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Today I messed up by falling for a
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fake job scam and losing three thousand dollars
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out of my begging account. And now I
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feel so embarrassed and angry and incredibly frustrated.
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And at this point I seriously don't know
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what to do. Here's what happened. So I
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want to start this off by saying that
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this happened two weeks ago. I got laid
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off from a job in the middle of
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September and I have been struggling to find
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work. I've got my resume revamped and been
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working with career Coaches, but nothing seems to
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be helping with it. After my final resume
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was returned to me, I began sending off
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applications and within a day or two I
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got an email that a company wanted to
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interview me for a possible remote position and
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when I saw this I was so excited.
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I was so happy that the service worked
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with the career coaches and that all I
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needed to do was both up my resume.
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For the past five years, I've had an
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hour commute each way and then another three
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years of doing forty five minutes before that
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remote work at this point sounded like a
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dream come true. A few days later, they
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send me an interview packet. It's a questionnaire
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in lieu of a panel interview. A little
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strange, but not unheard of. All the
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questions were legit questions and the technical
1:05
ones were very technical. Some companies understand
1:07
that asking someone to come up with
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the optimal solution right on the spot
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and under pressure makes them miss out
1:13
on good candidates that are just awkward
1:15
in those situations. This was a mathematician
1:17
role, so it goes doubly true. I
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spent the next day working on the
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interview packet and forwarding draft to my
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career coach to make sure that I
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wasn't sabotaging myself by being too honest
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as I'm not a great. Salesmen and
1:30
I'm open about things I struggle with. Instead
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of claiming I was some kind of amazing
1:35
employ, the coach said everything checked out and
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that after a few revisions, I had a
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pretty good interview packet so I proceeded to
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send it off. Well, a few days later
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I get the congratulations email and I'm ecstatic.
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I finally have a job doing something I
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like and I get to do it in
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my pajamas. I accept the offer and the
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next day they semi the offer letter and
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ask me to sign. I review the contract
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closely as I'm a paranoid person and so
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far. Seemed a little bit strange that
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I haven't talked to anybody on the phone.
2:03
The contract has all the right logos and
2:05
address, the pay is well within the range
2:08
of the job and everything passes my personal
2:10
tax. So I signed the document and I
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send it back the next day. They send
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me a check for five thousand dollars for
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work equipment and my boss gets in contact
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with me to set up my training and
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explaining the dated a process to me and
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getting a feel for where my coding skills
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are currently ads and again this is not
2:26
out of the ordinary. I've had jobs that
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have sent me checks before. For relocation and
2:31
equipment. But just because I'm paranoid, I
2:33
do some due diligence. And boy do
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I wish I'd done that sooner. The
2:37
domain name for the email address of
2:39
the Hr person looks legit. Know tricky
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characters are misspelled letters. The person I'm
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emailing is the actual Hr person at
2:46
this company and my boss is an
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actual manager at the company as well.
2:50
Detect has the right watermark and addresses
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on it. It is signed by the
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actual Ceo of the company. I mean
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everything is checking out. My boss tells
2:58
me I need to use. Their vendor
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to order the computer as well as anything
3:02
else that might come along with the computer.
3:05
The first blatant red flag popped up here
3:07
for me but the vendor site look legit
3:09
and it was a ten percent discount off
3:11
of Msrp for the equipment that they wanted
3:14
me to have. So I said two thousand
3:16
dollars to the vendor. The order goes through
3:18
and I breathed a bit easier. Now comfortably
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believing I have a job and that this
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is not a scam which is where they
3:25
wanted me, I buttered up and my brain
3:27
is smoothed out. The location of the company
3:29
was Eastern. Time Zone and I live in
3:31
mountain time. So the next morning I woke
3:34
up with a respectable unemployed our of ten
3:36
o'clock in the morning to a series of
3:38
text messages and emails from seven o'clock in
3:40
the morning saying that they're trying to get
3:42
a hold of me and they need me
3:45
to send one thousand dollars to the vendor
3:47
for some additional equipment. Now if you've ever
3:49
been desperately unemployed, the you know that occasionally
3:51
you do some dumb stuff in hopes of
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a job. You know, stuff like accepting lower
3:56
pay, taking something that you're overqualified for, or
3:58
in my case, worry that. Going to
4:00
fire me before I even get started. So
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half asleep I said another thousand dollars but
4:05
my idiot can tell something is up now.
4:07
A couple of hours later they try to
4:09
get me to send more money and I
4:11
tell them that I hit my card limit
4:13
for the day and I couldn't spend any
4:16
more. So they then ask me to do
4:18
something that I honestly never expected. They asked
4:20
me to go to a Bitcoin eighty. I'm
4:22
just so I could send them Bitcoin. At
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that point my heart sank and I realize
4:27
that not only was I getting scammed but
4:29
that I was also l Three thousand dollars
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which is money I need to survive as
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an unemployed person. I start reviewing everything and
4:35
notice that I've literally been strung along this
4:38
entire time as if I'm in the game.
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Bio Shock: As I stroll through the messages,
4:42
the amount of times they strung be a
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suddenly left out to me. I mean how
4:46
can I be so stupid? I decided to
4:49
keep these guys going for a while instead
4:51
of immediately calling them out. I figured if
4:53
they're wasting time on me than they can't
4:55
use it on someone else. Meanwhile, I went
4:57
on linked in and sound the cyber security.
5:00
Manager and hit a mob asking of what's
5:02
going on. I end up talking to one
5:04
of the managers that confirmed that it was
5:06
indeed a scam, that I had a real
5:08
check their belong to the company and that
5:10
all the documents were real but it just
5:12
wasn't real for me. I then call it
5:15
my bag. I'm filing for fraud and making
5:17
a police report. Obviously there isn't much they
5:19
can do for me, but there's always a
5:21
chance that a scam this elaborate could be
5:23
on done by them not using spoof numbers.
5:25
As we come to a close of my
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link the tail, I do have some relatively
5:29
good news. I have gotten back to one
5:32
thousand dollars I said now it's I have
5:34
no idea what happened to the other two
5:36
thousand and a definitely not holding my breath.
5:38
but it's something. If you've ever been scammed
5:40
before, I can now tell you that it
5:42
is one of the worst feelings. You feel
5:44
dumb, embarrassed, angry, and ashamed, You feel afraid,
5:46
and so many other emotions. I've always said
5:48
that everybody is vulnerable to at least one
5:51
scam and you know what? I finally found
5:53
mine. I'm lucky to have a supportive wife
5:55
who has and yelled at me, yet somehow
5:57
about being dumb and least I can talk
5:59
to my dad about how much this socks.
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So the moral of the story is that
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everybody is vulnerable and if you're shaking your
6:05
head right now saying know that could never
6:07
happen to me more, Guess what? This especially
6:10
can happen to you. So it's better for
6:12
you to stay safe and stay smart so
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that you don't fall for stamps and a
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way that I dared. Wow, What a crazy
6:18
situation! If I lost two thousand dollars just
6:20
like that, I think I would lose my
6:22
mind. Like first of all, the fact that
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they're scamming people who are looking for jobs.
6:26
That is such a disturbing thing to do
6:29
to somebody that it's honestly. Just so unfair
6:31
because then you run into people like the original
6:33
poster where they are literally desperate for a job.
6:35
They're trying their best to stay afloat and not
6:37
miss out on all the money they could be
6:39
earning the only have a couple thousand dollars to
6:42
their name and they are literally just trying to
6:44
make ends meet. So when they think they had
6:46
this big job and they're doing exactly what these
6:48
people say, they can be very easy to fall
6:50
for this kind of stuff. I mean, I'm pretty
6:53
sure if I was in this original poster shoes
6:55
I might have followed for this to. I really
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think you can happen to anybody if you're not
6:59
careful. So sure. This is a mess up
7:01
to a degree, but at least now you
7:03
know exactly what to look out for in
7:06
the future. But it honestly just really sucks
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that you had to learn this the hard
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own stories and entitled military veterans demands that
7:23
we stay behind for a special event, claiming
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that he has more than qualified to take
7:28
care of this hyperactive seven year old. Kid.
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So we decide to maliciously comply and
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literally watch this man fall apart of
7:34
the seems unable to control this child
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who was clearly never going to listen.
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Here's what happened: So this happened years
7:40
ago with myself, a friend, my then
7:42
boyfriend and his daughter. We couldn't do
7:44
much for toys for this particular Christmas,
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but our family was nominated for an
7:48
event called Shop with a Veteran. It's
7:50
where kids go to a Walmart with
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a veteran and can pick out their
7:55
own Christmas guess with a set amount
7:57
of money donated by civilians and other
7:59
veterans. The thing is is only the
8:01
vet drinking go in with them. I
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had later found out it was because
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some parents had earlier try to persuade
8:07
their kids to death things that were
8:09
more cater to parents or another child.
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Instead, as a child who was nominated,
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I can definitely understand the role being
8:15
enforced for this, but some children should
8:17
have their paired with them pretty much.
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Regardless, my boyfriends daughter was diagnosed with
8:21
severe eighty Hd and had taken her
8:23
medication. That see had gotten very excited
8:26
when she found out about going to
8:28
get Christmas gifts of her choosing. We.
8:30
Saw the lady hosting and explain to her
8:32
about the daughters a D H D and
8:34
how see can be a whirlwind which he
8:36
gets excited and how she doesn't like to
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listen to people she doesn't know. When we
8:40
explained to the lady hosting the event that
8:42
one of us really should go in with
8:44
his daughter just to make sure she behaved,
8:46
See, understood and talked to the veteran who
8:48
was going to shop with the daughter. We
8:50
immediately argued claiming he was tired of parents
8:52
wanting to pressure their kids to getting things.
8:54
They did it once and he wanted the
8:56
daughter to have a good time picking out.
8:58
Or deft the lady try. To explain the
9:01
situation but the veteran wouldn't hear any of
9:03
it. I clearly remember him grumbling at us.
9:05
He said to us i've been to war,
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I can handle a kid So I thought
9:09
to myself, okay, you're going to get exactly
9:11
what you want. After the veteran took the
9:13
daughter into the store, we saw two friends
9:15
going in and we didn't know that they
9:17
would be there, but we were happy to
9:19
see them nonetheless. Well, my boyfriend caught up
9:21
with them and ask one of them as
9:23
they could keep an eye on the daughter
9:26
and a veteran. My boyfriends and emphasized that
9:28
the veteran clearly thought he could handle his
9:30
daughter. So they should just let him handler.
9:32
We waited for about an hour when the
9:34
Federal return with the daughter. See was grinning
9:36
ear to ear with all the presence of
9:38
she was able to get and a veteran
9:40
looked exhausted and like he had been through
9:42
an absolute nightmare back either yielded us that
9:44
the daughter was the most disrespectful brat he
9:46
has ever mad house he just had to
9:48
touch all the toys and through everything she
9:51
wanted into the shopping cart and see was
9:53
a nightmare when he told her she couldn't
9:55
have everything she picked out Well my boyfriend
9:57
packed his daughters gifts in the car and
9:59
then to. Back inside to start our grocery
10:01
shopping, we couldn't do a while. She was
10:03
in there with a veteran because we had
10:05
to wait outside for when they were done
10:07
so we could immediately take her and her
10:09
gifts, which is understandable they were babysitters after
10:11
all. I decided to talk to the veteran
10:13
and told my boyfriend that I'd meet him
10:15
inside. I asked him if he was okay
10:17
and he said that he was fine, but
10:19
then asked us why didn't we tell him
10:21
that our daughter was crazy? I probably corrected
10:23
him by saying that she was not crazy.
10:25
I explained her a D H D to
10:28
him and how we only wanted to go.
10:30
In with them so that See would behave.
10:32
We know that See knows to behave around
10:34
us at school and at Grandma's house. We
10:36
explain how she doesn't like to listen to
10:38
strangers even if we know them and See
10:41
doesn't I apologized and told him that not
10:43
all parents want to go when to use
10:45
this as some kind of excuse to get
10:47
their own gifts. Some genuinely just want to
10:50
make sure their kids are behaving later in
10:52
the store or friend. Caught up with us
10:54
and told us everything that happened. The daughter
10:56
had run up and down the toys isles.
10:58
See kept going back. And forth from the
11:01
toys to the card throwing in anything the
11:03
seated get her hands on. See even screamed
11:05
at the veteran when he put some toys
11:07
bags which is typical behavior when her normal
11:10
authority figures are watching when he was satisfied
11:12
with a toy See did get see kept
11:14
asking for candy at the checked out which
11:16
is something see as of pretty much anyone
11:19
would we go to the store? It was
11:21
amusing to us that a grizzled military veteran
11:23
was outmatched by a hyperactive seven year old.
11:25
We have since then been much better off
11:28
and we donate money to this event. Every
11:30
year and even toys for any to
11:32
a drive they have. The veteran still
11:34
does the events, but he's more understanding
11:36
when certain children need their parents to
11:38
go with them. He does get the
11:40
odd pushy parrot every now and then,
11:42
but now he handles them rather than
11:44
flat out denying all parents from ever
11:46
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the parents are literally coming to you and
14:45
be like, wait a second We really should
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be present for when she goes into that
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store. That's probably a clear sign that yeah,
14:51
I should probably listen to them and put
14:53
my pride on the back burner so that
14:55
I can have something to work with here,
14:57
because clearly this girl was like absolutely obnoxious.
14:59
She was running all over the place, throwing
15:01
toys in the basket left and right. She
15:03
was acting like a kid who clearly had
15:05
a D H D. And I also echo
15:07
the way the original poster felt. I find
15:09
it hilarious that this guy thought he could
15:12
handle this child so good for you for
15:14
maliciously complying because this guy clearly was not
15:16
going get it. and at least now it
15:19
seems like he's learned a very valuable lesson
15:21
about letting parents come along if they really
15:23
requested. My entitled boss, Castilla, screams at their
15:25
staff any time they even walk in the
15:28
building demanding that they work right away. So
15:30
I decided to set up a resistance, coordinating
15:32
with everybody in the office to only show
15:34
up right when we were supposed to clock
15:37
and and I've never felt more satisfied. To
15:39
get back to this boss and a really
15:41
subtle way, here's what happened. I used to
15:44
work in a trade shop run by a
15:46
great boss. Everybody got along great with that
15:48
is except for one very specific department had
15:50
let's call them Bumble Bee for reasons that
15:52
are unrelated to this story. the boss decided
15:55
to sell the shop to Bumble Bee and
15:57
in the wake the majority of the staff
15:59
quit. And months leaving us completely under
16:01
staffed. I naively decided to stick it out
16:04
and assume that Bumble Bee would hire people
16:06
to fill the empty positions. But guess what?
16:08
they didn't do that. We go from a
16:10
fifteen percent rate shop all the way down
16:13
to five people within a year. and that
16:15
includes the six people who turned over one
16:17
of the many issues that developed and trust
16:19
me, there were many was Bumble Bees inability
16:22
to schedule or think through absence to the
16:24
end and just plan ahead. While I worked
16:26
there which was about two years with the
16:29
original boss, I often came in ten to
16:31
fifteen minutes early due to the nature of
16:33
my commute. I'd come in, unload my stuff,
16:35
make some coffee, small talk with a co,
16:38
workers, have some small talk with my boss,
16:40
but we never really started work until everybody
16:42
scheduled start time when Bumble Bee took over.
16:45
The moment you step into the shop, they
16:47
immediately started to bark orders that you regardless
16:49
if you were in the building fifteen to
16:51
twenty minutes early now at this point and
16:54
the most senior and on the person left
16:56
at the shop from the old regime and
16:58
when I would point out. That we technically
17:00
we're not on the clock yet for another
17:02
fifteen to twenty minutes and that I want
17:05
to make some coffee bubble be with your
17:07
snap at you telling you to do it
17:09
now because so and So is coming right
17:11
at opening. So I started to wait in
17:13
my car bringing coffee from home and would
17:15
only walk in the door as the last
17:17
minute was changing. I was technically never late
17:19
to work and was ready to work the
17:21
moment I stepped through the door. I don't
17:23
know if Bumble Bee caught on, but the
17:25
rest of the staff did and followed suit,
17:27
especially because I told him to for the
17:29
remaining months. I lasted. They're all my coworkers
17:31
with still often show up early to work,
17:33
but all would wait in the vehicle and
17:36
at some point one of them had a
17:38
mini van and we all were just party
17:40
in there with all of us eventually going
17:42
in as a group. Any time a new
17:44
person joined the staff because someone always walked
17:46
off, we would also warned them of what
17:48
was happening. Well, it's been several years since
17:50
I work there and I don't know any
17:52
of the current staff besides Bumble Bee. I
17:54
happened to be doing it on site in
17:57
Stone nearby at the time that the sub
17:59
would be open. And I looked over the
18:01
parking lot in front of the shop. and
18:03
just like clockwork a minute before the shop
18:05
was scheduled to open, about six people got
18:07
out of their vehicles and headed an now
18:09
I mean I work there any longer, but
18:11
it's nice to see them. My resistance is
18:13
still going on. Honestly, this is really the
18:15
best way to go about doing this. It's
18:17
bad enough when you have a manager who
18:20
just sucks at their job and ten even
18:22
schedule people properly or on time. Like, seriously,
18:24
what's up with that But you also have
18:26
a manager who is very clearly a hot
18:28
had. I mean they were barking orders. That
18:30
you the second you walked in the door.
18:32
Like seriously. I came in early to have
18:34
a cup of coffee and try to gather
18:36
my thoughts. I didn't step in the building
18:38
to then start working off the clock. Like
18:40
seriously, don't try to make people worked off
18:42
the clock, Give people a second to gather
18:44
their thoughts and train, have some semblance of
18:46
happiness for their job that day. But you
18:49
know, what? With all things considered, I personally
18:51
think the way the original poster what about
18:53
doing this was really smart. They didn't technically
18:55
break any rules, but they did decide. You
18:57
know what? We're not going to take this
18:59
any longer. And so they literally started a
19:01
resistance to be like no, we're not going
19:03
to work until we have to clock am
19:06
And honestly, with all things considered, I think
19:08
that's a great idea. And it's really funny
19:10
to see that that tradition is still ongoing.
19:12
My boyfriends house is absolutely disgusting and now
19:15
after visiting and experiencing this disgusting environment, I'm
19:17
now reconsidering my entire relationship with my boyfriend.
19:19
and at this point, I seriously don't know
19:21
what to do. Here's what happened: So, I've
19:24
been seeing and dating this guy since July
19:26
and things have been going really good. It's
19:28
a long distance situation, but we've managed to
19:30
see each other at least once a month
19:33
so far. He's been kind and thoughtful and
19:35
no major red flags were detected on my
19:37
end. Well, that is until recently the first
19:39
time I flew out to visit him. I
19:42
decided to stay at and Air B and
19:44
B since we were getting to know each
19:46
other and I wanted my own space. The
19:48
trip went super well and I had an
19:51
amazing time. Last week I went back and
19:53
he invited me to stay with him this
19:55
time. He lives with his brother and dad,
19:57
but his dad was away so it. The
20:00
Sense and I agreed. When I got to
20:02
his house it was late and dark so
20:04
I didn't notice much other than a weird
20:06
smell. They have three dogs and live on
20:09
an island so I figure that had something
20:11
to do with it. When I woke up
20:13
I started to notice the house was pretty
20:15
dirty. Things were scattered everywhere, the bathroom had
20:17
dogs here and dirt and overall it looks
20:20
like it hadn't been kept up in quite
20:22
a while. Now I try to look past
20:24
it since there are two guys living there
20:26
and I kept a positive attitude. Nobody gave
20:28
me any run down about the situation or
20:31
apologize for the mess, but I figured his
20:33
dad might have a small hoarding problem of
20:35
some sort. Of the second day I started
20:37
to notice even more things. The dog still
20:40
get walked so they go to the bathroom
20:42
inside the house and in the laundry area
20:44
that's right by the kitchen. The only get
20:46
lead out to the side yard from time
20:48
to time and the dogs have to pass
20:51
by the bathroom to get to it, which
20:53
explains why they're so much hair and paw
20:55
prints and dirt all over the place. I
20:57
even started feeling uncomfortable showering bear because I
20:59
didn't. Feel like I was in a clean
21:02
environment and I feel terrible for the animals.
21:04
Then a really awful smell that almost made
21:06
me throw up appear for the laundry area.
21:08
He mentioned it and I asked him what
21:10
he thought it was and he said it
21:12
was puke from the dogs but he couldn't
21:14
see where it was coming from. The day
21:17
after he wanted to invite his friends over
21:19
to hang out so I told them he'd
21:21
have to clean up that smell at the
21:23
very least. before they arrived he told me
21:25
that he would is he had the time
21:27
and I started to feel even more disgusted
21:29
them before. Well, he didn't have enough time
21:32
for the next day and his brother and
21:34
him figured it was a great idea to
21:36
burn cantaloupe incense right before their friends came
21:38
in just to try and mass of the
21:40
smell. The were hanging out on the table
21:42
right by the smell the entire time they
21:44
were there. At this point I was beyond
21:46
grossed out. I spoke to him about it
21:48
as well as the mess and the lack
21:50
of urgency to clean up the smell and
21:52
he said that staying on top of cleaning
21:54
with the dogs was an uphill battle and
21:56
he had to some degree just given up
21:58
on even trying to keep things. Clean. He
22:00
also told me that he doesn't plan on living
22:02
like that once he lives on his own and
22:04
will not be getting any pets. As for the
22:07
smell, he told me that he didn't think that
22:09
it was puke and thought it might be some
22:11
sort of animal or rodents and didn't want to
22:13
clean it up and find something in front of
22:15
me. so he brushed it off as much as
22:17
he could just so he could get to it.
22:20
After I left, I told him I would have
22:22
rather seem whatever a wise and saw that there
22:24
was at least some initiative on his part to
22:26
clean it up right that in there as opposed
22:28
to letting me saying that. It's not a priority
22:31
to live in a clean space. I feel
22:33
weird because cleanliness is very important to me
22:35
and I just can't imagine what I experienced.
22:37
I do not want nor could I live
22:39
like that in the future and I kind
22:41
of when it ended. But he is a
22:43
great guy and all other respects So now
22:45
I'm honestly it's such a loss and I
22:47
seriously don't know what to do. The way
22:49
your boyfriend is living is absolutely disgusting. Like
22:52
he is letting the dogs go to the
22:54
bathroom inside the house, he's letting the smells
22:56
in the awful mess just pile up, and
22:58
he has no initiative to try and take
23:00
care of it. like right away or even
23:02
in like I don't know the next ourselves.
23:04
Like this guy. Super lazy and trust me
23:06
when I say this, I'm writing with you.
23:08
How can anybody live that way That seriously
23:10
is so disgusting, It's not even funny and
23:13
I really think it's walls of you to
23:15
identify this as a massive red flag. And
23:17
here's the thing. I don't believe this guy
23:19
for a second when he's like, oh yeah,
23:21
I'm not going live like this when I
23:23
have my own place. It's like body Guess
23:25
you absolutely are. If you're willing to let
23:27
this slide and this kind of environment than
23:29
you're. Absolutely going to let that slide in
23:31
another environment claiming you're not gonna do that
23:34
in a new place, all without any kind
23:36
of evidence to back that up in my
23:38
opinion is just a straight of live like
23:40
he couldn't even higher like a cleaning service
23:42
to do a deep clean all day like
23:44
even while he's at work or something like
23:46
that. I mean it might be expensive, but
23:48
good lord it's better than what they're living
23:50
in right now. So honestly, I don't blame
23:53
you for reconsidering this relationship because this guy
23:55
lives like an absolute slob and that in
23:57
my opinion is absolutely unacceptable. When use of
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