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Point 1. Don't eat things that aren't yours that's theft and is a sackable offence.
Point 2. Check that chocolate hasn't got x-lax in writing moulded into the top .
Point 3. Don't be a useless numpty who wouldn't be missed anyway .
Point 4. If your going to be off ill don't let it be day your 30th ish day off buy may that year .

My girlfriend used to own an ice cream shop, she's got all kinds of horror stories.. most of them have to do with old people coming in the afternoon and turning the bathroom into a disaster area, and sometimes buying 1 cheapy kid sized cone on the way out for the trouble. Suddenly makes you appreciate those places that just have a window to place your order.

-Sitting at train station
-Mildly overweight man sits next to me
-Asks when the next train is
-Tell him
-Seems nice enough
-See hes holding a bag from Gee dubs
-Ask if he plays
-We get into a giant conversation about GW and what we play
-Nice guy
-Train arrives
-We get on
-Sit down together and start talking
-He stops randomly
-Starts weezing
-Oh gak.jpg
-Falls off seat
-Several people start panicking and pick up their phones
-All calling ambo
-Oh gak
-He can't breathe
-Somebody hands phone to me
-Operator on other line
-"Stab him in chest with kinfe then insert a straw of some kind anon"
-Feth that
-Get my (illegal) knife from bag and hand it to capable looking young man
-"Stab him in chest with knife anon"
-I usually faint at sight of blood
-I stay on phone and direct the other person
-He makes cut in guys chest
-For some reason I havent fainted yet
-'Insert straw'
-Straw inserted
-Guy breathes again but is bleeding pretty bad
-Train stops
-We drag guy out (carefully) and place him on the platform
-Wait until ambo gets there
-He goes to hospital
-I take next train home
-Hold my dog for 4 hours

The real question is, what happened to his mechandise?

Handed it to the paramedic before they left, said it was the guys.

Or at least thats what I tell people.

 Sgt. Vanden wrote:
Handed it to the paramedic before they left, said it was the guys

Or at least thats what I tell people.

That is the real horror of the story.

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Sgt. Vanden wrote:
Handed it to the paramedic before they left, said it was the guys

Or at least thats what I tell people.

That is the real horror of the story.

I was just joking when I said that. I wouldn't do that to anyone. I know how expensive Gee Dubs products are, and there was probably a couple hundred dollars in that one bag. Would you steal money of a dying person? No. Would you steal expensive toys off a dying person? No.

 Sgt. Vanden wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Sgt. Vanden wrote:
Handed it to the paramedic before they left, said it was the guys

Or at least thats what I tell people.

That is the real horror of the story.

I was just joking when I said that. I wouldn't do that to anyone. I know how expensive Gee Dubs products are, and there was probably a couple hundred dollars in that one bag. Would you steal money of a dying person? No. Would you steal expensive toys off a dying person? No.

Now if he's already dead on the other hand, I'm sure he would appreciate someone finishing the army for him...

See, I was hoping the story ends with you becoming friends with the person and regularly game.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
See, I was hoping the story ends with you becoming friends with the person and regularly game.

Only happens in fairytales friend.

 CURNOW wrote:
Ok we had one lad who would work the twilight shift putting stock out and he would pillage the office areas for sweets each night. Me and another manager got fed up with the moaning from the office girls so we went to the local chemist and got the biggest bar of x-lax chocolate we could find re wrapped it in dairy milk wrapper and left it in a draw ....now one chunk of this stuff was enough to keep you super regular for 48hrs he eat 32 chunks in one go .... rang in sick for the next 5 days with explosive diarrhea this ment he was over his allowed sick days so i sacked him :\ lol

Be glad you are not in the US of A, he would sue your ass off

I would love to be on that jury.

"Your Honor, we the jury find the Defendant Not Guilty of all charges, and award Defendant treble their court costs and fees. Also, feth that guy."

 KaptinBadrukk wrote:
Here's another horror story

One day in August (I think) , I went to my FLGS to get an imperial bunker (which I painted as an Ultramarines bunker). I had calculated the total (including sales tax) at $35.80. Well, when the clerk rang it up, he said "$35.81". So, I stood there, scared, thinking "What in the feth am I gonna do?" But then, I noticed a Take a penny\Leave a penny box with 6 pennies in it. I asked the clerk "Can I take a penny out of the red box?" and the clerk said "Sure, that's what it's there for." So I did, and went home with the bunker and $0.00.

Thing about it was, I checked my calculations again with an online Sales Tax Calculator (Rate was 8.5%), and I still got $35.80. I'm confused as to why it was $35.81 still.

Looking at this thread, I see you've got scarier stories than I've had.

I worked at an auto parts store in undergrad to help make ends meet. I was night manager, and had my run of the place. When it got slow I'd study, which the manager acquiesced to after I told him I'd have to work fewer hours to keep up with school work. There were days we were really slow, but still had to be open. My buddy had a bow, so we turned the back stock area into an archery range for our amusement.

On Superbowl Sunday we brought in a tv and watched the game. We'd service brake rotors on the lathe in exchange for pizza. I had sex with a girlfriend on the back office desk after closing the store. The manager robbed the place blind and was eventually fired by the district manager. I was getting paid more than the minimum wage jobs in the college town, so I worked there for over two years.

But the customers were the worst. Only two types of people fix their own cars: the dirt poor and the cheap. They'd call wanting me to diagnose their problem over the phone. They'd want their money back if they bought a part and it didn't fix their problem. The manager made me install some parts in the freezing cold on peoples' vehicles. Our special order service was a joke, constantly sent the wrong parts, and created nothing but headaches for the employees that would have to calm down a raving customer.

The district manager decided to hire another college kid that had never even changed his own oil. In a town full of redneck slackjaws dying to work there to get an employee discount on stupid things they didn't need for their truck he hires someone that had never turned a wrench. So my management duties extended to pouring my mechanical knowledge into him while juggling all the other duties on the fly. That was my first regular job after getting out of the Marines in 2005, and it sucked so bad it encouraged me to finish school so I'd never have to peddle another car battery again.

I have to be honest, archery, sex, and Super Bowl don't really sound too horrible.

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:
I have to be honest, archery, sex, and Super Bowl don't really sound too horrible.

This. I was gonna say the first part is kind of the opposite of a horror story.

 Powerfisting wrote:

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:
I have to be honest, archery, sex, and Super Bowl don't really sound too horrible.

This. I was gonna say the first part is kind of the opposite of a horror story.

The chick was a femi-nazi and eventually made my life so miserable I had to kick her to the curb. But yeah, the boom boom time was good. I haven't dated a self described feminist since her.

Could be worse she could of been a dependa-potamus

Over righteous feminists, the bane of my existence. This has proven quite true in the workplace.

Back years ago my boss was rather strict. I never really held that against her, and to be honest the business itself was never smoother, more customer pleasing, cleaner, or profitable than when she was there. However many employees hated her, or to be precise MALE employees hated her. Turns out she hated men after: 1. Being the object of a drunken sex party when she was 16. 2. Finding her brow-beaten husband getting some nooky with her 18 year-old niece.

Turns out she had a strict anti-male philosophy. (I actually confirmed this later. After she quit I was promoted to management and had a look at the books). While she was in charge mid and upper management was STRICTLY female-only. With 50 or so employees the 8 managers were all female. Despite years of coming and going only women were ever offered those jobs.

Starting wages for regular employees were also different. Men started at $5.30, women at $5.50. (did I mention this was 20 years ago?) Women also got the preferred positions. If there was heavy lifting, grossness, burning hazards, or physical labor involved, it was basically a man's job. Women got customer service positions.

The preferred shifts (afternoons ending by 8pm for a more relaxing workday and still able to go to bed at a reasonable time) were usually given to women. If you needed time off and were male, better hope 5 women didn't need the day off too or you'd be denied in favor of the women.

This manager would also drop the hammer on any man for "sexual harassment" for even the slightest of transgressions. Meanwhile her side business was a sex-toy distributor. She's leave her catalogs and "product" in the office and we'd all have to look at it to do our jobs.

To top it off she'd intentionally pick on the most experienced male employee until they quit (this was actually pointed out by the other female managers repeatedly) Eventually that became me. I nearly quit that job until I learned she, herself, was quitting.

I rode out the next 5 weeks while gritting my teeth, only for the new management to be fair, to the point of instantly giving my a $2.50/ hour raise and a promotion.

 cuda1179 wrote:
Over righteous feminists, the bane of my existence. This has proven quite true in the workplace.

Spoiler:

Back years ago my boss was rather strict. I never really held that against her, and to be honest the business itself was never smoother, more customer pleasing, cleaner, or profitable than when she was there. However many employees hated her, or to be precise MALE employees hated her. Turns out she hated men after: 1. Being the object of a drunken sex party when she was 16. 2. Finding her brow-beaten husband getting some nooky with her 18 year-old niece.

Turns out she had a strict anti-male philosophy. (I actually confirmed this later. After she quit I was promoted to management and had a look at the books). While she was in charge mid and upper management was STRICTLY female-only. With 50 or so employees the 8 managers were all female. Despite years of coming and going only women were ever offered those jobs.

Starting wages for regular employees were also different. Men started at $5.30, women at $5.50. (did I mention this was 20 years ago?) Women also got the preferred positions. If there was heavy lifting, grossness, burning hazards, or physical labor involved, it was basically a man's job. Women got customer service positions.

The preferred shifts (afternoons ending by 8pm for a more relaxing workday and still able to go to bed at a reasonable time) were usually given to women. If you needed time off and were male, better hope 5 women didn't need the day off too or you'd be denied in favor of the women.

This manager would also drop the hammer on any man for "sexual harassment" for even the slightest of transgressions. Meanwhile her side business was a sex-toy distributor. She's leave her catalogs and "product" in the office and we'd all have to look at it to do our jobs.

To top it off she'd intentionally pick on the most experienced male employee until they quit (this was actually pointed out by the other female managers repeatedly) Eventually that became me. I nearly quit that job until I learned she, herself, was quitting.

I rode out the next 5 weeks while gritting my teeth, only for the new management to be fair, to the point of instantly giving my a $2.50/ hour raise and a promotion.

They're not mutually exclusive.

when a good thread turns bad.

i started to right a sensible response about how all feminists are bad because one feminist is bad is exactly the same error as all men are bad because one man was bad.

then i realised that you're not stupid. you know this really. you just don't give a crap and want other men to believe and affirm this back, creating a zone on the internet where women know that feminism will not be tolerated.

 feeder wrote:

 cuda1179 wrote:
Over righteous feminists, the bane of my existence. This has proven quite true in the workplace.

Back years ago my boss was rather strict. I never really held that against her, and to be honest the business itself was never smoother, more customer pleasing, cleaner, or profitable than when she was there. However many employees hated her, or to be precise MALE employees hated her. Turns out she hated men after: 1. Being the object of a drunken sex party when she was 16. 2. Finding her brow-beaten husband getting some nooky with her 18 year-old niece.

Turns out she had a strict anti-male philosophy. (I actually confirmed this later. After she quit I was promoted to management and had a look at the books). While she was in charge mid and upper management was STRICTLY female-only. With 50 or so employees the 8 managers were all female. Despite years of coming and going only women were ever offered those jobs.

Starting wages for regular employees were also different. Men started at $5.30, women at $5.50. (did I mention this was 20 years ago?) Women also got the preferred positions. If there was heavy lifting, grossness, burning hazards, or physical labor involved, it was basically a man's job. Women got customer service positions.

The preferred shifts (afternoons ending by 8pm for a more relaxing workday and still able to go to bed at a reasonable time) were usually given to women. If you needed time off and were male, better hope 5 women didn't need the day off too or you'd be denied in favor of the women.

This manager would also drop the hammer on any man for "sexual harassment" for even the slightest of transgressions. Meanwhile her side business was a sex-toy distributor. She's leave her catalogs and "product" in the office and we'd all have to look at it to do our jobs.

To top it off she'd intentionally pick on the most experienced male employee until they quit (this was actually pointed out by the other female managers repeatedly) Eventually that became me. I nearly quit that job until I learned she, herself, was quitting.

I rode out the next 5 weeks while gritting my teeth, only for the new management to be fair, to the point of instantly giving my a $2.50/ hour raise and a promotion.

That's not a feminist, that's an donkey-cave. There's donkey-caves everywhere.

Seconded. There are plenty of places around where men think women can't hack it, pay them less, and generally act like sexist arseholes. We don't call them 'meninists' though. Just sexist arseholes.

 cuda1179 wrote:
Over righteous feminists, the bane of my existence. This has proven quite true in the workplace.

Back years ago my boss was rather strict. I never really held that against her, and to be honest the business itself was never smoother, more customer pleasing, cleaner, or profitable than when she was there. However many employees hated her, or to be precise MALE employees hated her. Turns out she hated men after: 1. Being the object of a drunken sex party when she was 16. 2. Finding her brow-beaten husband getting some nooky with her 18 year-old niece.

Turns out she had a strict anti-male philosophy. (I actually confirmed this later. After she quit I was promoted to management and had a look at the books). While she was in charge mid and upper management was STRICTLY female-only. With 50 or so employees the 8 managers were all female. Despite years of coming and going only women were ever offered those jobs.

Starting wages for regular employees were also different. Men started at $5.30, women at $5.50. (did I mention this was 20 years ago?) Women also got the preferred positions. If there was heavy lifting, grossness, burning hazards, or physical labor involved, it was basically a man's job. Women got customer service positions.

The preferred shifts (afternoons ending by 8pm for a more relaxing workday and still able to go to bed at a reasonable time) were usually given to women. If you needed time off and were male, better hope 5 women didn't need the day off too or you'd be denied in favor of the women.

This manager would also drop the hammer on any man for "sexual harassment" for even the slightest of transgressions. Meanwhile her side business was a sex-toy distributor. She's leave her catalogs and "product" in the office and we'd all have to look at it to do our jobs.

To top it off she'd intentionally pick on the most experienced male employee until they quit (this was actually pointed out by the other female managers repeatedly) Eventually that became me. I nearly quit that job until I learned she, herself, was quitting.

I rode out the next 5 weeks while gritting my teeth, only for the new management to be fair, to the point of instantly giving my a $2.50/ hour raise and a promotion.

Holy crap was there truly no way to throw a lawsuit against that?

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 cuda1179 wrote:

Spoiler:

Over righteous feminists, the bane of my existence. This has proven quite true in the workplace.

Back years ago my boss was rather strict. I never really held that against her, and to be honest the business itself was never smoother, more customer pleasing, cleaner, or profitable than when she was there. However many employees hated her, or to be precise MALE employees hated her. Turns out she hated men after: 1. Being the object of a drunken sex party when she was 16. 2. Finding her brow-beaten husband getting some nooky with her 18 year-old niece.

Turns out she had a strict anti-male philosophy. (I actually confirmed this later. After she quit I was promoted to management and had a look at the books). While she was in charge mid and upper management was STRICTLY female-only. With 50 or so employees the 8 managers were all female. Despite years of coming and going only women were ever offered those jobs.

Starting wages for regular employees were also different. Men started at $5.30, women at $5.50. (did I mention this was 20 years ago?) Women also got the preferred positions. If there was heavy lifting, grossness, burning hazards, or physical labor involved, it was basically a man's job. Women got customer service positions.

The preferred shifts (afternoons ending by 8pm for a more relaxing workday and still able to go to bed at a reasonable time) were usually given to women. If you needed time off and were male, better hope 5 women didn't need the day off too or you'd be denied in favor of the women.

This manager would also drop the hammer on any man for "sexual harassment" for even the slightest of transgressions. Meanwhile her side business was a sex-toy distributor. She's leave her catalogs and "product" in the office and we'd all have to look at it to do our jobs.

To top it off she'd intentionally pick on the most experienced male employee until they quit (this was actually pointed out by the other female managers repeatedly) Eventually that became me. I nearly quit that job until I learned she, herself, was quitting.

I rode out the next 5 weeks while gritting my teeth, only for the new management to be fair, to the point of instantly giving my a $2.50/ hour raise and a promotion.

Holy crap was there truly no way to throw a lawsuit against that?

If his story is true, I'd imagine it would be a very uphill battle to get it taken seriously. Similar to child custody and divorce hearings, discrimination cases aren't very likely to side with the man in a situation like this. It's mainly just deeply held societal beliefs, like "the kid should go to the mother in custody unless she's sticking a heroin needle in her arm every day" or how men who didn't think to sign a prenup can get screwed in divorce hearings.

It'd be like trying to win a case saying you were racially discriminated against in a workplace because you were a white guy. Yes, it can happen, yes it could have evidence and merit to the case, but most still wouldn't believe it. You would need a massive pile of evidence and lots of witnesses on record to get anywhere with it.

And that's not a "bawwwww poor me I'm a white straight guy being oppressed" post either, if I saw a case where a guy like me was claiming discrimination against him in the workplace I'd be suspicious too, even though it's happened to me in the past a couple times.

 Ketara wrote:


Seconded. There are plenty of places around where men think women can't hack it, pay them less, and generally act like sexist arseholes. We don't call them 'meninists' though. Just sexist arseholes.

What company pays women less? That's illegal.
Thinking women can't hack it is just an opinion and is not punishable. It might even be an opinion reflecting years of experience in the industry.
Acting like a sexist arsehole gets you fired though. I work in HR, a field dominated by women.HR wouldn't take kindly to a woman being harassed.

Gaming store nightmares? Nothing on the scale of what has been described already, but there was one store here some years ago where any customer from an ethnic minority was completely, and intrusively shadowed around the shop by one of the workers. It was not pleasant. At all.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 cuda1179 wrote:

Spoiler:

Over righteous feminists, the bane of my existence. This has proven quite true in the workplace.

Back years ago my boss was rather strict. I never really held that against her, and to be honest the business itself was never smoother, more customer pleasing, cleaner, or profitable than when she was there. However many employees hated her, or to be precise MALE employees hated her. Turns out she hated men after: 1. Being the object of a drunken sex party when she was 16. 2. Finding her brow-beaten husband getting some nooky with her 18 year-old niece.

Turns out she had a strict anti-male philosophy. (I actually confirmed this later. After she quit I was promoted to management and had a look at the books). While she was in charge mid and upper management was STRICTLY female-only. With 50 or so employees the 8 managers were all female. Despite years of coming and going only women were ever offered those jobs.

Starting wages for regular employees were also different. Men started at $5.30, women at $5.50. (did I mention this was 20 years ago?) Women also got the preferred positions. If there was heavy lifting, grossness, burning hazards, or physical labor involved, it was basically a man's job. Women got customer service positions.

The preferred shifts (afternoons ending by 8pm for a more relaxing workday and still able to go to bed at a reasonable time) were usually given to women. If you needed time off and were male, better hope 5 women didn't need the day off too or you'd be denied in favor of the women.

This manager would also drop the hammer on any man for "sexual harassment" for even the slightest of transgressions. Meanwhile her side business was a sex-toy distributor. She's leave her catalogs and "product" in the office and we'd all have to look at it to do our jobs.

To top it off she'd intentionally pick on the most experienced male employee until they quit (this was actually pointed out by the other female managers repeatedly) Eventually that became me. I nearly quit that job until I learned she, herself, was quitting.

I rode out the next 5 weeks while gritting my teeth, only for the new management to be fair, to the point of instantly giving my a $2.50/ hour raise and a promotion.

Holy crap was there truly no way to throw a lawsuit against that?

If his story is true, I'd imagine it would be a very uphill battle to get it taken seriously. Similar to child custody and divorce hearings, discrimination cases aren't very likely to side with the man in a situation like this. It's mainly just deeply held societal beliefs, like "the kid should go to the mother in custody unless she's sticking a heroin needle in her arm every day" or how men who didn't think to sign a prenup can get screwed in divorce hearings.

It'd be like trying to win a case saying you were racially discriminated against in a workplace because you were a white guy. Yes, it can happen, yes it could have evidence and merit to the case, but most still wouldn't believe it. You would need a massive pile of evidence and lots of witnesses on record to get anywhere with it.

And that's not a "bawwwww poor me I'm a white straight guy being oppressed" post either, if I saw a case where a guy like me was claiming discrimination against him in the workplace I'd be suspicious too, even though it's happened to me in the past a couple times.

Any type of person can be oppressed man. I just find it funny how people that are low income straight white males born within 20 years or a little more have oppressed anybody. I honestly don't think I could've had anything to do with what happened and I have had done nothing that oppressed any to my knowledge. I mean my life sucks too. It's not like I have an entire group to blame all my failings or bad fortune on (except myself obviously).

 daddyorchips wrote:
when a good thread turns bad.

i started to right a sensible response about how all feminists are bad because one feminist is bad is exactly the same error as all men are bad because one man was bad.

then i realised that you're not stupid. you know this really. you just don't give a crap and want other men to believe and affirm this back, creating a zone on the internet where women know that feminism will not be tolerated.

I didn't call out all Feminists. I called out over-righteous feminists. There is a difference. To all the real feminists out there I give a big thumbs-up to. These are the ones that believe that women are just people, should be treated as such, and fight for true equality between the sexes. Then there are the "other" kind of Feminists. These are the ones that demand equality when convenient, but turn into helpless victims when it's not. The kind that demand equal rewards from unequal work. The kind that sets off a fire alarm during a men's rights rally. The kind that protested a man that defended himself against a violent woman because "men should never touch a woman, no matter what she does". This is the kind that labeled air conditioning "sexist". This is the kind the organize "slut walks" to point out that women shouldn't be judged on what they wear, but protest the odd attire of a European scientist who's team just landed a probe on an asteroid.

This was the kind of "feminist" I dealt with.

Boss has taken his first holiday in years.
Topic of conversation: Last time he went on holiday, someone was hospitalised by being sliced across the eyeball by a retracting tape measure.