The lawyer should have known what the zoning rules were for the property they bought and not been such an idiot about the business arrangement. Taking down trees and bucking them up for lumber takes a lot of hard work even with modern tools and hay can't be cut without the equipment to reap it, bail it, and transport it. If the lawyer really wanted to have a more profit driven use of the land he could have leased the fields out to a rancher in exchange for a fair share of purely grass feed beef and/or lamb and the cost of keeping the fences in good condition.
Perhaps, but the town rezoning the property as residential now means he can subdivide it and likely sell off the 40 acres for well over what he paid for the entire property.
Exactly what I was thinking. Imagined a bunch of farmers tossing him into a wood chipper or something while others cheer. With pitchforks and torches in hand of course
Lol…the lawyer. I live in a rural area. Had a wanna be high class lady move down here from Cincinnati. She went to the council meeting complaining that the tractors were leaving mud on the roads and getting her BMW dirty. Lol….she didn’t last very long around these parts
Yep! Had some people move in down the road from us in my rural KS community. They were originally from NYC. Nearly lost their minds when the bulls on either side of the road were bellowing at each other during spring breeding season. Or when coyotes went after one of their little lap dogs. They didn't last long either.
"So, let me get this straight, you're going to do all the work to maintain my shit AND I get free wood to heat my house? I would like to draft a contract to just keep that going in perpetuity, if that's okay."
Lawyer story: Love this one. Generally speaking, farmers as a class are a VERY SAVVY group of people who have to keep up with many federal, state and local laws/regulations which directly affect what and how they do their jobs. Many of them are also very well educated, having bachelor's and master's degrees in agriculture. They may not be specifically trained in the law as a lawyer should be, but they are very aware of the laws that affect them and their neighbors.
Inventory management is CRITICAL in any type of service organization, whether it be changing tires or flipping burgers. If you can't find it, you can't use it and wait times go up!
A person isn't listening to you if they are talking at the same time. Easier to just hush. I personally give them the "Mama" look over the top of my glasses at the same time. Works about 50% of the time to quieten them.
@@lizxu322 Getting old does have a few perks. The best of which is playing clueless to whatever you choose. Works great for petty revenge against abusive, entitled A holes. Even those of my same age
Obviously, girl friend never been on a swim or diving team. Also, she has never been to Europe. In certain places, stripping to underwear or birthday suits in the local park for your lunch hour. I’ve also seen people change into swimwear standing in the middle of the beach. She wouldn’t have seen anything if she hadn’t been looking.
50k property tax? Damn, even when you own a piece of land/house, you don't actually own it. It just gets rented to you by the state and if you don't pay up, jailtime!
Not typically jail for being behind on your property taxes in the US. Instead, the municipality can put a tax lean on the property and even eventually auction it off from under the owner to recoup the back taxes.
The inventory story at the tire store: this seems to be a seriously unfortaint reality in most large work environments that require dedicated inventory control people, sales and operations managers that have never done inventory before have no idea what the job is or how vital it is to their metrics. You can usually tell how well managed a warehouse or large store work environment is just by looking at how organized the place is and if the inventory controllers are good/happy at their job.
It is not just inventory. I had a job, once, that was a mix of data entry, testing, software development. After a couple of years, my team was reduced to me. By that time, I was at my fourth team leader. I was doing my job so well that I was invisible to the management. When I changed job, I used my last 2 weeks cleaning my plate as much as possible so no input from that team (with 0 member after I leave) would be needed for at least a month. Since business slows down in Summer, it took 4 months before my absence was felt. I heard it created so chaos, but they could not call me back.
@@ghyslainabel not only that but he actually did the workload of 3 people, and the stooges didn't give him a 1 protégé to teach them how to do the job OP has been doing successful for 10 years, BY HIMSELF.
I've constantly been told that "it doesn't matter, just put it anywhere" by management, because they want me to do something more visibly important. Then when the whole place is burning down because we can't find anything, it's somehow my fault.
Agreed. I work at a warehouse myself. They do have a system for their inventory, but it could definitely be tweaked by quite a bit. The way it works is that every piece of stock has a SINGLE place it's meant to be in. If it cant be put there, it goes to overstock (end of each aisle it's meant to go in), if THAT'S full, it goes to the overflow area. As of now, overflow hasnt gotten full, but the way we keep stockpiling stock, it probably will eventually, unless we get a decent amount of staff. A good portion of the overstock/flow could probably go up, but we barely have the staff just to pick everything going out, so the overstock/flow just keeps getting built up and up. Another big problem I've been seeing is that there HAZMAT in the regular bins. Those are supposed to be in a single spot in the warehouse, for obvious reasons, but somehow, someone decided to put those in the regular bins. Anytime it's spotted, it's fixed right away. Something like that, if not caught before going out, can cost the company AND the driver $5K each for the mistake.
I always say, don't f* with farmers. They play the long game, considering how they earn a living, they have patience. RE: At a hotel with a beach front, we hired an Aussie dude who stayed at the hotel till he got his own place. He wore, if course, a Speedo and too many of us saw more of him than we cared to.😣
@SilkandStones Thankfully no, but my parents try to keep the non-existing peace between us and I don't retaliate against my EB out of respect for my parents
@@HaakonTheRayquaza I have a brother who's not exactly entitled but he's cheap as a penny pincher, he sees food someone made, he'll take some, he's sees beer someone else brought, he drinks it, we don't mind, but all we ask is some damn common courtesy of him to ask first, I even have my own mini fridge with a pad lock, because I don't trust thar moocher
Lawyer Story: Well I'm a Lawyer I officially got my bar number today. There was no leveling up noise or bright glow around me. Thought it would feel more important. Don't get me wrong, I'm incredibly excited to be an attorney. I guess I just thought I'd feel more adult? Lol. Nope, I'm still actually just a slightly hungover idiot that loves sports and video games.
I love it when decissions comes back to bite people in the ass. The lawyer one... Pure poetry! Getting your land taken care of, getting firewood, being in a lower tax bracket while not lifting a finger to get all this... No! I can get a better deal! Haha yeah ... good luck with that buddy
Story 3: inventory management is so important we have an entire department to track our samples and find them when they go missing. gauging what happened when most of the department got Covid and had to quarantine for a bit, we would not last long without them.
I've actually got the same situation as the tire inventory guy where I work. Slightly different, but similar enough. We've got multiple shops that handle multiple tasks, all with their own management, and I'm just an engineer in one of the engineering groups. One of our shops handles all sorts of temporary equipment that gets installed and removed to help projects get done safely. One guy in that shop took it upon himself to see all of the broken equipment shoved off to the side, and start fixing it in his spare time. He eventually made that his full time job, and has been doing that job for close to 30 years. He's probably going to retire in the next few years, and he's the ONLY person who's EVER done that job, and they're not sticking anyone with him to learn the ropes and take over when he leaves. On top of that, he bought all of his own tools and equipment, which are critical to the job he does, and he's taking them with him when he retires, because they belong to him, not the shop. So when he retires, the shop is suddenly going to be stuck with throwing someone in who doesn't know the ropes, and they're going to have a pair of pliers, and if they're lucky, a hammer, to try and do the job that required an entire garage full of tools. I can see the writing on the wall, and I mention it to my own management from time to time, but we're all outside that guy's chain of command, so there's not really anything we can do about it but watch, even though we WILL have to deal with none of the equipment working.
Lawyer story: I bet the lawyer tried to go back to the dairy farmer for the agreement. Dairy farmer: I want $1000 every time for mowing your hay and chopping your wood.
Thanks Fluff. All of my family decided to leave the house to do other things, leaving me at home, and I was instructed to wash and dry up. This video was the perfect length. Thank you.
$300 a month to heat a mansion in winter?! That's pocket change. He'd need a bloody ton of insulation to spend that little. Growing up we lived in a drafty late 1800s house. My dad put the first insulation in the attic. That place was cold in the winter! Dad kept the place at 65° on threat of pain of death if you touched the thermostat. We spent $600 - $1,000 a year to heat a 1,300 (or smaller} sq. foot house. My dad would have danced a jig to spend just $300! You should have seen the furnace. It was a slap dash conversion of a coal fired boiler. About as fuel efficient as my 1968 Toronado.
The lawyer story gives me another layer of appreciation, especially because my father in law owns an enormous plot of land, and has a similar arrangement with the farmer next door. I always thought it was neat, but to know that he may also be getting a tax break out of it is even cooler
If i was that lawyer i would have gotten a contract but it would have been for EXACTLY what the farmer had been doing for a decade i dont have that kind of time
@@Mew_Mokuba_Akari thats what i was thinking like if i bought the land and i didnt know the farmers i would want the agreement in writing just in case but the deal sounded good to me they do all the work and i get a cut of the profit sounds like a win win to me
@@christophercombs7561 Same. Like, why would anyone with 7 years of college, see "I'll do ~$900 - $1,200 worth of landscaping for free, and give you free firewood." And thinks "Pay me to do all my landscaping, and let's fuck you over hard." And thinks that's a good idea?
A lawyer was cross-examining the doctor who had done the autopsy on the murder victim: " Before you began, did you check for a pulse? No? How about axial reflexes? Ocular movement? No? Breathing in a mirror? Well, then how do you know the victim was, in fact, dead?" "Because his brain was in a jar on my desk." "But you didn't check it for electrical activity? Isn't it POSSIBLE he was still alive?!!" "yeah, and practicing law somewhere no doubt....."
2 star hotel during conference season is hell on earth. I did security at many of them over the years. Lots of people guilty of "Stupid in a smart zone"; Wild parties; and sex everywhere.
I get anger issues (but therapy has helped a lot, as well as me hating being angry like that) but I've *never* gotten angry over having to wait, even when I've waited way longer than I was supposed to.
Story 2 = Years ago I was with a group that went to a conference. The hotel that most of us stayed at was a "lesser" hotel. One of our group stayed at the "primo" hotel that was giving the conference. He complained that his bed was hard. I just thought, "Well my bed was really nice." Expensive does not mean better.
12:10 most people think that revenge is a dish best served cold, but the more satisfying revenge is just simply living well, knowing your oppressor is wishing they had your life
Third story: You never miss the water 'til the well runs dry, which means (if you don't already know) that someone's work is never appreciated until it's not there anymore.
I feel story 3 OP's fears about messing up your body unrepairably, I recently dislocated my right shoulder again (for the third time) and while waiting for an ambulance, had a seizure and dislocated my left shoulder too, so I literally can't lift anything over my head, and can only lift 20 lbs. (found that out by picking up my brother's dog) Safe to say, it's gonna be a very long time before I find a job...
When I opened a popular box store on Black Friday people tried blocking me from the door. "There's a line" blah blah blah. I held up my lunch bag and people reluctantly move. Followed by the customers trying to push their way into the store when I entered. People are obnoxious. I could NEVER work in retail anymore. I'd get fired for calling out people's poor behavior and lies.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The first story reminds me off one from California many, many years ago when gas was in short supply and rationed There is a long line of cars waiting at the Gas Station with people standing around cars and getting angry at the wait. A small car starts driving past and everyone starts yelling at the driver and threatening him (He is a small man) So, he backs up and a few minutes later here he comes again, same result screaming yelling. etc. The 3rd time this happens he gets out of his car and starts to walk past the mob, a big bruiser picks him up and shoves and almost throws him to the back where he trips and falls. He gets up dusts himself off and yells, If you keep doing that, I will never open the station!
Yes! I love when this pops up in my notifications. I can ignore all the stress that's going on in my life, relax and just listen to your awesome, calming voice. Thank you so very much! ❤️
I loved the guy being held up trying to get to the till to serve customers. People can be so ignorant. That customer is so typical unfortunately. No patience
Story 3 so these guys didn't bother to replace you, even though you're the only person who knows how to do the job correctly, it's a 3 man job, and they didn't even give you a protégé to teach how to do the job that you've done successfully for 10 years, and after a few weeks they realized they screwed up big time- this is the equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot and being suprised that it hurts
Garden center, HEAT? Well I am not as nice as OP. After the second time being told back of the line I would have stepped well out of his reach and shouted attention everyone, I was going to open another till, this man will not allow me, since the customer is always right I will be going on break. You may all thank this guy for making you wait. Please dont blamevthe store as we tried.
Last story. Customer: what is this guy doing all day? His emails look a little light. OPs boss: since I don't know what my own employee does and I'm a terrible leader I'm going to make OP waste time writing down what he does effectively making him actually lose time for his essential job functions. Being a terrible boss isn't easy
Story 1: Unfortunately, OP did not only punish the rude, aggressive customer, but also several other, innocent customers for this one's rude behaviour.
Thank you for your amazing stories and content. You are one of the few channels I've seen doing these types of stories that's not using a computer-generated voice. It makes it so much less tiring to listen to.
On that last story. Used to be a projection manager at a theater before everyone went digital. Assembled the prints, took care of swapping out the slides for 25 theaters, coordinated with everyone who needed a little direction to keep things chugging along. I "joked" about being the unofficial den mother every Thursday night, because whenever ANYONE had a question about anything in the booth on Thursday, they came to me. I didn't always have the answer, but I did always know whom to speak with for the answer. So... den mother. In my 7th year with this company, I was given Thanksgiving off. Without asking for it. Color me shocked, but I rolled with it. Enjoyed a laid back meal with family. Then went to work to update the slides, which had about twice the usual number of slides (ah, Pepsi! How I don't miss your slides...) Pepsi alone was 18 slides. I did my usual marking of the slides on my own time rather than on company time. Made swapping them out so much easier...! Still, checking the chart for where to put the new and what was leaving took time. Swapping took time. I received an hour and a half of holiday pay. Naturally, the boss who paid for 50 hours of unexpected holiday pay wanted to know why I'd even come in. "Because we're paid $3,000,000 a year for the slides, and I don't want to spend the next month correcting upside down, backwards, or misplaced slides." He had no response to that. Next week, he asked me to account for all my time on the clock. Only once. Filled a 3x3" Post-it with time spent on calls, directing people, working on print building, questions asked, more calls, building, directing... Until the end of the night, I didn't spend more than 45 minutes on anything, and usually 10-15 minute blocks. I didn't take breaks, either.
On the other side of the coin, you have aggressive till operators. This happened a long time ago. I was in a green grocer's in a large shopping centre. The season was summer so tomatoes were very ripe. Even the cheaper ones. There was a mixture of regular tomatoes as well as truss tomatoes that were a bit more expensive. I got to the till and the girl (probably in her late teens) got uppity with me and said the tomatoes I had looked too red to be the cheap ones. She thought I picked the truss tomatoes off the vines that are still attached and wanted to pass them off as the cheaper ones. She took the tomatoes and stormed off to the back of the shop where the tomatoes were being sold. She came back and rang them up as the cheaper tomatoes. I stood there and looked at her without saying a word. She rang them up as if nothing was amiss and that she didn't basically accuse me of what amounts to stealing. I stood there for a few minutes looking at her. Not a word of apology. I then I walked away after paying still shaking my head. I hope she will think twice before accusing someone of being underhanded.
Farmer story: There are many situations in life, in various cultures and upbringings where "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" is seen as much valuable then a dollar
Story 5: GIrlfriend is not relationship material. If she is that insecure about another guy around, she will be worse just being in the same room with her a woman who she perceives her boyfriend as finding more attractive, whether he actually does or not. I dated someone like that, briefly. It was very difficult even going to movies that had nude scenes in them because she didn't like me watching.
The farm story was great. Sounds more like nuclear revenge since I bet the farmer was fully aware that the property was zoned as farnland and thus was assessed a lower tax rate.
Last one... they had 3 days of showing how much work was actually being done. Nipping the issue by forwarding the e-mails and other messages to the common box, with note that work is done in the order it is received by the managed mailbox I have found gets people doing it... especially when they contact you directly, and you are away... and they get put behind other work days/weeks later because they tried to sidestep the procedure.
The guy doing the equivalent of 3 jobs at the auto place SHOULD have been getting double his existing salary in the first place!!. Yip he had to leave for them to realize his value!!! So typical!!!
My excel spreadsheet would have read like this: 08:00:00: Opened log spreadsheet 08:00:01: Typed previous line 08:00:02: Typed previous line 08:00:03: Typed previous line .... 15:59:59: Typed previous Line 16:00:00 Closed daily log
Lawyer story. The farthest I would go is to say keep my wood stocked. Period. If ten percent doesn't fill my stock I need more. If ten over fills it give me only 4 percent if that fills it. But keep me stocked. With in reasonable numbers of course
Re: the swimming pool/costume story here in the UK (and in Australia I think) that style of swimming trunks are called "budgie smugglers" and I'm sure you can guess why. (budgie = Budgerigar, in UK a very popular pet cage bird native to Australia, a parakeet about the size of a sparrow or finch, not sure if you have them in US)
What is scorching in England? I'm a welder.... temps hit 90 degrees here (32 degrees Celsius) and I'm wearing a jacket and a hood with thick gloves and steel toed boots.
That farmer lawyer story sounds a lot like a guy who moved to my town...he insulted and angered all the local farmers lied and tried to cheat locals thinking he was smarter then them. Now he's been running a failing farm business for 5 years. He didn't understand our zoning or by laws for businesses and boy did that backfire. No one in town will support his business and he can't get a catering or liquor liscense....because my town has a bylaw that neighbors have to write off approval of out of zone businesses...the guy didn't really want to run a farm he wanted to have a venue with a farm theme...but he couldn't get any of those signatures because of angering and insulting all the neighbors. He also hired some out of state farm workers who screwed him over big time. He had to sell his entire beef heard because his hired farm hand didn't purchase feed for the winter but took the money and ran and none of the locals would sell him their feed because he also refused to let them cut the hay and split it like the previous owner. No one would cut his fields either so never move to a new place and insult the locals...the guy was just in the paper for inadequate keeping of livestock because he hires incompetent people. Cows screaming for days in labor with no vet called to assist labor...hundreds of chicken shoved in tiny pens with a farm dog...farming isn't about just making money its a community.
Story one is actually OP’s fault. While belligerent dude is too busy using his mouth to use his ears, you need to firmly stop them in their tracks. “Sir! I am a store employee and am trying to get to the tills, please let me through.”
I love how he's a lawyer and didn't seem too read the fine print when he bought the land 🤣
The lawyer should have known what the zoning rules were for the property they bought and not been such an idiot about the business arrangement. Taking down trees and bucking them up for lumber takes a lot of hard work even with modern tools and hay can't be cut without the equipment to reap it, bail it, and transport it. If the lawyer really wanted to have a more profit driven use of the land he could have leased the fields out to a rancher in exchange for a fair share of purely grass feed beef and/or lamb and the cost of keeping the fences in good condition.
People who see only dollars never have any sense. (Say it out loud for the pun)
I have heard this story across multiple sites, all I will say is look up the cost of renting land for hay before you comment on the lawyer.
Perhaps, but the town rezoning the property as residential now means he can subdivide it and likely sell off the 40 acres for well over what he paid for the entire property.
You talking about the farmer right, because he lost the hay.
"he pays the ultimate price"
Wait, they killed him?! Dang, those farmers really don't mess around!
Exactly what I was thinking. Imagined a bunch of farmers tossing him into a wood chipper or something while others cheer. With pitchforks and torches in hand of course
Exactly my thoughts... Fluff was a bit too theatrical there hahaha
Worse. They sent the TAX guy. Shudder!
Yep as a farmers daughter I can say that they indeed do not mess around. Never killed anyone though lol.
I was a bit disappointed. I expected at least some good ass-kicking. :(
Story 4: Good on OP for noticing that the Lawyer was a Greedy Conman
Lol…the lawyer.
I live in a rural area. Had a wanna be high class lady move down here from Cincinnati. She went to the council meeting complaining that the tractors were leaving mud on the roads and getting her BMW dirty.
Lol….she didn’t last very long around these parts
Ohhhh, when they complain about the tractors running at 4am. "I thought rural communities were quiet?" They are, just not during farming season.
Yep! Had some people move in down the road from us in my rural KS community. They were originally from NYC. Nearly lost their minds when the bulls on either side of the road were bellowing at each other during spring breeding season. Or when coyotes went after one of their little lap dogs. They didn't last long either.
A bus half full of lawyers goes off a bridge.... all those empty seats.........
Story 3: Dumb bosses never realize how important valued Employees are until they've left
"So, let me get this straight, you're going to do all the work to maintain my shit AND I get free wood to heat my house? I would like to draft a contract to just keep that going in perpetuity, if that's okay."
Lawyer story: Love this one. Generally speaking, farmers as a class are a VERY SAVVY group of people who have to keep up with many federal, state and local laws/regulations which directly affect what and how they do their jobs. Many of them are also very well educated, having bachelor's and master's degrees in agriculture. They may not be specifically trained in the law as a lawyer should be, but they are very aware of the laws that affect them and their neighbors.
Not to mention they often have to be engineers and mechanics while also being meteorologists.
@@LadyLexyStarwatcher literally.
Don't fuck with farmers and respect them as a neighbor and they will literally be the best neighbors in the world.
@@LadyLexyStarwatcher carpenters and masons, as well. We do it all, or do as much of it as we can.
Add to it - some of them may be on the local town council as well.
If the tax is tripled though, why wasn’t he paying 120,000? Only 50,000
A Gentlemen's Agreement is impossible with that attorney because... he's an attorney, not a gentleman.
Inventory management is CRITICAL in any type of service organization, whether it be changing tires or flipping burgers. If you can't find it, you can't use it and wait times go up!
A person isn't listening to you if they are talking at the same time. Easier to just hush. I personally give them the "Mama" look over the top of my glasses at the same time. Works about 50% of the time to quieten them.
Now I wish I wore glasses haha
@@lizxu322 Getting old does have a few perks. The best of which is playing clueless to whatever you choose. Works great for petty revenge against abusive, entitled A holes. Even those of my same age
Story 5: "I need you to put on a Swimsuit, I think you're being indecent"
OP: ok then, *Male Stripper Mode activated*
*night club misic*
And that's how Ricardo was made.
Banana Hammock ✅️
Obviously, girl friend never been on a swim or diving team. Also, she has never been to Europe. In certain places, stripping to underwear or birthday suits in the local park for your lunch hour.
I’ve also seen people change into swimwear standing in the middle of the beach.
She wouldn’t have seen anything if she hadn’t been looking.
50k property tax? Damn, even when you own a piece of land/house, you don't actually own it. It just gets rented to you by the state and if you don't pay up, jailtime!
Not typically jail for being behind on your property taxes in the US. Instead, the municipality can put a tax lean on the property and even eventually auction it off from under the owner to recoup the back taxes.
The inventory story at the tire store: this seems to be a seriously unfortaint reality in most large work environments that require dedicated inventory control people, sales and operations managers that have never done inventory before have no idea what the job is or how vital it is to their metrics. You can usually tell how well managed a warehouse or large store work environment is just by looking at how organized the place is and if the inventory controllers are good/happy at their job.
It is not just inventory. I had a job, once, that was a mix of data entry, testing, software development. After a couple of years, my team was reduced to me. By that time, I was at my fourth team leader. I was doing my job so well that I was invisible to the management. When I changed job, I used my last 2 weeks cleaning my plate as much as possible so no input from that team (with 0 member after I leave) would be needed for at least a month. Since business slows down in Summer, it took 4 months before my absence was felt. I heard it created so chaos, but they could not call me back.
@@ghyslainabel not only that but he actually did the workload of 3 people, and the stooges didn't give him a 1 protégé to teach them how to do the job OP has been doing successful for 10 years, BY HIMSELF.
I've constantly been told that "it doesn't matter, just put it anywhere" by management, because they want me to do something more visibly important. Then when the whole place is burning down because we can't find anything, it's somehow my fault.
@@annana6098 managers like that are the reason why the phrase "can I get that in writing?" exists
Agreed. I work at a warehouse myself. They do have a system for their inventory, but it could definitely be tweaked by quite a bit. The way it works is that every piece of stock has a SINGLE place it's meant to be in. If it cant be put there, it goes to overstock (end of each aisle it's meant to go in), if THAT'S full, it goes to the overflow area. As of now, overflow hasnt gotten full, but the way we keep stockpiling stock, it probably will eventually, unless we get a decent amount of staff.
A good portion of the overstock/flow could probably go up, but we barely have the staff just to pick everything going out, so the overstock/flow just keeps getting built up and up.
Another big problem I've been seeing is that there HAZMAT in the regular bins. Those are supposed to be in a single spot in the warehouse, for obvious reasons, but somehow, someone decided to put those in the regular bins. Anytime it's spotted, it's fixed right away. Something like that, if not caught before going out, can cost the company AND the driver $5K each for the mistake.
Story 6: Manager; "I want to Micro-manage you"
OP: ok, i'll make sure to write down how much time your Micro-managing is wasting
Lawyer one is a good example of being so busy thinking what you can do that you don't stop to consider if you should do it.
I always say, don't f* with farmers. They play the long game, considering how they earn a living, they have patience.
RE: At a hotel with a beach front, we hired an Aussie dude who stayed at the hotel till he got his own place. He wore, if course, a Speedo and too many of us saw more of him than we cared to.😣
Since he’s Australian, that swimsuit would be a “budgie smuggler”.
Story 2: I like that OP got to make Karen stay as far away as possible
I wish I could make my entitled brother live as far away as possible
@SilkandStones Thankfully no, but my parents try to keep the non-existing peace between us and I don't retaliate against my EB out of respect for my parents
@@HaakonTheRayquaza I have a brother who's not exactly entitled but he's cheap as a penny pincher, he sees food someone made, he'll take some, he's sees beer someone else brought, he drinks it, we don't mind, but all we ask is some damn common courtesy of him to ask first, I even have my own mini fridge with a pad lock, because I don't trust thar moocher
Lawyer Story:
Well I'm a Lawyer
I officially got my bar number today. There was no leveling up noise or bright glow around me. Thought it would feel more important. Don't get me wrong, I'm incredibly excited to be an attorney. I guess I just thought I'd feel more adult? Lol. Nope, I'm still actually just a slightly hungover idiot that loves sports and video games.
Huh I got my level up ding when I got my Bar.
Sounds like my best friend
Attorney for 3 years now, just married yet still her lovable guy I became friends with.
Gamer, anime lover
I love it when decissions comes back to bite people in the ass. The lawyer one... Pure poetry! Getting your land taken care of, getting firewood, being in a lower tax bracket while not lifting a finger to get all this... No! I can get a better deal!
Haha yeah ... good luck with that buddy
Man, when you said the lawyer "paid the ultimate price" I thought he died!
Story 4: Once again, money shows you who people really are. Lawyer was greedy and paid for it, quite literally in this case.
Story 3: inventory management is so important we have an entire department to track our samples and find them when they go missing. gauging what happened when most of the department got Covid and had to quarantine for a bit, we would not last long without them.
DarkFluff: "He [the attorney] paid the ultimate price." Expectation: gruesome death. Actual outcome: his taxes went up.
Practically the same thing :'D
To some people, that IS the ultimate price to pay.
I've actually got the same situation as the tire inventory guy where I work. Slightly different, but similar enough. We've got multiple shops that handle multiple tasks, all with their own management, and I'm just an engineer in one of the engineering groups. One of our shops handles all sorts of temporary equipment that gets installed and removed to help projects get done safely. One guy in that shop took it upon himself to see all of the broken equipment shoved off to the side, and start fixing it in his spare time. He eventually made that his full time job, and has been doing that job for close to 30 years. He's probably going to retire in the next few years, and he's the ONLY person who's EVER done that job, and they're not sticking anyone with him to learn the ropes and take over when he leaves. On top of that, he bought all of his own tools and equipment, which are critical to the job he does, and he's taking them with him when he retires, because they belong to him, not the shop. So when he retires, the shop is suddenly going to be stuck with throwing someone in who doesn't know the ropes, and they're going to have a pair of pliers, and if they're lucky, a hammer, to try and do the job that required an entire garage full of tools. I can see the writing on the wall, and I mention it to my own management from time to time, but we're all outside that guy's chain of command, so there's not really anything we can do about it but watch, even though we WILL have to deal with none of the equipment working.
Fluff and Steve-O, thanks for the great stories and laughs you gave me. This was the funniest birthday gift I could have ever wanted!
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Lawyer story: I bet the lawyer tried to go back to the dairy farmer for the agreement.
Dairy farmer: I want $1000 every time for mowing your hay and chopping your wood.
Thanks Fluff. All of my family decided to leave the house to do other things, leaving me at home, and I was instructed to wash and dry up. This video was the perfect length. Thank you.
$300 a month to heat a mansion in winter?! That's pocket change. He'd need a bloody ton of insulation to spend that little. Growing up we lived in a drafty late 1800s house. My dad put the first insulation in the attic. That place was cold in the winter! Dad kept the place at 65° on threat of pain of death if you touched the thermostat. We spent $600 - $1,000 a year to heat a 1,300 (or smaller} sq. foot house. My dad would have danced a jig to spend just $300! You should have seen the furnace. It was a slap dash conversion of a coal fired boiler. About as fuel efficient as my 1968 Toronado.
Yeah, that was totally my reaction too. I was like "$300/month for an oil burner, in winter, for a farmhouse, that's nothing!".
The lawyer story gives me another layer of appreciation, especially because my father in law owns an enormous plot of land, and has a similar arrangement with the farmer next door. I always thought it was neat, but to know that he may also be getting a tax break out of it is even cooler
If i was that lawyer i would have gotten a contract but it would have been for EXACTLY what the farmer had been doing for a decade i dont have that kind of time
Yeah gentleman's agreements are fine if you are sure you can trust the other person. But I wouldn't want one without a paper contract.
@@Mew_Mokuba_Akari thats what i was thinking like if i bought the land and i didnt know the farmers i would want the agreement in writing just in case but the deal sounded good to me they do all the work and i get a cut of the profit sounds like a win win to me
@@christophercombs7561 Same. Like, why would anyone with 7 years of college, see "I'll do ~$900 - $1,200 worth of landscaping for free, and give you free firewood."
And thinks "Pay me to do all my landscaping, and let's fuck you over hard." And thinks that's a good idea?
@ashannahensley3288 dude some people are dumb and greedy a diploma or degree doesnt tell you if someone is stupid or not
A lawyer was cross-examining the doctor who had done the autopsy on the murder victim: " Before you began, did you check for a pulse? No? How about axial reflexes? Ocular movement? No? Breathing in a mirror? Well, then how do you know the victim was, in fact, dead?" "Because his brain was in a jar on my desk." "But you didn't check it for electrical activity? Isn't it POSSIBLE he was still alive?!!" "yeah, and practicing law somewhere no doubt....."
2 star hotel during conference season is hell on earth. I did security at many of them over the years. Lots of people guilty of "Stupid in a smart zone"; Wild parties; and sex everywhere.
Story 1: Yeah, far too many people forget that they have two ears and one mouth for a reason.
And an unused brain.
@@tinydancer7426 *unused hamster
@@christophercuston ? Please explain. It is probably funny and I like to laugh when appropriate. Laughter is good for the soul. 🙂
I get anger issues (but therapy has helped a lot, as well as me hating being angry like that) but I've *never* gotten angry over having to wait, even when I've waited way longer than I was supposed to.
The girlfriend had no room to talk she had her phone to look at so why did she have to complain?
She probably got a bit too steamy and flushed than she felt able to hide XD
Story 2 = Years ago I was with a group that went to a conference. The hotel that most of us stayed at was a "lesser" hotel. One of our group stayed at the "primo" hotel that was giving the conference. He complained that his bed was hard. I just thought, "Well my bed was really nice." Expensive does not mean better.
Story 1: OP; behave rude and not let me do my job? fine, then you get to wait an extra few minutes in scorching Heat
Not a fan of that one. That guy wasn't the only person in line.
@@chaddon7685 you may not be a fan of it, but the Male Karen learned a lesson at least.
@@alana.dyer.author Maybe.
It is *not* rude to call someone out for queue jumping. It *is* rude to refuse to listen to them when they explain they're a cashier.
12:10 most people think that revenge is a dish best served cold, but the more satisfying revenge is just simply living well, knowing your oppressor is wishing they had your life
Third story: You never miss the water 'til the well runs dry, which means (if you don't already know) that someone's work is never appreciated until it's not there anymore.
Thank you Fluff, I started a job working as a cleaner and your videos help the cleaning go by a lot quicker.
I feel story 3 OP's fears about messing up your body unrepairably, I recently dislocated my right shoulder again (for the third time) and while waiting for an ambulance, had a seizure and dislocated my left shoulder too, so I literally can't lift anything over my head, and can only lift 20 lbs. (found that out by picking up my brother's dog) Safe to say, it's gonna be a very long time before I find a job...
I binged so many of these today and it made work go by super fast 😂 love it
Ultimate price? Pigs? Manure spread on his car. Chickens? I rub my hands gleefully. I can't wait. Taxes? Now that is evil!
Story 3: the bit about the puns sound EXACTLY what my brother (and I) do
When I opened a popular box store on Black Friday people tried blocking me from the door. "There's a line" blah blah blah. I held up my lunch bag and people reluctantly move. Followed by the customers trying to push their way into the store when I entered. People are obnoxious. I could NEVER work in retail anymore. I'd get fired for calling out people's poor behavior and lies.
So the client also appreciated to see what he did, win win for sure!
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The first story reminds me off one from California many, many years ago when gas was in short supply and rationed
There is a long line of cars waiting at the Gas Station with people standing around cars and getting angry at the wait.
A small car starts driving past and everyone starts yelling at the driver and threatening him (He is a small man)
So, he backs up and a few minutes later here he comes again, same result screaming yelling. etc.
The 3rd time this happens he gets out of his car and starts to walk past the mob, a big bruiser picks him up and shoves and almost throws him to the back where he trips and falls.
He gets up dusts himself off and yells, If you keep doing that, I will never open the station!
Yes! I love when this pops up in my notifications. I can ignore all the stress that's going on in my life, relax and just listen to your awesome, calming voice. Thank you so very much! ❤️
I loved the guy being held up trying to get to the till to serve customers. People can be so ignorant. That customer is so typical unfortunately. No patience
Story 3 so these guys didn't bother to replace you, even though you're the only person who knows how to do the job correctly, it's a 3 man job, and they didn't even give you a protégé to teach how to do the job that you've done successfully for 10 years, and after a few weeks they realized they screwed up big time-
this is the equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot and being suprised that it hurts
first story is a neat twist on "I DON'T work here!"
Garden center, HEAT? Well I am not as nice as OP. After the second time being told back of the line I would have stepped well out of his reach and shouted attention everyone, I was going to open another till, this man will not allow me, since the customer is always right I will be going on break. You may all thank this guy for making you wait. Please dont blamevthe store as we tried.
Humans have 2 ears and 1 mouth. 'Nuff said.
The "1 hour to fill in stupid sheet" killed me
Last story.
Customer: what is this guy doing all day? His emails look a little light.
OPs boss: since I don't know what my own employee does and I'm a terrible leader I'm going to make OP waste time writing down what he does effectively making him actually lose time for his essential job functions. Being a terrible boss isn't easy
The guy in the first story was clearly suffering from Roid Rage.
Free lawn care free chopped wood and 45000 off your taxes umm and he wanted the farmers to pay him he's going to learn lol
Story 1: Unfortunately, OP did not only punish the rude, aggressive customer, but also several other, innocent customers for this one's rude behaviour.
Story 4: Was it a tangerine speedo?
That would have put it over the top. LOL
The Tire man; But all those experts have the Fancy Collage degrees, so they automatically Know everything😂🤣..
Thank you for your amazing stories and content. You are one of the few channels I've seen doing these types of stories that's not using a computer-generated voice. It makes it so much less tiring to listen to.
On that last story.
Used to be a projection manager at a theater before everyone went digital. Assembled the prints, took care of swapping out the slides for 25 theaters, coordinated with everyone who needed a little direction to keep things chugging along. I "joked" about being the unofficial den mother every Thursday night, because whenever ANYONE had a question about anything in the booth on Thursday, they came to me. I didn't always have the answer, but I did always know whom to speak with for the answer. So... den mother.
In my 7th year with this company, I was given Thanksgiving off. Without asking for it. Color me shocked, but I rolled with it. Enjoyed a laid back meal with family.
Then went to work to update the slides, which had about twice the usual number of slides (ah, Pepsi! How I don't miss your slides...) Pepsi alone was 18 slides. I did my usual marking of the slides on my own time rather than on company time. Made swapping them out so much easier...! Still, checking the chart for where to put the new and what was leaving took time. Swapping took time. I received an hour and a half of holiday pay. Naturally, the boss who paid for 50 hours of unexpected holiday pay wanted to know why I'd even come in. "Because we're paid $3,000,000 a year for the slides, and I don't want to spend the next month correcting upside down, backwards, or misplaced slides." He had no response to that. Next week, he asked me to account for all my time on the clock.
Only once.
Filled a 3x3" Post-it with time spent on calls, directing people, working on print building, questions asked, more calls, building, directing... Until the end of the night, I didn't spend more than 45 minutes on anything, and usually 10-15 minute blocks.
I didn't take breaks, either.
“Then comes 2020.” I first heard this in 2018. What some ppl will do for clout, right? Not you, Fluff. I’m talking about OP.
My favorite stories. I do love malicious compliance!!
Hmm. All old stories today, but the way Fluff reads them, they are worth re-listening to!
Yep you never listen until they're gone talk about trying to fix something that wasn't broken
LMAO! Sounds like the little girl at the pool has some envy issues. That's a you problem not a me problem.
Smart thinking about the health of your back when you’re still relatively young. If only I would’ve done the same…
Tires: just as long as they don't flush the crapper. Lol
Guy doesnt seem to get that he was getting free maintenance and wood
I've said this many times, and I'll say it again. Never... EVER... eff... with... a... Hard... Worker.
On the other side of the coin, you have aggressive till operators. This happened a long time ago. I was in a green grocer's in a large shopping centre. The season was summer so tomatoes were very ripe. Even the cheaper ones. There was a mixture of regular tomatoes as well as truss tomatoes that were a bit more expensive. I got to the till and the girl (probably in her late teens) got uppity with me and said the tomatoes I had looked too red to be the cheap ones. She thought I picked the truss tomatoes off the vines that are still attached and wanted to pass them off as the cheaper ones. She took the tomatoes and stormed off to the back of the shop where the tomatoes were being sold. She came back and rang them up as the cheaper tomatoes. I stood there and looked at her without saying a word. She rang them up as if nothing was amiss and that she didn't basically accuse me of what amounts to stealing. I stood there for a few minutes looking at her. Not a word of apology. I then I walked away after paying still shaking my head. I hope she will think twice before accusing someone of being underhanded.
Farmer story:
There are many situations in life, in various cultures and upbringings where "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" is seen as much valuable then a dollar
Yay! DarkFluff time!
Edit: story 1 - omg I think I know where this is set, and the Karen in question ... 🤔
That farmer was the greedy one, do you not know how much hay cost?
Story 5: GIrlfriend is not relationship material. If she is that insecure about another guy around, she will be worse just being in the same room with her a woman who she perceives her boyfriend as finding more attractive, whether he actually does or not. I dated someone like that, briefly. It was very difficult even going to movies that had nude scenes in them because she didn't like me watching.
That's the problem isn't it, people just don't want to stop and listen and think about the situation.
The farm story was great. Sounds more like nuclear revenge since I bet the farmer was fully aware that the property was zoned as farnland and thus was assessed a lower tax rate.
First story: "I work here." All problems would be resolved. That guy is a jerk... but why should everyone else suffer?
For any other of their kind on line.
If you don't get past the "I...", you don't get to say "work here".
If you don't want to get into a confrontation, you just maliciously comply.
Last one... they had 3 days of showing how much work was actually being done. Nipping the issue by forwarding the e-mails and other messages to the common box, with note that work is done in the order it is received by the managed mailbox I have found gets people doing it... especially when they contact you directly, and you are away... and they get put behind other work days/weeks later because they tried to sidestep the procedure.
The guy doing the equivalent of 3 jobs at the auto place SHOULD have been getting double his existing salary in the first place!!. Yip he had to leave for them to realize his value!!! So typical!!!
Don't mess with farmers, in a farming community. Lol.
LoL I got so confused when I was hearing the repeat stories lol I watch so many of your videos sometimes I click the wrong ones ❤
My excel spreadsheet would have read like this:
08:00:00: Opened log spreadsheet
08:00:01: Typed previous line
08:00:02: Typed previous line
08:00:03: Typed previous line
....
15:59:59: Typed previous Line
16:00:00 Closed daily log
Lawyer story. The farthest I would go is to say keep my wood stocked. Period.
If ten percent doesn't fill my stock I need more. If ten over fills it give me only 4 percent if that fills it. But keep me stocked.
With in reasonable numbers of course
Rule one: Fill the property owners woodsheds first. That way they're taken care of, and we can see what we've got left to work with for ourselves.
who really runs an organization, an owner, a manager or the guy who does the work of three people and keeps everything running smoothly?
" karen-esque"....lol!!! Love it!!
The first story. I wonder how that guys own foot tasted.
Rather like crow, I should think.
When fluff said he payed the ultimate price I screamed: Death?
I’ve filled out time sheets including the “filled out timesheet” line😊
Amazing video, as always. I just love it when you upload, especially your entitled people and I don't work here lady videos.
Re: the swimming pool/costume story here in the UK (and in Australia I think) that style of swimming trunks are called "budgie smugglers" and I'm sure you can guess why. (budgie = Budgerigar, in UK a very popular pet cage bird native to Australia, a parakeet about the size of a sparrow or finch, not sure if you have them in US)
What is scorching in England? I'm a welder.... temps hit 90 degrees here (32 degrees Celsius) and I'm wearing a jacket and a hood with thick gloves and steel toed boots.
10th first story really gave me a laugh too if you'd shut up long enough to to listen he wouldn't have had to wait all that time
Not so smart lawyer goes to country and finds out he is not so smart.
I’m glad this channel exists. Thanks black sheep person
If I was the lawyer I'd have taken the deal and jokingly ask for a wheel.or two of cheese
That farmer lawyer story sounds a lot like a guy who moved to my town...he insulted and angered all the local farmers lied and tried to cheat locals thinking he was smarter then them. Now he's been running a failing farm business for 5 years. He didn't understand our zoning or by laws for businesses and boy did that backfire. No one in town will support his business and he can't get a catering or liquor liscense....because my town has a bylaw that neighbors have to write off approval of out of zone businesses...the guy didn't really want to run a farm he wanted to have a venue with a farm theme...but he couldn't get any of those signatures because of angering and insulting all the neighbors. He also hired some out of state farm workers who screwed him over big time. He had to sell his entire beef heard because his hired farm hand didn't purchase feed for the winter but took the money and ran and none of the locals would sell him their feed because he also refused to let them cut the hay and split it like the previous owner. No one would cut his fields either so never move to a new place and insult the locals...the guy was just in the paper for inadequate keeping of livestock because he hires incompetent people. Cows screaming for days in labor with no vet called to assist labor...hundreds of chicken shoved in tiny pens with a farm dog...farming isn't about just making money its a community.
the ultimate price?!? he dies?!?!!?
Story one is actually OP’s fault. While belligerent dude is too busy using his mouth to use his ears, you need to firmly stop them in their tracks.
“Sir! I am a store employee and am trying to get to the tills, please let me through.”