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Saturday, August 15, 2020

Customer Gets Mistaken for Job Applicant, Interviewers Break Law

This person was just trying to get their machine repaired when some less than professional employees ended up trying to interview them, then reject them from said job. Kind of a strange situation for a customer to be in. For a customer who made it further up the fake professional ladder, this dude impersonated a store manager to boot a horrible customer.

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Text - r/IDontWorkHereLady · Posted by u/ligamentary 18 hours ago Manager reveals illegal hiring practices when mistaking me for applicant XXXXL Names have been altered out of consideration for the business owner. I'm a bit older (I've got grandkids in high school, let's put it that way.) So I've been especially cautious about staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Part of that has, unfortunately, meant indefinitely cutting out my regular trips to the gym. So I invested in a couple pieces of

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Text - But then, one of the machines broke. I called them up and all of a sudden, they were a lot more difficult to get on the phone than they were during the sales process. Wouldn't commit to a repair date, technicians never in, customer service always putting me on hold for ridiculous amounts of time even though it was a small local store, just endless. Finally I decided to go over and sort it out in person. At this point our state was only just beginning to open up, so things like fitness equ

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Text - I figured that made sense for the kind of clientele whose first order of business after a nationwide shutdown would be to get to the gym equipment store. I didn't really think much else of it at the time. I was just coming from a full morning of (Zoom) meetings so I was wearing business appropriate attire. Dress pants, pearls, knit turtleneck, the works. I came in and saw a line of buff, meaty guys lingering around near a counter, looking as though they'd also just come from work, and fig

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Text - After a few moments I realized the employees were calling the buff meaty guys by name and taking them into a back office to deal with their concerns, and I figured it was a social distancing measure. So I went over to a guy wearing a store uniform calling names and asked, "Excuse me, do I have to take a ticket or get my name on a list or something?" He seemed surprised too, but again, I chalked it up to age. He said to wait a minute. I asked if I should get started on any paperwork (a lot

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Text - Meanwhile, a more senior guy kept surfacing every few minutes calling for people to talk to him in the back, "Brett, Tony,-" but then the more junior guy pulled him to the side and pointed me out. I waved. The more senior guy came over and asked “Hi Ma'm are, uh, are you sure you're in the right place?" And I replied, "Oh, definitely, I've been planning to come down here all week." And he said, "Alright, then, we can chat right now. You want to come on back, you ready?" The beefy guys wer

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Text - But he just shook his head, going, "Well, before you fill anything out, why don't we talk first?" And off we went. I sat down in a small back office, across from these two men at a desk. It seemed like quite the to-do over scheduling a simple repair, but, I figured this was life in the "new normal." So they looked at each other as though neither quite knew what to say, and I'm thinking, "Is this both their first day on the job? Let's get on with it here." Finally, the more senior one caut

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Text - Now I'm thinking they're trying to find reason to put me at fault and void my warranty or otherwise upsell me, so I shoot back the curt but truthful answer, “I've been working out every day for longer than at least one of you has been alive. I can look at any model on your floor and tell you what they do, why, and which features are necessary versus which features are just extra flash designed to line your pockets, and I definitely know a working machine from a broken one so I don't even

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Text - There was no universe in which he needed that information to get a repair tech to my house. I was really and truly lost at that point. Was he coming onto me? Was he insinuating there was no use in fixing my machine because I'd be dead soon enough anyways? "WHAT? What could that possibly have to do with anything? You have no right to ask me that." The more junior guy whispers "Hey, yah, I don't think you're legally allowed to ask that." So, that's when it all starts to click for me. The se

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Text - The junior guy gasps, in pained dismay, “Bro, no–" and turns to me, switching into professional mode from night to day in an instant, “What my colleague meant to convey is that we are targeting a certain demographic, and..." He ran out of buzzwords with that sentence alone. They realized the situation was getting away from them at that point as I sat in silence, staring daggers into them. Finally fully understanding that I'd walked into a pool of job applicants and been mistaken for one,

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Text - The senior guy definitely thought he had the situation handled as he exclaimed, "It's really not about us, Ma'm, we're trying to keep you safe, you know. We're not saying you can't work here, like that you're incapable. Just that you shouldn't, like, we're doing you a favor by not considering you, really. There's a lot of heavy lifting that's not safe for older people. Your bone density decreases hand over fist as you age, haven't you noticed that? And you'd be in the store alone sometime

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Text - So I went, "Well, thanks for your concern. But times are tough and I'm qualified for this position so I'd still like to fill out an application." The junior guy looked like he wanted to give me one just to make this end, but the senior guy said firmly, "For all the reasons I just outlined, I don't think that's a good idea." I'd heard enough. No way this infant sweat stain owned and operated a business, so I asked to speak to the owner. They said the owner wasn't reachable by phone. There

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Text - Mmhmm. I found his real card and took it for my records. I didn't want to give the guy any opportunities to hide behind those bogus excuses, so as I turned to leave, I concluded a final time with feeling, "Just so we're clear, you're saying you will not even let me apply for the job, because you won't consider me based on my age and gender?" He tried to stay silent at first, but eventually cracked under the pressure and babbled, "Look, it is what it is ma'm." While his clueless junior cou

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Text - I had no sympathy for the junior one either though, because he didn't give me an application back at the beginning when I still thought I was in line for customer service. He took one look at me and got his boss instead to weed me out. So I left shortly after that point and exchanged emails with the owner. I explained what had happened, not only that their people utilized discriminatory hiring practices, but that I'd arrived as a customer and no one greeted me or asked how they could help

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Text - I still didn't get a job application, but that's quite alright, my current employer probably wouldn't be too thrilled to hear I was shopping other offers. What I did get was swift, hassle free repair of my machine and a direct number to contact for the future. The owner also later called to personally apologize and informed me the senior quy had been let go and the younger one disciplined. The kicker? The business owner was a woman!

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Tenant Refuses To Pay Rent, Parents Take Tenant To Court

Freeloaders are swinging way outside of their weight class when they try to take on the hard working people of this world. These folks clearly had some grit, and were not going to get pushed around by a tenant who was just trying to squat on their property for as long as she could milk it. Fortunately, the court system provided a smooth resolution to the infuriating predicament.

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Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/MrTyroneTheCat • 2y Should've just paid the rent So this is a story about my parents around 7 or 8 years ago when I was barely leaving elementary school. I was really young and my parents kept my sister and I in the dark at the time but they later told me the gist of what happened. First thing first, my parents owned two houses. They decided to keep the old house when they bought a new one so they could rent it out. The old house was in a decent area but on the edge

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Text - After the horror story of the first tenant (used a dumb loop hole in our state in order to live there for almost 6 months rent free) my parents found a single woman with temporary foster kids who was interested, lets call her Bad Tenant (BT). She seemed really nice at first, housing kids who needed a home and selling homemade tacos from her taco cart. My parents did a background check and see that her income from the state for the kids should cover the rent and figure her side hustle woul

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Text - 1. Not required since the house was in perfect condition when she moved in and was not due to anything on my parents part. (We planned on moving back after my sis finished high school so we replaced anything we thought would break and repainted it) 2. Caused by the way too many kids in the house. This pissed off BT and she stopped paying her rent. Just some backstory, my dad is a fair reasonable guy and I've never seen him give attitude to anyone let alone yell, my mother however is your

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Text - BT was dead serous about this and my parents had to take her to court. I later learned she only did this in order to stay at the house a little longer without having to pay rent. My parents were pissed, this was the second time a tenant had gotten away without paying rent. At this point I need to say I truly love my dad but my mom is the most dedicated person I know, if she wants something she will find some way to get it. She was born and raised in Central America, traveled all the way t

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Text - The first thing she did was head to child services with photos of the house condition, courtesy of my father who always took photos of the house when he went over for the maintenance. They looked over and thanked my profusely for the evidence and told them they would look into it. Next my parents got a lawyer who collected all the photos we took before she moved in to prove the house's condition before she moved in. Now I wasn't in the court room but from what my dad told me it was the mo

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Text - Now my parents knew that they were not going to see a dime from the lady given that she no longer could house kids. Whoops. It also turns out she was using her mother's name in order to house even more kids which explains why they were given to her to the start, so she was going to answer to that too. Double whoops. lastly, just to put the cherry on the cake, my parents but a lien on her taco cart so she couldn't make money that way either. Fucking triple whoops. This might not be enough

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Tagged: satisfying , revenge , criminal , awesome , tenant , illegal , win , apartment

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Woman Rejects Role Of Cool Aunt Cause It's Free Babysitting

This woman decided to ask the folks of Reddit's AITA community whether or not she was in the wrong for rejecting her role as a "cool aunt" because it basically amounted to her just doing a ton of free babysitting for her entitled sister. On top of that there seems to be a solid amount of toxic family drama at play in this situation. The collective opinion would seem to be one that the cool aunt is still cool without doing all the free babysitting for her sis.

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Text - AITA for rejecting the role of "cool aunt" because it was really more like unpaid babysitter? Not the A-hole My sister and I have always been very different. Growing up, she was your stereotypical nerdy/geeky girl. Very into sci-fi/fantasy, video games, etc. She bonded a lot with my parents over it, because they are the same.

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Text - I always felt kind of "different" from the others because I'm not very "geeky" and while I did my best to fit in (Star Wars movies, Harry Potter, etc), I took my first opportunity to leave the area for school. I went to FIT and got a degree in fashion design. I always loved making my own clothes. To frame it one way... I made my prom dress from my own pattern, and my family smiled politely. My sister threw together a Harry Potter costume and the picture is hanging on the walls. Well, sis

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Text - Except the plans were like... I take the kids to the zoo, I take them to the park, I take them for ice cream, the aquarium, etc, so Sis can have some time to herself and relax, play video games, etc. I inquired about when she and I would spend time together, and she actually said "It's not like we have anything in common we can do together." I was really hurt by this, and declined her requests for me to basically babysit her kids. She asked me why, and didn't I want to be the Cool Aunt, a

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Text - She was shocked and went stomping to Mom and Dad, who immediately took her side and told me that I should be thankful to spend time with the kids. I said why, it's not like anyone in the family has ever made it a point to spend time with me doing something /l'd enjoy. She told me that if l'd tried harder to be more like there rest of them, instead of "chasing popularity and doing my nails" maybe I would have more in common with them. I'm lost now, because on the one hand, I don't think I

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Text - EDIT: I just wanted to chime in and say that Star Wars & Harry Potter aren't the only geeky/nerdy things they like, they were just the things that popped into my head. I remember back when we were in high school, my sister laughed in my face because I didn't enjoy the Sabriel books and she told me they were "too advanced" for me to understand. She found me reading the California Diaries (offshoot of Babysitters Club books) and laughed in my face again because they were "dumb books for vap

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Text - 5115E • 6d • Asshole Aficionado [19] NTA Your sister never had any interest in you before and now she wants to take advantage of you. She told me that if l'd tried harder to be more like there rest of them, The answer to your mom is that if she had tried harder to appreciate the differences between her daughters, there would probably have been a different outcome. Don't fight with these people. You're successful with like-minded people, leave them to their alternate universe. Reply 4.7k .

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Text - singinthebreeze • 6d NTA - I have kids and would much rather pay someone else to watch them while I spent time with my siblings than have my siblings watch them. She is obviously trying to use you in this situation. Also, just because you have different interests from them doesn't mean your interests are any less valid than theirs. You're allowed to love the things you love. I'm sorry your family has been so uncaring and selfish. By the way, you could always use malicious compliance and i

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Text - SeethingHeathen • 6d • Asshole Enthusiast [5] NTA Your family is ridiculous. Oh, you don't want to be a clone? Well, no love for you then. Reply 1.8k ...

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Text - marbal05 • 6d • Asshole Aficionado [11] NTA- and your family is pretty toxic. Also what your mom said is pretty manipulative. She's gonna blame you for her lack of being a decent parent? Yeah no. You don't owe anyone free babysitting. Especially the way your sister talked to you Reply 7.6k ...

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Text - SoSayWeAllx • 6d • Asshole Enthusiast [5] NTA if your sister wanted you to be the "cool aunt" she would've said, "I'd love for you and the kids to bond and spend time together" not "if love for you to take the kids so I don't have to have them". That's babysitting. And I bet she wouldn't have paid for the activities. Your parents play favorites, and gaslight you. Where does it say that to have a meaningful relationship with your child, they have to like what you like? When it's as easy as

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Text - MadronaPDX •6d NTA. My brother totally stopped even responding to my texts and calls inviting him to get coffee or lunch once he realized I like his kids and will hang with them as a "babysitter" when needed. Five solid years of only hearing from my brother when he needed a babysitter and him ducking out to sleep or play video games during family trips for the last decade if it looked at all like I could see his son made me realize he has no respect for me. Being the cool auntie IS super

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Text - ExactingRook2822 · 6d • Asshole Aficionado [16] 3 Awards NTA - Never the arsehole. Your sister is an entitled brat and your parents clearly play favourites. Just because you're into fashion doesn't mean you chase popularity, in the same way that being a geek doesn't stop you from being a brat who craves attention from mummy and daddy. You stood your ground and voiced your emotions about how you felt about how they treated you, and their response was "We didn't try and make an effort with

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Text - Karl_Pron • 6d NTA, with a suggestion: how about you offer to let the kids into your world, like talk with the niece (if there's one) about clothes and teach her clothes design or sewing? There's a lot of resentment towards you from the whole family. They can fuck off. Reply 249 ...

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Text - jhercules • 6d • Partassipant [2] NTA. Your sister does want an unpaid babysitter. My sister is the same way. She and your parents are gaslighting you into agreeing Reply 2.1k ...

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Text - fuckthetop • 6d • Asshole Enthusiast [9] NTA. It isn't your fault you aren't interested in the same things your family is and they shouldn't be rubbing that in your face. It's not like you intentionally put down their interests, you just express that it's not your thing. Your sister is absolutely wrong for expecting a free babysitter. Reply 199 ...

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Text - Kittytigris • 6d • Certified Proctologist [29] NTA. You spot the problem correctly. Probably best to go low to no contact for a while. Some family are just toxic. Reply 247 ...

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Text - HotspurJr • 6d • Pooperintendant [66] NTA In theory, you having a relationship with your nieces and nephews is a good thing. But that doesn't mean you should be taken advantage of. If your sister was really interested in having you develop a relationship with them, she'd start finding ways for you to all do stuff together to see how you fit, and if it works. And then if you WANTED to go do things with the kids, if you got value out of the experience of spending time with them, you might o

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Scams That Many People Overlook

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about various scams that people don't realize are scams. These might be helpful to have in the back pocket so that you don't fall prey to any of those sneaky scams.