History NotAlwaysWorking / TropesAToE

* ArmyOfLawyers: In [[https://notalwaysright.com/an-unexpectedly-taxing-part-of-tax-prep/291251/ this story]], the company's worker is embroiled in a legal dispute with two banks and the IRS. All of the people involved were bringing in battalions of their own lawyers. Despite not being in any legal trouble himself, the manager at the company felt "under-represented" and had three of his employees put on suits and stand behind him looking intimidating, even though all the manager had to do was answer five questions while all the other involved parties argued.

** In this story, when [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-just-staying-quiet-because-its-a-library/325368/ this librarian]] is asked whether she recommends manual or automatic sliding bookshelves, all they say is "We recommend the manual ones." Eventually the submitter's colleague realizes the librarian's talking around legal barriers and goes with her suggestion. [[NoodleIncident What exactly happened with the other library's automatic shelves is never elaborated on.]]

* CouldSayItBut: In [[https://notalwaysright.com/and-nothing-of-value-was-lost-part-2/276999/ this story]], the submitter's manager "wasn't allowed to tell [them]" that a jackass coworker was docked an hour's pay for blowing off work.

* 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.

* DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery: [[https://notalwaysright.com/those-candid-comments-arent-called-for-coworker/325378/ This co-worker]] thinks he can say what he likes, including insulting customers, because (he claims) he's autistic. [[LaserGuidedKarma He's out of a job by the end of the story]].

** Thet staff at [[https://notalwaysright.com/football-is-way-more-important-than-food/209309/ this pub]] forget about the submitter's order because they're too busy watching a soccer game.

** [[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 whom is in the wrong, but the majority of people say it's the venue.[[/note]]

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: [[https://notalwaysright.com/delivery-is-always-a-gamble/159244/ This casino]] has tasty food, but is the lowest-ranked option on a popular food delivery app for the area. It's a mystery to everyone... until it's observed that one of the delivery drivers collects the food but then gets distracted playing roulette for 15 minutes. It might even have been longer had one of the managers not walked past and noticed. After that the managers started keeping a closer eye on the drivers.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Not only does [[https://notalwaysright.com/go-back-to-school-of-rock This coworker]] confuse Music/ElvisPresley with UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, but they don't know who Mussolini was.

** [[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.

-->'''Supervisor''': What smarta** ordered a [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill hellfire missile]] for the printers?!"

** Similarly, [[https://notalwaysright.com/working-with-this-guy-is-just-a-scream/157001/ this aggressive general manager's]] response to a 75-year-old lady tipping the submitter out of sympathy for having to put up with his abuse is to ''[[StealingFromTheTill grab it right out of the submitter's hand]]'' and then [[NoIndoorVoice fire her full-blast in her face]], reducing her to tears. The [[NeverMessWithGranny outraged elderly lady]] [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech promptly calls the manager out]] and leaves. The [[AlwaysABiggerFish district manager]] also learns what happened, and reinstates the submitter, beforing coming in the next day to [[WhatWereYouThinking personally and thoroughly ream out the manager]] and [[LaserGuidedKarma fire him instead for screaming in front of customers and stealing the submitter's tip]].

** [[https://notalwaysright.com/what-would-jesus-order/83009/ These church ladies]] constantly lecture the owner of the diner they go to after church about working on a Sunday. When she pretends to be taking their words on board, they're shocked to realise that if she stops working on Sunday, ''the diner won't be open''.

** [[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.]]

* DisasterDominos: [[https://notalwaysright.com/dont-freak-about-the-leak/137007/ A plumber called to fix a leaky toilet at a family's house]] drops a part down said toilet, but doesn't bother to take it out and just leaves it. This leads to the part blocking the pipe and causing it to burst, flooding and trashing the interior of the entire ground level of the house and causing the kitchen ceiling to cave in, forcing the family to live in hotels or with relatives for three months until the house is habitable again. During this time, the submitter ends up losing their job because it ends up costing too much for them to take a train to their workplace when they only make minimum wage. When school starts back up, the submitter's parents go through a lot of trouble to get a hotel closer to the submitter and their sister because until now they were well over an hour away from each other. The family goes through all of this trouble just over their plumber dropping a part down the toilet.

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