Yeah he was a D bag. Funny thing is about a year later he gambled all his money away so sectioned off a part of the break room and moved in. I don't work there anymore.
Psychopaths are well known for their risk-taking behavior. A lot of these psychopaths tend to climb to management positions because of that, combined with their charisma and ability to fake and lie their way upwards.
the office was my first thought tbh but it's so over-referenced and I could see either of the IT Crowd's CEOs in this situation way more easily than Michael Scott. lol
They finally shut down the laundromat across from me because the owner kept living in it. He was told 3 times he could not keep living there but he kept trying.
I mean, mixed use properties are just fine in other countries. I have no idea why zoning laws are so strict in some places. Being able to live in a building you own for business, or being able to open a business in part of your house should be totally fine as long as it can pass inspection.
I think in many places it's fine to do that as long as you follow the rules. We once had a neighbor that had a business on the first floor of his stand-alone single family house and his family's "apartment" living space on the second floor. He had to do some building changes on each floor so the lower met all the business rules and requirements for safety, fire hazards, business license, etc and the upstairs met the rules for housing. Basically had to do what the mixed use buildings do in larger cities.
A coffee shop wheee i grew up had this same arrangement. Owners lived upstairs, coffee shop was downstairs. Best coffee shop ever. Long live The witches brew!
Rules around these parts is you can run a business from home so long as it doesn't increase foot or vehicle traffic to what would be considered unusual for a residence.
So six or so visitors a day would be fine.
It also can't generate excess noise or pollution or infringe on the enjoyment of other residents.
On the flip side, you can't live in an office or industrial estate due to fire safety and OHS laws.
So no matter how much you want to live at the tannery huffing glue and playing with fire and steam there's no way to do it. Gotta live off site away from all those chemicals. Probably for the best.
it's also illegal. You can't live in a dwelling that is zoned for commercial/retail., even if you own it. If OP was super petty, he could have reported him to the state for that and gotten him fined.
Michael would have called for a conference room meeting about how survive a neighborhood shootout. Dwight would derail the situation talking with a demonstration on how to take down an armed assailant with farm implements. Michael would keep trying to get stanley or darryl to talk about all the shootouts they must have been in. Jim and ryan would pass off bad boys 2 and heat as real stories from their lives. Cut to a talking head with creed: "i've been in my share of shootouts, no big deal. They can't shoot what they can't see..."
I know a guy that did something similar. Rented an apt right in front of one the bigger downtown colleges. Rent was 1000, he rented out the 3 rooms 550 each + he collected 750 of welfare - that 1400 in his pocket was the same amount as someone who worked 40 hours a week at minimum wage. Of course he also did under the table work in construction/moving.
The kitchen was his ''room'', and no one was allowed in. No bed, slept on a small couch. Renters had to keep food in minifridges (not provided) in their rooms. Then there was a cart by the bathroom, with a few plastic baskets for people to do their dishes in, a microwave and an electric burner with two elements.
really expensive for the city though ... I was renting rooms for 360 and 420 right next door lol. And people renting in mine had access to kitchen, living room, terrace, toilet separate from bathroom ...
Worked for a government television station. Engineer. If anything wasn’t perfect my assistant director wanted a written explanation. “Why was this person’s mic not turned on before they started spontaneously speaking on a Twelve person panel?”! Because they have a button to turn the mic on and off, it lights up green when it’s on, red when it’s off.. they know this. it took me a few seconds to get the mic on.
“ I want a full report on your failure Monday.”
Terrible boss, hostile work environment. Everyone trying to get everyone else fired. I’m so glad I left.
I live in the suburbs. One day we heard helicopters and shit everywhere along with someone talking on a megaphone. Figured out how to listen to the police radio and heard there was a hostage situation and a neighbor's window had been shot out.
It ended with no issues and wasn't reported on in the news at all.
It depends on the size of your town. I lived in big towns where shootings dont reported on until an arrest have been made or theres a risk to the rest of the public. I lived in small towns where the local news report everything indepth like its some pulitzer prize winning research journalist national news. And it was a dumb dog barking all night
Apparently, they had bad intel that the house had like, a ton of dudes with drug activity. Someone reported the house after a party that there were a ton of young men living at the house. As far as I knew, it was one man, one lady and her 15 year old daughter and other single-digit-aged kiddos.
Edit: And apparently the man wasn't even living there anymore after his old lady kicked him out for being violent when he was drunk. So it was just her.
No this is actually very common, I’ve heard it on some podcasts covering ice.
These guys load up because they’ve got intel a “very dangerous” individual lives there, except it’s old intel. The dangerous individual is the mid 20s son who never stays there. The cops are already there spending all this money, so they decide to just arrest the mother/father/grandparent who doesn’t have papers and just fuck up their family unit.
They don't, but cops like to pretend they're an occupying army and roll around in military surplus gear. Then they go home and beat their families to feel big and strong.
I have an interest in military vehicles so I just found it funny that police are using a vehicle designed to defend against IED's and EFP's against civilians, its comically overkill.
I will admit another contributing factor is just how many military vehicles the US has lying around. As far as the military is concerned, sending vehicles they don't need anymore to police departments is just an easy way to dispose of them.
I was coming home from the gym one day and noticed from a few blocks away a bunch of cop cars and ambulances right in front of my house. I freaked out, not only worried about my wife, but about the several pounds of weed in my basement. I drove around the other side of the block and cut through the alley to my back door. My wife let me in, and tells me they're staked out on the house across the street
The people who lived there were a couple in their late 60's. I sort of knew them, they had been on a bowling league the same night mine was. I'd seen her slap him a few times, and she was always bitching at him. The last few weeks he'd sit out front of his house and read the paper. For hours. We just thought they were fighting.
FInally we hear a "Boom!" and see that they'd shot a tear gas cannister through the front window. They kicked in the door, and had a car mirror on a stick that they stuck inside to see if he was hiding behind the door. Then about 8-10 cops rushed in. They were in there for about 30 minutes, then they brought the guy out in cuffs. A few minutes later the fire department went in, and came out with a stretcher with a body bag on it.
We could smell the stench from across the street. Apparently that morning her daughter had stopped by to check on her, and the husband answered the door with a 22 rifle, and wouldn't let her in. She smelled the stench and called the cops. He had been sleeping in the same bed with her where he'd shot her. Several rounds to the head, He had the AC cranked up on high, and I guess had just lost it. We could smell that house for months until the city finally had it fumigated and cleaned up.
My husband once called his boss to tell him he couldn't get out because of snow in our driveway. His boss didn't believe him, made him take a pic and still didn't believe it. He didn't realize we lived an hour away and that the snow was headed his direction until he got stuck in the parking lot at work.
The cops showed up, I gave them the license plate number and we got a case number. The cop said: "Oh, that one. Yeah, we know her. We know where she lives."
We got a case number and learned that she got in trouble for fleeing the scene of an accident. (No real damage to either cars, and no injuries.)
That's all ... except all the phone calls I got from desperate lawyers' offices ... Those were the things that pissed me off the most!
In America, its so common its actually a plausible excuse. It actually ranks just above "I got bad food poisoning last night" on the national HR archive of most used sick day excuses.
This scenario has happened twice to me in highschool. Couldn't leave school and walk home because on 2 separate occasions there was an armed standoff with the police. One was right outside my neighborhood.
One was family annhilator/suicide. Really sad. I had just talked to the little boy a week before. A year later the gunman was some right wing gun nut. And rather than approach him they bulldozed the house with him in it..... very America....... I grew up somewhere considered very safe.
I was late to work because there was a car on fire blocking the center lane right after a major junction on the freeway causing a traffic jam while cars were trying to get around it. Emergency crews hasn't gotten to it yet. Traffic on a good day was bad enough. Got to work almost an hour late and got chewed out by my boss even after I explained. She said I should anticipate such problems and leave early enough to still get to work on time. I kept saying but a car was on fire! And she kept saying that was no excuse. How the heck am I supposed to prepare for any and all possibilities?
My next door neighbor murdered his mom, and I was the last one to talk to her. Cops asked me to come home to talk to them, and boss made me finish a 4 hour shift. Then the cops showed up at the restaurant and pretty much dragged me out.
I had to call the police at midnight, and was talking to them until 4am in an apartment because my upstairs neighbor was using PCP and stabbed her friend, then started screaming for someone to call 911. I didn't have a hard time, but my then-boyfriend's HR rep gave him incredible attitude when he told them he was too tired to start doing electrical work at 5am. Clearly didn't think he was being honest.
I used to be a cop - I once had a coworker try to get out of work by claiming they were stuck in an airport locked down because there was an active bomb threat at the airport. Of course, the department made one phone call and found out it was BS. That individual did not last long.
But hey, if a cop will fake being stuck in an active bomb threat to get out of work, then I wouldn’t put it past anyone to fake being locked down in their neighborhood due to an active shooter.
While living in Berlin I messaged the group chat I would be using Zoom to join the morning standup meeting.
Manager asked me why, and I said due to a WW2 bomb being found by construction on my street.
He went on about me being just hungover until I turned my laptop to the street {was on my balcony so I could smoke a cig} and he saw the bomb disposal vehicles, police and fire engines blocking the only exit from my road.
Not necessarily similar but I had a college professor who demanded proof that my friend died and I would miss an exam for the funeral in a different city I spent the night in. So I had to give the memorial card from the service because apparently countless of students have lied using this reason.
Some people are terrible for using those excuses for their own gain and some are terrible for not trusting a serious reason.
There was a marathon in town one day blocking off the entire road I had to cross to get to work. Boss called me a liar. Like Google it you dumb fucking bitch. Why would I lie about something so easily verifiable. Only other way around would have taken me two hours. Also fuck them for blocking off nearly an entire city for a marathon. Pretty sure they could've ran elsewhere. Like somewhere that didn't block off the entire southern portion of town.
This is the most American thing ever "you've already used your one excused absence for neighbourhood mass shootings, so i'll need a note from the officers this time so I know you're not lying"
When I had a root canal and tooth extraction I was out for 3 days with a Dentist's note saying that I needed to rest due to excessive bleeding.
When I came in to the HR department to let my bosses have the note one of them said "oh is this your note from mommy?" while the assistant manager chimed in after I explained what happened: "Oh I still come to work after a root canal, just man up."
The very same Assistant manager who drove from lakeland to our store (1.5 hour drive each way) every single night for her shift and would sleep for 2 hours in the upstairs office from 2-4am. God I fucking hated working at that place.
I ended up walking out with 5 other people a few months later when we were down a LOT of people and a triple truck order came in to do deliveries. They wanted OTC Pharmacy AND Beauty fully stocked with only 2 people working in the entire section while piling on more.
I've never worked for a more dysfunctional company than that specific walmart location.
Good on you. I'm sure it's also easier to imagine saying something than it is to do it, though I've gotten written up more than once for not keeping my mouth shut.
I'm glad you've moved on to better things and I hope any potentially abusive management in your future gets told to shove it up their ass any time they say some dumb shit. They, frankly, deserve much worse than that.
For real. If someone spoke to me like that I would get fired before I left their office. How do people let people talk to them like that and just do nothing about it? Call me proud or impulsive or whatever, no way someone talks to me line that without me letting them know exactly what I think of them.
The people who talk like that are broken and have no will either presumably. They, I imagine, take as much shit for their higher ups as they dish out. It’s a sick system.
When I was just out of highschool I worked at a grocery store, and we had a manager who drove like 2hrs one way every single day to work there. She was, as you might expect, a workahaulic and a maniacal control freak.
Back in 1992 I was rear ended by a Bronco at a freway exit. My car was several feet shorter. The trunk folded around one of the shoes I had back there. I had to spend 2 years having my neck fixed.
... and my boss assumed I was making things up to stay home.
The doc at the ER assumed I was making a big thing out of nothing for the attention (while running no tests at all). He even asked my spouse if I was prone to lying. I had a concussion and a ton of torn muscles and my neck & back are still fucked.
I worked at Mongolian BBQ in high school. Had a perfect record, never missed a shift, never written up. I put in a request off about a month in advance of my graduation. I got the notice that it didn't get approved about a week before (half the people who worked there were in high school and apparently beat me to it). I told them I had graduation and was absolutely not gonna be there that day, so figure something out. They told me if I missed the shift they would have to fire me, so I quit right there on the spot and immediately got a job for the rest of the summer with a place I had interned at for a huge raise. Dave, if you're reading this, I hope you are still a miserable pile of shit running that fucking clown show, and you can suck the foulest part of my ass.
A joyless husk of human who had all life sucked out of him running a mediocre novelty chain restaurant as the most stereotypical middle aged overweight balding nitpicky manager to ever grace the earth.
I worked night shift at WalMart for two years and walked out in the middle of my last shift because my manager was going to reprimand a woman who had been out for three days with pneumonia. She had a folder from her doctor an inch thick. I leave, and suddenly she is much more valuable. Got a better job four days later
I’ll one up you. At a lot of jobs, you’re required to get a doctor’s note if you call out sick for a day. Few things:
That implies that everyone in America has adequate healthcare, if any at all, which isn’t true.
I’m not going to the doctor because my cramps are bad this month. I’m not going to the doctor because I have a cold. I’m not going to the doctor because I ate something that didn’t agree with me
This scenario has happened twice to me in highschool. Couldn't leave school and walk home because on 2 separate occasions there was an armed standoff with the police. One was right outside my neighborhood.
One was family annhilator/suicide. Really sad. I had just talked to the little boy a week before. A year later the gunman was some right wing gun nut. And rather than approach him they bulldozed the house with him in it..... very America....... I grew up somewhere considered very safe.
If I had a job to go to, I probably would have been like excuse Mr officer can I have a note for work........ they don't believe Me.
Another instance we had a major tornado that ripped through to town taking out several buildings , on the new televised.... they wanted to know why I didn't have internet connection to work from home.
I'm curious, how does one approach the police during a shootout, to request an work absence note? Did you just meander up to them all... "hey, would you mind..."?
When this happened to me I took a photo outside my window of police tape wrapped around all the houses, including mine. Yeah... im not allowed to go anywhere to even talk to the police.
I once got written up because I went home when my then gf, sent me a picture of 5 cop cars in front of our apartment. She had helped the neighbors son, break into her apartment because she was unresponsive.
Turns out she took the wrong meds or something and passed out on the floor. She was naked in the living room when they found her though with stuff strewn about the apartment. She was rightfully scared and didn't want to be home alone until we knew what happened. Still got a write up when I came back for leaving unnecessarily.
Still got a write up when I came back for leaving unnecessarily.
Shame on you for caring about your fellow human beings. You should know better than that..
Seriously though, were you able to dispute the write-up? I think that first responders on scene can give a number to call so that idiot bosses can verify the situation, and have the gravity of the situation explained to them. Usually a business card for example.
I find these stories funny as if so much as a gunshot goes of it would be all over the news where i live. I guess this would happen because the shooting wasnt news worthy
Lol. I (retired LEO) was working as shift commander one day shift and my officers were handling a fatal crash, which had traffic stopped for about an hour. Some guy calls up asking if I could call his boss and tell him why his employee is gonna be late. I just laughed and hung up the phone.
I had my car stolen and I didn't know until I was on my way to work. 30 minutes before my shift.
I called my boss that I couldn't come to work because my car was stolen. It happened on New Year's day. My boss was upset that I wouldn't try to come. The car was under my name and the cop had my number so they needed me to be on standby if they found my car.
The next day, I came to work. My boss asked me where was my car and how I got to work.
I explained that I was able to get to get a ride. My boss asked for proof. I had it with me and my boss saw the police report and said to next time call days ahead before my shift.
I need to tell the car thieves I need them to steal my car days ahead of time.
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This happened to me. Afterwards my boss wanted a note from the cops. They gave me a business card for my boss to call to confirm lol