They did it all: they forgot my order twice, got it wrong, served my to-go order on a plate, and overcharged me. What really hurt was the guy accusing me of not paying because he did not hear the cashier call out my order, even though I was standing right there when he did and the guy responded. He swore at me when I showed him the CC notification on my phone.

How do I really send it home? They have a 4.8 on Google so my bad review isn't doing much. How do I hit them where it hurts?

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.

I need to be out this time next week.

First my request, then the story.

Say I wanted to disable speakers from afar (or at least the speaker directly outside my window)... What could I do to sabotage them or turn them off without being on the security cameras in said space? Pretty sure they are wired & the main stereo or whatever is connected to a wifi network I have access to.

The story:

There is a public space right outside my work building, and there are speakers playing the most random mix of like 20 songs consisting of shitty country/Taylor Swift/Sabrina Carpenter/rando 70s hits.

It's a small town. The people in charge of the speakers are sick of me asking them to turn it down or change the playlist & ignore my pleas. It plays from 7am - 11pm. ALL YEAR. (No one uses the space in the winter.)

I am going FUCKING NUTS. I know all the lyrics against my will. I can't listen to Ophelia, Espresso, I Ain't Coming Back, or a shitty cover of Travelin' Soldier again.

It's either disable the speakers or stand outside the village managers office window with an equally shitty mix blasting until he turns it the fuck off.

If you are on the shorter size as an adult, go trunk-or-treat and trick-or-treating with a full costume and then use the candy to distribute at your house. Never pay for candy again.

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?

Anyone have any suggestions for cars that park in my parking spot? I live in a busy area of town and it’s always new people but it’s constant and the tow company/management won’t do anything about it. Don’t want to do real damage since it’s relatively not a big deal but every time I pull up and it’s taken I get pissed for a good ten minutes lol. I also have a camera pointed at the lot so nothing crazy. Thanks!

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 have found a way to make alts on uber eats but the only promo that works are regular promo for first time order which is a 10 off 20 order, unlike referral codes that starts with "eats-xxxxx" and have a 15 off 20 promo!, are you guys any knowledgeable about this and might help a brother out on trying to save a few more bucks 😭

Context, Restaurant/Bar. I’ve been at this job for a year. I worked hard put my best foot forward. Did everything I could to be a pretty decent employee. Initially interviewed for manager position (resume supported). Was told they weren’t really looking for managers, but they had a server position and I took it and shortly became a bartender. Within two months was re-interviewed for the manager position. Requested the median number for the salary range, got denied. Month or two goes by, get re-interviewed same story. Realize I have reached my potential ceiling. Continue to go to work every day. Do what I’m supposed to do be friendly and enjoyable to be around and go home. Girlfriend gets cancer. Surgery IVF and chemo become extremely demanding of my personal life. The GM is completely lacking in empathy (not worth describing). During the course of all this, she suddenly becomes very standoff-ish to scheduling requests around medical appointments. Decides I’m not an easy employee and starts targeting me. Lets me show up this morning only so she could tell me she was pulling my bar shifts (another bartender served a woman 6 IPA’s didn’t communicate this to me despite the woman closing her tab, woman reopens a tab with me and orders another IPA, all of this happens exactly when I show up for work and the woman gave no obvious indication of intoxication.) because of an incident (other bartender was not reprimanded and is ironically buddy-buddy with her) I’m interviewing for another hospitality job I will likely get tonight. Let’s hear your thoughts and opinions on how one should/could handle this situation for Someone Who Isn’t Me (SWIM).

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?

So i got approved for an apartment on October 5th and the latest i can move in is November 4th. it’s $1305 a month. but my credit is bad so i have to pay 2x the rent as a security deposit which equals to be $2610 and then a prorated rent amount of $1,174!! that’s a total of $3,784 that i have to have by november 4th in order to receive my keys!! Between all my other bills there is no way I can come up with that amount by the 4th. I can’t get a loan from a bank either because of my credit! Yall i don’t know what to do. i can afford the rent monthly, but i wasn’t expecting the upfront cost to get in. i don’t even think i have a chance at getting an extension because the office said i had 30 days from the day of approval to move in, so november 4th is the latest. What can i do ?? any advice?

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.

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

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?

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

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?

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?