I get 2–4 spam robocalls every single day, and blocking the numbers does absolutely nothing. So I’ve started fighting back in the pettiest way possible.

Whenever one calls, I answer politely, say “hello,” and patiently sit through the automated spiel until it asks me to respond.

Then I unleash the loudest, highest-pitched whistle I can manage directly into the microphone.
If an actual person ever has to review the recording, they’ll be greeted by a piercing whistle instead of a potential “customer.”

Does it actually get me removed from their calling lists? No idea. But I’d like to think somewhere, a scammer is reconsidering their career choices. It’s probably completely ineffective, but it makes answering the phone a bit more entertaining for me.

This is even really unethical, however Im looking for a workaround since Walmart wants to be dicks. I do Walmart curbside pickup every week for our groceries. Sometimes an item is missing and through the app, "item missing" is not an option, and the only option I have is to "start a return," which requires bringing the item in to the store...but I don't have the item, that's the problem.

Anyone know how I can get money back for an item that I paid for, but did not receive? I'm really not trying to go argue with a customer service desk worker or manager over a different employees mistake. I'm not talking about high ticket items, usually it's a $10 or less grocery item. Also, I'm not trying to scam anyone, I just want to pay for what I received, and not pay for what I didn't.

Edit: This is not a post about swapping returns or stealing.

TLDR: Walmart pickers sometimes do not include everything in my order, how can I get my money back?

Edit: I can't reply to comments? But multiple have suggested that I ask for a refund and choose "item missing" as the reason. That isn't an option in the dropbar, and I stated this in my post above.

My neighbor behind my house is elderly and a bit of an asshole, but I can deal with him. He’s broke and can barely afford his house.
So he’s somehow figured out a way to earn money by letting a group of feral 30 year old bums flop at his house and now they have began to set up bum camp in his backyard. They have a ramshackle lean to built with a tarp covering the entrance.
Every day when they wake up from the previous night’s shenanigans around noon, it begins again: generally behaving like college freshman who just had their first beer; raising hell, burning anything they can find, cranking music, leaving crap all over, piling their constant stream of trash into all the neighbors trash cans. It goes on till 3am every night.
Things in the neighborhood are beginning to disappear and what was once a quiet alley has now become a drunken, loud and somewhat intimidating bum party.
Women walking their dogs are getting catcalled and neighborhood tension is growing.
Short of heaving a roadkill cat into the bushes to stink them out, what’s a good way to get them to move on?

Any tips for avoiding a creepy neighbor’s door cam who has been harassing me and watching me come in & out. I live in an apartment complex on the top floor & our doors (& his cam) directly face each other. I’ve already checked with complex manager, and they say it’s completely legal for him to have in our area.

I’ll keep it short for you guys. Basically became good friends with the CEO, always worked hard, stayed on task and did my job, he trusted me and would always ask for help with computer stuff and I always obliged with no increase in pay. (We do sales, commission only, 1099 independent contractors). He would dangle carrots and say he’d make me the manager when I finish up with school and ended up giving the position to someone else that no one in the office likes. That’s fine. Whatever. We then found out that one of the salespeople was cheating our system. He asked everyone to vote on firing that person and I said I’m not taking part in that vote, you’re the owner you should be making that decision. Blah blah blah, he ends up calling me a bitch, berates me for no reason, takes out his frustration on me instead of the sales rep who got in trouble. I pushed back, told him not to talk to me like that because I’ve always had the best interest of his company in mind. Never took a personal shot. And he just kept saying “im the boss, I can do whatever I want” Anyways he fired me. I’m usually not petty and can let stuff go but I was loyal to the company and never cut corners, always helped him out and even became friends. I’ve thought about reporting the company to the state for misrepresenting us as 1099 when we in reality should be w2, I’ve thought about venting it out on the google review page but scared of legal things happening. I don’t know, what would you guys do?

Hi all,

Wondering if some people managed to keep their US job without the employer knowledge after moving to France and becoming a resident?

If so, how did you handle taxes in both countries? Basically I'm trying to understand if there's any way I can keep working for my US employer remotely, out of France, if I'm a resident there.

Thanks

A few years ago I was royally screwed over by someone and it sent my career a bit sideways. The other day I ran into a former colleague who told me that person is getting sued for screwing over someone else. I searched online and it didn’t come up right away, but after some digging I found some pdfs of the court filings that were noted as ‘public record’. The content of this lawsuit makes this person look horrible. Could these documents be posted somewhere that makes them more searchable or that lands at the top of the results when someone googles this a-hole’s name?

barely slept last night, had uni during the day and now I'm at work and I genuinely can't sit here for another 5 hours doing nothing 😭

What's a good reason to give my manager to leave early? I don't wanna tell him I'm tired or that I had uni lol.

Title pretty much sums it up... my restaurant got a 1 star review from a Google "Local Guide Level 5" who seems to give most places 1 stars with key terms like "worst ever" and "their food should be illegal". I don't want to get into a pissing match with them online - is there anything I can do to just make their life a little bit more irritating?

Newish construction condo. Developer-controlled Board with a property manager (PM) appointed from Associa, a big shitty HOA and property management company. They were supposed to hold HOA elections earlier but illegally waited until now to do it. The obvious play here is for the developer to keep the same property manager in charge so that the new elected HOA board spend their time debating parking spaces instead of managing. The PM literally is the manager for the developer’s next-door commercial property, but we as condo owners pay his 100k+ salary and the company management fees.

For the real unethical stuff - basically I look young and most condo owners are old people; for whatever reason the PM has been a dickhead and super passive aggressive since I moved here. Harassing me about parking, I’m always within the lines; neighbor stole my mail but returned it (he says no big deal) then the business next door loses its mail (he’s convinced it’s me and sends me a creepy video of me getting my own mail). Like he has an office in the building lobby and he’s jumped out of his office to physically confront me and I could see in his eyes he wanted to be even more aggressive. He’s just waiting for shit to blame on me and looking for ways he can harass me.

I already ran for HOA elections (which triggered him more lol), which are pending, and was gonna advocate for CPA review and HOA attorney present at the transition. My main goal is to cancel their contract and get rid of him, but the old people in the building like chit-chatting with him and he does a good job of pretending to be their friends even though he’s screwing us and their entire company is grossly overpaid. There’s 70 people in the building max; probably only 35 live full-time and the rest have other homes. We have a full-time PM, maintenance, and a cleaner plus other various people and fees from the management company. Over half our HOA revenue gets eaten up by them. The building itself is energy efficient and not that expensive seemingly. My biggest gripe is that we pay the PM to work for the developer and their adjacent commercial businesses. The developer will have a board seat still but our elected 3-person HOA will have the power to cancel contracts; I just worry that they won’t care to exercise their power and default to continuing to let the developer/PM do whatever they want. Which means facing passive-aggressive harassment as long as I live here. Most neighbors are actually kind of nice; I’d prefer being ruled by my neighbors than a corporation/PM.

The ethical tips: run for election to HOA, hire CPA for transition review, hire HOA attorney. There’s cameras in the lobby/mailroom but not where people live and in the common room. Not sure how to get other residents on board as a lot of them are kind of absentee owners. I got like 3 phone numbers and no mailing/contact list for the building. Have the HOA financials but not any contracts (promised but not given by the PM), the financials were prepared by the PM; that’s all we have for financials.

Unethical tips?

He'll be coming from interstate over a week span to celebrate a wedding/bucks do.

Throw some funny ideas my way where we can make his life hell for a week without overstepping the boundary too far.

TIA.

Edit: his dad's dead so that's like way outta the question unfortunately

My fake id has a misspelling in the address the city says msmyrna when it’s supposed to be just Smyrna will gas station workers really pay attention to that?

If you are selling something on Facebook marketplace or similar and you get a low ball offer shortly after listing it, do this.

Agree to a time and place (public) of sale at least a day in future. On a day of handover, write to the person that made the lowball offer and let them know that you have received and offer at the price you listed, so are going to cancel the pickup, unless of course they want to accept that price. If they get angry then block and report.

This could work at work or even at school, depending on the situation. Obviously, there’s no guarantee it’ll work every time, but hear me out.

Let’s say you need to email your boss an assignment with a file attached. Send the email, write a little something in the body, wish them a great weekend, whatever… and then intentionally forget to attach the file.

Wait until they reply saying the attachment is missing, then act like you just saw their email. If you’ve already got the assignment finished, you can immediately reply with the file attached. Boom. You look responsive, on top of things, and maybe even a little more competent than you would have otherwise.

Granted, this trick probably has a one- or two-time lifetime limit with the same person, so use it wisely.

Now, here’s the pro tip to the pro tip. When** **you try this, if you finish the assignment before they email you about the missing attachment, go ahead and send a follow-up apologizing for forgetting to attach it to the original email. Why? Because now you’ve established a pattern. The next time you pull the trick, it’s just, “Oh, he did it again.”

You might look a little careless, but at least you’ve conditioned them to expect it and can extend a deadline without the blowback.

I went to an skin clinic in Gurugram for a consultation. They pressured me into taking a service that I was told would cost ₹5,000, but charged me ₹20,000 instead.

I questioned it immediately and asked them to reverse the transaction. They said they would refund me, its been 2 months but I’m still waiting.

I’ve disputed the charge with my bank and filed a cybercrime complaint. The bank hasn’t been helpful, and the complaint is moving slowly. The clinic’s customer service is now ignoring me altogether.

I’m angry enough to want to review-bomb them, but I want my complaint taken seriously and the money refunded.

I hire some undocumented workers in my cafe and pay them under the table with a bank transfer per their request. I want to keep them on, but I'm kinda getting nervous. How do I keep paying them whilst balancing the books without alerting the authorities?

whats a website where i can post something like "call this number for free chickens" or "send pictures of your feet to this number" and not have an account tied to it

He made a mistake. I got spammed with his address and name. His mothers name, and his wife’s name. A phone call from a collector. I looked all this up, and my phone number is listed as all of their primary numbers online. I’ve had this number since 1999. This has been going on for two years, but I never had anything but his first name.
The address checks. Called all numbers and found their real numbers. It Checks. It’s them.

I filed a complaint with the FCC. Now I want legal, anonymous, petty revenge. I already texted everyone that texted me looking for him, his address and real number. This person is a total stranger. What is weirder, is that they also had my brother’s old number as one of their primary numbers.

I just purchased a box of embarrassing prank postcards invites to fake events that I intend to send to his neighbors with his name on them, with something like “Can’t wait to see you at the P**n trading summit meet again next year! You had great content!!!”.

I legit can’t get in trouble tho, so, halp, please.

I'm an average man but have been able to hook up and date girls which are way beyond my league and one common thread has been that they would be at the lowest point of their life. Maybe after an abusive relationship, career problems, parental issues and I just have to be patient and listen to their problems and they would go head over heels for me for being understanding. The most unethical I have been when I reached out to a girl who had failed college knowing exactly what i have to do and it worked. At that point you can be a broke person doing bare minimum but it will work.

Does anybody want to send a link to a specific account? You would have to have a fairly established FB account, preferable one that dabbles in self growth.

I (30F) think my ex husband (38M) or his current girlfriend are seeing my Instagram and threads from an alt account. I have them both blocked on both platforms. And I’ve checked to see if they have alternate instagrams tied with threads usernames, (they did, shocker) and blocked those accounts as well. This has been going on for a while now and I am finally in the headspace and financial position to address it with my lawyer.

While I have them blocked, they’re posting on their main accounts trolling me and my posts/replies/etc. like they’re OBVIOUSLY about my posts.

I know it seems redundant, obviously privating my stuff is easier but I’m looking for things to screenshot as evidence to show that these people have been repeatedly stalking me. Things I can present to my lawyer that has account names that can be traced to them and their phones/IP address. Are there any social media detectives who have tips to offer?

Any tips would be greatly appreciated. If you’re going to troll me at least give me something to laugh at. My sense of humor is pretty dark. Thanks!

I helped start this business with a former friend. I was promised to be made a partner eventually, but that never happened and after a series of lies and shitty decisions he fired me with no warning. Long story. But I want to destroy his business now. It's a food popup and they partner up with local breweries and sell there. I don't want to screw with the actual workers or the breweries or anything. They're all cool. I have some hookups and can help get any of them a decent new job. I just want the owner guy who rarely is on site cuz he's a lazy, arrogant asshole. I do know where he lives. The idiot also didn't change the Square password and I'm still logged in on my phone, which gives me some limited access to things. I can't sign in on my computer though without it sending him a message.

What can I do to put this jerk out of business? Ruining the reputation of it would be great, but how?

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We have a gag gift item in my family. Nothing dangerous, just stupid. It is about the size of a large shoebox.

The goal is to not be the owner of the item. As such any gifts offered that are as large or larger than the item are often flatly refused. It has been hidden, sent in the mail, disguised as being from someone not in on the prank, and modified to look like some other really specific thing (charcoal grill, drum set) so that the recipient's guard is down. Everyone has gotten smarter now though.

I have the thing. How do I ensure that I am able to unload it? It is often exchanged at/around holidays (as this is when gifts are typically given) but that is not a requirement. However showing up to someone's house will generally get your car and any bags searched to make sure you aren't trying to smuggle it in.

The general rule is that once you have touched it, it belongs to you- whether you know what it is at that point or not.