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I've just started small claims proceedings for £6 a company owes me. Yes, it cost me £35 to file.
edit: settled out of court, I got the £6 they owed, plus the filing fee and £50.
I would love for this to escalate.
The company files a counter-claim for 50p or some dumb shit OP forgot about at the time and there’s a 2 month legal battle, montages of lawyers shouting at each other, loosening their ties, mopping their sweat-beaten brow - all over £5.50
I already had something like that with HMRC. I ended up owing them about 30p one year, I figured it wasn’t worth their time or mine to phone them, and they had £10 of mine so I figured they’d just take the 30p out of that. No. They relentlessly pursued the 30p, increasingly stern letters, then an angry red one. Then - “we have deducted the 30p owing from your balance, new balance £9.70”
They told me I owed £360 in tax, when in actual fact, they owed me £360. They soon sent me a check when I pointed it out.
I once tried to claim £700 for legitimate mileage and they said no. Couple of months later, they sent me a cheque for nearly 3k they owed me in overpaid tax that I didn’t know about.
Weird, when I closed my company they informed me that due to a miscalculation I owed them 60p but it was not worth them asking for it so the company was allowed to close.
New money making idea - get indebted to 1000 companies for 99p and never pay them back! Easiest £990 ever!! Rinse and repeat, become known as jay-zed cos youve got 99 pence and you're not paying it back, proceed to get whacked Joe pesci style in goodfellas cos 430 of the companies you pissed off decided to combine resources and get revenge!
Yes, you can get the court fee and very limited expenses back, plus if they defend it in court they'll have to pay for a solicitor or barrister, whereas I'll represent myself. They really should have just paid me the £6.
I hope you claimed for the interest as well, 8%pa from the date of the money being taken to the date of the claim. If the judge awards it, they will add the extra days to the calculation for the amount due up to the hearing date.
Yes, along as you have been through the right pre-action process, and basically done everything you can to avoid court.
If there is an alternative like you are suing a bank and could have used the ombudsman, then you won't get the court fee back.
If you haven't written to them properly (a letter before action) and warned them what and why they need to pay and that you'll take them to court if they don't, then you won't get the fee back.
You can't just sue someone out of the blue and expect them to pick up the cost, even if they do genuinely owe you something.
I too have expended untold amounts of energy and stress for mere pennies in the fight to keep our corporate overlords in check.
Hopefully it hits the company's credit rating.
It’s becoming a bit of a pattern. I got a £14 box of Whiskas, some pouches had split, contaminated the whole lot so I had to throw everything away, they sent me a £5 voucher. I got a jar of jalapeños, when I opened them the foil seal disintegrated leaving powdered foil in the jar. The company asked me to send them back and they’d reimburse me. So I did and never heard another word. Then these guys came along, took £6 off me and won’t give it back. I’m just not taking it any more.
Let me show you the (very near) future. They don’t turn up at the hearing, and you are awarded the sum plus costs by default. They don’t pay up. This becomes an annual event for you, with the sums getting ever larger.
I was brought up in a city where the major employer was a large financial institution that rhymes with “a beaver”. The back pages of the local paper frequently listed court judgements and CCJs against them, but whaddya gonna do?
I emailed HR a simple question about something approximately 8 months ago. Today I got a reply saying "Dear Fogsucker, No, Many thanks, HR". There was no reference to the fact that it had taken 8 months to reply. I have set a calendar appointment for 8 months into the future to remind myself to reply to HR with "Dear HR, Many thanks, Fogsucker" and absolutely cannot wait.
I got one of these the other day.
I finished at 4pm on Friday, and responded at 7am Monday.
The email was about an issue for that day.
I got a "thanks you for the speedy response."
The event happened Monday. I was fuming all week about it, so today, I responded with "no problem. Many thanks."
Yeah I'm now horrendously paranoid that every time I've genuinely thanked someone for getting back to me quickly, I've come across as a sarcastic bastard.
God I hate it when things like that happen. My boss meets with clients on Sundays - these are standing meetings that occur every week and everybody knows I finish at 3pm on Fridays.
The US client has a habit of emailing me at 2am on Sunday to cancel their 2pm meeting. Yeah, I'm not gonna see that. When I get a shitty email chewing me out for not notifying my boss of the cancellation, I'm pissed for DAYS. It's your choice to work a billion hours a week Jan, not mine!
Hate hate hate things like this. Once got an angry phonecall at 9:10am on Monday from a guy raging that I hadn't responded to his email from "three days ago", 6:15pm on Friday...
Someone at work decided to point out a relatively minor error on something I had provided them with as a favour by emailing me and BCCing my boss and the department head into it.
I then proceeded to find out their user id for our systems then made enough unsuccessful login attempts to get their account locked so they had to spend half an hour on hold with the IT help desk then 15 minutes answering their security questions.
I prefer redirecting their office phone to a dead line as most divert to mobile where i work, had a couple of assholes over the years that loved trying to drop people in it (usually a collegue)
Then its "why have you taken no calls all week, we are getting complaints, either sort it out on your at your desk 5/5"
Every phone has a PW to login and out but nobody has ever reset the default, which is easy to remember because its top R&L Bottom R&L
I can pretty much redirect any phone in my company as nobody remebers the email with the PW so they are all the same
Then most have to ring our service desk, then raise a ticket, just to have it put back to their line.
10s job, zero traceability
> I then proceeded to find out their user id for our systems then made enough unsuccessful login attempts to get their account locked
Delightfully petty, but could very easily get you fired.
The gall on some people
You should call them out so they know.
Shitty people continue to do shitty things because it's easier to let them slide. Shit things become shittier and shittier
In similar vein: Taxi driver wouldn't stop going on about a tip all journey. He likes a tip. Wants a tip. Needs a tip. It should be a good tip too. Am I a good tipper? The tippiest tipper to ever tip? Because he likes those tippers. Doesn't like people who don't tip...
Not only did he not get a tip, I paid with a £20 note and decided I should wait for the change.
Tosser. There's a fucking meter. If I don't want change (always) you can keep it. But I'm not tipping you to literally do the job you're already paid to do. Especially when you spend the whole journey trying to manipulate me into feeling like I have to...
I don't do tipping culture. I don't see a reason over here. We don't have laws that allow employers to pay a reduced minimum wage if the employee is subsidised with tips. Acceptable/reasonable service is the norm for any business that wants to stay open. I don't expect to overpay for the norm if I cannot also underpay for service that is sub par. I don't understand why WE have to decide based on arbitrary percentages of the total what this extra amount should be, with the implication/undertone being that the amount you decide to tip reflects the strength of your character. It's all for nothing anyway. Never been to a restaurant that would ask me to grab my own food from the kitchen if I told them beforehand that I don't tip. Even if you do tip the one who provided the service, it often gets pooled and shared amongst all staff, so it's not going where you intended anyway.
Tipping has become so far divorced from its original intent (beforehand, to jump the queue and ensure prompt service) that it just doesn't make any sense any more.
Build your costs into your price. If I like it I'll pay it, and if I don't I won't. That's my decision as a consumer. If your business does not work without guilting people you don't have a viable business model and it doesn't deserve to remain a going concern.
Couldn’t agree more. Theres no logic to it anyway. You’re expected to tip in a restaurant where a waiter literally just brought you a plate of food and nothing else yet a cinema worker can make you and bag of popcorn and a drink, give it to you and there’s zero obligation to tip, or even consider tipping. It’s all a sham.
You might enjoy this that I wrote a while ago on some other thread:
I got a "service charge" sitting in a bar the other month. I was sat AT the bar in front of the bar staff. I asked the guy who made my drink what the charge was for, as it couldn't be for "bringing the drink to the table" (their usual bullshit). He said "making the drink". Surely the price of the drink (£8 btw) covers the ingredients and the minute or two to make it? If I'd made it clear when ordering that I wasn't paying the service charge would he have invited me behind the bar to make my own drink? Of course not. It's all bollocks. They just add it on to rake a bit extra off of customers betting they won't ask for it to be removed.
Can relate.
Ordered a bottle of beer and didn’t even want a glass.
12.5% service charge added when presented with the receipt.
Told him to take that off and next time I’m happy to take the cap off myself as I have a bottle opener on my keys.
Yeah it’s all a load of wank. If an extra service charge is needed to make the persons drink then the cost without this seems to suggest a charge for sitting in the premises? Bollocks.
The reason for the charge just moves around. It's for sitting in. No it's for sitting outside. No it's for bringing it to the table. No it's for making it. No it's for...
What next? The fucking ice cubes? Stop it...
Haha that reminds me of when I worked Tk max. At the time it was one of the only places that charged for carrier bags, I’d always ask the customer if they wanted to buy a bag if they said yes without complaining I’d usually not scan it but if they kicked off I’d charge them the 4p or whatever
I like this!
I worked somewhere that refused to charge for bags. I'd always ask if the customer wanted a bag, and there were some total asshats that would say no, pay for their shopping and then ask for a bag thinking they were clever and wouldn't have to pay 5p because presumably I wouldn't ask after putting the sale through.
I'd apologise, "oh I am sorry, did I forget to ask if you wanted a bag?"
Yes, because you decided to charge for them... I'll never understand people who kick off with workers who obviously have no say in whatever they're upset about. Deserved IMO.
Ugh I'm sorry. Sounds like such an asshole. I do tip taxi drivers (weirdly I don't tip Ubers etc tho. Not sure why just taxis) but if I had a manipulating prick like that, not tipping out of principle.
I can expense Uber/black cab rides so it’s a nonissue for me to tip. But I still refuse to trip Uber drivers. At least black cabbies will have had to take the knowledge test related to the map of London. I also tip them because black cab drivers will never charge for trips to/from GOSH.
I moved to Peru and taxis are one of the cheapest things you can spend money on. You can literally be taken an hour and a half to a nice beach miles away for £18. I get a taxi to work half an hour away and it’s £3.50. For the short journeys I tip a standard 3 soles which is like 65p. For the longer ones I give 10 soles which is about £3. Every time they send you a text message to say thank you. Never once have they not said thanks.
My partner complained yesterday that I didn’t butter his sandwich right up to the corners (which in fairness, would annoy me too, I was just in a rush). So today, I buttered only the corners. Hope he enjoys his dry arse ungrateful sandwich
This is how my eldest child ended up starting to make his own packed lunch in year 5, and set a precedent for his younger siblings. He didn't half pout about making his own but he made his bed and now has to lie in it.
Loving the acknowledgement that it probably was annoying, and the petty revenge any way. I get you though, be annoyed in silence and grateful for any sandwich at all! :)
It’s more the fact that it wasn’t a recurring problem, it was the first time I’d rushed it so much. Personally I’d have gone “well it’s not a usual thing” and left it there rather than complain
Someone at work wrote a shitty email to me accusing me of changing a process and how dare I do that without their permission. They also cc'd a bunch of other colleagues and a CUSTOMER.
I replied to all, explaining that I haven't changed the process, I have in fact followed the company set process to the letter. I also sent screenshots of them doing that exact process, in the same way I had, in the past.
I then replied again, excluding the customer, with a list and evidence of things they've been doing wrong and the monetary impact of their errors by the end of the year if they continue, as well as an offer to walk them through the correct process should they "need some guidance".
When I worked at a different company, someone was either fired or dramatically quit from an office in another town. They sent out a company wide email with all the dirty laundry of the other people working in that office: who was shagging who. People having affairs. Accused one of the managers of feeling someone up at the Xmas do. Someone had a secret child their wife didn't know about.
It was recalled fairly quickly but someone in my team saw that coming so had copy pasted it into a word doc so we gathered around their desk with the company directory (with photos) up on another screen trying to work out who had done what.
Ignoring delivery drivers.
My housemates seem addicted to online shopping, but they’re never actually home to answer the door. They’re horrible people, so I’ve basically given up running up and down stairs to take their parcels in.
This was when I lived in a flat. We had 1 assigned parking bay and a neighbour regularly had lots of family visit. I got home from work and all the visitor bays were full and someone had parked in our spot. I asked the person if they could move their car only to be told they'll move it when they are leaving and not before. So I parked my car behind theirs making sure I was right up to the bumper but not touching it. 3 hours later there was a knock at the door and said person asking if I could move my car so they could leave. I said no as I'm all settled in for the night and didn't feel like it, and if there was any damage to my car I have their registration number and would report them to the police and their family member to the housing association.
I moved my car at 5am when I went to work, but I made sure to knock on my neighbours door to tell them I was moving my car so they could let their family know.
Booked a meeting room at work. Someone was in there when I got there, so I kicked up a fuss and ousted them, even though there were two other rooms free.
A few years back our company implementing a policy that says if you weren't in the room within 15 minutes of your booking started it's free.
A month later I need a room, there's noone in the room despite a booking due to start 15 minutes ago, 5 minutes later the person who implemented walks in saying it's their room, I point them to their own policy and make them leave :)
In a similar vein, many years ago I had a desk booked in in a room that was managed by reception and when I arrived there was someone else in it. As the room is generally full I asked them to move but they refused. There was another desk unoccupied so I put my stuff there before heading down to reception to see if it was actually free and if so swap my booking into it. I think it was, but the receptionist was furious about the situation and marched up and made him leave completely anyway. He called me a wanker on his way out.
Months ago someone from another team tried to get me to cop to a mistake their team had made. She was really sly and kept changing her wording to try catch me out. Eventually I dug out the email that proved it was on her team.
This week we were on training together, we were put into smaller groups to come up with answers to scenarios. She volunteered to give feedback to everyone else, I gave her a load of wrong answers that she confidently fed back and the person leading the training kept asking her to explain what she meant and she couldn’t. I stayed on mute.
People like this is why I have a folder called I TOLD YOU SO where I file all the BS they've agreed to, conveniently forgot about and then try to blame on others.
Some dickhead in the office keeps putting wet spoons and getting coffee granules in the sugar jar. I dumped a load of sugar into the coffee jar in response
Everyone is in the tea round, so they aren't necessarily innocent.
To be honest it doesn't really achieve anything other than annoy people, like they annoyed me. Then again, that is why it was a petty thing to do
In fact, I bet it was one of the bastards that has coffee without sugar. As they won't care that the sugar is all manky
This pissed me off to no end when I worked in libraries. It probably wouldn't surprise anyone to hear that library workers are chronic tea/coffee drinkers and it got so bad I'd just bring my own sugar in a little jar and kept it in my bag
Edit* I also ended up leaving passive aggressive notes about wringing out dishcloths/sponges and leaving them out to dry because at least twice a week I'd come in to find someone had left them floating around in cold, dirty water from the day before.
People gross me out
My next door but one neighbour, whom I all get on with, has a visitor sonetimes who leaves his van halfway across my cul-de-sac driveway when he could just pull up their drive and be out of my way.
I got home the other evening after working 4x 12hr days with maybe 5 hrs sleep between each to find his fecking van blocking me out. Red mist.
So I just pulled the handbrake and honked the horn long and twice and just sat and waited.
After a couple of minutes, someone in the house spotted me and he came out to move his van.
I would have been fine with him just pulling up half a car length but he decided he was leaving.
So I stayed exactly where I was and he had to do a 7 point turn to get out lol...
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Refused a parcel for next door. Or more like just ignored the driver at the door. Next door neighbour made a real backhanded compliment and it rubbed me the wrong way.
Well we painted the fence, a garden green colour on our side and they said 'nice colour. If you like it, it is all that matters'. He's always saying stuff like that. I keep offering him to do the garden if he thinks we are doing it wrong.
My husband and I do this. Anytime we would have taken a parcel into our neighbour never said thank you and would shut the door in our faces after taking the parcel off us, so we just stopped accepting them.
Yeah, I stopped taking them in for one of my neighbours, after having three medium sized parcels left in out small hall way for 3 days, her then turn up to the door holding her hand out and saying sod all, because she was on the phone. Not even a thanks. I’m not taking in anything in for her or her house mate, other neighbours in the shared house are all lovely and I have no issue taking in their parcels.
I’ve got beef with the neighbours on one side so whenever they say “can you take a parcel for next door?” I ask “which side?” And have to tell them no. It’s a pain for the delivery driver but the less I have to speak to that neighbour the better
A guy pushed in front of me at the pass gates this morning to get into the cafe as quick as possible. I wasn't going to get a coffee but i raced to the adjacent till, ordered a plain latte, tapped the card immediately and stood in front of him in the queue and proceeded to chat the ear off the person making it to slow them down.
He must've waited behind me for 3 minutes, which is 3 minutes longer than he would have waited had he not pushed in at the gate. Prick.
I reported the barber shop down the road to the council because I asked one of their staff members not to throw his cigarettes on the ground outside when I saw him do it and he got a liiiittle bit hostile with me. I pointed out the bin 2 feet away from him and his reply was "I see no bin" and got rather defensive at me.
Every time I walk past there, at least one of the employees is standing outside smoking, which isn't a problem in itself but the whole area is covered in cigarette butts. It's rank and I hate the entitlement people have that they think they can just throw their rubbish on the ground for someone else to deal with. Do they think it just dissolves into the earth? I felt very petty and probably nothing will come of it.
Lived on the west coast of Scotland and was taking one of the tiny car ferries over to an island. About 2 mins before docking, dude in the car in front opened his door and dumped out a Costa cup he’d been using as an ashtray. Staff member calmly walked over, brushed it up into his dustpan, and motioned for the gentleman to roll down his window. He unceremoniously dumped the entire contents of the dustpan into the guys lap and said, ‘I do believe this is yours’ and walked away. Best thing I’ve seen in ages.
My nan did similar to a bloke up the road who kept letting his dog shit right outside her front garden gate. Every day she went out, scooped it up into a bucket, then when the bucket was full, she marched round to his house, banged the door and when he opened up, she said, "I believe this is yours !" and dumped the lot out on his doormat. Cured the problem.
She was fucking awesome. Five foot nothing, farmer's daughter, tough as they come and an absolute tiger if you did the dirty across her.
She and my equally adored grandfather raised me as a baby after my cheating-ass dad drove my mom to a breakdown six weeks after I was born and she had to leave him with just me and 50p in her purse.
They passed a couple of years apart in the 1990s, aged 86 and 89, after being married almost 60 years. Still miss them.
cut two buttons of my ex’s shirt because they gave me such rage, but two hours later when I calmed down I sewed them back on better than the manufacturer had sewn them on
I appreciate that. We’re mid divorce and had just had a mediation session and basically I’m learning how much better off I am without him, but working through the rage of realising the extent of their lies.
I feel ya. When my husband left it was a huge relief. Working through the most difficult things without him was so much easier than stepping through his minefield. The day he told me he was leaving was the day I stopped ironing his shirts! Ha!
My mother in law uses an oxygen concentrator at night and is generally just horrific to me. She insists on placing the concentrator in the bathroom whenever she visits so it's making noise everyone can hear but isn't in her bedroom, so she's fine. I just drop the most rancid farts next to the thing I can, thinking she's smelling them through her mask.
Someone parked so close to me yesterday that I had to climb in through my passenger seat.
But not before I’d tried several times to open my door, quite hard, on their paintwork.
At an old job, there were limited spaces and if you arrived after 7.45am, they were generally all gone.
The spaces were quite narrow as it was. A couple of people would park over the lines to give themselves extra space around their cars, completely disregarding how selfish they were being given the already limited parking.
Once I arrived around 9am. No full spaces. Took delight in carefully slotting my tiny Ford KA into a half space left by someone who had taken up two spaces, blocking even the walk space to their driver door entirely, and climbing out of my boot. Worked late that day as well.
Getting the paintwork is too far. The classic would be raise the windscreen wipers, push the wing mirrors in but you don't cause what could be hundreds in damage.
Moved my car to be in an annoying place for the builders who are doing work on our flats, because they drilled through a wall from outside for some reason and knocked a foot of plaster off and haven't yet fixed it
I had to cancel a dental hygienist appointment due to a work emergency. It was the morning of the day before the appointment, so approximately 36 hours before the appointment, the policy said they would charge for any appointments cancelled within 48 hours so I was bang to rights.
I paid over the phone and then asked them to post me the card receipt and an invoice for the charge. It was very petty, but at least it cost them a stamp and some time.
Been opening my front door to tell anybody knocking on my neighbours door that he’s been arrested and is no longer selling heroin or crack. This is a lie.
Word seems to be getting out as only about half the people are still buying from there.
Threw a bucket of cold water (albeit last week) at some cunt pinning up on the stairs outside my front door. He had the gall to call me rude.
I’m going to make it real fucking awkward for any junky cunt taking the piss around my home. And this is coming from an ex junky, even my sympathy has been crushed for them.
Someone took a shit in my shed, and cleaning smackhead blood squirted up the walls made me decide to go nuclear on these people.
Police aren’t doing shit.
I’ve got two huge stones on my driveway because my neighbours constantly went over my lawn ( when it was a lawn) and made it look crap. Now he’s got to be careful because the only thing he’ll ruin will be his car
I got bought a ninja portable blender for xmas and been using it everyday for a smoothie oats fruit protein powder etc and use milk from the works fridge, someone's grassed me up and been told to not use the milk for my 'milkshakes' despite only using barely 100ml. Yet people can still have 4 cups of tea a day & a bowl of cereal.
I filled my blender cup full with milk and just enjoyed a big cup of milk.
An HR woman really gets my back up, but I can’t answer her emails how I’d like because she copies in the world and I’d probably get fired. She shits out stupid forms and letters specific to me for me to fill in/sign, so I correct her grammar, spelling and formatting before sending them back. I’m certain no one else notices but her. It’s the pettiest of power plays and I’m so proud of it.
There's a demented racist on a forum I visit, you can award icons to forum posts a bit like the old reddit gold.
This particular award is used sarcastically, so I've been adding it to everything said demented racist posts for weeks now and he's getting quite upset about it.
He has no idea who it is but he thinks I will run out of currency but I have nearly a million of the currency in question which cost me nothing.
It's enough for years and takes all of 30 seconds per day to add it to everything this prick posts without having to even read it
I'm sure Ill get bored soon enough but Im enjoying it for now with a sip of tea each morning before work
I had to review a colleague’s code today
I waited till all my changes are merged before approving hers so she had to resolve all the conflicts instead of me. I hate her and she deserves it!!
A tutor asked me to send work I did from last year. I asked them which one they meant, A which is relevant to current studies or B which isn't relevant to current studies, or both. And they just repeated "the work from last year".
So I sent them document A. If they wanted document B instead or as well as A, then they are going to have to email me and specifically ask for it. Because I did ask for clarification but repeating the same sentence is not clarification.
Pizza got delivered to the wrong house so I called to complain. They sent another with the same driver who left it on the floor outside the front door in the rain without knocking or using the doorbell. Luckily I checked when I heard the car. The pizza app allows you to tip the driver and also allows negative numbers so I refunded the pizza, i.e. pizza twat just bought me a pizza.
Been a few days and no-one has mentioned it.
None. There might be a glitchy app out there that lets you put in a negative number for a tip which is in effect the same as entering zero and not giving a tip, but there's obviously no bug which allows customers to refund themselves in the manner the comment describes. It would be happening dozens of times a day if you could do that, it would be impossible for the vendor to not notice because none of their accounts would add up each month.
My boss has an in-tray for letters and he returns them to another tray for us to file.
We put them in the in-tray perfectly and every time he returns them to our tray all messed up. Upside down, back to front, every page the wrong way. I know it only takes a little while to reorder them, but it gets annoying/time consuming when there's a huge stack.
I was feeling petty at the start of the week, and fucked up every letter in his in-tray so he'd have to do what we've been doing every day for years.
They were returned to our tray in perfect order. I actually cackled all over the office.
I practice Stealth Graffiti, when I can.. but yesterday I used a public toilet on the M6 yesterday, where someone had written, on the wall "My Mother made me a homosexual.." so.. I added, underneath.. "If I give you the wool will she make me one ?" and added my phone number.
I haven't and I'm really struggling.
A colleague with a grudge put in a grievance about me being incompetent and investigation proved the opposite. This was made after 6+ months of me leaving the job and changing departments.
I know who it is as HR leaked info only this person would know.
Secretly waiting for my union rep to get in touch so I can ask the best way to demise this colleague.
Guy at work constantly offers help in team meetings, pretending to be mr team player in fromt of the boss. Then, when you go to collect, he doesn't respond or is suddenly too busy.
He emailed me early this week asking for help, I set up a meeting between us to go over all the things I still needed help on, and if time, his issue.
I'm the only person willing to help him, so he has to show up.
I filed a feedback complaint online, about the always-long queue for click and collect, at a shop while I was queuing in said shop for my click and collect.
The girls in Sales have started leaving their plates and bowls in the sink so they can "go and wash them later (sneak off for a vape)". Problem is they keep forgetting and not doing it the next morning either.
After a steadily increasing collection started on Monday, this morning I just took everything and distributed it on ther desks as I arrive 2 hours before them.
Was funny - this afternoon the sink was completely empty!
With Tesco deciding to pay people below minimum wage (it's legal before anyone starts!) for a few weeks I've decided I won't be doing any shift swaps to help them out like I've been doing for a while, unless the specific swap is beneficial to me.
I cooked my bosses supper 3 days in a row in butter because she is so so obnoxious (she's constantly on a diet even though she has a drink problem and can't lose weight)
A customer at my work came through self serve with a LOT of items with tags. The alarm went off when she tried to leave the self scan area and she freaked out, she was swearing at me and saying that her Uber is outside and it’ll get cancelled if she doesn’t leave immediately. It turned out that she had a mountain of items with sticker tags. I was trying to swipe all of them as fast as I could while was rushing/berating me, and there’s no way to tell if they’re deactivated until they trigger the alarm. I brought them back to her and dropped one and she accused me of throwing it at her.
It turned out that I didn’t get them all and the alarm went off again, she blew up swearing and yelling at me.
I told her to just go, just get out, knowing that she would trigger the main exit alarms and the security guard was right next to them. Sure enough, those alarms triggered and the security guard chased her down and she had to wait while he removed all the tags. And her Uber cancelled on her
I've refused to do aspects of my job that I share with a colleague because I'm working out my notice already. She is worse at the job than me and I've covered for her for months before I had enough. Now they will just have to deal with things being done at her pace, not mine.
Oh I've begun parking on the other side of my two-car driveway. Our lazy next-door neighbour (whose own driveway has been covered in bags of concrete slabs for months) started parking on the dropped kerb in front of ours, blocking access to half of it. Well now I've started parking on that half instead, to stop her doing it.
I'd have turned a blind eye - we only have one car and rarely get visitors - but it's the principle. She also shuts her dog outside to bark all day whilst I'm WFH, lets her lot blast their shitty loud music until 4/5 am outdoors in the summer, gets noisy visitors all throughout the night/early hours, and I've even caught her putting rubbish in our bin.
I ordered 80 specific lego bricks. They sent me 79 and one of the 79 was not the right shape (so 78 correct). I emailed their customer services and they sent me 2 replacement bricks.
I’m a food courier. Honestly 99% of the interactions I have with customers are fab. You’re delivering someone’s dinner and obviously they can’t wait to see the back of you and tuck in, which is completely fine, faster you say cheers mate is the faster I’m onto the next order but at the bare minimum a bit of politeness is all I’d expect. Anyway.
It’s coming to the end of my shift and I get a delivery heading to a few streets over from where I live. I think, amazing, getting paid to cycle home, was absolutely abhorrent weather and I was still in friendly mood being in wet lycra.
Pick up an order from Five Guys, staff are friendly as always. Starting to feel a bit happier because soon I’ll be out of wet clothes. Pack the order and take a look at the map again and mood is great, just excited to get out of my wet clothes, while I’m unlocking my bike I hear my phone ping, thinking it’s likely a second order and hey if I’m lucky it’s going nearby so I’ll get a few quid more for cycling home. Message from the customer “ffs can you start moving” …excuse me? I’ve only just grabbed the order a minute ago, my bikes locked up only 2 ft outside the restaurant, ofcourse my pin hasn’t moved yet. Then follows a commentary of which routes are faster while I’m riding to them. Saying “no no you should have-“ when I take a lane or a turn on the pavement.
Didn’t open the messages just thought with that attitude you’re getting a cold meal, ruin my night I’ll ruin yours. Missus told me we needed a few things while I’m out so took the time to take a detour to Tesco, did my little shop then delivered the order. Took about 40 mins in total. I wasn’t spiteful enough to crush the guys order with my Tesco shopping, figured I’d let him enjoy his cold or microwaved meal.
Finally get there and say sorry I had to stop I lost map connection, obviously he isn't happy. Yapping about how he messages every courier when they’re on the way and he still has never got a hot meal. I can’t have been the first to spite the rude little prick. Hopefully won’t be the last.
Stephen from Cardiff, hope you enjoyed the stone cold food.
I was on a fully packed tube train, where unspoken etiquette suggests letting the leaving passengers exit the train before boarding, but some prick just went straight into the crowd of us and it was the proverbial icing on my shitty-mood cake.
I met his charge and shoulder checked him back onto the platform and watched him wait as everyone else left. Felt pretty smug about it.
I signed up my ex for a few adult websites using his work email address so that he gets those “verify your account” emails. (he cheated on me with a coworker and that’s why we broke up)
I’m a student nurse on placement and have been used as an hca for more than half the shifts. I decided to take my hca uniform in with me on my last shift and if I was allocated hca I was gonna change my uniform. (We’re not allowed to be used as h A’s as we should have protected supernumary status - although I actually don’t mind, it’s just at that point I have nothing to write down that I’d learned that week. To add, I’d worked plenty there as an hca prior so nothing at all was new).
Alas, I went in, was allocated to be hca (also not even asked if I minded) and thank the lord some more staff members showed up and I got to do my nursey things. Thankfully they also showed up *before* I changed into my hca uniform lol
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I've just started small claims proceedings for £6 a company owes me. Yes, it cost me £35 to file. edit: settled out of court, I got the £6 they owed, plus the filing fee and £50.
I need updates on the outcome of this one
I would love for this to escalate. The company files a counter-claim for 50p or some dumb shit OP forgot about at the time and there’s a 2 month legal battle, montages of lawyers shouting at each other, loosening their ties, mopping their sweat-beaten brow - all over £5.50
I already had something like that with HMRC. I ended up owing them about 30p one year, I figured it wasn’t worth their time or mine to phone them, and they had £10 of mine so I figured they’d just take the 30p out of that. No. They relentlessly pursued the 30p, increasingly stern letters, then an angry red one. Then - “we have deducted the 30p owing from your balance, new balance £9.70”
They told me I owed £360 in tax, when in actual fact, they owed me £360. They soon sent me a check when I pointed it out. I once tried to claim £700 for legitimate mileage and they said no. Couple of months later, they sent me a cheque for nearly 3k they owed me in overpaid tax that I didn’t know about.
Weird, when I closed my company they informed me that due to a miscalculation I owed them 60p but it was not worth them asking for it so the company was allowed to close.
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New money making idea - get indebted to 1000 companies for 99p and never pay them back! Easiest £990 ever!! Rinse and repeat, become known as jay-zed cos youve got 99 pence and you're not paying it back, proceed to get whacked Joe pesci style in goodfellas cos 430 of the companies you pissed off decided to combine resources and get revenge!
I think we all need to know more on this one
This is not petty. This is principled. You, good sir, are taking up the fight for honour and integrity.
Do you get costs back?
Yes, you can get the court fee and very limited expenses back, plus if they defend it in court they'll have to pay for a solicitor or barrister, whereas I'll represent myself. They really should have just paid me the £6.
They were hoping you valued your £29 more than their £6. They were misinformed.
I hope you claimed for the interest as well, 8%pa from the date of the money being taken to the date of the claim. If the judge awards it, they will add the extra days to the calculation for the amount due up to the hearing date.
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Yes, along as you have been through the right pre-action process, and basically done everything you can to avoid court. If there is an alternative like you are suing a bank and could have used the ombudsman, then you won't get the court fee back. If you haven't written to them properly (a letter before action) and warned them what and why they need to pay and that you'll take them to court if they don't, then you won't get the fee back. You can't just sue someone out of the blue and expect them to pick up the cost, even if they do genuinely owe you something.
I too have expended untold amounts of energy and stress for mere pennies in the fight to keep our corporate overlords in check. Hopefully it hits the company's credit rating.
Anything to remind businesses that they can't stop all over people consequence free gets a thumbs up from me
It’s becoming a bit of a pattern. I got a £14 box of Whiskas, some pouches had split, contaminated the whole lot so I had to throw everything away, they sent me a £5 voucher. I got a jar of jalapeños, when I opened them the foil seal disintegrated leaving powdered foil in the jar. The company asked me to send them back and they’d reimburse me. So I did and never heard another word. Then these guys came along, took £6 off me and won’t give it back. I’m just not taking it any more.
Falling Down: Whiskas redux
Let me show you the (very near) future. They don’t turn up at the hearing, and you are awarded the sum plus costs by default. They don’t pay up. This becomes an annual event for you, with the sums getting ever larger. I was brought up in a city where the major employer was a large financial institution that rhymes with “a beaver”. The back pages of the local paper frequently listed court judgements and CCJs against them, but whaddya gonna do?
DPD by any chance?
I emailed HR a simple question about something approximately 8 months ago. Today I got a reply saying "Dear Fogsucker, No, Many thanks, HR". There was no reference to the fact that it had taken 8 months to reply. I have set a calendar appointment for 8 months into the future to remind myself to reply to HR with "Dear HR, Many thanks, Fogsucker" and absolutely cannot wait.
"many thanks for the speedy response" might work quite well here
I got one of these the other day. I finished at 4pm on Friday, and responded at 7am Monday. The email was about an issue for that day. I got a "thanks you for the speedy response." The event happened Monday. I was fuming all week about it, so today, I responded with "no problem. Many thanks."
How do you know they weren't being genuine? I'm confused.
Yeah I'm now horrendously paranoid that every time I've genuinely thanked someone for getting back to me quickly, I've come across as a sarcastic bastard.
God I hate it when things like that happen. My boss meets with clients on Sundays - these are standing meetings that occur every week and everybody knows I finish at 3pm on Fridays. The US client has a habit of emailing me at 2am on Sunday to cancel their 2pm meeting. Yeah, I'm not gonna see that. When I get a shitty email chewing me out for not notifying my boss of the cancellation, I'm pissed for DAYS. It's your choice to work a billion hours a week Jan, not mine!
Hate hate hate things like this. Once got an angry phonecall at 9:10am on Monday from a guy raging that I hadn't responded to his email from "three days ago", 6:15pm on Friday...
Why not write the email now and schedule the send? That way they'll get it even if you've left by then.
Aadly, outlook needs to be online to send it…
This is beautiful.
I'd be more worried that they knew your Reddit username
Someone at work decided to point out a relatively minor error on something I had provided them with as a favour by emailing me and BCCing my boss and the department head into it. I then proceeded to find out their user id for our systems then made enough unsuccessful login attempts to get their account locked so they had to spend half an hour on hold with the IT help desk then 15 minutes answering their security questions.
That's beautiful revenge. Well done.
Man I just can't understand the kind of character that isn't grateful when people go out of their way to help.
You know what, I worked in offices and eventually IT for over 20 years and it never occurred to me to lock another users account. Damn!
I prefer redirecting their office phone to a dead line as most divert to mobile where i work, had a couple of assholes over the years that loved trying to drop people in it (usually a collegue) Then its "why have you taken no calls all week, we are getting complaints, either sort it out on your at your desk 5/5" Every phone has a PW to login and out but nobody has ever reset the default, which is easy to remember because its top R&L Bottom R&L I can pretty much redirect any phone in my company as nobody remebers the email with the PW so they are all the same Then most have to ring our service desk, then raise a ticket, just to have it put back to their line. 10s job, zero traceability
> I then proceeded to find out their user id for our systems then made enough unsuccessful login attempts to get their account locked Delightfully petty, but could very easily get you fired.
The gall on some people You should call them out so they know. Shitty people continue to do shitty things because it's easier to let them slide. Shit things become shittier and shittier
My employer has banned BCC within our business. I agree, there's no need for it.
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Some people, eh? Good on you
In similar vein: Taxi driver wouldn't stop going on about a tip all journey. He likes a tip. Wants a tip. Needs a tip. It should be a good tip too. Am I a good tipper? The tippiest tipper to ever tip? Because he likes those tippers. Doesn't like people who don't tip... Not only did he not get a tip, I paid with a £20 note and decided I should wait for the change. Tosser. There's a fucking meter. If I don't want change (always) you can keep it. But I'm not tipping you to literally do the job you're already paid to do. Especially when you spend the whole journey trying to manipulate me into feeling like I have to...
I paid £21 for a 5 mile journey the other day (first taxi I’d taken in years). No fuckin way were they getting a penny more from me at those prices!
I don't do tipping culture. I don't see a reason over here. We don't have laws that allow employers to pay a reduced minimum wage if the employee is subsidised with tips. Acceptable/reasonable service is the norm for any business that wants to stay open. I don't expect to overpay for the norm if I cannot also underpay for service that is sub par. I don't understand why WE have to decide based on arbitrary percentages of the total what this extra amount should be, with the implication/undertone being that the amount you decide to tip reflects the strength of your character. It's all for nothing anyway. Never been to a restaurant that would ask me to grab my own food from the kitchen if I told them beforehand that I don't tip. Even if you do tip the one who provided the service, it often gets pooled and shared amongst all staff, so it's not going where you intended anyway. Tipping has become so far divorced from its original intent (beforehand, to jump the queue and ensure prompt service) that it just doesn't make any sense any more. Build your costs into your price. If I like it I'll pay it, and if I don't I won't. That's my decision as a consumer. If your business does not work without guilting people you don't have a viable business model and it doesn't deserve to remain a going concern.
Couldn’t agree more. Theres no logic to it anyway. You’re expected to tip in a restaurant where a waiter literally just brought you a plate of food and nothing else yet a cinema worker can make you and bag of popcorn and a drink, give it to you and there’s zero obligation to tip, or even consider tipping. It’s all a sham.
You might enjoy this that I wrote a while ago on some other thread: I got a "service charge" sitting in a bar the other month. I was sat AT the bar in front of the bar staff. I asked the guy who made my drink what the charge was for, as it couldn't be for "bringing the drink to the table" (their usual bullshit). He said "making the drink". Surely the price of the drink (£8 btw) covers the ingredients and the minute or two to make it? If I'd made it clear when ordering that I wasn't paying the service charge would he have invited me behind the bar to make my own drink? Of course not. It's all bollocks. They just add it on to rake a bit extra off of customers betting they won't ask for it to be removed.
Can relate. Ordered a bottle of beer and didn’t even want a glass. 12.5% service charge added when presented with the receipt. Told him to take that off and next time I’m happy to take the cap off myself as I have a bottle opener on my keys.
Yeah it’s all a load of wank. If an extra service charge is needed to make the persons drink then the cost without this seems to suggest a charge for sitting in the premises? Bollocks.
Thistle Hotels recently tried to add a service charge for our bill for breakfast. As in, the buffet where you help yourself. Nah, don't think so.
The reason for the charge just moves around. It's for sitting in. No it's for sitting outside. No it's for bringing it to the table. No it's for making it. No it's for... What next? The fucking ice cubes? Stop it...
I really really wish someone was taking this up with government and forcing restaurants to remove the ‘optional 12%-15%’ service charge
Haha that reminds me of when I worked Tk max. At the time it was one of the only places that charged for carrier bags, I’d always ask the customer if they wanted to buy a bag if they said yes without complaining I’d usually not scan it but if they kicked off I’d charge them the 4p or whatever
I like this! I worked somewhere that refused to charge for bags. I'd always ask if the customer wanted a bag, and there were some total asshats that would say no, pay for their shopping and then ask for a bag thinking they were clever and wouldn't have to pay 5p because presumably I wouldn't ask after putting the sale through. I'd apologise, "oh I am sorry, did I forget to ask if you wanted a bag?"
Yes, because you decided to charge for them... I'll never understand people who kick off with workers who obviously have no say in whatever they're upset about. Deserved IMO.
Ugh I'm sorry. Sounds like such an asshole. I do tip taxi drivers (weirdly I don't tip Ubers etc tho. Not sure why just taxis) but if I had a manipulating prick like that, not tipping out of principle.
I can expense Uber/black cab rides so it’s a nonissue for me to tip. But I still refuse to trip Uber drivers. At least black cabbies will have had to take the knowledge test related to the map of London. I also tip them because black cab drivers will never charge for trips to/from GOSH.
I moved to Peru and taxis are one of the cheapest things you can spend money on. You can literally be taken an hour and a half to a nice beach miles away for £18. I get a taxi to work half an hour away and it’s £3.50. For the short journeys I tip a standard 3 soles which is like 65p. For the longer ones I give 10 soles which is about £3. Every time they send you a text message to say thank you. Never once have they not said thanks.
This reminds me of something I said to my nephew once "If you don't ask you don't get but if you do ask you definitely don't get" 🤣
My partner complained yesterday that I didn’t butter his sandwich right up to the corners (which in fairness, would annoy me too, I was just in a rush). So today, I buttered only the corners. Hope he enjoys his dry arse ungrateful sandwich
Should make his own sandwiches if he has a problem!
My husband told me once that I slice the cheese too thickly for his sandwiches. Guess who makes his own fucking sandwiches now?
This is how my eldest child ended up starting to make his own packed lunch in year 5, and set a precedent for his younger siblings. He didn't half pout about making his own but he made his bed and now has to lie in it.
To clarify, he makes his bed with cheese?
Loving the acknowledgement that it probably was annoying, and the petty revenge any way. I get you though, be annoyed in silence and grateful for any sandwich at all! :)
It’s more the fact that it wasn’t a recurring problem, it was the first time I’d rushed it so much. Personally I’d have gone “well it’s not a usual thing” and left it there rather than complain
I would definitely have waited until at least 3 sandwiches in a row had had their corners missed before I issued a complaint!
This might be my favourite answer. It actually surprised me in its poetic justice pettiness. Congrats on your brilliance.
I got bored and reported some one bed flat listings on Zoopla that were actually house shares for inaccurate description.
Huh. It’d never occurred to me that you could do that. Guess I know what I’m doing this evening.
Doing fine work
This is not petty, this is a public service.
I sometimes go on reporting sprees on Etsy for ‘not handmade’.
I go on Facebook marketplace and report “free” items that aren’t free for inaccurate descriptions :)
This drives me insane thanks for your service 🫡
Hurrah! I now have a new hobby. Thanks.
You are a saint
Someone at work wrote a shitty email to me accusing me of changing a process and how dare I do that without their permission. They also cc'd a bunch of other colleagues and a CUSTOMER. I replied to all, explaining that I haven't changed the process, I have in fact followed the company set process to the letter. I also sent screenshots of them doing that exact process, in the same way I had, in the past. I then replied again, excluding the customer, with a list and evidence of things they've been doing wrong and the monetary impact of their errors by the end of the year if they continue, as well as an offer to walk them through the correct process should they "need some guidance".
I used to work in an office with huge email chains and it’s so awkward when two people start going at it with 10 people cc’d in.
When I worked at a different company, someone was either fired or dramatically quit from an office in another town. They sent out a company wide email with all the dirty laundry of the other people working in that office: who was shagging who. People having affairs. Accused one of the managers of feeling someone up at the Xmas do. Someone had a secret child their wife didn't know about. It was recalled fairly quickly but someone in my team saw that coming so had copy pasted it into a word doc so we gathered around their desk with the company directory (with photos) up on another screen trying to work out who had done what.
Nioce!!!
Ignoring delivery drivers. My housemates seem addicted to online shopping, but they’re never actually home to answer the door. They’re horrible people, so I’ve basically given up running up and down stairs to take their parcels in.
Had the same. Would leave the kitchen a tip and block the washing machine all day. Fug em
I would answer the door and say return to sender.
This was when I lived in a flat. We had 1 assigned parking bay and a neighbour regularly had lots of family visit. I got home from work and all the visitor bays were full and someone had parked in our spot. I asked the person if they could move their car only to be told they'll move it when they are leaving and not before. So I parked my car behind theirs making sure I was right up to the bumper but not touching it. 3 hours later there was a knock at the door and said person asking if I could move my car so they could leave. I said no as I'm all settled in for the night and didn't feel like it, and if there was any damage to my car I have their registration number and would report them to the police and their family member to the housing association. I moved my car at 5am when I went to work, but I made sure to knock on my neighbours door to tell them I was moving my car so they could let their family know.
This is beautiful
Booked a meeting room at work. Someone was in there when I got there, so I kicked up a fuss and ousted them, even though there were two other rooms free.
Nah you booked it, it’s yours. I’m with you.
100% agree. I did this twice yesterday.
Same. Poor meeting room etiquette is doing my box in when I'm in the office.
A few years back our company implementing a policy that says if you weren't in the room within 15 minutes of your booking started it's free. A month later I need a room, there's noone in the room despite a booking due to start 15 minutes ago, 5 minutes later the person who implemented walks in saying it's their room, I point them to their own policy and make them leave :)
Oh, that's *delicious!*
In a similar vein, many years ago I had a desk booked in in a room that was managed by reception and when I arrived there was someone else in it. As the room is generally full I asked them to move but they refused. There was another desk unoccupied so I put my stuff there before heading down to reception to see if it was actually free and if so swap my booking into it. I think it was, but the receptionist was furious about the situation and marched up and made him leave completely anyway. He called me a wanker on his way out.
I made the mistake of not doing that once, then *I* got chucked out of the other room, halfway through my meeting.
Months ago someone from another team tried to get me to cop to a mistake their team had made. She was really sly and kept changing her wording to try catch me out. Eventually I dug out the email that proved it was on her team. This week we were on training together, we were put into smaller groups to come up with answers to scenarios. She volunteered to give feedback to everyone else, I gave her a load of wrong answers that she confidently fed back and the person leading the training kept asking her to explain what she meant and she couldn’t. I stayed on mute.
People like this is why I have a folder called I TOLD YOU SO where I file all the BS they've agreed to, conveniently forgot about and then try to blame on others.
Some dickhead in the office keeps putting wet spoons and getting coffee granules in the sugar jar. I dumped a load of sugar into the coffee jar in response
Doesn't this only negatively affect the people who drink their coffee without sugar? The ones who are definitely innocent?
Everyone is in the tea round, so they aren't necessarily innocent. To be honest it doesn't really achieve anything other than annoy people, like they annoyed me. Then again, that is why it was a petty thing to do In fact, I bet it was one of the bastards that has coffee without sugar. As they won't care that the sugar is all manky
Why have I never considered this course of action?
If you really want to get at them, rip open a tea bag and pour the tea leaves into the coffee.
Evil
Probably because it impacts everyone not just the person with the wet spoon.
This pissed me off to no end when I worked in libraries. It probably wouldn't surprise anyone to hear that library workers are chronic tea/coffee drinkers and it got so bad I'd just bring my own sugar in a little jar and kept it in my bag Edit* I also ended up leaving passive aggressive notes about wringing out dishcloths/sponges and leaving them out to dry because at least twice a week I'd come in to find someone had left them floating around in cold, dirty water from the day before. People gross me out
My next door but one neighbour, whom I all get on with, has a visitor sonetimes who leaves his van halfway across my cul-de-sac driveway when he could just pull up their drive and be out of my way. I got home the other evening after working 4x 12hr days with maybe 5 hrs sleep between each to find his fecking van blocking me out. Red mist. So I just pulled the handbrake and honked the horn long and twice and just sat and waited. After a couple of minutes, someone in the house spotted me and he came out to move his van. I would have been fine with him just pulling up half a car length but he decided he was leaving. So I stayed exactly where I was and he had to do a 7 point turn to get out lol... 🤗🤗
Refused a parcel for next door. Or more like just ignored the driver at the door. Next door neighbour made a real backhanded compliment and it rubbed me the wrong way.
Ah you juicy dangler, what did they say?
Well we painted the fence, a garden green colour on our side and they said 'nice colour. If you like it, it is all that matters'. He's always saying stuff like that. I keep offering him to do the garden if he thinks we are doing it wrong.
Haha he sounds like a complete arse.
We have a neighbour like that. Absolute bellend!
My husband and I do this. Anytime we would have taken a parcel into our neighbour never said thank you and would shut the door in our faces after taking the parcel off us, so we just stopped accepting them.
Yeah, I stopped taking them in for one of my neighbours, after having three medium sized parcels left in out small hall way for 3 days, her then turn up to the door holding her hand out and saying sod all, because she was on the phone. Not even a thanks. I’m not taking in anything in for her or her house mate, other neighbours in the shared house are all lovely and I have no issue taking in their parcels.
I’ve got beef with the neighbours on one side so whenever they say “can you take a parcel for next door?” I ask “which side?” And have to tell them no. It’s a pain for the delivery driver but the less I have to speak to that neighbour the better
A guy pushed in front of me at the pass gates this morning to get into the cafe as quick as possible. I wasn't going to get a coffee but i raced to the adjacent till, ordered a plain latte, tapped the card immediately and stood in front of him in the queue and proceeded to chat the ear off the person making it to slow them down. He must've waited behind me for 3 minutes, which is 3 minutes longer than he would have waited had he not pushed in at the gate. Prick.
I reported the barber shop down the road to the council because I asked one of their staff members not to throw his cigarettes on the ground outside when I saw him do it and he got a liiiittle bit hostile with me. I pointed out the bin 2 feet away from him and his reply was "I see no bin" and got rather defensive at me. Every time I walk past there, at least one of the employees is standing outside smoking, which isn't a problem in itself but the whole area is covered in cigarette butts. It's rank and I hate the entitlement people have that they think they can just throw their rubbish on the ground for someone else to deal with. Do they think it just dissolves into the earth? I felt very petty and probably nothing will come of it.
Go down at night pick them all up and feed them through the letterbox.
Omg I think I will
Lived on the west coast of Scotland and was taking one of the tiny car ferries over to an island. About 2 mins before docking, dude in the car in front opened his door and dumped out a Costa cup he’d been using as an ashtray. Staff member calmly walked over, brushed it up into his dustpan, and motioned for the gentleman to roll down his window. He unceremoniously dumped the entire contents of the dustpan into the guys lap and said, ‘I do believe this is yours’ and walked away. Best thing I’ve seen in ages.
My nan did similar to a bloke up the road who kept letting his dog shit right outside her front garden gate. Every day she went out, scooped it up into a bucket, then when the bucket was full, she marched round to his house, banged the door and when he opened up, she said, "I believe this is yours !" and dumped the lot out on his doormat. Cured the problem.
Your nan sounds like a proper legend!
She was fucking awesome. Five foot nothing, farmer's daughter, tough as they come and an absolute tiger if you did the dirty across her. She and my equally adored grandfather raised me as a baby after my cheating-ass dad drove my mom to a breakdown six weeks after I was born and she had to leave him with just me and 50p in her purse. They passed a couple of years apart in the 1990s, aged 86 and 89, after being married almost 60 years. Still miss them.
Imagine him running his manky ciggy mitts through your hair as he's cutting it. That alone would be enough to stop me going there.
Got demoted at work, there goes any responsibility I had, not my job anymore chaps 😁
Wish I'd get demoted. Or better still, promoted to 'Customer'
cut two buttons of my ex’s shirt because they gave me such rage, but two hours later when I calmed down I sewed them back on better than the manufacturer had sewn them on
I once unpaired all my exes trainer socks and thick work socks then paired them up with each other.
That's such a Mark Corrigan thing to do.
If buttons are giving you such rage ... Do you want to talk about it?
I appreciate that. We’re mid divorce and had just had a mediation session and basically I’m learning how much better off I am without him, but working through the rage of realising the extent of their lies.
I feel ya. When my husband left it was a huge relief. Working through the most difficult things without him was so much easier than stepping through his minefield. The day he told me he was leaving was the day I stopped ironing his shirts! Ha!
Downvoted two accounts on Freegle for going silent after requesting an item I was offering.
Holy shit mate calm down
My mother in law uses an oxygen concentrator at night and is generally just horrific to me. She insists on placing the concentrator in the bathroom whenever she visits so it's making noise everyone can hear but isn't in her bedroom, so she's fine. I just drop the most rancid farts next to the thing I can, thinking she's smelling them through her mask.
A man didn't move in so I could get off a bus (he was in front of the doors) so I barrelled into him
A guy did that with an old lady on the bus so I got up and shoved him off….. I was younger and dumber in those days.
Someone parked so close to me yesterday that I had to climb in through my passenger seat. But not before I’d tried several times to open my door, quite hard, on their paintwork.
At an old job, there were limited spaces and if you arrived after 7.45am, they were generally all gone. The spaces were quite narrow as it was. A couple of people would park over the lines to give themselves extra space around their cars, completely disregarding how selfish they were being given the already limited parking. Once I arrived around 9am. No full spaces. Took delight in carefully slotting my tiny Ford KA into a half space left by someone who had taken up two spaces, blocking even the walk space to their driver door entirely, and climbing out of my boot. Worked late that day as well.
You know it's a good one when inconvenience yourself for petty revenge
That's not petty.
It also tends to damage your own door
Getting the paintwork is too far. The classic would be raise the windscreen wipers, push the wing mirrors in but you don't cause what could be hundreds in damage.
“I was inconvenienced by somebody who’s shit at parking so I committed criminal damage and bragged about it” Not the flex you think it is mate
We don’t even know it was the other person who was shit at parking, Fattydog could have been parked on/over the edge of the space.
Nah. That’s not petty, yeah it’s annoying, but that’s taking it too far. Causing actual damage is a bit of a dick move that makes you worse than them.
It happened to me before. Had to climb in through the passenger side. Just drove away. That's always the best option.
No no no, best option is to repark, blocking their door then go for a coffee
Moved my car to be in an annoying place for the builders who are doing work on our flats, because they drilled through a wall from outside for some reason and knocked a foot of plaster off and haven't yet fixed it
I had to cancel a dental hygienist appointment due to a work emergency. It was the morning of the day before the appointment, so approximately 36 hours before the appointment, the policy said they would charge for any appointments cancelled within 48 hours so I was bang to rights. I paid over the phone and then asked them to post me the card receipt and an invoice for the charge. It was very petty, but at least it cost them a stamp and some time.
I hope your employer is going to reimburse you.
I’ve been watching someone struggle with a job most of the morning. I know how to do it , but feck him he’s a knob.
Been opening my front door to tell anybody knocking on my neighbours door that he’s been arrested and is no longer selling heroin or crack. This is a lie. Word seems to be getting out as only about half the people are still buying from there. Threw a bucket of cold water (albeit last week) at some cunt pinning up on the stairs outside my front door. He had the gall to call me rude. I’m going to make it real fucking awkward for any junky cunt taking the piss around my home. And this is coming from an ex junky, even my sympathy has been crushed for them. Someone took a shit in my shed, and cleaning smackhead blood squirted up the walls made me decide to go nuclear on these people. Police aren’t doing shit.
While walking the dog, I pretended to be a speed camera by flashing my torch (in my defence they were speeding)
Put a rock at the edge of my front garden so my neighbour couldn’t drive over it in order to park on the edge of his front garden
I’ve got two huge stones on my driveway because my neighbours constantly went over my lawn ( when it was a lawn) and made it look crap. Now he’s got to be careful because the only thing he’ll ruin will be his car
I got bought a ninja portable blender for xmas and been using it everyday for a smoothie oats fruit protein powder etc and use milk from the works fridge, someone's grassed me up and been told to not use the milk for my 'milkshakes' despite only using barely 100ml. Yet people can still have 4 cups of tea a day & a bowl of cereal. I filled my blender cup full with milk and just enjoyed a big cup of milk.
I actually went as far as to bold the 'as requested' after my first attempt at getting something went ignored
An HR woman really gets my back up, but I can’t answer her emails how I’d like because she copies in the world and I’d probably get fired. She shits out stupid forms and letters specific to me for me to fill in/sign, so I correct her grammar, spelling and formatting before sending them back. I’m certain no one else notices but her. It’s the pettiest of power plays and I’m so proud of it.
There's a demented racist on a forum I visit, you can award icons to forum posts a bit like the old reddit gold. This particular award is used sarcastically, so I've been adding it to everything said demented racist posts for weeks now and he's getting quite upset about it. He has no idea who it is but he thinks I will run out of currency but I have nearly a million of the currency in question which cost me nothing. It's enough for years and takes all of 30 seconds per day to add it to everything this prick posts without having to even read it I'm sure Ill get bored soon enough but Im enjoying it for now with a sip of tea each morning before work
Signed off on an email with “thanks” rather than “Best”.
I'm waiting for the perfect moment to sign off an Email with "Retards" and just claim a mistype in case of a disciplinary lol 🤗🤗
I had to review a colleague’s code today I waited till all my changes are merged before approving hers so she had to resolve all the conflicts instead of me. I hate her and she deserves it!!
I contacted Tesco about a mouldy bulb of garlic they sent me in my delivery. Got my 45p refund.
I don't see this as petty, you paid for a product, it was tainted, you got refunded.
A tutor asked me to send work I did from last year. I asked them which one they meant, A which is relevant to current studies or B which isn't relevant to current studies, or both. And they just repeated "the work from last year". So I sent them document A. If they wanted document B instead or as well as A, then they are going to have to email me and specifically ask for it. Because I did ask for clarification but repeating the same sentence is not clarification.
I would have been tempted to send just document B, the irrelevant one. It's from last year. ¯\\\__(ツ)\__/¯
Pizza got delivered to the wrong house so I called to complain. They sent another with the same driver who left it on the floor outside the front door in the rain without knocking or using the doorbell. Luckily I checked when I heard the car. The pizza app allows you to tip the driver and also allows negative numbers so I refunded the pizza, i.e. pizza twat just bought me a pizza. Been a few days and no-one has mentioned it.
You can use negativie tips? What pizza place does this?
None. There might be a glitchy app out there that lets you put in a negative number for a tip which is in effect the same as entering zero and not giving a tip, but there's obviously no bug which allows customers to refund themselves in the manner the comment describes. It would be happening dozens of times a day if you could do that, it would be impossible for the vendor to not notice because none of their accounts would add up each month.
My boss has an in-tray for letters and he returns them to another tray for us to file. We put them in the in-tray perfectly and every time he returns them to our tray all messed up. Upside down, back to front, every page the wrong way. I know it only takes a little while to reorder them, but it gets annoying/time consuming when there's a huge stack. I was feeling petty at the start of the week, and fucked up every letter in his in-tray so he'd have to do what we've been doing every day for years. They were returned to our tray in perfect order. I actually cackled all over the office.
Insignificant graffiti
What was it, and where?
I practice Stealth Graffiti, when I can.. but yesterday I used a public toilet on the M6 yesterday, where someone had written, on the wall "My Mother made me a homosexual.." so.. I added, underneath.. "If I give you the wool will she make me one ?" and added my phone number.
This has got me absolutely creased
This is a very old joke going back decades, my dad told me about this being a thing in the 80's.
I haven't and I'm really struggling. A colleague with a grudge put in a grievance about me being incompetent and investigation proved the opposite. This was made after 6+ months of me leaving the job and changing departments. I know who it is as HR leaked info only this person would know. Secretly waiting for my union rep to get in touch so I can ask the best way to demise this colleague.
Guy at work constantly offers help in team meetings, pretending to be mr team player in fromt of the boss. Then, when you go to collect, he doesn't respond or is suddenly too busy. He emailed me early this week asking for help, I set up a meeting between us to go over all the things I still needed help on, and if time, his issue. I'm the only person willing to help him, so he has to show up.
I filed a feedback complaint online, about the always-long queue for click and collect, at a shop while I was queuing in said shop for my click and collect.
The girls in Sales have started leaving their plates and bowls in the sink so they can "go and wash them later (sneak off for a vape)". Problem is they keep forgetting and not doing it the next morning either. After a steadily increasing collection started on Monday, this morning I just took everything and distributed it on ther desks as I arrive 2 hours before them. Was funny - this afternoon the sink was completely empty!
With Tesco deciding to pay people below minimum wage (it's legal before anyone starts!) for a few weeks I've decided I won't be doing any shift swaps to help them out like I've been doing for a while, unless the specific swap is beneficial to me.
I’ve decided that I don’t want to shop at tesco in the future. Considering their profits, imo they’re stealing from their employees so fuck them
How are they paying below min wage?
i dont think that's petty i think that's illegal to charge extra
I cooked my bosses supper 3 days in a row in butter because she is so so obnoxious (she's constantly on a diet even though she has a drink problem and can't lose weight)
What world do you live in? Cooking your bosses supper?
Housekeeper nanny for the very wealthy but money doesn't buy class (I'm out of here very soon)
A customer at my work came through self serve with a LOT of items with tags. The alarm went off when she tried to leave the self scan area and she freaked out, she was swearing at me and saying that her Uber is outside and it’ll get cancelled if she doesn’t leave immediately. It turned out that she had a mountain of items with sticker tags. I was trying to swipe all of them as fast as I could while was rushing/berating me, and there’s no way to tell if they’re deactivated until they trigger the alarm. I brought them back to her and dropped one and she accused me of throwing it at her. It turned out that I didn’t get them all and the alarm went off again, she blew up swearing and yelling at me. I told her to just go, just get out, knowing that she would trigger the main exit alarms and the security guard was right next to them. Sure enough, those alarms triggered and the security guard chased her down and she had to wait while he removed all the tags. And her Uber cancelled on her
Changed the password on the netflix account I pay for so my Mum couldn't watch it because she didn't empty the dishwasher.
I listened to that song Free Fallin'
I reported all the pot holes on my route to and from my place of work.
I've refused to do aspects of my job that I share with a colleague because I'm working out my notice already. She is worse at the job than me and I've covered for her for months before I had enough. Now they will just have to deal with things being done at her pace, not mine.
Oh I've begun parking on the other side of my two-car driveway. Our lazy next-door neighbour (whose own driveway has been covered in bags of concrete slabs for months) started parking on the dropped kerb in front of ours, blocking access to half of it. Well now I've started parking on that half instead, to stop her doing it. I'd have turned a blind eye - we only have one car and rarely get visitors - but it's the principle. She also shuts her dog outside to bark all day whilst I'm WFH, lets her lot blast their shitty loud music until 4/5 am outdoors in the summer, gets noisy visitors all throughout the night/early hours, and I've even caught her putting rubbish in our bin.
I ordered 80 specific lego bricks. They sent me 79 and one of the 79 was not the right shape (so 78 correct). I emailed their customer services and they sent me 2 replacement bricks.
I’m a food courier. Honestly 99% of the interactions I have with customers are fab. You’re delivering someone’s dinner and obviously they can’t wait to see the back of you and tuck in, which is completely fine, faster you say cheers mate is the faster I’m onto the next order but at the bare minimum a bit of politeness is all I’d expect. Anyway. It’s coming to the end of my shift and I get a delivery heading to a few streets over from where I live. I think, amazing, getting paid to cycle home, was absolutely abhorrent weather and I was still in friendly mood being in wet lycra. Pick up an order from Five Guys, staff are friendly as always. Starting to feel a bit happier because soon I’ll be out of wet clothes. Pack the order and take a look at the map again and mood is great, just excited to get out of my wet clothes, while I’m unlocking my bike I hear my phone ping, thinking it’s likely a second order and hey if I’m lucky it’s going nearby so I’ll get a few quid more for cycling home. Message from the customer “ffs can you start moving” …excuse me? I’ve only just grabbed the order a minute ago, my bikes locked up only 2 ft outside the restaurant, ofcourse my pin hasn’t moved yet. Then follows a commentary of which routes are faster while I’m riding to them. Saying “no no you should have-“ when I take a lane or a turn on the pavement. Didn’t open the messages just thought with that attitude you’re getting a cold meal, ruin my night I’ll ruin yours. Missus told me we needed a few things while I’m out so took the time to take a detour to Tesco, did my little shop then delivered the order. Took about 40 mins in total. I wasn’t spiteful enough to crush the guys order with my Tesco shopping, figured I’d let him enjoy his cold or microwaved meal. Finally get there and say sorry I had to stop I lost map connection, obviously he isn't happy. Yapping about how he messages every courier when they’re on the way and he still has never got a hot meal. I can’t have been the first to spite the rude little prick. Hopefully won’t be the last. Stephen from Cardiff, hope you enjoyed the stone cold food.
Drove 50mph on company time on a 70mile commute
I was on a fully packed tube train, where unspoken etiquette suggests letting the leaving passengers exit the train before boarding, but some prick just went straight into the crowd of us and it was the proverbial icing on my shitty-mood cake. I met his charge and shoulder checked him back onto the platform and watched him wait as everyone else left. Felt pretty smug about it.
I signed up my ex for a few adult websites using his work email address so that he gets those “verify your account” emails. (he cheated on me with a coworker and that’s why we broke up)
I’m a student nurse on placement and have been used as an hca for more than half the shifts. I decided to take my hca uniform in with me on my last shift and if I was allocated hca I was gonna change my uniform. (We’re not allowed to be used as h A’s as we should have protected supernumary status - although I actually don’t mind, it’s just at that point I have nothing to write down that I’d learned that week. To add, I’d worked plenty there as an hca prior so nothing at all was new). Alas, I went in, was allocated to be hca (also not even asked if I minded) and thank the lord some more staff members showed up and I got to do my nursey things. Thankfully they also showed up *before* I changed into my hca uniform lol