Business Owner Refuses to Remove Guy's Phone Number From Receipts, Guy Pretends to Be Business Owner

When a lazy and cheap business owner got rid of their old number it was reassigned to this guy's private residence. The phone calls began pouring in from confused customers.

This delicious story of revenge was posted to r/IDontWorkHereLady by u/Billiam201. 

u/Billiam201explains that he tried to contact the business and resolve the issue but was met with a rude reaction from the person who turned out to be the business's owner, "Fred". After some conversations with the business's staff about how cheap the owner was, he realized he was dealing with an extremely unreasonable individual who was not going to do the right thing. So this guy was all like, "Look at me, I am the Captain Business Owner now."

Taking matters into his own hands would prove to be an effective strategy and, after several nuclear reactions from deceived customers who thought their orders were being handled by the fake "Fred", he got his wish.

Dejected Son Destroys Cheating Father's Life, Takes Everything In All-Out Family Warfare, Leaves Him With Nothing

This son had a tempestuous relationship with his old man. The two briefly reconciled when his dad got cancer, only for his dad's adultery to be revealed. He supported his mother through separation from his father, which put him squarely in the crosshairs of his dad's "traditional" family. After an encounter with the family, a plot began to take shape.

This story was posted to Reddit's r/prorevenge subreddit but strayed well into "Nuclear Revenge" territory. In this story, u/thunderkerg tells how he took down his terrible father. It's worth noting that this story takes place in a country outside of the US, so different laws and cultural norms apply. 

Buckle in because this story is one of the longest we have seen this year, but it is well and truly worth reading. Make yourself a nice hot cup of coffee and settle in.

Stupid Design Fails That Made Things More Complicated Than They Needed To Be

How hard is it to build a stadium that doesn't have a section of seats facing a 20 foot high brick wall? Apparently it's excruciatingly difficult. 

How tough is it to make a bike lane that doesn't run straight into oncoming traffic? For some reason it's like rocket science.

The world is full of poorly designed things. Maybe the designers themselves ran out of time or materials? Maybe they just didn't care? Maybe they got halfway done, noticed a small snag with their plan and said "yeah that's not my job."

We can only be so lucky that people make these kinds of stupid mistakes, or else the world would be boring, perfectly functioning place full of informative signs. And that sounds terrible. What we need is more logos that are supposed to look like a chef cooking a burger but end up looking like someone sniffing a butt. God bless poor design skills.

Tumblr Thread: Lord of the Flies Isn't An Accurate Reflection Of All Humanity

Most of us read Lord of the Flies at some point in high school. Or at least we pretended to. It was often presented as a sort of dive into the worst parts of human nature, showing what would happen in a world of children in a tribal setting and no authorities. But as it turns out, the circumstances of the writing of the book are more complicated than that. Add to the fact a real world example of kids becoming stranded on a desert island who didn't go to war with each other, and you've got some claims that go against the outline presented by the admittedly fictional story that is Lord of the Flies.

Sometimes teachers want to prove a point about the inherent decay of law and order when kids are left to their own devices, and time and time again things don't actually go as they'd planned. For instance, there's this tumblr thread about a teacher who underestimated her students in a social experiment in class. This is the type of circumstance that leads directly into this informative Tumblr Thread.

Management Won't Pay 10 bucks For Ground Crew, Loses Airline Thousands

A real jerk of a boss will use your very human sense of responsibility to try and force you into undervaluing yourself. At times it seems ridiculous. But once you "take one for the team" and give your employer something for free, all they learn from that is that they can remain understaffed and now take advantage of you in perpetuity. If you ever find yourself doing your boss's job, remind yourself that it's not a favor. It's you covering up for their sheer incompetence. In the eyes of a giant faceless company, your graciousness, loyalty and skill will only ever be seen as a new free resource to be exploited.

With that in mind, here's an employee whose boss thought they could get away with not paying their employee the commensurate amount to act as a lead. The employee, seeing that this isn't the proper way to go about things, requested that a "qualified individual" complete the task, and things stalled. Sounds like the airline should have kept enough staff around to actually run their company.

Terrifically Stupid Things People Have Heard Someone Say

It's often misleading, the fact that we all exist in the same physical reality. It's easy to forget that not everyone is aware of the same rules and features of the shared plane of existence we find ourselves in. And it doesn't even have to do with any particular creed or set of beliefs. There are people out there who simply weren't paying attention at school the day we all learned that air exists. It's fundamental misgivings like this that hide in people's brains for years, only to present itself later, like syphilis, during an argument or even just a friendly discussion.

"Why is it that when I stop breathing, my brain stops feeling good?" your friend, a seemingly functioning adult, asks you.

"Because your brain needs oxygen" you say, a little taken aback.

"Oxy clean?" he responds. And it dawns on you that you need to start a lot further back than you originally thought.

For some more people who need to go back to the 4th grade, here are some of the dumbest things people heard out of another person's mouth.

Rude Store Clerk Mansplains Knife Pricing to Woman, She Gives Up, Gets a Steal of a Deal

A hasty and rude retail worker quickly corrected this woman when she pointed out a pricing error on a chef's knife she was interested in. She relented in revealing the mistake to the worker and ended up with a deal on a great knife.

This story was shared to the r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by u/TIL_eulenspiegel, the woman in the story, where it earned 19k upvotes as of the writing of this post.

The u/TIL_eulenspiegel, the Original Poster of the topic (referred to as the "OP" in Reddit's culture), opened with some context to the situation that occurred. 

"My most-frequently-used knife was an 8-inch chef's knife, but the one I had was of such crappy quality that I dreamed of the day when I would have enough money to buy myself a Real Knife." the OP explains, "So when I eventually got my first professional job, I got my finances all straightened out and decided that it was time to make my big knife purchase."

When she went to the department store she was greeted by an "older man" who was extremely helpful. But by the time she had made her selection he had gone on break and been replaced by a "young rover from another department."

When she approached the counter with her selection the knife rang up as $40, which she was certain was incorrect. When she attempted to correct the error the youngster interrupted her. Upon inspection of the label, it was clear to the OP that the knife had been labeled incorrectly. The label described a six-inch sandwich knife when it was clearly an eight-inch chef's knife.

This marginalization is something that is extremely frustrating to experience. It often occurs when someone makes the assumption that you won't know much about a topic because of certain attributes. Usually, they are overtly patronizing or condescending. The reality in these situations is that you're more experienced in the topic than they are but they oftentimes won't pause for long enough to realize this. 

Sometimes it's an honest mistake, you launch into an explanation about something because it's a special interest of yours. Maybe you're a retail worker or it's otherwise your job to explain something to people and just default into your spiel before fully analyzing the situation and who you're talking to. 

There are various reasons why you could accidentally do this to someone with reasonable explanations. But, unfortunately, the trend is also very commonly targeted towards women with undertones of bigotry and misogyny. We refer to this as 'mansplaining'. The term is misused now and broadly misattributed but it has important lessons to teach us.

In this case, that marginalization worked in u/TIL_eulenspiegel's favor. She gave up on correcting the young man and ended up with a hell of a deal on a knife. Sounds like a win to us.

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