Sunday, August 30, 2020

Medical Transportation Employee Maliciously Complies For Good


The worst thing to see is a rule that only serves to end up hurting someone else. This poor elderly lady just needed the extra help, but the inspector had to go and have zero chill, and complicate that process. Fortunately, the medical transportation driver was ready to disregard all that BS, and do what was necessary to help the elderly lady in need. 

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Text - r/MaliciousCompliance u/witwats • 2y + Join "I don't work here anymore...hey, boss, got an opening?" M Worked for a Medical Transportation company that had a contract with Medicaid. One of their many rules was that you could not provide any assistance to the patient INSIDE of their house. One elderly lady had an old house with a very small foyer that you had to climb three steps to get to the main floor. The only other entrance was around back and up two and a half flights of rickety step

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Text - Upstairs. She's in a wheelchair. Common sense says take her in the front door, up three stairs and she's home on the level she lives on. Medicaid says take her up the outside stairs, dump her in the bedroom upstairs and let her worry about getting down to the living room level. We ignored their policy and took her in the front door anyway. A random inspection by a random inspector showed that we were not in compliance. We appealed, the inspector came out and saw the different options and

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Text - Nope. From then on, when the driver arrived at her house, he would get her out of the van in the sidewalk, and then get on the radio and tell the boss to shove his stupid job. Now that he was no longer an employee, he was free to assist this lovely person into her front door and up the stairs. Once finished, they would come back to the van, tell the boss they'd reconsidered, and ask for their job back. Boss was ALWAYS understanding and took them back, but very carefully noted the 10 to 15

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Text - Aftermath: We had contests to see who could have the most dramatic "I quit" scene. Medicaid noted our activities, but couldn't put a handle on how to stop it. Malicious Compliance achieved!! 33.6k 540 1 Share

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People That Faced Karmic Justice Years Later


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about people that they saw face karmic justice in the end. Seeing someone who wronged you end up getting theirs in the end has an uncanny knack for melting the heart. It's like the universe recognizes their BS behavior, and decides to intervene. Or, their luck just runs out. 

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Text - mikesername • 8y Kind of a short story. Kid I met in sixth grade became that kind of "is your friend but is really secretly your bully" type with me. I knew he was going to fail sixth grade (the first grade in my school system that you could really actually "fail" and get held back), so he did. I saw him a couple of times in the hall after that but I haven't really heard from him since. He used to talk about how he wouldn't mind being in jail at all, because you get lots of cole slaw ther

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Text - [deleted] • 8y I've posted this before, but it fits here. I few years back I was the assistant manager at my karate studio. It was a slow, quiet day, when in walked Paul, my old bully from public school. I wasn't sure at first, it had been a long time, and it was hard to tell. I didn't say anything. Paul was interested in joining the dojo, and I showed him around, discussed pricing, etc. I didn't treat him any differently than I would any other potential client. At the end of the tour, Pa

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Text - "I'm really looking forward to training with you." I smiled. "Thanks, me too," Paul said. "You don't recognize me, do you?" "No, should 1?" "Yes. We went to school together, Grade 3 through 8. You bullied me every day, and made my life miserable. Can't wait to see you in class." Paul went white, and walked out without another word. And never walked back in. He willingly threw away a year's membership payment, almost $500, rather than have to be in the same class with me. EDIT: There have

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Text - Freakazette • 8y My mom treats me worse than my younger brothers, and it eventually always bites her in the ass. My favorite is the time she saw it coming. See, when we were teens, my brothers were always allowed to borrow my mother's car, but I wasn't. My grandmother even warned my mother that she would need me one day and l'd tell her no. Mom blew her off because why would she need me, and it's not in my nature to say no. Fast forward a few years later when I have a car and my mom gets

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Text - Kazan • 8y I was the nerdy picked on kid in school... almost 10 years after graduating from high school one of the guys who used to give me shit contacted me on facebook. apologized for being an asshat, then asked for advice on going to college for the thing i have a bachelor of sciences in Edit this is not a billy madison rip. I have never seen that movie and only found out about it's existence from people replying to this comment. I generally don't like adam sandler. 472

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Text - Text - MiikeNUFC • 8y A guy I went to high-school with "friended" me on Facebook. He was caught stealing from my house once back then, bragging about it to mutual friends (whom he thought would not tell me). After the incident we never spoke, although we had the same circle of friends, I kept my distance, he kept his. Flash forward 20 years to now and we were "friends" on Facebook. I have a pretty cool job in the music industry, good money and I travel the world. I usually add these forme

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Text - whalesharkbite • 8y My college roommate secretly slept with my boyfriend while I was at class for a year (I routinely took more than a full course load and was in math/science classes or study groups every morning). One day I walked in on them screwing when class was cancelled. Moved out. More angry at her than heartbroken. Lost most of my friends through the breakup. Fast forward 5 years later: those 2 throw a crazy expensive engagement party at the guy's parents' beach house (attended b

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Text - lamerfreak • 8y (now ex) GF and I worked at the same place. I was in a different department, different level, we had no real interaction there. She came home one day to tell me about laughing at her new boss who had been hitting on her. Nearly choked when she told me his name - he was my childhood, neighborhood bully. Warm fuzzies, right there. 179 ...

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Text - optimusxrae • 8y I'm was one of the least popular kids in my high school by far. I was too nerdy for even the nerds to hang out with. I spent most of my time with the outcasts. I knew it was bad but I had a crush on a football player. (Can you blame me? What nerd didn't?) I decided for once to take charge and do something for myself. I asked him out. He laughed in my face and told me I was too ugly for anyone to ever date. Called me "crow face" which was a lovely nickname that caught on f

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Text - After high school I began doing modeling gigs and cosplay events. I felt great and looked amazing. Not too long after these shoots started popping up online, he messaged me on facebook telling me how gorgeous I looked and that he should have never said no to me at all. I then got to calmly explain to him the years of self esteem issues l'd suffered from him and how I always pictured him humiliating me in front of our high school any time I wanted to ask someone out. TL;DR: Crush told me I

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Text - [deleted] • 8y To the friend who always looked at my test and copied me to get an A; I got all the scholarships, you didn't. Have fun. 102 ...

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Text - Erock2 • 8y I'm now manager at a Verizon store, and I have all the "cool" people from high school asking for a job... One guy I remember clearly making my life miserable came in and asked for a job, I joked around with him for a bit and told him to come in for an interview, he came in and started telling me how happy he is about how he finally found a job, after telling me his life story I started telling him how horrible he made my life when we were in high school, I stood up and told hi

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Girl Tries To Blackmail Tenant, Ends Up Paying Thousands


Man, we're not even sure who is worse in this equation: Wendy or the scumbag property management company. They let that place devolve into a complete mess of a housing situation. At least Wendy learned her lesson in the value of playing nice with everyone, and not doing something terrible like trying to scam a tenant out of thousands of dollars. 

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Text - r/ProRevenge u/Infinite_Number • 1d + Join 1 1 1 1 Try to scam me out of rent money? Have fun paying back six times the amount, losing all your friends, and getting exposed for your lies!:) Obligatory "not sure if this qualifies as pro," but it is definitely a step above petty. The ultimate result did give me immense satisfaction to see this girl try to scam me, fail terribly, and have to face financial, social, and legal consequences. tl;dr at the end, since this is a long one. This happ

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Text - On my university facebook page, I found a posting for a sublease offer by a girl named "Wendy". She was transferring out of the university and needed her room rented out. It was an individual lease so I wouldn't have to worry about damages in the shared space, I had my own deadbolt and keyfob for my door, and the shared bathroom was huge, so I didn't even care if it stayed messy. I met the other roommates, we hit it off, and within a week I had signed the sublease.

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Text - I learned my lesson from my previous renting situations and made sure to only sign a semester sublease with Wendy. I explained to her that I didn't want to be stuck in another lease and waiting for it to expire if my new roommates and I were not compatible. I also didn't want a lease during the summer when I didn't have plans to live on campus. She was fine with this, as no one else was willing to pay her the full amount of monthly rent. A semester went by, and my roommates were nice, so

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Text - Since I signed my lease extension, I had noticed that the quality of living in my complex had tanked to new lows. If you've never lived in a student apartment complex, they're pretty much run like dorms, though they are marginally cheaper and have more privacy with individual rooms. The past few months I noticed that none of the public toilets in the gym or study floors were being cleaned, the security guard would let random drunk people use the facilities inside, none of the lights on a

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Text - So in December, I paid $5500, plus fees for rent/ utilities/service for December-May. Note, I paid for the upcoming semester along with my last month's rent before my initial lease expired. Not smart, but I had cleaned out my entire savings to do this so I didn't have to worry about late payments, e-Check fees, or scrambling to pay rent at the end of each month. I worked a minimum wage tip-based job and there were so many stupid fees just for paying rent that were eating up my paychecks,

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Text - May rolls around and I double-check with Wendy that I am moving back home right after finals (May 4th) and the new tenant can move in starting June 1st since I paid until the end of May. I told her that if anyone wants to move in earlier than June 1st, to contact me because I didn't want to return my keys yet and it would be nice to get some money back for the empty apartment l'm paying for. She agreed to this. All my things were moved out except for sheets and a single pillow, just in ca

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Text - Wendy calls me the day after I move and cries and cries about how she cannot find anyone to take over the rest of the lease and if I could extend into the summer. She has another apartment signed at her new school and can not afford the rent for both. I tell her l'm in the same situation with my new apartment, so I can't afford to rent an empty room either. At the end of the day, her name is on the lease and not mine. She does not take this well.

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Text - May 15th, I get a $1000 charge on my account from the rental company for June rent, and for "losing" my keys and a noise complaint violation fee. I call management right away because no one was supposed to be home and realize it is not the lady who has been working there for the past 9 months, but someone completely different. Turns out older management knew they were being replaced since a national rental company bought the building, so they completely gave up on any upkeep during the mo

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Text - On top of the old management's fuck up, Wendy knew about the lack of proper sublease contract and used it to her advantage. She offered a new sublease "discounted" rent to move in for the full summer. Wendy essentially charged 2 months' rent for 4 months of living but was only able to do so since I had paid for the "free" month she was offering to her subleaser, and my damage deposit covered the last month's rent. She was actually gaining an extra $700 out of the deal, on top of having he

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Text - This meant that from the very next day I moved out, someone had been living in my room which I paid for, without my knowledge, or the knowledge of any of my other roommates who had gone on summer vacation. I was livid, but I still tried to patch things up between us. I offered to schedule an appointment at our local tenant's union for mediation and I even offered to just have her family talk to mine in case there were other personal issues that prevented Wendy from paying.

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Text - She wrote me back a nasty email from "her lawyer" saying she had a saved Snapchat of my roommates (her friends since highschool) smoking pot and drinking during my birthday party in the apartment and she wouldn't hesitate to send it to my boss, academic advisor, and the building manager. Pot is legal, I was 22, I had just passed a drug test for my internship, and I was not even present in the picture she had, so l'm not sure what she would have accomplished through this other than ratting

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Text - I contacted the university's free legal services and had them explain the process and required papers and documents I would need to get her in civil court. Since she was no longer a student, I was able to receive help without any conflict of interest under their "student tenant issues" advisor. The legal counselor suggested I try to pursue a court operated mediation for the issue and follow with a civil suit if the mediation didn't work. They referred me to a local lawyer who does this so

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Text - Then, I took her nasty email and forwarded it to every person included in the picture that she was trying to hold over me. I simply believed they deserved to know that their friend didn't care about any possible fall out they might experience and was using their post/image to blackmail someone. Finally, I spoke to the new management about the "missing" contract I had paid extra money to file. New Manager admitted she was too overwhelmed by the massive pile of garbage the building had beco

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Text - I had New Manager send me the new tenants' contract and forwarded the overlapping leases and the utility overage receipts since January to the accounting/fraud department of the management company AND New Manager's boss, who was in charge of making sure the transition between management was smooth. I made sure to hammer in the fact that had anything gone wrong since December, I could've been evicted for illegal subletting after the company had accepted payment, just because Wendy didn't f

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Text - Within a day, I had not only received the $700 refund meant for May, but over seven times more. The company wanted to wash its hands of any liability in this mess they inadvertently helped orchestrate, so they just reverted the direct deposit which included the overlapping month in question. But that payment had been made in December, so I got back six months of rent, utilities, deposit, and fees. I essentially got back a semester's worth of rent, plus December. As the original lessor to

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Text - I waited for a while after my payout to really make her sweat from the pressure of the court requesting her presence, and the building manager requesting $6K in unpaid rent. I knew the building manager was leaving her and her parents voicemails daily about needed to call her back to fix this situation before it got worse, but they were all avoiding calls at this point. Eventually, her family had to hire a REAL lawyer to get back to me about revisiting an out-of-court mediation. Finally, I

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Text - I think her family was too embarrassed to even ask for rent from December to May and couldn't deny their daughter had been lying this whole time, especially since they had to pay for a lawyer on top of everything else to clean up her mess. They never requested that I pay them back at all, and I have not heard or seen her since. None of her friends from my school are friendly with her anymore and their families are not on cordial terms since the email I forwarded to her friends spread like

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Text - tl;dr: Original tenant tried to blackmail me (subleaser) out of my rent and deposit, thinking l'd never know she subleased my room to someone behind my back, but ended up owing the leasing company $6000 in rent and utilities, having to hire a lawyer to represent her, and lost many friendships in the collateral since I discovered her lease was invalid and exposed her. 2.2k 55 1 Share

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Tumblr Thread: Cultures Collide Over Ways To Measure Time And Space


People on the internet will break out in a fiery debate over just about anything. In this case, we have Tumblr users from various corners of the globe offering their hot takes on the proper way to measure time and space. Basically, there's always going to be a different way to measure time and space. For some more gold from Tumblr, check out this Tumblr thread about how the Rocky Horror picture show was freedom.

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Text - E penroseparticle My favorite thing is that Europe is spooky because it's old and America is spooky because it's big meduseld "The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way." -Earle Hitchner burntcopper A fave of mine was always the american tales where people freaked out because 'someone died in this house' and all the europeans would go .Yes? That would be

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Text - pretty much every house over 40 years old. .My school is older than your entire town. 'Sorry, you think *how far* is okay to travel for a shopping trip?' *American looks up at the beams in a country pub* °Uh, this place has woodworm, isn't that a bit unsafe?' 'Eh, the woodworm's 400 years old, it's holding those beams together! bedlamsbard A few years ago when I was in college I did a summer program at Cambridge aimed specifically at

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Text - Americans and Canadians, and my year it was al| Americans and one Australian. We ended the program with a week in Wessex, and on the last day as we all piled onto the bus in Salisbury (or Bath? I can't remem- ber), the professors went to the front to warn us that we wouldn't be making any stops unless absolutely necessary. We're headed to Heath- row to drop off anyone flying off the same day, then back to Cambridge. "All right, it's going to be a long bus ride, so make sure you're prepare

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Text - of six hours with the double digits perfectly plausible. We can handle a twelve hour bus ride as long as we get a bathroom break. The answer. "Two hours." Oh. e derinthemadscientist English people trying to travel around Australia and wildly underestimating distance are my favourite thing marzipanandminutiae a tour guide in France told my school group that a particular cathedral wouldn't interest us much

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Text - because "it's not very old; only from the early 1600s" to which we had to respond that it was still older than the oldest surviving European-style buildings in our country iguana-sneeze China is both old and big. I had some Chinese colleagues over; we were discussing whether they wanted to see the Vasa ship (hugely expensive war ship which sank on it's maiden voyage after 12 min). They asked if it was old, I said "not THAT old" (bearing in mind they were Chinese) "it's from the 1500s." To

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Text - the 1500s." To my surprise they still looked impressed, nodding enthusiatically. Then I realised l'd forgotten something: "...I mean it's from the 1500s AFTER the birth of Christ" and they went "oh, AFTE..". ceescedasticity My dad's favorite quote from vari- ous tours in Italy was "Pay no atten- tion to the tower – it was a [scornful tone] tenth century addition." copperbadge My last boss was Chinese, and she said when her parents came to visit her from Beijing they pronounced Chicago "A

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Tumblr Thread: Social Engineering Is A Trip


This fun Tumblr thread shines light on the crazy kinds of results that can be achieved through some good old-fashioned "social engineering." It's basically a clever way of breaking the rules, and relies heavily on people not double checking complete fabrications pulled right out of thin air. Fun stuff. 

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Text - ms-demeanor Follow I am a glorified office administrator who understands server hardware why am I the only person in this company who gets what social engineering is? ms-demeanor Follow Total stranger on the phone who we've never spoken to before: I have power of attorney over the CEO of this corporation and we are a customer of yours. Please change the administrator password on the server to XXXXX

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Text - My boss, putting on white grease paint and a red wig: Oh, of course! Let's do it quickly so that you'll want to keep working with us since you're going to be making business decisions! Me: I would sell you to satan for one corn chip and I'm allergic to corn but before you do this maybe you should call someone who is actually on our contact list for our customer and see if they've ever heard of this stranger. My boss, looking through a selection of shoes that honk when you walk: Oh, but sh

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Text - Me: As your lawyer I recommend that you just call a single one of our contacts and see if they've ever heard of her name. My boss, shoving all of our technicians into a VW beetle: You're not my lawyer. Me: HOW THE FUCK WOULD YOU KNOW? I COULD BE! YOU SHOULD MAYBE CHECK ON THAT. patrithebat TIL everyone's employee ID at my company is the last five of their SSN. Boss: On the bright side, it's only the last five

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Text - Me: YOU CAN COMMIT FRAUD WITH FOUR zevveli Follow Security firms that are hired to check the security of banks will often use the following tactic: They will walk up to the teller in a suit with their ID badge and a clipboard and go: "Hello I am [name] from [security firm] we've been hired to verify the security of the facility I need to see your computers." "Erm...l'll have to verify that with my managers." "Congratulations, you have just passed the security verification." [Scribbles on

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Text - seriousness I do need to verify your security so I need to see your computers." "Oh okay." AND LETS THEM IN. palindromordnilap Follow "Social engineering" is a way too fancy word for what it is. I know a guy (not personally) who broke several people out of prison by essentially writing "Greetings, please release this person, signed, whoever the judge is" on a piece of paper and faxing it there. Because no one would have a fax machine in their own house I guess. | closet-keys Follow not to

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Choosing Beggar Wants iPad For $40 And Free Delivery


Man, these kind of interactions between the choosing beggars of the world and the sane individuals just trying to make a buck without dealing with full on delusional fools really sap our faith in humanity. This choosing beggar really needs to reassess their approach to life. 

Check out another case of a particularly gnarly choosing beggar who expected to pay for a painting with a prayer.

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Text - iPad gen 2,32gb READ DESCRIPTION Joined Facebook in 2019 ADD PEOPLE See Latest Updates Is this still available?would u deliver to e for 40

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Text - Very heavy interest but yes it is! Looks like S a half each way from me, do you mean $50 for the ipad and $40 for delivery for $90 total? I would consider that if you paid upfront, I definitely wouldn't want to drive for 3 hours and not have you follow through. is an hour and 6:34 AM Im so confused Oh no problem, what can I clear up?

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Text - I only have 40 i asked if u can do 40 a simple yes or no could do but i guess ik the answer! Oh, I assumed you meant an extra $40 for delivery. No offense, but I mean, if you were selling something would you take less than what you were asking AND drive for over 3 hours? U said e was a hour and a half from u? Yeah each way, so over 3 hours round trip

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Text - I need a ipad for college and i only have 40 and to answer ur question if they the buyer needed something like this for college ill consider at least im making money still Oh for college!!! Where exactly did you want it delivered to? And when do you need it by? I was hoping u can drop it off today Where exactly? ny house or at a public place and i don't drive

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Text - What time? Well maybe now or at 9 Can u maybe come now jw What's the public location you'd like to meetup at? My house because my bick has a flat

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Text - Ok ill give u the addre nd does it come with a charye. Ok see u in a half an hour? Ok and what car do i look for Oki suppose ur on ur way

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Text - Thope its unlocked 7:45 AM Are u coming rn i google maped it it 1 hour and 34 min away Silver/grey car Ok How close are u

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Text - Its a black and white house with a well in front of it Ok I just seen a silver ford go by i dont think i was u No I had to call off work so that put me a bit behind. Eta around 9 Ok

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Text - Thx for letting me know Are u coming rn still 8:31 AM Im so confused If ur already on ur way i really appreciate it and ill give u 5 stars when u get here Imk when ur here thx Driving

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Text - Text - Oh my bad sorry Passing a taco bell, I think im getting close Is it on road If yes ur almost here Yeah passing chase bank Ok

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Text - Text - Are you outside? Or should I park and knock Indie Im coming out now Hm, I dont see anyone I pulled over next to...a...Galindos? I'll send an old picture of my car, tell me if you see me

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Text - Land vehicle - Ur down the street from me Are u by Cindys nails Uh...yeah Ok let me use my sister bick to come to u

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Text - Im on my way Ok, look for the car that looks like itd blast off of if it went 88mph, dont judge me! (㈜lol!! ®) I dont see u You dont? No Oh, must be because only an idiot would call off work and drive for 3 hours to sell an iPad for $40. Good luck tho!

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Absurdly Overpriced Stuff People Have Seen


We all know someone who, against better judgement, will buy into the complete BS of an expensive product, and assume that the high price tag is a legitimate marker of quality. It's sad to see, but when someone spends literally any money on a rock in a bag, that's kind of on them. Here are some products that are getting more expensive and somehow worse, as well as some signs someone is trying way to hard to look rich.

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Text - Nicod27 42.5k points · 5 days ago · edited 4 days ago & 3 More Literally any pair of dumbbells during the Covid 02 lockdown.

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Text - rickeysneekzzz 32.0k points · 5 days ago · edited 4 days ago I saw a small thing of Lysol wipes being sold for $22 in a store last week

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Text - PoorEdgarDerby 29.5k points · 5 days ago There was that novelty app awhile ago that was just a red gem. App Store made him delete it. But he was always up front what it was. I Am Rich O MCAfee MECURE was priced at the max expense for an app then, $999.99.

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Text - Dead-Shot1 28.2k points · 5 days ago Printer ink. narcissistical_ 11.0k points · 4 days ago + I had a friend in college who would buy a new $20 printer every time the ink ran out bc it was cheaper than buying ink

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Text - Happy_Fun_Balll 26.5k points · 5 days ago A few years back Nordstrom was selling a rock in a leather pouch for $85.

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Text - dramboxf 9.7k points · 4 days ago · edited 4 days ago Neiman-Marcus used to put out the most hilariousChristmas gift catalog. MCAfee OUSECURE One year they offered his and hers Lear jets. No kidding. Just about anything in that catalog was wildly overpriced. More recently, they offered in their Christmas book, as a potential gift, a Boeing Business Jet for the wonderfully affordable price of "north of $35 million."

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Text - Ahhh_Ahhh_Ahhh 25.8k points · 5 days ago That $6 asparagus water Whole Foods sold a couple years ago; it was a 16oz bottle of water with 3 stalks of asparagus. Also, everything from goop.

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Text - BiscuitMiscuit 24.4k points · 5 days ago There's a 50,000 dollar HDMI cable on Amazon ConspiratorM 14.9k points · 5 days ago I once read a review of an "audiophile" grade ethernet cable. This guy actually claimed changing the ethernet cable from his router to his PC made his music sound better.

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Text - Back2Bach 15.4k points · 5 days ago In a downtown consignment shop, an oil painting of sheep grazing in a meadow had a price tag of $18,700. It was by an unrecognized artist. When asked why it was priced so high, the shopkeeper said "because someone will like it and buy it."

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Text - Buwaro 400 points · 5 days ago Yeti Coolers $400 for a plastic cooler with plastic wheels. That thing probably costs them $5 in material and there are coolers that cost <$100 that will perform just as well. Specially when 99% of the people I see with a Yeti are just rolling up to an outdoor party with some beer, you don't need a Yeti.

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Text - nickzpollard 14.1k points · 4 days ago There used to be a nerdy collector's store nearby, and when I was about 10 (20 years ago. Pfff..), I used to love it in there. Even if not buying anything, I was stunned by the individual Pokemon cards that they had in the glass cabinet, with their rarity emphasised by their ridiculous prices. There was one that always caught my eye. The Ancient Mew card O. With baffling illegible text, the WHOLE CARD being shiny and it being Mew, this was amazing. T

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Text - Lone-Oak 8.6k points · 5 days ago Bottle service at bars is fuckin stupid... I'll just go to a corner liquor store and buy the "4000$ bottle" for like 40...

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Text - The_Tell_Tale_Heart 7.5k points · 5 days ago Weddings. I don't disagree with wanting the day to be special and memorable, but the industry jacks up the prices if they know it's a wedding, and there are way more affordable options while still getting to celebrate love and the future. No reason to break the bank. Use the money saved for even more memories.

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Text - IceClimbers_Main 6.9k points · 5 days ago · edited 4 days ago S The 40 gram Pringles can. IT'S LIKE 5 CHIPS AND IT COST'S 1EURO (1.18USD).

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Text - B-416 6.7k points · 4 days ago $800,000 for a 500 square foot "condo" in toronto

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Text - t1runner 5.5k points · 4 days ago 12 2 & 2 More Insulin. Discovered over 100 years ago and is now synthetically produced and still is being sold for hundreds or thousands of dollars in many cases. The drug companies decided they were going to make their gigantic profit margins off life-saving medicine.

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Text - brownsheepinasweater 5.2k points · 5 days ago · edited 5 days ago The $700 Juicero. As if a Wi-FI connecting juicer was even necessary, let alone worth the price point. Ninjachibi117 2.2k points · 4 days ago + "Juicer" since it didn't even actually juice anything, just squeezed bags of premade juice.

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Text - i_fuckin_luv_it_mate 4.8k points · 5 days ago Gold-plated, diamond-encrusted Nokia cellphone ikindalold 2.2k points · 4 days ago Why the hell would someone try to put fancy armor around something that's already indestructible?

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Text - Sirhc978 4.7k points · 5 days ago As a machinist who has made things for the military, most people don't understand what overpriced means.

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Text - ViridianLens 3.6k points · 5 days ago Luxury million dollar homes built with the same wood wall framing, plywood and cheap vinyl siding as normal homes. Varvatos_Vex 1.9k points · 5 days ago · edited 5 days ago + I've told this story before. My wife and I were checkin out yard sales. We end up in the rich neighborhood across town. I'm driving a dirty suburu cross trek. Seeing everyone's classic cars brand new trucks and bmw's. We felt really out of place. Well we stop and start checking o

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Text - patchyj 1.5k points · 4 days ago A couple of years ago, Mark's and Spencer Food, a high end supermarket in the UK, tried selling "Cauliflower Steak" which was a thick slice of cauliflower for £2.50. It was covered in plastic You could literally buy a whole cauliflower in the same row a bit further down for 40p. They were crucified for it, it was hilarious

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Text - holla09 284 points · 5 days ago When I was in Dubai 2 years ago there was a cell phone store in the mall that sold phones that ranged from $30k -$120k. They were basically phones covered in diamonds and gold. That's $100k for something that is probably already obsolete.

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Text - Silent-Zebra 76 points · 5 days ago Monogram dumbbell weights by Louis Vuitton that'll set you back $3800AUD.

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Text - wongrich 53 points · 5 days ago CHANEL TENNIS BALLS: $475 USD FOR 4!! WWTTTEE TacoBellPhD 43 points · 5 days ago You're gonna love this Louis Vuitton volleyball Ofor $2860.

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Customer Demands Extra Jam, Gets Weaponized Donut


Customers often suffer from the problem of not knowing what they want, and then being extremely stern demanding that thing. For example, this customer who wanted exactly a pound of wings and got less wings, or this customer who demanded to use an engineless go kart. In this case it was a woman who demanded a refilled donut, and it went about as well as you'd expect.

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Text - Posted by u/MPX73 1 day ago Oh, I'll fill your donut, lady.... oc s Backtrack to 1987. Times were good, jobs were plentiful and little 14yr old me walked into a job as a bakery assistant. Even the 4.30am starts didn't put me off, I rolled in every Saturday morning and worked like a trooper. About two months in, someone complained about their donut not having enough jam in. I wasn't responsible for this, but the lady was having none of it and demanded a new one, full this time, not like th

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Text - In the back of the bakery was the donut filling machine. It was like a jam vat with a spike and a pump handle. I took an already-filled donut and put three more pumps in. It was quite round. Another pump, and it was looking pretty much fit to burst. Back at the counter, the lady was looking impatient, so I hurriedly placed the weaponised donut in a box, gave it to her, apologised and off she went. The car park was visible from the shop, she made it back there before opening the white box

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Text - I saw her bite it and recoil in absolute horror as the donut exploded all over her blouse. I laughed my head off. The shop owner found it less funny but realised the irony of it. For a moment I thought she was going to come in and complain but she obviously realised she'd gotten exactly what she asked for. She never complained again, but I was also never ever trusted with the donut filling machine again either! 3 4 1 3

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Text - your_moms_apron 664 points · 1 day ago TIL that jam can be used as a weapon of mass destruction.

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Text - _jay 1.4k points · 1 day ago About a decade later than yours, I was working at a Maccas when we had a guy complain that he had asked for extra pickles but didn't get enough extra. So we remade his Mac and threw in a ridiculous hand full of pickles, it was almost 1:1 pickles to the rest of the buger, and so the bulging burger that was more pickle than burger was sent out.

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Text - Next thing we know he's yelling at us from the front counter, thinking we're going to get shit thrown at us again, we cautiously peek through the service window, and he's giving us double thumbs up grinning like an absolute idiot. In the following days he's called the manager to say how great the service was, also wrote in to make sure the store owner saw it too, and also to the Maccas head office. The next few years, every Saturday, around the same time, same order, he was there like clo

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Couple Leaves Windows Open, Bats Invade Home


As far as nightmarish situations involving creepy crawlers and other animals getting into one's home while they're away, this scenario takes the cake. The poor guy's heart must've leapt outside of his chest when he realized that he was not dealing with birds, but instead an army of bats. Kudos to the landlord for tackling that terrifying situation with fearless gusto. 

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Text - r/tifu + Join u/TheAyJay • 15h TIFU by cracking open a few windows of our third floor apartment before leaving on a week long vacation M My wife and I moved from the U.S. to Germany earlier this year. We left our cat behind thinking we'd pop back over for him once we got settled (a pre-COVID thought). COVID messed that up so this past week I went back to get him finally.

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Text - My wife was going to be gone while I was in the U.S. and normally we leave the tops of our windows cracked for airflow (we were told we need to air apartments regularly). These are 6 foot tall tilt-and-turn windows notorious in Germany. I returned yesterday and it's where the fuck-up unfolds. Traveling internationally with a cat and during COVID is stressful enough, so after lugging my cat and luggage home, I was ready to unwind and fall asleep. However, life likes to teach me lessons the

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Text - Given that I only had a small broom to deal with the bats and it was Sunday night (nothing is open on Sundays), I frantically called my landlord for assistance. He hurried over with a 10 pool cleaning net and we got to work. We found bats in all the curtains and behind all of the canvases, posters, and mirrors. If there was a place off the ground with room for a bat, you can bet there was one there. My landlord described us as the Spartans from 300 fighting off the 125 bats (last nights e

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Text - Today, I caught about 30 more that apparently started to nest in one of the walls (our apartment is over 100 years old and not in the best shape). I think I got all of them, but who knows what tomorrow will bring. 0/10 would not recommend. TL;DR Wife and I left a few windows cracked while we were gone for a week and came back to 150+ bats in our apartment. They shit on everything in every room.

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Twitter Thread: The Escalating Stress Of Emailing The Landlord


This Twitter thread from @calebsaysthings captures that unforgettable, teeth-grinding frustration that many tenants have had with trying to navigate apartment problems with landlords that are terrible communicators. It's just the worst. 

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Text - CALEB HEARON @calebsaysthings first email to landlord: "hey dave l'm sure you're busy and I hate to be a bother but we noticed..." third email to landlord: "Mr. Whittington-I trust that you're familiar with all local, state, and federal ordinances regarding the rights and expectations of tenants pursuant

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Text - CALEB HEARON @calebsaysthings (the second email was just "any update?" with seventeen pictures of a window attached)

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Text - Christo @christobarbour Replying to @calebsaysthings Did you end the third email with "govern yourself accordingly" ? I like that closing.

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Text - XDonna I#3Stars4GenFlynn #FreeJulianX SHARIA LAW @donnamoon81146 WE DONT WANT Replying to @christobarbour and @calebsaysthings And when appropriate, Your silence will be deemed agreement-/approval, etc. Always fun. >

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Text - The Meta-Author @metaauthor Replying to @christobarbour and @calebsaysthings I am also fond of this valediction, used by the Qianlong Emperor to George III (China was at this time colossally outmatched but the entire letter assumes Britain to be a wayward vassal of China located somewhere around the Ryukyus) expulsion. In that event your barbarian merchants will have had a long journey for nothing. Do not say that you were not warned in due time! Tremblingly obey and show no negligence! .

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Text - amber @indicaluna Replying to @calebsaysthings This is literally my situation right now and I'm wondering when I should send the "third email" e

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Text - nic @nicvargus Replying to @calebsaysthings "We look forward to improved communication going forward."

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Text - jezebirb @TraceOddity Replying to @calebsaysthings I definitely pulled one of these on my landlord because we didn't have GFCI outlets in our bathroom and risked electrocution. >

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Text - Sawyer Middeleer @SMiddeleer Replying to @calebsaysthings My first one of these was when I realized I could dim my lamp with a knob on my oven >

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Text - jimmytwohands @jimmy_two_hands Replying to @calebsaysthings I broke out the "pursuant to" language when my landlord tried to take our deposit for a broken sink we'd been complaining about for ten years and cited the chicago rental code saying he owed us double our security deposit for not paying us annual interest on it

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Text - sfhippie @sfhippie Replying to @calebsaysthings The door down the street where we were told to take our trash and recycling for the last several years had the locks changed, and my landlord has ignored all texts, emails, and calls about it for going on 3 months now. It's actually insane.

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Text - Madeline Flores @destroyedcircle Replying to @calebsaysthings @ my last landlord who told me lcouldn't have my service dog. I told her he's a service dog and I legally can't be denied housing or my dog. She literally tells me "well this place just wasn't built for dogs, sorry you can't have him". Well I wasn't built to listen to bullshit e >

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Text - scoot mctoots TM the trash baby @daintyscoot Replying to @calebsaysthings My collection of texts to my landlord about necessary paperwork that was supposed to be signed the day I moved out. It wasn't signed for 3 days after and on the phone call she dead said to me "We've been communicating with you" BITCH WHERE??? >

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Text - M MidtownMeridian > before the end of the day that would be great!! Wednesday 5:32 PM I'm not comfortable relinquishing the property until all of the papers are signed so please get back to me. Yesterday 10:20 AM I won't be leaving the property until the papers are signed. Please send them to me ASAP.

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Text - Yesterday 4:31 PM Do I need to come in there? l'm recovering from surgery and would rather not but the lack of response is extremely concerning Today 12:06 PM Y'all open at 10, I don't understand that lack of response. This is extremely worrisome Today 2:51 PM I'l be there Tuesday Morning at 10am. Please make sure Sandy is present, as l'm still recovering from my surgery.

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Text - Can Do Rosie the Resister @RandomMuse Replying to @calebsaysthings When it literally started RAINING in my living room, I stopped with the emails and withheld my rent. That got their attention fast. Then tried to bully me in court for a year AND THEY LOST because IT SHOULD NOT BE RAINING INSIDE MY LIVING ROOM.

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Text - Can Do Rosie the Resister @RandomMuse Replying to @RandomMuse and @calebsaysthings Also want to mention that their negligence and refusal to fix and trying to sue me for non-payment horribly backfired further when the city stepped in and did 3 emergency repairs on the roof, which cost them tens of thousands of dollars.

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Text - Candace @ltsCandaceinCa Replying to @calebsaysthings My fifth email included "As I have not heard from you, please see attached receipt from the company T hired to fix problem, as I will be deducting it from next month's rent."

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Text - K @K_Lou_Aloha Replying to @calebsaysthings Landlady from hell for 6 months who used to call me whenever she needed a fight! Wasnt til she started doing it to the agent, after I refused to take her calls, she got blacklisted by every agent in the town The built in fridge that was broken upon arrival NEVER did get fixed

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