2020 has been quite a decade, I mean year. We're only a few months in, can you believe it? Things have definitely changed since 2019. Staying at home used to be lame, now it literally saves lives. These memes nail all of the hilarious ways 2020 is different from 2019.
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What's worse than being stuck in quarantine alone? Being stuck with a romantic partner you were thisclose to dumping before.
A recent Reddit thread asked people to share stories of being on lockdown with a significant other they can't stand. The answers, which also come from people who are mid-breakup, will make you thankful for your own quarantine situation.
Me and my wife separated 3 weeks ago. We were both in the process of finding different places to live but our town is shut down now. Needless to say it's been awkward and tense for us - a_new_guy_on_reddit
My ex & I broke up a couple of months ago. Still living together because our lease isn't up until September & neither of us has the money to break it. It's going okay, it's reasonably amicable, but I'm so thankful she is considered an "essential employee" & still working full-time. I'd be going insane if we were stuck in the house together, day in, day out. I'm just praying we don't actually end up in quarantine. - youhaveonehour
Just yesterday I was working from home while my wife was finishing up her last day at work. Her iPad was dinging like crazy with text messages so I went to put it on do not disturb. As I unlocked it (yes we know each others pins), I saw the long text stating that she doesn't want to be with me anymore blah blah blah.
We had a good long talk when she got home. She is unsure if she actually wants to leave me. She's staying with her parents for the weekend and we have a counseling session planned for Tuesday to help us figure out if we are going to try to fix the things that are broken in our marriage, or cut our losses and move on.
It has been a long and difficult day for me. - sadthrowaway4me
I have a friend from Northwestern China, a good two hours by plane from Wuhan. While in college, she met a guy and they began dating, and last year they began to talk about getting married. Her boyfriend invited my friend to spend some days with his family before Chinese New Year...in Wuhan. Since she was supposed to be in Wuhan for only a few days, she packed lightly and stayed at her boyfriend's house. She was scheduled to return home the day after the city was closed off, so she had no other option than to stay with her boyfriend's family. How difficult can it be? They were already planning to get married by this time next year, so what could go wrong? Oh boy...it turns out her boyfriend had a completely different persona with his family than away from them, and now my friend has seen who he really is and she HATES it. It didn't last long before she realised she definitely couldn't marry this guy, but for the time being, she had no other option than stay with him and his family. While my friend had already met his family, and they are very nice to her, she was on the brink of a mental collapse from having to spend her whole day with a guy she now despises. Fortunately for her, she could return home earlier this week.
The issue? He's abusive:
From what she's told me, he apparently presented himself as very family oriented, and that was one of the many reasons she felt attracted to him. But now she's realised he's borderline abusive towards his family, specially his mother and sister. - ThePeasantKingM
Separated from my wife and was looking for an apartment this month. We have 2 young kids. Trying to find a place and plan moving has not been going well. It's .... difficult. We're civil, but it's still really awkward. She's buying my half of the house out. I don't really want to live here with all the memories. She said she didn't have feelings for me anymore and didn't think she ever would again. Not much I could do about that. =/ - am_sorry
A few days before quarantine I found out he was having an affair. He’s always been a very difficult person and I decided this was it.
I have been in and out of hotels and Airbnb’s and travelling between there to our house to see our kid.
It certainly adds a complication to everything.
He has depression as well and would not be able to get his shit together to leave. In the long term, staying in the house is untenable for both of us, because we can’t afford it on our own (he doesn’t realize that yet).
A nightmare:
Yes, the memories were too painful as well. Especially as I look now and see the odd small thing he bought me on these trips or souvenirs he bought himself.
At first we were switching staying in the house and he’s such an asshat he was complaining about “being out of the house too long,” like dude, I will be out of the house for the rest of my life.
Also, I’m leaving him. I’m doubtful he would leave me. Apparently his long term plan was to come clean and work it out so I think he would have pushed for cohabitation and I was afraid of the scene I would make in front of my kid.
You’re also not in your right mind when this happens, although I’m better now, I would cry, have the shakes, thought I would throw up, wasn’t sleeping - Liliac100
Basically, during the quarantine my boyfriend dropped a huge bomb on me. He said he didn’t know if he could be with someone who isn’t a Christian. This obviously broke my heart, but he assures me he still wants to be with me, he just has to soul search, etc. I, however, am not sure I would want things to continue. I’ve been keeping it mostly to myself, but he can definitely tell. Sometimes I can’t even stand being in the same room with him, it makes me so upset. So it’s hell. It’s mental hell, for sure. - acting_philosophical
The anxiety and uncertainty of what’s going to happen in society is one thing, but it’s taken me YEARS to get up the nerve to leave this alcoholic, verbally and emotionally abusive man...and now that I did, society is shutting down. The added anxiety and uncertainty of when will I ever be free of this person is almost too much. He said to me the other day, “I think I should just stay here (we agreed I would keep the house) instead of move out, you know, in case you need my protection” and I almost burst into tears from the thought of being trapped with this man and never being able to get away.
So for me, it’s awful. It’s taking everything I have within me to maintain calm and neutral so as to not set him off and maintain peace for the kids. I never realized how lonely I could be until I was cut off from people who actually like and want to be around me and forced to be with someone who doesn’t. - coffeerun21
I told my husband I wanted a divorce 4 days before the shit hit the fan. I knew I'd have to wait a few weeks to move out but at least before I had a job I could go to, bars to get out of the house, friends I could hang with etc. Now I'm trapped here. I'd say I'm slowly losing my mind, but the truth is it's happening rather quickly! - bluevioletta
My roommate broke up with his live in girlfriend like a week ago. I was never particularly fond of her but I dealt with it for him. And now we’re all stuck at home and she’s doing things just to piss us off. But part of our lease says that everyone living there has to be on it so we can’t exactly kick her out. It’s awful - Cjustice1
I am currently quarantined with my parents who parents are in the middle of a divorce (dad decided to get a girlfriend after 27 years of marriage) and they aren’t speaking to each other but using me as a go between. It’s been the longest week of my life - LeadingAvocado
We broke up 3 days ago. Good thing we have always been best friends. Right now we have gone through our "if the world ends" plans. I'd say im really thankful we agreed to stay as roomates until we both are financially secure. Now im just quarantined with my best friend who i know has my back and vice versa. - Snacksmcgee07
The internet is full of introverts rebelling against social norms and yearning to be understood. It's hard out here for a quiet person!
But now that much of the world is under quarantine, lockdown or self-isolation, it's the extroverts who need sympathy.
A recent Reddit thread asked extroverts to explain how they're staying sane in quarantine. Many of them were like, "LOL I'm not." But there were a few with useful tips and tricks.
Here's how extroverts are staying true to their social butterfly selves when they aren't allowed to leave the house.
PLANTS. They're amazing because everyday you wake up you see new growth and you get to tell them how proud you are of them. - disembodied1918920
Facetime your friends. Daily. Rotate who you speak to if necessary. Organise a (min) weekly facetime drink and chat session with your group. It will not solve the isolation issue but it will help. - Hydrophobic_Dolphin
To all the introverts out there with extroverted friends;this is the time to help our extroverted buddies when they need us the most. So don’t say “I am busy playing New Horizons” do say “ I have half an hour. Lets chat.” - Hydrophobic_Dolphin
I am a big extrovert and honestly I’ve been walking around the house looking for things to do and low key loosing it haha. At the same time I’ve talked/message some friends who I hadn’t contact in a while so that’s good. - sslowdisco
Not doing good. I need social contact and my dog is getting quite annoyed with me. I can give a tip as i have used a few, do NOT i repeat NOT get mad at the people you live with. You are stuck there. - LuciusHoward
I’ve started to game a lottttttt. I used to do this in high school but I’ve not really had the time to get back into it. But now me and the boys just hop online and chill for hours playing - IDK-to-put
Honestly I take the time to do as much as possible from the hobbies / things that I find fascinating but never had time for, or things I did way less than I wanted to: Poledancing, tribal fusion, photography, blogging, video games (got back to an old gem), crazy makeup tutorials, getting more active on social accounts (insta modelling, already got a photoshoot planned with a guy I met through there, I'm also helping a friend with his professional account), poi and other circus things, painting. Got into Ted talks recently, too. If you have to stay at home at least make the best of it instead of fighting it and thinking how bad and negative it is, that's what I think. It's not easy and I miss my friends, and just going out, but minimizing the stress helps. - highPriestAss
Originally I was going for long walks and drives but the fact that there was no one on the roads freaked me out even more. So since then it’s been audiobooks and booze I guess - d24602
Being a super extrovert I've got a ton of hobbies. Of course, not being able to communicate with different people, go out, etc makes me feel.. Not very satisfied, you know, I now have SO MUCH time for the things I like. I play the drums for hours, I'm learning guitar, I'm drawing about 3 works a day! The quarantine doesn't crawl me from inside, I'm feeling satisfied with myself and this is actually a great thing. - kallypiga
You should try singing Imagine with a bunch of pretty friends and pretend you’re helping. /s - dewayneestes
thank god I've got pets - swervefire
Make up crap version of songs about the virus like ' ban the touching on the left hand side, ban the touching on the right hand side because it's wrong ( just stay inside cos it's better than infection) it could be long( sanitizer is a better protection) .... that's my insane version of Pass The Douchie - Cherrianje
I'm kind of middle in the road because I'm both, but when I'm feeling social I start watching streams and I started watching lots of cooking videos. Some tips for sanity maintaining is learn to learn something new, or just go on a new website. - freshmexicana
Excessive usage of reddit, insta, and annoying everyone I know via text. - accidentw8ing2happen
I've been doing okay because my household includes my sister, mom, and grandparents, and I'm very close with my aunt and uncle, so that interaction helps. My boyfriend and I live 10 minutes apart but don't feel comfortable with potentially exposing either family to the virus (many high risk people), so we have been video calling at least once a day.
I really miss interacting with random strangers though, so I finally made a Reddit account and comment on posts now instead of just lurking. It's been really fun to interact with people in the comment sections of posts and it definitely makes quarantine WAY more bearable. Would recommend! - DM_ME_TUITION_CASH
"You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that."
-Jay Leno
You can't be mad at these memes because they are all funny as hell. Get your laugh on and make your morning more 100% delightful with this hilarious batch of memes.
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Humans naturally crave drama and conflict in a story, which is why if everything is going perfectly for you at work, it doesn't exactly make the best story for you to share with your friends when they want an update on your life. Unfortunately, work disasters, employee fights, and complaining about bosses usually takes to forefront in both real life work discussions and television.
We all have days at work that are so awful that they truly make us question every decision we made that led to that career path. However, we also have days so good that completely validate our daily grind and those are the ones that we should hold onto!
Very early in my career as a criminal defense attorney, I had a black college student charged with a shooting. It was getting a lot of media statewide due to one of the people involved being a professional athlete. After investigating, I became convinced that he was innocent and the actual shooter was probably one of the state's primary witnesses. I had only had a few jury trials at that point and they all were defendants that were guilty as hell but refused to plead out. I didn't have a ton of faith in either a jury or my own ability to handle the case/consequences.
I worked my ass off in preparation. Once we started trial, I realized I was knocking down every piece of evidence that the state was presenting. I was pumped with adrenaline and growing confidence. I tore up their star witness, who I thought was probably the actual shooter. One of the jurors actually laughed at the guy in disbelief of some of the things he was testifying to. I gave a thirty minute closing argument without even looking at my notes with the jury nodding along to everything I was saying. They were out 20 minutes and came back with a not guilty verdict. Front page news article in the biggest papers in the state. Client's mom is hugging me a crying with relief in one of the photos.
That guy still calls me up once a year to check in. Married, kids, solid white collar job. I always think of that case when I start to have doubts about doing defense work. - WinterPush
Paramedic here. My best ever job was on a hot summers day in Australia, we were called to an 11 year old boy that had drowned in his family pool. I was halfway through a foot-long meatball sub when it happened and damn near shit myself. We were about 5 minutes away, and when we arrived the boy's mother was providing CPR while his 8 year old twin sisters watched on, horrified. I check the carotid pulse (non-existent) and started to take over on compressions, my partner started to unpack the defib pads while our student toweled the kid off. Defib comes back showing Ventricular Tachycardia (one of the only two shockable rhythms), so we hit him with the lightning and he instantly went back into a sinus rhythm (normal heart rhythm). Kid then began to splutter, we rolled in him into the recovery position to help him get the water out of his lungs. In such a high octane situation, it honestly felt so good to be able to successfully revive somebody. I still think about that job any time that I wonder why I'm in this profession. - Tickser
Psychologist here:
I did my year-long internship at a university counseling center. While we normally only saw clients for 8-12 sessions, we were allowed to have one longer-term client to give us more experience. Mine ended up being this wonderful young woman who was deeply depressed. She was an identical twin. Sessions were slow going at first and there were a lot of tears. She worked through a lot and she was much better by the end of our ~10 months working together. My supervisor and I talked about her frequently and she watched tapes of our sessions.
The next year I was on my post-doc and I got a call from my former supervisor who had just started seeing my client's twin in private practice. The mother of the two, not knowing who my supervisor was, started talking to her about how her other daughter had gone to therapy and how her therapist had changed her life.
My supervisor called me to tell me this because, as she well knows, we don't get to hear that very often. - Ayzmo
I worked as an EMT for a number of years, my first and only full resuscitation has been one of the best days of my life. - flpacsnr
I was a teacher in a low income-charter school, which you may recognize as a recipe for disaster. The school was poorly run, we had to provide most supplies ourselves, and had unreasonable and unrealistic expectations placed on us. I was teaching 1st grade at the time. We had a rule that only one child could be out of the classroom at a time, no matter what. I had 30 kids. Eventually, one of my kids had a bathroom accident (I have to say here, if I knew he had to go that bad, I would have let him go rules be damned. He never gave any indication that it was an emergency). He did his best, but 1st graders have small bladders. I got him a change of clothes and minimized his embarrassment as much as I could. His mom was furious. She came in the next day and spent a solid 10 minutes screaming at me. A dean finally came and escorted her away and I thought that would be the end of it. It wasn't. She stayed at the school the entire day and just...watched. She saw what the teachers were going through and what we had to deal with. She came back to me at the end of the day and apologized. She was my biggest supporter from then on and if I needed something, she had it for me. On the day I quit, she hugged me and told me that I was too good for that place and it was her son's last day too. Obviously, I've had better days than that in my career, but that was a day that gave me hope and helped me not give up my career due to one bad school. - talibob
I work physical rehab in a skilled nursing facility. I had a young, early-40s patient with a hereditary degenerative condition who had been in different hospitals and facilities for months. In addition to genuine pain and disability she was being very self-limiting--unwilling to do pretty much anything for fear of it increasing her pain levels. Bit by bit a coworker and I convinced her to first roll over, then sit, then stand, then spend longer and longer periods out of bed. Finally, we got to the point where we were able to do a home visit, and you could see her remembering what it was like to be in her own space. That light of desire to go home was in her eyes and she worked harder from that point on, and two weeks later she was discharged. Helping her into the car and waving it out of the parking lot was the best feeling I've had so far in my career. - HeadFullOfBrains
Policeman in small town. Got a call to try and locate a woman who was on the heart transplant list. She wasn't answering her phone or pager. Early 90's and she didn't have a cell phone. It was in the middle of the night and cold in the middle if Feb. I knocked on the door of every neighbour on her culdesac without success. Last house on Culdesac which was across the street told me she'd gone to her mothers out of town. Was able to get her number and contact her. She got a new heart that night. I'm retired now and still she her on occasion. She always makes a big deal and hugs me. She'd forgotten her pager and didn't go back to get it thinking what are the chances they'll call tonight...... - Steveg97
I used to work as a janitor in a highschool. There were three of us in the school and during the summer break, we were normally given a list of jobs to do, but we were mainly just expected to show up and be on hand if we were needed.
This one year, we finished all our work super early into the break, so we had practically nothing to do. One day, I was sitting in a classroom watching movies on my phone, when my friend radioed me and asked me to come to the roof. Bearing in mind we were the only people on staff authorised to access the roof.
I went up and walked outside, it was a beautiful, sunny day. My friend had set up some chairs from a classroom and had a bucket of ice with some beers floating in it. We spent the whole day up on the roof sunbathing and drinking.
It was a magic time. - DendroNate
I'm a physician. Some years ago, I was a resident on obstetrics on my FIRST DAY, FIRST HOUR of my shift and I watched a pregnant woman almost die and give birth to a baby boy that ended up dying shortly after due to the complications of childbirth. The boy required extensive resuscitation - it was my first time seeing a "code" on a child, let alone a newborn. However, he ended up with severe brain damage and was eventually taken off life support in the NICU. It was their third round of IVF, and the previous two rounds had failed. It was one of those very unfortunate stories where nothing could have been done - maybe if the woman had presented earlier, but unfortunately, despite emergency surgery, it was too late. Thankfully, the mother survived with no health consequences, but it was emotionally devastating for everyone involved. Multiple nurses were agonizing whether they had done something wrong, my attending had told me to expect a lawsuit. Thankfully, it never materialized. But, that was probably the worst day I've ever had on the job. And yet, half an hour later we had to move on and stitch up a vaginal tear on a woman who kept bitching about how she "had been waiting for three hours already!!!!" but we couldn't tell her just WHY she waited. So we just apologized profusely for our troublesome tardiness and kept smiling.
Two years later, I was on pediatrics in the same hospital and I was examining a prematurely born infant that was a few months old. As the mom and I were fiddling with the baby, I noticed the mom had a tattoo of a boy's name and a date below it on her wrist. I looked at the date and realized it was the first day of my residency training. I immediately had chills come over me. I debated for a minute whether it was inappropriate for me to ask that, but I went ahead and asked the mom "Did you, by any chance, lose a baby boy at this hospital on X date?" She said "Yes" and I told her I was the resident who first examined her. We talked about her traumatic experience, as she teared up and said that after that, she couldn't fathom getting pregnant, or even setting foot on the maternity ward, ever again. Eventually, she said her and her husband came to the realization that they were ready to consider adoption and listed themselves in a North American registry. Then she said one day she got a call saying there was a severely premature newborn available some 3000 miles away. It was an abandoned crack addict's baby that was left at a fire station. She said they didn't think twice and booked the flight to go and get the baby. They went through the adoption process and the baby was now thriving, several months old, developing well, and cared for by a loving family. She said she felt that her and this baby were meant to find each other after both traveling these extremely difficult paths.
It was probably the most heartwarming story I've ever come across and it was so relieving to hear that this woman (and the abandoned baby) all found their happy endings. So, I would say it was my best day on the job.
Was called to a home for a drowning. 2 year old patient. Drownings suck because they nearly always end badly. We arrive on scene and there is a mother holding a 3 year old and another 2 year old child is soaking wet playing on the ground getting muddy. Long story short, these people dont even have a pool. Their 3 year old was messing on the phone and accidentally called 911. While on the line he kept telling the dispatcher that his brother was in the water. So the call came to us.
Mom gave us cupcakes and we played with them in the mud for a little bit. Great day. - [deleted]
Volunteer firefighter. We had an apartment fire, not too bad, but thick smoke to the floor. Partner and I did a search of the living room, with me leading. I was on the wall under a window when I found a large cage with a small, furry ball in a corner. I called to my partner,
"Matt! FERRET!"
We finished the search, grabbed the whole cage, and hauled it outside. The poor thing wasn't moving, was covered in soot, and had blood on its muzzle. Sorry, buddy.
We went back in, mopped up a hot spot, and helped with overhaul. When we came back out, someone said, "Hey, that critter was moving!"
I pulled the ferret out of the cage, and hustled to the ambulance. My dad, an EMT, hooked up a nasal cannula to the oxygen, and we got the tubes lined up with the ferret's nostrils.
A few seconds later, it perked up, wiggled a bit, and opened its eyes.
After a trip to the vet and a bath, he was good as new.
He lived for 5 more years.
In 17 years of firefighting, he was my only live rescue. - Jef_Wheaton
We successfully resuscitate a child suffering from smoke inhalation. And I delivered my first baby on Tuesday. Those were very good days. - demoneyesturbo
I was working at a retail store 2 summers ago. It was a trendy place where only “attractive/Instagram model,” types were hired (not sure how I got the job with that criteria). One day Gwyneth Paltrow came in to shop with her daughter and told me “I love your outfit.” She didn’t really talk to/compliment anyone else. I really appreciated it because out of all the other people that worked there, I would say I struggled the most financially (everyone was younger and either living at home or got substantial help from their parents and lived on their own, traveled all the time, always bought new clothes, partied, while I am putting myself through school with no help and paying rent), and some days I could hardly pay the transportation to get to work. It might sound superficial, but I thought it was really funny that a millionaire told me that I looked well put together even though I was like struggling to feed myself at the time. - Pizzagurl1994.
Nurse here. I took care of a 4 year old patient who spent literally 5 minutes at the bottom of the pool. He should have died, or at the very least had permanent brain damage and been essentially a vegetable. I took care of him several shifts, watched him slowly improve, and watched him walk out of the hospital, high fiving and joking with the nurses and doctors. We see so many poor outcomes, but it’s miracles like this that push us to keep trying through the hard days and big losses. - bippityboppityFyou
My best day was also one of my worst days when I worked at Apple. Years ago, a lady came into the Apple Store in her pajamas and looked like a mess. She was crying, cursing and just beyond frustrated. My Manager knew I loved dealing with difficult people (I have no idea why I do), so I got paired with this lady. She tore me apart like all the other employees she talked to. After slowly calming her down I found she dropped her iPhone 4 in the tub and the phone had photos of her baby who passed away from complications. The iPhone would not turn on and water was seen moving in the display.
Now, policy back then was to just replace the phone no questions asked. While this was my option, she also had no backup of her photos and this was before iCloud. I worked with water damage before outside of Apple and wanted to give this a go. I requested to clock out (Apple did not support repairs like this and I knew I would never in a million years get the OK to work on this on company time...) and began working with my own tools and with lots of alcohol. It took about 3 hours, and I was successful to get it to turn on to the point where we could get the phone on and transfer to her replacement via the Bump (or Bumped?) app.
I got to see the photos of her baby and she cried on me for some time. She went back to the store and apologized to everyone, she was living in a Hell since the baby's passing. My store leader heard the story and called me in her office. Thinking I was in trouble, she let me have some extra Steve days (those were like personal days off) and bought me a great lunch to thank me as well as replaced the time on my timecard.
I’m a crisis counselor and negotiator for a police department. The morning of this day, I got accepted to PA school. It was such a joyous occasion. My first case at work was a kid who was hanging off the edge of a tall building. I remember walking up and thinking “not today.” We talked for several hours. We talked about important things and small things. Eventually, he came back over the ledge and I was able to shake his hand. This job can come with some very bad days. But that day I walked away from there feeling so fulfilled. That was my best day. - StruggleToTheHeights
I quit my previous job right when I turned 18 to become a delivery driver (less work, more money) and on day 1 I delivered food to a strip club and was tipped in titties. Probably not my best day ever but certainly a memorable moment.
The current state of quarantine has forced a lot of couples to get to know each other even better. Those with jobs that can be done remotely are now setting up office at home, and when you've never seen your partner in "work mode" it can be an eye opening experience.
Many of us have slightly different personas when we're on the clock, but some people are more extreme about it. Hearing a partner rattle off corporate speak can be equal parts horrifying and attractive, depending on the context.
When the writer Laura Norkin joked about seeing her partner in full "work guy" mode, she inspired others to share what they've discovered about their partners' work styles while quarantining.
Quarantine has people getting creative with how they spend their (quaran)time.
From making friends with household objects to recreating Disney World rides in your house, here are some ideas that aren't just "watch Netflix."
1. Now that's out of the box.
Most of us have had the standard fast food experience where you order something and then receive an order that is so vastly different from what you thought you ordered that it makes you question what you even wanted in the first place. Since most of the food in restaurant chains is frozen and pre-made, you definitely can't expect anything fancy...
However, fast food restaurants have been there for many of us on late nights and hungover mornings or when we're running late and too tired to cook. Unfortunately, the experience does sometimes definitely miss the mark.
If you thought your photo of the time a Starbucks barista got your name wrong on your cup was funny, these fast food stories are a true journey. When a recent Reddit user asked, "what is the WORST experience you have had at a fast food restaurant?" people were ready to vent.
Once while working at subway a random dirty older man told all the other people in line that I like to give handjobs. - overpaidbabysitter
Apple Bees. Every Tuesday night they have a clown called Stinky the Clown come and perform tricks for every table. Stinky accidentally hit me in the eye with his handkerchief, I woke up the next day with the worst pink eye in the entire world. I will never eat at Apple Bees again. - [deleted]
I got sick on a shitty McDonald's "chicken" sandwich, and while I was in the bathroom purging my mistake, my car was stolen from the parking lot. - whistledick
At a Taco Bell. Inside my burrito I found a hair and then bit into a hard plastic object. The hair was gross, but the hard plastic thing was painful and just odd to be inside my burrito. -pumper911
Once as a kid I was at McDonald's. I finished my soda and went for a refill. Popped the top off the cup and there was a fly half frozen into an ice cube. Like head and front in the ice and ass sticking out. The manager was apologetic and gave everyone at my table a free sundae. - Smellyfinger
Okay, So I was in this restaurant in Dubai, I had ordered a soup, after waiting for a good 45 minutes my soup came out. I put the spoon into the soup to drink it and I kid you not there was a used condom in there. NOT kidding. - [deleted]
This was more just hilarious. In high school, our home room would all order food from a restaurant on our school's "field day", just a fun day where we competed for non existent points. My home room chose chipotle, and we filled out our order cards. When the burritos come, I shit you not, my burrito was a tortilla filled ENTIRELY with pico de gallo. Like a solid pound, wrapped to look like a normal burrito. It was hilarious. - Obie_Trice_Kanobi
The only fast food restaurant I rarely go to with my wife is Burger King for the vegetarian hamburger. Once in Portland Oregon, we order our hamburgers and we drive to the window, and the guy takes our moneys and says: "Do you guys mind if I hold my nose when I bring your hamburgers? I really don't like the vegetarian hamburger smell". We had a good laugh about it after we left. - e1ioan
Made the mistake of trying salad at Wendy's. Cucumbers were slimy. - thepotatobitch
Back in the day McDonald's chicken nuggets were A LOT shittier. I remember that it was a gamble whether you were going to get a little lump of gristle in your nugget, but most didn't care.
One day I bit into a nugget that was rock hard. I couldn't even pull the thing in half, I just removed the skin and the entire thing was a grey solid mass, which I assume was gristle. - e-m-i-l-y
I ordered a McRib and when after a few bites I realised it was cold. Opened it and the meat was completely raw. I complained and they checked it and said they would give me and my friends any meal we wanted for free. I was 15 so that was brilliant. They kept the raw McRib and I had awful food poisoning for nearly two weeks. I don't agree with this sue everyone culture but I think I would have been justified if I wasn't paid off with a few free burgers. -kitjen
I used to work at a fast food place that sold Mexican food. One night one of my coworkers and a customer got into a dispute over the price of a quesadilla. The coworker got stabbed a few times and the customer was arrested. It was a weird night. - Chubblybunny
One time a few of my friends were going to the drive thru at McDonald's and as we were driving around the building two guys ran into the store naked. They had underwear on but it was pulled down. They got on top of tables and started dancing around. It wasn't McDonald's fault but it was really disturbing to see that happen. We just drove away at that point because we figured the employees might need to do something about it. - [deleted]
Burger King drive thru.
Worked late one night so I decided to pick up dinner on the way home. I was starving so as I drove off with the food I reached in the bag, grabbed some fries and shoved them in my mouth.
Immediately I felt a sharp pain move around my mouth so bad I started gagging and had to pull over along side the road. Tried to vomit but couldn't. Spit out some blood and what looked like twigs. Looked at one closely and realized it was a roach leg.
So I guess grabbed an unsuspecting roach that was chilling in my fries and put it in my mouth. The thing freaked out when I bit it so it ran straight down to my stomach.
Not cool. - charliehustles
I ate at Arby's - bobandy47
Got a burger at Dick's (Seattle area drive-in kinda place) and bit into a burger sized sheet of plastic wrapping. Like they hadn't bothered to unwrap an ingredient before they put my sandwich together. When I showed them, they made me a new plastic free burger and gave me my money back, so everything was cool in the end, but that was kinda nasty. - striped_frog
My wife "presented" me with divorce papers in a KFC.
Found broken glass in my chinese food.
I used to work at an Applebees. Some chick complained her burger wasn't cooked all the way so my manager in the back threw it on the ground, spit in it after cooking it for 30 seconds and she was satisfied. Never eating there again. - Da_Apple_Jacks
We've all seen the scene in the movies where a protagonist jumps in a taxi and urges the driver to "follow that car!"
Sometimes it's an action-packed chase scene with guns, drug money, and a James Bond-style iron will. Other times, it's the emotionally driven scene in a romantic comedy where the lead realizes they cannot live without their love, and they must make it to the airport in time to confess their feelings.
While these movie scenes are over the top, and feel like pure fiction, there are real times when cab drivers are legitimately asked to "follow that car."
In a popular Reddit thread, taxi drivers and passengers alike shared stories of cab chases, and they range from mundane to Fast and Furious.
I was in New Orleans once and a cab i was in got sideswiped by a drunk driver. The drunk driver then took off. I told the cab to follow him which he did. We ended up in a parking lot and we watched them go into an apartment building. Cabbie had the station call the cops. I wrote a statement for the cabbie and he called me a new cab while he wanted for the cops.
I'm not a driver. Once I made a taxi driver follow other taxi, I was drunk with some friends and the taxi we had to follow was going to my friend's house. We told him to follow the wrong taxi and when we arrived we didn't know where we were. I called my friend and asked him for his direction, we told it to our driver and he took us there...in 20 seconds. We had followed the wrong taxi but were lucky enough that it took us one block away from the place we had to go.
Yup, one time. A guy asked me to follow another car and then told me to stop when the guy got out to go to his apartment. So I did. Scared as hell. He walked up to the guy, reached into his pocket (mind you I had the window down the entire time) and he pulls out 2 $100s. Gives them to him and says "you dropped this over on (given street), just thought I'd follow you and give it back. I gave him his ride home for free.
One time I was asked to follow a black SUV to the white house. To this day I am not sure why. Once we got to the white house he told me to keep driving and I dropped him off a block away. Creepy.
I've asked my uncle who worked as a cab driver. He said that he doesn't do those rides because it's stalking and he doesn't know what their real purpose is, best to just decline and stay away from trouble.
I once flagged down a taxi and literally asked the driver to "follow that van!"
In the van were the members of a rock band. They were on tour in my town, and I had been having a fling with one of them. They were heading out that morning to take in a tourist site before heading home and I had to go to work. After they got in the van and started to drive off, I realized that hanging out with a famous rock band all day was way more fun than going to work... (duh!) So I flagged down a cab. We did eventually lose them. But fortunately I knew where they were headed. The cab driver REALLY enjoyed the chase though and thought the whole thing was hysterical. (I told him the whole story of course)
We arrived at the destination and I didn't see them anywhere. So I wandered about this HUGE crowded tourist spot like a dope for a while thinking "Well, this was dumb. What was I thinking? I'll never find them." Then I saw them! Then it occurred to me to wonder if they (and in particular he) would even be glad to see me unexpectedly. And maybe I was acting like a crazy stalker.. and... I lost my nerve.
So I just followed them. Ducking behind a tree, a trash can, blending in with a family... keeping a safe distance. Security finally got suspicious and stopped me. I nearly lost them while trying to explain. Then, as I am trying to casually go from behind a pillar to behind a tree, they decided to turn around and come back the way they came. I was staring right into his face.
Fortunately he was pleased to see me and we spent a lovely day together. We stayed friends, saw each other when we were in each other's towns. My guy and I even stayed with him and his wife at their house last time I was in his town. That ridiculously expensive cab fare was totally worth it.
I was a cab driver in the late 80s and I received a dispatch to pick up at a small venue REO Speedwagon were performing at. I figured I would be picking up some fans and instead Kevin Cronin jumped in the back seat with a college girl.
He's going to her place obviously since she gives me an address down by the college, then Kevin shouts out follow that limo that had his band mates in it, really an arrogant guy, I followed them while they hooted and hollered at one another, limo turned off downtown and I took them to her apt, cheap bastard tipped 2 bucks on a 15 dollar fare.
I had a couple get in my cab and tell me one of them had a coat stolen with an iPhone in it. We used the locate feature to find the guy. I really hoped he would beat the hell out of the guy, but they just held him until.the police arrived.
I am not a taxi driver but in our country people can share the taxis. Once it was early morning as I do a night shift job. I was in this taxi going home and this guy sat in the back seat with a small school bag which was unnoticeable. He rushed to the driver and asked him to follow a Jeep.
He was sweating while the driver followed the Jeep. I later found out that man and his friends robbed a jewelry store and his bag had the jewelry of almost 500000 USD. The taxi driver told me two weeks later that he found a gold nose ring from that bag, and he sold it and enjoyed his 700 USD lol.
Not a taxi driver, but telling a story from a family member: she was with a group of girls having a good time in a nightclub. A middle aged man was overly joyed to be meeting young ladies with adequate knowledge in French and insisted on talking with them only in French, explaining to all the people around that "these are mes femmes, my wives."
Finally, it was time to leave and the guy wanted to come along (well, no thank you). Girls waved a taxi and three of them managed to get in but the guy sat in too, one girl was left out. Luckily the guy sat on a belt of one of the girls and when she tugged hard enough the man fell out. Last girl in, taxi left and trip ended in our front yard. When the girls stepped out the man appeared seemingly out of nowhere (from a taxi right behind) and danced on the yard shouting "MES FEMMES! MES FEMMES"! Taxi drivers were howling with laughter, girls ran in as fast as they could. He had waved a taxi and said "follow that car" and was obviously very pleased with himself - but had to leave finally without Femmes.
And no, he was not really creepy, but could not take no for an answer. And no, French was not his first, second or even third language.
Not a taxi driver, but one time my mom told me to follow her because she new where we were going, but then she took off like she was in a car chase. We were driving down country roads, quite a bit over the speed limit.
Then she took off down the country highway like a bat out of hell, passing other cars left and right. My sister (who was in the car with me) tried to call her to tell her to slow down several times to no avail. Surprisingly, somehow I managed to keep up with her and find where we were going. Once we all arrived, we asked her why she was driving so fast and she didn't even realize I was struggling to keep up. There is an art to having someone follow you, and my mom does not have it.
TL:DR I got in a car chase with my mom because she wanted me to follow her.
Hollywood is full of lies. Not only do women grow armpit hair, but drivers need to keep their eyes on the road so they don't get into an accident, and if they do get into the accident, the car doesn't explode immediately.
People are sharing the unrealistic things in movies that bug the hell out of them, taking them out of the film and filling them with the need to post on Reddit.
-tdj8
The cultural conversation around mental health has gotten infinitely better in the past few decades. Getting therapy is no longer as stigmatized or considered rare, and more people are opening up about their mental health struggles and ways to practice wellness on the regular.
As these conversations become more regular, old stereotypes and misconceptions gradually fall to the wayside, and we are able to nurture a culture that is more functional for everyone. However, despite years of progress, there are still stigmas attached to mental illness, and not everyone has the same level of education, empathy, or personal experience, so the road stretches long.
While some people own their diagnosis on their sleeve, others keep it to themselves until they know people well enough to feel comfortable. All these decisions are equally valid, but there are circumstances where revealing a mental illness may sadly backfire.
AITA for telling my friend to remove his Mental Illness from his resume, to boost his chances of getting an interview?
While his diagnosis is known among friends, it in now way defines OP's friend, and OP made it abundantly clear that his friend is healthy and function.
A close friend of mine has bipolar disorder, and he is religiously committed to his treatment - he takes his meds on time, never misses out on any of his therapy sessions. He also has an incredibly supportive family and a wonderful, accepting girlfriend. I think he's thriving in his personal life and his diagnosis is being taken care of very well.
Anyway, he lost his job a while ago and has been applying ever since. He approached me with his resume so I could help him out because he was not scoring any interviews. At first I thought he was being hyperbolic but he actually applied to more than 95 places over a span of 2 weeks and got no calls.
He has plenty of experience, excellent reviews and is more than qualified. So it was quite puzzling to me that he couldn't get any calls out of this massive exercise, but when I went through his resume I found out that he had mentioned in it that he has bipolar disorder and depression and that he is in treatment for it. That would explain his failure rates, because of the stigma attached to mental health.
So I told him that he should consider removing it from his Resume. First of all, his mental health is his business alone. Second, he is being responsible enough by treating the condition for what it is - a health related condition. He wouldn't be writing that he has Asthma in his resume, for instance. He didn't have any objections, just that his girlfriend told him that he should embrace his disorder and not shy away from it.
Later that night his gf texted me and politely told me that it wasn't right that I told him to remove it. It's a part of him and he shouldn't be hiding such things from potential employers. If they reject him for his diagnosis, they weren't fit to work at anyway. I put across my perspective and she just asked me to stay out of it.
So, honestly I'm not sure if what I said was correct. AITA?
NTA.
There’s nothing to “embrace” about bipolar disorder. I have it. His girlfriend needs to rethink her wording. Bipolar disorder is not something to be proud of and it’s not something that needs to be announced to the world.
I’m also bisexual and that’s a part of me, but that doesn’t mean my employer needs to know. I also have hemorrhoids and it’s a part of me, but that doesn’t mean I’m putting in on my resume.
He "embraced it" by recognizing it, getting professional help and is treating the disorder. Great for him, but it really shouldn't be on a resume. His girlfriend might have bought into the "everything-acceptance" movement a bit too much.
I’m autistic and that’s a sometimes beneficial part of me, but no way am I putting that in my resume, particularly without context. I might bring it up in an interview, when they can tell I’m a functional human being, but definitely not before they commit to that.
Some serious vicarious virtue signaling going on there. She gets to be the person with the moral high ground while he gets to shoulder the actual outcomes.
NTA. A resume is like an advertisement: You put on it what makes you look good, and leave the not so constructive stuff out. And disclosing medical conditions in a resume is idiotic at best.
While it feels clear that many people on the internet support OP's original advice, the real conversation is between OP, his friend, and the girlfriend - hopefully the three of them can hash it out respectfully.
It's an incredibly stressful time for the whole world right now and if you're finding it difficult to stay positive, give yourself a break and remember that you're definitely not alone! While many people are finding the light at the end of the tunnel in all of this chaos--FaceTiming birthday parties, celebrating big moments through screens, getting married six feet apart and introducing newborn babies through windows, it's okay to wallow a little bit too.
If you're down for a vent session, Lucy Valentine started a fantastic trash-talking thread on Twitter to help people bond over songs that make them want to claw their eyes out every time they hear them. Haters, unite!
The coronavirus pandemic has brought out some of the best aspects of humanity—and some of the works.
Total jerkwads are hoarding basic goods, being racist against Asian people, and having a blast spreading disease.
You have to laugh or else you'll cry.
If you're working from home you know the temptation to constantly snack, nap, and not doing any actual work is real. These memes will definitely add to your distractions but in the most hilarious way possible.
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Tiger King memes are flooding the internet, and to be honest, it's a real lifesaver. This completely bonkers Netflix documentary about Joe Exotic is the only thing distracting us from all of the terrifying stuff that's going on in the world right now.
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If it's morning time, it's meme time. The perfect way to start your day off with a laugh is by checking out this hilariously relatable collection of memes. Grab your favorite source of caffeine and prepare to be entertained.
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You don't have to be a morning person to appreciate this early morning delivery of memes. All you have to do is scroll and laugh. It doesn't get any easier than that.
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Being quarantined with kids is no small feat—in fact, it may be the largest, most challenging feat of your parenting journey thus far. Family bonding? Yes. A nightmare? Also yes. A roller coaster full of surprises at every turn? Absolutely. If you're currently in the thick of it, just know that you're doing a great job. Because you're reading this, which means you survived another day.
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If you hate or job, or even if you only hate it sometimes, you've probably at some point had the urge to just say "f*ck it!" and quit on the spot. No consideration. No 2-weeks notice. Just "hasta la vista, baby!" Maybe your boss is a jerk. Maybe your job is degrading and underpaid. Or maybe you just can't handle the sound of your co-worker slurping her coffee. Whatever the final straw may be, for some employees, angrily quitting on the spot without giving any notice was more than a fantasy—they actually did it! #brave
1.) From Rainydays206:
I was fractured my orbital socket in an industrial accident. Another employee lost focus at the wrong time was supposed to wait for a hand signal and didn't. We had been working over 90 days straight of 13-14 hour shifts and living in crappy motel a 45 min drive from out worksite. We were supposed to be on a rotation were we didn't work more than 3 weeks at a time. It was a close call and could have been alot worse. I'm glad I "saw it coming" and had time to at least try and get out of the way.
I got sent away after a night in the ER while the rest of that crew continued to work. After spending 2 or 3 days at home the boss called to say that he "needed me in Alaska" in 2 days and that my flight was already booked. Told him I quit right on the spot.
2.) From battlelevel:
Worked at a Spencer’s Gifts for a bit during uni. I was working and saw that I was scheduled for an evening shift the day before a morning exam, so I asked the manager if I could switch. She said no, the schedule is already made up. Went back and forth trying to negotiate with her. She ended with, “You’re going to have to decide what’s more important, the shift or your exam.”
3.) From notahopeleft:
Joined a call center with the obvious shady pay structure. They said the calls are inbound so I thought hey that’s not too bad then. Turns out the inbound calls were generated by their robocall system indirectly implying that they were google but never saying so and we were directed to use some dubious answer if someone asked ‘are you google?’
After getting yelled at and cussed out and constantly getting people who had been called many times before and were clearly irate, I just got up and left in the middle of the day.
I also complained to google that these guys were pretending to be google. And these guys were shit scared of getting complaints like that. Seriously f*cked up people.
4.) From drewisawesome14:
I was a truck driver working a regional route that required me working nights. So basically I would drive all through the night, deliver a load, sleep through the day, and take a load back to my original place the next night.
The thing is, sleeping during the day at a warehouse where yard dogs (the guys that move trailers around the lot of the warehouse with little tractor deals) were constantly moving shit around, knocking into my truck, and often times literally waking me up to move my truck.
I was barely getting any sleep and the only time I had to ever get a good nights rest was during the weekend.
So driving to my first delivery, I told my manager I’m taking an extra day off because I’m exhausted and I have to get a few days of sleep. I was literally getting maybe 3-4 hours of solid sleep a day and energy drinks were worthless at this point. They gave me the go ahead, I dropped my delivery, slept as best as I could at the warehouse and picked up the load to take back with a message from my managers telling me to have a good weekend and rest up.
When I was about an hour and half away from my destination, after driving all night for about 8 hours reaching pure exhaustion, I get a message saying “never mind We need you to work this weekend”
Mind you, I know this stuff happens and you sometimes have to pick up the slack of other employees at times. Things happen, I get it and 99% of the time I’m all for helping out other employees and my managers if they need it.
But this was about the third time this happened. I haven’t had a good nights sleep in 3 weeks at this point and I kept trying to call my managers or anyone who would answer me, but it was the weekend and no one would respond to their messages or phone calls. I was literally being ignored and I just snapped.
Luckily, the demand for truckers is massive. I mean I get texts non stop asking if I’m in the market because a company needs drivers. I haven’t even been in the industry for two years currently and my phone still gets blown up with calls and texts asking if I want to drive again.
So literally all I did was call one of the numbers that would contact me constantly and immediately was hired after 5 minutes of talking on the phone. Sent in a message saying I quit and good luck.
Funny enough THEN they started responding to my messages and tried calling me.
I know it was probably a dick move to f*ck them over and I normally would never do that, but I just broke and could not take it anymore.
5.) From HouseofRias:
My first job was at a fast food restaurant. I only lasted about three months. The manager was sleazy, the employees were straight up lazy. I had to mop up one day. There was an area in the kitchen where you kinda have to lean forward so you can slide the mop under a counter. The manager decided to come out of the office and just stand behind me and watch. I looked at him and asked “is there something wrong?” He said no but just wanted to make sure I cleaned correctly. Right, because there was no worry about how well I cleaned the rest of the kitchen, but now that I’m bending over there is. I immediately stopped and walked out.
6.) From advocatus_ebrius_est:
A little Greek Restaurant I worked at early in high school.
Got hired, and spent the first two days cleaning everything the owner and son were to lazy to clean. Years worth of old grease in the deep fryer's interior, mold in the fridges, stains in the bathrooms etc. Just f*cking gross.
Ask about payday on the end of the second day and it went something like this:
"So, how does payday work here? Is it weekly, bi-weekly, what?"
"you are on training, if we like the job you do we will hire you with pay".
Confused, I ask "so you're saying that you're not going to pay me for cleaning years worth of mold, grease, and bathroom stains?"
"No, you will be paid for work once your training is done"
"Oh! Ok. F*ck this, I quit"
7.) From letsgocactus:
My mom’s: I was studying overseas and my parents booked a trip to come out at the end of the school term, bringing along my 2 siblings - 1 who lived away from home, the other about to start college. It was a month long trip, with lots of pre-paid flights, trains, hotels plus it would likely be the last big trip we all took together. Obviously, both my parents requested and secured approved PTO months in advance. It was the month of June - typical summer vacation.
A couple days before the trip was to happen, my mom’s boss hands her an assignment.Mom hands it back, saying she can’t take it on as she has a month long vacation about to start. (My folks don’t believe in hyperbole, but trip of a lifetime would be a fair description). Boss says, oh yea, sorry, you can’t take vacation anymore. Mom says if you cancel my PTO, I quit. Boss, blank stare.
Mom handed in her notice and left. We had an amazing trip. She got a new job on return.
8.) From metrosphoenix:
My first job... I was assigned to a specific area, and I thought I was doing my job well. One Monday, I was pulled in to the office and asked why (whatever thing it was, I don’t remember) hasn’t been done for the last two weeks. I replied i wasn’t aware it was part of my duties. My supervisor said he was putting me on a “mandatory non-paid vacation” for two weeks. No warning, no explanation on why I all of a sudden had to do work for a different department. So I said “don’t worry about it, I quit.”
It was a lousy job anyway, I was only getting paid 18 hours a week but was doing more than that! Sixteen and stupid, I guess!
9.) From QuinoaKhmerRouge:
Got a summer job while I was in high school at a place that made fibreglass tanks. I was told I'd be doing groundskeeping and yard work. Figured I'd scored an easy gig of bombing around on a ride-on mower and whatnot.
NOPE.
The first day I show up, in a t shirt and jeans, I was told the yard equipment 'wasn't 'ready'. So they had me cut raw fibreglass for 8 hours with an exacto-knife and no ppe. Being a dumb shit kid I didn't immediately quit and did this for three more days. At least after the first day I'd brought my own gloves and long sleeve shirt.
However on said fated day three was when they were doing tank coatings. So about ten feet away from me are two dudes in full PPE. We're talking coveralls, rubber gloves, glasses, face shields, and respirators. Ten feet away from me. In a poorly ventilated room. Spraying the exterior of a tank with presumably fibreglass coating.
I only made it a few hours before having to go to the bathroom to puke. Was told to quit being a p*ssy and go back out on the floor so I fortunately had a moment of not being a stupid kid and said I quit and walked home. Both parents were mad when I told them I'd quit.
Joke's on them though because a few years later that company killed two dudes. A guy asphyxiated while working inside one of the tanks and the person that tried to rescue him also ended up dying. Whole place got shut down permanently.
10.) A twist! From sadpanda___:
Was getting screamed at in a meeting by some marketing jerk that was literally demanding my technical group perform magic on a completely unrealistic time schedule with almost no resources. Literally screaming at me in front of about 8 of my peers, calling me incompetent, “just do your job”....all of that. I stood up, said I refuse to be talked to like that, and left the meeting. Normally if you just get up and leave these types of meetings, you’re fired. Boss scheduled a meeting with me later in the afternoon after hearing about it. Figured I’d be walked out.....was told they fired the marketing guy.
That was my “eff it, I quit” moment. But the company kept me on and fired the other guy. Pretty happy, it’s been a solid place to work ever since.
11.) From FidgetyGidget:
I was a manager at a company where the executives were ineffective. I worked 60 hours a week most of the time and had to do all of my director’s duties because he didn’t understand our systems. The work environment was also pretty hostile and passive aggressive. People cried on the job daily in other departments, slightly less in mine. Managers and staff would snap at other departments the same way the executives did because of the stress. I tried to take care of my department and make sure they weren’t being abused or taken advantage of. I had three days leave for a death in the family, but had to work every day from home and the funeral itself. It was especially vexing because it was to re-do the same thing every day that my boss would just forget to complete and need done again the next day. I brought this to his attention, as well as all the other issues, and he said he would try to do better. Months went by and it got worse.
Finally, our team sat down with him and told him things needed to change. I told him that the environment was more hostile and aggressive than ever and the team agreed. He told me that was my perception and we needed an attitude change, then left for a meeting (which I had provided him the data for). I cleared out my desk and left, quit with HR.
For me the kicker is that he kept assigning me tasks and insisted that I was still working there for days. Never been more relieved to quit in my life.
12.) From askingxalice:
First job at mcdonalds. 3 different managers all telling me to do different things, and getting mad when I listen to the others. I overheard the worst manager say to the people at the register (and many customers behind the counter) that "Someone need to teach Alice how to do her job."
I didn't even say anything. Just walked out.
13.) From emohippiechick:
My first job (at a pizza delivery place), I was almost 18 and I overheard my manager (in his 40s!) and a few delivery drivers talking about throwing me a birthday party and spiking my drinks so they could "do things" to me. They had no idea I was around the corner listening. Maybe they were joking, maybe they weren't, I didn't care I quit right then and there.
Update:: wow, people seem really interested in my pizza place experience! Thought I'd share some other crazy stuff that had happened prior to quit day (all of which should have made me quit a long time ago, but again a combo of fear and just plain really uncomfortable with confrontation/"causing problems")::
2 lesbian coworkers that were dating each other, and would pinch me a lot and tell me how perfect I was for the two of them because one liked "straight girls" and one liked underage girls. My manager would straight up tell me to show him my tits (I declined). He would get mad if any of the male pizza delivery drivers talked to me for too long. I was called "barbie" around the pizza place. One time, I said "bite me" sarcastically and my manager bit me. I almost quit from that, but I did get a slap in that I did not get in trouble for, other than my manager saying if I hit him again he would hit me back. Scared of not having a job, scared of manager finding me at my house (that he had my address), etc. Still glad I finally quit when I did though and didn't let things progress any further.
14.) From NextBlueMoon:
Had a job that had flexible hours, I worked 7 to 3. Our clients left at 2 and I usually wrapped all my work up before 3.
Well our manager quit one day and this enormous cunt took his place. He came in began ranting that people weren't putting in 8 hours started saying that he was going to report our department head to upper management and the people that worked 10-6 he would try to force them into the office by 8
This guy was a massive cunt. I actually completed the most tickets and mentored people one day he pulled me into the office and told me he wanted me to stay later and that I was doing a terrible job. Asked this piece of shit to check the metrics to which he said he didn't care. I just stood up and yelled at him. Turned in my notice
15.) From 1throwawayor2:
I was doing a managers job without the title or pay. I was asked to train all of our new seasonal staff without any additional pay. I was pulling 12 hour days, without being paid for all 12 hours.
Then I had my yearly evaluation. She gave me an average rating and when I asked what I could improve so that I could get a pay raise next year, she said there was nothing I could do. Let slip that they would only be giving an “exceed” rating to 1 person per store. Performance didn’t matter. The minimum wage also happened to be bumped this year. I was making more, because I had been there for 5 years. But we were informed that those of us who had been there, and were earning the new minimum wage would continue to just earn the same amount. Meaning a person who had started a week prior was now making the same as someone who had been there for 10 years.
Then, one day, my alarm didn’t go off. So I missed my first day in 5 years. I panic called my assistant manager and told him. And got to work. We had just hired a new manager, she touring the store with some higher ups. She took that opportunity to chew me out in front of them. I apologized profusely for being late. But that wasn’t good enough. She decided to scream at me for “only” telling my assistant manager and not telling her.
I called the store, he picked up, he told me he would tell her.
She decided she didn’t like me, so she cut my hours in half. The only reason why I kept the job after all of that, was because they were still giving me full time hours and I knew I wouldn’t get that anywhere else. Well, if they’re just going to give me 20 hours a week, f*ck it.
So I handed in my two week, to a manager I had worked with and loved. New manager took personal offence to this too, and started talking shit to everyone who would listen.
So instead of working out my last 2 weeks of shifts, I just stopped coming in. I was going back to school anyway, I didn’t need their reference.
I heard that a month later, there was a mass exodus. So glad I got out when I did.
16.) From punkrockpizza:
I worked at a well-known pizzeria in my city for awhile when I was younger. Definitely put up with a fair amount of shit for the year and a half I worked there. Terrible managers, lazy co-workers for pretty much minimum wage.
Well, a couple months before I was planning on leaving to go to school in a different city, they were having an issue with hiring and firing new people because they kept hiring anyone with a pulse regardless of how many brain cells were between their ears.
Back in January, I had requested the time for spring break off, as I was planning a surf trip out to California. Had the time approved in writing and that was that. Fast forward to March, they hired and fired three people in the same week, so it became apparent staffing was an issue.
The schedule came out for the week I had requested off and was surprised to see myself on the schedule almost every day that week. I approached the store manager with the schedule and my written approval of time off request and was like "What the f*ck, dude?" He then proceeded to tear up my request in front of me, and said "we don't have enough people right now, so you're gonna have to make some sacrifices. You're just going to have to deal with it" .
That week was about three weeks out, so I made a snap decision then and there and replied, "No, you're gonna have to make the sacrifice, I'm giving you my two weeks. I've had this trip planned for months and you can't even ask if it's okay to cancel my trip."
The last two weeks go the smoothest I've ever worked there, that manager trying everything to get me to stay and I keep saying no while he decides to retaliate in small, irritating ways. I'd had enough and decided I'm not going in on my last day to close the shop, I'm starting my spring break a day early.
About 10 minutes into the start of my shift, I get a call from said manager asking where I was. So I tell him, "oh I'm on I-10 heading west right now" "Well, when are you going to get here?" "Dude, if you haven't gotten it yet, I'm not coming in." He starts going off about how he's going to have to close and work extra since he opened the store that morning, etc. I said to him, "Sounds like you're gonna have to make some sacrifices and just deal with it. Remember that? I'll be in when I get back to pick up my last check in two weeks." and hung up. Definitely the most satisfying way I've ever quit.
17.) From takesdick247:
Had a super shitty job at a donut shop. I was promised a raise, which I never received.
We always worked alone at the shop, so I never got to know anyone else, never got their phone numbers. Yet the non-written policy was that you would find someone to cover your shifts.
One day, I woke up and knew immediately that I had strep throat. Went to the doctor and he confirmed that it was strep, and it was really bad. Worst I have ever had it. So knowing that I was contagious for at least 2 days, and knowing that I shouldn’t be around people or food, and am not even able to speak, I texted my boss. I didn’t have a shift scheduled until the next day. Told her I won’t be in for at least a week because of my strep. She told me I will have to find someone to cover my shifts. I told her that’s not possible because I don’t have anyone’s number, I can’t speak, and in all honesty was in so much pain I just wanted to pass out. She told me that if I cannot find someone to cover, I will have to come in. And if I don’t come in I won’t have a job. I replied with “cool, guess I don’t have a job then”
I returned my gear 2 weeks later once I had recovered. Never spoke to that c*nt again
18.) From Ascribed_innovation:
My first job was working at an Amazon distribution warehouse. Granted I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but I figured "Hey I need the money for bills."
Starting off there was "interesting" to say the least. Hundreds of isles on two sides of the warehouse with a single conveyor belt separating them all. All of us workers huddling up into groups for stretches every time a shift started. The buzzwords all along the cafeteria made it feel like I was in a cult. Our demographic make up was a mix of young and elderly men and women from all walks of life.
As time went on I was overworked and I quickly realized the managers didn't give much care towards us. They only loved the new expansions to the building with more racks and conveyor belts. They tried little things like rewards and catering from Chipotle and Boston Market but the workers who've been there since the building opened noted various complaints about working conditions (working in 90+ degree temperatures with no ceiling fans, spillages, overflowing isles, shifting 50+ pound boxes, scanners not working, etc.)
My final straw was when I was assigned to shift 24,000+ packages on the new split conveyor belts with a woman who was pregnant during Prime Week. The belts overflowed that night. I realized if this was the type of thing I was going to do then I didn't want it anymore. By that point I lost more than 20 pounds. I weighed 175 when I started and when I quit I was 151 lbs.
I quit after 5 months with no regrets.
19.) From Blairtony96:
After taking a few days off work while my father was having a brain tumour removed (and still checking emails and attending conference calls from the hospital) my boss gave me a new project. On a Thursday afternoon she gave me a Monday morning deadline for a project that would take 6-8 days to complete. I worked 16 hours a day to get it done. When we met on Monday she asked how my weekend was: "I worked all weekend." Then she asked if i got to visit my dad in the hospital "No, i didn't get a chance because i worked all weekend."
A couple weeks later she pulled me into a meting and said "i feel like you were resentful because you had to work and i feel like i was really good when your dad was sick, maybe you're just tired. are you tired?"
she'd also make comments when i would leave the office on time - not early, on time. "it's great that you just get up and go when your day is over, like i have to go because i have a daughter, but you don't have any kids and you just leave at the end of the day"
um yeah, bitch, i don't live here. i don't go home and sit in a dark room counting the hours until i get to come back here. i'm also not curing cancer, nothing we do here matters to anyone outside of here. i give you 100% when i'm here, but when my day is done, it's f*cking done. i no longer work there
20.) From Floorp88:
I was a waitress at a shitty diner. The fellas there were always flirty and handsy. They'd talk about me in Spanish so I only understood a little of what they were saying. One guy tried to follow me home so I went to a friend's house instead. The customers would complain about the cockroaches and the owner would yell at us for relaying the message. The waitresses all did a lot of drugs and would try to pressure me into their lifestyle.
One day while I was filling the rice pudding cups one of the boh employees mopping walked up and demanded I move. I asked him if he could ask instead of being rude and he hit my legs with the mop and knocked me over. I went to the bathroom and cried in private for a minute pulled myself together. Handed my tickets to the manager and walked out.
21.) From robs33314:
Had a catering job at this restaurant. We had a big event and had to move all the furniture downstairs. The event lasted until like 2am and then they made us move all the furniture back upstairs while all the servers were literally sitting there counting their tips from the night that we didn't get any of. Ended up getting off work at 4am and they expected us to be back at 8am for a breakfast event. Said f*ck it i quit and never went back. It sucks when you are the hardest working person at a job and get no recognition.
Life in quarantine has taught us a lot about what we need to get by (copious amounts of toilet paper and FaceTime calls), and also a lot about what we don't need. Anyone who's ever given up a habit or addiction can attest to the fact that sometimes it takes giving something up to realize you never needed it to begin with.
1.) From ThunderingSacks:
Tobacco. Every day I would tell myself, “this is bad for you, but you can quit any time” it seemed like I was in control when I really wasn’t. I saw it as essential without seeing it as “essential” if you know what I mean. I believe that is what makes cigarettes so addictive. They make you lie to yourself. Once I stopped, I truly felt like I could live the rest of my life without tobacco.
2.) From blastbushbun:
I believed it was essential to be accompanied by people so that I wouldn’t feel lonely.
However, I have realised that there’s a massive difference between being alone and feeling lonely.
Sometimes I don’t feel lonely despite being alone, and other times I end up feeling lonely even though I have company.
3.) From Galactic_Gecko:
I used to hold on to every single work book from my primary and secondary school, bits of cardboard and fabric I could use for stuff and other stuff like that. After moving out of a house for a year then returning, I realised I'm never actually going to do stuff without them. Living without them for a year helped me see I don't need to hold on to this stuff, which I think saved me from a potential hording problem
4.) From kittiesallthetime:
Suboxone, the opioid maintenance medication, it’s helpful for many, and I believe it helped me to a certain extent, however every time I would try to get off of it I would land right back where I started. After the last time once I had picked up using again, I decided to just cold turkey instead of getting back on the medication. Once the withdrawals and mental fog cleared, I rediscovered actual joy.
5.) From sintegral:
heroin. cost me eight inches of my intestines, a girlfriend, roughly $80,000, a vehicle, my home and all but one friend.
I started opiates after hurricane Matthew came through my state and destroyed my home. My grandmother gave me an oxycodone for a migraine, which I had never heard of at the time. Every single ounce of pain and depression washed away. I was convinced it was absolutely essential in my life from that point on. How wrong I was...
6.) From lookimflying:
A f*cking swimming pool. My god what a mistake. I used to just lay awake at night and listen to my electric meter run. Kids, take it from me. Join a pool, don't own one.
7.) From heyitssani:
Probably sounds vain, but things like eyelash extensions or getting my nails done. Really thought I needed those things to feel pretty.
8.) From kingtalea:
Going out out all the time
9.) From HistoryLady12:
New clothes. I used to do the 'seasonal shop'. 1-10 new items for every season (all ‘necessities’) so 4 times a year. I had over three closets worth of clothes, including things I'd had in high school (10 years ago.) A year ago I decided that not buying new clothes would be a good way to reduce my spending, so I started only buying clothes that truly filled a gap or replaced something I had actually worn out.
Which means that in a year I have only bought one work dress, one pair of leggings, one 'basics' shirt, and one special event outfit. I started gutting my huge collection of clothing, and getting rid of all the items I didn't absolutely love wearing (or need for work.) It has been freeing and I would never go back to the seasonal shop life.
10.) From terrendos:
Dessert. I cut back massively on sweets 18 months ago and I've lost 60-65 pounds. I didn't really miss sweets after a while.
11.) From ryfitadf:
The approval of others.
12.) From gnosis3:
Disposable paper towels. During university I was too cheap and broke to pay for them, so I went without. Once I got used to using washable cloths to clean up, I didn't even really feel the need for paper towels. Now that I'm out of school I can afford to buy paper towels I keep some around, I realize how wasteful they are and I try to use them sparingly.
13.) From cordero71:
Cable TV/Satellite TV
14.) From CutieClementine:
Bottled water.
I live in an area with safe tap water - it doesn't taste great, but gets the job done.
When coronavirus hit and there was a crazy rush on bottled water, I couldn't get my hands on any.
Turns out, I don't care about bottled water. I'm drinking tap water like a champ now, and it's practically free.
15.) From Back2Bach:
Sugar in coffee or tea.
I freely chose to give it up - and I don't miss it.
16.) From Kiel_Casto:
A rigorous skincare routine. But only because no matter what I try, my skin seems to stay the same, which I’m fine with.
17.) From JDen38:
Nicotine, haven’t smoked since quarantine started
18.) From Wrong_Answer_Willie:
alcohol
16 months sober
19.) From oldlassy:
Coloring my gray hair. Waste of money and time. I no longer care if it makes me look old. Women spend a lot of money to get the beautiful platinum color i have naturally.
20.) From that-is-great:
Instagram. Not seeing people desperately trying to get likes and "influence" has done wonders my mental health.
21.) From mrpants07:
Coffee. Thanks to a series of events, I was unable to have my morning cup of joe and had to go without it this month. thanks corona!
Thanks to quitting, my acne has cleared up and I feel a little bit better without the High highs and the low lows. Also the never ending chase of the caffeine dragon is a plus.
22.) From GoiterFlop:
weed.
I wasn't physically addicted but I smoked every 2 to 3 hours every day for 17 years. It had become a warm coat in a cold world. Having a daughter , I realized I was much like my dad and drinking... I was an irritable asshole when I wasn't smoking , would pick fights over stupid stuff, and spend most of my time too tired to do much beyond what was required of me. I was also constantly broke and borrowing money.
It's so nice to be clear headed with energy. I spend more time with my family and I even sleep better.
This is by no means directed at other people. I still love weed , the culture, and my fellow heads. Everyone needs to do what is right for their own lives
23.) From SkyIsNotGreen:
Relationships, they're fun, and can be great for character building, but they aren't needed to better yourself like some would (me) think.
24.) From Ohforfucksakebitch:
Abusive mother. As soon as I cut her out, life just became better and easier.
25.) From F_For_You:
Haircuts - I’ve been cutting my own hair now for the past 5 or 6 years?
26.) From TheJadedSF:
Eating out. It's nice every once in a while but after cooking at home during this pandemic, I have been feeling better in general and the food is always how I like it.
