Makes sense sine trees are legitimate big investments. They take decades to fully grow, make areas have cleaner oxygen, increase property value, & can be a person’s main source of income (fruit/paper/logging farms).
This law definitely helps the world. It takes decades to grow trees and the destruction of the hardwork would definitely demotivate people who want to grow them. That is twice as bad to the environment.
What did the ‘store manager’ think the end game was going to be? That corporate would just let registers for an entire store be down for an hour to accommodate her ego and lunch? No, you’re definitely going to be fired.
Not to mention I'm fairly confident what that manager was doing was CRAZY illegal! She was ALONE...in the server room...a room where all the store's most sensitive information and company/customer data is stored. She's lucky she only got fired for that. O.O
@@bluestreaker9242 THIS. Extremely illegal, plus the area immediately surrounding the server itself is supposed to be clear in case of emergencies. She was breaking corporate policy by cluttering the space (with food) and likely breaking the law by being around sensitive information completely alone. Frankly, she should've been more than just fired for that.
@@KarlAndArma4ever Oh I definitely agree with you there. Like, the whole time I was thinking "This is the hill you wanna die on? You don't wanna do this, fam." XD
I assume she was not thinking a single second ahead of her break, and for what little she did think ahead she probably expected to throw her weight around and win the he-said/she-said against a lowly IT tech and get them fired instead of herself.
The server room might be the only place in the store where the air conditioning really keeps the space cool. A prime spot for lunch. However against policy or law it might be. Stupid, and selfish.
Electric Company: “Sue us!” BIL: “LOL Okay!” Electric Company: “(receives Million Dollar Invoice)” Electric Company: “(Mr. Krabs scream) AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!😱😱😱”
The thing is? This is actually a major issue in California because the companies are deep in bed with the government, and that's literally one of the major causes of the fires in California. They just don't do maintenance because all the governmental oversight people used to work FOR THE COMPANIES.
@@AdamaGeist , I would make a law that prohibits nepotism and things like that and if anyone has a problem with that, well, I can make thrones out of their corpses and tankards out of their skulls. Let them see that happening for a bit and the message will begin to sink into those brain cell deprived morons.
I’m in IT, with regards to woman-on-woman sexism, I can confirm that many of the people who refused to get help from me due to my gender were women. My male colleagues were always baffled because I was the only one who had an educational background in computer science.
I really don’t get sexism. It's just so asinine. A woman working a job that's a 'man's job' has been around for so long at this point it really is 1920s thinking.
I (M) remember when I was 13 taking supplementary classes and in class, I responded that I didn’t get why women were treated as lesser. That our world would be so much more advanced if we had given women a chance. The reaction I got was, “Oooo which girl are ya trying to impress.” I was a naive kid, so I really didn’t get that response at the time, but man was casual sexism a thing even in modern times.
@@DemonRaticate , I was in high school and I was literally the only guy that was in parenting class. Despite the hell that I went through, both at school, as well as at home, I not only got an A, but that I literally scored a better grade than all of the other girls that were in the class. I feel sad that I am not a parent and have a wife in my life, though. :(
@@DemonRaticate Yeah, I was very much like this, but then I grew up. I've worked in construction business and we rarely got to see women working these jobs and it's not because they are not welcomed, but because they rarely apply. And the ones that did are simply biologically incapable of keeping up with the same pase. Never saw any of the lasses carry a 50kg bags of concrete on their backs, up and down improvised ladders, for 4 hours straight, both because they couldn't and they wouldn't. It's not the same regarding tech jobs though, I see no reason why biological imperatives should dictate their ability to do those kinds of job.
Jeez, what is with people smugly telling the victim to sue them and is shocked when they actually did sue? Seriously, don't try people like that! You'll never know what they'll do!
With companies, especially utility companies, they have to abide by their insurance and state laws. ESPECIALLY when it comes to agriculture. If that had been livestock instead of crops it would have been so much worse.
If anything im surprised California isnt even more strict on fire hazards like that, this was an incredibly minor incident but could have been so, so much worse.
@Dracolegacy, et al, the OP that was in the story was not suing for the damage to the trees per se, rather, he was simply getting the utility company to pay for damaging his fence, but the company said no, so he went for the jugular because the company was being unnecessarily mean to him when he was trying to be nice and civil to them initially. The point is that it is not about the lawsuit and the money, but, rather, it is about the principle of owning up to what you do in your life, taking personal accountability, and taking personal responsibility for your actions in your life.
I worked retail for years at Walmart and frequently got customers who didn’t wanna talk to a female employee. Every time I was asked to talk to one cause they requested a man I’d pretend I was dumb as a rock and that the lady who referred them to me was the smartest in the department on whatever the item was.
The paint story hits hard. The amount of sexism in the paint department is really bad, which is odd because mostly women tend to work in paint. It was worse when I transferred to plumbing. I knew plumbing really well but people believed because I was a girl I couldn't help them.
It's stupid really, when i was renovating hallway in my flat, I went to shop, where an older sweet lady was selling paints and all other things. She gave me advice everything what to do, what to buy etc.
It's weird, because when I'm picking paint I always expect a woman to help me, and I'm always surprised to see a man working in the paint section. Most men are terrible with picking colors, myself included.
I used to work summers for a carpenter when I was a teen and in my early 20's. Whenever I had to go to the local hardware store, there were two people that were worth asking for help: the store manager who had been there for decades and a lady that looked to be in her 30's and would ask for clarification if I used terminology she hadn't heard before. Excluding the manager, the only thing the male employees were good for was helping me load materials in my boss's truck. The other guys there had no clue to life what half the things you would ask for were and smile like jackasses and say it didn't exist. I remember going in one day for some materials and one of the guys was saying to an elderly couple that garden windows must not exist because he had never heard of them. I only remember this because a couple weeks later, my boss asked me to work half a weekend day to help him install a garden window in their kitchen.
I think part of it might be the fact the vast majority of the famous and valuable pieces were all made by dudes. I know there are a few well known paintings made by women, but I for the life of me can't remember which pieces they are and who made them.
As a woman who worked as an alternate for the Lumber department, I can confirm that female customers are much more sexist than male customers. I had a lady ask me if there was someone she could ask about the best type of Lumber for deck supports. I told her I could and when I went to explain, she put her hand in my face and replied I meant is there a man I can talk to. He told her word for word the exact same thing I did which led to her throwing a huge fit.
Tbh it works both ways, it seems people assign genders to professions thinking they’re womanly or manly jobs so they expect to have that specific gender there & when they don’t they become super sexist, it’s beyond stupid, men & women can do any jobs, there’s no such things as womanly & manly jobs yet people are stuck in the past & still think that way. I wish the world would stop being such a hurtful hating place. When I went to culinary school years ago my professor on my first day said _”women, look around you, notice there’s more men here, this is a man’s job, be ready to be disrespected, harassed, told you can’t do your job as well as a man, etc. if you don’t have tough skin I suggest you leave now”_ & then he started the class, it blew me away, I had always dealt with that stuff because even before going to culinary school I worked in only kitchens however I was shocked a male professor so bluntly put it out there & in a smug manor nonetheless. I always found it funny when I a woman was told kitchen jobs are for men because you always hear “women belong in the kitchen” so if that’s the case than why is it considered a “man’s job”… again it’s all beyond stupid.
As a man who once worked retail, I got security called on me a lot when I was forced to cover the women's clothing section at Sears because there were no women working that shift or something. I was only 16-18 back then too, so I definitely didn't give creepy old man vibes lmao.
Ugh that sounds awful. Though there is a special satisfaction to watching a prick customer get the exact same reply from a coworker XD I seem to have encountered more sexist men in my hardware career, but I think it's just that more men on average came into our store... Which now that I think about it could itself reflect on what are considered the "men's chores"... 🤔 In my experience the problem women were more blatantly sexist and the men were more sort of... Condescending?
@@NyxyPixie I have just had a lot of encounters with female customers where they would sometimes hint at or just plain demand that they need a man to help them. I actually injured myself at one point while convincing a customer that I was just as capable. I did the task, it hurt like heck later, but I did it.
*OP's Brother-in-law:* Hey Utility Company! Your power line wrecked my property! You gonna pay the $10,000 to fix it? *Utility Company:* Hahahaha no!🖕 What are you gonna do, sue us? Good luck! *OP's Sister:* Hello, I'm a corporate attorney. *Utility Company:* Uhhhh... *Judge:* Hey guys, you now gotta pay OP's Brother-in-law over 100 times what he asked for because you fucked up! *Utility Company:* _[Surprised Pikachu face]_
Having worked for a carpenter in the past and having had many hardware store dealings because of it, I can tell you firsthand that female hardware store employees know their stuff better than the boys. They're not afraid to let you know if you need to clarify something for them, so they tend to learn the language faster and gain more knowledge faster as a result.
My husband was a diesel machanic and he told me about a spare part store where all the staff were women. Apparently they were so good that you could just show them the old part or describe it and they would know where it came from, the part number and could walk to the correct place on the shelf to get it. The men were all in awe of them.
I hope they were rewarded appropriately. Workers who really know their job like that are invaluable. And it goes without saying (or SHOULD) that it doesn't matter whether they're male or female or black or white or anything.
My wife used to work the hardware department at Sears. The rest of the staff was male and watched over her like a little sister, so when a customer requested a male associate, the associate came down on that customer ruthlessly.
Second story: When OP said he heard the word "fired" I remember a phrase another OP said in another video: "Someone is definitively getting fired and I'm sure that's not me." That manager got her little power go all over her head.
I was walking on a busy street, coming back from work, and i wanted to listen to the newly released RSlash episode. It's been my daily ritual for over a year. Just like many, many others I've been waiting for a new Tree Law episode Once I saw the title for today's video I got so excited that I shouted "YES, TREES!" out loud. On a busy street. Not a big deal, obviously,.but I got some weird and confused looks from people around me. I'd like to think they thought I'm a dendrophile... I mean a tree lover ;)
The last story made me laugh out loud, I worked in the bar industry for about 13 years, most of the last 10 in various management positions and stock management was my speciality. I'd get shocked looks and comments from delivery drivers from the brewery asking is I wanted to get one of the "lads" to check off and take the delivery (I'm talking several cases each of beer, cider, soft drinks and boxes of post mix syrup, aswell as several 22 and 11 gallon barrels of draught beer and cider) I'd always say no I'm good the boys are cleaning the bar, I'll sort this stock out. But it was the women managers from other departments, I worked a holiday resort, that just couldn't understand that I would be doing all the heavy lifting and the boys would be doing the cleaning.
From my experience women in hardware stores know more than their male coworkers. It's a pretty male dominated field so I think women who work in such field must be especially interested and knowledgable to work at a place you'd usually expect a man. I've had better help from female workers and talks, unlike the guys who look at me stupid when I have a question or don't know something apparently obvious.
7:37 I mean yeah, but in this case it was more like "Don't be a total Karen and demand to speak to your boss's boss's boss's boss's boss, because he wants you to move for your lunch break"
I worked at a Solar panel company while saving up for grad school. My job was scheduling installs for solar panel systems with customers, fielding install questions, and doing the pre-install check with them. There were 3 people in my department: me, Bianca and Jessica. Whenever someone asked for a man to help them (which was often), I would pass the call to my male colleague from a different department who would begudginly take the call and say "Sir, that's not my department. I can pass you to Anna, Bianca, or Jessica".
I prefer talking to women in traditionally “male” dominated fields because I know they had to work twice as hard and learn three times as much to be taken seriously in their field.
In a D&D game I had an antagonist (not a villain really, more like a rival) who was a rock gnome warlock that liked to make a tea out of eyeballs. And whenever he made his cunning escape after his latest antic, he'd say "Never mess with the Eye Tea Guy!"
And this is why tree law is one of my favorite subjects. The thought of something so simple and innocuous being some of the most expensive suits is frankly hilarious
I had a similar experiance as the lady who worked at a Hardware store, except I worked at EB Games. See, when I worked there, I not only was a gamer myself, I was dating a mega gamer and had left another gamer for said giga gamer (first guy was abusive, I wasn't just looking for a nerdier dude lol.) So this man walks into the store and tells me he wants to talk to a male employee about the game MAG. At the time it was my now fiance of nearly 12 years' favourite game. He had not only played the crap out of it, he platinumed the thing. I was more into RPGs and puzzle games, but I had watched him play it nearly the entire time. I was about to tell the customer my knowledge base, but he interrupted me to reiterate that he wanted to speak to a man. So I pointed out my male co-worker who didn't play many games at all. The store was small so no mater where you were if you paid attention you would be in earshot. The other worker was tuning out everything to concentrate on putting cases away, so he had clearly not heard pur conversation, but I was listening to theirs. The man asked him, and he got excited and said "ooh! let me get you Paranoiaprincess, she's the most knowledgeable gamer here!" I chuckled and the man came back to the counter, looking sheepish. I explained what I knew about MAG.and how I knew it and the infor I gave him hyped him up a lot for the game. I didn't know it yet, but he didn't even have a PS3! So I went on, after our discussion, to sell him a PS3 and about 5 games. He said that all future visits would only be with me from then on, and he stuck to that. He wouldn't even come into the store if I wasn't working. 😂 Just goes to show, things like hardware, electronics, sports, and gaming are *NOT* gendered!
I work at a fabric and craft store where the vast majority of employees are women. One time a male coworker was helping her but she insisted on being helped by a woman because she assumed men knew nothing about sewing. It was the opposite for John, who had experience in practically every area from 30+ years experience.
The last ones are too real. I worked in a hardware store throughout my 20s and had so many weird sexist encounters. Nothing usually so blatant as outright asking for a man, but my favorite was always to see (or hear if it's on the phone) a customer go through an internal realization when they clearly WANT to ask for a man but also know doing so would be outright sexist. So you're just waiting there with your retail smile while they try to unpack their biases and decide if they're going to a) straight up ask for a man b) formulate a less blatant way like asking for someone specific, or c) just let a girl help them with their lumber purchase. Special shout out to the lady who thought "no offense but you don't LOOK like you work at customer service", the guy who incredulously wanted to know if my boyfriend was okay with me repairing our roof leak, and a special f-you to all those who condescendingly patted me on the shoulder if I didn't know the answer to something.
On the first story, yeah, I think that the utility that was in question was Pacific Gas and Electric Company and those scumbags have gotten sued a lot over the years for refusing to pay for damages that were related to wildfires. I am convinced that the first story was simply one of the lawsuits that was filed against them and those individual lawsuits that they had gotten usually end up being big class action lawsuits...and I thought that Comcast, EA, and Nintendo were horrible companies!
it would take many years to sell $1,000,000 worth of avocados, but if somebody wanted to replant new trees, how long would it take for the new trees to be ready to bear fruit? a decade if you're lucky. If one were to look at it, a million dollars actually could be considered reasonable here.
The first time I ever experienced sexism was when I was trying to get a job at GameStop at my local store where I grew up. I would recommend games as a customer that I had played. One time when I did that she pulled me aside saying I was belittling her suggestion because I backed her up because I was a man. I had applied and shown knowledge but never got an interview. When I moved cities I got an interview right away from a male store manager and landed the job immediately. When I went home to visit my old store she was shocked when I provided her an employee ID for my discount. I told her my store and we made way more money than her store and I personally did better than she did in sales and subs. I was only trying to help some one enjoy my favorite hobby not belittle any one's credit.
I work in aviation as an engineer. We had a client whose airplane we managed and he was from one of the Arabic countries (i think Saudi Arabia... i am saying i think, because when he speaks he just mumbles so you have to ask 4 or 5 times him to repeat what he said and thorugh a phone its even worse...) so at some point a girl joined our company. she had almost as much experience as me (tlaking about a few months difference) but it was in a slightly different area so i was "training" her on our exact part of the job and our best practices standards as well. few months later (she was already quite acustomed to our ways) that guy's plane was transfered from me to her because i took up an entire project. I called the guy up, i told him i am being reassigned, my calleague X is taking over. you can ask her whatever ou need, if there is a need for some historical knowledge i can always help and i actually sit in a desk right next to her so she can always turn to me. you are in good hands. He said ok and that was that. Next day i receive an email adressed to me about the plane. It is a historical question about the plane so i think ok, i spend 2 hours looking into the rexords and manuals etc and i come up with our engineering judgement on the matter and add in the email "my colleague X agrees and confirms this". (i want to prop her up) 4 days later the same thing repeats. again it is historical so i again spend 4-5 hours and respond back. next week a new email again, but that is regarding a new topic that has nothing with me. my colleague is happy i am responding because both of us are overwhelmed so she doesnt have to spend hours on that aircraft... but at the same time she gets annoyed for being ingored (neither of us is getting payed anything extra for working on another aircraft, so i am not stealling anything from her). she asks me to tell him to stop asking me. I am leaving for my project the next day either way to the other side of the word so i do it. next day i land after 16 hours of flying approximately and while waiting for immigration to clear me and my visa I get a call from that guy... i tell him the smae spiel my colleague, blabla, she can blabla, i am not in the office anymore blabla he apologises and we hang up. another week and i get a microsoft teams invitation to a meeting with him for just 6 minutes ahead. i join in and he starts with questions that i know he has asked her already in emails. now two points -1i have worked on that guy's plane for over 2 years so i know it well enough and 2- i am the guy to go for this type of plane in my company. X has worked with this type of plane for just about 3-4 months and always under me, BUT that guy doesnt know that. I have my project i need to focuse on and at that point i have started to realise he doesnt want to work with her because she is female. so he asks me about 8 questions at least 6 of which i remember reading on emails So i tell him please wait a minute. I send an invitation to her to join our meeting. (btw it is work hours for both of them, but it is about 10:30 p, for me at my new project's location...) she joins, he is surprised. i tell him she has the plane records in front of her and a few weeks have past that i havent touched that plane so she can help us on your questions. she doesnt really understand whats going on, but i am writting to her on the side to explain. so he asks firsti question TO ME, i start and explain what needs to be done and then i turn to her and ask "X do you confirm or do you have something to add". i have written to her on the side what she needs to add and confirm. we go through all the questions like that with her confirming my repsonses and adding things. after that he has not come back to me for anything for over a month, even though in at least couple of emails she said that she needs to ask me because i am the lead type engineer for that type of aircraft.
the last stories are kind of wholesome, it's nice to hear OPs at least got good co-workers! I am really surprised that most judgement came from women, my experience was that men were more judgemental...but I guess that depends on occupation.
It is really frustrating that big companies get away with so much because the average person can't afford a lawyer, or doesn't understand the process of finding a good one. The only reason they take these hard stances when they are clearly in the wrong is because they know that, in the majority of cases, they won't get sued
I've occasionally had to ask for help from a woman in a traditionally male role. My most extreme reaction has been a few eyeblinks and a small hesitation while I mentally berated my instinctive sexism before asking my question, but I'm still pleased to see that women don't have to limit themselves to "traditional" roles. More often, I manage to just blink once and then start asking my (sometimes quite technical) questions. I've had one or two women smile at that, I assume because I'm not being sexist. Most of the time, they've been able to answer my questions.
Re: Payout that could have been avoided Now I know why energy costs are sky high. Re: I want to talk to the manager And that everyone is a reverse UNO! Re: Customer needs a mans help Shout out to that husband for calming down his Karen of a wife but also letting her get sweet justice!
I saw the thumbnail and immediately clicked thinking it was the return of r/treelaw and was surprised to find r/maliciouscompliance. Not what I expected, but I'll happily take my second favourite (after r/prorevenge) kind of Reddit video!
I relate to the ladies in the last two. I work automotive and have trained half the staff there. People don't ask for a man, but many avoid me to approach a man who turns and asks me for help. I don't mind too much since I'd rather be left alone with the cars anyways.
Not truly related to the paint story but adjacent to it. I worked at small hardware store that had a paint department. For years we had trouble with people returning gallons of paint that was exactly what they asked for even when we tried to match colors as best we could. The problem was that husbands would make the trip to the hardware store with a paint sample that we would match as best we could. However this was small town, and the last hardware store had a different paint supplier than we did and so we couldn't just sell them the same color as it would be slightly different due to how the paint looked different between brands. But we would always give then options to find the best fit. They would make a decision, buy the paint and then their spouse would send them back as it wasn't the option that they would have chosen. This continued until we initiated a policy that husbands weren't allowed to buy paint without the wife's approval. I know that this sounds kind of sexist, but this cut down on returns by 75% immediately.
That last story is way too relatable for me. I’m almost 35 but I definitely still have a baby face and get mistaken for way younger, which as a woman usually means people are less likely to take you seriously, especially in a typically male dominated occupation. I worked at a hardware store making keys and re-keying locks. I was the best at the time and could run two old manual key machines at a time and every key always worked without fail. It’s not that hard really, but for some reason men and women thought I was incapable maybe because of my looks or my gender, I’ll never know. But every time they insisted on a man to make their keys 7/10 times they’d come back to have them remade because they didn’t work. And I was always more than happy to remake them correctly. Also that extra trip pissed them off, so that gave me have a little sadistic pleasure to see them realize their stupidity and see their frustration lol
You'd think that the store manager would care a LITTLE bit more about the fact that nobody can check out (thus costing the store who-knows-how-much money), than her lunch. Like, "Oh, if I delay my lunch for 15 minutes, we'll keep selling and making money, but if I demand that the IT guy wait for me to finish my entire lunch break, then ALL the customers in the store will walk out angry, and go elsewhere for their product, because they can't check out? Too bad! NOTHING gets between me and my lunch!" The IT guy didn't even say, "You can't have your lunch break now." He said, "You'll have to delay the lunch break, OR take it somewhere else." I'm sure she could eat elsewhere, just once. GEEZ. No wonder she got fired.
4th story; That husband had probably been dealing with her idiotic tendencies for ages by that point. She probably made him regret it later, but at least he got to see someone put her in her place.
I want to feel bad for the store manager, but I can’t. Her job is to see that the store runs smoothly and maintains profitability. For her convenience she was willing to shut down the registers for an hour, without even shutting down the store. The damage she would have done to current and future sales is probably somewhere in the “horrifying” section, all for an ego trip. The district manager made the right call.
The day when anyone working in retail can just flat-out deny Karens their services for harassment over sexist remark couldn't come any sooner than when any other Karen walks into any store and tries to boss the employees around. Nothing as forceful as trying to have them trespassed, just stop responding to what they say and don't even acknowledge their presence. And if they decide to go physical, they should get hosed down with the hot sauce, which I think any store manager/owner should provide to all their employees by default. Any retail chain that doesn't implement any such policy should be boycotted.
Never mess with the IT guy. 2 ways I would have handled this situation. First ask her what her annual salary was, guess would be she would not say, then tell her what my salary was and the fact I make this because MY DEPARTMENT is on the corporate level and keeps the stories running. The second way I would have handled this was to say really? You want to talk to my boss? That is not a very good idea, then make that call.
once i was not payed and i just took the power switch off the company i was hired for doesn't allow the managers to call anyone else untill the first finishes working the manager was refusing to pay "he did nothing" she said i literally avoided a electric fire lmao the office was off for a week untill the manager got fired and i got my pay xd
The last story happened to me a while ago, except I was the "man". I worked at a tourism place and i was working the late shift. I hear my female coworker talking and walk in to see her with a grizzled looking man. "FINALLY! a man that can help!" He exclaims. I look at my coworker and she just rolls her eyes and gives up. Turns out he wanted directions to the government building in town. "Let me look that..." my coworker slides over the map she had that had the location circled, the route drawn and the hours and phone number written already. 😑 i give this to him and he has the audacity to say, "this is why women shouldn't work!" Ugh. I told him to leave.
That second to last story made me wonder what her plan was. When proven wrong, was she trying to win the argument by leaving, without buying what she came here for? And why is it so common for women to belittle their own gender?
I want to put some numbers on the store manager story, at a supermarket a large middle class family can easily spend minimum £100+ ($130+) on a weekly shop that can go through the register in about 3-5 minutes. Lunchtime or mid afternoon is one of the busier parts of the day too. In a big store you can get 10-15 checkouts, not counting the cafe and self service. They asked tech guy to wait an hour. In that time they lose on the low end £1200 ($1500) in sales, Ignoring the casheer and tech guy's wages, any revinue lost from delivery problems this causes, issues with customer satisfaction and any other losses caused by delaying tech guy's next job. I'd estimate she was asking tech guy to be fired while he was saving the company easily £5000.
Person born and raised from California here, agriculture is huge because there’s actually a lot of farmers here and they NEED their crops. I wasn’t one of them, but I knew many kids and adults who were farmers, and I learned how much they really depended on their crops. Good people most of the time too. So yeah, we take it seriously.
People dont realise. A lot harassment women get are from women too. Not just men. Think the pregnant woman who's just trying to be a good mom. She is bombarded with comments about her weight, her methods, how she is doing a bad job, how she is wrong, how her Doctor is wrong, and some even giving outdated and Very Dangerous advice. I remember a reddit story of a woman who was a first time mom and listened to her doctor when they say to avoid alcohol. Her mother chided her, saying her doctor didnt know anything. Then made the remark that she drank during her pregnancy and that OP turned out just fine. Then the OP remarks that she was born severely underweight, premature, and with many health issues. You could practically hear OP's eye rolling at her mother's comment. "Yeah mom. Sure. I turned out Just Fine."
That last one reminded me of a story from when I was in BCT during covid. TLDR at bottom So about 3 months before the covid outbreak I decided to join the national guard to do something with my life having no idea of the shit storm that would hit 2020. After 3 months of RSP I finally fly down to fort sill Oklahoma where my initial processing takes about a week after getting my round of vaccinations, I had a negative reaction to getting all the vaccines in me at once and was of course put into military quarantine because back then sore throat headache and fever = Covid so i was part of the second group in fort sill history to be quarantined. Besides being trapped in a bay with only 3 other sick dudes and only having an hour of light exercise outside it wasn't that bad we were even told we were given some card and board games (2 weeks in and we got a tv) we didn't have our phones nor could we write to our families so to not cause panic over us being quarantined so for the first 2 weeks we were really just chilling as more people got put into quarantine. a female quarantined bay was directly under us and was a lot more Rowdy and such and had a few more problems than our bay did while beside a few bad apples in our bay we mostly got along all together a guy who was the son of a pastor was nicknamed Chaplin and would do some church services sometimes. anyways one day we do line up and were standing in formation the DS was told to be nice to us and not to yell at us since a lot of us were actually sick with something. we would do lineups separate from the females after giving us some news and asking what supplies we needed and this and that the DS gave us this gem. "Trainees we know that this isn't an issue in your bay but I am still required to tell you this." Looking at all of us he continued. "There has been an issue with trainees Cuddling in bunks and also Making racist remarks don't do this." this prompted a bit of chuckling amongst the quarantined after he finished being asked if we had any questions my smart as raised my hand. "Yeah trainee what is it." going into attention and in the most serious voice i could muster i asked "Does that mean no more racist cuddle parties Drill Sargent?" to which everyone started dying laughing It became an inside joke along with Chalky Milk. TLDR During Quarantine in BCT girls made it so we couldn't have Racist Cuddle parties. Fort Sill 2020 Baby
That first story; I know most around the US think of CA as L.A., or S.F., tech etc, but it's mainly agriculture and dairy. Last time I read something about it, like 80% of US avocados come from CA.
So that would mean the guy in story two out ranked the store manager, as their direct boss was several levels higher then the store manager's direct boss. For the woman in story four I probably would have just said something like "Fine, if you really believe we carry the five gallon, then take me to it, if you can find one for sale in this building i'll let you have it for free." Make her waste her time since she wanted to act that way.
I hope OP in the third one didn't mean he only got paid for 60 minutes of overtime if they were there the full 60. Since he said we are paid overtime if we are clocked in for 60. For example if he stayed for an hour and a half of OT he only got paid for an hour They would be illegal (at least here in the US)
I usually at front register where I work, but we have things to do in the isles next to the register. After serving a line of costumers, I go to straighten up the isles, and a guy comes asking for me to help, even though he was talking to my coworker. My coworker looks female, and I look male, but we are both trans. So my coworker said that she is happy to help, but all of a sudden he didn't need help. If he read signs he wouldn't have to ask anybody. Also, we were the only place within that area with the thing he wanted becuase of shortages. I swear, some people will legit avoid getting help just because someone is not of their liking.
Being an IT guy myself, I knew when he was gonna say "never mess with the IT guy" before he said "never mess with the IT guy". So yeah... never mess with the IT guy. Just so you know AD is a fabulous and overpowered tool 🙃
Rules people need to learn in life 1: The IT person is a god you need to worship them and treat them with the utmost respect 2: Do not and I repeat DO NOT with your neighbors trees, or else you'll be out millions To clarify people who work in the it field or gods and if you mess with them you were going to have more issues than what you started with and trees are expensive
I just wanted to say that your videos have honestly saved my life this past week. I used to only watch these every once in a while, but since getting all four of my wisdom teeth extracted a few days ago, I’ve been on a serious binge. Between the pain meds not working right because of another medication I was on and not being able to open my eyes properly (the topical cream I’ve been using has strong fumes that make my eyes water) the only distraction I’ve had is listening to these videos. Thanks for keeping me going!
The best paint desk person I've dealt with was a woman, who also just so happened to be going to the states best art program. You know those scanners at Sherwin-Williams that can match any color, even from a flower petal, well she didnt need one.
At this point you just need "Don't mess with the IT guy" merch I can just see it now, a tasteful small R/ logo on the front of a hoodie with "Don't mess with the IT guy" on the back
BIL: Your bill sir Util co: $10,000?!?! This can’t possibly be correct!! BIL: I apologize sir. Here is your actual bill ($1,000,000) Util co: *Screaming*
the first story you can tell alot company like Electric probably bully people cause they know people don't got the ball to sue them and they thought Op brother in law was another coward but he prove them wrong and the second story, the fact the Op worker for the upper level boss and the store manager try fired him but she get fired lmao
I can actually understand the Karen in the paint story. Not that discrimination of any kind is right but I go to home depot and Lowes a lot and know some stores sell out of certain products faster than others and the site/app might not be up to date due to a variety of reasons (as should be common knowledge). Heck I've almost learned to pick out what the delivery dates are and what some of the codes they blare over the speakers are.
So glad tree law is a thing. We don't need morons destroying anymore nature.
Makes sense sine trees are legitimate big investments. They take decades to fully grow, make areas have cleaner oxygen, increase property value, & can be a person’s main source of income (fruit/paper/logging farms).
I saw the Thumbnail and immediately cheered "TREE LAW"
Like environmentalists, racists, sexist pigs, the people that promote the culling of unborn, disabled, and/or elderly people, the LGBT movement, etc.?
This law definitely helps the world. It takes decades to grow trees and the destruction of the hardwork would definitely demotivate people who want to grow them. That is twice as bad to the environment.
According to Rslash, the two classic blunders: Never mess with the I.T. guy and never mess with Tree Law.
Gotta love Tree Law.
Aside from "never get involved in a land war in Asia," of course.
@@Richard_Nickerson Naturally. And the slightly less well-known one: Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line
And never leave ur car at the wrong place
@@itsybitsybosmer
😂🤣😂🤣😮☠
What did the ‘store manager’ think the end game was going to be? That corporate would just let registers for an entire store be down for an hour to accommodate her ego and lunch? No, you’re definitely going to be fired.
Not to mention I'm fairly confident what that manager was doing was CRAZY illegal! She was ALONE...in the server room...a room where all the store's most sensitive information and company/customer data is stored. She's lucky she only got fired for that. O.O
@@bluestreaker9242 THIS. Extremely illegal, plus the area immediately surrounding the server itself is supposed to be clear in case of emergencies. She was breaking corporate policy by cluttering the space (with food) and likely breaking the law by being around sensitive information completely alone. Frankly, she should've been more than just fired for that.
@@KarlAndArma4ever Oh I definitely agree with you there. Like, the whole time I was thinking "This is the hill you wanna die on? You don't wanna do this, fam." XD
I assume she was not thinking a single second ahead of her break, and for what little she did think ahead she probably expected to throw her weight around and win the he-said/she-said against a lowly IT tech and get them fired instead of herself.
The server room might be the only place in the store where the air conditioning really keeps the space cool. A prime spot for lunch. However against policy or law it might be. Stupid, and selfish.
Electric Company: “Sue us!”
BIL: “LOL Okay!”
Electric Company: “(receives Million Dollar Invoice)”
Electric Company: “(Mr. Krabs scream) AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!😱😱😱”
Internal email the day after the trial "The idiot who said "Sue us" has 5 minutes to clear his desk and leave the building"
Lol I imagined surprised pikachu face but Mr. Krabs scream is way funnier! 🤣
The thing is? This is actually a major issue in California because the companies are deep in bed with the government, and that's literally one of the major causes of the fires in California. They just don't do maintenance because all the governmental oversight people used to work FOR THE COMPANIES.
@@AdamaGeist , I would make a law that prohibits nepotism and things like that and if anyone has a problem with that, well, I can make thrones out of their corpses and tankards out of their skulls. Let them see that happening for a bit and the message will begin to sink into those brain cell deprived morons.
Rslash and tree law. Name a more iconic duo.
Rslash and Entitled Parents.
McFreeze and French Fries.
terraria and Minecraft
Entideld people and "how dare you"
Malicious Compliance and "Are you sure?"
I’m in IT, with regards to woman-on-woman sexism, I can confirm that many of the people who refused to get help from me due to my gender were women.
My male colleagues were always baffled because I was the only one who had an educational background in computer science.
I really don’t get sexism. It's just so asinine. A woman working a job that's a 'man's job' has been around for so long at this point it really is 1920s thinking.
I (M) remember when I was 13 taking supplementary classes and in class, I responded that I didn’t get why women were treated as lesser. That our world would be so much more advanced if we had given women a chance. The reaction I got was, “Oooo which girl are ya trying to impress.” I was a naive kid, so I really didn’t get that response at the time, but man was casual sexism a thing even in modern times.
@@DemonRaticate , I was in high school and I was literally the only guy that was in parenting class. Despite the hell that I went through, both at school, as well as at home, I not only got an A, but that I literally scored a better grade than all of the other girls that were in the class. I feel sad that I am not a parent and have a wife in my life, though. :(
@@DemonRaticate Yeah, I was very much like this, but then I grew up. I've worked in construction business and we rarely got to see women working these jobs and it's not because they are not welcomed, but because they rarely apply. And the ones that did are simply biologically incapable of keeping up with the same pase. Never saw any of the lasses carry a 50kg bags of concrete on their backs, up and down improvised ladders, for 4 hours straight, both because they couldn't and they wouldn't.
It's not the same regarding tech jobs though, I see no reason why biological imperatives should dictate their ability to do those kinds of job.
@@paxhumana2015 wish I even had the option of a parent class
Someone:*Messes with the IT guy*
rSlash:How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man!?
I love the young people
Jeez, what is with people smugly telling the victim to sue them and is shocked when they actually did sue? Seriously, don't try people like that! You'll never know what they'll do!
In this case, I suspect it has to do with insurance. This might be malicious compliance by the utility company.
Ego, pride and entitlement, basically.
With companies, especially utility companies, they have to abide by their insurance and state laws. ESPECIALLY when it comes to agriculture. If that had been livestock instead of crops it would have been so much worse.
sue me lol
some people really think they are never wrong....
The husband who laughed at his own dumb wife. He is the true hero today.
If anything im surprised California isnt even more strict on fire hazards like that, this was an incredibly minor incident but could have been so, so much worse.
The government tried to take over PG&E, and we all know the only thing worse than a bad company is a government owned utility company.
million dollar lawsuit against a dickhead utility company? thats the american dream right there.
@Dracolegacy, et al, the OP that was in the story was not suing for the damage to the trees per se, rather, he was simply getting the utility company to pay for damaging his fence, but the company said no, so he went for the jugular because the company was being unnecessarily mean to him when he was trying to be nice and civil to them initially. The point is that it is not about the lawsuit and the money, but, rather, it is about the principle of owning up to what you do in your life, taking personal accountability, and taking personal responsibility for your actions in your life.
@@paxhumana2015 I appreciate the explanation but I think it was just intended for someone else's comment.
I worked retail for years at Walmart and frequently got customers who didn’t wanna talk to a female employee. Every time I was asked to talk to one cause they requested a man I’d pretend I was dumb as a rock and that the lady who referred them to me was the smartest in the department on whatever the item was.
You sir, are a true MVP. Thank you for being a great person and having a sense of humor with it!
You are the MVP dude. I treasured my coworkers who would do things like that when it happened to me!
thank you for your service king
God bless you, sir! You are a gentleman!
The paint story hits hard. The amount of sexism in the paint department is really bad, which is odd because mostly women tend to work in paint. It was worse when I transferred to plumbing. I knew plumbing really well but people believed because I was a girl I couldn't help them.
It's stupid really, when i was renovating hallway in my flat, I went to shop, where an older sweet lady was selling paints and all other things. She gave me advice everything what to do, what to buy etc.
It's weird, because when I'm picking paint I always expect a woman to help me, and I'm always surprised to see a man working in the paint section. Most men are terrible with picking colors, myself included.
I used to work summers for a carpenter when I was a teen and in my early 20's. Whenever I had to go to the local hardware store, there were two people that were worth asking for help: the store manager who had been there for decades and a lady that looked to be in her 30's and would ask for clarification if I used terminology she hadn't heard before. Excluding the manager, the only thing the male employees were good for was helping me load materials in my boss's truck. The other guys there had no clue to life what half the things you would ask for were and smile like jackasses and say it didn't exist. I remember going in one day for some materials and one of the guys was saying to an elderly couple that garden windows must not exist because he had never heard of them. I only remember this because a couple weeks later, my boss asked me to work half a weekend day to help him install a garden window in their kitchen.
I think part of it might be the fact the vast majority of the famous and valuable pieces were all made by dudes. I know there are a few well known paintings made by women, but I for the life of me can't remember which pieces they are and who made them.
They really must think that women paint things or fix sinks with our vaginas. Sexism is incredibly dumb.
As a woman who worked as an alternate for the Lumber department, I can confirm that female customers are much more sexist than male customers. I had a lady ask me if there was someone she could ask about the best type of Lumber for deck supports. I told her I could and when I went to explain, she put her hand in my face and replied I meant is there a man I can talk to. He told her word for word the exact same thing I did which led to her throwing a huge fit.
Can’t believe some people would do that!
Tbh it works both ways, it seems people assign genders to professions thinking they’re womanly or manly jobs so they expect to have that specific gender there & when they don’t they become super sexist, it’s beyond stupid, men & women can do any jobs, there’s no such things as womanly & manly jobs yet people are stuck in the past & still think that way. I wish the world would stop being such a hurtful hating place. When I went to culinary school years ago my professor on my first day said _”women, look around you, notice there’s more men here, this is a man’s job, be ready to be disrespected, harassed, told you can’t do your job as well as a man, etc. if you don’t have tough skin I suggest you leave now”_ & then he started the class, it blew me away, I had always dealt with that stuff because even before going to culinary school I worked in only kitchens however I was shocked a male professor so bluntly put it out there & in a smug manor nonetheless. I always found it funny when I a woman was told kitchen jobs are for men because you always hear “women belong in the kitchen” so if that’s the case than why is it considered a “man’s job”… again it’s all beyond stupid.
As a man who once worked retail, I got security called on me a lot when I was forced to cover the women's clothing section at Sears because there were no women working that shift or something. I was only 16-18 back then too, so I definitely didn't give creepy old man vibes lmao.
Ugh that sounds awful. Though there is a special satisfaction to watching a prick customer get the exact same reply from a coworker XD
I seem to have encountered more sexist men in my hardware career, but I think it's just that more men on average came into our store... Which now that I think about it could itself reflect on what are considered the "men's chores"... 🤔
In my experience the problem women were more blatantly sexist and the men were more sort of... Condescending?
@@NyxyPixie I have just had a lot of encounters with female customers where they would sometimes hint at or just plain demand that they need a man to help them. I actually injured myself at one point while convincing a customer that I was just as capable. I did the task, it hurt like heck later, but I did it.
The wife was like a secret weapon who knew all of the electric company’s moves.
*OP's Brother-in-law:* Hey Utility Company! Your power line wrecked my property! You gonna pay the $10,000 to fix it?
*Utility Company:* Hahahaha no!🖕 What are you gonna do, sue us? Good luck!
*OP's Sister:* Hello, I'm a corporate attorney.
*Utility Company:* Uhhhh...
*Judge:* Hey guys, you now gotta pay OP's Brother-in-law over 100 times what he asked for because you fucked up!
*Utility Company:* _[Surprised Pikachu face]_
Fourth Story : Not surprised. Women are brutal toward other women for the most petty things. Good to see a Karen get embarrassed.
My favorite part was how you know the husband is never going to let her forget the story either 😂
Having worked for a carpenter in the past and having had many hardware store dealings because of it, I can tell you firsthand that female hardware store employees know their stuff better than the boys. They're not afraid to let you know if you need to clarify something for them, so they tend to learn the language faster and gain more knowledge faster as a result.
My husband was a diesel machanic and he told me about a spare part store where all the staff were women. Apparently they were so good that you could just show them the old part or describe it and they would know where it came from, the part number and could walk to the correct place on the shelf to get it. The men were all in awe of them.
That sounds just as awesome as you described it :D
I hope they were rewarded appropriately. Workers who really know their job like that are invaluable. And it goes without saying (or SHOULD) that it doesn't matter whether they're male or female or black or white or anything.
My wife used to work the hardware department at Sears. The rest of the staff was male and watched over her like a little sister, so when a customer requested a male associate, the associate came down on that customer ruthlessly.
RIP Sears. It was my summer job like 18-20 years ago.
So being a male worker at a company or store means you automatically know more that a female worker? The hell kind of thought process is that?
Ask Patrick Shyu, he is alllll about that thought process.
It's called Sexism 101 sadly.
Dude: *destroys trees
Lorax: “This next parts my favorite part, it’s time to shine”
Second story: When OP said he heard the word "fired" I remember a phrase another OP said in another video: "Someone is definitively getting fired and I'm sure that's not me." That manager got her little power go all over her head.
Ok second story I didn’t see that happening, I honestly thought he would walk out for the hour and leave the registers down for then
I assume OP didn't want to hold up the customers since they were innocent bystanders.
Its impossible to express the joy in waking up to discover a Tree Law video
I agree! Major chihuahua energy!
I was walking on a busy street, coming back from work, and i wanted to listen to the newly released RSlash episode. It's been my daily ritual for over a year. Just like many, many others I've been waiting for a new Tree Law episode Once I saw the title for today's video I got so excited that I shouted "YES, TREES!" out loud. On a busy street. Not a big deal, obviously,.but I got some weird and confused looks from people around me. I'd like to think they thought I'm a dendrophile... I mean a tree lover ;)
The last story made me laugh out loud, I worked in the bar industry for about 13 years, most of the last 10 in various management positions and stock management was my speciality. I'd get shocked looks and comments from delivery drivers from the brewery asking is I wanted to get one of the "lads" to check off and take the delivery (I'm talking several cases each of beer, cider, soft drinks and boxes of post mix syrup, aswell as several 22 and 11 gallon barrels of draught beer and cider) I'd always say no I'm good the boys are cleaning the bar, I'll sort this stock out. But it was the women managers from other departments, I worked a holiday resort, that just couldn't understand that I would be doing all the heavy lifting and the boys would be doing the cleaning.
From my experience women in hardware stores know more than their male coworkers. It's a pretty male dominated field so I think women who work in such field must be especially interested and knowledgable to work at a place you'd usually expect a man. I've had better help from female workers and talks, unlike the guys who look at me stupid when I have a question or don't know something apparently obvious.
When I go into any store, I am not interested in the staff members gender. They work there so must know what they are doing.
7:37 I mean yeah, but in this case it was more like "Don't be a total Karen and demand to speak to your boss's boss's boss's boss's boss, because he wants you to move for your lunch break"
I worked at a Solar panel company while saving up for grad school. My job was scheduling installs for solar panel systems with customers, fielding install questions, and doing the pre-install check with them. There were 3 people in my department: me, Bianca and Jessica. Whenever someone asked for a man to help them (which was often), I would pass the call to my male colleague from a different department who would begudginly take the call and say "Sir, that's not my department. I can pass you to Anna, Bianca, or Jessica".
I prefer talking to women in traditionally “male” dominated fields because I know they had to work twice as hard and learn three times as much to be taken seriously in their field.
In a D&D game I had an antagonist (not a villain really, more like a rival) who was a rock gnome warlock that liked to make a tea out of eyeballs. And whenever he made his cunning escape after his latest antic, he'd say "Never mess with the Eye Tea Guy!"
They broke RSlash rule number one: Don’t mess with the trees.
The Lorax may be Rslash’s number one fan.
Another great day waking and baking with rslash and yay tree law maybe something on your other channel today 🙂
13:27 that husband is a true one lads
He laughed at his wife whenever the maliciouscompliance came in 😈😈
Can we get more tree law stories? I love how a simple tree ends up *ending* the one who damaged the tree
Hey, Rslash! You should do more r/treelaw! Who else agrees?
And this is why tree law is one of my favorite subjects. The thought of something so simple and innocuous being some of the most expensive suits is frankly hilarious
I had a similar experiance as the lady who worked at a Hardware store, except I worked at EB Games.
See, when I worked there, I not only was a gamer myself, I was dating a mega gamer and had left another gamer for said giga gamer (first guy was abusive, I wasn't just looking for a nerdier dude lol.)
So this man walks into the store and tells me he wants to talk to a male employee about the game MAG.
At the time it was my now fiance of nearly 12 years' favourite game. He had not only played the crap out of it, he platinumed the thing. I was more into RPGs and puzzle games, but I had watched him play it nearly the entire time. I was about to tell the customer my knowledge base, but he interrupted me to reiterate that he wanted to speak to a man. So I pointed out my male co-worker who didn't play many games at all.
The store was small so no mater where you were if you paid attention you would be in earshot. The other worker was tuning out everything to concentrate on putting cases away, so he had clearly not heard pur conversation, but I was listening to theirs.
The man asked him, and he got excited and said "ooh! let me get you Paranoiaprincess, she's the most knowledgeable gamer here!" I chuckled and the man came back to the counter, looking sheepish.
I explained what I knew about MAG.and how I knew it and the infor I gave him hyped him up a lot for the game. I didn't know it yet, but he didn't even have a PS3! So I went on, after our discussion, to sell him a PS3 and about 5 games. He said that all future visits would only be with me from then on, and he stuck to that. He wouldn't even come into the store if I wasn't working. 😂
Just goes to show, things like hardware, electronics, sports, and gaming are *NOT* gendered!
must suck for the first company, but they had it coming at the end of it
I work at a fabric and craft store where the vast majority of employees are women. One time a male coworker was helping her but she insisted on being helped by a woman because she assumed men knew nothing about sewing. It was the opposite for John, who had experience in practically every area from 30+ years experience.
He has listened, and he has delivered, he.... Is.... Rslash. Thank you for some absolutely delicious tree law
The last ones are too real. I worked in a hardware store throughout my 20s and had so many weird sexist encounters.
Nothing usually so blatant as outright asking for a man, but my favorite was always to see (or hear if it's on the phone) a customer go through an internal realization when they clearly WANT to ask for a man but also know doing so would be outright sexist.
So you're just waiting there with your retail smile while they try to unpack their biases and decide if they're going to a) straight up ask for a man b) formulate a less blatant way like asking for someone specific, or c) just let a girl help them with their lumber purchase.
Special shout out to the lady who thought "no offense but you don't LOOK like you work at customer service", the guy who incredulously wanted to know if my boyfriend was okay with me repairing our roof leak, and a special f-you to all those who condescendingly patted me on the shoulder if I didn't know the answer to something.
On the first story, yeah, I think that the utility that was in question was Pacific Gas and Electric Company and those scumbags have gotten sued a lot over the years for refusing to pay for damages that were related to wildfires. I am convinced that the first story was simply one of the lawsuits that was filed against them and those individual lawsuits that they had gotten usually end up being big class action lawsuits...and I thought that Comcast, EA, and Nintendo were horrible companies!
it would take many years to sell $1,000,000 worth of avocados, but if somebody wanted to replant new trees, how long would it take for the new trees to be ready to bear fruit? a decade if you're lucky. If one were to look at it, a million dollars actually could be considered reasonable here.
The first time I ever experienced sexism was when I was trying to get a job at GameStop at my local store where I grew up. I would recommend games as a customer that I had played. One time when I did that she pulled me aside saying I was belittling her suggestion because I backed her up because I was a man. I had applied and shown knowledge but never got an interview. When I moved cities I got an interview right away from a male store manager and landed the job immediately. When I went home to visit my old store she was shocked when I provided her an employee ID for my discount. I told her my store and we made way more money than her store and I personally did better than she did in sales and subs. I was only trying to help some one enjoy my favorite hobby not belittle any one's credit.
Yes! I love Tree law stories!
I work in aviation as an engineer.
We had a client whose airplane we managed and he was from one of the Arabic countries (i think Saudi Arabia... i am saying i think, because when he speaks he just mumbles so you have to ask 4 or 5 times him to repeat what he said and thorugh a phone its even worse...)
so at some point a girl joined our company. she had almost as much experience as me (tlaking about a few months difference) but it was in a slightly different area so i was "training" her on our exact part of the job and our best practices standards as well.
few months later (she was already quite acustomed to our ways) that guy's plane was transfered from me to her because i took up an entire project.
I called the guy up, i told him i am being reassigned, my calleague X is taking over. you can ask her whatever ou need, if there is a need for some historical knowledge i can always help and i actually sit in a desk right next to her so she can always turn to me. you are in good hands. He said ok and that was that.
Next day i receive an email adressed to me about the plane. It is a historical question about the plane so i think ok, i spend 2 hours looking into the rexords and manuals etc and i come up with our engineering judgement on the matter and add in the email "my colleague X agrees and confirms this". (i want to prop her up)
4 days later the same thing repeats. again it is historical so i again spend 4-5 hours and respond back.
next week a new email again, but that is regarding a new topic that has nothing with me. my colleague is happy i am responding because both of us are overwhelmed so she doesnt have to spend hours on that aircraft... but at the same time she gets annoyed for being ingored (neither of us is getting payed anything extra for working on another aircraft, so i am not stealling anything from her).
she asks me to tell him to stop asking me. I am leaving for my project the next day either way to the other side of the word so i do it.
next day i land after 16 hours of flying approximately and while waiting for immigration to clear me and my visa I get a call from that guy... i tell him the smae spiel my colleague, blabla, she can blabla, i am not in the office anymore blabla he apologises and we hang up.
another week and i get a microsoft teams invitation to a meeting with him for just 6 minutes ahead. i join in and he starts with questions that i know he has asked her already in emails.
now two points -1i have worked on that guy's plane for over 2 years so i know it well enough and 2- i am the guy to go for this type of plane in my company. X has worked with this type of plane for just about 3-4 months and always under me, BUT that guy doesnt know that.
I have my project i need to focuse on and at that point i have started to realise he doesnt want to work with her because she is female.
so he asks me about 8 questions at least 6 of which i remember reading on emails
So i tell him please wait a minute. I send an invitation to her to join our meeting. (btw it is work hours for both of them, but it is about 10:30 p, for me at my new project's location...)
she joins, he is surprised. i tell him she has the plane records in front of her and a few weeks have past that i havent touched that plane so she can help us on your questions. she doesnt really understand whats going on, but i am writting to her on the side to explain.
so he asks firsti question TO ME, i start and explain what needs to be done and then i turn to her and ask "X do you confirm or do you have something to add". i have written to her on the side what she needs to add and confirm.
we go through all the questions like that with her confirming my repsonses and adding things.
after that he has not come back to me for anything for over a month, even though in at least couple of emails she said that she needs to ask me because i am the lead type engineer for that type of aircraft.
the last stories are kind of wholesome, it's nice to hear OPs at least got good co-workers!
I am really surprised that most judgement came from women, my experience was that men were more judgemental...but I guess that depends on occupation.
Welcome to R/MaliciousCompliance, where a sucky utility company gets introduced to the wonderful world of Tree Law.
Yup. Rslash was probably ecstatic that he could recover tree law. God knows how much rslash loves tree law 😂😂
Tree Law!! its back!!
are you the one that asked about it the other day
lol
@@eksboks148 nope, not me
It is really frustrating that big companies get away with so much because the average person can't afford a lawyer, or doesn't understand the process of finding a good one. The only reason they take these hard stances when they are clearly in the wrong is because they know that, in the majority of cases, they won't get sued
I've occasionally had to ask for help from a woman in a traditionally male role. My most extreme reaction has been a few eyeblinks and a small hesitation while I mentally berated my instinctive sexism before asking my question, but I'm still pleased to see that women don't have to limit themselves to "traditional" roles. More often, I manage to just blink once and then start asking my (sometimes quite technical) questions. I've had one or two women smile at that, I assume because I'm not being sexist.
Most of the time, they've been able to answer my questions.
Re: Payout that could have been avoided
Now I know why energy costs are sky high.
Re: I want to talk to the manager
And that everyone is a reverse UNO!
Re: Customer needs a mans help
Shout out to that husband for calming down his Karen of a wife but also letting her get sweet justice!
All I saw was destroyed my trees and thought; TREE LAW!!!
OMG it's tree Law!! If you are new to RSlash meet the most expensive and crazy thing there is... Tree Law!!!
I saw the thumbnail and immediately clicked thinking it was the return of r/treelaw and was surprised to find r/maliciouscompliance. Not what I expected, but I'll happily take my second favourite (after r/prorevenge) kind of Reddit video!
I relate to the ladies in the last two. I work automotive and have trained half the staff there. People don't ask for a man, but many avoid me to approach a man who turns and asks me for help. I don't mind too much since I'd rather be left alone with the cars anyways.
Not truly related to the paint story but adjacent to it. I worked at small hardware store that had a paint department. For years we had trouble with people returning gallons of paint that was exactly what they asked for even when we tried to match colors as best we could. The problem was that husbands would make the trip to the hardware store with a paint sample that we would match as best we could. However this was small town, and the last hardware store had a different paint supplier than we did and so we couldn't just sell them the same color as it would be slightly different due to how the paint looked different between brands. But we would always give then options to find the best fit. They would make a decision, buy the paint and then their spouse would send them back as it wasn't the option that they would have chosen. This continued until we initiated a policy that husbands weren't allowed to buy paint without the wife's approval. I know that this sounds kind of sexist, but this cut down on returns by 75% immediately.
That last story is way too relatable for me. I’m almost 35 but I definitely still have a baby face and get mistaken for way younger, which as a woman usually means people are less likely to take you seriously, especially in a typically male dominated occupation. I worked at a hardware store making keys and re-keying locks. I was the best at the time and could run two old manual key machines at a time and every key always worked without fail. It’s not that hard really, but for some reason men and women thought I was incapable maybe because of my looks or my gender, I’ll never know. But every time they insisted on a man to make their keys 7/10 times they’d come back to have them remade because they didn’t work. And I was always more than happy to remake them correctly. Also that extra trip pissed them off, so that gave me have a little sadistic pleasure to see them realize their stupidity and see their frustration lol
”My brother…. And my siter, his wife”
Wait whatttttt!!?
1:03
You'd think that the store manager would care a LITTLE bit more about the fact that nobody can check out (thus costing the store who-knows-how-much money), than her lunch.
Like, "Oh, if I delay my lunch for 15 minutes, we'll keep selling and making money, but if I demand that the IT guy wait for me to finish my entire lunch break, then ALL the customers in the store will walk out angry, and go elsewhere for their product, because they can't check out? Too bad! NOTHING gets between me and my lunch!"
The IT guy didn't even say, "You can't have your lunch break now." He said, "You'll have to delay the lunch break, OR take it somewhere else." I'm sure she could eat elsewhere, just once. GEEZ.
No wonder she got fired.
4th story; That husband had probably been dealing with her idiotic tendencies for ages by that point. She probably made him regret it later, but at least he got to see someone put her in her place.
I'm a simple man. I see Tree Law, I drop everything to pay attention.
I want to feel bad for the store manager, but I can’t. Her job is to see that the store runs smoothly and maintains profitability. For her convenience she was willing to shut down the registers for an hour, without even shutting down the store. The damage she would have done to current and future sales is probably somewhere in the “horrifying” section, all for an ego trip. The district manager made the right call.
The day when anyone working in retail can just flat-out deny Karens their services for harassment over sexist remark couldn't come any sooner than when any other Karen walks into any store and tries to boss the employees around. Nothing as forceful as trying to have them trespassed, just stop responding to what they say and don't even acknowledge their presence. And if they decide to go physical, they should get hosed down with the hot sauce, which I think any store manager/owner should provide to all their employees by default. Any retail chain that doesn't implement any such policy should be boycotted.
Never mess with the IT guy. 2 ways I would have handled this situation. First ask her what her annual salary was, guess would be she would not say, then tell her what my salary was and the fact I make this because MY DEPARTMENT is on the corporate level and keeps the stories running. The second way I would have handled this was to say really? You want to talk to my boss? That is not a very good idea, then make that call.
once i was not payed and i just took the power switch off
the company i was hired for doesn't allow the managers to call anyone else untill the first finishes working
the manager was refusing to pay "he did nothing" she said
i literally avoided a electric fire lmao
the office was off for a week untill the manager got fired and i got my pay xd
The last story happened to me a while ago, except I was the "man". I worked at a tourism place and i was working the late shift. I hear my female coworker talking and walk in to see her with a grizzled looking man. "FINALLY! a man that can help!" He exclaims. I look at my coworker and she just rolls her eyes and gives up. Turns out he wanted directions to the government building in town. "Let me look that..." my coworker slides over the map she had that had the location circled, the route drawn and the hours and phone number written already. 😑 i give this to him and he has the audacity to say, "this is why women shouldn't work!" Ugh. I told him to leave.
That second to last story made me wonder what her plan was.
When proven wrong, was she trying to win the argument by leaving, without buying what she came here for?
And why is it so common for women to belittle their own gender?
I want to put some numbers on the store manager story, at a supermarket a large middle class family can easily spend minimum £100+ ($130+) on a weekly shop that can go through the register in about 3-5 minutes. Lunchtime or mid afternoon is one of the busier parts of the day too. In a big store you can get 10-15 checkouts, not counting the cafe and self service. They asked tech guy to wait an hour. In that time they lose on the low end £1200 ($1500) in sales, Ignoring the casheer and tech guy's wages, any revinue lost from delivery problems this causes, issues with customer satisfaction and any other losses caused by delaying tech guy's next job. I'd estimate she was asking tech guy to be fired while he was saving the company easily £5000.
*TREE LAW! TREE LAW! TREE LAW!*
It's about time we had another one of those.
Person born and raised from California here, agriculture is huge because there’s actually a lot of farmers here and they NEED their crops.
I wasn’t one of them, but I knew many kids and adults who were farmers, and I learned how much they really depended on their crops. Good people most of the time too. So yeah, we take it seriously.
People dont realise. A lot harassment women get are from women too. Not just men. Think the pregnant woman who's just trying to be a good mom. She is bombarded with comments about her weight, her methods, how she is doing a bad job, how she is wrong, how her Doctor is wrong, and some even giving outdated and Very Dangerous advice.
I remember a reddit story of a woman who was a first time mom and listened to her doctor when they say to avoid alcohol. Her mother chided her, saying her doctor didnt know anything. Then made the remark that she drank during her pregnancy and that OP turned out just fine. Then the OP remarks that she was born severely underweight, premature, and with many health issues. You could practically hear OP's eye rolling at her mother's comment. "Yeah mom. Sure. I turned out Just Fine."
I was wondering just yesterday when you'd cover tree law again. 😁
That last one reminded me of a story from when I was in BCT during covid. TLDR at bottom
So about 3 months before the covid outbreak I decided to join the national guard to do something with my life having no idea of the shit storm that would hit 2020. After 3 months of RSP I finally fly down to fort sill Oklahoma where my initial processing takes about a week after getting my round of vaccinations, I had a negative reaction to getting all the vaccines in me at once and was of course put into military quarantine because back then sore throat headache and fever = Covid so i was part of the second group in fort sill history to be quarantined. Besides being trapped in a bay with only 3 other sick dudes and only having an hour of light exercise outside it wasn't that bad we were even told we were given some card and board games (2 weeks in and we got a tv) we didn't have our phones nor could we write to our families so to not cause panic over us being quarantined so for the first 2 weeks we were really just chilling as more people got put into quarantine. a female quarantined bay was directly under us and was a lot more Rowdy and such and had a few more problems than our bay did while beside a few bad apples in our bay we mostly got along all together a guy who was the son of a pastor was nicknamed Chaplin and would do some church services sometimes. anyways one day we do line up and were standing in formation the DS was told to be nice to us and not to yell at us since a lot of us were actually sick with something. we would do lineups separate from the females after giving us some news and asking what supplies we needed and this and that the DS gave us this gem. "Trainees we know that this isn't an issue in your bay but I am still required to tell you this." Looking at all of us he continued. "There has been an issue with trainees Cuddling in bunks and also Making racist remarks don't do this." this prompted a bit of chuckling amongst the quarantined after he finished being asked if we had any questions my smart as raised my hand. "Yeah trainee what is it." going into attention and in the most serious voice i could muster i asked "Does that mean no more racist cuddle parties Drill Sargent?" to which everyone started dying laughing It became an inside joke along with Chalky Milk.
TLDR During Quarantine in BCT girls made it so we couldn't have Racist Cuddle parties. Fort Sill 2020 Baby
That first story; I know most around the US think of CA as L.A., or S.F., tech etc, but it's mainly agriculture and dairy. Last time I read something about it, like 80% of US avocados come from CA.
So that would mean the guy in story two out ranked the store manager, as their direct boss was several levels higher then the store manager's direct boss.
For the woman in story four I probably would have just said something like "Fine, if you really believe we carry the five gallon, then take me to it, if you can find one for sale in this building i'll let you have it for free." Make her waste her time since she wanted to act that way.
Treelaw is so crazy
I hope OP in the third one didn't mean he only got paid for 60 minutes of overtime if they were there the full 60. Since he said we are paid overtime if we are clocked in for 60. For example if he stayed for an hour and a half of OT he only got paid for an hour
They would be illegal (at least here in the US)
TREE LAW TREE LAW TREE LAW TREE LAW
I usually at front register where I work, but we have things to do in the isles next to the register. After serving a line of costumers, I go to straighten up the isles, and a guy comes asking for me to help, even though he was talking to my coworker. My coworker looks female, and I look male, but we are both trans. So my coworker said that she is happy to help, but all of a sudden he didn't need help. If he read signs he wouldn't have to ask anybody. Also, we were the only place within that area with the thing he wanted becuase of shortages. I swear, some people will legit avoid getting help just because someone is not of their liking.
I feel like Trees coming up in the first story is the main reason why Rslash picked it for the video
Being an IT guy myself, I knew when he was gonna say "never mess with the IT guy" before he said "never mess with the IT guy".
So yeah... never mess with the IT guy. Just so you know AD is a fabulous and overpowered tool 🙃
Rules people need to learn in life
1: The IT person is a god you need to worship them and treat them with the utmost respect
2: Do not and I repeat DO NOT with your neighbors trees, or else you'll be out millions
To clarify people who work in the it field or gods and if you mess with them you were going to have more issues than what you started with and trees are expensive
Tree Law with Malicious Compliance is AWESOME!!!!
Never mess with the trees of the IT guy that asks you to put something in writing after asking you if you are sure.
Finally, a good video for the first time in a while. The rest of the videos are ok but, Tree Law video are good and the best. 😁
For those who don't know, POS stands for Point Of Sale. Basically means the thing or area dealing with selling.
Messing with IT is like trying to piss off your parents when you're a kid. It'll come back to haunt you down the line.
I just wanted to say that your videos have honestly saved my life this past week. I used to only watch these every once in a while, but since getting all four of my wisdom teeth extracted a few days ago, I’ve been on a serious binge. Between the pain meds not working right because of another medication I was on and not being able to open my eyes properly (the topical cream I’ve been using has strong fumes that make my eyes water) the only distraction I’ve had is listening to these videos. Thanks for keeping me going!
The best paint desk person I've dealt with was a woman, who also just so happened to be going to the states best art program. You know those scanners at Sherwin-Williams that can match any color, even from a flower petal, well she didnt need one.
At this point you just need "Don't mess with the IT guy" merch
I can just see it now, a tasteful small R/ logo on the front of a hoodie with "Don't mess with the IT guy" on the back
BIL: Your bill sir
Util co: $10,000?!?! This can’t possibly be correct!!
BIL: I apologize sir. Here is your actual bill
($1,000,000)
Util co: *Screaming*
LOVE when it's about tree law, it always becomes a pro revenge 😂😂
Finally, a Treelaw video! Thank you!
6:50 how many "m a n a g e r s" are there!? 🙄🙄
the first story you can tell alot company like Electric probably bully people cause they know people don't got the ball to sue them and they thought Op brother in law was another coward but he prove them wrong and the second story, the fact the Op worker for the upper level boss and the store manager try fired him but she get fired lmao
Uh oh...tree law is no joke! I've learned a lot about tree law from R/SLASH 😁
I can actually understand the Karen in the paint story. Not that discrimination of any kind is right but I go to home depot and Lowes a lot and know some stores sell out of certain products faster than others and the site/app might not be up to date due to a variety of reasons (as should be common knowledge). Heck I've almost learned to pick out what the delivery dates are and what some of the codes they blare over the speakers are.