You know the situation is bad when your school bully thinks how messed up you're being treated and ends up helping you. It is nice that the bully stopped doing so because of the jerk teacher. Students unite against the horrible teacher!
Mrs. Grump must've been a bona-fide Luddite! (A Luddite was someone who is adamantly against technological change.) Mrs. Grump was getting a mad-on because of a child (OP) using a tool that made his works more easy to read! No surprise she is the sort that likes to drink the tears of tortured kids.
He saw someone with more power and a bigger bully than he had the ability to be, and it made him see how it affected OP.. so it ended up being a life lesson for Jim.
Jim from story 3 is MVP! I wonder if he was initially jealous of OP, enjoying high grades and using tech in class. I guess he realised that OP was only getting a fair shot at school, and that the teacher was the bigger bully
Story 3: I can't say for certain, but Jim seemed like a Tier 1 Bully. Still engaged in Bully behavior, but upon seeing more serious bullying from an authority figure he probably thought "This shit is fucked up Holy hell"
Principal immediately thought he beat this kid up and sent him outside so he can't lie about it. Jim has lots of experience with things that ain't fair, he really understood those tears.
As if it wasn’t bad enough “Mrs. Grump” being absolute rubbish to her students, then she goes and chucks an expensive bit of school-owned tech out a window. “Asked to retire” is generous. Frankly, she’s lucky she wasn’t arrested. That word processor was essentially government property.
My father had a similar situation at his bank. The teller gave him one too many $100 bills. He told the teller and they immediately called for a manager. My father told the manager the teller had made a mistake. The response --- "we don't make mistakes". He folded the money, put in his pocket and said "thanks for the extra hundred" and headed for the door. The manager told the guard at the door to stop him. When he tried, my father just told him "he told me that they don't make mistakes here, so you probably don't want to make one. If you do, it WILL be your last." And he left.
Once at my Airforce base, my paycheck was $800 too high. I went to Disbursing to let them know of their mistake, and wanted to get it corrected. Same thing, "We don't make mistakes!" So I left. I knew eventually it would be caught. It took them a couple months, during which I didn't spend that extra $800. Sure enough, a paycheck came that was $800 light! No problem, as I had the money and bills got paid. Never a word from them.
My wife cashed a student loan check at our bank, and they handed her the envelope of cash she requested and the check was in the envelope. I called the bank and told them what happened and they wanted me to return the check right away. We lived too far away to make it before closing and they were not going to wait around. So I said I would bring it first thing in the AM. I was there about 5 minutes after opening. My wife gets to class that day and finds out she cant pay her tuition. She should have had plenty in her account to cover this, but since the bank teller gave us back the check they removed the funds from the account, and also over drafted her the cash she had on her. The bank tried to flip this on us saying it was our fault the check was put in the envelope. It took a few weeks to get this overturned and the fees from the stuff that bounced put back in the account. Thankfully my Uncle knew a few of the proper people to contact to make that happen. She closed her account at that bank shortly after all this.
I’ve worked in banking for over 30 years, and you can tell the good branch managers by their willingness to immediately correct or research errors. When I worked the line, if we identified an error immediately, we’d advise the customer, and if they insisted there was no mistake, that window was closed and the teller did an immediate temporary balancing to verify. We’d do the same if the customer contacted us same day before balancing, regardless of who made the error. Good branch managers follow that policy.
My son is nonverbal autistic and uses a tablet to help him communicate and his teacher tried to block it because "ipads are distracting" 🙄 we had massive fights before covid hit and they blocked him from actually coming to school for almost 2 years (even when school started in session again) but thankfully my mom knows how to fight and we got him in a special school. Some teachers are not meant to deal with children, they don't have the love of teaching or shaping children and should not be there.
Story 3: I had an AlphaSmart in high school. They were so easy and simple. I have no clue why the teacher was complaining. You can’t play games on them. They are small and light so they stay out of the way on the desk. They make no noise other than beeping when the battery is going flat. She is just wanting to make trouble.
That is the thing, they make things less hard for struggling kids while teachers like this are convinced learning should be hard and if you struggle, you dont deserve any help or success.
that power tripping teacher should've lost her teaching license and been banned from teaching at all schools in the country. I also had an AlphaSmart 3000; everyone thought it was the coolest thing they had seen.
I worked with a guy who pointed out a mistake a bank made in his favor on an account. I think it might have been less than $100. When they finally admitted their mistake they wanted to charge him about $45 to correct their mistake. He said no thank you and closed all of his accounts adding up to over $25,000. It was a small bank where all of the employees were related.
Story 3: If OP had that word processor as part of an IEP or 504 (both learning plans to help special needs children succeed in school; I had one on account of my Asperger’s), Mrs. Grump could have been in HUGE legal trouble for not only deducting points from OP’s grades, but even confiscating it. If I was the parent of OP, and I heard about this, you would be d*** well certain I would be calling a parent-teacher meeting with the school principal and the superintendent to mot only have those grades be scored fairly and have both a verbal and written apology (typed out for good measure, just to spite her), but to make sure that Mrs. Grump never confiscated my child’s learning tools again. Otherwise, I would bring this to court, the media, and anywhere else so I can personally make sure she not only gets gets fired from her teaching position, but never teaches in any school environment again.
@@greatgreyowl2583 OP uploaded the story two years ago (making it roughly 2020 when they uploaded it). Nineteen years before that would be 2001, and I had an IEP back then. Of course, looking at the bottom of the post (which DarkFluff did not show), this took place in Nova Scotia, Canada, not the United States. Still, both nations have IEPs. So assuming that OP had an IEP back then, like I did, their parents could have pressed charges against Mrs. Grump (and possibly the school) for discrimination and harassment against a disabled person at the very least.
The school story. The ends definitely justify the means. The fact that OP had to go through that to introduce them for others is the best ever. And the teacher getting "early retirement" to boot that protected students is great.
*Third Story:* This, along with the insanity we're seeing in classrooms these days, is why I'm all for surveillance cameras in classrooms. Too many teachers go on a power trip and cameras would be a great deterrent or help provide evidence for when said teachers need to be fired.
there's a video (Don't know if he kept it up or not) of my brother that he posted long ago of him leaving the classroom without the teacher coming at him for leaving, going through another classroom that had 2 teachers in it without stopping him and back into the classroom he was in the start
The problem is that you sound like a reasonable person who won't harass a teacher teaching basic history, empathy, or daring to mention some families have two mommies or two daddies. Its the unreasonable people that are flipping out over CRT, "woke" teaching, and "grooming". Being a teacher is already hard enough without having video surveillance 100% of the time, especially livestreams where wackos can watch and work themselves into a rage.
@@Shadynastys It's pretty obvious when you live in the south. Even when you don't see it in papers, you hear it at parks and in grocery stores. "HOW DARE they teach my good Christian son about the ARABIC number system?! We use American numbers!" Flyers at the grocery store in a rage about the need for white history month and how they didn't need any more about slavery outside of Feb. It was overkill and woke hate.
Third story: That's insane because I used an Alphasmart in middle school as well. It wasn't the same as what OP had used and I didn't take it out for every class but it helped a ton with my note-taking and allowed me to get through middle school with relative ease. I'm glad she was given the boot but I'd still love to know what her problem was with those things and why she felt the need to admonish students who needed them.
I think some teachers get distracted by any kind of new noise or motion when they are trying to teach. At the start of the year my teachers would tell me off for doodling. By the end of the year, after I’d engaged in class and got decent grades, doodling the whole time, they didn’t complain any more.
I loved my Alphasmart. It would auto save every keystroke. No risk of losing a document when it got turned off. And it used AA batteries and lasted for ages. Also durable. Just plug it in at home and it would download to a text file.
I had the same exact thing happened to me at a bank that happened in the last story. The teller gave me $100 too much and when I came back in to tell her that she made a mistake, she got all haughty and indignant and looked at me like I was dirt. She said, “I don’t make mistakes.“ I thought it was really unbelievable to say something like that, so I said well I’m sorry, but you did make a mistake. She said again that she didn’t make any mistakes and I had to be wrong. I believe I said a third time that I wasn’t wrong that she made a mistake and she got so indignant, that I turned right around and walked away and said loudly OK then I’ll just keep the extra 100 you gave me. Suddenly her mouth dropped open, she did an about face and became sweet as apple pie and she said well let me check. So I turned around and fanned the money she gave me in front of her, which obviously showed she gave me $100 too much and then she said, “OK return the money to me.” And I said, “I thought you don’t make mistakes.” It was lovely to see her face, LOL Ofcourse I gave her her money back but it was good to watch her eat crow.
Example 1: Teacher punishes student and threatens to take away or destroy his very expensive piece of electronics his parents bought him that he uses for learning? Nothing happens. Example 2: Teacher takes the same device that the SCHOOL paid for and chucks it out a window? Asked to retire.
ADHD story. The teacher should have been fired from day 1 when OP told her that he needed the WP. It's against the law, even then, to steal a device from a disabled person. And yes, in this situation, OP is disabled. It's an unseen disability just like epilepsy or congestive heart failure. Would the old bat take away a tape recorder from a blind student? But yeah she probably would lmao.
Third Story: My school assigned AlphaSmart was a lifesaver. Only one teacher gave me a hard time and denied me the use of the room’s computer to print what I typed. The claim? “Because they’re for yearbook only.” Technically this violated my IEP. All that aside, that gadget helped me from 5th grade all the way to 12th. Towards the last few weeks, the USB port went on the fritz. Since my record was clean, the school let me use my Dell mini for the last few weeks.
A friend of mine went to put money in the bank on her day off - she was putting £20.00 in; when she left the bank and looked at her receipt, it stated £200.00 - the teller who had been chatting to her, had done it wrong. The next day, she noticed that her balance was missing £180 and got a message stating there had been a mistake. When she phoned the bank, she stated that she had a receipt for £200 and if the £180 wasn’t put back in her account straight away, there’d be hell to pay. The bank complied and refunded the £180 ! Her job was working at the Police Station as an office clerk !
In my country the bank would not have been able to close its system in the evening.There would be a deficit of 200 and the account wouldn't balance. The cashier/ teller would have to correct the deficit with his personal money. if it is a small amount it is ok but if it runs into hundred thousands then it is trouble. The cashier and all employees have to stay inside the bank and can't go out at all. So the person cannot go outside to arrange for the money. My female friend luckily had gold ornaments on her, bangles, necklace etc. She pawned them with the same bank for a gold loan. There was black mark against her . She lost one year's increment and her promotion was delayed by 2 years
Story 3. Had this happened to me, Mrs. Grump would have had to deal with my Dad, a WW2 Vet, Marine Corps Master Sergeant. Total badass that won`t take crap from anyone.
The bully helping out OP reminds me of the trope “Even Evil Has Standards”. On another note, I remember a classmate in middle school having a similar disability and used a word processor for everything (he also had adhd). I don’t recall him having a hard time with teachers, so OP could have been another person. But the handwriting disability is a legit thing I remember reading about years later.
That teacher story reminded me of this teacher that demanded we wrote our reports by hand. His argument? "You're all going to copy+paste from Wikipedia anyway, so at least this way you'll have to actually do some work!" We didn't take that insult lightly, so we all refused to do the reports in protest. Apparently shit hit the fan, because they ended up replacing him with a decent teacher who gave us another assignment, and this time we were allowed to type the reports. Anyway, Mrs. Grump is a definitive example of people who should've never been allowed to teach.
Last story: At the end of the day that teller was probably wishing they'd listened to the mom! I worked as a teller after graduating from college. If our drawers were off a certain amount at the end of the day, we had to recount it, go through all our paperwork and have someone else count it out until we found the mistake. One day I was there for about 2 hours because 3 or 4 of us couldn't find (I think) $5 that my drawer was off by. The next lady to count somehow found what we all missed!
1st story. After the third try it's just a delay tactic. Smile and tell the waitress it will take some time until that order is filled, and then wait until the rest of her friends gets here. Maybe offer some breadsticks.
Twice I've had teachers so bad, so toxic, I have literally walked out of their class never to return. A band teacher in 7th grade, and a math teacher in high school. Of course I failed their classes. Band, not a loss. Math? I took a higher level course in night class at the Vo-tech school that summer, and passed with straight As.
I had a teacher who was so nice to me in 8th grade until she met my dad. Apparently my dad was good friends with her ex husband in high school and she decided to make me the subject of her wrath even calling me stupid in class
Teachers being awful to students has always been confusing to me, like what are you even doing here? The pay is awful, that certainly can't be it. I thought teachers wanted to shape young minds and help students achieve great things. Seems like some just want to torture children.
I had a bad band teacher as well. After one day she annoyed the whole low brass section before pep band for a basketball game. So the whole low brass section decided to blast (play as loudly as we can) the start of the next song we played. Scared the crap out of her
I had to drop English Comp 2 in college because the instructor was severely misandrist and I was the sole male in the class. Every story we had to write a synopsis on the class discussion twisted around to how sexist the writers were, and I could do nothing right in her eyes. When I had enough, I left after telling her that whoever hurt her in the past, it wasn't fair to blame me just because I was born with a dick.
Although the teacher didn’t get fired in the start, I feel like the latter is so much better, since her true colors get shown, she has to pay for damages, and he prob didn’t have to deal with her bs if she tried to lie her way out Also, Jim reminds me of Nelson from the Simpsons, where he was about to bully a kid for knocking his lunch box off, but after learning his disability, protects him
Story 2: She didn't want it hot. She wanted the soup to get to her when her friends got there. I've seen a ton of people like this. And if it's someone I know or I know what bullsh*t they are getting up to, I usually make a comment loudly enough to the other serving staff to get the person's attention and publicly shame them. This is when I'm dining in the establishment as a guest, of course. You'd be surprised how a little public humiliation works on crappy attitudes.
That is such a stupid way to go about that line of thought. Most restaurants would let you wait for your friends without ordering until they get there. Or they could just order a drink or something first, then order food when the friends get there. There's at least half a dozen way to do this without pissing off the people feeding them.
Alternatively she's an older person and her taste buds and sense receptors are shot to shit. They always want shit stupidly hot and seasoned up to a milligram below the lethal dosage of salt. I've been a chef for 15 years and the few years I worked in member's clubs before going into bulk production were hell. Member's need to remember a club isn't made by the quality of its members but the quality of its staff and amenities. If the club gets a name for been a hell hole with high turnover because the staff are treated like shit by old Karen's and Ken's then your club fee's are wasted and your a terrible human being.
I worked in a Fine Dining restaurant before as a line cook. One time , we got a customer who kept saying his Pan-seared scallops is too cold which is impossible. 3 times it was remade and 3 times it was sent back for being too cold. So the Head Chef personally cooked the scallops and personally brought it to the table. In front of the chef, the customer said it was cold. So the chef used the blowtorch used to torch meringues and whipped cream and torched the scallops until it was literally in flames, all right in front of the customer and right there at the table. He then instructed the manager and security to throw him out if he complained again.
@@DanielVisOneCade I used to take care of my grandparents. I know well enough that older people do like things hotter. But when you have a heated bowl with literal BOILING soup placed into it, the soup isn't going to lose hardly any heat going 30 feet out of the kitchen. The OP said that the woman made a face after that attempt. That is what clued me in to her being a massive c*nt and doing this. At that point, she should've realized that would've been her own undoing. She did it because she wanted to eat in front of her friends and not alone, that's all there is to it.
Story 3. I was diagnosed with Asperger’s later in life but I was diagnosed with ADD around eight. My teachers were horrible and treated me like crap. Often it was things I could not control. I think the bully the dude has bulled him due to regular guy stuff but when it came down to it when it came down to it when he saw a disabled person being picked on due to his disability his humanity kicked in full gear. Taking away the guys word processor was like taking away a blind kids cane and then bulling him about it. The dude had a moral compass
That second story... many years ago I worked at a Red Lobster and we had a fairly regular customer who's goal in life seemed to be to give our waitresses hell... the SOB wasn't satisfied until he had some poor girl in tears. So one day our dinning room manager decided to take care of him personally. He ordered a bowl of clam chowder, then complained it wasn't hot enough. So she took it back to the server area, put the soup in a hot pot and got it to a rolling boil, while at the same time getting one of the cooks to put a bowl under the broiler. She then took the boiling hot soup out to the guy and "accidently" dropped it on his lap. He never came back, and no, we didn't get sued (at least not that I ever heard), it was the 70's and a different world.
Reminder if I ever become a waitress I got to bring a thermometer with me to make sure that the food is hot enough that the b***** customers won't give me any crap
Sometime when I was a toddler in the late 1950's my mother went Christmas shopping in the downtown area of our city. This was before shopping malls and Walmart became the places to shop. Being the Christmas shopping season, the stores were crowded and the staff was harried and sometimes rude. Well, my mother checks out and the cashier had been rude to her as well. After leaving the register my mother started putting away her change and realized the cashier had given her back $20 too much. Had the cashier been polite my mother would have returned the money to her, as it was she had an extra $20 to spend for Christmas. It was a good Christmas that year. That $20 would be worth approx. $200 in today's money.
She destroyed an expensive word processor, which was AGAIN, NOT HER PROPERTY, and she was just "asked to retire"??? She should have been SENT TO JAIL. I get that she had tenure, and couldn't be fired, but that doesn't mean she could NOT BE CHARGED WITH A FELONY CRIME. What the HECK, school board?!
OP said she was escorted from the building. “Asked to retire” may have been a euphemism for “if you quit and pay for a new word processor, we won’t press charges.”
Later than normal posts are like when you think someone has died, but they suddenly come back to life. Sadness and disappointment followed by relief and joy.
I understand that last story perfectly. I was given $20 too much as change at the coffee shop I went to once, I only noticed the next day (they should have given me 3x $5 bills but gave me 3x $10 bills). I think I fought for one full hour on the phone with them trying to tell them that I OWED them money. No matter how many times I would say "You gave me too much cash back" they just kept telling me that they did not have extra money in the cash register so there was no mistake. My coworkers, who were listening to me fight on the phone, were having one hell of a laugh.
Story 3: Bullies very crudely can be categorized in two groups. One is spoiled brat bathing in power and the other is rebel. Jim is of the later variety as they tend to cause trouble for authority figures if possible, while the first group mostly is content with torturing weaker individuals. At this moment Jim was not helping OP at first, he was taunting Mrs. Grumps. Helping OP merely was a welcome side effect. That attitude changed after his visit at the principals' office where, I'm relatively certain for the first time, he did not get in trouble for his actions. Story 4: Not 100% sure whether that story happened due to language barrier, french stubbornness, missing education or technical error (wrong daily exchange rate).
Regarding story 3, I don't agree with your assessment. I was a bully bathing in power in school but I also don't have a heart of stone. If someone I was bullying went from loser to victim in my eyes, I would have stopped the bullying immediately. It was just that as a bullying kid, I never realized how hurtful I was. I had to become older to do so.
Fourth Story : French here. Okay I wasn't alive at the time, so I MIGHT be wrong, but if I'm correct at what my grandfather told me about this, the fact that BOTH said the EXACT SAME THING which is "We don't make mistakes" is not that they don't want to admit they've made a mistake. It's probably because it would've been added as an extra line in their datas, and if management saw this, it wouldn't been seen as "A simple mistake", which was ground for... a write-up or a warning, but it would've been seen as something like stealing/laundering. If they admitted the mistake, their job would've been over, and as an employee in the bank industry, being fired for "stealing/laundering" would assume their whole career would be over. Basically they saw the problem, understood, but their job was much more important than 80$ (Which they probablypaid after that out of their own paycheck).
If a teacher had stolen from me like number 3 I'd of walked right out to the principle and said "I can't stand her bullying anymore either help me or kick me out".
Soup story, some people are determined to be displeased. The lady knew it was hot, but wanted to get it for free if she complained enough, or if injured, get more compensation. Its a classic scam
that is when you take the soup out to them personally with a thermometer, measure it in front of them and then warn them to make sure to let it cool down a bit before they eat.
Take a creme brulee burner (miniature butane torch) to the table and apply the flame to the soup, asking the customer to say when the soup is hot enough.
The world needs more Jims, seriously.... All these stories on the news and such about bullied kids snapping and taking various extreme reactions, often all it takes is one.... Just one person to stand up and say "No!" to the bullies. Good for you Jim.
She was trying to get a free meal i bet, possibly complain each time the soup was too cold to the point she felt justified about telling them she's not paying for the bad food, that's my guess
I had the bank short me once. She told me that wasn't possible and I reminded her how much money she deducted from my account and the money in my hand. She told me that in order to get me my $20 back they'd have to shut down the bank and count alllll the money. Being the broke college student I was, I told them I had time. 30 minutes later they came back and gave me my $20 bc I was right. I double check atm and bank money. Heck I count my change. They can be wrong and I wish their pride had benefitted me.
This happens all the time where disabled students are treated lesser in the classroom and on the field. Just look around and more often than not you will find some poor student who is denied his civil rights by some teacher or some school who didn't want to spend the money or receive the money and want to spend it on the kid.
@@aduckofsomesort True. Note the fact that I have to pay via my insurance for his services, so no cost to school, no cost to district, no cost to taxpayers, but I still can't get what is needed.
The hot soup Karen reminded me of a woman who shared a table with me and six others on a cruise in Asian waters. She was always the last one seated because she had to make a grand entrance down the staircase. She routinely sent back entrees for some imagined flaw. I think she believed that showed a high degree of discriminating dining. None of the rest of us sent back anything ever and it did not impress the man who was traveling with her one bit. I am grateful for the paucity of Karens in my life so far. These cautionary tales are preparing me for any that I may encounter in my future. Thank you.
I encountered a similar situation many years ago on a transatlantic crossing. In those days, you were assigned dining; my partner and I were seated at a table of eight with wonderful, delightful couples - except for Mrs. I’m More Important Than You. She made our dining experience unpleasant -sending food back, every bottle of wine had “turned”, etc. The fourth night, one of our dining companions (who was a somewhat well-known retired CEO) got up, spoke to her quietly, then went to the Maitre d’. She tried to maintain her composure but excused herself quickly and left. She was reassigned to the earlier seating and we never saw her again. We never knew what the man said, nor did we ask.
If I had to guess, she waited so long to eat that she was finally hungry enough to dig in without considering how hot the soup was going to be that final time; if she'd tried it the first time, maybe she would've realized that the soup was the perfect temperature when it came out the first time.
Hearing awful teachers get their comeuppance makes my day. I had a cooking teacher who would berate me each time I had her class until I started crying and then berate me further for crying. Every class, like clockwork. I tried telling other teachers and my mother, but that cooking teacher was excellent at making herself look golden and make me look like a vindictive student, so nothing ever happened to her. I now have slight PTSD regarding cooking, and I'm 22. It sticks with you.
In story 3, I love that more students got access to tech like OP had. It also changed the trajectory of jerk-turned-ally, Jim. Maybe he returned the word processer to score a win over the teacher rather than help OP. Whatever his motives, he went from a bully to a man who choose coaching as a career. It's a powerful demonstration of the ripple effect any one decision can have.
I taught high school for thirty years and teachers like the one in the story irritated the heck out of me. The point is to learn the material and having a learning difference should not be a big deal, you just work together and adapt. School is different from the days when I was a student and that is not a bad thing for the most part.
I pretty much always had invisible handicaps. I also got the : I don't see it, so you don't have it, you are just lazy treatment more then i want to admit. EDIT : People often tried to bully me in diff schools because i was short and had a belly. They all learned the hard way i liked self defence classes, Judo and Kick Box. They always left me alone after that, most where even afraid of me then (the bully's, not others). My dad was also a sgt paracommando and sniper (back when enlistment was a thing, but it was in peacetime). So he learned me some cool trucks to defend myself in various amounts of situations. EDIT :Miss Grump teacher. In my country she would have been fired and be put on a blacklist for any kind of teaching. She would lose every benefits she would have gotten for retirement. She would be the one who got a big fat 0. She also would have been sued her @ss of for everything that can be possible by parents, and probs have to sell everything to pay off the debt, and if the old hag dies, the debt continues (unless the next of kin refuse all the stuff after her death (forgot the word here, sorry) to her children and maybe even grandchildren. And if not then all her possesions she still may have had would have been sold and that money given to the one who won the lawsuit (Op and family).
1sr Story: She probably wanted to complain so she could get the soup for free! Well, I imagine it was free!! I just hope the satisfaction of getting the soup for free was worth the price!!!
I will bet that the soup lady was putting ice in her soup and making it too cold for her to eat. If I was the cook, I would've gone to the tape to see. She probably added ice from her water, but added too much and then sent it back because "she" couldn't possibly be to blame. I've seen it happen.
I was at our local Walmart way back in 1980 to buy a set of insulated coveralls for working that winter! I found a pair and a couple more items that came up to about $47 . I gave the cashier 3 twenty dollar bills and she gave me back $47. I tried to explain she had given me too much change but she didn't let me finish and said I was always arguing about prices (I had a couple of instances in the past where items were not priced correctly) and told me to go to the service desk. I did and was treated the same way and told to "just leave". Which I did! They tried to call the police on me the next day and after I explained the situation and they reviewed cameras (yes they had them way back then) I was let go and kept the money!! Didn't hurt my cousin was the police chief!!
@@lorifiedler13, tried to intimidate me into returning money, saying I "confused" the cashier and the night manager by trying return to the overage that night! It didn't fly with the officers and didn't even have to bring my cousin into the picture. These two were always rude and condescending to customers!
3. Story hit hard. My teacher in 5th and 6th Grade singled me out too, calling me mentally unstable and not right in the head. She egged my other classmates on to bully me which sometimes escalated. I have ADHD as well, but was diagnosed just this year, 20 years later.
That teacher story kind of hits a nerve with me. I've had a teacher that went off on a little girl in my 4th grade class one day and it shocked me. The girl was a bit mousey but I never saw her be bullied or picked on by other students or anything. She sat on the opposite side of the class so I rarely even spoke to her. The teacher up until that time had been one of my favorites. After he rained insults down on that poor little girl and embarrassed her in front of everyone he became one of my least favorite. I don't care if teachers might get frustrated , they need to have more patience than most people , because kids have impressionable minds. Why else has the event stuck with me for over 50 years...and I was just a witness. I've empathized with that poor little girl for over 50 years.
Oh my God I know exactly how that kid feels I'm in the same boat with my handwriting but seriously getting to the point where you're taking someone's property to lock it away when it's helping them or throwing school property out the window and destroying it she's lucky she didn't get arrested thrown in jail and booted from teaching
Interestingly, I can actually partially relate to story 3. While it didn't involve any terrible teachers, and I can't remember any specific details after so long, I was essentially the test case for learning accomodations at my elementary school; the tools and methods they started using to try and help me, ended up being used even after I left, to help even more students who were similar.
Soup Karen was most likely trying to get a free meal for her party. Keeps pushing the staff until the big scene when everyone arrives. To prevent that it’s best to come up to Karen’s table with a food thermometer 😅
My brother had severe dyslexia all through school. He was given an Alpha Smart in middle school. He used it to take notes in class. The only class he didn't use it in was math since his numbers were perfectly legible. Those things were so helpful for students with disabilities until people were able to start using laptops in class.
This goes back quite a few years, to the 1950's. A local bank had opened the first drive through in the area. Now it was common for people just cash their paychecks at the bank. My cousin cashed his check at the drive through and immediately pulled ahead so the car behind him could get to the window. After pulling ahead he counted his money and found an extra $20 (remember 1950's so a lot of money) so he got back in line and told the teller she made a mistake, she told him he should have counted the money before pulling away from the window and she couldn't fix it and it was his problem.
While Mrs. Grump didn't get a proper punishment I feel she deserved, the real MVP's are the temp principal/school board member and the former bully turned best friend. I think it's crazy that he could change and stop bullying OP.
Third story is a good example of and support for students such as OP having an IEP, in OP's case being the need for and use of an assistance device, such as the Word Processor, and more over and specifically, that a teacher CANNOT refuse a student's use of a support device in their classroom. Had that been in place for OP, at the first demand by the teacher that OP not use it could easily have been met with a swift report of it to the appropriate authority in the school ..... or higher if necessary.
I’m dyslexic and have dyscalculia, I was never penalized for it but I also never received any help at all. I think that’s the best thing to happen to me. I wanted to read and learn so badly that I learned to teach myself and to memorize and organize everything I learned. I couldn’t write long stories when I was younger but I could write poetry and condense information. I read very fast now because I read the sentence structure as much as the words. I also use equation structure to balance an equation rather than going just by the numbers because the numbers constantly change. My sister has also saved businesses many thousands of dollars doing the same thing. We just don’t think the same way people normally do because we had to figure out something that works. I’m glad OP found something that worked for them. I know using a computer allows me to write as well.
Story 2: I don't believe that woman even took a sip of her soup until the last batch came out. She was clearly sending it back repeatedly and wasting perfectly good soup just to piss off the staff. Joke's on her.
Mrs. Grump is like a real-life Umbridge. OP is a real hero for helping rid the school of such a lousy, spiteful, and rather hateful wretch. Story 4: Some banks could care less if there is an error in their favor against you, but if there is an error in your favor against them, then they get all uppity. (Note it was '79 and the Internet was not much of a thing at that time, so I can see such errors going unnoticed.)
I’ve taught from 6-60yos for the past 18yrs. I hate/love the r/maliciouscompliance & r/prorevenge stories about teachers. I can’t think of any other profession that deserves it so much for people who go power mad.
Story 3 It really pisses me off how cushy they treat teachers sometimes. Like, you can present full video evidence of discrimination, abuse, torture, and inhuman behavior, yet they're still given either a full or early retirement. Out of the dozens of cases I've personally seen, and the hundreds of accounts I've read that seem believable enough, I only know of one (1) teacher who's ever been outright fired, and it was only because they were young and didn't qualify for any substantial retirement program. Old teachers are given honorable retirements for being venerable people even if you get a video of them causing thousands of dollars worth of property damage, emotionally damaging their students, or outright beating the daylights out of a defenseless child.
I actually had a really bad math teacher absolutely everyone who knew her hated her because she was extremely strict, but the main problem was she was just horrible at teaching. for example one time if we were sitting in class and one person laughs or talks while she is writing on the board, she instantly stops teaching and wouldn't continue until the person who did it confessed and even then she would continue to spend over 15 minutes lecturing the person. But the worst is when she wouldn't explain the problem no matter what expecting us to already know each and every answer. And for the exams she would make us beg her to explain the formulas so we could at the very least pass.
I have insane struggles with handwrighting, I am slow, its hard to read and I get cramps if I push myself in exams and such... I totally see how such a thing would hqve helped
That lady just didn't have the courage to say "I'd like to wait until the rest of the party gets here". Soup was fine right away she just didn't want to eat alone.
I had a teacher in college specifically in a math class that made me feel like I was worthless, I have a physical disability and learning disability, I am super slow at learning material and I’ve even had to have my parents explain words and concepts that would be easy to understand and it’s been a huge struggle for years. Anyways it was nearing finals week and I was behind on my math Homework - I had over 12 assignments that I had yet to complete, when I walked into the class, the teacher asked for any missing assignments, I explained that I was still working on it. The teacher - in front of the whole class told me to leave the class. I felt beyond embarrassed, and left crying and ultimately having a panic attack in my Dad’s office - he is a professor at the same college. My disabilities allowed me extra time on assignments and tests. I explained what happened and he walked me to the math lab/tutor center to work on the assignments with someone’s help, I went for multiple hours a day and the next time I had math class I walked in with the assignments completed to the best of my ability, there were still problems on the assignments that I couldn’t understand so I left them blank. It wasn’t that great of an experience, but a highlight was that my Dad was nearby to help calm me down and to lead me in the direction of completing what I could for the math class I was taking.
Story 3 had me smiling because I had an alpha smart as well in elementary school but my middle and high school didn’t allow it since and I quote “he won’t be able to type everything in the real world so he needs to practice” I didn’t fight it
Story 3: OP really should have had an IEP or 504 plan. Either of those would have shut down that ableist nonsense right quick. One of the quickest ways for a teacher to end their career is to violate an IEP or 504. I just wish the OP had found their voice sooner so that their abuse did not go on for so long. One thing I am eternally grateful for is that my parents reinforced that I must be an advocate for myself. Unfortunately, far too many disabled people are not instilled with that confidence.
this is awesome! I was the only one in my school using an alpha smart, luckily for me the teachers were all aware of why, and what it was for so it wasn't an issue. and yes, it did improve my grades, because for the first time, I was able to read my own notes I took in class!
You know the situation is bad when your school bully thinks how messed up you're being treated and ends up helping you. It is nice that the bully stopped doing so because of the jerk teacher. Students unite against the horrible teacher!
but the pun tho 💀
"his name is Jim and hes a coach at a Gym"
Mrs. Grump must've been a bona-fide Luddite!
(A Luddite was someone who is adamantly against technological change.)
Mrs. Grump was getting a mad-on because of a child (OP) using a tool that made his works
more easy to read! No surprise she is the sort that likes to drink the tears of tortured kids.
Unite and detstrory the bad teachers
He saw someone with more power and a bigger bully than he had the ability to be, and it made him see how it affected OP.. so it ended up being a life lesson for Jim.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Jim from story 3 is MVP! I wonder if he was initially jealous of OP, enjoying high grades and using tech in class. I guess he realised that OP was only getting a fair shot at school, and that the teacher was the bigger bully
Story 3: I can't say for certain, but Jim seemed like a Tier 1 Bully. Still engaged in Bully behavior, but upon seeing more serious bullying from an authority figure he probably thought "This shit is fucked up Holy hell"
Jim actually felt for OP-and this situation probably made him stop being a bully because he wasn't a part of it this time
And can we talk about ms awesome being a great person by helping op and all students like him
Principal immediately thought he beat this kid up and sent him outside so he can't lie about it. Jim has lots of experience with things that ain't fair, he really understood those tears.
The "You can't bully him! I'm the only one who can do that!" bully
He’s like befuard from Phineas and Ferb
As if it wasn’t bad enough “Mrs. Grump” being absolute rubbish to her students, then she goes and chucks an expensive bit of school-owned tech out a window. “Asked to retire” is generous. Frankly, she’s lucky she wasn’t arrested. That word processor was essentially government property.
My father had a similar situation at his bank. The teller gave him one too many $100 bills. He told the teller and they immediately called for a manager. My father told the manager the teller had made a mistake. The response --- "we don't make mistakes". He folded the money, put in his pocket and said "thanks for the extra hundred" and headed for the door. The manager told the guard at the door to stop him. When he tried, my father just told him "he told me that they don't make mistakes here, so you probably don't want to make one. If you do, it WILL be your last." And he left.
I love karmic justice XD
Once at my Airforce base, my paycheck was $800 too high. I went to Disbursing to let them know of their mistake, and wanted to get it corrected. Same thing, "We don't make mistakes!" So I left. I knew eventually it would be caught. It took them a couple months, during which I didn't spend that extra $800. Sure enough, a paycheck came that was $800 light! No problem, as I had the money and bills got paid. Never a word from them.
My wife cashed a student loan check at our bank, and they handed her the envelope of cash she requested and the check was in the envelope. I called the bank and told them what happened and they wanted me to return the check right away. We lived too far away to make it before closing and they were not going to wait around. So I said I would bring it first thing in the AM. I was there about 5 minutes after opening. My wife gets to class that day and finds out she cant pay her tuition. She should have had plenty in her account to cover this, but since the bank teller gave us back the check they removed the funds from the account, and also over drafted her the cash she had on her. The bank tried to flip this on us saying it was our fault the check was put in the envelope. It took a few weeks to get this overturned and the fees from the stuff that bounced put back in the account. Thankfully my Uncle knew a few of the proper people to contact to make that happen. She closed her account at that bank shortly after all this.
[@richard Y] And? What happened next? Don't leave the story like that! Pls tell me what happened after as I am too curious to not get to know this?
I’ve worked in banking for over 30 years, and you can tell the good branch managers by their willingness to immediately correct or research errors. When I worked the line, if we identified an error immediately, we’d advise the customer, and if they insisted there was no mistake, that window was closed and the teller did an immediate temporary balancing to verify. We’d do the same if the customer contacted us same day before balancing, regardless of who made the error. Good branch managers follow that policy.
My son is nonverbal autistic and uses a tablet to help him communicate and his teacher tried to block it because "ipads are distracting" 🙄 we had massive fights before covid hit and they blocked him from actually coming to school for almost 2 years (even when school started in session again) but thankfully my mom knows how to fight and we got him in a special school. Some teachers are not meant to deal with children, they don't have the love of teaching or shaping children and should not be there.
Great story but I hope you got the old school some comeuppance
That "teacher" was clearly in the wrong profession.
Story 3 is why Individual Educational Plans (IEP) exist.
Story 3: I had an AlphaSmart in high school. They were so easy and simple. I have no clue why the teacher was complaining. You can’t play games on them. They are small and light so they stay out of the way on the desk. They make no noise other than beeping when the battery is going flat. She is just wanting to make trouble.
That is the thing, they make things less hard for struggling kids while teachers like this are convinced learning should be hard and if you struggle, you dont deserve any help or success.
that power tripping teacher should've lost her teaching license and been banned from teaching at all schools in the country. I also had an AlphaSmart 3000; everyone thought it was the coolest thing they had seen.
I was cackling at the crossed out line of “She ran off cackling…” 🤣
It kept showing up
I came here just for this comment!
Me to. I love that detail!
I worked with a guy who pointed out a mistake a bank made in his favor on an account. I think it might have been less than $100. When they finally admitted their mistake they wanted to charge him about $45 to correct their mistake. He said no thank you and closed all of his accounts adding up to over $25,000. It was a small bank where all of the employees were related.
Didn't sound like a good bank.
Story 3: If OP had that word processor as part of an IEP or 504 (both learning plans to help special needs children succeed in school; I had one on account of my Asperger’s), Mrs. Grump could have been in HUGE legal trouble for not only deducting points from OP’s grades, but even confiscating it.
If I was the parent of OP, and I heard about this, you would be d*** well certain I would be calling a parent-teacher meeting with the school principal and the superintendent to mot only have those grades be scored fairly and have both a verbal and written apology (typed out for good measure, just to spite her), but to make sure that Mrs. Grump never confiscated my child’s learning tools again.
Otherwise, I would bring this to court, the media, and anywhere else so I can personally make sure she not only gets gets fired from her teaching position, but never teaches in any school environment again.
well now that explains some things and why my mom had our school district set up these plans
I agree if I was the original poster im taking it back by force
This was long enough ago that he may of not had an IEP. But, may of been one of the events that got them started.
I dont think that there were IEPs in the mid to late 1980's.
@@greatgreyowl2583 OP uploaded the story two years ago (making it roughly 2020 when they uploaded it). Nineteen years before that would be 2001, and I had an IEP back then. Of course, looking at the bottom of the post (which DarkFluff did not show), this took place in Nova Scotia, Canada, not the United States. Still, both nations have IEPs. So assuming that OP had an IEP back then, like I did, their parents could have pressed charges against Mrs. Grump (and possibly the school) for discrimination and harassment against a disabled person at the very least.
The school story. The ends definitely justify the means. The fact that OP had to go through that to introduce them for others is the best ever. And the teacher getting "early retirement" to boot that protected students is great.
Too bad she wasn't criminally prosecuted for grand theft after throwing that student's Word Processor through the window.
@@erickpoorbaugh6728 no that would be vandalism of public property or school property otherwise destruction depending on how sever the damage is.
*Third Story:* This, along with the insanity we're seeing in classrooms these days, is why I'm all for surveillance cameras in classrooms. Too many teachers go on a power trip and cameras would be a great deterrent or help provide evidence for when said teachers need to be fired.
there's a video (Don't know if he kept it up or not) of my brother that he posted long ago of him leaving the classroom without the teacher coming at him for leaving, going through another classroom that had 2 teachers in it without stopping him and back into the classroom he was in the start
The problem is that you sound like a reasonable person who won't harass a teacher teaching basic history, empathy, or daring to mention some families have two mommies or two daddies.
Its the unreasonable people that are flipping out over CRT, "woke" teaching, and "grooming". Being a teacher is already hard enough without having video surveillance 100% of the time, especially livestreams where wackos can watch and work themselves into a rage.
What Insanity are you even talking about? The kids being monsters?
@@Cruznick06 what do you mean
@@Shadynastys It's pretty obvious when you live in the south. Even when you don't see it in papers, you hear it at parks and in grocery stores.
"HOW DARE they teach my good Christian son about the ARABIC number system?! We use American numbers!"
Flyers at the grocery store in a rage about the need for white history month and how they didn't need any more about slavery outside of Feb. It was overkill and woke hate.
Third story: That's insane because I used an Alphasmart in middle school as well. It wasn't the same as what OP had used and I didn't take it out for every class but it helped a ton with my note-taking and allowed me to get through middle school with relative ease. I'm glad she was given the boot but I'd still love to know what her problem was with those things and why she felt the need to admonish students who needed them.
I think some teachers get distracted by any kind of new noise or motion when they are trying to teach.
At the start of the year my teachers would tell me off for doodling. By the end of the year, after I’d engaged in class and got decent grades, doodling the whole time, they didn’t complain any more.
She was not willing to embrace the emerging technologies.
I loved my Alphasmart. It would auto save every keystroke. No risk of losing a document when it got turned off. And it used AA batteries and lasted for ages. Also durable. Just plug it in at home and it would download to a text file.
My son used an Alphasmart and it was a wonderful thing. Writing was difficult, painful and illegible but typing was easy.
Most people become teachers because they like kids, but a few people become teachers because they like power.
I had the same exact thing happened to me at a bank that happened in the last story. The teller gave me $100 too much and when I came back in to tell her that she made a mistake, she got all haughty and indignant and looked at me like I was dirt. She said, “I don’t make mistakes.“ I thought it was really unbelievable to say something like that, so I said well I’m sorry, but you did make a mistake. She said again that she didn’t make any mistakes and I had to be wrong. I believe I said a third time that I wasn’t wrong that she made a mistake and she got so indignant, that I turned right around and walked away and said loudly OK then I’ll just keep the extra 100 you gave me. Suddenly her mouth dropped open, she did an about face and became sweet as apple pie and she said well let me check. So I turned around and fanned the money she gave me in front of her, which obviously showed she gave me $100 too much and then she said, “OK return the money to me.” And I said, “I thought you don’t make mistakes.” It was lovely to see her face, LOL Ofcourse I gave her her money back but it was good to watch her eat crow.
" eat crow " first time I've heard that term
I would have kept the money
@@solomonkane6442 There is a huge risk that she would call the cops if you did though...
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Example 1: Teacher punishes student and threatens to take away or destroy his very expensive piece of electronics his parents bought him that he uses for learning? Nothing happens.
Example 2: Teacher takes the same device that the SCHOOL paid for and chucks it out a window? Asked to retire.
ADHD story. The teacher should have been fired from day 1 when OP told her that he needed the WP. It's against the law, even then, to steal a device from a disabled person. And yes, in this situation, OP is disabled. It's an unseen disability just like epilepsy or congestive heart failure. Would the old bat take away a tape recorder from a blind student? But yeah she probably would lmao.
Third Story: My school assigned AlphaSmart was a lifesaver. Only one teacher gave me a hard time and denied me the use of the room’s computer to print what I typed. The claim? “Because they’re for yearbook only.” Technically this violated my IEP.
All that aside, that gadget helped me from 5th grade all the way to 12th. Towards the last few weeks, the USB port went on the fritz. Since my record was clean, the school let me use my Dell mini for the last few weeks.
What happened to the teacher who forbade you from using the AlphaSmart Word Processor?
A friend of mine went to put money in the bank on her day off - she was putting £20.00 in; when she left the bank and looked at her receipt, it stated £200.00 - the teller who had been chatting to her, had done it wrong. The next day, she noticed that her balance was missing £180 and got a message stating there had been a mistake. When she phoned the bank, she stated that she had a receipt for £200 and if the £180 wasn’t put back in her account straight away, there’d be hell to pay. The bank complied and refunded the £180 !
Her job was working at the Police Station as an office clerk !
And she run off cackling into the night with her newfound fortune.
@@gorilladisco9108 LOL. Normally I just listen to the stories but I'm I read along with this one :)
In my country the bank would not have been able to close its system in the evening.There would be a deficit of 200 and the account wouldn't balance. The cashier/ teller would have to correct the deficit with his personal money. if it is a small amount it is ok but if it runs into hundred thousands then it is trouble. The cashier and all employees have to stay inside the bank and can't go out at all. So the person cannot go outside to arrange for the money. My female friend luckily had gold ornaments on her, bangles, necklace etc. She pawned them with the same bank for a gold loan. There was black mark against her . She lost one year's increment and her promotion was delayed by 2 years
Story #3 is why the ADA is so extremely important. Teachers used to be able to do stuff like this with zero repercussions.
Story 3. Had this happened to me, Mrs. Grump would have had to deal with my Dad, a WW2 Vet, Marine Corps Master Sergeant. Total badass that won`t take crap from anyone.
They certainly don't make them like they used to
I guess falling into the icy water was enough for him to cool his head and realize he could end up in jail if he attempted anything.
I bet that tyre iron is still at the bottom of the water.
The bully helping out OP reminds me of the trope “Even Evil Has Standards”. On another note, I remember a classmate in middle school having a similar disability and used a word processor for everything (he also had adhd). I don’t recall him having a hard time with teachers, so OP could have been another person. But the handwriting disability is a legit thing I remember reading about years later.
That teacher story reminded me of this teacher that demanded we wrote our reports by hand. His argument? "You're all going to copy+paste from Wikipedia anyway, so at least this way you'll have to actually do some work!"
We didn't take that insult lightly, so we all refused to do the reports in protest. Apparently shit hit the fan, because they ended up replacing him with a decent teacher who gave us another assignment, and this time we were allowed to type the reports.
Anyway, Mrs. Grump is a definitive example of people who should've never been allowed to teach.
I think she's just old fashioned teacher who believe electronic gadget in class is distracting other students.
Last story: At the end of the day that teller was probably wishing they'd listened to the mom!
I worked as a teller after graduating from college. If our drawers were off a certain amount at the end of the day, we had to recount it, go through all our paperwork and have someone else count it out until we found the mistake. One day I was there for about 2 hours because 3 or 4 of us couldn't find (I think) $5 that my drawer was off by. The next lady to count somehow found what we all missed!
Speaking as a former special ed student that teacher was completely ablest and it really is heinous that she got away with it until the end
1st story. After the third try it's just a delay tactic. Smile and tell the waitress it will take some time until that order is filled, and then wait until the rest of her friends gets here. Maybe offer some breadsticks.
That is so stupid (on the customer's part) when she can just say "I'm waiting on some friends and not ready to order yet."
Twice I've had teachers so bad, so toxic, I have literally walked out of their class never to return. A band teacher in 7th grade, and a math teacher in high school. Of course I failed their classes.
Band, not a loss. Math? I took a higher level course in night class at the Vo-tech school that summer, and passed with straight As.
Same teachers like that need to not teach
I had a teacher who was so nice to me in 8th grade until she met my dad. Apparently my dad was good friends with her ex husband in high school and she decided to make me the subject of her wrath even calling me stupid in class
Teachers being awful to students has always been confusing to me, like what are you even doing here? The pay is awful, that certainly can't be it. I thought teachers wanted to shape young minds and help students achieve great things. Seems like some just want to torture children.
I had a bad band teacher as well. After one day she annoyed the whole low brass section before pep band for a basketball game. So the whole low brass section decided to blast (play as loudly as we can) the start of the next song we played. Scared the crap out of her
I had to drop English Comp 2 in college because the instructor was severely misandrist and I was the sole male in the class. Every story we had to write a synopsis on the class discussion twisted around to how sexist the writers were, and I could do nothing right in her eyes. When I had enough, I left after telling her that whoever hurt her in the past, it wasn't fair to blame me just because I was born with a dick.
Although the teacher didn’t get fired in the start, I feel like the latter is so much better, since her true colors get shown, she has to pay for damages, and he prob didn’t have to deal with her bs if she tried to lie her way out
Also, Jim reminds me of Nelson from the Simpsons, where he was about to bully a kid for knocking his lunch box off, but after learning his disability, protects him
Nelson is one of those endearing bullies, where you kinda get why he's like the way he is.
Story 2: She didn't want it hot. She wanted the soup to get to her when her friends got there. I've seen a ton of people like this. And if it's someone I know or I know what bullsh*t they are getting up to, I usually make a comment loudly enough to the other serving staff to get the person's attention and publicly shame them. This is when I'm dining in the establishment as a guest, of course. You'd be surprised how a little public humiliation works on crappy attitudes.
That is such a stupid way to go about that line of thought. Most restaurants would let you wait for your friends without ordering until they get there. Or they could just order a drink or something first, then order food when the friends get there. There's at least half a dozen way to do this without pissing off the people feeding them.
Alternatively she's an older person and her taste buds and sense receptors are shot to shit. They always want shit stupidly hot and seasoned up to a milligram below the lethal dosage of salt.
I've been a chef for 15 years and the few years I worked in member's clubs before going into bulk production were hell. Member's need to remember a club isn't made by the quality of its members but the quality of its staff and amenities.
If the club gets a name for been a hell hole with high turnover because the staff are treated like shit by old Karen's and Ken's then your club fee's are wasted and your a terrible human being.
I worked in a Fine Dining restaurant before as a line cook. One time , we got a customer who kept saying his Pan-seared scallops is too cold which is impossible. 3 times it was remade and 3 times it was sent back for being too cold. So the Head Chef personally cooked the scallops and personally brought it to the table. In front of the chef, the customer said it was cold. So the chef used the blowtorch used to torch meringues and whipped cream and torched the scallops until it was literally in flames, all right in front of the customer and right there at the table. He then instructed the manager and security to throw him out if he complained again.
@@DanielVisOneCade I used to take care of my grandparents. I know well enough that older people do like things hotter. But when you have a heated bowl with literal BOILING soup placed into it, the soup isn't going to lose hardly any heat going 30 feet out of the kitchen. The OP said that the woman made a face after that attempt. That is what clued me in to her being a massive c*nt and doing this. At that point, she should've realized that would've been her own undoing. She did it because she wanted to eat in front of her friends and not alone, that's all there is to it.
@@ShadowMoon878 lesson for life don’t insult the chef or his food right to his face
Story 3. I was diagnosed with Asperger’s later in life but I was diagnosed with ADD around eight. My teachers were horrible and treated me like crap. Often it was things I could not control. I think the bully the dude has bulled him due to regular guy stuff but when it came down to it when it came down to it when he saw a disabled person being picked on due to his disability his humanity kicked in full gear.
Taking away the guys word processor was like taking away a blind kids cane and then bulling him about it. The dude had a moral compass
That second story... many years ago I worked at a Red Lobster and we had a fairly regular customer who's goal in life seemed to be to give our waitresses hell... the SOB wasn't satisfied until he had some poor girl in tears. So one day our dinning room manager decided to take care of him personally. He ordered a bowl of clam chowder, then complained it wasn't hot enough. So she took it back to the server area, put the soup in a hot pot and got it to a rolling boil, while at the same time getting one of the cooks to put a bowl under the broiler. She then took the boiling hot soup out to the guy and "accidently" dropped it on his lap.
He never came back, and no, we didn't get sued (at least not that I ever heard), it was the 70's and a different world.
The SJWs hadn't invade the judicial system back then in the 1970s.
Reminder if I ever become a waitress I got to bring a thermometer with me to make sure that the food is hot enough that the b***** customers won't give me any crap
Lol. That would be epic & hilarious to see the b* customer face when u whip up the thermometer. 😂😂😂
Sometime when I was a toddler in the late 1950's my mother went Christmas shopping in the downtown area of our city. This was before shopping malls and Walmart became the places to shop. Being the Christmas shopping season, the stores were crowded and the staff was harried and sometimes rude. Well, my mother checks out and the cashier had been rude to her as well. After leaving the register my mother started putting away her change and realized the cashier had given her back $20 too much. Had the cashier been polite my mother would have returned the money to her, as it was she had an extra $20 to spend for Christmas. It was a good Christmas that year. That $20 would be worth approx. $200 in today's money.
It's really amazing to see a school system that's actually receptive to the needs of its students. Its so rare to see nowadays
She destroyed an expensive word processor, which was AGAIN, NOT HER PROPERTY, and she was just "asked to retire"???
She should have been SENT TO JAIL. I get that she had tenure, and couldn't be fired, but that doesn't mean she could NOT BE CHARGED WITH A FELONY CRIME.
What the HECK, school board?!
Anything to protect their "image"
OP said she was escorted from the building. “Asked to retire” may have been a euphemism for “if you quit and pay for a new word processor, we won’t press charges.”
Later than normal posts are like when you think someone has died, but they suddenly come back to life. Sadness and disappointment followed by relief and joy.
Depending on how long they have beed dead for, horror
Jason Voorhees style?
@@CT-1035 maybe either a Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees thing. Then yeah no bueno.
@@TheDarkLink7 If that's what you're into.
@@cupcakesimulation yeah if thats what you're into........ not that I'm judging folks kinks.
I understand that last story perfectly. I was given $20 too much as change at the coffee shop I went to once, I only noticed the next day (they should have given me 3x $5 bills but gave me 3x $10 bills). I think I fought for one full hour on the phone with them trying to tell them that I OWED them money. No matter how many times I would say "You gave me too much cash back" they just kept telling me that they did not have extra money in the cash register so there was no mistake. My coworkers, who were listening to me fight on the phone, were having one hell of a laugh.
Story 3:
Bullies very crudely can be categorized in two groups.
One is spoiled brat bathing in power and the other is rebel.
Jim is of the later variety as they tend to cause trouble for authority figures if possible, while the first group mostly is content with torturing weaker individuals.
At this moment Jim was not helping OP at first, he was taunting Mrs. Grumps. Helping OP merely was a welcome side effect.
That attitude changed after his visit at the principals' office where, I'm relatively certain for the first time, he did not get in trouble for his actions.
Story 4:
Not 100% sure whether that story happened due to language barrier, french stubbornness, missing education or technical error (wrong daily exchange rate).
Regarding story 3, I don't agree with your assessment. I was a bully bathing in power in school but I also don't have a heart of stone. If someone I was bullying went from loser to victim in my eyes, I would have stopped the bullying immediately. It was just that as a bullying kid, I never realized how hurtful I was. I had to become older to do so.
18:08 The “ran off cackling into the night with her newfound fortune” made me snort laugh, I was not expecting that
Fourth Story :
French here. Okay I wasn't alive at the time, so I MIGHT be wrong, but if I'm correct at what my grandfather told me about this, the fact that BOTH said the EXACT SAME THING which is "We don't make mistakes" is not that they don't want to admit they've made a mistake. It's probably because it would've been added as an extra line in their datas, and if management saw this, it wouldn't been seen as "A simple mistake", which was ground for... a write-up or a warning, but it would've been seen as something like stealing/laundering. If they admitted the mistake, their job would've been over, and as an employee in the bank industry, being fired for "stealing/laundering" would assume their whole career would be over.
Basically they saw the problem, understood, but their job was much more important than 80$ (Which they probablypaid after that out of their own paycheck).
If a teacher had stolen from me like number 3 I'd of walked right out to the principle and said "I can't stand her bullying anymore either help me or kick me out".
Soup story, some people are determined to be displeased. The lady knew it was hot, but wanted to get it for free if she complained enough, or if injured, get more compensation. Its a classic scam
that is when you take the soup out to them personally with a thermometer, measure it in front of them and then warn them to make sure to let it cool down a bit before they eat.
@@halted_code they will just whine to the manager at that rate and people just please Karen's just to be done with it
@Yvon Q. Probably better to just let it sit there and get cold, then send it back when your friends arrive to be warmed up. :-)
Take a creme brulee burner (miniature butane torch) to the table and apply the flame to the soup, asking the customer to say when the soup is hot enough.
The world needs more Jims, seriously.... All these stories on the news and such about bullied kids snapping and taking various extreme reactions, often all it takes is one.... Just one person to stand up and say "No!" to the bullies. Good for you Jim.
Story 2: Like, how many times we have warned Karens about messing with the people dealing with your food?
She was trying to get a free meal i bet, possibly complain each time the soup was too cold to the point she felt justified about telling them she's not paying for the bad food, that's my guess
OP you rock for making a difference for children/teens with disabilities. God Bless you, Miss Awesome, Jimmy and your folks.
I had the bank short me once. She told me that wasn't possible and I reminded her how much money she deducted from my account and the money in my hand. She told me that in order to get me my $20 back they'd have to shut down the bank and count alllll the money. Being the broke college student I was, I told them I had time. 30 minutes later they came back and gave me my $20 bc I was right. I double check atm and bank money. Heck I count my change. They can be wrong and I wish their pride had benefitted me.
This happens all the time where disabled students are treated lesser in the classroom and on the field. Just look around and more often than not you will find some poor student who is denied his civil rights by some teacher or some school who didn't want to spend the money or receive the money and want to spend it on the kid.
@@aduckofsomesort True. Note the fact that I have to pay via my insurance for his services, so no cost to school, no cost to district, no cost to taxpayers, but I still can't get what is needed.
The hot soup Karen reminded me of a woman who shared a table with me and six others on a cruise in Asian waters. She was always the last one seated because she had to make a grand entrance down the staircase. She routinely sent back entrees for some imagined flaw. I think she believed that showed a high degree of discriminating dining. None of the rest of us sent back anything ever and it did not impress the man who was traveling with her one bit. I am grateful for the paucity of Karens in my life so far. These cautionary tales are preparing me for any that I may encounter in my future. Thank you.
I encountered a similar situation many years ago on a transatlantic crossing. In those days, you were assigned dining; my partner and I were seated at a table of eight with wonderful, delightful couples - except for Mrs. I’m More Important Than You. She made our dining experience unpleasant -sending food back, every bottle of wine had “turned”, etc. The fourth night, one of our dining companions (who was a somewhat well-known retired CEO) got up, spoke to her quietly, then went to the Maitre d’. She tried to maintain her composure but excused herself quickly and left. She was reassigned to the earlier seating and we never saw her again. We never knew what the man said, nor did we ask.
If I had to guess, she waited so long to eat that she was finally hungry enough to dig in without considering how hot the soup was going to be that final time; if she'd tried it the first time, maybe she would've realized that the soup was the perfect temperature when it came out the first time.
Hearing awful teachers get their comeuppance makes my day. I had a cooking teacher who would berate me each time I had her class until I started crying and then berate me further for crying. Every class, like clockwork. I tried telling other teachers and my mother, but that cooking teacher was excellent at making herself look golden and make me look like a vindictive student, so nothing ever happened to her. I now have slight PTSD regarding cooking, and I'm 22. It sticks with you.
In story 3, I love that more students got access to tech like OP had. It also changed the trajectory of jerk-turned-ally, Jim. Maybe he returned the word processer to score a win over the teacher rather than help OP. Whatever his motives, he went from a bully to a man who choose coaching as a career. It's a powerful demonstration of the ripple effect any one decision can have.
I taught high school for thirty years and teachers like the one in the story irritated the heck out of me. The point is to learn the material and having a learning difference should not be a big deal, you just work together and adapt. School is different from the days when I was a student and that is not a bad thing for the most part.
Story 2: OP should have just had the manager serve the lady because she was not going to be happy with anything.
Jim in story 3 is like a character in a movie. Tormenter and adversary turned unexpected friend and ally when the _real_ antagonist became apparent.
I pretty much always had invisible handicaps. I also got the : I don't see it, so you don't have it, you are just lazy treatment more then i want to admit. EDIT : People often tried to bully me in diff schools because i was short and had a belly. They all learned the hard way i liked self defence classes, Judo and Kick Box. They always left me alone after that, most where even afraid of me then (the bully's, not others). My dad was also a sgt paracommando and sniper (back when enlistment was a thing, but it was in peacetime). So he learned me some cool trucks to defend myself in various amounts of situations. EDIT :Miss Grump teacher. In my country she would have been fired and be put on a blacklist for any kind of teaching. She would lose every benefits she would have gotten for retirement. She would be the one who got a big fat 0. She also would have been sued her @ss of for everything that can be possible by parents, and probs have to sell everything to pay off the debt, and if the old hag dies, the debt continues (unless the next of kin refuse all the stuff after her death (forgot the word here, sorry) to her children and maybe even grandchildren. And if not then all her possesions she still may have had would have been sold and that money given to the one who won the lawsuit (Op and family).
1sr Story: She probably wanted to complain so she could get the soup for free! Well, I imagine it was free!! I just hope the satisfaction of getting the soup for free was worth the price!!!
I will bet that the soup lady was putting ice in her soup and making it too cold for her to eat. If I was the cook, I would've gone to the tape to see. She probably added ice from her water, but added too much and then sent it back because "she" couldn't possibly be to blame. I've seen it happen.
"We don't make mistakes."
Assuming that was your first mistake, buddy.
I was at our local Walmart way back in 1980 to buy a set of insulated coveralls for working that winter! I found a pair and a couple more items that came up to about $47 . I gave the cashier 3 twenty dollar bills and she gave me back $47. I tried to explain she had given me too much change but she didn't let me finish and said I was always arguing about prices (I had a couple of instances in the past where items were not priced correctly) and told me to go to the service desk. I did and was treated the same way and told to "just leave". Which I did! They tried to call the police on me the next day and after I explained the situation and they reviewed cameras (yes they had them way back then) I was let go and kept the money!! Didn't hurt my cousin was the police chief!!
Tried to arrest or force a return? It was their mistake.
@@lorifiedler13, tried to intimidate me into returning money, saying I "confused" the cashier and the night manager by trying return to the overage that night! It didn't fly with the officers and didn't even have to bring my cousin into the picture. These two were always rude and condescending to customers!
Darn it Fluff, I threw my neck out shaking my head to these RIDICULOUS people!
That teacher and MY teacher were EXTREMELY abusive. And had I the mind OP had, I would have sued her for the abuse.
And pressed criminal charges I hope
Omg! I have almost watched all your videos. I love listening to all the tales. Malicious compliance is my favorite!
3. Story hit hard. My teacher in 5th and 6th Grade singled me out too, calling me mentally unstable and not right in the head. She egged my other classmates on to bully me which sometimes escalated. I have ADHD as well, but was diagnosed just this year, 20 years later.
That teacher story kind of hits a nerve with me. I've had a teacher that went off on a little girl in my 4th grade class one day and it shocked me. The girl was a bit mousey but I never saw her be bullied or picked on by other students or anything. She sat on the opposite side of the class so I rarely even spoke to her. The teacher up until that time had been one of my favorites. After he rained insults down on that poor little girl and embarrassed her in front of everyone he became one of my least favorite. I don't care if teachers might get frustrated , they need to have more patience than most people , because kids have impressionable minds. Why else has the event stuck with me for over 50 years...and I was just a witness. I've empathized with that poor little girl for over 50 years.
Kudos to "Jim" for doing an about face and coming to OP's rescue.
Oh my God I know exactly how that kid feels I'm in the same boat with my handwriting but seriously getting to the point where you're taking someone's property to lock it away when it's helping them or throwing school property out the window and destroying it she's lucky she didn't get arrested thrown in jail and booted from teaching
Interestingly, I can actually partially relate to story 3.
While it didn't involve any terrible teachers, and I can't remember any specific details after so long, I was essentially the test case for learning accomodations at my elementary school; the tools and methods they started using to try and help me, ended up being used even after I left, to help even more students who were similar.
I had a similar experience as the third story, as far as the teacher bullying the student. In my case however, there was no happy ending.
Soup Karen was most likely trying to get a free meal for her party. Keeps pushing the staff until the big scene when everyone arrives. To prevent that it’s best to come up to Karen’s table with a food thermometer 😅
My brother had severe dyslexia all through school. He was given an Alpha Smart in middle school. He used it to take notes in class. The only class he didn't use it in was math since his numbers were perfectly legible. Those things were so helpful for students with disabilities until people were able to start using laptops in class.
This goes back quite a few years, to the 1950's. A local bank had opened the first drive through in the area. Now it was common for people just cash their paychecks at the bank. My cousin cashed his check at the drive through and immediately pulled ahead so the car behind him could get to the window. After pulling ahead he counted his money and found an extra $20 (remember 1950's so a lot of money) so he got back in line and told the teller she made a mistake, she told him he should have counted the money before pulling away from the window and she couldn't fix it and it was his problem.
While Mrs. Grump didn't get a proper punishment I feel she deserved, the real MVP's are the temp principal/school board member and the former bully turned best friend. I think it's crazy that he could change and stop bullying OP.
I just want to give a shout out to all the people called Karen that are genuinely nice people.
Third story is a good example of and support for students such as OP having an IEP, in OP's case being the need for and use of an assistance device, such as the Word Processor, and more over and specifically, that a teacher CANNOT refuse a student's use of a support device in their classroom. Had that been in place for OP, at the first demand by the teacher that OP not use it could easily have been met with a swift report of it to the appropriate authority in the school ..... or higher if necessary.
I’m dyslexic and have dyscalculia, I was never penalized for it but I also never received any help at all. I think that’s the best thing to happen to me. I wanted to read and learn so badly that I learned to teach myself and to memorize and organize everything I learned. I couldn’t write long stories when I was younger but I could write poetry and condense information. I read very fast now because I read the sentence structure as much as the words. I also use equation structure to balance an equation rather than going just by the numbers because the numbers constantly change. My sister has also saved businesses many thousands of dollars doing the same thing. We just don’t think the same way people normally do because we had to figure out something that works. I’m glad OP found something that worked for them. I know using a computer allows me to write as well.
imagine being so bad at teaching
that even the bully helps the one they bully
Story 2: I don't believe that woman even took a sip of her soup until the last batch came out. She was clearly sending it back repeatedly and wasting perfectly good soup just to piss off the staff. Joke's on her.
Ooh I’m enjoying this story. The guy was threatening you with a tire iron. That’s coo call worthy.
Mrs. Grump is like a real-life Umbridge. OP is a real hero for helping rid the school of such a lousy, spiteful, and rather hateful wretch.
Story 4: Some banks could care less if there is an error in their favor against you, but if there is an error in your favor against them, then they get all uppity. (Note it was '79 and the Internet was not much of a thing at that time, so I can see such errors going unnoticed.)
She wanted hot soup, she got hot soup. It's not messing with food, if that's what the customer ordered.
Teachers like Grump make me so glad for the availability of IEPs and 504s.
I’ve taught from 6-60yos for the past 18yrs. I hate/love the r/maliciouscompliance & r/prorevenge stories about teachers.
I can’t think of any other profession that deserves it so much for people who go power mad.
I had access to those same alphasmarts in 7 and 8th grade! It was great being able to type out assignments instead of writing by hand.
Story 3
It really pisses me off how cushy they treat teachers sometimes. Like, you can present full video evidence of discrimination, abuse, torture, and inhuman behavior, yet they're still given either a full or early retirement. Out of the dozens of cases I've personally seen, and the hundreds of accounts I've read that seem believable enough, I only know of one (1) teacher who's ever been outright fired, and it was only because they were young and didn't qualify for any substantial retirement program.
Old teachers are given honorable retirements for being venerable people even if you get a video of them causing thousands of dollars worth of property damage, emotionally damaging their students, or outright beating the daylights out of a defenseless child.
Story 3: I RECOGNIZE THIS! My entire class used these all the time in High School!
I actually had a really bad math teacher absolutely everyone who knew her hated her because she was extremely strict, but the main problem was she was just horrible at teaching. for example one time if we were sitting in class and one person laughs or talks while she is writing on the board, she instantly stops teaching and wouldn't continue until the person who did it confessed and even then she would continue to spend over 15 minutes lecturing the person. But the worst is when she wouldn't explain the problem no matter what expecting us to already know each and every answer. And for the exams she would make us beg her to explain the formulas so we could at the very least pass.
This is one of the two handwriting stories that I love
I have insane struggles with handwrighting, I am slow, its hard to read and I get cramps if I push myself in exams and such... I totally see how such a thing would hqve helped
The word processor guy deserves a Citizen Kane slow clap. That was flipping awesome!
That lady just didn't have the courage to say "I'd like to wait until the rest of the party gets here". Soup was fine right away she just didn't want to eat alone.
I got whiplash from shaking my head at the last DarkFluff video. A day later there's a new one. The pain is worth it!
The first story needs an awesome Schwarzenegger oneliner as the guy kicks the door open, something like "Chill out dude" with the accent.
I had a teacher in college specifically in a math class that made me feel like I was worthless, I have a physical disability and learning disability, I am super slow at learning material and I’ve even had to have my parents explain words and concepts that would be easy to understand and it’s been a huge struggle for years. Anyways it was nearing finals week and I was behind on my math Homework - I had over 12 assignments that I had yet to complete, when I walked into the class, the teacher asked for any missing assignments, I explained that I was still working on it. The teacher - in front of the whole class told me to leave the class. I felt beyond embarrassed, and left crying and ultimately having a panic attack in my Dad’s office - he is a professor at the same college. My disabilities allowed me extra time on assignments and tests. I explained what happened and he walked me to the math lab/tutor center to work on the assignments with someone’s help, I went for multiple hours a day and the next time I had math class I walked in with the assignments completed to the best of my ability, there were still problems on the assignments that I couldn’t understand so I left them blank. It wasn’t that great of an experience, but a highlight was that my Dad was nearby to help calm me down and to lead me in the direction of completing what I could for the math class I was taking.
Story 3 had me smiling because I had an alpha smart as well in elementary school but my middle and high school didn’t allow it since and I quote “he won’t be able to type everything in the real world so he needs to practice” I didn’t fight it
My rule of thumb is that if you make a mistake in my favor, I will correct you once, but if you insist, it's mine.
17:43 Wow, seeing that image sends me back to my childhood.
''Don't be smart'' sounds like it's own call for malicious compliance.
Story 3: OP really should have had an IEP or 504 plan. Either of those would have shut down that ableist nonsense right quick. One of the quickest ways for a teacher to end their career is to violate an IEP or 504. I just wish the OP had found their voice sooner so that their abuse did not go on for so long. One thing I am eternally grateful for is that my parents reinforced that I must be an advocate for myself. Unfortunately, far too many disabled people are not instilled with that confidence.
this is awesome! I was the only one in my school using an alpha smart, luckily for me the teachers were all aware of why, and what it was for so it wasn't an issue. and yes, it did improve my grades, because for the first time, I was able to read my own notes I took in class!