History NotAlwaysWorking / TropesTToZ

** [[https://notalwaysright.com/good-thing-they-didnt-panic/253529/ This refinery]] has regularly scheduled emergency drills, which are always completed quickly and efficiently, so their safety service [[TemptingFate reports 100% prepardness.]] It turns out that everybody has gotten so used to the drills that they're prepared on those days and lax on other ones, so chaos ensues when they decide to run a non-scheduled drill. (Of the two workers given as an example, both of whom had forgotten their safety masks, one "[[BringMyBrownPants crapped himself and made his peace]]" and the other broke both his legs in an attempt to reach his mask.)

* WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings: [[http://notalwaysright.com/got-them-by-hook-or-by-crook This company]] stopped giving "fools' errands" to new employees after one nearly cost them over £1800. (Turns out, 'skyhooks' [[AluminumChristmasTrees really do exist]], though they're not used for holding up the sky.)

** [[http://notalwaysright.com/misteaken-cowmprehension The daughter of the owner of this restaurant]] doesn't know what the word "vegetarian" means.
** Neither does [[http://notalwaysright.com/wont-make-ends-meat-with-that-attitude this server]]. Given the circumstances, it's equally possible that he ''does'' know, but either doesn't know what counts as meat (since he claims chicken noodle soup and bacon have no meat), or is deliberately being an asshole to the vegetarian customer because someone else not eating what he likes [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence offends his sensibilities]] (since, given the above thought process, he ignores the customer's request to not add bacon to their dish and then insults them over "self-image issues" for not eating the bacon).
--->''Needless to say, we didn't tip well.''
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/doesnt-know-beans-about-the-menu-part-2 This worker]] makes the ''opposite'' of the usual mistake, extending the definition to include ''rice and beans''.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/killed-by-a-freudian-slip Maybe here]]. It's possible the boss meant someone ''else'' was killed in the accident, but it's not clear.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/thinker-failer-soldier-fly/ This trainee pilot]] doesn't quite understand what the "mile high club" is.

** [[http://notalwaysright.com/engineering-a-problem The new manager]] in an aerospace company dismisses what he thinks is an overpaid secretary (StayInTheKitchen is heavily implied). Nope, she was the only one with the applied mathematics skills necessary for the group to do the work... and it's not ''nearly'' as easy to replace her as the manager thinks it would be, especially since [[WhatAnIdiot he actually believes people with master's degrees in applied mathematics would be beating down their door]] to apply for an ''unpaid internship''. So idiotic was this move that one coworker actually called the manager a "[[SoundEffectBleep f**[=*=]***]] moron" to his face. Four months later, the coworker ''still'' hasn't been replaced; meanwhile, the former coworker has found a better-paying job with a competitor, and the CEO, once it became known ''why'' certain projects had been stalled for months, [[WhatWereYouThinking tore into the supervisor]] before firing him.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[https://notalwaysright.com/santa-existential-crisis/102454/ A callous daycare worker tells a five-year-old girl that Santa doesn't exist]]. The girl's mother angrily confronts the worker, and reveals that her husband ''died on Christmas Day the previous year''. A visit from Santa was the one thing keeping the poor girl's spirits up that Christmas Season, and now the worker most likely ruined Christmas forever for her daughter. Several parents witnessed the confrontation, and they were so outraged over the worker's actions that they ended their own kids' enrollment at the daycare, crippling the business in the process. Needless to say, the worker got fired afterwards for her misconduct and the consequences that ensued.

** [[https://notalwaysright.com/trying-to-get-a-stranglehold-in-the-office/159271/ This submitter]] has PTSD and an aversion to being touched around the shoulders or back from behind. Despite their coworkers knowing about this issue, one coworker keeps patting them on the back or shoulder to get their attention. And despite being told repeatedly to ''not'' do it, this guy keeps doing it, and then [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome complains to HR when his latest disregard of the submitter's condition resulted in him being punched in panicked self-defense]].

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[https://notalwaysright.com/santa-existential-crisis/102454/ A callous daycare worker tells a five-year-old girl that Santa doesn't exist]]. The girl's mother angrily confronts the worker, and reveals that her husband ''died on Christmas Day the previous year''. A visit from Santa was the one thing keeping the poor girl's spirits up that Christmas Season, and now the worker most likely ruined Christmas forever for her daughter. Several parents witnessed the confrontation, and they were so outraged over the worker's actions that they ended their own kids' enrollment at the daycare, crippling the business in the process. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Needless to say, the worker got fired afterwards for her misconduct and the consequences that ensued]].

* TomatoSurprise: [[https://notalwaysright.com/seeing-the-world-in-shades-of-dull/256847/ This software company officer]] complains about the interface designer's work, until one meeting when the designer has a EurekaMoment and shows him a colorblindness test image. Surprise, he's ''badly'' colorblind and had never been tested or diagnosed, so he'd always assumed the designer was using dull colors instead of bright ones he couldn't see. [[TheStinger In the last paragraph]], the other workers get sidetracked sending each other colorblindness tests, and ''eight more'' discover they are colorblind to various degrees.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[https://notalwaysright.com/because-youre-an-ahole-is-a-totally-valid-reason/254153/ This manager]] gets one after trying to horn in on an already-successful sale and driving away the customer one too many times.
--->"Now, (Employee), why do you think [[NeverMyFault YOU]] lost that sale?"\\
"Because [[ArmorPiercingResponse you're an asshole!]] (Manager), I had that, just like I’ve had every sale you’ve stolen from me. I was helping that customer for ten minutes and got her from that $75 piece of crap you sold her to the $200 one with a two-year service plan. You spent thirty seconds talking to her, and she dropped back down to the crappy clearance model. Ever notice that none of our customers want to talk to you? You are the worst salesperson in this store, you need to stop stealing all of our sales, and the next time you take one of my customers like that, we’re going to have a big problem."

"Because [[PrecisionFStrike you're an asshole!]]"

** The submitter of [[https://notalwaysright.com/uh-at-least-you-got-paid/253533/ this story]] is hired by a company that sells credit card systems to businesses and manages to be the most successful salesman. However, the company disappears overnight after paying salespeople twice what they were expecting, and the reason why becomes clear after one of his customers attempts to have him assaulted, resulting in him looking the company up online and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizing he unintentionally scammed every single customer he sold a system to]]: turns out, the "contracts" he was selling are uncancellable leases with a $199 ''minimum'' fee to get out, on top of a number of hidden fees not disclosed to the salespeople, and the company's MO is to sell aggressively and then [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere flee the city]] before merchants can be warned about them. The submitter sends apology letters to every one of the customers he can remember and then, realizing he is likely a pariah, flees the city himself.

** The submitter of [[https://notalwaysright.com/uh-at-least-you-got-paid/253533/ this story]] is hired by a company that sells credit card systems to businesses and manages to be the most successful salesman. However, the company disappears overnight after paying salespeople twice what they were expecting, and the reason why becomes clear after one of his customers attempts to have him assaulted, resulting in him looking the company up online and realizing he unintentionally scammed every single customer he sold a ssytem to: turns out, the "contracts" he was selling are uncancellable leases with a $199 ''minimum'' fee to get out, on top of a number of hidden fees not disclosed to the salespeople, and the company's MO is to sell aggressively and then [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere flee the city]] before merchants can be warned about them. The submitter sends apology letters to every one of the customers he can remember and then, realizing he is likely a pariah, flees the city himself.

** The submitter of [[https://notalwaysright.com/uh-at-least-you-got-paid/253533/ this story]] is hired by a company that sells credit card systems to businesses and manages to be the most successful salesman. However, the company disappears overnight after paying salespeople twice what they were expecting, and the reason why becomes clear after one of his customers attempts to have him assaulted, resulting in him looking the company up online: turns out, the "contracts" he was selling are uncancellable leases with a $199 ''minimum'' fee to get out, on top of a number of hidden fees not disclosed to the salespeople, and the company's MO is to sell aggressively and then [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere flee the city]] before merchants can be warned about them. The submitter sends apology letters to every one of the customers he can remember and then, realizing he is likely a pariah, flees the city himself.

** The submitter of [[https://notalwaysright.com/uh-at-least-you-got-paid/253533/ this story]] is hired by a company that sells credit card systems to businesses and manages to be the most successful salesman. However, the company disappears overnight after paying salespeople twice what they were expecting, and the reason why becomes clear after one of his customers attempts to have him assaulted: turns out, the "contracts" he was selling are uncancellable leases with a $199 ''minimum'' fee to get out, on top of a number of hidden fees not disclosed to the salespeople, and the company's MO is to sell aggressively and then [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere flee the city]] before merchants can be warned about them. The submitter sends apology letters to every one of the customers he can remember and then, realizing he is likely a pariah, flees the city himself.

* UnwittingPawn: [[https://notalwaysright.com/key-good-scam-hapless-employee/106668/ This hotel front desk agent]] almost ends up this for a credit card thief because she doesn't understand how keyless entry approval works[[note]]contrary to her incorrect belief that keyless entry has to be manually approved for it to work, leading her to ''approve every keyless entry request in advance'', the system automatically approves everyone who meets criteria and ''only'' everyone who meets criteria, so by approving the requests, all she's been doing is approving people who don't meet criteria, i.e. low-tier rewards program members and ''criminals''[[/note]]. Luckily, the submitter catches her (months-long) mistake long before the thief is due to arrive, and quickly retrains her in order to put an end to the mistake before locking the thief out of her room.

** [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-free-of-gluten-but-free-of-sense/222714/ This Cook]] keeps saying the bag of chips(French Fries) he cooked are Gluten-Free despite the fact the submitter saw him cook those chips in the same fryer used for the regular chips even though her mother told him the submitter's aunt has Celiac diseases. Despite the submitter pointing this out, the cook still keeps saying it's still "Gluten-Free" and it's not a big deal if her aunt doesn't know it. The submitter and her mother are not amused and refuses to take and pay for the chips much to the cook anger who demands they pay for it which they ignore his calls until he gave up and stop advertising he served Gluten free chips.

*** Justified in the last two lines of [[https://notalwaysright.com/last-shift-shifty-sausage/59347/ this story]]: the cashier passing out and the manager's line about shifts implies he's so sleep-deprived from overwork he can't ''comprehend'' the customer wasn't buying alcohol in the first place, only that they didn't want to show ID.

*** Justified in the last two lines of [[https://notalwaysright.com/last-shift-shifty-sausage/59347/ this story]]: the cashier passing out and the manager's line about shifts implies he's so sleep-deprived from overwork he can't ''comprehend'' the customer is not buying alcohol, only that they didn't want to show ID.

* YouMakeMeSic:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/cant-quit-good-grammar This woman]] corrects a poorly-written comment from her manager.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/doctored-doctor-note/62115/ This employee]] has made a habit of calling out sick, to the point where their boss (the submitter) demands a doctor's note the next time they come in to prove their "illness". The next day the employee brings a hastily typed up doctors note listing, a claim of "‘traumitic’ illness of the ‘lunges’". The unamused submitter immediately calls out the misspelled "lunges", but does not mention the also misspelled "traumitic".

** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-one-track-wine/ This waiter]] keeps bothering the submitter to give her ID card if she wants to drink wine despite the submitter and her father repeatedly telling him she doesn't want to drink wine. Even when his manager points this out, he still doesn't get it. Apparently to him, anyone whose of legal drinking age automatically wants to drink wine.