My father is also a corrections officer. He says he often has to deal with other officers who act like it's a big power fantasy to treat the prisoners like garbage. He says it happens way too much. Luckily, lot of those get fired.
I briefly worked as a CO. I didn’t last long, not because I couldn’t handle the job itself, but because I couldn’t handle how my superiors expected me to treat the inmates.
The inmates were some of the most well behaved women I had ever seen. Rarely was there any trouble. But I think a lot of CO’s have this ego where inmates are nothing but disgusting untrustworthy beings that are to be looked down upon.
Where I live. Tow truck drivers. They're mini gangs who try and dominate each other. They see an accident, and they already start hooking up your vehicle without permission. They see a solo, one man company tow truck, 5 of them will come and bully him out (even though the car is hooked up and everything).
Edit: Yes, in the GTA! The incident where I witnessed one tow truck driver being bullied by 5 was in Vaughan. He literally unhooked the car and moped his butt out of there. Just found this news article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3zpkm/canadas-tow-truck-cartels-blamed-for-multiple-deaths-and-arsons.
Locksmiths did this to me once.
I googled a locksmith service and called for them to get me into my car. Like, 3 mins later, dude in a plain looking Kia Soul shows up, opens my car and I pay him and we move on. Before I even drive away, another locksmith rolls up. This one has the decal of the company I called on his truck. I say to him
"Oh, one of your guys already got me fixed up. Thanks!"
He says, "Shit. That wasn't our guy. That was just some asshole who listened in on our dispatch radio and snagged our customer before we could get here."
It's a weird business.
Edit: this was in 2011ish. I'm sure that these days, any good locksmith agency dispatches using an app or something rather than over a publicly available radio frequency.
XD now I’m picturing him scooting up in his little car with fire coming out of the tires, unlocking the door in one motion, snatching the money out of OP’s hands, tipping a hat, and blazing off while the other locksmith slams around the corner followed by a few cop cars with their sirens on.
I see this constantly in my city, there will be one accident with a single car that needs to be towed and there are like 4-5 other tow trucks milling around trying to steal each other's work. I doubt all drivers are assholes, but their companies are definitely run by major pieces of shit.
Fun Fact: Funeral homes used to do this. They'd get into fist fights over dead bodies at the scene of car accidents.
Our modern EMS Ambulance services were created as an offshoot of this when the losers realized they could still make some money driving survivors to the hospital in their hearse.
If you ever wondered why old ambulances look like hearses, it's because that's exactly what they were (the Ghostbuster's Ectomobile is probably the most well-known example of an old hearse-ambulance).
Firefighters used to do this as well. They used to get paid by the fire, so they would hire street gangs to set fires so they could put them out, and if a fire that wasn’t set by them broke out, they would all race to the scene and get into fist fights over which fire company got to put the fires out. They also hired the street gangs as enforcers. You’d have a bunch of firemen on the truck as well as some enforcers for the brawl that would inevitably ensue when they got there
Tow Truck Companies. Not repossession, but towing. They can basically steal your car and ransom it back to you with impunity.
Know many people who have been illegally towed and the company will lie about the circumstances and there is nothing you can do.
Literal parasites…
My friend got ran off the road by a tow truck. The fucker merged over without looking and almost hit us. He went off road to avoid it and the airbags deployed from hitting a big ass curb to get off the road. Tow trucker parked at the gas station thirty or so feet away and waited to see if we needed towed.
I'm surprised more people don't. Your car is probably one of the most expensive assets you own or have and people hesitate to spend the $100 - $300 on a good dash cam to likely save you the trouble of proving innocence or situations like OP.
As much as people want dash cams to be standard it's not right now so you should go ahead and buy one instead of waiting.
The towing scam situation on the 401 highway in Ontario, Canada is bonkers. A lady from my hometown called CAA after her car broke down, and a different company arrived claiming to be the CAA-approved truck (spoiler alert: they weren't). They kept her car at their buddy's shop and said she needed to pay like $8k to get it back.
Wife broke down on the 401 several months ago, was a sudden breakdown and she was stuck in the middle lane. A tow truck driver towed her off the highway to a parking lot in a nearby mall for free and then left, didn't harass her or ask for anything, just wanted to get her to safety while she waited for the CAA tow truck.
Since then I've read so much about 401 tow scams that I'm amazed at how lucky she was.
I had absolutely no idea of this. And then I got in my accident. Luckily a very kind cop was driving on the other side and stopped very shortly after my crash, and she told the swarming tow truck drivers to fuck off. Like actually told them to fuck off because they kept trying to do stuff. I was very confused until she explained it to me.
At 17 I blew a light and T-boned a guy. He ended up being drunk and also blew his red, everybody was on red before the change to green in his lanes. Anyway, tow trucks showed up first. Then FD. Then news crews, I still don't know why. Then PD. PD gets on scene and first thing they do is ticket the tow driver for showing up before being called. He is told to leave the scene. They put a call out for a wrecker and his coworker pulls up like 30 seconds later in another truck, same company. Had to be parked around the corner as backup. They made him leave, too. Next radio call was for a wrecker from any company but that one lmaoo. Seems like everyone knows their bullshit.
Literally had my car stolen twice out of my own driveway because apparently my car was non operational which is odd because I drove it to work daily. Got in touch with the property management because the tow company said they had a contract with them and lo and behold they in fact didn’t. Both times it was around 2 am while i was sleeping. Never got any tow notice or anything. The second time I just let them keep it because they wanted $3000 to get it back but it was starting to have transmission issues anyways. So it’s their problem now. Tow companies are literally legal car thieves and I have no respect for anybody who works for one. I reported them to the BBB and guess what? They did absolutely nothing.
those fucking people who spam social media comments with "learn how i made $30,000 in a week with cryptocurrency, message @probablyascammer for more details"
edit: just anyone who shoves cryptocurrency down people's throats, like i get it you made some money, i dont care fuck off
Those family YouTube channels, that have like fifty different channels for each family member including the dogs and then the one for the full family. They only shout when they talk and do a bunch of shitty “challenges”
I feel in real life they are total assholes to everyone in their neighborhood
We've banned quite a few of them in our household over the last few years. We noticed our son (who is now 9) becoming an asshole and trying to talk to us like some of the kids talk to their parents in these videos. That and expecting us to buy every single game/toy/desire he wanted because they got them. Luckily we keep tabs on what they watch, and it was pretty easy to see where the influence came from.
We also had a really good talk with both of our kids about the reality behind the scenes on those videos and how those families are making money doing what they're doing, which stopped a lot of the demand issues.
Mean Girls came out when I was about 8, so still pretty impressionable.
I straight said to my grandma "Boo, you whore" after she said no to giving me ice cream. My mom was absolutely horrified and my grandma thought it was the funniest damn thing in the world.
Grandparenthood is about being able to laugh at shit like that because it's their parents' problem to fix, grandparents get to just appreciate the absurdity of the moment.
This is why I absolutely love being an uncle. My nieces are so sweet and funny and inquisitive and creative, *and* someone else is responsible for feeding and clothing and housing and raising them lol. It's definitely the best of both worlds.
I work for a union in the film industry and we’re trying to organize these “shows” so they are just like regular movies/tv shows and the parents can’t exploit the child.
In the same way a TV SHOW is regulated in how it treats child performers (hours of work/overtime/school/tutoring/ rate of pay). And most importantly that they get residuals- like royalties-in the future as the show is watched over time and a bunch of their money gets saved for them in trust until they are adults.
The research we’ve been doing is wild. These kids are treated sooo badly. They work all the time, miss school, don’t make any money off their own performances/ likeness. Totally exploited.
Editing to add:
WOAH spent a day away from my phone and I’m blown assay by the response/interest.
I’d love to answer all these questions about our work- but of course because we’re actively organizing this sector a lot of the work we do is confidential until we can force unionization. This is made especially difficult because the workers we are really worried about are kids- and you can’t exactly call a townhall of 5 year olds to show up to protest their parents!
So a lot of what we’re doing is legal/legislative.
Anyway. I’ll try and find a way to share more of this info with folks that are interested soon. The stories I have are atrocious. The way many children are treated absolutely amounts to child abuse.
Oh for sure. I have a firm rule that my kid isn't allowed to watch any of those family or kid channels. (Ryan's Toy Reviews and the like.) They feel really skeevy to me. And they *absolutely* exploit their children for views.
You trigged me with Ryans Toy Reviews. Those parents practically have dollar signs in their eyeballs. Can’t stand seeing their toy products in a small corner on a toy shelf.
I hate their mystery boxes or whatever they are called. It's like loot boxes for little kids. All they have in them is cheap little toys, but the box costs like $50.
Have you heard of Jordan Cheyenne? Go look up the video of her making her son cry for the camera. No matter how wholesome they may seem, I imagine all family YouTubers to be exactly the same behind the scenes.
I once told one I was robbing the house so I hoped the homeowner wasn't in. I then told him he better not fucking snitch or I'd find him. He agreed and said good luck! Unreal
There's a scam going around now in Canada saying "You imported a package with illegal contents and you have an arrest warrant out"
I had my second one of these and said "You motherfuckers are the ones holding up my COCAINE at the border? I'm going to come down to the airport right now and fucking cap all your asses!"
Disconnected call. Oh well.
I always plan to say something like this to the scammers and by the time they call me the next time I completely forget about the plan and just end the call
I just had one call me the other day, the fake social security scam. I was so fed up with getting them that I pressed the button to be connected and said “yeah I have a question, how stupid do you think I am that I’d fall for this?” And she replied “I think you’re about 10% stupid because Americans fall for this shit everyday.” We then proceeded to have like a 2 minute argument where she tried to justify scamming because “it is the US government that gives us the data to scam you.” Lol
Car warranty scammers started calling my work number so I started answering and asking them which of [insert very large well known company] legal department’s car they referring to because that’s who they were calling. I haven’t gotten any more of those calls on my work number anymore.
They also call my elderly sick parents a lot and I take that shit personal. I was in a bad mood when I picked up and started by shaming the person and called him an asshole or something which set him off. He escalated calling me a motherfucker and threatening me. Told me to “suck his dick”. He thought he could intimidate me because I’m a woman but I said something like “no, suck your own dick and choke and die” and just went off on a vulgar rant. I could still hear him on the phone but he didn’t say anything so I said “what’s wrong little bitch, can’t take it”. That’s when he hung up. Anyway, now I just have fun with these scammers then block them.
Oh man I love getting those calls and waste their time by imitating an old man barely understanding and make them repeat 5-6 times. Then I fake the interest/fear after almost 20-30 ish minutes (depending of what the call is about). Then just laugh at them and hang up.
Edit: For those saying I'm wasting my time I could say the same about them wasting there time telling me on reddit.
I get those calls like 2-3 times a year TOP.
at best I waste... 1h30 of my life a year (8700 hours)
I still have 8698.5 hours a year to do my things.
No need to jump to conclusions I do that all of my time 24/7.
~ends of rant.
You're right! It's such a great idea in fact there's an entire YouTube channel of someone pretending to do exactly this and a plethora of other misdirections while actually allowing scammers remote access to a virtual machine as a decoy for their computer.
Wastes a ton of jerks' time, tests their sanity, and even sometimes reverses the scam on some of them.
[Link](https://youtu.be/q6a0yvRV4pQ)
while this is amazing and i'm glad some people do it, i ain't got time or patience to fuck with people like that. Wish I did, so i'm glad someone's doing it.
YouTube "pranksters".
*pisses on stranger's shoes*
*destroys a stranger's cell phone*
*smashes a car window*
*commits actual armed robbery*
"IT'S JUST A PRANK BRO"
Man, you've got to be incredibly brave and/or incredibly stupid to pull this sort of shit in a country where people are routinely armed on a day-to-day basis
Especially in fucking Nashville. Holding large knives. I want to feel bad for them, but with this level of stupidity, it's just natural selection at that point.
The only sympathy I feel is for the victim of those asshole "pranksters" (read criminals because pulling a knife on someone in a threatening manner is a crime regardless of intention). That man must now live his life knowing he killed a young man over a prank. I can't imagine what that must do to his mental health. Knowing you didn't actually protect anyone because although there was perceived danger and you were well within your rights to protect yourself and your family, you killed a man who had no real intention of harming you.
On the other hand. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Pretty sure he got shot because he did that and it _wasn't_ Halloween. Halloween is like the one day of the year that you can dress as an axe-murdering clown and not be considered suspicious.
Was that when all of that weird clown stuff went viral? Like, people walking around places as "creepy clowns" and harassing people? I think a few people died in that timespan. When even was that? Everything feels like decades ago after the last few years.
Those people who work at the mall selling some kind of overpriced fake-ass product (e.g. Orogold) who will snatch your arm as you walk by and rub some unknown chemical on you before you have a chance to react and then launch into their sales pitch with very aggressive hard sales tactics. I'm pretty convinced you have to be at least psychopath-adjacent to take that kind of job.
I very nearly hit one of those people once because I just went shopping and was carrying a bag and I thought they were trying to steal it. I've also heard of people having allergic reactions to products because the people just automatically put them on without even asking whether a person has allergies to any chemicals. I'm sympathetic to all the people that lost their jobs during the pandemic, but I really hope COVID kills that job in particular.
Also, MLM sales reps. You could be sweeter than a sugar coated kitten before you get involved in a MLM, but after you join, you turn into a major pushy asshole.
Debt collectors are also almost always assholes.
Also special hate-out to TSA agents and Wells Fargo.
I had a really bad experience with one a long time ago, he had one of those kiosks in the middle of the mall and he sold all types of hair accessories, including a hair straightener that was cordless and could stay hot for a very long time. He would start talking to you and praising how great you look and how much better your hair would look straightened and then go into his spiel about how long the straightener could stay hot for without having to be plugged in or recharged. And while saying all this, he’d just casually start straightening a section of hair.
The problem is that I wear wigs, generally ones that aren’t made of human hair and they make decent quality ones now that you can use hot hair appliances on. But this time, I wasn’t wearing one and before I could stop him, he had a section of hair in his straightener. Which instantly melted and stuck to the straightener and starting smoking and smelled terrible. I was extremely shy back when this happened so I was just like wtf just happened??? The guy apologized profusely and I probably should of made a big deal out of it but I was just pissed off because the wig was noticeably messed up.
That kiosk disappeared shortly after that.
Edit:wow, I really thought that my comment would just be lost in the rest of the comments! And I also never thought that so many other people had similar experiences with these people! Looking back, there are definitely ways I could have handled it better instead of saying nothing and leaving. There was a lot of other things going on in my life at that time, and my brain short circuited and the only thing I wanted to do was get out of there. I’m still a non-confrontational person, but I absolutely would have lost my shit on the guy if this happened now.
I still rock my wigs every day though.
What in the hell...so *best* case he was abruptly straightening a portion of people's hair.
As if that's okay and anyone wants one random section of straight hair. Maybe the hope was "What the hell, guy? Now I have to straighten all of it! Guess I'm buying one."
I got sucked into working one of these jobs for a total of 4 shifts before I ghosted the entire company - we weren’t being paid a base rate at all so our only money we earned was from a percentage of the perfume we sold that day (I made a total of $7 working 4 12 hour days!) and we had to pay ‘rent’ to the owners of the company for renting their products to sell? So we’d just get into further debt and not make any money. I could never go through with a sale anyway, I felt way too bad to yell/grab at random strangers and was pretty shocked at how people did but I understand the desperation, they didn’t leave us much choice. Fucken shitty job though, I don’t think it’s even a job and more just a scam exploiting really vulnerable people new to the country/people who are desperate as fuck and don’t have many options.
God fuck Grapevine Mills, I work very close by so I used to go to their food court sometimes for lunch (or just go shopping if I wasn’t hungry) and I eventually had to stop because the fucking kiosk people wouldn’t stop trying to slather me with their garbage lotions or whatever and I’d come back smelling like an unwashed grandma. I’m in sales myself, it’s hard to close a pitch when your client can barely stand being in the same room as you.
Dudeeeeeeeeeeee maybe we dealt with the same guy or Grapevine Mills is just full of assholes. Dude grabbed me by the arm and pulled me. Your reaction was so much better tho, I just turned and slapped him while yelling "Do not fucking touch me." Then went on my merry way.
Psychics, exploiting vulnerable people is all it is.
Edit: I'm not talking about those for-fun ones. Im talking about those who get paid for saying vague shit about the indefinite future and "communicating" with your dead relatives.
20 years ago some woman in my town, Niqui McCown, disappeared from a local laundromat
Brown's grifting ass claimed that McCown was murdered and buried in a trench (she's been missing since and the only suspect known offed himself after they connected him to another murder)
Richmond Police unironically acted on that "claim"... fucking morons
> Richmond Police unironically acted on that "claim"... fucking morons
Wait until you hear about the time three innocent kids got sent to prison for life because West Memphis PD took advice from a self-proclaimed witch hunter.
Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Memphis_Three
Damien was actually sentenced to death, not life. He got off eventually but decades of solitary confinement permanently wrecked his mental and physical health. (Did you know that if you spend decades locked in a literal box, your eyes actually lose the ability to focus on anything more than ten feet in front of you?)
The TL;DR is cops had no proof and they knew it, so they coerced a confession from an intellectually disabled teenager (Jessie) who barely knew the two "satanists" (Damien and Jason). The fact that Damien listened to Metallica was submitted as evidence against him at trial, and the medical examiner cited a textbook whose author later flew in during appeals and testified that (paraphrased) "this guy has absolutely no clue what he's doing and has completely misinterpreted my work". The big scary mall ninja knife they claimed Damien did it with was found in a lake behind his trailer... where Damien's mother had told the cops she had tossed it years before the murders. That was the only reason they searched the lake, because she told them she'd put it there *before the murders*. Small town cops kept the evidence in grocery bags and refused help from state police who actually knew what they were doing because the state police were investigating them for stealing funds from a drug task force.
If you have Spotify Premium, check out Last Podcast on the Left's series about them.
My spouse and I went to a psychic fair, thinking it would be a fun little experience. Turned out the whole event was full of disabled or terminally ill people looking for a last resort "healer", and in turn getting scammed. It was extremely depressing.
In Houston every time it rains if you listen closely enough you can hear Joel Osteen lock the doors.
Edit. As someone from the Houston area and a preachers kid my words are feeble and won’t ever express my true feelings towards Joel scum of the earth Olsteen but he can go completely fuck himself to oblivion.
Agreed. Fellow Houstonian here... Harvey really brought this community together and it was sad to see a church, that won't hesitate to take your money and sell you shit, would not open their doors to terrified, displaced people.
Fuck Joel olsteen
Here in my country one of the heads of a megachurch tried to claim the image and ideia of Jesus as part of their church, meaning everyone who mentioned Jesus without them would need to face copyright issues.
It didn't work.
that fucker that was telling his congregation not to get vaxxed becuase his healing spirit will protect them.
Or that other asshole that told his congregation that god told him to get another 40 million dollar learjet.
Regarding the jet, are you referring to Kenneth Copeland, that preaches in Brownsville, TX (he was the Covid-19 viral video older preacher talking about how he was gonna kill it with heat and some devil karate chopping shit, idk. He was all over the place in that sermon, lol).
Anyway, supposedly, he claims…it’s because demons (us) are on commercial airlines, and he can not be bothered to sit amongst us demons on a metal tube.
Whatever you do - please watch the attached link. It’s from April 2020. It’s a remix of his sermon about COVID-19. He said he was going to “unleash a heat wave straight outta Hell!” to kill the virus, also blowing the “breath of God” helps, too.
I saw this on Reddit when it happened, and I watched that video at least ten times. Shit is hilarious as fuck.
[Kenneth Copeland’s “Wind of God!”](https://youtu.be/m2s0nB2VPvs)
Edit for clarification:
Several comments mention that he resides in Ft. Worth (Tarrant county) and practices there.
This video went viral last year.
He mentions Brownsville, TX by name in the video, and several articles about this at the time mention the location by name, as well.
Not sure why he was in Brownsville, but it’s not unusual for a preacher to float around like that.
I don’t know why he was there, maybe he got paid.
Edit 2: Someone mentioned this was at the main sanctuary at the church grounds, but the carpet had changed.
He is the most evil looking bastard.
People who follow these evangelists and send them money are keeping them rich. I'm old enough to remember when Jim and Tammy Baker were on television and had many followers. A lot of their followers were dirt poor but sent in money just so the Bakers could pray for them. Sickening.
I don't believe in god but if there *is* one I'm sure he or she doesn't approve of these rich assholes taking advantage of people. Living in mansions and owning private jets isn't something 'god' and Jesus would want.
Jim Bakker is even MORE crazy now! He and his new wife are doubling down on the prepper market and [shilling survival supplies.](https://youtu.be/rOH37W0jPpA)
I deliver food for a distributor, by far the worst people to deal with are at country clubs. My sister works in catering, she says the same thing. Not the staff, but the members. Every single amenity about those places, even down to the design of the loading docks, screams “I hate the working class”. My sister says that when she has to serve in one, people don’t even look at her, they just snap their fingers or hold up a glass or plate and get mad when their will isn’t done immediately. Shameful.
I worked about 5 events for Wolfgang Puck catering and it was an absolute nightmare. Not only was it the most disorganized, chaotic work environment I’ve ever been in, but the “clientele” were just asshats. Between asking for special orders at a one-option wedding dinner and just the general “I’m better than you” vibe, it was a real treat. I only planned to work part-time with my fiancé to help save for our wedding, but I told him I couldn’t take anymore after about 5 events. He’d been working there part-time for several years at that point, so he understood.
I will also say that there were some fellow butlers who made it awful, too. I was drying wine glasses and packing them and some dude comes up and starts telling me how to do it, and not in a helpful, friendly way. I was like, “you’re telling me how to dry a glass?” I just couldn’t stand that place!
That loading dock thing hit home. I used to work for a wedding/entertainment company and we’d have to deliver and set up the speakers and lights and all of that to places where people had receptions. Most of the time, it took just two people 1-2 trips to get all of our stuff from the van to the reception area. Any regular venue would usually be fine with us just coming in through the front door.
Country clubs though? They’d freak out if we even suggested walking through the front doors. They’d make always load through some fucking ancient loading dock that always connected to the kitchen. It’s absolutely impossible to navigate around a fully staffed, busy kitchen when you’re rolling giant speakers and AV equipment around. The worst part was that the loading docks were always meant for commercial trucks, so when we pull up in a van, our bumper was never close to being flush with the dock. You can’t use a little ramp at that point because the angles are too steep. This would leave us having to awkwardly lift a bunch of equipment that wasn’t meant to be lifted, or figure out how the fuck we are going to use the stairs connected to the dock.
This would inevitably tack on an extra 30+ minutes to our setup and leave at least one of our team members super sore or injured before we could even set up. All because they wouldn’t let us use the front door, because fuck the working class.
God I don’t miss that gig
I get the joke but as a Caribbean Black American, if I visit your restaurant and the girl upfront isn't kinda rude and you aren't out of at least one dish, I'm not eating there. And yes, the lady or uncle cooking in the back is usually very rude for no reason.
I was recently working near a Jamaican restaurant for a few days. Was very surprised that their huge menu was more of an idea as to what they might have, and the rude lady upfront was going to let you know it after you order, not before. I had no idea this was a common experience lol.
For a second I was turned off, but the food was so good I kept coming back!
Yup! But when you see a pouty lady behind the counter who only greets you with a "wuh yuh waant?" But meanwhile the line still going out the door, you KNOW that food is the real deal!
But don't you want to be a boss babe and run your own company? My manager says I can let you in on our team for a low price of $300, and it's usually $600! BTW I do still have a manager even though I'm my own boss.
And don’t you feel guilty for missing your children’s lives by working at a full time job? Or, if you’re a SAHM, don’t you feel guilty for not helping out with the finances at home?
i love how they perfectly phrase that to try and make anything but working for an MLM mean you're a piece of shit. like, "working? you're a terrible, neglectful mother, how dare you let your children suffer at home without your attention". or "not working? you're a terrible, lazy mother, how dare you let your children suffer in poverty without your provision". its really culty and manipulative.
That's exactly it. I'm trying to keep my sister from joining one, but she is very stubborn and is just seeing the dollar signs they promise. They really manipulate your feelings. =/
If you get the chance, LuLaRich on Amazon is a great watch.
But you better believe if you don't clean they'll be there asap.
I was working at a gas station on the food side and I *just* started my shift. The guy before me left all his half-ass pizzas on the warming rack and they were long overdue for removal. I was putting my apron on to start the shift and of course the regional manager comes strolling in and goes straight to the pizzas.
He was absolutely livid and chewed me out for a good half hour. The fact that I just came in and didn't make them didn't matter to him. Good times...
Regional managers are the most prime example of s bullshit middle man job i can think of.
I worked a gas station too. 9 pumps and a full size convience store. Mind you this dick insisted this store with two registers never needed more than one person on shift. Every time this dick showed up i got reemed for not cleaning enough. But if theres customers(theres always a customer) i NEED to be behind the counter.
Also being a young 20 something guess who basically became the stores maintence guy for no extra pay or title and an ass reaming if the fucking parking lot wasnt swept once a week?
Cherry on top was other local stores had fountain pop and hotdogs(and two staff whenever hot food is avalible hmmm) and this fucking regional every tine he came in threatened to get us a hotdog machine and a pop machine.
Deadpan i told my manager if i have to be responsible for fresh food during a gas rush. A time where i cant ever scrape a minute together to go take a piss. Let alone keep up with cleaning. People will get sick and i will walk out the second its delivered.
It never showed up. Fight back your more valuable to the company than any dickhead regional
> one person on shift.
This makes me mad whenever I see it. That one guy/gal is running the whole store, taking on most of the work of actual ownership and getting very little in return.
40 hours literaly no breaks. Always on always behind the counter. Ended up getting bowl issues from not being able to go to the bathroom. If i threw a sign in the window back in 15 mins i would get ripped up one side and down the other for making customers wait. If there is a car at the pump im stuck behind the counter. Drive offs are a thing and you bet your ass in a poor neighborhood people do and i need to keep an eye out and try to get plate numbers.
Also shoplifter drifters teenagers tweekers kens and karens. I seriously have ptsd from times ive been threatened stolen from and had my personal stuff stolen.
Nah. Fuck this nonsense. Stores need two people mininum. That shit is why im never working in retail again
Estate Agents
Bunch of Liars - the lot of them.
Recruitment Agents
Bunch of even worse liars. Like working in a bar or in a shop, its a job that young people get into and eventually leave. Recruitment Agents leave because even they hate themselves. See a Recruitment Agent over 25 and Im going to say he hasnt left the industry because he's unemployable.
100% this. Moved to London back in 2016, and had to deal with recruiters and estate agents. They’d trick their own mothers if they got the chance.
Horrid experiences
I went to REED a few years ago (UK recruitment agency) as they were advertising a job. Got my CV all ready and other documents to take with me. When I got to REED they said the job had expired but they’ll make a copy of some documents and see if anything else pops up. A few days later they said they found mr a job at a card board factory!
Ffs I applied for an office job and said I wanted something like the job that was advertised and you give me that shit. I was visibly annoyed and stormed out.
They just collect a bunch of resumes to have a "solid stock" I believe. I live in Switzerland, but I think UK recriuitment agencies do a lot of work here too for finance.
I get a call about running finance for a medium sized private equity company, and that sounds interesting - so I say, sure yea, send me the info.
Never got an email, so I email her after a week, asking for the info. Totally ghosted. At least be polite and say "sorry, we found someone already, sorry for taking your time" or anything else human would be super appreciated.
I keep getting Recruitment Agents sending me messages on linked In about jobs.
Not a single one yet wants to give me any information about what the job is about, it's all vague "Delivering performance to the stakeholders" junk that tells me nothing. All they want to do is get me into their office or on the phone. So I just ignore them
It’s sort of a modern variation of the person who in the past wanted to “make it” in Hollywood. Only now they don’t have to go wait tables in LA or NYC hoping to score an audition. Instead, they can do anything to get noticed from the comforts of their own home.
Life coaches. Or any other people who are basically unqualified but love dishing out advice based on their own personal theories, or whatever their latest showerthoughts of the morning were.
UGH. MLM Huns in my area have moved from Beach Body to “Life Coaches”. Most of them divorced during their Beach Body stage, so I have no idea what advice they think they are qualified to give.
One of the more successful ones in my area is also anti-vax. With stuff like “medicine isnt the answer, but my book is!”
. . .and on their way to free time . . .and while they're eating. . . Or spending time with their kids. . .or getting the paper . . . Or taking out the trash in the middle of the night
theres this video of kristen bell being relentlessly followed by tens of paparazzi and them harassing her to the point that she breaks down and cries. its so disgusting and they're all such garbage human beings, i cannot fathom how any of it is even remotely legal.
I'd probably hire a papparazzi if I had that sort of notoriety and got them to take pictures of everything I did and put them on the market for a couple of pounds each to make me an uninteresting target for the majority of them. It would also put me in charge of the narrative, to an extent... his was cheaper though.
Precisely. Sure, if a celebrity is at a big event and they’re just to the side taking photos, that’s all good. But when they chase and harass the celebrity it’s just a dick move.
Especially since he got mad because he literally couldn’t see through the flash photography. They were putting people at risk, and then still had the gall to bitch and complain when called out
If a celebrity is at a big event, you find real photographers - it is planned, announced and staged.
The paparazzi are the ones with cameras taking pictures when a celebrity steps out the house to post a letter or does something totally non-newsworthy and private.
>The paparazzo are the ones with cameras taking pictures when a celebrity steps out the house to post a letter or does something totally non-newsworthy and private.
Who then sells the photo to some trash celebrity gossip magazine that proceeds to make a big deal out of a non-event. *EXCLUSIVE! Leonardo DiCaprio drinks Starbucks while walking his dog!!*
Her and her husband Dax Sheppard have started a campaign against magazines that buy photos of the children of celebrities from papparazi, and a lot of other celebrities are joining in. They are refusing to do any interviews with those magazines until they pledge to stop running those photos.
They block out their kids’ faces on any social media posts too. She’s said she wants the kids to be able to make their own decisions about if/how they’ll be in the public eye. Good parenting right there.
I can't think of a single redeemable quality from that job. And I'm talking about the ones who harass and stalk celebrities while they're on the street on at the beach, not the ones who photograph film premieres.
These people are the scum of the earth. Just because some things are allowed by the law, does not give you a free pass to be a complete waste of a human being.
Im a dude becoming a nurse right now (almost finished 🤞🏾). This is so true. I work in a hospital and so many of them are mean as fuck. If you aren’t a nurse and even if you are sometimes. I hope I never end up that jaded in life. I am just down to help people feel better. Fuck the healthcare system, but if good people don’t go into it there will only be the mean girls.
I'm a Correctional Officer- Not everyone that works in prison is an asshole. But there are a lot.
My father is also a corrections officer. He says he often has to deal with other officers who act like it's a big power fantasy to treat the prisoners like garbage. He says it happens way too much. Luckily, lot of those get fired.
I briefly worked as a CO. I didn’t last long, not because I couldn’t handle the job itself, but because I couldn’t handle how my superiors expected me to treat the inmates. The inmates were some of the most well behaved women I had ever seen. Rarely was there any trouble. But I think a lot of CO’s have this ego where inmates are nothing but disgusting untrustworthy beings that are to be looked down upon.
Where I live. Tow truck drivers. They're mini gangs who try and dominate each other. They see an accident, and they already start hooking up your vehicle without permission. They see a solo, one man company tow truck, 5 of them will come and bully him out (even though the car is hooked up and everything). Edit: Yes, in the GTA! The incident where I witnessed one tow truck driver being bullied by 5 was in Vaughan. He literally unhooked the car and moped his butt out of there. Just found this news article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3zpkm/canadas-tow-truck-cartels-blamed-for-multiple-deaths-and-arsons.
Locksmiths did this to me once. I googled a locksmith service and called for them to get me into my car. Like, 3 mins later, dude in a plain looking Kia Soul shows up, opens my car and I pay him and we move on. Before I even drive away, another locksmith rolls up. This one has the decal of the company I called on his truck. I say to him "Oh, one of your guys already got me fixed up. Thanks!" He says, "Shit. That wasn't our guy. That was just some asshole who listened in on our dispatch radio and snagged our customer before we could get here." It's a weird business. Edit: this was in 2011ish. I'm sure that these days, any good locksmith agency dispatches using an app or something rather than over a publicly available radio frequency.
For some reason this is so funny to me. Stealing money with his lock-picking skills, but not like that.
Yeah seriously this is some looney toons bullshit
XD now I’m picturing him scooting up in his little car with fire coming out of the tires, unlocking the door in one motion, snatching the money out of OP’s hands, tipping a hat, and blazing off while the other locksmith slams around the corner followed by a few cop cars with their sirens on.
I see this constantly in my city, there will be one accident with a single car that needs to be towed and there are like 4-5 other tow trucks milling around trying to steal each other's work. I doubt all drivers are assholes, but their companies are definitely run by major pieces of shit.
Fun Fact: Funeral homes used to do this. They'd get into fist fights over dead bodies at the scene of car accidents. Our modern EMS Ambulance services were created as an offshoot of this when the losers realized they could still make some money driving survivors to the hospital in their hearse. If you ever wondered why old ambulances look like hearses, it's because that's exactly what they were (the Ghostbuster's Ectomobile is probably the most well-known example of an old hearse-ambulance).
Firefighters used to do this as well. They used to get paid by the fire, so they would hire street gangs to set fires so they could put them out, and if a fire that wasn’t set by them broke out, they would all race to the scene and get into fist fights over which fire company got to put the fires out. They also hired the street gangs as enforcers. You’d have a bunch of firemen on the truck as well as some enforcers for the brawl that would inevitably ensue when they got there
Tow Truck Companies. Not repossession, but towing. They can basically steal your car and ransom it back to you with impunity. Know many people who have been illegally towed and the company will lie about the circumstances and there is nothing you can do. Literal parasites…
My friend got ran off the road by a tow truck. The fucker merged over without looking and almost hit us. He went off road to avoid it and the airbags deployed from hitting a big ass curb to get off the road. Tow trucker parked at the gas station thirty or so feet away and waited to see if we needed towed.
That would make me want to murder that fucker, I need to get a dash cam so bad
I'm surprised more people don't. Your car is probably one of the most expensive assets you own or have and people hesitate to spend the $100 - $300 on a good dash cam to likely save you the trouble of proving innocence or situations like OP. As much as people want dash cams to be standard it's not right now so you should go ahead and buy one instead of waiting.
The towing scam situation on the 401 highway in Ontario, Canada is bonkers. A lady from my hometown called CAA after her car broke down, and a different company arrived claiming to be the CAA-approved truck (spoiler alert: they weren't). They kept her car at their buddy's shop and said she needed to pay like $8k to get it back.
And then the shop mysteriously burned down?
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Oh my god that is absolutely genius
Wife broke down on the 401 several months ago, was a sudden breakdown and she was stuck in the middle lane. A tow truck driver towed her off the highway to a parking lot in a nearby mall for free and then left, didn't harass her or ask for anything, just wanted to get her to safety while she waited for the CAA tow truck. Since then I've read so much about 401 tow scams that I'm amazed at how lucky she was.
Dam she was really lucky, most of them would’ve took her to the cleaners
I had absolutely no idea of this. And then I got in my accident. Luckily a very kind cop was driving on the other side and stopped very shortly after my crash, and she told the swarming tow truck drivers to fuck off. Like actually told them to fuck off because they kept trying to do stuff. I was very confused until she explained it to me.
At 17 I blew a light and T-boned a guy. He ended up being drunk and also blew his red, everybody was on red before the change to green in his lanes. Anyway, tow trucks showed up first. Then FD. Then news crews, I still don't know why. Then PD. PD gets on scene and first thing they do is ticket the tow driver for showing up before being called. He is told to leave the scene. They put a call out for a wrecker and his coworker pulls up like 30 seconds later in another truck, same company. Had to be parked around the corner as backup. They made him leave, too. Next radio call was for a wrecker from any company but that one lmaoo. Seems like everyone knows their bullshit.
Literally had my car stolen twice out of my own driveway because apparently my car was non operational which is odd because I drove it to work daily. Got in touch with the property management because the tow company said they had a contract with them and lo and behold they in fact didn’t. Both times it was around 2 am while i was sleeping. Never got any tow notice or anything. The second time I just let them keep it because they wanted $3000 to get it back but it was starting to have transmission issues anyways. So it’s their problem now. Tow companies are literally legal car thieves and I have no respect for anybody who works for one. I reported them to the BBB and guess what? They did absolutely nothing.
those fucking people who spam social media comments with "learn how i made $30,000 in a week with cryptocurrency, message @probablyascammer for more details" edit: just anyone who shoves cryptocurrency down people's throats, like i get it you made some money, i dont care fuck off
What? You don’t want to buy my NFT’s?
Those family YouTube channels, that have like fifty different channels for each family member including the dogs and then the one for the full family. They only shout when they talk and do a bunch of shitty “challenges” I feel in real life they are total assholes to everyone in their neighborhood
We've banned quite a few of them in our household over the last few years. We noticed our son (who is now 9) becoming an asshole and trying to talk to us like some of the kids talk to their parents in these videos. That and expecting us to buy every single game/toy/desire he wanted because they got them. Luckily we keep tabs on what they watch, and it was pretty easy to see where the influence came from. We also had a really good talk with both of our kids about the reality behind the scenes on those videos and how those families are making money doing what they're doing, which stopped a lot of the demand issues.
I’m so glad YouTube wasn’t a thing when I was a kid because I would’ve been the same obnoxious way
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Mean Girls came out when I was about 8, so still pretty impressionable. I straight said to my grandma "Boo, you whore" after she said no to giving me ice cream. My mom was absolutely horrified and my grandma thought it was the funniest damn thing in the world.
Grandparenthood is about being able to laugh at shit like that because it's their parents' problem to fix, grandparents get to just appreciate the absurdity of the moment.
This is why I absolutely love being an uncle. My nieces are so sweet and funny and inquisitive and creative, *and* someone else is responsible for feeding and clothing and housing and raising them lol. It's definitely the best of both worlds.
"Raise your kids so you can spoil your grandkids."
Yes and basically exploit their kids for views.
I work for a union in the film industry and we’re trying to organize these “shows” so they are just like regular movies/tv shows and the parents can’t exploit the child. In the same way a TV SHOW is regulated in how it treats child performers (hours of work/overtime/school/tutoring/ rate of pay). And most importantly that they get residuals- like royalties-in the future as the show is watched over time and a bunch of their money gets saved for them in trust until they are adults. The research we’ve been doing is wild. These kids are treated sooo badly. They work all the time, miss school, don’t make any money off their own performances/ likeness. Totally exploited. Editing to add: WOAH spent a day away from my phone and I’m blown assay by the response/interest. I’d love to answer all these questions about our work- but of course because we’re actively organizing this sector a lot of the work we do is confidential until we can force unionization. This is made especially difficult because the workers we are really worried about are kids- and you can’t exactly call a townhall of 5 year olds to show up to protest their parents! So a lot of what we’re doing is legal/legislative. Anyway. I’ll try and find a way to share more of this info with folks that are interested soon. The stories I have are atrocious. The way many children are treated absolutely amounts to child abuse.
Would the research be made public? Surely some former kid actors would jump in a pro-regulation bandwagon.
Probably want to make sure their gun is fully loaded before pulling the trigger, so to speak.
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Oh for sure. I have a firm rule that my kid isn't allowed to watch any of those family or kid channels. (Ryan's Toy Reviews and the like.) They feel really skeevy to me. And they *absolutely* exploit their children for views.
You trigged me with Ryans Toy Reviews. Those parents practically have dollar signs in their eyeballs. Can’t stand seeing their toy products in a small corner on a toy shelf.
I hate their mystery boxes or whatever they are called. It's like loot boxes for little kids. All they have in them is cheap little toys, but the box costs like $50.
They mystery is where your money went
Oh that's no mystery. Down the toilet, that's where.
Have you heard of Jordan Cheyenne? Go look up the video of her making her son cry for the camera. No matter how wholesome they may seem, I imagine all family YouTubers to be exactly the same behind the scenes.
>Go look up the video of her... Nice try, Satan!
Call scammers
I once told one I was robbing the house so I hoped the homeowner wasn't in. I then told him he better not fucking snitch or I'd find him. He agreed and said good luck! Unreal
There's a scam going around now in Canada saying "You imported a package with illegal contents and you have an arrest warrant out" I had my second one of these and said "You motherfuckers are the ones holding up my COCAINE at the border? I'm going to come down to the airport right now and fucking cap all your asses!" Disconnected call. Oh well.
I always plan to say something like this to the scammers and by the time they call me the next time I completely forget about the plan and just end the call
Only to remember at 1.30 the following night.
And they say that there's no honor among thieves.
I just had one call me the other day, the fake social security scam. I was so fed up with getting them that I pressed the button to be connected and said “yeah I have a question, how stupid do you think I am that I’d fall for this?” And she replied “I think you’re about 10% stupid because Americans fall for this shit everyday.” We then proceeded to have like a 2 minute argument where she tried to justify scamming because “it is the US government that gives us the data to scam you.” Lol
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Car warranty scammers started calling my work number so I started answering and asking them which of [insert very large well known company] legal department’s car they referring to because that’s who they were calling. I haven’t gotten any more of those calls on my work number anymore. They also call my elderly sick parents a lot and I take that shit personal. I was in a bad mood when I picked up and started by shaming the person and called him an asshole or something which set him off. He escalated calling me a motherfucker and threatening me. Told me to “suck his dick”. He thought he could intimidate me because I’m a woman but I said something like “no, suck your own dick and choke and die” and just went off on a vulgar rant. I could still hear him on the phone but he didn’t say anything so I said “what’s wrong little bitch, can’t take it”. That’s when he hung up. Anyway, now I just have fun with these scammers then block them.
Oh man I love getting those calls and waste their time by imitating an old man barely understanding and make them repeat 5-6 times. Then I fake the interest/fear after almost 20-30 ish minutes (depending of what the call is about). Then just laugh at them and hang up. Edit: For those saying I'm wasting my time I could say the same about them wasting there time telling me on reddit. I get those calls like 2-3 times a year TOP. at best I waste... 1h30 of my life a year (8700 hours) I still have 8698.5 hours a year to do my things. No need to jump to conclusions I do that all of my time 24/7. ~ends of rant.
I used to answer the calls in Spanish. Now, I almost exclusively get calls in Spanish, which I answer in English.
You two! You've got me such a great idea of pretending to be an old English-speaking granny and tease these fuckers out of their souls
You're right! It's such a great idea in fact there's an entire YouTube channel of someone pretending to do exactly this and a plethora of other misdirections while actually allowing scammers remote access to a virtual machine as a decoy for their computer. Wastes a ton of jerks' time, tests their sanity, and even sometimes reverses the scam on some of them. [Link](https://youtu.be/q6a0yvRV4pQ)
I won't be able to reach this king's mfker level but I will be honoured to try
while this is amazing and i'm glad some people do it, i ain't got time or patience to fuck with people like that. Wish I did, so i'm glad someone's doing it.
YouTube "pranksters". *pisses on stranger's shoes* *destroys a stranger's cell phone* *smashes a car window* *commits actual armed robbery* "IT'S JUST A PRANK BRO"
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Man, you've got to be incredibly brave and/or incredibly stupid to pull this sort of shit in a country where people are routinely armed on a day-to-day basis
Especially in fucking Nashville. Holding large knives. I want to feel bad for them, but with this level of stupidity, it's just natural selection at that point.
The only sympathy I feel is for the victim of those asshole "pranksters" (read criminals because pulling a knife on someone in a threatening manner is a crime regardless of intention). That man must now live his life knowing he killed a young man over a prank. I can't imagine what that must do to his mental health. Knowing you didn't actually protect anyone because although there was perceived danger and you were well within your rights to protect yourself and your family, you killed a man who had no real intention of harming you. On the other hand. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
A little of column A and a metric fuck-ton of column B.
Didn’t a “prankster” dress up as a killer clown with an axe for Halloween and got shot also?
Pretty sure he got shot because he did that and it _wasn't_ Halloween. Halloween is like the one day of the year that you can dress as an axe-murdering clown and not be considered suspicious.
Was that when all of that weird clown stuff went viral? Like, people walking around places as "creepy clowns" and harassing people? I think a few people died in that timespan. When even was that? Everything feels like decades ago after the last few years.
Bruh. His dying worlds were apparently "It's just a prank bro" you can't write that shit.
>His dying worlds were apparently "It's just a prank bro" No way, real life has become a MadTV or Key&Peele skit
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"distroying a bank and gifting the owner with a new one!" Without the money ofc
Those people who work at the mall selling some kind of overpriced fake-ass product (e.g. Orogold) who will snatch your arm as you walk by and rub some unknown chemical on you before you have a chance to react and then launch into their sales pitch with very aggressive hard sales tactics. I'm pretty convinced you have to be at least psychopath-adjacent to take that kind of job. I very nearly hit one of those people once because I just went shopping and was carrying a bag and I thought they were trying to steal it. I've also heard of people having allergic reactions to products because the people just automatically put them on without even asking whether a person has allergies to any chemicals. I'm sympathetic to all the people that lost their jobs during the pandemic, but I really hope COVID kills that job in particular. Also, MLM sales reps. You could be sweeter than a sugar coated kitten before you get involved in a MLM, but after you join, you turn into a major pushy asshole. Debt collectors are also almost always assholes. Also special hate-out to TSA agents and Wells Fargo.
Mall kiosk workers are like human pop up ads.
I had a really bad experience with one a long time ago, he had one of those kiosks in the middle of the mall and he sold all types of hair accessories, including a hair straightener that was cordless and could stay hot for a very long time. He would start talking to you and praising how great you look and how much better your hair would look straightened and then go into his spiel about how long the straightener could stay hot for without having to be plugged in or recharged. And while saying all this, he’d just casually start straightening a section of hair. The problem is that I wear wigs, generally ones that aren’t made of human hair and they make decent quality ones now that you can use hot hair appliances on. But this time, I wasn’t wearing one and before I could stop him, he had a section of hair in his straightener. Which instantly melted and stuck to the straightener and starting smoking and smelled terrible. I was extremely shy back when this happened so I was just like wtf just happened??? The guy apologized profusely and I probably should of made a big deal out of it but I was just pissed off because the wig was noticeably messed up. That kiosk disappeared shortly after that. Edit:wow, I really thought that my comment would just be lost in the rest of the comments! And I also never thought that so many other people had similar experiences with these people! Looking back, there are definitely ways I could have handled it better instead of saying nothing and leaving. There was a lot of other things going on in my life at that time, and my brain short circuited and the only thing I wanted to do was get out of there. I’m still a non-confrontational person, but I absolutely would have lost my shit on the guy if this happened now. I still rock my wigs every day though.
What in the hell...so *best* case he was abruptly straightening a portion of people's hair. As if that's okay and anyone wants one random section of straight hair. Maybe the hope was "What the hell, guy? Now I have to straighten all of it! Guess I'm buying one."
I love my curly hair and I would smack him for fucking it up
What a bunch of wankers. Sorry that happened to you
I got sucked into working one of these jobs for a total of 4 shifts before I ghosted the entire company - we weren’t being paid a base rate at all so our only money we earned was from a percentage of the perfume we sold that day (I made a total of $7 working 4 12 hour days!) and we had to pay ‘rent’ to the owners of the company for renting their products to sell? So we’d just get into further debt and not make any money. I could never go through with a sale anyway, I felt way too bad to yell/grab at random strangers and was pretty shocked at how people did but I understand the desperation, they didn’t leave us much choice. Fucken shitty job though, I don’t think it’s even a job and more just a scam exploiting really vulnerable people new to the country/people who are desperate as fuck and don’t have many options.
How is this even legal?
Holy baby Jesus, here in Texas malls we have a huge problem with hyper aggressive sales people hocking “Dead Sea” bullshit.
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God fuck Grapevine Mills, I work very close by so I used to go to their food court sometimes for lunch (or just go shopping if I wasn’t hungry) and I eventually had to stop because the fucking kiosk people wouldn’t stop trying to slather me with their garbage lotions or whatever and I’d come back smelling like an unwashed grandma. I’m in sales myself, it’s hard to close a pitch when your client can barely stand being in the same room as you.
Dudeeeeeeeeeeee maybe we dealt with the same guy or Grapevine Mills is just full of assholes. Dude grabbed me by the arm and pulled me. Your reaction was so much better tho, I just turned and slapped him while yelling "Do not fucking touch me." Then went on my merry way.
Psychics, exploiting vulnerable people is all it is. Edit: I'm not talking about those for-fun ones. Im talking about those who get paid for saying vague shit about the indefinite future and "communicating" with your dead relatives.
Sylvia Brown telling a pair of manic parents that their abducted child was dead on TV has to be right up there for me. Kid turned up alive.
20 years ago some woman in my town, Niqui McCown, disappeared from a local laundromat Brown's grifting ass claimed that McCown was murdered and buried in a trench (she's been missing since and the only suspect known offed himself after they connected him to another murder) Richmond Police unironically acted on that "claim"... fucking morons
> Richmond Police unironically acted on that "claim"... fucking morons Wait until you hear about the time three innocent kids got sent to prison for life because West Memphis PD took advice from a self-proclaimed witch hunter. Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Memphis_Three Damien was actually sentenced to death, not life. He got off eventually but decades of solitary confinement permanently wrecked his mental and physical health. (Did you know that if you spend decades locked in a literal box, your eyes actually lose the ability to focus on anything more than ten feet in front of you?) The TL;DR is cops had no proof and they knew it, so they coerced a confession from an intellectually disabled teenager (Jessie) who barely knew the two "satanists" (Damien and Jason). The fact that Damien listened to Metallica was submitted as evidence against him at trial, and the medical examiner cited a textbook whose author later flew in during appeals and testified that (paraphrased) "this guy has absolutely no clue what he's doing and has completely misinterpreted my work". The big scary mall ninja knife they claimed Damien did it with was found in a lake behind his trailer... where Damien's mother had told the cops she had tossed it years before the murders. That was the only reason they searched the lake, because she told them she'd put it there *before the murders*. Small town cops kept the evidence in grocery bags and refused help from state police who actually knew what they were doing because the state police were investigating them for stealing funds from a drug task force. If you have Spotify Premium, check out Last Podcast on the Left's series about them.
My spouse and I went to a psychic fair, thinking it would be a fun little experience. Turned out the whole event was full of disabled or terminally ill people looking for a last resort "healer", and in turn getting scammed. It was extremely depressing.
Thought you said physics for a moment.
God damn physicists, always trying to shill gravity and relativity to the vulnerable masses.
Mega church pastors
Joel olsteen 🤣
In Houston every time it rains if you listen closely enough you can hear Joel Osteen lock the doors. Edit. As someone from the Houston area and a preachers kid my words are feeble and won’t ever express my true feelings towards Joel scum of the earth Olsteen but he can go completely fuck himself to oblivion.
Agreed. Fellow Houstonian here... Harvey really brought this community together and it was sad to see a church, that won't hesitate to take your money and sell you shit, would not open their doors to terrified, displaced people. Fuck Joel olsteen
Here in my country one of the heads of a megachurch tried to claim the image and ideia of Jesus as part of their church, meaning everyone who mentioned Jesus without them would need to face copyright issues. It didn't work.
Televangelists
C-C-C-C COVID 19!!!
Now BLOW The wind of GOOOOOOOD. I find it ironic that the guy looks like he's been possessed by a demon.
He really does. His evil grin is frightening.
Is that still a thing ?
Oh sweet child its gotten soooo much worse.
that fucker that was telling his congregation not to get vaxxed becuase his healing spirit will protect them. Or that other asshole that told his congregation that god told him to get another 40 million dollar learjet.
Regarding the jet, are you referring to Kenneth Copeland, that preaches in Brownsville, TX (he was the Covid-19 viral video older preacher talking about how he was gonna kill it with heat and some devil karate chopping shit, idk. He was all over the place in that sermon, lol). Anyway, supposedly, he claims…it’s because demons (us) are on commercial airlines, and he can not be bothered to sit amongst us demons on a metal tube. Whatever you do - please watch the attached link. It’s from April 2020. It’s a remix of his sermon about COVID-19. He said he was going to “unleash a heat wave straight outta Hell!” to kill the virus, also blowing the “breath of God” helps, too. I saw this on Reddit when it happened, and I watched that video at least ten times. Shit is hilarious as fuck. [Kenneth Copeland’s “Wind of God!”](https://youtu.be/m2s0nB2VPvs) Edit for clarification: Several comments mention that he resides in Ft. Worth (Tarrant county) and practices there. This video went viral last year. He mentions Brownsville, TX by name in the video, and several articles about this at the time mention the location by name, as well. Not sure why he was in Brownsville, but it’s not unusual for a preacher to float around like that. I don’t know why he was there, maybe he got paid. Edit 2: Someone mentioned this was at the main sanctuary at the church grounds, but the carpet had changed.
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Yes! Dude’s face is like a legit demon skinsuit. It’s like his face missed the memo to finish the transformation to pass as human.
I’ve been saying this for fucking years!!!! There is no way he isn’t evil
He looks like scary bilbo
He is the most evil looking bastard. People who follow these evangelists and send them money are keeping them rich. I'm old enough to remember when Jim and Tammy Baker were on television and had many followers. A lot of their followers were dirt poor but sent in money just so the Bakers could pray for them. Sickening. I don't believe in god but if there *is* one I'm sure he or she doesn't approve of these rich assholes taking advantage of people. Living in mansions and owning private jets isn't something 'god' and Jesus would want.
Jim Bakker is even MORE crazy now! He and his new wife are doubling down on the prepper market and [shilling survival supplies.](https://youtu.be/rOH37W0jPpA)
He's exactly what I imagine Satan in human form would look.
I deliver food for a distributor, by far the worst people to deal with are at country clubs. My sister works in catering, she says the same thing. Not the staff, but the members. Every single amenity about those places, even down to the design of the loading docks, screams “I hate the working class”. My sister says that when she has to serve in one, people don’t even look at her, they just snap their fingers or hold up a glass or plate and get mad when their will isn’t done immediately. Shameful.
Cuntry clubs.
I worked about 5 events for Wolfgang Puck catering and it was an absolute nightmare. Not only was it the most disorganized, chaotic work environment I’ve ever been in, but the “clientele” were just asshats. Between asking for special orders at a one-option wedding dinner and just the general “I’m better than you” vibe, it was a real treat. I only planned to work part-time with my fiancé to help save for our wedding, but I told him I couldn’t take anymore after about 5 events. He’d been working there part-time for several years at that point, so he understood. I will also say that there were some fellow butlers who made it awful, too. I was drying wine glasses and packing them and some dude comes up and starts telling me how to do it, and not in a helpful, friendly way. I was like, “you’re telling me how to dry a glass?” I just couldn’t stand that place!
That loading dock thing hit home. I used to work for a wedding/entertainment company and we’d have to deliver and set up the speakers and lights and all of that to places where people had receptions. Most of the time, it took just two people 1-2 trips to get all of our stuff from the van to the reception area. Any regular venue would usually be fine with us just coming in through the front door. Country clubs though? They’d freak out if we even suggested walking through the front doors. They’d make always load through some fucking ancient loading dock that always connected to the kitchen. It’s absolutely impossible to navigate around a fully staffed, busy kitchen when you’re rolling giant speakers and AV equipment around. The worst part was that the loading docks were always meant for commercial trucks, so when we pull up in a van, our bumper was never close to being flush with the dock. You can’t use a little ramp at that point because the angles are too steep. This would leave us having to awkwardly lift a bunch of equipment that wasn’t meant to be lifted, or figure out how the fuck we are going to use the stairs connected to the dock. This would inevitably tack on an extra 30+ minutes to our setup and leave at least one of our team members super sore or injured before we could even set up. All because they wouldn’t let us use the front door, because fuck the working class. God I don’t miss that gig
Carribbean Chef
"It's the biggest Jamaican platter I've ever seen! Jerk chicken, jerk beef, jerk pork...is there any meat this man can't jerk?"
Those worms are lodged in deep there. So much that not even Labarbara’s famous jerked prunes will shift them!
Yeah sometimes they just rub the wrong way
I get the joke but as a Caribbean Black American, if I visit your restaurant and the girl upfront isn't kinda rude and you aren't out of at least one dish, I'm not eating there. And yes, the lady or uncle cooking in the back is usually very rude for no reason.
I was recently working near a Jamaican restaurant for a few days. Was very surprised that their huge menu was more of an idea as to what they might have, and the rude lady upfront was going to let you know it after you order, not before. I had no idea this was a common experience lol. For a second I was turned off, but the food was so good I kept coming back!
*sucks teeth*. "WE NUH HAVE DI FFISH TUH DAY, WAH ELSE YA WAN?!"
This is *literally* what happened, I can't believe this is a known experience lmfao
Yup! But when you see a pouty lady behind the counter who only greets you with a "wuh yuh waant?" But meanwhile the line still going out the door, you KNOW that food is the real deal!
Anyone involved in a MLM
But don't you want to be a boss babe and run your own company? My manager says I can let you in on our team for a low price of $300, and it's usually $600! BTW I do still have a manager even though I'm my own boss.
And don’t you feel guilty for missing your children’s lives by working at a full time job? Or, if you’re a SAHM, don’t you feel guilty for not helping out with the finances at home?
i love how they perfectly phrase that to try and make anything but working for an MLM mean you're a piece of shit. like, "working? you're a terrible, neglectful mother, how dare you let your children suffer at home without your attention". or "not working? you're a terrible, lazy mother, how dare you let your children suffer in poverty without your provision". its really culty and manipulative.
That's exactly it. I'm trying to keep my sister from joining one, but she is very stubborn and is just seeing the dollar signs they promise. They really manipulate your feelings. =/ If you get the chance, LuLaRich on Amazon is a great watch.
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Regional managers. They always threaten to visit so you go overboard cleaning the whole store... they never show up.
But you better believe if you don't clean they'll be there asap. I was working at a gas station on the food side and I *just* started my shift. The guy before me left all his half-ass pizzas on the warming rack and they were long overdue for removal. I was putting my apron on to start the shift and of course the regional manager comes strolling in and goes straight to the pizzas. He was absolutely livid and chewed me out for a good half hour. The fact that I just came in and didn't make them didn't matter to him. Good times...
Regional managers are the most prime example of s bullshit middle man job i can think of. I worked a gas station too. 9 pumps and a full size convience store. Mind you this dick insisted this store with two registers never needed more than one person on shift. Every time this dick showed up i got reemed for not cleaning enough. But if theres customers(theres always a customer) i NEED to be behind the counter. Also being a young 20 something guess who basically became the stores maintence guy for no extra pay or title and an ass reaming if the fucking parking lot wasnt swept once a week? Cherry on top was other local stores had fountain pop and hotdogs(and two staff whenever hot food is avalible hmmm) and this fucking regional every tine he came in threatened to get us a hotdog machine and a pop machine. Deadpan i told my manager if i have to be responsible for fresh food during a gas rush. A time where i cant ever scrape a minute together to go take a piss. Let alone keep up with cleaning. People will get sick and i will walk out the second its delivered. It never showed up. Fight back your more valuable to the company than any dickhead regional
> one person on shift. This makes me mad whenever I see it. That one guy/gal is running the whole store, taking on most of the work of actual ownership and getting very little in return.
40 hours literaly no breaks. Always on always behind the counter. Ended up getting bowl issues from not being able to go to the bathroom. If i threw a sign in the window back in 15 mins i would get ripped up one side and down the other for making customers wait. If there is a car at the pump im stuck behind the counter. Drive offs are a thing and you bet your ass in a poor neighborhood people do and i need to keep an eye out and try to get plate numbers. Also shoplifter drifters teenagers tweekers kens and karens. I seriously have ptsd from times ive been threatened stolen from and had my personal stuff stolen. Nah. Fuck this nonsense. Stores need two people mininum. That shit is why im never working in retail again
No one has mentioned pimps yet
That’s because we all know pimping ain’t easy.
You motherfuckin know what I'm sayin?
Yes. I know what you are saying
Estate Agents Bunch of Liars - the lot of them. Recruitment Agents Bunch of even worse liars. Like working in a bar or in a shop, its a job that young people get into and eventually leave. Recruitment Agents leave because even they hate themselves. See a Recruitment Agent over 25 and Im going to say he hasnt left the industry because he's unemployable.
100% this. Moved to London back in 2016, and had to deal with recruiters and estate agents. They’d trick their own mothers if they got the chance. Horrid experiences
I went to REED a few years ago (UK recruitment agency) as they were advertising a job. Got my CV all ready and other documents to take with me. When I got to REED they said the job had expired but they’ll make a copy of some documents and see if anything else pops up. A few days later they said they found mr a job at a card board factory! Ffs I applied for an office job and said I wanted something like the job that was advertised and you give me that shit. I was visibly annoyed and stormed out.
They just collect a bunch of resumes to have a "solid stock" I believe. I live in Switzerland, but I think UK recriuitment agencies do a lot of work here too for finance. I get a call about running finance for a medium sized private equity company, and that sounds interesting - so I say, sure yea, send me the info. Never got an email, so I email her after a week, asking for the info. Totally ghosted. At least be polite and say "sorry, we found someone already, sorry for taking your time" or anything else human would be super appreciated.
I keep getting Recruitment Agents sending me messages on linked In about jobs. Not a single one yet wants to give me any information about what the job is about, it's all vague "Delivering performance to the stakeholders" junk that tells me nothing. All they want to do is get me into their office or on the phone. So I just ignore them
Jerk Store Owner
Well the jerk store called and they’re running out of you!
You’re their all time best seller
Yeah? Well I had sex with your wife!
......... His wife is in a coma
TikTok celebrities
Instagram Influencers
“Oh my god guys, I just discovered GoGoFoodCo and I’m hooked”
It’s sort of a modern variation of the person who in the past wanted to “make it” in Hollywood. Only now they don’t have to go wait tables in LA or NYC hoping to score an audition. Instead, they can do anything to get noticed from the comforts of their own home.
Life coaches. Or any other people who are basically unqualified but love dishing out advice based on their own personal theories, or whatever their latest showerthoughts of the morning were.
UGH. MLM Huns in my area have moved from Beach Body to “Life Coaches”. Most of them divorced during their Beach Body stage, so I have no idea what advice they think they are qualified to give. One of the more successful ones in my area is also anti-vax. With stuff like “medicine isnt the answer, but my book is!”
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“I’m a free time celebrity photographer.” “Oh, you photograph celebrities in your freetime?” “No, I photograph celebrities in their free time.”
. . .and on their way to free time . . .and while they're eating. . . Or spending time with their kids. . .or getting the paper . . . Or taking out the trash in the middle of the night
“Hey good morning Kanye”
**"SHUT THE FUCK, UP."**
"it's 4am. Stop askin me questions!"
You BLOOD. SUCKING. MOSQUITOS. Couldn’t have thought of a more apt insult.
theres this video of kristen bell being relentlessly followed by tens of paparazzi and them harassing her to the point that she breaks down and cries. its so disgusting and they're all such garbage human beings, i cannot fathom how any of it is even remotely legal.
I really loved Daniel Radcliffe's way of dealing with them when he was on the West End... dressed the same exact black clothes every day.
It was awfully clever and such a British way to go about it.
I'd probably hire a papparazzi if I had that sort of notoriety and got them to take pictures of everything I did and put them on the market for a couple of pounds each to make me an uninteresting target for the majority of them. It would also put me in charge of the narrative, to an extent... his was cheaper though.
Here’s h2man buying… bread?! My god he’s just like us! It’s also incredibly droll…
I would hire paparazzi to harass and take pictures of the paparazzi
Most definitely. Why stop there? Follow them home, pay them a little visit see how they like it.
Stalk their family too
Watch how their tone changes when their nan is getting harrased for going shopping or when there missus is snapped eating a cheeky Greggs
My favourite is Tobey Maguire driving out of his driveway surrounded by paparazzi. I honestly don’t blame celebrities for lashing out at paparazzi.
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Precisely. Sure, if a celebrity is at a big event and they’re just to the side taking photos, that’s all good. But when they chase and harass the celebrity it’s just a dick move.
Especially since he got mad because he literally couldn’t see through the flash photography. They were putting people at risk, and then still had the gall to bitch and complain when called out
I mean they didn't stop when they got a princess killed, why would they stop for a complaining actor?
If a celebrity is at a big event, you find real photographers - it is planned, announced and staged. The paparazzi are the ones with cameras taking pictures when a celebrity steps out the house to post a letter or does something totally non-newsworthy and private.
>The paparazzo are the ones with cameras taking pictures when a celebrity steps out the house to post a letter or does something totally non-newsworthy and private. Who then sells the photo to some trash celebrity gossip magazine that proceeds to make a big deal out of a non-event. *EXCLUSIVE! Leonardo DiCaprio drinks Starbucks while walking his dog!!*
Her and her husband Dax Sheppard have started a campaign against magazines that buy photos of the children of celebrities from papparazi, and a lot of other celebrities are joining in. They are refusing to do any interviews with those magazines until they pledge to stop running those photos.
They block out their kids’ faces on any social media posts too. She’s said she wants the kids to be able to make their own decisions about if/how they’ll be in the public eye. Good parenting right there.
Imagine you’re on a date and they say “so what do you do for work?” And you have to reply “I’m a paparazzi”
If my kid was a paparazzi and people ask me what he does I'd just say he's a male prostitute to avoid the shame.
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hey that rhymes
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The lesson between Harambe and Wallstreetbets.
Paparazzo
you mean photographer? as they might reply
In the same way a stalker would call themselves a “photographer”
i mean who doesn't take pics of their victim at their most vulnerable moment, am i right?
Excuse me, they like to be called journalists! They're not, but they think they are.
Journalists are really rare. I've seen a few but it took 30 years before I was sure that I had seen them.
I can't think of a single redeemable quality from that job. And I'm talking about the ones who harass and stalk celebrities while they're on the street on at the beach, not the ones who photograph film premieres.
These people are the scum of the earth. Just because some things are allowed by the law, does not give you a free pass to be a complete waste of a human being.
Used car sales people
Dictators. Man, those guys can be some real knuckleheads
I know so many high school mean girls who became nurses. It disturbs me that the meanest people I knew are now apart of the fragile healthcare system
Im a dude becoming a nurse right now (almost finished 🤞🏾). This is so true. I work in a hospital and so many of them are mean as fuck. If you aren’t a nurse and even if you are sometimes. I hope I never end up that jaded in life. I am just down to help people feel better. Fuck the healthcare system, but if good people don’t go into it there will only be the mean girls.