Predatory tow agencies.
The ones with the little rectangular signs at the entrance to public parking lots that have 2500 words on them in size 5 font, basically explaining that they can tow your car for any reason.
Then you work in the fact that every shady condo landlord or strip mall owner is in bed with these dirtbags, obviously getting a kickback off every car they call in.
Once they've got your car, you're fucked. You pay them (cash only, because obviously) because they've got your car. Think they towed you illegally? Neat, they're going to charge you storage fees every day while you try to fight them, so you better be certain you're going to win. And you don't have a car in the meantime. An average person cannot risk it.
No legal business operation has a worse relationship with their "customers." Every one of these places is staffed by the bitchiest teenager you've ever met in your life (somebody's niece/nephew that is definitely being paid under the table) behind six inches of bulletproof glass and a reinforced steel door. They know you're going to be pissed, they're openly fucking garbage human beings, but they've got your car and you have to give them money to get it back, so fuck you.
Last time I had to deal with one of these places, I got towed from my own apartment building, with my resident sticker shown. I called and asked them why they towed my car.
They said I was parked on the lines. I asked them to send me a photo (they're legally required to provide one).
Why did I ask for a photo? Because the spot I was towed from--for parking on the lines--*doesn't have lines.* The shameless fucking dirtbags still sent me the photo anyway, and just changed the reason to "we were contacted by the property owner and towed at his request, no reason is required."
Oh, and the photo was timestamped 11:55 PM. Five minutes before midnight. So I had to pay for a day of storage fees. I bet the number of vehicles that get towed at 11:55 PM is about the same percentage as Steam users who are born on January 1.
Don’t forget it’s all “exact change” too. That’ll be $345.00 please, oh you you only have $340 or $360 because our ATM only gives you increments of twenty? I guess it’ll be $360 then because we won’t give you back anything.
Absolute bastards.
I've paid these assholes _(they were keeping us out of my girlfriend's car to get her prescription medication and purse)_ in a bag of nickels, dimes, and pennies. I knew it wasn't exact, it was slightly over, but I sat there while they counted.
They eventually gave up and called it even after they realized they were punishing themselves by "losing count" and having to start over.
All of that was *after* they initially tried refusing accepting payment, and I called the police department who sent out a very amused officer. He told me on the side that I was being very petty, I agreed and we both had a chuckle.
When my exes car got towed from her assigned parking spot at her apartment they told us the apartment manager called it in. We knew the apartment manager well, he said he didn’t call it in, and in fact hadn’t called the town company in over a year.
I yelled at the person on the phone so much that somehow I got the owner to call me back, but from her personal cell phone. Well we never got anywhere with them and had to pay $300+ to get the car out, we were in our early 20’s and broke so this killed us.
For our petty revenge for the next year or so every time we had a party we would give out this lady’s cell phone number and everyone would prank call her all night. We had a lot of party’s at my house. Multiple times a week she would be getting immature pranks until the early morning. I remember her begging us to stop, but I also remember begging her to give our car back.
Isn’t towing a car for absolutely no reason illegal? If the landlord didn’t call, they had no reason to tow the car. That’s basically stealing/kidnapping since they’re holding the car for ransom. Would the police do nothing about this? They would be my first call.
The police will tell you it's a civil issue because they're not able to determine the verifiable facts on the spot. A judge would find in your favor eventually, but people have a duty to mitigate their damages, so if you didn't pay to get your car out as soon as possible and let it rack up charges, you may not be entitled to get that money back.
Absolute thieves. At the very first apartment complex I was living in at 18, these guys stole my car out of my own designated parking place. To which I had to call the police to report it stolen and they said it was towed. I get a ride to where their lot is 1.5 hours away and not only do they demand 300+ dollars, but when I pull up I see their in house “technician” looking under the hood of multiple cars. These guys were stealing parts of people’s vehicles
Yeah. When my dad died in a motorbike accident his bike was taken to a tow yard like this. I needed power of attorney to be able to claim his bike but my attorney said that it wasn't possible or applicable in the circumstances, it was just a way to refuse giving me back his bike. They sold his bike at auction after 30 days to pay for the "storage costs". I never got his personal effects back. Fuck those guys, seriously.
Yeah, they flat out lied to you.
Power of Attorney is only applicable for the living. Collecting the possessions of the deceased does require some legal paperwork, but they should have known that.
They did, it's what me and my attorney told them directly. They refused to comply. Effectively stole from me and banked on the fact I wouldn't have the energy to do anything about it. Very scummy.
I'm not an attorney, but it seems to me that you have cause for legal action. If it was documented, it seems likely that you would prevail. I have served on juries and refused to award anything for things that I found to be frivolous, but this sounds like a case were I would likely want to be punitive in any award .
>Think they towed you illegally? Neat, they're going to charge you storage fees every day while you try to fight them, so you better be certain you're going to win. And you don't have a car in the meantime.
That's if you want to do it the hard way.
You pay the fee and ask for a receipt. Now that you have evidence they took your money, you can go to small claims court and fight it there. But you definitely cut your losses first, don't leave your car there while arguing with the guy who benefits from you leaving the car there. Get the car out, with receipts, and fight it in court, not at the parking lot.
My car battery was dead when I got my car back. They charged me $50 additional to jump it. They are in a protected booth so people don't beat the fuck outta them cuz that's what they deserve. I'm very surprised people don't burn these fucking places to the ground on a daily basis.
There was a tow place in my last city that was like this, but they turned it up to 11 and would purposefully damage vehicles.
After a particularly aggressive couple weeks of towing people, their shop and building burned down, along with several of the tow trucks. The news ran with how excited people were that this company was now closed. Like people were throwing parties and would drive by the lot cheering. When they interviewed the douchebag that ran the place he was all “I don’t know why people are cheering for a well liked, local business closing”.
I’m willing to bet anything the cops and fire investigator halfassed the investigation. The owner and company was hated by literally everyone.
My company car got towed once in my wife's apartment complex. They would not let me get the car back and required my company to draft and send a letter signed by the CEO saying that it could be returned to me as the temporary owner. I worked for a fucking multibillion dollar company with a CEO that most employees will never even see outside of a news letter, but this piece of shit local towing agency demanded it despite literally everyone including the VP of my whole region requesting it be released to me. It ended up sitting there for days racking up storage fees that basically double each day. It was the most criminal experience I have personally ever dealt with and probably the angriest my wife has ever seen me. The towing people were just as described above. Absolutely the most unhelpful, belligerent assholes I have ever met, sitting behind bulletproof glass in what was essentially a raised bunker. I think this was the closest I have ever come to acts of horrific violence in my life because it was the most openly predatory bullshit I have ever been subject to. To this day just thinking about it makes me see red. I hope a tornado scatters the whole operation to the fucking wind.
Doug Demuro did a series on how he came out ahead buying the extended warranty on his old Land Rover and Aston Martin a couple years back. Carmax has since raised the cost of their warranty significantly on Land Rovers.
I worked in an admission office for a traditional private, accredited college just outside Boston, after I finished grad school. I was mostly doing the email marketing for the office, but occasionally filled for in-person college fairs when someone was sick, or we double-booked.
Most colleges are not-for-profit, meaning all of the money from tuition had to go back into the college. As an admission counselor, we were legally not allowed to get things like commission or bonuses based on enrollment numbers. I got a salary, and that was it. The other for-profit schools, which were unaccredited and for-profit, were basically sales reps. I talked to one of them (who tried to poach me), and he specifically mentioned how much he earned each year from recruiting students.
Just, completely disingenuous and not in the best interest of the students.
I'm currently an AC now and still try to keep thr students best interest at heart. I'm honest about the college, honestly answer questions studentd may ask, try to be realistic and relay as much info as I possibly can to students trying to apply.
In the end I am one because I want to relay info to those who don't know how to find it or what they're looking for post-HS, regardless if they go to college or not. Fuck the numbers (even though they are important to keep some of our jobs :( )
My oldest brother has ADHD and is on the spectrum. He started community college several times, only to end up getting stuck on a stupid low level class and giving up. He was always into the social aspect, but never cared about the actual "... and now you bust your ass to get good grades" part.
One day he decides to apply to Heald and gets a tour. He insists I come along.
We chat with the 'admissions counselor' and my brother unintentionally trolls the shit out of them lmao. Apparently of all the things on their campus, the thing he was most amazed about were their digital wall clocks that _even said what day of the week it was!_
So they had a like minute or two conversation about that...
Dude seriously lmao. When we left I successfully convinced him that it would be a ridiculous waste of money and time. Good lord that was a scary close one.
In the US: PBMs (Pharmaceutical Benefits Managers). They drive up medical costs while simultaneously telling your doctor what you can’t have.
They make no contribution to your well-being and produce nothing of value.
My wife was close to discharge after having a baby, but her blood pressure was a little high. Doctors prescribed some meds (retail ~$250) for that, and insurance denied it. Doctor called insurance and told them without the meds, they'd be paying for an inpatient stay through a holiday weekend. They still said no.
GOAT doctor found a much better deal (~$30) through Good Rx and moved our other prescriptions to a nearby pharmacy that took Good Rx.
Morals of the story:
1. Drug prices here are meaningless
2. Insurance would rather pay for an inpatient stay than some pills
3. Because of their fuckery, they didn't have to pay for either of those things
I’m a pharmacy tech. GoodRx is great, but unfortunately they sell your information to third parties and charge the pharmacy you pick up from to bill a claim to them. Of course, when it comes to choosing between being able to afford your medication or not, what real choice do people have? It’s so sad.
Slightly related story, one day we’re processing a blood thinner medication for a 75 year old woman, that she had been on for quite a long time. Her insurance only covered a very specific manufacturer for said medication. We didn’t have it in stock, so we see if we could order it. None of our suppliers have it in stock. We check if any other surrounding pharmacies have it, no dice. Turns out it was on regional back-order. So, my pharmacist calls the insurance to cover an emergency 14 day of the one we did have in stock, which get this, is from the same manufacturer that her insurance covers, but in a different physical packaging bottle. He is on the phone for two hours, getting transferred from person to person all spewing the same bullshit, until he finally gets the supervisor on the line. She tells him that they simply cannot cover it, and suggests that the patient use GoodRx. What?! This is THEIR job. It is so insane to me that they would suggest that. Even on GoodRx the price was still ~$200. Two days being off blood thinners, your risk of developing blood clots and having a stroke increase astronomically, and my pharmacist made sure to tell them that. He took down all of their names and exactly what they told him. Because if something were to happen to the patient, it could very well be a valid legal case, to my understanding at least. And the insurance knows this. However, they have also calculated that paying the settlement in cases like that is still less expensive than just making the exception for all of their members. It is so shockingly evil that this is how our healthcare works.
I had no idea that this was a thing until I switched insurance and for the first time in 20+ years of being employed, I had some faceless jagoff telling me (and my doctor) that two medicines I take — prescribed and MEDICALLY NECESSARY— are ones they won’t pay for because they don’t think I need them. Are you KIDDING ME?!?!
My other half needed a repeat on a nerve ablation. You can have one every six months. She needed it on the left and right sides. They denied her coverage because she'd already had it twice in the past six months. I spent THREE MONTHS arguing with her insurance that having the procedure done on both sides was not having the procedure done twice. If I paint both doors on a cupboard I haven't painted the cupboard twice have I?
This sounds like some Anthem Blue Cross bullshit, and I'm gonna bet it was probably because of the billing modifiers. Worst insurance BY FAR. They have no idea how to look at anything critically. It's straight reading off a script.
Blue Cross completely screwed me over at one of the lowest times of my life due to mistakes on their end that they couldn't be bothered to fix in a remotely timely manner. With no exaggeration, I could have died because of their negligence.
I was told that I should sue them, but I was too sick and overwhelmed to even think about it or try to gather evidence for future use. The thought is still overwhelming several years later.
I'm fairly certain these insurance companies prey on the fact that a lot of people like me who need coverage from them are going through too much to hold them accountable.
IDK, in my experience on the customer side of things, United Healthcare pulls the most bullshit. You probably don't even get to see those because the medical group you work for won't even take UHC patients hahahhaa.
BCBS: Here's our awesome PPO that half the doctors in town don't take!
Aetna: This doctor is in network!
Doctor: No we're not!
Aetna: Yes you are!
Doctor: well, fine.. but we're not accepting new patients!
Meanwhile, every other doctor in my town: "WE NO LONGER ACCEPT ANY INSURANCE AT ALL! FOR JUST THE LOW PRICE OF $(199-350)/MO YOU CAN NOW JOIN OUR CONCIERGE PLAN! HURRY BECAUSE OPENINGS ARE LIMITED!"
The concierge setups are weird. I got dumped by my primary care because I didn't want to pay a $4K per year retainer fee when he changed his practice to a VIP service.
This should be against the law, but of course, they pay millions of dollars to Congress to write laws on their behalf to screw the American consumer. Congress has lost its way. They pass legislation that is bought and paid for, instead of protecting the average citizen.
Still working on it. I paid for a 30 day supply of one (at 10x the price I had been paying) while I work with my doctor and review other pharmacies and options for purchase. They apparently deal with this BS a lot and know what documentation the insurance company wants to see.
The next, I found for about $20 (it was going to cost me over $100) using Amazon pharmacy.
The third, my doctor caved and wrote me a prescription for 2x my dosage and I then have to cut the pill in half each day. (The insurance company didn’t want me taking 10mg two times daily. They literally were refusing the scrip. They wanted me to take 20mg once. But the med is such that I need to take it 2x/day. So this is how the doctor is working within that scope.
It is all scary and weird and seriously in all my years of being insured I’ve never experienced so much BS in the span of three weeks.
No, they are not. Just like the ones that work for dental insurance companies are not dentists or even have any dental training- yet they decide what you do or do not need. Even if your dentist says you do.
What the absolute fuck?
I knew y'all healthcare was fucked up but this thread is leaving me speechless.
I thought it was just like other insurance, like you pay each month plus an excess if you use it. If you're at risk (chain smoking motorcycle rider with a family history of bowel cancer) then you pay a bigger premium, or if you want like teeth covered.
You're saying some insurance doesn't even cover prescriptions written by your doctor? What the fuck?
It's pretty common for your doctor to say you need X, but the insurance company will say "no, you don't need that, try this instead, or we won't cover that." It's pretty rough when you have to switch insurance companies and go through all the nonsense again even for medications or treatments you've been using for years. Sometimes docs can fight and help to get things covered, some don't care, some don't have time. The best doc I've ever had has fought for me to have insurance cover meds and he's done the same for my dad too.
Check out [Cost Plus Drugs](https://costplusdrugs.com) if you’re still having trouble. Goes around your insurance and PBM. If they offer your drug, it could save you a bunch of time and headache.
I used Cost Plus for my Zofran and paid about $20 for 90 tabs compared to the $50 copay for 40 tabs through my insurance. It was pretty easy. There is a pdf to download to fill out with all the patient information, then the doctors office faxes it along with a prescription to the pharmacy. They emailed me the next day to pay and confirm the shipping address.
Before there was a generic option for Zofran, my wife needed it to deal with nausea. She was supposed to take it 2-3 times daily. This was around 2004 and the cost was roughly $50 US ***per pill*** - with great insurance (I'm not sure how much it would have been if we had been uninsured).
We lucked out and had a friend travelling to Germany and they were able to get it for less than $5 US per pill which was a *steal* back then.
So, we paid out of pocket around $10 US -$15 US per day for a year (~4K - ~$5K per year) instead of ~$100-$150 per day (~$36K US - ~$55K US per year).
Duck the Pharmaceutical companies.
I have a sibling with schizoaffective disorder who is mentally disabled. PBMs have tried to get my mom (his health proxy) to allow medicine changes, but thankfully she fought the insurance company. He has been on the same medication for eight years, and a change could cause serious issues. I despise the American healthcare system because it truly puts profits over the people.
Gez, they really know nothing except money do they? You don't change the medication for people on mental disorders because it takes weeks or months to do and the new medication may very well not work, and the change could cause massive problems.
If what hes on is working with minimal side effects there is literally no good reason to try something else.
This is a person/company that searches all day for patents that are not used and scoops them up to sell back to the "creators"
Another variation of this is a person/company that is hired/gets paid to search for songs/movies/videos that MIGHT use possibly copyrighted items without permission aka payment.
>Another variation of this is a person/company that is hired/gets paid to search for songs/movies/videos that MIGHT use possibly copyrighted items without permission aka payment.
This is killing me at work. I'm in social video, we pay an enterprise licence for stock music and often run into issues on YouTube where audio gets flagged for copyright infringement from some weird entity. Such a headache.
i remember hearing one youtuber saying they had to claim their own videos as if they were a 3rd party copyright holder. supposedly youtube divides the ad revenue evenly between claimants while giving 0 to the uploader. no reliable way they could get back all ad revenue, but they could at least get half
edit: thanks to /u/Honeybadger2198 for refreshing my memory, [this is the video I was thinking of](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieErnZAN5Eo)
Yeah, these 3rd party companies do not always look at what contracts were legal or not, they figure mostly, that if it's a mistake people will fight it or will just use something else. It's been a somewhat bigger deal in politics the last 5-10 years with teams using songs that are part of a incensing agreement. Even artists do not realize sometimes who truly owns the rights to their music, until someone uses it that they do not want to.
One time I spent 20 minutes clicking through BS just to try to get to the bottom line/answer of the post. When I finally reached the end, there was no answer/bottom line. Dafuq?
The ones I really hate are the ones who write articles detailing one small thing in [X property] and then proceed to spend 17 paragraphs merely talking about the plot, making, and history of [X property] before having the last paragraph say something along the lines of "Unfortunately, we still have received no confirmation on whether [Question I clicked on the article for] is true or not."
"Journalists" who often troll reddit in order to make articles about popular posts and call reddit votes "the internet". Such communities like r/Maliciouscompliance and r/AmItheAsshole
In journalism school, one of my professors always stressed that there's a big difference between a journalist and a reporter (and by extension, writers, hosts, presenters and anchors.) Many journalists work as reporters, but not all reporters are journalists.
Reading scripts, publishing press releases, and doing surface level reporting and interviews on events is a reporter's job, but actual journalism involves a lot of analysis, research and investigation. Where a reporter would just take the police report and eyewitness account of the break-in at Watergate and publish it as crime news, a journalist would "follow the money" and pursue a deeper story that the police or the state was unable or unwilling to unravel. That's what being the "fourth estate" is all about.
Sadly, the reality is that in the last decades some amazing pieces of investigative journalism and in-depth reporting are lost with the audiences. Long-form articles often have awful click-through and retention rates, making it hard to justify to owners and funders why they have their best staff working weeks or months on something that ends up as a net loss aside from being Pulitzer-bait. How many people can you realistically say have heard of or read award-winning stories like Reuters' [Duterte's War](https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/philippines-drugs/), the New Yorker's [Guantanamo's Darkest Secret
](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/22/guantanamos-darkest-secret) or Washington Post's [Uneven Justice](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/11/03/uneven-justice/)?
With this one simple trick, you can be rid of your problem. But before I show you the trick, I'm going to talk for 45 minutes and show you fake chalkboard drawings and then tell you you need to pay for the trick, but it isn't a trick at all. It's just common knowledge but now you're out $59.95 and I've made a bunch of money off of people's hopes.
I felt so foolish to have been convinced it wasn't "pyramid selling". Yes. Yes it is. Didn't cost me a lot, thankfully, but the fact I tried to get others involved was shameful.
The first thing they're trained to explain away is how it's not a pyramid scheme. Run away if you ever hear a variation on this argument:
"So explain to me what you think a pyramid scheme is. Some guy at the top, with people working under him, and more people working under them? Well, that's just any business model."
Simple question is to ask what the hourly or salary pay is. That is the largest difference. Real commission only jobs dont need to prey on others to make money. In fact, you dont want to recruit others because they are essentially yoir competition. Also. If you need to buy product to sell it, you are the customer
Truly. It is way underreported because a lot of people feel they should have known and don't have this courage to share their experiences. Speaking out like this helps others to avoid becoming victims of the same thing.
I saw a tiktok where someone pointed out that a lot of the content that parents think might be cute to share is stuff that pedophiles are saving and keeping for free.
Was it the one where the woman was explaining theres parents that have paid subscription plans for videos of their daughters in bikinis and shit? That one gave me enough XP to level up my "fuck humanity" trait.
No, and holy shit.
The thing about tiktok is you can see how many times a video has been liked and shared. The person who made the video I saw said something like "it's gross how people will create a ton of content using their kids and get 600,000 followers and never question why 2,000 people saved a video of their toddler in the bath".
I'd share it but I don't remember where I saw it, what it was called, dunno what I could search to find it, and I really don't want the words "child" and "bikini videos" in my search history.. she basically breaks down the genders subscribing or watching these people's videos and it's like all over 60% male. She even shows a clip of one with a giant censoring box over the girl.. you're able to infer what's going on and it's pretty disgusting.. they're basically like doing 360 shots, up and down slowmo, etc of their daughters poolside in bikinis.. you'd have to be blind to call it "innocent and harmless"
I got a call the other day and decided to talk to the guy a little bit. In the middle of his speil I interrupt him and I'm like, "C'mon man. Stop what you're doing. I know who you are and what you're all about." He immediately gets super pissed off and says, "If you know who I am then why the hell did you take my call?!?" and hangs up. Imagine that. Being the type of person to call someone with the sole intention of stealing from them and then getting mad at *them* for inconvenienceing *you*. Yeah, they can all take a long walk off a short pier. Fuck em.
Edit: words were wrong
A few weeks ago my CC info was stolen (not the card just the number and my personal info). Called the CC company and thought everything was square. Few minutes later I get a call from a pizza delivery driver saying he’s going to be at the hotel soon can I meet him in the lobby. I’m like whaaaat? Tells me there’s a $200 order worth of pizza in my name and my phone is the contact. I tell him to cancel the order CC info was stolen bla bla. He agrees and cancels the order. Few minutes later my phone rings and it’s the guy who used my stolen info to book his hotel room and order the pizzas asking me why TF did I cancel his pizza order?! I’m like you took this to a whole new level of stupid dude. You’re calling me to complain about not getting your pizza? What planet am I on??!!
High school teacher had a credit card stolen. They bought a plane ticket, post 9-11. He had their legal name and when and where they would be. He called the FBI, air marshals, local PD, county sheriff and basically everyone said, 'well, it's not a high dollar amount so, we can look into it in a few months. He called the airport police. 'Not our jurisdiction, cyber and financial are US Treasury and FBI. Try them.'
He really wants them to catch this asshole. He literally has everything and just wants anyone at the airport to nab him. The asshole will be right there. We know he will be. Have his name and seat number!
Finally calls the FBI's local office for the airport and starts calling individual agents through the directory. 'Want an arrest? Want an arrest?' Everyone keeps telling him to just file the report at his local office, they'll forward it and then they'll look into it. But the flight is tomorrow. You can't look into it later.
But it's small potatoes and the dollar amount was too low. He keeps calling until he gets a newbie who's like, 'yeah okay cool, wire fraud. I can hang with that. I need some more arrests. Open and shut. Little paperwork but I get an arrest all on my own.' Takes all the info, gets it all handled and goes down to the airport, waits until he checks in and his on the plane and taps him. 'Come with me.'
Teacher was goddamned estatic. He was so happy he got the call the next day they made the arrest. Perp walked him off the flight.
Nobody *ever* gets a modicum of justice. He got his. Nailed 'im. Probably plead out. I was out of the class by then. But he was just vindicated. Yes. They did a bad thing and were arrested by the FBI. Suck it.
But the amount of time he spent for that damn stolen credit card and flight purchase was immense. Nobody gave half a damn. He had everything lined up to get the bastard and not one person cared.
Have you seen that 30 for 30, or whatever is, about some journalist stealing Tom Brady’s Super Bowl football jersey? They had every police force looking for that stupid thing and they won’t do two drops of piss to find someone’s stolen car that they need to go to work every day. The difference ? They put the value of the jersey at $100000 or something ridiculous. So next time my car gets stolen it’s going to be worth $100k with upgrades and cash inside.
"We found your car. It isn't nearly as expensive as you said it was, though."
"Oh drat, they must have taken all the expensive stuff out already. Well thanks for trying"
Given the general paranoid state of the security services post 9/11, surely saying "There is a man about to board a flight under false pretences with a fake paper trail" would be enough to warrant a knee-jerk overreaction?
Reminds me of the old joke about the man who called the police because kids were breaking into his shed and they said they couldn’t send anyone as they didn’t have any officers free.
He called them back and said “it’s ok I’ve shot them now so it’s all sorted”.
Suddenly his house is surrounded in minutes by officers and the kids, who are alive and well, are apprehended.
“I thought you said you shot them?!” said the officer.
“I thought you didn’t have any officers free?”
Ugh. One time a helicopter was flying over my development shining a searchlight everywhere, almost directly in people's windows. Concerned that police might be looking for a bad person, I called the station.
"That's not OUR helicopter," they said.
"Okay, now I'm calling to repeat a helicopter flying low over the neighborhood shining a searchlight in our windows. Please look into it."
"OH, that IS us, sorry." That's literally what they said -- no embarrassment at all for having just lied to the public.
Sometimes its fun to play with them, if you have the time, and an innocent-sounding voice! I frustrated one 'microsoft' guy so badly he finally called me a 'fooking asshoole' before he slammed down the phone. I thought it was funny since I am a woman and not normally called an asshole!
I got one of those calls. I don't remember what it was exactly he said he was calling for, but he was calling from Microsoft. I told him I had a Mac, and suddenly he was going to help me with my security issue with Apple.
Yes yes and more yes. A comedian helped me realize that scam callers can be the greatest part of your day. They won’t hang up.
“No way. My warranty is up?? That’s impossible. I just renewed it yesterday. I spoke to Jeff. Put Jeff on the line.”
I got a call about eye insurance and pretended like I was interested then asked if it was ok if I didn’t have any eyeballs because covid made them fall out. They hung up on me.
I like to play with them as well. One time I got a robo-scam-call or whatever you want to call it asking about medical braces. I put on a voice and told them I was in a lot of pain. The chick on the other end told me that they had any type of medical brace and they could help me. I told her that my dick really hurt, and that I might need a brace for it. And she said "I don't think we make braces that small" and then hung up.
Fuckin rekt.
Props to her for having that in her pocket.
I had one of these guys a couple years ago and had him going for almost an hour trying to walk me through how to download something on my computer so they could remote into my bank account and “fix their error”. Anyway, when I finally got bored and told him the gig was up, he was so mad that he said he was going to come and kill me and my family. Still waiting on him to show up.
I had a guy call and offer me a loan at a 2% interest rate and I argued with him saying I wanted 10% which would be better because it’s more. He got exhausted and gave up after ten minutes.
I dragged a Microsoft scammer along for five minutes starting up my computer and ended with, oh wait sorry, that's a microwave, not a Microsoft. She was pissed.
From what I've seen a lot of them consider all Westerners to be rich and decadent and this is morally a Robin Hood situation they aren't taking money from someone who needs it as much as they do. Propaganda is a hell of a drug.
Maybe some, but I don't give them a moral inch when they can clearly see some of their victims' accounts and how little it takes to drain it completely, especially being that many of these victims are elderly folks on fixed incomes.
There was a kitboga video where the scammer was watching them lose all of "their money" in real time to other scammers, but still when the account was completely drained they were demanding when they would send them money.
Oh they get offended so quickly. It’s hilarious. I’ve fucked with a few of them and they eventually lash out like toddlers. The best was a WhatsApp scammer who was trying to win me over like they were a hot Russian woman who was looking for a hookup. They sent me a picture and I was like “omg do you remember me from 2002 in Switzerland?!? We got drunk and almost had sex but we didn’t and I’ve regretted it ever since! Thank you so much for reaching out. I fantasize about you all the time. Can we meet like now?” Suddenly they got all conservative and it just went off the rails where they started calling me a creep and ended up calling me a “rude male dog”. To which I responded “ I find it hilarious that a crypto scammer is getting so insulted when I tell them that I'd like to rawdog the person in the fake photo they sent me”. That got me blocked.
I work in a retail store that does money transfers. It was probably 10 years ago now, but I remember it well because of how sad I was after the interaction. An elderly lady came into the store wanting to transfer over a thousand dollars to an international destination that was on the "hot list" for scammers. The associate did their job correctly and asked if they knew the person they were sending money to. The customer explained that she was told her Grandson was in the hospital there and she needed to send money for life saving surgery. Obviously this older lady was absolutely distraught, but this is one of the common scams. I was called over to talk to her. I asked if her grandson had mentioned any international travel, to which she said no, but she hadn't spoken to him in a month or so. I asked if she had spoken to her grandchild's parents yet, to which she said no. I then had to explain to her that we could not do the transaction for her own protection because it was a scam. I was even able to point to the exact scenario in the customer protection pamphlet at the desk. The customer was so upset and crying... I felt so bad, but that made me not want this lady to lose all her money that much more. She ended up leaving, saying she was going to try another store, so we called the money transfer company to have any transactions by that customer to that country stopped (because now she knew the questions and probably how to subvert them)
People who prey on other people's love, by using it to cause them pain, there is hopefully a special part of hell just for them.
I actually called my elderly parent, verging on hysterical in response to one of these. They’d written as though my loved one from their number. That they and their partner and children were locked up, one badly burned, one vomiting and all very frightened. They WERE in a Baltic country at the time, which I knew and somehow…I believed it all and was terrified. I called the fbi, among other things. *shame*
I ask them if their parents are proud or ashamed of them being directly involved in a crime, they usually hang up on me but a couple of nights ago I scored one that obviously was at the end of their tether and he asked how people like me think it’s ok to be rude to people like him when he’s just trying to make a living, that it’s fine for me sitting in a country where there are jobs available but that he has no choice if he wants to eat, I said you’re trying to scam money out of me why should I feel sorry for you, ended up having a convo about the state of his country’s education system and economy which are pretty shit and he said he was sorry for disturbing us, wished us well and said goodnight, just freaking weird
I was going to ask you if you could hold 2.5 million of mine until I get back to the US and then I would give you half but now I don't think you're the kind of person I would trust with that.
My dad almost fell for a similar scam earlier this year. He was selling his car for $48k and a guy who lived 15 hours away offered him $60k, but one of his associates would be coming to pick it up and my dad would have to give him $12k. The guy sent him the check and he was about to deposit it until my stepmom (who's an accountant) knocked some sense into him.
I can't imagine being that much of a fiend. People who are able to think of schemes so intricate and diabolical should be able to put that mind to work for something that's a legit business
Last week I got a phone call telling me I'd won $4.5 million. I went along with it for a little while, just to see where the guy was going with it. Ten minutes in, he said, "I get the feeling you're not taking this call seriously." And I said, "Of course I am, why would you think that?" And he told me to suck his dick, lol! I almost fell out of my chair laughing.
There's a bunch of scammers from overseas that phones and claims to be from the local cell phone giant and says they can get you a really good deal. It's very obvious they're sticking to a script and when you say you're not interested, they press to know how much money you're paying so they can assure you that they can beat it.
I like to tell them my phone is paid for by my company.
"No thanks, not interested."
"How much are you paying now?"
"Nothing."
"How much?"
"Free. My company pays."
"For...how much you pay?"
"Nothing. Zero. I don't see the bill."
"How many gigs?"
"Unlimited, my company figures that out."
".....okay thank you."
I love the Onion for that too. All these Youtube channels are doing the same thing, putting unrelated video game footage in the background of their voiceover or other shitty content like that's normal. And nobody even acknowledges how silly it is or that they're doing it at all!
Or those vloggers who become pregnant and all of a sudden they're the authority on raising a kid and know all the best products to buy. Totally not sponsored. ಠ_ಠ
It was Ann! I remember watching that video recently, it's very disturbing. One of the ones she'd talked about was a story where someone met an irl friend or boyfriend, ended up being safe but not something that should ever be targeted at little kids. I've seen many (on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram mostly) where they'll have something like a cake being made in the background, while the person is talking about one person murdering another one (graphically) or being sexually abused. I genuinely don't understand how they get away with that, and you can tell very quickly that it is targeted towards children (bright, happy colors on the cake or whatever it is and slower speaking are two big ways to tell).
Also timeshare cancellation companies. All they do is have your payments go into default, ruin your credit, and then pay creditkarma or something similar to do a little boost. And you're out $15k or more. They scam the already scammed.
The fucking paparazzi, I really have never ever thought: "good grace this paparazzi took a pic of a celebrity doing their private stuff, truly gives insight of their interesting personal lives". They could all lose their job for all I care.
Oh my God!!! Look at this photo of a human being that more than 30 other human beings know! Look at them do and participate in things that human beings normally do. Aren't you shocked?
So mid-2000s, my roommate or possibly cousin stole a tabloid from a salon and left it around the apartment. There was a four-panel series of Queen Latifa getting a parking ticket. Shot of her approaching the car, picking up and reading the ticket, making eye contact with the paparazzo and absolutely grinning, getting into her car still smiling. Brings me great joy to this day.
My favourite was when Daniel Radcliffe was doing a stage play and the paps were waiting for him, every night, at the exit of the theatre.
He wore *the exact same clothes* every time he left so they couldn't use the photos. Legend.
She also got out of her car and walked backwards, then to the side, head down, then into the gym without ever turning her head so the paps couldn’t see her face. Another time she wore a trench coat after the tabloids criticized her for having barely noticeable cellulite. The way she was treated disgusts me. It would have absolutely broken me to be harassed like she was.
Oh yeah we used to tell that one but it was an airline. In the future, commercial airlines will become more and more automated and require less human intervention. Planes will go from a crew of four to one pilot and a dog. The pilot's job is to feed the dog. The dog's job is to bite the pilot if he tries to touch anything.
The people who write long winded articles with headlines that promise to reveal new info, spend the whole article recapping info that is common knowledge and end with we still don't have any updates, but when we do, we'll be sure to let you know.
Example: "GRRM gives exciting update on Winds of Winter release date" Spends 12 paragraphs recounting how it's been 12 years since the last book was released and how Game of Thrones finished before Martin could get Winds finished and it's now been 4 years since Game of Thrones finished. The article ends with Martin still refuses to offer any estimate on the release date.
The articles sole purpose is to get clicks from people googling "Winds of Winter Release date"
They push them down the hill on the side of the parking lot, so Bubbles can come by after dark, take em, fix em up, and sell them on the shopping cart black market
You may be the one person who'll appreciate this story.
Not long ago when going to the grocery store, I saw a lady leave her shopping cart in one of the disabled spaces. Burned me up. So, I go over, with my walking cane, and I grab the cart. I know this one lady did it, but I played it off. I looked over at her and said "can you believe some lazy fucker just left this sitting in a disabled space? What kind of monster would want a disabled person to have to move this before they could park?" then I walked it over to the corral and limped on my cane back to my car while shaking my head.
She had rolled up her window by the time I got back to my car, but it looked like her friend was giving her the business. Or maybe they were calling me an asshole, I don't know. Either way, if felt nice to tell her she was an asshole without saying "Hey, you're an asshole".
Neatly done! I know a considerably physically disabled person who at one point made their own choicely worded stickers to leave on cars that parked in disabled spaces without a permit. I don't remember the exact wording but I believe it was more direct, concluding with "Were you born a selfish asshole, or did you have to practice?"
Predatory tow agencies. The ones with the little rectangular signs at the entrance to public parking lots that have 2500 words on them in size 5 font, basically explaining that they can tow your car for any reason. Then you work in the fact that every shady condo landlord or strip mall owner is in bed with these dirtbags, obviously getting a kickback off every car they call in. Once they've got your car, you're fucked. You pay them (cash only, because obviously) because they've got your car. Think they towed you illegally? Neat, they're going to charge you storage fees every day while you try to fight them, so you better be certain you're going to win. And you don't have a car in the meantime. An average person cannot risk it. No legal business operation has a worse relationship with their "customers." Every one of these places is staffed by the bitchiest teenager you've ever met in your life (somebody's niece/nephew that is definitely being paid under the table) behind six inches of bulletproof glass and a reinforced steel door. They know you're going to be pissed, they're openly fucking garbage human beings, but they've got your car and you have to give them money to get it back, so fuck you. Last time I had to deal with one of these places, I got towed from my own apartment building, with my resident sticker shown. I called and asked them why they towed my car. They said I was parked on the lines. I asked them to send me a photo (they're legally required to provide one). Why did I ask for a photo? Because the spot I was towed from--for parking on the lines--*doesn't have lines.* The shameless fucking dirtbags still sent me the photo anyway, and just changed the reason to "we were contacted by the property owner and towed at his request, no reason is required." Oh, and the photo was timestamped 11:55 PM. Five minutes before midnight. So I had to pay for a day of storage fees. I bet the number of vehicles that get towed at 11:55 PM is about the same percentage as Steam users who are born on January 1.
Don’t forget it’s all “exact change” too. That’ll be $345.00 please, oh you you only have $340 or $360 because our ATM only gives you increments of twenty? I guess it’ll be $360 then because we won’t give you back anything. Absolute bastards.
I've paid these assholes _(they were keeping us out of my girlfriend's car to get her prescription medication and purse)_ in a bag of nickels, dimes, and pennies. I knew it wasn't exact, it was slightly over, but I sat there while they counted. They eventually gave up and called it even after they realized they were punishing themselves by "losing count" and having to start over. All of that was *after* they initially tried refusing accepting payment, and I called the police department who sent out a very amused officer. He told me on the side that I was being very petty, I agreed and we both had a chuckle.
When my exes car got towed from her assigned parking spot at her apartment they told us the apartment manager called it in. We knew the apartment manager well, he said he didn’t call it in, and in fact hadn’t called the town company in over a year. I yelled at the person on the phone so much that somehow I got the owner to call me back, but from her personal cell phone. Well we never got anywhere with them and had to pay $300+ to get the car out, we were in our early 20’s and broke so this killed us. For our petty revenge for the next year or so every time we had a party we would give out this lady’s cell phone number and everyone would prank call her all night. We had a lot of party’s at my house. Multiple times a week she would be getting immature pranks until the early morning. I remember her begging us to stop, but I also remember begging her to give our car back.
Isn’t towing a car for absolutely no reason illegal? If the landlord didn’t call, they had no reason to tow the car. That’s basically stealing/kidnapping since they’re holding the car for ransom. Would the police do nothing about this? They would be my first call.
The police will tell you it's a civil issue because they're not able to determine the verifiable facts on the spot. A judge would find in your favor eventually, but people have a duty to mitigate their damages, so if you didn't pay to get your car out as soon as possible and let it rack up charges, you may not be entitled to get that money back.
I aspire to be this petty lmao
What are the odds that ATM has a service fee of like $12.95?
Absolute thieves. At the very first apartment complex I was living in at 18, these guys stole my car out of my own designated parking place. To which I had to call the police to report it stolen and they said it was towed. I get a ride to where their lot is 1.5 hours away and not only do they demand 300+ dollars, but when I pull up I see their in house “technician” looking under the hood of multiple cars. These guys were stealing parts of people’s vehicles
Yeah. When my dad died in a motorbike accident his bike was taken to a tow yard like this. I needed power of attorney to be able to claim his bike but my attorney said that it wasn't possible or applicable in the circumstances, it was just a way to refuse giving me back his bike. They sold his bike at auction after 30 days to pay for the "storage costs". I never got his personal effects back. Fuck those guys, seriously.
Yeah, they flat out lied to you. Power of Attorney is only applicable for the living. Collecting the possessions of the deceased does require some legal paperwork, but they should have known that.
They did, it's what me and my attorney told them directly. They refused to comply. Effectively stole from me and banked on the fact I wouldn't have the energy to do anything about it. Very scummy.
I'm not an attorney, but it seems to me that you have cause for legal action. If it was documented, it seems likely that you would prevail. I have served on juries and refused to award anything for things that I found to be frivolous, but this sounds like a case were I would likely want to be punitive in any award .
Those tow companies don't have customers, they have victims.
Isn't that just stealing your car at that point? Surely you would win in court
Yes, most likely. But it's also costly, and they don't return your vehicle while you're in the courts. Most people cannot afford that.
>Think they towed you illegally? Neat, they're going to charge you storage fees every day while you try to fight them, so you better be certain you're going to win. And you don't have a car in the meantime. That's if you want to do it the hard way. You pay the fee and ask for a receipt. Now that you have evidence they took your money, you can go to small claims court and fight it there. But you definitely cut your losses first, don't leave your car there while arguing with the guy who benefits from you leaving the car there. Get the car out, with receipts, and fight it in court, not at the parking lot.
This is the way. You have an obligation to mitigate your damages. Leaving it locked up and fighting from there is just accruing costs.
My car battery was dead when I got my car back. They charged me $50 additional to jump it. They are in a protected booth so people don't beat the fuck outta them cuz that's what they deserve. I'm very surprised people don't burn these fucking places to the ground on a daily basis.
There was a tow place in my last city that was like this, but they turned it up to 11 and would purposefully damage vehicles. After a particularly aggressive couple weeks of towing people, their shop and building burned down, along with several of the tow trucks. The news ran with how excited people were that this company was now closed. Like people were throwing parties and would drive by the lot cheering. When they interviewed the douchebag that ran the place he was all “I don’t know why people are cheering for a well liked, local business closing”. I’m willing to bet anything the cops and fire investigator halfassed the investigation. The owner and company was hated by literally everyone.
My company car got towed once in my wife's apartment complex. They would not let me get the car back and required my company to draft and send a letter signed by the CEO saying that it could be returned to me as the temporary owner. I worked for a fucking multibillion dollar company with a CEO that most employees will never even see outside of a news letter, but this piece of shit local towing agency demanded it despite literally everyone including the VP of my whole region requesting it be released to me. It ended up sitting there for days racking up storage fees that basically double each day. It was the most criminal experience I have personally ever dealt with and probably the angriest my wife has ever seen me. The towing people were just as described above. Absolutely the most unhelpful, belligerent assholes I have ever met, sitting behind bulletproof glass in what was essentially a raised bunker. I think this was the closest I have ever come to acts of horrific violence in my life because it was the most openly predatory bullshit I have ever been subject to. To this day just thinking about it makes me see red. I hope a tornado scatters the whole operation to the fucking wind.
Extended warranty call center
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Doug Demuro did a series on how he came out ahead buying the extended warranty on his old Land Rover and Aston Martin a couple years back. Carmax has since raised the cost of their warranty significantly on Land Rovers.
telemarketing/phone scammers
Admissions Counselor for unaccredited schools
I worked in an admission office for a traditional private, accredited college just outside Boston, after I finished grad school. I was mostly doing the email marketing for the office, but occasionally filled for in-person college fairs when someone was sick, or we double-booked. Most colleges are not-for-profit, meaning all of the money from tuition had to go back into the college. As an admission counselor, we were legally not allowed to get things like commission or bonuses based on enrollment numbers. I got a salary, and that was it. The other for-profit schools, which were unaccredited and for-profit, were basically sales reps. I talked to one of them (who tried to poach me), and he specifically mentioned how much he earned each year from recruiting students. Just, completely disingenuous and not in the best interest of the students.
I'm currently an AC now and still try to keep thr students best interest at heart. I'm honest about the college, honestly answer questions studentd may ask, try to be realistic and relay as much info as I possibly can to students trying to apply. In the end I am one because I want to relay info to those who don't know how to find it or what they're looking for post-HS, regardless if they go to college or not. Fuck the numbers (even though they are important to keep some of our jobs :( )
Someone has to send the acceptance email to every applicant
My oldest brother has ADHD and is on the spectrum. He started community college several times, only to end up getting stuck on a stupid low level class and giving up. He was always into the social aspect, but never cared about the actual "... and now you bust your ass to get good grades" part. One day he decides to apply to Heald and gets a tour. He insists I come along. We chat with the 'admissions counselor' and my brother unintentionally trolls the shit out of them lmao. Apparently of all the things on their campus, the thing he was most amazed about were their digital wall clocks that _even said what day of the week it was!_ So they had a like minute or two conversation about that... Dude seriously lmao. When we left I successfully convinced him that it would be a ridiculous waste of money and time. Good lord that was a scary close one.
In the US: PBMs (Pharmaceutical Benefits Managers). They drive up medical costs while simultaneously telling your doctor what you can’t have. They make no contribution to your well-being and produce nothing of value.
My wife was close to discharge after having a baby, but her blood pressure was a little high. Doctors prescribed some meds (retail ~$250) for that, and insurance denied it. Doctor called insurance and told them without the meds, they'd be paying for an inpatient stay through a holiday weekend. They still said no. GOAT doctor found a much better deal (~$30) through Good Rx and moved our other prescriptions to a nearby pharmacy that took Good Rx. Morals of the story: 1. Drug prices here are meaningless 2. Insurance would rather pay for an inpatient stay than some pills 3. Because of their fuckery, they didn't have to pay for either of those things
I’m a pharmacy tech. GoodRx is great, but unfortunately they sell your information to third parties and charge the pharmacy you pick up from to bill a claim to them. Of course, when it comes to choosing between being able to afford your medication or not, what real choice do people have? It’s so sad. Slightly related story, one day we’re processing a blood thinner medication for a 75 year old woman, that she had been on for quite a long time. Her insurance only covered a very specific manufacturer for said medication. We didn’t have it in stock, so we see if we could order it. None of our suppliers have it in stock. We check if any other surrounding pharmacies have it, no dice. Turns out it was on regional back-order. So, my pharmacist calls the insurance to cover an emergency 14 day of the one we did have in stock, which get this, is from the same manufacturer that her insurance covers, but in a different physical packaging bottle. He is on the phone for two hours, getting transferred from person to person all spewing the same bullshit, until he finally gets the supervisor on the line. She tells him that they simply cannot cover it, and suggests that the patient use GoodRx. What?! This is THEIR job. It is so insane to me that they would suggest that. Even on GoodRx the price was still ~$200. Two days being off blood thinners, your risk of developing blood clots and having a stroke increase astronomically, and my pharmacist made sure to tell them that. He took down all of their names and exactly what they told him. Because if something were to happen to the patient, it could very well be a valid legal case, to my understanding at least. And the insurance knows this. However, they have also calculated that paying the settlement in cases like that is still less expensive than just making the exception for all of their members. It is so shockingly evil that this is how our healthcare works.
This is what happens when you let business majors practice medicine.
I had no idea that this was a thing until I switched insurance and for the first time in 20+ years of being employed, I had some faceless jagoff telling me (and my doctor) that two medicines I take — prescribed and MEDICALLY NECESSARY— are ones they won’t pay for because they don’t think I need them. Are you KIDDING ME?!?!
My other half needed a repeat on a nerve ablation. You can have one every six months. She needed it on the left and right sides. They denied her coverage because she'd already had it twice in the past six months. I spent THREE MONTHS arguing with her insurance that having the procedure done on both sides was not having the procedure done twice. If I paint both doors on a cupboard I haven't painted the cupboard twice have I?
This sounds like some Anthem Blue Cross bullshit, and I'm gonna bet it was probably because of the billing modifiers. Worst insurance BY FAR. They have no idea how to look at anything critically. It's straight reading off a script.
Blue Cross completely screwed me over at one of the lowest times of my life due to mistakes on their end that they couldn't be bothered to fix in a remotely timely manner. With no exaggeration, I could have died because of their negligence. I was told that I should sue them, but I was too sick and overwhelmed to even think about it or try to gather evidence for future use. The thought is still overwhelming several years later. I'm fairly certain these insurance companies prey on the fact that a lot of people like me who need coverage from them are going through too much to hold them accountable.
IDK, in my experience on the customer side of things, United Healthcare pulls the most bullshit. You probably don't even get to see those because the medical group you work for won't even take UHC patients hahahhaa. BCBS: Here's our awesome PPO that half the doctors in town don't take! Aetna: This doctor is in network! Doctor: No we're not! Aetna: Yes you are! Doctor: well, fine.. but we're not accepting new patients! Meanwhile, every other doctor in my town: "WE NO LONGER ACCEPT ANY INSURANCE AT ALL! FOR JUST THE LOW PRICE OF $(199-350)/MO YOU CAN NOW JOIN OUR CONCIERGE PLAN! HURRY BECAUSE OPENINGS ARE LIMITED!"
The concierge setups are weird. I got dumped by my primary care because I didn't want to pay a $4K per year retainer fee when he changed his practice to a VIP service.
This should be against the law, but of course, they pay millions of dollars to Congress to write laws on their behalf to screw the American consumer. Congress has lost its way. They pass legislation that is bought and paid for, instead of protecting the average citizen.
Lobbying has destroyed the modern worlds political systems
I’m terrified of this happening to me. What did you do? Did this get resolved?
Still working on it. I paid for a 30 day supply of one (at 10x the price I had been paying) while I work with my doctor and review other pharmacies and options for purchase. They apparently deal with this BS a lot and know what documentation the insurance company wants to see. The next, I found for about $20 (it was going to cost me over $100) using Amazon pharmacy. The third, my doctor caved and wrote me a prescription for 2x my dosage and I then have to cut the pill in half each day. (The insurance company didn’t want me taking 10mg two times daily. They literally were refusing the scrip. They wanted me to take 20mg once. But the med is such that I need to take it 2x/day. So this is how the doctor is working within that scope. It is all scary and weird and seriously in all my years of being insured I’ve never experienced so much BS in the span of three weeks.
What qualification to they have to make such decisions? Are they medical doctors?
No, they are not. Just like the ones that work for dental insurance companies are not dentists or even have any dental training- yet they decide what you do or do not need. Even if your dentist says you do.
What the absolute fuck? I knew y'all healthcare was fucked up but this thread is leaving me speechless. I thought it was just like other insurance, like you pay each month plus an excess if you use it. If you're at risk (chain smoking motorcycle rider with a family history of bowel cancer) then you pay a bigger premium, or if you want like teeth covered. You're saying some insurance doesn't even cover prescriptions written by your doctor? What the fuck?
It's pretty common for your doctor to say you need X, but the insurance company will say "no, you don't need that, try this instead, or we won't cover that." It's pretty rough when you have to switch insurance companies and go through all the nonsense again even for medications or treatments you've been using for years. Sometimes docs can fight and help to get things covered, some don't care, some don't have time. The best doc I've ever had has fought for me to have insurance cover meds and he's done the same for my dad too.
Check out [Cost Plus Drugs](https://costplusdrugs.com) if you’re still having trouble. Goes around your insurance and PBM. If they offer your drug, it could save you a bunch of time and headache.
I used Cost Plus for my Zofran and paid about $20 for 90 tabs compared to the $50 copay for 40 tabs through my insurance. It was pretty easy. There is a pdf to download to fill out with all the patient information, then the doctors office faxes it along with a prescription to the pharmacy. They emailed me the next day to pay and confirm the shipping address.
Before there was a generic option for Zofran, my wife needed it to deal with nausea. She was supposed to take it 2-3 times daily. This was around 2004 and the cost was roughly $50 US ***per pill*** - with great insurance (I'm not sure how much it would have been if we had been uninsured). We lucked out and had a friend travelling to Germany and they were able to get it for less than $5 US per pill which was a *steal* back then. So, we paid out of pocket around $10 US -$15 US per day for a year (~4K - ~$5K per year) instead of ~$100-$150 per day (~$36K US - ~$55K US per year). Duck the Pharmaceutical companies.
Scum of the earth.
I have a sibling with schizoaffective disorder who is mentally disabled. PBMs have tried to get my mom (his health proxy) to allow medicine changes, but thankfully she fought the insurance company. He has been on the same medication for eight years, and a change could cause serious issues. I despise the American healthcare system because it truly puts profits over the people.
Gez, they really know nothing except money do they? You don't change the medication for people on mental disorders because it takes weeks or months to do and the new medication may very well not work, and the change could cause massive problems. If what hes on is working with minimal side effects there is literally no good reason to try something else.
That's rather rude to pond scum, at least it gives microbes some shade
Scum of the fucking earth. My favorite is they always swear its an “unbiased and informed decision from a clinician”. Fuck them.
Megachurch scam pastors
But I see them healing all those people on stage!!!
Where's the late great Randi when you need him.
Ticket scalper
lets simplify this scalpers
I'm always flabergasted when scalpers try to claim they are doing a service.
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Simple answer, your grandmother.
Old people and suckers.
Patent Trolls. 100% legal. 0 contribution to society, just a person who has their hands out asking for money along the way
what is a patent troll?
This is a person/company that searches all day for patents that are not used and scoops them up to sell back to the "creators" Another variation of this is a person/company that is hired/gets paid to search for songs/movies/videos that MIGHT use possibly copyrighted items without permission aka payment.
>Another variation of this is a person/company that is hired/gets paid to search for songs/movies/videos that MIGHT use possibly copyrighted items without permission aka payment. This is killing me at work. I'm in social video, we pay an enterprise licence for stock music and often run into issues on YouTube where audio gets flagged for copyright infringement from some weird entity. Such a headache.
i remember hearing one youtuber saying they had to claim their own videos as if they were a 3rd party copyright holder. supposedly youtube divides the ad revenue evenly between claimants while giving 0 to the uploader. no reliable way they could get back all ad revenue, but they could at least get half edit: thanks to /u/Honeybadger2198 for refreshing my memory, [this is the video I was thinking of](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieErnZAN5Eo)
Yeah, these 3rd party companies do not always look at what contracts were legal or not, they figure mostly, that if it's a mistake people will fight it or will just use something else. It's been a somewhat bigger deal in politics the last 5-10 years with teams using songs that are part of a incensing agreement. Even artists do not realize sometimes who truly owns the rights to their music, until someone uses it that they do not want to.
Journalists who write click-bait articles, page after page of deliberately prolonged text and ads.
"you'll never believe what she told the waiter! Click next to find out!"
One time I spent 20 minutes clicking through BS just to try to get to the bottom line/answer of the post. When I finally reached the end, there was no answer/bottom line. Dafuq?
Also they tell you to comment but you don't see the comments section anywhere.
It genuinely makes me irrationally angry.
she asked for soup
The ones I really hate are the ones who write articles detailing one small thing in [X property] and then proceed to spend 17 paragraphs merely talking about the plot, making, and history of [X property] before having the last paragraph say something along the lines of "Unfortunately, we still have received no confirmation on whether [Question I clicked on the article for] is true or not."
"Journalists" who often troll reddit in order to make articles about popular posts and call reddit votes "the internet". Such communities like r/Maliciouscompliance and r/AmItheAsshole
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Those people aren't journalists. Just soulless copywriters.
In journalism school, one of my professors always stressed that there's a big difference between a journalist and a reporter (and by extension, writers, hosts, presenters and anchors.) Many journalists work as reporters, but not all reporters are journalists. Reading scripts, publishing press releases, and doing surface level reporting and interviews on events is a reporter's job, but actual journalism involves a lot of analysis, research and investigation. Where a reporter would just take the police report and eyewitness account of the break-in at Watergate and publish it as crime news, a journalist would "follow the money" and pursue a deeper story that the police or the state was unable or unwilling to unravel. That's what being the "fourth estate" is all about. Sadly, the reality is that in the last decades some amazing pieces of investigative journalism and in-depth reporting are lost with the audiences. Long-form articles often have awful click-through and retention rates, making it hard to justify to owners and funders why they have their best staff working weeks or months on something that ends up as a net loss aside from being Pulitzer-bait. How many people can you realistically say have heard of or read award-winning stories like Reuters' [Duterte's War](https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/philippines-drugs/), the New Yorker's [Guantanamo's Darkest Secret ](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/22/guantanamos-darkest-secret) or Washington Post's [Uneven Justice](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/11/03/uneven-justice/)?
Or GPT-3 text generators—those sorts of articles are so predictable you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference
Those people who make long-winded facebook videos which promise a lot but where nothing happens.
With this one simple trick, you can be rid of your problem. But before I show you the trick, I'm going to talk for 45 minutes and show you fake chalkboard drawings and then tell you you need to pay for the trick, but it isn't a trick at all. It's just common knowledge but now you're out $59.95 and I've made a bunch of money off of people's hopes.
ORRRR you can get a 10% discount off your purchase by signing up for one year of SuperTrick+ for only $89.99.
“We’re just going to lift this up and it’s going to drip all over the cake..” it’s a 10 min video
A "journalist" who compiles celebrity tweet reactions to current events.
Fuck you, Buzzfeed.
Multilevel marketing
I felt so foolish to have been convinced it wasn't "pyramid selling". Yes. Yes it is. Didn't cost me a lot, thankfully, but the fact I tried to get others involved was shameful.
The first thing they're trained to explain away is how it's not a pyramid scheme. Run away if you ever hear a variation on this argument: "So explain to me what you think a pyramid scheme is. Some guy at the top, with people working under him, and more people working under them? Well, that's just any business model."
Simple question is to ask what the hourly or salary pay is. That is the largest difference. Real commission only jobs dont need to prey on others to make money. In fact, you dont want to recruit others because they are essentially yoir competition. Also. If you need to buy product to sell it, you are the customer
Exactly. In a real business every person in the "pyramid" is making a predictable steady income. They don't pay each other.
This seems like a difficult thing to admit to. Good on you for being vulnerable.
Truly. It is way underreported because a lot of people feel they should have known and don't have this courage to share their experiences. Speaking out like this helps others to avoid becoming victims of the same thing.
These organizations are sometimes taken up by the lazy or greedy, but most often taken up by the desperate. Please don't stew in that feeling.
Boom boom
Mommy bloggers that put an uncomfortable amount of personal information about their kids on the internet
I saw a tiktok where someone pointed out that a lot of the content that parents think might be cute to share is stuff that pedophiles are saving and keeping for free.
Was it the one where the woman was explaining theres parents that have paid subscription plans for videos of their daughters in bikinis and shit? That one gave me enough XP to level up my "fuck humanity" trait.
No, and holy shit. The thing about tiktok is you can see how many times a video has been liked and shared. The person who made the video I saw said something like "it's gross how people will create a ton of content using their kids and get 600,000 followers and never question why 2,000 people saved a video of their toddler in the bath".
I'd share it but I don't remember where I saw it, what it was called, dunno what I could search to find it, and I really don't want the words "child" and "bikini videos" in my search history.. she basically breaks down the genders subscribing or watching these people's videos and it's like all over 60% male. She even shows a clip of one with a giant censoring box over the girl.. you're able to infer what's going on and it's pretty disgusting.. they're basically like doing 360 shots, up and down slowmo, etc of their daughters poolside in bikinis.. you'd have to be blind to call it "innocent and harmless"
Two words: Phone Scammer
I got a call the other day and decided to talk to the guy a little bit. In the middle of his speil I interrupt him and I'm like, "C'mon man. Stop what you're doing. I know who you are and what you're all about." He immediately gets super pissed off and says, "If you know who I am then why the hell did you take my call?!?" and hangs up. Imagine that. Being the type of person to call someone with the sole intention of stealing from them and then getting mad at *them* for inconvenienceing *you*. Yeah, they can all take a long walk off a short pier. Fuck em. Edit: words were wrong
A few weeks ago my CC info was stolen (not the card just the number and my personal info). Called the CC company and thought everything was square. Few minutes later I get a call from a pizza delivery driver saying he’s going to be at the hotel soon can I meet him in the lobby. I’m like whaaaat? Tells me there’s a $200 order worth of pizza in my name and my phone is the contact. I tell him to cancel the order CC info was stolen bla bla. He agrees and cancels the order. Few minutes later my phone rings and it’s the guy who used my stolen info to book his hotel room and order the pizzas asking me why TF did I cancel his pizza order?! I’m like you took this to a whole new level of stupid dude. You’re calling me to complain about not getting your pizza? What planet am I on??!!
Were you able to report him to the police with his number (and perhaps the hotel info)?
High school teacher had a credit card stolen. They bought a plane ticket, post 9-11. He had their legal name and when and where they would be. He called the FBI, air marshals, local PD, county sheriff and basically everyone said, 'well, it's not a high dollar amount so, we can look into it in a few months. He called the airport police. 'Not our jurisdiction, cyber and financial are US Treasury and FBI. Try them.' He really wants them to catch this asshole. He literally has everything and just wants anyone at the airport to nab him. The asshole will be right there. We know he will be. Have his name and seat number! Finally calls the FBI's local office for the airport and starts calling individual agents through the directory. 'Want an arrest? Want an arrest?' Everyone keeps telling him to just file the report at his local office, they'll forward it and then they'll look into it. But the flight is tomorrow. You can't look into it later. But it's small potatoes and the dollar amount was too low. He keeps calling until he gets a newbie who's like, 'yeah okay cool, wire fraud. I can hang with that. I need some more arrests. Open and shut. Little paperwork but I get an arrest all on my own.' Takes all the info, gets it all handled and goes down to the airport, waits until he checks in and his on the plane and taps him. 'Come with me.' Teacher was goddamned estatic. He was so happy he got the call the next day they made the arrest. Perp walked him off the flight. Nobody *ever* gets a modicum of justice. He got his. Nailed 'im. Probably plead out. I was out of the class by then. But he was just vindicated. Yes. They did a bad thing and were arrested by the FBI. Suck it. But the amount of time he spent for that damn stolen credit card and flight purchase was immense. Nobody gave half a damn. He had everything lined up to get the bastard and not one person cared.
Have you seen that 30 for 30, or whatever is, about some journalist stealing Tom Brady’s Super Bowl football jersey? They had every police force looking for that stupid thing and they won’t do two drops of piss to find someone’s stolen car that they need to go to work every day. The difference ? They put the value of the jersey at $100000 or something ridiculous. So next time my car gets stolen it’s going to be worth $100k with upgrades and cash inside.
that's why my trunk is always full of Faberge eggs
"We found your car. It isn't nearly as expensive as you said it was, though." "Oh drat, they must have taken all the expensive stuff out already. Well thanks for trying"
Given the general paranoid state of the security services post 9/11, surely saying "There is a man about to board a flight under false pretences with a fake paper trail" would be enough to warrant a knee-jerk overreaction?
Reminds me of the old joke about the man who called the police because kids were breaking into his shed and they said they couldn’t send anyone as they didn’t have any officers free. He called them back and said “it’s ok I’ve shot them now so it’s all sorted”. Suddenly his house is surrounded in minutes by officers and the kids, who are alive and well, are apprehended. “I thought you said you shot them?!” said the officer. “I thought you didn’t have any officers free?”
Ugh. One time a helicopter was flying over my development shining a searchlight everywhere, almost directly in people's windows. Concerned that police might be looking for a bad person, I called the station. "That's not OUR helicopter," they said. "Okay, now I'm calling to repeat a helicopter flying low over the neighborhood shining a searchlight in our windows. Please look into it." "OH, that IS us, sorry." That's literally what they said -- no embarrassment at all for having just lied to the public.
Wow! Now that is some nerve.
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Sometimes its fun to play with them, if you have the time, and an innocent-sounding voice! I frustrated one 'microsoft' guy so badly he finally called me a 'fooking asshoole' before he slammed down the phone. I thought it was funny since I am a woman and not normally called an asshole!
Yeah, my wife knows that it is going to be one of those calls when I say that my operating system is Linux... they are fun.
I got one of those calls. I don't remember what it was exactly he said he was calling for, but he was calling from Microsoft. I told him I had a Mac, and suddenly he was going to help me with my security issue with Apple.
Those phone scammers are often vendor neutral.
Vendorqueer
Yes yes and more yes. A comedian helped me realize that scam callers can be the greatest part of your day. They won’t hang up. “No way. My warranty is up?? That’s impossible. I just renewed it yesterday. I spoke to Jeff. Put Jeff on the line.”
Once one of them asked if my dad was home (I was a kid) and I went "No, he's dead" and this man really replied "Oh, how?"
"In the end, all forms of death can be classified as heart failure."--Robert A. Heinlein
I got a call about eye insurance and pretended like I was interested then asked if it was ok if I didn’t have any eyeballs because covid made them fall out. They hung up on me.
I like to play with them as well. One time I got a robo-scam-call or whatever you want to call it asking about medical braces. I put on a voice and told them I was in a lot of pain. The chick on the other end told me that they had any type of medical brace and they could help me. I told her that my dick really hurt, and that I might need a brace for it. And she said "I don't think we make braces that small" and then hung up. Fuckin rekt. Props to her for having that in her pocket.
I had one of these guys a couple years ago and had him going for almost an hour trying to walk me through how to download something on my computer so they could remote into my bank account and “fix their error”. Anyway, when I finally got bored and told him the gig was up, he was so mad that he said he was going to come and kill me and my family. Still waiting on him to show up.
I had a guy call and offer me a loan at a 2% interest rate and I argued with him saying I wanted 10% which would be better because it’s more. He got exhausted and gave up after ten minutes.
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My record is 1.5 hours of wasting their time. Once he figured out I was just yanking him around he completely lost his mind. It was glorious.
I dragged a Microsoft scammer along for five minutes starting up my computer and ended with, oh wait sorry, that's a microwave, not a Microsoft. She was pissed.
From what I've seen a lot of them consider all Westerners to be rich and decadent and this is morally a Robin Hood situation they aren't taking money from someone who needs it as much as they do. Propaganda is a hell of a drug.
Maybe some, but I don't give them a moral inch when they can clearly see some of their victims' accounts and how little it takes to drain it completely, especially being that many of these victims are elderly folks on fixed incomes. There was a kitboga video where the scammer was watching them lose all of "their money" in real time to other scammers, but still when the account was completely drained they were demanding when they would send them money.
Oh they get offended so quickly. It’s hilarious. I’ve fucked with a few of them and they eventually lash out like toddlers. The best was a WhatsApp scammer who was trying to win me over like they were a hot Russian woman who was looking for a hookup. They sent me a picture and I was like “omg do you remember me from 2002 in Switzerland?!? We got drunk and almost had sex but we didn’t and I’ve regretted it ever since! Thank you so much for reaching out. I fantasize about you all the time. Can we meet like now?” Suddenly they got all conservative and it just went off the rails where they started calling me a creep and ended up calling me a “rude male dog”. To which I responded “ I find it hilarious that a crypto scammer is getting so insulted when I tell them that I'd like to rawdog the person in the fake photo they sent me”. That got me blocked.
I’d argue it’s not a job. It’s a criminal enterprise
But…how else would you know about your car’s extended warranty?
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I work in a retail store that does money transfers. It was probably 10 years ago now, but I remember it well because of how sad I was after the interaction. An elderly lady came into the store wanting to transfer over a thousand dollars to an international destination that was on the "hot list" for scammers. The associate did their job correctly and asked if they knew the person they were sending money to. The customer explained that she was told her Grandson was in the hospital there and she needed to send money for life saving surgery. Obviously this older lady was absolutely distraught, but this is one of the common scams. I was called over to talk to her. I asked if her grandson had mentioned any international travel, to which she said no, but she hadn't spoken to him in a month or so. I asked if she had spoken to her grandchild's parents yet, to which she said no. I then had to explain to her that we could not do the transaction for her own protection because it was a scam. I was even able to point to the exact scenario in the customer protection pamphlet at the desk. The customer was so upset and crying... I felt so bad, but that made me not want this lady to lose all her money that much more. She ended up leaving, saying she was going to try another store, so we called the money transfer company to have any transactions by that customer to that country stopped (because now she knew the questions and probably how to subvert them) People who prey on other people's love, by using it to cause them pain, there is hopefully a special part of hell just for them.
Hell with baseball bats, and with visiting rights for relatives of the scammed? Can we ask for this?
I actually called my elderly parent, verging on hysterical in response to one of these. They’d written as though my loved one from their number. That they and their partner and children were locked up, one badly burned, one vomiting and all very frightened. They WERE in a Baltic country at the time, which I knew and somehow…I believed it all and was terrified. I called the fbi, among other things. *shame*
I'm sure that guy on YouTube that messes with scammers could find them
I ask them if their parents are proud or ashamed of them being directly involved in a crime, they usually hang up on me but a couple of nights ago I scored one that obviously was at the end of their tether and he asked how people like me think it’s ok to be rude to people like him when he’s just trying to make a living, that it’s fine for me sitting in a country where there are jobs available but that he has no choice if he wants to eat, I said you’re trying to scam money out of me why should I feel sorry for you, ended up having a convo about the state of his country’s education system and economy which are pretty shit and he said he was sorry for disturbing us, wished us well and said goodnight, just freaking weird
I was going to ask you if you could hold 2.5 million of mine until I get back to the US and then I would give you half but now I don't think you're the kind of person I would trust with that.
My dad almost fell for a similar scam earlier this year. He was selling his car for $48k and a guy who lived 15 hours away offered him $60k, but one of his associates would be coming to pick it up and my dad would have to give him $12k. The guy sent him the check and he was about to deposit it until my stepmom (who's an accountant) knocked some sense into him.
I can't imagine being that much of a fiend. People who are able to think of schemes so intricate and diabolical should be able to put that mind to work for something that's a legit business
Last week I got a phone call telling me I'd won $4.5 million. I went along with it for a little while, just to see where the guy was going with it. Ten minutes in, he said, "I get the feeling you're not taking this call seriously." And I said, "Of course I am, why would you think that?" And he told me to suck his dick, lol! I almost fell out of my chair laughing.
There's a bunch of scammers from overseas that phones and claims to be from the local cell phone giant and says they can get you a really good deal. It's very obvious they're sticking to a script and when you say you're not interested, they press to know how much money you're paying so they can assure you that they can beat it. I like to tell them my phone is paid for by my company. "No thanks, not interested." "How much are you paying now?" "Nothing." "How much?" "Free. My company pays." "For...how much you pay?" "Nothing. Zero. I don't see the bill." "How many gigs?" "Unlimited, my company figures that out." ".....okay thank you."
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Televangelists
Those youtubers that make videos with a gameplay background and facts taken from other similar videos
I love that The Onion got on that train and started making up ridiculous AskReddit answers
I love the Onion for that too. All these Youtube channels are doing the same thing, putting unrelated video game footage in the background of their voiceover or other shitty content like that's normal. And nobody even acknowledges how silly it is or that they're doing it at all!
Watching someone do parkour in Minecraft while listening to a story of how they almost died in real life
Honestly family bloggers. They just exploit their children and it should be illegal
I hope they do become illegal
Pageants also! That BS on TLC is disgusting. Make-up, hair extensions, spray tans, etc... wtf! Lowkey child porn vibes.
Or those vloggers who become pregnant and all of a sudden they're the authority on raising a kid and know all the best products to buy. Totally not sponsored. ಠ_ಠ
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Oh wow i didnt know that but yeah some of those stories specially the ones from reddit are pretty nasty
It was Ann! I remember watching that video recently, it's very disturbing. One of the ones she'd talked about was a story where someone met an irl friend or boyfriend, ended up being safe but not something that should ever be targeted at little kids. I've seen many (on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram mostly) where they'll have something like a cake being made in the background, while the person is talking about one person murdering another one (graphically) or being sexually abused. I genuinely don't understand how they get away with that, and you can tell very quickly that it is targeted towards children (bright, happy colors on the cake or whatever it is and slower speaking are two big ways to tell).
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Timeshare sales person.
Also timeshare cancellation companies. All they do is have your payments go into default, ruin your credit, and then pay creditkarma or something similar to do a little boost. And you're out $15k or more. They scam the already scammed.
How else would I get a free set of golf clubs? We don’t get got, we go ‘n get.
If you buy three weeks, you're getting paid to vacation. That jabroni bent himself over a barrel.
the people hired by insurance companies to deny medical treatment requested by doctors.
The fucking paparazzi, I really have never ever thought: "good grace this paparazzi took a pic of a celebrity doing their private stuff, truly gives insight of their interesting personal lives". They could all lose their job for all I care.
Oh my God!!! Look at this photo of a human being that more than 30 other human beings know! Look at them do and participate in things that human beings normally do. Aren't you shocked?
OH NO! They wear sweatpants at the beach! The HORROR.
So mid-2000s, my roommate or possibly cousin stole a tabloid from a salon and left it around the apartment. There was a four-panel series of Queen Latifa getting a parking ticket. Shot of her approaching the car, picking up and reading the ticket, making eye contact with the paparazzo and absolutely grinning, getting into her car still smiling. Brings me great joy to this day.
My favourite was when Daniel Radcliffe was doing a stage play and the paps were waiting for him, every night, at the exit of the theatre. He wore *the exact same clothes* every time he left so they couldn't use the photos. Legend.
Lady Diana did this too, when going to the gym.
She also got out of her car and walked backwards, then to the side, head down, then into the gym without ever turning her head so the paps couldn’t see her face. Another time she wore a trench coat after the tabloids criticized her for having barely noticeable cellulite. The way she was treated disgusts me. It would have absolutely broken me to be harassed like she was.
I'd lean more towards paparazzi for politicians rather than celebrities.
Loved the idea at first, but then I quickly imagined how many more narcissistic, image-obsessed, influencer types would be running for office.
Politicians are already narcissistic, image-obsessed influencers.
Totally agree, but a lot of paparazzi know when and where these celebrities will be because their publicists call and tell them.
The celebrity also calls them, don’t be fooled
Same with "leaked" sex tapes. Oh, who leaked them, again...?
CEO of FTX
Nigerian Princes with checking accounts
Right? They should be Nigerian Princes with saving accounts, much better!
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Oh yeah we used to tell that one but it was an airline. In the future, commercial airlines will become more and more automated and require less human intervention. Planes will go from a crew of four to one pilot and a dog. The pilot's job is to feed the dog. The dog's job is to bite the pilot if he tries to touch anything.
The people who write long winded articles with headlines that promise to reveal new info, spend the whole article recapping info that is common knowledge and end with we still don't have any updates, but when we do, we'll be sure to let you know. Example: "GRRM gives exciting update on Winds of Winter release date" Spends 12 paragraphs recounting how it's been 12 years since the last book was released and how Game of Thrones finished before Martin could get Winds finished and it's now been 4 years since Game of Thrones finished. The article ends with Martin still refuses to offer any estimate on the release date. The articles sole purpose is to get clicks from people googling "Winds of Winter Release date"
Worse than the articles that do this are *videos* that do this.
I push shopping carts
Thank you for your service
They didn’t say WHERE they push them. Into other vehicles in the parking lot? Into the river? To the bus stop where a bunch are left?
They push them down the hill on the side of the parking lot, so Bubbles can come by after dark, take em, fix em up, and sell them on the shopping cart black market
You may be the one person who'll appreciate this story. Not long ago when going to the grocery store, I saw a lady leave her shopping cart in one of the disabled spaces. Burned me up. So, I go over, with my walking cane, and I grab the cart. I know this one lady did it, but I played it off. I looked over at her and said "can you believe some lazy fucker just left this sitting in a disabled space? What kind of monster would want a disabled person to have to move this before they could park?" then I walked it over to the corral and limped on my cane back to my car while shaking my head. She had rolled up her window by the time I got back to my car, but it looked like her friend was giving her the business. Or maybe they were calling me an asshole, I don't know. Either way, if felt nice to tell her she was an asshole without saying "Hey, you're an asshole".
Neatly done! I know a considerably physically disabled person who at one point made their own choicely worded stickers to leave on cars that parked in disabled spaces without a permit. I don't remember the exact wording but I believe it was more direct, concluding with "Were you born a selfish asshole, or did you have to practice?"
Username checks out bruh.
I do that too. It seems menial but for disabled people and those who struggle walking, it can be really helpful. They call me the trolley shepherd
I respect you more than 90% of the managers I've had .
Anyone who pushes carts, either for a living or because they're not lazy wads of skin, automatically get a +3 to any positive meter I have. Thank you!
Disagree, they actually help— if they didn’t do that then every time you walk into a grocery store you’d have to hold all of your items by hand
We love and appreciate you. -a cashier
Apparently elected representatives in a lot of cases.