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* BadBoss: ''Lots'' of them. Many of the rest fall into the category of PointyHairedBoss.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-self-lay-offing-prophecy This guy's]] name may as well be ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}. In fact, the story's events happened almost verbatim in a ''Dilbert'' comic.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/take-it-personally-to-the-bank This boss]] fires an employee for wrongdoings that never actually happened. Fortunately, the employee gets severance pay out of it when she threatens to bring it up with the Labour Relations Board after the boss fails to produce a paper trail.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-ever-working-part-9 There's apparently a store]] where, at least within reason, being a bad boss is ''mandatory'' -- the submitter ends up promoted to the bad manager's position after he intentionally breaks labor laws by making her work far longer than allowed. However, when she tries to avoid the same situation by covering for a co-worker's break a few months later, they [[ComicallyMissingThePoint actually reprimand her for doing her job]], to which she immediately [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits and never returns]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/mission-imbossible This boss]] actually pulled a DidYouActuallyBelieve on an office worker after he was ordered to work overtime to get a major order done by Monday.
--->'''Boss:''' ''(laughing)'' You actually stayed here until midnight? You’re stupid!\\
'''Worker:''' ...excuse me?\\
'''Boss:''' There would be no way I would've done that much overtime for this. We didn't even need it until Thursday of this week anyway. It could have waited!
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/process-of-elimination This manager]] [[{{Nepotism}} and his daughter]] have been stealing money from their company for half a year -- and when they're about to be found out, the manager tries to get the worker processing the case to take the fall for it. It doesn't work, and the manager [[LaserGuidedKarma not only loses his job]], he ends up ''[[FromBadToWorse jailed for embezzlement]]''.
** Apparently, some managers somehow believe that ''being ill or having to go to the hospital'' are not excuses for missing work:
*** The lunch manager in [[http://notalwaysright.com/pink-eye-or-the-pink-slip this story]] threatens to fire a worker with pinkeye if they call out sick again and forces them to work with the highly contagious condition. When the morning manager learns what happened, he responds by forcing the lunch manager to disinfect everything the sick worker had touched as punishment for her threats.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-a-believer-of-the-fever Another manager]] actually ''does'' fire a worker for not coming in sick. All this despite the worker sending in no less than ''three'' separate emails to her boss stating that she had the flu, ''and'' her dad painstakingly explaining his daughter's situation to the boss over the phone.
*** [[https://notalwaysright.com/an-unspeakable-offense/105029/ Yet another manager]] writes up an employee for leaving work early, even though the worker left in an ambulance that ''the boss called in himself''. The disgruntled employee refuses to sign the writeup and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits on the spot]].
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/finally-independent-from-them Still another manager]] threatens to fire a worker if they call in sick ''ever'' again, regardless of the circumstances -- such as the ''massive concussion'' they suffered at work a few days prior -- because in his eyes the submitter is just being lazy. Sure enough, the submitter wakes up one day vomiting excessively from the concussion, asks if they can at least come in later, and subsequently loses their job. And then the manager has the gall to ask the worker if they'll be able to make it in for one of their busiest work days of the year, calling the entire above situation a "misunderstanding" and [[NeverMyFault claiming they quit of their own accord rather than being wrongfully fired]] - even after the submitter calls him out on his BlatantLies. The submitter then promptly pulls a TakeThisJobAndShoveIt, as they proceed to deliver a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the asshole manager (for giving the submitter unreasonable working hours that didn't give them time to even get home and back between shifts for a month and a half, and completely ignoring repeated complaints about this) and then hang up.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/promoting-health-and-safety In the same vein,]] the submitter throws up and calls the manager to clock out, as the contract states that anyone who does vomit cannot return for forty-eight hours. The manager instead threatens to fire the submitter for "walking out," even when explicitly told what is going on. The manager then makes good on her threat and attempts to fire the submitter; however, [[AlwaysABiggerFish her boss,]] upon finding out exactly what happened, [[LaserGuidedKarma nixes the firing, demotes the manager to a server, and promotes the submitter to team leader]].
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/bone-achingly-lazy-versus-bone-breakingly-crazy This manager here]] might be the worst of the bunch. A worker gets into an accident during a ski trip which left her hospitalized with a broken arm and leg, and cannot come in for three weeks. However, the manager thinks she's just being lazy for not asking for that time off and writes her up, much to the horror of her coworker, who already explained that the worker was badly injured and cannot come to work. When the worker does come back to work, with her broken arm and leg in plaster, the manager [[KickTheDog forces her to get a book on a high shelf and threatens to fire her if she doesn't, because according to him she's just lazy]]. After twenty-five painful minutes attempting to get the book, rather than thanking the worker, [[DudeWheresMyRespect he just snatches the book away and calls her lazy again]]. Thankfully, [[LaserGuidedKarma the manager was quickly fired after the worker complained to the owner]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/women-of-the-night-shift This boss]] writes up an employee after they refused to help a customer find a prostitute. Who cares if prostitution is ''illegal''?
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/drink-and-be-merry-for-tomorrow-we-dine This boss]] does not give a damn whether his waiters are being rude to customers over [[StayInTheKitchen completely inconsequential things like what sort of drink a woman orders]], or that said customers are taking their business elsewhere because of this -- but once he realizes [[OhCrap one of them is an esteemed local food critic]], his tune changes. Of course, this is only to ward off a bad review, rather than to actually make it up to paying customers that were mistreated (as evidenced by him repeatedly referring to things like the waiter ''deliberately spilling the woman's drink'' as a "misunderstanding"), which does not earn him their favor. The story ends by revealing that the restaurant went under shortly after this incident, despite (or perhaps because of) the critic not even mentioning them, while giving a positive review to the restaurant across the street where he and his wife actually ate.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/box-of-stolen-stupid This assistant manager]], as accidentally revealed after a prank gone wrong, has been stealing from his own store, both for himself and his friend.
** Likewise, [[http://notalwaysright.com/brunch-time-crunch-time this assistant manager]], in addition to pretending to be the owner, had been opening the restaurant where he worked on Mondays (when they're normally closed), only to give his friends free food, which had been cutting into their profits; the other employees unwittingly went along with this because the assistant manager had them believing it was a weekly fundraiser for charity, and thus they were ''volunteering'' for a good cause. The actual owner had him fired over this, as evidenced by referring to him as "my now ex-assistant manager".
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/working-antisocial-hours This boss]] actually fires an employee for ''clocking their hours correctly'', because showing up two hours before you're actually scheduled and ''not'' clocking in right then, thus getting paid for ''not'' doing work, is "antisocial behavior". Unsurprisingly, the company ends up having to close multiple locations because of financial issues, and the "social" one [[LaserGuidedKarma is the very first to go]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-toxic-work-environment This boss]] [[LethallyStupid expects a worker to clean up an active biohazard without any sort of protective gear]], because calling the city about it would cost too much, [[SkewedPriorities yet loaning the worker equipment they're not trained in, or letting them buy the equipment themselves, would be illegal]]. The worker [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits on the spot]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/part-time-crime This team leader]] kept writing up a part-time worker for things they had absolutely no way of knowing beforehand. The part-time worker eventually [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quit over it]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-noticeable-lack-of-warning This owner]] offers the submitter a full-time position (they were working part-time both there and at another job)... then waits until the submitter hands in their two weeks' notice at the other place before telling them she can't actually hire them on full-time. Worse, this immediately precedes the submitter learning they will be working 36 hours a week, which basically ''is'' full-time (it legally counts as such in other parts of the world) but is just shy enough from it to still avoid the U.S.'s full-time laws so the new employer doesn't have to provide benefits.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/present-management-stress-disorder This assistant manager]] traps his employee with PTSD[[note]]He was previously held hostage in a bank robbery[[/note]] to prevent him from taking a break, assuming he was faking just as an excuse to be lazy. Not only is the assistant manager chewed out by the boss when the employee has a panic attack, [[LaserGuidedKarma he's promptly fired for blocking an exit, creating a fire hazard.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/an-original-way-to-pass-the-blame This boss]] blames the submitter for tearing a document that never once left the boss's hands. And this is apparently a regular occurrence, too; luckily for the submitter, he was able to get away by joining the National Guard.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/parental-misguidance-3 This church secretary]] is forced to become a security guard for the in-house daycare by the church's council. They point out that they don't know the kids' parents, their existing work takes them all over the building so they can't keep watch over the kids, and they were hired ''as a secretary'', not as a security guard -- and yet they're forced to do the extra work anyway, and are even written up for objecting to it ''even though the council member admitted that the objections were correct.'' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere They quit two months later]], and later learn that whole situation was designed specifically to force them to quit.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/owns-a-very-crazy-personality This bakery owner]] ''screams'' at people for the most minor mistakes, to such an extreme extent that [[TheDreaded her employees are terrified of her]]. The submitter, then a trainee, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere refused to work there any longer]] if that was how her boss would react to slight mistakes from the new girl, and found a place of employment with "a less psycho owner."
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/praying-for-some-common-sense This employee]] was dismissed without unemployment benefits for [[MistakenForRacist racism]], because they mentioned "Muslims and prayer time" in a speech. Apparently, Muslims are a race now, and taking into account anything they do differently from other religions is discrimination, somehow. Although the employee never got the job back, the unemployment agency overturned the employer's decision to deny unemployment, thus allowing the employee to get benefits until they could find a new job.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/speaking-up-for-those-who-cant This ableist manager]] orders an autistic mute employee to answer the phone - something he obviously ''cannot'' do. When the employee repeatedly presses a button and hangs up instead of talking, she screams at him and fires him on the spot. Turns out the caller was the employee's brother, who a) [[EveryoneKnowsMorse understood the Morse Code his brother was sending]], and b) ''[[SummonBiggerFish is the CEO]]''. Upon learning the circumstances under which his brother was fired, the enraged CEO [[WhatWereYouThinking furiously berates]] the asshole manager and [[LaserGuidedKarma promptly fires her instead for discrimination]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/racism-will-no-longer-accepted-delivery/101430 This boss for a video editing company]] is apparently so racist that she picks on the company's delivery man solely because of his skin color. Her racism actually caused problems for the delivery man as he had accumulated enough complaints from this woman to warrant several evaluations. The submitter quits the job and later encounters the same delivery man (as well as another man with him) at their new job. The delivery man is in a rather upset state (because his job is now in jeopardy), and the submitter finally lets slip about their boss's racist attitudes. It turns out the other man was ''the manager'' for the delivery company and upon hearing the submitter's comments, lets the delivery man stay and terminates the delivery company's contract with the former boss out of disgust.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/getting-struck-from-the-job/118647/ This boss]] sends an employee out for carts ''in the middle of a severe thunderstorm'', and then [[DisproportionateRetribution screams at and fires them]] when they do not comply. Luckily, LaserGuidedKarma kicks in right away when ''[[AlwaysABiggerFish her boss]]'' finds this out, and, thanks to an [[NoIndoorVoice extensive history of screaming in front of customers]], she is immediately fired the next day for intentionally putting the employee's life in danger.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/one-of-the-worst-managers-youve-ever-produced/135206/ This produce manager]] fires an employee because she refused to handle produce in an unsafe manner (and it's stated that he's been written up for forcing other employees to do so in the past). When the submitter (the store's general manager) forces him to to call up the wrongfully fired employee to apologize, the produce manager instead hurls an insult-laden TheReasonYouSuckSpeech at the poor woman and [[KickTheDog tells her that she deserved to be fired]]. He does this '''[[TooDumbToLive while still in the presence of the submitter]]''', who, after a few moments of silent disbelief, [[WhatWereYouThinking gives the manager some choice words]], [[LaserGuidedKarma fires him on the spot]], and [[PersonaNonGrata bans him from the store for life]]. As for the unjustly fired employee, she was hired back shortly afterward into the jerk manager's former position as produce manager and has held it ever since.
** The restaurant manager in [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-only-thing-theyre-grabbing-is-a-way-to-get-kicked-out/154480/ this story]]. A new waitress dives to avoid being groped by a creepy customer, who falls over and proceeds to hurl a string of invective and foul insults at her. The waitress' supervisor throws the man and his friends out, but the next day the manager blames her for the incident and gives her a warning over it. According to him, male customers [[ImAManICantHelpIt just can't help]] attempting to sexually assault waitresses, and she just has to "get used to it". Unsurprisingly, she quits on the spot.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-self-lay-offing-prophecy This guy's]] name may as well be ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}. In fact, the story's events happened almost verbatim in a ''Dilbert'' comic.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/take-it-personally-to-the-bank This boss]] fires an employee for wrongdoings that never actually happened. Fortunately, the employee gets severance pay out of it when she threatens to bring it up with the Labour Relations Board after the boss fails to produce a paper trail.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-ever-working-part-9 There's apparently a store]] where, at least within reason, being a bad boss is ''mandatory'' -- the submitter ends up promoted to the bad manager's position after he intentionally breaks labor laws by making her work far longer than allowed. However, when she tries to avoid the same situation by covering for a co-worker's break a few months later, they [[ComicallyMissingThePoint actually reprimand her for doing her job]], to which she immediately [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits and never returns]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/mission-imbossible This boss]] actually pulled a DidYouActuallyBelieve on an office worker after he was ordered to work overtime to get a major order done by Monday.
--->'''Boss:''' ''(laughing)'' You actually stayed here until midnight? You’re stupid!\\
'''Worker:''' ...excuse me?\\
'''Boss:''' There would be no way I would've done that much overtime for this. We didn't even need it until Thursday of this week anyway. It could have waited!
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/process-of-elimination This manager]] [[{{Nepotism}} and his daughter]] have been stealing money from their company for half a year -- and when they're about to be found out, the manager tries to get the worker processing the case to take the fall for it. It doesn't work, and the manager [[LaserGuidedKarma not only loses his job]], he ends up ''[[FromBadToWorse jailed for embezzlement]]''.
** Apparently, some managers somehow believe that ''being ill or having to go to the hospital'' are not excuses for missing work:
*** The lunch manager in [[http://notalwaysright.com/pink-eye-or-the-pink-slip this story]] threatens to fire a worker with pinkeye if they call out sick again and forces them to work with the highly contagious condition. When the morning manager learns what happened, he responds by forcing the lunch manager to disinfect everything the sick worker had touched as punishment for her threats.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-a-believer-of-the-fever Another manager]] actually ''does'' fire a worker for not coming in sick. All this despite the worker sending in no less than ''three'' separate emails to her boss stating that she had the flu, ''and'' her dad painstakingly explaining his daughter's situation to the boss over the phone.
*** [[https://notalwaysright.com/an-unspeakable-offense/105029/ Yet another manager]] writes up an employee for leaving work early, even though the worker left in an ambulance that ''the boss called in himself''. The disgruntled employee refuses to sign the writeup and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits on the spot]].
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/finally-independent-from-them Still another manager]] threatens to fire a worker if they call in sick ''ever'' again, regardless of the circumstances -- such as the ''massive concussion'' they suffered at work a few days prior -- because in his eyes the submitter is just being lazy. Sure enough, the submitter wakes up one day vomiting excessively from the concussion, asks if they can at least come in later, and subsequently loses their job. And then the manager has the gall to ask the worker if they'll be able to make it in for one of their busiest work days of the year, calling the entire above situation a "misunderstanding" and [[NeverMyFault claiming they quit of their own accord rather than being wrongfully fired]] - even after the submitter calls him out on his BlatantLies. The submitter then promptly pulls a TakeThisJobAndShoveIt, as they proceed to deliver a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the asshole manager (for giving the submitter unreasonable working hours that didn't give them time to even get home and back between shifts for a month and a half, and completely ignoring repeated complaints about this) and then hang up.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/promoting-health-and-safety In the same vein,]] the submitter throws up and calls the manager to clock out, as the contract states that anyone who does vomit cannot return for forty-eight hours. The manager instead threatens to fire the submitter for "walking out," even when explicitly told what is going on. The manager then makes good on her threat and attempts to fire the submitter; however, [[AlwaysABiggerFish her boss,]] upon finding out exactly what happened, [[LaserGuidedKarma nixes the firing, demotes the manager to a server, and promotes the submitter to team leader]].
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/bone-achingly-lazy-versus-bone-breakingly-crazy This manager here]] might be the worst of the bunch. A worker gets into an accident during a ski trip which left her hospitalized with a broken arm and leg, and cannot come in for three weeks. However, the manager thinks she's just being lazy for not asking for that time off and writes her up, much to the horror of her coworker, who already explained that the worker was badly injured and cannot come to work. When the worker does come back to work, with her broken arm and leg in plaster, the manager [[KickTheDog forces her to get a book on a high shelf and threatens to fire her if she doesn't, because according to him she's just lazy]]. After twenty-five painful minutes attempting to get the book, rather than thanking the worker, [[DudeWheresMyRespect he just snatches the book away and calls her lazy again]]. Thankfully, [[LaserGuidedKarma the manager was quickly fired after the worker complained to the owner]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/women-of-the-night-shift This boss]] writes up an employee after they refused to help a customer find a prostitute. Who cares if prostitution is ''illegal''?
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/drink-and-be-merry-for-tomorrow-we-dine This boss]] does not give a damn whether his waiters are being rude to customers over [[StayInTheKitchen completely inconsequential things like what sort of drink a woman orders]], or that said customers are taking their business elsewhere because of this -- but once he realizes [[OhCrap one of them is an esteemed local food critic]], his tune changes. Of course, this is only to ward off a bad review, rather than to actually make it up to paying customers that were mistreated (as evidenced by him repeatedly referring to things like the waiter ''deliberately spilling the woman's drink'' as a "misunderstanding"), which does not earn him their favor. The story ends by revealing that the restaurant went under shortly after this incident, despite (or perhaps because of) the critic not even mentioning them, while giving a positive review to the restaurant across the street where he and his wife actually ate.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/box-of-stolen-stupid This assistant manager]], as accidentally revealed after a prank gone wrong, has been stealing from his own store, both for himself and his friend.
** Likewise, [[http://notalwaysright.com/brunch-time-crunch-time this assistant manager]], in addition to pretending to be the owner, had been opening the restaurant where he worked on Mondays (when they're normally closed), only to give his friends free food, which had been cutting into their profits; the other employees unwittingly went along with this because the assistant manager had them believing it was a weekly fundraiser for charity, and thus they were ''volunteering'' for a good cause. The actual owner had him fired over this, as evidenced by referring to him as "my now ex-assistant manager".
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/working-antisocial-hours This boss]] actually fires an employee for ''clocking their hours correctly'', because showing up two hours before you're actually scheduled and ''not'' clocking in right then, thus getting paid for ''not'' doing work, is "antisocial behavior". Unsurprisingly, the company ends up having to close multiple locations because of financial issues, and the "social" one [[LaserGuidedKarma is the very first to go]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-toxic-work-environment This boss]] [[LethallyStupid expects a worker to clean up an active biohazard without any sort of protective gear]], because calling the city about it would cost too much, [[SkewedPriorities yet loaning the worker equipment they're not trained in, or letting them buy the equipment themselves, would be illegal]]. The worker [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits on the spot]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/part-time-crime This team leader]] kept writing up a part-time worker for things they had absolutely no way of knowing beforehand. The part-time worker eventually [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quit over it]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-noticeable-lack-of-warning This owner]] offers the submitter a full-time position (they were working part-time both there and at another job)... then waits until the submitter hands in their two weeks' notice at the other place before telling them she can't actually hire them on full-time. Worse, this immediately precedes the submitter learning they will be working 36 hours a week, which basically ''is'' full-time (it legally counts as such in other parts of the world) but is just shy enough from it to still avoid the U.S.'s full-time laws so the new employer doesn't have to provide benefits.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/present-management-stress-disorder This assistant manager]] traps his employee with PTSD[[note]]He was previously held hostage in a bank robbery[[/note]] to prevent him from taking a break, assuming he was faking just as an excuse to be lazy. Not only is the assistant manager chewed out by the boss when the employee has a panic attack, [[LaserGuidedKarma he's promptly fired for blocking an exit, creating a fire hazard.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/an-original-way-to-pass-the-blame This boss]] blames the submitter for tearing a document that never once left the boss's hands. And this is apparently a regular occurrence, too; luckily for the submitter, he was able to get away by joining the National Guard.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/parental-misguidance-3 This church secretary]] is forced to become a security guard for the in-house daycare by the church's council. They point out that they don't know the kids' parents, their existing work takes them all over the building so they can't keep watch over the kids, and they were hired ''as a secretary'', not as a security guard -- and yet they're forced to do the extra work anyway, and are even written up for objecting to it ''even though the council member admitted that the objections were correct.'' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere They quit two months later]], and later learn that whole situation was designed specifically to force them to quit.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/owns-a-very-crazy-personality This bakery owner]] ''screams'' at people for the most minor mistakes, to such an extreme extent that [[TheDreaded her employees are terrified of her]]. The submitter, then a trainee, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere refused to work there any longer]] if that was how her boss would react to slight mistakes from the new girl, and found a place of employment with "a less psycho owner."
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/praying-for-some-common-sense This employee]] was dismissed without unemployment benefits for [[MistakenForRacist racism]], because they mentioned "Muslims and prayer time" in a speech. Apparently, Muslims are a race now, and taking into account anything they do differently from other religions is discrimination, somehow. Although the employee never got the job back, the unemployment agency overturned the employer's decision to deny unemployment, thus allowing the employee to get benefits until they could find a new job.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/speaking-up-for-those-who-cant This ableist manager]] orders an autistic mute employee to answer the phone - something he obviously ''cannot'' do. When the employee repeatedly presses a button and hangs up instead of talking, she screams at him and fires him on the spot. Turns out the caller was the employee's brother, who a) [[EveryoneKnowsMorse understood the Morse Code his brother was sending]], and b) ''[[SummonBiggerFish is the CEO]]''. Upon learning the circumstances under which his brother was fired, the enraged CEO [[WhatWereYouThinking furiously berates]] the asshole manager and [[LaserGuidedKarma promptly fires her instead for discrimination]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/racism-will-no-longer-accepted-delivery/101430 This boss for a video editing company]] is apparently so racist that she picks on the company's delivery man solely because of his skin color. Her racism actually caused problems for the delivery man as he had accumulated enough complaints from this woman to warrant several evaluations. The submitter quits the job and later encounters the same delivery man (as well as another man with him) at their new job. The delivery man is in a rather upset state (because his job is now in jeopardy), and the submitter finally lets slip about their boss's racist attitudes. It turns out the other man was ''the manager'' for the delivery company and upon hearing the submitter's comments, lets the delivery man stay and terminates the delivery company's contract with the former boss out of disgust.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/getting-struck-from-the-job/118647/ This boss]] sends an employee out for carts ''in the middle of a severe thunderstorm'', and then [[DisproportionateRetribution screams at and fires them]] when they do not comply. Luckily, LaserGuidedKarma kicks in right away when ''[[AlwaysABiggerFish her boss]]'' finds this out, and, thanks to an [[NoIndoorVoice extensive history of screaming in front of customers]], she is immediately fired the next day for intentionally putting the employee's life in danger.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/one-of-the-worst-managers-youve-ever-produced/135206/ This produce manager]] fires an employee because she refused to handle produce in an unsafe manner (and it's stated that he's been written up for forcing other employees to do so in the past). When the submitter (the store's general manager) forces him to to call up the wrongfully fired employee to apologize, the produce manager instead hurls an insult-laden TheReasonYouSuckSpeech at the poor woman and [[KickTheDog tells her that she deserved to be fired]]. He does this '''[[TooDumbToLive while still in the presence of the submitter]]''', who, after a few moments of silent disbelief, [[WhatWereYouThinking gives the manager some choice words]], [[LaserGuidedKarma fires him on the spot]], and [[PersonaNonGrata bans him from the store for life]]. As for the unjustly fired employee, she was hired back shortly afterward into the jerk manager's former position as produce manager and has held it ever since.
** The restaurant manager in [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-only-thing-theyre-grabbing-is-a-way-to-get-kicked-out/154480/ this story]]. A new waitress dives to avoid being groped by a creepy customer, who falls over and proceeds to hurl a string of invective and foul insults at her. The waitress' supervisor throws the man and his friends out, but the next day the manager blames her for the incident and gives her a warning over it. According to him, male customers [[ImAManICantHelpIt just can't help]] attempting to sexually assault waitresses, and she just has to "get used to it". Unsurprisingly, she quits on the spot.
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* BadBoss: So many of them that it now has [[BadBoss/NotAlwaysWorking its own page]]. Many of the rest fall into the category of PointyHairedBoss.
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* EmbarrassingTattoo: [[https://notalwaysright.com/spilled-the-ink-on-that-one/154482/ This tattoo artist]] invoked this trope when he decided to insult a client in to have a tattoo of a man's name covered up, on the grounds that getting a boyfriend's name tattooed on her was "stupid". It was a memorial tattoo of her father's name, gotten after his suicide ... which turned out to have been his '''faked''' suicide so he could run off and live with his new family. The poster rips the guy a new one and goes elsewhere for her coverup.
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** [[http://notalwaysright.com/ive-got-a-ticket-to-deride Another police officer]] stops a young girl that he believes to be a car thief or a underage teenager with no driver's license. When she proves him wrong on both accounts, the police officer [[NeverMyFault refuses to apologize for his mistake]], and even goes so far as to issue a citation ''[[InsaneTrollLogic for wasting his time]]''. Luckily, the officer's superior tells the submitter and her father to ignore the ticket, before inadvertently letting slip that it was the fourth such ticket the officer had issued that month.
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** [[http://notalwaysright.com/ive-got-a-ticket-to-deride Another police officer]] stops a young girl that he believes to be a car thief or a an underage teenager with no driver's license. When she proves him wrong on both accounts, the police officer [[NeverMyFault refuses to apologize for his mistake]], and even goes so far as to issue a citation ''[[InsaneTrollLogic for wasting his time]]''. Luckily, the officer's superior tells the submitter and her father to ignore the ticket, before inadvertently letting slip that it was the fourth such ticket the officer had issued that month.
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* EvilIsPetty: [[http://notalwaysright.com/ive-got-a-ticket-to-deride This police officer]] stops the submitter as he believes she's either a car thief or a underage teenager with no driver's license. When she shows proof the car belongs to her father and that she's old enough to have a driver's license, [[NeverMyFault rather than apologize]] for disturbing her, the police officer [[InsaneTrollLogic writes her a ticket for wasting his time]]! Thankfully, when she reported this to his superior, the superior tells her to ignore the ticket. Just before hanging up, the superior inadvertently reveals this was the fourth time that month that the police officer did something like that.
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* EvilIsPetty: [[http://notalwaysright.com/ive-got-a-ticket-to-deride This police officer]] stops the submitter as he believes she's either a car thief or a an underage teenager with no driver's license. When she shows proof the car belongs to her father and that she's old enough to have a driver's license, [[NeverMyFault rather than apologize]] for disturbing her, the police officer [[InsaneTrollLogic writes her a ticket for wasting his time]]! Thankfully, when she reported this to his superior, the superior tells her to ignore the ticket. Just before hanging up, the superior inadvertently reveals this was the fourth time that month that the police officer did something like that.
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** [[http://notalwaysright.com/theyd-like-to-look-at-the-kidnap-menu-part-2 Once more]]. A cashier ''calls the cops'' after seeing a black man in line with a young Asian girl, refusing to believe she's the man's step-daughter. [[LaserGuidedKarma The cashier got fired for his idiocy.]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/are-you-puli-ng-my-leg/115732/ This veterinary technician]] thinks the submitter is another idiot mistakenly neglecting their doodle because the puppy farm lied to them about how her fur is supposed to work. Said "doodle" is actually a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puli puli]], a Hungarian herding dog famous for their long, corded coats (i.e. they're ''supposed'' to look like mops). The dog was actually a puppy in the process of growing the fur into cords, at which point the coat looks hideous even ''with'' proper care. The technician acts on that wrong assumption without the vet's knowledge or the submitter's permission, [[LaserGuidedKarma and ends up fired for doing so]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/are-you-puli-ng-my-leg/115732/ This veterinary technician]] thinks the submitter is another idiot mistakenly neglecting their doodle because the puppy farm lied to them about how her fur is supposed to work. Said "doodle" is actually a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puli puli]], a Hungarian herding dog famous for their long, corded coats (i.e. they're ''supposed'' to look like mops). The dog was actually a puppy in the process of growing the fur into cords, at which point the coat looks hideous even ''with'' proper care. The technician acts on that wrong assumption without the vet's knowledge or the submitter's permission, [[LaserGuidedKarma and ends up fired for doing so]].
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** [[http://notalwaysright.com/theyd-like-to-look-at-the-kidnap-menu-part-2 Once more]]. A cashier ''calls the cops'' after seeing a black man in line with a young Asian girl, refusing to believe she's the man's step-daughter.stepdaughter. [[LaserGuidedKarma The cashier got fired for his idiocy.]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/are-you-puli-ng-my-leg/115732/ This veterinary technician]] thinks the submitter is another idiot mistakenly neglecting their doodle because the puppy farm lied to them about how her fur is supposed to work. Said "doodle" is actually a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puli puli]], a Hungarian herding dog famous for their long, corded coats (i.e. they're ''supposed'' to look like mops). The dog was actually a puppy in the process of growing the fur into cords, at which point the coat looks hideous even ''with'' proper care. The technician acts on that wrong assumption without the vet's knowledge or the submitter's permission, [[LaserGuidedKarma and ends up fired for doing so]].[[labelnote:Warning]]Tread carefully when reading the comments, as there are a number of stories posted there which are ''[[NightmareFuel much less]]'' amusing and light-hearted than this.[[/labelnote]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/are-you-puli-ng-my-leg/115732/ This veterinary technician]] thinks the submitter is another idiot mistakenly neglecting their doodle because the puppy farm lied to them about how her fur is supposed to work. Said "doodle" is actually a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puli puli]], a Hungarian herding dog famous for their long, corded coats (i.e. they're ''supposed'' to look like mops). The dog was actually a puppy in the process of growing the fur into cords, at which point the coat looks hideous even ''with'' proper care. The technician acts on that wrong assumption without the vet's knowledge or the submitter's permission, [[LaserGuidedKarma and ends up fired for doing so]].[[labelnote:Warning]]Tread carefully when reading the comments, as there are a number of stories posted there which are ''[[NightmareFuel much less]]'' amusing and light-hearted than this.[[/labelnote]]
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: [[https://notalwaysright.com/drunk-guys-will-pay-anything-for-pizza/142550/ These drunk guys]] all pay the pizza man a twenty for their pizza without taking it, each seeming to think that the guy before him didn't (some walking by and paying a twenty more than once!). The pizza guy tries to explain, but the last drunk guy simply takes the pizza and slams the door in his face. The pizza guy ended up leaving with a "tip" totaling more than 300 dollars!
* AllAnimationIsDisney: [[invoked]] [[https://notalwaysright.com/i-stand-alone-among-these-movies/64904/ One coworker]] had to explain to another which animated films were not made by Disney. Surprisingly, the one he guessed was not Disney, ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'', actually was.
* AllAnimationIsDisney: [[invoked]] [[https://notalwaysright.com/i-stand-alone-among-these-movies/64904/ One coworker]] had to explain to another which animated films were not made by Disney. Surprisingly, the one he guessed was not Disney, ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'', actually was.
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: [[https://notalwaysright.com/drunk-guys-will-pay-anything-for-pizza/142550/ These drunk guys]] all pay the pizza man a twenty for their pizza without taking it, each seeming to think that the guy before him didn't (some walking by and paying a twenty more than once!). The pizza guy tries to explain, but the last drunk guy simply takes the pizza and slams the door in his face. The pizza guy ended up leaving with a "tip" totaling more than 300 dollars!
$300!
* AllAnimationIsDisney: [[invoked]] [[https://notalwaysright.com/i-stand-alone-among-these-movies/64904/ One coworker]] had to explain to another which animated films were not made by Disney. Surprisingly, the one he guessed was not Disney, ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'', actuallywas.is.
* AllAnimationIsDisney: [[invoked]] [[https://notalwaysright.com/i-stand-alone-among-these-movies/64904/ One coworker]] had to explain to another which animated films were not made by Disney. Surprisingly, the one he guessed was not Disney, ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'', actually
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* BadBoss: ''Lots'' of them. Many of the rest fall into the category of PointyHairedBoss.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-self-lay-offing-prophecy This guy's]] name may as well be ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}. In fact, the story's events happened almost verbatim in a ''Dilbert'' comic.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/take-it-personally-to-the-bank This boss]] fires an employee for wrongdoings that never actually happened. Fortunately, the employee gets severance pay out of it when she threatens to bring it up with the Labour Relations Board after the boss fails to produce a paper trail.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-ever-working-part-9 There's apparently a store]] where, at least within reason, being a bad boss is ''mandatory'' -- the submitter ends up promoted to the bad manager's position after he intentionally breaks labor laws by making her work far longer than allowed. However, when she tries to avoid the same situation by covering for a co-worker's break a few months later, they [[ComicallyMissingThePoint actually reprimand her for doing her job]], to which she immediately [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits and never returns]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/mission-imbossible This boss]] actually pulled a DidYouActuallyBelieve on an office worker after he was ordered to work overtime to get a major order done by Monday.
--->'''Boss:''' ''(laughing)'' You actually stayed here until midnight? You’re stupid!\\
'''Worker:''' ...excuse me?\\
'''Boss:''' There would be no way I would've done that much overtime for this. We didn't even need it until Thursday of this week anyway. It could have waited!
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/process-of-elimination This manager]] [[{{Nepotism}} and his daughter]] have been stealing money from their company for half a year -- and when they're about to be found out, the manager tries to get the worker processing the case to take the fall for it. It doesn't work, and the manager [[LaserGuidedKarma not only loses his job]], he ends up ''[[FromBadToWorse jailed for embezzlement]]''.
** Apparently, some managers somehow believe that ''being ill or having to go to the hospital'' are not excuses for missing work:
*** The lunch manager in [[http://notalwaysright.com/pink-eye-or-the-pink-slip this story]] threatens to fire a worker with pinkeye if they call out sick again and forces them to work with the highly contagious condition. When the morning manager learns what happened, he responds by forcing the lunch manager to disinfect everything the sick worker had touched as punishment for her threats.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-a-believer-of-the-fever Another manager]] actually ''does'' fire a worker for not coming in sick. All this despite the worker sending in no less than ''three'' separate emails to her boss stating that she had the flu, ''and'' her dad painstakingly explaining his daughter's situation to the boss over the phone.
*** [[https://notalwaysright.com/an-unspeakable-offense/105029/ Yet another manager]] writes up an employee for leaving work early, even though the worker left in an ambulance that ''the boss called in himself''. The disgruntled employee refuses to sign the writeup and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits on the spot]].
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/finally-independent-from-them Still another manager]] threatens to fire a worker if they call in sick ''ever'' again, regardless of the circumstances -- such as the ''massive concussion'' they suffered at work a few days prior -- because in his eyes the submitter is just being lazy. Sure enough, the submitter wakes up one day vomiting excessively from the concussion, asks if they can at least come in later, and subsequently loses their job. And then the manager has the gall to ask the worker if they'll be able to make it in for one of their busiest work days of the year, calling the entire above situation a "misunderstanding" and [[NeverMyFault claiming they quit of their own accord rather than being wrongfully fired]] - even after the submitter calls him out on his BlatantLies. The submitter then promptly pulls a TakeThisJobAndShoveIt, as they proceed to deliver a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the asshole manager (for giving the submitter unreasonable working hours that didn't give them time to even get home and back between shifts for a month and a half, and completely ignoring repeated complaints about this) and then hang up.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/promoting-health-and-safety In the same vein,]] the submitter throws up and calls the manager to clock out, as the contract states that anyone who does vomit cannot return for forty-eight hours. The manager instead threatens to fire the submitter for "walking out," even when explicitly told what is going on. The manager then makes good on her threat and attempts to fire the submitter; however, [[AlwaysABiggerFish her boss,]] upon finding out exactly what happened, [[LaserGuidedKarma nixes the firing, demotes the manager to a server, and promotes the submitter to team leader]].
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/bone-achingly-lazy-versus-bone-breakingly-crazy This manager here]] might be the worst of the bunch. A worker gets into an accident during a ski trip which left her hospitalized with a broken arm and leg, and cannot come in for three weeks. However, the manager thinks she's just being lazy for not asking for that time off and writes her up, much to the horror of her coworker, who already explained that the worker was badly injured and cannot come to work. When the worker does come back to work, with her broken arm and leg in plaster, the manager [[KickTheDog forces her to get a book on a high shelf and threatens to fire her if she doesn't, because according to him she's just lazy]]. After twenty-five painful minutes attempting to get the book, rather than thanking the worker, [[DudeWheresMyRespect he just snatches the book away and calls her lazy again]]. Thankfully, [[LaserGuidedKarma the manager was quickly fired after the worker complained to the owner]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/women-of-the-night-shift This boss]] writes up an employee after they refused to help a customer find a prostitute. Who cares if prostitution is ''illegal''?
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/drink-and-be-merry-for-tomorrow-we-dine This boss]] does not give a damn whether his waiters are being rude to customers over [[StayInTheKitchen completely inconsequential things like what sort of drink a woman orders]], or that said customers are taking their business elsewhere because of this -- but once he realizes [[OhCrap one of them is an esteemed local food critic]], his tune changes. Of course, this is only to ward off a bad review, rather than to actually make it up to paying customers that were mistreated (as evidenced by him repeatedly referring to things like the waiter ''deliberately spilling the woman's drink'' as a "misunderstanding"), which does not earn him their favor. The story ends by revealing that the restaurant went under shortly after this incident, despite (or perhaps because of) the critic not even mentioning them, while giving a positive review to the restaurant across the street where he and his wife actually ate.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/box-of-stolen-stupid This assistant manager]], as accidentally revealed after a prank gone wrong, has been stealing from his own store, both for himself and his friend.
** Likewise, [[http://notalwaysright.com/brunch-time-crunch-time this assistant manager]], in addition to pretending to be the owner, had been opening the restaurant where he worked on Mondays (when they're normally closed), only to give his friends free food, which had been cutting into their profits; the other employees unwittingly went along with this because the assistant manager had them believing it was a weekly fundraiser for charity, and thus they were ''volunteering'' for a good cause. The actual owner had him fired over this, as evidenced by referring to him as "my now ex-assistant manager".
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/working-antisocial-hours This boss]] actually fires an employee for ''clocking their hours correctly'', because showing up two hours before you're actually scheduled and ''not'' clocking in right then, thus getting paid for ''not'' doing work, is "antisocial behavior". Unsurprisingly, the company ends up having to close multiple locations because of financial issues, and the "social" one [[LaserGuidedKarma is the very first to go]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-toxic-work-environment This boss]] [[LethallyStupid expects a worker to clean up an active biohazard without any sort of protective gear]], because calling the city about it would cost too much, [[SkewedPriorities yet loaning the worker equipment they're not trained in, or letting them buy the equipment themselves, would be illegal]]. The worker [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits on the spot]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/part-time-crime This team leader]] kept writing up a part-time worker for things they had absolutely no way of knowing beforehand. The part-time worker eventually [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quit over it]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-noticeable-lack-of-warning This owner]] offers the submitter a full-time position (they were working part-time both there and at another job)... then waits until the submitter hands in their two weeks' notice at the other place before telling them she can't actually hire them on full-time. Worse, this immediately precedes the submitter learning they will be working 36 hours a week, which basically ''is'' full-time (it legally counts as such in other parts of the world) but is just shy enough from it to still avoid the U.S.'s full-time laws so the new employer doesn't have to provide benefits.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/present-management-stress-disorder This assistant manager]] traps his employee with PTSD[[note]]He was previously held hostage in a bank robbery[[/note]] to prevent him from taking a break, assuming he was faking just as an excuse to be lazy. Not only is the assistant manager chewed out by the boss when the employee has a panic attack, [[LaserGuidedKarma he's promptly fired for blocking an exit, creating a fire hazard.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/an-original-way-to-pass-the-blame This boss]] blames the submitter for tearing a document that never once left the boss's hands. And this is apparently a regular occurrence, too; luckily for the submitter, he was able to get away by joining the National Guard.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/parental-misguidance-3 This church secretary]] is forced to become a security guard for the in-house daycare by the church's council. They point out that they don't know the kids' parents, their existing work takes them all over the building so they can't keep watch over the kids, and they were hired ''as a secretary'', not as a security guard -- and yet they're forced to do the extra work anyway, and are even written up for objecting to it ''even though the council member admitted that the objections were correct.'' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere They quit two months later]], and later learn that whole situation was designed specifically to force them to quit.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/owns-a-very-crazy-personality This bakery owner]] ''screams'' at people for the most minor mistakes, to such an extreme extent that [[TheDreaded her employees are terrified of her]]. The submitter, then a trainee, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere refused to work there any longer]] if that was how her boss would react to slight mistakes from the new girl, and found a place of employment with "a less psycho owner."
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/praying-for-some-common-sense This employee]] was dismissed without unemployment benefits for [[MistakenForRacist racism]], because they mentioned "Muslims and prayer time" in a speech. Apparently, Muslims are a race now, and taking into account anything they do differently from other religions is discrimination, somehow. Although the employee never got the job back, the unemployment agency overturned the employer's decision to deny unemployment, thus allowing the employee to get benefits until they could find a new job.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/speaking-up-for-those-who-cant This ableist manager]] orders an autistic mute employee to answer the phone - something he obviously ''cannot'' do. When the employee repeatedly presses a button and hangs up instead of talking, she screams at him and fires him on the spot. Turns out the caller was the employee's brother, who a) [[EveryoneKnowsMorse understood the Morse Code his brother was sending]], and b) ''[[SummonBiggerFish is the CEO]]''. Upon learning the circumstances under which his brother was fired, the enraged CEO [[WhatWereYouThinking furiously berates]] the asshole manager and [[LaserGuidedKarma promptly fires her instead for discrimination]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/racism-will-no-longer-accepted-delivery/101430 This boss for a video editing company]] is apparently so racist that she picks on the company's delivery man solely because of his skin color. Her racism actually caused problems for the delivery man as he had accumulated enough complaints from this woman to warrant several evaluations. The submitter quits the job and later encounters the same delivery man (as well as another man with him) at their new job. The delivery man is in a rather upset state (because his job is now in jeopardy), and the submitter finally lets slip about their boss's racist attitudes. It turns out the other man was ''the manager'' for the delivery company and upon hearing the submitter's comments, lets the delivery man stay and terminates the delivery company's contract with the former boss out of disgust.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/getting-struck-from-the-job/118647/ This boss]] sends an employee out for carts ''in the middle of a severe thunderstorm'', and then [[DisproportionateRetribution screams at and fires them]] when they do not comply. Luckily, LaserGuidedKarma kicks in right away when ''[[AlwaysABiggerFish her boss]]'' finds this out, and, thanks to an [[NoIndoorVoice extensive history of screaming in front of customers]], she is immediately fired the next day for intentionally putting the employee's life in danger.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/one-of-the-worst-managers-youve-ever-produced/135206/ This produce manager]] fires an employee because she refused to handle produce in an unsafe manner (and it's stated that he's been written up for forcing other employees to do so in the past). When the submitter (the store's general manager) forces him to to call up the wrongfully fired employee to apologize, the produce manager instead hurls an insult-laden TheReasonYouSuckSpeech at the poor woman and [[KickTheDog tells her that she deserved to be fired]]. He does this '''[[TooDumbToLive while still in the presence of the submitter]]''', who, after a few moments of silent disbelief, [[WhatWereYouThinking gives the manager some choice words]], [[LaserGuidedKarma fires him on the spot]], and [[PersonaNonGrata bans him from the store for life]]. As for the unjustly fired employee, she was hired back shortly afterward into the jerk manager's former position as produce manager and has held it ever since.
** The restaurant manager in [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-only-thing-theyre-grabbing-is-a-way-to-get-kicked-out/154480/ this story]]. A new waitress dives to avoid being groped by a creepy customer, who falls over and proceeds to hurl a string of invective and foul insults at her. The waitress' supervisor throws the man and his friends out, but the next day the manager blames her for the incident and gives her a warning over it. According to him, male customers [[ImAManICantHelpIt just can't help]] attempting to sexually assault waitresses, and she just has to "get used to it". Unsurprisingly, she quits on the spot.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-self-lay-offing-prophecy This guy's]] name may as well be ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}. In fact, the story's events happened almost verbatim in a ''Dilbert'' comic.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/take-it-personally-to-the-bank This boss]] fires an employee for wrongdoings that never actually happened. Fortunately, the employee gets severance pay out of it when she threatens to bring it up with the Labour Relations Board after the boss fails to produce a paper trail.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-ever-working-part-9 There's apparently a store]] where, at least within reason, being a bad boss is ''mandatory'' -- the submitter ends up promoted to the bad manager's position after he intentionally breaks labor laws by making her work far longer than allowed. However, when she tries to avoid the same situation by covering for a co-worker's break a few months later, they [[ComicallyMissingThePoint actually reprimand her for doing her job]], to which she immediately [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits and never returns]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/mission-imbossible This boss]] actually pulled a DidYouActuallyBelieve on an office worker after he was ordered to work overtime to get a major order done by Monday.
--->'''Boss:''' ''(laughing)'' You actually stayed here until midnight? You’re stupid!\\
'''Worker:''' ...excuse me?\\
'''Boss:''' There would be no way I would've done that much overtime for this. We didn't even need it until Thursday of this week anyway. It could have waited!
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/process-of-elimination This manager]] [[{{Nepotism}} and his daughter]] have been stealing money from their company for half a year -- and when they're about to be found out, the manager tries to get the worker processing the case to take the fall for it. It doesn't work, and the manager [[LaserGuidedKarma not only loses his job]], he ends up ''[[FromBadToWorse jailed for embezzlement]]''.
** Apparently, some managers somehow believe that ''being ill or having to go to the hospital'' are not excuses for missing work:
*** The lunch manager in [[http://notalwaysright.com/pink-eye-or-the-pink-slip this story]] threatens to fire a worker with pinkeye if they call out sick again and forces them to work with the highly contagious condition. When the morning manager learns what happened, he responds by forcing the lunch manager to disinfect everything the sick worker had touched as punishment for her threats.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-a-believer-of-the-fever Another manager]] actually ''does'' fire a worker for not coming in sick. All this despite the worker sending in no less than ''three'' separate emails to her boss stating that she had the flu, ''and'' her dad painstakingly explaining his daughter's situation to the boss over the phone.
*** [[https://notalwaysright.com/an-unspeakable-offense/105029/ Yet another manager]] writes up an employee for leaving work early, even though the worker left in an ambulance that ''the boss called in himself''. The disgruntled employee refuses to sign the writeup and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits on the spot]].
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/finally-independent-from-them Still another manager]] threatens to fire a worker if they call in sick ''ever'' again, regardless of the circumstances -- such as the ''massive concussion'' they suffered at work a few days prior -- because in his eyes the submitter is just being lazy. Sure enough, the submitter wakes up one day vomiting excessively from the concussion, asks if they can at least come in later, and subsequently loses their job. And then the manager has the gall to ask the worker if they'll be able to make it in for one of their busiest work days of the year, calling the entire above situation a "misunderstanding" and [[NeverMyFault claiming they quit of their own accord rather than being wrongfully fired]] - even after the submitter calls him out on his BlatantLies. The submitter then promptly pulls a TakeThisJobAndShoveIt, as they proceed to deliver a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the asshole manager (for giving the submitter unreasonable working hours that didn't give them time to even get home and back between shifts for a month and a half, and completely ignoring repeated complaints about this) and then hang up.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/promoting-health-and-safety In the same vein,]] the submitter throws up and calls the manager to clock out, as the contract states that anyone who does vomit cannot return for forty-eight hours. The manager instead threatens to fire the submitter for "walking out," even when explicitly told what is going on. The manager then makes good on her threat and attempts to fire the submitter; however, [[AlwaysABiggerFish her boss,]] upon finding out exactly what happened, [[LaserGuidedKarma nixes the firing, demotes the manager to a server, and promotes the submitter to team leader]].
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/bone-achingly-lazy-versus-bone-breakingly-crazy This manager here]] might be the worst of the bunch. A worker gets into an accident during a ski trip which left her hospitalized with a broken arm and leg, and cannot come in for three weeks. However, the manager thinks she's just being lazy for not asking for that time off and writes her up, much to the horror of her coworker, who already explained that the worker was badly injured and cannot come to work. When the worker does come back to work, with her broken arm and leg in plaster, the manager [[KickTheDog forces her to get a book on a high shelf and threatens to fire her if she doesn't, because according to him she's just lazy]]. After twenty-five painful minutes attempting to get the book, rather than thanking the worker, [[DudeWheresMyRespect he just snatches the book away and calls her lazy again]]. Thankfully, [[LaserGuidedKarma the manager was quickly fired after the worker complained to the owner]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/women-of-the-night-shift This boss]] writes up an employee after they refused to help a customer find a prostitute. Who cares if prostitution is ''illegal''?
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/drink-and-be-merry-for-tomorrow-we-dine This boss]] does not give a damn whether his waiters are being rude to customers over [[StayInTheKitchen completely inconsequential things like what sort of drink a woman orders]], or that said customers are taking their business elsewhere because of this -- but once he realizes [[OhCrap one of them is an esteemed local food critic]], his tune changes. Of course, this is only to ward off a bad review, rather than to actually make it up to paying customers that were mistreated (as evidenced by him repeatedly referring to things like the waiter ''deliberately spilling the woman's drink'' as a "misunderstanding"), which does not earn him their favor. The story ends by revealing that the restaurant went under shortly after this incident, despite (or perhaps because of) the critic not even mentioning them, while giving a positive review to the restaurant across the street where he and his wife actually ate.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/box-of-stolen-stupid This assistant manager]], as accidentally revealed after a prank gone wrong, has been stealing from his own store, both for himself and his friend.
** Likewise, [[http://notalwaysright.com/brunch-time-crunch-time this assistant manager]], in addition to pretending to be the owner, had been opening the restaurant where he worked on Mondays (when they're normally closed), only to give his friends free food, which had been cutting into their profits; the other employees unwittingly went along with this because the assistant manager had them believing it was a weekly fundraiser for charity, and thus they were ''volunteering'' for a good cause. The actual owner had him fired over this, as evidenced by referring to him as "my now ex-assistant manager".
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/working-antisocial-hours This boss]] actually fires an employee for ''clocking their hours correctly'', because showing up two hours before you're actually scheduled and ''not'' clocking in right then, thus getting paid for ''not'' doing work, is "antisocial behavior". Unsurprisingly, the company ends up having to close multiple locations because of financial issues, and the "social" one [[LaserGuidedKarma is the very first to go]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-toxic-work-environment This boss]] [[LethallyStupid expects a worker to clean up an active biohazard without any sort of protective gear]], because calling the city about it would cost too much, [[SkewedPriorities yet loaning the worker equipment they're not trained in, or letting them buy the equipment themselves, would be illegal]]. The worker [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits on the spot]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/part-time-crime This team leader]] kept writing up a part-time worker for things they had absolutely no way of knowing beforehand. The part-time worker eventually [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quit over it]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-noticeable-lack-of-warning This owner]] offers the submitter a full-time position (they were working part-time both there and at another job)... then waits until the submitter hands in their two weeks' notice at the other place before telling them she can't actually hire them on full-time. Worse, this immediately precedes the submitter learning they will be working 36 hours a week, which basically ''is'' full-time (it legally counts as such in other parts of the world) but is just shy enough from it to still avoid the U.S.'s full-time laws so the new employer doesn't have to provide benefits.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/present-management-stress-disorder This assistant manager]] traps his employee with PTSD[[note]]He was previously held hostage in a bank robbery[[/note]] to prevent him from taking a break, assuming he was faking just as an excuse to be lazy. Not only is the assistant manager chewed out by the boss when the employee has a panic attack, [[LaserGuidedKarma he's promptly fired for blocking an exit, creating a fire hazard.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/an-original-way-to-pass-the-blame This boss]] blames the submitter for tearing a document that never once left the boss's hands. And this is apparently a regular occurrence, too; luckily for the submitter, he was able to get away by joining the National Guard.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/parental-misguidance-3 This church secretary]] is forced to become a security guard for the in-house daycare by the church's council. They point out that they don't know the kids' parents, their existing work takes them all over the building so they can't keep watch over the kids, and they were hired ''as a secretary'', not as a security guard -- and yet they're forced to do the extra work anyway, and are even written up for objecting to it ''even though the council member admitted that the objections were correct.'' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere They quit two months later]], and later learn that whole situation was designed specifically to force them to quit.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/owns-a-very-crazy-personality This bakery owner]] ''screams'' at people for the most minor mistakes, to such an extreme extent that [[TheDreaded her employees are terrified of her]]. The submitter, then a trainee, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere refused to work there any longer]] if that was how her boss would react to slight mistakes from the new girl, and found a place of employment with "a less psycho owner."
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/praying-for-some-common-sense This employee]] was dismissed without unemployment benefits for [[MistakenForRacist racism]], because they mentioned "Muslims and prayer time" in a speech. Apparently, Muslims are a race now, and taking into account anything they do differently from other religions is discrimination, somehow. Although the employee never got the job back, the unemployment agency overturned the employer's decision to deny unemployment, thus allowing the employee to get benefits until they could find a new job.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/speaking-up-for-those-who-cant This ableist manager]] orders an autistic mute employee to answer the phone - something he obviously ''cannot'' do. When the employee repeatedly presses a button and hangs up instead of talking, she screams at him and fires him on the spot. Turns out the caller was the employee's brother, who a) [[EveryoneKnowsMorse understood the Morse Code his brother was sending]], and b) ''[[SummonBiggerFish is the CEO]]''. Upon learning the circumstances under which his brother was fired, the enraged CEO [[WhatWereYouThinking furiously berates]] the asshole manager and [[LaserGuidedKarma promptly fires her instead for discrimination]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/racism-will-no-longer-accepted-delivery/101430 This boss for a video editing company]] is apparently so racist that she picks on the company's delivery man solely because of his skin color. Her racism actually caused problems for the delivery man as he had accumulated enough complaints from this woman to warrant several evaluations. The submitter quits the job and later encounters the same delivery man (as well as another man with him) at their new job. The delivery man is in a rather upset state (because his job is now in jeopardy), and the submitter finally lets slip about their boss's racist attitudes. It turns out the other man was ''the manager'' for the delivery company and upon hearing the submitter's comments, lets the delivery man stay and terminates the delivery company's contract with the former boss out of disgust.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/getting-struck-from-the-job/118647/ This boss]] sends an employee out for carts ''in the middle of a severe thunderstorm'', and then [[DisproportionateRetribution screams at and fires them]] when they do not comply. Luckily, LaserGuidedKarma kicks in right away when ''[[AlwaysABiggerFish her boss]]'' finds this out, and, thanks to an [[NoIndoorVoice extensive history of screaming in front of customers]], she is immediately fired the next day for intentionally putting the employee's life in danger.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/one-of-the-worst-managers-youve-ever-produced/135206/ This produce manager]] fires an employee because she refused to handle produce in an unsafe manner (and it's stated that he's been written up for forcing other employees to do so in the past). When the submitter (the store's general manager) forces him to to call up the wrongfully fired employee to apologize, the produce manager instead hurls an insult-laden TheReasonYouSuckSpeech at the poor woman and [[KickTheDog tells her that she deserved to be fired]]. He does this '''[[TooDumbToLive while still in the presence of the submitter]]''', who, after a few moments of silent disbelief, [[WhatWereYouThinking gives the manager some choice words]], [[LaserGuidedKarma fires him on the spot]], and [[PersonaNonGrata bans him from the store for life]]. As for the unjustly fired employee, she was hired back shortly afterward into the jerk manager's former position as produce manager and has held it ever since.
** The restaurant manager in [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-only-thing-theyre-grabbing-is-a-way-to-get-kicked-out/154480/ this story]]. A new waitress dives to avoid being groped by a creepy customer, who falls over and proceeds to hurl a string of invective and foul insults at her. The waitress' supervisor throws the man and his friends out, but the next day the manager blames her for the incident and gives her a warning over it. According to him, male customers [[ImAManICantHelpIt just can't help]] attempting to sexually assault waitresses, and she just has to "get used to it". Unsurprisingly, she quits on the spot.
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* BadBoss: ''Lots'' So many of them. them that it now has [[BadBoss/NotAlwaysWorking its own page]]. Many of the rest fall into the category of PointyHairedBoss.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-self-lay-offing-prophecy This guy's]] name may as well be ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}. In fact, the story's events happened almost verbatim in a ''Dilbert'' comic.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/take-it-personally-to-the-bank This boss]] fires an employee for wrongdoings that never actually happened. Fortunately, the employee gets severance pay out of it when she threatens to bring it up with the Labour Relations Board after the boss fails to produce a paper trail.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-ever-working-part-9 There's apparently a store]] where, at least within reason, being a bad boss is ''mandatory'' -- the submitter ends up promoted to the bad manager's position after he intentionally breaks labor laws by making her work far longer than allowed. However, when she tries to avoid the same situation by covering for a co-worker's break a few months later, they [[ComicallyMissingThePoint actually reprimand her for doing her job]], to which she immediately [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits and never returns]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/mission-imbossible This boss]] actually pulled a DidYouActuallyBelieve on an office worker after he was ordered to work overtime to get a major order done by Monday.
--->'''Boss:''' ''(laughing)'' You actually stayed here until midnight? You’re stupid!\\
'''Worker:''' ...excuse me?\\
'''Boss:''' There would be no way I would've done that much overtime for this. We didn't even need it until Thursday of this week anyway. It could have waited!
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/process-of-elimination This manager]] [[{{Nepotism}} and his daughter]] have been stealing money from their company for half a year -- and when they're about to be found out, the manager tries to get the worker processing the case to take the fall for it. It doesn't work, and the manager [[LaserGuidedKarma not only loses his job]], he ends up ''[[FromBadToWorse jailed for embezzlement]]''.
** Apparently, some managers somehow believe that ''being ill or having to go to the hospital'' are not excuses for missing work:
*** The lunch manager in [[http://notalwaysright.com/pink-eye-or-the-pink-slip this story]] threatens to fire a worker with pinkeye if they call out sick again and forces them to work with the highly contagious condition. When the morning manager learns what happened, he responds by forcing the lunch manager to disinfect everything the sick worker had touched as punishment for her threats.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-a-believer-of-the-fever Another manager]] actually ''does'' fire a worker for not coming in sick. All this despite the worker sending in no less than ''three'' separate emails to her boss stating that she had the flu, ''and'' her dad painstakingly explaining his daughter's situation to the boss over the phone.
*** [[https://notalwaysright.com/an-unspeakable-offense/105029/ Yet another manager]] writes up an employee for leaving work early, even though the worker left in an ambulance that ''the boss called in himself''. The disgruntled employee refuses to sign the writeup and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits on the spot]].
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/finally-independent-from-them Still another manager]] threatens to fire a worker if they call in sick ''ever'' again, regardless of the circumstances -- such as the ''massive concussion'' they suffered at work a few days prior -- because in his eyes the submitter is just being lazy. Sure enough, the submitter wakes up one day vomiting excessively from the concussion, asks if they can at least come in later, and subsequently loses their job. And then the manager has the gall to ask the worker if they'll be able to make it in for one of their busiest work days of the year, calling the entire above situation a "misunderstanding" and [[NeverMyFault claiming they quit of their own accord rather than being wrongfully fired]] - even after the submitter calls him out on his BlatantLies. The submitter then promptly pulls a TakeThisJobAndShoveIt, as they proceed to deliver a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the asshole manager (for giving the submitter unreasonable working hours that didn't give them time to even get home and back between shifts for a month and a half, and completely ignoring repeated complaints about this) and then hang up.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/promoting-health-and-safety In the same vein,]] the submitter throws up and calls the manager to clock out, as the contract states that anyone who does vomit cannot return for forty-eight hours. The manager instead threatens to fire the submitter for "walking out," even when explicitly told what is going on. The manager then makes good on her threat and attempts to fire the submitter; however, [[AlwaysABiggerFish her boss,]] upon finding out exactly what happened, [[LaserGuidedKarma nixes the firing, demotes the manager to a server, and promotes the submitter to team leader]].
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/bone-achingly-lazy-versus-bone-breakingly-crazy This manager here]] might be the worst of the bunch. A worker gets into an accident during a ski trip which left her hospitalized with a broken arm and leg, and cannot come in for three weeks. However, the manager thinks she's just being lazy for not asking for that time off and writes her up, much to the horror of her coworker, who already explained that the worker was badly injured and cannot come to work. When the worker does come back to work, with her broken arm and leg in plaster, the manager [[KickTheDog forces her to get a book on a high shelf and threatens to fire her if she doesn't, because according to him she's just lazy]]. After twenty-five painful minutes attempting to get the book, rather than thanking the worker, [[DudeWheresMyRespect he just snatches the book away and calls her lazy again]]. Thankfully, [[LaserGuidedKarma the manager was quickly fired after the worker complained to the owner]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/women-of-the-night-shift This boss]] writes up an employee after they refused to help a customer find a prostitute. Who cares if prostitution is ''illegal''?
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/drink-and-be-merry-for-tomorrow-we-dine This boss]] does not give a damn whether his waiters are being rude to customers over [[StayInTheKitchen completely inconsequential things like what sort of drink a woman orders]], or that said customers are taking their business elsewhere because of this -- but once he realizes [[OhCrap one of them is an esteemed local food critic]], his tune changes. Of course, this is only to ward off a bad review, rather than to actually make it up to paying customers that were mistreated (as evidenced by him repeatedly referring to things like the waiter ''deliberately spilling the woman's drink'' as a "misunderstanding"), which does not earn him their favor. The story ends by revealing that the restaurant went under shortly after this incident, despite (or perhaps because of) the critic not even mentioning them, while giving a positive review to the restaurant across the street where he and his wife actually ate.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/box-of-stolen-stupid This assistant manager]], as accidentally revealed after a prank gone wrong, has been stealing from his own store, both for himself and his friend.
** Likewise, [[http://notalwaysright.com/brunch-time-crunch-time this assistant manager]], in addition to pretending to be the owner, had been opening the restaurant where he worked on Mondays (when they're normally closed), only to give his friends free food, which had been cutting into their profits; the other employees unwittingly went along with this because the assistant manager had them believing it was a weekly fundraiser for charity, and thus they were ''volunteering'' for a good cause. The actual owner had him fired over this, as evidenced by referring to him as "my now ex-assistant manager".
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/working-antisocial-hours This boss]] actually fires an employee for ''clocking their hours correctly'', because showing up two hours before you're actually scheduled and ''not'' clocking in right then, thus getting paid for ''not'' doing work, is "antisocial behavior". Unsurprisingly, the company ends up having to close multiple locations because of financial issues, and the "social" one [[LaserGuidedKarma is the very first to go]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-toxic-work-environment This boss]] [[LethallyStupid expects a worker to clean up an active biohazard without any sort of protective gear]], because calling the city about it would cost too much, [[SkewedPriorities yet loaning the worker equipment they're not trained in, or letting them buy the equipment themselves, would be illegal]]. The worker [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits on the spot]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/part-time-crime This team leader]] kept writing up a part-time worker for things they had absolutely no way of knowing beforehand. The part-time worker eventually [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quit over it]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-noticeable-lack-of-warning This owner]] offers the submitter a full-time position (they were working part-time both there and at another job)... then waits until the submitter hands in their two weeks' notice at the other place before telling them she can't actually hire them on full-time. Worse, this immediately precedes the submitter learning they will be working 36 hours a week, which basically ''is'' full-time (it legally counts as such in other parts of the world) but is just shy enough from it to still avoid the U.S.'s full-time laws so the new employer doesn't have to provide benefits.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/present-management-stress-disorder This assistant manager]] traps his employee with PTSD[[note]]He was previously held hostage in a bank robbery[[/note]] to prevent him from taking a break, assuming he was faking just as an excuse to be lazy. Not only is the assistant manager chewed out by the boss when the employee has a panic attack, [[LaserGuidedKarma he's promptly fired for blocking an exit, creating a fire hazard.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/an-original-way-to-pass-the-blame This boss]] blames the submitter for tearing a document that never once left the boss's hands. And this is apparently a regular occurrence, too; luckily for the submitter, he was able to get away by joining the National Guard.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/parental-misguidance-3 This church secretary]] is forced to become a security guard for the in-house daycare by the church's council. They point out that they don't know the kids' parents, their existing work takes them all over the building so they can't keep watch over the kids, and they were hired ''as a secretary'', not as a security guard -- and yet they're forced to do the extra work anyway, and are even written up for objecting to it ''even though the council member admitted that the objections were correct.'' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere They quit two months later]], and later learn that whole situation was designed specifically to force them to quit.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/owns-a-very-crazy-personality This bakery owner]] ''screams'' at people for the most minor mistakes, to such an extreme extent that [[TheDreaded her employees are terrified of her]]. The submitter, then a trainee, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere refused to work there any longer]] if that was how her boss would react to slight mistakes from the new girl, and found a place of employment with "a less psycho owner."
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/praying-for-some-common-sense This employee]] was dismissed without unemployment benefits for [[MistakenForRacist racism]], because they mentioned "Muslims and prayer time" in a speech. Apparently, Muslims are a race now, and taking into account anything they do differently from other religions is discrimination, somehow. Although the employee never got the job back, the unemployment agency overturned the employer's decision to deny unemployment, thus allowing the employee to get benefits until they could find a new job.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/speaking-up-for-those-who-cant This ableist manager]] orders an autistic mute employee to answer the phone - something he obviously ''cannot'' do. When the employee repeatedly presses a button and hangs up instead of talking, she screams at him and fires him on the spot. Turns out the caller was the employee's brother, who a) [[EveryoneKnowsMorse understood the Morse Code his brother was sending]], and b) ''[[SummonBiggerFish is the CEO]]''. Upon learning the circumstances under which his brother was fired, the enraged CEO [[WhatWereYouThinking furiously berates]] the asshole manager and [[LaserGuidedKarma promptly fires her instead for discrimination]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/racism-will-no-longer-accepted-delivery/101430 This boss for a video editing company]] is apparently so racist that she picks on the company's delivery man solely because of his skin color. Her racism actually caused problems for the delivery man as he had accumulated enough complaints from this woman to warrant several evaluations. The submitter quits the job and later encounters the same delivery man (as well as another man with him) at their new job. The delivery man is in a rather upset state (because his job is now in jeopardy), and the submitter finally lets slip about their boss's racist attitudes. It turns out the other man was ''the manager'' for the delivery company and upon hearing the submitter's comments, lets the delivery man stay and terminates the delivery company's contract with the former boss out of disgust.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/getting-struck-from-the-job/118647/ This boss]] sends an employee out for carts ''in the middle of a severe thunderstorm'', and then [[DisproportionateRetribution screams at and fires them]] when they do not comply. Luckily, LaserGuidedKarma kicks in right away when ''[[AlwaysABiggerFish her boss]]'' finds this out, and, thanks to an [[NoIndoorVoice extensive history of screaming in front of customers]], she is immediately fired the next day for intentionally putting the employee's life in danger.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/one-of-the-worst-managers-youve-ever-produced/135206/ This produce manager]] fires an employee because she refused to handle produce in an unsafe manner (and it's stated that he's been written up for forcing other employees to do so in the past). When the submitter (the store's general manager) forces him to to call up the wrongfully fired employee to apologize, the produce manager instead hurls an insult-laden TheReasonYouSuckSpeech at the poor woman and [[KickTheDog tells her that she deserved to be fired]]. He does this '''[[TooDumbToLive while still in the presence of the submitter]]''', who, after a few moments of silent disbelief, [[WhatWereYouThinking gives the manager some choice words]], [[LaserGuidedKarma fires him on the spot]], and [[PersonaNonGrata bans him from the store for life]]. As for the unjustly fired employee, she was hired back shortly afterward into the jerk manager's former position as produce manager and has held it ever since.
** The restaurant manager in [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-only-thing-theyre-grabbing-is-a-way-to-get-kicked-out/154480/ this story]]. A new waitress dives to avoid being groped by a creepy customer, who falls over and proceeds to hurl a string of invective and foul insults at her. The waitress' supervisor throws the man and his friends out, but the next day the manager blames her for the incident and gives her a warning over it. According to him, male customers [[ImAManICantHelpIt just can't help]] attempting to sexually assault waitresses, and she just has to "get used to it". Unsurprisingly, she quits on the spot.PointyHairedBoss.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-self-lay-offing-prophecy This guy's]] name may as well be ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}. In fact, the story's events happened almost verbatim in a ''Dilbert'' comic.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/take-it-personally-to-the-bank This boss]] fires an employee for wrongdoings that never actually happened. Fortunately, the employee gets severance pay out of it when she threatens to bring it up with the Labour Relations Board after the boss fails to produce a paper trail.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-ever-working-part-9 There's apparently a store]] where, at least within reason, being a bad boss is ''mandatory'' -- the submitter ends up promoted to the bad manager's position after he intentionally breaks labor laws by making her work far longer than allowed. However, when she tries to avoid the same situation by covering for a co-worker's break a few months later, they [[ComicallyMissingThePoint actually reprimand her for doing her job]], to which she immediately [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits and never returns]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/mission-imbossible This boss]] actually pulled a DidYouActuallyBelieve on an office worker after he was ordered to work overtime to get a major order done by Monday.
--->'''Boss:''' ''(laughing)'' You actually stayed here until midnight? You’re stupid!\\
'''Worker:''' ...excuse me?\\
'''Boss:''' There would be no way I would've done that much overtime for this. We didn't even need it until Thursday of this week anyway. It could have waited!
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/process-of-elimination This manager]] [[{{Nepotism}} and his daughter]] have been stealing money from their company for half a year -- and when they're about to be found out, the manager tries to get the worker processing the case to take the fall for it. It doesn't work, and the manager [[LaserGuidedKarma not only loses his job]], he ends up ''[[FromBadToWorse jailed for embezzlement]]''.
** Apparently, some managers somehow believe that ''being ill or having to go to the hospital'' are not excuses for missing work:
*** The lunch manager in [[http://notalwaysright.com/pink-eye-or-the-pink-slip this story]] threatens to fire a worker with pinkeye if they call out sick again and forces them to work with the highly contagious condition. When the morning manager learns what happened, he responds by forcing the lunch manager to disinfect everything the sick worker had touched as punishment for her threats.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-a-believer-of-the-fever Another manager]] actually ''does'' fire a worker for not coming in sick. All this despite the worker sending in no less than ''three'' separate emails to her boss stating that she had the flu, ''and'' her dad painstakingly explaining his daughter's situation to the boss over the phone.
*** [[https://notalwaysright.com/an-unspeakable-offense/105029/ Yet another manager]] writes up an employee for leaving work early, even though the worker left in an ambulance that ''the boss called in himself''. The disgruntled employee refuses to sign the writeup and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits on the spot]].
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/finally-independent-from-them Still another manager]] threatens to fire a worker if they call in sick ''ever'' again, regardless of the circumstances -- such as the ''massive concussion'' they suffered at work a few days prior -- because in his eyes the submitter is just being lazy. Sure enough, the submitter wakes up one day vomiting excessively from the concussion, asks if they can at least come in later, and subsequently loses their job. And then the manager has the gall to ask the worker if they'll be able to make it in for one of their busiest work days of the year, calling the entire above situation a "misunderstanding" and [[NeverMyFault claiming they quit of their own accord rather than being wrongfully fired]] - even after the submitter calls him out on his BlatantLies. The submitter then promptly pulls a TakeThisJobAndShoveIt, as they proceed to deliver a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the asshole manager (for giving the submitter unreasonable working hours that didn't give them time to even get home and back between shifts for a month and a half, and completely ignoring repeated complaints about this) and then hang up.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/promoting-health-and-safety In the same vein,]] the submitter throws up and calls the manager to clock out, as the contract states that anyone who does vomit cannot return for forty-eight hours. The manager instead threatens to fire the submitter for "walking out," even when explicitly told what is going on. The manager then makes good on her threat and attempts to fire the submitter; however, [[AlwaysABiggerFish her boss,]] upon finding out exactly what happened, [[LaserGuidedKarma nixes the firing, demotes the manager to a server, and promotes the submitter to team leader]].
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/bone-achingly-lazy-versus-bone-breakingly-crazy This manager here]] might be the worst of the bunch. A worker gets into an accident during a ski trip which left her hospitalized with a broken arm and leg, and cannot come in for three weeks. However, the manager thinks she's just being lazy for not asking for that time off and writes her up, much to the horror of her coworker, who already explained that the worker was badly injured and cannot come to work. When the worker does come back to work, with her broken arm and leg in plaster, the manager [[KickTheDog forces her to get a book on a high shelf and threatens to fire her if she doesn't, because according to him she's just lazy]]. After twenty-five painful minutes attempting to get the book, rather than thanking the worker, [[DudeWheresMyRespect he just snatches the book away and calls her lazy again]]. Thankfully, [[LaserGuidedKarma the manager was quickly fired after the worker complained to the owner]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/women-of-the-night-shift This boss]] writes up an employee after they refused to help a customer find a prostitute. Who cares if prostitution is ''illegal''?
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/drink-and-be-merry-for-tomorrow-we-dine This boss]] does not give a damn whether his waiters are being rude to customers over [[StayInTheKitchen completely inconsequential things like what sort of drink a woman orders]], or that said customers are taking their business elsewhere because of this -- but once he realizes [[OhCrap one of them is an esteemed local food critic]], his tune changes. Of course, this is only to ward off a bad review, rather than to actually make it up to paying customers that were mistreated (as evidenced by him repeatedly referring to things like the waiter ''deliberately spilling the woman's drink'' as a "misunderstanding"), which does not earn him their favor. The story ends by revealing that the restaurant went under shortly after this incident, despite (or perhaps because of) the critic not even mentioning them, while giving a positive review to the restaurant across the street where he and his wife actually ate.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/box-of-stolen-stupid This assistant manager]], as accidentally revealed after a prank gone wrong, has been stealing from his own store, both for himself and his friend.
** Likewise, [[http://notalwaysright.com/brunch-time-crunch-time this assistant manager]], in addition to pretending to be the owner, had been opening the restaurant where he worked on Mondays (when they're normally closed), only to give his friends free food, which had been cutting into their profits; the other employees unwittingly went along with this because the assistant manager had them believing it was a weekly fundraiser for charity, and thus they were ''volunteering'' for a good cause. The actual owner had him fired over this, as evidenced by referring to him as "my now ex-assistant manager".
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/working-antisocial-hours This boss]] actually fires an employee for ''clocking their hours correctly'', because showing up two hours before you're actually scheduled and ''not'' clocking in right then, thus getting paid for ''not'' doing work, is "antisocial behavior". Unsurprisingly, the company ends up having to close multiple locations because of financial issues, and the "social" one [[LaserGuidedKarma is the very first to go]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-toxic-work-environment This boss]] [[LethallyStupid expects a worker to clean up an active biohazard without any sort of protective gear]], because calling the city about it would cost too much, [[SkewedPriorities yet loaning the worker equipment they're not trained in, or letting them buy the equipment themselves, would be illegal]]. The worker [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits on the spot]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/part-time-crime This team leader]] kept writing up a part-time worker for things they had absolutely no way of knowing beforehand. The part-time worker eventually [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quit over it]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-noticeable-lack-of-warning This owner]] offers the submitter a full-time position (they were working part-time both there and at another job)... then waits until the submitter hands in their two weeks' notice at the other place before telling them she can't actually hire them on full-time. Worse, this immediately precedes the submitter learning they will be working 36 hours a week, which basically ''is'' full-time (it legally counts as such in other parts of the world) but is just shy enough from it to still avoid the U.S.'s full-time laws so the new employer doesn't have to provide benefits.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/present-management-stress-disorder This assistant manager]] traps his employee with PTSD[[note]]He was previously held hostage in a bank robbery[[/note]] to prevent him from taking a break, assuming he was faking just as an excuse to be lazy. Not only is the assistant manager chewed out by the boss when the employee has a panic attack, [[LaserGuidedKarma he's promptly fired for blocking an exit, creating a fire hazard.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/an-original-way-to-pass-the-blame This boss]] blames the submitter for tearing a document that never once left the boss's hands. And this is apparently a regular occurrence, too; luckily for the submitter, he was able to get away by joining the National Guard.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/parental-misguidance-3 This church secretary]] is forced to become a security guard for the in-house daycare by the church's council. They point out that they don't know the kids' parents, their existing work takes them all over the building so they can't keep watch over the kids, and they were hired ''as a secretary'', not as a security guard -- and yet they're forced to do the extra work anyway, and are even written up for objecting to it ''even though the council member admitted that the objections were correct.'' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere They quit two months later]], and later learn that whole situation was designed specifically to force them to quit.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/owns-a-very-crazy-personality This bakery owner]] ''screams'' at people for the most minor mistakes, to such an extreme extent that [[TheDreaded her employees are terrified of her]]. The submitter, then a trainee, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere refused to work there any longer]] if that was how her boss would react to slight mistakes from the new girl, and found a place of employment with "a less psycho owner."
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/praying-for-some-common-sense This employee]] was dismissed without unemployment benefits for [[MistakenForRacist racism]], because they mentioned "Muslims and prayer time" in a speech. Apparently, Muslims are a race now, and taking into account anything they do differently from other religions is discrimination, somehow. Although the employee never got the job back, the unemployment agency overturned the employer's decision to deny unemployment, thus allowing the employee to get benefits until they could find a new job.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/speaking-up-for-those-who-cant This ableist manager]] orders an autistic mute employee to answer the phone - something he obviously ''cannot'' do. When the employee repeatedly presses a button and hangs up instead of talking, she screams at him and fires him on the spot. Turns out the caller was the employee's brother, who a) [[EveryoneKnowsMorse understood the Morse Code his brother was sending]], and b) ''[[SummonBiggerFish is the CEO]]''. Upon learning the circumstances under which his brother was fired, the enraged CEO [[WhatWereYouThinking furiously berates]] the asshole manager and [[LaserGuidedKarma promptly fires her instead for discrimination]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/racism-will-no-longer-accepted-delivery/101430 This boss for a video editing company]] is apparently so racist that she picks on the company's delivery man solely because of his skin color. Her racism actually caused problems for the delivery man as he had accumulated enough complaints from this woman to warrant several evaluations. The submitter quits the job and later encounters the same delivery man (as well as another man with him) at their new job. The delivery man is in a rather upset state (because his job is now in jeopardy), and the submitter finally lets slip about their boss's racist attitudes. It turns out the other man was ''the manager'' for the delivery company and upon hearing the submitter's comments, lets the delivery man stay and terminates the delivery company's contract with the former boss out of disgust.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/getting-struck-from-the-job/118647/ This boss]] sends an employee out for carts ''in the middle of a severe thunderstorm'', and then [[DisproportionateRetribution screams at and fires them]] when they do not comply. Luckily, LaserGuidedKarma kicks in right away when ''[[AlwaysABiggerFish her boss]]'' finds this out, and, thanks to an [[NoIndoorVoice extensive history of screaming in front of customers]], she is immediately fired the next day for intentionally putting the employee's life in danger.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/one-of-the-worst-managers-youve-ever-produced/135206/ This produce manager]] fires an employee because she refused to handle produce in an unsafe manner (and it's stated that he's been written up for forcing other employees to do so in the past). When the submitter (the store's general manager) forces him to to call up the wrongfully fired employee to apologize, the produce manager instead hurls an insult-laden TheReasonYouSuckSpeech at the poor woman and [[KickTheDog tells her that she deserved to be fired]]. He does this '''[[TooDumbToLive while still in the presence of the submitter]]''', who, after a few moments of silent disbelief, [[WhatWereYouThinking gives the manager some choice words]], [[LaserGuidedKarma fires him on the spot]], and [[PersonaNonGrata bans him from the store for life]]. As for the unjustly fired employee, she was hired back shortly afterward into the jerk manager's former position as produce manager and has held it ever since.
** The restaurant manager in [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-only-thing-theyre-grabbing-is-a-way-to-get-kicked-out/154480/ this story]]. A new waitress dives to avoid being groped by a creepy customer, who falls over and proceeds to hurl a string of invective and foul insults at her. The waitress' supervisor throws the man and his friends out, but the next day the manager blames her for the incident and gives her a warning over it. According to him, male customers [[ImAManICantHelpIt just can't help]] attempting to sexually assault waitresses, and she just has to "get used to it". Unsurprisingly, she quits on the spot.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/doctored-doctor-note/62115/ This employee]] has made a habit of calling out sick without ever furnishing a doctor's note, to the point where their boss (the submitter) demands one the next time they come in to prove their "illness". So what does the employee bring in the next day? A hastily typed up doctors note listing, among other discrepancies, a FiveFiveFive number and street address, and ''[[UsefulNotesMcDonalds Ronald McDonald]]'' as the alleged "doctor". The unamused submitter immediately shows the lazy employee the door.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/doctored-doctor-note/62115/ This employee]] has made a habit of calling out sick without ever furnishing a doctor's note, to the point where their boss (the submitter) demands one the next time they come in to prove their "illness". So what does the employee bring in the next day? A hastily typed up doctors note listing, among other discrepancies, a FiveFiveFive number and street address, and ''[[UsefulNotesMcDonalds ''[[UsefulNotes/McDonalds Ronald McDonald]]'' as the alleged "doctor". The unamused submitter immediately shows the lazy employee the door.
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* {{Calvinball}}: [[https://notalwaysright.com/calvin-ballin-time Trope namedropped]] and in full effect here.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/they-probably-think-youre-drunk-on-power/155176/ The manager]] at this hotel isn't very empathetic to a man being abused by his wife in front of their four year old child. They even go so far as the reprimand the submitter for calling the police since the abusive wife is a good customer and left a good review of the hotel. Thankfully averted with the submitter, who called the police and had the wife arrested, and quit only a few weeks later. The final sentence of the story they submitted sums it up well.
---> '''"I don’t care how good of a customer someone is; that does not excuse abuse!"'''
---> '''"I don’t care how good of a customer someone is; that does not excuse abuse!"'''
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** The restaurant manager in [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-only-thing-theyre-grabbing-is-a-way-to-get-kicked-out/154480/ this story]]. A new waitress dives to avoid being groped by a creepy customer, who falls over and proceeds to hurl a string of invective and foul insults at her. The waitress' supervisor throws the man and his friends out, but the next day the manager blames her for the incident and gives her a warning over it. According to him, customers [[ImAManICantHelpIt just can't help]] attempting to sexually assault waitresses, and she just has to "get used to it". Unsurprisingly, she quits on the spot.
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** The restaurant manager in [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-only-thing-theyre-grabbing-is-a-way-to-get-kicked-out/154480/ this story]]. A new waitress dives to avoid being groped by a creepy customer, who falls over and proceeds to hurl a string of invective and foul insults at her. The waitress' supervisor throws the man and his friends out, but the next day the manager blames her for the incident and gives her a warning over it. According to him, male customers [[ImAManICantHelpIt just can't help]] attempting to sexually assault waitresses, and she just has to "get used to it". Unsurprisingly, she quits on the spot.
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** The restaurant manager in [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-only-thing-theyre-grabbing-is-a-way-to-get-kicked-out/154480/ this story]]. A new waitress dives to avoid being groped by a creepy customer, who falls over and proceeds to hurl a string of invective and foul insults at her. The waitress' supervisor throws the man and his friends out, but the next day the manager blames her for the incident and gives her a warning over it. According to him, customers [[ImAManICantHelpIt just can't help]] attempting to sexually assault waitresses, and she just has to "get used to it". Unsurprisingly, she quits on the spot.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/starting-a-new-hire-fire/153326/ This employee at a dollar store]]. To make a long story short, she cannot do simple tasks like facing merchandise, scanning products, or even simply putting merchandise back on the shelves without either having someone walk her through it, abruptly abandoning the task, or [[WalkingDisasterArea making an enormous mess]]. She fails to improve in any capacity and the fed-up submitter shows her the door after less than a week.
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* BrickJoke: "I'm going to kill (Coworker)!" "[[https://notalwaysright.com/this-job-will-be-the-undeath-of-me/59319/ No fair! I called dibs!]]"
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* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: [[https://notalwaysright.com/meow-rons-give-im-purr-fect-advice/57365/ This cat "expert"]] doesn't seem to understand that cat litter traps moisture, nor do they have a plausible plan to get the cat to stop burying spiders in the litter box. The "expert" also commits FemaleFelineMaleMutt by failing to realize that the cat in question is male
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/chilly-chilis/57347/ This person]] thinks that a pregnant woman who was craving ice froze her insides by doing so and had to be thawed out by eating chili peppers, not realizing that natural body heat would melt any ice.
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** "[[https://notalwaysright.com/ultimatum-results-in-ultimate-victory/146804/ Either the IT guy is out, or I'm out!]]" "[[RealityEnsues I accept your resignation. You have fifteen minutes to clean out your desk]]."
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/santa-existential-crisis/102454/ This daycare worker]] tries to impose her personal beliefs on a little girl by telling her that Santa doesn't exist. Turns out, Santa's visit was the only thing the girl was looking forward to that Christmas, after [[DisappearedDad her father had died the previous Christmas]]. [[MamaBear The girl's enraged mother]] proceeds to tear into the worker for ruining the second Christmas in a row for her daughter.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/santa-existential-crisis/102454/ This daycare worker]] tries to impose her personal StrawFeminist beliefs on a little girl by telling her that Santa doesn't exist.exist (apparently Santa was only a problem because he was a man). Turns out, Santa's visit was the only thing the girl was looking forward to that Christmas, after [[DisappearedDad her father had died the previous Christmas]]. [[MamaBear The girl's enraged mother]] proceeds to tear into the worker for ruining the second Christmas in a row for her daughter.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/are-you-puli-ng-my-leg/115732/ This veterinary technician]] thinks the submitter is another idiot mistakenly neglecting their doodle because the puppy farm lied to them about how her fur is supposed to work. Said "doodle" is actually a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puli puli]], a breed famed for its fur, and she was at the age where the fur was going to look hideous even with proper care and attention. The technician acts on that wrong assumption without the vet's knowledge or the submitter's permission, [[LaserGuidedKarma and ends up fired for doing so]].
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/are-you-puli-ng-my-leg/115732/ This veterinary technician]] thinks the submitter is another idiot mistakenly neglecting their doodle because the puppy farm lied to them about how her fur is supposed to work. Said "doodle" is actually a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puli puli]], a breed famed Hungarian herding dog famous for its fur, and she their long, corded coats (i.e. they're ''supposed'' to look like mops). The dog was at actually a puppy in the age where process of growing the fur was going to look into cords, at which point the coat looks hideous even with ''with'' proper care and attention.care. The technician acts on that wrong assumption without the vet's knowledge or the submitter's permission, [[LaserGuidedKarma and ends up fired for doing so]].
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* AllGermansAreNazis: When [[https://notalwaysright.com/concentrate-before-you-assume/100997/ this co-worker]] finds out the poster's surname is German, he immediately jumps to this trope. The ''name'' might be German, but the actual ethnic background is Ashkenazi Jewish, and several of the poster's relatives were killed in the Holocaust. (At least the co-worked apologized.)
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* AllGermansAreNazis: When [[https://notalwaysright.com/concentrate-before-you-assume/100997/ this co-worker]] finds out the poster's surname is German, he immediately jumps to this trope. The ''name'' might be German, but the actual ethnic background is Ashkenazi Jewish, and several of the poster's relatives were killed in the Holocaust. (At least the co-worked co-worker apologized.)
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** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-badly-timed-period These two bosses]] come up with an idiotic plan to make their workers spend more time on work by setting up how long they can be in the bathroom doing their number one and two business based on the time they spend in the men's bathroom while [[NoPeriodsPeriod forgetting about women doing number 3]]. The plan was scrapped due to many female workers protests, and also because it was illegal under Union rules. (Turns out they'd been trying to crack down on cell phone breaks disguised as bathroom breaks, which would have been a more valid concern if they'd just ''said so''.)
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** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-badly-timed-period These two bosses]] come up with an idiotic plan to make their workers spend more time on work by setting up how long they can be in the bathroom doing their number one and two business based on the time they spend in the men's bathroom while [[NoPeriodsPeriod forgetting about women doing number 3]]. The plan was scrapped due to many female workers workers' protests, and also because it was illegal under Union rules. (Turns out they'd been trying to crack down on cell phone breaks disguised as bathroom breaks, which would have been a more valid concern if they'd just ''said so''.)
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*** Adding onto that, the daycare worker didn't think about how other parents, besides the mother, would not react well to her telling kids that Santa doesn't exist. Several parents witnessed that confrontation, and they were so outraged by one of the workers callously crushing a kid's spirit in favor of her own personal beliefs that they withdrew their own children's enrollment at the daycare, crippling the buisness in the process. [[RealityEnsues Unsurprisingly, the worker got fired for causing the whole mess in the first place]].
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*** Adding onto that, the daycare worker didn't think about how other parents, besides the mother, would not react well to her telling kids that Santa doesn't exist. Several parents witnessed that confrontation, and they were so outraged by one of the workers callously crushing a kid's spirit in favor of her own personal beliefs that they withdrew their own children's enrollment at the daycare, crippling the buisness business in the process. [[RealityEnsues Unsurprisingly, the worker got fired for causing the whole mess in the first place]].
* DoWellButNotPerfect: [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-very-productive-thinking This one hard-working aide]] gets a lower "Productivity" score on her annual report than a much lazier coworker because the hard-working coworker gives 110% most of the time, with some days "only" giving 90%. According to her managers, this is apparently worse (and thus warrants a lower score) than a lazy coworker giving 50% most of the time, with some days giving 60 or 70%.
* DoWrongRight: [[http://notalwaysright.com/sub-par-subterfuge If you're going to have your employees resort to subterfuge,]] at least make sure they understand [[YouKeepUsingThatWord what the word means]].
* DoWrongRight: [[http://notalwaysright.com/sub-par-subterfuge If you're going to have your employees resort to subterfuge,]] at least make sure they understand [[YouKeepUsingThatWord what the word means]].
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* DoubleStandard: [[https://notalwaysright.com/bulging-inequality/108826/ This female coworker]] thinks it's alright for her to take pictures of men's crotches without their consent but not okay when it's the other way around. She was later fired when the submitter and a male customer complain to the manager when she took a picture of the customer's crotch.
* DoWellButNotPerfect: [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-very-productive-thinking This one hard-working aide]] gets a lower "Productivity" score on her annual report than a much lazier coworker because the hard-working coworker gives 110% most of the time, with some days "only" giving 90%. According to her managers, this is apparently worse (and thus warrants a lower score) than a lazy coworker giving 50% most of the time, with some days giving 60 or 70%.
* DoWrongRight: [[http://notalwaysright.com/sub-par-subterfuge If you're going to have your employees resort to subterfuge,]] at least make sure they understand [[YouKeepUsingThatWord what the word means]].
* DoWellButNotPerfect: [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-very-productive-thinking This one hard-working aide]] gets a lower "Productivity" score on her annual report than a much lazier coworker because the hard-working coworker gives 110% most of the time, with some days "only" giving 90%. According to her managers, this is apparently worse (and thus warrants a lower score) than a lazy coworker giving 50% most of the time, with some days giving 60 or 70%.
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* DoubleStandard: [[https://notalwaysright.com/bulging-inequality/108826/ This female coworker]] thinks it's alright all right for her to take pictures of men's crotches without their consent consent, but not okay when it's the other way around. She was is later fired when the submitter and a male customer complain to the manager when she took a picture of the customer's crotch.
* DoWellButNotPerfect: [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-very-productive-thinking This one hard-working aide]] gets a lower "Productivity" score on her annual report than a much lazier coworker because the hard-working coworker gives 110% most of the time, with some days "only" giving 90%. According to her managers, this is apparently worse (and thus warrants a lower score) than a lazy coworker giving 50% most of the time, with some days giving 60 or 70%.
* DoWrongRight: [[http://notalwaysright.com/sub-par-subterfuge If you're going to have your employees resort to subterfuge,]] at least make sure they understand [[YouKeepUsingThatWord what the word means]].crotch.
* DoWellButNotPerfect: [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-very-productive-thinking This one hard-working aide]] gets a lower "Productivity" score on her annual report than a much lazier coworker because the hard-working coworker gives 110% most of the time, with some days "only" giving 90%. According to her managers, this is apparently worse (and thus warrants a lower score) than a lazy coworker giving 50% most of the time, with some days giving 60 or 70%.
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* EpicFail: [[https://notalwaysright.com/email-fail-part-16/104133/ The IT department here]] upgrades the email software for their company, but the hierarchy that they use is incredibly out of line with the actual hierarchy (for example, an HSE manager is stated to be a janitor, the submitter is listed as the finance director when they are attached from a different company, and the actual finance director is listed as an intern). The IT department simply blows off the issues of the rest of the company, simply stating that the new way is “better.” Unfortunately, with the new hierarchy, people are getting the wrong emails, and within an hour, the company shutters the new system, and fires half of the IT department.
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* EpicFail: [[https://notalwaysright.com/email-fail-part-16/104133/ The IT department here]] upgrades the email software for their company, but the hierarchy that they use is incredibly out of line with the actual hierarchy (for example, an HSE manager is stated to be a janitor, the submitter is listed as the finance director when they are attached from a different company, and the actual finance director is listed as an intern). The IT department simply blows off the issues of the rest of the company, simply stating that the new way is “better.” Unfortunately, with the new hierarchy, people are getting the wrong emails, and within an hour, the company shutters the new system, and fires half of the IT department.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/bigotry-doesnt-nice-ring/98941/ This homophobic worker]] gives a gay customer a cheap wedding ring rather than the expensive ring he ordered since she believes his marriage is "fake and cheap" and a [[NoTrueScotsman real marriage is between a man and woman]]. The owner, disgusted with his worker's open bigotry and scamming a customer, has the worker fired and gave the customer a new ring with the equivalent price.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-supporting-customer-support/116699/ These employees who are running a rock concert venue]] The submitter and their family had bought tickets from a seemingly-illegal reseller vendor ''on the venue's own website.'' The family complains that the venue should be able to filter out the illegal vendors that advertise on the site. The employees and manager claim it's in their policy to only accept from certain vendors, but the family never found such a policy on the site. One employee even tells them that it's not their problem their website has illegal vendors on it. At the least the owner was more sympathetic and apologized for the inconvenience following the submitter posting a nasty review online. [[note]] The comments on this story are pretty mixed as to who is in the wrong, but the majority of people say it's the venue.
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* DrugsAreBad: [[https://notalwaysright.com/it-pains-him-to-say-it Some]] [[https://notalwaysright.com/this-manager-makes-you-need-to-up-the-dosage/64288/ Bosses]][[note]]The "unfiltered" version of the latter makes it clear that this is the same submitter and the same boss, incidentally[[/note]] think all drugs are bad, even ones legally prescribed by a Doctor and needed by the employees to survive.
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* DrugsAreBad: [[https://notalwaysright.com/it-pains-him-to-say-it Some]] [[https://notalwaysright.com/this-manager-makes-you-need-to-up-the-dosage/64288/ Bosses]][[note]]The bosses]][[note]]The "unfiltered" version of the latter makes it clear that this is the same submitter and the same boss, incidentally[[/note]] think all drugs are bad, bad - even ones legally prescribed by a Doctor doctor and needed by the employees to survive.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/obey-corporate-like-sheep/140744/ These workers being sent some very tacky sheep statues]] The submitter has no idea what the fuck is going on since there's no reason for the statues to even be sent in the first place.
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*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/finally-independent-from-them Still another manager]] threatens to fire a worker if they call in sick ''ever'' again, regardless of the circumstances -- such as the ''massive concussion'' they suffered at work a few days prior -- because in his eyes the submitter is just being lazy. Sure enough, the submitter wakes up one day vomiting excessively from the concussion, asks if they can at least come in later, and is subsequently fired. And then the manager has the gall to ask the worker if they'll be able to make it in for one of their busiest work days of the year, calling the entire above situation a "misunderstanding" and [[NeverMyFault claiming the submitter quit of their own accord rather than being wrongfully fired]]. The submitter then delivers a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech (revealing that the manager was giving the submitter unreasonable working hours that didn't give them time to even get home and back between shifts for a month and a half, and completely ignoring repeated complaints about this) and then hangs up.
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*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/finally-independent-from-them Still another manager]] threatens to fire a worker if they call in sick ''ever'' again, regardless of the circumstances -- such as the ''massive concussion'' they suffered at work a few days prior -- because in his eyes the submitter is just being lazy. Sure enough, the submitter wakes up one day vomiting excessively from the concussion, asks if they can at least come in later, and is subsequently fired. loses their job. And then the manager has the gall to ask the worker if they'll be able to make it in for one of their busiest work days of the year, calling the entire above situation a "misunderstanding" and [[NeverMyFault claiming the submitter they quit of their own accord rather than being wrongfully fired]]. fired]] - even after the submitter calls him out on his BlatantLies. The submitter then delivers promptly pulls a TakeThisJobAndShoveIt, as they proceed to deliver a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech (revealing that to the asshole manager was (for giving the submitter unreasonable working hours that didn't give them time to even get home and back between shifts for a month and a half, and completely ignoring repeated complaints about this) and then hangs hang up.
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* AbuseMistake:
** Happens to [[http://notalwaysright.com/hot-and-not-bothering-to-listen this customer]], who is dining with his family and wearing a hooded sweatshirt in a warm restaurant. It's revealed that the long sleeves are to hide large arm bruises -- he's recovering from chemotherapy, but the waitress thinks otherwise.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/racism-should-have-checked-out-already This entry]], where a cashier responds to the discovery that a white woman is the mother of a little black boy, ''by handing her a pamphlet for a rape crisis and domestic abuse helpline.'' Mother is outraged, [[LaserGuidedKarma cashier gets fired]], [[RacistGrandma and his grandmother, who taught him to think like that]], [[LaserGuidedKarma gets banned from the store]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/theyd-like-to-look-at-the-kidnap-menu Another one]]. This time, a waitress assumes that because the little girl takes after her white father (who had not yet arrived at the restaurant) instead of her middle-eastern mother, that she was being kidnapped. The waitress [[LaserGuidedKarma ended up being arrested]] for slapping the girl, who had responded to the waitress grabbing her by biting the waitress.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/driving-miss-daisy-will-drive-them-crazy Yet again]]. An employee sees a white woman with two black men (her boyfriend and best friend) and immediately assumes she's been kidnapped and is their sex slave. They overhear and immediately pretend to be ''her'' sex slaves, [[TheGadfly just to mess with the racist employee's mind]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/theyd-like-to-look-at-the-kidnap-menu-part-2 Once more]]. A cashier ''calls the cops'' after seeing a black man in line with a young Asian girl, refusing to believe she's the man's step-daughter. [[LaserGuidedKarma The cashier got fired for his idiocy.]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/are-you-puli-ng-my-leg/115732/ This veterinary technician]] thinks the submitter is another idiot mistakenly neglecting their doodle because the puppy farm lied to them about how her fur is supposed to work. Said "doodle" is actually a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puli puli]], a breed famed for its fur, and she was at the age where the fur was going to look hideous even with proper care and attention. The technician acts on that wrong assumption without the vet's knowledge or the submitter's permission, [[LaserGuidedKarma and ends up fired for doing so]].
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: [[http://notalwaysright.com/pranking-as-sour-as-vinegar For this reason,]] the manager can't discipline his staff over the prank they pulled on the new guy.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/dont-fall-behind-on-the-schedule Said word-for-word here]] when the manager a coworker is complaining about is RightBehindMe.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/fancy-fast-food/116663/ This restaurant owner]] got a laugh and a RunningGag out of a new hire accidentally answering the phone as their previous fast food job.
* AccidentalInnuendo: [[invoked]] "[[http://notalwaysright.com/they-got-there-in-the-end-o What's the biggest package you can take?]]" They were trying to ship a motorcycle, but the worker misinterpreted and assumed it was a prank call.
* AccidentalMisnaming: [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-bozo-by-any-other-name-part-4 This boss]] can't seem to remember his new worker's name.
* AdaptationDisplacement: [[invoked]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/austen-sibly-a-commoner "Um, this is a BOOKSHOP. We don't sell DVDs!"]]
** Somehow, when [[http://notalwaysright.com/and-the-titanic-sunk-in-1997 this cashier]] sees the title "Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet", the first thing she thinks of is... [[Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet the 1996 film]]. Worse, it seems [[PopculturalOsmosisFailure she hasn't heard of the Shakespeare version.]] The manager she calls in [[DisproportionateRetribution to deal with the customer's "lie"]] puts it best: "Unbelievable."
* AdultFear: A new mother goes to the daycare to pick up her infant, only to find the daycare personnel locking up for the night, [[http://notalwaysright.com/should-have-been-childs-play having completely forgotten her baby and making every possible excuse not to go look for her.]]
* AllAnimationIsDisney: [[invoked]] [[https://notalwaysright.com/i-stand-alone-among-these-movies/64904/ One coworker]] had to explain to another which animated films were not made by Disney. Surprisingly, the one he guessed was not Disney, ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'', actually was.
* AllGermansAreNazis: When [[https://notalwaysright.com/concentrate-before-you-assume/100997/ this co-worker]] finds out the poster's surname is German, he immediately jumps to this trope. The ''name'' might be German, but the actual ethnic background is Ashkenazi Jewish, and several of the poster's relatives were killed in the Holocaust. (At least the co-worked apologized.)
* AllNaturalSnakeOil: [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-higher-hire "It can’t be drugs; it is all herbal and all."]] "Sure... remind me: [[AnalogyBackfire what are opium and marijuana made from]]?"
* AllPeriodsArePMS: Discussed [[https://notalwaysright.com/trying-fulfill-delivery-period/97807/ in this story]]. A delivery driver advises his trainee that a woman ordering tampons, tea, and chocolates to her door is probably having a bad one and will be cranky, so they need to be extra polite to her.
* AlmightyJanitor: The cleaning staff at [[https://notalwaysright.com/bosses-need-clean-act/110124/ this museum]] know more about the building than the curators do.
* AlphaBitch:
** Two of them, [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-receptionists-have-checked-out working as receptionists]] for a popular hotel. They falsely claim that they need to take a $700 deposit from the submitter as she checks in. When she calls them out on their lie, they ''proceed to take the deposit anyway'', leaving her with only a small amount of money. When the submitter confronts them the following morning, they [[NeverMyFault try to blame her for "spending" all of the money that they wrongfully took]], and she ultimately has to call her mother to cover the bill from home. Thankfully, after leaving, the submitter files a complaint with the hotel chain, and they give her the $700 back and [[LaserGuidedKarma suspend both receptionists]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/very-bad-reception-part-7 Another two]] working as receptionists for a medical office, trying to tell the submitter's mother that she ran off without paying -- but then, asks the mom, [[ConvictionByCounterfactualClue why would she have called her to make the payment for her if she wasn't planning on paying at all?]] Turned out the receptionists had gone off to lunch, forgetting the submitter was there and leaving the desk entirely unattended, and tried to shift the blame for the incident on the submitter so the doctor wouldn't know about the latter bit.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: A lot of stories dealing with abusive managers or bosses end with said supervisor getting caught out by someone higher on the corporate ladder than they are [[LaserGuidedKarma and receiving their comeuppance.]]
* AmbulanceChaser: [[http://notalwaysright.com/your-hesitancy-is-not-my-emergency This guard]] is apparently ''so'' worried about these types that he tries to stop emergency services from saving a person's life. Unfortunately for him, obstructing emergency services in that manner is a ''serious crime'', which means he'll [[LaserGuidedKarma probably never work in that capacity ever again]].
* AndADietCoke: [[http://notalwaysright.com/giving-them-the-skinny-on-politeness This worker]] makes the assumption that the customer ''must'' be doing the "health benefits" version of this trope, and that no one could ''possibly'' want Diet Coke on account of its ''taste''. The customer is not amused.
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: [[http://notalwaysright.com/taking-both-the-mourning-and-graveyard-shift This boss]] apparently thought his subordinate should have been this way about her grandmother's death... [[FreudianExcuse because of the bad relationship he'd had with his own grandmother]]. After another coworker explained how different ''this'' situation was, the boss [[HeelRealization took several days off out of shame]].
* {{Angrish}}: The vet in [[https://notalwaysright.com/are-you-puli-ng-my-leg/115732/ this story]] apparently lapsed into this after catching two assistants shaving a puli on the orders of an ignorant technician who mistook her for an unwittingly neglected doodle. (''Note: the comments on this post contain disturbing stories about other animals at the vet. Viewer discretion is advised.'')
* ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-story-ends-with-a-pregnant-pause This nurse]] is apparently unaware that "water breaking" rarely happens when a woman goes into labor.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/going-toe-toe-stupidity/100989/ This worker]] thought toes can grow back just like lizard tails.
** Apparently, food can contain [[https://notalwaysright.com/atruficially-incorrect/60762/ "enzumes."]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/totally-coconuts-vegan/101049/ This preachy vegan]] thinks that cows have milk for blood.
* ArtisticLicenseEconomics:
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/penny-whys-pound-sterling-foolish There are still]] [[http://notalwaysright.com/euro-out-of-your-mind too many people]] who don't realize that the United Kingdom still uses the pound sterling, and ''not'' the euro.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-party-pooper-2/64668/ These two indoor amusement park employees]] somehow think it's perfectly fine to charge customers again with the new price set up by the park even though the customers had already paid a month ago. Their manager was not pleased.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/has-zero-understanding-of-zero/63827/ This agent]] doesn't seem to understand that its impossible to pay off ''zero dollars'' on an account.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/money-talks-doesnt-read/91136/ This cashier]] can't tell the difference between a one dollar and two dollar Australian coin, even though the value is ''printed on the coins themselves''.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/god-save-the-reine London is the capital of France, apparently]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/copen-with-coworkers So, if you speak Danish, are you from Finland then?]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/dubious-over-dubai-dumb-about-des-moines This receptionist]] fails to understand that the Middle East is not part of the US. Somehow. Given her answer, it seems she was thinking of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest the Midwest]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-house-deluded-cannot-understand This cashier]] thinks New Mexico is part of Mexico.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-different-state-of-english This one]] thinks that Ohio is in Europe.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-capital-mistake This cashier]] believes two forms of ID are fake because, apparently, ''no one lives in Washington, DC''. ("It’s just government buildings and monuments!") This version was particularly problematic for the customer because the cashier attempted to ''confiscate and destroy'' said forms of ID [[note]]especially problematic as the customer had to fly home in a few days[[/note]], forcing said customer to call the police to intervene.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/space-between-his-ears-oddity “And to clarify, Canada is Australia, and Russia is above you?”]]
** A manager said, [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-a-capital-idea "That’s a trick question! Mexico's not part of the United States, so it doesn't have a capital!"]]
** The store owner in [[http://notalwaysright.com/o-canaduh-part-3 this story]] doesn't seem to grasp the concept of other countries being different from the one he is currently in (in this case, Canada) -- wondering why his store in Oregon isn't closing early for Canada Day (July 1st) and subsequently being confused when it ''does'' close early on the 4th (Independence Day).
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/policeless-state-versus-stateless-police This police officer.]] Who cares if he's in North Carolina, the vehicle he stopped had a New York license plate and therefore he's ticketing the driver for not following New York law (NY requires vehicles to have front license plates; the owner removed the front plate upon leaving NY) even though no law of North Carolina, the state he's ''actually in'', has been broken. Not even his sergeant pointing this out to him is enough to get it through his thick skull, since this is apparently far from the first such complaint.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/he-doesnt-know-what-to-down-under This unemployment office]] apparently assumes that "white" automatically means "American citizen."
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/in-a-state-of-incontinence Just because Hawaii happens to be "overseas"]] doesn't mean it's not a US state.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/geography-skills-suffering-from-a-tokyo-drift This bank representative]] doesn't understand Hong Kong's status as a special administrative region of China (somewhat understandably)... but has also somehow never heard of Tokyo, Japan, assuming the submitter was making up a country.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-bad-denmark-against-your-name In this story]], the submitter's coworker doesn't believe there's a country named Denmark and, when shown proof, somehow thinks its official name, "The Kingdom of Denmark," means it's part of England. The boss is even worse, thinking that Denmark doesn't even exist and was made up by the submitter.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-united-states-of-north-central-and-south-america This coworker]] believes that the US has 57 states (including Mexico).
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/should-have-said-youre-from-middle-earth/124455/ This bartender]] is so stubbornly ignorant of the fact UsefulNotes/NewZealand exists that [[IRejectYourReality even a Google search can't change her mind]], which becomes a problem when a group of Kiwi tourists try to use their passports to prove their age. A problem as in the group has to go to a different bar having wrestled an inappropriately confiscated passport out of her hand.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: [[https://notalwaysright.com/go-back-to-school-of-rock This coworker]] confuses Music/ElvisPresley with UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and doesn't know who Mussolini was.
* ArtisticLicenseLaw:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/needs-to-contract-an-understanding-in-contracts This manager]] thinks he can scribble "corrections" (such as cutting the contracted payment in half and adding an extra 13 years to a warranty service) on an already-signed contract and have them be binding - which is extra hilarious when he complains that the submitter already signed the (pre-"corrected") contract, to try and get out of him enforcing the terms to which they actually agreed. The judge got a laugh out of the situation before ruling for the poster.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/explain-it-to-them-straight This police officer]] gives the submitter a ticket for not using their blinker at an intersection, when the submitter repeatedly stated that they were going ''straight.'' The ticket is contested and quickly thrown out, with the implication that the police officer still didn't understand why he was scolded by the judge for writing stupid tickets.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/ive-got-a-ticket-to-deride Another police officer]] stops a young girl that he believes to be a car thief or a underage teenager with no driver's license. When she proves him wrong on both accounts, the police officer [[NeverMyFault refuses to apologize for his mistake]], and even goes so far as to issue a citation ''[[InsaneTrollLogic for wasting his time]]''. Luckily, the officer's superior tells the submitter and her father to ignore the ticket, before inadvertently letting slip that it was the fourth such ticket the officer had issued that month.
** As above under Geography, [[https://notalwaysright.com/policeless-state-versus-stateless-police this officer]] doesn't seem to understand that traffic laws in New York -- such as the requirement of front license plates -- do not necessarily apply in another state like North Carolina just because it has New York plates or because he himself is from New York.
* ArtisticLicenseReligion: [[http://notalwaysright.com/bigots-use-inbred-logic This hospital receptionist]] thinks all Muslims are inbred and share the same last name.
* AskAStupidQuestion: [[http://notalwaysright.com/running-low-on-the-milk-of-human-kindness An illustration of the pitfalls of this trope]] -- a person just might take your answer ''seriously''.
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* BadBoss: ''Lots'' of them. Many of the rest fall into the category of PointyHairedBoss.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-self-lay-offing-prophecy This guy's]] name may as well be ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}. In fact, the story's events happened almost verbatim in a ''Dilbert'' comic.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/take-it-personally-to-the-bank This boss]] fires an employee for wrongdoings that never actually happened. Fortunately, the employee gets severance pay out of it when she threatens to bring it up with the Labour Relations Board after the boss fails to produce a paper trail.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-ever-working-part-9 There's apparently a store]] where, at least within reason, being a bad boss is ''mandatory'' -- the submitter ends up promoted to the bad manager's position after he intentionally breaks labor laws by making her work far longer than allowed. However, when she tries to avoid the same situation by covering for a co-worker's break a few months later, they [[ComicallyMissingThePoint actually reprimand her for doing her job]], to which she immediately [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits and never returns]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/mission-imbossible This boss]] actually pulled a DidYouActuallyBelieve on an office worker after he was ordered to work overtime to get a major order done by Monday.
--->'''Boss:''' ''(laughing)'' You actually stayed here until midnight? You’re stupid!\\
'''Worker:''' ...excuse me?\\
'''Boss:''' There would be no way I would've done that much overtime for this. We didn't even need it until Thursday of this week anyway. It could have waited!
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/process-of-elimination This manager]] [[{{Nepotism}} and his daughter]] have been stealing money from their company for half a year -- and when they're about to be found out, the manager tries to get the worker processing the case to take the fall for it. It doesn't work, and the manager [[LaserGuidedKarma not only loses his job]], he ends up ''[[FromBadToWorse jailed for embezzlement]]''.
** Apparently, some managers somehow believe that ''being ill or having to go to the hospital'' are not excuses for missing work:
*** The lunch manager in [[http://notalwaysright.com/pink-eye-or-the-pink-slip this story]] threatens to fire a worker with pinkeye if they call out sick again and forces them to work with the highly contagious condition. When the morning manager learns what happened, he responds by forcing the lunch manager to disinfect everything the sick worker had touched as punishment for her threats.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-a-believer-of-the-fever Another manager]] actually ''does'' fire a worker for not coming in sick. All this despite the worker sending in no less than ''three'' separate emails to her boss stating that she had the flu, ''and'' her dad painstakingly explaining his daughter's situation to the boss over the phone.
*** [[https://notalwaysright.com/an-unspeakable-offense/105029/ Yet another manager]] writes up an employee for leaving work early, even though the worker left in an ambulance that ''the boss called in himself''. The disgruntled employee refuses to sign the writeup and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits on the spot]].
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/finally-independent-from-them Still another manager]] threatens to fire a worker if they call in sick ''ever'' again, regardless of the circumstances -- such as the ''massive concussion'' they suffered at work a few days prior -- because in his eyes the submitter is just being lazy. Sure enough, the submitter wakes up one day vomiting excessively from the concussion, asks if they can at least come in later, and is subsequently fired. And then the manager has the gall to ask the worker if they'll be able to make it in for one of their busiest work days of the year, calling the entire above situation a "misunderstanding" and [[NeverMyFault claiming the submitter quit of their own accord rather than being wrongfully fired]]. The submitter then delivers a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech (revealing that the manager was giving the submitter unreasonable working hours that didn't give them time to even get home and back between shifts for a month and a half, and completely ignoring repeated complaints about this) and then hangs up.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/promoting-health-and-safety In the same vein,]] the submitter throws up and calls the manager to clock out, as the contract states that anyone who does vomit cannot return for forty-eight hours. The manager instead threatens to fire the submitter for "walking out," even when explicitly told what is going on. The manager then makes good on her threat and attempts to fire the submitter; however, [[AlwaysABiggerFish her boss,]] upon finding out exactly what happened, [[LaserGuidedKarma nixes the firing, demotes the manager to a server, and promotes the submitter to team leader]].
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/bone-achingly-lazy-versus-bone-breakingly-crazy This manager here]] might be the worst of the bunch. A worker gets into an accident during a ski trip which left her hospitalized with a broken arm and leg, and cannot come in for three weeks. However, the manager thinks she's just being lazy for not asking for that time off and writes her up, much to the horror of her coworker, who already explained that the worker was badly injured and cannot come to work. When the worker does come back to work, with her broken arm and leg in plaster, the manager [[KickTheDog forces her to get a book on a high shelf and threatens to fire her if she doesn't, because according to him she's just lazy]]. After twenty-five painful minutes attempting to get the book, rather than thanking the worker, [[DudeWheresMyRespect he just snatches the book away and calls her lazy again]]. Thankfully, [[LaserGuidedKarma the manager was quickly fired after the worker complained to the owner]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/women-of-the-night-shift This boss]] writes up an employee after they refused to help a customer find a prostitute. Who cares if prostitution is ''illegal''?
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/drink-and-be-merry-for-tomorrow-we-dine This boss]] does not give a damn whether his waiters are being rude to customers over [[StayInTheKitchen completely inconsequential things like what sort of drink a woman orders]], or that said customers are taking their business elsewhere because of this -- but once he realizes [[OhCrap one of them is an esteemed local food critic]], his tune changes. Of course, this is only to ward off a bad review, rather than to actually make it up to paying customers that were mistreated (as evidenced by him repeatedly referring to things like the waiter ''deliberately spilling the woman's drink'' as a "misunderstanding"), which does not earn him their favor. The story ends by revealing that the restaurant went under shortly after this incident, despite (or perhaps because of) the critic not even mentioning them, while giving a positive review to the restaurant across the street where he and his wife actually ate.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/box-of-stolen-stupid This assistant manager]], as accidentally revealed after a prank gone wrong, has been stealing from his own store, both for himself and his friend.
** Likewise, [[http://notalwaysright.com/brunch-time-crunch-time this assistant manager]], in addition to pretending to be the owner, had been opening the restaurant where he worked on Mondays (when they're normally closed), only to give his friends free food, which had been cutting into their profits; the other employees unwittingly went along with this because the assistant manager had them believing it was a weekly fundraiser for charity, and thus they were ''volunteering'' for a good cause. The actual owner had him fired over this, as evidenced by referring to him as "my now ex-assistant manager".
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/working-antisocial-hours This boss]] actually fires an employee for ''clocking their hours correctly'', because showing up two hours before you're actually scheduled and ''not'' clocking in right then, thus getting paid for ''not'' doing work, is "antisocial behavior". Unsurprisingly, the company ends up having to close multiple locations because of financial issues, and the "social" one [[LaserGuidedKarma is the very first to go]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-toxic-work-environment This boss]] [[LethallyStupid expects a worker to clean up an active biohazard without any sort of protective gear]], because calling the city about it would cost too much, [[SkewedPriorities yet loaning the worker equipment they're not trained in, or letting them buy the equipment themselves, would be illegal]]. The worker [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits on the spot]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/part-time-crime This team leader]] kept writing up a part-time worker for things they had absolutely no way of knowing beforehand. The part-time worker eventually [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quit over it]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-noticeable-lack-of-warning This owner]] offers the submitter a full-time position (they were working part-time both there and at another job)... then waits until the submitter hands in their two weeks' notice at the other place before telling them she can't actually hire them on full-time. Worse, this immediately precedes the submitter learning they will be working 36 hours a week, which basically ''is'' full-time (it legally counts as such in other parts of the world) but is just shy enough from it to still avoid the U.S.'s full-time laws so the new employer doesn't have to provide benefits.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/present-management-stress-disorder This assistant manager]] traps his employee with PTSD[[note]]He was previously held hostage in a bank robbery[[/note]] to prevent him from taking a break, assuming he was faking just as an excuse to be lazy. Not only is the assistant manager chewed out by the boss when the employee has a panic attack, [[LaserGuidedKarma he's promptly fired for blocking an exit, creating a fire hazard.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/an-original-way-to-pass-the-blame This boss]] blames the submitter for tearing a document that never once left the boss's hands. And this is apparently a regular occurrence, too; luckily for the submitter, he was able to get away by joining the National Guard.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/parental-misguidance-3 This church secretary]] is forced to become a security guard for the in-house daycare by the church's council. They point out that they don't know the kids' parents, their existing work takes them all over the building so they can't keep watch over the kids, and they were hired ''as a secretary'', not as a security guard -- and yet they're forced to do the extra work anyway, and are even written up for objecting to it ''even though the council member admitted that the objections were correct.'' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere They quit two months later]], and later learn that whole situation was designed specifically to force them to quit.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/owns-a-very-crazy-personality This bakery owner]] ''screams'' at people for the most minor mistakes, to such an extreme extent that [[TheDreaded her employees are terrified of her]]. The submitter, then a trainee, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere refused to work there any longer]] if that was how her boss would react to slight mistakes from the new girl, and found a place of employment with "a less psycho owner."
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/praying-for-some-common-sense This employee]] was dismissed without unemployment benefits for [[MistakenForRacist racism]], because they mentioned "Muslims and prayer time" in a speech. Apparently, Muslims are a race now, and taking into account anything they do differently from other religions is discrimination, somehow. Although the employee never got the job back, the unemployment agency overturned the employer's decision to deny unemployment, thus allowing the employee to get benefits until they could find a new job.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/speaking-up-for-those-who-cant This ableist manager]] orders an autistic mute employee to answer the phone - something he obviously ''cannot'' do. When the employee repeatedly presses a button and hangs up instead of talking, she screams at him and fires him on the spot. Turns out the caller was the employee's brother, who a) [[EveryoneKnowsMorse understood the Morse Code his brother was sending]], and b) ''[[SummonBiggerFish is the CEO]]''. Upon learning the circumstances under which his brother was fired, the enraged CEO [[WhatWereYouThinking furiously berates]] the asshole manager and [[LaserGuidedKarma promptly fires her instead for discrimination]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/racism-will-no-longer-accepted-delivery/101430 This boss for a video editing company]] is apparently so racist that she picks on the company's delivery man solely because of his skin color. Her racism actually caused problems for the delivery man as he had accumulated enough complaints from this woman to warrant several evaluations. The submitter quits the job and later encounters the same delivery man (as well as another man with him) at their new job. The delivery man is in a rather upset state (because his job is now in jeopardy), and the submitter finally lets slip about their boss's racist attitudes. It turns out the other man was ''the manager'' for the delivery company and upon hearing the submitter's comments, lets the delivery man stay and terminates the delivery company's contract with the former boss out of disgust.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/getting-struck-from-the-job/118647/ This boss]] sends an employee out for carts ''in the middle of a severe thunderstorm'', and then [[DisproportionateRetribution screams at and fires them]] when they do not comply. Luckily, LaserGuidedKarma kicks in right away when ''[[AlwaysABiggerFish her boss]]'' finds this out, and, thanks to an [[NoIndoorVoice extensive history of screaming in front of customers]], she is immediately fired the next day for intentionally putting the employee's life in danger.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/one-of-the-worst-managers-youve-ever-produced/135206/ This produce manager]] fires an employee because she refused to handle produce in an unsafe manner (and it's stated that he's been written up for forcing other employees to do so in the past). When the submitter (the store's general manager) forces him to to call up the wrongfully fired employee to apologize, the produce manager instead hurls an insult-laden TheReasonYouSuckSpeech at the poor woman and [[KickTheDog tells her that she deserved to be fired]]. He does this '''[[TooDumbToLive while still in the presence of the submitter]]''', who, after a few moments of silent disbelief, [[WhatWereYouThinking gives the manager some choice words]], [[LaserGuidedKarma fires him on the spot]], and [[PersonaNonGrata bans him from the store for life]]. As for the unjustly fired employee, she was hired back shortly afterward into the jerk manager's former position as produce manager and has held it ever since.
* BaitAndSwitch: The beginning of [[https://notalwaysright.com/checkout-line-seized/106605/ this story]] made quite a number of posts think it was actually [[https://notalwaysright.com/theyre-deafening-youre-silence/100321/ another story]] (never mind the fact that the odds of someone else witnessing the same circumstances and submitting them to this website are astronomical). To elaborate, the older story involved a DesignatedHero standing in line at a supermarket and holding everyone up because she was observing Remembrance Day, whereas the later story also had a woman holding up a supermarket line, but that was because she was having a seizure. In the latter story's case, the cashier refused to help the customer even when the submitter, who happened to be a doctor, said that she was having a seizure, because [[ArtisticLicenceBiology "if she was having a seizure]] [[RealityIsUnrealistic she'd be writhing on the floor, wouldn't she?"]]. The cashier also voided '''both''' the sick customer and the doctor's purchases because they stepped out of line, saying that [[KarmaHoudini "they must be joking if they thought she would give them their shopping back."]]
* BeamMeUpScotty: [[invoked]] [[https://notalwaysright.com/stardate-christmas This submitter]], when held up by TSA employees because of a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' salt-and-pepper shaker, has to quote the trope name because said TSA employees [[PopculturalOsmosisFailure have apparently never heard of]] ''Star Trek'', and as such can't recognize lines that actually were spoken on the show.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: "[[https://notalwaysright.com/arrogance-takes-a-permanent-vacation/64097/ If you can prove yourself, you WILL have my job, and then you can do all this work all the time.]]"
* BeliefMakesYouStupid:
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/illogically-theological “But who doesn’t celebrate Easter?!”]] Uh, the Jewish, for starters.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/youve-got-cook-bacon-bring-home-bacon/100355/ This Jewish duty manager]] threw out £15,000 worth of food because it wasn't kosher, despite the fact that restaurant wasn't a kosher-only restaurant. Worse, she is rather hypocritical where she calls another Jewish worker "not a real Jew" because he called her out on her actions - she wants people to respect her beliefs [[{{Hypocrite}} but won't respect other faiths]], and when the submitter meets her again after she was fired, she was seen eating a bacon sandwich, a very non-kosher food.
* BenevolentBoss: In some of these stories, where a lower-level employee is the culprit, the employee's manager will step in to intervene. And in a few of ''these'' occurrences, the boss will subvert this by being, in his/her own way, nearly as bad as the employee.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/have-no-truck-with-these-coworkers Here's]] one such boss that manages to get a BadBoss (and his girlfriend) ''fired''.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/fit-for-the-job This gym owner]] finds that a homeless man has been living in the gym's locker rooms and begging food from other gym members. The owner hires the man as a live-in maintenance worker so that he can repay those other members and get back on his feet.
** The owner in [[http://notalwaysright.com/having-him-quit-was-just-a-bonus this story]] had been actively bending every rule he could to treat his employees generously. When one worker gets greedy over bonus checks, the owner simply gives them [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor exactly what they'd asked for]]-- merit-based bonus checks (the greedy worker hadn't contributed much to the project), and a departure without being fired (making them ineligible for severance pay).
* BilingualBackfire:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/pigheaded-comments "...and she's an ignorant moron."]]
** Particularly epic example [[http://notalwaysright.com/stupid-in-any-language here]] that [[LaserGuidedKarma got two jerks fired.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/shady-dealings-will-pay-a-high-price "Nah, she's just some dumb American girl! We'll give her [high price]. She doesn't understand us."]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/working-with-tools One worker]] tries to use the foreign language-trick to make some [[StayInTheKitchen sexist remarks]] about a client. Oops.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/sorry-i-canada-understand-you This restaurant server]] mistakenly assumes that some tourists are American and not French-Canadian, and tries to pass off underhanded remarks in French.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/nailed-it Some Vietnamese beauty store employees]] try to rip off a customer. Too bad they didn't count on her knowing their language.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-language-of-disrespect/118665/ A taxi driver]] makes racist and misogynistic remarks in Punjabi towards a customer during a phone call. Too bad for him that she speaks fluent Punjabi because of her Indian stepdad, meaning she's understood every single remark he's made about the "white b***" - including the ImpliedDeathThreat which was the final straw - and, although his mandatory camera is illegally deactivated, she's been secretly recording most of the conversation, which goes on to thwart a WoundedGazelleGambit.
** It's almost as if [[https://notalwaysright.com/in-soviet-russia-language-speaks-you/ some kiosk employees]] pick up new languages just for the purpose of getting customers, at least according to the submitter's mother.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/schadenfreude/ “So does my Dad.”]]
* BlatantLies:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/liar-liar-new-hire-fired-stop-hanging-out-on-my-telephone-wire This lady]] lies about her qualifications to get a job, lies that her boyfriend is a lawyer, and then after getting fired, lies to her new employer that she was assistant manager at the store that fired her after seeing through her lies.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/liar-liar-hands-on-fire This CSR]] is pretty desperate not to have to do a return.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/managers-cause-a-latte-problems This manager]] tries to claim credit for the submitter's work for helping a customer's order. Too bad the store manager knew he was lying due to the fact that the customer knew the submitter's name.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/you-wont-believe-this/ This person]] gets rid of a telemarketer by saying that their mother was "mauled to death by a horde of angry platypi" led by [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Perry the Platypus]]. The telemarketer [[SeamlessSpontaneousLie believes it]], offers condolences, and hangs up.
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/ladders-and-tall-guys-and-bears-oh-my There was a bear.]]"
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/only-collecting-burnt-bridges This agent]] is politely told to call between specific hours if they want a manager who can answer their question. She immediately calls back and, oblivious to the fact that the employee who answered was the exact same one as the last time, claims that "the last bitch I spoke to" was being rude.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/wines-dines-dimes/98939/ This waitress]] lies to a customer about bringing his food out when they actually never received it. When the couple objects, the manager (her father) claims they're trying to scam the restaurant. When the owner then comes out to investigate, he discovers that the waitress had been ''eating the submitter's food herself''. The waitress and her father are both fired and the couple's meal is comped.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/dying-taken-off-list/92423/ "I'm dead now."]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/mini-big-lies/93111/ "Ignore the salespeople."]]
* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: [[https://notalwaysright.com/getting-sauce-problem/106654/ This person]] has a coworker steal a bottle of their hot sauce... a sauce so hot, the submitter had to buy it online and only used a drop at a time. The thief didn't know this, and while the story doesn't say how much he used, he ended up vomiting and having to take the day off (unpaid) to recover.
* BluffTheImpostor: How [[http://notalwaysright.com/some-scammers-cant-reach-escape-velocity-fast-enough one supposed satellite TV company caller]] gets caught.
* BotheringByTheBook: When the subject of a story isn't an employee being unnecessarily rude or incredibly lazy, it's probably because someone is following procedure to the letter, to the detriment of everything else. Examples:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/fighting-over-wisdom-tooth-and-nail A hospital calling for a baby to have their wisdom teeth removed]]. Because the person in question was listed as a baby the last time they were there, [[OffscreenInertia that means they're a baby!]] Ignore the birth date putting that last visit 20 years prior, or the fact that babies don't have wisdom teeth.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/stand-your-ground This flight attendant]] keeps bothering a passenger about wheelchair assistance. Ignore that if she were to ''actually pay attention to that passenger'' she would see that they clearly do ''not'' need a wheelchair -- her booking said she needs assistance, [[SarcasmMode it can't possibly be an error on their part]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/someone-needs-some-brain-surgery This receptionist]] insists that a patient had surgery that day, rather than merely scheduling an appointment for it, despite that patient's statements to the contrary.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/laughing-all-the-way-to-the-other-bank This bank representative]] insists that they've ''only'' accepted driver's licenses as ID. A state-issued ID, which in every other case ever works in lieu of a license, is not sufficient in her eyes [[ExactWords because it's not a driver's license]]. Not surprisingly, the submitter closes their existing account at that bank and takes their business to a nearby competitor.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/dealing-with-an-old-bag This cashier]] is apparently deathly insistent that every customer have a bag when they leave.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: ...[[http://notalwaysright.com/not-always-working-can-lead-to-not-ever-working from the wrong side]].
* BuffySpeak: [[http://notalwaysright.com/someone-needs-alphabet-soup Big spoony thing]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/speaking-idiot-is-quite-a-thing This one]]: A customer asking for an item says, "It goes on the counter; you put the things in it? You know for, like, the mix-y and the... the scoopy and the... STUFF!" After the worker manages to figure it out, he says, "I have a second job as a bartender. I don’t speak ‘Idiot’ but I DO speak ‘Drunk,’ and it’s nearly the same thing."
* BystanderSyndrome: [[http://notalwaysright.com/someones-about-to-get-fired I was supposed to use a fire extinguisher?]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-supporting-customer-support/116699/ These employees who are running a rock concert venue]] The submitter and their family had bought tickets from a seemingly-illegal reseller vendor ''on the venue's own website.'' The family complains that the venue should be able to filter out the illegal vendors that advertise on the site. The employees and manager claim it's in their policy to only accept from certain vendors, but the family never found such a policy on the site. One employee even tells them that it's not their problem their website has illegal vendors on it. At the least the owner was more sympathetic and apologized for the inconvenience following the submitter posting a nasty review online. [[note]] The comments on this story are pretty mixed as to who is in the wrong, but the majority of people say it's the venue.
** This trope shows up depressingly often, and nearly every story in the Lazy/Unhelpful section is guaranteed to have an employee just throw up their arms and go "it's not my problem", even though almost every time this happens it ''is'' their problem.
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* CaffeineBulletTime: [[http://notalwaysright.com/in-charge-and-in-full-charge "All I saw was a green blur!"]]
* {{Calvinball}}: [[https://notalwaysright.com/calvin-ballin-time Trope namedropped]] and in full effect here.
* CassandraTruth:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/managing-the-managing-situation A textbook example.]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/pregnant-with-ignorance Despite the fact]] that the doctor knows the patient is a virgin and her pregnancy test is negative, the student nurse helping out still believes the patient is pregnant.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-a-believer-of-the-fever This boss]] dismisses the author's flu as a "head cold" and threatens to fire her, despite the author sending ''three'' separate emails. Making matters worse, even after the author's father goes in to painstaking detail why his daughter cannot come to work, the boss screams at him over the phone, and later fires the author anyway for not showing up.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/24-the-wal-mart-conspiracy/56575/ This store manager]] is so desperate to protect his recent promotion that he tries to deny that a teenage [=YouTuber=] is illegally camping in the store for a challenge video, even after being shown previous videos of them doing it in that exact store. [[IdiotBall Not desperate enough to stay late and make sure they're gone before closing, though]].
* CasualKink: "[[http://notalwaysright.com/try-to-restrain-that-humor You'll make a man very happy someday.]]"
* ChildHater:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-grown-up-needs-to-grow-up This fast-food cashier]] is particularly hostile towards a 10-year-old girl for seemingly no legitimate reason. The girl calls the cashier out on her immature and impolite behavior after her response to several mistakes in the order. Eventually, the cashier calls the girl an "ungrateful bitch", which pushes her BerserkButton ''big time''. When the girl demands to see the manager, the cashier refuses. The girl flips her off and returns later with her mother, and they explain everything to the manager. The cashier is called into the manager's office, but she continues to pick on the girl, [[LaserGuidedKarma which gets her promptly fired due to her history of similar incidents]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/cheesed-off-all-by-yourself/61703/ Another cashier]] gripes to the 12-year-old submitter about having to press a lot of buttons to ring up a cheeseburger. When the submitter points out a button for only cheese, the cashier screams at them and accuses them of lying. This catches the manager's attention, and, due to a large amount of complaints and two similar incidents that same day, the cashier is fired on the spot and the submitter's meal is comped.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/proudly-professing-profound-purple-preferences "PURPLE!!!"]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/your-daydream-customer According to this customer, you can never think too much. You think?]]
* CluelessBoss: They show up often. Let's leave it at that, because listing them all could fill another page.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/abe-normally-clueless This person]] gives their street address to a pizza deliverer, mentioning Lincoln, "like the president". The delivery person mentions that Obama's the president.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-seeing-the-bigot-picture "So you think people act a certain way based on their race? That's racist."]] "No it's not! [[InsistentTerminology That's prejudice!"]] The absolutely hilarious part is that [[JerkassHasAPoint he's right]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/anything-nature-can-do-i-can-do-better This manager]] asks a worker to water the plants during a slow point of the day. The worker points out it's raining; the manager replies, "take an umbrella."
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/going-loco-if-youre-not-local This truck stop]] has several advertising billboards out along the freeway leading to it... but then refuses to serve anyone who is not a local.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/ended-up-being-a-bad-experience This interviewer]] continues interviewing people for two days after the job they're applying for has already been filled, thinking just getting an interview (rather than ''actually working'') is good job experience.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-job-is-not-so-secure This hotel]] hires a security guard to deal with unruly guests coming from a nearby stadium. Unfortunately, the guard they hire thinks it's his job to make other people do his job for him. He's unsurprisingly gone within a week.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/hope-you-dont-see-them-later-alligator This customer]] asks a food counter employee if they serve alligator meat at an ''alligator reservation.''
** An employee is being fired for multiple causes, including threatening to ''kill everyone''. [[https://notalwaysright.com/fired-didnt-burn-this-bridge/65807/ "So, when can I apply again?"]]
* ConfrontingYourImposter: Less frequent than in ''Right'', but still around.
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/time-to-try-another-tactic Time to Try Another Tactic]]" has a caller claim to be the daughter of the owner, while the female worker that answered is the owner's only child.
** New hires telling off the owner's actual children because they ''think'' they're catching someone attempting this is rather common, however -- see [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-baking-daughter here]] and [[http://notalwaysright.com/very-bad-reception here]] for examples of this form of ConvictionByCounterfactualClue.
* ConsummateLiar:
** There is something legitimately wrong with [[http://notalwaysright.com/liar-liar-new-hire-fired-stop-hanging-out-on-my-telephone-wire this girl]]. One can only hope she eventually gets professional help. One also wonders how many people are jobless and/or on social assistance simply because they can't stop lying their pants off.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-cancer-on-your-productivity One worker]] lies so much to ditch work that she was fired on the phone.
* ContrivedCoincidence: [[http://notalwaysright.com/bad-for-the-stalk-market After aimlessly wandering around a store]], the submitter (a ScaryBlackMan) just happens to pass by another customer enough times that she becomes convinced he is stalking her, and reports him to a manager.
* ConversationalTroping: [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-job-is-just-impossible Three employees and their manager]] are tailing a suspected shoplifter. One mentions how sneaky this is, just like in ''Film/MissionImpossible'', another starts humming the iconic theme to that movie, the third wants someone to do an UnnecessaryCombatRoll, just like in [[SpyFiction movies of that genre]], and the manager bets someone $20 to do it, right now, just for the heck of it.
* ConvictionByCounterfactualClue: [[http://notalwaysright.com/blowing-hot-air-over-ac This shopper]] gets stopped at the door by a pair of greeters who ask for her receipt. She doesn't have it, but asks to go fetch her husband, who works at the auto department, but who isn't off the clock yet. Ha, say the greeters, the auto department closed an hour ago! You're lying, and we'll have to confiscate the item (an air conditioner). While it's true that the auto department has closed, the husband ''is'' still on the clock (he assists in other departments until his shift ends). But at this point, the [[CassandraTruth greeters won't listen]] -- they won't let the shopper or her kid leave with the AC (understandably), and for a long while they won't let the shopper or her kid go back into the store to fetch the husband (somewhat ''less'' understandably). The misunderstanding continues -- and even escalates -- until the point the (angry) husband finally walks up with the receipt.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment:
** The "penny tip" for bad restaurant service. Since leaving no tip could be seen as poor manners or forgetfulness on the customer's part, leaving a single penny (or nickel, or dime) instead communicates that the customer WOULD have tipped, but the waiter didn't deserve it.
** "Please remove these (legal textbooks) or [[https://notalwaysright.com/please-recycle-the-law/138913/ we'll make you read them]]."
* CorruptCorporateExecutive:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/dying-to-cancel This cell-phone company.]] ''"You want to cancel your cell phone? Okay, that'll be $350. You say you're not paying because your father died, and it was his cell phone? Yeah, right, not falling for it. $350, please. You say you have the official death certificate in your hand and can fax it right over here? You can buy a fake one for real cheap. Nice try, scammer, you'll still have to pay. You're going to go directly to the higher-ups in Corporate and beg for them to waive the fee? [[spoiler:That's fine, because they'll just ignore you until you've paid just as much as part of your monthly bill anyway!]]"''
** Oh dearie me, [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-enough-bridges-for-this-water-to-go-under this]] is a [[FromBadToWorse veritable cascade]] of the events. The combination electric and water supplier has a monopoly on the whole town, with the mayor and other town council members sitting on the board of directors, with the narrator explicitly stating that "they get to do pretty much anything they want without repercussions." This includes the (13-year-old, at time of the event) narrator's mother being harassed about paying a bill that she already paid, with the company calling about an address on the other side of town; the same mother having issues with a meter reader calling the cost at a far higher amount than used, despite her ''having been out for over two weeks with not a utility running;'' a triple-cost bill being sent to the narrator's house, when it was intended for the bartender down the street; and the kid!narrator being left out in the rain due to the company sending in a pair of electricians to fiddle with the (malfunctioning) electric box, hence leaving the kid unable to use the garage keypad to get in! And [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking running over some Texas Sage while they were at it.]] To top it all off, that was ALSO supposed to be the bartender's call! Oh yeah, it's been six years and it's still just as bad.
** In [[http://notalwaysright.com/unfinished-business-and-out-of-business this story]], a worker is forced to leave early while they still have a ton of paperwork to do. The worker is [[InsaneTrollLogic promptly fired the next day for not doing that paperwork]] -- and is then forced to sign a paper stating that they are leaving of their own accord, which means the worker is not entitled for unemployment benefits. Fortunately, unlike the previous examples, karma bit them fast and hard, as it was not very long before the worker found a new job and the corrupt company went out of business.
* CryingWolf: The reason [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-crazy-fan-with-a-few-wires-loose these employees]] are (at first) flippant about a serious "ceiling fan is hanging by the wires" problem -- because usually it's just a housing that's come off, with the support for the fan itself still in place. This time, though, it really ''is'' hanging by the wires... and the person who comes to fix it is practically floored when he sees it, even asking to take a picture to prove it to the people at the office.
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[[folder:D]]
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/making-a-mountain-out-of-a-marked-bill This store clerk.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/greeting-perverted-disaster-averted “Hi, welcome to [store].]] How can I lie to you today?” OhCrap, the customers actually do listen!
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/devil-finds-work-for-idle-hands Except when they don't.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** A cop [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-quite-up-to-speed stops a driver]] because they seemed to be going too fast... but doesn't have the radar readings to back it up. He realizes his mistake quickly enough to leave the vicinity before the driver can ask for his badge number.
** It's generally ill-advised to post everything you do on Facebook, but [[https://notalwaysright.com/social-notworking-2/61491/ announcing that you went out to the clubs after calling in sick at work is a dumb idea.]] Especially when you have coworkers and a manager on your friends list.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/causing-dis-scent This new hire]] wonders why a coworker seemed disgusted when he tried to compliment them by telling them "you stink".
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/making-it-complain-to-him This manager]] decides the best reaction to a customer sending a complaint about their rudeness is to be even ruder to that customer - it apparently never occurred to him that said customer would complain ''again''.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-badly-timed-period These two bosses]] come up with an idiotic plan to make their workers spend more time on work by setting up how long they can be in the bathroom doing their number one and two business based on the time they spend in the men's bathroom while [[NoPeriodsPeriod forgetting about women doing number 3]]. The plan was scrapped due to many female workers protests, and also because it was illegal under Union rules. (Turns out they'd been trying to crack down on cell phone breaks disguised as bathroom breaks, which would have been a more valid concern if they'd just ''said so''.)
** Overlapping with BadBoss, [[http://notalwaysright.com/must-have-dismissed-thinking-it-through this boss]] repeatedly attempts to get the submitter fired without severance pay, culminating in her attempting to fire the submitter for physically threatening a manager. The only problem is that the boss states it happened five minutes before, and when called to the boss's office, [[BlatantLies the manager in question not only reveals that the submitter never did such a thing, but that she (the manager) has no idea what's going on.]] The submitter immediately threatens the boss with a wrongful dismissal suit, and the boss simply gives up and stops bothering them.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/santa-existential-crisis/102454/ This daycare worker]] tries to impose her personal beliefs on a little girl by telling her that Santa doesn't exist. Turns out, Santa's visit was the only thing the girl was looking forward to that Christmas, after [[DisappearedDad her father had died the previous Christmas]]. [[MamaBear The girl's enraged mother]] proceeds to tear into the worker for ruining the second Christmas in a row for her daughter.
--->'''Mother:''' Thank you for ruining Christmas. The first two Christmases my daughter is going to remember: seeing her father collapse on a dollhouse they were building together, and learning that Santa doesn't exist from a virtual stranger. Thank you, you self-righteous b***!
*** Adding onto that, the daycare worker didn't think about how other parents, besides the mother, would not react well to her telling kids that Santa doesn't exist. Several parents witnessed that confrontation, and they were so outraged by one of the workers callously crushing a kid's spirit in favor of her own personal beliefs that they withdrew their own children's enrollment at the daycare, crippling the buisness in the process. [[RealityEnsues Unsurprisingly, the worker got fired for causing the whole mess in the first place]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/i-love-vegans-but-this-takes-the-cake/65596/ This preachy Vegan bakery manager]] tricked the hotel's guests into eating her vegan cheesecake without the prior knowledge of anyone else - including the bakery staff - thinking they would all love it and go Vegan after eating it. However, she failed to consider if those guests might not like the taste, were allergic to the vegan ingredients or might have other dietary restrictions. She got chewed out by her boss for her stunt and was later [[TurnInYourBadge ordered to quit]] since she kept putting her own agendas ahead of those of the hotel.
* {{Dismotivation}}: A possible explanation for some stories in the "Lazy/Unhelpful" category. The employees ''need'' a paycheck, but hate working with people, so they just be rude and unhelpful so the customer will give up and go away. This obviously doesn't work, as it often gets that particular employee fired.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/mentally-checked-out-part-2 A prime example.]]
** Which brings new perspective to all those ''Not Always Right'' stories involving seemingly {{Jerkass}} customers being incredibly quick to (wrongfully) accuse employees of doing this very thing whenever something doesn't go their way. [[TheDogBitesBack They've probably run into so many people doing it for real that they've taught themselves to always assume the worst]].
** Another explanation along these lines works for [[http://notalwaysright.com/show-em-whos-boss this story]] - the employee needs a paycheck, but hates working ''at all'', so it's just perfect for him that he's "in tight" with a manager and therefore can use that as an excuse to force other employees to do his work for him. The instant he finds someone on whom this doesn't work (namely, the owner's son), he immediately quits.
** A justified example [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-problem-with-the-order-before-its-ordered here]]. The pizza parlor is reluctant to deliver to a customer at a certain address... because the previous resident at that address had been consistently abusive to them, and they didn't know someone else was living there now. They were rude to the new customer because they mistook them for the abusive customer.
** Another justified example [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-crazy-fan-with-a-few-wires-loose here]]. The employees are in no hurry to send out an electrician to deal with a ceiling fan that's come loose and is hanging by just its wires. However, once the electrician arrives, he explains that [[CryingWolf they receive calls from people who inaccurately use the "hanging from the wires" explanation on a regular basis]]. He's surprised that, in this case, [[CassandraTruth it was actually true]].
* DisproportionateRetribution:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/for-a-few-dollars-more This bank manager]] who called the police when one individual accidentally took one dollar more than they were supposed to after closing the account. The police weren't happy when they realized what had happened.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/number-one-problem-manager/ Another manager]] reacts to a five year old boy who [[PottyFailure wet his pants]] by ''[[NoIndoorVoice screaming full blast]]'' at the boy and his mother and then threatening to call the cops on them. Between this and the manager referring to them as "white trash" afterwards, ''his entire staff'' pulls a collective TakeThisJobAndShoveIt, starting with a supervisor who had a son with similar bladder problems. The manager was later reprimanded by his boss (who ''also'' had a similarly aged son) when he had to explain the situation.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/taking-stock-harassment-claims/97823/ When a new employee]] gets told by his supervisor (the submitter) that he's doing stock checking incorrectly, rather than accept his mistake and learn from it, he instead complains to his father, the manager, who fires the supervisor for "sexually harassing" his son, then threatens to call the police on him. Thankfully, LaserGuidedKarma comes into quick effect - because the firing was for sexual harassment, [[AwakenTheSleepingGiant HR now has to investigate the claims]]. They discover from CCTV footage that the manager and his son ''[[RevealingCoverUp made up the entire thing]]'', and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard both are fired by week's end]] for lying to HR about it. The submitter became a HR-sort of person themselves and when asked to investigate a complaint at a restaurant, the submitter encounters the ex-manager's son, who [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere promptly books it out of there]].
** What is [[https://notalwaysright.com/getting-struck-from-the-job/118647/ this manager's]] response to an employee's (rightful) concerns about their safety in relation to being asked to push carts ''in a severe thunderstorm''? [[NoIndoorVoice Scream at the employee at the top of her lungs and fire them on the spot]]. ''In front of customers''. Luckily, the store's owner quickly learns of the incident and fires the manager the very next day, while the submitter gets their job back.
* TheDitz: Many.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/breaking-bank This bank representative]] is obviously not very sharp. First, he suggests the debtor make a weekly payment ''[[WritersCannotDoMath three times]]'' that of said debtor's weekly income. Then, after the debtor makes a sarcastic comment about having to start a meth lab to make that kind of income, the representative [[SarcasmBlind not only takes the comment seriously]], he ''offers a line of credit'' for the venture, seeming ''[[LethallyStupid not to realize it's illegal]]''. Finally, after the debtor calls out the bank representative for ''that'' mistake, the representative tries to make the excuse that he'd had his mind on a sporting event, but commits GretzkyHasTheBall in the process.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/tine-to-find-a-new-job "Sfoon!"]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/as-clear-as-gay-part-2 This coworker]] seems to be totally oblivious to the concept of lesbianism.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/cannot-produce-the-pretzels This grocery store owner]] recommends that a customer look for pretzels in the produce aisle, then asks, "What are pretzels, anyway?"
* TheDogBitesBack: Presumably the reason behind some of the employees' behavior, not that this makes it justified.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/dont-bite-the-hand-that-shreds-you Almost certainly the case here.]]
* DontCallMeSir: [[http://notalwaysright.com/excuse-me-bosshole This guy]] reacts ''really'' badly to being called "sir" or "boss".
--> ''"“GODD***IT, NOT AGAIN! I told you that I don’t do well with those titles! Call me ‘a**hole’, call me ‘f***er’, but whatever you do, don’t call me ‘sir’ or ‘boss’!”''
* DopeSlap: [[http://notalwaysright.com/weeding-himself-out Mentioned by name here]] when a manager delivers one to a pot-smoking employee.
* DoubleStandard: [[https://notalwaysright.com/bulging-inequality/108826/ This female coworker]] thinks it's alright for her to take pictures of men's crotches without their consent but not okay when it's the other way around. She was later fired when the submitter and a male customer complain to the manager when she took a picture of the customer's crotch.
* DoWellButNotPerfect: [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-very-productive-thinking This one hard-working aide]] gets a lower "Productivity" score on her annual report than a much lazier coworker because the hard-working coworker gives 110% most of the time, with some days "only" giving 90%. According to her managers, this is apparently worse (and thus warrants a lower score) than a lazy coworker giving 50% most of the time, with some days giving 60 or 70%.
* DoWrongRight: [[http://notalwaysright.com/sub-par-subterfuge If you're going to have your employees resort to subterfuge,]] at least make sure they understand [[YouKeepUsingThatWord what the word means]].
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: When a customer complains about [[http://notalwaysright.com/best-to-wash-your-hands-of-it-and-walk-away an employee failing to wash their hands]] after they'd visited the restroom (causing said customer to leave the store in disgust as a result), the corporate response is to... mail the customer a gift card, with no word about what steps they were going to take to improve the sanitation practices of the employees.
* DreadfulMusician: Whoever recorded the [[SoBadItsGood hilariously awful rendition]] of "Lavender's Blue" in [[https://notalwaysright.com/unable-hold-laughter/108791/ this story]]. To such an extent that several people tried to bring its utter awfulness to the company's attention.
* DrugsAreBad: [[https://notalwaysright.com/it-pains-him-to-say-it Some]] [[https://notalwaysright.com/this-manager-makes-you-need-to-up-the-dosage/64288/ Bosses]][[note]]The "unfiltered" version of the latter makes it clear that this is the same submitter and the same boss, incidentally[[/note]] think all drugs are bad, even ones legally prescribed by a Doctor and needed by the employees to survive.
* DumbBlonde:
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/date-mayday I’m too blonde for my own good.]]"
** An inversion [[http://notalwaysright.com/hair-not-so-apparent here.]] The cashier treats the blonde submitter like one initially, and then learns that she's a manager at a retail chain with a college degree.
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* EatingTheEyeCandy: [[http://notalwaysright.com/you-auto-be-car-eful-around-car-ismatic-coworkers This car dealership manager has quite an effect on coworkers and customers alike]].
* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: "[[http://notalwaysright.com/a-higher-calling-against-bad-hires I’m seven feet tall]], dressed all in black, and smell like a barnyard. You’re really going to go with the ‘I didn’t notice you standing two feet from me’ excuse?"
* EngineeredPublicConfession: [[http://notalwaysright.com/phowned This manager got ph-owned.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/box-of-stolen-stupid These gaming store pranksters]] [[AchievementsInIgnorance accidentally]] got one from a coworker who'd been letting his friend shoplift from the store on his shift.
* EnhanceButton: [[http://notalwaysright.com/adventures-in-the-third-duh-mension This office manager]] thinks that 2D animations can be viewed from every angle.
* EntitledBastard: Not as common as in ''Not Always Right'', but they still show up every now and then.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-tipped-for-good-service This waitress]] has a bad attitude and zero work ethic from the get-go, making the customers wait for an obscenely long time before their food and drinks are served. When the customers receive the bill, they are furious to discover that the waitress has ''written herself a $30 tip on the check''. Needless to say, the customers flag down a manager, who gives them their meal at half price, and fires the waitress.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-acting-tip-top Another waitress]], much like the one above, displays rudeness and incompetence to the submitter and their friends, and tries to justify it because [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections her father is the owner]]. The more level-headed manager compensates the meal, but the group opts to leave without a new order. The snooty waitress then stops them, demanding a tip and throwing a tantrum when the submitter initially refuses. The now completely fed-up submitter then places a full water glass with a $10 bill inside of it upside down on the table, and dares the waitress to take it, much to the manager's amusement.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/watching-career-just-flutter/102907/ This apprentice tattoo artist]] thinks that he's above doing "stupid butterfly tattoos" and actually ''ruins the butterfly tattoo'' of the woman he was assigned, just because he's mad that he, an ''apprentice'', doesn't have people lining up to allow him to do whatever he wants to their skin and has to take the jobs that his boss assigns him. LaserGuidedKarma promptly follows - the owner of the tattoo parlor fires him on the spot and spreads word of the incident to ''every other tattoo place in the city'', essentially guaranteeing the former apprentice that [[PersonaNonGrata he'll never get another apprenticeship]]. Not only that, but the owner presses charges against him after he throws a fit, and the client he essentially mutilated sues him and wins.
* EpicFail: [[https://notalwaysright.com/email-fail-part-16/104133/ The IT department here]] upgrades the email software for their company, but the hierarchy that they use is incredibly out of line with the actual hierarchy (for example, an HSE manager is stated to be a janitor, the submitter is listed as the finance director when they are attached from a different company, and the actual finance director is listed as an intern). The IT department simply blows off the issues of the rest of the company, simply stating that the new way is “better.” Unfortunately, with the new hierarchy, people are getting the wrong emails, and within an hour, the company shutters the new system, and fires half of the IT department.
* EskimosArentReal:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/someone-please-shatter-the-triforce-of-chauvinism This man]] believes that the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube never existed. [[{{Irony}} Despite working at a video game store.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-capital-mistake This clerk]] believes that Washington DC doesn't exist - or rather, that the only things there are government buildings and monuments, instead of a sizable and thriving city. This gets her in trouble when she tries to cut up the ID of a DC resident because she believes that it must be fake, since [[SarcasmMode of ''course'' nobody who works for the government has chosen to live near their workplace instead of commuting from Maryland or Virginia every day]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[https://notalwaysright.com/making-winner-every-time/91832/ This grab bag of "Screwing with a scammer" tricks]] includes one where the OP pretends to be a child who inadvertently discovered his mother [[YourCheatingHeart being unfaithful while her husband's at work.]] The scammer actually tells the "child" to “...call your daddy and tell him. That w*** deserves it!” before hanging up. As one commenter put it,
-->[Didn't] just hang up but was like "I'm a scammer, but even that s**t is too immoral for me."
* EveryoneKnowsMorse: [[http://notalwaysright.com/speaking-up-for-those-who-cant This disabled employee]] sure does... as does his CEO brother.
* EverythingIsRacist:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-rebel-with-too-many-causes This self-proclaimed "Social Justice Warrior"]] takes it UpToEleven. ''Literally'' everything is (potentially) racist/sexist/ableist/whateverist to her. Rather hilarious as she tried to convince the janitor that he is being oppressed. The janitor (who, by the way, is not Hispanic as she assumes) just gives her a "What the hell are you talking about?" look, and tells her he willingly applied to be a janitor and he's quite content with that job, thank you very much.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/crying-fowl-on-political-correctness Asking for fried chicken]] apparently makes you racist, too.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/praying-for-some-common-sense This worker]] gets fired and denied unemployment because apparently, acknowledging that Muslim workers are allowed to take breaks for their designated prayer times is discriminatory and unfairly drawing attention to Muslims. The unemployment agency isn't so amused when they hear what happened, and force the former employer to provide unemployment benefits to the fired worker until they can get a new job.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/only-fools-russian This worker]] is likewise told off by a manager for assuming some customers are Russian, even though said customers are speaking Russian, are wearing jackets that say "Russia" on the back, and are recognized by the worker as members of Russia's under-21 hockey team.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: And [[http://notalwaysright.com/never-saw-rus-rex apparently we have photos of them!]]
* EvilIsPetty: [[http://notalwaysright.com/ive-got-a-ticket-to-deride This police officer]] stops the submitter as he believes she's either a car thief or a underage teenager with no driver's license. When she shows proof the car belongs to her father and that she's old enough to have a driver's license, [[NeverMyFault rather than apologize]] for disturbing her, the police officer [[InsaneTrollLogic writes her a ticket for wasting his time]]! Thankfully, when she reported this to his superior, the superior tells her to ignore the ticket. Just before hanging up, the superior inadvertently reveals this was the fourth time that month that the police officer did something like that.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/bigotry-doesnt-nice-ring/98941/ This homophobic worker]] gives a gay customer a cheap wedding ring rather than the expensive ring he ordered since she believes his marriage is "fake and cheap" and a [[NoTrueScotsman real marriage is between a man and woman]]. The owner, disgusted with his worker's open bigotry and scamming a customer, has the worker fired and gave the customer a new ring with the equivalent price.
* EvilLaugh: [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-rule-of-thumb Customers are giving strange looks]].
* EvilTwin: [[http://notalwaysright.com/sisterhood-of-the-judgmental-rants If this story is to be believed]], apparently they ''do'' exist in real life.
* ExactWords:
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/this-baristas-a-character Spell it however you want]]"?
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/problem-exists-between-chair-and-monitor You SAID put the MOUSE over the icon!]]”
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/from-open-wide-to-open-lied We ARE open! I’M here doing paperwork.]]”
* ExcuseQuestion: When repeatedly bothered by a telemarketer, [[http://notalwaysright.com/all-roads-lead-to-hope this submitter's father]] decides to see what happens when you repeatedly get one of these wrong.
* ExpensiveGlassOfCrap: [[http://notalwaysright.com/wine-dine-crime Here]]. At least the barkeep is more principled than the store owner.
* ExtremeOmnivore: "...[[http://notalwaysright.com/yet-another-darwin-awards-candidate it was sitting in the garbage]] next to all the dirty dishes, it smells like death, and it has chicken blood and fat floating in it".
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* AbuseMistake:
** Happens to [[http://notalwaysright.com/hot-and-not-bothering-to-listen this customer]], who is dining with his family and wearing a hooded sweatshirt in a warm restaurant. It's revealed that the long sleeves are to hide large arm bruises -- he's recovering from chemotherapy, but the waitress thinks otherwise.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/racism-should-have-checked-out-already This entry]], where a cashier responds to the discovery that a white woman is the mother of a little black boy, ''by handing her a pamphlet for a rape crisis and domestic abuse helpline.'' Mother is outraged, [[LaserGuidedKarma cashier gets fired]], [[RacistGrandma and his grandmother, who taught him to think like that]], [[LaserGuidedKarma gets banned from the store]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/theyd-like-to-look-at-the-kidnap-menu Another one]]. This time, a waitress assumes that because the little girl takes after her white father (who had not yet arrived at the restaurant) instead of her middle-eastern mother, that she was being kidnapped. The waitress [[LaserGuidedKarma ended up being arrested]] for slapping the girl, who had responded to the waitress grabbing her by biting the waitress.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/driving-miss-daisy-will-drive-them-crazy Yet again]]. An employee sees a white woman with two black men (her boyfriend and best friend) and immediately assumes she's been kidnapped and is their sex slave. They overhear and immediately pretend to be ''her'' sex slaves, [[TheGadfly just to mess with the racist employee's mind]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/theyd-like-to-look-at-the-kidnap-menu-part-2 Once more]]. A cashier ''calls the cops'' after seeing a black man in line with a young Asian girl, refusing to believe she's the man's step-daughter. [[LaserGuidedKarma The cashier got fired for his idiocy.]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/are-you-puli-ng-my-leg/115732/ This veterinary technician]] thinks the submitter is another idiot mistakenly neglecting their doodle because the puppy farm lied to them about how her fur is supposed to work. Said "doodle" is actually a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puli puli]], a breed famed for its fur, and she was at the age where the fur was going to look hideous even with proper care and attention. The technician acts on that wrong assumption without the vet's knowledge or the submitter's permission, [[LaserGuidedKarma and ends up fired for doing so]].
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: [[http://notalwaysright.com/pranking-as-sour-as-vinegar For this reason,]] the manager can't discipline his staff over the prank they pulled on the new guy.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/dont-fall-behind-on-the-schedule Said word-for-word here]] when the manager a coworker is complaining about is RightBehindMe.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/fancy-fast-food/116663/ This restaurant owner]] got a laugh and a RunningGag out of a new hire accidentally answering the phone as their previous fast food job.
* AccidentalInnuendo: [[invoked]] "[[http://notalwaysright.com/they-got-there-in-the-end-o What's the biggest package you can take?]]" They were trying to ship a motorcycle, but the worker misinterpreted and assumed it was a prank call.
* AccidentalMisnaming: [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-bozo-by-any-other-name-part-4 This boss]] can't seem to remember his new worker's name.
* AdaptationDisplacement: [[invoked]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/austen-sibly-a-commoner "Um, this is a BOOKSHOP. We don't sell DVDs!"]]
** Somehow, when [[http://notalwaysright.com/and-the-titanic-sunk-in-1997 this cashier]] sees the title "Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet", the first thing she thinks of is... [[Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet the 1996 film]]. Worse, it seems [[PopculturalOsmosisFailure she hasn't heard of the Shakespeare version.]] The manager she calls in [[DisproportionateRetribution to deal with the customer's "lie"]] puts it best: "Unbelievable."
* AdultFear: A new mother goes to the daycare to pick up her infant, only to find the daycare personnel locking up for the night, [[http://notalwaysright.com/should-have-been-childs-play having completely forgotten her baby and making every possible excuse not to go look for her.]]
* AllAnimationIsDisney: [[invoked]] [[https://notalwaysright.com/i-stand-alone-among-these-movies/64904/ One coworker]] had to explain to another which animated films were not made by Disney. Surprisingly, the one he guessed was not Disney, ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'', actually was.
* AllGermansAreNazis: When [[https://notalwaysright.com/concentrate-before-you-assume/100997/ this co-worker]] finds out the poster's surname is German, he immediately jumps to this trope. The ''name'' might be German, but the actual ethnic background is Ashkenazi Jewish, and several of the poster's relatives were killed in the Holocaust. (At least the co-worked apologized.)
* AllNaturalSnakeOil: [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-higher-hire "It can’t be drugs; it is all herbal and all."]] "Sure... remind me: [[AnalogyBackfire what are opium and marijuana made from]]?"
* AllPeriodsArePMS: Discussed [[https://notalwaysright.com/trying-fulfill-delivery-period/97807/ in this story]]. A delivery driver advises his trainee that a woman ordering tampons, tea, and chocolates to her door is probably having a bad one and will be cranky, so they need to be extra polite to her.
* AlmightyJanitor: The cleaning staff at [[https://notalwaysright.com/bosses-need-clean-act/110124/ this museum]] know more about the building than the curators do.
* AlphaBitch:
** Two of them, [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-receptionists-have-checked-out working as receptionists]] for a popular hotel. They falsely claim that they need to take a $700 deposit from the submitter as she checks in. When she calls them out on their lie, they ''proceed to take the deposit anyway'', leaving her with only a small amount of money. When the submitter confronts them the following morning, they [[NeverMyFault try to blame her for "spending" all of the money that they wrongfully took]], and she ultimately has to call her mother to cover the bill from home. Thankfully, after leaving, the submitter files a complaint with the hotel chain, and they give her the $700 back and [[LaserGuidedKarma suspend both receptionists]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/very-bad-reception-part-7 Another two]] working as receptionists for a medical office, trying to tell the submitter's mother that she ran off without paying -- but then, asks the mom, [[ConvictionByCounterfactualClue why would she have called her to make the payment for her if she wasn't planning on paying at all?]] Turned out the receptionists had gone off to lunch, forgetting the submitter was there and leaving the desk entirely unattended, and tried to shift the blame for the incident on the submitter so the doctor wouldn't know about the latter bit.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: A lot of stories dealing with abusive managers or bosses end with said supervisor getting caught out by someone higher on the corporate ladder than they are [[LaserGuidedKarma and receiving their comeuppance.]]
* AmbulanceChaser: [[http://notalwaysright.com/your-hesitancy-is-not-my-emergency This guard]] is apparently ''so'' worried about these types that he tries to stop emergency services from saving a person's life. Unfortunately for him, obstructing emergency services in that manner is a ''serious crime'', which means he'll [[LaserGuidedKarma probably never work in that capacity ever again]].
* AndADietCoke: [[http://notalwaysright.com/giving-them-the-skinny-on-politeness This worker]] makes the assumption that the customer ''must'' be doing the "health benefits" version of this trope, and that no one could ''possibly'' want Diet Coke on account of its ''taste''. The customer is not amused.
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: [[http://notalwaysright.com/taking-both-the-mourning-and-graveyard-shift This boss]] apparently thought his subordinate should have been this way about her grandmother's death... [[FreudianExcuse because of the bad relationship he'd had with his own grandmother]]. After another coworker explained how different ''this'' situation was, the boss [[HeelRealization took several days off out of shame]].
* {{Angrish}}: The vet in [[https://notalwaysright.com/are-you-puli-ng-my-leg/115732/ this story]] apparently lapsed into this after catching two assistants shaving a puli on the orders of an ignorant technician who mistook her for an unwittingly neglected doodle. (''Note: the comments on this post contain disturbing stories about other animals at the vet. Viewer discretion is advised.'')
* ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-story-ends-with-a-pregnant-pause This nurse]] is apparently unaware that "water breaking" rarely happens when a woman goes into labor.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/going-toe-toe-stupidity/100989/ This worker]] thought toes can grow back just like lizard tails.
** Apparently, food can contain [[https://notalwaysright.com/atruficially-incorrect/60762/ "enzumes."]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/totally-coconuts-vegan/101049/ This preachy vegan]] thinks that cows have milk for blood.
* ArtisticLicenseEconomics:
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/penny-whys-pound-sterling-foolish There are still]] [[http://notalwaysright.com/euro-out-of-your-mind too many people]] who don't realize that the United Kingdom still uses the pound sterling, and ''not'' the euro.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-party-pooper-2/64668/ These two indoor amusement park employees]] somehow think it's perfectly fine to charge customers again with the new price set up by the park even though the customers had already paid a month ago. Their manager was not pleased.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/has-zero-understanding-of-zero/63827/ This agent]] doesn't seem to understand that its impossible to pay off ''zero dollars'' on an account.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/money-talks-doesnt-read/91136/ This cashier]] can't tell the difference between a one dollar and two dollar Australian coin, even though the value is ''printed on the coins themselves''.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/god-save-the-reine London is the capital of France, apparently]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/copen-with-coworkers So, if you speak Danish, are you from Finland then?]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/dubious-over-dubai-dumb-about-des-moines This receptionist]] fails to understand that the Middle East is not part of the US. Somehow. Given her answer, it seems she was thinking of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest the Midwest]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-house-deluded-cannot-understand This cashier]] thinks New Mexico is part of Mexico.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-different-state-of-english This one]] thinks that Ohio is in Europe.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-capital-mistake This cashier]] believes two forms of ID are fake because, apparently, ''no one lives in Washington, DC''. ("It’s just government buildings and monuments!") This version was particularly problematic for the customer because the cashier attempted to ''confiscate and destroy'' said forms of ID [[note]]especially problematic as the customer had to fly home in a few days[[/note]], forcing said customer to call the police to intervene.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/space-between-his-ears-oddity “And to clarify, Canada is Australia, and Russia is above you?”]]
** A manager said, [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-a-capital-idea "That’s a trick question! Mexico's not part of the United States, so it doesn't have a capital!"]]
** The store owner in [[http://notalwaysright.com/o-canaduh-part-3 this story]] doesn't seem to grasp the concept of other countries being different from the one he is currently in (in this case, Canada) -- wondering why his store in Oregon isn't closing early for Canada Day (July 1st) and subsequently being confused when it ''does'' close early on the 4th (Independence Day).
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/policeless-state-versus-stateless-police This police officer.]] Who cares if he's in North Carolina, the vehicle he stopped had a New York license plate and therefore he's ticketing the driver for not following New York law (NY requires vehicles to have front license plates; the owner removed the front plate upon leaving NY) even though no law of North Carolina, the state he's ''actually in'', has been broken. Not even his sergeant pointing this out to him is enough to get it through his thick skull, since this is apparently far from the first such complaint.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/he-doesnt-know-what-to-down-under This unemployment office]] apparently assumes that "white" automatically means "American citizen."
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/in-a-state-of-incontinence Just because Hawaii happens to be "overseas"]] doesn't mean it's not a US state.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/geography-skills-suffering-from-a-tokyo-drift This bank representative]] doesn't understand Hong Kong's status as a special administrative region of China (somewhat understandably)... but has also somehow never heard of Tokyo, Japan, assuming the submitter was making up a country.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-bad-denmark-against-your-name In this story]], the submitter's coworker doesn't believe there's a country named Denmark and, when shown proof, somehow thinks its official name, "The Kingdom of Denmark," means it's part of England. The boss is even worse, thinking that Denmark doesn't even exist and was made up by the submitter.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-united-states-of-north-central-and-south-america This coworker]] believes that the US has 57 states (including Mexico).
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/should-have-said-youre-from-middle-earth/124455/ This bartender]] is so stubbornly ignorant of the fact UsefulNotes/NewZealand exists that [[IRejectYourReality even a Google search can't change her mind]], which becomes a problem when a group of Kiwi tourists try to use their passports to prove their age. A problem as in the group has to go to a different bar having wrestled an inappropriately confiscated passport out of her hand.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: [[https://notalwaysright.com/go-back-to-school-of-rock This coworker]] confuses Music/ElvisPresley with UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and doesn't know who Mussolini was.
* ArtisticLicenseLaw:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/needs-to-contract-an-understanding-in-contracts This manager]] thinks he can scribble "corrections" (such as cutting the contracted payment in half and adding an extra 13 years to a warranty service) on an already-signed contract and have them be binding - which is extra hilarious when he complains that the submitter already signed the (pre-"corrected") contract, to try and get out of him enforcing the terms to which they actually agreed. The judge got a laugh out of the situation before ruling for the poster.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/explain-it-to-them-straight This police officer]] gives the submitter a ticket for not using their blinker at an intersection, when the submitter repeatedly stated that they were going ''straight.'' The ticket is contested and quickly thrown out, with the implication that the police officer still didn't understand why he was scolded by the judge for writing stupid tickets.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/ive-got-a-ticket-to-deride Another police officer]] stops a young girl that he believes to be a car thief or a underage teenager with no driver's license. When she proves him wrong on both accounts, the police officer [[NeverMyFault refuses to apologize for his mistake]], and even goes so far as to issue a citation ''[[InsaneTrollLogic for wasting his time]]''. Luckily, the officer's superior tells the submitter and her father to ignore the ticket, before inadvertently letting slip that it was the fourth such ticket the officer had issued that month.
** As above under Geography, [[https://notalwaysright.com/policeless-state-versus-stateless-police this officer]] doesn't seem to understand that traffic laws in New York -- such as the requirement of front license plates -- do not necessarily apply in another state like North Carolina just because it has New York plates or because he himself is from New York.
* ArtisticLicenseReligion: [[http://notalwaysright.com/bigots-use-inbred-logic This hospital receptionist]] thinks all Muslims are inbred and share the same last name.
* AskAStupidQuestion: [[http://notalwaysright.com/running-low-on-the-milk-of-human-kindness An illustration of the pitfalls of this trope]] -- a person just might take your answer ''seriously''.
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[[folder:B]]
* BadBoss: ''Lots'' of them. Many of the rest fall into the category of PointyHairedBoss.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-self-lay-offing-prophecy This guy's]] name may as well be ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}. In fact, the story's events happened almost verbatim in a ''Dilbert'' comic.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/take-it-personally-to-the-bank This boss]] fires an employee for wrongdoings that never actually happened. Fortunately, the employee gets severance pay out of it when she threatens to bring it up with the Labour Relations Board after the boss fails to produce a paper trail.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-ever-working-part-9 There's apparently a store]] where, at least within reason, being a bad boss is ''mandatory'' -- the submitter ends up promoted to the bad manager's position after he intentionally breaks labor laws by making her work far longer than allowed. However, when she tries to avoid the same situation by covering for a co-worker's break a few months later, they [[ComicallyMissingThePoint actually reprimand her for doing her job]], to which she immediately [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits and never returns]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/mission-imbossible This boss]] actually pulled a DidYouActuallyBelieve on an office worker after he was ordered to work overtime to get a major order done by Monday.
--->'''Boss:''' ''(laughing)'' You actually stayed here until midnight? You’re stupid!\\
'''Worker:''' ...excuse me?\\
'''Boss:''' There would be no way I would've done that much overtime for this. We didn't even need it until Thursday of this week anyway. It could have waited!
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/process-of-elimination This manager]] [[{{Nepotism}} and his daughter]] have been stealing money from their company for half a year -- and when they're about to be found out, the manager tries to get the worker processing the case to take the fall for it. It doesn't work, and the manager [[LaserGuidedKarma not only loses his job]], he ends up ''[[FromBadToWorse jailed for embezzlement]]''.
** Apparently, some managers somehow believe that ''being ill or having to go to the hospital'' are not excuses for missing work:
*** The lunch manager in [[http://notalwaysright.com/pink-eye-or-the-pink-slip this story]] threatens to fire a worker with pinkeye if they call out sick again and forces them to work with the highly contagious condition. When the morning manager learns what happened, he responds by forcing the lunch manager to disinfect everything the sick worker had touched as punishment for her threats.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-a-believer-of-the-fever Another manager]] actually ''does'' fire a worker for not coming in sick. All this despite the worker sending in no less than ''three'' separate emails to her boss stating that she had the flu, ''and'' her dad painstakingly explaining his daughter's situation to the boss over the phone.
*** [[https://notalwaysright.com/an-unspeakable-offense/105029/ Yet another manager]] writes up an employee for leaving work early, even though the worker left in an ambulance that ''the boss called in himself''. The disgruntled employee refuses to sign the writeup and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits on the spot]].
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/finally-independent-from-them Still another manager]] threatens to fire a worker if they call in sick ''ever'' again, regardless of the circumstances -- such as the ''massive concussion'' they suffered at work a few days prior -- because in his eyes the submitter is just being lazy. Sure enough, the submitter wakes up one day vomiting excessively from the concussion, asks if they can at least come in later, and is subsequently fired. And then the manager has the gall to ask the worker if they'll be able to make it in for one of their busiest work days of the year, calling the entire above situation a "misunderstanding" and [[NeverMyFault claiming the submitter quit of their own accord rather than being wrongfully fired]]. The submitter then delivers a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech (revealing that the manager was giving the submitter unreasonable working hours that didn't give them time to even get home and back between shifts for a month and a half, and completely ignoring repeated complaints about this) and then hangs up.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/promoting-health-and-safety In the same vein,]] the submitter throws up and calls the manager to clock out, as the contract states that anyone who does vomit cannot return for forty-eight hours. The manager instead threatens to fire the submitter for "walking out," even when explicitly told what is going on. The manager then makes good on her threat and attempts to fire the submitter; however, [[AlwaysABiggerFish her boss,]] upon finding out exactly what happened, [[LaserGuidedKarma nixes the firing, demotes the manager to a server, and promotes the submitter to team leader]].
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/bone-achingly-lazy-versus-bone-breakingly-crazy This manager here]] might be the worst of the bunch. A worker gets into an accident during a ski trip which left her hospitalized with a broken arm and leg, and cannot come in for three weeks. However, the manager thinks she's just being lazy for not asking for that time off and writes her up, much to the horror of her coworker, who already explained that the worker was badly injured and cannot come to work. When the worker does come back to work, with her broken arm and leg in plaster, the manager [[KickTheDog forces her to get a book on a high shelf and threatens to fire her if she doesn't, because according to him she's just lazy]]. After twenty-five painful minutes attempting to get the book, rather than thanking the worker, [[DudeWheresMyRespect he just snatches the book away and calls her lazy again]]. Thankfully, [[LaserGuidedKarma the manager was quickly fired after the worker complained to the owner]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/women-of-the-night-shift This boss]] writes up an employee after they refused to help a customer find a prostitute. Who cares if prostitution is ''illegal''?
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/drink-and-be-merry-for-tomorrow-we-dine This boss]] does not give a damn whether his waiters are being rude to customers over [[StayInTheKitchen completely inconsequential things like what sort of drink a woman orders]], or that said customers are taking their business elsewhere because of this -- but once he realizes [[OhCrap one of them is an esteemed local food critic]], his tune changes. Of course, this is only to ward off a bad review, rather than to actually make it up to paying customers that were mistreated (as evidenced by him repeatedly referring to things like the waiter ''deliberately spilling the woman's drink'' as a "misunderstanding"), which does not earn him their favor. The story ends by revealing that the restaurant went under shortly after this incident, despite (or perhaps because of) the critic not even mentioning them, while giving a positive review to the restaurant across the street where he and his wife actually ate.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/box-of-stolen-stupid This assistant manager]], as accidentally revealed after a prank gone wrong, has been stealing from his own store, both for himself and his friend.
** Likewise, [[http://notalwaysright.com/brunch-time-crunch-time this assistant manager]], in addition to pretending to be the owner, had been opening the restaurant where he worked on Mondays (when they're normally closed), only to give his friends free food, which had been cutting into their profits; the other employees unwittingly went along with this because the assistant manager had them believing it was a weekly fundraiser for charity, and thus they were ''volunteering'' for a good cause. The actual owner had him fired over this, as evidenced by referring to him as "my now ex-assistant manager".
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/working-antisocial-hours This boss]] actually fires an employee for ''clocking their hours correctly'', because showing up two hours before you're actually scheduled and ''not'' clocking in right then, thus getting paid for ''not'' doing work, is "antisocial behavior". Unsurprisingly, the company ends up having to close multiple locations because of financial issues, and the "social" one [[LaserGuidedKarma is the very first to go]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-toxic-work-environment This boss]] [[LethallyStupid expects a worker to clean up an active biohazard without any sort of protective gear]], because calling the city about it would cost too much, [[SkewedPriorities yet loaning the worker equipment they're not trained in, or letting them buy the equipment themselves, would be illegal]]. The worker [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits on the spot]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/part-time-crime This team leader]] kept writing up a part-time worker for things they had absolutely no way of knowing beforehand. The part-time worker eventually [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quit over it]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-noticeable-lack-of-warning This owner]] offers the submitter a full-time position (they were working part-time both there and at another job)... then waits until the submitter hands in their two weeks' notice at the other place before telling them she can't actually hire them on full-time. Worse, this immediately precedes the submitter learning they will be working 36 hours a week, which basically ''is'' full-time (it legally counts as such in other parts of the world) but is just shy enough from it to still avoid the U.S.'s full-time laws so the new employer doesn't have to provide benefits.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/present-management-stress-disorder This assistant manager]] traps his employee with PTSD[[note]]He was previously held hostage in a bank robbery[[/note]] to prevent him from taking a break, assuming he was faking just as an excuse to be lazy. Not only is the assistant manager chewed out by the boss when the employee has a panic attack, [[LaserGuidedKarma he's promptly fired for blocking an exit, creating a fire hazard.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/an-original-way-to-pass-the-blame This boss]] blames the submitter for tearing a document that never once left the boss's hands. And this is apparently a regular occurrence, too; luckily for the submitter, he was able to get away by joining the National Guard.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/parental-misguidance-3 This church secretary]] is forced to become a security guard for the in-house daycare by the church's council. They point out that they don't know the kids' parents, their existing work takes them all over the building so they can't keep watch over the kids, and they were hired ''as a secretary'', not as a security guard -- and yet they're forced to do the extra work anyway, and are even written up for objecting to it ''even though the council member admitted that the objections were correct.'' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere They quit two months later]], and later learn that whole situation was designed specifically to force them to quit.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/owns-a-very-crazy-personality This bakery owner]] ''screams'' at people for the most minor mistakes, to such an extreme extent that [[TheDreaded her employees are terrified of her]]. The submitter, then a trainee, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere refused to work there any longer]] if that was how her boss would react to slight mistakes from the new girl, and found a place of employment with "a less psycho owner."
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/praying-for-some-common-sense This employee]] was dismissed without unemployment benefits for [[MistakenForRacist racism]], because they mentioned "Muslims and prayer time" in a speech. Apparently, Muslims are a race now, and taking into account anything they do differently from other religions is discrimination, somehow. Although the employee never got the job back, the unemployment agency overturned the employer's decision to deny unemployment, thus allowing the employee to get benefits until they could find a new job.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/speaking-up-for-those-who-cant This ableist manager]] orders an autistic mute employee to answer the phone - something he obviously ''cannot'' do. When the employee repeatedly presses a button and hangs up instead of talking, she screams at him and fires him on the spot. Turns out the caller was the employee's brother, who a) [[EveryoneKnowsMorse understood the Morse Code his brother was sending]], and b) ''[[SummonBiggerFish is the CEO]]''. Upon learning the circumstances under which his brother was fired, the enraged CEO [[WhatWereYouThinking furiously berates]] the asshole manager and [[LaserGuidedKarma promptly fires her instead for discrimination]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/racism-will-no-longer-accepted-delivery/101430 This boss for a video editing company]] is apparently so racist that she picks on the company's delivery man solely because of his skin color. Her racism actually caused problems for the delivery man as he had accumulated enough complaints from this woman to warrant several evaluations. The submitter quits the job and later encounters the same delivery man (as well as another man with him) at their new job. The delivery man is in a rather upset state (because his job is now in jeopardy), and the submitter finally lets slip about their boss's racist attitudes. It turns out the other man was ''the manager'' for the delivery company and upon hearing the submitter's comments, lets the delivery man stay and terminates the delivery company's contract with the former boss out of disgust.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/getting-struck-from-the-job/118647/ This boss]] sends an employee out for carts ''in the middle of a severe thunderstorm'', and then [[DisproportionateRetribution screams at and fires them]] when they do not comply. Luckily, LaserGuidedKarma kicks in right away when ''[[AlwaysABiggerFish her boss]]'' finds this out, and, thanks to an [[NoIndoorVoice extensive history of screaming in front of customers]], she is immediately fired the next day for intentionally putting the employee's life in danger.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/one-of-the-worst-managers-youve-ever-produced/135206/ This produce manager]] fires an employee because she refused to handle produce in an unsafe manner (and it's stated that he's been written up for forcing other employees to do so in the past). When the submitter (the store's general manager) forces him to to call up the wrongfully fired employee to apologize, the produce manager instead hurls an insult-laden TheReasonYouSuckSpeech at the poor woman and [[KickTheDog tells her that she deserved to be fired]]. He does this '''[[TooDumbToLive while still in the presence of the submitter]]''', who, after a few moments of silent disbelief, [[WhatWereYouThinking gives the manager some choice words]], [[LaserGuidedKarma fires him on the spot]], and [[PersonaNonGrata bans him from the store for life]]. As for the unjustly fired employee, she was hired back shortly afterward into the jerk manager's former position as produce manager and has held it ever since.
* BaitAndSwitch: The beginning of [[https://notalwaysright.com/checkout-line-seized/106605/ this story]] made quite a number of posts think it was actually [[https://notalwaysright.com/theyre-deafening-youre-silence/100321/ another story]] (never mind the fact that the odds of someone else witnessing the same circumstances and submitting them to this website are astronomical). To elaborate, the older story involved a DesignatedHero standing in line at a supermarket and holding everyone up because she was observing Remembrance Day, whereas the later story also had a woman holding up a supermarket line, but that was because she was having a seizure. In the latter story's case, the cashier refused to help the customer even when the submitter, who happened to be a doctor, said that she was having a seizure, because [[ArtisticLicenceBiology "if she was having a seizure]] [[RealityIsUnrealistic she'd be writhing on the floor, wouldn't she?"]]. The cashier also voided '''both''' the sick customer and the doctor's purchases because they stepped out of line, saying that [[KarmaHoudini "they must be joking if they thought she would give them their shopping back."]]
* BeamMeUpScotty: [[invoked]] [[https://notalwaysright.com/stardate-christmas This submitter]], when held up by TSA employees because of a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' salt-and-pepper shaker, has to quote the trope name because said TSA employees [[PopculturalOsmosisFailure have apparently never heard of]] ''Star Trek'', and as such can't recognize lines that actually were spoken on the show.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: "[[https://notalwaysright.com/arrogance-takes-a-permanent-vacation/64097/ If you can prove yourself, you WILL have my job, and then you can do all this work all the time.]]"
* BeliefMakesYouStupid:
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/illogically-theological “But who doesn’t celebrate Easter?!”]] Uh, the Jewish, for starters.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/youve-got-cook-bacon-bring-home-bacon/100355/ This Jewish duty manager]] threw out £15,000 worth of food because it wasn't kosher, despite the fact that restaurant wasn't a kosher-only restaurant. Worse, she is rather hypocritical where she calls another Jewish worker "not a real Jew" because he called her out on her actions - she wants people to respect her beliefs [[{{Hypocrite}} but won't respect other faiths]], and when the submitter meets her again after she was fired, she was seen eating a bacon sandwich, a very non-kosher food.
* BenevolentBoss: In some of these stories, where a lower-level employee is the culprit, the employee's manager will step in to intervene. And in a few of ''these'' occurrences, the boss will subvert this by being, in his/her own way, nearly as bad as the employee.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/have-no-truck-with-these-coworkers Here's]] one such boss that manages to get a BadBoss (and his girlfriend) ''fired''.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/fit-for-the-job This gym owner]] finds that a homeless man has been living in the gym's locker rooms and begging food from other gym members. The owner hires the man as a live-in maintenance worker so that he can repay those other members and get back on his feet.
** The owner in [[http://notalwaysright.com/having-him-quit-was-just-a-bonus this story]] had been actively bending every rule he could to treat his employees generously. When one worker gets greedy over bonus checks, the owner simply gives them [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor exactly what they'd asked for]]-- merit-based bonus checks (the greedy worker hadn't contributed much to the project), and a departure without being fired (making them ineligible for severance pay).
* BilingualBackfire:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/pigheaded-comments "...and she's an ignorant moron."]]
** Particularly epic example [[http://notalwaysright.com/stupid-in-any-language here]] that [[LaserGuidedKarma got two jerks fired.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/shady-dealings-will-pay-a-high-price "Nah, she's just some dumb American girl! We'll give her [high price]. She doesn't understand us."]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/working-with-tools One worker]] tries to use the foreign language-trick to make some [[StayInTheKitchen sexist remarks]] about a client. Oops.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/sorry-i-canada-understand-you This restaurant server]] mistakenly assumes that some tourists are American and not French-Canadian, and tries to pass off underhanded remarks in French.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/nailed-it Some Vietnamese beauty store employees]] try to rip off a customer. Too bad they didn't count on her knowing their language.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-language-of-disrespect/118665/ A taxi driver]] makes racist and misogynistic remarks in Punjabi towards a customer during a phone call. Too bad for him that she speaks fluent Punjabi because of her Indian stepdad, meaning she's understood every single remark he's made about the "white b***" - including the ImpliedDeathThreat which was the final straw - and, although his mandatory camera is illegally deactivated, she's been secretly recording most of the conversation, which goes on to thwart a WoundedGazelleGambit.
** It's almost as if [[https://notalwaysright.com/in-soviet-russia-language-speaks-you/ some kiosk employees]] pick up new languages just for the purpose of getting customers, at least according to the submitter's mother.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/schadenfreude/ “So does my Dad.”]]
* BlatantLies:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/liar-liar-new-hire-fired-stop-hanging-out-on-my-telephone-wire This lady]] lies about her qualifications to get a job, lies that her boyfriend is a lawyer, and then after getting fired, lies to her new employer that she was assistant manager at the store that fired her after seeing through her lies.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/liar-liar-hands-on-fire This CSR]] is pretty desperate not to have to do a return.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/managers-cause-a-latte-problems This manager]] tries to claim credit for the submitter's work for helping a customer's order. Too bad the store manager knew he was lying due to the fact that the customer knew the submitter's name.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/you-wont-believe-this/ This person]] gets rid of a telemarketer by saying that their mother was "mauled to death by a horde of angry platypi" led by [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Perry the Platypus]]. The telemarketer [[SeamlessSpontaneousLie believes it]], offers condolences, and hangs up.
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/ladders-and-tall-guys-and-bears-oh-my There was a bear.]]"
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/only-collecting-burnt-bridges This agent]] is politely told to call between specific hours if they want a manager who can answer their question. She immediately calls back and, oblivious to the fact that the employee who answered was the exact same one as the last time, claims that "the last bitch I spoke to" was being rude.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/wines-dines-dimes/98939/ This waitress]] lies to a customer about bringing his food out when they actually never received it. When the couple objects, the manager (her father) claims they're trying to scam the restaurant. When the owner then comes out to investigate, he discovers that the waitress had been ''eating the submitter's food herself''. The waitress and her father are both fired and the couple's meal is comped.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/dying-taken-off-list/92423/ "I'm dead now."]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/mini-big-lies/93111/ "Ignore the salespeople."]]
* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: [[https://notalwaysright.com/getting-sauce-problem/106654/ This person]] has a coworker steal a bottle of their hot sauce... a sauce so hot, the submitter had to buy it online and only used a drop at a time. The thief didn't know this, and while the story doesn't say how much he used, he ended up vomiting and having to take the day off (unpaid) to recover.
* BluffTheImpostor: How [[http://notalwaysright.com/some-scammers-cant-reach-escape-velocity-fast-enough one supposed satellite TV company caller]] gets caught.
* BotheringByTheBook: When the subject of a story isn't an employee being unnecessarily rude or incredibly lazy, it's probably because someone is following procedure to the letter, to the detriment of everything else. Examples:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/fighting-over-wisdom-tooth-and-nail A hospital calling for a baby to have their wisdom teeth removed]]. Because the person in question was listed as a baby the last time they were there, [[OffscreenInertia that means they're a baby!]] Ignore the birth date putting that last visit 20 years prior, or the fact that babies don't have wisdom teeth.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/stand-your-ground This flight attendant]] keeps bothering a passenger about wheelchair assistance. Ignore that if she were to ''actually pay attention to that passenger'' she would see that they clearly do ''not'' need a wheelchair -- her booking said she needs assistance, [[SarcasmMode it can't possibly be an error on their part]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/someone-needs-some-brain-surgery This receptionist]] insists that a patient had surgery that day, rather than merely scheduling an appointment for it, despite that patient's statements to the contrary.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/laughing-all-the-way-to-the-other-bank This bank representative]] insists that they've ''only'' accepted driver's licenses as ID. A state-issued ID, which in every other case ever works in lieu of a license, is not sufficient in her eyes [[ExactWords because it's not a driver's license]]. Not surprisingly, the submitter closes their existing account at that bank and takes their business to a nearby competitor.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/dealing-with-an-old-bag This cashier]] is apparently deathly insistent that every customer have a bag when they leave.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: ...[[http://notalwaysright.com/not-always-working-can-lead-to-not-ever-working from the wrong side]].
* BuffySpeak: [[http://notalwaysright.com/someone-needs-alphabet-soup Big spoony thing]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/speaking-idiot-is-quite-a-thing This one]]: A customer asking for an item says, "It goes on the counter; you put the things in it? You know for, like, the mix-y and the... the scoopy and the... STUFF!" After the worker manages to figure it out, he says, "I have a second job as a bartender. I don’t speak ‘Idiot’ but I DO speak ‘Drunk,’ and it’s nearly the same thing."
* BystanderSyndrome: [[http://notalwaysright.com/someones-about-to-get-fired I was supposed to use a fire extinguisher?]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-supporting-customer-support/116699/ These employees who are running a rock concert venue]] The submitter and their family had bought tickets from a seemingly-illegal reseller vendor ''on the venue's own website.'' The family complains that the venue should be able to filter out the illegal vendors that advertise on the site. The employees and manager claim it's in their policy to only accept from certain vendors, but the family never found such a policy on the site. One employee even tells them that it's not their problem their website has illegal vendors on it. At the least the owner was more sympathetic and apologized for the inconvenience following the submitter posting a nasty review online. [[note]] The comments on this story are pretty mixed as to who is in the wrong, but the majority of people say it's the venue.
** This trope shows up depressingly often, and nearly every story in the Lazy/Unhelpful section is guaranteed to have an employee just throw up their arms and go "it's not my problem", even though almost every time this happens it ''is'' their problem.
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[[folder:C]]
* CaffeineBulletTime: [[http://notalwaysright.com/in-charge-and-in-full-charge "All I saw was a green blur!"]]
* {{Calvinball}}: [[https://notalwaysright.com/calvin-ballin-time Trope namedropped]] and in full effect here.
* CassandraTruth:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/managing-the-managing-situation A textbook example.]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/pregnant-with-ignorance Despite the fact]] that the doctor knows the patient is a virgin and her pregnancy test is negative, the student nurse helping out still believes the patient is pregnant.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-a-believer-of-the-fever This boss]] dismisses the author's flu as a "head cold" and threatens to fire her, despite the author sending ''three'' separate emails. Making matters worse, even after the author's father goes in to painstaking detail why his daughter cannot come to work, the boss screams at him over the phone, and later fires the author anyway for not showing up.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/24-the-wal-mart-conspiracy/56575/ This store manager]] is so desperate to protect his recent promotion that he tries to deny that a teenage [=YouTuber=] is illegally camping in the store for a challenge video, even after being shown previous videos of them doing it in that exact store. [[IdiotBall Not desperate enough to stay late and make sure they're gone before closing, though]].
* CasualKink: "[[http://notalwaysright.com/try-to-restrain-that-humor You'll make a man very happy someday.]]"
* ChildHater:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-grown-up-needs-to-grow-up This fast-food cashier]] is particularly hostile towards a 10-year-old girl for seemingly no legitimate reason. The girl calls the cashier out on her immature and impolite behavior after her response to several mistakes in the order. Eventually, the cashier calls the girl an "ungrateful bitch", which pushes her BerserkButton ''big time''. When the girl demands to see the manager, the cashier refuses. The girl flips her off and returns later with her mother, and they explain everything to the manager. The cashier is called into the manager's office, but she continues to pick on the girl, [[LaserGuidedKarma which gets her promptly fired due to her history of similar incidents]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/cheesed-off-all-by-yourself/61703/ Another cashier]] gripes to the 12-year-old submitter about having to press a lot of buttons to ring up a cheeseburger. When the submitter points out a button for only cheese, the cashier screams at them and accuses them of lying. This catches the manager's attention, and, due to a large amount of complaints and two similar incidents that same day, the cashier is fired on the spot and the submitter's meal is comped.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/proudly-professing-profound-purple-preferences "PURPLE!!!"]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/your-daydream-customer According to this customer, you can never think too much. You think?]]
* CluelessBoss: They show up often. Let's leave it at that, because listing them all could fill another page.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/abe-normally-clueless This person]] gives their street address to a pizza deliverer, mentioning Lincoln, "like the president". The delivery person mentions that Obama's the president.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-seeing-the-bigot-picture "So you think people act a certain way based on their race? That's racist."]] "No it's not! [[InsistentTerminology That's prejudice!"]] The absolutely hilarious part is that [[JerkassHasAPoint he's right]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/anything-nature-can-do-i-can-do-better This manager]] asks a worker to water the plants during a slow point of the day. The worker points out it's raining; the manager replies, "take an umbrella."
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/going-loco-if-youre-not-local This truck stop]] has several advertising billboards out along the freeway leading to it... but then refuses to serve anyone who is not a local.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/ended-up-being-a-bad-experience This interviewer]] continues interviewing people for two days after the job they're applying for has already been filled, thinking just getting an interview (rather than ''actually working'') is good job experience.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-job-is-not-so-secure This hotel]] hires a security guard to deal with unruly guests coming from a nearby stadium. Unfortunately, the guard they hire thinks it's his job to make other people do his job for him. He's unsurprisingly gone within a week.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/hope-you-dont-see-them-later-alligator This customer]] asks a food counter employee if they serve alligator meat at an ''alligator reservation.''
** An employee is being fired for multiple causes, including threatening to ''kill everyone''. [[https://notalwaysright.com/fired-didnt-burn-this-bridge/65807/ "So, when can I apply again?"]]
* ConfrontingYourImposter: Less frequent than in ''Right'', but still around.
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/time-to-try-another-tactic Time to Try Another Tactic]]" has a caller claim to be the daughter of the owner, while the female worker that answered is the owner's only child.
** New hires telling off the owner's actual children because they ''think'' they're catching someone attempting this is rather common, however -- see [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-baking-daughter here]] and [[http://notalwaysright.com/very-bad-reception here]] for examples of this form of ConvictionByCounterfactualClue.
* ConsummateLiar:
** There is something legitimately wrong with [[http://notalwaysright.com/liar-liar-new-hire-fired-stop-hanging-out-on-my-telephone-wire this girl]]. One can only hope she eventually gets professional help. One also wonders how many people are jobless and/or on social assistance simply because they can't stop lying their pants off.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-cancer-on-your-productivity One worker]] lies so much to ditch work that she was fired on the phone.
* ContrivedCoincidence: [[http://notalwaysright.com/bad-for-the-stalk-market After aimlessly wandering around a store]], the submitter (a ScaryBlackMan) just happens to pass by another customer enough times that she becomes convinced he is stalking her, and reports him to a manager.
* ConversationalTroping: [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-job-is-just-impossible Three employees and their manager]] are tailing a suspected shoplifter. One mentions how sneaky this is, just like in ''Film/MissionImpossible'', another starts humming the iconic theme to that movie, the third wants someone to do an UnnecessaryCombatRoll, just like in [[SpyFiction movies of that genre]], and the manager bets someone $20 to do it, right now, just for the heck of it.
* ConvictionByCounterfactualClue: [[http://notalwaysright.com/blowing-hot-air-over-ac This shopper]] gets stopped at the door by a pair of greeters who ask for her receipt. She doesn't have it, but asks to go fetch her husband, who works at the auto department, but who isn't off the clock yet. Ha, say the greeters, the auto department closed an hour ago! You're lying, and we'll have to confiscate the item (an air conditioner). While it's true that the auto department has closed, the husband ''is'' still on the clock (he assists in other departments until his shift ends). But at this point, the [[CassandraTruth greeters won't listen]] -- they won't let the shopper or her kid leave with the AC (understandably), and for a long while they won't let the shopper or her kid go back into the store to fetch the husband (somewhat ''less'' understandably). The misunderstanding continues -- and even escalates -- until the point the (angry) husband finally walks up with the receipt.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment:
** The "penny tip" for bad restaurant service. Since leaving no tip could be seen as poor manners or forgetfulness on the customer's part, leaving a single penny (or nickel, or dime) instead communicates that the customer WOULD have tipped, but the waiter didn't deserve it.
** "Please remove these (legal textbooks) or [[https://notalwaysright.com/please-recycle-the-law/138913/ we'll make you read them]]."
* CorruptCorporateExecutive:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/dying-to-cancel This cell-phone company.]] ''"You want to cancel your cell phone? Okay, that'll be $350. You say you're not paying because your father died, and it was his cell phone? Yeah, right, not falling for it. $350, please. You say you have the official death certificate in your hand and can fax it right over here? You can buy a fake one for real cheap. Nice try, scammer, you'll still have to pay. You're going to go directly to the higher-ups in Corporate and beg for them to waive the fee? [[spoiler:That's fine, because they'll just ignore you until you've paid just as much as part of your monthly bill anyway!]]"''
** Oh dearie me, [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-enough-bridges-for-this-water-to-go-under this]] is a [[FromBadToWorse veritable cascade]] of the events. The combination electric and water supplier has a monopoly on the whole town, with the mayor and other town council members sitting on the board of directors, with the narrator explicitly stating that "they get to do pretty much anything they want without repercussions." This includes the (13-year-old, at time of the event) narrator's mother being harassed about paying a bill that she already paid, with the company calling about an address on the other side of town; the same mother having issues with a meter reader calling the cost at a far higher amount than used, despite her ''having been out for over two weeks with not a utility running;'' a triple-cost bill being sent to the narrator's house, when it was intended for the bartender down the street; and the kid!narrator being left out in the rain due to the company sending in a pair of electricians to fiddle with the (malfunctioning) electric box, hence leaving the kid unable to use the garage keypad to get in! And [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking running over some Texas Sage while they were at it.]] To top it all off, that was ALSO supposed to be the bartender's call! Oh yeah, it's been six years and it's still just as bad.
** In [[http://notalwaysright.com/unfinished-business-and-out-of-business this story]], a worker is forced to leave early while they still have a ton of paperwork to do. The worker is [[InsaneTrollLogic promptly fired the next day for not doing that paperwork]] -- and is then forced to sign a paper stating that they are leaving of their own accord, which means the worker is not entitled for unemployment benefits. Fortunately, unlike the previous examples, karma bit them fast and hard, as it was not very long before the worker found a new job and the corrupt company went out of business.
* CryingWolf: The reason [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-crazy-fan-with-a-few-wires-loose these employees]] are (at first) flippant about a serious "ceiling fan is hanging by the wires" problem -- because usually it's just a housing that's come off, with the support for the fan itself still in place. This time, though, it really ''is'' hanging by the wires... and the person who comes to fix it is practically floored when he sees it, even asking to take a picture to prove it to the people at the office.
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* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/making-a-mountain-out-of-a-marked-bill This store clerk.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/greeting-perverted-disaster-averted “Hi, welcome to [store].]] How can I lie to you today?” OhCrap, the customers actually do listen!
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/devil-finds-work-for-idle-hands Except when they don't.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** A cop [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-quite-up-to-speed stops a driver]] because they seemed to be going too fast... but doesn't have the radar readings to back it up. He realizes his mistake quickly enough to leave the vicinity before the driver can ask for his badge number.
** It's generally ill-advised to post everything you do on Facebook, but [[https://notalwaysright.com/social-notworking-2/61491/ announcing that you went out to the clubs after calling in sick at work is a dumb idea.]] Especially when you have coworkers and a manager on your friends list.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/causing-dis-scent This new hire]] wonders why a coworker seemed disgusted when he tried to compliment them by telling them "you stink".
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/making-it-complain-to-him This manager]] decides the best reaction to a customer sending a complaint about their rudeness is to be even ruder to that customer - it apparently never occurred to him that said customer would complain ''again''.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-badly-timed-period These two bosses]] come up with an idiotic plan to make their workers spend more time on work by setting up how long they can be in the bathroom doing their number one and two business based on the time they spend in the men's bathroom while [[NoPeriodsPeriod forgetting about women doing number 3]]. The plan was scrapped due to many female workers protests, and also because it was illegal under Union rules. (Turns out they'd been trying to crack down on cell phone breaks disguised as bathroom breaks, which would have been a more valid concern if they'd just ''said so''.)
** Overlapping with BadBoss, [[http://notalwaysright.com/must-have-dismissed-thinking-it-through this boss]] repeatedly attempts to get the submitter fired without severance pay, culminating in her attempting to fire the submitter for physically threatening a manager. The only problem is that the boss states it happened five minutes before, and when called to the boss's office, [[BlatantLies the manager in question not only reveals that the submitter never did such a thing, but that she (the manager) has no idea what's going on.]] The submitter immediately threatens the boss with a wrongful dismissal suit, and the boss simply gives up and stops bothering them.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/santa-existential-crisis/102454/ This daycare worker]] tries to impose her personal beliefs on a little girl by telling her that Santa doesn't exist. Turns out, Santa's visit was the only thing the girl was looking forward to that Christmas, after [[DisappearedDad her father had died the previous Christmas]]. [[MamaBear The girl's enraged mother]] proceeds to tear into the worker for ruining the second Christmas in a row for her daughter.
--->'''Mother:''' Thank you for ruining Christmas. The first two Christmases my daughter is going to remember: seeing her father collapse on a dollhouse they were building together, and learning that Santa doesn't exist from a virtual stranger. Thank you, you self-righteous b***!
*** Adding onto that, the daycare worker didn't think about how other parents, besides the mother, would not react well to her telling kids that Santa doesn't exist. Several parents witnessed that confrontation, and they were so outraged by one of the workers callously crushing a kid's spirit in favor of her own personal beliefs that they withdrew their own children's enrollment at the daycare, crippling the buisness in the process. [[RealityEnsues Unsurprisingly, the worker got fired for causing the whole mess in the first place]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/i-love-vegans-but-this-takes-the-cake/65596/ This preachy Vegan bakery manager]] tricked the hotel's guests into eating her vegan cheesecake without the prior knowledge of anyone else - including the bakery staff - thinking they would all love it and go Vegan after eating it. However, she failed to consider if those guests might not like the taste, were allergic to the vegan ingredients or might have other dietary restrictions. She got chewed out by her boss for her stunt and was later [[TurnInYourBadge ordered to quit]] since she kept putting her own agendas ahead of those of the hotel.
* {{Dismotivation}}: A possible explanation for some stories in the "Lazy/Unhelpful" category. The employees ''need'' a paycheck, but hate working with people, so they just be rude and unhelpful so the customer will give up and go away. This obviously doesn't work, as it often gets that particular employee fired.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/mentally-checked-out-part-2 A prime example.]]
** Which brings new perspective to all those ''Not Always Right'' stories involving seemingly {{Jerkass}} customers being incredibly quick to (wrongfully) accuse employees of doing this very thing whenever something doesn't go their way. [[TheDogBitesBack They've probably run into so many people doing it for real that they've taught themselves to always assume the worst]].
** Another explanation along these lines works for [[http://notalwaysright.com/show-em-whos-boss this story]] - the employee needs a paycheck, but hates working ''at all'', so it's just perfect for him that he's "in tight" with a manager and therefore can use that as an excuse to force other employees to do his work for him. The instant he finds someone on whom this doesn't work (namely, the owner's son), he immediately quits.
** A justified example [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-problem-with-the-order-before-its-ordered here]]. The pizza parlor is reluctant to deliver to a customer at a certain address... because the previous resident at that address had been consistently abusive to them, and they didn't know someone else was living there now. They were rude to the new customer because they mistook them for the abusive customer.
** Another justified example [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-crazy-fan-with-a-few-wires-loose here]]. The employees are in no hurry to send out an electrician to deal with a ceiling fan that's come loose and is hanging by just its wires. However, once the electrician arrives, he explains that [[CryingWolf they receive calls from people who inaccurately use the "hanging from the wires" explanation on a regular basis]]. He's surprised that, in this case, [[CassandraTruth it was actually true]].
* DisproportionateRetribution:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/for-a-few-dollars-more This bank manager]] who called the police when one individual accidentally took one dollar more than they were supposed to after closing the account. The police weren't happy when they realized what had happened.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/number-one-problem-manager/ Another manager]] reacts to a five year old boy who [[PottyFailure wet his pants]] by ''[[NoIndoorVoice screaming full blast]]'' at the boy and his mother and then threatening to call the cops on them. Between this and the manager referring to them as "white trash" afterwards, ''his entire staff'' pulls a collective TakeThisJobAndShoveIt, starting with a supervisor who had a son with similar bladder problems. The manager was later reprimanded by his boss (who ''also'' had a similarly aged son) when he had to explain the situation.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/taking-stock-harassment-claims/97823/ When a new employee]] gets told by his supervisor (the submitter) that he's doing stock checking incorrectly, rather than accept his mistake and learn from it, he instead complains to his father, the manager, who fires the supervisor for "sexually harassing" his son, then threatens to call the police on him. Thankfully, LaserGuidedKarma comes into quick effect - because the firing was for sexual harassment, [[AwakenTheSleepingGiant HR now has to investigate the claims]]. They discover from CCTV footage that the manager and his son ''[[RevealingCoverUp made up the entire thing]]'', and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard both are fired by week's end]] for lying to HR about it. The submitter became a HR-sort of person themselves and when asked to investigate a complaint at a restaurant, the submitter encounters the ex-manager's son, who [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere promptly books it out of there]].
** What is [[https://notalwaysright.com/getting-struck-from-the-job/118647/ this manager's]] response to an employee's (rightful) concerns about their safety in relation to being asked to push carts ''in a severe thunderstorm''? [[NoIndoorVoice Scream at the employee at the top of her lungs and fire them on the spot]]. ''In front of customers''. Luckily, the store's owner quickly learns of the incident and fires the manager the very next day, while the submitter gets their job back.
* TheDitz: Many.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/breaking-bank This bank representative]] is obviously not very sharp. First, he suggests the debtor make a weekly payment ''[[WritersCannotDoMath three times]]'' that of said debtor's weekly income. Then, after the debtor makes a sarcastic comment about having to start a meth lab to make that kind of income, the representative [[SarcasmBlind not only takes the comment seriously]], he ''offers a line of credit'' for the venture, seeming ''[[LethallyStupid not to realize it's illegal]]''. Finally, after the debtor calls out the bank representative for ''that'' mistake, the representative tries to make the excuse that he'd had his mind on a sporting event, but commits GretzkyHasTheBall in the process.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/tine-to-find-a-new-job "Sfoon!"]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/as-clear-as-gay-part-2 This coworker]] seems to be totally oblivious to the concept of lesbianism.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/cannot-produce-the-pretzels This grocery store owner]] recommends that a customer look for pretzels in the produce aisle, then asks, "What are pretzels, anyway?"
* TheDogBitesBack: Presumably the reason behind some of the employees' behavior, not that this makes it justified.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/dont-bite-the-hand-that-shreds-you Almost certainly the case here.]]
* DontCallMeSir: [[http://notalwaysright.com/excuse-me-bosshole This guy]] reacts ''really'' badly to being called "sir" or "boss".
--> ''"“GODD***IT, NOT AGAIN! I told you that I don’t do well with those titles! Call me ‘a**hole’, call me ‘f***er’, but whatever you do, don’t call me ‘sir’ or ‘boss’!”''
* DopeSlap: [[http://notalwaysright.com/weeding-himself-out Mentioned by name here]] when a manager delivers one to a pot-smoking employee.
* DoubleStandard: [[https://notalwaysright.com/bulging-inequality/108826/ This female coworker]] thinks it's alright for her to take pictures of men's crotches without their consent but not okay when it's the other way around. She was later fired when the submitter and a male customer complain to the manager when she took a picture of the customer's crotch.
* DoWellButNotPerfect: [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-very-productive-thinking This one hard-working aide]] gets a lower "Productivity" score on her annual report than a much lazier coworker because the hard-working coworker gives 110% most of the time, with some days "only" giving 90%. According to her managers, this is apparently worse (and thus warrants a lower score) than a lazy coworker giving 50% most of the time, with some days giving 60 or 70%.
* DoWrongRight: [[http://notalwaysright.com/sub-par-subterfuge If you're going to have your employees resort to subterfuge,]] at least make sure they understand [[YouKeepUsingThatWord what the word means]].
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: When a customer complains about [[http://notalwaysright.com/best-to-wash-your-hands-of-it-and-walk-away an employee failing to wash their hands]] after they'd visited the restroom (causing said customer to leave the store in disgust as a result), the corporate response is to... mail the customer a gift card, with no word about what steps they were going to take to improve the sanitation practices of the employees.
* DreadfulMusician: Whoever recorded the [[SoBadItsGood hilariously awful rendition]] of "Lavender's Blue" in [[https://notalwaysright.com/unable-hold-laughter/108791/ this story]]. To such an extent that several people tried to bring its utter awfulness to the company's attention.
* DrugsAreBad: [[https://notalwaysright.com/it-pains-him-to-say-it Some]] [[https://notalwaysright.com/this-manager-makes-you-need-to-up-the-dosage/64288/ Bosses]][[note]]The "unfiltered" version of the latter makes it clear that this is the same submitter and the same boss, incidentally[[/note]] think all drugs are bad, even ones legally prescribed by a Doctor and needed by the employees to survive.
* DumbBlonde:
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/date-mayday I’m too blonde for my own good.]]"
** An inversion [[http://notalwaysright.com/hair-not-so-apparent here.]] The cashier treats the blonde submitter like one initially, and then learns that she's a manager at a retail chain with a college degree.
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* EatingTheEyeCandy: [[http://notalwaysright.com/you-auto-be-car-eful-around-car-ismatic-coworkers This car dealership manager has quite an effect on coworkers and customers alike]].
* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: "[[http://notalwaysright.com/a-higher-calling-against-bad-hires I’m seven feet tall]], dressed all in black, and smell like a barnyard. You’re really going to go with the ‘I didn’t notice you standing two feet from me’ excuse?"
* EngineeredPublicConfession: [[http://notalwaysright.com/phowned This manager got ph-owned.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/box-of-stolen-stupid These gaming store pranksters]] [[AchievementsInIgnorance accidentally]] got one from a coworker who'd been letting his friend shoplift from the store on his shift.
* EnhanceButton: [[http://notalwaysright.com/adventures-in-the-third-duh-mension This office manager]] thinks that 2D animations can be viewed from every angle.
* EntitledBastard: Not as common as in ''Not Always Right'', but they still show up every now and then.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-tipped-for-good-service This waitress]] has a bad attitude and zero work ethic from the get-go, making the customers wait for an obscenely long time before their food and drinks are served. When the customers receive the bill, they are furious to discover that the waitress has ''written herself a $30 tip on the check''. Needless to say, the customers flag down a manager, who gives them their meal at half price, and fires the waitress.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-acting-tip-top Another waitress]], much like the one above, displays rudeness and incompetence to the submitter and their friends, and tries to justify it because [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections her father is the owner]]. The more level-headed manager compensates the meal, but the group opts to leave without a new order. The snooty waitress then stops them, demanding a tip and throwing a tantrum when the submitter initially refuses. The now completely fed-up submitter then places a full water glass with a $10 bill inside of it upside down on the table, and dares the waitress to take it, much to the manager's amusement.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/watching-career-just-flutter/102907/ This apprentice tattoo artist]] thinks that he's above doing "stupid butterfly tattoos" and actually ''ruins the butterfly tattoo'' of the woman he was assigned, just because he's mad that he, an ''apprentice'', doesn't have people lining up to allow him to do whatever he wants to their skin and has to take the jobs that his boss assigns him. LaserGuidedKarma promptly follows - the owner of the tattoo parlor fires him on the spot and spreads word of the incident to ''every other tattoo place in the city'', essentially guaranteeing the former apprentice that [[PersonaNonGrata he'll never get another apprenticeship]]. Not only that, but the owner presses charges against him after he throws a fit, and the client he essentially mutilated sues him and wins.
* EpicFail: [[https://notalwaysright.com/email-fail-part-16/104133/ The IT department here]] upgrades the email software for their company, but the hierarchy that they use is incredibly out of line with the actual hierarchy (for example, an HSE manager is stated to be a janitor, the submitter is listed as the finance director when they are attached from a different company, and the actual finance director is listed as an intern). The IT department simply blows off the issues of the rest of the company, simply stating that the new way is “better.” Unfortunately, with the new hierarchy, people are getting the wrong emails, and within an hour, the company shutters the new system, and fires half of the IT department.
* EskimosArentReal:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/someone-please-shatter-the-triforce-of-chauvinism This man]] believes that the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube never existed. [[{{Irony}} Despite working at a video game store.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-capital-mistake This clerk]] believes that Washington DC doesn't exist - or rather, that the only things there are government buildings and monuments, instead of a sizable and thriving city. This gets her in trouble when she tries to cut up the ID of a DC resident because she believes that it must be fake, since [[SarcasmMode of ''course'' nobody who works for the government has chosen to live near their workplace instead of commuting from Maryland or Virginia every day]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[https://notalwaysright.com/making-winner-every-time/91832/ This grab bag of "Screwing with a scammer" tricks]] includes one where the OP pretends to be a child who inadvertently discovered his mother [[YourCheatingHeart being unfaithful while her husband's at work.]] The scammer actually tells the "child" to “...call your daddy and tell him. That w*** deserves it!” before hanging up. As one commenter put it,
-->[Didn't] just hang up but was like "I'm a scammer, but even that s**t is too immoral for me."
* EveryoneKnowsMorse: [[http://notalwaysright.com/speaking-up-for-those-who-cant This disabled employee]] sure does... as does his CEO brother.
* EverythingIsRacist:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-rebel-with-too-many-causes This self-proclaimed "Social Justice Warrior"]] takes it UpToEleven. ''Literally'' everything is (potentially) racist/sexist/ableist/whateverist to her. Rather hilarious as she tried to convince the janitor that he is being oppressed. The janitor (who, by the way, is not Hispanic as she assumes) just gives her a "What the hell are you talking about?" look, and tells her he willingly applied to be a janitor and he's quite content with that job, thank you very much.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/crying-fowl-on-political-correctness Asking for fried chicken]] apparently makes you racist, too.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/praying-for-some-common-sense This worker]] gets fired and denied unemployment because apparently, acknowledging that Muslim workers are allowed to take breaks for their designated prayer times is discriminatory and unfairly drawing attention to Muslims. The unemployment agency isn't so amused when they hear what happened, and force the former employer to provide unemployment benefits to the fired worker until they can get a new job.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/only-fools-russian This worker]] is likewise told off by a manager for assuming some customers are Russian, even though said customers are speaking Russian, are wearing jackets that say "Russia" on the back, and are recognized by the worker as members of Russia's under-21 hockey team.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: And [[http://notalwaysright.com/never-saw-rus-rex apparently we have photos of them!]]
* EvilIsPetty: [[http://notalwaysright.com/ive-got-a-ticket-to-deride This police officer]] stops the submitter as he believes she's either a car thief or a underage teenager with no driver's license. When she shows proof the car belongs to her father and that she's old enough to have a driver's license, [[NeverMyFault rather than apologize]] for disturbing her, the police officer [[InsaneTrollLogic writes her a ticket for wasting his time]]! Thankfully, when she reported this to his superior, the superior tells her to ignore the ticket. Just before hanging up, the superior inadvertently reveals this was the fourth time that month that the police officer did something like that.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/bigotry-doesnt-nice-ring/98941/ This homophobic worker]] gives a gay customer a cheap wedding ring rather than the expensive ring he ordered since she believes his marriage is "fake and cheap" and a [[NoTrueScotsman real marriage is between a man and woman]]. The owner, disgusted with his worker's open bigotry and scamming a customer, has the worker fired and gave the customer a new ring with the equivalent price.
* EvilLaugh: [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-rule-of-thumb Customers are giving strange looks]].
* EvilTwin: [[http://notalwaysright.com/sisterhood-of-the-judgmental-rants If this story is to be believed]], apparently they ''do'' exist in real life.
* ExactWords:
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/this-baristas-a-character Spell it however you want]]"?
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/problem-exists-between-chair-and-monitor You SAID put the MOUSE over the icon!]]”
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/from-open-wide-to-open-lied We ARE open! I’M here doing paperwork.]]”
* ExcuseQuestion: When repeatedly bothered by a telemarketer, [[http://notalwaysright.com/all-roads-lead-to-hope this submitter's father]] decides to see what happens when you repeatedly get one of these wrong.
* ExpensiveGlassOfCrap: [[http://notalwaysright.com/wine-dine-crime Here]]. At least the barkeep is more principled than the store owner.
* ExtremeOmnivore: "...[[http://notalwaysright.com/yet-another-darwin-awards-candidate it was sitting in the garbage]] next to all the dirty dishes, it smells like death, and it has chicken blood and fat floating in it".
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