Saturday, October 31, 2020

Karen Racks Up $16K Phone Bill, Rejects Help From Call Center


All we're missing in this story about a Karen racking up a disgusting $16K cell phone bill while on vacation in some remote island, is a picture of what Karen's face looked like when she learned she was only being given $25 in credit toward the bill. Mind you, this is $25 in credit compared to the thousands ($14K) she was previously offered by a tremendously helpful call center employee. But no, Karen got unbelievably greedy (if not fraudulent), and rejected the kindness being shown to her. Suffice to say, she certainly paid the price. 

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Text - r/talesfromcallcenters Join u/DBMaxx • 151d 1 1 $14000 credit off your bill? Not enough for this Karen L Hey guys, I've lurked here for a little while now, and figured l'd share a story from my my call centre days that you guys might appreciate. the full interaction of the call was around 45 minutes, with a lot of talking in circles as Karens tend to do, so l'm going to try my best to condense it down to the interesting parts

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Text - So this happened when I was supporting the floor for a team taking calls for a large American cellphone company. The last agent on my team is taking their last call, and l'm just getting things ready to head out for the night (around midnight-ish, we're the last team to finish for the night) when the agent comes to my cubicle with a look of absolute dread. Immediate escalation. I toss on my headset and tell my agent to send her over as soon as possible. She cold transfers her to me, which

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Text - M-"Hey there, Karen. I'm DBMaxx, and I am currently supervising the floor, I understand you're looking to talk with me, how can I help you out?" I ask, but I have her account in front of me at this point, and see a bill coming due for a little more than $16000. I suspect this is going to be our issue.

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Text - K-"There is absolutely no fucking way I'm paying this bill, this is unacceptable!" M-"Yeah no, I totally get where you're coming from. I definitely wouldn't be prepared for a bill like that, let me take a look and see whats going on here and get this sorted out." It's at this point when I open the bill in question and see a roughly $16000 charge for roaming data. Uh-oh. Karen here went on vacation to a very beautiful, yet very remote island. The going rate for data is an eye- watering $15

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Text - Now I'm sure a lot of people are thinking "are there no protections that stop things like this from happening?" and you'd be absolutely right. We sent over 40 text messages warning about data use and notifying what the current charges for data were at the time, as well as turned off her data at the $500 mark, which she manually turned back on. While I'm looking through the account figuring out what exactly happened here, Karen screams obscenities about how evil we are, and how l'm persona

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Text - M-"Well, taking a look here I see over a gigabyte of data usage on the week of 'the vacation', which, as you were advised, is billed at $15/mb" K-"Nobody notified me of anything. There was no I could have known it would cost that much." M-"I understand no employee advised you before your trip, but that is only because you never called us, and we had no idea your vacation was coming so soon." K-"I was too busy to call you guys. I don't work for you guys, I don't know these things." M-"I ge

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Text - K-"Are you fucking kidding me? $750? That's fucking nothing. I go on facebook and watch a FEW videos, and get THIS bill? You're such a fucking idiot I'm not paying a cent for this." M- *sigh*"Let me put you on hold for a second, I'll see if there's anything else I can do." This is where things get interesting. I look through incredibly old policies on international travel, when I find one that actually lets me rerate charges from this particular country, for god-knows what reason, all the

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Roommate Refuses To Pay Rent, Gets Schooled In Court


Man, nothing is worse than realizing you've ended up sharing a roof with a completely terrible roommate. In this case, we've got a horribly smug roommate who simply refused to pay their rent. Well, they clearly didn't anticipate the fallout that'd eventually ensue back in court. Hopefully they learned their lesson, and won't go and try to pull this ridiculous stunt again. 

Check out some more juicy roommate drama with this guy who outwitted his roommate by using the Pavlovian method.

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Text - r/ProRevenge u/Drumhedd • 173d + Join 1 You won't pay rent? Good luck finding a new apartment. So this happened to me about 10 years ago in a big city on the West Coast . Hopefully this counts as pro revenge. I had just finished grad school and was looking for a way to cut down on rent in an already expensive rental market. Now, mind you I was young, desperate, and inexperienced with roommates at the time and this was a huge life lesson for me and hopefully for my roommate too.

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Text - I placed an ad for a roommate on Craigslist which in hindsight wasn't a smart move. Enter Bad Roommate. Bad Roommate was a few years older than me and at first seemed really cool with a stable job as a licensed masseuse. After interviewing her, hitting it off really well and getting to know each other for about a month, we rented a loft in downtown around October with the agreement rent/utilities would be split.

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Text - Around the time our first rent was due (November) Bad Roommate said that her work had been slow and she would pay rent in the next two weeks. Luckily I had enough in savings so I covered rent. Well the two weeks came and went and still no rent. When I asked her about the rent, she yelled obscenities and accuse me of being abusive and harassing her. No kidding! While claiming she didn't have money for rent, she would be out of the house from around 9am until around 2am "visiting friends."

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Text - Fast forward to the beginning of December and you guessed it, still no rent. This time in addition to yelling obscenities, accusing me of being abusive, and breaking my stuff, Bad Roommate called the police on me accusing me of making threats. The cops did not do anything as there was no evidence I did anything (for the record I didn't) but they did give me a "lecture" about making threats and said next time they come out I could be arrested or forced to leave the residence. By this time

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Text - The final straw came when I came home from work to find her threatening my two cats who were cowering in the corner. I almost lost it, but due to what happened before with the police I didn't want to poke the fire. This is when I remembered the officer saying "I could be forced to leave the residence" and a lightbulb went off in my head. Now the revenge part:

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Text - I alled my Best Friend whose father, "Best Friend's dad/attorney" was an attorney. After a phone consultation with him he told me to pay up the rent and utilities through December and then simply surrender my key, garage remote, etc with a signed note saying that I surrender possession of the property with a specified date. I snapped a photo of this note and left it with the secretary in the management office. I then proceeded to sign a new lease with the last of my savings. One week befo

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Text - BOOM....dead silence until April. In April I was served with a summons for breach of contract for abandoning the lease by the landlord. I contacted the attorney (aka Best Friend's dad) and filed a response to the court with a hearing date set in late May. I showed up to the hearing with my friend's dad (attorney) and his two I'm guessing they were assistants. Bad Roommate was also there looking smug (think wine bottle incident smirk). Next thing I know the other attorney announces they ar

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Text - The final cherry on top? I came to find out a month later via an angry voicemail from Bad Roommate that after being kicked out of a friend's house while couch surfing her credit was trashed, she had an eviction on her record, and subsequently could not get another apartment and that again I was a horrible irresponsible person. I never heard from her again afterwards but she was on the news a few months later (mugshot and all) for trashing a convenience store. Last I heard she moved to Las

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Text - In the end my credit did take a small hit. Even though the suit was dismissed the debt was put into collections and reported to the credit bureau. For the next four years I tried unsuccessfully to have it removed. At the 4 year anniversary of the lawsuit, I petitioned the credit bureau under the advice of my friend's dad/attorney to clear my record as the statute for filing suit had expired at the 4 year mark. Failure to comply with the request would result in a lawsuit against the credit

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Choosing Beggar Takes Lowballing To New Extreme


Some people are blinded by their own entitlement to such an extent that it's generally impossible to reason with them. This conversation was clearly destined to go nowhere from the start. The choosing beggar came out waving all the red flags. Also, the whole delivery demand situation was truly mind boggling. 

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Text - Text Message Today 12:22 PM Hey is your sofa set still available? Hi, yes it's available. How is the condition? How firm are the seats?

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Text - It's in an excellent condition and the seats are more on the soft side but very comfortable Okay. How negotiable is the price and can you deliver? I am willing to negotiate but will only accept a reasonable offer. Also, it's only for pick up, I mentioned it in the ad. How much were you asking? $450

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Text - Will you take $180??? I can do $190 if you deliver. Are you serious? I said l'll accept a reasonable offer and you're offering $180? And only $10 for delivery when renting a Uhaul truck will be at least $60-70? The lowest l'll go is $400

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Text - I can do $200 but only if you deliver. I have a bad back and cannot lift anything heavy. Let's say I agree to deliver it, who will unload it and take it inside if you have a bad back? You can bring someone to help you to bring it inside my apartment. You've got to be kidding me $400 and you pick up plus bring someone to help you.

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Tumblr Thread: Dog Masters The Art Of Herding A Roomba


This dog is doing a whole lot better than our buddy who unsuccessfully tried to herd some sheep. That being said, give a dog enough time and environmental stimuli, and it's bound to try and herd something. Check out some more gold from Tumblr with these odds and ends from the brilliant minds of Tumblr.

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Text - gallusrostromegalus So one of my neighbors has a lawn Roomba or whatever they're called, and this thing trundles around looking like a background robot in the background of the original trilogy, and ABSOLUTELY BAFFLING THE DOGS. They have concluded, I think, that it's some kind of prey animal because right after this video ended they decided to crouch down and stalk it, which means I'm 90% sure I'm going to have to stop Arwen from eating it at some point.

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Text - theodorepython Of course it's a prey animal it fucking eats GRASS gallusrostromegalus While I can't fault your reasoning on robot taxonomy, apparently we're both wrong: Arwen, as much as she is a high-prey-drive animal, is foremost, a herding dog, and has decided that the Lawn Roomba is a SHEEP.

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Text - What happened is the lawn roomba belongs to the guy that does most of the maintainence on the neighborhood park, and he had it out grazing on a different section of lawn when my parents came down for a walk and Arwen was siezed by 200 years worth fo Kelpie Instincts, rolled out of her Harness and proceded to herd the shit out of this tiny, oblivious robot. Everything was on display- mock-stalking, intimidating eye contact, barking, running in front of it to try to get it to balk, the scar

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Text - After about ten minutes they realized she wasn't biting it, and decided to let her play Sheep Simulator 5000 for a while. She eventually figured out that It doesn't respond to Yelling, Posturing or Aggressive Eye Contact It does respond to having it's wheels or bump hazards hit It would respond to its side being nosed or slapped by moving in a different direction

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Text - Conent that this was apparently some kind of blind, deaf and particularly stupid sheep, she could now manage the robot by smacking it if it got too close to the creek bed or fence for her liking, and was eventually content to sit on the highest point of the field and Supervise (TM) it. "Hey." Said Roger, owner of the robot. "Do you think if I put the ramp down she'll herd it into the back of my pickup?"

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Text - Arwen was mostly asleep in the afternoon sun as roger put the ramp down but woke right up when mom Whistled, then pointed at the truck. She immediately went after the robot and did something that wouldn't have occured to me, an allegedly more intelligent being: the robot is roughly triangular, and when it hits an obstacle, will change direction so that one of its other sides (rather than points) is now the 'front'. So to get it to move in a straight line in the direction she wanted, Arwen

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Text - "I didn't know you had a fully-trained sheepdog!" Said Roger "Me either." said Mom. So Arwen now has a Semi-Weekly Appointment to play with Sheepbot.

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Guy Predicts Future, Gives Colleague Nervous Breakdown


Man, sometimes you say something, completely kidding, and it ends up manifesting further on down the road. In this case, we can understand why the guy's friend had the initial reaction that he did. The dad had already been through the miraculous, shocking experience that is having twins, only to learn that he's about to have some triplets too. That kind of development will definitely do a number on most anyone. 

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Text - r/tifu u/DeathclawTamer • 7d + Join TIFU by giving my colleague a nervous breakdown by predicting the future M Happened 2 weeks ago and concluded this morning Me and my collegaues have a 'good morning' call Mondays where we just have a chat about the weekend, talk about the football, rugby and interesting things we have done. All chat and banter going well when we start to talk about kids. Couple of my colleagues have twins (one has grown up twins, I think 23 and one, let's call him James

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Text - Roll on Tuesday and I was scheduled to have a call with James and he wasn't answering his phone. Within 30 mins his boss called me and told me that James will be off for a bit while dealing with some family issues. Cue today when we have our 'good morning' call and James is back on the call. We all ask if he is OK and he replies 'yes but I have some news'. Confused we asked if he wanted to expand on it.

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Text - A month ago his wife found out she was pregnant again, 2 weeks ago on the Tuesday morning was her 12 week scan. It apparently never crossed James' mind he could have twins again and went into panic mode after I joked about it on our good morning call. The scan came and it turned out he was having triplets. James went into a panic spiral as you would. He took some time off to get his head around it and then luckily had a week off for holiday to spend with his wife to talk about everything.

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Text - He is so happy right now but, rightly so, his initial reaction was to panic thinking about have 5 kids in the house. We are all chipping for him for a 3 seat buggy and so he can buy some baby clothes as he only has baby clothes for 2 children and will need another set for number 3. TL:DR I joked on a call my colleague could have triplets. Next day colleague's wife found out she was having triplets and my colleague went into a panic spiral as he already has nearly 1 year old twins. Edit: A

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Old Lady Accuses Neighbor Of Smoking In Bathroom, Neighbor Proves Otherwise


While we don't exactly have the fairytale ending because the cops showed up, it still must've been satisfying for this tenant to repeatedly prove to their whiny neighbor that they weren't actually smoking inside. That being said, it does sound like the old lady neighbor finally stopped bothering her neighbor about something that they were never doing in the first place. So, there's that nice silver lining. 

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Text - r/pettyrevenge u/CoherentDiscoPanda • 23h Join A 2 2 3 3 1 1 VOTED Neighbour tells me no smoking in the toilette. So I moved places a few month ago. I live on the top floor of a 5 storey building, and the subject of my revenge lives on the first floor, directly below me. I rent the place and according to the contract I cannot smoke in the house. Not even on the balcony. I'm fine with it, so I drag my ass down to the street and smoke there. No biggie. It all started on my third day in my n

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Text - Me (confused) : Why would I do that? BN: I don't know, but every night we wake up from cigarette smoke, and we would appreciate if you would stop it. Me: I never smoke in the house, much less in the toilet. That's why I'm smoking right here. BN: I hope so. I never want it to happen again. Me: Sure.

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Text - And for a few days I thought nothing of it. She is probably retired, bored, whatever. I never smoked in the house, never will. I tried being as nice as possible, not wanting to have fights with my neighbours on the first day. I even thought she might have smelled it because I was smoking in the door of the building, and her window was above it, so I even crossed the street, so it wouldn't be a problem later. And with it I thought it's over. But approximately a week later, she caught me, w

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Text - In the end we both were pretty upset, and she said she will come knocking every time she smelled it. I was like, yeah sure. Then a week later she did come knocking. At 2 a.m. When I was sleeping. I was pissed, sent her to hell, then shut the door. The very next day, she did it again. Around the same time. and this continued for a few weeks, but not every day. So we come to the revenge part. Sorry the exposition took so long. My friend suggested a very good thing. What if I knock on her do

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Text - And I did exactly that. For three days straight, every single time I had the urge to smoke. Which meant something like 5-6 cancer-stick. (outside work hours of course. I smoke much more at work) I can tell you, she was pissed. She shouted, threatened me, but all I did was making sure there is no misunderstanding from either part. But well. All fun had to stop. And it stopped when she called the police on me. They were really understanding, but obviously not approved of my actions. But now

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Tumblr Thread: Customers' Mythically Powerful Coffee Orders


The life of a barista is a weird one. When every customer you have is someone who hasn't had their first coffee of the day, there's no knowing what kind of people can lumber in. Some take on the challenge and become a barista that's the living definition of chaotic good. Others just stand in awe and watch a 46-year-old woman drink 8 Red Bulls worth of caffeine in a single swig.

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Text - katjohnadams Actual conversation I had at register: Hi, welcome to [Starbucks]! What can I get you, today?" "How much is it to fill a Venti with Espresso?" 1-I'm sorry?" "A venti cup. How much to fill it with Espresso?" "Oh. uh. Well, it'd be I suppose.. I only have a button for a Quad. I don't have special pricing for twenty ounces of espresso in a single.. drink." "Price is the furthest thing from my mind right now. How many 'add shots is that?" *deep breath of fear* "If'd be a quad wit

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Text - "How many can I add?" Futile though it is, at least I know the rote response to this. "For health reasons, we won't add more than one per drink and we cannot sell the packets individually." "One then." I alter the order and tell her the new price. She pays, dumps the change and five golden dollars into the tip box. I write the order on the venti cup and pass it silently to the girl working the hot beverage station. Normally we called and pass, but this was . not something to be spoken alo

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Text - m4ge i walk into starbucks and order a pumpkin spice latte with 13 shots of espresso. i tell the barista that i intend to transcend humanity and become a god. i ask for no whip cream avantgaye you say this jokingly but i had a customer actually order a pumpkin spice latte with 9 shots of espresso (also no whip) and when i asked her to verify that she did indeed want 9 shots of espresso she looked me dead in the eyes and said i have 5 kids" witchcraft-with-space-bean I once had a woman com

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Text - smartassjen Okay, Starbucks lore is my new favorite genre of literature. Please collect all these and more into a book. thesadanon @peach-orange-juice betaslovelythings ..I thought Venti Espresso Cryptid was a fever dream my manager had. Good lord. manafromheaven I had a man like that when i worked at j bean. Ordered so many shots in one drink i worried for his health. Wore a replica of wolverines leather jumpsuit from the first xmen movie and drove a 3 wheeled motorcycle he was def a tri

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Wildest Reasons Students Didn't Complete Assignments


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the most unexpected excuses that teachers received from students. We've got our fair share of excuses that were clearly blatant lies, and then we've got the brutal, unexpected reasons that kids didn't turn in assignments that were just crazy enough to be actual truths. You never know what could be going on in someone's life!

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Text - BlooooContra • 4h O 3 Awards Taught instrumental music down in South Texas, so I basically never game any sort of homework outside of practicing. 6th grade - gave the kiddos a super basic theory sheet to complete that was due back in two days since I had a dentist appointment the next day. When I'm collecting the sheets, a trombone kid tells me "My grandma stole my homework in Mexico and wouldn't give it back." Turns out they were visiting his grandparents over the border outside Metamoro

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Text - kindsoberfullydressd • 5h I've got the opposite story. A teacher lost my homework he marked as he left it in his shed and it got eaten by slugs. He did show me the slug eaten paper, and gave me full marks for it so it wasn't all bad! Reply 1.2k ...

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Text - Billbapawpaw • 5h I was a TA during uni. They sent me an email: Sorry - computer is broken l'll need an extension. This was early 2000s - so where were they emailing from? If it was the computer lab well then - that's where they could do the assignment. But more than they, they were on my ICQ (I let students add me for extra help) so I saw them online pretty much all weekend... I mean if their computer worked well enough for that and to look at pictures of kitties how could they not compl

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Text - ledgerdemaine • 3h The student claimed he put it in a room in his house. He then forgot the room existed. He was at a loss to explain where his homework was. He was upset to think he must have imagined doing it. He apologized to me. The next week to his amazement he 'found' the room, and more amazingly he found his homework. He handed it in that week. Now this may seem like nonsense, but it turns out he had an operation to remove a tumor from his brain when he was ten. One of the outcomes

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Text - icunicu • 4h Not a teacher, but we had a report due and I waited until the last minute like always. I slept through class mostly and one day I was abruptly woken up and asked for my report and I said half-asleep, "I didn't do it because my mom died." The teacher was disgusted that I would say something so cruel and sent me to the principal's office. The teacher was called into the principal's office after they found out I wasn't joking and was so apologetic. I wasn't trying to be a jerk a

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Text - Cap_ultimate • 5h 1 Award Not a teacher, but one of my classmates said that their dog ate their homework... 1. she has a cat 2. the homework was online... Reply 808 ...

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Text - sallan23 • 5h This is legit and too ridiculous to be a lie (This was from a parent at the Catholic high school where I taught at the time.) (paraphrasing because I can't find the original which I kept) "Please excuse the late homework. Our pet cat defecated on it." And yes, defecated was the word they used. Reply 1 172 ...

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Text - Jose_Manuel • 3h Not a teacher, and I actually finished my homework. I was in 4th grade, and we were doing a "spring cleaning", and emptying our binders of anything from the previous unit. I guess I was being too slow, because my teacher just grabbed my binder, and shook all of its contents out into the garbage... Including my homework. I told my mom what happened, and she told me to just be up front about it, and to not worry. The next day I went up to my teacher (instead of collecting o

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Text - Rufus_Everard • 3h Not a teacher but one of my classmates tried: "I was mugged on the way to school and they took my bag with all my homework in it." "What's that on your shoulder?" "... It appears to be my bag, sir." DETENTION Reply 208 ...

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Text - myles5239 · 6h Not a teacher but... I had a classmate who was blind and had a seeing eye dog. One day he told the teacher that his dog ate his homework (he did homework through some Braille device thingy) and his dog looked genuinely guilty. She said "that's not good enough" and the dog promptly vomited up paper with typing on it all over the floor. He got a very quiet "sorry" and was never asked for his homework in that class for the rest of the year Reply 258 ...

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Text - neocondiment • 19m Not a teacher anymore but I had a student tell me at the beginning of class, "Mr. Neocondiment? I didn't finish my homework last night on account of five of my family members got blowed up when their house exploded... Also, my cousin got shot and killed. Did you hear about the shooting at x yesterday? That was my cousin." None of this happened, of course, which I confirmed by offering my sympathies to her mother when she came to pick her up. I mean, why did she kill the

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Text - Bells87 • 3h Similar story. In 6th grade social studies, we had to make "primitive tools" (AKA everyone made weapons because it was the 1999/2000 school year). I made a short spear using a rock and a stick. You weren't supposed to use "modern" materials, but my dad helped me and had me tape the rock in place. Anyway, day to turn them in comes and the teacher's out that day. Fine. We throw all our weapons in a pile in the corner of the classroom and we'll present tomorrow. Tomorrow comes a

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Text - the_angshu_man • 3h "I did the homework the day you gave it to us (which is one week ago), except that I did in an old rough copy of mine and yesterday when I got back from school, dad sold all of our old stationaries for petty cash. I was so mad at my dad, I didn't do my homework to teach him a lesson. Could you please call home and tell him about this?" I couldn't help but laugh xD Reply 119 ...

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Text - OverjoyedInsanity • 1h When I was a kid I once told my teacher, "I forgot to get around to it." to which she immediately scolded me and shouted, "YOU FORGOT OR YOU DIDN'T GET AROUND TO IT? WHICH IS IT!" scared the shit out of kid me. Reply ...

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Text - GamingPig521 • 1h Not a teacher but, this kid in class literally stood up and said "I burned it," And yes he got detention. Reply 3 ...

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Text - Cucurucho78• 1h A student nonchalantly told me he didn't finish his essay as he was just so busy that weekend because his dad died. My gut told me he was bullshitting me but I played along expressing my condolences and him told him to take as long as he needed. After class I called his mom and told her was so sorry for her loss, what a horrible tragedy for her family, etc. and mom was like "Wait, what? What are you talking about?" I recount to mom how her son told me about how his dad die

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Text - nottherealusername • 5h When they say they're "busy". I tell them I teach full time, go to university on the weekend for my masters degree and work on my research papers at night. Then I ask them, "so tell me, why are you busy?" They usually can't say anything unless they were truly busy with something serious/ personal. Reply 1 10 ...

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