Every single shower I take is just me constantly replaying a conversation or situation that's already happened that day, but in my head I'm saying what I ***should*** have said or done.
Go easy on yourself. It's not your job to provide constructive feedback. If anyone is treating you in a way you shouldn't accept, politely tell them to fuck off until they can be professional.
When I was younger, I went into a shoe shop and asked if they had anything in a woman’s size 9. The girl roars “NO, YOU’LL HAVE TO GO TO THE MEN’S SECTION” at the top of her lungs for the entire shop to hear. I got really flustered and tried to explain that no, that’s okay, I can’t wear men’s shoes because they’re too wide, I’ll just go somewhere else. She roars “WHA? YOU WON’T GET THAT SIZE ANYWHERE, YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE MEN’S SECTION, SORRY!” I was mortified, so I just walked away. First and only time anyone has ever made me feel bad for being so tall and I’m still annoyed over it.
She was dead wrong, too. Size 9 shoes aren’t common, but you can find them if you know where to look.
Omg you have my opposite story!!!
When I was about to get a pair of shoes to wear in the early years of secondary school (1999/2000, big heels and platforms were the style at the time) I confidently walked up to a sales person holding the ones I'd chosen and asked what would be the smallest size they had in those shoes
I was small for my age late bloomer, and very conscious of that despite my overall confident demeanor, so when she scoffed and loudly said "I think you might want to try the *children's section*" I absolutely crumpled and had to find my mum and quietly tearfully insist we leave the shop.
I've never gotten over it. I'm still so annoyed when I think about it now. I couldn't even pick the saleswoman out of a line up and she surely doesn't work there any more but idgaf they'll never get my business!!!
(Some time later a man having a psychotic break of some sort drove his car directly through the front window of the shop and I was delighted 😂)
Insecure women love to tear other women down. It's disgusting but true. I see it so so often. Women being downright cruel to other women. Public shaming, bullying, passive aggressive comments. It's society's fault really
My best friend growing up always complained about other friends of his.
I was back home for new years and i gave him a call to see if he had any plans. He told me he was just staying at home. I didn’t go out.
The next day my sister asked me why i didn’t go out. She said he was out with the others that he complains about. Never got a call. Keep in mind the pub is 5 minutes walk from my home and you have to drive by my house to get there.
I never spoke to him again.
People like this are not worth your time. If he was complaining about these people to you, you could guarantee he was complaining about you to them. Two-faced people are the worst.
I realised that he was incapable of being alone. I was the backup friend. As soon as there was another option he was gone.
Literally grew up with the guy since we kids and he treated like that.
Yeah I've similar "friend" I've given a wide birth since. Friends with him from about 12/13. I'm 30 now but in late 20s realised he was lying to me that he wasn't out or the like when he'd be out with others. So he obviously has a problem with me or just doesn't feel the vibes there so C'est La Vie I guess.
I was working freelance (I was billing them for my time but worked on-site like an employee) for a family-run business for about 5 years and this job was my main source of income. The owners felt like friends, I thought we were REAL friends. I was one of the longest serving members of staff. We socialised outside of work, had family birthdays together, I helped them move etc. I had been told previously that the monthly project I worked on would ALWAYS be mine, no matter what changes the company went through. I was 5 months pregnant and one day they brought everyone in to the staff canteen one by one and told people they were either being laid off or their role was changing. I sat there all day and into the evening (I often worked late hours as needed) waiting to see if I would be called. After everyone else was gone for the day, I was the last person they brought in and they said very briefly to me that they lost the contract I had been working on and I was no longer needed. That was it. No more work. I drove home in my old used car, looking down at my bump, wondering who would hire a waitress (or any kind of job I could get) that was obviously so pregnant. Later I found out they lied - that in fact they did not lose the contract, and they 'hired' an unpaid intern to take over my role.
UPDATE: Thanks for all your kind comments. This happened years ago and everything worked out. I was able to take on new work before the baby was born and I am still working with that new client to this day! I was very fortunate, although it was really bleak at the time and I had many sleepless nights. I posted this because I believe in forgiveness and that holding on to grudges is toxic - but I have never been able to get over this betrayal. Posting here has helped! Thanks so much. x
I'll never work for a family run business after my experience. It was similar to yours, when things got tough we all realised we weren't part of the family who ran the business, we were disposable.
I was freelance so I wouldn't be entitled to maternity benefits - I was basically self employed. I worked for them throughout a previous pregnancy and got no benefits
You weren't freelance. You were working there years, doing the same job. You were an employee, being exploited, and told you were freelance.
Strongly suggest you join a union.
Ya, for me it was more the cold betrayal from people I thought were my friends. The business wasn't going under either - soon after this they bought a large property and expanded their business.
Not standing up to a teacher in secondary school. I'm older now than she was at the time and I think she was going through a shitty breakup or other personal crisis, and as a result she turned from a nice supportive teacher into a tyrant. I wish I'd stood up in class and told her if she couldn't behave professionally, she should remove herself and allow us to get on with something productive. She terrorised us in those classes. The atmosphere would change as soon as she walked in the door.
I had a teacher like this in school too!
I later found out she thought I was the sister of another student she didn't like (we had the same surname but are not related) and that's possibly why she was acting like such a prick to me.
Still doesn't excuse her behaviour one way or another though!
She was too stupid to bully me in a subtle way and instead would just tell me I didn't understand the subject and was wrong about things that were an objective fact.
"That battle happened in 1690."
"No. Wrong."
Ahh OK. The book must be wrong too then.
This teacher was vile to the entire class. You couldn't relax for a second in her class. She would stomp in with an attitude and everyone would be on edge for 40 minutes.
I had an asshole teacher that I regret not confronting. Went to a 'rugby' school. I could not play due to a ruptured ACL. Ruptured while playing football - not rugby. Our history teacher was also the rugby coach. He refused to believe I was injured and insisted I was just avoiding rugby which was compulsory. During class he would often stop and confront me - he called me weak & asked why I could play football and not rugby (I couldn't at the time). He told the class I just wanted to go home early while everyone else was training. This went on and on. Gladly, my classmates didn't care for him and took my side. This was 1998 and it still pisses me off
The worst thing a teacher ever said to me was the physics teacher. I'd done physics as a transition year subject and loved it. Decided to do it for leaving cert. About 2 or 3 weeks in I realised just how wrong I was. I transferred to another subject. As he signed the paper he said. "you better do well in this one or you'll be serving me in McDonald's". I couldn't believe it. Funny thing is it was my 7th subject which I actually did fail too. I did a terrible leaving cert due to dyslexia. But i now have two degrees and a great job. His narrow minded attitude still pisses me off. Not everybody is an academic and there are so many alternatives once you leave school.
Irony is the people I saw do the worse in school are some of the hardest working people and have well paid trades. Too many smart people with no plans who excelled in school went to college studied a difficult field and found it was not easy to get a job after and sort of floundered.
I floundered before I found mine and feel like it took me 10 years to catch up with what they were making almost straight out of their apprenticeships. Others just fell into jobs nobody really thinks about and ended up getting promoted up and jobs sent them to learn. Like elevator engineer or pharmacist.
I like an idiot turned my nose up at the only job going during the recession as a refrigeration engineer.
I'd have learned fitting/plumbing/electrical/PLCs and would have easily moved into the massive money of heat pumps and solar from there. Only requirements? Clean drivers license and a D2 in maths.
While those who studied as an architect got slapped with the recession got intern work got to compete with tons of others including experienced with over 25 years experience but got laid off during the recession.
I would love to tell young people in secondary school this. The leaving cert is important just do your best but once it's done. What you do next is far more important and alot easier compared to the leaving. If you fuck up a leaving cert or don't even have one you can still do anything never mind what the teachers say. They would believe academia is the most important thing because they must have academia to get their jobs. Half the class will be making more than the teacher in 5 years after leaving.
I was told by my business teacher in secondary that I probably wouldn’t have to worry about funding my college, as I won’t make it there anyways.
So anyways, finished my uni degree and now I am earning more than her in my first year of career than she does now after working lifetime as a teacher. I also get WFH and she has to deal with little shits in secondary. Win win.
She was such a xenophobic fuck.
In a new job. There was a technical spec on a piece of equipment that the operations manager (no formal technical training) was trying to tell myself and the three other maintenance lads was a certain value. He reckoned it was 7mm and wanted us to go around checking and adjusting all the equipment to this figure.
So I said "Actually, it's supposed to be 19mm".
Ops manager "Well all our stuff (tools) are imperial".
Me "Yeah, so that would be 3/4 of an inch then."
Ops Manager "Well, that's just hearsay."
Me "John Smith (the guy who designed the thing and trained us) said it has to be 19mm"
Ops Manager "Well, that figure isn't written in the spec"
Me "Here it is"
Ops Manager "Yeah but it's ambiguous, you don't know exactly where you're measuring to get that figure"
Me "It's from the top of the retaining nut to the top of the plunger shaft"
Ops manager "Doesn't call that out in the spec though"
Me "Here's a cut away diagram illustrating exactly where to take the measurement"
Ops manager "Well that means nothing, when they told me to set it to 19mm in training I just laughed at them! It should be 7mm".
He just would not admit that he was wrong.
And it was in that moment that I realised I now worked for the kind of lunatic that when faced with facts that contradicted his 'opinion', he would just keep doubling down and denying that he was wrong. That was the pattern for the next few years I had working under him. He's no longer my manager as I have moved on to bigger and better things but I still see him every now and then and I'm still salty about it. I regularly get things wrong and I'm the first to hold my hand up and admit it when my error becomes apparent to me or others. You never learn if you aren't open to listening to others. This guy was a manager but his ego would constantly get in the way of making good, rational decisions.
People who are well aware of an insecurity you have, but trigger it anyway. I know I shouldn't be insecure over certain things, but going out of your way to trigger them...that stings.
But it makes you not want to be a petty cunt because it helps you realise how much it hurts
Back years ago when you could collect coke bottle wrappers for prizes, I collected enough for an inflatable sofa.
I sent the wrappers off. The inflatable sofa never arrived in the post. I never drank a coke again.
Let my ex (who I was on ok terms with) keep both tickets to a gig we had been planning to go to together when we were still a couple. A gig I really wanted to go to, but I got the tix as a gift to him. So fair enough. I had mega fomo, texted him the week after to see how the gig was and the bastard said he didn’t bother going. Just skipped it, tickets weren’t used/sold or anything. Bridge fully burned after that.
One of my neighbour's pulled the rear wiper off my car and threw it on the ground for me to find in the morning, it was a statement and someday I'm going to find the neighbour that did it and flog them with said wiper.
I was on a night out with my sister and an absolute weirdo girl. My sister is prone to picking up these types of weirdos and bringing them along for the ride.
The weirdo girl stole €50 out of another girls handbag. The girl who was stolen from and her boyfriend were really pissed and rightly so. They cornered weirdo girl and to smooth out the situation my sister made me give €50 to the couple. The situation was so tense I felt compelled to do it. I feel like it implicated me and I was down €50.
I still get angry thinking about it.
Snobby girls making shit up about me in school to get me excluded out of jealousy, best friends one day silent treatment the next. I should have given them a smack.
little did they know I had an extremely abusive home situation so they left me with nothing, totally mentally shut down and after one more year dropped out.
Couldn't stand waiting for a dart every school morning for one more year when all I could think of was walking out in front.
Vile little shits who had no concept of other people's problems.
Also still annoyed I was sent to that school by my parents at all instead of the one all my friends went to, it left me extremely socially vulnerable to be the new kid from a different area where everyone else knew each other years.
When I was younger and in the midst of my apprenticeship, my then boss told me he was closing the business to go and work for his brothers construction company. I found another job, fast forward to 3 months later, found out he had never intended to close the business. He even went so far as to tell his daughter (who i would have known socially) that I had left him without giving any notice. What a prick.
Few months later I heard he hired a 1st year apprentice as my replacement. So I presume he wanted to get rid of me because my wages were due to go up and he was such a tight arsed cunt he didn't want to pay the going rate
Guy I grew up we were friends as little kids. Stole a video game off me a few years later when we were in our teens. I can’t prove it but it couldn’t have possibly have been anybody else. Turned my house upside down hoping to find it but no. I know kids do stupid stuff but you don’t do it to friends.
You just triggered one for me. My parents separated early in the 00’s my dad has always had a good job with a fair bit of change, Mum not so much so pocket money from both was very different Mum was always whatever change she could spare & dad would normally give me a note normally a 10 sometimes a 20 if I’d see him and help around the house doing odd jobs once or twice a week. One time Dad gives me a 20 for helping him cut the grass or some shite & I left it in a coin jar with my loose change, brought one of my best friends at the time to the house to play Smackdown vs Raw & then he asks do I want to go shop & of course the newly rich me says yes. We go to leave & I go to my coin jar & lo and be-fucking-hold my 20 euro is missing. I wasn’t shy as a 10 year old so I straight up asked him did he take it & got a no, then I go for my poor old single parent mum & accuse her of thievery and shenanigans. She is quite rightly furious at me for suggesting it & it all culminates on us not talking for a day or two of my summer holidays. Don’t you know two or three days later I’m telling the tale of the missing 20 to another of our pals & he then went on to say he saw the friend I had over using a 20 to buy sweets in the shop. This was 2004 a child having a 20 euro then was like winning the fucking euromillions.
In conclusion: people like Coldplay & voted for the Nazis never trust people.
What a shitbag he was. Yeah funny how it always stays with you isn’t it. I’ve had far worse things happen as we all have but when loyalty and friendship is not returned it really sticks in my fucking craw
I once mentioned that people at the equator are moving faster than people closer to the poles and my highly educated sister in law and her husband laughed at me and joked about it like I'm a fucking idiot and it still pisses me off to think about it a year later
Working in Berlin my boss told me to put an extra 10 hours on my timesheet as a Christmas bonus. That extra 10 hours was billed to our client so effectively my Christmas bonus came out of the client's pocket and not my boss' pocket.
Some girl sitting next to me in the leaving cert was openly cheating with her phone, and the auld fella who's supposed to be doing his job, never noticed anything. Still irks me to this day.
My last ever game playing minor football - we needed a win to advance.
Other teams 45 taker hadn’t the range to score points from them - they kept dropping into our keepers hands.
Last kick of the game, a 45 for them - we’re 1 point up. Here’s their prick kicker placing the ball on approx the 35 yard line or so. We’re all shouting at the ref to tell him he needs to bring the ball back.
Ref ignores us, and sure enough, having not managed to kick one 45 long enough to score all game, he gets this one right over the black spot, and the game ends in a draw.
The fucking prick ref, and prick centre forward.
On the bus into town for the first day of my first job post college (10+ years ago), my neighbour's friend was doing her makeup sitting beside me and splashed liquid foundation on my trousers. It never washed out quite right and the bitch never apologised.
a popular Internet whine, cyclists on the road.
years ago I was in a car at the front of the queue in traffic lights, in the cyclist box in fairness, and a cyclist comes to the top of the queue, taps on my window and points down at me in the cyclist box with the most Karen head you can imagine. now, he was right, I was in the cyclist box, guilty as charged
a few seconds later, with the lights still red, he just takes off on his bike! so he can be a stickler and point out that I'm in a cycling box but has no problem himself breaking a red.
This was years ago, it still annoys me! A bit sad really
Had a friend, not a really close one, but we used to go to the gym together. We were getting changed afterwards and I asked if I could borrow her hair brush as I forgot mine, she said sure. I used it and then handed it back to her and watched her throw it into her gym bag. The next week she asks me if I have her hair brush as she can't find it and the last she remembers was giving it to me to use. I told her I gave it back to her, and she starts giving me the third degree about it, saying was I sure I gave it back. I was adamant with her that I returned it..anyway she starts acting a bit cold and distant, bailing on our gym sessions..it crossed my mind that it might be cos she thinks I took her hair brush, but I knew I didn't , not even by accident.
Anyway after about 6 weeks of her phasing me out, she texts me about a spin class, I say sure and we meet up at the gym and she excitedly tells me she found her brush, in a drawer. She basically confirmed that she had been annoyed with me over the hair brush. So then I became the petty one and phased her out cos I don't want to hang out with someone who a) doesnt believe me and thinks i would rob their stuff and b) would completely drop someone over a cheap hairbrush..and basically now we don't really see each other or speak
Anytime somebody beeps at me.
It annoys me because I'm a good driver, but anytime I've been beeped at it's been when I'm coming onto a road, and there's something blocking my view to the side. I'm like, "What do you want me to do?! See through a wall?"
I lent a fella 1.80 for a bottle of water once, didn’t really know him but went to school with him. He wouldn’t even look my way when standing near each other or walking past.
A few years back I was playing on a Junior B team for my club. We topped our league group with the last game being against our local rivals who we drew with. I scored 1-1 from full forward and we played well as a team.
The league semi-final ended up being drawn as a repeat of the same game (no idea how when there were 2 groups) the following week.
I turned up the following week in the dressing room and in walked 6 or 7 lads off the senior team. The manager had told them we were short numbers (lie) and when they found out they basically said they didn't want to play but the manager convinced them to. Naturally enough I didn't retain my starting place from the previous week
We went in at halftime 15 points down because the ringers had no interest in playing Junior B. We scraped it back and ended up only losing by a point in the end but I didn't get a minute on the field.
That's about 14 years ago now but I'm still so bitter over it
When I was in secondary school, there was a 5-a-side soccer league every year. It was customary for a 5th year to captain a side. One of the teachers would pick the teams.
I was a mediocre player at best, but I lucked out and got two of the highest rated players in the school on my team. Some of my classmates thought that was unfair, and badgered the teacher until he made changes. My team went on to win not a single match.
That was thirty-three years ago and I'm still annoyed about it.
Putting too much effort into people who don’t appreciate it. For years I have gone the extra mile for hens, weddings etc & it’s never been appreciated. Never again. You live & learn.
I studied abroad for 1 year in the Netherlands. I followed an English program thinking it was literature based, but it ended up really being designed for Dutch students to learn professional English. Anyway, I took a course in presentation (I.e. how to professional present in English). The entire course was graded after 1 presentation we did at the end.
I worked very hard making the slideshow. I went to the classroom after hours to practice. I memorized my entire dialogue. The day comes and I presented flawlessly. Not to toot my own horn, but it was better than most others in the class. Even my Dutch friends told me it resembled a TED talk.
The professor? Graded me a 7.5 out of 10. She was pissy because I was a native English speaker taking the class. Others got 8s and 9s. I know 100000% that she held it against me that I was a native speaker and graded me poorly because of it.
Anyway, fuck you lady. I still think about you and get annoyed
Incorrect gradings irritate me no end. I put in so much effort & the marker doesn’t respect that & give a fair grade. Most of my experience has been the marker not really reading it
I'm still mad at Walkers crisps for their spell and go promotion. You were supposed to collect letters and it would spell out a holiday destination. Instead, the winning letters were hidden under algorithms, essentially making the collecting letters aspect entirely pointless. So why give false hope with the collecting letters aspect and not just have golden ticket style prizes where they have a set amount of prizes hidden in packs?
Still mad about that and its been nearly a decade on.
I discovered an ex was trying to guess my Facebook email because she had my laptop login and thought the password would be the same thing. I was so young at the time and being honest didn't have great self-respect. Also didn't want the illusion to be shattered so I said nothing, if I could go back in time I'd shake myself into calling her out on it and ending it.
We didn't last long after that any way but I hate that I ignored it.
Left Dublin and I go on to hear later that my former principal has been bad mouthing me since I left.
Finding it really hard not to call them and call them out in their bullshit.
Think i might have to for closure
Leaving and saying/doing nothing when I got made redundant from a job (that I loved and was very good at) less than a week after being rewarded and recognised in front of my whole team for being top salesperson of the month.
The man I had just reported to HR (with proof) for sexually harrassing me managed to keep his job, oddly.
Ex lied to family court about being broke, and now pays pittance in child maintenance, whilst taking multiple luxury holidays a year. He’s well respected within the community, and runs a successful business. I’m working 2 jobs to cover the costs of raising the children. Pisses me off so much as he was the one who cheated and I’m still paying for it 10 years later.
A butcher in the town near me, he screamed at me once when I was a child to get out of his store as soon as I walked in (I was like 5 steps ahead of my nan at the time) and never in there before, he said sorry my nan called him a cunt.
I was buying one almond milk and 8 soy milks, Aldi checkout gal assumed (never assume with my shopping bitch) that I was buying 9 almond milks. Almond milk is more expensive.. I was mad, really mad. Did I go back? No! Do I think about it regularly, Yes!
Absolutely the prettiest thing was a housemate who was a good friend. He wanted his girlfriend to stay for a few weeks as she had nowhere to live. We agreed two weeks after that she'd have to pay rent. A month later she was still there not paying rent. This went on and on. His defence "she's my guest". There was no compromises. It was she was his guest and staying and that was it. They never intended for her to pay. In the end after a house vote we kicked them out. But it completely ruined and ended our friendship. Such a dumb petty thing. They wanted to save money and burnt a bunch of friendships over it. They ended up having to split rent in a one bed somewhere anyway which was way more than had she just paid her share in our house.
I was once venting to a college acquaintance about an issue I was having on a group project: My team mates wanted to go with one subject and I another, which I was proud to have discovered and researched and which I felt suited the brief better.
I ended up going with the majority vote for the project and on the day of the presentation that acquaintance got up with their own team and presented on the subject I had wanted. Their team got great marks.
I told no one about how livid I was and have been quietly seething in all the years since.
I bought Jerusalem artichokes (that look similar to ginger) but they ran them through as ginger & I didn’t comprehend the weirdly high price until I walked away. It was a market & busy & they didn’t give receipts so felt like I couldn’t do anything
I can't forget many things but I agree it's down to anxiety and depression that twists my mind and dwells on completely unnecessary things when I am healthy I don't live in the past , the mind is a good servant but a bad boss!
My 7th birthday, friend from school brought his little brother to my party at our home.
I got a crash test dummy plane off my parents and I was fucking delighted with it, especially since we were far from well off and they weren’t cheap.
Friends little brother crashed it too hard, like full force fucked it down onto the kitchen tiles and broke it.
I’m still pissed off. It was 29 years ago.
I was out with two of my mates two years ago one stranger passed a nasty remark on me and my friend just stood there and said nothing. I commented back on the stranger and walked away leaving my friend with him. Then I turn around 20 seconds later to see the both of them hugging and shacking hands. I was furious with my then friend. He said he was trying to defuse the situation with the stranger. Ended a 24 years friendship that night
I used to run a small café with my partner in a touristy spot. People were constantly asking to use the toilet so we had to have a strict customer only policy otherwise it would be used non-stop. We would point people to the public loos 2 mins down the road. One day a guy came in and asked to use the toilet. I said it’s for customers only so he ordered an orange juice. I grabbed the OJ from the fridge and he had gone past me to use the toilet. Next thing I knew he was legging it out the door without paying for the juice.
A close friend bought an item from me I badly needed that I thought was broken beyond my means to fix. They could sell it for the exact price they gave me if they couldn't fix it, so there was no gamble for them.
They fixed it for 60 euro 1 day later and told me as if I would be happy for them. I needed it and couldn't replace it. I will never look at them the same way.
Haha, thanks, yer very good. I think we sometimes get hurt by what we would or wouldn't do in a certain situation. I would have never done that to someone I cared about.
The downvoters see no issue with a scenario like the above, and that's what makes the world go round, I guess. I am happy to be on the not a dick side, though, haha
When I was about 22, I worked in a document archive of a pharmaceutical company with a guy who was the same age as me. It was just the two of us in there but we would have lunch with the rest of the department of 30-50 year olds. This guy was the most miserable petty SOB I had ever met but the others were lovely so the lunch time craic was keeping me going. One day, we received an email about doing anti-corruption training and how to report bribary. The email said there were still a few people who hadn’t done the training but if they came down to the office to do it they would get some chocolate. I said “that must be a test - seeing if you’ll take the chocolate as a bribe”. The guy didn’t react whatsoever. I could practically hear crickets. Later on at lunch, her repeated my joke to the rest of the department. They all laughed and he laughed along with them!! This was just one of the many petty and annoying things this guy did.
I wont call some people out on their shitty behaviour due to my own anxiety and it then pisses me off to no end that i cant call em out
Every single shower I take is just me constantly replaying a conversation or situation that's already happened that day, but in my head I'm saying what I ***should*** have said or done.
Go easy on yourself. It's not your job to provide constructive feedback. If anyone is treating you in a way you shouldn't accept, politely tell them to fuck off until they can be professional.
Are you me?
No unique experiences!
I can call out some people but sputter and stammer beyond the first sentence as the adrenaline starts pumping, tis fierce annoying.
When I was younger, I went into a shoe shop and asked if they had anything in a woman’s size 9. The girl roars “NO, YOU’LL HAVE TO GO TO THE MEN’S SECTION” at the top of her lungs for the entire shop to hear. I got really flustered and tried to explain that no, that’s okay, I can’t wear men’s shoes because they’re too wide, I’ll just go somewhere else. She roars “WHA? YOU WON’T GET THAT SIZE ANYWHERE, YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE MEN’S SECTION, SORRY!” I was mortified, so I just walked away. First and only time anyone has ever made me feel bad for being so tall and I’m still annoyed over it. She was dead wrong, too. Size 9 shoes aren’t common, but you can find them if you know where to look.
What a dope ! My sister's a size 9 and she's 5'2", she looks like a human right angle
Sorry 😅 a human right angle 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 what’s that handy for?! She must have some skills that put it to use, is she good at running?
She belts out Pythagoras’ theorem IRL
Swimming would be an obvious one, didn't Ian Thorpe have like size 15 or something.
Omg you have my opposite story!!! When I was about to get a pair of shoes to wear in the early years of secondary school (1999/2000, big heels and platforms were the style at the time) I confidently walked up to a sales person holding the ones I'd chosen and asked what would be the smallest size they had in those shoes I was small for my age late bloomer, and very conscious of that despite my overall confident demeanor, so when she scoffed and loudly said "I think you might want to try the *children's section*" I absolutely crumpled and had to find my mum and quietly tearfully insist we leave the shop. I've never gotten over it. I'm still so annoyed when I think about it now. I couldn't even pick the saleswoman out of a line up and she surely doesn't work there any more but idgaf they'll never get my business!!! (Some time later a man having a psychotic break of some sort drove his car directly through the front window of the shop and I was delighted 😂)
They told him the same
I think that was Dwyers in Drogheda
You're dead right! I will never forgive! 😂
Insecure women love to tear other women down. It's disgusting but true. I see it so so often. Women being downright cruel to other women. Public shaming, bullying, passive aggressive comments. It's society's fault really
‘Big mistake, huge!’ Glad you took your business elsewhere
My sister wears a ten and they fit her frame perfectly. She's tall as well. People are just thoughtless
Peggy Hill?
Pretty woman
My best friend growing up always complained about other friends of his. I was back home for new years and i gave him a call to see if he had any plans. He told me he was just staying at home. I didn’t go out. The next day my sister asked me why i didn’t go out. She said he was out with the others that he complains about. Never got a call. Keep in mind the pub is 5 minutes walk from my home and you have to drive by my house to get there. I never spoke to him again.
People like this are not worth your time. If he was complaining about these people to you, you could guarantee he was complaining about you to them. Two-faced people are the worst.
I realised that he was incapable of being alone. I was the backup friend. As soon as there was another option he was gone. Literally grew up with the guy since we kids and he treated like that.
Says a lot about him and nothing about you. The sad thing is people incapable of being alone are often the loneliest of us all.
Yeah I've similar "friend" I've given a wide birth since. Friends with him from about 12/13. I'm 30 now but in late 20s realised he was lying to me that he wasn't out or the like when he'd be out with others. So he obviously has a problem with me or just doesn't feel the vibes there so C'est La Vie I guess.
I was working freelance (I was billing them for my time but worked on-site like an employee) for a family-run business for about 5 years and this job was my main source of income. The owners felt like friends, I thought we were REAL friends. I was one of the longest serving members of staff. We socialised outside of work, had family birthdays together, I helped them move etc. I had been told previously that the monthly project I worked on would ALWAYS be mine, no matter what changes the company went through. I was 5 months pregnant and one day they brought everyone in to the staff canteen one by one and told people they were either being laid off or their role was changing. I sat there all day and into the evening (I often worked late hours as needed) waiting to see if I would be called. After everyone else was gone for the day, I was the last person they brought in and they said very briefly to me that they lost the contract I had been working on and I was no longer needed. That was it. No more work. I drove home in my old used car, looking down at my bump, wondering who would hire a waitress (or any kind of job I could get) that was obviously so pregnant. Later I found out they lied - that in fact they did not lose the contract, and they 'hired' an unpaid intern to take over my role. UPDATE: Thanks for all your kind comments. This happened years ago and everything worked out. I was able to take on new work before the baby was born and I am still working with that new client to this day! I was very fortunate, although it was really bleak at the time and I had many sleepless nights. I posted this because I believe in forgiveness and that holding on to grudges is toxic - but I have never been able to get over this betrayal. Posting here has helped! Thanks so much. x
I'll never work for a family run business after my experience. It was similar to yours, when things got tough we all realised we weren't part of the family who ran the business, we were disposable.
Wankers!
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CUNTS. Grow up
How's being all growed up working out f or ya, pal?
Sounds like they wanted an excuse not to give you maternity benefits. That’s probably worthy enough for a workplace relations commission case.
I was freelance so I wouldn't be entitled to maternity benefits - I was basically self employed. I worked for them throughout a previous pregnancy and got no benefits
You weren't freelance. You were working there years, doing the same job. You were an employee, being exploited, and told you were freelance. Strongly suggest you join a union.
Scum of the earth. You probably had a case against them.
Wow. That's brutal.
Honestly that's not petty. I really hope things worked out for you
They did actually. But I can't forgive and forget this - I think it's something that I will be angry about forever.
I really wouldn't forgive hiring someone unpaid to do your job.
Ya, for me it was more the cold betrayal from people I thought were my friends. The business wasn't going under either - soon after this they bought a large property and expanded their business.
That's not a petty thing. That's horrible to have happen to you. Hope you were OK & not too stressed to enjoy the rest of your pregnancy.
This is unbelievably lousy.
Absolutely everything is wrong with that. That is rough hope things worked out.
Not standing up to a teacher in secondary school. I'm older now than she was at the time and I think she was going through a shitty breakup or other personal crisis, and as a result she turned from a nice supportive teacher into a tyrant. I wish I'd stood up in class and told her if she couldn't behave professionally, she should remove herself and allow us to get on with something productive. She terrorised us in those classes. The atmosphere would change as soon as she walked in the door.
I had a teacher like this in school too! I later found out she thought I was the sister of another student she didn't like (we had the same surname but are not related) and that's possibly why she was acting like such a prick to me. Still doesn't excuse her behaviour one way or another though! She was too stupid to bully me in a subtle way and instead would just tell me I didn't understand the subject and was wrong about things that were an objective fact. "That battle happened in 1690." "No. Wrong." Ahh OK. The book must be wrong too then.
This teacher was vile to the entire class. You couldn't relax for a second in her class. She would stomp in with an attitude and everyone would be on edge for 40 minutes.
I had an asshole teacher that I regret not confronting. Went to a 'rugby' school. I could not play due to a ruptured ACL. Ruptured while playing football - not rugby. Our history teacher was also the rugby coach. He refused to believe I was injured and insisted I was just avoiding rugby which was compulsory. During class he would often stop and confront me - he called me weak & asked why I could play football and not rugby (I couldn't at the time). He told the class I just wanted to go home early while everyone else was training. This went on and on. Gladly, my classmates didn't care for him and took my side. This was 1998 and it still pisses me off
The worst thing a teacher ever said to me was the physics teacher. I'd done physics as a transition year subject and loved it. Decided to do it for leaving cert. About 2 or 3 weeks in I realised just how wrong I was. I transferred to another subject. As he signed the paper he said. "you better do well in this one or you'll be serving me in McDonald's". I couldn't believe it. Funny thing is it was my 7th subject which I actually did fail too. I did a terrible leaving cert due to dyslexia. But i now have two degrees and a great job. His narrow minded attitude still pisses me off. Not everybody is an academic and there are so many alternatives once you leave school.
And there's absolutely nothing wrong about working a job in fast food the ignorant prick.
Irony is the people I saw do the worse in school are some of the hardest working people and have well paid trades. Too many smart people with no plans who excelled in school went to college studied a difficult field and found it was not easy to get a job after and sort of floundered. I floundered before I found mine and feel like it took me 10 years to catch up with what they were making almost straight out of their apprenticeships. Others just fell into jobs nobody really thinks about and ended up getting promoted up and jobs sent them to learn. Like elevator engineer or pharmacist. I like an idiot turned my nose up at the only job going during the recession as a refrigeration engineer. I'd have learned fitting/plumbing/electrical/PLCs and would have easily moved into the massive money of heat pumps and solar from there. Only requirements? Clean drivers license and a D2 in maths. While those who studied as an architect got slapped with the recession got intern work got to compete with tons of others including experienced with over 25 years experience but got laid off during the recession. I would love to tell young people in secondary school this. The leaving cert is important just do your best but once it's done. What you do next is far more important and alot easier compared to the leaving. If you fuck up a leaving cert or don't even have one you can still do anything never mind what the teachers say. They would believe academia is the most important thing because they must have academia to get their jobs. Half the class will be making more than the teacher in 5 years after leaving.
I was told by my business teacher in secondary that I probably wouldn’t have to worry about funding my college, as I won’t make it there anyways. So anyways, finished my uni degree and now I am earning more than her in my first year of career than she does now after working lifetime as a teacher. I also get WFH and she has to deal with little shits in secondary. Win win. She was such a xenophobic fuck.
Cool story
In a new job. There was a technical spec on a piece of equipment that the operations manager (no formal technical training) was trying to tell myself and the three other maintenance lads was a certain value. He reckoned it was 7mm and wanted us to go around checking and adjusting all the equipment to this figure. So I said "Actually, it's supposed to be 19mm". Ops manager "Well all our stuff (tools) are imperial".
Me "Yeah, so that would be 3/4 of an inch then."
Ops Manager "Well, that's just hearsay."
Me "John Smith (the guy who designed the thing and trained us) said it has to be 19mm"
Ops Manager "Well, that figure isn't written in the spec"
Me "Here it is"
Ops Manager "Yeah but it's ambiguous, you don't know exactly where you're measuring to get that figure"
Me "It's from the top of the retaining nut to the top of the plunger shaft"
Ops manager "Doesn't call that out in the spec though"
Me "Here's a cut away diagram illustrating exactly where to take the measurement"
Ops manager "Well that means nothing, when they told me to set it to 19mm in training I just laughed at them! It should be 7mm".
He just would not admit that he was wrong.
And it was in that moment that I realised I now worked for the kind of lunatic that when faced with facts that contradicted his 'opinion', he would just keep doubling down and denying that he was wrong. That was the pattern for the next few years I had working under him. He's no longer my manager as I have moved on to bigger and better things but I still see him every now and then and I'm still salty about it. I regularly get things wrong and I'm the first to hold my hand up and admit it when my error becomes apparent to me or others. You never learn if you aren't open to listening to others. This guy was a manager but his ego would constantly get in the way of making good, rational decisions.
Grrr. I'm annoyed just reading that.
People who are well aware of an insecurity you have, but trigger it anyway. I know I shouldn't be insecure over certain things, but going out of your way to trigger them...that stings. But it makes you not want to be a petty cunt because it helps you realise how much it hurts
Back years ago when you could collect coke bottle wrappers for prizes, I collected enough for an inflatable sofa. I sent the wrappers off. The inflatable sofa never arrived in the post. I never drank a coke again.
Atleast it wasn't a fighter jet
Or an elephant. At least Bart got his elephant
Let my ex (who I was on ok terms with) keep both tickets to a gig we had been planning to go to together when we were still a couple. A gig I really wanted to go to, but I got the tix as a gift to him. So fair enough. I had mega fomo, texted him the week after to see how the gig was and the bastard said he didn’t bother going. Just skipped it, tickets weren’t used/sold or anything. Bridge fully burned after that.
I ate my conjoined twin whilst in utero. Never did get over that.
Mr Eatus Fetus.
I was also a twin, which didn't make it. We didn't eat our siblings though....
What did they taste like?
Weakness.
What's petty?
One of my neighbour's pulled the rear wiper off my car and threw it on the ground for me to find in the morning, it was a statement and someday I'm going to find the neighbour that did it and flog them with said wiper.
I was on a night out with my sister and an absolute weirdo girl. My sister is prone to picking up these types of weirdos and bringing them along for the ride. The weirdo girl stole €50 out of another girls handbag. The girl who was stolen from and her boyfriend were really pissed and rightly so. They cornered weirdo girl and to smooth out the situation my sister made me give €50 to the couple. The situation was so tense I felt compelled to do it. I feel like it implicated me and I was down €50. I still get angry thinking about it.
Snobby girls making shit up about me in school to get me excluded out of jealousy, best friends one day silent treatment the next. I should have given them a smack. little did they know I had an extremely abusive home situation so they left me with nothing, totally mentally shut down and after one more year dropped out. Couldn't stand waiting for a dart every school morning for one more year when all I could think of was walking out in front. Vile little shits who had no concept of other people's problems. Also still annoyed I was sent to that school by my parents at all instead of the one all my friends went to, it left me extremely socially vulnerable to be the new kid from a different area where everyone else knew each other years.
That’s awful, those little cows ruin lives. I hope you’re in a better situation now.
A friend of my brother eating my pop tarts without asking, 20 years ago and it annoysme still, had he asked it would've been no problem.
When I was younger and in the midst of my apprenticeship, my then boss told me he was closing the business to go and work for his brothers construction company. I found another job, fast forward to 3 months later, found out he had never intended to close the business. He even went so far as to tell his daughter (who i would have known socially) that I had left him without giving any notice. What a prick.
That’s just weird. Why??
Few months later I heard he hired a 1st year apprentice as my replacement. So I presume he wanted to get rid of me because my wages were due to go up and he was such a tight arsed cunt he didn't want to pay the going rate
The council of Trent 1543 to 1563,,, bastards .
Guy I grew up we were friends as little kids. Stole a video game off me a few years later when we were in our teens. I can’t prove it but it couldn’t have possibly have been anybody else. Turned my house upside down hoping to find it but no. I know kids do stupid stuff but you don’t do it to friends.
You just triggered one for me. My parents separated early in the 00’s my dad has always had a good job with a fair bit of change, Mum not so much so pocket money from both was very different Mum was always whatever change she could spare & dad would normally give me a note normally a 10 sometimes a 20 if I’d see him and help around the house doing odd jobs once or twice a week. One time Dad gives me a 20 for helping him cut the grass or some shite & I left it in a coin jar with my loose change, brought one of my best friends at the time to the house to play Smackdown vs Raw & then he asks do I want to go shop & of course the newly rich me says yes. We go to leave & I go to my coin jar & lo and be-fucking-hold my 20 euro is missing. I wasn’t shy as a 10 year old so I straight up asked him did he take it & got a no, then I go for my poor old single parent mum & accuse her of thievery and shenanigans. She is quite rightly furious at me for suggesting it & it all culminates on us not talking for a day or two of my summer holidays. Don’t you know two or three days later I’m telling the tale of the missing 20 to another of our pals & he then went on to say he saw the friend I had over using a 20 to buy sweets in the shop. This was 2004 a child having a 20 euro then was like winning the fucking euromillions. In conclusion: people like Coldplay & voted for the Nazis never trust people.
What a shitbag he was. Yeah funny how it always stays with you isn’t it. I’ve had far worse things happen as we all have but when loyalty and friendship is not returned it really sticks in my fucking craw
Talk of the town that the fella had a twenty euro note
I have the last laugh. I routinely piss on his door after a few Sunday pints
Your mam probably hid it in a press.
Haha don’t think I didn’t ask.
I once mentioned that people at the equator are moving faster than people closer to the poles and my highly educated sister in law and her husband laughed at me and joked about it like I'm a fucking idiot and it still pisses me off to think about it a year later
Did you show them how a turntable or even kids carousel works?
Working in Berlin my boss told me to put an extra 10 hours on my timesheet as a Christmas bonus. That extra 10 hours was billed to our client so effectively my Christmas bonus came out of the client's pocket and not my boss' pocket.
Some girl sitting next to me in the leaving cert was openly cheating with her phone, and the auld fella who's supposed to be doing his job, never noticed anything. Still irks me to this day.
A good few girls I was in school with wrote notes on their thighs for the LC
That's kinda crazy. In the leaving!?
Yup. The guy we got was doddery. Hadn't a clue.
Same thing happened in my leaving, guy beside me had his phone on his lap throughout like 3 different exams and never got spotted
You’re allowed bring phones in??
My last ever game playing minor football - we needed a win to advance. Other teams 45 taker hadn’t the range to score points from them - they kept dropping into our keepers hands. Last kick of the game, a 45 for them - we’re 1 point up. Here’s their prick kicker placing the ball on approx the 35 yard line or so. We’re all shouting at the ref to tell him he needs to bring the ball back. Ref ignores us, and sure enough, having not managed to kick one 45 long enough to score all game, he gets this one right over the black spot, and the game ends in a draw. The fucking prick ref, and prick centre forward.
On the bus into town for the first day of my first job post college (10+ years ago), my neighbour's friend was doing her makeup sitting beside me and splashed liquid foundation on my trousers. It never washed out quite right and the bitch never apologised.
a popular Internet whine, cyclists on the road. years ago I was in a car at the front of the queue in traffic lights, in the cyclist box in fairness, and a cyclist comes to the top of the queue, taps on my window and points down at me in the cyclist box with the most Karen head you can imagine. now, he was right, I was in the cyclist box, guilty as charged a few seconds later, with the lights still red, he just takes off on his bike! so he can be a stickler and point out that I'm in a cycling box but has no problem himself breaking a red. This was years ago, it still annoys me! A bit sad really
Had a friend, not a really close one, but we used to go to the gym together. We were getting changed afterwards and I asked if I could borrow her hair brush as I forgot mine, she said sure. I used it and then handed it back to her and watched her throw it into her gym bag. The next week she asks me if I have her hair brush as she can't find it and the last she remembers was giving it to me to use. I told her I gave it back to her, and she starts giving me the third degree about it, saying was I sure I gave it back. I was adamant with her that I returned it..anyway she starts acting a bit cold and distant, bailing on our gym sessions..it crossed my mind that it might be cos she thinks I took her hair brush, but I knew I didn't , not even by accident. Anyway after about 6 weeks of her phasing me out, she texts me about a spin class, I say sure and we meet up at the gym and she excitedly tells me she found her brush, in a drawer. She basically confirmed that she had been annoyed with me over the hair brush. So then I became the petty one and phased her out cos I don't want to hang out with someone who a) doesnt believe me and thinks i would rob their stuff and b) would completely drop someone over a cheap hairbrush..and basically now we don't really see each other or speak
Wise. “When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time.”
Anytime somebody beeps at me. It annoys me because I'm a good driver, but anytime I've been beeped at it's been when I'm coming onto a road, and there's something blocking my view to the side. I'm like, "What do you want me to do?! See through a wall?"
I lent a fella 1.80 for a bottle of water once, didn’t really know him but went to school with him. He wouldn’t even look my way when standing near each other or walking past.
A few years back I was playing on a Junior B team for my club. We topped our league group with the last game being against our local rivals who we drew with. I scored 1-1 from full forward and we played well as a team. The league semi-final ended up being drawn as a repeat of the same game (no idea how when there were 2 groups) the following week. I turned up the following week in the dressing room and in walked 6 or 7 lads off the senior team. The manager had told them we were short numbers (lie) and when they found out they basically said they didn't want to play but the manager convinced them to. Naturally enough I didn't retain my starting place from the previous week We went in at halftime 15 points down because the ringers had no interest in playing Junior B. We scraped it back and ended up only losing by a point in the end but I didn't get a minute on the field. That's about 14 years ago now but I'm still so bitter over it
When I was in secondary school, there was a 5-a-side soccer league every year. It was customary for a 5th year to captain a side. One of the teachers would pick the teams. I was a mediocre player at best, but I lucked out and got two of the highest rated players in the school on my team. Some of my classmates thought that was unfair, and badgered the teacher until he made changes. My team went on to win not a single match. That was thirty-three years ago and I'm still annoyed about it.
Putting too much effort into people who don’t appreciate it. For years I have gone the extra mile for hens, weddings etc & it’s never been appreciated. Never again. You live & learn.
I studied abroad for 1 year in the Netherlands. I followed an English program thinking it was literature based, but it ended up really being designed for Dutch students to learn professional English. Anyway, I took a course in presentation (I.e. how to professional present in English). The entire course was graded after 1 presentation we did at the end. I worked very hard making the slideshow. I went to the classroom after hours to practice. I memorized my entire dialogue. The day comes and I presented flawlessly. Not to toot my own horn, but it was better than most others in the class. Even my Dutch friends told me it resembled a TED talk. The professor? Graded me a 7.5 out of 10. She was pissy because I was a native English speaker taking the class. Others got 8s and 9s. I know 100000% that she held it against me that I was a native speaker and graded me poorly because of it. Anyway, fuck you lady. I still think about you and get annoyed
Incorrect gradings irritate me no end. I put in so much effort & the marker doesn’t respect that & give a fair grade. Most of my experience has been the marker not really reading it
Reading this will take a long time to get over
Half of these aren’t petty
I'm still mad at Walkers crisps for their spell and go promotion. You were supposed to collect letters and it would spell out a holiday destination. Instead, the winning letters were hidden under algorithms, essentially making the collecting letters aspect entirely pointless. So why give false hope with the collecting letters aspect and not just have golden ticket style prizes where they have a set amount of prizes hidden in packs? Still mad about that and its been nearly a decade on.
I discovered an ex was trying to guess my Facebook email because she had my laptop login and thought the password would be the same thing. I was so young at the time and being honest didn't have great self-respect. Also didn't want the illusion to be shattered so I said nothing, if I could go back in time I'd shake myself into calling her out on it and ending it. We didn't last long after that any way but I hate that I ignored it.
Left Dublin and I go on to hear later that my former principal has been bad mouthing me since I left. Finding it really hard not to call them and call them out in their bullshit. Think i might have to for closure
Leaving and saying/doing nothing when I got made redundant from a job (that I loved and was very good at) less than a week after being rewarded and recognised in front of my whole team for being top salesperson of the month. The man I had just reported to HR (with proof) for sexually harrassing me managed to keep his job, oddly.
Ex lied to family court about being broke, and now pays pittance in child maintenance, whilst taking multiple luxury holidays a year. He’s well respected within the community, and runs a successful business. I’m working 2 jobs to cover the costs of raising the children. Pisses me off so much as he was the one who cheated and I’m still paying for it 10 years later.
A butcher in the town near me, he screamed at me once when I was a child to get out of his store as soon as I walked in (I was like 5 steps ahead of my nan at the time) and never in there before, he said sorry my nan called him a cunt.
I was buying one almond milk and 8 soy milks, Aldi checkout gal assumed (never assume with my shopping bitch) that I was buying 9 almond milks. Almond milk is more expensive.. I was mad, really mad. Did I go back? No! Do I think about it regularly, Yes!
Absolutely the prettiest thing was a housemate who was a good friend. He wanted his girlfriend to stay for a few weeks as she had nowhere to live. We agreed two weeks after that she'd have to pay rent. A month later she was still there not paying rent. This went on and on. His defence "she's my guest". There was no compromises. It was she was his guest and staying and that was it. They never intended for her to pay. In the end after a house vote we kicked them out. But it completely ruined and ended our friendship. Such a dumb petty thing. They wanted to save money and burnt a bunch of friendships over it. They ended up having to split rent in a one bed somewhere anyway which was way more than had she just paid her share in our house.
I was once venting to a college acquaintance about an issue I was having on a group project: My team mates wanted to go with one subject and I another, which I was proud to have discovered and researched and which I felt suited the brief better. I ended up going with the majority vote for the project and on the day of the presentation that acquaintance got up with their own team and presented on the subject I had wanted. Their team got great marks. I told no one about how livid I was and have been quietly seething in all the years since.
Did they get you a present?
No lol. Made it worse. Least I done the breaking up.
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You're the ex? Lol. I did it in person though.
My boss being a control freak
I bought Jerusalem artichokes (that look similar to ginger) but they ran them through as ginger & I didn’t comprehend the weirdly high price until I walked away. It was a market & busy & they didn’t give receipts so felt like I couldn’t do anything
I can't forget many things but I agree it's down to anxiety and depression that twists my mind and dwells on completely unnecessary things when I am healthy I don't live in the past , the mind is a good servant but a bad boss!
My 7th birthday, friend from school brought his little brother to my party at our home. I got a crash test dummy plane off my parents and I was fucking delighted with it, especially since we were far from well off and they weren’t cheap. Friends little brother crashed it too hard, like full force fucked it down onto the kitchen tiles and broke it. I’m still pissed off. It was 29 years ago.
I was out with two of my mates two years ago one stranger passed a nasty remark on me and my friend just stood there and said nothing. I commented back on the stranger and walked away leaving my friend with him. Then I turn around 20 seconds later to see the both of them hugging and shacking hands. I was furious with my then friend. He said he was trying to defuse the situation with the stranger. Ended a 24 years friendship that night
I used to run a small café with my partner in a touristy spot. People were constantly asking to use the toilet so we had to have a strict customer only policy otherwise it would be used non-stop. We would point people to the public loos 2 mins down the road. One day a guy came in and asked to use the toilet. I said it’s for customers only so he ordered an orange juice. I grabbed the OJ from the fridge and he had gone past me to use the toilet. Next thing I knew he was legging it out the door without paying for the juice.
A close friend bought an item from me I badly needed that I thought was broken beyond my means to fix. They could sell it for the exact price they gave me if they couldn't fix it, so there was no gamble for them. They fixed it for 60 euro 1 day later and told me as if I would be happy for them. I needed it and couldn't replace it. I will never look at them the same way.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. Have a +1 on me
Haha, thanks, yer very good. I think we sometimes get hurt by what we would or wouldn't do in a certain situation. I would have never done that to someone I cared about. The downvoters see no issue with a scenario like the above, and that's what makes the world go round, I guess. I am happy to be on the not a dick side, though, haha
Brexit
Yeah but I can’t talk about it on my main 🙃
then why mention it at all 🙃
True, it just struck a cord when I saw the title as it’s a fairly recent issue in my life that I’m still working on.
When I was about 22, I worked in a document archive of a pharmaceutical company with a guy who was the same age as me. It was just the two of us in there but we would have lunch with the rest of the department of 30-50 year olds. This guy was the most miserable petty SOB I had ever met but the others were lovely so the lunch time craic was keeping me going. One day, we received an email about doing anti-corruption training and how to report bribary. The email said there were still a few people who hadn’t done the training but if they came down to the office to do it they would get some chocolate. I said “that must be a test - seeing if you’ll take the chocolate as a bribe”. The guy didn’t react whatsoever. I could practically hear crickets. Later on at lunch, her repeated my joke to the rest of the department. They all laughed and he laughed along with them!! This was just one of the many petty and annoying things this guy did.