Thing is,we've learnt that doesn't always work,as Karens are mainly looking for a reaction and feel you ignoring them is just as bad as you "being verbally insubordinate "
Story 3- my mom almost got hit with one of those. She came downstairs freaking out saying she’s going to get arrested for tax fraud. I took the phone and started messing with the guy who then told me I was impeding justice and now there was a warrant for my arrest too, now what’s my name? I asked how he could have a warrant out for me without my name? I told him to find it under Santa clause and he lost it.
Yup, warrants need a judge so someone on the phone can't just get one on the drop of a hat. If there is a warrant out on you, you won't find out about it until the arresting officers come to pick you up. The IRS, the bank, your phone service, heck any service involving money will not be asking for your personal information over the phone. They would send documents or just cut off your service if you're delinquent on payments.
You forgot to ask them if they needed the payment as a gift card from Walmart or Target. Haha. I got calls like that too a lot and just ignored them. I love watching some of the RUclips channels that really mess with these scammers and have even hacked into their systems to really put them into panic mode.
@@Enki1013 Yeah, I can understand how someone can believe a scammer claiming to be the IRS and demanding payment. How the scammers can demand payment in gift cards and still be believable is beyond me. Like, how is that not a dead giveaway? Do people honestly believe the IRS would want you to send them gift card codes as payment?
Yeah, I've had that same call. I told them my name is "kiss my black ass and none of your business," then hung up, rang the tax office, and gave them the phone number they called on.
My Mom was sharp as a tack right to the end. Had a policeman whistle next to the phone. When someone tried to pull a fast one on her she made sure they were "listening carefully" and when she was sure she'd blow that whistle right into the phone! I'm sure she ruptured a few eardrums! I still chuckle thinking about it! Wish I still had that whistle too!
Former banking supervisor here: these scammers are real and target EVERYONE. Elderly, rich, poor, single, teens, single parents. It will start with something small, like needing car fare at the end of a date or help with a small bill/groceries. Then it will jump to rent to prevent eviction, car payments to prevent repossession, even their child's medical emergencies. We've even had kids stealing a random check from the middle of their parent's checkbook thinking it wouldn't be found for a while. Money really brings the worst out of some people.
I had someone email me saying that they had money for me. They wanted my email password, my bank username, password with my security questions and answers, bank name, and other information. I told them that they were scammers and told them that the FBI said if anyone is asking for this information is a sign of a scam. This person was very upset with me and called me rude names.
And worse, if you think you cannot be tricked, you are more likely to fall for a scam. The usual signs always apply: getting rushed, getting pressured, threatened, unrealistic promises (double your money in weeks? Do you see any halfway decent company offering that? Why not?) Trying to get you into participating in something less than legal (impersonating as a relative of some dead guy, smuggling money out of the country, scamming someone (like the tax man), … And of course giving information like banking, internet, passwords, etc., moving your money to a different account (especially one that is not yours) to “aid the police in the fraud investigation” or to “save it from some currently ongoing scam”, …
I was in line at the grocery store a few months ago. I had a full cart and since it was lunch time there were people with just 2 or 3 lunch items in line. When it was my time I turned to the guy behind me and asked if he would like to go ahead of me. He was astonished and said, “Really?” I told him sure and he stepped forward and paid for his 3 items all the while thanking me. I then heard a woman, four people back in line say that she was in a hurry too and she started to push her nearly full cart forward. I said no, turned and started to unload my stuff on the belt. All the time I was checking out she mumbled and groaned about how I should have let her go too. Sorry Karen!
She had a nearly full cart, you let a guy with a few lunch items to go in front of you and she thought you should her go in front of you...hilarious. Karens can be so outrageous stupid that they're funny as hell. Silly, silly Karen. 😂
Yes! This is how I was taught. If I have a full (or nearly full) cart, and the person behind me only has a few items, I let them go first. I usually have been waved ahead of someone with a lot of stuff when i only had a few items. I've never heard of someone with several items going ahead of anyone.
A coworker I worked with for 20 years, we also were friends, died because of blood cancer at the age of 54. My boss would not let us off, he told me "the show must go on" so the rest of this day I was on the phone with my clients crying for 6 more hours. Many clients cried with me, because they knew him for a long time as well. This happened 3 years ago. Since then, something in me snapped and I lost all respect to my bosses forever.
@@KaneLivesInDeath Yeah they work in teams, often winds up from Lagos Nigeria. They also spread the guy's name etc in lists that will make them contact him again later on. Romance scams start with a woman doing it, telling a guy to invest, or a guy telling a woman to invest. Older people have all that retirement money to drop. Or a home they can mortgage, inheritance from a dead hisband. One lady was on a tv show where they tracked the scammer, at the last meeting she was already talking to another scammer.
I knew an older lady who got scammed by a dating website. A guy in Africa told her he's an architect but couldn't access his money because the banks in Africa were having issues. So he begged her to send him money, or buy gift cards and give him the numbers. We told her it's a scam but she didn't listen. She's in debt now.
@@JitterSpooks Was she so desperate for companionship she fell for such an obvious scam? These scams have been going for more than 2 decades on email that I know of. I punked a Nigerian Scammer back in 2004 when I started using yahoo. I knew then it was a scam, even before I heard about it on the news.
@MattSanders-hp4qp Find the ones that are sweetened with alcohol sugars. Alcohol sugars (xylitol, sorbitol, etc ..... the -ol ending is a giveaway) are hard for the human body to digest ... some are worse than others .... and can cause intestinal distress ..... gas, bloating, cramps, diarrhea, farts that could blow Zeus off Mt Olympus
@@richardludwig4860 which sugar free gummy bears contained at one point in time. They might have replaced that ingredient already but it was something that caused sugar free gummy bears to cause diarrhea
Story 4 - When I was growing up, corporal punishment was still allowed in many schools. But punching a kid in the face? For a teacher, that would have been a quick trip to the unemployment line, and probably jail!
Story 2: Clean out Karen's desk. Take turns beating her to work. "What Karen? Your pens are missing? I just loved them so much I had to have them for myself. You must have wanted me to have them because you left them out for me to take. Thanks!"
Karen, you left your purse out and since "If it's in the open, everyone can use it!" We figured that meant it was FINALLY YOUR TURN to pay.... So you bought us all coffee/tea and lunch from that expensive French bistro downtown! Thanks Karen! It's so nice to share!
Sorry #2: retired government worker here (25+ years). What OP said is correct in regards to firing someone. However, if the person has proven to be a major thief, HR will have problem getting the union involved in order to apply some karma in the form of a transfer to a less desirable and quite inconvenient branch office or a department that meets the absolute farthest applicable entry in their job description. The reasoning behind this is simple: it's cheaper to force someone to quit, as opposed to firing them.
That last story reminds me of what happened to my dad. He was a privatized lawyer. His dad was having complications and my dad gets a call from his mom saying come over to the hospital to say goodbye. My dad was always being overworked and when he went to his boss he said no you cant go or were letting you go. My dad left and found a new better job after that. but ya bosses like that they exist.😂
Sadly, my brother fell for a scam. He was already financially crippled. He ended up losing everything, and his wife left him for another man several months later. Now he’s no longer with us. I detest scammers more than anything. They are heartless!!
You know what they say: It's easier to fool someone than it is to convince them they've been fooled. Still, I can't believe that guy fell for the same thing twice!
That last story. Dude someone just DIED in your office, this isnt like some gossip-getting-their-karma-type of excitement, someone’s life was just lost. Everyone should have gone home who was in that department in my opinion, even from a productivity standpoint. That dude was a frickin a-hole and there is no way he’s human, but probably one of those cartoon corporate villains on tv.
Gets a bit worse, I remember reading this originally. The OP was telling some other colleagues (from elsewhere in the building) about what happened later in the week, and they had no idea. There was no announcement, no indication of farewell, no "make sure you take care of yourself" (obviously). The "incident" was completely swept under the rug from everyone else outside of that office area.
For the office karen taking thinks off other coworkers desks. I would get everyone together and one day when karen is at her desk .. everyone walk up and take something off 'her' desk till it is empty lol ..' if it is out in the open/on the desk than its ok to take it'
First story, the ONLY time I was TOLD to cut in line in a grocery store, is when I went into labor (3rd child, other two in basket) in the line. This was my local grocery store and they had watched me balloon over the previous 8 1/2 months. I’ve never seen a line open so quick before or since.
I guess you'd better leave. In case luck would happen that this a-hole boss gets a heart attack as well or other situation... You won't be in a dilemma of saving him or not since you won't there.
I used to work in an office that had one of those desk bandits. We all tried reporting her, but this is the same place that put up a notice in the lunchroom that the company was not responsible for stolen items (lunches). So, obviously nothing was done. One of my coworkers was having some intestinal issues, as in constipation, so had some chocolate laxatives. They mixed those unwrapped laxative pieces with some pieces of a Hershey bar and left them on their desk. The results were spectacular and gross. We all got an extended weekend, with pay, while the office was cleaned and deodorized. Desk bandit only stopped taking food from desks. Since I noticed most of these stories are referencing the age group of the antagonist, I’ll do the same. The desk thief was a millennial.
Thank you for that last bit of information. The only people that ever stole from others in my 40 years of working at the same place were younger people. Does that mean their whole age group is rotten? Of course not.
I worked at Owen's Corning World Headquarters as a security guard in the mid to late 90's. People would leave all kinds of candy on their desks in open bowls or even in their desks and over the weekends some of it would come up missing. It wasn't people that were stealing it, it was the mice. They had a special fondness for peanut M&M's and peppermint sticks. 😂
To the Karen who hit an 8 year old to "discipline" them, I'm pretty sure that sort of thing is frowned upon, (to say the least). Especially if you are not the child's parent
@@KaneLivesInDeath Maybe that's why juvenile delinquency has gotten so out of hand. Until the 70s any kids misbehaving could and would be corrected by any adult. Then the permissive 70s and "not my kid! My kid is a perfect angel." Add in Dr Spock and the whole reason with your baby, don't correct them. Why should kids behave if they face no consequences and are defended no matter how much a brat?
Story 3: I heard this from BoomersBeingFools and it's both funny and sad to watch someone throw out all of their money into the pockets of the scammers contacting them multiple times. He brags about having great credit, yet is gullible as hell and is ADAMANT that he's doing everything right. Do it once, I feel sorry, do it twice, maybe not anymore, do it anymore, okay we gotta cut off all access before total financial oblivion
Yep. The inability to tell whether people are lying or not is a dementia thing. Honestly, he's probably showing other signs, too, but no one is doing anything about it. After the first time, his family should have gotten him evaluated because that is potato levels of brain right there.
Anybody who can't see through those scams deserve to have their bank accounts monitored for a few months until they learn how to identify those scams. Like giving out bank details like bank name and whatever, fine, but the 2FA is where you should immediately know you're getting fucked over.
My best friend told me that as a child, he moved around a lot because his dad was in the British Army. He’d been born in Malta and left there when he was three to live in Northern Ireland, when leaving there for Newcastle, the moving truck was bombed by the IRA and they lost all of their belongings including antique furniture, toys including Lego, Barbie etc (he has 2 sisters too). Starting out again in 1970’s Newcastle and yet another new school he had started to lose interest. Another move after a couple of years led them to Aberdeen, where his mother is originally from . By now, he had lost all interest in school because they wanted to teach him stuff that he had already learnt in other schools, and he started to get bullied. He used to wag off (play truant) but would always be found in a library reading books. There were many occasions when teachers would hit him and he would go home, tell his mother and she would be up to the school the very next morning threatening the teacher concerned with the very same treatment ! ‘The only person allowed to tell off my son is me or his father - you’re a TEACHER - so TEACH him’ was her mantra ! The Principals and teachers of the schools he went to lived in fear of my friend’s mother ! There was an incident he told me of, where a kid poured hot out-of-the-oven apple pie filling, all down my friend’s arm and it hurt him so much, that my friend pushed this guy so hard that he flew through the air, hit a set of double doors and broke them outwards - they were inwards opening - ran past him and went to the head master (Principal). No kids messed with him after that !
story 2 - that is when you bake 2 different batches of brownies - 1 batch contains yummies like REAL semi-sweet chips, walnuts, pecans, etc, and then locked up in file cabinet. the 2nd batch is for karen - and has chocolate flavoured ex-laX in them - then when karen gets the hershey squirts - then she learns to never steal sweets or anything in general.
@@mariegarside8830 As a lover of spicy foods, I once used even more of my hot sauce (800k scovilles) than even I would normally use. Never had a problem again with that guy.
If I were in OP's position, I'd have baked a batch of brownies for Karen that has both Ex-Lax AND an extremely hot sauce (Read: Made with Carolina Reapers and Trinidad Scorpions).
Being targeted by scammers is the absolute worst. I've been messaged before by people claiming that they wanted to pay me to use my art as inspiration for a mural they were doing for a client. I had never encountered anything like this before and I was wary at first, trying as best as I could think of to gauge if they were trustworthy, and of course knowing better than to give out banking info. Long story short, I was _EXTREMELY_ lucky that the banking systems immediately sensed theirs was a sketchy account and adamantly refused any and all transactions I tried to make with them, and thus preventing them from leeching me dry. After that anxiety-inducing incident, I've blocked anybody coming at me with that kind of offer again. So to any fellow artists, beware these supposed "muralists" trying to buy "inspiration from your work".
I had a scammer call me once, when they asked for my either Social Security or Social Insurance Number, I could only say "Hell if I know" they immediately hung up, 'cause I never bothered to memorize it, and I wasn't gonna go look for it for a 1-800 number
@@brendanboomhour7606Someone tried to scam my grandpa (this was a few years before the pandemic) by saying that his SSI’s been frozen from something (I don’t remember what but I believe it was something involving fraudulent stuff) and he knew it was a scam and to reassure himself he called our credit card union and nothing happened since.
There was an Ad on YT last year about crypto, so I thought I was creating an account to look over the website. Name, phone number, email address, but nothing much happened, couldn't access the website. Then 5 minutes later I got a call from the company, & they instructed me to go to another website, to create an account & to pay $250 to learn how to do crypto, & I'd also earn money from the deposit. I declined, as it seemed so dodgy. Originally I got over 100 calls in the 1st week from various people. I told them multiple times I'm not interested, please don't call me, I even blocked them, & they'd just create a new number. I've had a couple calls the last few months, but damn, they were persistent, & very annoying!
@@catherinep2034 They may not be the same scammers. Your personal data may have been sold all around the internet. You have to use one of those services that monitor your online personal data and tell whoever bought your data to drop it from their database. That, or just change your email address and phone number.
Story 6: So is anyone else wondering whether the poor guy's heart attack was stress-induced? I mean it sounds like working for that guy would not be good for your blood pressure.
Second Story - I worked at a company in which the sales manager would do stuff like that. For example he would go through everyone's lunch, in the lunchroom refrigerator, and build himself the lunch that he wanted. Keep in mind that he was the second most highly paid employee in that office and he was stealing from people who were making a little more than minimum wage. Nothing was ever done about it.
I know how to fix this turd. Get creative. Make some cookies and chop up a few bars of ex-lax chocolate and add them to the batter before baking. Place them into a container she can see the container. Warn other coworkers not to touch those cookies. Tell them quietly that they are to relieve your chronic constipation. Now you have an excuse for when she gets really sick from stealing them and she gets caught stealing. If you're into spicy stuff, get some habeñero peppers (about 3 will do) and a pack of orange jello. Boil only half a cup water and chop the peppers really fine (wear gloves and do not remove seeds). Mix jello in the boiling water and then add chopped peppers. Add half cup cool water and pour into a parchment paper lined flat bottom pan like a cookie sheet or cake pan. Cool in the fridge and once it's set fully, turn out onto powder sugar coated cutting board and cut into bite size cubes. Roll the cubes in the powdered sugar so they won't stick together and place it a ziploc baggie. Let your coworkers know they are your homemade vitamins and don't touch. When the thief steals them and ends up screaming about their mouth being on fire, say they must be allergic to something in your vitamins and they should go to the ER on their dime. Maybe an expensive trip to the ER will teach her what HR refuses to.
I just ran into a Karen in the wild at Taco Bell. She was yelling at the servers about her order, used the Fbom. Then walked out flipping them off. Right before I started listening to this lol.
As already mentioned, story 2 is a perfect setup for some bad food or drink for Karen if she won't stop and/or the company doesn't stop her. Take matters into your own hands!!
Nothing that could seriously threaten her health, but I think Karen is overdue for an Ex-Lax brownie..... 😈 Afterwards, say you were suffering from constipation.... Be angry at her for stealing your medicine.
If someone was taking my food/drink without asking me first, I'd suddenly come down with terrible constipation and have to put laxatives into my food/drink. I'd then write my name on the item to be extra safe, and wait.
Capsaicin doesn't bother me and I participate in hot pepper eating contests on a semi regular basis. Had a sticky fingered co-worker FAFO when I made chocolate and cayenne brownies! If you can eat hot stuff that works even better because it's not poisoning then, it's just your food.
Was the father-in-law "mentaly disabled"? How did he gain any money in life? Every employer would make him sign a contract where the father-in-law would pay the EMPLOYER for working for him.
My little brother is mentally disabled to an extent, but he's most likely smart enough to not give away his bank info to strangers. If he isn't, I'll be there to help him avoid scams.
I’m going to be 60yo in a week. I remember when you didn’t dare talk back to a teacher. I remember a kid in our class, he was the class clown type, being called to the principal’s office for The Strap, more than once. This teacher should have known better, that shyte doesn’t fly now, but those parents need to discipline their crotch goblin.
That's why teacher's unions are not always a great idea. Bad teachers are given tenure and are protected. My daughter had a kindergarten teacher who was an elderly woman that hated kids. After the open house, I specifically requested that she was assigned to any one of the other three teachers. Of course, she got the witchy woman who was mean to both kids and parents. She didn't care because of tenure. I looked up her salary, as it was a matter of public record. This miserable woman was making over $100K per year over 20 years ago. Just.. how?
Grandfather in is what tenure is all about. Seniority at it's finest, they been there long enough to earn permanent spot. My friends from childhood are teachers' kids and their mothers never let that create an ego. In fact one retired and came back to be a temporary librarian and the other worked on thier master and became the principal. Tenure is good for college but not regular school.
My grandparents were recently scammed out of two grand by a group claiming to be Publisher's Clearing House. Showed up at their house and everything. They thought they'd won fifty grand. But had to pay two grand in gift cards to get it. Then got ghosted by the scammers. And since it was paid in gift cards, there's nothing they can do. They were desperate to get that money because my entitled sister has left them over fifty grand in debt for a trailer she convinced them to sign for, and then defaulted on paying.
Last story: A coworker of mine had the same experience. He’s a bus driver & had someone die on his bus of a heart attack. He was slumped over in his seat, but no one thought anything was wrong, since people fall asleep on the bus all the time. They realized something was wrong when my coworker turned the corner, the guy fell out of his seat, & didn’t get back up. My coworker was so traumatized (still is), he wanted to go home for the day & management balked at it. He refused to work that day & went home.
Boomer Karen was home 3 days after the cops dragged him off…sounds like he got himself a 72-hour mandatory psychiatric hold. Hopefully, he learned something from it. 😬
I’m a contractor who works in people’s homes. I was working in this elderly lady’s home when i happened to overhear her on the phone, and I didn’t catch on right away what she was doing until she hung up and turned to me and said “that was a strange call” and then I realized she had just given a complete stranger her entire banking information. I stopped working immediately to tell her that the person she talking to was almost certainly a scammer and told her to contact her bank immediately. Unfortunately, I never did find out how it turned out.
The first Karen .... They all in the office should have started going through her desk taking anything of hers whether they needed or not just to make her mad
Scams on elderly people happens so much, I think due to many of them not being as mentally stable. I heard of this one woman who was scammed into paying Keanu Reeves hospital bill, my immediate thoughts were a) Keanu Reeves is rich enough to pay any hospital bill five times over and b) why would he ask for financial help from an elderly lady from England.
That last one reminds me of when I had a heart attack and stroke at work. I was on the gurney with paramedics around me and some entitled a-hole demanding to be served.
Many years ago, someone set the neighbors house on fire. They didn't make it out. I barely got any sleep, and had to go to work the next day. When they heard what happened, they wanted to send me home because they were concerned about me! I didn't go. I knew it would have been worse being at home. The son was a year younger than I, and I had basically known the family all my life. They had to block the street because so many people were coming down it to see the house. When someone dies unexpectedly like that, it's going to affect you. Most of us can't just bounce back from it quickly. Even if you know someone is going to die, their death can still take a toll on you.
If you put polyethylene glycol, the main ingredient in Miralax and other such similar laxatives, in your creamer to help with your gastro intestinal problems there's nothing HR can do, IF it's kept in your own unshared desk. It's in your private space, meant for your sole use, for your private medical issue. So, in short, don't use Visine, use Miralax to help expel that crap from your office environment. 😉
Last story reminds me of 9/11. I was crying & listening to the news like everyone else in the country & my insensitive boss was like "do you know anyone in those buildings? No? Focus on work" I never will forgive her for that total lack of empathy
Story 2 - I feel for OP and the other coworkers. I had something like this happen when I was at Job Corps, someone from my dorm wing was stealing things from the other girls in our wing, pens, hair ties, lotions, even some makeup and clothing. Turned out that It was our wing leader who was the culprit. The Head Dorm Leader made her give back everything that she stole, I found out that she stole my new (at the time) cherry blossom body spray, lip gloss and body lotion. But what sealed her fate was that she took a girl’s medication for anxiety. Needless to say she was kicked out of Job Corps for theft.
Story 3: Some people shouldn't have money, period. Story 6: I had a boss with that type of attitude. He said he still worked even though his best friend was killed.
When my son was in 9th grade I got a call from his principal to come pick him up because he was causing an issue. I left work to go get him and was planning already on grounding him for me having to leave work because he couldn’t behave himself in school. I get there and see my son with a HUGE gouge on his neck! It was bleeding a lot and even my son looked shocked. I lost it and demanded to know what happened and the vice principal told me that my son had tried to walk out of the office and he had grabbed him to keep him in the office till I got there. He told me he had every right to grab my son my the throat and leave bleeding gouge marks on him. We got into it and he reached for my son AGAIN and I lost it and punched him in the face. He threatened to call the cops and I said PLEASE DO!!! I’ll be pressing charges on YOU for assaulting my son! I took my son and left and called the principal to go refused to do anything. I called the cops and basically got well he was misbehaving wasn’t he? I pulled him out of that school right after that and he did home schooling. And what was the “issue” my son caused??? He asked to go to the bathroom while a teacher was ranting at another student
Story 4: Some people just should not be in charge of kids, PERIOD. I never had a teacher that got physical, but my second grade teacher was verbally abusive. She was nice as long as you behaved, but if you stepped out of line even little, even if it was just an innocent mistake, her first and only response was to scream at the top of her lungs. More about scaring us straight than actual discipline. My parents actually tried to get me out of the class, and the principal just didn't take their concerns seriously.
I worked in such an office. I let things ride for a while until it came to my coffee creamer. Then I had a little talk with the office manager. It was decided that the creamer as well as the candy became an office expense. Worked well for me and brought my blood pressure down considerably.
Please, with my banking information, you'd end up adding a twenty out of pity. Seriously though, scammers are the worst. I am horrified for that poor family.
*Last Story- My hubby and I sorta know how that feels!!!* I had a panic attack at home (I’ve never had one before) and was able to call my hubby during it. So, when I dropped the phone and didn’t respond anymore, he called 911 since he wasn’t there. My hubby was delivering roofing materials at the moment. So, he was at a construction site with his coworker and work truck (our regular car was at the warehouse). He called his boss, and told him that I was in the hospital. So, he needed a ride back to the warehouse, so he could pick up the car, and go home. His boss told him, he could pick up my hubby, take him to the hospital to check on me, then back to work afterwards. *But my hubby refused!* He said the police had to break our door down, and I couldn’t do anything for myself. So, he needed to be at home for the rest of the day. *I love my hubby!!!* 🥰😘❤️❤️❤️
Story 6 Yes, one of my old bosses once did that with the son of the deceased colleague. He helped with the resuscitation, but his father still died after the body was transported away. My boss shouted at the son and the shocked colleagues that they should keep working, it was over .
Story 4: TBH, the whole situation sucks. On one hand, you have a kid who has clearly never been told “no”, and on the other you have an unhinged teacher commit an inexcusable act. I don’t condone either person’s actions, but the teacher was an absolute powder keg.
Checkout Karen story: Yes indeed, ladies should go first. But YOU Karen are no lady. Office theft story: Absolutely get your union involved. Also get the union's permission to set up some cameras. Now you know why she comes in a half-hour early. Scam story: FIL is an extremely slow learner. Student punched story: Admittedly the student did need some punishment. But to literally punch the kid was incredibly stupid. The teacher deserves every bit of whatever punishment he gets. Javelin story: Guy was lucky the cops didn't draw on him for not dropping a literal weapon in his hands. Heart attack story: If I had been OP, the EMTs would have been needed to be called again and maybe the cops as well as I'd have punched that idiot boss out.
CPR Story: If I was OP, I'd have made one final call before leaving for the rest of the day... I'd have called HR to File a Formal Complaint against Karen Boss...
Story 4: And what about the behavior of the kid? I am not supporting the teacher and his actions. But what about the kid? And I wonder where the kid gets it from.
Omg, that third story is painful. Something like that happened to my sister-in-law's brother, he was in so deep he couldn't believe he was being scammed. And it drove my brother crazy because my sis-in-law was in denial as well for a long time and almost! gave him money and ALMOST took out a fecking loan to pay the fees they kept demanding for releasing his money. Happily she never did and eventually realized it was indeed a scam, but dear god it was awful. He's still in denial and thinking if he sells his house he'll have the money he needs to pay them to release his earnings. If he does that he'll be down a house, even more cash and will be literally homeless and penniless. It's baffling the mental gymnastics people will go through to avoid admitting they were a fool that got scammed.
Ripe : "there is no valid reason ever ever ever to hit someone" Also Ripe, in LITERALLY the next sentence : "if that was my child, the teacher would have gotten an ass whooping"
I worked in an office, and my personal pens would vanish quite often even though there would be other pens in a holder for others. I finally purchased one of those "trick" pens. They have a certain way to be used in order to avoid being "shocked". I stepped away from my desk to get coffee, suddenly heard an incoherent yell and an even louder "son of b*tch" and my co-worker came flying into the break room to chew me out. My personal pens never disappeared again... lol
Story 2: Warn her that you will call the police and press Theft of Property charges if she ever steals anything else from you again...then do it if she does. I do NOT abide a thief. Story 3: This guy needs to have all access to any banking removed from him and placed into the hands of someone competent enough to manage his finances...seriously. Story 4: Why in hell was the teacher arrested at home later that night instead of at the school immediately following the Aggravated Assault of a Tender-Aged Minor Child? WTAF?
In relation to the last story. My grandfather was on hospice care and didn't have much time left. My mother called me at work early one morning to tell me he passed away during the night. I got a bit upset and after I hung up with my mom I had a coworker say to me," I don't know why your upset. You knew it was coming." I couldn't even say anything to her, I was just too shocked.
Story 3 - i heard a scammer say one reason why they do it is because people are greedy. 🙄 Yes, we're greedy to want a work from home job, someone to spend the rest of our lfe with, or a comfortable retirement.
Last story: OP should have reported the boss for his comments at the very least or convinced the whole team to walk out, if not going full revenge mode on him
So I’m diabetic now and on Saturday I had a low of 4.5. Thankfully I found a seat outside to test and then went in the bakery to a buy coke. I queued like normal despite feeling so low. Buses are one thing that I can’t queue for as I’m on crutches and struggle with health conditions and need to sit down. Unfortunately there are some awful people on the buses too. This includes a fake wheelchair user who broke my ankle and toe by running over my foot with his feet going into mine. He is so screwed too.
2nd story this one incident isn't enough? So theft isn't a good enough reason to be fired? You and your coworkers need to simple say she or us will go. You choose.
Story 2: The way to handle that Karen would be to get some colon cleanse tea and put that in some K-cups and leave those out, just make sure to put a sign saying do not use/touch, then Karen can't complain that someone poisoned her when she uses them and ends up spending half the day on the toilet.
In the 2nd story, (I think candy was on someone's desk) the person with candy should leave laxatives that look & taste like chocolate in the dish before leaving at night!😆 That'll stop her!
Story number two, we had somebody that was stealing our food at work. There was no way to prove it, but we knew who it was. So one day I made my famous chocolate pudding….. if you guessed, I put laxatives in it you’re right. The man stole my lunch again and about half an hour later nobody could find him ha ha ha. He had been in the bathroom all this time and couldn’t figure out why he couldn’t stop pooping once she finally got out of the bathroom, he went to the boss and said that I poisoned him. I said what are you talking about? He said I ate your chocolate pudding and spent the last hour and a half in the bathroom. I said oh are you backed up to I make this all the time, he never took anybody’s lunch again
Story 6, was really awful. Someone died. And your boss tells you to get over it in 5 minutes?! WTH! Especially when it was your friend. I have no words for this despicable boss. Disgusting.
Mumble years ago, I was accompanying my mother on the weekly shopping trip. After we got back to the car, my mother realised she'd forgotten something, so we went back into the shop. She found it, and we headed to the tills. This was before the advent of nine-items-or-fewer lanes. There was however, a free till so we headed for it. Some woman cut in front of us with a trolley loaded to overflowing. "I'm in a hurry," she said. My mother fumed quietly. This was also before the introduction of bar-codes, so the cashier had to check a price label on each item. It was a slow process. When my mother got to present her one item, the cashier said, sweetly "Don't worry - I put it on her bill."
Scamming is done by seasoned pros who know exactly how do take advantage of people. It happens to people of all ages and the hold they gain on people’s minds is like drug addiction. Listen to AARP’s excellent podcast “The Perfect Scam” for insight into this terrible and growing crime. They will also advise you not to be so ready to blame the victim.
Story 1, you would think there would be cameras all over the office and with the group complaint about her, should escalate the termination. Story 2, send me a check for the money, if you can't, then I will get the authorities involved. Story 3, I remember when a teacher lost their stuff with a student, it took about a week before they were let go. Story 5, there needs to be a controlled environment for javelin throwing. Story 6, I unfortunately worked for a lousy boss like that, an exemployee shortly after being let go was in a car accident and died on the scene. When the boss let us know about it, they were giddy and said that it couldn't have happened to a person who was like him making up lies about what he did. After the boss left, our floor supervisor told us on how bad they were on 9/11 where they still insisted them to work calling the areas around it.
Unfortunately, there is little the authorities can do when a scam originates outside of your country, which most of them do. This is one reason why you should never give out your banking information over the phone, and never send money to anyone who called you claiming they can make you rich.
18:00 it’s SO SAD that they have to clarify “this was when Police did their job, so he wasn’t in danger” like- imagine telling ANYONE 20 years ago that “police brutality” and “police shooting innocents” was a thing.
For the office thief one if she was allergic to nuts I'd be buying hazelnut creamer and putting it in a french vanilla creamer bottle...on purpose. If asked id just say that my dogs got ahold of the last bottle and it was leaking so i put it in a SPARE bottle i had no IDEA she was using my creamer.
Story 1: as someone who works retail customers with a lot of stuff are supposed to have customers with one or 2 things go ahead of them. It’s called a customer courtesy. Story 3: I’ve had my fair share of customers fall for scams like this. Especially old men falling for the romance scams. One customer swears he’s been in contact with Scarlett Johansson for the last few years and she’s going to marry him. He won’t get it through it head that she’s married to Colin Jost and one of the highest paid women in Hollywood. She doesn’t need his money. Story 6: a customer once fainted in our handicap parking spot. My employee panicked, grabbed the cashier, both put him in his car and she called 911 before I got wind of what was going on. Luckily the lady the cashier was ringing up informed everyone in line and would not tolerate complaints. The guy was fine. Just a quick drop in blood sugar. I told her if she needs an extra break go ahead and take one. CPR is exhausting. Within a few minutes you should be sweating. If you aren’t, you’re not doing it right
There's no "supposed to." It's a nice thing to do, and I've done it often, since I'm not in a hurry when I'm grocery shopping, but there is no obligation to do it, and stores need to stop having only two lanes open when they've got four cash registers.
story 1, welp there's my excuse to make sure i have a full pair of earbuds on me. HEY WALMART, STILL GOT JIBS IN STOCK?! story 2, the way i found that is effective is to merely booby trap the items in a manner that seems like you have a bit of a kink but can hurt badly (but not cause severe harm) to someone else. food, REALLY easy if they have an allergy. make the food with the allergy in it (but doesn't appear so), properly mark it as yours, and if they eat it and have a problem. it's on them.
In the story about the guy getting scammed, my father was also scammed like this and then we found out the same scammer had targeted others in the same small town!! Plus not to defend his falling for this but we did discover he's suffering from dementia, it's just cruel what these people do...
14:36 Self Defense. If someone is trying to hurt or kill you, it is NEVER your responsibility to be harmed or worse for the sake of not hitting someone (especially if that's the worst you're gonna do in response to their attempt on your person). Obviously this wasn't the case here, but i'm sure there are situations where this would actually be the case.
I agree that the teacher should be charged for what he did but the parents were negligent in raising their child. Obviously they thought their child’s actions were appropriate. Lousy parenting.
Story 3 is sad. My father-in-law was another who would fall for get-rich-quick scams. It got to the point where my husband went into his dad's computer and revoked his admin rights because FIL would believe the "call Microsoft" to unlock his computer scam and REFUSED to believe that the guy with the accent who was trying to get into his computer wasn't a Microsoft tech. I took the phone away from him a time or two and royally cussed out the scumbag on the other end. He would never believe any of us when we told him (fill in the blank) was a scam.
Story 1: I love how the man totally ignored the Karen. He just continued on with his life. Living well is the best revenge! 😉
Thing is,we've learnt that doesn't always work,as Karens are mainly looking for a reaction and feel you ignoring them is just as bad as you "being verbally insubordinate "
Story 3- my mom almost got hit with one of those. She came downstairs freaking out saying she’s going to get arrested for tax fraud. I took the phone and started messing with the guy who then told me I was impeding justice and now there was a warrant for my arrest too, now what’s my name? I asked how he could have a warrant out for me without my name? I told him to find it under Santa clause and he lost it.
Yup, warrants need a judge so someone on the phone can't just get one on the drop of a hat. If there is a warrant out on you, you won't find out about it until the arresting officers come to pick you up. The IRS, the bank, your phone service, heck any service involving money will not be asking for your personal information over the phone. They would send documents or just cut off your service if you're delinquent on payments.
You forgot to ask them if they needed the payment as a gift card from Walmart or Target. Haha. I got calls like that too a lot and just ignored them. I love watching some of the RUclips channels that really mess with these scammers and have even hacked into their systems to really put them into panic mode.
@@Enki1013
Yeah, I can understand how someone can believe a scammer claiming to be the IRS and demanding payment.
How the scammers can demand payment in gift cards and still be believable is beyond me. Like, how is that not a dead giveaway? Do people honestly believe the IRS would want you to send them gift card codes as payment?
Yeah, I've had that same call. I told them my name is "kiss my black ass and none of your business," then hung up, rang the tax office, and gave them the phone number they called on.
My Mom was sharp as a tack right to the end. Had a policeman whistle next to the phone. When someone tried to pull a fast one on her she made sure they were "listening carefully" and when she was sure she'd blow that whistle right into the phone! I'm sure she ruptured a few eardrums! I still chuckle thinking about it! Wish I still had that whistle too!
Ladies first? Mam, this is the Kroger checkout line, not a sinking cruise ship. He’s a stranger in public, not your cotillion date! 😂
*Ladies* first? I agree, and you get to go last, Karen.
In these days of equality between the sexes, isn't the concept of women first on a sinking cruise ship out-dated?
@@lomax343 its called analogy, look it up
@@esdrasramirez4365 I know what analogy means. Also metaphor, hyperbole, litotes and simile. And irony.
It was however, a serious question.
"Unfortunately, I do not see any ladies around. Only hags."
Former banking supervisor here: these scammers are real and target EVERYONE. Elderly, rich, poor, single, teens, single parents. It will start with something small, like needing car fare at the end of a date or help with a small bill/groceries. Then it will jump to rent to prevent eviction, car payments to prevent repossession, even their child's medical emergencies. We've even had kids stealing a random check from the middle of their parent's checkbook thinking it wouldn't be found for a while. Money really brings the worst out of some people.
Thank you for your service.
I had someone email me saying that they had money for me. They wanted my email password, my bank username, password with my security questions and answers, bank name, and other information. I told them that they were scammers and told them that the FBI said if anyone is asking for this information is a sign of a scam. This person was very upset with me and called me rude names.
I tell them all Ur problems ain't my business go tell someone else knowing full in well they are scammers lol 🤣
And worse, if you think you cannot be tricked, you are more likely to fall for a scam.
The usual signs always apply: getting rushed, getting pressured, threatened, unrealistic promises (double your money in weeks? Do you see any halfway decent company offering that? Why not?) Trying to get you into participating in something less than legal (impersonating as a relative of some dead guy, smuggling money out of the country, scamming someone (like the tax man), …
And of course giving information like banking, internet, passwords, etc., moving your money to a different account (especially one that is not yours) to “aid the police in the fraud investigation” or to “save it from some currently ongoing scam”, …
There is a saying "money can make the blind see again" GREED GREED GREED!!!!
I was in line at the grocery store a few months ago. I had a full cart and since it was lunch time there were people with just 2 or 3 lunch items in line. When it was my time I turned to the guy behind me and asked if he would like to go ahead of me. He was astonished and said, “Really?” I told him sure and he stepped forward and paid for his 3 items all the while thanking me. I then heard a woman, four people back in line say that she was in a hurry too and she started to push her nearly full cart forward. I said no, turned and started to unload my stuff on the belt. All the time I was checking out she mumbled and groaned about how I should have let her go too. Sorry Karen!
It's Karens like that who ruin 'being nice to others'
She had a nearly full cart, you let a guy with a few lunch items to go in front of you and she thought you should her go in front of you...hilarious. Karens can be so outrageous stupid that they're funny as hell. Silly, silly Karen. 😂
"Sorry Karen!"
Lol don't be...
I would have been tempted to let the 3 people between us in line go ahead and then start checking my own stuff before her turn just to spite her.
Yes! This is how I was taught. If I have a full (or nearly full) cart, and the person behind me only has a few items, I let them go first. I usually have been waved ahead of someone with a lot of stuff when i only had a few items. I've never heard of someone with several items going ahead of anyone.
A coworker I worked with for 20 years, we also were friends, died because of blood cancer at the age of 54. My boss would not let us off, he told me "the show must go on" so the rest of this day I was on the phone with my clients crying for 6 more hours. Many clients cried with me, because they knew him for a long time as well. This happened 3 years ago. Since then, something in me snapped and I lost all respect to my bosses forever.
Story 3 - I know someone who is so thick that she has fallen for these types of bank scams MORE than THREE times !
I wouldn't be surprised if the scams in story 3 were all from the same people...
My brother in law's sister is like this. Lost everything and fell for it all over again and again. I forget how many times
@@KaneLivesInDeath Yeah they work in teams, often winds up from Lagos Nigeria. They also spread the guy's name etc in lists that will make them contact him again later on. Romance scams start with a woman doing it, telling a guy to invest, or a guy telling a woman to invest. Older people have all that retirement money to drop. Or a home they can mortgage, inheritance from a dead hisband.
One lady was on a tv show where they tracked the scammer, at the last meeting she was already talking to another scammer.
I knew an older lady who got scammed by a dating website. A guy in Africa told her he's an architect but couldn't access his money because the banks in Africa were having issues. So he begged her to send him money, or buy gift cards and give him the numbers. We told her it's a scam but she didn't listen. She's in debt now.
@@JitterSpooks Was she so desperate for companionship she fell for such an obvious scam?
These scams have been going for more than 2 decades on email that I know of. I punked a Nigerian Scammer back in 2004 when I started using yahoo. I knew then it was a scam, even before I heard about it on the news.
Office Thief Karen: Buy sugar free gummie bears. Leave in dish on desk. Warn coworkers you like. Enjoy the peace and quiet the next day.
@MattSanders-hp4qp Find the ones that are sweetened with alcohol sugars. Alcohol sugars (xylitol, sorbitol, etc ..... the -ol ending is a giveaway) are hard for the human body to digest ... some are worse than others .... and can cause intestinal distress ..... gas, bloating, cramps, diarrhea, farts that could blow Zeus off Mt Olympus
@MattSanders-hp4qpthey can cause a lot of problems inside of the guts and can cause diarrhea
@@Fruad_jo but that only happens with imitation sweeteners that end with "itol" like manitol AND sorbitol
@@richardludwig4860 which sugar free gummy bears contained at one point in time. They might have replaced that ingredient already but it was something that caused sugar free gummy bears to cause diarrhea
Haribo Sugar Free Gummy Bears will mess your whole week up.
Story 4 - When I was growing up, corporal punishment was still allowed in many schools. But punching a kid in the face? For a teacher, that would have been a quick trip to the unemployment line, and probably jail!
Corporal punishment is still allowed in many states even today in 2024.
Exactly, even in most WHOLE CULTURES where corporal punishment is accepted, doing that would've gotten YOU beaten.
@@lolallday08corporal punishment means on the body, not on the face.
Story 2: Clean out Karen's desk. Take turns beating her to work. "What Karen? Your pens are missing? I just loved them so much I had to have them for myself. You must have wanted me to have them because you left them out for me to take. Thanks!"
Also, hey Karen I saw your wallet and decided that since you have been taking our stuff it’s ok for us to take yours.😊. Thanks for the credit cards
Would there be a minimum amount of what you can steal before you can get arrested or get a disciplinary hearings by HR or the Union?
Karen, you left your purse out and since "If it's in the open, everyone can use it!" We figured that meant it was FINALLY YOUR TURN to pay....
So you bought us all coffee/tea and lunch from that expensive French bistro downtown!
Thanks Karen!
It's so nice to share!
Oh, ..... yours?!?!
We didn't get you anything.
We saw you at our desks AGAIN.
We figured you'd already taken care of yourself, as you usually do!
Any parent would be like "looks like I'm going to prison" if their child was beaten up by a total stranger
The person beating an unrelated child should go to jail.
Not even a stranger, but a teacher! The person _specifically_ tasked with their care, wellbeing, and safety.
Sorry #2: retired government worker here (25+ years). What OP said is correct in regards to firing someone. However, if the person has proven to be a major thief, HR will have problem getting the union involved in order to apply some karma in the form of a transfer to a less desirable and quite inconvenient branch office or a department that meets the absolute farthest applicable entry in their job description. The reasoning behind this is simple: it's cheaper to force someone to quit, as opposed to firing them.
That last story reminds me of what happened to my dad. He was a privatized lawyer. His dad was having complications and my dad gets a call from his mom saying come over to the hospital to say goodbye. My dad was always being overworked and when he went to his boss he said no you cant go or were letting you go. My dad left and found a new better job after that. but ya bosses like that they exist.😂
Sadly, my brother fell for a scam. He was already financially crippled. He ended up losing everything, and his wife left him for another man several months later. Now he’s no longer with us. I detest scammers more than anything. They are heartless!!
I almost chocked when the man gave the scammers his banking info twice!
I facepalmed so hard that I nearly concussed myself!
You know what they say: It's easier to fool someone than it is to convince them they've been fooled. Still, I can't believe that guy fell for the same thing twice!
I face palmed so hard when I heard it happened again.
That last story. Dude someone just DIED in your office, this isnt like some gossip-getting-their-karma-type of excitement, someone’s life was just lost. Everyone should have gone home who was in that department in my opinion, even from a productivity standpoint.
That dude was a frickin a-hole and there is no way he’s human, but probably one of those cartoon corporate villains on tv.
He's a lizard like that Facebook guy
Gets a bit worse, I remember reading this originally. The OP was telling some other colleagues (from elsewhere in the building) about what happened later in the week, and they had no idea. There was no announcement, no indication of farewell, no "make sure you take care of yourself" (obviously). The "incident" was completely swept under the rug from everyone else outside of that office area.
For the office karen taking thinks off other coworkers desks. I would get everyone together and one day when karen is at her desk .. everyone walk up and take something off 'her' desk till it is empty lol ..' if it is out in the open/on the desk than its ok to take it'
First story, the ONLY time I was TOLD to cut in line in a grocery store, is when I went into labor (3rd child, other two in basket) in the line. This was my local grocery store and they had watched me balloon over the previous 8 1/2 months. I’ve never seen a line open so quick before or since.
Final Story - I would’ve left that place after what that boss said.
I guess you'd better leave.
In case luck would happen that this a-hole boss gets a heart attack as well or other situation... You won't be in a dilemma of saving him or not since you won't there.
I once had a scammer call me "Microsoft Technical Support" I gave them a real scare thinking they had called a military base ^_^
I used to work in an office that had one of those desk bandits. We all tried reporting her, but this is the same place that put up a notice in the lunchroom that the company was not responsible for stolen items (lunches). So, obviously nothing was done. One of my coworkers was having some intestinal issues, as in constipation, so had some chocolate laxatives. They mixed those unwrapped laxative pieces with some pieces of a Hershey bar and left them on their desk. The results were spectacular and gross. We all got an extended weekend, with pay, while the office was cleaned and deodorized. Desk bandit only stopped taking food from desks. Since I noticed most of these stories are referencing the age group of the antagonist, I’ll do the same. The desk thief was a millennial.
Thank you for that last bit of information. The only people that ever stole from others in my 40 years of working at the same place were younger people. Does that mean their whole age group is rotten? Of course not.
I worked at Owen's Corning World Headquarters as a security guard in the mid to late 90's. People would leave all kinds of candy on their desks in open bowls or even in their desks and over the weekends some of it would come up missing. It wasn't people that were stealing it, it was the mice. They had a special fondness for peanut M&M's and peppermint sticks. 😂
To the Karen who hit an 8 year old to "discipline" them, I'm pretty sure that sort of thing is frowned upon, (to say the least). Especially if you are not the child's parent
Exactly, if someone hit my child, if I had one, to discipline them, I'd make sure they will never do that to another child ever again.
Frowned upon? Yes, also illegal
It's outright ILLEGAL if you aren't the parent... Not even relatives should do it.
@@KaneLivesInDeath Maybe that's why juvenile delinquency has gotten so out of hand. Until the 70s any kids misbehaving could and would be corrected by any adult.
Then the permissive 70s and "not my kid! My kid is a perfect angel."
Add in Dr Spock and the whole reason with your baby, don't correct them.
Why should kids behave if they face no consequences and are defended no matter how much a brat?
@@gryphenicedancer8796 You have literally condoned child abuse.
Story 3: I heard this from BoomersBeingFools and it's both funny and sad to watch someone throw out all of their money into the pockets of the scammers contacting them multiple times. He brags about having great credit, yet is gullible as hell and is ADAMANT that he's doing everything right.
Do it once, I feel sorry, do it twice, maybe not anymore, do it anymore, okay we gotta cut off all access before total financial oblivion
Yep. The inability to tell whether people are lying or not is a dementia thing. Honestly, he's probably showing other signs, too, but no one is doing anything about it. After the first time, his family should have gotten him evaluated because that is potato levels of brain right there.
Anybody who can't see through those scams deserve to have their bank accounts monitored for a few months until they learn how to identify those scams. Like giving out bank details like bank name and whatever, fine, but the 2FA is where you should immediately know you're getting fucked over.
@@bayardkyyako7427it takes a special kind of stupid to fall for it.
My best friend told me that as a child, he moved around a lot because his dad was in the British Army. He’d been born in Malta and left there when he was three to live in Northern Ireland, when leaving there for Newcastle, the moving truck was bombed by the IRA and they lost all of their belongings including antique furniture, toys including Lego, Barbie etc (he has 2 sisters too). Starting out again in 1970’s Newcastle and yet another new school he had started to lose interest. Another move after a couple of years led them to Aberdeen, where his mother is originally from . By now, he had lost all interest in school because they wanted to teach him stuff that he had already learnt in other schools, and he started to get bullied. He used to wag off (play truant) but would always be found in a library reading books. There were many occasions when teachers would hit him and he would go home, tell his mother and she would be up to the school the very next morning threatening the teacher concerned with the very same treatment ! ‘The only person allowed to tell off my son is me or his father - you’re a TEACHER - so TEACH him’ was her mantra !
The Principals and teachers of the schools he went to lived in fear of my friend’s mother !
There was an incident he told me of, where a kid poured hot out-of-the-oven apple pie filling, all down my friend’s arm and it hurt him so much, that my friend pushed this guy so hard that he flew through the air, hit a set of double doors and broke them outwards - they were inwards opening - ran past him and went to the head master (Principal).
No kids messed with him after that !
story 2 - that is when you bake 2 different batches of brownies - 1 batch contains yummies like REAL semi-sweet chips, walnuts, pecans, etc, and then locked up in file cabinet. the 2nd batch is for karen - and has chocolate flavoured ex-laX in them - then when karen gets the hershey squirts - then she learns to never steal sweets or anything in general.
Beat me to suggesting that 😁😁🤣🤣🤣
I’d get another coworker to help me steal her desk, it was just lying there
@@anthonyramirez9925 Yes move her desk and all the contents.
@@mariegarside8830 As a lover of spicy foods, I once used even more of my hot sauce (800k scovilles) than even I would normally use. Never had a problem again with that guy.
If I were in OP's position, I'd have baked a batch of brownies for Karen that has both Ex-Lax AND an extremely hot sauce (Read: Made with Carolina Reapers and Trinidad Scorpions).
First story, she wants to pass someone in line when she has way more stuff? That is not how that goes.
Being targeted by scammers is the absolute worst. I've been messaged before by people claiming that they wanted to pay me to use my art as inspiration for a mural they were doing for a client. I had never encountered anything like this before and I was wary at first, trying as best as I could think of to gauge if they were trustworthy, and of course knowing better than to give out banking info. Long story short, I was _EXTREMELY_ lucky that the banking systems immediately sensed theirs was a sketchy account and adamantly refused any and all transactions I tried to make with them, and thus preventing them from leeching me dry. After that anxiety-inducing incident, I've blocked anybody coming at me with that kind of offer again. So to any fellow artists, beware these supposed "muralists" trying to buy "inspiration from your work".
I think I almost fell for that kind of scam!
I can’t believe OP’s FIL in story 3 feel for that scam!!!!! That’s why you should do your research people!!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡😡
I had a scammer call me once, when they asked for my either Social Security or Social Insurance Number, I could only say "Hell if I know" they immediately hung up, 'cause I never bothered to memorize it, and I wasn't gonna go look for it for a 1-800 number
@@brendanboomhour7606Someone tried to scam my grandpa (this was a few years before the pandemic) by saying that his SSI’s been frozen from something (I don’t remember what but I believe it was something involving fraudulent stuff) and he knew it was a scam and to reassure himself he called our credit card union and nothing happened since.
I intentionally call scammers. But I bait and troll them. I'm not a professional baiter... that would be Scammerrevolts or Scammerpayback lol.
There was an Ad on YT last year about crypto, so I thought I was creating an account to look over the website. Name, phone number, email address, but nothing much happened, couldn't access the website. Then 5 minutes later I got a call from the company, & they instructed me to go to another website, to create an account & to pay $250 to learn how to do crypto, & I'd also earn money from the deposit. I declined, as it seemed so dodgy. Originally I got over 100 calls in the 1st week from various people. I told them multiple times I'm not interested, please don't call me, I even blocked them, & they'd just create a new number. I've had a couple calls the last few months, but damn, they were persistent, & very annoying!
@@catherinep2034 They may not be the same scammers. Your personal data may have been sold all around the internet. You have to use one of those services that monitor your online personal data and tell whoever bought your data to drop it from their database. That, or just change your email address and phone number.
Story 6: So is anyone else wondering whether the poor guy's heart attack was stress-induced? I mean it sounds like working for that guy would not be good for your blood pressure.
Second Story - I worked at a company in which the sales manager would do stuff like that. For example he would go through everyone's lunch, in the lunchroom refrigerator, and build himself the lunch that he wanted. Keep in mind that he was the second most highly paid employee in that office and he was stealing from people who were making a little more than minimum wage. Nothing was ever done about it.
Story two.... That Karen is a blatant thief. She needs fired. 🤨
She should have been fired. No.2 story. Stealing from people is horrible.
As the edit to the story said, they were government workers that can't be fired on the spot.
All those times she stole.. make a report of it all / call local authorities for theft
If it keeps happening then she will probably be fired. They just reported her so it is a start for it to happening.
I know how to fix this turd. Get creative. Make some cookies and chop up a few bars of ex-lax chocolate and add them to the batter before baking. Place them into a container she can see the container. Warn other coworkers not to touch those cookies. Tell them quietly that they are to relieve your chronic constipation. Now you have an excuse for when she gets really sick from stealing them and she gets caught stealing.
If you're into spicy stuff, get some habeñero peppers (about 3 will do) and a pack of orange jello. Boil only half a cup water and chop the peppers really fine (wear gloves and do not remove seeds). Mix jello in the boiling water and then add chopped peppers. Add half cup cool water and pour into a parchment paper lined flat bottom pan like a cookie sheet or cake pan. Cool in the fridge and once it's set fully, turn out onto powder sugar coated cutting board and cut into bite size cubes. Roll the cubes in the powdered sugar so they won't stick together and place it a ziploc baggie. Let your coworkers know they are your homemade vitamins and don't touch. When the thief steals them and ends up screaming about their mouth being on fire, say they must be allergic to something in your vitamins and they should go to the ER on their dime. Maybe an expensive trip to the ER will teach her what HR refuses to.
I just ran into a Karen in the wild at Taco Bell. She was yelling at the servers about her order, used the Fbom. Then walked out flipping them off. Right before I started listening to this lol.
As already mentioned, story 2 is a perfect setup for some bad food or drink for Karen if she won't stop and/or the company doesn't stop her. Take matters into your own hands!!
Nothing that could seriously threaten her health, but I think Karen is overdue for an Ex-Lax brownie..... 😈 Afterwards, say you were suffering from constipation.... Be angry at her for stealing your medicine.
If someone was taking my food/drink without asking me first, I'd suddenly come down with terrible constipation and have to put laxatives into my food/drink. I'd then write my name on the item to be extra safe, and wait.
Capsaicin doesn't bother me and I participate in hot pepper eating contests on a semi regular basis. Had a sticky fingered co-worker FAFO when I made chocolate and cayenne brownies! If you can eat hot stuff that works even better because it's not poisoning then, it's just your food.
Was the father-in-law "mentaly disabled"?
How did he gain any money in life?
Every employer would make him sign a contract where the father-in-law would pay the EMPLOYER for working for him.
My little brother is mentally disabled to an extent, but he's most likely smart enough to not give away his bank info to strangers. If he isn't, I'll be there to help him avoid scams.
I’m going to be 60yo in a week. I remember when you didn’t dare talk back to a teacher. I remember a kid in our class, he was the class clown type, being called to the principal’s office for The Strap, more than once.
This teacher should have known better, that shyte doesn’t fly now, but those parents need to discipline their crotch goblin.
That's why teacher's unions are not always a great idea. Bad teachers are given tenure and are protected. My daughter had a kindergarten teacher who was an elderly woman that hated kids.
After the open house, I specifically requested that she was assigned to any one of the other three teachers. Of course, she got the witchy woman who was mean to both kids and parents.
She didn't care because of tenure. I looked up her salary, as it was a matter of public record. This miserable woman was making over $100K per year over 20 years ago. Just.. how?
Grandfather in is what tenure is all about. Seniority at it's finest, they been there long enough to earn permanent spot. My friends from childhood are teachers' kids and their mothers never let that create an ego. In fact one retired and came back to be a temporary librarian and the other worked on thier master and became the principal. Tenure is good for college but not regular school.
The lady that was taken her co-workers things, when she went to lunch they should go and take things of hers.
The scammed FIL is living proof that you just can't fix stupid (not even with duct tape or super glue!)
My grandparents were recently scammed out of two grand by a group claiming to be Publisher's Clearing House. Showed up at their house and everything. They thought they'd won fifty grand. But had to pay two grand in gift cards to get it. Then got ghosted by the scammers. And since it was paid in gift cards, there's nothing they can do. They were desperate to get that money because my entitled sister has left them over fifty grand in debt for a trailer she convinced them to sign for, and then defaulted on paying.
Last story: A coworker of mine had the same experience. He’s a bus driver & had someone die on his bus of a heart attack. He was slumped over in his seat, but no one thought anything was wrong, since people fall asleep on the bus all the time. They realized something was wrong when my coworker turned the corner, the guy fell out of his seat, & didn’t get back up. My coworker was so traumatized (still is), he wanted to go home for the day & management balked at it. He refused to work that day & went home.
Boomer Karen was home 3 days after the cops dragged him off…sounds like he got himself a 72-hour mandatory psychiatric hold. Hopefully, he learned something from it. 😬
Apparently not, since OP mentioned the guy got worse after the incident.
Story 5: That is some serious delusion of grandeur. The man really thought he could police a whole community because he was some old boomer.
And for once, the HOA were the good guys!
Don't forget the 40 year old Karen's for hitting everyone at stores.
You are a bigot. Most baby boomers are awesome.
But, he wasn't taken to Jail for it or kept in the Psych ward. That story didn't end well.
Reminds me of the best saying I've ever heard: Assholes grow old too, not all old deserve respect.
I’m a contractor who works in people’s homes. I was working in this elderly lady’s home when i happened to overhear her on the phone, and I didn’t catch on right away what she was doing until she hung up and turned to me and said “that was a strange call” and then I realized she had just given a complete stranger her entire banking information.
I stopped working immediately to tell her that the person she talking to was almost certainly a scammer and told her to contact her bank immediately.
Unfortunately, I never did find out how it turned out.
The first Karen .... They all in the office should have started going through her desk taking anything of hers whether they needed or not just to make her mad
Scams on elderly people happens so much, I think due to many of them not being as mentally stable. I heard of this one woman who was scammed into paying Keanu Reeves hospital bill, my immediate thoughts were a) Keanu Reeves is rich enough to pay any hospital bill five times over and b) why would he ask for financial help from an elderly lady from England.
That last one reminds me of when I had a heart attack and stroke at work. I was on the gurney with paramedics around me and some entitled a-hole demanding to be served.
Many years ago, someone set the neighbors house on fire. They didn't make it out.
I barely got any sleep, and had to go to work the next day. When they heard what happened, they wanted to send me home because they were concerned about me!
I didn't go. I knew it would have been worse being at home. The son was a year younger than I, and I had basically known the family all my life.
They had to block the street because so many people were coming down it to see the house.
When someone dies unexpectedly like that, it's going to affect you. Most of us can't just bounce back from it quickly.
Even if you know someone is going to die, their death can still take a toll on you.
Story 5: Something about the way Darkfluff read "Told them that it looked like he was having a mental episode or something." Made me LOL
I would have put Visine in the coffee creamer and let her get the Hershey’s! 😂
No, you don't want to go tainting foods .... that can get you a charge of poisoning someone
If you put polyethylene glycol, the main ingredient in Miralax and other such similar laxatives, in your creamer to help with your gastro intestinal problems there's nothing HR can do, IF it's kept in your own unshared desk. It's in your private space, meant for your sole use, for your private medical issue. So, in short, don't use Visine, use Miralax to help expel that crap from your office environment. 😉
Last story reminds me of 9/11. I was crying & listening to the news like everyone else in the country & my insensitive boss was like "do you know anyone in those buildings? No? Focus on work" I never will forgive her for that total lack of empathy
Story 2 - I feel for OP and the other coworkers. I had something like this happen when I was at Job Corps, someone from my dorm wing was stealing things from the other girls in our wing, pens, hair ties, lotions, even some makeup and clothing. Turned out that It was our wing leader who was the culprit. The Head Dorm Leader made her give back everything that she stole, I found out that she stole my new (at the time) cherry blossom body spray, lip gloss and body lotion. But what sealed her fate was that she took a girl’s medication for anxiety. Needless to say she was kicked out of Job Corps for theft.
Taking someone's medication is serious and can be fatal.
@@mariegarside8830 She didn’t take all of her medicine she just took some of her pills but I get what you’re saying.
@tmntfangirl4700 Thank you. Stealing medications is serious. If someone took my inhaler away, I would be in a workld of hurt in an allergy attack.
@@mariegarside8830 Amen to that. I'm a transgender woman and if someone took my hormones away, they'd feel the outcome of a thousand battles.
Story 3: Some people shouldn't have money, period.
Story 6: I had a boss with that type of attitude. He said he still worked even though his best friend was killed.
When my son was in 9th grade I got a call from his principal to come pick him up because he was causing an issue. I left work to go get him and was planning already on grounding him for me having to leave work because he couldn’t behave himself in school. I get there and see my son with a HUGE gouge on his neck! It was bleeding a lot and even my son looked shocked. I lost it and demanded to know what happened and the vice principal told me that my son had tried to walk out of the office and he had grabbed him to keep him in the office till I got there. He told me he had every right to grab my son my the throat and leave bleeding gouge marks on him. We got into it and he reached for my son AGAIN and I lost it and punched him in the face. He threatened to call the cops and I said PLEASE DO!!! I’ll be pressing charges on YOU for assaulting my son! I took my son and left and called the principal to go refused to do anything. I called the cops and basically got well he was misbehaving wasn’t he? I pulled him out of that school right after that and he did home schooling. And what was the “issue” my son caused??? He asked to go to the bathroom while a teacher was ranting at another student
Story 4: Some people just should not be in charge of kids, PERIOD. I never had a teacher that got physical, but my second grade teacher was verbally abusive. She was nice as long as you behaved, but if you stepped out of line even little, even if it was just an innocent mistake, her first and only response was to scream at the top of her lungs. More about scaring us straight than actual discipline. My parents actually tried to get me out of the class, and the principal just didn't take their concerns seriously.
I worked in such an office. I let things ride for a while until it came to my coffee creamer. Then I had a little talk with the office manager. It was decided that the creamer as well as the candy became an office expense. Worked well for me and brought my blood pressure down considerably.
Story 1 - That’s exactly what I would do! I love OP for how he handled that EK. Well done OP.🎉
Please, with my banking information, you'd end up adding a twenty out of pity. Seriously though, scammers are the worst. I am horrified for that poor family.
*Last Story- My hubby and I sorta know how that feels!!!* I had a panic attack at home (I’ve never had one before) and was able to call my hubby during it. So, when I dropped the phone and didn’t respond anymore, he called 911 since he wasn’t there.
My hubby was delivering roofing materials at the moment. So, he was at a construction site with his coworker and work truck (our regular car was at the warehouse).
He called his boss, and told him that I was in the hospital. So, he needed a ride back to the warehouse, so he could pick up the car, and go home.
His boss told him, he could pick up my hubby, take him to the hospital to check on me, then back to work afterwards. *But my hubby refused!*
He said the police had to break our door down, and I couldn’t do anything for myself. So, he needed to be at home for the rest of the day. *I love my hubby!!!* 🥰😘❤️❤️❤️
Story 6 Yes, one of my old bosses once did that with the son of the deceased colleague. He helped with the resuscitation, but his father still died after the body was transported away. My boss shouted at the son and the shocked colleagues that they should keep working, it was over .
Story 4: TBH, the whole situation sucks. On one hand, you have a kid who has clearly never been told “no”, and on the other you have an unhinged teacher commit an inexcusable act. I don’t condone either person’s actions, but the teacher was an absolute powder keg.
Checkout Karen story: Yes indeed, ladies should go first. But YOU Karen are no lady.
Office theft story: Absolutely get your union involved. Also get the union's permission to set up some cameras. Now you know why she comes in a half-hour early.
Scam story: FIL is an extremely slow learner.
Student punched story: Admittedly the student did need some punishment. But to literally punch the kid was incredibly stupid. The teacher deserves every bit of whatever punishment he gets.
Javelin story: Guy was lucky the cops didn't draw on him for not dropping a literal weapon in his hands.
Heart attack story: If I had been OP, the EMTs would have been needed to be called again and maybe the cops as well as I'd have punched that idiot boss out.
Don't touch the car . Even if you only move it, it's still grand theft auto. This came up in a judge Judy case
CPR Story: If I was OP, I'd have made one final call before leaving for the rest of the day...
I'd have called HR to File a Formal Complaint against Karen Boss...
Story 4: And what about the behavior of the kid? I am not supporting the teacher and his actions. But what about the kid? And I wonder where the kid gets it from.
Omg, that third story is painful. Something like that happened to my sister-in-law's brother, he was in so deep he couldn't believe he was being scammed. And it drove my brother crazy because my sis-in-law was in denial as well for a long time and almost! gave him money and ALMOST took out a fecking loan to pay the fees they kept demanding for releasing his money. Happily she never did and eventually realized it was indeed a scam, but dear god it was awful. He's still in denial and thinking if he sells his house he'll have the money he needs to pay them to release his earnings. If he does that he'll be down a house, even more cash and will be literally homeless and penniless. It's baffling the mental gymnastics people will go through to avoid admitting they were a fool that got scammed.
Ripe : "there is no valid reason ever ever ever to hit someone"
Also Ripe, in LITERALLY the next sentence : "if that was my child, the teacher would have gotten an ass whooping"
I worked in an office, and my personal pens would vanish quite often even though there would be other pens in a holder for others. I finally purchased one of those "trick" pens. They have a certain way to be used in order to avoid being "shocked". I stepped away from my desk to get coffee, suddenly heard an incoherent yell and an even louder "son of b*tch" and my co-worker came flying into the break room to chew me out. My personal pens never disappeared again... lol
My mother always told me ignorance is not knowing any better, stupidity is knowing better but doing it again and again
Story 2: Warn her that you will call the police and press Theft of Property charges if she ever steals anything else from you again...then do it if she does. I do NOT abide a thief.
Story 3: This guy needs to have all access to any banking removed from him and placed into the hands of someone competent enough to manage his finances...seriously.
Story 4: Why in hell was the teacher arrested at home later that night instead of at the school immediately following the Aggravated Assault of a Tender-Aged Minor Child? WTAF?
In relation to the last story. My grandfather was on hospice care and didn't have much time left. My mother called me at work early one morning to tell me he passed away during the night. I got a bit upset and after I hung up with my mom I had a coworker say to me," I don't know why your upset. You knew it was coming." I couldn't even say anything to her, I was just too shocked.
Story 3 - i heard a scammer say one reason why they do it is because people are greedy. 🙄 Yes, we're greedy to want a work from home job, someone to spend the rest of our lfe with, or a comfortable retirement.
Last story: OP should have reported the boss for his comments at the very least or convinced the whole team to walk out, if not going full revenge mode on him
That last story is a sad Testament to the American business culture. They'll have an ad in the paper for that guys job before he gets buried
So I’m diabetic now and on Saturday I had a low of 4.5. Thankfully I found a seat outside to test and then went in the bakery to a buy coke. I queued like normal despite feeling so low. Buses are one thing that I can’t queue for as I’m on crutches and struggle with health conditions and need to sit down. Unfortunately there are some awful people on the buses too. This includes a fake wheelchair user who broke my ankle and toe by running over my foot with his feet going into mine. He is so screwed too.
2nd story this one incident isn't enough? So theft isn't a good enough reason to be fired? You and your coworkers need to simple say she or us will go. You choose.
Story 2: The way to handle that Karen would be to get some colon cleanse tea and put that in some K-cups and leave those out, just make sure to put a sign saying do not use/touch, then Karen can't complain that someone poisoned her when she uses them and ends up spending half the day on the toilet.
In the 2nd story, (I think candy was on someone's desk) the person with candy should leave laxatives that look & taste like chocolate in the dish before leaving at night!😆 That'll stop her!
Story number two, we had somebody that was stealing our food at work. There was no way to prove it, but we knew who it was. So one day I made my famous chocolate pudding….. if you guessed, I put laxatives in it you’re right. The man stole my lunch again and about half an hour later nobody could find him ha ha ha. He had been in the bathroom all this time and couldn’t figure out why he couldn’t stop pooping once she finally got out of the bathroom, he went to the boss and said that I poisoned him. I said what are you talking about? He said I ate your chocolate pudding and spent the last hour and a half in the bathroom. I said oh are you backed up to I make this all the time, he never took anybody’s lunch again
It is actually quite common for people to fall for scams repeatedly. Scammers know how to find and target those who are most gullible
Guy with the spear brobably reminiscing about lawn darts 😆
Story 6, was really awful. Someone died. And your boss tells you to get over it in 5 minutes?! WTH! Especially when it was your friend. I have no words for this despicable boss. Disgusting.
*story 2*
*Set up a damn camera and catch the thief!* 😡
Mumble years ago, I was accompanying my mother on the weekly shopping trip. After we got back to the car, my mother realised she'd forgotten something, so we went back into the shop.
She found it, and we headed to the tills. This was before the advent of nine-items-or-fewer lanes. There was however, a free till so we headed for it. Some woman cut in front of us with a trolley loaded to overflowing. "I'm in a hurry," she said. My mother fumed quietly.
This was also before the introduction of bar-codes, so the cashier had to check a price label on each item. It was a slow process.
When my mother got to present her one item, the cashier said, sweetly "Don't worry - I put it on her bill."
Scamming is done by seasoned pros who know exactly how do take advantage of people. It happens to people of all ages and the hold they gain on people’s minds is like drug addiction. Listen to AARP’s excellent podcast “The Perfect Scam” for insight into this terrible and growing crime. They will also advise you not to be so ready to blame the victim.
Story 1, you would think there would be cameras all over the office and with the group complaint about her, should escalate the termination.
Story 2, send me a check for the money, if you can't, then I will get the authorities involved.
Story 3, I remember when a teacher lost their stuff with a student, it took about a week before they were let go.
Story 5, there needs to be a controlled environment for javelin throwing.
Story 6, I unfortunately worked for a lousy boss like that, an exemployee shortly after being let go was in a car accident and died on the scene. When the boss let us know about it, they were giddy and said that it couldn't have happened to a person who was like him making up lies about what he did. After the boss left, our floor supervisor told us on how bad they were on 9/11 where they still insisted them to work calling the areas around it.
Unfortunately, there is little the authorities can do when a scam originates outside of your country, which most of them do. This is one reason why you should never give out your banking information over the phone, and never send money to anyone who called you claiming they can make you rich.
18:00 it’s SO SAD that they have to clarify “this was when Police did their job, so he wasn’t in danger” like- imagine telling ANYONE 20 years ago that “police brutality” and “police shooting innocents” was a thing.
Although the teacher was in the wrong for hitting the student, I bet you that kid will never say "or else what" to anybody ever again.
For the office thief one if she was allergic to nuts I'd be buying hazelnut creamer and putting it in a french vanilla creamer bottle...on purpose. If asked id just say that my dogs got ahold of the last bottle and it was leaking so i put it in a SPARE bottle i had no IDEA she was using my creamer.
Story 1: as someone who works retail customers with a lot of stuff are supposed to have customers with one or 2 things go ahead of them. It’s called a customer courtesy.
Story 3: I’ve had my fair share of customers fall for scams like this. Especially old men falling for the romance scams. One customer swears he’s been in contact with Scarlett Johansson for the last few years and she’s going to marry him. He won’t get it through it head that she’s married to Colin Jost and one of the highest paid women in Hollywood. She doesn’t need his money.
Story 6: a customer once fainted in our handicap parking spot. My employee panicked, grabbed the cashier, both put him in his car and she called 911 before I got wind of what was going on. Luckily the lady the cashier was ringing up informed everyone in line and would not tolerate complaints. The guy was fine. Just a quick drop in blood sugar. I told her if she needs an extra break go ahead and take one. CPR is exhausting. Within a few minutes you should be sweating. If you aren’t, you’re not doing it right
There's no "supposed to." It's a nice thing to do, and I've done it often, since I'm not in a hurry when I'm grocery shopping, but there is no obligation to do it, and stores need to stop having only two lanes open when they've got four cash registers.
story 1, welp there's my excuse to make sure i have a full pair of earbuds on me. HEY WALMART, STILL GOT JIBS IN STOCK?!
story 2, the way i found that is effective is to merely booby trap the items in a manner that seems like you have a bit of a kink but can hurt badly (but not cause severe harm) to someone else. food, REALLY easy if they have an allergy. make the food with the allergy in it (but doesn't appear so), properly mark it as yours, and if they eat it and have a problem. it's on them.
In the story about the guy getting scammed, my father was also scammed like this and then we found out the same scammer had targeted others in the same small town!! Plus not to defend his falling for this but we did discover he's suffering from dementia, it's just cruel what these people do...
Airpod guy is a legend.
Sure all he did was put some airpods in, but damn... it was so badass.
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Self Defense. If someone is trying to hurt or kill you, it is NEVER your responsibility to be harmed or worse for the sake of not hitting someone (especially if that's the worst you're gonna do in response to their attempt on your person). Obviously this wasn't the case here, but i'm sure there are situations where this would actually be the case.
I agree that the teacher should be charged for what he did but the parents were negligent in raising their child. Obviously they thought their child’s actions were appropriate. Lousy parenting.
I don't know how many times I have face palmed with story 3. Lord almighty, some people need to be babysat and not have access like that.
Why are all of these boomer stories today? Not all Karens are boomers!
And not all boomers are Karens!
And not all boomers are Karens!
Story 3 is sad. My father-in-law was another who would fall for get-rich-quick scams. It got to the point where my husband went into his dad's computer and revoked his admin rights because FIL would believe the "call Microsoft" to unlock his computer scam and REFUSED to believe that the guy with the accent who was trying to get into his computer wasn't a Microsoft tech. I took the phone away from him a time or two and royally cussed out the scumbag on the other end. He would never believe any of us when we told him (fill in the blank) was a scam.