>OP is being swarmed with work thanks to an idiot in charge Reminds me of someone... 😂 "But no way you're fucked, right?" "Jackie, when you work in Arasaka Counterintel - you're always fucked."
Walking is a fall/autumn sport, running is spring, endurance is summer and off roading is winter and that's how you have 4 different walking sports a year. Edit: Ok wow I did not expect to get this many likes on honestly a random thought I had thank you so much
On story 5 (the post hole): my family has a similar story. Tho it isn't so much "beware malicious compliance" as it is "beware using sarcasm on someone too young to understand it". So the story: the oldest of my siblings was about 6 years old and my dad was taking her somewhere in the car early in the morning. So my dad has made himself a cup of coffee and was about halfway through it. My sister, being young and full of excited energy had gotten ready and out to the car before my dad did and had jumped into the front seat (this was in the 90's and my dad never cared about front seat laws anyway). Once my dad got out to the car, he handed his coffee mug to my sister and said "spill this for me" so he could get into the car easier. My 6yo sister, having always been taught never to question an adult ESPECIALLY your parents, had just been told a direct order from her father. So she dutifully took the mug in her hands, held it out over the floor boards, and up-ended the cup as my dad was putting his seat belt on. My dad heard the splash, looked over at my sister smiling and offering the now empty cup back. "Did I do it right?" She asked innocently. My dad, realizing what he had done only laughed. "Yeah baby. You did great!"
Tbh, I think more schools should have walking clubs (if they have the means). It's a good way to get the kids some exercise without it being too exhaustive. And if the school is in a nice area you could take them to nearby parks. As long as the school doesn't try to force it on kids , it sounds like a very nice idea
In the 1870s marathoning (walking as a sport) was just as serious as any worldwide sport is taken today. There were even doping scandals. Its more cutthroat of a sport than it seems like it would be. Also, to be clear. In the US: (Step count: 4,000/day average) 205lbs avg, lots of muscle. I Vietnam: step count: 1,700/day avg 170lbs avg. No muscle. In Taiwan: 10,000 steps/day avg. (Occasionally 22,000, without trying to get steps) walk up and down several flights of stairs a day. Weight: 310+ pounds, just leg muscle. Walking is partially what lead to severe weight gain for me. It seems ridiculous, but so do doping scandals with walking. But it's all true/related.
@@readjordan2257 what? you must have quite the unique DNA, cause i never heard of or see anyone gaining weight by walking, since weight is pretty much masse and you can't exactly get any without consuming something, it doesn't appear from thin air, it might be as well compression or density. and any exercise may make you gain weight , because you consuming more energy makes the body carves and absorb the nutrients better with whatever it have at its disposal ,but you still have to eat more , otherwise it's just eating away reserves.
As someone that walks everywhere I can confirm that walking is a fall sport. Fall is just longer than people think it is. There's green fall, hot fall, fall fall, and white fall. Simple really.
*1st Story:* Typical pointy-haired boss logic. Less workers doing more work to get the same productivity level would make you look good to your superiors _on paper,_ but you're playing a dangerous game of Jenga when it comes to things like employee safety & morale and you'll only have yourself to blame when someone gets sick/injured/quits.
HOLY CRAP. I had never heard of "absence seizures" before so I looked it up. (I have a history of seizures but we never found the cause) it's commonly mistaken for inattentive ADHD.... which I was misdiagnosed with! I think I might need to call my doctor. Thanks reddit?
They're more common than the "falling down and convulsing" type of seizures most people think of, but as they seem so passive to the outside world, people aren't as aware of them. Epilepsy suffers can keep that kind a lot more private than a grand mal! My brother has absence seizures and has since we were kids. He was originally diagnosed with "panic attacks" but they're nothing like it to me 🤷🏻♀️ Medication helps control it a lot, and if you're worried, it's definitely worth getting checked out my a doctor just yo be sure. I wish you the best of luck ❤️
Most people think seizures are solely what are referred to as grand mal seizures, as said above the falling down and convulsing kind. But most seizures people have are not that. But something all seizures have in common is that it causes brain damage. Which is why it’s important to reduce the amount of seizures a person has as much as possible. Same with conditions that cause manic episodes.
@@pantherinae_art I had seizures for years before I had a grand mal seizure and wound up in the hospital (landed on my face and knocked myself out cold). My husband hadn't noticed it either. At first, anti-convulsant meds helped, but I would quickly stop responding to them and had to change combinations or increase dosages, or both. This went on for 5 years before finally the only choices I had were barbiturates for the rest of my life, or surgery. I was blessed to have excellent insurance from my employer (it was a horrible job otherwise) and opted for surgery. Other than twitches around my eyes, I have not had a seizure since the surgery. I have other difficulties from having a chunk of my brain removed, but I wouldn't go back for anything.
Sixth story: That dude forgot one of the most important tips of life. Never leave your enemy alone with the stuff you love, especially if you are a douchebag.
The only clear douchebag in this story is the person who got married, made a family, admitted to changing, blew up the marriage, kept the estate, acted like a rude P.O.S. and then intentionally damaged someone else's property. Never have kids with a woman that might be a piece of crap and makes less $ than you. Just asking for this to be your future.
Yeah imagine cheating on someone and then giving the keys to your perfectly restored 60's vehicle and demanding they bring it over without a scratch. Just asking for trouble
When my birth dad left my step mum, I kept asking if I could take the PS4 that HE had left behind for MONTHS! They told me no TnT But, I think.. If HE left that PS4 in HER house for MONTHS!!! I think they have a right to give it away at that point.... For those wondering, he DID eventually take the PS4 after like a YEAR or so..
The post story reminds me of something that happened years ago between me and my father. It was me, him, and my stepmom in the living room watching TV together. He finished his can of soda. Asked me to take it to the kitchen and get him “just something cold and wet”. I took the empty can, placed it on the counter, and went to the fridge. I figured since he had just finished a soda, he would like a glass of iced tea next. My hand began reaching for the pitcher. But then his exact words echoed. Cold and wet. So I grabbed something else instead. I hurried back to the living room grinning like the cat that ate the canary. “Where’s my drink?”, dad asked. I produced (from behind my back) the jar of salsa! He looked bewildered as I laughed and reminded him he had asked for something cold and wet! Then he laughed just as hard! I don’t really consider this malicious compliance though. I call it humorous compliance!
I have an adhd/autism case of malicious compliance that I unknowingly did years ago. In Italy/Italian we commonly use the word plates instead of dishes. We actually have a word for dishes: it's "stoviglie". But we never use it unless to talk about the dishwasher which is called "lavastoviglie" (literally translates to dishwasher). Anyways my brother after lunch asked me to wash the "plates". For one reason or another it was my turn to clean. I was so lazy I didn't want to do any of that. So I said screw it! I only washed the plates and left the rest in the sink. When my brother came back home he was shocked and asked me: "But I told you to wash the plates!" I instead responded with: "You told me to wash the plates only. That's what I did." he then sighed and argued with me that I knew exactly what he meant and I was just being lazy. But he did onky ask me to clean the plates! 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah. The days of MTV showing exclusively music videos ended around 1992. I would watch Speed Racer on MTV in the morning before I went to school in 1992.
Yeah, I was gonna say, didn't complaining about how M(usic) TeleVision didn't have any Music Videos on it anymore _start_ around 1992? Where is this guy getting 1997?!
Even in 1989, MTV was showing Yo! MTV Raps with Downtown Julie Brown. The reason I knew this was because at the time, my name was Julie Brown, and I got, "Downtown Julie Brown!" All. The. Time. The early to mid 80s was the Golden Age of music videos.
I miss Legal Advice. The only time I see anymore, the YT channel reads the initial post, but none of the replies. Totally defeats the purpose for people who don't know the law.
Well, I am assuming they don't have someone to cover it during the other seasons, or no one wants to cover it during the other seasons. Although I'm surprised it's not a winter sport, since fall is cross country, and spring is track and field, so I would assume the coach that handles that stuff would be free during winter, and lost that coach doesn't want to deal with just walking.
Right? I had to take a moment and think about that description because of how perfect it was. I have dug a lot of holes in my life, and that was brilliant.
Story 3: The school was forcing everyone to be in a sport? As much as it sounds like a good idea on paper because everyone gets exercise, it's really not. Though I would love to know what reason existed for _walking_ to be Fall Only.
If I had to guess, it's because in Winter they'd have to be trudging through snow, or something like that. Depends where they are and how much snow they get; up here in Canada that would be a legitimate concern.
I think because marathoning was an actual serious sport back in the end of the 19th century. And they did it in fall back when it was popular. I mean, seriously. People would watch them like NASCAR or Tour De France. There were doping scandals. Only the truely athletic did the sport.
5:34 reminds me of an interraction my brother had while working at a local sandwich shop. This was right at the beginning of the pandemic and a customer came in and my brother asked her to put a mask on. She responded in a typically Karen fashion: "Oh I don't participate in the whole mask thing". My brother's response: "That's okay, I just won't be participating in the whole serving you thing" and he promptly left to the back
An important note about #5 OP said years later his Dad realized they should have followed the call before you dig rule. OP was only a foot or so away from the main powerline and could have been killed. Unexpectedly finding sand while digging is actually a sign you might have found a trench where pipes or wires are buried. It should be taken as a warning that something might be down there.
Story 3 it feels good to know someone else is going through what I am seizure wise.. I've had like two, years ago and haven't had one since. Same diagnosis and everything. It feels wrong to say I'm prone to seizures when I've only had like two or 3 in my life
Props to that dad for taking OP's malicious compliance in good humor rather than doubling down and getting mad like a lot of stories on here probably would
Im thinking the walking team was a one-season sport because all the others were too, no other reason. Who wants to bet the coach for the walking team was in it for the exact same reason the kids were???
14:00 didnt that story end with them finding out that he almost dug too far and one more foot down would've been enough voltage to kill OP...didnt Rslash talk about that after reading it?
Story2 I'm not quite awake, so I may have missed something, but I'm very confused as to why Karen thought she was there first when she literally walked in while the other customer was being rung up.
Story #1, the fact that you would rather literally work at a PRISON than to deal with that horrible boss speaks a LOT of volumes on how horrible of a place that the business that you quit seems to be for you. Story #2, the Holy Scriptures still ring true in this one, i.e., "Do unto others as they would have done unto you", so, since the Karen decided to be rude to the grandmother, and her granddaughter, then the Karen got her just reward for her rudeness. Story #3, both the OP AND the school sound dysfunctional to myself. Now, with that being said, the required athletics part for students might be an issue in a lot of ways, especially for people that are quadriplegics or paraplegics. Story #4, be a hypocrite with power and you will be removed from power. Story #5, accuracy with job orders truly matters. Story #6, if he cared about his possessions, and you, then what he valued, as well as his dreams, would not be in pieces.
Last story: Should have gaslighted him. Instead of texting him to pick up the stuff, send the pictures. "Here's your stuff". And then when the guy inevitably trashes it, just act apalled. "Destroy your stuff? What do you mean? You saw the pictures, right? I literally even packaged the expensive items for you so they wouldn't be damaged." You haven't even done anything wrong or lie, you just didn't go above and beyond.
Story 3: Sports divisions are usually just arbitrary. The whole point is to avoid "competition" between sports leagues. For example, baseball and football used to be in tight competition, so they were divided because football was losing to baseball in the US. But other than that, there's really no division. You could declare any sport a summer sport, though people will complain if it's too hot and people start passing out.
Story 1: OP warned him this could happen but John just doesn't give a fraction of a f*ck. Then has the gall to ask OP to show the ropes to the new employees? No way, solve your own problems.
but op missed the perfect revenge could have asked for aconsulting fee of 3k a hour payed in full no matter how long she helped rounded up to the nearest hour XD could ave showed them thee ropes for 15 mins boom easy 3k
Post hole - Awesome father, there. That was definitely malicious compliance. But instead of angry, he was impressed and proud, and turned it into teachable event. I'd definitely love to hear more "wholesome malicious compliance" stories!
For the 5th story, I'm sure we've heard it before, at least a different retelling of it. I remember cuz at the end of the other version, op says an important information about how op's dad told him op was close to digging into some kinda electrical wiring or whatever. The story does sound like its been touched up with an added stick to the spade and other elements missing (op's dad struggling to lift the post with just his fingers) but im very sure this is that story 🤔
I came to see if this exact comment was here. Iirc, the story ended with something along the lines of the dad telling his friends how if he didn't check on OP he would have hit the electrical line for the entire area
Like in a story I heard of a fast food worker who was ordered to keep cooking burgers until the manager said to stop. OP tried to check after 15 minutes, but was ordered to keep cooking. When the manager did eventually check up on OP, there were burgers everywhere.
Random stranger- who is that always running around Me- oh after Dabney read a story on Reddit and it said that walking is only a fall sport so you'll only see him running till fall 🤣🤣🤣
Walking story: The school had a great idea and ruined it. Not every kid is good at sports, but every kid should have physical exercise. Walking is perfect. If it's too dangerous in the winter, just do it inside, same thing in summer heat. Don't ruin it with rules and so on...
I have a kid that has asthma and had absence seizures. Turns out it was one of the asthma meds causing them. Dropped two meds, the one giving him seizures and the one to control the seizures. He's been fine since.
I was on the "walking team" too. School gave us all three choices on what sport we want to do, ordered by priority. I think I chose swimming, kajaking and tabletennis as thos three were sports I was already doing in my free time. They put me in the jogging group "because the other ones were full". Complete BS, nobody else I talked to did not get one of their options. But then the teacher that would go jogging with us became ill. We were all 16+ so they just gave us a route and sent us on our way. We jogged away around the corner and walked to the nearby store to get snacks and hang out. An hour later we ran back at full speed so we were breathing heavily enough. Don't know if they ever found out and just didn't care, but we kept doing that every week for a full semester.
I've done a similar thing as 1st OP In Primary School (ages 5-11), I also got diagnosed with absense epilepsy. For those unaware, absense epilepsy isn't the full blown on the floor shaking about. Absense seizures are pretty unnoticeable, it looks like the person is spacing out/daydreaming and it has an immediate recover time. It's not the mildest type of epilepsy (the mildest type is probably Myoclonic, which causes quick jerks. Think non-verbal torrettes), but it's pretty close Anyway, the trigger for my epilepsy was shortness of breath. I hated PE since I was (and still am) pretty unfit, so, even though my seizures weren't a big deal, I still used them to get out of most of my PE lessons since my trigger was on my medical file
Sports seasons are about scheduling, not climatic appropriateness. When I was in high school they initially had girls basketball in the fall and volleyball in the winter. They later swapped them up so that Volleyball was in the fall and Basketball was in the winter. I'm not sure of the exact reasosn they made the change but I would guess that part of it was that it made practice a little bit easier since we would alternate early/late practice since there was only one gym and the volleyball net had to be put up and taken back down for every practice. Having both basketball teams playing in the winter means there isn't as much of a delay between practices. For walking, saying its a fallbsport probably just means that its when they have a teacher acheduled to "coach" it.
One thing that surprises me about many MC stories is how little the ones that give the orders gaslight the compliat person. Growing up, and at some of my crappy jobs, any MC I tried to do was met with gaslighting, which always resulted in me taking the fall.
thats why you always get in writing. if you have physical proof that someone asked you to do something stupid you can show everyone that you are just following orders.
In cold areas of the US, walking is a Fall sport because the wether is usually more cooperative for outdoor walking for more of the 'season'. Winter has too much snow, obviously, and is too cold. Spring is often too wet and still too cold or the weather is too unpredictable. Also, mud is a bigger factor in the spring in colder areas (from melted snow and spring rains), which can cause more injuries. INDOOR walking is a year-round sport. When schools divide the sports year into 3 'seasons' like that, summer tends to mostly fall under the 'fall/ autumn' season (before school starts until about Nov, in a lot of cases, or occassionally early Dec). Winter is almost overlaps (might be a few weeks of overlap even - I know some schools have overlap with the Winter/ spring seasons, but they usually try to have a week or so break when possible between seasons because so many kids play EVERY season with different sports) and runs through until about early/ mid March. Then until about June, 'spring' sports (some places shift it to start as early as Feb, but the school year usually ends by May). Hope that helped!
No matter the task, no matter the workload, no matter the industry you never have just one person solely responsible for a job. You need at least 3 people minimum. Just in case of firing/resignation, illness, crisis, physical impairment and/or death. They may not work that task all the time, but you need at least 3 people in your workforce who know how to do it.
I'm assuming the reason they considered walking a fall sport is to treat it as a "grace period" since fall is usually the first season of the school year. Like, "We get that you might not have any sports in mind at the beginning of the year, so we'll let you walk, but after fall, you HAVE to pick something."
7:13 that legitimately was a sport after the civil war. It was called marathoning. You were allowed to run, but only to relieve a cramp or something. You basically walked for hours. So yeah, sounds like its pathetic, but back in the day it was just as serious as thr Olympics or Tour De France are now, there were even doping scandals..
In the 5th story (Dig) OP said that there Dad learned another lesson that day: Call before you dig! They learned that OP almost hit an underground power line; the hole was less then a foot away from the line that carried power to the whole town!
Last story: Being a collector of differnet stuff I NEVER let anyone near it. One day the the BF of my ex's sister asked if he could play with my collection - mind you, I ws in my late 30s and the guy mid 20s to late 20s. I told him sure, if he has 5K at hand in case he breaks anything.
Story 4: you know it takes place in the states because it's some sort of cool malicious compliance to take the vacation time you are contractually allowed to. This is such a non-story as a European 😂
I could be wrong but I think you might have told the post digging story before, be cause I remember that story, with the story mentioning the father forgot to call before he dug and they found out way after the fact he was really close to a buried electrical cable.
I'm pretty sure Dabney had already read the dig story once. I even switched back to make sure I was still watching the same video because I didn't remember hearing the outro lol
Yeah, it’s definitely really familiar, maybe it got reposted on reddit recently and he didn’t remember it, having read so many stories before. I’m pretty sure the original story had an extra part of them later learning the hole was very close to an underground electrical line
Walking as a sport story, the Epilepsy type is strange, my oldest got that at 13 and they're calling it Juvenile Mycloptic Epelipsy and it's supposedly mainly happens in girls during their change and can either happen once or resolve around 25 or even resolve after menopause... women get the short end of the stick too much...
Thank you for being one of the few people that actually reads these posts and not an AI generated voice . Thank you for having the inflection add character in your post❤
1st story: he could have driven the replacements even crazier - maybe crazy enough to quit - by asking for 2 self-sealing stem bolts and insisting that he got them there before 🙂
I would run in winter, unless there's a blizzard/ice storm.(Yes. There's a difference.) Then there's the problem with freezing temperature combined with ice/snow, you trying to over do anything even walk will make you sweat if you sweat in freezing weather your body will get colder and colder.
@@s.h.6858 And they (management) want you to feel that. So you have to find someone to cover your own shift -- when scheduling employees for shifts is a management responsibility.
i don't know how i feel about this one just a few episodes ago, we had a woman demand - not ask, demand - that her exhusband send her a check for something. the exhub asked her to just come over and get it, it was only a few miles, and she responded by blocking him and forcing him to contact her through the chain of lawyers only, costing him thousands of dollars in legal fees and like, it felt very sympathetic and reasonable at the time now we've got a new story, with the exhusband demanding - not asking, demanding - that she bring over his stuff, and she responds by breaking a bunch of it and yet it's also presented very sympathetically even though it's very close to being symmetric i almost feel like if the husband in this story posted his side of the tale on reddit, we'd be rooting for him, because honestly c'mon
No bad guys in this story really. But the paid time off story reminded me of it. Last year I was going to take my PTO on my days off, for a boost to my checks at the end of the year. Other employees had done it the previous year when I was still a temp. The big boss said no to this. And they had a use it or lose it policy. So I basically decided to take off the first week and a half of December. No problem there. Got back to work and did the last 2 days of the week that second half of the week. The following week I'm in intense pain for hours and end up going into emergency care at the hospital. Turns out I had to have my gallbladder removed. That ended up basically taking a day to figure out. Then I was scheduled to have it done the next day. Then a day in the hospital for recovery and out the rest of the week on the doctor's order. Well I also had a week of sick leave. So used that then. That's how I ended up working 7 days in a month and being paid for the whole month. Plus Holiday pay.
My guess for walking being a fall sport is that OP lives somewhere that gets a lot of snow/gets snow randomly and it's a liability for the school. I live in Montana and it snowed 2 days ago.
To those who say that he retold story 5, not quite. There was a similar story where OP was being a smartass and dug a deep hole with a spade, while being way too close to hitting an underground powerline and probably die.
Iirc the post hole story has been read before and has a slightly funnier (almost deadly end). If I'm right, it turns out the hole was dug over a powerline, another foot or two iirc and he would've hit the line. The dad only found out after trying to refill it or because of some zoning issues when doing some other work.
You can refuse service for the grocery store, but you can’t refuse service when you’re working the post office. Was she rude? Yes. Did OP abuse the power of their position like a tyrant? Also yes.
6th story - why is it OP's job to pack his stuff?? I suppose you might volunteer to do it in order to get it out of the house quicker, that would make sense, but if your going to do it, you need to be responsible, and what the OP did is not cool, as well as what the ex said is also not cool. My philosophy, if your going through a separation, is to not unnecessarily ad trouble on top, because there is already enough trouble going on.
Some of these stories exaggerate the a-hole-ness of boss. For e.g the PTO story. Did the captain know OP had a serious emergency? The captain was under orders to enforce company policy about the 80hrs of consecutive PTO, especially if there'd been other employees who abused the system before. But maybe (just maybe) he would've shown empathy if only OP had been honest about the emergency.
Walking is a fall sport because of rules about weather exposure, 45 mins in especially cold regions can be literally deadly, so only fall and spring would be candidates, and obviously if you're on the walking team you probably have allergies, so spring is out thanks to the pollen epidemic 💀
I can see why it would be a fall only "sport". Weather and road conditions, mainly, relatively speaking not too hot, not too cold, relatively dry weather.
I have a similar story like in the Post story. This was long time, elementary school grade age. We have this hump TV that needs antenna so we can watch local TV shows. This antenna is attached to a long bamboo so that we can have better reception. One day after a windy storm pass, our TV has no reception. He analyze the problem and it's the antenna facing the wrong direction. He ordered me to twist the pole and he'll tell me if the TV signal reception is clear. I twist and shouted at him if the signal is clear, he said no. I twist again then yell, no answer. I repeated this multiple times until the wire snapped. Panic, I quickly go to him only to find he's talking to his friend outside. No wonder he's not answering. 😂
Am I the only one that thinks I would not have liked the OP of the walking story as a teen? I was (still am) a huge nerd and wasn’t into sports. My parents still put me into them. And I took that time to make the most of it and have fun. OP sounded like their plan was to make it miserable for everyone else around them. Especially their first plan of being terrible at it. Who is that going to hurt? The teammates that didn’t make the rules? The coaches that didn’t make the rules? And then when they were on the walking team (which is still respectable and shows the school is doing things to try and combat this dumb rule) they just teased the younger kids with their buddy because of the title they gave themself. I would’ve hated that.
Hey R/Slash, I think it's cause the school didn't have a space large enough for a "walking" team to do so indoors since those spaces are probably used by other teams.
I'm sure walking is a fall sport because the coach has track in the spring. And winter weather probably interferes with walking outside. I suppose they could have hired a new teacher just to coach "walking" year round but.... That sounds dumb.
True, but it’s also more specifically race walking. You’re trying to go the fastest you can over a certain distance while making sure you’re specifically not running and following a specific form. I doubt the school in the story cared whether or not the students were ACTUALLY race walking, just that they made sure they have every student do something vaguely physical.
Growing up I was on a farm as well as helping my dad with rental property so I know everything about home repair in almost every aspect. He was good at giving instructions until I was 15, for some reason he stopped. I think because he thought we were at his level of thinking that he didn't need to be told anything. But always good eye contact was the key to his instructions to sticking.
Manager: "Solve your own problems!"
Joker: "Very poor choice of words!"
>OP is being swarmed with work thanks to an idiot in charge
Reminds me of someone... 😂
"But no way you're fucked, right?"
"Jackie, when you work in Arasaka Counterintel - you're always fucked."
Walking is a fall/autumn sport, running is spring, endurance is summer and off roading is winter and that's how you have 4 different walking sports a year.
Edit: Ok wow I did not expect to get this many likes on honestly a random thought I had thank you so much
Pff screw that I'll drive.
Everything changed when the Endurance nation attacked-
I was thinking in winter you have to skip, and in spring you hop. For summer you need to cakewalk.
Fun fact: Power Walking is an official Olympic Sport.
Not regular walking, though... 😂
You need to wear spikes for snow or snow shoes for winter.
On story 5 (the post hole): my family has a similar story. Tho it isn't so much "beware malicious compliance" as it is "beware using sarcasm on someone too young to understand it".
So the story: the oldest of my siblings was about 6 years old and my dad was taking her somewhere in the car early in the morning. So my dad has made himself a cup of coffee and was about halfway through it. My sister, being young and full of excited energy had gotten ready and out to the car before my dad did and had jumped into the front seat (this was in the 90's and my dad never cared about front seat laws anyway).
Once my dad got out to the car, he handed his coffee mug to my sister and said "spill this for me" so he could get into the car easier.
My 6yo sister, having always been taught never to question an adult ESPECIALLY your parents, had just been told a direct order from her father. So she dutifully took the mug in her hands, held it out over the floor boards, and up-ended the cup as my dad was putting his seat belt on.
My dad heard the splash, looked over at my sister smiling and offering the now empty cup back. "Did I do it right?" She asked innocently.
My dad, realizing what he had done only laughed. "Yeah baby. You did great!"
That is freaking cute. That sounds like something that would have happened between my dad and I, if he'd ever been a coffee drinker.
I've dug postholes, it's not possible to do 5+ feet in half an hour.
Tbh, I think more schools should have walking clubs (if they have the means). It's a good way to get the kids some exercise without it being too exhaustive. And if the school is in a nice area you could take them to nearby parks. As long as the school doesn't try to force it on kids , it sounds like a very nice idea
In the 1870s marathoning (walking as a sport) was just as serious as any worldwide sport is taken today. There were even doping scandals. Its more cutthroat of a sport than it seems like it would be. Also, to be clear.
In the US: (Step count: 4,000/day average)
205lbs avg, lots of muscle.
I Vietnam: step count: 1,700/day avg
170lbs avg. No muscle.
In Taiwan: 10,000 steps/day avg. (Occasionally 22,000, without trying to get steps) walk up and down several flights of stairs a day.
Weight: 310+ pounds, just leg muscle.
Walking is partially what lead to severe weight gain for me. It seems ridiculous, but so do doping scandals with walking. But it's all true/related.
walking didn’t make you fat, overeating did. It’s literally impossible for walking alone to make you bigger.
@@readjordan2257 what? you must have quite the unique DNA, cause i never heard of or see anyone gaining weight by walking, since weight is pretty much masse and you can't exactly get any without consuming something, it doesn't appear from thin air, it might be as well compression or density.
and any exercise may make you gain weight , because you consuming more energy makes the body carves and absorb the nutrients better with whatever it have at its disposal ,but you still have to eat more , otherwise it's just eating away reserves.
@@dinlupus3196 muscles weigh more than fat. exercise, by definition, makes you gain weight. you'll lose fat, but you'll gain weight.
@@abiean222 That's why the BMI scale is BS-bodybuilders with a lot of muscle may be _technically_ overweight or obese.
As someone that walks everywhere I can confirm that walking is a fall sport. Fall is just longer than people think it is. There's green fall, hot fall, fall fall, and white fall. Simple really.
Yeah you got the heat fall, rain fall, snow fall, and just fall
😂
Unless you live in the south then it’s a lot shorter than you think it is
And M U D
*1st Story:* Typical pointy-haired boss logic. Less workers doing more work to get the same productivity level would make you look good to your superiors _on paper,_ but you're playing a dangerous game of Jenga when it comes to things like employee safety & morale and you'll only have yourself to blame when someone gets sick/injured/quits.
My bosses are playing this FAFO game right now
Basically lowering the Truck-Number to 1 and below.
I like the Jenga Comparison. A simple, easy to understand picture for a hard truth.
HOLY CRAP.
I had never heard of "absence seizures" before so I looked it up. (I have a history of seizures but we never found the cause) it's commonly mistaken for inattentive ADHD.... which I was misdiagnosed with!
I think I might need to call my doctor. Thanks reddit?
Oh wow
I have both 😊
They're more common than the "falling down and convulsing" type of seizures most people think of, but as they seem so passive to the outside world, people aren't as aware of them. Epilepsy suffers can keep that kind a lot more private than a grand mal!
My brother has absence seizures and has since we were kids. He was originally diagnosed with "panic attacks" but they're nothing like it to me 🤷🏻♀️
Medication helps control it a lot, and if you're worried, it's definitely worth getting checked out my a doctor just yo be sure. I wish you the best of luck ❤️
Most people think seizures are solely what are referred to as grand mal seizures, as said above the falling down and convulsing kind. But most seizures people have are not that. But something all seizures have in common is that it causes brain damage. Which is why it’s important to reduce the amount of seizures a person has as much as possible. Same with conditions that cause manic episodes.
@@pantherinae_art I had seizures for years before I had a grand mal seizure and wound up in the hospital (landed on my face and knocked myself out cold). My husband hadn't noticed it either. At first, anti-convulsant meds helped, but I would quickly stop responding to them and had to change combinations or increase dosages, or both. This went on for 5 years before finally the only choices I had were barbiturates for the rest of my life, or surgery.
I was blessed to have excellent insurance from my employer (it was a horrible job otherwise) and opted for surgery. Other than twitches around my eyes, I have not had a seizure since the surgery. I have other difficulties from having a chunk of my brain removed, but I wouldn't go back for anything.
Sixth story: That dude forgot one of the most important tips of life. Never leave your enemy alone with the stuff you love, especially if you are a douchebag.
Lol yea
The only clear douchebag in this story is the person who got married, made a family, admitted to changing, blew up the marriage, kept the estate, acted like a rude P.O.S. and then intentionally damaged someone else's property.
Never have kids with a woman that might be a piece of crap and makes less $ than you. Just asking for this to be your future.
Yeah imagine cheating on someone and then giving the keys to your perfectly restored 60's vehicle and demanding they bring it over without a scratch. Just asking for trouble
When my ex left, she basically only took what she could put in two suitcases
When my birth dad left my step mum, I kept asking if I could take the PS4 that HE had left behind for MONTHS! They told me no TnT But, I think.. If HE left that PS4 in HER house for MONTHS!!! I think they have a right to give it away at that point....
For those wondering, he DID eventually take the PS4 after like a YEAR or so..
In a sea of r/AITA videos, it's nice to see r/Prorevenge or r/Maliciouscompliance.
I dont even watch the r/aita vids anymore
They are a bit much, and these are so nice to hear.
Real for that
I take r/AITA over r/ChoosingBeggars any day tho
The one i miss the most is I dont work here stories. Those hit the sweet spot for me.
The post story reminds me of something that happened years ago between me and my father. It was me, him, and my stepmom in the living room watching TV together. He finished his can of soda. Asked me to take it to the kitchen and get him “just something cold and wet”. I took the empty can, placed it on the counter, and went to the fridge. I figured since he had just finished a soda, he would like a glass of iced tea next. My hand began reaching for the pitcher. But then his exact words echoed. Cold and wet. So I grabbed something else instead. I hurried back to the living room grinning like the cat that ate the canary. “Where’s my drink?”, dad asked. I produced (from behind my back) the jar of salsa! He looked bewildered as I laughed and reminded him he had asked for something cold and wet! Then he laughed just as hard! I don’t really consider this malicious compliance though. I call it humorous compliance!
Lol
I have an adhd/autism case of malicious compliance that I unknowingly did years ago. In Italy/Italian we commonly use the word plates instead of dishes. We actually have a word for dishes: it's "stoviglie". But we never use it unless to talk about the dishwasher which is called "lavastoviglie" (literally translates to dishwasher). Anyways my brother after lunch asked me to wash the "plates". For one reason or another it was my turn to clean. I was so lazy I didn't want to do any of that. So I said screw it! I only washed the plates and left the rest in the sink. When my brother came back home he was shocked and asked me: "But I told you to wash the plates!" I instead responded with: "You told me to wash the plates only. That's what I did." he then sighed and argued with me that I knew exactly what he meant and I was just being lazy. But he did onky ask me to clean the plates! 🤷🏻♀️
😂😂😂 _I piatti_ is _i piatti,_ bro. You did what he said!😂😂😂
School: Walking is a fall sport.
Winter: Time to start levitating.
By 1997, MTV was already more about trashy reality shows and fluff news than music videos.
Yeah. The days of MTV showing exclusively music videos ended around 1992. I would watch Speed Racer on MTV in the morning before I went to school in 1992.
I was gonna say I was there in 97 and even then it was still short for “Music(?) Television”
Agreed
Yeah, I was gonna say, didn't complaining about how M(usic) TeleVision didn't have any Music Videos on it anymore _start_ around 1992? Where is this guy getting 1997?!
Even in 1989, MTV was showing Yo! MTV Raps with Downtown Julie Brown. The reason I knew this was because at the time, my name was Julie Brown, and I got, "Downtown Julie Brown!" All. The. Time. The early to mid 80s was the Golden Age of music videos.
R/slash should being back Tree Law and other silly subreddits again I miss them!
I’m sure he does too, but they don’t put out content at nearly the pace the subs he does cover regularly do.
Tree law is pretty rare, not a lot of people in a position to cause that kind of damages and stupid enough to follow through.
I miss Puppy Bloopers, although by now Yugo is grown.
@@Tustin2121 he hasn't in like over a year dude
I miss Legal Advice. The only time I see anymore, the YT channel reads the initial post, but none of the replies. Totally defeats the purpose for people who don't know the law.
Story 5: Dad: "Dig it as deep as you can."
Me: "That's what she said." XD
Well, I am assuming they don't have someone to cover it during the other seasons, or no one wants to cover it during the other seasons. Although I'm surprised it's not a winter sport, since fall is cross country, and spring is track and field, so I would assume the coach that handles that stuff would be free during winter, and lost that coach doesn't want to deal with just walking.
Never have i heard a post hole digger be described any better
Right? I had to take a moment and think about that description because of how perfect it was. I have dug a lot of holes in my life, and that was brilliant.
Story 3: The school was forcing everyone to be in a sport? As much as it sounds like a good idea on paper because everyone gets exercise, it's really not.
Though I would love to know what reason existed for _walking_ to be Fall Only.
They probably couldn’t get anyone for Winter and Spring or they genuinely think people only walk in the Fall
If I had to guess, it's because in Winter they'd have to be trudging through snow, or something like that. Depends where they are and how much snow they get; up here in Canada that would be a legitimate concern.
A lot of schools separate sports by season or semester so kids can enjoy different sports. I know people who did a different sport each season.
I think because marathoning was an actual serious sport back in the end of the 19th century. And they did it in fall back when it was popular. I mean, seriously. People would watch them like NASCAR or Tour De France. There were doping scandals. Only the truely athletic did the sport.
@@parzival-bo inside tracks exist.
the idea of walking as a sport is it's an endurance event. it's not about how fast you go, but how far
yes, it is literally 'walk more'
5:34 reminds me of an interraction my brother had while working at a local sandwich shop. This was right at the beginning of the pandemic and a customer came in and my brother asked her to put a mask on. She responded in a typically Karen fashion: "Oh I don't participate in the whole mask thing". My brother's response: "That's okay, I just won't be participating in the whole serving you thing" and he promptly left to the back
An important note about #5 OP said years later his Dad realized they should have followed the call before you dig rule. OP was only a foot or so away from the main powerline and could have been killed. Unexpectedly finding sand while digging is actually a sign you might have found a trench where pipes or wires are buried. It should be taken as a warning that something might be down there.
Story 3 it feels good to know someone else is going through what I am seizure wise.. I've had like two, years ago and haven't had one since. Same diagnosis and everything. It feels wrong to say I'm prone to seizures when I've only had like two or 3 in my life
Yea but the story is still funny
Props to that dad for taking OP's malicious compliance in good humor rather than doubling down and getting mad like a lot of stories on here probably would
Im thinking the walking team was a one-season sport because all the others were too, no other reason.
Who wants to bet the coach for the walking team was in it for the exact same reason the kids were???
School: "You _must_ coach a sports team."
Teacher: "But my subject has nothing to do with sport."
School: "No exceptions!!"
Teacher: "Alright, bet."
14:00 didnt that story end with them finding out that he almost dug too far and one more foot down would've been enough voltage to kill OP...didnt Rslash talk about that after reading it?
I remember that story too. Maybe he read a comment from op in that episode and he forgot he read this story before and didn't read that comment?
Story2 I'm not quite awake, so I may have missed something, but I'm very confused as to why Karen thought she was there first when she literally walked in while the other customer was being rung up.
Because Karens have their heads up their asses so they don't really see anyone other than themselves.
...She didn't think that, she's just lying and entitled... Standard Karen behavior...
Story #1, the fact that you would rather literally work at a PRISON than to deal with that horrible boss speaks a LOT of volumes on how horrible of a place that the business that you quit seems to be for you.
Story #2, the Holy Scriptures still ring true in this one, i.e., "Do unto others as they would have done unto you", so, since the Karen decided to be rude to the grandmother, and her granddaughter, then the Karen got her just reward for her rudeness.
Story #3, both the OP AND the school sound dysfunctional to myself. Now, with that being said, the required athletics part for students might be an issue in a lot of ways, especially for people that are quadriplegics or paraplegics.
Story #4, be a hypocrite with power and you will be removed from power.
Story #5, accuracy with job orders truly matters.
Story #6, if he cared about his possessions, and you, then what he valued, as well as his dreams, would not be in pieces.
Lol yea
Last story: Should have gaslighted him. Instead of texting him to pick up the stuff, send the pictures. "Here's your stuff".
And then when the guy inevitably trashes it, just act apalled.
"Destroy your stuff? What do you mean? You saw the pictures, right? I literally even packaged the expensive items for you so they wouldn't be damaged."
You haven't even done anything wrong or lie, you just didn't go above and beyond.
Story 3: Sports divisions are usually just arbitrary. The whole point is to avoid "competition" between sports leagues. For example, baseball and football used to be in tight competition, so they were divided because football was losing to baseball in the US. But other than that, there's really no division. You could declare any sport a summer sport, though people will complain if it's too hot and people start passing out.
I don't think downhill skiing would make for a good summer sport. 😆
Dig: Gotta quote Willow from Buffy here: A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend.
Day five of the Rslash Should Read Some Wholesome Stories to Detox petition
Story 1: OP warned him this could happen but John just doesn't give a fraction of a f*ck. Then has the gall to ask OP to show the ropes to the new employees? No way, solve your own problems.
but op missed the perfect revenge could have asked for aconsulting fee of 3k a hour payed in full no matter how long she helped rounded up to the nearest hour XD could ave showed them thee ropes for 15 mins boom easy 3k
Post hole - Awesome father, there. That was definitely malicious compliance. But instead of angry, he was impressed and proud, and turned it into teachable event.
I'd definitely love to hear more "wholesome malicious compliance" stories!
For the 5th story, I'm sure we've heard it before, at least a different retelling of it. I remember cuz at the end of the other version, op says an important information about how op's dad told him op was close to digging into some kinda electrical wiring or whatever. The story does sound like its been touched up with an added stick to the spade and other elements missing (op's dad struggling to lift the post with just his fingers) but im very sure this is that story 🤔
Dont worry i thought the same
I came to see if this exact comment was here. Iirc, the story ended with something along the lines of the dad telling his friends how if he didn't check on OP he would have hit the electrical line for the entire area
Rude customer: "The customer is always right" is, some say, only HALF the quote:
The customer is always right in matters of taste.
Story 5: Yep, never give instructions like "When I say so" because we don't know, and we might end up going past what is expected
Like in a story I heard of a fast food worker who was ordered to keep cooking burgers until the manager said to stop. OP tried to check after 15 minutes, but was ordered to keep cooking. When the manager did eventually check up on OP, there were burgers everywhere.
If youre the only person at your job who can do what you do, know your worth. They NEED you. You dont need them.
Random stranger- who is that always running around
Me- oh after Dabney read a story on Reddit and it said that walking is only a fall sport so you'll only see him running till fall 🤣🤣🤣
Daphne? Where's the rest of Mystery Inc? (I know you meant Dabney)
9:50 if it was up to me it would have been an winter sport
Manager : solve your own problem !
Employee : sure ! I quit !
Right after singing _2 Minutes Notice._
Walking story:
The school had a great idea and ruined it. Not every kid is good at sports, but every kid should have physical exercise. Walking is perfect.
If it's too dangerous in the winter, just do it inside, same thing in summer heat.
Don't ruin it with rules and so on...
I have a kid that has asthma and had absence seizures. Turns out it was one of the asthma meds causing them. Dropped two meds, the one giving him seizures and the one to control the seizures. He's been fine since.
Ill take 10 seconds, happy friday to all and enjoy your weekends!
Hello there, my Quest 3 arrives today, can't wait to play Beat Saber away from my PC.
You too
Thanks Dad
Thanks God speed
You too!
I was on the "walking team" too. School gave us all three choices on what sport we want to do, ordered by priority. I think I chose swimming, kajaking and tabletennis as thos three were sports I was already doing in my free time.
They put me in the jogging group "because the other ones were full". Complete BS, nobody else I talked to did not get one of their options.
But then the teacher that would go jogging with us became ill. We were all 16+ so they just gave us a route and sent us on our way.
We jogged away around the corner and walked to the nearby store to get snacks and hang out. An hour later we ran back at full speed so we were breathing heavily enough. Don't know if they ever found out and just didn't care, but we kept doing that every week for a full semester.
I've done a similar thing as 1st OP
In Primary School (ages 5-11), I also got diagnosed with absense epilepsy. For those unaware, absense epilepsy isn't the full blown on the floor shaking about. Absense seizures are pretty unnoticeable, it looks like the person is spacing out/daydreaming and it has an immediate recover time. It's not the mildest type of epilepsy (the mildest type is probably Myoclonic, which causes quick jerks. Think non-verbal torrettes), but it's pretty close
Anyway, the trigger for my epilepsy was shortness of breath. I hated PE since I was (and still am) pretty unfit, so, even though my seizures weren't a big deal, I still used them to get out of most of my PE lessons since my trigger was on my medical file
Good morning all you beautiful people!
G'MORNING 🤠
Fun to see a channel that you watch, commenting on another channel you watch! 😊
Well guess I can’t leave my couch since walking is a fall sport (by the school’s logic) and it’s not fall where I am
Sports seasons are about scheduling, not climatic appropriateness. When I was in high school they initially had girls basketball in the fall and volleyball in the winter. They later swapped them up so that Volleyball was in the fall and Basketball was in the winter. I'm not sure of the exact reasosn they made the change but I would guess that part of it was that it made practice a little bit easier since we would alternate early/late practice since there was only one gym and the volleyball net had to be put up and taken back down for every practice. Having both basketball teams playing in the winter means there isn't as much of a delay between practices. For walking, saying its a fallbsport probably just means that its when they have a teacher acheduled to "coach" it.
One thing that surprises me about many MC stories is how little the ones that give the orders gaslight the compliat person. Growing up, and at some of my crappy jobs, any MC I tried to do was met with gaslighting, which always resulted in me taking the fall.
thats why you always get in writing. if you have physical proof that someone asked you to do something stupid you can show everyone that you are just following orders.
I guess I like to listen to a lot of rSlash backlogs, because I recognized that 5th story about digging the post.
It's been touched up tho. Kinda sounds like one of those "Copy someone's homework, but change some things so it's different."
In cold areas of the US, walking is a Fall sport because the wether is usually more cooperative for outdoor walking for more of the 'season'. Winter has too much snow, obviously, and is too cold. Spring is often too wet and still too cold or the weather is too unpredictable. Also, mud is a bigger factor in the spring in colder areas (from melted snow and spring rains), which can cause more injuries. INDOOR walking is a year-round sport. When schools divide the sports year into 3 'seasons' like that, summer tends to mostly fall under the 'fall/ autumn' season (before school starts until about Nov, in a lot of cases, or occassionally early Dec). Winter is almost overlaps (might be a few weeks of overlap even - I know some schools have overlap with the Winter/ spring seasons, but they usually try to have a week or so break when possible between seasons because so many kids play EVERY season with different sports) and runs through until about early/ mid March. Then until about June, 'spring' sports (some places shift it to start as early as Feb, but the school year usually ends by May). Hope that helped!
Ah, yes, the 4 seasonal walking sports: Walking, Stepping, Sauntering and Striding.
No matter the task, no matter the workload, no matter the industry you never have just one person solely responsible for a job. You need at least 3 people minimum. Just in case of firing/resignation, illness, crisis, physical impairment and/or death. They may not work that task all the time, but you need at least 3 people in your workforce who know how to do it.
Especially in the aeroplane cockpit-there were multiple crashes where a suicidal pilot was left alone.
I'm assuming the reason they considered walking a fall sport is to treat it as a "grace period" since fall is usually the first season of the school year.
Like, "We get that you might not have any sports in mind at the beginning of the year, so we'll let you walk, but after fall, you HAVE to pick something."
7:13 that legitimately was a sport after the civil war. It was called marathoning. You were allowed to run, but only to relieve a cramp or something. You basically walked for hours. So yeah, sounds like its pathetic, but back in the day it was just as serious as thr Olympics or Tour De France are now, there were even doping scandals..
In the 5th story (Dig) OP said that there Dad learned another lesson that day: Call before you dig! They learned that OP almost hit an underground power line; the hole was less then a foot away from the line that carried power to the whole town!
Last story:
Being a collector of differnet stuff I NEVER let anyone near it.
One day the the BF of my ex's sister asked if he could play with my collection - mind you, I ws in my late 30s and the guy mid 20s to late 20s. I told him sure, if he has 5K at hand in case he breaks anything.
Story 4: you know it takes place in the states because it's some sort of cool malicious compliance to take the vacation time you are contractually allowed to.
This is such a non-story as a European 😂
First story: Less work than a correctional officer is kinda crazy I have busy days almost every day as a CO
I could be wrong but I think you might have told the post digging story before, be cause I remember that story, with the story mentioning the father forgot to call before he dug and they found out way after the fact he was really close to a buried electrical cable.
Yeah, and this story seems like it's been changed a little for some reason
In my homeland, we take our digging laws seriously since our phone lines and Internet service is fed by underground cable.
I'm pretty sure Dabney had already read the dig story once. I even switched back to make sure I was still watching the same video because I didn't remember hearing the outro lol
Yeah, it’s definitely really familiar, maybe it got reposted on reddit recently and he didn’t remember it, having read so many stories before.
I’m pretty sure the original story had an extra part of them later learning the hole was very close to an underground electrical line
Walking as a sport story, the Epilepsy type is strange, my oldest got that at 13 and they're calling it Juvenile Mycloptic Epelipsy and it's supposedly mainly happens in girls during their change and can either happen once or resolve around 25 or even resolve after menopause... women get the short end of the stick too much...
Epilepsy in itself is strange, as it’s the diagnosis you are given if there is no apparent cause to the seizures.
That story with the dad belly laughing at his kid diggin a hole deep enough to swallow a 6 foot pole was so wholesome.
Thank you for being one of the few people that actually reads these posts and not an AI generated voice . Thank you for having the inflection add character in your post❤
1st story: he could have driven the replacements even crazier - maybe crazy enough to quit - by asking for 2 self-sealing stem bolts and insisting that he got them there before 🙂
15:20 so... instead of the Fourier transform, she did the courier transform.
I would run in winter, unless there's a blizzard/ice storm.(Yes. There's a difference.) Then there's the problem with freezing temperature combined with ice/snow, you trying to over do anything even walk will make you sweat if you sweat in freezing weather your body will get colder and colder.
"The ancient age known as 1997" really just hurt my feelings cause why you gotta call me ancient yo
Facetious Zoomer/Generation Alpha logic.
@@JamesDavy2009 I was kidding lol just feeling the age from my first gray hair this week 😅
@@thatsmrs420toyou I know how you feel-I got my first strand of salt in my pepper recently as well.
Understaffing is not an employee problem, it's a management problem.
Unfortunately, when you are an employee at an understaffed place, it feels like a problem for the employee.
@@s.h.6858 And they (management) want you to feel that. So you have to find someone to cover your own shift -- when scheduling employees for shifts is a management responsibility.
i don't know how i feel about this one
just a few episodes ago, we had a woman demand - not ask, demand - that her exhusband send her a check for something. the exhub asked her to just come over and get it, it was only a few miles, and she responded by blocking him and forcing him to contact her through the chain of lawyers only, costing him thousands of dollars in legal fees
and like, it felt very sympathetic and reasonable at the time
now we've got a new story, with the exhusband demanding - not asking, demanding - that she bring over his stuff, and she responds by breaking a bunch of it
and yet it's also presented very sympathetically even though it's very close to being symmetric
i almost feel like if the husband in this story posted his side of the tale on reddit, we'd be rooting for him, because honestly c'mon
I wouldn’t want to walk in winter, but if someone told me I couldn’t walk in spring, there would be hell to pay
12:04 - I remember this story from a previous video
12:05 is a really similar story to what you read a year or 2 ago where he dug a post and hit a power line
No bad guys in this story really. But the paid time off story reminded me of it.
Last year I was going to take my PTO on my days off, for a boost to my checks at the end of the year. Other employees had done it the previous year when I was still a temp. The big boss said no to this. And they had a use it or lose it policy.
So I basically decided to take off the first week and a half of December. No problem there. Got back to work and did the last 2 days of the week that second half of the week.
The following week I'm in intense pain for hours and end up going into emergency care at the hospital. Turns out I had to have my gallbladder removed. That ended up basically taking a day to figure out. Then I was scheduled to have it done the next day. Then a day in the hospital for recovery and out the rest of the week on the doctor's order. Well I also had a week of sick leave. So used that then.
That's how I ended up working 7 days in a month and being paid for the whole month. Plus Holiday pay.
The walking team is just for kids who don't like sports to get some kind of excercise.
I sincerely hope that last story isn't fake, and also that somebody connected to the case finds this.
The son digging was an awesome malicious compliance 😂😂
My guess for walking being a fall sport is that OP lives somewhere that gets a lot of snow/gets snow randomly and it's a liability for the school. I live in Montana and it snowed 2 days ago.
To those who say that he retold story 5, not quite.
There was a similar story where OP was being a smartass and dug a deep hole with a spade, while being way too close to hitting an underground powerline and probably die.
Iirc the post hole story has been read before and has a slightly funnier (almost deadly end). If I'm right, it turns out the hole was dug over a powerline, another foot or two iirc and he would've hit the line. The dad only found out after trying to refill it or because of some zoning issues when doing some other work.
You can refuse service for the grocery store, but you can’t refuse service when you’re working the post office. Was she rude? Yes. Did OP abuse the power of their position like a tyrant? Also yes.
6th story - why is it OP's job to pack his stuff?? I suppose you might volunteer to do it in order to get it out of the house quicker, that would make sense, but if your going to do it, you need to be responsible, and what the OP did is not cool, as well as what the ex said is also not cool.
My philosophy, if your going through a separation, is to not unnecessarily ad trouble on top, because there is already enough trouble going on.
Some of these stories exaggerate the a-hole-ness of boss. For e.g the PTO story. Did the captain know OP had a serious emergency? The captain was under orders to enforce company policy about the 80hrs of consecutive PTO, especially if there'd been other employees who abused the system before. But maybe (just maybe) he would've shown empathy if only OP had been honest about the emergency.
Walking is a fall sport because of rules about weather exposure, 45 mins in especially cold regions can be literally deadly, so only fall and spring would be candidates, and obviously if you're on the walking team you probably have allergies, so spring is out thanks to the pollen epidemic 💀
12:00
This is a repeat story from a long time ago.
I can see why it would be a fall only "sport".
Weather and road conditions, mainly, relatively speaking not too hot, not too cold, relatively dry weather.
“in the ancient age known as 1997”
Damn. I was born in 1997, being called ancient almost hurt my feelings 😂😂😂😂😂
I have a similar story like in the Post story. This was long time, elementary school grade age. We have this hump TV that needs antenna so we can watch local TV shows. This antenna is attached to a long bamboo so that we can have better reception. One day after a windy storm pass, our TV has no reception. He analyze the problem and it's the antenna facing the wrong direction. He ordered me to twist the pole and he'll tell me if the TV signal reception is clear. I twist and shouted at him if the signal is clear, he said no. I twist again then yell, no answer. I repeated this multiple times until the wire snapped. Panic, I quickly go to him only to find he's talking to his friend outside. No wonder he's not answering. 😂
Yeah, the last story is her just begging for a lawsuit, even if she has photos.
10:00 probably just your standard elitism
...its not "Hardcore Enough".
Am I the only one that thinks I would not have liked the OP of the walking story as a teen? I was (still am) a huge nerd and wasn’t into sports. My parents still put me into them. And I took that time to make the most of it and have fun. OP sounded like their plan was to make it miserable for everyone else around them. Especially their first plan of being terrible at it. Who is that going to hurt? The teammates that didn’t make the rules? The coaches that didn’t make the rules? And then when they were on the walking team (which is still respectable and shows the school is doing things to try and combat this dumb rule) they just teased the younger kids with their buddy because of the title they gave themself. I would’ve hated that.
Hey R/Slash, I think it's cause the school didn't have a space large enough for a "walking" team to do so indoors since those spaces are probably used by other teams.
“You got to dig a little deeper
Find out who you are
You got to dig a little deeper
It really ain't that far.”
~Jennifer Lewis
I'm sure walking is a fall sport because the coach has track in the spring. And winter weather probably interferes with walking outside. I suppose they could have hired a new teacher just to coach "walking" year round but.... That sounds dumb.
Walking is literally an Olympic sport.
Yeah but the OP said it wasn’t that kind of walking
True, but it’s also more specifically race walking. You’re trying to go the fastest you can over a certain distance while making sure you’re specifically not running and following a specific form. I doubt the school in the story cared whether or not the students were ACTUALLY race walking, just that they made sure they have every student do something vaguely physical.
The epilepsy one is brilliant, my late Yorkie was the same. Medication basically stopped all his seizures.
Growing up I was on a farm as well as helping my dad with rental property so I know everything about home repair in almost every aspect. He was good at giving instructions until I was 15, for some reason he stopped. I think because he thought we were at his level of thinking that he didn't need to be told anything. But always good eye contact was the key to his instructions to sticking.
It's the wrong year. But someone is gonna get this.
"Debbie just hit the wall"
First Story - That final encounter OP had with the manager definitely happened in his own head while he was in the shower. 😂
It does kind of read like OP didn't like the manager and everything beyond that is fanfiction he came up with during the commute.
It is reddit, so it is at least likely
Walking is a sport?? in that case, my Malicious Compliance would've been to walk out of that school