r/Maliciouscompliance Tell Me to Call a Lawyer? WILL DO!
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
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0:00 Intro
0:07 Following the rules
2:35 Lawyers
4:18 Pump
9:28 Refund
10:37 Comment
11:04 Shirts
12:15 Comment
13:26 Teaching
"Sneaky Snitch" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) License: CC By Attribution 3.0 - Komedie
As a retired home renovation specialist (read glorified yet highly skilled handyman), if you have an inspector on-site and willing to sign off on a variance, get it in writing and go with it. The inspector sees more construction than most any layperson customer. Always defer to their judgment. You'll not only save money and headache, you'll likely establish a working relationship with a very important municipal official. Being friendly with building inspectors is always a good thing.
Concrete guy has an excellent way with words. “Down Dunning-Kruger Parkway” and “liquid stupid” were art
I just lost my coffee through my nose at "dunning Crooger parkway" And I'm still laughing!
he has a few concrete stories on malicious compliance, they are all good like thay
My D&D Alignment is now Liquid Stupid
For the last story, it wasn't malicious compliance, it was delicious compliance
My chemistry class made smores for the limiting factor experiment and fudge for the super saturation experiment.
And it's pretty much in compliance with how I rationalize culinary expertise:
Cooking is an artform, baking is a science.
Technically science do start in the kitchen and he did follow the principle order. He just wasn't specific of what kind of teaching
It proves cooking is chemistry.
"a lady took a number and it happened to be #2"
best tldr I've heard in a hot minute
Laughed my ass off 😂 just not like that
My coffee mug was a hair away from my mouth when I burst out laughing. A second sooner, it would have been out my nose. 😂
@@josiahbahuaud2294 hope your coffee wasn't scorching hot
Lol yea
I'm a little disappointed they missed the pun-protunity of "a lady took a number and her baby took a number two"
Back when I was a fairly new high school teacher I dealt with a sleeper without resort to toxic chemicals. I was a long-term subsitute (about ten weeks) and this was early on. It was the second last period of the day - grade 11 Social Studies. There were two guys in the back corner who obviously didn't want to be there and they were a pain in the ass. One day towards the end of class I noticed the guy in the far back had his head on his arms, fast asleep. As the rest of the class started stirring to put things away before the bell I got their attention, and told them to be very quiet, to pack up as silently as possible, as someone in the back was sleeping and shouldn't be woken up. They all looked over and got it (even the guy's partner in crime got it). Just before the bell I asked them to quietly make their way to the front of the class and line up at the door, which they did. The bell went off and they quietly filed out, trying to stifle laughs. My next class was History 12, and I stayed at the door to greet those students and had them come in quietly and take their places, pointing to sleeping beauty. To say they were cooperative would be an understatement. I began quietly and then got into the lesson. About 20 minutes in my sleeper must have twitched, knocking his textbook to the floor which made a satisfying bang. He sat bolt upright and his confusion at being suddenly awoken just deepened when he looked around the class and it was all different people, now laughing at him. He gathered his stuff and shuffled to the door, still half asleep, where I met him with an innocent smile. Credit to him, he grinned and said, "You got me." He went out into the hall to find his buddy, who had skipped class, waiting for him, busting a gut and laughing at him, while thanking me. It took a few minutes to get things settled, as the kids in the class had enjoyed the show and were telling me how great that was. I just told them that I didn't care if they fell asleep in my class, but it wasn't my job to wake them. As for the two miscreants? Apparently my little stunt gained me more respect than if I had done the old "send them to the office" thing - they were noticeably better behaved after that.
Did that to a guy at work when I was on the road crew. It was just before the end of Winter shifts (morning and evening), and it was almost quitting time on evening shift. Weather was warm, we obviously couldn't work on the roads in the dark, and all the shop work was done. One of the guys dozed off sittiing in a comfy seat in the break room. Everybody snuck out and let him nap. I was working radio watch that night (used to keep a 24/7 radio operator in Winter) and when he woke up I think he was making up new cuss words on the spot. Of course, the old timers (this was around 1990) could normally cuss at you for several minutes straight without repeating themselves.
I had an English teacher who on Fridays let us just read the entire hour, book of choice. I loved it. But we were supposed to be awake and reading, and one guy fell asleep. My teacher silently got the rest of us to sneak out quietly, and we watched him through the door window. Suddenly he jerked and came awake and saw he was all alone, and then saw us laughling outside..
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks it was weird/irresponsible of the chemistry teacher to use ammonia to wake up students
You beat them at a game they know, mad respect.
i've always hated treating sleeping in class as a behavior issue because, more often than not, especially in my case, it's not something you can control, sleepers are usually doing everything they can to avoid it, loud music in their ear, sitting upright, keeping their hands occupied, some sort of energy drink or snack kept nearby, all just so they'll still accidentally fall asleep and get punished and embarrassed for something they can't control, and god help you if you're not one of the cool/popular students because now the other students have more ammo to pick on you for and because the general attitude is to blame the sleeper, the teacher will reinforce the students that are picking on you
in my case, all trying to stay awake in class accomplished was i learned to sleep in loud environments, i learned to sleep sitting upright, with my eyes open, i lost my ability to tell how much time was passing, and i lost my ability to tell if i was asleep or not, it was visibly hurting my health and eventually the teacher was nice enough to let me sit in the back of the class and not bug me about it because i was still acing all my tests in spite of gaps i should have had in my knowledge from sleeping in class
never tell someone to lawyer up in a shitty way, because chances are they will and theyll kick your ass in court
It's practically the legal equivalent of demanding to be punched by Mike Tyson: it screams "Really I dunno what you expected would happen." XD
When you face someone who doesn't let you speak, go straight to the point "Where's the bathroom?" instead of "You don't understand, please let me explain to you, what I was going to ask in reality was...". Not guilting lady on the first one but in general, just get to the point.
Right! Id just be like..."bathroom where, now!" And points at crying baby 😂
Then id come back around and be polite and say thanks 😂
I figured she was just trying hard to keep being polite.
She's talking like a sitcom character in the middle of a misunderstanding that could easily be solved by talking. "No wait, please, you have to understand! Please, what I wanted to try to say to you is that I meant to tell you-" and then the other character gets mad and leaves before she can finish.
Get to the point or look around yourself not that hard to see bathroom signs. She did that shit on purpose like a true asshole just cause she was cut off
@@17raysplays29 Yea, that and the fact that this kid apparently can blast poo with so much force that it launches out of its diaper and/or pants onto eveything in a 10 foot radius makes me believe this story was made up.
Interesting concrete fact. The concrete used in the construction of the Freedom Tower in NYC was a special blend. When fully dried, it is super hard and extremely durable compared to regular concrete. The problem is that it dries very quickly and could set INSIDE the mixer truck en route to the construction site as the factory was just far enough away to make timing an issue. So the city had to give each truck a lights and sirens police escort through Manhattan so the mixer trucks would arrive before the cement hardened inside the truck.
That is an interesting fact! I bet those drivers loved the quick escort! LOL
I'm remembering a story where the concrete trucks got new GPS maps that always led unfamiliar people down bad routes, and the truckies ignored them until manglement told them they would be fired if they didn't follow the GPS. I think only two or three trucks for ruined before manglement backed off
@@philippak7726LOL, I think "manglement" describes them perfectly.
I sadly cannot claim credit for this wonderful term @@thegreatstoneddragon9432
But it is 100% the correct word XD
I thought you were gonna give me a "concrete" (ie set in stone, cold, hard, factual fact) but got a literal concrete fact XD. English is weird.
Some people never realize, cooking/baking is just edible chemistry.
It also teaches you the difference between a physical change and a chemical change. Another idea: good old-fashioned mixing of vinegar and baking soda.
My cooking teacher said those exact words
Love kitchen science. Lets me teach my daughter applied chemistry and home economics at the same time.
@@Enki1013 Two birds with one stone.
The only difference is that you don't do cooking in a lab and (non-food) chemistry in a kitchen, nice to keep the food and the cancer separate.
Dipship principal should have been livid lol, good on the teacher tho other than that.
Story 1: This is a good example as to not interrupt someone when they are trying to tell you something, let someone finish before assuming what they want. Bet the optical guy was TRAUMATIZED by what just happened, hope he never interrupts anyone again.
This is a prime example of why I wait till a customer tells me what they want BEFORE assuming and giving them an answer that isn't for their question. Tends to go much smoother and less... shitty
Or a great example of just get to the point. Aod being overly polite, just say "wheres the bathroom?"
And let's not forget that in many jurisdictions, this is regarded as a biohazard mess. You can't make an uncertified employee clean up what that kid sprayed. If that optical employee wasn't fired, he'd definitely be written up for costing the store money for the clean-up.
I work in a different Costco optical department and people use "quick questions" to cut the line all the time. Not to mention, people who grab numbers get really antsy when you do stop to answer a question. That said, I think the guy should've listened to her question first before having her grab a number if necessary. It's what I always do
I don't believe the first story. My sister works at Costco and they as employees have to be very polite to customers even if they are asshol*s (and there are a lot of them). They can easily get reported and maybe fired if they get caught doing it.
Shirts: I have to wonder if the boss thought OP was making excuses or the boss was just that stupid. Like, a car caught fire, what else was going to happen?
I do find the imagery funny though
It reminds me of the story where a guy was trying to cancel his late father’s utility bill but they insisted on talking to the one on the bill. Naturally the son brings his ashes and a pink board
I actually work in the Costco optical department at another store and some people will skip grabbing a number and disguise a series of questions as a "quick question" that inevitably turns into them cutting the line. Also, people who do grab a number get SUPER antsy about you stopping to answer what really is a quick question. Given that, I don't blame the guy for telling her to grab a number but he should've at least listened to the question first.
Making peanut brittle right before Christmas in organic chemistry was a long tradition in my high school. It even got graded! For texture, color, taste and the worksheet showing that we understood the chemical process all the chemical ingredient when through in the process. You had to balance the equation and everything. Best class ever and he always had kids signing up for the class.
A friend of mine is a retired principal from a school district in the U.S. The higher ups had him open not one, but two brand new schools which included him hiring the vice principal the rest of the administration staff and the educating staff. Since they were brand new high schools, he wouldn't let anyone pour concrete sidewalks, except to the front door. Instead, it was all planted in grass. He watched and waited for two school years. Then, after the kids had chosen their natural, "cow" paths, he would have the sidewalks poured on top of their paths. A brilliant idea in my opinion.
One time at the office campus I used to work on, in early Spring when the snow had just melted, one lady was in a hurry and decided to take the usual "cow path" instead of the sidewalk. Problem was, her path took her across the spot whre the snow and ice melter from a long sidewalk had been piled. So, that spot was a LOT wetter than the rest of the grass, and because of the ice melter had been through a bunch of freeze-thaw cycles. And, she was wearing heels. She sank over her ankles. Not a happy camper.
It's like letting slime mold determine the optimal design between the important nodes like what the Japanese did-they discovered that the slime mold formed a network very similar to the Tokyo subway.
not quite the same as OP 1's story but my shop is inside a bigger store. We only have 2 people available to help on the counter and lines form pretty quickly. So we had 2 being helped and a third customer waiting patiently. The moment his turn was up, another man walked by, physically cutting him off to warn an employee about a loose shelf. Wellllll the customer who had been waiting patiently lost his cool at getting cut off. The warning customer tried to defend himself about how he was only tryingto warn us about a faulty shelf around the corner, but he was too angry, and uh, they began to fistfight over it. So while the poor mama in story 1 may have been better off getting to the point, sometimes that doesn't go so well either....
That last story reminds me of my high school chem teacher. She always did silver mirror deposition as the last experiment before winter break. How the experiment goes is you mix silver nitrate solution with a sodium hydroxide (lye) solution in a glass container, and a thin layer of silver forms a mirror on the inside of the glass. It just so happened that the glass reaction vessel were also clear glass baubles. And we were allowed to keep the one we made (after gently washing it out of course)
Story 3: I work for one of those third party inspection companies, and while I don’t personally test concrete (I mainly do soils and foundations), I’ve learned enough through osmosis from my concrete-testing coworkers to understand how badly that contractor fucked up.
The last story is pretty cool. Cooking is chemistry
Now I'm imagining a Breaking Bad AU where Walter & Jesse started a successful food truck business.
I used to date a chemist. "Cooking is just formulation," he'd scoff. Then, he tried to replicate a lovely, smooth cheddar cheese sauce I had made. My grandmother always said I had "a touch" with sauces and gravies. My chemist ex did not. I've never seen such a nasty, curdled, lumpy mess in my life! And he had watched everything I did when I made it. This didn't make him a doink. There are loads of people who are mistaken about cooking being easy. What made him a doink was his insistence that his version was "just fine -- lots of people eat it this way." No, they don't. Not voluntarily, anyway.
And magic. Accordinig to a neopagan friend of mine, learning magic is like learning to cook. If you don't know the basics, and don't have any talent, all the "cookbooks" in the world won't help you.
@@ostlandr This weirdly makes sense to my logical mind.
@@ostlandr It's generally a good mantra to live by: "Just because you possess all the necessary tools to do the task, does not magically make you adept at performing it if you weren't already." Some people, as I've learned, unfortunately like to...*test* that "theory" of mine... >.>
Story 1 : When being rude becomes 💩💩💩
Story 2 : op ex boss: " contact my lawyers dork ha ha "
Op : " ok mistake #1"
Op ex boss :" no wait lets talk about this"..
Story 3 : never ever F with construction workers.. they may look dumb but they're 1000 times smarter then you..
Story 4 : when will these customer service reps get it dont be rude just because.. it will cost you big..
Story 5 : how the dummy became a boss is the bigger question.. building explodes op boss :" where's the building "??
Comment:" your a hero but still not getting your check. But hero"..
Story 6 : op principal:" how can i fix whats not broken ohhh i know lets mess with the teacher whos student all like him what could go wrong"..
construction workers don't look dumb, they look tough asf. working out in the freezing cold and sweltering heat to make beautiful things for us. they don't look dumb, they look like angels
Ive had something similar happened to me from story 4. Long time ago I worked parking lot security in retail, I was on my lunch break and one of the employees got her purse snatched. All I had was my undershirt pants and socks on so technically I was out of uniform, anyways I took off on this guy bare footed I was able to get her purse back but wasn't able to get the guy. When the police arrived I was off lunch and back in uniform and reported what happened. The next day when I came in my manager, head of security, an assistant manager and the store manager pulled me in the office, I thought I was going to get a good job, nope I got a reprimand. I was told repeatedly that my job is to observe and report not "chase down and apprehend". I was also being written up for being out of uniform. She informed me that I had to sign it or I could possibly be suspended or terminated. Me being a smart ass I asked "so when can I take off my uniform, do I always have to wear it, say I'm off the clock do i still have to wear it then?" No. "If im off the clock and I see stuff go down and I decide to get involved am I still liable to just observe and report still?" She said when I am on my own time and not on company time I can do as I please, but as long as I'm on company time I will abide by the rules. I said, "cool I was on lunch when this took place so I'm not signing that, as you said I can do as I please when I'm off the clock." She looked over at my old manager and she affirmed what I said. I was then told to go wait in the break room while they talked. The employee that I rescued her purse gave me a hug and some cookies, my old manager shook my hand and said no matter what they say I did a good thing. Basically afterwards I was given a verbal then a relearn of my job duties and a paid day off for emotional/trauma something I don't remember what it was. And was told if this happens again even if im on my own time just observe and report and not get involved to avoid future problems.
@drwboy07 they do have a good point you get paid pennies to rescue a purse.. your life is worth more then that.. what if the purse thief had a knife or a gun.. be careful and take care of yourself.
"You're a hero..."
"...Maybe - but I'm gonna treat myself and leave you to your demons, you asshole."
• a metaphor to Fallout based on the pregnant lady's story.
@@thetruth1816 I wasn't getting paid, I was on lunch. If I was on the clock it be a different story, I would've just done my job of observing and reported it. But I wasn't and I did take in the account he could've had a knife but honestly wasn't worried about that at first and as far as a gun goes, he was a homeless tweaker. When he approached my coworker he asked her if she had any spare change and as soon as she pulled up her purse he snatched it and ran. Dude was fast but as soon as I was on him he just dropped the purse and dipped out, I could've grabbed him but was more worried about getting my coworkers purse back and not getting shanked than tackling the dude. You never know with tweakers. I just picked up the purse and brought it back. When the police arrived I gave them the description of the guy but I never saw his face just the rags he was wearing. They picked him up a hour or so later at a Starbucks harassing people for money,(one of the cops was a buddy and told me) they brought him by to be identified by myself and my coworkers, again never saw his face but the clothes he was wearing matched what I saw. So technically I did observe and report lol.
Story 3: Guess the customer was wrong, who would've thunk. Maybe listen to the actual experts next time
Also, I learned some free knowledge about concrete, so that's a nice bonus
With OP (who was 8 months pregnant) pulling the woman from the crashed car (that was on fire too), and as such late for work. First I'd like to say, awesome to you OP for saving a life 👍. And now for the company she works for, WTF !?!?!... lol. How can you discipline her with a write up and and not give her the monthly bonus she is owed. But, then throw her a party for saving someone's life, which was the reason why she was later in the first place.
Which I'm guessing crossed the minds of most (if not all) who came across thus story.
The teacher in the last story is irresponsible. He punished students who were sleeping in his class by putting ammonia on a rag next to their face! For those of you who don't know is ammonia vapor touches your eye, you go blind, and if you inhale ammonia vapor, you can get permanent lung damage or just straight up die, and because he was putting it next to sleeping students they would just inhale more and more until they possibly die. Furthermore, because they were asleep if they did die or have a different complication with the ammonia, no one would know, and by the time anyone found out the student would have been dead for to long to resuscitate. In other word. DON'T PUNISHE STUDENTS BY POISONING THEM!
For the last story, when he asked, why does it smell like peanut brittle in here, I was expecting the experiment to smell like skunk butt. It's an ongoing (and childish) joke in my family to ask, Do you smell popcorn, after somebody farts. I never, in my wildest dreams, expected it to actually be peanut brittle!😂😂
Story 1: dude I get having a fussy toddler isn't easy, I've been there. But at the same time it's not like most bathrooms in big stores are hidden away. You could've looked or asked someone else, hell even another customer where the bathrooms were rather than letting your child poop themselves.
This costcos bathrooms are usually easy to find in my experience
Yeah, I don't really believe thos story. Sounds like "how can I get upvotes" to me. Ragebait be funny like that.
Not me. My costso bathroom is hidden far in the back.
@@darkshado124 even if that is the case. To allow your child to crap themselves (from the description it sounds like diarrhea) without seeking out the location of the bathroom because 1 overwhelmed employee didn't help at your first request is poor parenting
@strandedshooter9686 That has to be the most Bot-like AI response I've ever gotten, to something I didn't even mention. XD
Now see if I was that lady I would have let all politeness go and yelled back at the rude employee "WHERE IS THE BATHROOM MY KID IS ABOUT TO S*** HIMSELF"
Dude, peanut brittle would be a freaking awesome way to end the year!
As long as no one is allergic to nuts. Then it could end badly, very quickly
4-Hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde (aka Vanillin) is, among other things, vanilla flavouring.
Saw a post where somebody replied to one of those crazy "every chemical will (end) you" Karens with a long list of chemicals. "Which of these do you not want in your food?" Karen replies "NONE OF THEM!" "Really? Because that's the chemical composition of an apple."
Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide! It will kill you if you inhale it.@@ostlandr
@@ostlandr They're the same type of Karen that is stupid enough to fall for the lethality of hydrous oxide or dihydrogen oxide. The fact is they can be lethal if taken in very high doses in a short time.
Re: Concrete story: The number of times I have had people explain why they are doing something a certain way is actually very heartening to me. It is depressing how often they end it with, I just want you to understand because so many people will argue with me.
My view is, I'm not the expert and this is your job. I'm not going to tell you how to do it, because you already know how.
I actually had a board certified optometrist with 20+ years of experience apologizing to me for doing his job and being very clear on the issue we needed to correct. I had to tell him it was fine and to not apologize for being direct.
Why everyone thinks they're an expert in everything baffles me.
A drawback of the Information Age is people thinking they're an expert after being taught by Prof. Google.
We had a professor in college who was great at in class discussions on our subject matter. Encouraged opposite views and so on. But the one thing he hated was sleeping in his classroom. Coming from a rural background he mastered stone throwing, but in a classroom he would use nubs of chalk. These were classrooms not lecture halls so not that large. Once in several classes you would hear an “OW!” Exclaimed from a rear row of chairs. He had just woken up a sleeping student. His classes were never boring with the discussions and such and no attendance was taken so no need to sleep in the classroom.
My Ex told me I'm never going to see my Daughter because I broke up with her, therefore I abandoned my child. I told her that's not how the law works. She yelled, "What? You gonna take me to court?!" And I said, "I've already spoken to a lawyer" her jaw hit the floor.
I normally don't get to listen to these until my first break at work (9:15am) but today I have off. I decide to get breakfast early and as I'm sitting here, enjoying my breakfast sandwich, story 1 happens. Thanks.
It's all good. Love the channel. Keep up the great work!
good chemistry teachers are the best. my high school chem teacher taught us .. well we learned how to ferment sugar beets to alcohol, and later, how to prep and distill the sludge into non-toxic moonshine (we weren't allowed to try it tho). I've heard this is done often, by many people from many counties. i guess chem teachers carry some kind of mischievous gene or smth ^^
the only write up i have for being late - ever - at my job, was after a motorcycle accident. After scraping myself off the road, i made it literally 2 minuites late. Called to say i'd be delayed as I got took out by an unobservant driver in a hit and run but once I get my bike started I'd be there as I didn't seem badly injured - just beaten and bruised. Photos of my now missing front mud guard, missing mirror (and other hanging on by promises and prayers), all the gouges and dents in my bike wasn't enough. Let alone my right shoulder swelling so much I couldn't put my jacket back on or properly lift my arm. Even offered my manager to come outside and have a look at the mangled monstrosity I rode in. Nope, not even my visor being snapped my helmet completely was getting me out of it. Even got angry when I had to take the rest of the week off due to my knee swelling enough that it looked like I was smuggling a melon when I got home and unable to put weight on it. My jacket was largely shredded down one side, my work combats now had a leg packet barely hanging on - where it wasn't torn, my helmet was all sorts of scratched up, previously mentioned missing visor (the bit that attached it to the side was snapped off inside the mechanism one one side, gone on the other). shoulder & knee hurts & doesn't work properly in the cold, but other than that - i'm fine to this day.
My chem teacher had a day where we did "nothing" in lab. Had we done anything that day, we most certainly did NOT use the methane ports with rubber tubes, funnels, and bubbles to be lit on fire with matches. After all, we didn't do a thing in class that day.
We also did an experiement with colloids involving the application of ice upon a mixture that included sucrose and lactose, amongst other things.
My chemistry class also did the partial degradation of various sacharides with protein inclusions (peanut brittle). I still have a scar on one of my fingers from when one of my clueless friends put the stirrer covered in hot sacharides (corn syrup and sugar) against my finger.
Hopefully when Op was told to give a speech she basically told everyone what the company did to her instead of retelling what she did
It’s good seeing a mother being the one doing the malicious compliance and the retail worker being the stupid one lol
If you want a 4 inch slump but need it to be workable enough to go through a pump, you need to add a plasticizer which is a water substitute that doesn't ruin the water/cement ratio. HOWEVER, once you add the plasticizer, you can no longer add water as the water will not get absorbed into the mix properly. Plasticizer is usually added at the site just before the pour to increase workability. It's a pain in the ass because first, we need to sample the mix before adding the plasticizer to check slump of original mix then add the plasticizer, then halfway through the load, get another sample for cylinder testing. I think the owner is an idiot as first, one should do concrete at night during the summer months so that the concrete stays below 90 degrees. Second, why add fiber to sidewalk anyways? It is not as if there's going to be a lot of bearing weight on it. A stupid grid of welded wire mesh can be used if you want to keep integrity, but again, not very necessary. In extreme freezing climates, one should concentrate on adding an air entrainment additive over a fiber one. SMFH.
Regarding the impact wrench story. Many years ago, while visiting my (now ex) inlaws, my fil was complaining about the rinky-dink vise he had purchased at his nephews hardware store, and how it just wasn't big enough for his liking. His old, ancient, very heavy Craftsman vise had literally worn out. I ask him if he still had the old vise, and he did. I then asked him if I could have it, and he gave it to me. A few days later I went to the nearest Sears store in the area, handed them the old vise, and as luck would have it, the new version of the vise was exactly the same as the old one. So, I got the new one for free under the Craftsman lifetime warranty, and proceeded to take it to my fil. He was absolutely stunned that I was able to do that, and was extremely happy with his new vise.
HOW OLD WAS THAT VISE?!?!?!????!
@@thatonewitchAncient enough and used so much that he actually wore the screw thread out completely. You could actually pull the jaws out and in by hand.
The concrete guy is not kidding that concrete pumps are dangerous. I had to sit on a trial where a pump had an issue and it killed someone!
A lot of construction/industrial/agricultural stuff can be dangerous. For example, a leak in a hydraulic line too small to see can work just like a spray hypodermic, and inject hydraulic fluid right through your clothes into your skin.
@@ostlandr I've heard of airplanes going down from hydraulic leaks. Hydraulics are not something you can neglect to maintain.
The last one was a legitimately good malicious compliance story!
First lady is a total karen. They don’t hide the bathrooms, and she turned that area into a literal bio-hazard. I get that the dude was rude, but how many innocent unrelated people got caught in the crossfire of this?
He wasn’t gonna have to clean that up, so the poor janitor got punished more than him.
And OP said the kid blocked the exit of that area, how many shoppers had to stand around plugging their noses until it got cleaned and they could leave?
And that’s before you even factor in that she made her kid shit themselves! They were crying because that’s not fun, and they’re not wearing a diaper so it’s EXTRA not fun. So *her own kid* got it worse than the person who was actually rude!
Unhinged. This is unhinged behavior.
Edit: there’s no telling how many other karen’s he’d had that day.
Idk man, in the only 2 costcos I’ve ever been in, the bathrooms were pretty fuckin hard to find. She probably should have just asked someone else where the bathrooms were though
If you've ever worked in customer service you'll know there are people who would literally let their screaming brat sh*t everywhere than use their own eyes to look around for the bathroom themselves.
Never thought I'd hear Canadian Tire on rSlash!
I love the "get a lawyer" to "lol ok" pipeline.
9:55 as someone that worked at CT, master craft has a lifetime warranty with or without the receipt (granted with makes the return easier) The CSR was just too lazy to do the return as the return process is antiquated and has way more steps than is necessary.
A good teacher is a great thing, but a good science (esp. chemistry) teacher is such an incredible gift that you never forget.
Teaching: We had home ec on Friday afternoons one year, and a bunch of the class chose to skip because the teacher was actually quite infantilizing and constantly chose to ignore the whole class was actually more experienced than she allowed for in her lesson plan. She maliciously complied, though, as she let us make candy and chocolates the last day before Xmas, when more than half the class chose to skip. More supplies for the rest of us. Props to her for that one, as I still use one of the recipes.
As someone that worked at Canadian tire two years ago, the return policy is 90 days, however majority of older mastercraft products have a life time warranty.
For the second guy I have no idea why they caused a stink they don't need the item just the receipt, keep in mind every Canadian tire is privately owned so maybe it was an internal policy but I have no idea.
I hade a grade 9 science teacher who had two methods of waking sleeping students he either threw a foam rock at one of them to freak out other students, or take a meter stick, bend it back and let it slap the desk next to them, all while continuing talking like nothing happened
"Hire a lawyer"
*hires a lawyer*
"No, that's not how you're supposed to play the game."
All she had to say is "where's the bathrooms!!!" loud and clear so that everybody could hear and that the guy would have shut up.
First Story: And THIS is why you don't interrupt someone. It might avoid a CRAPPY situation
I wonder if all high school teachers back then were a special brand of crazy. Mine (from the late 90's) would also do a "fun day" before the christmas break, except he would be showing off.. volatile chemical reactions. He would blow stuff up, set stuff on fire, and generally be a little chaos gremlin. It was awesome.
...though he did also manage to close down the entire natural sciences wing for a day because one of his experiments started creating toxic gas. That was a fun day.
Reminds me of a class experiment I did in Year 11 when the class made hydrogen sulphide. In case you don't know, that is the fume that emits from rotten eggs. My part was mixing sulphur and iron filings to make iron sulphide. I ended up getting sick not long after that class from the fumes and getting sulphur on my uniform.
And the concrete guy said nothing about Airsene or Pozzolith!! Chemicals we used to have to put into concrete. I had a two week vaca coming and my mixer truck broke down at a job site. The skinny young guys had to chip most of it out while I was gone, during the summer. Biggest mistake I ever heard of was one clown driver turned his drum the wrong way one morning and dumped the whole 8 yards on the road to the job site. Fired quick.
*First OP:* R.I.P. to those eating while watching/listening to the story.
I was eating but I've got young kids. Dealing with poop on a daily basis makes me immune 😅
I was eating cereal and was too busy laughing to be grossed out.
Got to that bit just as i got handed my food in the drive through.., but i have a brother.. so..
Last story, cooking is chemistry, he did very well teaching those students.
#1 Reminds me of third grade this one kid was about to puke and desperately wanted to go to the bathroom, but the teacher was trying to make him wait. Figuring he just had to pee and could hold it or something, I dunno. A normal person would puke on the floor or in the trash or something, but instead this kid while sitting up straight in his desk, threw up. A perfect stripe hitting the back of the girl's head in front of him, down the middle of his desk, into his lap, and dribbling down his shirt. I wish I could've captured that teacher's expression on film for all time.
Working in construction as an Ironworker I can tell you so many stories like the concrete one. It's actually remarkable how much money gets pissed away on the average jobsite, and it's no wonder why the final budget for state projects is so overly inflated.
Huh, we brewed beer in chemistry class at some point & held a barbecue event in the evening at the end of the last week before summer holidays at our teachers house with our very own brewed beer as drinks (we had blonde, bock & triples).
Probably one of the most fun times we had (we also had to perform some tests on our beers, including alcohol % determinations).
Last story: Stuff like that is actually a really good way to help students connect what they're learning in class with everyday life. Kudos to the teacher for doing this!
Story 1: Aww, the poor baby! He must feel better after that release; kids can hold a LOT of stool surprisingly (used to work in a pediatric clinic; just as a scribe, not a medical professional). Wishing both him and his mom well. And I hope the Costco guy learned his lesson!
Last story: Would be funnier if the students were to make cupcakes. Baking is a science after all.
(Teaching) You have to be careful nowadays with the "Peanut Brittle Lab." Peanut allergies -- or students' willingness to disclose that information -- have increased dramatically over the years. The food grade labs are great, but I've forgone them. Diabetes, food allergies, gluten allergies, religious proscriptions against gelatin, vegans, and (yes) peanut allergies make it almost impossible to make sure everyone is included.
There's the classic vinegar and baking soda experiment. It may be a long shot to ask a Yank, but do their schools still teach that experiment?
@@JamesDavy2009 Yup. And the demo only lasts 2 minutes, max. Hard to fill a class period with that. It's a great demo for predicting products, though. The Synthesis of Benzaldhyde (almond oil) is also a good one, but -- for safety reasons -- hard to do at the high school introductory levels. Plus, I loathe the odor of marzipan. My pet name for the stuff is "Liquid Hate".
As a chemist, rslash stumbling over the pronunciation of benzaldehyde was amusing. Though, the hydroxy and ethoxy should switched as I recall since it should be in alphabetical order.
13:27 if anyone is paying attention, Huego can be heard in the background. Still waiting on puppy bloopers.
Making peanut brittle is obviously a life skill best taught at the end of the semester in chemistry class. Certified organic? Yes, of course. It has carbon in its molecules.
Have a safe and wonderful week Rslashians!
Charley sounds like the kind of teacher I would have liked to have been.
Good morning to the good morning guy
And the normal reminder that r slash is entertainment
Story 1: I hope the optical guy had to clean that mess up. I get there's a line, but if it's a simple question, take the time to answer
Story 2: I love stories like this, where a simple request being denied costs the company more money than if they had just done the bare minimum the first time.
Story 3: I'll trust blue collar workers over admin any day. Within reason of course
Story 4: I love hearing a story getting screwed over by their own policies
Story 5: Love that
Story 6: LMAO
Story 7: A better ending would the company getting in trouble for their bullshit
Story 8: Yum!
We had an eldery lady come into our store with a child of about six, and she asked where the bathroom was.
A few minutes later, she comes out and asks for a mop because her granddaughter barfed. We tell her it's fine and we'll get it.
I go in... and puke is EVERYWHERE. Toilet, sink walls, floor... it's a small room, so all I can imagine is 'Gigi' picked the kid up and spun her around to make sure she got her nothing but cake and candy spew everywhere.
Point is, guardians, if your kid is gonna hurl, just have them puke outside if it's an option, and it was. It's a building surrounded by fields with a dumpster out back, lots of private places to yack when "lean over the bowl" is too complicated for your kid.
The uniforms lost in the car fire reminded me of the Titanic.
The families of the dead band members received letters like this:
"Dear Sir:
We shall be obliged if you will remit us the sum of 5s. 4d., which is owing to us as per enclosed statement.
We shall also be obliged if you will settle the enclosed uniform account.
Yours faithfully,
C.W. & F.N. Black"
That is classy, right there.
Pregnant lady's story had more twists than an Agatha Christi novel. That was insane
"Bathroom?" Is an effective one word question. That more than employees can answer.
The last one reminded me of when my chemistry class made ice cream in high school. That day went south for my friend group by the time school let out; my best friend had the same teacher for her last class, and her group let her eat all the ice cream. Our friends and I had to litetally pin her to the ground until the sugar high wore off.
I’m a big chemistry nerd and as the chemicals were being listed and I recognized sugar, I knew it would be something fun.
As a maintenance janitor for costco...id have yelled at the guy at the optical stand. Ngl, i dont get paid enough to even clean THAT up lol
The refund stories....
"an excellent waste of my time" DUDE THE WORKER HAS POLICIES TO FOLLOW. I WORK IN RETAIL, I CANNOT GIVE YOU A REFUND ON AN ITEM YOU DIDNT BRING.
Glad he found a workaround but making it seem like the worker's fault for NOT WANTING TO BE FIRED is some layer of inconsideration that pisses me off.
a better tldr for number 1 would have been "a lady took a number and her son took a number "two". and the last one is not malicious compliance it is delicious compliance
The concrete guy should talk to practical engineering. Would make for a good video
The boss in story 1 was absolutely engaging in systematic wage theft and the irony is that he would have gotten away with it, too, if he wasn't such an asshole. If he hadn't fired OP, it's likely OP wouldn't have noticed the discrepancies. If he'd paid the commission when it was brought up, OP probably wouldn't have checked the other paychecks. And if he was doing it to one employee, he was probably doing it to all his employees.
Briscoes had a 2 day sale. We bought an air fryer on sale, but then they decided they would extend the sale by an extra day, and make things even cheaper. So, we brought in the air fryer, got a refund, then bought it again at the discounted price.
his voice and commentary are enough to drive someone crazy
First is weird. Most people would ask what the question was first before yelling “grab a ticket”
Story 3 is why you don't argue with the experts. Thinking that you know better than the person with years of experience is the dumbest thing ever. I would have said "ok I'll go through the trouble to get you the wrong fiber, just don't come crying to me when your pump is clogged, and don't expect me to fix your dumb decisions in the future."
Genuine reaction to story #3:
"Fuck yeah, concrete!"
Story 1 -- And I thought only the DMV or other gov't kinds of places stereotypically were all "Take a number and be seated!"
Never judge a persons intellect based on their work.
You can learn so much from all different kinds of people.
I cannot over emphasize how everything I said at that "party" would be about how I would rather be getting my bonus instead
When dealing with contractors rule 1 is find a good reputable company then trust them. You pay for quality. Sure do your homework so you know if they try to cheat you. If you can have it inspected before signing off. With work like concrete you have to trust the people doing the work. If they say something is a bad idea trust them. Just ask for an update to the contact detailing the change and reason and cost change just in case.
watching this the day after someone 💩 themselves at the hanteo awards is HILARIOUS
Now the background music of that village in Breath of the Wild is stuck in my head.
The concrete story is a perfect example of "you should listen to the professionals - they know what they're doing"
I don't remember the first concrete person I met, but I will never forget the first 6 or so tar/asphalt people I met. I was smart and didn't get scattered with "stray" tar/asphalt. I had already met those people before they went to work at the road department, and thought they were really nice. They must have thought the same about me... All those nice road crew people, thank you! I'm not saying you fixed it for me, but it could not have hurt for you to know I have your backs, because you literally have mine! I will never understand those idiots who don't know their lives are completely in your hands!
Peanut brittle! LOL! My chem teacher had us make taffy in class one day. SUPER sticky but we had a fun, messy time.
I chose the wrong time to eat something with chocolate when that first story came on😂
A friend got yelled at the site off an accident by the victim for just saving HER and the car that was a total inferno. She believed they only saved HER because of jealousy. The car WAS a brand new luxurious Mercedes. The fire got so out of control that it would have been impossible to put out with simple fire extinguishers. She claimed in the moment that she was going to sue both my friend for his actions and even the fire department for not showing up on time. It was engulfed within 5 minutes. He still regrets saving that bimbos life.
Could have been a case of being in shock. People won't act rationally while in a state of high stress.
I also learnt WAY more about concrete than I ever wanted today.
Last day experiment - in my high school we had a couple of experiments like that and had a set of beakers that were ONLY used for those lessons for food safety etc.
I absolutely love the way the last story came out 😅 Boy, am I ever glad that teacher was a good guy!
He'd have made a pretty good bad guy with that imagination 😊
This is why in retail or any costumer facing job i may say 1 moment but if they ask for the bathroom i tell them as i continue what i am doing. Hell, i almost peed myself as a grown adult have stomach issues and it hit. And so dit #1 i was across the big fence and about to cry at 40 (it was hardly contained but i made it after sprinting past the registers.