You'd think that people would realize that babysitters are essentially substitute parents, filling in for parents while they're away the same way a substitute teacher would fill in when the regular teacher is away. Telling a babysitter not to parent the kids they've been put in charge of is like telling a substitute teacher not to teach.
Omg, yes. I always love that, "I have done it before excuse." I saw that a lot as a cashier. I had this one customer who would try to use expired coupons or ones for a different store and insist she had been allowed to do it before. so I would say, "It's a new policy."
@@littlesongbird1 There are some places that will take a competing franchise's coupons to prevent customers from going to their competitors, but I don't think it's done as often anymore.
@@Attaxalotl The point of wearing cloth masks is mainly to stop people who have the virus who don't realize they're infected from spreading the infection to other people, which a gas mask wouldn't do. Masks with valves generally only stop harmful air from being inhaled, but the air exhaled by the person wearing it can still move freely out of the mask.
@@vloggerbonakid6178 It's just a short version of the Christmas drink one in the video, with the "wait a minute" highlighting the guy's stupidity (I mean, it was obvious where it was going).
@@Blaxjax21 Either they used a stupid name like "Onyx Bitterness" or he's only heard of "coffee" and "hot blacks" before and questioned if it was some kinda code. XD
Mom yells “don’t discipline my kids!” So you don’t. Mom comes home and sees the house an absolute mess because you didn’t discipline the kids. Mom screams “I’m going to have you fired!” Lady! You said don’t discipline the kids! What was she supposed to do, try to clean everything? She can’t keep up with the mess if the kids are not allowed to be disciplined to stop them from making more of a mess in the process of cleaning up! I swear people are so stupid sometimes! 🙄
That would have just encouraged them. Similar to dealing with horrible people on the internet, when people say "Don't feed the trolls", they're basically saying: "Don't give them attention." All it does is make them yell louder.
Any manager who tries to make even a single employee work for free, even if it's only 1 second, should be fired and blacklisted from any kind of management/supervisory position.
Karen: “Do not parent my child!” OP: “Okay!” Karen: “I’m gonna get you fired! You will pay for the damage to my house!” OP: “Go ahead! You’re the one who told me not to discipline your kids! Also, I’m done babysitting your crotch goblins! Go find someone else to look after them!”
Ah yes, companies getting angry about your overtime but demanding you do it anyway is very familiar to me. Not paying the overtime hours is, however, illegal. Hopefully they follow through with that so op has grounds to sue them. It’s sickening what big companies think they can get away with (and even more sickening what they DO get away with)
I'm so glad the agency in the first story took the childminders side, so rare theses days for an employer to be more concerned about the employee than the toxic customer.
@@SunnyBoltz Aaaand how is that a rebuttal of the phrase? Here, lemme give you a couple examples: Kick a man in the balls, he's not gonna say "Gimme another!" It's easier to have a child than to order a pizza. I've never heard someone say "This pizza was an accident."
First story: The irony of hiring a professional nanny and then telling her to not "parent" the kids, which very much involves disciplinary actions and is exactly what nanny's are hired to do, is testament to the mindset of Karens everywhere. There's a good reason that people are calling their consequently unruly kids "crotch goblins". It also makes me wonder if these moms ever spend as much time parenting their own kids as they should, or if the kids have only learned to be docile to their moms because they won't cut them any slack because of their volatile entitled mentalities. Second story: For some bosses, critical thinking is _a truckload_ of work. Hey, why are you booing? Third story: If you tell someone working in a certain field and being more skilled and knowledgeable about their own job and policies than you are that they "can't do their jobs", then you 100% deserve to be denied any and all of their services with no prior notice. They have no obligation to serve you when you feel no obligation to follow their policies. The service offered by private businesses is a privilege, not a human right. Fourth story: I've heard of people like these, and even seen cases of people acting very similar to this barista, and it's had me thinking that some people just shouldn't work in any kind of service industry with personal interactions. And why would anyone ever want to when all they do is act so bitter and self-important all the time? It only makes them look miserable and gives the businesses a bad reputation, which will only make things worse for everyone involved. Fifth story: If you won't pay your workers, they won't put in the effort to slave away for you. It's such a clear-cut way of how you should run a business, yet business owners like this still exists to make life hard for their likely already underpaid staff. Never settle for less than what your time and effort is worth.
Arguably, there ARE people that have very good reason to hire a babysitter (especially if there's an actual baby involved) but also ask them to not discipline their children. THAT however wasn't one of those cases. When I was growing up I was way more responsible and competent at well, general life, than most of the adults around me (something something literal genius something something) and I had a VERY abnormal home life because of this, one that most babysitters wouldn't understand. Try to explain to a babysitter why I'm not doing homework after school on a school day, why I'm staying up until after midnight, and why I'm reading "adult" level books, like lotr and It, some of which (It..) include very adult themes... at the age of 10. They're not going to really understand. ...nor will they understand why a literal child can outdebate them and somehow prove why every issue in their life has happened and what they can do to improve it. (Most people I talked to online between the age of 12 and 15 thought I was in my mid to late 20s...) But most children aren't like that. Regardless of what their parents say or think. MOST children are... pure chaos, to put it simply. And they require constant effort to push them away from chaos and towards order. And it's such an issue that these days I legitimately don't know how anyone can "like" children. I can't imagine dealing with them on a constant daily basis for 18 years straight. Dealing with my nephews for literally just a single week drives me insane. It's just constant illogical nonsense and chaotic flip flopping of desires. All without a sense of time or a single care for the desires of others. Basically, if you're going to tell someone to not discipline your children when they're watching them, you better be damn well certain that your children aren't normal. Because normal children are unbearably chaotic messes that have no care in the world for anything but their own short sighted self interests.
Well, if you have ever watched SuperNanny, the nanny usually ends up parenting the parents! And it sounds like this mother needed to be punished and put to bed without her supper.
Omg! The last one. "You misunderstood. You can continue to work. We just can't pay you overtime." I would've walked out as soon as the manager said that.
I’m eating breakfast while watching this. The reply “excuse me office but I ran those 3 red lights and you never stopped me before” almost made me spit out French toast. That was great
Why are people rude to anyone who doesn't deserve it? Makes no sense. Repairmen, waitstaff, grocery store cashiers and baggers, customer service reps... they're just trying to do their jobs. Unless they're actually incompetent or malicious, be nice to them! They don't get paid enough to put up with abuse. Sidenote: EMTs around here make $13-15/hr, give or take. For comparison, fast food workers make $10-12/hr. One gives you the means to have a heart attack, the other has specialized training to save your life when you have that heart attack. EMTs see people at their worst. In pain, sick, even dying. People are nasty and abusive because they're (understandably) focused on what's going on with themselves. They're afraid, angry... and likely to lash out. And we EMTs are expected to remain calm, and to exercise out knowledge and training to keep patients from further injury or death long enough to get them to comprehensive care at a facility - if the patient allows us to transport them at all. Are you ok with knowing the person who may someday save your life, or the life of someone you love, is treated like crap and paid close to what a burger-flipper makes? /endrant
It's interesting that the Karen accused the attendant of not knowing how to do her job, when in reality Karen didn't know how to do her job as a passenger. They even had masks to give her so it's not like she had to go out and buy one.
Limiting overtime as long as an employee is being useful has gotta be the dumbest business decision ever. The employee will usually bring in a lot more per hour than you pay them, that's why their position exists in the first place.
So very true. I was a salaried employee, so I would not get paid overtime. I did collect comp time but at the rate of one for one instead of the overtime rate of 1.5 times my hourly rate. At times, I would have preferred the money.
Satisfying and yes I live in the UK, having them make a holiday drink a day after is like asking them to bring Santa riding on a unicorn. I'm not too fond of sweet drinks, but my sister loves them.
Don't you just love managers who skip over the big picture? There's a reason that OP was doing overtime. So what is good news for OP, I have to work less. Is bad news for manager, down a man during a routine afternoon rush.
"Oh, you misunderstood. When I said you can't work any more over time, what I meant is you can continue to work, we can't just pay you for the overtime work." Uhm, isn't that kind of...you know.... *illegal*?
Many many companies will expect you to take "comp time" meaning you would have to arrange with your manager to come in late on another day rather that expect OT. Its not that uncommon and I don't thunk its illegal either. But if you do work OT and lets say its the last day of your work week, then they kinda have to pay it.
Yup. I was watching them trash your house. But hey, they're fed and safe and not disciplined, just like you demanded. Btw, CPS says they have an appointment available for you early next week.
Manray: this is a blackforest t chocolate Patrick: correct Manray: and you serve it during Christmas Patrick: yeah Manray: and those ingredients on the shelf are use to make a blaclforest hot chocolate right? Patrick: that makes sense Manray: so logically I can order a black forest hot chocolate Patrick: its not allowed.
Isn't the whole point of a babysitter or a nanny to parent your kids while you're gone Like you know Feeding them, making sure they don't destroy everything, make sure they don't get hurt, and put them in time out when they break rules They're temporary parents you hire while you are out
clearly this lady thinks she was hiring someone to entertain and clean up after her kids. ive heard a lot of people express misgivings about childcare because they worried that the carer would teach the kid values they didnt agree with. I'd bet this was the mom's primary concern. She didn't stop to think that if she said 'dont parent my kids' it would cover the nanny's entire job
Barista: no drink not avaliable Op: can i have ingredients tho? Barista: ye fam Op: can u make me hot chocolate with said ingredients Barista: yas king In conclusion that barista dumb af
That last comment you made is so painfully true. My old job, we couldn't work overtime if we didn't have prior, written approval, or we would be disciplined. We Also would be disciplined if we left on time without our work being done. But our boss also kept approving last minute fabrication jobs to please our clients, so our work was NEVER done. We could work overtime hours, but they were mad about having to pay for it.
Oh wow, that 2nd story with the corrupt boss was sneaky as hell and just plain genius. So much underhanded bs going on but OP still managed to outsmart them all with some underhandedness of his own in an honest way :)
You know, the nanny in this should have said something about her telling her not to parent her kids. The look on her face would make this even more satisfying.
If I’m babysitting and a parent tells me not to discipline her child, I’m letting him do what he wants. Paintball fight in the house? Fine with me. Eat all the snacks? Save some for me. Draw on the walls? Sure!
My (late) mother used to work in a convenience store in Las Vegas with a person similar to the barista. He'd complain about having to do something he didn't want to do that the manager told him to do, and he never wanted to fill the ice dispenser for the drinks, claiming he couldn't carry and lift the buckets of ice to fill the dispenser, even though my mother (all of 5'3") could and did (He was closer to 6' tall and stocky), and one time, when it became nearly empty, he said, "You only want me to do these things because I have testicles!" and she shot back, "Well, if they're that much of a problem for you, I could easily remove them for you!". He refilled the ice machine and never complained about it again, out loud.
I know its not reddit but ill drop a small story here. I used to be a babysitter and i was babysitting for a friend of my mom. She had two daughters (ill call her em from now on) and one son who was 10 then and her daughters were 3 and 4. One day, EM was outside with her bf and i was inside with her kids. Her youngest did something bad. She pulled her sister by her hair and hurted her quite badly. I put her in the corner after she refused for 10 mins to say sorry to her sister. EM comes in and yells at me. I was allowed to "punish" her oldest but not her precious youngest. I never babysat there again.
The sad part of the first story is the kids probably would have stated acting like any other kid if the babysitter had had enough time with them. Kids at that age need adults to discipline them.
(First story) I would make the kids clean the mess and if they didn’t, I’d put them in their rooms. Cleaning up after themselves isn’t discipline, it’s common sense.
I mean little kids suck at it because their attention span is shit. But yeah, you keep reinforcing that it has to happen before tv or games or whatever. And stick to it.
They're 2 and 4 (and 5 months). It sounds like you have no grasp of child development. Edited Oh you're an older child... LOL of course you don't know what you're talking about.
"Tastes like victory" is the best thing Ive heard all day. Thanks r/slash you are always entertaining. I can almost image the Z Genner making the drink with an extra shot of contempt.
From story 1: That bordered on pro revenge also. From the hot chocolate story: I would have pulled a Karen on that one and once he was fired and leaving. I would head out there and give him a Christmas beating.
In the summer, I got a flight from my state in the northeast to a flight in the mid west. I had three connecting flights and spend most of the day waiting or in the air. Each port I was in and each flight I was on said 'if you do not follow covid prevention regulations by wearing a face mask, you will be barred from this and possibly future flights'. I could say it back perfectly because I heard it so often.. No one died of asthma, everyone put on their adult pantaloons and it was actually relaxing. No weirdos coughing at eachother or screaming karens... I was lucky x3
The quality of the construction materials is more important than anyone would ever imagine. I am writing this after the building collapse in South Florida that killed over a hundred people. They are now finding many buildings in the Miami area that have structural defects. I wonder if past bribes contributed to this.
Admittedly, that first story is why I do not want to deal with small children (and I'm in 8th grade). They're too energetic and crazy and they make me nervous ;v;
I have minor physical tourettes, this means I twitch and make small noises but luckily enough don't have large swearing outbursts (only 2% of tourettes sufferers swear) but one thing thatany don't realise comes with tourettes is constant intrusive thoughts, it is damn near impossible to quiet my mind. I've recently come to realise that rslash is my meditation. Listening to the stories switches off all the other noise in my head and I can just listen as I cook/clean or just need to relax. It's certainly not the traditional form of meditation, but it's the only thing I've found that can truly quiet my mind, even just for a few minutes. So thank you 💕
I babysat years ago. I always got permission from the parents to discipline their crotch goblins. I don't put up with bad ass brats. If I couldn't put them in time out...I didn't babysit.
