Fun fact: The Warden who joined the escaping prisoners eventually led an uprising against the government and founded the Han Dynasty. More or less, it's a simplified version of the story, but it's one of my favorites for the sheer absurdity of it.
The statement "Don't kill the messenger" is a line from Shakespeare, but it came from an actual issue back then. Monarch's, Aristocrat's and military commanders would just kill the messenger out of frustration from receiving bad news. Well this would make any messenger wary of relaying these messages, so if they knew the information was bad they would just run for it and never relay the message. So many battles, wars and Monarchy's failed because of this stupid act by frustrated leaders.
Yep, they also did this to enemy's messengers. Historically, one of the biggest empire was destroyed because they killed and humiliated messengers from the Mongol empire. Genghis khan actually don't want to go to war, he just want a payment for a caravan a governor forcefully took. Because they killed and humiliated his messengers, he invaded the empire and razed the city.
We're seeing this again these days in a less "final" version. Just look at how Elon Musk handled Twitter. Or how Trump handled the presidency. Whenever their advisors tell them something they don't like, they get fired. I suppose the most obvious case was Alex Jones, who kept firing his lawyers until the only lawyer he got was one so incompetent he leaked his entire phone to the opposition^^ BTW, this doesn't just happen to conservatives, it tends to happen generally when people who have only heard "yes" their entire lives and are raised in luxury are forced to take up real responsibility.
Ah, printers... I remember reading "people may betray you, but a machine won't", and I thought to myself: "whoever wrote this never saw a printer being used by someone in a hurry."
I work with a professional art printer for my job, and it is the most temperamental, moody machine I've ever worked with. It will complain over the tiniest problems. It makes beautiful prints, but it drives me crazy some times.
I do controls and maintenance in a factory. When I overheard a manager saying "machines don't make mistakes, only people do" I had to stop myself from throwing hands.
Or, or, simply just using whatever garbage HP sells. You wouldn't believe the sheer number of times I've yelled at, slapped, and punched the printer. I'm usually not even in a hurry, it's just agitating to use, but I can't do shit about it, I'm not the one in charge of replacing the printer.
The candy story is wild to me, because my 3 year old does NOT demand what others have. Even when people share, like at a recent tractor pull, he says thank you. This mom must have done literally nothing to teach this kid manners OR boundaries.
That was the striking part to me that comes up in a lot of these stories. Not that the kid wants something so much as the parents demanding something from strangers to appease their spawn.
@@glennrishton5679 i read a Reddit post yesterday. Guy seeking advice for what to do about his wife/gf, who's making up serious, but fake stories to link to her Tik Tok, for views. I genuinely believe that upwards of 40 to 50 percent of the stuff written on Reddit, is of this nature. After all Reddit is a pretty weird place where people seek validation.
I mean clearly that showed that their medication was not necessarily safe. What if the medication was for a heart condition to make it beat slower/faster? It's great if you're suffering the condition, but with a normal heart rate, it could be very dangerous. Tell me a small box of blue pills in the male teacher's bag could not be mistaken for viagra by a stupid teen wanting to jerk it more while his parents are out.
Because…the kid could have died…and the school…didn’t want to be sued…? I’d think it was obvious. If a kid dies at your school after stealing medicine he thought was candy, the same principle applies as when a kid dies at your school after stealing alcohol he thought was juice. The school gets sued for having something that could kill a student anywhere that a student could get to it. The burden is always on the adults to make sure that the dangerous substance isn’t somewhere a kid could get to it. That’s why pills always have childproof lids, plus strict instructions to keep them on a high shelf or in a locked cabinet. The kid experienced natural consequences anyways, I think shitting your guts out enough to need an ambulance is enough punishment to learn not to steal and eat random things. You don’t need to force unnatural consequences every time a kid does something bad, if consequences have already been faced as a direct result of that action. It’s a redundant waste of time and energy which accomplishes literally nothing, because the child has already learned. The only thing it does is reassert the adult’s feeling of dominance and power over the child.
The teacher isn't punished, rather, this is a safety precaution. This is actually a good thing, a perfect example of the concept: "Work with people's nature, not against it." You could just stomp your feet and demand no kid ever steal, but realistically, this is insanity. Instead, it should be made as hard as possible for students to get at real medicine, even accidentally.
y'all stupid. This is a junior high student. He is old enough to know not to steal. Not all schools have a secure staff room and a laxative is the perfect example of a medication that might be needed at a moments notice. Also, the teacher might not HAVE the time to run to the office in order to grab medicine in the case of an emergency.
This happened in another story r/slash read. It was an event and OP in that story mixed some sort of alcohol with vanilla coke-a-cola (the event didn't allow outside beer/alcohol) and some kid wanted to drink it. OP said no, telling them its not a drink they should have. Though iirc, the kid snatched it out of their bag, ran off with it and drank it. The kid got sick and the entitled mom was screaming that OP must've poisoned it or something but they explained there was alcohol in it. Security at the event had the kid taken to get treated by on site nurses and turned out fine. The OP was just warned to be more careful if they planned to make more batches of that soda/alcohol mix.
I live in Florida and got arrested for carrying marijuana without a card last year when I got pulled over. (Yeah, I was dumb as hell for that one.) My probation officer and I are cool though. She told me that in our county, they had to issue a Halloween warning to look out for sweet tart candy since some evil drug dealers were lacing them with FENTANYL. Yeah, definitely look out for candy given out by strangers.
Story 2: Always consider the possibility that the candy that the other person has isn't really candy (or is spicy candy). Trust me, you're better off with no candy than a burned mouth (or in the toilet for half an hour)
I make my own candy. You...really wouldn't like most of it. When your candy company makes spearmint, they use about 1/8th tsp per pound. When I make it, I use 1 tsp per pound, because I want flavor with less sweet and shatter it down to very small bits. Oh, how I love entitled children and their entitled parents. Sure, kid, take the biggest piece there.
And these parents are so stupid too, do none of them remember the saying 'Don't take candy from strangers"? These days it would be so easy to walk into an amusement park with a bag of poisoned candy, pretend to eat it, and then hand pieces out to entitled children at the demand of their parents.
The phrase "might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb" was coined in response to situations like the first story. If the punishment for a minor offence is _already_ the most severe possible, you might as well go off the chain at that point.
Made me think back to zero tolerance bullying policies in school. If you're going to be involved in a fight (despite not even having thrown a punch or done anything to defend yourself) then go ahead and pull all of the stops if it happens again.
@@rosealicia1782 Yep. Zero tolerance policies have that risk. People are gonna be people and think about how rules benefit them (or harm them least), so it's best to have sensible and compassionate rules to begin with.
@@rosealicia1782 Zero Tolerance led to a kid starting to bring a knife to school with the intention of killing the bully next time he was to be beaten up by the bully.
@@rosealicia1782 I have to wonder what role Zero Tolerance policies have in the increasing occurrence of mass shooting events in schools in the United States, and the effect on kids bringing non-firearm weapons to school both in the US and abroad.
Printer story: So not only are the printers faulty and never got replaced (or at least fully repaired), but the galaxy-brained boss decided to replace the actually competent OP with two incompetent employees that believed that they could just be lazy and be excused since they were friends with higher-ups. Yeah, you're better off just replacing both the printers AND the idiot employees if you don't want to lose more thousands, boss. I wouldn't be surprised if the entire place went out of business
Printers in the 90s were garbage, they could be new and still not work as intended. Paper Jamming was a thing that happened every single time you tried to print something, either that or the printer just refused to print for no apparent reason at all.
@@Feljo the irony with the safeties in today's printers is that, depending on how the firmware handles things, they can essentially brick a multi-function printer. if there's a problem with the ink nozzles, for example, it might not let you use the scanner at all, even though that doesn't require ink
Had a manager a while back. She kept over ordering stock, so the warehouse was so full we couldn't get any more in or even get to anything without climbing over everything else. She was also trying to bully the deputy manager so her friiend could have the job instead. She ended up just walking out the job after a few months and the deputy got her job. However, we later found out she had been rehired and PROMOTED by the same company. The company went bust about a year or so later.
As an hourly employee I guarantee a no fault attendance policy is best. The other hourly employees aren’t the only ones who will abuse the system, management will too. Another employee who is buddies with the boss is late everyday, that’s okay, but you’re late once and get reprimanded. Everybody being treated equally is what’s best.
As a salaried employee, what we have is, "If your work is getting done and you seem to be around sufficient time per week, we're fine with that." I work from home, so my weeks actually vary from 30 to 50 hours--and my boss is entirely aware of that.
Warden: "What's the penalty for screwing up at my job?" *"WE KILL YOU!"* Warden: "Ok...? What's the penalty if I take up arms and try to kill you?" *"WE KILL YOU!"* Warden: "I guess I'll try to kill you first...?" *"You weren't supposed to do that."*
The warden at first didn't want to fight back, only plan to go in hiding and maybe become a bandit. The plan changed when the two people choose to fight instead of running away.
I don't understand phasing out a job? Clearly the job still needed to be done and they had other people doing it so how is it phased out? Wouldn't the phased-out job be the one that the two employees had been doing previously?
@@Seegtease My guess is, the two taking over remained in their current job roles, and the phased out job duties were spread among them, so while they each took on extra work, it "shouldn't" have been enough to impact their current workload. This eliminates an entire salary, while still maintaining the function of the lost person. Except, when you put it under idiots, and/or don't fully understand the function of the job you're phasing out.
@@coppercorn that would make sense if the job being phased out only required minimal attention. This one sounds like it requires them to focus on it all the time.
@@Seegtease That's just the concept behind phasing out a job, in this case though - Thus the "shouldn't", and the part about not fully understanding the function of the job.
Fun fact: the guy whom "draconian" was named after, Draco, died a stupid death by suffocating in a pile of hats, shirts and cloaks thrown at him from the audience of an amphitheatre.
In school I hated having to keep my inhaler with the nurse, especially because it meant I did not have one on me for the bus ride to and from school. Apparently it did not matter to them if I had an asthma attack on the bus 30 minutes from school or home. It also meant that instead of just using my inhaler during PE once my asthma started kicking in, I had to go all the way to the nurses office, easily spending 5 or more minutes out of class.
I feel this. When I was in grade school our nurse office was so disorganized on top of it all. Students had to put medication in pencil boxes with our pictures on it so she would know which one was correct. But of course since the office was small they just threw all the boxes in s cabinet, locked it, and only the nurse or principal had a key. So if I was having an asthma attack I had to go to the nurse, hope she was there (she usually wasn’t) and wait for her to unlock the cabinet, search for the right box, and then give me an inhaler
@@sandracox4341 The schools I went to have one clinic and if you had a class halfway across the school- you were probably as good as dead without the EpiPen 😭
I have never understood that mentality, the whole "5 minutes late and 3 hours late will receive the same punishment", dude that's the dumbest thing. If you made it 5 minutes late meant a verbal reminder to show up on time, and 10 minutes was time taken off your lunch break to make up for lost time etc, people would still rush even if they're late, that way they've still got a good reason to be in ASAP.
its a short sighted idea - the highest punishment no matter how low the crime. its a fear tactic, step one foot out of line and you'll face the firing squad. and it does work - productivity will rise and all crimes and such will drop. but it only works for a little while, because once something happens outside of a person's control that will result in them now committing a "crime" (traffic makes you late, prisoners managed to escape, etc.) you now have no real reason not to escalate to the highest crime possible, because you'll be punished the same no matter what. its short sighted because it will only work for a little while and then everything will become worse.
@@abiean222The fun part is always when the system creates its own undoer because "you are a traitor, we know it!" because of some random sh*t that they won't take any reasonable explanation for.
LOL, when I was a kid, I had stomach issues and the doctor told my mom to give me Exlax to help me poop. My mom bought some for me in a cholate form, my bother saw me eating one of these chocolate and he demanded from me to give him one. I gave him two because he was so annoying and could not stop whinnying until I gave it to him, when he finished eating them I laughed so hard knowing what would happened then he panicked, he spent several hours in the bathroom that day pooping like a burst pipe. LOL
I love “teachers have to have medication locked up” rules because I have epi-pens and emergency anti-histamines. I just hit them with a deadpan “are you willing to accept the liability if I die because I can’t get my emergency medications in time? You know, the emergency medications that I’ve been taking since I was twelve?” It’s better because the initial reason I was prescribed the epis before I developed food allergies was for an idiopathic autoimmune disorder with volatile and inconsistent triggers. I could get a little too stressed out and blow up like a pufferfish and die. Yeah, they never push the issue these days 😂
That ginger candy story is Awesome in two ways. The first is that it taught that kid a valuable lesson his parent obviously wouldn't: Don't be a demanding little shit to people and listen when you're told to be careful. The second is that Karma kicked that kid and his mom in the nuts immediately.
"Don't worry honey. Mommy is going to make sure that that woman is punnished for giving you yukkie candy. She sould have had some good candy for when people ask for it anyway. Let go find a manager and have that woman punished."
@rSlash Yes, the event of Chen Sheng (陈胜) and Wu Guang (吴广) uprising marks the beginning of the end of Qin dynasty (秦朝). Because, around the end of the Qin dynasty, the emporer has regulated a lot of cruel laws that made people suffer badly. After Chen and Wu uprising, people around the country rebeled against the brutal government like wildfire, and ultimately led to the Chu-Han war (楚汉之争) and the establishment of Han dynasty (汉朝). So yeah, it's understandable that Chen and Wu would uprise because they think it is better to make a chance for other people to survive rather than to die for that cruel reason (late for enlisting to defend the border due to the pouring rain), since the worst outcome is just the same - death.
You forgot to mention the warden that RSlash mentioned is Liu Bang, the guy who would later establish the Han dynasty. And Chen Sheng isn't exactly thinking for the people, but still, when your two options would all lead to death, people would natually choose the option that allows them for a chance to fight back.
Fact: Ginger works better for motion sickness than regular anti-nausea medication does. Additional fact: feeding brats vile/spicy/bitter things is fun.
I would recommend the OTC medication Bonine, active ingredient meclizine 25mg. I knew one guy who ate ginger and swore by it but it didnt help me. The other widely sole OTC medication Dramamine isnt too effective. After about 8 years of going to sea my sea sickness diminished thank goodness.
Second story: my younger brother did this with spicy sauce. He was whining until our dad dipped a knife in the sauce, wiped it off and handed it to him. "lick this very carefully, just with the tip of your tongue. If you can do that without crying, you get some of the sauce" Kid showed the knife in his mouth and was busy drinking milk for the rest of the evening. He was too stubborn to complain, spit anything out or even cry. That would be confirming that he was wrong and the sauce was too spicy
As a PCSM for OD the printer story has me in giggle fits. Being a print specialist is a niche department and it’s always entertaining. That story just made my da.
Student: Kevin has a crush on Sarah, pass it on. OP: Dear Mr Principal, I'd just like to inform you, per our last conversation, that Kevin has a crush on Sarah. I trust you’ll do all you can to resolve this matter.
8:46 I remember those printers. If you didn’t flip the first page over in front of the printer it would get pulled back in with the rest of the feed and the little knobs on the side would go in each little hole on the sides of the papers and keep reeling it in
I know exactly what it's like to have a printer with a "personality." I used to work for an accounting firm, and we had to do a lot of printing in the spring since that's tax season. The printer would jam up every so often, and usually I was the one to fix it. That printer had so many little nooks and crevices where bunched up paper could hide. Unjamming it was sometimes like getting a dog to open its mouth when it eats something it shouldn't.
That comparison reminds me of our dog. Actively concerned for that little ducker sometimes because he still partially refuses to learn that just chewing on whatever he wants and eating half of it can get really dangerous fast.
6:15 if the kids weren't there, a line about how the candy was medicated could have resolved the issue fast. "I'm sorry but this candy has my anxiety medication in it, I'm pretty sure you don't want your kid eating that."
So, there's this episode of Star Trek TNG where the crew comes up to this paradise planet where everything is super amazing and peaceful. Until they realize that the reason is that minor infractions merit the death penalty. Picard then has a big debate-bro moment with the ruler of this civilization about how imoral it is, etc etc. However, I find it funny that when such laws were actually implemented, it just results in chaos ^^
The only reason that worked is the people on that planet had a cartoonish submissiveness to authority, just like those other aliens that all went into the gas chambers willingly every time their computer war simulation said a city got bombed.
God i cant stand moms who just let their kids ask for food from strangers. Karen: "oh look that nice man said he has candy in his van! Go ahead sweety."
As someone who works in a print room, it's really hard to show management your hard work. Either I'm working hard and the printer is producing nothing or the printer is working hard and I'm doing nothing.
My mom just recently retired from teaching high school, but around 15 years ago I had gone on a trip and brought back durian candy, the stuff tasted like garbage water, I'm not even exaggerating, anyway I clearly wasn't going to eat this bag of candy and my mom asked for it, I thought nothing of it, a few days later she told me that one of her students was helping themselves to some of her candy she kept in her desk and she wanted to know who, well the durian candy did the job, she said the student cried and tried vomiting in the trash can, she said it was glorious
Weather: Rains Soldier 1: We're gonna be late! Soldier 2: The Emperor would have us killed if we're late! General: So why don't we kill him first? Narrator: And so it was.
There used to be a signs at one of the schools in the district I work at that said something akin to, "The copier will fail proportional to how desperately you need to make copies. It will also fail proportional to how much you yell at it." If that applies to old printers those two idiots were definitely blowing things up even more than they already did by NOT listening to OP's training.
The Printer story is basically the equivalent of skipping the in tutorial of a video game and jumping straight in. It goes as well as you'd expect at that point
To be fair, some games are very similar in playstyle, that you can just pick up and play with little to no issues. The more complex a game is, the harder it is to just pick up and play.
One of my old employers had a policy that being 1 minute late was actually worse than 2 days of an absence for 2 days, and it was only on day 3 that you were required to have a doctors note. So... naturally if you were gonna be any type of late you called out sick for two days.
The candy thing happened to me too. My fave candy is something called atomic fireball. A cinnamon jaw breaker that got really hot in your mouth. One of my nephews asked me for it and i warned him and his dad. They laughed and he ate it only to spit it out and start crying. The dad was shocked and then tried one and started laughing. He asked me where i even got these.
In the first story, I've run smaller (less than 10 associates total) IT departments for multiple companies. I consider this to be a profession, so anyone I hire better be a professional. For time, be they hourly or salary, I always said: "I will be as strict with arrival times as you are with departure times." Meaning, if all I ever saw at 1701 was dust in the wind, you better be here at 0800. If you got the work done, even if it meant a few 1715 or 1705 days per week, then I don't care when you arrive, so long as it's less than half an hour late. If you had a good reason, it could be hours late. Need to go see a doctor? Fantastic, don't worry about asking for the time off, just get here as soon as you can after. I always figured that we got our time back over the weeks/months/years of the occasional late day and that a happy associate is going to be a more productive associate. The same goes for loyalty, I tried to be as loyal to my associates as I expected them to be to me. I went without a raise more than once because my associates come first.
5:39 idk about anyone else but… I actually enjoy ginger candies, at one point I had to stop buying them because I was addicted to the kick from the ginger lol
A kid who went to my high school was suspended for bringing a knife to school. He was planning to kill his bully the next time the bully beat him up, since the punishment for getting beaten up was the same four-week suspension the bully received and the amount of suspensions he already had on his record (entirely from getting beaten up a lot) meant that he wasn't going to be able to get into a good college.
On the little bit there about the kid that stole from the teacher's purse, I use to work at an after school center & staff would keep their items in the staff room where it's supposed to be safe considering the kids aren't allowed in there. One day, a kid from where I work saw me at the mall & remembered what my bag looks like. During work, he commented, "your Coke bag you had at the mall looks really cool." I thanked him & then he asked, "did you bring it in today?" I stupidly told him that I did & that resulted in him sneaking into the staff room & stealing something from my bag. I use to always go to Pokemon TCG prerelease tournaments because it gets me the new cards before they come out & it was a tradition for me to show the kids there that play the game the new cards & teach them what they do & all that so when they release, they would know how they function. Well, that's what the kid stole, the new cards. Apparently his mom banned Pokemon cards so he didn't have any of his own, it was through him stealing them that we discovered that he's been stealing cards from the kids at the center for a while, he had a huge stack of the cards! I knew which ones were mine due to the set symbol since it's highly unlikely anyone else there would have those cards considering they weren't out yet.
Not my story, but my brother's: back in the early 80's he was in a cooking class. Some of the students kept stealing the sweetened bakers chocolate, but the teacher couldn't prove who. Enter the chocolate exlax... it didn't take long to find out who was stalking the chocolate... These were pretty big guys (wrestlers), so they toughed it out as much as they could with multiple trips, but never stole chocolate again.
They were probably trying to bulk up to reach their coach's desired weight classes for them, and those laxatives resulted in them cutting a bunch of weight instead.
Honestly, i love yugo, but im so glad puppy bloopers aren't in these anymore because i listen to relax before sleeping. The barking used to startle me back awake. Haha
Ah, the classic: "How dare you do what I told you to!? I would have been mad if you hadn't, but because I didn't like the result, I'm mad at you anyway." This is why you grit your teeth and discipline your kids instead of giving in every time and inconveniencing other people. Or at least ask nicely...
13:50 "And I Was Not Allowed To Fix Any Of The Problems." sounds more like OP didn't have to fix those problems, it was left to Things One & Two, messing up completely. Sounds good for keeping OP employed, along with severance pay. 🥺😊 Hope all's well for OP.
Printer story: as someone who worked at a certain office supply company with two names, I can tell you 3 of the same model printers will in fact work differently and have different solutions. Lord I thought about taking a baseball bat to work many times.
I had a guy offer me $40,000 to make software for checking ink level printers, and i told him sorry, it would have to be at minimum $150,000, because printers aren't standardized at all (different ways of measuring, communicating, everything), and even within the same manufacturer it isn't consistent, when he thought it was all going to be simple to do. He got all huffy, and said he would find someone else, and never did. Well, he found people who had no idea what they were doing, and wasted his money, and the company failed. If done right, it would be multi-year project, which he wanted to pay a 1 time fee for.
My notifications keep getting changed for Rslash! I’m getting ticked off. I’ve had to switch it twice in a couple months. I love to listen to these EVERY MORNING! The only TH-camr I constantly and consistently listen to! The hell is going on? Hey y’all! 😂
Printer story.... I began my state IT career as an Operator in our department's Computer Room. It was much more of a printer room, with multiple types of printers. Breakdowns and faults were very common. So I can commiserate with OP. At one point, after my coworker left for another job, andcI worked 13 months on night shift alone. It was often pure Hell. 🙄
The ginger story is really getting to me! I love the way ginger taste, but I am deathly allergic to it. That didn’t develop until I got older, I used to love Punch made with Gingerale. But I can’t have any at all, which makes eating Asian food very hard to do.
For the ginger candy story, I'm reminded of this. I'm a big fan of all things spicy, including ginger (I call it having a cinder-tooth). I had a bag of Gin-gins, a chewy taffy like candy of a fair potency. my 3 year old son wanted some and I eventually gave him half. He ate it like it was nothing and asked for more.
the candy story reminds me of the first time I tried ginger beer. For those who don't know, ginger beer is basically a much stronger version of ginger ale, made with actual ginger, instead of just flavouring, like you get on some commercial GA. It's very popular in the UK, not so much in Canada or at least in the part where I was living. We were at some kind of fair or event and my dad, who was born in Britian, was really excited that one of the food vendors had ginger beer. I tried a bit and my eyes bugged out. Didn't quite do the spit take but one sip was enough. Ironically, since then I've actually gotten a taste for natural ginger ale, which has more of a ginger kick, though still find ginger beer a bit too strong.
Why would anyone carry around ex-lax? This is a very potent laxative and was meant to be taken at bedtime. It looked like a mini version of a Hershey Bar and children often mistakenly thought it was chocolate. However, in the USA the chocolate version has been discontinued.
The ginger candy story reminds me of a story about an entitled mother-daughter duo my mom encountered. This took place when I was in my early 20s and was off working in Costa Rica and Panama. I was still officially living at home and still had my room and all my stuff at my parents'. Important note: this was before I went Marie Kondo on all my stuff so I had *a lot* of old shit in my room. One day my mom's step niece and her daughter (about 5 years old) came to visit. (Note: My mom is not on good terms with that side of the family ever since her step mother died and her step brothers basically robbed her of the inheritance left from her father.) The adults sat down to talk in the kitchen while the girl went exploring in the house, which my mom wasn't too comfortable with but she let it slide. All of a sudden my giant stuffed giraffe came bouncing down the stairs. Later, when my mom when to put the giraffe back into my room, she found candy wrappers on the floor. She discovered that the girl had found and opened a candy tin I kept in my room containing (probably 5 year old) cough tablets. Later in the evening, the step niece called my mom in a panic: "My daughter has a really bad stomach ache and I found candy wrappers in her pockets! What did she eat???" My mom, a bit smug, calmly replied: "I don't know what Ellen keeps in her room. That's her stuff and I don't go in there." We haven't heard from the step niece since.
doing crime is execution is like the sole reason why some revolts happen. It is historical proof why the punishment should fit the crime, cause if it doesn't, that's how and why heads will roll.
A bud from way back would be late to his own funeral, yet took a job where they were obsessed if not manic about punctuality, and had a literal 3-strikes policy. Within a couple of months he got 2 strikes, was running late one morning, ran out of the house without even locking the front door, drove like a maniac to get there, but *knew* he'd be fired for being late once he showed up. He'd be fired for being late. Hmm. But he *wouldn't* be fired for being sick. So he pulled over in a gas station, called in, said he was sick as a dog and wouldn't be in that day. _"Okay, feel better!"_ And he went to see a movie then putzed around the rest of the day, enjoying his *paid* day off. That was his newfound secret, which of course he blabbed to a few people and it got around. Latenesses dropped to almost nothing, but sick time skyrocketted.
I was expecting to hear that the students called Mr. OP out of the room so that other students could do things in his room while he was out. (Yes, I was a teacher.)
One of my first jobs had a department supervisor who thought the same thing. "If you're 1 minute late, you pay will be docked 1 hour." When being told this as a group, one spoke up and said, "Ok, dock my pay, I'll sit right here and see you in 59 minutes."
The printer story makes me wonder if the company was looking for a way to get rid of the two replacement employees. They’d been there for years, so they knew their personalities and work habits, they had extensive documentation of their unwillingness and inability to do the job, they didn’t intervene at any point, and they ordered OP not to help or instruct at the crunch point. It’s a perfect set up to get rid of people who don’t do what their told but are good at looking busy and following rules enough to keep their jobs. Perfect justification to terminate employment. Bad implementation because it was obviously much worse than they thought it would be. Or they figured sinking the cost was worth it.
I was told I wasn't allowed to help any of my coworkers without permission. I was being "punished"....okay. I happily watched things fail and not get resolved quickly for 90 days, because my manager refused to let me "help". After 90 days I had successfully completed my "punishment", and all was forgiven. I said I preferred the punishment rules and so as to avoid the issue in the future would make sure permission was given before I helped. Hmmm...karma is a lovely thing.
Who are these reckless mothers and where did they come from? They should teach them stranger danger, the mothers I mean, not the children. hey kids when you see a stranger in a white van and they tell you that they have candy hop in
Honestly I think the last op was wrong, since it states multiple students said they heard it that’s a reason to report it. That’s a liability and a lawsuit for the teacher and the district if something happens cause of it
When I was in high school, I think senior year, my classmates went to the bathroom during class and almost immediately ran back into the room yelling that there were 2 kids "calofornicating" in the bathroom. It ended up with the male being tackled at the end of it.
Maybe it's just here in the UK lateness by 5 ,10 or 3 hours is still late. Each lateness you get is a recorded conversation. If you have over 3 lates , you get a disciplinary hearing. During that the employee gets to explain what happened with a manager and HR . If there is a valid reason like Extreme weather ,a health emergency , parents with children under 6 , or if you are the primary carer for someone. Then nothing is done If it's sleeping in , it's traffic or anything that's your responsibility because you failed to plan a head ie not leaving home early to allow extra time for road issues like getting stuck behind a tractor, or if there is a marathon on you will get a verbal warning on file for 6 months, if you have 1 late in that 6 months, you get a first written warning on file for 12 months. If you have a late in between then you'll get out on a final written warning for the year . If you're late once then , You get fired. Op is pretty damn stupid, because this attitude doesn't apply to lateness. It does however apply to sick days sickness is counted in sick periods. 1 sick day = 1 sick period, 2 weeks = is still 1 sick period. That's why people say it's better to take off more than one sick day . Because say you sick on Monday, you feel a bit better on Tuesday so you come in ..you feel awful on Wednesday call in sick . That's 2 sick periods. Which means you only have 1 left before the disciplinary is triggered. So take the full week to recover. Rules change when it's long term sick which can last up to 3 months on statutory sick pay with a doctor note. When it comes to work I've worked as both the person given the disciplinary and the one getting one, I've even been fired for being late, which I got over turned. Because the floor manager was lazy and didn't check that I'd swap shifts to help them. But what I've learned is always cover your ass , don't volunteer information.. honesty is not the best possible work smarter not harder. Read your hand book and know it inside out . Don't sign things blindly.. People will throw you under the bus to save themselves and don't trust anyone . Never ever quiet. 1 if you leave without having another job, you can't gain unemployment. 2 if you get fired for lateness sickness, performance. Here in the UK providing you're not on probation You will get an month's wages on top of what you've worked up to that days and any holidays you've left will also get paid. Don't worry about a reference because anyone can do it , but more importantly ex employers can't bad mouth. All they can talk about is your General work itself . Also record everything regardless of consent, because managers have been caught lying while it won't hold up in court. If CEO hears about it they will take action towards the manager and fire them and keep you to prevent a law suit.
I've got my own chocolate story, not this extreme but it was still funny, I was buying ingredients for a brownie recipe my trade teacher gave me, one of the ingredients is Baker's chocolate which is made of 100% choco with 0 sugar, and it's bitter as a narcissistic mother in law on valentine's day, and this woman and her 6 year old asked for a peice of my $6 chocolate bar. me: "it's has no sugar or sweetener" Karen: "he happens to love dark chocolate" Me: "I'll make you a deal if I give him a squire and he doesn't like it, you'll have to buy me a new one" Karen, sweet ignorant Karen agreed. Long story short I got a new chocolate bar, and for them being good sports about it, I got the kid a hurshi bar
That printer story is so... dumbfounding. Like, bruh you're an effin PRINTING company but you manage to underestimate and fire the ONLY ONE printers maintenance guy? I'm astounded how the higher-ups manage to run their company all this time lmao
I mean, listen man, when I’m really annoyed at work, as a joke I’ll think to myself “any guest who does this annoying thing will be dragged out back and shot” But Jesus ITS A JOKE
I used to keep those Red Hots (big jawbreakers, not the small chewy ones) for Just Such Occasions. You can get a big bucket of 'em online for pretty cheap. If even I could stand 'em, there are hot-pepper (ghost, reaper, etc.) candies which come in all sorts of pretty colors, too.
I totally understand the guy on the first story. My work has a point system. If I’m getting half a point for being 3 minutes or 3 hours late, I’m going to be three hours late.
Chen Sheng and Wu Guang. Not Qin Xing and Wu Kuang. They got the villagers to help in the rebellion as well, it worked because the current king had just been overthrown and everyone liked the old king more.
Regarding that candy story, it's very irresponsible to demand candy from strangers, especially if you don't know what it is. I would've told them "I told you so" after that
I love the printer one so much lol! Learning about all of this old tech is just unfathomable, you just never see anything _remotely_ like that nowadays.
I think of it as spiced, as it’s used as a spice, but not spicy, as in hot. Garlic is also a spice, and while chomping into some string raw garlic might irritate your mouth, it’s not the same as slamming down some hot peppers lol
@@mariposa9506 yes, sorry I wasn’t clear, but I meant if something has ginger added to it, it counts as spiced, since ginger is a spice. Spiced candy, not spicy candy.
I'm currently 6months into having a new manager with my coworkers sadly. And yes it's annoyingly bad. He just does changes he thinks would be cheaper and it just makes it worse Every, Single, F***ing, Time. So it's fun.
You mentioned two of the uprisings that overthrew the Qin Dynasty and its overkill Legalist philosophy. As for the warden... We know him as the first emperor of Han.
My Grandfather was a US Civil War veteran. My father was his last child before he died. So my dad received his veteran benefits. Well, his uncles were real POSs. They moved in and lived off him. Taking the good food and my Dad basically lived off beans as a child. So when my dad walked the 4 miles to the mailbox and found two huge chocolate bars in the mailbox, he knew if he took it home, the uncles would just take it away from him and shove him to the ground. And yes, X-Lax had sent out samples. This is in the 1920s and the bars was segmented but ... they were big bars. So my day ate it all. Every bite. With expected results. And to give you another view of one of the uncles... My dad married and 3 months after his son was born, he went to fight in WW2. During the Battle of the Bugle when he is fighting for his life, he got a Dear John letter from an aunt, informing him that his uncle had knocked up his wife. My old man sure struggled to catch a break but as with the Ex-Lax, it was all-too-often with shitty results.
In the printer story, if OP's job was being phased out, how could he need to train people for a job that wouldn't exist after OP's last day? I'm very confused.
It reminds me when I was on the bus and I was drinking a gingerbread frappe from Starbucks and this kid starts begging me for some and and I told him that he couldn't have any cuz it was for adults and his mother started screaming at me to give him some cuz she gives him Starbucks all the time lady flipped out and yanked the coffee from me and then her son down like half of it and that's what I told her that there was Fireball in it and she freaked out and got so loudly that the bus driver pulled off and asked her to get off
Fun fact: The Warden who joined the escaping prisoners eventually led an uprising against the government and founded the Han Dynasty.
More or less, it's a simplified version of the story, but it's one of my favorites for the sheer absurdity of it.
Human history really is something special.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
I knew that it sounded like Liu Bang!
@@cecejamesable and truth is often stranger than fiction
The warden would have been executed for letting the prisoners go. So working with the prisoners, at least he wouldn't be executed for it.
The statement "Don't kill the messenger" is a line from Shakespeare, but it came from an actual issue back then. Monarch's, Aristocrat's and military commanders would just kill the messenger out of frustration from receiving bad news. Well this would make any messenger wary of relaying these messages, so if they knew the information was bad they would just run for it and never relay the message. So many battles, wars and Monarchy's failed because of this stupid act by frustrated leaders.
People always become monsters when they're granted godlike authority.
@@agentzapdos4960 It's the people who don't want the power that are the most qualified to get it.
@@JamesDavy2009 I don't want power precisely because I know I would be a psychotic lunatic tyrant with it.
Yep, they also did this to enemy's messengers. Historically, one of the biggest empire was destroyed because they killed and humiliated messengers from the Mongol empire. Genghis khan actually don't want to go to war, he just want a payment for a caravan a governor forcefully took. Because they killed and humiliated his messengers, he invaded the empire and razed the city.
We're seeing this again these days in a less "final" version.
Just look at how Elon Musk handled Twitter. Or how Trump handled the presidency.
Whenever their advisors tell them something they don't like, they get fired.
I suppose the most obvious case was Alex Jones, who kept firing his lawyers until the only lawyer he got was one so incompetent he leaked his entire phone to the opposition^^
BTW, this doesn't just happen to conservatives, it tends to happen generally when people who have only heard "yes" their entire lives and are raised in luxury are forced to take up real responsibility.
Ah, printers...
I remember reading "people may betray you, but a machine won't", and I thought to myself: "whoever wrote this never saw a printer being used by someone in a hurry."
I work with a professional art printer for my job, and it is the most temperamental, moody machine I've ever worked with. It will complain over the tiniest problems. It makes beautiful prints, but it drives me crazy some times.
To "betray" means that one violates an expectation. Once you expect total and complete mutiny from a machine, they never "betray" you, per se.
Machines can't betray you because they were never on your side to begin with.
I do controls and maintenance in a factory. When I overheard a manager saying "machines don't make mistakes, only people do" I had to stop myself from throwing hands.
Or, or, simply just using whatever garbage HP sells. You wouldn't believe the sheer number of times I've yelled at, slapped, and punched the printer. I'm usually not even in a hurry, it's just agitating to use, but I can't do shit about it, I'm not the one in charge of replacing the printer.
The candy story is wild to me, because my 3 year old does NOT demand what others have. Even when people share, like at a recent tractor pull, he says thank you. This mom must have done literally nothing to teach this kid manners OR boundaries.
That was the striking part to me that comes up in a lot of these stories. Not that the kid wants something so much as the parents demanding something from strangers to appease their spawn.
@glennrishton5679 yeah what if they were gummies with weed or LSD
@@velvetdarksoul8741
Yes, especially as cannabis is becoming increasingly legal and available.
@@glennrishton5679 i read a Reddit post yesterday. Guy seeking advice for what to do about his wife/gf, who's making up serious, but fake stories to link to her Tik Tok, for views.
I genuinely believe that upwards of 40 to 50 percent of the stuff written on Reddit, is of this nature. After all Reddit is a pretty weird place where people seek validation.
I love how crimes committed by the students cause teachers to be punished. What was wrong with punishing the student for theft?!
Well, the parents might sue for 'HarRasSmEnt', while the teacher's too dead inside to care.
I mean clearly that showed that their medication was not necessarily safe.
What if the medication was for a heart condition to make it beat slower/faster? It's great if you're suffering the condition, but with a normal heart rate, it could be very dangerous.
Tell me a small box of blue pills in the male teacher's bag could not be mistaken for viagra by a stupid teen wanting to jerk it more while his parents are out.
Because…the kid could have died…and the school…didn’t want to be sued…? I’d think it was obvious. If a kid dies at your school after stealing medicine he thought was candy, the same principle applies as when a kid dies at your school after stealing alcohol he thought was juice. The school gets sued for having something that could kill a student anywhere that a student could get to it. The burden is always on the adults to make sure that the dangerous substance isn’t somewhere a kid could get to it. That’s why pills always have childproof lids, plus strict instructions to keep them on a high shelf or in a locked cabinet.
The kid experienced natural consequences anyways, I think shitting your guts out enough to need an ambulance is enough punishment to learn not to steal and eat random things. You don’t need to force unnatural consequences every time a kid does something bad, if consequences have already been faced as a direct result of that action. It’s a redundant waste of time and energy which accomplishes literally nothing, because the child has already learned. The only thing it does is reassert the adult’s feeling of dominance and power over the child.
The teacher isn't punished, rather, this is a safety precaution.
This is actually a good thing, a perfect example of the concept:
"Work with people's nature, not against it."
You could just stomp your feet and demand no kid ever steal, but realistically, this is insanity. Instead, it should be made as hard as possible for students to get at real medicine, even accidentally.
y'all stupid. This is a junior high student. He is old enough to know not to steal. Not all schools have a secure staff room and a laxative is the perfect example of a medication that might be needed at a moments notice. Also, the teacher might not HAVE the time to run to the office in order to grab medicine in the case of an emergency.
Why would a parent let their kid eat something from a stranger? That candy could have been filled with liquor, or worse!
This happened in another story r/slash read. It was an event and OP in that story mixed some sort of alcohol with vanilla coke-a-cola (the event didn't allow outside beer/alcohol) and some kid wanted to drink it. OP said no, telling them its not a drink they should have. Though iirc, the kid snatched it out of their bag, ran off with it and drank it. The kid got sick and the entitled mom was screaming that OP must've poisoned it or something but they explained there was alcohol in it. Security at the event had the kid taken to get treated by on site nurses and turned out fine. The OP was just warned to be more careful if they planned to make more batches of that soda/alcohol mix.
Reminded me of the story he read about an Op on a bus being told to give a drink to a 4yo and said drink had like 2 shots of espresso in it.
@@reddiamond6524 I remember that one! It was blonde espresso and quite a *lot* of sugar/flavor syrup in it!!
I live in Florida and got arrested for carrying marijuana without a card last year when I got pulled over. (Yeah, I was dumb as hell for that one.)
My probation officer and I are cool though. She told me that in our county, they had to issue a Halloween warning to look out for sweet tart candy since some evil drug dealers were lacing them with FENTANYL.
Yeah, definitely look out for candy given out by strangers.
@@rosealicia1782 makes me smile thinking of that kid jumping around the walls like Daffy Duck shortly afterwards.
Story 2: Always consider the possibility that the candy that the other person has isn't really candy (or is spicy candy). Trust me, you're better off with no candy than a burned mouth (or in the toilet for half an hour)
I make my own candy. You...really wouldn't like most of it. When your candy company makes spearmint, they use about 1/8th tsp per pound. When I make it, I use 1 tsp per pound, because I want flavor with less sweet and shatter it down to very small bits.
Oh, how I love entitled children and their entitled parents. Sure, kid, take the biggest piece there.
And these parents are so stupid too, do none of them remember the saying 'Don't take candy from strangers"? These days it would be so easy to walk into an amusement park with a bag of poisoned candy, pretend to eat it, and then hand pieces out to entitled children at the demand of their parents.
Those ginger candies, if they are the ones I'm thinking, are awesome. I bought them in a Korean market.
@@giancarloc1985they're so freaking good!! Sweet and spicy, it's amazing!
@@BronzeDragon133 I'd probably love them. I used to gnosh on spearmint leaves as a kid because they grew on the side of my grandma's house.
The phrase "might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb" was coined in response to situations like the first story. If the punishment for a minor offence is _already_ the most severe possible, you might as well go off the chain at that point.
Made me think back to zero tolerance bullying policies in school. If you're going to be involved in a fight (despite not even having thrown a punch or done anything to defend yourself) then go ahead and pull all of the stops if it happens again.
@@rosealicia1782 Yep. Zero tolerance policies have that risk. People are gonna be people and think about how rules benefit them (or harm them least), so it's best to have sensible and compassionate rules to begin with.
@@rosealicia1782 Zero Tolerance led to a kid starting to bring a knife to school with the intention of killing the bully next time he was to be beaten up by the bully.
@@agentzapdos4960 I can't say I'm surprised. One kid I know literally ended up throwing their bully out of a window the next time it happened.
@@rosealicia1782 I have to wonder what role Zero Tolerance policies have in the increasing occurrence of mass shooting events in schools in the United States, and the effect on kids bringing non-firearm weapons to school both in the US and abroad.
Printer story: So not only are the printers faulty and never got replaced (or at least fully repaired), but the galaxy-brained boss decided to replace the actually competent OP with two incompetent employees that believed that they could just be lazy and be excused since they were friends with higher-ups.
Yeah, you're better off just replacing both the printers AND the idiot employees if you don't want to lose more thousands, boss. I wouldn't be surprised if the entire place went out of business
isn't nepotism great?
They probably had to get the promoted guy(if he was still working for the company) come in and force train the two idiots.
Printers in the 90s were garbage, they could be new and still not work as intended. Paper Jamming was a thing that happened every single time you tried to print something, either that or the printer just refused to print for no apparent reason at all.
@@Feljo the irony with the safeties in today's printers is that, depending on how the firmware handles things, they can essentially brick a multi-function printer. if there's a problem with the ink nozzles, for example, it might not let you use the scanner at all, even though that doesn't require ink
Had a manager a while back. She kept over ordering stock, so the warehouse was so full we couldn't get any more in or even get to anything without climbing over everything else. She was also trying to bully the deputy manager so her friiend could have the job instead. She ended up just walking out the job after a few months and the deputy got her job. However, we later found out she had been rehired and PROMOTED by the same company. The company went bust about a year or so later.
As an hourly employee I guarantee a no fault attendance policy is best. The other hourly employees aren’t the only ones who will abuse the system, management will too. Another employee who is buddies with the boss is late everyday, that’s okay, but you’re late once and get reprimanded. Everybody being treated equally is what’s best.
As a salaried employee, what we have is, "If your work is getting done and you seem to be around sufficient time per week, we're fine with that."
I work from home, so my weeks actually vary from 30 to 50 hours--and my boss is entirely aware of that.
That really depends on how much your attendance and punctuality affects others’ productivity and overtime.
@@robertaylor9218 anyone can be made a scapegoat
@@black1917 I was taking about effectiveness to productivity, not who can get away with what.
@@robertaylor9218 yet 9 times out of 10 thats what it comes down to
Warden: "What's the penalty for screwing up at my job?"
*"WE KILL YOU!"*
Warden: "Ok...? What's the penalty if I take up arms and try to kill you?"
*"WE KILL YOU!"*
Warden: "I guess I'll try to kill you first...?"
*"You weren't supposed to do that."*
"violence is punishable by death!"
-Rowan, VLDL
The warden at first didn't want to fight back, only plan to go in hiding and maybe become a bandit. The plan changed when the two people choose to fight instead of running away.
And he proceeded to go on to found the most successful Chinease dynasty.
Hell, if I'm gonna die, may as well take you with me or send you to warm up my seat in Hell for me.
I mean dying is gay.
Story 4: Rule one of phasing out a job, make sure the people you give the task to are actually learning instead of being lazy and stupid
The fact that they "phased out" one person's job, by replacing him with 2 people, is clue #1 that the higher ups are idiots.
I don't understand phasing out a job? Clearly the job still needed to be done and they had other people doing it so how is it phased out? Wouldn't the phased-out job be the one that the two employees had been doing previously?
@@Seegtease My guess is, the two taking over remained in their current job roles, and the phased out job duties were spread among them, so while they each took on extra work, it "shouldn't" have been enough to impact their current workload. This eliminates an entire salary, while still maintaining the function of the lost person. Except, when you put it under idiots, and/or don't fully understand the function of the job you're phasing out.
@@coppercorn that would make sense if the job being phased out only required minimal attention. This one sounds like it requires them to focus on it all the time.
@@Seegtease That's just the concept behind phasing out a job, in this case though - Thus the "shouldn't", and the part about not fully understanding the function of the job.
First story (and the historical extras) are a great example of why draconian punishment straight up doesn't work
Fun fact: the guy whom "draconian" was named after, Draco, died a stupid death by suffocating in a pile of hats, shirts and cloaks thrown at him from the audience of an amphitheatre.
@@JamesDavy2009Darwin Award 😮
In school I hated having to keep my inhaler with the nurse, especially because it meant I did not have one on me for the bus ride to and from school. Apparently it did not matter to them if I had an asthma attack on the bus 30 minutes from school or home.
It also meant that instead of just using my inhaler during PE once my asthma started kicking in, I had to go all the way to the nurses office, easily spending 5 or more minutes out of class.
Schools like this wouldn't do that with an Epipen, would they? You don't need to be a medical expert to know how much of a bad idea that is!
It's ridiculous.
That and EpiPens.
What good is an EpiPen five minutes away at the nurses station.
I feel this. When I was in grade school our nurse office was so disorganized on top of it all. Students had to put medication in pencil boxes with our pictures on it so she would know which one was correct. But of course since the office was small they just threw all the boxes in s cabinet, locked it, and only the nurse or principal had a key. So if I was having an asthma attack I had to go to the nurse, hope she was there (she usually wasn’t) and wait for her to unlock the cabinet, search for the right box, and then give me an inhaler
That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen
@@sandracox4341
The schools I went to have one clinic and if you had a class halfway across the school- you were probably as good as dead without the EpiPen 😭
I have never understood that mentality, the whole "5 minutes late and 3 hours late will receive the same punishment", dude that's the dumbest thing.
If you made it 5 minutes late meant a verbal reminder to show up on time, and 10 minutes was time taken off your lunch break to make up for lost time etc, people would still rush even if they're late, that way they've still got a good reason to be in ASAP.
its a short sighted idea - the highest punishment no matter how low the crime. its a fear tactic, step one foot out of line and you'll face the firing squad. and it does work - productivity will rise and all crimes and such will drop. but it only works for a little while, because once something happens outside of a person's control that will result in them now committing a "crime" (traffic makes you late, prisoners managed to escape, etc.) you now have no real reason not to escalate to the highest crime possible, because you'll be punished the same no matter what.
its short sighted because it will only work for a little while and then everything will become worse.
@@abiean222The fun part is always when the system creates its own undoer because "you are a traitor, we know it!" because of some random sh*t that they won't take any reasonable explanation for.
LOL, when I was a kid, I had stomach issues and the doctor told my mom to give me Exlax to help me poop. My mom bought some for me in a cholate form, my bother saw me eating one of these chocolate and he demanded from me to give him one. I gave him two because he was so annoying and could not stop whinnying until I gave it to him, when he finished eating them I laughed so hard knowing what would happened then he panicked, he spent several hours in the bathroom that day pooping like a burst pipe. LOL
I love “teachers have to have medication locked up” rules because I have epi-pens and emergency anti-histamines. I just hit them with a deadpan “are you willing to accept the liability if I die because I can’t get my emergency medications in time? You know, the emergency medications that I’ve been taking since I was twelve?” It’s better because the initial reason I was prescribed the epis before I developed food allergies was for an idiopathic autoimmune disorder with volatile and inconsistent triggers. I could get a little too stressed out and blow up like a pufferfish and die. Yeah, they never push the issue these days 😂
Did the autoimmune disorder go away or do you still have it to this day? Cuz it sounds like it sucks to have it
That ginger candy story is Awesome in two ways. The first is that it taught that kid a valuable lesson his parent obviously wouldn't: Don't be a demanding little shit to people and listen when you're told to be careful.
The second is that Karma kicked that kid and his mom in the nuts immediately.
"Don't worry honey. Mommy is going to make sure that that woman is punnished for giving you yukkie candy. She sould have had some good candy for when people ask for it anyway. Let go find a manager and have that woman punished."
@rSlash Yes, the event of Chen Sheng (陈胜) and Wu Guang (吴广) uprising marks the beginning of the end of Qin dynasty (秦朝).
Because, around the end of the Qin dynasty, the emporer has regulated a lot of cruel laws that made people suffer badly. After Chen and Wu uprising, people around the country rebeled against the brutal government like wildfire, and ultimately led to the Chu-Han war (楚汉之争) and the establishment of Han dynasty (汉朝).
So yeah, it's understandable that Chen and Wu would uprise because they think it is better to make a chance for other people to survive rather than to die for that cruel reason (late for enlisting to defend the border due to the pouring rain), since the worst outcome is just the same - death.
You forgot to mention the warden that RSlash mentioned is Liu Bang, the guy who would later establish the Han dynasty.
And Chen Sheng isn't exactly thinking for the people, but still, when your two options would all lead to death, people would natually choose the option that allows them for a chance to fight back.
@@ultramagnus4105 Yeah, some of the details may not be recalled correctly. My bad.
Thanks for your correction and filling in the info. :-)
"Then the business got sold and we got new management"
Malicious Compliance gods: "Okay, here we go again..." **cracking knuckles**
Fact:
Ginger works better for motion sickness than regular anti-nausea medication does.
Additional fact: feeding brats vile/spicy/bitter things is fun.
I would recommend the OTC medication Bonine, active ingredient meclizine 25mg. I knew one guy who ate ginger and swore by it but it didnt help me. The other widely sole OTC medication Dramamine isnt too effective. After about 8 years of going to sea my sea sickness diminished thank goodness.
That's why my housemate drinks Bundaberg Ginger Beer whenever she goes on a road trip or flight.
Second story: my younger brother did this with spicy sauce. He was whining until our dad dipped a knife in the sauce, wiped it off and handed it to him. "lick this very carefully, just with the tip of your tongue. If you can do that without crying, you get some of the sauce"
Kid showed the knife in his mouth and was busy drinking milk for the rest of the evening. He was too stubborn to complain, spit anything out or even cry. That would be confirming that he was wrong and the sauce was too spicy
Story 3: Anytime a douchebag/moron gets BRUTALLY destroyed by their own words, an angel gets it's wings!
its*
As Weird Al points out, "it's" is a contraction of "it is".
@@JamesDavy2009
Possession only requires an apostrophe when it's specific.
Its, hers, his, theirs, ours... no apostrophes on any.
As a PCSM for OD the printer story has me in giggle fits. Being a print specialist is a niche department and it’s always entertaining. That story just made my da.
Student: Kevin has a crush on Sarah, pass it on.
OP: Dear Mr Principal, I'd just like to inform you, per our last conversation, that Kevin has a crush on Sarah. I trust you’ll do all you can to resolve this matter.
8:46 I remember those printers. If you didn’t flip the first page over in front of the printer it would get pulled back in with the rest of the feed and the little knobs on the side would go in each little hole on the sides of the papers and keep reeling it in
When I grew up, stranger danger was a real thing and you should NEVER accept candy from a stranger. Oh how times have changed
yea times have changed. We literally use our phones to summon strangers to get into their cars now. Or have them bring you food.
If it's dangerous to accept candy from strangers, why do people allow their kids to go trick or treating on Halloween? Isn't that a double standard?
The story isn't about *accepting* candy. The entitled mom and brat *demanded* it and refused to hear otherwise.
I know exactly what it's like to have a printer with a "personality." I used to work for an accounting firm, and we had to do a lot of printing in the spring since that's tax season. The printer would jam up every so often, and usually I was the one to fix it. That printer had so many little nooks and crevices where bunched up paper could hide. Unjamming it was sometimes like getting a dog to open its mouth when it eats something it shouldn't.
That comparison reminds me of our dog. Actively concerned for that little ducker sometimes because he still partially refuses to learn that just chewing on whatever he wants and eating half of it can get really dangerous fast.
6:15 if the kids weren't there, a line about how the candy was medicated could have resolved the issue fast. "I'm sorry but this candy has my anxiety medication in it, I'm pretty sure you don't want your kid eating that."
So, there's this episode of Star Trek TNG where the crew comes up to this paradise planet where everything is super amazing and peaceful.
Until they realize that the reason is that minor infractions merit the death penalty.
Picard then has a big debate-bro moment with the ruler of this civilization about how imoral it is, etc etc.
However, I find it funny that when such laws were actually implemented, it just results in chaos ^^
The one chance that TNG had to get rid of Wesley... And they blew it! Lol :-)
@@undrhilall because he fell on some plants or something.
@@undrhil OMG that is not what I took from that episode, but now I cannot unread it ^^
The only reason that worked is the people on that planet had a cartoonish submissiveness to authority, just like those other aliens that all went into the gas chambers willingly every time their computer war simulation said a city got bombed.
*slams fists on desk* WE WANT PUPPY BLOOPERS! WE WANT PUPPY BLOOPERS! WE WANT PUPPY BLOOPERS!
Not anymore, he have sound proofed room / booth. Have you not noticed this for few years?!
He has a soundproof recording studio with a door; the dog can't get in or make enough noise to be heard over the soundproofing.
Also we want to know if the dog farted when he was recording and if he stepped outside of the recording booth he got an unwarned gas attack.
Commenting for more PUPPY BLOOPERS
@@privateeyety5735 Did you read what we said? You won't be getting any more puppy bloopers! 🙄
God i cant stand moms who just let their kids ask for food from strangers.
Karen: "oh look that nice man said he has candy in his van! Go ahead sweety."
Plot twist : the guy in the van actually want to help kids from their Karen parents.... By sending them to military school
As someone who works in a print room, it's really hard to show management your hard work. Either I'm working hard and the printer is producing nothing or the printer is working hard and I'm doing nothing.
My mom just recently retired from teaching high school, but around 15 years ago I had gone on a trip and brought back durian candy, the stuff tasted like garbage water, I'm not even exaggerating, anyway I clearly wasn't going to eat this bag of candy and my mom asked for it, I thought nothing of it, a few days later she told me that one of her students was helping themselves to some of her candy she kept in her desk and she wanted to know who, well the durian candy did the job, she said the student cried and tried vomiting in the trash can, she said it was glorious
Weather: Rains
Soldier 1: We're gonna be late!
Soldier 2: The Emperor would have us killed if we're late!
General: So why don't we kill him first?
Narrator: And so it was.
There used to be a signs at one of the schools in the district I work at that said something akin to, "The copier will fail proportional to how desperately you need to make copies. It will also fail proportional to how much you yell at it." If that applies to old printers those two idiots were definitely blowing things up even more than they already did by NOT listening to OP's training.
The Printer story is basically the equivalent of skipping the in tutorial of a video game and jumping straight in. It goes as well as you'd expect at that point
And the difficulty is about as hard as Dark Souls, but the first boss is the final boss instead.
So, literally Arin Hanson from Game Grumps?
To be fair, some games are very similar in playstyle, that you can just pick up and play with little to no issues. The more complex a game is, the harder it is to just pick up and play.
One of my old employers had a policy that being 1 minute late was actually worse than 2 days of an absence for 2 days, and it was only on day 3 that you were required to have a doctors note. So... naturally if you were gonna be any type of late you called out sick for two days.
The candy thing happened to me too.
My fave candy is something called atomic fireball. A cinnamon jaw breaker that got really hot in your mouth.
One of my nephews asked me for it and i warned him and his dad. They laughed and he ate it only to spit it out and start crying.
The dad was shocked and then tried one and started laughing. He asked me where i even got these.
I love ginger candy but watching people’s faces as they try it for the first time is always entertaining.
In the first story, I've run smaller (less than 10 associates total) IT departments for multiple companies. I consider this to be a profession, so anyone I hire better be a professional. For time, be they hourly or salary, I always said: "I will be as strict with arrival times as you are with departure times." Meaning, if all I ever saw at 1701 was dust in the wind, you better be here at 0800. If you got the work done, even if it meant a few 1715 or 1705 days per week, then I don't care when you arrive, so long as it's less than half an hour late. If you had a good reason, it could be hours late. Need to go see a doctor? Fantastic, don't worry about asking for the time off, just get here as soon as you can after. I always figured that we got our time back over the weeks/months/years of the occasional late day and that a happy associate is going to be a more productive associate.
The same goes for loyalty, I tried to be as loyal to my associates as I expected them to be to me. I went without a raise more than once because my associates come first.
5:39 idk about anyone else but… I actually enjoy ginger candies, at one point I had to stop buying them because I was addicted to the kick from the ginger lol
Someone else in the comments called it a "cinder-tooth" for liking spicy candy
Guess you got it, lol
Re: story 1: An important message for ancient emperors and modern school principals alike: zero-tolerance policies never make things better.
A kid who went to my high school was suspended for bringing a knife to school. He was planning to kill his bully the next time the bully beat him up, since the punishment for getting beaten up was the same four-week suspension the bully received and the amount of suspensions he already had on his record (entirely from getting beaten up a lot) meant that he wasn't going to be able to get into a good college.
@@agentzapdos4960 …An excellent if *terrifyingly extreme* example of my point.
The ginger candy story was excellent.
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One of my dad's favorite candies was chocolate covered candied ginger. Can confirm, ginger candy is spicy.
On the little bit there about the kid that stole from the teacher's purse, I use to work at an after school center & staff would keep their items in the staff room where it's supposed to be safe considering the kids aren't allowed in there. One day, a kid from where I work saw me at the mall & remembered what my bag looks like. During work, he commented, "your Coke bag you had at the mall looks really cool." I thanked him & then he asked, "did you bring it in today?" I stupidly told him that I did & that resulted in him sneaking into the staff room & stealing something from my bag. I use to always go to Pokemon TCG prerelease tournaments because it gets me the new cards before they come out & it was a tradition for me to show the kids there that play the game the new cards & teach them what they do & all that so when they release, they would know how they function. Well, that's what the kid stole, the new cards. Apparently his mom banned Pokemon cards so he didn't have any of his own, it was through him stealing them that we discovered that he's been stealing cards from the kids at the center for a while, he had a huge stack of the cards! I knew which ones were mine due to the set symbol since it's highly unlikely anyone else there would have those cards considering they weren't out yet.
Not my story, but my brother's: back in the early 80's he was in a cooking class. Some of the students kept stealing the sweetened bakers chocolate, but the teacher couldn't prove who. Enter the chocolate exlax... it didn't take long to find out who was stalking the chocolate...
These were pretty big guys (wrestlers), so they toughed it out as much as they could with multiple trips, but never stole chocolate again.
They were probably trying to bulk up to reach their coach's desired weight classes for them, and those laxatives resulted in them cutting a bunch of weight instead.
BRING PUPPY BLOOPERS BACK PLEASE
Ibid
As much as we all want him to I don't think he can, a while back he said he now records in a closed sound proof booth
R/slash already said that Yugo doesn't whine for attention because he isn't puppy anymore
Honestly, i love yugo, but im so glad puppy bloopers aren't in these anymore because i listen to relax before sleeping. The barking used to startle me back awake. Haha
Omg I was just commenting that 😂😂
Ah, the classic: "How dare you do what I told you to!? I would have been mad if you hadn't, but because I didn't like the result, I'm mad at you anyway." This is why you grit your teeth and discipline your kids instead of giving in every time and inconveniencing other people. Or at least ask nicely...
13:50 "And I Was Not Allowed To Fix Any Of The Problems." sounds more like OP didn't have to fix those problems, it was left to Things One & Two, messing up completely. Sounds good for keeping OP employed, along with severance pay. 🥺😊 Hope all's well for OP.
4:32 reminds me of Futurama
"What happens if I dont choose the job?"
"You will be fired."
"Ok."
"From a cannon into the sun"
"Not Ok"
Printer story: as someone who worked at a certain office supply company with two names, I can tell you 3 of the same model printers will in fact work differently and have different solutions. Lord I thought about taking a baseball bat to work many times.
I had a guy offer me $40,000 to make software for checking ink level printers, and i told him sorry, it would have to be at minimum $150,000, because printers aren't standardized at all (different ways of measuring, communicating, everything), and even within the same manufacturer it isn't consistent, when he thought it was all going to be simple to do.
He got all huffy, and said he would find someone else, and never did. Well, he found people who had no idea what they were doing, and wasted his money, and the company failed. If done right, it would be multi-year project, which he wanted to pay a 1 time fee for.
My notifications keep getting changed for Rslash! I’m getting ticked off. I’ve had to switch it twice in a couple months. I love to listen to these EVERY MORNING! The only TH-camr I constantly and consistently listen to! The hell is going on? Hey y’all! 😂
Printer story.... I began my state IT career as an Operator in our department's Computer Room. It was much more of a printer room, with multiple types of printers. Breakdowns and faults were very common. So I can commiserate with OP. At one point, after my coworker left for another job, andcI worked 13 months on night shift alone. It was often pure Hell. 🙄
I can't stop picturing sppngebobs mind going into chaos BC he forgot his name, for the printers breaking and everyone's freaking out.
The ginger story is really getting to me! I love the way ginger taste, but I am deathly allergic to it. That didn’t develop until I got older, I used to love Punch made with Gingerale. But I can’t have any at all, which makes eating Asian food very hard to do.
For the ginger candy story, I'm reminded of this.
I'm a big fan of all things spicy, including ginger (I call it having a cinder-tooth). I had a bag of Gin-gins, a chewy taffy like candy of a fair potency. my 3 year old son wanted some and I eventually gave him half. He ate it like it was nothing and asked for more.
He got your cinder-tooth
the candy story reminds me of the first time I tried ginger beer. For those who don't know, ginger beer is basically a much stronger version of ginger ale, made with actual ginger, instead of just flavouring, like you get on some commercial GA.
It's very popular in the UK, not so much in Canada or at least in the part where I was living. We were at some kind of fair or event and my dad, who was born in Britian, was really excited that one of the food vendors had ginger beer. I tried a bit and my eyes bugged out. Didn't quite do the spit take but one sip was enough. Ironically, since then I've actually gotten a taste for natural ginger ale, which has more of a ginger kick, though still find ginger beer a bit too strong.
Why would anyone carry around ex-lax? This is a very potent laxative and was meant to be taken at bedtime. It looked like a mini version of a Hershey Bar and children often mistakenly thought it was chocolate. However, in the USA the chocolate version has been discontinued.
The ginger candy story reminds me of a story about an entitled mother-daughter duo my mom encountered.
This took place when I was in my early 20s and was off working in Costa Rica and Panama. I was still officially living at home and still had my room and all my stuff at my parents'. Important note: this was before I went Marie Kondo on all my stuff so I had *a lot* of old shit in my room.
One day my mom's step niece and her daughter (about 5 years old) came to visit. (Note: My mom is not on good terms with that side of the family ever since her step mother died and her step brothers basically robbed her of the inheritance left from her father.) The adults sat down to talk in the kitchen while the girl went exploring in the house, which my mom wasn't too comfortable with but she let it slide. All of a sudden my giant stuffed giraffe came bouncing down the stairs. Later, when my mom when to put the giraffe back into my room, she found candy wrappers on the floor. She discovered that the girl had found and opened a candy tin I kept in my room containing (probably 5 year old) cough tablets. Later in the evening, the step niece called my mom in a panic: "My daughter has a really bad stomach ache and I found candy wrappers in her pockets! What did she eat???"
My mom, a bit smug, calmly replied: "I don't know what Ellen keeps in her room. That's her stuff and I don't go in there."
We haven't heard from the step niece since.
doing crime is execution is like the sole reason why some revolts happen. It is historical proof why the punishment should fit the crime, cause if it doesn't, that's how and why heads will roll.
A bud from way back would be late to his own funeral, yet took a job where they were obsessed if not manic about punctuality, and had a literal 3-strikes policy. Within a couple of months he got 2 strikes, was running late one morning, ran out of the house without even locking the front door, drove like a maniac to get there, but *knew* he'd be fired for being late once he showed up. He'd be fired for being late. Hmm. But he *wouldn't* be fired for being sick. So he pulled over in a gas station, called in, said he was sick as a dog and wouldn't be in that day. _"Okay, feel better!"_ And he went to see a movie then putzed around the rest of the day, enjoying his *paid* day off. That was his newfound secret, which of course he blabbed to a few people and it got around. Latenesses dropped to almost nothing, but sick time skyrocketted.
I can't help but grin every time Dabney says 'Cue malicious compliance' 😂
clearly that kid didn't get taught not to take candy from strangers, just saying
“can’t you just share your candy? don’t be greedy.”
“ma’am, these are edibles.”
I was expecting to hear that the students called Mr. OP out of the room so that other students could do things in his room while he was out. (Yes, I was a teacher.)
One of my first jobs had a department supervisor who thought the same thing. "If you're 1 minute late, you pay will be docked 1 hour."
When being told this as a group, one spoke up and said, "Ok, dock my pay, I'll sit right here and see you in 59 minutes."
I love listening to these at work. It makes the day so much smoother.
The printer story makes me wonder if the company was looking for a way to get rid of the two replacement employees. They’d been there for years, so they knew their personalities and work habits, they had extensive documentation of their unwillingness and inability to do the job, they didn’t intervene at any point, and they ordered OP not to help or instruct at the crunch point. It’s a perfect set up to get rid of people who don’t do what their told but are good at looking busy and following rules enough to keep their jobs. Perfect justification to terminate employment. Bad implementation because it was obviously much worse than they thought it would be. Or they figured sinking the cost was worth it.
I was told I wasn't allowed to help any of my coworkers without permission. I was being "punished"....okay.
I happily watched things fail and not get resolved quickly for 90 days, because my manager refused to let me "help". After 90 days I had successfully completed my "punishment", and all was forgiven. I said I preferred the punishment rules and so as to avoid the issue in the future would make sure permission was given before I helped.
Hmmm...karma is a lovely thing.
Sounds like that company needs to buy newer, less finicky, more easy to troubleshoot printers
I think of that scene in 9 to 5 where she has to make copies and pretty much make some mess in the copy room.
I was thinking of the exact same seeing! I love that movie!
@@undrhil me too, I hope they don't remake that. Love the song!!!
@@richewilson6394 Are you talking about the Sheena Easton song? I like that one too.
@@JamesDavy2009 no the 9 to 5 song
Man, I FELT that story about those 90s era dot matrix printers. Half the time it was hard to tell if you needed a tech or an exorcist to fix them.
Who are these reckless mothers and where did they come from? They should teach them stranger danger, the mothers I mean, not the children. hey kids when you see a stranger in a white van and they tell you that they have candy hop in
Honestly I think the last op was wrong, since it states multiple students said they heard it that’s a reason to report it. That’s a liability and a lawsuit for the teacher and the district if something happens cause of it
When I was in high school, I think senior year, my classmates went to the bathroom during class and almost immediately ran back into the room yelling that there were 2 kids "calofornicating" in the bathroom. It ended up with the male being tackled at the end of it.
Chinese history is wild, it goes like: emperor ching mei takes power.
400 million dies.
Maybe it's just here in the UK lateness by 5 ,10 or 3 hours is still late. Each lateness you get is a recorded conversation. If you have over 3 lates , you get a disciplinary hearing. During that the employee gets to explain what happened with a manager and HR . If there is a valid reason like Extreme weather ,a health emergency , parents with children under 6 , or if you are the primary carer for someone. Then nothing is done
If it's sleeping in , it's traffic or anything that's your responsibility because you failed to plan a head ie not leaving home early to allow extra time for road issues like getting stuck behind a tractor, or if there is a marathon on you will get a verbal warning on file for 6 months, if you have 1 late in that 6 months, you get a first written warning on file for 12 months. If you have a late in between then you'll get out on a final written warning for the year . If you're late once then , You get fired.
Op is pretty damn stupid, because this attitude doesn't apply to lateness. It does however apply to sick days sickness is counted in sick periods. 1 sick day = 1 sick period, 2 weeks = is still 1 sick period.
That's why people say it's better to take off more than one sick day .
Because say you sick on Monday, you feel a bit better on Tuesday so you come in ..you feel awful on Wednesday call in sick . That's 2 sick periods. Which means you only have 1 left before the disciplinary is triggered. So take the full week to recover.
Rules change when it's long term sick which can last up to 3 months on statutory sick pay with a doctor note.
When it comes to work I've worked as both the person given the disciplinary and the one getting one, I've even been fired for being late, which I got over turned. Because the floor manager was lazy and didn't check that I'd swap shifts to help them.
But what I've learned is always cover your ass , don't volunteer information.. honesty is not the best possible work smarter not harder. Read your hand book and know it inside out . Don't sign things blindly.. People will throw you under the bus to save themselves and don't trust anyone . Never ever quiet.
1 if you leave without having another job, you can't gain unemployment.
2 if you get fired for lateness sickness, performance. Here in the UK providing you're not on probation You will get an month's wages on top of what you've worked up to that days and any holidays you've left will also get paid.
Don't worry about a reference because anyone can do it , but more importantly ex employers can't bad mouth. All they can talk about is your General work itself .
Also record everything regardless of consent, because managers have been caught lying while it won't hold up in court. If CEO hears about it they will take action towards the manager and fire them and keep you to prevent a law suit.
I've had gingerbread before and I don't remember it being spicy so I'm confused.
6:19 I did not give it away! I was Harassed into! This "Candy" is NOT candy!
I've got my own chocolate story, not this extreme but it was still funny, I was buying ingredients for a brownie recipe my trade teacher gave me, one of the ingredients is Baker's chocolate which is made of 100% choco with 0 sugar, and it's bitter as a narcissistic mother in law on valentine's day, and this woman and her 6 year old asked for a peice of my $6 chocolate bar.
me: "it's has no sugar or sweetener"
Karen: "he happens to love dark chocolate"
Me: "I'll make you a deal if I give him a squire and he doesn't like it, you'll have to buy me a new one"
Karen, sweet ignorant Karen agreed.
Long story short I got a new chocolate bar, and for them being good sports about it, I got the kid a hurshi bar
That printer story is so... dumbfounding.
Like, bruh you're an effin PRINTING company but you manage to underestimate and fire the ONLY ONE printers maintenance guy?
I'm astounded how the higher-ups manage to run their company all this time lmao
I mean, listen man, when I’m really annoyed at work, as a joke I’ll think to myself “any guest who does this annoying thing will be dragged out back and shot”
But Jesus ITS A JOKE
I used to keep those Red Hots (big jawbreakers, not the small chewy ones) for Just Such Occasions.
You can get a big bucket of 'em online for pretty cheap.
If even I could stand 'em, there are hot-pepper (ghost, reaper, etc.) candies which come in all sorts of pretty colors, too.
Printer story - I'm glad that story didn't end with OP taking the job back. That company already showed them how little they thought of them.
Those printers are the Karens of the office.
All hell breaks loose when one starts malfunctioning, and the others followed.
I totally understand the guy on the first story. My work has a point system. If I’m getting half a point for being 3 minutes or 3 hours late, I’m going to be three hours late.
Chen Sheng and Wu Guang.
Not Qin Xing and Wu Kuang.
They got the villagers to help in the rebellion as well, it worked because the current king had just been overthrown and everyone liked the old king more.
Regarding that candy story, it's very irresponsible to demand candy from strangers, especially if you don't know what it is. I would've told them "I told you so" after that
Already 10 comments but YT thinks there are "no views"? 🤣🤣
I love the printer one so much lol! Learning about all of this old tech is just unfathomable, you just never see anything _remotely_ like that nowadays.
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall for that printing company.
I had no idea some people think ginger is spicy lmbo 😂
I think of it as spiced, as it’s used as a spice, but not spicy, as in hot. Garlic is also a spice, and while chomping into some string raw garlic might irritate your mouth, it’s not the same as slamming down some hot peppers lol
@@the_rachel_samspiced means spice was added to it
@@mariposa9506 yes, sorry I wasn’t clear, but I meant if something has ginger added to it, it counts as spiced, since ginger is a spice. Spiced candy, not spicy candy.
I'm currently 6months into having a new manager with my coworkers sadly. And yes it's annoyingly bad. He just does changes he thinks would be cheaper and it just makes it worse Every, Single, F***ing, Time. So it's fun.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
You mentioned two of the uprisings that overthrew the Qin Dynasty and its overkill Legalist philosophy. As for the warden... We know him as the first emperor of Han.
Lmao when you see the last story coming miles away but it's still satisfying to hear the CUE MALICIOUS COMPLIANCE
My Grandfather was a US Civil War veteran. My father was his last child before he died. So my dad received his veteran benefits. Well, his uncles were real POSs. They moved in and lived off him. Taking the good food and my Dad basically lived off beans as a child.
So when my dad walked the 4 miles to the mailbox and found two huge chocolate bars in the mailbox, he knew if he took it home, the uncles would just take it away from him and shove him to the ground.
And yes, X-Lax had sent out samples. This is in the 1920s and the bars was segmented but ... they were big bars.
So my day ate it all. Every bite.
With expected results.
And to give you another view of one of the uncles...
My dad married and 3 months after his son was born, he went to fight in WW2.
During the Battle of the Bugle when he is fighting for his life, he got a Dear John letter from an aunt, informing him that his uncle had knocked up his wife.
My old man sure struggled to catch a break but as with the Ex-Lax, it was all-too-often with shitty results.
In the printer story, if OP's job was being phased out, how could he need to train people for a job that wouldn't exist after OP's last day? I'm very confused.
It reminds me when I was on the bus and I was drinking a gingerbread frappe from Starbucks and this kid starts begging me for some and and I told him that he couldn't have any cuz it was for adults and his mother started screaming at me to give him some cuz she gives him Starbucks all the time lady flipped out and yanked the coffee from me and then her son down like half of it and that's what I told her that there was Fireball in it and she freaked out and got so loudly that the bus driver pulled off and asked her to get off
Last story: schools are still the best working rumour mill there is - usually in quantity more so than quality.