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* One for the customers [[https://notalwaysright.com/were-totally-in-line-with-this-petty-revenge/324374/ in this story]] as they're all ahead of a particular Irate Customer who is complaining that the first person in line is paying with cash. After that outburst, everyone else in line puts their cards away and gets ready to pay with cash instead. The cherry on top is the man in front of the Irate Customer who opts to pay with a personal check! The Irate Customer [[RageQuit promptly storms out of the store]] while passing by the original cash payer who had stuck around to enjoy the show, and the man who had been in front of him taps his debit card on the reader and goes on his way.
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* [[https://notalwaysright.com/that-managers-response-was-pure-platinum/320265/ This manager]] has to deal with an entitled "platinum member" guest, who repeatedly goes out of his way to harass the staff (even at one point bullying a first-day employee into quitting and being happy about it) and gets away with it since Corporate would rather retain his business. He demands to be upgraded to the Presidential Suite for free, implicitly threatening the manager's job on being denied due to hotel policy dictating that upgrades are assigned on check-in and based on availability. After hanging up, the manager then proceeds to give a complementary upgrade to the Presidential Suite to a family of six that checks in and leaves instructions for the submitter to do the same to make sure that every single premium room is filled. As a result, the entitled guest is forced to settle with the regular room he checked in with and the hotel manager decides not to punish the lesser manager and gives him a raise for all the positive reviews from the upgraded guests. The hotel then repeats this every time the problem guest is scheduled to stay with them until the problem guest finally stops booking with them.
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* Doubling as Heartwarming, [[https://notalwaysright.com/grandpas-garage-when-charity-goes-corporate/309205/ the grandpa in this story]] comes out of retirement and converts the barn on some property he bought into a mechanic workshop where he fixes up cars for the needy as a hobby. The owner of the local car dealership and repair shop sues him for operating without a business license even though he's technically not running a business. After failing to convince the dealership owner to back down, the grandpa is told by the judge to get the proper license and insurance to continue operations. The grandpa then converts his workshop into a business that drives paying customers away from the dealership and forces the owner to sell. The grandpa works with the new owner on how to keep the shop afloat while the grandpa is able to resume fixing the cars as a hobby rather than a business for several more years until age prevents him from working any further and passes away peacefully a few years after that with nothing but fond memories of running that workshop.
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* Doubling as Heartwarming, [[https://notalwaysright.com/grandpas-garage-when-charity-goes-corporate/309205/ the grandpa in this story]] comes out of retirement and converts the barn on some property he bought into a mechanic workshop where he fixes up cars for the needy as a hobby. The owner of the local car dealership and repair shop sues him for operating without a business license even though he's technically not running a business. After failing to convince the dealership owner to back down, the grandpa is told by the judge to get the proper license and insurance to continue operations. The grandpa then converts his workshop into a business that drives paying customers away from the dealership and forces the owner to sell. The grandpa works with the new owner on how to keep the shop afloat while the grandpa is able to resume fixing the cars as a hobby rather than a business for several more years until age prevents him from working any further and passes away peacefully a few years after that with nothing but fond memories of running that workshop. One of the comments sums up the whole thing perfectly:
-->"Moral of the story: Do not come after rich people and their retirement hobby."
-->"Moral of the story: Do not come after rich people and their retirement hobby."
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** [[http://notalwaysright.com/making-the-teacher-get-the-picture/33974 This mother]] asserts her familial bond to clarify a mix-up.
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** [[http://notalwaysright.com/making-the-teacher-get-the-picture/33974 This mother]] asserts her familial bond to clarify a mix-up. This also leads to other members of the class speaking up about the teacher making the same mistake for them.
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* The entire "[[https://notalwaysright.com/tag/managers-with-a-spine/ Managers With a Spine]]" tag for the bosses and managers who stand up to overly-entitled customers and often do so in style.
** The submitter in [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-night-tipped-into-your-favor/311915/ this story]] has dealt with a small crowd of drunk jerks who didn't leave a tip. After closing, a man asked about them and if they tipped. Upon hearing they didn't, the man revealed himself to be their boss and wrote a check for a 200% tip ''to be taken out of their paychecks'' for being rude. The group learned their lesson and tipped on their next visit.
** Doubling as a Funny moment, [[https://notalwaysright.com/signs-of-influence-part-2/309946/ one manager]] decides to put up some creative signs to deal with many of a NeverHeardThatOneBefore situation with the example being the classic, "If it doesn't scan, it must be free." The cashier simply points to the sign.
--->'''Sign:''' "In this store, ‘It must be free’ is a request for ritualistic combat to the death."
** The submitter in [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-night-tipped-into-your-favor/311915/ this story]] has dealt with a small crowd of drunk jerks who didn't leave a tip. After closing, a man asked about them and if they tipped. Upon hearing they didn't, the man revealed himself to be their boss and wrote a check for a 200% tip ''to be taken out of their paychecks'' for being rude. The group learned their lesson and tipped on their next visit.
** Doubling as a Funny moment, [[https://notalwaysright.com/signs-of-influence-part-2/309946/ one manager]] decides to put up some creative signs to deal with many of a NeverHeardThatOneBefore situation with the example being the classic, "If it doesn't scan, it must be free." The cashier simply points to the sign.
--->'''Sign:''' "In this store, ‘It must be free’ is a request for ritualistic combat to the death."
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* [[https://notalwaysright.com/one-word-leave/298721/ This manager]] proves able to stand up to an entitled customer who was trying to make a fuss over nothing, but also the regional manager who came in to tell him off, simply by giving one word answers and not giving in to their demands.
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* [[https://notalwaysright.com/daddy-issues-save-the-day/286463/ This waitress]], when one of the other waitresses gets harassed by a group of sleazy men, proceeds show the men just how gross they are being without having to outright say it. Namely, by noting that her dad has the same name as the ringleader of the men (he doesn't, but he didn't need to know that) and then by revealing that she's the same age as the ringleader's daughters.
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* [[https://notalwaysright.com/daddy-issues-save-the-day/286463/ This waitress]], when one of the other waitresses gets harassed by a group of sleazy men, proceeds show the men just how gross they are being without having to outright say it. Namely, by noting that her dad has the same name as the ringleader of the men (he does, but he didn't need to know that) and then by revealing that she's the same age as the ringleader's daughters.
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* [[https://notalwaysright.com/daddy-issues-save-the-day/286463/ This waitress]], when one of the other waitresses gets harassed by a group of sleazy men, proceeds show the men just how gross they are being without having to outright say it. Namely, by noting that her dad has the same name as the ringleader of the men (he does, but he didn't need to know that) and then by revealing that she's the same age as the ringleader's daughters.
--> As soon as this sleazy a**hole realized that I was the same age as at least one of his daughters and our dads had the same name, he was suddenly well-behaved, and so were his friends.
--> As soon as this sleazy a**hole realized that I was the same age as at least one of his daughters and our dads had the same name, he was suddenly well-behaved, and so were his friends.
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* [[https://notalwaysright.com/r-e-s-p-e-c-t/74617/ When this bigoted customer]] gets aggressive towards the female workers, one of them plays up her repuation of a "man-beater" to scare him off.
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* While seating tables at a hotel restaurant, [[https://notalwaysright.com/revenge-is-sweet-even-when-its-an-accident/240720/ a guest slaps the hostess on the behind]], and she reflexively hits him in the throat with her clipboard, [[ForMassiveDamage edge first]]. Everybody in the restaurant says he deserved it, [[KarmicNod including the guest himself]], who tips her a hundred bucks as apology.
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* [[https://notalwaysright.com/oh-my-goddess-it-actually-worked/290545/ This bookstore]] was harassed by proselyte preachers, and corporate prevented the workers to ban them. One new employee, described by the submitter as a geek, then shows up wearing robes, a mask, carrying pamphlets about the tenets of various fictional religions (from various EasternRPG video games), and starts proselyting the various preachers. Once they get the hint and try to go when the guy isn't working, another employee replaces him with the stack of pamphlets and her own disguise. The story concludes by stating there were no preacher's visit for the last five months, but the bag of faux-religious pamphlets is still "sitting behind the front desk, just in case".
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* [[http://notalwaysright.com/trying-to-reverse-engineer-bigotry/34409 This class here.]] An old substitute teacher actively refuses to let the only girl in a class even enter the classroom, because [[UnfortunateImplications he thinks it's a boys-only class]] [[StayInTheKitchen and that her only purpose in taking it was to impress a future husband]]. [[IAmSpartacus On the second day, the entire rest of the class decides to sit out the class with that girl]] for the entire two weeks that the substitute is there, and when the normal teacher returns, said substitute was forced to retire early by the superintendent and school board. A stand against misogyny indeed!
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* [[https://notalwaysright.com/if-you-want-to-know-who-to-blame-look-in-the-mirrorglaze/285727/ Another story]] about an ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife reducing a teenage employee to tears, but this time [[TheDogBitesBack it's the employee herself]] who ends up doling out justice. The woman was buying a large quantity of gelatine to glaze her cakes for a a school bake sale, but the girl, knowing that she advertises her cakes as being vegan (she attends the same school as the woman's daughter, who is the local AlphaBitch and gets away with everything she does due to her mother bullying the principal) and that the brand she's buying is collagen-based, asks if she's baking for vegetarians. The woman proceeds to explode at her, call her an incompetent child, etc., before storming off to find someone else to get her gelatine for her. However, the girl later reveals the truth about the cakes on the school's Facebook page, bringing a wave of outrage from the woman's vegan customers. The woman tries to get her expelled -- and later fired -- over this, even making a complaint to corporate, but since she hasn't broken any school rules and the store wasn't involved, her efforts at retribution come to nothing.
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* [[https://notalwaysright.com/you-can-candy-crush-his-little-heart-not-me/290088/ This mother]] attempts to throw the OP under the bus by blaming them for her son not being allowed to eat any candy. OP promptly flips the script by giving the kid permission to get candy, even paying for it themselves, which then forces the mother to be an even bigger bad guy in the kid's eye by having to take the candy OP gave them. OP points out that it's her own fault for dragging them into parenting her kid.
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* A diabetic customer, her service dog, and a passing nurse [[https://notalwaysright.com/absolutely-the-goodest-boy/269820/ save a woman's life]]. It starts with the dog pawing at the door to the kitchen. The customer is initially embarrassed, but sees the woman's baby bump and so has her step outside so the dog can do a full check. Once the dog alerts, she immediately has an ambulance called, sits the woman down, and enlists a passing nurse to do a blood sugar check. A few days later, the coworker comes back with a monitor and reveals that had she gone home early and had a nap as she initially planned to, it would have probably been fatal.
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* [[https://notalwaysright.com/if-you-want-to-know-who-to-blame-look-in-the-mirrorglaze/285727/ Another story]] about an ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife reducing a teenage employee to tears, but this time [[TheDogBitesBack it's the employee herself]] who ends up doling out justice. The woman was buying a large quantity of gelatine to glaze her cakes for a a school bake sale, but the girl, knowing that she advertises her cakes as being vegan (she attends the same school as the woman's daughter, who is the local AlphaBitch and gets away with everything she does due to her mother bullying the principal) and that the brand she's buying is collagen-based, asks if she's baking for vegetarians. The woman proceeds to explode at her, call her an incompetent child, etc., before storming off to find someone else to get her gelatine for her. However, the girl later reveals the truth about the cakes on the school's Facebook page, bringing a wave of outrage from the woman's vegan customers. The woman tries to get her expelled -- and later fired -- over this, even making a complaint to corporate, but since she hasn't broken any school rules and the store wasn't involved, her efforts at retribution come to nothing.
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* If more Christians were like [[https://notalwaysright.com/standing-strong-in-the-face-of-reckless-hatred/281723/ this teenage girl]], maybe Christianity wouldn't be in the death spiral [[TheFundamentalist the Religious Right]] has caused. This veritable LittleMissBadass stands up to a bunch of homophobic Christofascists protesting a queer-focused event by attempting to goad them into stoning her to death, since she's a victim of child sexual abuse and certain translations of Literature/{{the Bible}} command her to be stoned to death as a "whore", then when they unsurprisingly balk at the idea, calls them out for using the Bible to justify their homophobic beliefs. In short: she uses ''her own trauma'' and the fact she's actually ''read'', rather than simply thumped, the Bible as a means to defend LGBTQ+ people and deconstruct religious homophobia by pointing out that they don't have the same attitudes towards sexual assault victims.
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* A [[https://notalwaysright.com/dont-mess-with-manager-pinkboots/275586/ cranky customer]] reduces a 17-year-old cashier to tears by laying into her over something scanning incorrectly. The new [[BenevolentBoss assistant manager]], whom the cashier has never even met before now, proceeds to [[TranquilFury loudly but calmly]] deliver a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to him, finally telling him to [[GetOut leave]] until he could behave like a human being, before giving the cashier a hug and a break. She subsequently continues to go to bat for the store's employees, until they barely get any more bad customers.
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