princess. Honestly, I don't know what happened to the family/dynasty after that. I got the feeling she was an only child. BUT, if she bore a child, that child could have inherited. Or, maybe the General would just adopt his most trusted/competent General to follow in his footsteps? Dang! Now I DO want to took it all up again! Princess Pingyang! I would watch that movie!
Fluff, There is not one episode that I miss. I self-title these end-of-the-year compilations "The Best MC stories of 2024" Listening to these stories again, brings back fond memories of not only laughing hard at the ones receiving the Malicious Compliance but shaking my head so hard that I needed to see a Chiropractor.
As a native Floridian, I have had to teach the Heat Stroke lesson to a supervisor before. Was working as a Lot Associate at Home Depot and was ordered to stay outside in the Florida Sun rather than taking trips through the front of the store when I needed to get to the other side or fill my water bottle. Ended up nearly collapsing in front of a Corporate Employee. She decided to let me manage my own time from then on.
My last job started a sick day policy that said if you have to call in sick, they need 24 hours notice. Doctor's notes did not matter. So if you are going to wake up sick on Wednesday, you are required to call before the start of your shift, ON TUESDAY, to ask if you can get the next day off. ZERO sick days, and you could not ask to use a vacation day for it.
I worked at a McDonald's where I had to train the boss's nephew on the register so he could immediately qualify to become a manager! No extra pay! (As in crew trainer).
That story about someone getting in trouble for using the fire extinguisher reminds me of something that happened at work a couple years ago. One of our cold islands in the deli started smoking, so the used the extinguisher and called 911. The store director was pissed. That same week, there was something going on in the cooking area, so an electrician was called, but one of my manager friends was unsure of if she should call 911 again. Turned out, it was an electrical fire; boy were we lucky that the damage was concentrated to a small area, and not one got hurt.
I was working for a children's nursery once and I came down with the worst crud virus. I called in to say I was too sick but the boss insisted I come in. I came in but I was so out of focus! No one sent me home though. I made sure I didn't breathe on the kiddos and I hope none got sick!
I quit a job in my late teens for that same reason. New hires (first job, zero experience) were getting paid more than me, and I had been with the company 2 years. I asked for a raise and was told no. Walked out in the middle of a rush. Manager chased me into the parking lot, trying to get me to come back. Nope, sorry, too late.
Remote training story: Agreed Fluff, OP should have gone to HR over this. And given the problems with travelling at that time (hotels, fuel, restaurants, airline restrictions, mask mandates, quarantines, etc.) and that some states were stopping travelers from other states from entering, forcing an in-person training program was simply insane. Bike shop story: Yep, definitely didn't need that type of customer. If he ever brought his bike in to be serviced, he'd be HORRIFIED to learn a woman worked on it and would never believe it had been serviced/repaired correctly. Water story: Idiots. Maybe that quarter-inch hole would have been a good idea.
unless her boss is her doctor or insurance company rep. there’s no laws against it HIPAA is exclusively to prevent your hospital, doctor, and health insurance from sharing medical history outside those three
For that "in-person team meeting" story, it always makes me think that the guy should be nicknamed Gaston, instead...! "No... one's... been like Gaston, A kingpin, like Gaston, No one's got a swell cleft, in his chin, like Gaston! As a specimen, yes, he's intimidating, My, what a guy, that Gaston!"
I worked at a hospital that required employees to go to "Employee Health", they would decide if the employees were sick enough to stay home and when you could work. I refused to go in to them, I felt it was a waste of money. I had left there before "ithe cough", thankfully.
fun story for the pay rate crap, the only union company I ever worked for hired me at a "standard pay rate, in the late 2K's I started at $8.50, I worked for 2 months when then union re-negotiated the contract getting new hires $11 p/h, the issues started when some very senior guys were making $9-10 and pretty much the whole company (including a couple new guys) threatened to strike, the new compromise ( I can't make this up) = 1 time $100 bonus and a set raise to $11.10 for all seinors. some guys got a dollar or more but most got gas money and a few cents...
I wonder is it a criminal offense to kiss someone while sick if the receiver of said kiss doesn't believe the sender is sick even though the evidence is irrefutable?
Technically, yes, it could be. Deliberately trying to get someone sick can actually legally be considered a form of assault. And regardless of that, kissing someone without consent could also be prosecuted as a form of sexual assault. Now, whether there's a DA anywhere that would actually try to prosecute anyone under those circumstances is probably a different question...
@@foogod4237 There'd be at least someone who'd take the case, if it's in America. Depending on the state, the DA might even believe the boss was in the right.
No. Just an end of your best off. After story 2 I jumped in, found two more stories I heard over the year and will switch off now. Nothing bad about a 2024 best off, but it should be labeled accordingly, so that I know that I don't have to watch it from the beginning.
"You don't have my permission to get water..." Yeah, I'm gone as my health is a lot more important than this business! Beer garden: Snap fingers at me and a snail will be lapping me a few times as i take care of your order.
Is it just me or are there a lot of repeats this time? I’m halfway through and I’m pretty sure every story has been a rerun. If this is a compilation of favorites for the year, it woulda been nice for it to be labeled
I worked for a company once in a field in which I had worked for almost a decade. I was an equipment operator at the end. Anyway, the owner hired his son/nephew/cousin's kid/whatever at the bottom level and they assigned him to me. When we broke for lunch, we walked by another crew and the kid's comment was "Wow. They're doing the same thing as us!" So yeah... Fast forward to the end of our lunch and the young kid, not knowing any better I suppose let me know what he made per hour and it was 50 cents more than me! (This was in 1983). I told another equipment operator who likewise had been at it forever and he got angry too. We both quit after lunch and were employed by another owner who was in the same line of work by that afternoon. That company was gone by the time I returned to the area after my naval service ten years later but I have no idea why it failed.
In my younger days I was coerced to sign a write-up for not doing someone else's job for them. I've grown since then. I'll never do that again. I'm convinced that many of the world's problems are due to horrible communication and people not speaking up when they should.
Kitchen Fire Comment: Actually it was a LOT more than just a few hundred in Product Loss... You forgot to include the HOURS of downtime needed to rip the kitchen apart to Deep Clean EVERYTHING because the chemicals used in Kitchen Extinguishers are nasty (they need to be to deal with the the burning grease in a fire) as well as fixing the damage caused by the fire and recertifying the appliance as Safe to Use... At least OP used a hand-held Extinguisher (or at least that's what's implied) rather than pull the wall-mounted Fire Suppression System handle because that would have triggered the Range/Oven Extinguishers and they would have covered the EVERYTHING within about 40 FEET of the nozzles in a fine powder (HALON Gas Suppressors have been Illegal for more than 20 years in all buildings where the Public can be exposed to the Gas) requiring most of the Restaurant to be Deep Cleaned and ALL the product not in completely sealed packaging (AKA unopened canned goods) to be thrown out...refilling and recertifying that Extinguishing System is at LEAST $15,000.00...I know, a disgruntled worker deliberately triggered the one at my Father's Restaurant after he was fired for showing up to work 2 hours late and drunk...the Restaurant was closed for 3 days to clean up everything and reorder all the lost food/products...Dad Sued the Unholy Howling HELL out of him for nearly $175,000 in costs and lost income (lost product, cleanup, worker pay, recertification of the Fire Suppressor System, lost money due to being closed etc.)...he got it too, the Judge was NOT amused when he saw the Security Camera video of the System going off and spraying the cooks with chemical (their faces are right under the nozzles when they're cooking) and then seeing everything inside the kitchen and in the first 15 feet of the bar/dining room outside the kitchen doors looking like a blizzard just hit...
@@mjjoe76 Stopping a fire when small is ALWAYS better than letting the place burn down...replacing the entire building and everything in it is ALWAYS more time consuming, expensive and difficult that simply stopping a fire and repairing the damage... There's also the fact that letting the entire building burn risks letting it spread to other structures and/or hurt/kill someone...
The bank bro getting a $6k nuke dropped on his budget was like watching a tough guy go "I'm stronger than any animal, I'll tame whatever I'm up against" and then proceeds to get mauled by a pack of wolves. Don't fuck with unions. Rich elites think we're dumb monkeys, but monkeys together strong.
One thing that does not go as economic theory insists--people and companies do NOT always act in their own best interest!! And the worse moves are very much predictably against their own good!
I am a 76-year-old woman who has never been able to sweat except on my head. I have always been careful of getting overheated since heat stroke can kill, and I am the perfect candidate. I feel for the man in the second story.
I applied for an engineering job at a TV station in Dayton Ohio in the late '80s. They were starting a local news rogram, which would requre an engineer. A riend wirking there was trasfered, so they needed someone to maintain the transmitter and studios. I was ubtervueed by the Chief engineer, then I didn't hear anytging from him. I called my friend, and was told, "He is afraid to gire you. Fe is retiring in two years, and he's afraid that they will lrt him go, because you are a much better engineer." I told hm, 'Good luck', and moved south to Florid. I applied at a station in Orlando and was hired rught away. I later built another TV station in Destin Fkorida/ I'm now in my 70s, and have low visiob that doesn't allow me to see what I'm typing.
There was a time whilst employed as a train driver and we had a super heat wave, but lower management jumped on several drivers for getting water they said we were not entitled to. So drivers started to delay services or cancel trains due to overheating. Lower management got stamped on by higher management and all train crews got issued with stainless steel water flasks, ( in the winter we kept ready made tea in them or milk) Yet again, management who didn't work on the trains, proved their ignorance of working conditions.
Story 1: Simpler solution: spend as much time on the report as on the email. OP had 1 or 2 minutes to send an email? Great! Limit the time to write the report to 1 or 2 minutes.
I like these compliations, just make sure to label them clearly if possible to avoid confusion. I guess you are having a break, which makes sense, but would be nice to know ethese aren't new stories but just the best put together. These are perfect work cleaning and working, just put the buds in and get to work. Love this channel.
People who pride themselves on not taking days off when sick (or who demand that others come in when sick) are often responsible for far more loss of productivity as the illness spreads around the entire workplace. Also different people have different amounts of immune response to illnesses (both naturally and due to a lot of factors like whether they have pre-existing conditions, how much stress, sleep, nutrition, etc. their body is operating under, whether they have already been unwell recently, age, general fitness/health, medications they may be on, and many many, many other things) so someone may come into work with an illness that they experience as only a mild cold, but they may pass that virus to another person who ends up seriously unwell with it. Let's not forget that 'only the flu' is pretty much the understood trope for 'it's not that bad', yet hundreds of people die of flu because, for their body, it actually is that serious - this is how vastly the severity of an illness can vary from one person to another! Also, sick people aren't going to be very productive even if you force them to be physically present in the workplace. Who can consentrate when you feel like crap?! This is why limiting sick days is actually a bad decision for the good of the business overall as well as for individual workers. A lot of bosses don't actually think things through and realise that doing whatever they can to support their employees to be as well and happy as possible will result in them being the most productive and loyal
Karen boss in the dementia ward story honestly sounds like she was only making work up for herself so that she could show her superiors she was doing something that was considered "boss-like". Her position likely was not even necessary and could have been made redundant.
Hey! Love the stories. I always get excited when I see a new post has been made. However, the old format of posts between 20-25 min was better. Perfect for my breakfast entertainment Happy new year! Love you ❤
Oh geez- I am SO glad I am retired and don't have to deal with this office crap anymore. One job I had years ago called 'Job Boss' here in Minnesota had a creepy manager who commented for a few weeks at a time from ever-so-much-better, you know- California. When a company in the Netherlands bought the company he sent us a pathetic, sniveling e-mail stating that it was apparent the new company did not like him so he was leaving. Oh my gosh, I laughed so hard. During my 40-some years in offices I have so many stories of people being asses. Funny thing is, so many of those people have died by now. Where did it get them by being so nasty?
"As long as it works, I don't care" is absolutely _terrible_ programming practise. It's crucial to be able to *keep* it running. This includes making sure the work is adequately documented, and coding to make maintenance and future development simple and smooth, ideally as seamless as possible. Things like using defined constants instead of "magic numbers", variables with meaningful names, and enumerated values make an incredible difference. I used to work with a guy who worked very quickly, but his code was full of bugs, and it was so hard to understand that when I was trying to track down a bug just one month after he'd finished one chuck of work, he himself couldn't figure out what it was supposed to be doing. "Just don't touch it or you'll break something" isn't an acceptable coding standard.
The bike story reminded me of an experience (several, actually. But one in particular.) that I had as a straight man working in the sewing and fabric industry for a few years. I was in middle Tennessee and even sold Wanda Jackson the fringe she wears in her video with Jack White in the Fire on the Mountain video (I'm also a musician. As I didn't move there for it and hated Nashville area musicians, I didn't recognize her, and was even a little dismissive. But, that's another story where I was sort of the Karen in that situation. Some other time, maybe). Anyway, I was the softline supervisor (in charge of the sewing department) at a place that we'll call Blow-Ann's. I was one of the only men in the store, and most of my employees that worked the cut table didn't know even a fraction of what I did. There was this old lady who walked up while my female co-worker was helping someone else. I asked if I could assist her. She blatantly said, "No. I don't think so," in a semi-condescending tone. I let her be for a bit, but as the other transaction was taking a while, I asked again. Again, I got a no. She was polite in tone, but adamant. After, what I will confess was a crazy amount of time, my employee helping this other customer and me just doing recovery behind the cut table, the old woman finally sighed big and said, "Okay, look. Here's the problem we have. My granddaughter does cozplay and we're having this problem (don't remember specifics. It was a decade ago) with her costume. Do you have anyone who can help us?" Here's the thing, the reasons I know about fabric and sewing are trifold. First, I was a weird kid who wanted to be a superhero. At around eight my mother decided that she was tired of making me costumes and I figured out how to do it on my own. By 14, it was the early eighties and I was into hair metal, so I started making my own clothes for that. That later transitioned into a Goth phase--same thing. Then, I got into college and double majored in Speech and Theater. It was required I learn to sew for my degree. Well, in my case, sew even better. They explained their problem and I gave them multiple options on how to fix it, including recommendations on using zig-zag stitches on the spandex and how to fit fabric around styrofoam. I'm good at solving weird problems like that second one. Again, theater training. My co-worker who was finally done with the customer who was taking up so much time said loudly, "Wow! Those are good suggestions. I wouldn't even have known what fabric to use or how to sew it, much less the odd solves." That old lady suddenly smiled and looked a lot nicer. From there on out, she would only deal with me, even if all she needed was thread. Stuff like that happened a lot, and many were upset when I eventually left that job. I actually miss it a lot. But, my departure is yet, another story. Blow-Ann's HR was the Karen in it. Their loss.
As a software specialist "As long as it works, I don't care." It's a great way to produce super fragile software that only just works now and will cost you a fortune in the future because it's not made to be maintainable. Software almost always needs to be updated to accommodate new requirements or just changes to its operating environment. With that attitude I would have been tempted to make all the variable names unfathomable things like boss_is_a_jerk.
3rd? Story: sounds like par for the course in Canada, who now offers by law Medical Assistance In Dying as a cheaper alternative to legitimate medical care for everything from terminal illnesses to broken bones and colds to mental illnesses
Even with places which DON'T take reservations, I give them a courtesy call if I'm planning to show up with a group of more than five. Especially if I suspect they're busy. THIRTY-SIX people walk in to a place with double-booked tables, no reservation or even a "how do you do?" to the waitstaff.... that's next-level entitled. Honestly, OP should have turned them away. It made for a good story, but that was a lot of resources which could have gone to reasonable people.
25:25 Um. Pretty sure that person used a fire extinguisher to put out the pilot light of the flat top stove lmao. Guess nobody taught that OP about pilot lights. Absolutely howling at the fact that they tried to put milk on it though, I do NOT envy the folks who had to clean that up.
"If it work I do not care" works especially not in the computer science field. Programming is not complicated but incredibly complex. With all the technologies/security/process changes the code decays faster than any physical components and unorganized/unupdated code will lead to huge time loss.
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Holy crap, an hour?!
Merry Christmas! This year we got a week of long episodes instead of a single 2 hour episode!
There are an increasing number of Karen’s soon it will be longer lol
I hope this is a one off. I do enjoy these stories but do not want to spend an hour listening to them. Too long!!!
It might be a copulation because story 2 I had heard it before
@@syber_roxas A "copulation?" 😂 I think you mean "compilation!"
That Italian boss pulled a legit Aniken move. His reaction to his fear of getting replaced caused his entire business to be replaced.
On the bee sting story, if you are stung by a bee, you never ever use tweezers to remove the stinger. All that will do is squeeze the venom sacks forcing more venom into the stinger hole. The best thing to do is to use a credit card, a playing card, a business card, or some other thin semi-rigid material to scrape the stinger out. This will get the stinger out without adding more venom to the wound. My dad was stung over 200 times by a bee swarm and, thankfully, was not allergic though he did go into shock and required a hospital stay overnight. He was in his early '70s when this happened, so they were very concerned about it. Their treatment in the ER? Yep, just using a piece of thin plastic to scrape the stingers out and giving him fluids and I hefty dose of antihistamine, just to be sure.
I can't unsee the fact that the horns look like cinnamon rolls on the sides of his head... 😂
Wow...that's your take away from this?
Lol 😆
Princess Leah and an Ewok love child…😂
You just realized that?
Need em near on hand just in case 👀
Stories like these remind me of why I love my boss so much. And how freaking scared I am that she's getting ready to retire. I've been in this job 28 years, and really do not want to start over somewhere else if the new boss comes in like in these stories.
I had my "Kevin" boss straight-up tell me once "I think you're after my job." Note that at the time I was not even eligible to take the promotion exam for his job title. I replied "Of course I'm after your job! I make you look like a rock star, you get promoted, and I get your old job. Is that a problem?" Yes, Kevin had a problem with that.
I was SO glad when I got a different job with the company by acing the promotion exam.
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As a former public sector employee, it s always fun to see people come in from the private sector and spectacularly flame out while trying to apply knowledge that simply irrelevant to the public sector mindset.
I understand the heat stroke story very well:
I had a "minor" heatstroke 38 years ago, I remember well because my son will be 38 next month & I didn't know about him at the time. Anyways, I was working at a warehouse club about 3 years layer and the heat was getting to me. I tried to tell an assistant manager a couple of times I was getting sick because of the heat. He told me twice I was fine. The 3rd time, as he started yelling at me that I was fine, I turned ar and proceeded to throw up all over his shoes. I looked up, and said I really feel ill. After that all I had to do is tell him I was getting too warm, IF he didn't pull me off when he thought it was too hot for me, lol!
Bicycle shop story reminds me of my ex. His family owns (or owned? No idea - haven't been in contact in years) a shop that mainly matches and sells car paint. My ex wasn't all that interested in the business, but a job is a job, and it was steady work. When his colleague answered the phone, the customer often asked to speak to a man, so she'd hand the phone off to my ex. He'd listen to the questions, know that he was thoroughly unqualified to answer them, and offer to get an expert. The customer would get pissed off when he'd hand the phone right back to his female colleague. They both got a kick out of it.
Short-term care story: This Karen should NEVER have been allowed to even get into any kind of medical care field. She very obviously doesn't have the temperament or compassion to do such a job.
Mechanical engineer story: Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face, the boss was an idiot!
assume all stories are fake unless they have some sort of proof
@@Radicalbeast I tend to look at these stories with an eye towards being "just a story", but will comment as if they are real unless I see some real outstanding contradictions or obvious bs.
You're ridiculous. None of these stories are even remotely far fetched.
I had an employer demand that I come in when I was sick once. When I threw up on her shoes and passed out she freaked! I had not taken a sick day in 12 years, but was always the person tasked to cover for other employees when they were sick. I was the only man in the company site. Turns out I had walking pneumonia for about a week before this all went down. She actually had the nerve to try to write me up. Oh, and when I passed out, she was the one to call 911 and watched them take me to the hospital. I refused to signed the write up and dared her to get the HR/CEO or anyone else involved.
Pointy-haired boss: "I saw the code for your computer program yesterday. It looked easy. It's just a bunch of typing. And half of the words were spelled wrong. And don't get me started on your overuse of colons."
Dilbert: "They remind me of you, sir."
20:59 when I was a new EMT, my boss(owner of the private ambulance), told us to go stage around town during a confirmed, long tracked tornado. She told us we had to stay in the ambulance in gas station parking lots. We were in a building with a basement. I told her the only way I was leaving was in my own car to go next door for shelter. I quit very shortly after because this wasn’t the last stupid decision she made. I can always find a job, but can’t get another life.
During a tornado warning, a local wannabe politician who was running for state senator was going door to door to solicit votes. The sirens were going off and this idiot was at my front door, wanting to visit and leave campaign material. Fortunately, there were no touchdowns. He did not get my vote.
I don't know the politician, but to me this sounds like a good vote. He fearlessly stands up for his goals despite the risks. Does what he was planning to do, even if others were saying it could go wrong (the meteorologists) and he was right. Lol
@danielwi8653Incapable of properly assessing risks? Puts others in danger in the process? A terrible example overall? I mean, not my idea of a good candidate to vote for, but... I guess the rest of the country may disagree.
First story: Highly illegal in my country. In fact usually bosses here don't want people to come in sick for good reasons. Nobody want's people to pass around whatever they are sick with.
I love how the father laughs every time he goes by where the old shop is 😂
"Boss gets it in his head that my Dad is going to replace him, because... (basically he's excellent at his job and keeping the company running smoothly)."
Reminds me of the story of Princess Pingyang. Now, I don't remember all the particulars, and the website where I read the story is gone, and I don't feel like hunting down all the information and reading it again, so I will simply summarize, to the best of my memory.
Sometime in China before the Tang dynasty, there was a general who was REALLY good at his job. He had a daughter. They were both EXTREMELY LOYAL. And she was VERY COMPETENT doing her womanly things. After all, she was raised by a highly competent man, who taught her about her worth as a woman in China. That is, he taught her that she HAD WORTH. She loved him. She loved him almost as much as she loved China! And likewise, her father loved the Emperor, almost as much as he loved China.
But the Emperor got a bee in his bonnet. "This general is SOOOOOO competent! He's MUCH more competent than I am! Surely, he will stage a coup and take over rulership from me, because that is what I would do, if I were the general, and I were that competent and my Emperor were as incompetent as I am!" A little mixture of self-awareness mixed with stupidity.
So, while the general was far from the capital, doing his job (excellently), the Emperor declared him to be a traitor. He declared the general's daughter to be a traitor, too, because why not go for all the man's relations, as well? I don't know about any other relations, but I DO know about this daughter, Pingyang.
She bundled up her husband and they escaped. Then, Pingyang decided that they would go across the country to meet up with her father. And, along the way, she would stop off at the General's home, gather everything that would fetch a price, and bring it along to sell or trade. And she used this to hire every mercenary she could, along the way. And she gave rousing speeches to the populace, and convinced a great many of them to enlist with her, to serve in HER army, eventually to report to the General and join HIS army.
She INSISTED and ENFORCED the rule that NONE of her soldiers would rape, pillage, plunder or loot. In fact, they were ordered to be polite to everyone they met, and PAY FOR FOOD. And when they came across a village that was suffering, largely due to the Emperor's incompetence, they GAVE THE VILLAGES THEIR FOOD. And then used the General's private fortune to purchase more, at the next opportunity.
So, now, there were well-fed villagers, who were impressed with her, and DECIDEDLY UNIMPRESSED with their Emperor.
Meanwhile, the General is saying, "Well, if you INSIST that I MUST usurp your power, I suppose I MUST usurp your power. Brace yourself, you fool. For the good of CHINA, the LAND I LOVE, I will take this incompetent fool off the throne, and rule myself, even though I was loyal until literally five minutes ago, when you declared me to be your enemy! I can't argue with crazy or stupid, but I CAN BEAT THEM BOTH INTO SUBMISSION."
So, Pingyang swept across the country, gaining a huge army as she went, and soon enough, her army met with her father's army, and she handed her army over to his (and probably told him HOW IT RAN, while she did so. "OK, Daddy. I love you, but you MUST NOT break MY rules with THESE men. They are used to things being a certain way, and I WILL NOT ACCEPT change in that department. These men will come back to their wives, PROUD, having served WITH HONOR, and made the villagers HAPPY TO SEE THEM, because they are KIND and POLITE and NO DANGER TO THE WOMEN."
So, the giant army swept a new path across China, continuing to feed the hungry and impress the poor with their excellent manners and kindness, and EVEN MORE PEOPLE joined the cause.
By the time the army reached the Emperor, he had zero chance of winning, because NOBODY WANTED HIM. Why would they, when they had Pingyang and her father, and FOOD and HONOR and COURTESY?
So, the General deposed the Emperor and started his own brand new dynasty (it MIGHT have been the Tang, but all I remember for sure was that the former Emperor was definitely NOT Tang. Unless I'm totally wrong and got it reversed. Haha).
Since the General was now Emperor, his daughter was now Princess Pingyang. And she was THE ONLY WOMAN BURIED WITH FULL MILITARY HONORS, including music! Music was NEVER done for women, only for warriors. But she got it.
Unfortunately, being a woman, she died due to complications in childbirth, or something. I know she died young, and there was much sadness in the land, because she WAS a beloved princess.
Honestly, I don't know what happened to the family/dynasty after that. I got the feeling she was an only child. BUT, if she bore a child, that child could have inherited. Or, maybe the General would just adopt his most trusted/competent General to follow in his footsteps?
Dang! Now I DO want to took it all up again! Princess Pingyang! I would watch that movie!
An hour of Malicious Compliance? Yes please!
It’s a clip show
Fluff,
There is not one episode that I miss. I self-title these end-of-the-year compilations "The Best MC stories of 2024" Listening to these stories again, brings back fond memories of not only laughing hard at the ones receiving the Malicious Compliance but shaking my head so hard that I needed to see a Chiropractor.
As a native Floridian, I have had to teach the Heat Stroke lesson to a supervisor before. Was working as a Lot Associate at Home Depot and was ordered to stay outside in the Florida Sun rather than taking trips through the front of the store when I needed to get to the other side or fill my water bottle. Ended up nearly collapsing in front of a Corporate Employee. She decided to let me manage my own time from then on.
I clicked it without checking the time, and 4 mins in, I'm thinking that I've heard these stories before 😂😅🤣
Same 😝
Yeah I HATE this trend of “compilations” and “throw backs”. I’ve heard it and it’s frustrating.
He did it last year as well, just as a final farewell to the year
@@FreedomHero4 ah ok once a year is fine, I just see content creators adding this on a regular basis and its frustrating
I just started it, immediately hopped into the shower, expecting it to be almost done when I get out.
....NOPE. its an hour. Holy crap. Love it.
My last job started a sick day policy that said if you have to call in sick, they need 24 hours notice. Doctor's notes did not matter. So if you are going to wake up sick on Wednesday, you are required to call before the start of your shift, ON TUESDAY, to ask if you can get the next day off. ZERO sick days, and you could not ask to use a vacation day for it.
Was this a psychic community? Everyone KNEW when they would come down with an illness? Everyone KNEW when they would be injured?
That's insane.
I had a manager tell me I needed to lower my standards.... I was working in a bakery at the time
Oh boy! Another full hour of DF and reddit mayhem! Thank you, boys!
That was consequences he caught it from her. Simply cause and effect for his own stupidity.
Sounds like my boss, just fired me, my coworkers followed me and now he can do the job by himself 😂🎉
I worked at a McDonald's where I had to train the boss's nephew on the register so he could immediately qualify to become a manager! No extra pay! (As in crew trainer).
That story about someone getting in trouble for using the fire extinguisher reminds me of something that happened at work a couple years ago. One of our cold islands in the deli started smoking, so the used the extinguisher and called 911. The store director was pissed.
That same week, there was something going on in the cooking area, so an electrician was called, but one of my manager friends was unsure of if she should call 911 again. Turned out, it was an electrical fire; boy were we lucky that the damage was concentrated to a small area, and not one got hurt.
I was working for a children's nursery once and I came down with the worst crud virus. I called in to say I was too sick but the boss insisted I come in. I came in but I was so out of focus! No one sent me home though. I made sure I didn't breathe on the kiddos and I hope none got sick!
I quit a job in my late teens for that same reason. New hires (first job, zero experience) were getting paid more than me, and I had been with the company 2 years. I asked for a raise and was told no. Walked out in the middle of a rush. Manager chased me into the parking lot, trying to get me to come back. Nope, sorry, too late.
2:40 sick days is one the most ridiculous things I've heard about USA...
Remote training story: Agreed Fluff, OP should have gone to HR over this. And given the problems with travelling at that time (hotels, fuel, restaurants, airline restrictions, mask mandates, quarantines, etc.) and that some states were stopping travelers from other states from entering, forcing an in-person training program was simply insane.
Bike shop story: Yep, definitely didn't need that type of customer. If he ever brought his bike in to be serviced, he'd be HORRIFIED to learn a woman worked on it and would never believe it had been serviced/repaired correctly.
Water story: Idiots. Maybe that quarter-inch hole would have been a good idea.
At 31:28 story...how did the evil boss reveal the employee's medical history and not be busted for a felony?
unless her boss is her doctor or insurance company rep. there’s no laws against it
HIPAA is exclusively to prevent your hospital, doctor, and health insurance from sharing medical history outside those three
48:00 I worked on staff in a dorm one year. Move in _and_ move out days were equally horrendous.
Hey DarkFluff when I saw we’re getting just over an hour of Malicious Compliance I was like yay. These are my favourite stories
Must be some special emails if they take as much time as a report does.
For that "in-person team meeting" story, it always makes me think that the guy should be nicknamed Gaston, instead...!
"No... one's... been like Gaston,
A kingpin, like Gaston,
No one's got a swell cleft, in his chin, like Gaston!
As a specimen, yes, he's intimidating,
My, what a guy, that Gaston!"
I worked at a hospital that required employees to go to "Employee Health", they would decide if the employees were sick enough to stay home and when you could work. I refused to go in to them, I felt it was a waste of money.
I had left there before "ithe cough", thankfully.
13:00 but he DID lose his job to OPs dad. Because he HANDED it to him xD
Wow Christmas continues! A whole hour, what a treat!
That guy at 20 minutes would have been on the receiving end of a very aggressive, and well-evidenced lawsuit.
5:00 Why remain in that job? If he can get another even with the same pay, run like Usain Bolt
OP needs his head examined.
fun story for the pay rate crap, the only union company I ever worked for hired me at a "standard pay rate, in the late 2K's I started at $8.50, I worked for 2 months when then union re-negotiated the contract getting new hires $11 p/h, the issues started when some very senior guys were making $9-10 and pretty much the whole company (including a couple new guys) threatened to strike, the new compromise ( I can't make this up) = 1 time $100 bonus and a set raise to $11.10 for all seinors. some guys got a dollar or more but most got gas money and a few cents...
That first story-Boss got well-deserved Karma! 😁😁😁😁😁
HAPPY HOLIDAY'S FLUFF AND EVERYONE ELSE TOO! ❤❤❤
I wonder is it a criminal offense to kiss someone while sick if the receiver of said kiss doesn't believe the sender is sick even though the evidence is irrefutable?
Technically, yes, it could be. Deliberately trying to get someone sick can actually legally be considered a form of assault. And regardless of that, kissing someone without consent could also be prosecuted as a form of sexual assault.
Now, whether there's a DA anywhere that would actually try to prosecute anyone under those circumstances is probably a different question...
@@foogod4237 There'd be at least someone who'd take the case, if it's in America. Depending on the state, the DA might even believe the boss was in the right.
Episode...bro this is a movie
Not just a movie, this is cinema. 😎
No. Just an end of your best off. After story 2 I jumped in, found two more stories I heard over the year and will switch off now.
Nothing bad about a 2024 best off, but it should be labeled accordingly, so that I know that I don't have to watch it from the beginning.
An hour!!!! Yessssssss
Good afternoon fluff listeners. Hour long episode for us! Yippee!
"You don't have my permission to get water..." Yeah, I'm gone as my health is a lot more important than this business!
Beer garden: Snap fingers at me and a snail will be lapping me a few times as i take care of your order.
1 hour? It’s a Christmas miracle!
Is it just me or are there a lot of repeats this time? I’m halfway through and I’m pretty sure every story has been a rerun. If this is a compilation of favorites for the year, it woulda been nice for it to be labeled
Merry Christmas y’all!
I’m enjoying the longer videos, even the re-reads. Thanks & hope you’re doing well!
That was amazing!! Loved that last one!
Just got new earbuds! Trying them out! They are fabulous! Thank you Fluff for an hour of fun😊
I worked for a company once in a field in which I had worked for almost a decade. I was an equipment operator at the end. Anyway, the owner hired his son/nephew/cousin's kid/whatever at the bottom level and they assigned him to me. When we broke for lunch, we walked by another crew and the kid's comment was "Wow. They're doing the same thing as us!" So yeah... Fast forward to the end of our lunch and the young kid, not knowing any better I suppose let me know what he made per hour and it was 50 cents more than me! (This was in 1983). I told another equipment operator who likewise had been at it forever and he got angry too. We both quit after lunch and were employed by another owner who was in the same line of work by that afternoon. That company was gone by the time I returned to the area after my naval service ten years later but I have no idea why it failed.
OP used heatstroke to teach someone a lesson?? Not worth it, getting heatstroke makes a person more sensitive to heat-- for life.
Wait what
Yeah, that was incredibly stupid and dangerous.
In my younger days I was coerced to sign a write-up for not doing someone else's job for them. I've grown since then. I'll never do that again.
I'm convinced that many of the world's problems are due to horrible communication and people not speaking up when they should.
By traveling, boss gets to submit..so many expenses. A crooked boss could get thousands back on false records. 😅😅
Omg, OP had to be TOLD to use a fire extinguisher on a fire?!
Back to back one hour vids let’s go dude
Kitchen Fire Comment: Actually it was a LOT more than just a few hundred in Product Loss...
You forgot to include the HOURS of downtime needed to rip the kitchen apart to Deep Clean EVERYTHING because the chemicals used in Kitchen Extinguishers are nasty (they need to be to deal with the the burning grease in a fire) as well as fixing the damage caused by the fire and recertifying the appliance as Safe to Use...
At least OP used a hand-held Extinguisher (or at least that's what's implied) rather than pull the wall-mounted Fire Suppression System handle because that would have triggered the Range/Oven Extinguishers and they would have covered the EVERYTHING within about 40 FEET of the nozzles in a fine powder (HALON Gas Suppressors have been Illegal for more than 20 years in all buildings where the Public can be exposed to the Gas) requiring most of the Restaurant to be Deep Cleaned and ALL the product not in completely sealed packaging (AKA unopened canned goods) to be thrown out...refilling and recertifying that Extinguishing System is at LEAST $15,000.00...I know, a disgruntled worker deliberately triggered the one at my Father's Restaurant after he was fired for showing up to work 2 hours late and drunk...the Restaurant was closed for 3 days to clean up everything and reorder all the lost food/products...Dad Sued the Unholy Howling HELL out of him for nearly $175,000 in costs and lost income (lost product, cleanup, worker pay, recertification of the Fire Suppressor System, lost money due to being closed etc.)...he got it too, the Judge was NOT amused when he saw the Security Camera video of the System going off and spraying the cooks with chemical (their faces are right under the nozzles when they're cooking) and then seeing everything inside the kitchen and in the first 15 feet of the bar/dining room outside the kitchen doors looking like a blizzard just hit...
Assuming what OP did in that story is still better than letting the place burn down. Although given the consequences from the employer, maybe not…
@@mjjoe76 Stopping a fire when small is ALWAYS better than letting the place burn down...replacing the entire building and everything in it is ALWAYS more time consuming, expensive and difficult that simply stopping a fire and repairing the damage...
There's also the fact that letting the entire building burn risks letting it spread to other structures and/or hurt/kill someone...
These stories prove my belief that "the worst leaders lead because they WANT to." It's the power and control they want, not the responsibilities.
This makes me think about moving on. Our boss assumes we all have freelance work on top of our overloaded schedules so never gives us a raise.
Personal medical information being disclosed by anyone other than the person it concerns is illegal, doesn't matter who does it.
The bank bro getting a $6k nuke dropped on his budget was like watching a tough guy go "I'm stronger than any animal, I'll tame whatever I'm up against" and then proceeds to get mauled by a pack of wolves. Don't fuck with unions. Rich elites think we're dumb monkeys, but monkeys together strong.
One thing that does not go as economic theory insists--people and companies do NOT always act in their own best interest!! And the worse moves are very much predictably against their own good!
48:00
I have a feeling that the operator manning emergency dispatch heard the plea for malicious compliance and decided to go with the MOAB variant
I am a 76-year-old woman who has never been able to sweat except on my head. I have always been careful of getting overheated since heat stroke can kill, and I am the perfect candidate. I feel for the man in the second story.
Love these longer ones!
I applied for an engineering job at a TV station in Dayton Ohio in the late '80s. They were starting a local news rogram, which would requre an engineer. A riend wirking there was trasfered, so they needed someone to maintain the transmitter and studios. I was ubtervueed by the Chief engineer, then I didn't hear anytging from him. I called my friend, and was told, "He is afraid to gire you. Fe is retiring in two years, and he's afraid that they will lrt him go, because you are a much better engineer." I told hm, 'Good luck', and moved south to Florid. I applied at a station in Orlando and was hired rught away. I later built another TV station in Destin Fkorida/ I'm now in my 70s, and have low visiob that doesn't allow me to see what I'm typing.
75 cents? You call that a raise? If you work 40 hours a week, that equals 30 bucks more a month. That's a raise? Yeeesh.
Soo, love the fact that a man thought a woman couldn't know about bikes😂
There was a time whilst employed as a train driver and we had a super heat wave, but lower management jumped on several drivers for getting water they said we were not entitled to. So drivers started to delay services or cancel trains due to overheating. Lower management got stamped on by higher management and all train crews got issued with stainless steel water flasks, ( in the winter we kept ready made tea in them or milk) Yet again, management who didn't work on the trains, proved their ignorance of working conditions.
Story 1: Simpler solution: spend as much time on the report as on the email. OP had 1 or 2 minutes to send an email? Great! Limit the time to write the report to 1 or 2 minutes.
so stupid how many company's will increase hiring budgets, but refuse to think about retainment costs for employees.
Thank you! My wife ordered me a sticker so please ship it lol
I like these compliations, just make sure to label them clearly if possible to avoid confusion. I guess you are having a break, which makes sense, but would be nice to know ethese aren't new stories but just the best put together. These are perfect work cleaning and working, just put the buds in and get to work. Love this channel.
That first story, I'm actually sick.
People who pride themselves on not taking days off when sick (or who demand that others come in when sick) are often responsible for far more loss of productivity as the illness spreads around the entire workplace.
Also different people have different amounts of immune response to illnesses (both naturally and due to a lot of factors like whether they have pre-existing conditions, how much stress, sleep, nutrition, etc. their body is operating under, whether they have already been unwell recently, age, general fitness/health, medications they may be on, and many many, many other things) so someone may come into work with an illness that they experience as only a mild cold, but they may pass that virus to another person who ends up seriously unwell with it. Let's not forget that 'only the flu' is pretty much the understood trope for 'it's not that bad', yet hundreds of people die of flu because, for their body, it actually is that serious - this is how vastly the severity of an illness can vary from one person to another!
Also, sick people aren't going to be very productive even if you force them to be physically present in the workplace. Who can consentrate when you feel like crap?!
This is why limiting sick days is actually a bad decision for the good of the business overall as well as for individual workers. A lot of bosses don't actually think things through and realise that doing whatever they can to support their employees to be as well and happy as possible will result in them being the most productive and loyal
Karen boss in the dementia ward story honestly sounds like she was only making work up for herself so that she could show her superiors she was doing something that was considered "boss-like". Her position likely was not even necessary and could have been made redundant.
Hey! Love the stories. I always get excited when I see a new post has been made. However, the old format of posts between 20-25 min was better. Perfect for my breakfast entertainment
Happy new year! Love you ❤
Oh geez- I am SO glad I am retired and don't have to deal with this office crap anymore. One job I had years ago called 'Job Boss' here in Minnesota had a creepy manager who commented for a few weeks at a time from ever-so-much-better, you know- California. When a company in the Netherlands bought the company he sent us a pathetic, sniveling e-mail stating that it was apparent the new company did not like him so he was leaving. Oh my gosh, I laughed so hard. During my 40-some years in offices I have so many stories of people being asses. Funny thing is, so many of those people have died by now. Where did it get them by being so nasty?
"As long as it works, I don't care" is absolutely _terrible_ programming practise. It's crucial to be able to *keep* it running. This includes making sure the work is adequately documented, and coding to make maintenance and future development simple and smooth, ideally as seamless as possible. Things like using defined constants instead of "magic numbers", variables with meaningful names, and enumerated values make an incredible difference. I used to work with a guy who worked very quickly, but his code was full of bugs, and it was so hard to understand that when I was trying to track down a bug just one month after he'd finished one chuck of work, he himself couldn't figure out what it was supposed to be doing. "Just don't touch it or you'll break something" isn't an acceptable coding standard.
The bike story reminded me of an experience (several, actually. But one in particular.) that I had as a straight man working in the sewing and fabric industry for a few years. I was in middle Tennessee and even sold Wanda Jackson the fringe she wears in her video with Jack White in the Fire on the Mountain video (I'm also a musician. As I didn't move there for it and hated Nashville area musicians, I didn't recognize her, and was even a little dismissive. But, that's another story where I was sort of the Karen in that situation. Some other time, maybe).
Anyway, I was the softline supervisor (in charge of the sewing department) at a place that we'll call Blow-Ann's. I was one of the only men in the store, and most of my employees that worked the cut table didn't know even a fraction of what I did. There was this old lady who walked up while my female co-worker was helping someone else. I asked if I could assist her. She blatantly said, "No. I don't think so," in a semi-condescending tone. I let her be for a bit, but as the other transaction was taking a while, I asked again. Again, I got a no. She was polite in tone, but adamant. After, what I will confess was a crazy amount of time, my employee helping this other customer and me just doing recovery behind the cut table, the old woman finally sighed big and said, "Okay, look. Here's the problem we have. My granddaughter does cozplay and we're having this problem (don't remember specifics. It was a decade ago) with her costume. Do you have anyone who can help us?"
Here's the thing, the reasons I know about fabric and sewing are trifold. First, I was a weird kid who wanted to be a superhero. At around eight my mother decided that she was tired of making me costumes and I figured out how to do it on my own. By 14, it was the early eighties and I was into hair metal, so I started making my own clothes for that. That later transitioned into a Goth phase--same thing. Then, I got into college and double majored in Speech and Theater. It was required I learn to sew for my degree. Well, in my case, sew even better.
They explained their problem and I gave them multiple options on how to fix it, including recommendations on using zig-zag stitches on the spandex and how to fit fabric around styrofoam. I'm good at solving weird problems like that second one. Again, theater training.
My co-worker who was finally done with the customer who was taking up so much time said loudly, "Wow! Those are good suggestions. I wouldn't even have known what fabric to use or how to sew it, much less the odd solves."
That old lady suddenly smiled and looked a lot nicer. From there on out, she would only deal with me, even if all she needed was thread. Stuff like that happened a lot, and many were upset when I eventually left that job. I actually miss it a lot.
But, my departure is yet, another story. Blow-Ann's HR was the Karen in it. Their loss.
I’m shocked Kyle didn’t lose his job after that
Double whammy, government employee and unionized, steve had no hope of accomplishing anything worthwhile.
As a software specialist "As long as it works, I don't care." It's a great way to produce super fragile software that only just works now and will cost you a fortune in the future because it's not made to be maintainable. Software almost always needs to be updated to accommodate new requirements or just changes to its operating environment.
With that attitude I would have been tempted to make all the variable names unfathomable things like boss_is_a_jerk.
I would have called an ambulance too 😂
Ohh, that's why I was thinking I've already heard these stories. I thought I chose a video I watched before. It's a compilation. 😅
3rd? Story: sounds like par for the course in Canada, who now offers by law Medical Assistance In Dying as a cheaper alternative to legitimate medical care for everything from terminal illnesses to broken bones and colds to mental illnesses
Even with places which DON'T take reservations, I give them a courtesy call if I'm planning to show up with a group of more than five. Especially if I suspect they're busy.
THIRTY-SIX people walk in to a place with double-booked tables, no reservation or even a "how do you do?" to the waitstaff.... that's next-level entitled. Honestly, OP should have turned them away. It made for a good story, but that was a lot of resources which could have gone to reasonable people.
I like the chapters on the 20-25 min videos. If it's an hour or more.... it definitely needs chapters.
How do you misspell six and turn it into twenty? That biss isn't only incompetent, he's illiterate.
25:25 Um. Pretty sure that person used a fire extinguisher to put out the pilot light of the flat top stove lmao. Guess nobody taught that OP about pilot lights. Absolutely howling at the fact that they tried to put milk on it though, I do NOT envy the folks who had to clean that up.
I wonder if the chip lady lied about talking to a red-headed “waiter”, or if we just witnessed an r/idontworkherelady scenario
Are all of these repeats? The first 2 are, at least
"If it work I do not care" works especially not in the computer science field. Programming is not complicated but incredibly complex. With all the technologies/security/process changes the code decays faster than any physical components and unorganized/unupdated code will lead to huge time loss.
I very much appreciate a human narrating these, instead of an AI. =)