History YMMV / NotAlwaysWorking

* CrossesTheLineTwice: It's one thing for a movie projector to experience an error and cut off the movie too early. But the sheer bad luck of when such happened in [[https://notalwaysright.com/there-is-no-infinity-and-beyond/293326/ this story]], in the middle of the climax of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' when [[spoiler:Woody, Buzz, and the gang are close to being burned alive in an incinerator]], leaving the audience horrified at what appeared to be a brutal DownerEnding, left many commenters admitting that they couldn't help but laugh at the absolute absurdity of it.

* HarsherInHindsight:
** While several of the WorstAid-related stories end up with a competent nurse/doctor being able to help the person in the story, such stories have become incredibly scary when [[https://hub.jhu.edu/2016/05/03/medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death/ a 2016 report]] revealed that hospital mistakes have become one of the leading causes of death in the United States.
** InUniverse, [[https://notalwaysright.com/real-life-bus-ts-up-your-analogies/323601/ these employees]] stopped using the term [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor "bus number"]] after one of their workers was actually hit by a bus.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** There's a surprising number of entries about someone trying to buy alcohol along with other items, realizing they don't have their ID, and trying unsuccessfully to inform the cashier (who keeps saying they need ID) to put the wine aside and just let them buy the other stuff. Are they really that clueless, or are they so lazy they're hoping the customer will go and put the wine back for them if they keep this up long enough? Or they may just be so used to people complaining that [[ReflexiveResponse they assume these people are doing the same]].
*** A comment in a related story suggests that this is the result of a store policy (meant to prevent underage buyers from purchasing without an ID) [[GoneHorriblyRight taken too far]]: "If the customer doesn't show ID for alcohol, [[ExactWords nothing the customer says should change your mind]]."
** [[BystanderSyndrome The bystanders]] in [[http://notalwaysright.com/your-hesitancy-is-not-my-emergency this story.]] Were they all really that uncaring, or did they just figure the submitter had things under control and they were better off not getting involved? Alternatively, it's possible none of them intervened because they didn't know what to do when somebody has a seizure and didn't want to risk hurting the person (although someone could have at least helped keep the guard out of the way).
** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/their-health-and-safety-rules-will-come-under-fire/65708/ this story]], a court assistant cheerfully tells a concerned juror about how even the few hoses and extinguishers they pass without "Out of Order" signs don't work. Is their [[NoOSHACompliance safety really that bad]], or was it just some kind of twisted prank?
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-taking-his-job-deathly-seriously/ This funeral home director]] seems to find it amusing that he didn't check whether his, ahem, customers are actually dead before sending the body to the incinerator. Was the person unprofessional and apathetic, or was it merely a dark joke? Note that [[GallowsHumor very dark humor]] is common in jobs with high emotional charge (such as funeral related ones).
** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/got-their-flatlines-crossed/ this story]], a woman is in labor and the fetal heart monitor flatlines twice; at the second time, the doctor asks the husband (the submitter of the story): "We could lose the baby and we could quite possibly lose your wife. What do you think we should do?" The submitter seems to have thought the doctor was incompetent (his reaction: "I think one of us went to medical school, and I sure as h*** hope it was you!"), but comments point out that the doctor's question may have been a poorly worded attempt at asking the husband whether they should focus on saving the wife or the baby.[[note]]All ends well - mother and child both pull through and are noted to be fine nowadays.[[/note]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/dont-freeze-under-lack-of-management/135231/ This story]] has an employee notice suspicious transfers in an account and heads to their manager, since only managers can freeze accounts. Their manager keeps brushing them off, citing them to be too busy, so the submitter goes to a different manager and gets them to freeze the account. The original manager gets annoyed because they think the submitter was causing a stink over nothing, despite being shown that ''$7,000'' had been transferred just a few minutes before the account was frozen. Several comments are discussing if this manager is on a power trip and didn't like that their subordinate did things on their own, or if they were actually aware or even part of these suspicious transactions and purposefully stalled their employee.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/in-receipt-of-the-receipt-but-still-not-receiving-you/138935/ In this story]], a customer goes to return a skirt and gives the cashier the receipt... only for the cashier to act like the customer did not give her a receipt [[ImplausibleDeniability despite the fact that the customer gave it to her mere seconds before and it's still lying on the cashier's computer]], frustrating the customer until the manager is called down to settle the problem. The comments theorize that the cashier was not merely just trying to be hard to get along with for no apparent reason and was actually trying to steal the receipt so they could pocket the money made with a fraudulent return using another of the same skirt with it.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/its-not-easy-avoiding-green/163044/ This story's OP]] is bewildered by the fact that the cashier says they don't like artichokes when seconds ago they didn't know what they were. Several comments point out the possibility that the cashier ate some artichokes in a different form, like in a soup or dip, and didn't like them then and simply didn't recognize them in the raw form that OP was buying.
** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/thats-a-real-bob-move-bob/190725/ this story]], a worker borrowed a coworker's loyalty card to replace his own, which he had lost. Comments debate whether the coworker willingly lent his card or if the first worker "borrowed" (read: stole) it.
** Did [[https://notalwaysright.com/thats-one-way-to-maintain-social-distance/210219/ this employee]] really see no difference between someone forgetting to put their mask back on and someone ranting about how the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic is a hoax designed to cause an [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Islamo-commie-fascist]] DayOfTheJackboot through Bill Gates microchipping people, or was the employee so fed up with anti-maskers refusing to cooperate and threatening her health that the one genuine mistake just happened to be [[RageBreakingPoint the straw that broke the camel's back]]?
** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/say-what-you-mean-sarge/232835/ this story,]] every month or so several soldiers at a US military base are forced to clean absolutely everything, even the rocks outside, until one day the first sergeant becomes unhappy with the rocks still looking dingy and orders them "bleached" - which the sergeant left in command over the weekend [[ExactWords takes literally]], resulting in the first sergeant coming back to rocks that still look dingy in a bed of dead plants (the bleach killed them), but unable to find any specific soldier to punish for it [[LoopholeAbuse because they followed his orders to the letter]] and ultimately ending his obsession with how clean the rocks look. While the poster seems to think the lower-ranking sergeant was an idiot who made a blunder (the narration introduces him by pointing out he "isn’t the brightest bulb in the box"), commenters speculate it was [[BotheringByTheBook malicious compliance]] from his part to force his superior to stop issuing this absurd order.
** The OP in [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-lights-are-on-but-nobodys-answering-the-phone/59110/ this story]] raises eyebrows at their boss saying the scripted phone greeting before actually picking up the ringing phone. Some comments point to other stories of people flubbing phone greetings and theorize that the boss was practicing the script so he wouldn't do so when he actually answered.
** The comments for [[https://notalwaysright.com/owning-up-to-a-warmer-reception/251184/ this story]] are sharply divided between those who think the receptionist's rude, lying behavior was a one-time mistake and she deserved to be forgiven, and those who think it was proof of long-term dishonesty behind her boss's back and she did not.
** While nobody is really on the candidate's side in [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-little-class-in-class-will-pay-off-later-on/232771/ this story]], some people think he didn't realize he was a bully and thought it was all in good fun, or at the very least, his memories of OP are more positive than the actual events were. His comments seem to back up this interpretation, and indeed, it's not uncommon for bullies to not realize they were hurting their victims, and try to talk to them as if they were old friends years later.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/get-your-brain-out-of-the-binary/259382/ This manager]]. Misgendering asshole who got what was coming to him or did he legitimately not understand that the coworker he was looking for was non-binary and used different pronouns?
** At the end of [[https://notalwaysright.com/for-a-few-dollars-more/ this story]], the manager is described as "red-faced", but it's never stated if it's from embarrassment (due to the police calling him out for making a massive issue over something that his staff's fault, rather than the submitter) or rage (due to him not getting his desired outcome).
** The mother in [[https://notalwaysright.com/being-sweet-when-youre-sixteen/ this story]] is described as being the complete opposite of the introverted submitter and loudly announces to the waitress that it's the submitter's birthday; yet when the waitress instead asks the submitter if she wants to be sung to (and the submitter says no), is noted to have given her a big tip. InnocentlyInsensitive woman who didn't realize what her loud announcement could have triggered (or was simply just excited) or was she gunning for the waitstaff to sing to her daughter, only to have a HeelRealization after hearing the waitress's story and realizing how much the daughter didn't want people to sing to her?
** The maintenance worker in [[https://notalwaysright.com/mustve-had-his-heart-surgically-removed/277575/ this story]] enters unannounced in an apartment then goes to the bathroom to do some repairs, and unexpectedly encounters the submitter there, who was half naked and cleaning an incision on her chest (consequences of heavy surgery, which also left a huge scar). The maintenance worker then take offense from seeing such disgusting wounds, refusing to take account ''he barged unannounced in a bathroom without checking if it was occupied first''. While the situation may just be a coincidence caused by the maintenance worker being unprofessional, the story happened in a college housing facility (the submitter is the wife of a student studying here), and the maintenance worker's anger was specifically directed to the fact the submitter was doing something he found gross, which implies the man may have rushed to the occupied bathroom with the explicit intent of ogling at a pretty naked young woman, and got angry because he found something completely unsexy instead.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-holidays-are-creeping-up-on-you/185421/ The Holidays Are Creeping Up On You]] has ''three'' different interpretations, depending on how you read it: (1) the narrator is correct to [[GutFeeling trust her gut]] and her manager is a {{bad boss}} for not believing her. (2) The narrator is a {{nervous wreck}} who is [[FelonyMisdemeanor severely overreacting]] to the situation or (3) the narrator is a {{troll}} who wrote this story to prove that {{women are delicate}}.
** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/someone-didnt-read-the-big-yellow-print/287745/ this story]], one worker brought peanut butter treats and stored them in the workplace fridge, while knowing current rules forbid him to ''eat'' food with allergens onsite but not store it in the fridge. The same day, a new employee suffering from peanut allergy leaves early after suffering an allergic reaction and the other worker notices someone ate some of his peanut butter treats. The story ends with the company firing the new employee (for either poor judgment or deliberately trying to get someone else in trouble), but some comments speculate the food thief was someone else and the new employee was a collateral victim thanks to cross-contamination[[note]]many people with peanut allergies are sensitive enough that if some other person -- possibly the ''real'' food thief -- unwrapped and touched the friend's candy and then touched something the allergic coworker subsequently handled, even that small amount of peanut residue could trigger an allergic reaction[[/note]].(The incident, incidentally, caused the company to entirely ban allergenic food.)
** A handful of comments on [[https://notalwaysright.com/remember-fire-bad/285072/ this story]] theorize that the guards were actually asleep on the job; it would explain why there was zero reaction from any of them to the very visible fire on the cameras, while the banging of one person on the window woke them up, hence why they only reacted then. They also moved very slowly when they did wake up and chose a longer route to take the elevator to the basement (NEVER a good idea; the warnings against using the elevator during a fire are there for a reason), which could be attributed to them not being fully awake at that point.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/speech-prepared-right-gay-te/106591/ This submitter]], when calling out his horrible manager who got away with his behavior by claiming homophobia whenever anyone complains, claims to be a pansexual in a [[{{Polyamory}} polyamorous relationship with three other people]]. Was he really or was he lying to make a point to the manager that his sexuality isn't an excuse for him to be a horrible person?

** [[https://notalwaysright.com/their-device-passed-the-acid-test/ This story]] involves a console repair shop refusing to repair the submitter's brother's semi-broken UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 on the grounds that the aforementioned owner had placed cockroaches in the console, only for the manager to ''replace the [=PS2=] free of charge as an apology'' because the repairman who worked on that [=PS2=] turned out to have gone to work [[MushroomSamba tripping balls]], resulting in him hallucinating the insects. Years later, it turned out that the original UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 console [[https://kotaku.com/console-repairmen-explain-why-cockroaches-love-ps4s-1794393470 is prone to actual, non-hallucinated cockroach infestation]] (the Slim and Pro don't have this problem due to the redesign). In fact, there's at least [[https://notalwaysright.com/this-console-is-a-bit-buggy/218368/ one story]] on the website which features a [=PS4=] with a ''real'' cockroach infestation.

* BrokenBase: [[https://notalwaysright.com/some-people-just-arent-meant-to-deal-with-customers/236674/ This story]] involves the submitter heading to the waste facility that is apparently small enough that only four cars can be on the grounds to throw garbage away. They stop their car in the entrance and get yelled at by an employee, first from afar then up close, about parking in the entrance and blocking other cars. The comment section is divided between those that reprimand the submitter for stopping in the entrance, no matter how short or long of a time they need to throw their garbage away, and those that believe the employee was the worse of the two. The only thing the comments can agree on is that the employee giving a name and claiming them to be their manager was likely a scam to get the complaint told to a buddy of theirs and not their actual manager.

* HarsherInHindsight: While several of the WorstAid-related stories end up with a competent nurse/doctor being able to help the person in the story, such stories have become incredibly scary when [[https://hub.jhu.edu/2016/05/03/medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death/ a 2016 report]] revealed that hospital mistakes have become one of the leading causes of death in the United States.

* BrokenBase:
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/some-people-just-arent-meant-to-deal-with-customers/236674/ This story]] involves the submitter heading to the waste facility that is apparently small enough that only four cars can be on the grounds to throw garbage away. They stop their car in the entrance and get yelled at by an employee, first from afar then up close, about parking in the entrance and blocking other cars. The comment section is divided between those that reprimand the submitter for stopping in the entrance, no matter how short or long of a time they need to throw their garbage away, and those that believe the employee was the worse of the two. The only thing the comments can agree on is that the employee giving a name and claiming them to be their manager was likely a scam to get the complaint told to a buddy of theirs and not their actual manager.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/theyre-still-paying-for-service-regardless-of-how-theyre-paying/316549/ This story]] has the submitter and their wife leaving the restaurant without paying the meal because no waiter came back to bring the bill once informed the couple would pay with a 100$ gift card, ''and'' because they witnessed the same thing happen shortly before with another couple at the same restaurant (who gave the aforementioned gift card to the submitter once they left). The comments debate whether a "dine-and-dash" is morally justifiable if the staff never attempts to collect pay, or is just theft.

* BrokenBase: [[https://notalwaysright.com/some-people-just-arent-meant-to-deal-with-customers/236674/ This story]] involves the submitter heading to the waste facility that is apparently small enough that only four cars can be on the grounds to throw garbage away. They stop their car in the entrance and get yelled at by an employee, first from afar then up close, about parking in the entrance and blocking other cars. The comment section is divided between those that reprimand the submitter for stopping in the entrance, no matter how short or long of a time they need to throw their garbage away, and those that believe the employee was the worse of the two. The only thing the comments can agree on is that the employee giving a name and claiming them to be their manager was likely a scam to get the complaint told to a buddy of theirs and not their actual manager.

** The maintenance worker in [[https://notalwaysright.com/mustve-had-his-heart-surgically-removed/277575/ this story]] enters unannounced in an appartment then goes to the bathroom to do some repairs, and unexpectedly encounters the submitter there, who was half naked and cleaning an incision on her chest (consequences of heavy surgery, which also left a huge scar). The maintenance worker then take offense from seeing such disgusting wounds, refusing to take account ''he barged unannounced in a bathroom without checking if it was occupied first''. While the situation may just be a coincidence caused by the maintenance worker being unprofessional, the story happened in a college housing facility (the submitter is the wife of a student studying here), and the maintenance worker's anger was specifically directed to the fact the submitter was doing something he found gross, which implies the man may have rushed to the occupied bathroom with the explicit intent of ogling at a pretty naked young woman, and got angry because he found something completely unsexy instead.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic/NotAlwaysRight Has its own page.]]

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: [[https://notalwaysright.com/with-great-bacon-comes-great-irresponsibility/156040/ This Muslim manager]] reveals to the submitter he's addicted to bacon and eating it without his wife's knowledge. While this is arguably harmless and even amusing, he then reveals that he also feeds bacon to his daughter behind his wife's back. This detail made everyone lose any sympathy for him, since many Muslim commenters felt he cares more about bacon than his family or religious beliefs.

** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/say-what-you-mean-sarge/232835/ this story,]] every month or so several soldiers at a US military base are forced to clean absolutely everything, even the rocks outside, until one day the first sergeant becomes unhappy with the rocks still looking dingy and orders them "bleached" - which the sergeant left in command over the weekend [[ExactWords takes literally]], resulting in the first sergeant coming back to rocks that still look dingy in a bed of dead plants (the bleach killed them), but unable to find any specific soldier to punish for it [[LoopholeAbuse because they followed his orders to the letter]] and ultimately ending his obsession with how clean the rocks look. While the poster seems to think the lower-ranking sergeant was an idiot who made a blunder (the narration introduces him by pointing out he "isn’t the brightest bulb in the box"), comments speculate it was [[BotheringByTheBook malicious compliance]] from his part to force his superior to stop issuing this absurd order.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: It's one thing for a movie projector to experience an error and cut off the movie too early. But the sheer bad luck of when such happened in [[https://notalwaysright.com/there-is-no-infinity-and-beyond/293326/ this story]], in the middle of the climax of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' when [[spoiler:Woody, Buzz, and the gang are close to being burned alive in an incinerator]], leaving the audience horrified at what appeared to be an absolutely brutal DownerEnding, left many commenters admitting that they couldn't help but laugh at the absolute absurdity of it.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: It's one thing for a movie projector to experience an error and cut off the movie too early, but the sheer bad luck of when such happened in [[https://notalwaysright.com/there-is-no-infinity-and-beyond/293326/ THIS story]], right in the middle of the climax of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' when [[spoiler:Woody, Buzz, and the gang are faced with being burned alive in an incinerator]] and leaving the audience shocked and horrified at what appeared to be an absolutely brutal DownerEnding, left many commenters admitting that they couldn't help but laugh at the absolute absurdity of it.

** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/someone-didnt-read-the-big-yellow-print/287745/ this story]], one worker brought peanut butter treats and stored them in the workplace fridge, while knowing current rules forbid him to ''eat'' food with allergens onsite but not store it in the fridge. The same day, a new employee suffering from peanut allergy leaves early after suffering an allergic reaction and the other worker notices someone ate some of his peanut butter treats. The story ends with the company firing the new employee (for either poor judgment or deliberately trying to get someone else in trouble), but some comments speculate the food thief was someone else and the new employee was a collateral victim thanks to cross-contamination[[note]]many people with peanut allergies are sensitive enough that if a third party was the ''real'' food thief and handled the friend's candy and then touched something the allergic coworker subsequently handled, even that small amount of peanut product could trigger an allergic reaction[[/note]].(The incident, incidentally, caused the company to entirely ban allergenic food.)

** [[https://notalwaysright.com/their-device-passed-the-acid-test/ This story]] involves a console repair shop refusing to repair the submitter's brother's semi-broken UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 on the grounds that the aforementioned owner had placed cockroaches in the console, only for the manager to ''replace the [=PS2=] free of charge as an apology'' because the repairman who worked on that [=PS2=] turned out to have gone to work [[MushroomSamba tripping balls]], resulting in him hallucinating the insects. Years later, it turned out that the original UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 console [[https://kotaku.com/console-repairmen-explain-why-cockroaches-love-ps4s-1794393470 is prone to actual, non-hallucinated cockroach infestation]] (the Slim and Pro don't have this problem due to the redesign). In fact, there's at least [[https://notalwaysright.com/this-console-is-a-bit-buggy/218368/ one story]] on the website which features a [=PS4=] with a cockroach infestation.

** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/someone-didnt-read-the-big-yellow-print/287745/ this story]], one worker brought peanut butter treats and stored them in the workplace fridge, while knowing current rules forbid him to ''eat'' food with allergens onsite but not store it in the fridge. The same day, a new employee suffering from peanut allergy leaves early after suffering an allergic reaction and the other worker notices someone ate some of his peanut butter treats. The story ends with the company firing the new employee (for either poor judgment or deliberately trying to get someone else in trouble), but some comments speculate the food thief was someone else and the new employee was a collateral victim thanks to cross-contamination[[note]]many people with peanut allergies are sensitive enough that if a third party was the ''real'' food thief and handled the friend's candy and then touched the allergic coworker's food, the peanut traces transferred from their hands could be enough to trigger an allergic reaction[[/note]].(The incident, incidentally, caused the company to entirely ban allergenic food.)

** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/someone-didnt-read-the-big-yellow-print/287745/ this story]], one worker brought peanut butter treats and stored them in the workplace fridge, while knowing current rules forbid him to ''eat'' food with allergens onsite but not store it in the fridge. The same day, a new employee suffering from peanut allergy leaves early after suffering an allergic reaction and the other worker notices someone ate some of his peanut butter treats. The story ends with the company firing the new employee (for either poor judgment or deliberately trying to get someone else in trouble), but some comments speculate the food thief was someone else and the new employee was a collateral victim thanks to cross-contamination.[[note]]The incident caused the company to entirely ban allergenic food[[/note]]

* CrossesTheLineTwice: It's one thing for a movie projector to experience an error and cut off the movie too early, but the sheer bad luck of when such happened in [[https://notalwaysright.com/there-is-no-infinity-and-beyond/293326/ THIS story]], right in the middle of the climax of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' when [[spoiler:Woody, Buzz, and the gang are faced with being burned alive in an incinerator]] and leaving the audience shocked and horrified at what appeared to be an absolutely brutal DownerEnding, left many commenters admitting that they couldn't help laughing at the absolute absurdity of it.

** [[https://notalwaysright.com/their-device-passed-the-acid-test/ This story]] involves a console repair shop refusing to repair the submitter's brother's semi-broken UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 on the grounds that the aforementioned owner had placed cockroaches in the console, only for the manager to ''replace the [=PS2=] free of charge as an apology'' because the repairman who worked on that [=PS2=] turned out to have gone to work [[MushroomSamba tripping balls]], resulting in him hallucinating the insects. Years later, it turned out that the original UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 console [[https://kotaku.com/console-repairmen-explain-why-cockroaches-love-ps4s-1794393470 is prone to actual, non-hallucinated cockroach infestation]] (the Slim and Pro are redesigned and therefore don't have this problem). In fact, there's at least [[https://notalwaysright.com/this-console-is-a-bit-buggy/218368/ one story]] on the website which features a [=PS4=] with a cockroach infestation.

--->'''Comment from user Keniko Dukas:''' Don't do all you can eat if you can't afford all they can eat. I go to a buffet to eat what I find tasty - I don't give a flying frick if it's expensive for the restaurant, I paid the cover charge, I eat what I want.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: [[https://notalwaysright.com/with-great-bacon-comes-great-irresponsibility/156040/ This Muslim manager]] reveals to the submitter he's addicted to bacon and eating it without his wife's knowledge. While this by itself is arguably harmless and can even be seen as amusing, he then reveals that he also feeds bacon to his daughter behind his wife's back. This detail made everyone lose any sympathy for him, since many Muslim commenters felt he cares more about bacon than his family or religious beliefs.

* DesignatedVillain: [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-scourge-requires-better-management/264163/ In this story,]] a server in a restaurant complains about a regular customer eating a lot of expensive food at the All-You-Can-Eat buffet, blaming said customer for the owner's constant accusations of theft by the serving staff, saying that they lost their job once they told off the gluttonous customer and he left permanently, leading to the restaurant closing down two months later. The commentariat, however, was quick to point out that the biggest jerk was the server's boss, not the customer, because he was blaming his employees for the monetary loss caused by the gluttonous customer, [[BuffetBuffoonery while the customer was just taking up the restaurant's offer of AYCE buffet at 10€]]. On top of that, it has been noted that the owner has never taken up any suggestions to either raise the offer's price, establish rules about what/how many foods customers are allowed to take in a single course, or serve food that's not as fancy, meaning that the restaurant's failure wasn't caused by the customer, but the owner's poor economic sense. Some comments even point out a business which goes bankrupted after the loss of a single customer was already in a very precarious situation anyway. The story being uploaded in ''Not Always Working'' instead of ''Not Always Right'', and the title ("A Scourge[[note]]the in-universe nickname of the gluttonous customer[[/note]] Requires Better Management") seems to indicate the editors themselves thought this situation was caused by the restaurant's management instead of the customer.

* DesignatedVillain: [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-scourge-requires-better-management/264163/ In this story,]] a server in a restaurant complains about a regular customer eating a lot of expensive food at the All-You-Can-Eat buffet, blaming said customer for the owner's constant accusations of theft by the serving staff, saying that they lost their job once they told off the gluttonous customer and he left permanently, leading to the restaurant closing down two months later. The commentariat, however, was quick to point out that the biggest jerk was the server's boss, not the customer, because he was blaming his employees for the monetary loss caused by the gluttonous customer, [[BuffetBuffoonery while the customer was just taking up the restaurant's offer of AYCE buffet at 10€]]. On top of that, it has been noted that the owner has never taken up any suggestions to either raise the offer's price, establish rules about what/how many foods customers are allowed to take in a single course, or serve food that's not as fancy, meaning that the restaurant's failure wasn't caused by the customer, but the owner's poor economic sense.

* MisBlamed: [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-scourge-requires-better-management/264163/ In this story,]] a server in a restaurant complains about a regular customer eating a lot of expensive food at the All-You-Can-Eat buffet, blaming said customer for the owner's constant accusations of theft by the serving staff, saying that they lost their job once they told off the gluttonous customer and he left permanently, leading to the restaurant closing down two months later. The commentariat, however, was quick to point out that the biggest jerk was the server's boss, not the customer, because he was blaming his employees for the monetary loss caused by the gluttonous customer, [[BuffetBuffoonery while the customer was just taking up the restaurant's offer of AYCE buffet at 10€]]. On top of that, it has been noted that the owner has never taken up any suggestions to either raise the offer's price or serve food that's not as fancy, meaning that the restaurant's failure wasn't caused by the customer, but the owner's poor economic sense.