Story 5: What a bunch of Jerks, they went out of their way to make it seem like the "Missing" Book was still OP's fault, I would've made sure that people knew about their willingness to throw someone else under the bus to cover up their mistake
Story 5: I recently received an email from my former local public library that some books that I checked out pre-pandemic were overdue and needed returned ASAP or paid for ASAP! I walked into the library with the list, walked over to the shelves, took each book off the shelves, and placed them on the counter with the list. I walked out!
@@milosloth9913 name like sloth, everything is probably too much work! Lol. Actually, that's probably why I don't enact revenge on anyone, it's ALWAYS too much work...
Best part was the librarian was at fault and couldn't apologize, come on who is the grown up here? For an adult to wrongfully put blame on a child is low!
In high school, I took a "class" called Library Aid, actually getting course credit. I loved it, being a bespectacled bookworm (in the Giant Economy Size!). In my freshman year (1971), the school board decided to try a new-fangled liberal "Mod System" of class scheduling. It started off rocky. The day was broken into 20 minute "mods", with classes running usually two or three mods. But on Thursday, they had me scheduled for ten mods straight of "Study Hall", or three hours twenty minutes of NO classes! Study Hall was in the loud raucus cafeteria, and did not require sign in. It was Hell. After awhile, I turn 16 and Dad buys me a used motorcycle. Cool, I am mobile! No fences or locked gates back then, so I rode the three miles home, chilled and had lunch, then returned to school for my next scheduled class. Ran that way the rest of the school year. Next year, they fixed that bug. 😄
I remember when I was in year 2, and the librarian accused me of being a thief and a liar because the system was down. I had to show her exactly where the book was in the library in order to clear my name - it was one shelf above where it was supposed to be. The worst part about the whole thing was that she had just excused my 2 bullies for not returning their books because the system was down, and they actually hadn't returned their books and had a history of overdue books and failing to return books. I was 2 spots behind them in line and heard the whole thing right before being accused of theft. My parents weren't too happy when I told them, and the librarian was nearly fired.
Those Librarians can't be very well educated if they didn't know Hell have no fury like a Mama Bear scorned. ESPECIALLY if that Mama Bear is your Superior...
Same here, got lunch detention and internal suspension a lot, not exactly sure why though. Loved every minute of it. The actual punishment was having to go back to the general population at the end.
So, she left a toddler on the fourth floor, by itself, and ran down to do her "Karen" duty, leaving the toddler up there the entire time? Can someone please call C.P.S.?
Indeed. She could just as well put a flashing neon light above her kid : Abduct me! Poor child, it's not gonna end well either way unless CPS gets involved. She clearly does not give a sh!t about her kid's safety.
@@danieltrickel173TBC not on Karen's side but baby in a stroller, that's not necessarily a toddler and likely not one that can even walk, shitty yes and indictive of how she acts with her child in general, but let's play devil's advocate it's a baby likely in a closed house secured in a way where it can't get to anything dangerous even if unattended, sound familiar? It's basically the same as being in a crib and the amount of parents that have walked outside for a few minutes while their kids in a crib awake or not, is probably well above the majority, this also does nothing to deal with the assumption you made that the kid is alone in the house could have a older sibling or father there, all I'm saying is shitty person or not to come to the conclusion that she was negligent from the info in this story alone requires multiple assumptions since nothing was made clear, It is unclear if the child is awake, It is unclear if the child is in the house or in the stairwell, It is unclear if the child is able to move well enough to free themselves from the stroller or hurt themselves, It is unclear if the child is alone All of these have to be yes to be truly negligent, the likelihood is slim in my opinion
Story 6 is just another example of one of the worst things a manager can ever do...dictating changes to a system without first understanding how it works as is.
It's also an excellent example of why unions are extremely important. What do you think would have happened to the worker without it just for following a faulty corporate policy?
@@trillaco1 I love how big corpo tries to paint unions as 'unnecessary' and 'harmful.' Rule of thumb: if the corporation you work for doesn't want you to do/read/use something, do/read/use that thing as soon as humanly possible.
I hate when bosses who havent done the actual job ore done it years a go come up whit New and ''better'' ides that Only makes things harder and adds on unnessesary work fore us who have too do the job.
The elevator story reminded me of an incident where an elevator in a condo building was under repair, has the door slightly open but was barricaded by massive danger signs and big bright yellow barriers. It is obvious that there is no elevator car and the door only leads you to the elevator shaft and it is a 5 floor drop. This one karen just ignored all the danger signs, pushed past the big yellow barricades, forced open the slightly opened elevator doors and promptly stepped into thin air, where she fell 5 floors down and broke both her legs badly. Karen actually tried to sue the elevator company and the repair company for causing her injury but the lift lobbies all have cctv cameras and her stupidity was shown in court for everyone to see, including the media. Karen lost her case and the newspapers had a field day with their articles basically calling her a dumb karen. EDIT: This happened in my country years ago, not the USA.
It still astounds me that there are kids in high school math classes across America who still whine "when am I ever going to use this in real life???" Bitch, it's f**king MATH! The whole goddamn world runs on it, from time to money to motherf**kin quantities of stuff! It's the one true universal language because no matter what words people speak, we all use the same numbers! Math gave you EVERYTHING you've ever used in your LIFE! From toilets to phones to cars to goddamn applesauce. Math made it all happen. Just shut the f**k up!
Welcome to MURICA! Where the laws are 100% in the company's favor since they are super hostile to unions that can stop crap like this from happening :)
@@Ormathon Stow it prat. Unions may have had their place at one time, but today they exist only to launder money or raise money for one political party. Say hi to Uncle Joe and Heels Up for me.
@@Renville80 Im not american thank fk, being treated as a "legal" working slave with the corrupt labor laws they got over there is disgusting. Here in Sweden the unions actually help workers with their rights, and forces companies to actually pay them a fair wage and make sure people get time off and vaction days. And if you quit work you got a safety net where you get 80% of your monthly pay per month for year. Thats the reason amazon is pretty much dead here, they tried to go full blown "murica" but noticed it was a "hostile"(lmfao) market(they couldnt pay people slave wage). So now they rent warehouse space from another company just to sell stuff here. But they are more expensive and have worse quality then everyone else xD.
The book detention story: I always had so much fun whenever I managed to get lunchtime detention. My whole life I've loved kimchi (Korean fermented vegetable dish) and the spicier the better. I'm not Korean, just love the food. One of my favorites is so spicy it almost hurts to eat and the smell will peel paint. So come detention time I'd crack open my Tupperware of kimchi and let the smell do it's job. The entire detention room would run, not walk, run out of the room. Instead of just relocating me somewhere else they just stopped having lunch time detention altogether and I stopped getting detention because there wasn't a teacher at the school who would supervise me for it. 🤣
Obviously lying. If she had a child in a stroller and had the time to walk down the stairs to yell at them, she could have brought her child down with her and skipped the whole thing. Really, I mean it's so stupid. She just walked down several flights of stairs, just to try and get them to restart the elevator. Then she was actually going to go back up, grab the stroller, and then go back down in the elevator.
They can not take pay away for being late. If they do, you're not required to work during the 'penalty' period. This is technically classified as slave labor. Know your state's labor laws.
The term is wage theft. With every thing computerized, its too easy to just pay the exact time you are there. For me, I'm not going to say much about someone being a few minutes late as long as the time is made up. If it's a constant thing, I might adjust the hours to compensate. (I mean that if you are normally scheduled 9-5:30, but come in at 9:15 and leave at 5:45, I'll adjust your schedule to 9:30-6.)
I worked for a few years at a warehouse. All the orders were computerized and their policy was if you logged into the system a minute late you were not paid for the first 15 minutes of your shift. My response when I was logged in late ( it happened a couple times) was to go up to the lunchroom and have a cup of coffee until the 15 minutes was up. One time the supervisor saw me log in then start heading upstairs. He glanced at the clock and said your shift has started, where are you going? I explained that if I am not being paid until 15 minutes from now, I an not working until 15 minutes from now. He left it there.
Yup. My first job was at a fast food restaurant that was run really really badly and they thought I didn't know my rights. One day I arrived at my scheduled time and was told not to clock in for another hour. I was pissed since I got dropped off and didn't have a car so I just said "Okay" and then sat in the little office for an hour scrolling on my phone. Managers were pissed but knew there wasn't anything they could do. I ended up quitting that job pretty shortly after that incident after being held at gunpoint lol
What my company allows is if you're late your boss can tell you not to start until 60 minutes later. It's dumb, but one guy tried to make an apprentice sit on a bucket for the hour, instead of letting him go to McDonalds for the hour. The boss got a stern talking to for that one.
The Lunchtime detention story made me laugh as it reminded me of when in a DSP at High School my son who is Autistic got into an altercation with another autistic child and ended up in isolation (ie spend the day in a separate room where you get your work and lunch etc alone only interacting with teachers). Now this totally backfired because he loved every minute of the isolation day because it was quiet, he didn't have to interact with anybody and all the things that usually gave him sensory overload and made things difficult for him. At the end of the day "reflection interview" they asked him if he had learned his lesson and said that it wasn't nice being alone all day was it!. To which he replied 'can I come back tomorrow'.
Sounds like me. Straight A, honor student that would constantly pull little stunts to get at least a lunch detention. I mean so what I can't see my friends between classes, not like I couldn't see them after school. Through middle school and high school got to the point my father didn't even let them introduce themselves when they called, would just answer it and go, what did she do this time!? No idea how they never realized this wasn't a punishment though.
Story 2: I don't know why Karen was complaining, she got exactly what she wanted, she got OP in "Trouble" and only Karen had to suffer the consequences
@@Rosethorn86 yea, but WHO’s fault is that? The guy who Got “Suspended” because someone complained? Or the rude person who complained for no good reason?
Years ago, when I was in elementary school, I checked out a book from the school's library. I read a few pages and then decided to just return the book because I really had no interest in reading it. Well, some days later I was being told by the librarians that I needed to return the book and didn't believe me when I told them I returned it. This went on for weeks, maybe months as I can't remember for sure because it was at least 20 years ago. It wasn't until my mom, who volunteered in the library periodically, was able to convince them that I no longer had the book. I don't think I ever faced repercussion from what happened but it was still annoying to go through.
'our system doesn't lie'.... uh yeah it does... especially when the book is misplaced by an idiot not paying attention, or somebody never scanned it back in. I've had troubles with public libraries before... even a college library once, it was hell.
lunch detention. I love the way OP wrote this story. I don't know what she does for a living but she should consider writing short stories for YA or maybe kids books. Her style is wonderful.
Before retiring, my wife worked in a warehouse driving a forklift and loading trucks. They also had to pick product from the warehouse as required for each load. They once hired a college educated clown who took it upon himself to draw up a plan that would "streamline" the picking process. Of course, the idiot higher ups thought that as he was college educated, the plan had to be wonderful. All the warehouse workers told managemant that it was going to be a shitshow, but, in true "we know better" fashion, the plan went into effect. And almost as quickly, things went straight to hell in a handbasket. Withing a week or two the old system was back. And college boy was gone.
I've often been in position where I had the authority to make changes to a process in a factory. I ALWAYS talk to some of the people who actually have to do those processes day in and day out to see what they thought of my bright idea. Often they liked the idea and we made the change, but equally as often in the real world it wouldn't have worked like I hoped, or they had ideas to make it even better.
Wicker Chair Story: The only way OP could have made that any better for us would be if they smiled brightly for the Idiot Customer when he read the Receipt and realizes her screwed up and give him a chipper "Come back soon"... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
Story 5 reminds me of how I apparently once screamed "FUCK YOU!" through a soundproof door at a class of 30 all lined up outside of the computer room for no reason, yet no one INSIDE the computer room I was in heard it, but the teacher for a different class still yelled and swore at me for it. Still got two weeks of detention.
I remember when in school I was swearing like a shoemaker next to gym teachers room, cause friend tied my backpack with a metal chain thinking it was funny. When female teacher came to boys changing room and saw how I was working to untie my backpack. She just closed the door :) and No, I didn't give that friend his metal chain back, I took it home and gave it to friend who liked to work in his basement with things :)
@@jsivco3sivco785 I said apparently in my comment as in that's what they assumed, I didn't say anything at the time, I remember perfectly cause it was kinda my big foray into "sometimes life just fucks you over for no reason"
The last story is a prime example of why it should be required, by law, that all levels of management in a company, from the lowest supervisor to the owner/CEO/CFO, must work at least two full shifts per month as an average, rank and file worker, so that they know and remember what it's like for the actual workers who have to do that job every day. Also, for policy changes, the members of management proposing said changes should have to "test" the changes themselves for at least a month, to experience exactly what consequences the changes will have on the business and the workers.
This! So much! In my job we have some basic training before we come out of class and have something called "seniority". So if some magical algorithm determines that you are more senior than the people you were in class with, you get first pick of jobs. If that's not fucked up enough, nepotism is alive and well, and if someone has a "hook", someone higher up on the job that can exert influence, they can get put into some cushy spot where they don't actually do the same physically demanding job as the rest of us. After several promotions, we literally have so many assholes who have never done the job, trying to tell us how to do the job, and wondering why we're not doing it fast enough or to their specifications. In order to get a promotion, you take the promotional test. But if someone doesn't like you, they'll give you official work complaints that not only prevent you from receiving a promotion, but you wind up losing pay over as well while all their dumber buddies get promoted over you. Yes, we have several unions. They really only care about the people they like. Busting your ass only gets you more work, because they "know they can count on you".
. Name a Governmental department that EVER solved the problem they were created to fix. Names of departments are changed in order to reflect a changing society but the underlying cause the department was ever started for is never solved. The Department of Agriculture REGULATES primary industries...it doesn't HELP primary industries in the slightest. It uses its Governmental force of power to do agriculture the way that the power-boffins want to do agricultural BUSINESS.... its a good idea but would only have a beneficial effect when done voluntarily by individuals and corporates alike. Enforced civility does not a civilization make.
I know this is a 4 month old comment but still... Hilariously, my old job hired a guy to "fix problems and save the bottom line". He "worked" at each department for a week to get a feel for how it ran. In reality, he sat on his butt fielding e-mails on his laptop all day instead of actually learning anything about how the CNC departments operated. So, it matters if they actually do the work or try to pretend they did.
Story 5: It’s stories like this and those from my old school that make me wonder if I really am the asshole with some of the stuff I pulled. That happened to me once and thankfully it was sorted out, but after that I never was late with a book…because I never checked them out. I just took em. Most would go back but others are still in my bookshelf over 1-2 decades later. I know I’m probably the asshole here but it was easier and safer than risking going through that bullshit again.
I wasn't so lucky as the OP who got detention for a missing library book. A girl with the same first name as me checked out a book and didn't return it. I got harassed based solely on the same name. After being told I had to pay for it, I told my parents. My dad and the principal came to my class the very next day. I was asked if I checked the book out and said no. They left, but, came back shortly. Another girl, in the same grade, had checked it out. The librarian had told me she had asked the other girls with my same name and they had denied they checked it out, so, someone was lying! LOL I have been bothered ever since then, when there was any form of confrontation, that I would be the accused. I used to get upset in class when other people were misbehaving! I was afraid that, somehow, I would be among the blamed. It happened enough to be a real issue for me. I guess I am either an easy target or I look guilty. LOL
how the f was she able to check out a book using only her first name? if I'd been your parent at the time, that's the question I would have asked and demanded an appology from the librarian and school for treating you as a convicted criminal without even having a library system that could easily prevent this kind of situation. Because multiple students with the same first name is hardly a novelty...
With Story 3, the use of the term "The Jerk" to describe the OP's idiot supervisor makes me think of the old Steve Martin comedy movie, also called "The Jerk".
That book story reminded me of the time I got lunch detention for working on my homework during class since I had already finished my classwork. My teacher got annoyed and give me more homework, which I then finished up during lunch and went back to finishing up my homework. I wish I could have stayed there every lunch rather than trying to find a table to fit in at but I didn't want to poke the bear and posibly get my parents involved.
My parents thought my antics to get detention and internal suspension were hilarious. Because here was their quiet, introverted, straight A, honor student daughter getting all these detentions and suspensions. My father would see that number, answer it and just go, what did she do this time!? I just loved the peace and quiet.
@@davido.1233 Dude, Leonard blew up the elevator. It was lucky he didn't destabilize the whole building by wrecking the support structures. This was a simple repair job with a side of whine.
@@SonsOfLorgar The Karen being annoying to them doesn't make it right for them to do that to everyone in the building, anyone in a wheelchair was screwed over by these two jerks.
The library story reminded me of my awkward 7th grade self who had a yellow backpack that I later found out was somewhat see-through due to its sheer fabric. Maybe kids still get embarrassed over similar pranks as the one played on me, or maybe kids are exposed to much more information nowadays. This happened in the early ‘80s. I am not certain, but I think there were electronic detectors in books at that time to prevent them from being taken out of the library without signing them out. Of course there probably were ways around it, but I hope the boys who pranked me weren’t smart enough to know that back then. Here’s how they pranked me, and maybe I got one of them back. One day I walked out of the school library, backpack hung over my shoulder. A few boys, as awkward as my 7th grade self, shouted in the midst of passing time in the hallway and pointed at my back. “Look at that book she has,” they said, or some such nonsense. This was nearly 40 years ago, so I don’t remember names or exactly what they shouted. But I knew they were making fun of me, so I looked at my backpack and saw the bold print title of some book about human sexuality visible for all to see. I was embarrassed, and in fact I was too embarrassed to return the book. I eventually realized that this was key to my ultimate revenge. Every week In my home room at the beginning of the day, overdue books and their titles were read aloud with reminders to named students to return the book. One of the boys must have checked out a book in his name and stuffed it in my backpack. I thought that he had to endure the rest of the school year of the overdue book showing up on a home room teacher’s list. We were in different homerooms, so I never knew what really happened. I eventually returned the book before the end of the school year, still mortified about the book title and any assumption that I had borrowed it. Why was it so embarrassing? I don’t know. I suppose things about sex just were embarrassing at that age. The boys who pulled the prank on me didn’t bother me again, as far as I remember. I guess it was immature that I enjoyed thinking that one of them had to endure the book title being read aloud week after week by their home room teacher. But it was also super satisfying to think that I pranked the kid back week after week, instead of just one time walking in school with a book about sex visible in my backpack.
Maybe the first couple times they said the name of the book. But at some point I'm sure the boys parents were called because it was overdue for so long. Who knows. _shrug_
@@Random_Fanatic Drat, my dastardly plan foiled by bureaucracy and common sense! You’re right, and the home room teacher would have probably used their decision to not read the book aloud because the seventh graders would have erupted in giggles. Also, a smart kid would have said it was lost or that someone used his library card or hundreds of other reasons. Alas, my vengeance game was weak.
Story#2: Gotta love Rick!!! 👍🥰 That was epic. I hate it that the other building residents were delayed for a week, but nailing that Karen was worth it… she was probably a horrible neighbor, too (as Karens usually are). Sweet victory ✌️
Our junior high librarian was old and cranky. The book return bin was inconvenient to open so she only opened it once a month. Books could only be checked out for a week. She didn't mind writing late book notices though
For an extra bit of sweet revenge, I'd have actually taken the week off and informed the Landlord/Superintendent/Whoever's in charge as to why the repairs to the elevator was going to take a little while longer and why there would be extra costs owning. I think one visit from an incredibly pissed off Landlord would see that Karen NEVER complained about anything EVER again AND that she paid attention to what signs ACTUALLY say in future! I mean, what did she think "OUT OF ORDER!" meant, "RESERVED FOR KAREN!"?
we weren't allowed food in detention .. nothing like starving a kid and taking a break away to teach them a lesson.. pretty sure it should be illegal to withhold a kids food from him or her.
So in high school - I would get my lunch, walk out the front door, and cut across the lawn to a brick wall that was near our gym where I would read a book. This went on for months, until I got busted by our assistant principal. how did this occur; our school was on the news for some thing outlandish. Our local CBS affiliate had footage of the school with my dumb ass walking across the lawn. Our principal was a fairly good guy, so I got to eat lunch in his office with a bunch of rowdy girls. This of course defeated the purpose of going to a quiet area, but he kept his air-conditioning on so low that it felt like Antarctica. We lived in Georgia, so it felt like heaven
I'm curious why that was a big deal? You were sitting outside the School Gym, right? You didn't leave the School, and weren't bothering anyone... So it confuses me.
I find the concept of not beeing allowed to leave the school grounds a weird and alien practice... When I and my friends didn't like the school lunch of the day listed on the door to the dining hall building, we walked to the nearest pizza restaurant half a block away from school and nobody batted an eye, there were always other kids there too, and the occational teacher. We were 12-15yo...
In high school I left a book in the commons area, when I noticed I asked my teacher if I could look for it. I left it on one of the fire extinguisher boxes. It wasn’t there. I decided to check the office, no book in the lost and found. I got charged twice for that book. Definitely not happy about it, but I had to pay the second time to graduate…
Still LMAO over "Library Book" and "Strawberries" stories! The writers/OPs of those stories deserve Pulitzer Prizes for their concise weaving of their stark realities into entertaining "Life Lessons". Library OP was actually rewarded with her "lunch detention"-- a heavenly respite from the madding crowds. AND a full-circle comeuppance as the "lost" book was found in the wrong aisle. Sweet! The "mangling of the strawberries" is a bonafide learning cue about the dangers of "fixing that which ain't broke". Both written with style and mirth and irony. I'll chuckle about these all day!
Let me guess, your Appointment Time is Tooth-Hurty... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣 I know, I know, I REALLY should avoid making Bad Puns... But everyone that knows me knows I'm never gonna... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
I had mine out with just local anesthetic. It’s not too bad. Be sure to not use a straw, the quickest way to get yourself dry socket. Just listen to the aftercare advice and you’ll be just fine!
"What about common sense?" If he followed his common sense, you'd be writing him up for ignoring policy, and "utt-tut-tut-tutt"ing over any attempts to point out that the policy would've led to crushed strawberries.
Any real parent A) wouldn't leave the child alone and B) if by some weird circumstance they got separated she should have been frantic not just ranting about her entitlement
I was refused my 7th grade report card because of a missing library book. It was on the shelf the whole time. I never checked it out. Oh, and I never got that report card.
In jr high I actually would do minor offenses to get detention because it was the only way to have me time. I am an introvert and need to recharge frequently.
Last story: I am eternally and consistently amazed at corporate logic and its sometimes funny, sometimes tragic consequences. Not to mention their never-ending search for someone else to blame for their insanity.
In all my working life (including time in US Navy) the best guidance for dealing with a bad boss has been to do "EXACTLY what the tells me to do!" So True!
Second story: Ah yes, I've heard this story. "You need to help me because I left my baby alone!" Karen, did you just admit to someone who has access to DSHS that you left your child alone and unattended?
I wish my school would have had indefinite lunch detentions for forgetting to return books. I would have deliberately "lost a book" and sat in blissful detention for the rest of the school year. No bullying during that precious time each day...
That's why I took all the "advanced classes" I could, to "avoid the noids"! Let the trouble makers bog down the regular classes, my classes were thinly populated by us "smart" students. Not that we were that much more intelligent (we were, actually) but as a means of quieter studying and better teaching. I guess we were smarter!
As far as the librarians are concerned, they should be made to serve detention for the same amount of time OP served.....but at her home. Stay in one room, no talking or getting up, just read and serve your time. Those who punish others of crimes that are innocent should be made to serve the same sentence.
When I was in high school, I worked in the school library, which was closed during lunchtime and right across the hall from the cafeteria. Now, I was bullied a lot during lunch, so, with the librarian's permission, I ate lunch in the library. It was great. I totally get where OP is coming from.
Once, about 30 yrs ago, I took a book out of the public library to read to my child. “The Dog That Took The Train “. I remember the title very well because our dog took several bites out of this book and when I promptly went to the library to make amends I renamed the book, accidentally calling it “The Dog That Ate The Train “. The librarian appreciated my honesty and willingness to pay for the damages. I guess there are people who don’t take responsibility for the books the borrow and argue late returns or damages.
During my Airforce service, I checked a book out of the base library. A couple weeks later I separated and packed my stuff and went home. Years later, looking for something else I found that library book! Oops! 🙄 I also had received a notice from the Credit Union that I still had five dollars in my old account! I know I had closed it out.
5:20 It's understandable that they are so towards the Karen. But with the action they not only punished her, but all the residents of the house too! I just feel sorry for the poor grandpa who has to use the elevator! There was at least a dozen "collateral damages" in the house in the punishment towards her...
Im guessing that second story was probably in the US At least in the country where i live, elevators usually have multiple sets of inspection controls, in fact there may be up to 3 sets of inspection controls on modern elevators where i live, one on top of the car, one in the logic cabinet (in the case of a traction MRL) or machine room, and one in the pit
That store pallet one, omg. Tbh the only part that really surprised me was they had a union rep. I've never had a job where we were unionized. Blaming a worker for doing their job as ordered? That part doesn't surprise me at all, nor does making a disastrous change like that.
The library story is exactly why I stopped using them. Happened to me twice. Once at school and once at a public one. I would legit rather buy all my books then deal with some power-tripping jerk that won't check their own inventory because they can't be wrong.
We had one librarian in Junior high who was just an amazing person. She loved reading and was there because she wanted to make sure that kids read. I had taken out a book on animals again and again and again. Just a wonderful read on the continued evolution and adaptations of life. I turned it in for the heaven knows what time and she just smiled, looked around and tore off one of the blank pages at the front. Left enough so it looked torn. Said "Oh no, looks like the book must have been damaged while sorting. Going to have to mark it destroyed." She took out the library card page and handed me the book. Never forget her. While the name has been lost to ages those warm brown eyes and thin gentle smile will always be remembered.
LOTS of passive aggression in this one, which is RIGHT UP MY ALLEY! I LOVE playing innocent or dumb when I know two things: first, that it's going to make the abuser INSANE, and second, that inner satisfaction, that, "Well, but you told me not to ever do that again....", or "But you said that this was my priority and not that." Another favorite: my stepmother, a hateful, miserable woman, would scream at me, "You're NOT getting the last word here!" So I'd calmly reply, "Ok." Then she'd bo ballistic and ground me for every time I actually got the last word, LITERALLY. She'd scream, "You just got yourself ANOTHER week!" "Fine," I'd reply. Then she'd SHRIEK and add another day/week, whatever. I absolutely DID NOT CARE, it was the PRINCIPLE, and besides....I was an avid reader, so I was perfectly content in my room for weeks at a time; I hated sports, so I didn't CARE that my brothers were all outside night after night, playing....whatever team sport they were playing; I STILL hate that bitch, too. I'm a Scorpio, I can play this game and I can pretend and take everything in a seemingly literal sense QUITE WELL; it's how I survived my ugly childhood, lol.
With the elevator thing, first thing that went though my mind.. she left a toddler alone... that should have probably been checked and reported if true. Which by some of the Karen stories and their children, could very much have been true.
Story 5: This happened to me with the city library one summer, and I searched everywhere, and they were going to bill my parents for it, since they had our identifications, but one day, when I was going to ask about that book, the librarian checked the shelves. Guess where it was. Yup, one librarian who probably was tired, did not check in my book, and it stayed in the shelves for the whole summer. Edit : Story 5
21:18 more company higherups should get this line of thinking, and honestly should stop thinking that policy trumps both common sense and (sometimes) the law
The book story reminded me of the time I was given in-class detention for telling another student to please get out of my assigned seat so I could be in my proper place when class started. I spent a week missing that class and sitting in detention instead because of the sheer amount of lines I was required to write before I was allowed to return. The kid who took my seat? not punished at all. I was the quiet kid who never got into trouble. That incident was the only time I had ever been given detention my entire school career. It was so stupid, and my opinion on that teacher was forever tainted after that.
Story 5: I never got told anything about my late books in high school, or the insane amount of books I would take out, past the limit, or even the non checked-out books I left the library with, but it had to due with the fact that I was the one in charge of the library.
Story 6 I can REALLY relate too! I've been in retail at the same store for over 5 years and the high ups who either haven't worked in the stores in decades or never set foot in one, keep adding and changing things around to try to make 'time' better or fix a problem that never existed. Then later we hear from our Manager that the high ups are asking why things aren't done or done the way they now told us to do them.
At my school, if you have a missing book, you won’t graduate unless you find it and bring it in or pay the amount it costs. It sucks that one book that may end up costing less than 10 dollars can cause you to miss one of the greatest moments of one’s life
Haven't worked in both supermarkets and grocery distribution warehouses I couldn't help but crack up at the last story. Awesome way to teach them to just let a pick pack worker work how they see fit
When my oldest was a toddler ,I carried him in his stroller crib up and down the stairs,by myself ,if not the elevator was working ,and I would have never started screaming at the guy fixing it,and leave my kid alone..like wth is wrong with these people !no way they have a normal way of thinking ,as their logic is so absurd !
As an introvert with anxiety issues, I absolutely loved internal suspension and lunch detention. Being literally forced to sit there, in peace and quiet, go through the course work and complete it, on my own were magical weeks. And a quiet place to read and eat? What more could a girl ask for? Funny thing was though for as often as I got it during middle and high school, I wasn't the bad girl, or went out looking for it, which was kind of weird. And honestly my teachers never really got it either, only the admins quoting some minor rule infraction seemed to understand. To this day I still don't know what the deal was, but sure was fun though.
5 story is weird to me as where i live : -lunch break is 15-20 minutes -detention doesn't exist -you can hold books till end of school year but don't return books and say goodbye to passing the year
Ugh, "overdue" library books are so annoying. This was a public library, not a school, but I've got a story of my own. I was roughly 13 and had biked to the library to get some books. But when I went to check out I was told I couldn't because I had an overdue book. Which greatly confused me because the only books I had at home were ones I had checked out only a couple days previously, so they couldn't be overdue yet. So I asked which book it was, and the answer only confused me more. Because the book in question, which they only had one copy of, was on the shelf. I knew this because it was in a series I was reading and I had just picked up a few more of the books. So I asked the librarian to go to the shelf with me to prove it was there. She reached the shelf first, and upon seeing I was right headed back to the check out counter. Where she proceeded to tell me I'd still have to pay the late fee, because I obviously had snuck it onto the shelf when she wasn't looking. How I was supposed to sneak it onto the shelf when she got there first I have no idea. Being 13 I had no money on me, but thankfully someone in line paid the fee for me, otherwise I would've biked home empty handed and pissed. I still have no idea how she thought that was the correct course of action.
