History Website / NotAlwaysWorking

[[https://notalwaysright.com/working/ Not Always Working]] is a sister site to Website/NotAlwaysRight, added to the network in 2012. In a direct contrast to Not Always Right, Not Always Working focuses on tales of incompetent, lazy, and sometimes even malicious workers. Bad employees, horrible bosses and managers, and the occasional cool person can be found here. As always, [[UnreliableNarrator take care when looking through the stories]].

----

* [[NotAlwaysWorking/TropesTToZ Tropes T to Z]]

----

[[http://notalwaysworking.com/ Not Always Working]] is a sister site to Website/NotAlwaysRight, added to the network in 2012. In a direct contrast to Not Always Right, Not Always Working focuses on tales of incompetent, lazy, and sometimes even malicious workers. Bad employees, horrible bosses and managers, and the occasional cool person can be found here. As always, [[UnreliableNarrator take care when looking through the stories]].

''Note: Due to a restructuring of the entire NAR site network, the hyperlinks in the sub-pages below may or may not work anymore. ''

''Note: Due to a restructuring of the entire NAR site network, the hyperlinks below may or may not work anymore. ''

* [[NotAlwaysWorking/TropesAToE A-E]]
* [[NotAlwaysWorking/TropesFToL F-L]]
* [[NotAlwaysWorking/TropesMToS M-S]]
* [[NotAlwaysWorking/TropesTToZ T-Z]]

!!Not Always Working contains examples of:

[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder: A - C]]

* 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''.
* 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.
* 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.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: D - K]]

* 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.
* 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".
* FailedASpotCheck:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/needs-to-switch-to-oh-wait This employee]] completely misses the labels on the cabinets.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/signs-this-store-needs-more-signs Subverted here]]; the signs the customer apparently missed ''don't exist''.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-tray-again Another subversion]]; the rotisserie trays the employee can't find... aren't where the coworker said they were. The coworker is ''very'' unhappy when she finds out.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/cant-take-that-back This manager]] apparently failed to notice that one of their employees uses a wheelchair for ''three years''.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-shout-out-to-all-the-non-employees/137002/ A grocery store manager]] doesn't realize that the submitter doesn't work at her store until he points out the ''completely'' different uniform (with his company's name) that he's wearing. By that point she had already yelled at him and threatened to write him up. [[OhCrap Oops.]]
* FailedFutureForecast: [[https://notalwaysright.com/geographically-challenged-anxiety/93107/ Amazingly subverted here]] The employee is paranoid that they left the oven on and could potentially start a fire, but their older brother confirms everything is fine. Later, the microwave in the staff room suddenly ''catches on fire and explodes'' (due to the manager punching in an extra zero). The employee is in disbelief that they actually made a correct prediction, but not in the right place.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence:
** Seems to be the logic behind [[http://notalwaysright.com/someones-having-a-beef-part-2 this vegan worker]] throwing out everyone else's lunches for not being vegan, telling the submitter to never wear their leather jacket around her again, and ''demanding'' that the director throw out her leather purse, then ''trying to do it herself''. (This last one gets her fired before her first day is over.)
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/dont-lose-your-headphones-over-it This coworker]] ''really'' doesn't take well to [[FelonyMisdemeanor the submitter wearing headphones]], even if it's the only way he can actually concentrate on his work with everyone else always shouting. She complains about his music disrupting her despite the fact he didn't bring his music with him that day, and rather than admit he's not actually bothering her in any way, she then accuses him of listening to music over the Internet and wasting the company's bandwidth - [[ConvictionByCounterfactualClue even though the entire building's Internet connection had been down for two hours at that point]], meaning that even if the submitter ''were'' listening to music, it wouldn't have been distracting because she does her work online.
* FirstWorldProblems: [[http://notalwaysright.com/growing-up-resourceful-is-priceless This woman]] goes on about having manicures every three weeks, despite them costing $80 each time.
--> ''"I've had to cut back on some other stuff, though. This economy and all. I've cut my maid service down to every 3 weeks instead of every 2, I cancelled my membership to the tanning salon, and I even downgraded my membership at the fitness center."''
* FoodAsBribe: [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-thick-slice-of-bribery It works]] in getting employees to work overtime when the promise of extra money fails.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/putting-the-treat-into-entreat/64483/ And sometimes, it works on more than humans.]]
* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: [[http://notalwaysright.com/saving-us-from-ourselves This employer]] seems never to have learned how to save money properly. Small wonder the potential employee simply walked out without filling out an application.
* ForInconveniencePressOne: A few cases.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/taking-the-urgency-out-of-emergency Here's why]] using this trope for emergency services is a bad idea. At the very least, if you're going to use an automated system for emergency services, make sure it ''works'' properly.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/thats-ducking-brilliant This oddball option]] in a phone menu (sadly, it doesn't exist nowadays).
* ForWantOfANail: [[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 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 inhabitable 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.
* FreudianSlip: [[http://notalwaysright.com/greeting-perverted-disaster-averted "Hi, welcome to [store]. How can I lie to you today?"]]
* TheFunInFuneral: Used verbatim in the title of [[http://notalwaysright.com/putting-the-fun-into-funeral this story]] because a coworker accidentally told someone who'd be missing work for a funeral to "have fun".
* TheGadfly:
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/drive-away-the-scammers Our manager has given us permission to prank any scam calls or telemarketers.]]"
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/just-came-up-with-it-from-scratch "This is what happens when you talk back to your manager!"]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/whiplash-comeback “I would never do that. Although I could probably break someone’s neck by hitting them at just the right point...”]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/their-custom-is-sai-gone This customer]] has a racist worker assemble two sub sandwiches... and then "decides" not to buy them.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/stuck-in-a-silly-landline Another employee messing with a telemarketer]]. Apparently, this telemarketer thought the prank was ActuallyPrettyFunny.
* GenreSavvy:
** ''NAW'' is newer than ''NAR'', but by February 2013, some workers had become aware that their actions (or the actions of their coworkers) might end up on the site. See "[[http://notalwaysright.com/some-bosses-are-more-memorable-than-others Some Bosses Are More Memorable Than Others]]."
** Also like Not Always Right, some workers are aware when they do something silly, like [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-trouble-with-doubles here]].
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: [[http://notalwaysright.com/i-kissed-a-girl-and-i-dont-care-if-you-liked-it "Girls are supposed to kiss]] when there are guys around, because it’s hot and girls HAVE to act hot for guys!"
* GladIThoughtOfIt: [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-watermark-of-a-good-boss/118903/ Inverted here]] by a boss who is fishing for a compliment.
* GoodNewsBadNews: [[http://notalwaysright.com/someone-is-about-to-be-fired This boss]] gets a call from one of his employees, who has good news and bad news. The good news is, the fire's out.
* GoneHorriblyRight:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/got-them-by-hook-or-by-crook A new engineer at a company]] is sent on a [[SnipeHunt joke errand]] to pick up "skyhooks". Turns out, that's the name of a real and ''very'' expensive piece of equipment. [[AnAesop That company no longer hazes new employees by sending them on joke errands]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/recipes-frozen-place/99814/ This vegan bakery]] prides themselves on the hardness of their cookies, even rejecting an alternative recipe for making the cookies too soft. They eventually get sued when someone bites into a cookie and breaks a tooth.
* GretzkyHasTheBall: "[[http://notalwaysright.com/breaking-bank I had forgotten because]] I was thinking about the Rugby football match this weekend between the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_%28Super_Rugby%29 Blues]] and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Warriors Warriors]], sir."[[note]]For those in the U.S., this is rather like saying you were thinking about the football match in Chicago between the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Bears Bears]] and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Fire_SC Fire]]. The former team is an UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball squad, while the latter is an UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball squad, or "soccer" as it's called in the States.[[/note]]
* HeadDesk: [[http://notalwaysright.com/their-mind-is-blank-cheque The conclusion of this story]].
* HeKnowsTooMuch: The motivation behind [[http://notalwaysright.com/back-off-if-you-want-your-backups this person]] being let go by the company. [[PointyHairedBoss The boss]] isn't particularly smart about the way he handled the situation, though -- for starters, assuming that having the ''ability'' to do damage to the company automatically means having the ''willingness'' to go through with it, and responding by [[WhatAnIdiot punishing the employee for having that ability in the first case, thus giving the employee as many reasons to go through with it as possible]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/thats-what-he-gets-for-being-a-pig A Jewish coworker]] who steals the submitter's lunch without asking gets his comeuppance when he ignores her warning that the food he just stole and ate from her contains pork. Since then, he no longer steals her lunch.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/acting-like-a-complete-jerky A female coworker]] who expects free food to be given to her gets a nasty surprise when she steals and eats one worker's jerky and learns too late that it's very spicy.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-great-scam-of-09 This telemarketer selling warranties for car parts]] refuses to reveal which car of the submitter warranty has supposedly run out, by claiming [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Security Reasons]][[note]]The reason being that the telemarketer was trying to make it sound like the submitter had done business with her company before, and also probably because they didn't have a clue what car it was in the first place[[/note]]. The submitter, being GenreSavvy, forces the conversation into an endless loop until the telemarketer gives up.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/married-to-the-idiotic-idea This boss]] promotes a new employee who is married rather than the single experienced employee because she believes [[AggressiveCategorism married employees are more responsible than single employees]]. The boss later got fired after she got a divorce.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/engineered-a-solution/62549/ This worker]] greedily demands to be paid at a higher rate, "or I quit". [[DidntThinkThisThrough The boss and coworkers accept his resignation at face value]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/taking-stock-harassment-claims/97823/ This incompetent worker's]] plan to get his supervisor fired for sexual harassment that never happened goes through smoothly... until [[AwakenTheSleepingGiant HR investigates the claim]] and discovers from [=CCTV=] footage that it was bogus. Both the worker and his father (the manager who fired the supervisor) are subsequently fired for lying to HR.
** A classic example [[https://notalwaysright.com/be-a-sore-winner-and-lose-your-position/135840/ here]]. When the manager who won the competition accuses the other of cheating, an investigation reveals that ''[[RevealingCoverUp he was the real cheater]]''.
* HolierThanThou: [[https://notalwaysright.com/should-have-ignored-the-biblical-signs/119521/ This night manager]] uses Bible verses to justify his very incorrect and jerkish actions. This act gets him fired when he steals from the store under the belief that he shouldn't follow Man's Law since he follows God's Laws.
* HollywoodVoodoo: [[https://notalwaysright.com/should-use-the-microsoft-wizard/64896/ At least one woman]] out there has claimed to have been cursed by a Haitian witch on her job application.
* HonestJohnsDealership: Either [[http://notalwaysright.com/how-to-drive-customers-away this guy]] doesn't know how to do his job, or he's a scammer.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: She really does need the [[http://notalwaysright.com/its-taking-extra-long-for-this-clerk-to-figure-it-out extra-long bed]].
* HumiliationConga:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/got-to-face-the-facebook-facts One boy]] who uses the computer in his school pool's office to sext with his girlfriend on Facebook, being 45 minutes late for his lifeguard shift as a result, gets one when he's found out.
-->''(...when our boss returned he was fired. It gets better: he was expelled for using the school’s computers for “illicit activities.” Then his girlfriend dumped him. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Then his mother made him come and apologize!]])''
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/watching-career-just-flutter/102907/ This apprentice tattoo artist]] intentionally ruins a client's tattoo because he thinks that [[EntitledBastard he's above doing silly butterfly tattoos]] and that he should be able to do whatever he wants. The aftermath? The submitter, who owns the shop, fires him and spreads word of the incident to ''every tattoo parlor in the city'', essentially making the former apprentice a PersonaNonGrata in the industry. Then charges are pressed against him after he throws a tantrum. To top it all off, the client he essentially mutilated sues him, and ''wins''.
* HurricaneOfPuns: [[http://notalwaysright.com/too-many-pun-settias With a flower theme.]]
* HypocriticalHumor:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/do-as-i-say-not-as-a-drink This manager]] castigates an employee for having water at their register (which ''isn't'' against the rules), then leaves with her own stash of soda and food (which ''is'').
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-always-working-can-lead-to-not-ever-working An example]] involving someone refusing to do their job while reading the site itself.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/double-talk Two preachy identical twins bug an atheist.]] Turns out at least [[HonestJohnsDealership one of the twins]] doesn't practice what he preaches.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/needs-a-punch-of-punctuation This cashier]] accuses the submitter and her daughter of being {{Grammar Nazi}}s by giving them grief over their choice of words in trying to order popcorn.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/traffic-excuses-are-a-two-way-street This manager]] chews out his employees for being late, even though they were held up by construction. When the manager's boss points out that the manager was late too, the manager says that he shouldn't be accountable for that, because there was construction.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/his-point-is-entmoot “What you are is geeks.”]] “Says the man who did not ask me to explain the reference.”
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/varying-degrees-of-understanding A regional store manager]] wonders why a local manager is leaving. When an employee tries to explain using the regional manager's daughter as an example, saying that there is no way either of them went to college to work at a dead-end job, the regional manager says that their daughter wouldn't stand for that job, but still doesn't understand why the local manager wouldn't stand for it either.
*** The exact same (lack of) logic is demonstrated by [[http://notalwaysright.com/worried-about-being-put-to-bed-with-a-shovel this boss]]. Parking lot needs its snow shoveled, but there's a sketchy-looking man rooting through their trash nearby. When asked if he would let his fifteen-year-old daughter shovel snow by herself in this situation, the boss says "of course not". A fifteen-year-old employee wanting someone else to help her just in case, though? She's just being lazy for no reason!
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/customer-service-is-not-at-your-service "My boyfriend and I had a good laugh]] about being ignored repeatedly by a man explaining how important good customer service is."
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/sisterhood-of-the-judgmental-rants A cashier]] gives a mother and her baby daughter a hard time because she's under the WIC program, until the cashier's twin sister points out how she had a son during high school and had to have their parents help her out temporarily.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/ki-wheezing This cashier]] accuses a customer of lying to get something for free, going so far as to try to guilt-trip her with "Jesus is watching you lie", when the whole reason the customer is asking for a replacement in the first place is because the cashier lied about there not being any kiwi or kiwi flavoring in their smoothie. Between this and literally telling the customer to "fuck off", [[LaserGuidedKarma she isn't a cashier anymore by story's end]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-my-cup-of-tea This barista]] puts a small cappuccino in a medium cup despite the submitter asking him to put it in a small cup, cannot for the life of him understand what the submitter is talking about when they ask to move it to a small cup... and then, when the submitter reaches behind the counter to grab a small cup and pour the cappuccino into it themselves, has the gall to call ''them'' an idiot. [[LaserGuidedKarma The next customer in line loudly asks for someone else to serve them in response]], and the submitter has since then only ever seen that worker cleaning tables, never behind the counter.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/irony-going-smoke/101906/ This coworker]] "doesn't believe" in getting fireworks for a holiday because it's just setting money on fire and watching it go up in smoke. The poster points out that the coworker in question is a pack-a-day smoker.
* ICantHearYou: [[IncrediblyLamePun Sounds]] like [[http://notalwaysright.com/just-grit-and-bear-it this employee]] has a hearing problem.
* IHaveToGoIronMyDog:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/all-sales-are-irrational This cashier]] feigns excuses for not wanting to do a refund, including "maybe it's got a corset type style" (which it doesn't) and "the computer isn't working" while blatantly messing around with the POS. This then leads to "I can’t give you a refund because the IT guy is driving," after which [[BlatantLies the computer miraculously starts working again]] to service the next customers in line.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/getting-mugged This customer]] encounters this trope too: after bringing a travel coffee mug into a store, they are asked to leave it with the worker so that it doesn't spill on the clothing. When the customer asks for their cup back, the worker pretends to believe that they're asking whether the store sells coffee, denies knowledge of said cup, then awkwardly says "I have to go see something" after the customer points out that the cup is right behind them.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/just-lost-their-chemistry This manager]] is helping a "skinny blonde girl" open her account. After realizing that the girl is majoring in chemistry and physics, the manager says, “I didn’t expect you to say that. I expected [[StayInTheKitchen something fluffy like interior decorating or fashion design]]. If you could excuse me for a second, I, uh, need to go get something from the back." Another manager takes over for her.
* IKnowMortalKombat:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/hasnt-found-his-calling-of-duty This guy]] seems to think he would do great in the army because he plays a lot of ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty''.
-->"[[ComicallyMissingThePoint Except when I play online; I get ganked a lot online.]]"
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/thinking-outside-the-boxes This guy]] is more fortunate, as his childhood ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' skills end up getting put to good use in quickly restocking a store.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: [[http://notalwaysright.com/retail-workers-never-get-away-scotch-free "Look, I'm in my late sixties and I work in retail.]] Right about now, I'd say alcohol is the least of my concerns. Now hit me, barkeep!"
* IdenticalLookingAsians: Ironically, by another Asian. [[http://notalwaysright.com/intelligence-has-departed This jerkass custom clerk]] assumed the submitter was a Singaporean despite her passport saying she's an Australian citizen.
* IllTakeTwoBeersToo: [[http://notalwaysright.com/to-the-fourth-power This waiter]] assumes the trope is in effect, when it's actually a case of one person ordering for all.
* ImAHumanitarian: [[http://notalwaysright.com/some-questions-eat-at-you How do you fillet a person?]]
* ImplausibleDeniability: [[http://notalwaysright.com/in-an-email-dominated-society This company rep]] tries to excuse being beyond useless at helping a customer by telling them said company does not have email. To repeat: they try to tell the customer that ''an international provider of telecommunications'', which had ''already sent that customer multiple emails, '''does not have inter-office email'''''.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: [[https://notalwaysright.com/at-this-office-if-you-cant-stand-the-heat-get-out-of-the-kitchen/138051/ A client at a new office]] mistakes the kitchen for the (overweight) submitter's office, and is rather embarrassed once she realizes what she said and implied. Luckily, the submitter [[ActuallyPrettyFunny is more amused than angry]].
* InsaneTrollLogic: Far, ''far'' too many examples to list even ''close'' to exhaustively, but here goes:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-managers-logic-is-a-bit-spotty "...I really can't argue with that."]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/really-gets-the-blood-pumping This nurse]] apparently thinks that being calm while donating blood means that the donor obviously has a sexual fetish for it. Both her fellow nurse and the donor are extremely confused. To compound the Insane Troll Logic, you would think you would ''want'' the person who likes to give blood to have every reason to do so!
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/refunder-blunder-part-4 This cashier]] can't even keep a consistent excuse for refusing to take a return for more than thirty seconds.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/at-logon-heads This user]] wonders why IT is closing his support ticket after he basically refuses to let IT actually do anything to fix his problem.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/internal-affairs This boss]] tries to blame an ex-intern with whom she didn't get along for making an hours-long call on her home phone to Southeast Asia that resulted in a massive phone bill. [[SarcasmMode It was clearly just a coincidence]] that the boss's cleaning lady's temp replacement had family there, and had a phone that could receive but not make calls.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/game-over-for-this-store This boss]] basically cuts out every single source of income his store could possibly have, and then expects to make ''more'' sales than before. The situation is effectively a kind of DisasterDominoes:
*** He interdicts allowing free playing of anything because it tempts parents to leave kids there, and he doesn't want to be an ad hoc babysitter. This is somehow more important than the possibility of the kids (and other on-the-fence customers) deciding the games are worth buying.
*** After sales wind up falling to half because of this (and a good chunk of the work force is jettisoned), he ends the weekly game tournaments because he doesn't want to have to pay for more than one employee on the floor at a time, even though the said tournaments bring in more money in 2 hours than the normal sales on any other day. It's worth noting that [[PointyHairedBoss he doesn't connect ending the free game tryouts with the business decline]].
*** At the same time, he stops getting new releases, and interdicts trading old games for new, because he's apparently afraid that the new stuff is likely to just sit there.
*** Finally (after forbidding even ''bathroom breaks'' because they'd require the store to be sealed off because he's so cheap that he doesn't want to pay for more than 1 person being present at the store, as stated above), he stops console repairs because he thinks ordering the parts ahead of schedule is a risk of ''them'' just sitting around! In short, he effectively dismisses the value of ''any'' source of income besides people expressly looking to buy old games. No surprise that that one basket wasn't enough to keep the store afloat.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/fired-beyond-reason This store]] is constantly short on staff because the manager keeps firing people for no reason whatsoever.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/something-new-under-the-sun "The sun ISN’T some magic ball of life giving heat.]] The sun is the eye of a malevolent God. It gazes down upon us like a physical presence, weighing us down and making everything worse. It makes us cold in the winter, it makes us hot in the summer, it blinds us as we drive, and agitates the air around us making the air thicker and unpleasant.”
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/all-she-sees-is-a-costumed-villain/62313/ This cashier]] believes the submitter is stealing a dress because she (the submitter) is using it for a costume, and as such is “stealing” it from a poor person, even though the submitter is ready to pay for the dress. The manager that comes to help [[WhatWereYouThinking scolds the cashier]] [[YouHaveGOTToBeKiddingMe for her nonexistent logic]] before checking the submitter out himself. The cashier ends up [[TheyJustDontGetIt continuing her inane activities]], [[LaserGuidedKarma getting fired for]] attempting to get a young boy arrested because he doesn’t look “poor” enough.
* InsigniaRipOffRitual: Happens to [[http://notalwaysright.com/hater-waiter this waiter]], after his boss catches him lying about a customer throwing a tantrum.
* InsistentTerminology: [[http://notalwaysright.com/soft-drinks-can-bubble-up-hard-feelings "IT'S SODA!"]]
* IsThisThingStillOn:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/hello-how-may-i-judge-you When putting someone on hold, make sure they really are.]] And ''always'' mind what you say.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/dont-hold-him-to-it Another example]] involving a hold button mishap. At least this time they were insulting other employees, not the customer.
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/will-be-muted-for-the-rest-of-the-day You're not on mute.]]"
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/outspoken-speaker I was tempted ]]to wait a few seconds more before I calmly revealed to them that every single employee and customer in the store was now privy to their dirty conversation."
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/get-headset-game-2/104224/ A much sillier example]] where the submitter and their friends realize that they can hear an employee [[ClusterFBomb fussing at]] and joking with another employee through a drive-thru speaker at a coffee shop adjacent to the restaurant they're eating at because she forgot to turn her headset off.
* ItsAllAboutMe:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/listorical-revisionism This employee]] calls a tech support person about an e-mail. The employee made a typo regarding a mailing list and wants to rectify that, but do they ask for the e-mail to be recalled or send out another e-mail with the correction? Nope, they ask the tech support person to change the name of the mailing list to match the name in the e-mail instead. Never mind that the mailing list is already being used a lot and they don't own it--admitting that they made a mistake is far more of an issue.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/making-a-lot-of-noise-over-a-little-noise This man]] absolutely refuses to turn down the volume from the maximum level on his computer or use headphones, because he needs to know every single time he gets an email. Never mind that everyone else has to hear the noise too and is very irritated by it.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-manager-just-got-burned This pizza place manager]] has actually been deliberately overcooking customers' pizzas, because ''he'' apparently likes them that way and cannot possibly understand that other people might not like pizza that looks and tastes like charcoal, [[TheyJustDontGetIt even though he's apparently getting upwards of ten calls every day complaining about it]].
** Likewise for [[http://notalwaysright.com/time-to-wake-up-and-smell-the-chai this barista]], who adds coffee to the submitter's chai latte because he likes them with coffee and doesn't realize (or care) that the customers that are actually ordering it may not feel the same way.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/laying-on-the-laying-off-thick This director]] thinks that no one he laid off could feel as bad as he did letting people go.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/scheduling-the-end This car dealership employee]] expects her manager to schedule around what she wants, rather than having the manager set the schedule and consider any special circumstances.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/shelving-the-pay-it-forward-part This boss]], in an interview, tells the interviewer that numerous other businesses donated shelves for them, enough so that they have plenty of unused shelves in storage, but then scoffs at the idea of donating the extras to someone else in need like he was, because "that's for us to use".
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/youre-one-of-the-reasons-i-need-a-holiday-so-badly/126095/ This lady]] doesn't care if a coworker already booked a week off from work eariler than her to attend her cousin's wedding. If she wants to go on a last minute holiday with her kids, she will, and will bully or shame her coworkers to make them give up their day off for her, and if they refuse to do so, she’ll simply call in sick and take the vacation anyway.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/time-for-them-to-vacate-their-position/135210/ This manager]] denies the submitter's vacation request that had been pending for ''eight months'', just so she can take her own last-minute vacation, then [[KickTheDog threatens to fire the submitter if they miss even a single shift in that time period]]. When she's found out by the owner, [[LaserGuidedKarma she is written up (as it wasn't her first such incident) and forced to work every single shift that she had scheduled the submitter for]], before being fired a week after that for making another employee push carts in a thunderstorm.
* IronicEcho: "[[http://notalwaysright.com/karmas-a-sandwich That was worth it for the look on your faces.]]"
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/take-it-personally-to-the-bank It's nothing personal.]]"
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/driving-on-snake-oil Be nice.]]"
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/not-my-problem-coworkers Ain't my problem.]]"
* JeopardyThinkingMusic: Used by [[http://notalwaysright.com/jeopardizing-your-chances-of-a-sale this father]] to thwart a telemarketer.
* {{Jerkass}}: Just like sister site Not Always Right, Not Always Working has more than a few jerks.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-always-receptive Like this receptionist.]]
--->'''Receptionist:''' Well, too bad, you’ll have to wait. Now either go sit down with your ugly four-eyed daughter or take your ''[racial slur]'' selves home and make another appointment!
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/whos-the-boss-part-2 This boss]], although she [[LaserGuidedKarma ends up fired]] in the end:
---> '''Boss''': How the f*** do you think this is wrapped correctly? Are you an idiot? Are you ''slooooooow'' or something? Hurr dee durr, I’m too stupid to wrap a f***ing breakfast sandwich!
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/with-childlike-behavior This retail assistant manager]] acts like a jerk to pregnant people, forcing them to do work meant for other people and [[MaliciousMisnaming calling them the wrong name]], for seemingly no reason. Unfortunately for the assistant manager, that behavior results in her getting chewed out by the store manager, and eventually transferred to another store when she continues harassing other pregnant employees despite his warning.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/ignorance-is-dismiss This credit card agency worker]] ignored a clerk's inquiry: "I heard you the first time, but that just went over my head so I ignored it. There’s nothing I can help you with here. Have a nice day."
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/go-truck-yourself This person]] at a truck reservation company refuses to reserve a truck for a customer and demands that they do it online themselves: "Uh, well, then I’d have to take down ALL of your information. I’m kinda busy, so... please visit our website and reserve the truck there. I don’t have time to help you."
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/speaking-up-for-those-who-cant A new manager]] at a company harasses an autistic employee because he cannot talk. One day she orders him to answer the phone despite him being mute. When the mute worker presses buttons repeatedly and hangs up instead of talking, the manager screams at him and fires him on the spot for insubordination. Fortunately, LaserGuidedKarma kicks in very quickly - the mute worker was actually [[EveryoneKnowsMorse talking in Morse Code]] with his brother, ''[[AlwaysABiggerFish the CEO]]''. Upon learning about what happened, the CEO promptly [[WhatWereYouThinking scolds the manager for her actions]] and fires ''her'' instead.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/i-said-she-nsaid This nurse]] refused to give the migraine-suffering submitter (who was unable to take [=NSAIDs=] due to adverse reactions) the opiate shot for which she'd already made an appointment, tried to lie to her after the doctor said she could have the shot to get her to leave, accused her of being a drug addict, and threw the medication that had been prepared for her away. Fortunately a second nurse intervened and got the patient her medication. It turns out the bad nurse was married to one of the doctors at the same clinic, and was already on thin ice for her conduct; after the patient called to complain, [[LaserGuidedKarma both the nurse and her husband were fired.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/hair-abhorrent-part-2 This restaurant employee]] seems to not care one whit about hairs in a customer's sandwich, which is a clear health violation, and actually chastises the customer for complaining about it. Luckily, the manager straightens the situation out.
** The customer who dealt with [[http://notalwaysright.com/no-business-being-in-business-2 these pizza place workers]] isn't as lucky. Not only are the employees lazy and assholes, so is the manager, and he thinks the employees are the best he's ever had! The customer does get her payback, though, when the pizza place closes down and the former employees attempt to get a job where the customer works.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/dont-get-this-manager-fired-up This employee]] wears their LGBT bigotry on their sleeve like it's some badge of honor. The manager, thankfully, has no tolerance for that crap, and fires them within the week.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-cashiers-number-is-up-part-2 This cashier]] acts like a jerk to the submitter who's under the WIC (Women, Infants and Children) program by refusing to help her separate which food items are permissible under WIC and forces her to do it herself while blaming her for making his work hard. When he purposely damages her eggs and tells her to get a new carton herself, his coworker, the bagger, has enough; [[LaserGuidedKarma he calls their manager, who is angry about his behavior and makes sure the cashier does his work properly under his watch]]. And the submitter's baby daughter gives a satisfying TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on his bad behavior.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/critical-about-their-marriage-is-hypocritical This Assistant Division Officer]] acts like an asshole to a sailor who is about to get married later that afternoon. The officer gives the sailor a list of tasks that will make him late for his wedding because he didn't like that the sailor and his fiancee were not getting married at a church but rather at city hall by a Justice of Peace, and proceeds to insult them by calling them sinners for ruining the sanctity of marriage. Despite the officer's talk about marriage, it is later revealed the officer was a {{Hypocrite}} when [[LaserGuidedKarma his wife discovered he was having an affair with a Rear Admiral's daughter]]!
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/real-people-with-real-problems This nurse]] thinks it's real cute that the submitter is acting like her disabled friend (the actual patient) is a ''real'' person with ''real'' feelings. Luckily the doctor was [[RightBehindMe right there]], and [[LaserGuidedKarma gave the nurse a reality check (and a suspension)]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/dying-to-learn-how-to-drive These nurses]], seeing an unconscious, bleeding man and his daughter breaking her leg trying to carry him into the hospital, refuse to help because they automatically assume the man is a drunk and the daughter is a druggie.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/steal-oneself-for-racists This cashier]] immediately calls for security just from ''seeing'' a Japanese person approaching the counter, automatically assuming she's going to steal something and calling her a "ching-chong" while the guard searches her bag. When it unsurprisingly turns out she made shit up, rather than apologize as the guard suggests, she shouts, "As if! I'm going on break!" [[LaserGuidedKarma The next time the submitter went there, that cashier was long gone.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/should-have-eaten-an-apple-a-day This doctor]] acts holier-than-thou about a patient coming in hours after they notice symptoms (since they were at work and couldn't come in earlier), and then for good measure insults them for an unrelated condition they've had since birth. The patient outright refuses to let that doctor touch them after that point; fortunately, since this is far from the first time that doctor had been an asshole to patients, he's fired almost immediately.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/hater-waiter This waiter]], during slow moments where he's the only one working, decides to go up to perfectly-behaved customers and go completely berserk at them for no reason at all - and then, since he's the only waiter who saw what happened, make up false (and completely ridiculous) complaints from them and blame ''them'' for the results of his rampage; it's revealed he's gotten at least five other families thrown out and two families banned from the restaurant by pulling this stunt. [[LaserGuidedKarma Fortunately, the restaurant has security cameras]], and once the boss checks the footage, he [[TranquilFury promptly fires the waiter without a word]], and then compensates the submitter's meal.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-rep-has-a-lot-of-spaining-to-do This]] service rep of a bank refuses to believe that a charge is wrong, and shrugs it off by saying "[[BotheringByTheBook Our system doesn't make mistakes]]", no matter how much proof the submitter gives that it's an error on their part. It escalates to the rep insulting her over it, and then for good measure accusing her of being a scammer when she asks for the rep's name to file a complaint; unsurprisingly, as the submitter discovers when filing the complaint, the asshole was fired the instant she ended the call.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/some-coworkers-are-just-suffocating These cooks]] thought it was funny to shut a claustrophobic high-functioning autistic worker in a walk-in freezer, causing the worker to almost have a full blown panic attack. Unfortunately, even though the submitter scolded the cooks, their manager agreed with them, thinking it was just a harmless prank. The worker [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quit that job immediately, and the submitter followed suit two months later]].
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/badly-treating-your-labor-force This cook]] likewise thought it was funny to lock a pair of coworkers, one of them nine months pregnant, in a walk-in freezer - and then he ''forgot about them for twenty minutes'' because of a sudden rush of customers. And, again unfortunately, the manager actually writes the pregnant worker up for going back there in the first place.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-my-problem-coworkers These night shift workers at a retirement home]] refused to do extra work beyond their normal shift when the morning shift was delayed by a snowstorm, resulting in numerous residents being left to wait for assistance for more than an hour.
%%** [[http://unfiltered.notalwaysright.com/post/57724810114/fast-food-mi-usa-the-scene-is-a-popular-burger This customer]] falls prey to a jerkass manager. After he gets extremely sick from one of the two chicken sandwiches he bought, he asks the manager for a refund; she declines because according to her, the store doesn't refund purchases made with coupons, and on top of that, the customer complained when he got the wrong sandwich ([[BlatantLies neither of which is true]] — the cashier told him that his coupon was good for the chipotle versions, but when the other worker {who, it turns out, is also the manager} said that the coupons were only valid for the regular ones, he took the regular ones without complaint). Fortunately, after he e-mails corporate, he gets much nicer treatment from both a representative and the store's other, much nicer manager.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/acting-badly-on-your-watch "I’m such a b***! Ha!"]] At least this jerk is [[AtLeastIAdmitIt honest about it]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/weight-gain-equals-job-loss This employee]] makes the assumption that a person is thin because they're anorexic (they're actually recovering from the flu). Even if they ''were'' right about it, calling them an "anorexic freak" to their face and trying to ring them up for a large regular soda and a cheeseburger against their request is ''not'' the way to handle such a situation.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/racism-will-no-longer-accepted-delivery/101430/ This boss]] proudly displays her racism against a black delivery man like a billboard on a highway, calling the delivery company seemingly every day to complain about even the tiniest of mistakes made by the delivery man. The author eventually has enough of her bullshit and quits a week later, only to run into the same delivery man at her new job. The author then reveals the truth about her ex-boss, which ultimately ends up saving the delivery man's job as his manager was with him at the time. The delivery company then [[LaserGuidedKarma cuts the ex-boss's contract]] as a result of her hostility towards the delivery man.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/dont-dish-cant-take/105021/ This waitress]] first insists that the customer cannot order a certain dish without mushrooms. Then when the submitter orders a dish that doesn't come with mushrooms, the waitress intentionally screws it up by putting down ''extra extra mushrooms'' on the ticket, and proceeds to [[NeverMyFault dismiss it as an accident]]. Fortunately, the manager sees through her lies and comps the submitter's meal, and [[LaserGuidedKarma the waitress is fired shortly after]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/they-rostered-their-own-last-days/118890/ This coworker and manager]] do not like the submitter, and do whatever they can to get her fired, to no avail. When the coworker wishes to go to a music festival, she demands the submitter to swap vacation time with her (after the manager tells her that if the submitter refuses, the manager will swap them anyway). The submitter refuses to do so, stating that the store manager had already approved a ten day vacation across the country three months prior. Therefore, the submitter verifies the schedule twice, once immediately before the conversation and once on her last day before vacation, and gets a supporting statement from a different coworker. As such, when the submitter is called into the store manager’s office, she is easily able to prove that the errant manager swapped the coworker with the submitter without the submitter’s permission after the submitter left. The proof, previous problems, and supporting testimony get [[LaserGuidedKarma both the coworker and manager fired.]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/should-have-thrown-in-some-mac-cheese-to-finish-it-off/127196/ This racist waiter]], rather than give a black customer what he ordered, a lemonade and a cheeseburger, instead told the chef to make the customer sweet tea and fried chicken, a stereotypical Southern Black dish.
* KarmicJackpot:
** A financially-challenged patient always does their best to make the minimum monthly payments on an ER debt, so the billing department clerk [[http://notalwaysright.com/bill-ieve-in-the-kindness-of-strangers decides to forgive the debt completely]].
** A kid and their father have a weekly tradition of renting movies from a store, making them regular, reliable customers. When the store goes out of business, [[http://notalwaysright.com/still-has-a-movies-happy-ending one of the employees tells the kid to take whatever they want, and not worry about returning it]]-- they'll be getting rid of the movies when they close, anyway.
* KarmicTrickster: The IT employee submitter in [[https://notalwaysright.com/revenge-is-always-the-real-thing/119805/ this story]], which plays out almost like a real life ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short. A new teacher at the school the submitter works at steals the submitter's soda and pointedly refuses to pay the submitter back for it despite saying that he would (when the submitter confronts the teacher, the teacher claims to not know what the submitter is talking about and laughs them off). The teacher walks, and the IT employee decides to teach the teacher a lesson. When later setting up the teacher's new computer, the submitter makes his password "[=J3rk&Th!ef=]". Then they set the computer's start-up sound to be very loud audio from a soda commercial. Finally, all of the teacher's documents have "I steal from my coworkers" added to the header and bottom of them and the documents have "I'm a thief" automatically added to their filenames. It doesn't take very long for the teacher to admit defeat and pay the submitter the money he owes them, and the ending suggests that the teacher [[DefeatEqualsFriendship never did anything like this again]].
* TheKeyIsBehindTheLock:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/sub-standard-operating-procedures To open a ticket]] about email not working, please send an email. [[http://notalwaysright.com/infinitely-loopy-part-3 The password for email]] will be [[http://notalwaysright.com/infinitely-loopy emailed to you]].
** Please immediately report stolen passport [[http://notalwaysright.com/bureau-crazy-part-2 to the embassy]], which you may enter upon showing a valid passport.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/infinitely-loopy-part-5 Please bring a bank statement]] to open a new bank account.[[note]]While presumably a statement from a ''different'' bank would work, this particular customer has never ''had'' a bank account before, with ''any'' bank.[[/note]]
** An [[http://notalwaysright.com/youve-got-to-be-key-dding-me almost literal variant]].
** Several examples where a person is trying to cancel a service or close an account for a dead relative and get told their relative has to come in in person. One had to say "he's DEAD" at least three times.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-so-smart-phone-part-6 Your broken phone's replacement is here.]] We've notified you by sending a text message to your broken phone.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-quite-the-picture-perfect-resolution "...You want a photo? Of the parts we haven't got? What, you want me to just take a photo of my desk with nothing on it?"]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/cant-quite-pin-down-that-line-of-thinking This submitter]] calls an alarm company because they've forgotten the four-digit PIN to log in with. The first verification that the tech asks for? The very four-digit PIN that the submitter has forgotten!
** Don't know how our company creates passwords? Not to worry, [[https://notalwaysright.com/password-catch-22 I'll send you a document explaining it]]. Password protected, of course.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-taking-direct-router/106629/ This tech support worker]] tells the submitter, a computer technician, that she'll have to download a virus checker to get rid of a (nonexistent) virus that supposedly caused DHCP flooding before her internet, which the ISP intentionally disabled because of said virus, is reinstated. Ignoring the fact this wouldn't help anyway because the real culprit is a malfunctioning router, only someone seriously HopelessWithTech would fail to see the problem here, and the submitter immediately chuckles at the impossible request. Also, the ISP tried to tell her that they'd disabled her internet through an email even though, given that this happened in December 2007, smartphones and data plans are niche and likely useless in rural Canada.
* KillItWithFire: According to [[http://notalwaysright.com/when-live-wires-get-their-wires-crossed this electrician]], ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure to kill a spider.
* KillSteal: In [[http://notalwaysright.com/her-prized-obsession "Her Prized Obsession]]," some sales associates are competing to see who can get the most rewards card sign-ups.
-->"I think I should get counted for this signup instead of you, because I spent so much time with her!"
* TheKlutz: The family in [[http://notalwaysright.com/avoiding-law-suits-in-swim-suits this story]]. Three of the four members manage to injure themselves in a water park. Thankfully, the employees are understanding and even give them free passes.
* KnightInSourArmor: [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-always-right-is-never-wrong This manager]] provides the best customer service, but not because he actually ''cares'' about the often-idiotic customer; he just wants them ''think'' he cares so they'll pay the bill and leave happy and with a minimum of fuss.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll:
** A distressing number of stories set in a hospital will involve nurses and even doctors that apparently never actually went to medical school but still blow off legitimate concerns from a patient with nothing more than "I know better than you because I'm a nurse/the doctor."
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-titanic-gap-in-your-knowledge This tour guide]] seems to have got it in her head that she knows everything there is to know about the ''Titanic'' without having to do any research simply by ''being'' a tour guide, and as such she becomes very angry when the submitter, who ''has'' done the research, turns out to know more than she does.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: L - R]]

* LamePunReaction: [[http://notalwaysright.com/wishing-for-pun-tea-total This person]] groans at an employee's tea pun.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/you-make-me-zoo-icidal And this zoo worker's]] boss makes him tell customers bad zoo puns.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The point of a great deal of the stories, if not a majority of them.
** Don't you just love when karma bites people [[http://notalwaysright.com/consider-yourself-ameliorated like this guy]] hard?
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/affirmative-action-affirmed "Perhaps you should be careful how you speak about your employees. You could offend someone."]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-only-thing-he-should-be-running-is-scared And another]] JerkAss boss gets what he deserves.
** Schedule a worker to work on their graduation day after he's requested it off? Especially after you promised it? [[http://notalwaysright.com/mortarboard-and-hassle Looks like YOU'LL be doing that work instead.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-seeing-the-forest-for-your-duties Karma bites yet another asshole boss]]. To make it even sweeter, not only did the boss get fired for his blatant disregard of the customers, the submitter got a promotion!
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-return-to-decency Here's one]] where we see the ''customer'' [[InvokedTrope invoke the trope]], and the others nearby follow suit.
** Almost immediately after the unjust firing of an employee, [[http://notalwaysright.com/have-no-truck-with-these-coworkers this boss]] is found to have been MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces with a coworker; the firing of the first employee is reversed, and both the BadBoss and his coworker are fired instead.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/shell-have-nonna-his-lip Both kinds here]], courtesy of a little girl with her grandmother.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/consider-yourself-downsized Make vitriolic fat jokes]]? Don't expect to hold that job for very long.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/with-childlike-behavior Try to force a pregnant employee]] to do work that puts her unborn child in danger? You're doing the work yourself. Try that behavior again with ''another'' pregnant employee? You're not working in that store anymore.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/making-sweepingly-bad-statements This worker]] refuses to help a customer find sweeping compound, claiming they don't have it. His supervisor orders him to clock out while she helps the customer get his item. The worker lies to the boss that she tried to fire him. Too bad for the worker, the customer told the boss what really happened and how the supervisor helped him, which got the worker fired instead.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/critical-about-their-marriage-is-hypocritical This guy]] refuses to let a sailor take the days off to get married and have his honeymoon because he didn't schedule to have the ceremony at a church, calling his fiancé a whore and claiming they're ruining the sanctity of his marriage. A few days later, word slipped to said man's wife that he had been sleeping with a rear admiral's daughter - the last line of the sentence implying [[TheDogBitesBack the aforementioned groom, or possibly the writer of the story, may have had something to do with it.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/shakedown-on-laziness Being lazy]] by not making the shakes your coworker asked you to make and lie that it was the coworker's job and they're the lazy one? The manager knows you're lying, and orders you to sweep the entire lot in the rain.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/studiously-avoiding-responsibility Deliberately throw away customers' orders because you don't like working during rush hour]]? Now you're transferred to the graveyard shift where you have to deal with drunks and stoners!
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-very-model-of-a-modern-american Rudely telling an American who's been living abroad in Ireland]] they're a no good lying foreigner and refusing to serve her? Watch as she humiliates you big time by singing a MajorGeneralSong as proof that she's American, then expect to get an earful (and your pink slip) from the manager.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-speediest-way-to-get-fired This girl]] is nothing but snide and holier-than-thou to someone who got a speeding ticket that was most definitely an accident, calling him stupid multiple times; thankfully, the manager was more level headed. When the poster went in to rectify it, said receptionist called him stupid ''when her boss was right behind her''. Say goodbye to your job, missy.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-making-a-valid-pointe This registrar]] and his boss purposely register girls into ballet and gymnastics classes regardless of what they actually wanted, because the registrar is a sexist who [[StayInTheKitchen doesn't believe girls can play sports]] and his boss wants the classes to meet its quota of 9 students each so they won't get cancelled. They get their comeuppance when two mothers who wanted sports classes for their daughters, outraged over what these men did, organize a boycott, to the effect that only 16 of the 37 children who were signed up for sports (all boys) actually attend these classes, leaving most (possibly ''all'', depending on what they were signed up for) of these classes cancelled!
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/taking-a-holiday-from-management This store manager]] went out of his way to avoid ever working on the holidays, against company policy, including scheduling a shift manager to work on Thanksgiving four years running. He was found out when one of the workers he screwed over called corporate, was forced to work Thanksgiving and possibly Christmas, and was demoted and transferred to another store.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/sins-of-the-father-4/60043/ This worker]] repeatedly sexually harassed other female employees, who could do nothing about it, since he ignored their requests to stop and his father was the boss, who likewise ignored any complaints. When someone to whom the boss is not actually a superior gets fed up and does something about it[[note]] [[RefugeInAudacity She knocked him out and duct-taped him to a table in full view of a security camera]]. It took fifteen minutes to remove the pervert from said table.[[/note]], the boss immediately threatens to fire her - only for the owner to fire him and his son instead, after which he assists the employee in filing a sexual harassment lawsuit on those two.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/pink-eye-or-the-pink-slip This lunch manager]] threatens to fire a worker who tried call in sick because of pink eye. The morning manager, knowing how contagious pink eye can be, personally clocks out the worker and orders them to stay home until they recover. The lunch manager is then ordered to personally clean and sanitize everything the sick worker had touched as punishment for forcing them to come in.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/supply-and-demanding Act rude and crass to a business secretary]]? Better to not do that, because that just might be the owner filling in, who will make sure you never get another contract.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/needs-to-call-out-racism-on-the-carpet An extremely racist carpet salesperson]] refuses to take their turn helping a customer because he is African-American, repeatedly calls him a racial slur, implies he's a criminal, etc. Then it turns out he's a sports player, and carpeted his entire home in expensive carpeting, and therefore the racist salesperson just missed out on a huge commission.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/tipped-to-win This club-goer]] is treated extremely poorly by a bartender, who tries to sabotage his night by purposely ignoring him for long periods of time and intentionally pouring him a more expensive drink than he wanted. The karmic part comes when the bartender accidentally gives the club-goer $10 bills instead of $1 bills as change. The club-goer gets a female friend to pretend to be enamored with him as he returns to the bar, orders some expensive drinks, and leaves a penny tip for the bartender.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/pretty-woman-a-christmas-special This salesperson]] immediately decides the submitter (dressed shabbily because she just got off from working at a dog kennel) is broke and possibly homeless, claiming she can't stay and trying to tell her what she can and can't afford even as the submitter buys a gift card for her father worth $250 - and a different salesperson gets the commission for it.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/dont-make-her-dairy-you-wont-like-her-when-shes-dairy This cook]] has listened to a customer go into detail about what goes into a garden burger (said customer was vegan, and unlike [[YouKeepUsingThatWord many examples]] in Not Always Right, actually fit the definition), only to make the garden burger using butter (a dairy product, and ''not'' vegan). When this mistake is brought to the cook's attention by the submitter, the cook replies "[[PrecisionFStrike F***]] it. [[TemptingFate She won’t notice.]]" Not only ''does'' the customer notice, she's enraged enough to throw the tainted garden burger directly at the cook who made it!
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/engineered-a-solution This demanding worker]] keeps pestering his coworkers and HR with unreasonable demands, barely staying behind the line between being retained and being fired. When he makes one more demand to HR, saying "if you won't give this to me, I quit"; the HR worker [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor takes the ultimatum at face value--as if the problem worker is quitting]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/some-bigotry-just-takes-the-cake This Welshcake seller]], who ignores one family who wanted to order Welshcakes from her due to their children speaking English accents, gets the same treatment in turn when another Welshcake seller invites the family to order cakes from his stall, [[TakeThat saying his cakes are better than hers]]. This leads all of the customers to ignore the first seller and go to the other seller.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/one-scoop-of-bigotry-with-screams-on-top This worker]] refuses to serve two Muslim women because he believes that they are terrorists, yelling at them to leave and saying "We don’t serve sand-n*** here." When the manager comes out, the worker insists that the customers need to leave, citing the right to refuse service because he thinks they're terrorists. The worker is fired the next day for discrimination, and the two customers get their orders for free.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-sizeable-fail This lingerie store worker]] who refuses to serve plus size customers and rudely flirts with the male customers in front of their wives/girlfriends finally gets her punishment when she makes a husband uncomfortable by first trying to flirt with him, then calling him a freak after learning he wants to buy a gift for his plus size wife. As it happens, the regional manager - her ''boss's boss'' - is shopping nearby and sees the whole thing, fires her, and orders her to get out.
** A manager charged with reducing company costs decides not to fire three workers himself, but to excuse himself with a "business trip", "promote" a lower-ranked employee in his absence, and charge ''them'' with firing three workers before his return. A friend in Corporate authorizes the put-upon employee to [[https://notalwaysright.com/he-really-let-himself-go/65212/ fire the irresponsible manager instead, and formally promotes the submitter]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/christmas-karma This submitter]] went Christmas shopping after work, only for a sales clerk and manager to both decide that because he's still in his work clothes (for a juvenile "boot camp") he's obviously a homeless person planning to steal those items and sell them to buy drugs. This trope kicks in after the manager calls the cops, who address the submitter as "Sarge".
---> '''Manager:''' Why do you keep insisting on calling this bum 'Sarge'?
---> '''Police Officer:''' Because he's my boss.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/dont-bite-the-hand-that-shreds-you-2/58004/ File an incorrect repair order with the secretary instead of the janitors, refusing to cooperate and heaping abuse and threats on them both the whole time?]] The secretary shreds the work order since it's not her problem.
---> [[DeadpanSnarker I have no idea why they haven't fixed that desk yet.]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/getting-sauce-problem/106654/ This poster]] got back from their lunch break to find that a coworker had rummaged through their desk and taken a bottle of hot sauce. Specifically, a bottle of BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce -- the poster never uses more than a single drop on their food, but judging by the physical reaction the coworker used a lot more. The coworker had to take the day off without pay to recover (and no longer takes anything from the poster's desk).
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/theyre-not-always-alt-right/118392/ This mail loader]] refuses to load mail for a driver because said driver isn't white, [[WhatAnIdiot proudly admitting that she's not doing her job to her boss's face]] and even using a racial slur to describe that driver. Her boss, the submitter, fires her on the spot for her bigotry, and later rebuffs a LawfulStupid-at-best union rep for trying to defend her.
* LethallyStupid: [[http://unfiltered.notalwaysright.com/post/121703289991/movie-theater-kingston-uk-i-go-and-see These]] ushers, instead of quietly going up to a moviegoer and asking him to stop playing with his phone, point out the moviegoer who complained! To make matters worse, the moviegoer who complained and her friend were small, young women and the disobedient one was [[ScaryBlackMan a tall man]] described as being 'like a {{Football Hooligan|s}}' and he's [[AdultFear waiting by]] [[FridgeHorror the entrance]]. Luckily, nothing bad happened to the girls.
* LightbulbJoke:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/two-to-hold-the-bulb-one-to-turn-the-room Referenced here.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/three-two-to-get-stumped-by-it-one-to-return-it This]] return of a defective item ends with the similar joke, "How many employees does it take to open a blender?"
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/your-job-is-a-joke Here]] is one where a customer gets a chance to do it.
* LiteralMetaphor: "As I've been saying, gentlemen, if you want to talk to the witness, you're really going to have to [[http://notalwaysright.com/were-not-clownin-around talk to the clown down there."]]
* LiteralMinded:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-story-takes-the-cake This bakery employee]], when instructed to "draw hearts", wrote just that.
** [[http://unfiltered.notalwaysright.com/post/85027272525/restaurant-wisconsin-usa-we-are-driving-to-go This Cashier]] doesn't seem to realize hamburger doesn't really need ham.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/penny-dreadful-service This waiter]], when told by the customer she wanted to bring the wine bottle home, rather than cork the half full wine bottle, proceeds to dump and waste the wine into a bucket and give the customer the empty bottle. Needless to say, the waiter only got tipped a penny for his stupidity.
* MachoMasochism: [[http://notalwaysright.com/no-pain-no-brain-part-3 “Bah, safety equipment is for sissies.” ]]
* MajorGeneralSong: [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-very-model-of-a-modern-american This customer]] is refused service due to a bigoted waitress thinking that she isn't an American. She proceeds to sing the first verse of the song to prove that she really is American, while the waitress is later fired for her bigotry.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[http://notalwaysright.com/hard-working-to-the-corp This new hire]] cuts his finger so deep with a box cutter than the blade skips off the joint, but still insists on finishing his shift, visibly impressing his ex-Marine manager.
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Note to workers who do this: CCTV cameras are a thing and will probably catch you at it.
** Along with the mistreatment and subsequent firing of a fellow employee, this gets [[http://notalwaysright.com/have-no-truck-with-these-coworkers this boss and his girlfriend]] fired themselves.
** The night manager in [[https://notalwaysright.com/dont-get-grilled-cheese/109125/ this story]] did this with a subordinate ''on a restaurant's grill''. The night before an inspection was scheduled. Oh, and they didn't do any actual work, either. Upon looking at security footage to determine why this was the case, the {{Squick}}ed out management fired them, threw out the grill, and sued them for the cost of a replacement.
* MaliciousMisnaming:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/with-childlike-behavior This assistant manager]], in addition to forcing a pregnant worker to do work that would put her unborn child in danger, insists on incorrectly referring to her as Karen, even though the submitter's real name is ''clearly visible on her name tag''. Luckily, the store manager quickly notices and scolds the assistant manager for her behavior, and later transfers her to another store when she tries to pull the same stunt on another pregnant worker.
** The barista in [[https://notalwaysright.com/maybe-hes-a-jimophobe/118063/ this story]] continuously and blatantly deliberately calls the submitter, Jim, by the wrong name - Germ for Jim, Janine for what is presumably James or Jamie, and Burp for Bob. Jim [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere eventually stops going to that coffee shop]], and he clearly wasn't the only one the barista did this to, as the shop has apparently lost a significant amount of business since Jim decided to get his caffeine fix elsewhere.
* MamaBear: [[http://notalwaysright.com/these-arent-aches-you-can-fake Don't tell THIS mother]] that her daughter's migraine and double vision are psychosomatic. [[spoiler:They weren't, and if mama hadn't complained to the doctor in charge, the daughter could have gone blind, or worse.]] No report on what happened to the first doctor in the story.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/had-it-up-to-her-neck-with-them/60161/ Here]] is a Mama-in-law Bear.
* MathematiciansAnswer: [[http://notalwaysright.com/meet-me-in-the-middle "Do you have a middle name?"]] "Yes."
* MetaphorIsMyMiddleName: [[http://notalwaysright.com/making-sure-his-kid-has-name-game This coworker's kid]]. [[LiteralMetaphor Literally]].
* MistakenForEvidence: [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-deaf-but-definitely-blind/114949/ This manager]] accusses the submitter of being a homophobic sexist, citing an email sent by him to her that she claim he called her a "B*** S*** Lesbian". However, the senior manager points out that the acronym, B.S.L., which she thought was proof, actually meant "British Sign Language." The manager was threatened with dismissal when she refused to apologize to the submitter when she herself earlier used a homophobic slur at the submitter when he revealed he's actually gay to refute her accusation.
* MistakenForJunkie: [[http://notalwaysright.com/trying-to-hold-your-headache-up-high This customer]] is asked to leave a store because the worker thinks that they are high, when in reality, they're just loopy from a really bad migraine.
* MistakenForPedophile:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/police-work-is-childs-play This girl's boyfriend]] gets brought to a police station when a cashier thought she saw a 20-something male kissing an 11- to 14-year-old girl; the young girl is [[OlderThanTheyLook 26]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/police-work-is-childs-play-part-2 Second verse]], same as the first. Even the ages are nearly the same.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/police-work-is-childs-play-part-3 And now for something completely different]]: someone mistaken for a pedophile because the receptionist thinks a lady born in 1992 is [[EverybodyHatesMathematics only eleven years old in 2013]]. Even worse, this comes after the receptionist clearly sees the boyfriend's birth date was only ''two years'' before the girlfriend's - he justifies this by claiming "I thought he was trying to trick me".
** And [[http://notalwaysright.com/had-it-up-to-her-neck-with-them here]] it's a nurse. After being the third one to not know a woman gave birth without an epidural, she also thinks she's a teenage single parent; and when her husband shows up, she immediately accuses him of being a pedophile and goes to call the cops. Luckily, his mother, who also works at the hospital, is there and drags the idiot nurse off. When the girl wakes up next, she's greeted by another nurse who was put there by the mother-in-law to keep other stupid nurses away.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/that-taught-him-a-lesson This manager]] believes that the submitter, a 25-year-old woman, is a [[OlderThanTheyLook teenager]] trying to get a teachers' discount (as the submitter just got certified to teach). When the submitter's 30-year-old fiancé makes a statement about climbing into bed with her, the manager calls security. Luckily for the couple, the submitter is able to straighten the situation out before the manager got the police over and get the meal comped, but it means that the manager [[FailedASpotCheck ignored the alcohol on the table as well as the submitter's photo ID, which had her date of birth clearly printed on it.]]
* MistakenForPregnant:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-a-baby-or-even-a-maybe This one.]] "I don't understand why some women are so sensitive about their pregnancy!"
** One wonders how [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-a-baby-or-even-a-maybe-part-2 this employee]] [[TheyJustDontGetIt keeps up the misunderstanding for so long]].
** No amount of proof can persuade [[https://notalwaysright.com/pregnant-with-ignorance this student nurse]] that the patient is not pregnant.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/pregnant-with-inattentiveness/91142/ This nurse]] was so busy looking at the computer that she didn't realize the patient in front of her was a man and not a pregnant female!
* MistakenForRacist:
** Not racism, but [[http://notalwaysright.com/senseless-sensitivity this worker]] was reprimanded by their supervisor for insensitivity towards the disabled. The supervisor thought the employee was using the term "Mr. Walker" as a derogatory name because he uses crutches to walk, the real reason is that the man's name ''really is'' Mr. Walker. The worker sarcastically suggests calling the disabled man "Hey, you!" or just simply ignoring him completely, but the sarcasm flies completely over the supervisor's head and he agrees with him.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/type-bigot-positive Here's a case]] of Mistaken for ''Nazi'', with a side order of SustainedMisunderstanding.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-one-that-can-hear-is-not-listening This worker and manager]] both come to the conclusion that a person is refusing to do business with the worker solely because she is wearing a burka, even though the person repeatedly tells them that ''she's deaf'', and she legitimately cannot do business with that worker because the burka prevents her from reading their lips.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-race-to-prove-a-point/64644/ This front desk manager]] is scolded by his boss for racially profiling applicants even though the submitter gives numerous valid reasons for not accepting the non-white applicants including not replying to calls that are noted on the resumes, living in a different continent, having interviewed people of color and the [[{{Hypocrite}} boss rejecting an Asian candidate because she didn't understand his accent]] on top of the submitter being First Nations, and being in a rural town that is 80% white. The boss then suggests a black person whom the submitter doesn't want because said applicant came in with no resume and in unprofessional attire, is unable to speak English (which is the language the system and paperwork uses), and barely speaks French in an accent that is so thick that the submitter can barely understand him. In response, the boss scolds the submitter for being racist, only hearing "he's black" and "he has an accent", and hires the guy anyway. The new hire is shown to have a [[{{Jerkass}} terrible attitude]], [[LazyBum no work ethic]], and a [[TheLoad complete inability to do or learn his job]], lasting less than a month. [[BittersweetEnding However, the boss learned never to doubt the submitter again.]]
* MistakenForRomance: [[http://notalwaysright.com/giving-him-pregnant-pause This]] waiter apparently assumes that the submitter is his pregnant friend's significant other, and gives him some nasty looks because they split the bill.
* MistakenForServant:
** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-shout-out-to-all-the-non-employees/137002/ this story]], a deli worker at a grocery store mistakes an office store worker (the submitter) for a grocery store employee. When the submitter points out that he does not work at the grocery store, the manager drags him to the office and begins berating him for causing trouble. After the manager threatens to write him up for insubordination, the submitter points out [[FailedASpotCheck his completely different uniform from the one the grocery store workers are wearing]], at which point the manager realizes [[OhCrap she had effectively been screaming at a customer]]. The ending implies that she was fired not long after the incident.
** A more disturbing case in [[https://notalwaysright.com/when-management-messes-with-maleficent/128083/ this story]]. The submitter is mistaken by another customer for an employee at a department store, even though she is wearing a Maleficent shirt, [[FailedASpotCheck which looks nothing like the uniform]]. When the submitter refuses to help, the customer brings over the manager, who starts [[NoIndoorVoice brutally screaming in the submitter's face at near point-blank range]] without even allowing her a chance to say that she doesn't work there. Fortunately, a security guard comes to the submitter's aid after she demands the manager to get away from her. The police are also called, and [[LaserGuidedKarma the manager is implied to have had assault charges pressed against him for his outburst.]]
** [[ExploitedTrope Exploited]] by [[http://notalwaysright.com/networking-notworking the submitter here]]: He was hired as a networks engineer at a call center, but the first day the owner mistook him for a "coffee boy". The submitter ran with the mistake because in three years, no one realized he was still being paid as though he were in the position he was actually qualified for; in fact, he's being paid ''more'' to make coffee than he would have been to maintain networks, because his boss keeps giving him high performance ratings, so he keeps getting raises.
* MistakenForSpecialGuest: [[https://notalwaysright.com/mystery-solved/99858/ These shoe salespeople]] know a mystery shopper is visiting the store, so they give a man with a notebook royal treatment, while giving the barely-out-of-high-school submitter barely any attention at all. The submitter is the mystery shopper, and suffice to say, she didn't give a positive evaluation.
* MistakenForSubculture: [[http://notalwaysright.com/staff-have-trouble-written-all-over-them This story]] with a mix of MistakenForJunkie. Two American pizzeria cashiers refuse to serve a Maori uncle and nephew, thinking they were "druggie tattoo freaks" due to their [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tā_moko Ta Moko tattoos]], and trying to force them to leave. When the nephew tries to explain their Ta Mokos are actually part of their culture and it’s against regulation to not serve customers just because they come from a different race, [[CassandraTruth the cashiers think they're making it up]]. Thankfully, their manager knows Maori culture and apologizes to the customers by giving them a free pizza.
* MortonsFork:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/plenty-of-room-for-improvement This hotel manager]] is insistent that a customer's free night at the hotel was fraudulent. She ends up having one of these forced upon her: either she admits the beds were not cleaned as she says they were, or she admits that a maid ignored a 'do not disturb' sign on the door and took their towels.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/your-bs-sensor-is-working-just-fine This mechanic]] gets another one forced on him, after replacing a sensor in the submitter's car that had already been replaced the year previous and did not cost nearly as much as he's trying to charge for it now - either he admits he's lying about either the status or the price of the sensor to rip the submitter off, or he admits he's been deliberately installing faulty sensors that barely last a year into people's cars to rip off the submitter, and every other customer he's ever had.
* MuggingTheMonster:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/foot-in-mouth-101 This college department head]], who had a history of being racist and sexist, made the mistake of assuming a pair of women [[StayInTheKitchen were in the nursing program]]. One of them came over and set things straight--not only was she a criminal justice major, she was also the granddaughter of a major benefactor of the college. [[LaserGuidedKarma He was fired before the following term]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/consider-yourself-downsized This clothing store employee]] blatantly insults a customer, calling her a fatass among other things and telling her to get out of the store. When the customer's friend helps out, the employee begins insulting him too, and learns too late that the friend happens to ''own'' the store they're in. Unsurprisingly, [[LaserGuidedKarma the employee is fired on the spot]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/show-em-whos-boss This example]] overlaps with OutGambitted; while the coworker doing the "mugging" [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections knows the assistant manager]], the "monster's" ''father'' owns the company. The coworker [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere almost immediately quits]] upon learning this.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/getting-owned-by-the-owner-part-5 This new hire]] sees what he thinks is a teenager enter the store [[RantInducingSlight and immediately decides to yell at him and tell him to leave the store]], going so far as to threaten to call the owner over it and saying that [[BlatantLies because he's good friends with said owner]], they'll side with him on this. He places the call - [[OhCrap and notices the "teenager"'s cell phone starts ringing]]. Turns out he just cussed out the OlderThanTheyLook owner of the store, [[LaserGuidedKarma who fires him on the spot for being an asshole.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/speaking-up-for-those-who-cant This disabled employee]] gets abused by his new manager for being mute, and one day is ordered to answer the phone despite this. She eventually fires the employee for repeatedly pressing a button and hanging up instead of talking, but he later returns with his brother, the ''CEO'', whom he had just had a [[EveryoneKnowsMorse Morse code conversation]] over the phone with. The now-furious CEO [[WhatWereYouThinking scolds the manager for discrimination]] and [[LaserGuidedKarma fires her instead]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/didnt-manage-the-situation-too-well This new employee]] tries to scam a customer into giving him a large tip[[note]]he claims that a free bag of chips and dip are "on me"; the actual policy is that ''every'' order over $10 gets free chips and dip[[/note]]... failing to notice that the customer in question is a shift manager at the very same restaurant.
** Another case crossing over with OutGambitted - when [[http://notalwaysright.com/i-smell-a-rat this supervisor]] tries to play a prank on the submitter by claiming they have a rat problem, the submitter responds by telling him that, as draconian as Alberta's pest control is, a rat problem would get them shut down. By the time the poster's done with him, the supervisor's having a panic attack.
** A new manager of a stationery supplier [[http://notalwaysright.com/supply-and-demanding here]] acts extremely rudely to what they assume is a secretary of a business. Too bad for them, it was actually the owner, filling in for the sick secretary. [[LaserGuidedKarma The owner terminates their contract and tells their partners about the incident; the stationery supplier goes under shortly after, because it turns out that company was their biggest client]].
* MundaneSolution: How did [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-theft-finally-registered this]] supervisor handle an employee stealing money from the store tills? By showing her that the supervisor had to pay it all back, and that [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone her thefts were only hurting the coworkers around her]].
* MushroomSamba: Caused [[http://notalwaysright.com/their-device-passed-the-acid-test one employee]] to think there were cockroaches in a UsefulNotes/PlayStation2.
* MyEyesAreUpHere: [[http://notalwaysright.com/its-breast-not-to-be-so-a-pair-rent One need not be subtle when telling their boss this.]]
* MyNaymeIs:
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/caught-in-the-middle-name This passport office employee]] adamantly believes that the submitter has been "lied to" and attempts to "correct" what the employee believes to be a missing hyphenation, even after the submitter explicitly states that it's an unconventionally spelled middle name. The supervisor is more aware, though, and sends the employee on break, implying that she will be let go for that.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/stuck-in-the-middle This DMV employee]] outright turns away the submitter because ''she'' believes that the submitter's name is spelled wrong on the submitter's ''birth certificate and social security card.'' The submitter's mother immediately calls for a manager, who, just like in the previous example, is baffled at how an employee would think that someone would not know how spell their own name.
* MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/taxing-taxing-part-2 This student]] points out that if they're liable for taxes in California, they want the services their taxes pay for. They will gladly pay the $8 in taxes... from a refund of $10,000 out-of-state tuition.
** In an example overlapping with [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem Screw the Rules, I Make Them]], [[https://notalwaysright.com/social-notworking-5/93602 this supervisor]] implements a new rule in his company's social media policy requiring all employees to add him on their social media accounts so he can monitor them. The submitter refuses and the boss threatens to fire him for insubordination. The submitter then reveals that while it's legal in their state for companies to monitor ''public'' social media posts, it is also ''illegal'' to force employees to give up their right to privacy if they have private social media accounts. The supervisor immediately backs down, and is later [[LaserGuidedKarma written up by his superiors for implementing the change to the policy without consulting the legal team]].
* {{Nepotism}}: There are exceptions, but most employees shown to be married or otherwise related to a higher-up in their company can and will get away with laziness, incompetence and even criminal acts, because [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections said higher-up always looks the other way]], if they're even aware that their relative is doing anything wrong. Thankfully, LaserGuidedKarma is still in effect, and most such employees end up fired by the end of the story, if not ''by'' said relation, then alongside them if they were actively allowing that employee's problem(s) to slide.
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore:
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-jokes-on-your-wallet One employee]] came up with a way to deal with the dreaded "It must be free" joke whenever a barcode won't scan.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/jimi-versus-joe Hey Joe,]] [[Music/JimiHendrix where you going with that gun in your hand?]]
* NeverLearnedToRead: [[https://notalwaysright.com/got-bad-reading/107053/ This young man]], while looking for a job, reveals that he never learned to read or write because he was homeschooled and his entire "education" consisted of his parents reading him Bible stories.
* NeverMyFault:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/an-interview-youd-rather-forget-about This boss]] completely forgets about an interview with the submitter, and as such decides to label them as a "no-call, no-show", despite the submitter arriving early and ''being in the process of calling them about it''.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/an-original-way-to-pass-the-blame This boss]] starts to hand the submitter two documents (one an extremely important original with signatures, the other a copy), then decides that they don't need the copy. They then proceed to ''tear the original in half.'' The boss then panics and blames the employee for it, even going so far as to say that they "saw what they did," despite said employee pointing out that the documents never left the boss's hands. Even worse, the submitter states this was neither the first nor last time something like this happened.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/will-need-some-stress-medications-after-this/64622/ This receptionist]] refuses to accept it was her fault that she made a note in a patient's file that the patient should make a call first before scheduling an appointment, but didn't make any effort to call the patient and notify them about this, blaming it on the patient and claiming she should know since it's in the file, completely oblivious to the fact that said patient does not have on-demand access to her own file from anywhere in the world like she seems to think. Then it gets worse when the receptionist accuses the patient of being a liar and tries to get her to leave, despite the patient's name being on the doctor's list to get her prescriptions ASAP. [[LaserGuidedKarma The doctor has the receptionist removed while she continues to argue she didn't do anything wrong]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-party-pooper-2/64668/ This employee]] refuses to accept that she was at fault for making a lesbian couple pay for their son's birthday party twice, even though they had already paid a month prior, and tries to blame everything on her fellow coworker, even though they were ''both'' guilty for the whole thing.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/tablecloth-that-discussion This boss]] tries to place all of the blame on the submitter for the massive failure of a major business dinner, despite the submitter trying to patch every missing piece that came about because of the boss's laziness, failure to follow procedure, and going behind the general manager's back. [[LaserGuidedKarma When the general manager finds out that the boss had made all the demands, he promptly suspends the boss without pay for two weeks before firing her.]] [[KarmicJackpot The submitter reveals that she got a promotion a week prior to submitting the story.]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/doesnt-give-a-truck/64823/ This coworker]] yells at the submitter for leaving the tools in the company truck, even when the submitter makes it clear that it is allowed by policy. The reason the coworker is complaining? The ''coworker'' took the truck out the previous day and had left the windows rolled down overnight.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/youre-completely-loss/92425/ This manager]] refuses to admit he forgot to give change to the submitter and insists that it was her fault for "losing the change" despite the fact the change was with him the whole time on camera!
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/doesnt-know-truck-hes-talking/109326/ This trucker]] refuses to accept that it was his fault that he didn't listen to a a female employee's directions to her store, instead he blames her for being a woman who knows nothing. The employee's coworker reported the trucker's behavior to his boss, and the store never saw the trucker again after that.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/dont-dish-cant-take/105021/ This waitress]] intentionally ruins a customer's order by specifying an obscene amount of extra mushrooms on a dish that doesn't normally come with them, then dismisses it as an accident. Her boss doesn't buy the excuse, and the waitress is fired immediately for sabotaging the order.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/no-good-tip-goes-unpunished A story with very nearly the same name]]: three customers decide to [[NiceToTheWaiter leave a $13 tip]] for a server who's serving them poorly, thinking she's having a bad day. What does the server do? [[HopeSpot A thank you]]? Nope! The server ''calls the cops on them'' when they leave, lying that the customers tried to dine and dash and only paid four dollars, despite the fact the customers saw the server counting the money paid for their food at the counter! Thankfully, the cops believe the customers due to their willingness to cooperate and the presence of a security camera. The customers call to complain about the server's conduct when the police never call them back; the server gets "serious discipline" and the customers get an $80 refund (almost double what they paid for the meal, including the tip) for their trouble.
** Nearly happens in [[http://notalwaysright.com/acting-totally-heartless this story]] as well; a passenger about to board a plane stops to help another customer who's having a heart attack by doing CPR, with other people [[BystanderSyndrome actually stepping over the two]] to board the plane. Once the patient is being taken care of by paramedics, the passenger tries to board the plane... but the gate agent says he forfeited the right when he didn't board. There happens to be a higher-up nearby, however, who dresses down the gate agent appropriately, and makes sure the good Samaritan gets to board, even [[KarmicJackpot throwing in an upgrade and free miles for his trouble]].
* NoIndoorVoice:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/discretion-is-the-better-part-of-disclosure A discreet customer meets a not-so-discreet clerk.]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/quicker-can-say-joffrey/113759 This manager]] gets caught screaming full-blast at an employee in front of customers by the owner after getting away with it so many times before.
* NonIndicativeName: Apparently: [[http://notalwaysright.com/accidont "I do apologize]], but [[InsaneTrollLogic the accidental damage plan does not cover accidental damage."]]
* NonVerbalMiscommunication: [[http://notalwaysright.com/so-easy-a-caveman-can-work-here You can actually understand him?]]
* NoodleIncident:
** Whatever happened to mandate [[http://notalwaysright.com/adding-some-background-to-the-situation this sign change.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/only-collecting-burnt-bridges This coworker]] has a "whorehouse" routine for persistent annoyances. How and why he came up with it is left to the imagination.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/keep-hush-about-the-slush "Please never ask me how I knew that would work."]]
* NoOSHACompliance: The owners of [[https://notalwaysright.com/recipes-frozen-place/99814/ this vegan bakery]] require employees to stir recipes with their bare hands, don't bother to install heat in the building during January, and locks the employees inside for several days to keep a health inspector from finding out the building is in use (preventing them from escaping if there had been a fire).
* NoYou: [[https://notalwaysright.com/comeback-back-ya Happens here,]] combined with InsultBackfire.
* NumberOfTheBeast: Apparently it's not just customers that try to avoid amount of $6.66, as seen with [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-mark-up-of-the-beast this convenience store cashier]] and [[http://notalwaysright.com/youll-have-the-devil-to-pay this one too]].
* ObstructiveBureaucrat:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/nice-to-get-helped-for-a-change Right here along with a heaping dose of transphobia.]] Luckily the manager averted the trope. (Warning, the comments on the post are just as transphobic as the clerk.)
** This trope happens in a ''[[http://notalwaysright.com/much-a-drive-thru-about-nothing drive-thru]]'', of all places.
* OffscreenInertia: Inverted [[http://notalwaysright.com/somehow-managed-to-table-that-discussion here]], where a cashier actually ''is'' still in the same spot they were fifteen minutes ago because of the lunch rush, but a manager still assumes that what she asked for got done.
* OldSchoolChivalry:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-rage-of-chivalry This waitress]] firmly believes that the man is supposed to pay for his girlfriend's meal and not the other way around; it doesn't matter if the woman isn't his girlfriend, nor does it matter that it's the man's birthday, nor does it matter when the restaurant's owner fires her for being a jerk about it and gives them the meal on the house.
** Like the previous example, [[http://notalwaysright.com/femi-non-ism this cashier]] refuses to serve couples if the girl pays for anything, even if they're not really together. Also like the previous example, she gets a pink slip for her behavior.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/giving-him-pregnant-pause This waiter]] doesn't say anything, but he gives the submitter several nasty looks when he and the woman he's dining with, who is not in fact his significant other, split the bill.
* OlderThanTheyLook:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/best-make-that-a-double-her-age A 28-year-old woman]] is mistaken for a teenager.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/fall-of-the-contrarian-librarian Two people are mistaken for teenagers in this story]] -- a 22-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man.
** [[http://unfiltered.notalwaysright.com/post/100193697560/nightclub-france-my-friend-in-this-story-was-25 This 25-year-old kept getting questioned by a bouncer at a nightclub.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/getting-owned-by-the-owner-part-5 This memorabilia store owner]] is in his mid-30s despite looking to be in his teens. A new employee at the store doesn't realize this until after he's cussed him out.
* {{Omniglot}}: [[http://notalwaysright.com/what-a-bun-eficent-guy Who knew]] that a ''hot dog vendor'' would know 25 languages?
* OneSideOfTheStory:
** There are several instances where a worker continuously berates another person for something, [[RapidFireInterrupting without letting them get a complete sentence in edgewise]], and when the other person finally gets to speak, says something that completely disproves what the ranting worker was raving about. Like [[http://notalwaysright.com/boss-calling-the-coworker-slack here]].
** A more tragic example [[http://notalwaysright.com/dont-judge-a-look-by-its-cover here]]. A waitress brings a customer to tears by insulting the customer for being extremely thin, among other things, assuming that the customer is anorexic (or possibly bulimic). If the waitress had bothered to ask and not jump to conclusions, she would've learned that the customer was like that because ''she was hospitalized''. Fortunately, [[LaserGuidedKarma the waitress was fired on the spot since it wasn't her first such incident]], and the customer was given a 70% discount. However, one can only ''hope'' the ex-waitress felt REALLY awful after that. (Given that her prior assumptions were health-related, a SustainedMisunderstanding may be the more likely outcome.)
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/some-things-can-weight-to-be-said-part-5 Here's a similar case]]; the submitter recently had a tonsillectomy, and the waitress refuses to take the submitter's order, believing her to be bulimic, despite the submitter and her mother trying to explain otherwise. Even the ''manager'' is skeptical of the submitter's explanation until she shows him the stitches from the tonsil surgery. The manager, [[HeelRealization out of guilt]], comps the meal, and later fires the waitress.
** Another tragic example where ''two'' employees of a drugstore see a [[http://notalwaysright.com/its-apparent-hes-a-parent mom and her sick kid]] waiting outside the drugstore for it to open, and immediately assume she's a "crack whore" with a "crack baby". Nope, the kid has a bad fever, and neither the baby nor the mom were able to sleep as a result. Thankfully, a third worker, a parent himself, is ''far'' more understanding.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/when-management-messes-with-maleficent/128083/ Another instance]], when a manager first [[MistakenForServant mistakes the submitter for one of his employees]] (even though her clothes don't look anything like the uniform), and then starts [[NoIndoorVoice berating and screaming full-blast at her]] before she can even say that she doesn't work there. Fortunately, a security guard comes to the submitter's aid and the police are also called, and [[LaserGuidedKarma the psychotic manager ultimately has charges pressed against him for his outburst.]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-tree-is-real-and-so-is-the-anger/132124/ An employee]] tries to force the submitter to buy a real Christmas tree instead of an artificial one, cutting the submitter off whenever they try to get a word in. It takes fifteen minutes before the submitter finally manages to get out they are looking for a fake tree because they ''literally cannot'' have a real tree because they're allergic to fir and pine trees. The employee is so embarrassed (or scared of the submitter) after the submitter explains that he immediately flees from them. (It's later revealed that the employee got better commissions on real trees, hence why he was so pushy.)
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The submitter of [[https://notalwaysright.com/night-of-the-working-dead/ this story]] can tell something's very wrong when a normally exemplary restaurant employee answers the phone in a confused, utterly incoherent fashion. In addition, anyone who knows her well enough not to dismiss her as a drug-addicted moron is concerned that she's spouting nonsense and forgetting to remove metal spoons from soup before microwaving it. Turns out, the poor girl hasn't had enough time for even vaguely adequate sleep since taking a second job at another restaurant[[note]]four hours, half the total recommended time you're supposed to sleep, to get home and to work ''and'' sleep[[/note]], and after [[BenevolentBoss Boss 1]] gives her a week off in response to her [[OverworkedSleep blacking out]] during an enforced coffee break and Boss 2, [[LackOfEmpathy who is not so understanding]], preempts a presumably intended resignation by firing her, she's back to her old self.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: At a [[https://notalwaysright.com/no-jd-dj/103308/ New Year's Eve party]] being hosted by [[RecoveredAddict Alcoholics Anonymous]] (and, obviously, a no-booze party), the hired DJ opened things off by yelling "Let’s get this party started; the more you drink the more fun we have!" [[note]]He apologized, and then excused himself to yell at his boss for not ''telling'' him it was an [=AA=] party, but it's clear he saw the incident as this trope.[[/note]]
* OvercomplicatedMenuOrder: [[http://notalwaysright.com/establishing-order-over-tall-orders A guy]] makes a drink order so complicated that it apparently took several ''minutes'' to order, and the barista was able to make the drink in less time then it took to order it. Thus winning a bet with the boss and earning all the baristas lunch on him. Apparently that bet was made especially to help boost morale in situations involving complicated orders.
* PaperThinDisguise: [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-disappearance-act An unintentional example]] that nearly gets the submitter in trouble--she's not initially recognized because she'd ''tied her hair in a ponytail'', which the submitter unties to prove her identity. As the submitter remarks, who knows what would have happened if she'd gotten a haircut or dye job!
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/literal-password This worker used "password" as his password]]...''and then he forgot it.''
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/my-own-pet-solution The password is always the pet's name]]. ''Always''.
* PerspectiveFlip: In a meta sense, this site is one for ''Not Always Right''.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/when-days-take-a-tuna-for-the-worse Here's one employee]] who submitted their ''own'' gaffe.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/in-soviet-russia-language-speaks-you This one]] inverts the perspective of the typical BilingualBackfire-based story from NAR, though with much less insulting the worker.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/an-internal-decision This one]] very well could have been an NAR story, what with the [[TheGhost unseen]] customer demanding free services after [[FelonyMisdemeanor having to wait for five minutes]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/service-worth-shouting-about This one]], where the submitter does ''not'' [[RantInducingSlight go on a screaming rampage]] over the item they want being unavailable and the cashier [[KarmicJackpot gives them their alternate choice for free because of it]], could have been an NAR story as well.
* PetMonstrosity: [[https://notalwaysright.com/just-plain-batty-part-2/59065/ This service Chihuahua.]] The employee's reaction to mistaking it for a ''bat'' of all things makes the adorable, harmless dog seem like a vicious animal.
* PlayingTheVictimCard: [[https://notalwaysright.com/speech-prepared-right-gay-te/106591/ This jerk manager]] is a rude asshole to his employees and gets away with it due being CampGay and cries discrimination and homophobia anytime someone criticizes him.
* PlotAllergy: [[https://notalwaysright.com/sick-of-your-mismanagement/61494/ This fast food employee]] is allergic to artificial sweetener. This means she can only be given certain tasks that don't involve touching anything that could potentially trigger her allergies, including cups filled with diet soda. The manager tells her to cover for a coworker (a task that would involve touching the cups) and doesn't believe her story about the allergy. Sure enough, the employee has to call in sick the next day. The owner is not pleased.
* PoesLaw:
** "The reason I never realized [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-call-with-no-name this was a fake call]] was because, sadly, it was not even close to the weirdest calls I've had."
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/doesnt-have-this-in-the-bag This story]] begins with the submitter telling us about how notoriously awful the baggers at their local grocery store are. Knowing this, they still have to contemplate this trope when a bagger responds to a request to put a loaf of bread in a separate bag by completely ruining that bread, putting a two-liter of soda in with it despite the request, and then shaking it until it's ready to explode trying to tie the bag closed.
* PointyHairedBoss: There are a lot of bosses in the stories that make you say "I can't believe this idiot is a boss." [[http://notalwaysright.com/boss-in-the-u-s-a-and-everywhere-else And you never forget that]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/meat-not-kosher-neither-boss/97059/ Here's one such boss]], who doesn't know what kosher actually entails and threatens the author, who tells him what it means, with being fired. After the author threatens to sue him for wrongful termination, the boss ''tries to fire him anyway'', but is implied to have not succeeded as the author mentions still being employed there at the end of the story.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/customised-failure/106638/ Here's another such boss]] - a general manager of a fabric store, to be specific. The submitter informed her that the rolls of fabric that weren't on the floor were custom orders not intended for general sale ''three times'', yet she still put the custom orders on the floor, resulting in one of them being ruined. The store had to prohibit her from handling custom orders because she clearly couldn't be trusted.
** Yet another example in [[https://notalwaysright.com/this-manager-has-you-down-in-the-gutter/110132/ this country club manager]]. He does pretty much ''everything'' wrong when a toilet clogs up on a busy night, causing sewage water to flood the kitchen. Instead of closing down the country club for the night and calling a plumber, he instead chooses to close down both bathrooms, continue to serve (potentially ''contaminated'') food, and have his dishwashers (who likely are not trained to deal with sewage) sweep out the contaminated water from the kitchen. On top of all that, he even goes so far as to write up anyone who refused to clean up the sewage. Needless to say, the submitter, who also had to work ''sick'' that night, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere booked it out of there as soon as she could]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-crippling-case-of-discrimination/119827/ This assistant manager]] proudly displays her discrimination against the wheelchair-bound submitter. After she is chewed out by the store manager for threatening to fire the submitter for calling out sick, the first thing the AM does when the submitter comes back is to make her work register and stock shelves - which the submitter ''cannot'' do because of her disability. When the the submitter tries to point this out, the AM instead berates her and again threatens to fire her. The submitter delivers a prompt TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and leaves. The AM then attempts to fire the submitter for stealing from the staff room, only for the store manager to step in again and [[LaserGuidedKarma fire the assistant manager instead]], both for discriminating against the submitter and [[RevealingCoverUp being the REAL thief]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/trust-me-best-manager-ever-like-youll-never-believe/121364/ This woman]] is implied to have been one in the past, as she states during an interview for a manager position that her best qualities are her ability to scream at people and fire people - which turns out to be ''exactly'' what got her fired from her last job.
** For [[https://notalwaysright.com/you-are-expressly-forbidden-to-express-yourself/124417/ this boss]] at a grocery store, it seems that having "good customer service" and making sure the customer is always right overrides all else, including making sure people don't come down the express lane with more than 15 items, to the point that they take the side of a customer who left a petty complaint about the submitter having to rush through the customer's transaction (implied to be a full cart of items) so not to keep the people behind the customer in the express line waiting.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/you-cant-dismiss-the-karma-on-this-one/131545/ This manager]] develops an unexplained hatred towards the submitter and eventually fires her under falsified claims of theft. The submitter then sues the manager for unfair dismissal, and while they and their lawyers are working, the manager actually has the guts to ask the submitter to save an important project for one of the company's clients. In other words, she was asking the submitter to work on something she was not legally obligated or even ''allowed'' to work on due to no longer working for the company. Not surprisingly, the submitter adamantly refuses, then proceeds with her lawsuit, and ''wins''. The manager ends up demoted for her actions, and later fired for a separate incident.
** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/this-write-up-isnt-going-to-sticker/131531/ this story]], the front end manager places the blame on the submitter for an accident caused by a pre-existing fault in a scanner, even going so far to issue a write-up and threaten to fire him. When it happens again ten days later, she then tries to follow through on her threat, only for the assistant manager to stop her and call her out for issuing a bogus write-up over something that wasn't even the submitter's fault and didn't warrant any discipline at all. The front end manager angrily demands the assistant manager let her fire the submitter anyway, even after being told that doing so would ''violate company policy''. Instead, the assistant manager shreds the initial write up, [[LaserGuidedKarma then suspends her on the spot and forbids her from disciplining employees without permission from the higher-ups]]. As implied at the end of the story and confirmed by the submitter in the comments, the front end manager was fired a month later due to a crackdown on unfair discipline caused by this very incident, just before the submitter [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere requested a transfer to another store to get away from her]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/trying-to-be-top-dog/136582/ This manager at a pet store]] takes BotheringByTheBook to LawfulStupid levels: She tells the submitter (a dog trainer for the store) to reschedule three customers' puppy-training classes to a different time because corporate requires the classes to have four participants in order for them to be considered profitable. The boss refuses to listen to the submitter when they point out the customers may be unhappy about this, and the submitter reluctantly calls the customers up. Predictably, the customers are unhappy, and two of them refuse to transfer to another class and instead pull their business out of the store entirely; one of the two filing a complaint to corporate in addition. The boss then writes-up the submitter for the loss of business despite the fact that the submitter did exactly as they were told to do and the two customers refusing to accept the transfer was not the submitter's fault. The submitter's attempts to reason with the manager end up being fruitless, and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere they soon give up and go to work at a nearby store]]. It's later revealed that the boss couldn't find a replacement dog trainer and the store was losing thousands of dollars through refunded classes as a result.
* PoliceCodeForEverything: The best a theater worker can come up with for "There's a dog loose in the building" is asking for [[http://notalwaysright.com/barking-in-code "Technician Scooby"]] over the walkie-talkie.
* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/sweep-away-your-own-stereotypes And down a rather narrow path]]. As usual.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-rebel-with-too-many-causes This]] budding KnightTemplar.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/social-justice-war-coming/112075/ This movie theater employee]] refuses to sell two white customers tickets to see ''Film/BlackPanther2018'', saying the movie is for black customers only, and pointing out how white people like them wouldn't understand it and are just taking away seats for black customers who deserve it. A black customer behind them is confused by the employee's logic and his female manager chews him out for his insane logic. The white customers got their tickets for free and a movie pass for their troubles.
* PoorCommunicationKills: [[http://notalwaysright.com/sippy-cup-or-tipsy-cup A misinterpreted order for a virgin daiquiri]] results in... "[[OhCrap Did you just give RUM to a FIVE-YEAR-OLD?!]]" Thankfully the kid didn't actually drink it.
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-long-time-ago-in-a-grocery-store-far-far-away Ladies and gentleman, a rarity in these times]]... a person who ''doesn't'' know about ''Franchise/StarWars''!
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/i-have-a-beef-with-asking-wheres-the-beef The employees of this restaurant]] apparently haven't heard the jingle that lists the ingredients of a certain signature sandwich they carry.[[note]]Though it's never explicitly stated, it's likely a Big Mac at [=McDonald's=].[[/note]] One wonders how the employee can simply shrug off leaving the ''meat'' off a sandwich that normally has it, though, jingle or no jingle.
* PottyEmergency: [[http://notalwaysright.com/its-become-her-number-one-problem This clerk]] refuses to give the poor kid access to the bathrooms unless he buys something first. When [[PottyFailure the inevitable happens]], the clerk [[NeverMyFault tries to blame the kid]].
* PottyFailure: When this happens to a boy in [[https://notalwaysright.com/number-one-problem-manager/ this submission]], the manager [[NoIndoorVoice screams at the top of his lungs]] at the boy and his mother and threatens to have them arrested. Between the manager's outburst and him subsequently calling the customer and her child "white trash", his ''entire staff'' promptly [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits on the spot]], including one supervisor who has a son with similar bladder problems. In the end, the manager ends up having to explain the entire incident to his boss (who ''also'' has a similarly-aged son), who then reprimands him for his poor handling of the situation and subsequent loss of staff.
* PromotedToScapegoat:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/there-may-be-a-silver-lining-but-theres-still-lots-of-cloud This newly promoted manager]] is written up one day by the GM for not "setting the mood". The next day, he tries to do just that, only for the GM to show up in a bad mood and [[DisproportionateRetribution write him up again]], [[InsaneTrollLogic this time for insubordination]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/double-the-size-half-the-intelligence This person]] didn't even get promoted for it - the company just decided that they had to blame someone for a decrease in productivity (rather than, y'know, find out the actual reason and do something about it, but that's asking too much for a company featured on this website), picked the guy who's doing a job on his own that requires at least two people, and submitted fake HR reports about his activities. Not surprisingly, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he left a month later for a new job]].
** The poor employee in [[https://notalwaysright.com/he-really-let-himself-go/65212/ this story]] is given a temporary promotion ''only'' to fire people on behalf of their [[BlatantLies suddenly-conveniently-away-on-business]] manager. [[spoiler: Fortunately, they have a friend in corporate, who realizes the same amount of overhead can be saved by [[LaserGuidedKarma firing the irresponsible manager instead]] and officially giving the put-upon employee his job.]]
* PsychopathicManchild: [[https://notalwaysright.com/watching-career-just-flutter/102907/ This apprentice tattoo artist]] decides to ruin a client's tattoo (essentially mutilating the poor lady) because he's "too good" to do the butterfly design she wanted. When his boss, the submitter, chews him out and fires him for his actions, he has a hissy fit and throws his equipment on the floor. This is followed by near-immediate LaserGuidedKarma -- the owner proceeds to call all the other tattoo parlors in the city to tell them about what he'd done (essentially [[PersonaNonGrata blacklisting him from the tattoo industry]]), and presses charges against the fired apprentice for his tantrum. Topping it all off, the woman whose tattoo the ex-apprentice ruined sues him for it and, according to the submitter, wins.
* PullTheThread: [[http://notalwaysright.com/let-sleeping-dogs-lie One way to deal with a telemarketer.]]
* QuitYourWhining: [[http://notalwaysright.com/whining-about-the-dining This manager]] does this to an overly pessimistic new hire, with a [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre pick-me-up]] ''[[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre rant]]''.
* RapidFireInterrupting:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/strong-security-needs-pro-teen Here]], a security guard repeatedly cuts off a museum patron, refusing her access because the guard thinks she's not old enough. Once she finally gets to prove it, the guard acts as if the preceding exchange didn't happen, leaving her annoyed.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/doesnt-have-the-energy-to-argue In this story]], a convenience store supervisor constantly interrupts an employee and chastises them for not asking for a customer's ID. It isn't until the end that the employee gets in that the customer wasn't buying alcohol.
* RealityEnsues:
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/doesnt-designs-career-progression/101474/ A new hire]] learns that the boss can't see or hear on one side due to a car accident. Said new hire decides to [[TooDumbToLive sneak up on the boss from that side and scare him]]. "I never saw (New Designer) again after that."
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/got-bad-reading/107053/ This young man]] learns the hard way that without learning how to read and write, there's no way you can get any kind of job.
* RealMenWearPink: ... [[http://notalwaysright.com/about-to-become-a-twi-fight and argue about]] ''Twilight''.
** ... [[https://notalwaysright.com/nailing-security-masculinity/108269/ and make small talk about manicures]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** The submitter of [[https://notalwaysright.com/job-search-took-fifty-years/109121/ this story]] writes a letter version of one of these to a jobseeker's grandfather chastising the old man for unwittingly interfering with his grandson's jobseeking by giving him outdated and counterproductive advice.
** When [[https://notalwaysright.com/one-of-the-worst-managers-youve-ever-produced/135206/ this produce manager]] is ordered by his boss to apologize to a wrongfully fired employee, he instead delivers a particularly brutal one of these to said employee to [[KickTheDog traumatize her further]], '''right in front of his boss'''. [[LaserGuidedKarma You can probably guess]] [[PersonaNonGrata how well that turned out]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Rare, but they exist.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/give-liars-a-pizza-your-mind This pizza store owner]], for example, fully cooperates with a mother after her daughter is T-boned by one of his workers. The mother reveals to the owner that not only did the employee lie about all of the details in an attempt to cover it up, but the first thing he did after the crash was [[SkewedPriorities call his job because he didn't want to get in trouble]].
--->'''Owner:''' "Well, he won't have to worry about that anymore!"
** One manager calls in the OnlySaneMan on his staff to ask for his opinion. [[http://notalwaysright.com/lets-hope-its-canine-benign "Are all my employees idiotic?"]]
** Pretty much any time a [[SummonBiggerFish bigger authority]] steps in to handle a Not Always Working employee or manager.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-party-pooper This Park Manager]] scolds her two employees for charging a Lesbian couple for their son’s birthday party even thought the couple already paid a month ago and assures them something like this will never happen again.
** Owner of a gym finds a man sleeping in the changing room. He finds out the man's homeless[[note]]Because his ex-wife was sleeping with his previous boss who fired him when he found out. Ouch[[/note]] and has been mooching for meals off of other patrons. His response? [[https://notalwaysright.com/fit-for-the-job Hire the man on the spot as a live-in janitor]].
** A transgender person is initially refused help with changing the gender on her license due to an ignorant employee. [[https://notalwaysright.com/nice-to-get-helped-for-a-change And then the manager shows up]]. Bonus points for the manager putting a note on the new license saying that the employee's “going to be getting a detailed lesson about gender issues, and at the end of that lesson I’m firing her for her behavior” - at least he is trying to educate his employees so the situation is less likely to happen again.
** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/time-for-them-to-vacate-their-position/135210/ this story]], the owner initially states that there's nothing he can do about the submitter not getting their vacation time, until he learns that she made the request ''eight months'' in advance. He subsequently investigates and almost immediately discovers that the manager at the store denied the submitter's request [[ItsAllAboutMe so she could have her own, last-minute vacation]], and then [[KickTheDog threatened to fire them if they missed a single shift]] while she was gone. The owner allows the submitter to take their vacation, and [[LaserGuidedKarma forces the manager to cancel hers and work every single shift she had scheduled the submitter for as punishment for her actions and threats]].
* ReflexiveResponse:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/dripped-up-by-honesty This employee]] is so used to people asking for a free replacement to a water-damaged phone (which is against the replacement policy) that it takes a minute before it registers that the customer is asking to ''purchase'' a replacement.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-twilight-of-our-listening-skills This theater worker]] replied with information regarding ''Twilight'' show times, despite the customer asking for tickets to ''Film/TheHobbit''. Presumably, she got questions about ''Twilight'' a lot.
*** Similarly, [[https://notalwaysright.com/entirely-different-space this employee]] yells at a customer that they are sold out of tickets for a very popular space movie, before the customer even specifies what movie they actually want to see.
** Apparently, [[http://notalwaysright.com/companies-will-pay-for-not-paying-attention everyone in this store is too used to arguing with people trying to buy alcohol without an ID]]. Sort of overlaps with WontTakeYesForAnAnswer.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-grapes-of-a-customers-wrath Another instance of this]] ends with a customer deliberately ''dropping the wine bottle on the floor'' just to end the argument.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-few-slices-short-of-a-loaf And a third instance]], though this one thankfully ends with the cashier realizing their mistake.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-one-track-wine A fourth instance]], but at least the manager that was brought over kept their head on straight.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/cuts-no-ice-with-the-cashier This person]] isn't even trying to buy anything other than ice, and the cashier still argues about a lack of ID over it.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/last-shift-shifty-sausage This woman]] is buying sausages, however, the cashier doesn't even look at what the submitter is buying when he asks for an ID. He ends up calling a manager, who takes her picture and is ready to ban her from the store as well as blackball her from every ''gas station in the state'' when the submitter gets fed up and practically shoves the sausages into the manager's face, at which point the manager finally realizes that the submitter wasn't doing anything wrong. When he asks the cashier why he (the cashier) didn't ask what was being bought, the cashier is shown to have fallen asleep.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/retractions-speak-louder-than-words An entire series]] of reflexive responses, though the barista cuts himself off in the middle of each one the moment he realizes the customer has already given the answer. He then praises the customer for the "most coherent order ever."
** Apparently the case for [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-cable-guy-ignores-the-cable this cable guy]], who assumes a customer's problems connecting to the Internet is with their router, and ''not'' because the 40 feet of cable knocked down to their front lawn by branches the customer was actually calling about. Best bit: cable guy chastises the customer for not mentioning that in the report, right before actually reading said report that very explicitly mentions it.
** Also the case for [[http://notalwaysright.com/finished-in-the-blink-of-an-eye this eye doctor's employee]], as he tells the customer:
---> '''Employee:''' You can't take the first pair you try on!\\
'''Customer:''' Why not?\\
'''Employee:''' I don't know! It's never happened to me before!
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/your-ears-must-deceive-you This pharmacy]] does not do ear piercings on weekends, because they're too busy on those days. Ignore that there is absolutely nobody else except them and the one customer in either the pharmacy or the big store nearby that actually brings in customers - the pharmacist continues refusing service by insisting [[InsaneTrollLogic ten or so people with prescriptions will materialize from the empty car park the instant they start doing an ear piercing]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/cant-get-with-the-programming This employee]], who catches herself in the act and humorously blames "programming".
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/sadly-its-the-same-old-yarn This cashier]] snaps at a customer for asking about free things, when she did nothing of the sort.
* RevealingCoverUp:
** A perfect example [[http://notalwaysright.com/very-bad-reception-part-7 right here]]. The medical office receptionists accused a patient of having skipped her bill, because they didn't want the doctors to learn they'd gone out for lunch in the middle of their shift and left the desk unattended.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-first-nation-of-many-problems/65533/ A dentist]] says the First Nations insurance subsidy will not cover a child with a broken tooth, and offers to discount the treatment out-of-pocket. Turns out that this is because they've been filing fraudulent claims on all their First Nations patients, and MamaBear calling the subsidy to ask why they're suddenly not covered unravels the whole scam.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/wines-dines-dimes/98939/ This waitress]] accuses a customer of trying to scam for free food when he never got it to begin with, even getting the manager (her dad) involved when the customer tries to defend himself. The restaurant's ''owner'', however, knows better and reveals that the waitress ''ate the customer's food herself''. The customer and his wife get their entire meal comped, the waitress is promptly fired, and the manager follows suit soon after for covering for his daughter.
** The manager in [[https://notalwaysright.com/taking-stock-harassment-claims/97823/ this story]] covers for his son botching an inventory check by firing the employee who tried to correct him under completely fabricated sexual assault claims, even threatening to call the police. Except, because of his actions, [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant senior management has to investigate that claim when they otherwise wouldn't have been involved]]. LaserGuidedKarma promptly follows - after CCTV footage of the supposed incident is pulled and reviewed, the crooked manager and incompetent son are busted for their lies, and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard both are fired within the week]].
** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/be-a-sore-winner-and-lose-your-position/135840/ this story]], two gas stations compete in a contest to give away stickers. The submitter's station just barely loses out to their rival nearby. The rival station then goes to the regional manager to accuse the first station of cheating. This launches an investigation against ''both'' stations, and reveals that while the first station's tactics (giving out ten stickers instead of one for customers who meet purchase requirements) were borderline, the rival station's tactics (ringing up large purchases as multiple purchases of smaller amounts) [[CheatersNeverProsper were outright in violation of the rules]]. [[LaserGuidedKarma The rival station is disqualified and forced to return the reward they had unfairly won]].
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-is-why-were-in-a-recession-part-33 One employee's boss]] can't understand why she doesn't go to a significantly more expensive college instead of a nearby local college for her education. Since the boss has been wealthy her entire life, she sees student loan debt as a minor, easily solved annoyance.
--> '''Boss:''' Why don't you want to be in debt? I was $38,000 in debt when I graduated, and I paid it off just fine.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/saving-us-from-ourselves A potential employer]] doesn't understand an unemployed applicant's claim that they are living on... ''savings from their previous job''.
* RightBehindMe:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-a-man-not-a-man-not-a-mighty-good-man If one feels obliged to sexually harass and insult a customer, make sure her much-larger-than-you boyfriend is not listening in.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/you-auto-be-car-eful-around-car-ismatic-coworkers Before making comments]] that would make a coworker uncomfortable, make sure said coworker isn't within earshot.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/when-things-go-from-bad-to-boss Invoked but subverted]] here, when a worker asks [[TemptingFate how things could be worse]].
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/real-people-with-real-problems A doctor]], who I didn't see until he SLAMS his paperwork down on the desk, interjects."
* RuleOfThree:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/third-times-a-harm This patient]] with an asthma problem has to mention three times that she's allergic to certain drugs. At least none of the doctors present ''repeated'' their own previous mistake, but they should have been paying more attention to the chart.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/had-it-up-to-her-neck-with-them This new mother]] likewise has three nurses in a row trying to perform a post-epidural checkup on her. It starts off innocently enough (the first two are [[ReflexiveResponse just used to everyone else having epidurals]], although the second does feel the need to comment on how only "freak hippies" give birth without them) but then goes to hell for the third one, who [[KnowNothingKnowItAll ignores physical proof that she did not have one]], [[OlderThanTheyLook assumes she's a teenager waiting for "mommy and daddy"]], and as such [[MistakenForPedophile threatens to call the cops on her husband once he arrives]]. Fortunately, her mother-in-law happens to work at that hospital, and after dragging the problem nurse away by the ear, arranges for a different nurse to sit with the patient full-time in order to make sure she's not pestered any further.
** The submitter of [[https://notalwaysright.com/customised-failure/106638/ this story]] has to tell [[PointyHairedBoss the general manager]] that the rolls of fabric in the office are custom orders ''three times'' because she doesn't understand that they're not for general sale. [[TheyJustDontGetIt She still fails to understand that they're not for general sale]] and puts them on the floor anyway, resulting in one of the orders being ruined.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: S - Z]]

* SarcasmBlind:
** "Sure, I'll... ''schedule my parents' anniversary for a different day'' next time." [[http://notalwaysright.com/wedded-bliss-meets-wednesdays-boss "That's more like it!"]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/breaking-bank This collector]] somehow failed to realize that the debtor's comment about having to start a meth lab to make the suggested payment (NZ$1000 per ''week'', or about US$800 - this after the debtor explaining he only made NZ$320 in that time) was ''not'' an option the debtor was seriously considering. To top it off, the collector somehow failed to realize the suggestion was ''illegal''.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/youll-pay-for-that-joke This one]] almost led to an increase in one individual's student loan payments.
* ScaryBlackMan: [[http://notalwaysright.com/bad-for-the-stalk-market This customer]], which leads to a case of [[MistakenForIndex Mistaken For Stalker]].
* SchmuckBait: [[http://notalwaysright.com/dont-bank-on-your-coworkers "Hey, this file I just got in my email says it has an important message about my bank account!]] [[WhatAnIdiot It's not from my bank, though, but it must be important, since it says "IMPORTANT!"]]
* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: [[http://notalwaysright.com/un-bully-ievable-behavior "When I was young]], we just found a scrawny kid and beat him up when we were bored.”
* SciFiGhetto:[[invoked]] [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-genre-that-time-forgot This bookstore]] seems to have fallen victim to it, much to the disappointment of both the customer and the employee.
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: [[http://notalwaysright.com/age-before-road-rage This bus driver]] seems to use the trope regularly, given that he seems to have a reputation with the bus company that hired him.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-family-af-fire This character]] seems to be under the impression this is the case for her, since her uncle's the assistant manager. Comes apart when ''her uncle'' is the one to fire her.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/show-em-whos-boss This coworker]] is "in tight" with the assistant manager, and uses this as an excuse to boss an employee around. [[OutGambitted Unfortunately for him]], he's trying to boss around [[MuggingTheMonster the son of the business's owner]]. Oops.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/its-a-mistake-to-ignore-the-mistake This coworker]] is deathly afraid that this is the case with the sales manager (who happens to be the boss's wife), to the point that said coworker tries to stop the submitter from writing a complaint to them, even ''erasing a draft of the email'' in the effort. ("This is for your own good!") It turns out the boss appreciates the complainer's honesty and guts, and the sales manager's work improves significantly as a result of the complaint.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-acting-tip-top This waitress]] is rude to customers, brings out the wrong food, and then flat-out ignores their complaints, claiming that nobody will stop her because her dad's the owner. And, of course, [[EntitledBastard she then goes absolutely ballistic when the customers refuse to give her a tip for the piss-poor service]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/wines-dines-dimes/98939/ Another waitress]], being the daughter of the restaurant's manager, tries to invoke this when she is fired by the head chef for stealing a customer's food and lying about it... only for the chef to reveal that he ''owns'' the restaurant. Bonus points for the chef firing the manager as well afterwards.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/sins-of-the-father-4/60043/ This story]] concerns an asshole who constantly sexually harasses female employees of a theatre production, and his equally-asshole father who refuses to acknowledge that any wrongdoing is taking place no matter how much the other employees complain. It backfires on them when a security employee who has had enough duct-tapes him to a table after he gets particularly aggressive with her, and when the boss threatens to have her fired over it, the owner steps in and fires ''him and his son'' instead, in the meantime setting them up for the security employee to sue them both for the sexual harassment (the son for doing it, the father for pretending it wasn't happening).
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/getting-involved-in-the-family-business The owner of this restaurant]] defies any attempts by other people to claim this, as a matter of restaurant policy.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/its-a-warzone-up-there These]] [[DirtyCop cops]] refuse to do anything about a groom not only refusing to quiet down his party but also having far more people in his hotel room than the fire code allows, simply because he happens to be in the military. Fortunately, his commanding officer isn't having it, and the groom ends up demoted and discharged for it.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/making-a-boob-of-the-hr-process/117592/ This male employee has been harassing]] female coworkers by making lewd comments at them and got away it due to being gay and the HR manager being his sister in law who didn't take the complaints seriously because she thinks it's not harassment when the man is gay. However, the company's higher ups didn't think so and fired the gay employee for harassment and demoted his sister in law who later quit as she refuse to take training of harassment at the workplace.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-sisterhood-of-the-pee-in-my-pants This arena employee]] tries to stop a teenage girl and her younger sister from leaving their seats and going to the bathroom, claiming those under 18 cannot leave their seats without an adult, a rule she made up. When the teenager points out no such rule exists and she's 18 and tries to leave, the employee calls security to stop them and lies that the girls tried to cause a scene and made threats. Too bad there were onlookers who called out on her lies and [[{{Hypocrite}} how she didn't bother younger children than the girls who were also leaving their seats without their parents.]] Even the security criticizes the employee for making up the rules and her unlawful interference with patrons. [[LaserGuidedKarma The employee was given disciplinary action and wasn't allowed back to work until she memorized their policy]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/taking-a-holiday-from-management This company's]] policy is that every manager has to work at least one holiday so the rest of the store's employees can have a chance to take them off. Naturally, there's one manager who's decided he will not work any holidays - if the ''entire rest of the store'' has to work every Thanksgiving and Christmas rather than spend them with their families to facilitate this, [[ItsAllAboutMe so be it.]] [[LaserGuidedKarma He's soon demoted and moved to a different store]] when someone picks up on this and reports it to corporate--but not before that manager is also forced to work both Thanksgiving and Christmas.
** Again for [[http://notalwaysright.com/trying-to-bias-time this manager]] - days off at the gymnasium they work for are on a first-come, first-serve basis, but even though the submitter ''was'' the first one, the manager scheduled them for a day they wanted off anyway because nobody else wanted to work that day either. To top it off, the submitter puts in their two weeks' notice (which would likely have happened anyway)... and the manager tries to schedule the submitter ''after'' their last day.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/breaking-the-five-second-rules This manager]] tries to invoke it by saying "YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! I'M THE MANAGER!" For context, the manager is trying to give a customer a pizza that got dropped on the floor ''in violation of health and safety codes''. ''In front of the customer''. Eventually the employee wins the argument.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/taxing-taxing This tax agent]], against company rules, send a customer's tax return to the IRS without checking her latest check stub, delaying the customer from getting her tax refund. And when the tax company, as an apology for the delay, gives her the money now until she can pay back the company with her tax refund once it arrives, the same tax agent who was responsible for this mess in the first place, rather than wait for the customer to come to the company after her work at school was done, came to the customer's school unannounced to not only give her the money but make her sign an unfair contract that would charge the customer if she didn't pay back the company in 45 days, something the company didn't approve. Due to the agent's greedy nature and working behind the company's backs, causing the customer much trouble and stress, the CEO of the company gave the customer a cash settlement for her troubles and fired the agent.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-sickening-policy/101940/ This library administrator]] practically embodies this trope, believing in change for change's sake. He implements a new rule to the time off policy, stating that an employee receives a mark every time they take off, whether it is urgent or not. If an employee gets 3 marks in a month, they can't take any more time off for the next ''3 months''. This backfires when the author receives a mark ''[[DisproportionateRetribution just because she has to take her mother to the hospital]]'' due to Stevens-Johnson syndrome. Not surprisingly, when another administrator hears about the incident, they quickly scrap the {{Jerkass}} administrator's policy.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/its-not-going-to-be-her-dog-day-afternoon/126086/ This pet store manager]] is a prime example. When the submitter comes in early with her dog, the manager demands to see it and orders the submitter to stock shelves off the clock, despite the fact that A) she cannot work off the clock, and B) company policy prohibits the submitter from handing her dog over. The submitter refuses, citing the policy, and the store manager writes her up for insubordination after she does clock in. Unbeknownst to the store manager, however, the submitter [[SummonBiggerFish reported her behavior to the corporate manager beforehand]], and the write-up gave her the perfect reason to call him. The store manager threatens to fire the submitter as she makes the call, only for the corporate manager to point out the store manager's willful violation of policy, and then chew her out for a good half hour over it.
* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/acting-pretty-ugly This person certainly thinks so, but...]] "Let's see if you being 'pretty' will matter to your manager, shall we?"
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-faustian-barbie "I'M PRETTIER! MEN SHOULD BE INTERESTED IN ME!"]]
** A male example [[http://notalwaysright.com/more-buffoon-than-buff here]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/these-boots-are-made-for-catwalkin This girl]] shows up to work in a factory and completely disregards the dress code there, wearing fancy clothes and refusing to wear steel-toed boots. Furthermore, she refuses to work on a machine because she'll get dirty and won't help with crates because she'll break a nail. As the entry states, she only lasted two days.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-swapping-standard One woman]] in an office uses her feminine charms to get what she wants. Unfortunately for her, her charms don't work on [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure her boss]], so she ends up having to swap her office (rearranged so that the computer screen is not visible from the outside; services obtained by said methods so nobody will know she's not actually working) with another employee who purportedly has an actual business need for said rearrangements (they work on financial data that they don't necessarily want the casual observer to see).
* TheScrooge: [[http://notalwaysright.com/for-a-few-dollars-more This bank manager]] is one on the level of [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]] himself; what kind of person calls the police over someone accidentally being given '''''one''' dollar'' too much?
* SecretTest: A hotel manager [[http://notalwaysright.com/crib-ayashi-maru here]] sabotages a guest's request in order to make one, with unpleasant results.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-local-form-of-gun-control Here]], where a situation involving an AngryBlackMan attempting to purchase a gun under suspicious circumstances turns out to be a test of the employee.
* SeparatedByACommonLanguage:
** Taken UpToEleven [[http://notalwaysright.com/in-feigned-english here]]. The waitress looks at the British woman like she's speaking Mandarin Chinese, but when the British woman tries speaking in an American accent, the waitress understands her just fine.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/chipping-away-at-that-special-relationship In this story at a London pub]], an American customer orders French Fries and uses the British lingo for Fries, "Chips". However, the waitress, unaware that the customer knows British lingo, thinks he meant "Crisps", which are what Potato chips are called in Britain and calls the customer "a stupid American" when he points out she gave the wrong food. [[LaserGuidedKarma The insulted customer and his friends leave the pub and refuses to pay for the food they ordered earlier and didn't eat]].
* ASinisterClue: [[http://notalwaysright.com/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-hints%e2%80%a8 Referenced here.]]
* SkewedPriorities:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/an-alarming-way-to-get-fired This teacher]] refuses to let her students leave the class during a fire alarm because they're taking an exam. ''She would rather the students burn to death rather than leave an exam unfinished''. Luckily the director came, got all the students out, and the [[LaserGuidedKarma teacher was fired and sued by the school]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/with-great-power-comes-great-stupidity This coworker]] prefers working electricity to a house.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/give-liars-a-pizza-your-mind This pizza delivery worker]] was involved in an auto accident that damaged property (including another person's car). The first thing he did? Borrow a neighbor's cell phone to ''call his job'' to make sure he wouldn't lose it, rather than check on the occupants of the car. This, among other acts (such as lying to police) eventually caused him to [[LaserGuidedKarma lose said job]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/your-hesitancy-is-not-my-emergency This guard]] is more worried about the fallout from a potential AmbulanceChaser (without any proof that the seizure victim in question would even consider it, for the record) than actually saving the person's life, to the point he ''actively tries to stop emergency services from doing so''. Because interfering with emergency services is a ''serious'' crime, the obstructive behavior gets him a criminal record, [[LaserGuidedKarma which means he can no longer work as a security guard]] (or in many other jobs, for that matter).
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/bedside-mind-your-manners This doctor]] puts patient turnover ahead of patients' ''well-being''. "DrJerk" would be insufficient to describe him.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/looking-for-a-nose-job-and-a-new-job This receptionist]] thinks finalizing her nose job on the phone was more important than getting a patient who's in pain to meet the Doctor. What's worse was the patient was the only one in the lobby, meaning the receptionist could have done this at literally any other point in time without issue. [[LaserGuidedKarma The receptionist was later fired]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/critical-about-their-marriage-is-hypocritical This division officer]]. Someone else daring to get married in a manner other than the way he did so? That's threatening the sanctity of his marriage! Having an affair with the daughter of a rear admiral, though? No, that's perfectly fine (until [[TheDogBitesBack someone takes that information to his wife]]).
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-minor-disagreement This photo lab manager]], after catching another employee she doesn't get along with selling cigarettes to a regular customer without checking his ID because they both know he is in his 40s, immediately claims to be friends with that man's mother, that she as such "knows" he's actually a 14-year-old boy with a "growth disease" that just makes him ''look'' like he's 40, and she's going to report that employee and get them fired for selling cigarettes to a minor. The manager she goes to reprimands her for standing by and letting this happen, hoping that a coworker will get fired over it, rather than actually ''stepping in and stopping the transaction'' if she's so sure that the customer is a minor.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-worst-kind-of-bubble-butt This caller]], after wiping her baby's bottom with some wipes (noted ''specifically'' not to be for personal use) and having the baby's butt start to bubble, is more worried about how the company's going to compensate her rather than the health of her baby.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-fevered-response This doctor]] gets an infant with a fever of 106 degrees Fahrenheit, and rather than try to find what's causing this life-threatening condition, and treat it, fixates on a ''birthmark'', accusing the parents of being {{abusive|Parents}} because they're more worried about the ''unexplained fever'' than getting a birthmark they were told would go away on its own surgically removed. Thankfully, the child survived, and the birthmark disappeared on its own, exactly as promised, by the age of 6, but the story does have an at-best BittersweetEnding: the submitter was [[LoneSurvivor the only one]] of '''six''' children who suffered from this unexplained malady and lived through that night.
** The manager in [[https://notalwaysright.com/getting-struck-from-the-job/118647/ this story]] doesn't care if there's a ''severe thunderstorm'' raging outside, she wants her employees to gather shopping carts, even going so far as to plainly state that ''she does not care if they get struck''. When one employee objects, the manager screams at that employee and fires them for insubordination, only for [[SummonBiggerFish her boss]] to discover the following day what happened and [[LaserGuidedKarma fire her instead for willfully endangering that employee's life]].
* SmallNameBigEgo:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/supply-and-demanding This stationery supplier]] insulted one of the ''owners'' of a small company (thinking it was the secretary), and kept belittling the owner in a who-the-hell-do-you-think-you-are manner, resulting in the small company terminating their existing contract. [[LaserGuidedKarma The stationery supplier went out of business not long after--it turns out the small company was their biggest customer.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/out-boxed-and-out-foxed A new transfer employee]] thinks she's the fastest in opening and unloading boxes for a retail store chain. When she's transferred to another store stockroom, her superior points out only opening a box an hour is slow, since two local regular employees can do two or more boxes an hour. Refusing to accept there are other people better at her task than her, she has a fit and calls corporate which got her fired for lying about the circumstances.
* SmugSnake: The workers in these stories, until they lose that smile:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-capital-mistake This cashier]] takes away a customer's ID and passport as fakes because she believes nobody actually lives in Washington, DC. The customer calls the police on her because the cashier is planning to destroy her ID and passport (while smiling smugly thinking it's the customer who's going to be arrested). Unfortunately, the cashier loses it when the cop calls her an idiot for thinking nobody lives in DC and not realizing her [=IDs=] are legitimate.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/taking-poetic-license-plate-with-the-truth Another cashier]] stops a young girl from leaving because she sees the girl writing something in her notebook and immediately jumps to the conclusion that she was going to steal a car, loudly proclaiming that she caught a thief. However, when the police and the girl explain to the cashier what's written in the notebook are not car license plate numbers but the dates of when she found license plates from different US states, she tries desperately to justify her accusations that the girl is a thief. The cashier got in trouble with the police instead.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/in-serious-need-of-de-cath A "nurse"]] calls a patient an idiot for coming to a medical lab and tells her to leave because the patient came for a catheter, which the "nurse" claims they don't do - and then it's revealed she's not actually a nurse and has no idea what she's talking about. After the patient gets her blood taken from her doctor, the "nurse" continues to insult the patient, telling her that she's going to die because her doctor is stupid right before she's paged in by the Big Boss; the submitter learns later that she was fired on the spot for turning away ''eleven other patients'' over jumping to conclusions, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint couldn't for the life of her figure out why she was being fired]], and had to be dragged away by security [[NeverMyFault while screaming about stupid people and stupid doctors]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-end-of-a-vicious-cycle This night security supervisor]] at a resort orders the couple who runs the bike rental shop to close down despite there being customers still being helped. When the couple ignores the security supervisor's warnings, he gets mad and calls the couple's boss, the General Manager, thinking the boss will side with him. Instead, the General Manager praises the couple for their work in helping the customers and tells the security supervisor to help the customers or stop bothering them and leave. Losing it, the security supervisor threatens to have the couple fired, but the customers come to the couple's defense and complained about the security supervisor's behavior to corporate. [[LaserGuidedKarma The supervisor was fired and denied unemployment benefits]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/adding-insulin-to-injury This clerk]] rejects an ID and calls the police because he claims that the woman on the ID can't be the submitter, [[FailedASpotCheck even though the submitter states that she looks exactly the same as the ID photo down to the hairstyle and shirt color,]] and then makes her "give back" a packet of chocolates that the store doesn't sell, charging her for them even when she starts feeling dizzy due to her diabetes. When the police do come, the police officer confirms that the ID does belong to the submitter and that the store does not sell the chocolates that the submitter is accused of stealing. When the clerk admits that the submitter ''did'' tell the clerk both that the store does not sell that brand and that she has diabetes, the officer [[WhatWereYouThinking berates and threatens to arrest the clerk for refusing to give her the chocolates]], noting that because she was clearly ill, the police officer would have allowed her to have the chocolates even if she ''was'' stealing them.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/getting-owned-by-the-owner-part-6 This girl]] demands a job at a custom knife store, admitting that she is only getting a job because her dad wants her to get one and [[LazyBum she doesn't plan on doing any actual work.]] This fact, combined with the fact that the company isn't hiring anyway, means that the submitter's friend refuses to give her a job. The girl [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections threatens to complain to the owner, claiming to know "him,"]] and leaves, later coming back with her father. Said father threatens to get the submitter fired by the owner, when the submitter makes a deal: if he can call the owner and relay the owner's approval, she'll hire the girl. When the father starts talking on the phone, the submitter calls him out, noting that ''[[ConfrontingYourImposter she's]]'' [[ConfrontingYourImposter the owner,]] [[FailedASpotCheck based on the fact that the picture on the wall next to the owner's number is of the submitter, that her name tag has "Owner" printed on it, and the name on said name tag is the same as the sign outside.]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/customer-always-right-price-isnt/101438/ After a customer complained]] to a deli cashier that the chicken she's selling is the wrong order as the price is lower than the customer usually ordered, the cashier tries to act smug, saying the customer lost a chance to get chicken at a cheaper price, only to lose that smile when the customer points out the cashier would have gotten in trouble for selling the wrong item at the wrong price and get written or fired.
* SnipeHunt:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/got-them-by-hook-or-by-crook In this story]], the newbie ''found'' the snipe in question (skyhooks). Turns out they're pretty expensive, too. The boss stopped using snipe hunts after this.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/has-more-luck-than-sense This 12-plex movie theater employee]] is told that there is a secret 13th theater.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/pranking-as-sour-as-vinegar This grocery store employee]] is told to shake the vinaigrette dressings to mix them.
* SoBadItsGood: {{Invoked}} by [[https://notalwaysright.com/unable-hold-laughter/108791/ this story]]. Whoever chose the hold song - a rendition of "Lavender's Blue" by a man who [[DreadfulMusician absolutely, positively cannot sing]] - either chose it as an act of spite, had horrifically bad taste in music, or had some sort of conflict of interest. The song was so awful that everyone who heard it burst out laughing, and multiple people tried to bring its poor quality to the company's attention before the submitter succeeded, causing an office-wide distraction resulting from the worker's BileFascination.
* TheSocialDarwinist: [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-conversation-died-a-premature-death This manager]] never donates to cancer research because he believes that diseases like cancer help prevent overpopulation.
* SpannerInTheWorks:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/box-of-stolen-stupid These prankster employees]] unwittingly foil a shoplifting scheme that includes their assistant manager as a collaborator.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/cant-discount-crime/110458/ The original customers here]] want a necklace that must be transferred from another store. Because of the way the system works, the transfer request won't go through until the next morning, so when the submitter checks on it the next day, they find out that it was purchased by an employee the previous night. The submitter goes on to learn that that location's night supervisor had been purchasing jewelry with his employee discount and selling it to customers at just above that discounted price(but still far less than the regular asking price), pocketing the difference, for ''five years''. Too bad that that couple happened to want his most recent target.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/dusting-off-the-scum/114945/ This manager]], shortly after beginning work at a pizza place, disconnected the security cameras so they wouldn't catch him StealingFromTheTill among other things, and running the restaurant into the ground. However, a new delivery guy dusted around the disconnected cables and re-connected them thinking that he'd bumped them on accident, meaning that for a week before the delivery guy went to the owner to report the manager's thieving ways, the cameras were on and caught his misbehavior. That one week of hard evidence was enough to get him sent to prison for grand larceny. [[OhCrap The look on his face]] when he realized [[IsThisThingStillOn the cameras were still on]] was priceless.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-doolittle-goes-a-long-way No, seriously,]] that's a ''really'' smart raccoon.
* {{Spoonerism}}: [[http://notalwaysright.com/youll-find-them-next-to-the-spoonerism-and-cutlery The shitted feets.]]
* StayInTheKitchen:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/someone-please-shatter-the-triforce-of-chauvinism This video game store cashier]] is disgusted when a girl walks in to retrieve a game. The game was for the girl's brother, but the cashier's disgust and remarks are, well, disgusting.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/best-way-to-toast-sexism-bar-none Thankfully, not all misogynists are beyond redemption.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/some-men-are-tools This cashier]] seems to think that women are completely incapable of doing any woodwork.
** When a cashier gives a female customer a hard time (including dropping the trope name), [[http://notalwaysright.com/sticking-it-to-the-miso-ji-stic the customer's five-year-old brother proceeds to lay a verbal smackdown]].
** A bizarre case [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-employee-is-beyond-help here]] where a ''female'' employee clearly believes that auto maintenance and repair is beyond a woman, but the ''male'' employee she summons clearly sees that in this case, the woman who had to pop the hood had things in hand.
** Inverted [[http://notalwaysright.com/equality-is-a-two-chromosomed-street here]], when a man isn't employed because the worker thinks they're not as hard-working as women. As the story says, sexual discrimination laws go both ways - and, of course, the employer is still dumb enough to ''tell this to that man's face''.
** Another inversion [[http://notalwaysright.com/good-to-sell-until-hell-freezes-over here]], with a female employee who will bend over backwards for female customers, but is dismissive and rude towards male ones, including making up stories about them being rude to her (e.g. claiming the submitter was trying to get a refund for expired food he bought months ago, rather than warning them of long-expired food still on ''their'' shelves).
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/home-improving-attitudes This woman]] has had to deal with ''many'' home improvement stores that fall deep into this trope, so imagine how she feels once she finds a store that ''averts'' it. To top it off, said store is run ''by'' a woman, perhaps inverting the trope as well.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-making-a-valid-pointe This registrar]] is a jerkass sexist won't register girls for the mall's sports activities (Soccer, Football and Hockey) but instead puts them into ballet and gymnastics because he thinks all girls like those and hate sports. What's worse, the organizer of these activities allows it because he only cares whether all of the activities have at least 9 kids attending each otherwise they be canceled, claiming it's [[BlatantLies fair and equal]] despite the fact the girls basically have no choice in what they get to do. [[LaserGuidedKarma It eventually backfires]] once a couple of {{Mama Bear}}s, unhappy about the situation, organize a boycott, leading to most--if not all--of the activities being cancelled.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/giving-them-a-sporting-chance This registrar]] is better in this regard; his excuse is that [[ReflexiveResponse every other girl signing up legitimately did want ballet, so he assumed this one wanted that too]], and is quick to fix the mistake when she points out she wants to play football. Unfortunately, the organizer is just as sexist as the last example; he even talks as if the girl will end up dropping off the team immediately, even after being shown ''video evidence'' of her liking the game ''and'' being very, very good at it. At least the organizer (albeit grudgingly) allows her the chance to try. Also, this incident takes place in Darwin, so they may have been talking about ''UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball'', which is a ''very'' rough sport.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-making-a-valid-pointe-part-2 Rounding out the possibilities]], ''this'' registrar is a jerkass sexist who, without the knowledge of the parents, sign up girls for ballet and gymnastics despite their requests, and even ''threatened physical violence'' on a woman who complained about it. [[RuleOfThree Unlike the previous two stories]], the organizer is ''not'' happy when he finds out, and ends up [[LaserGuidedKarma firing the clerk on the spot]] and correcting the misplacements that he can. (Bonus points: Apparently, the clerk was later arrested on sexual assault charges for a different incident.)
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/saying-it-over-and-ovarian This nurse]] repeatedly reminds a patient that an operation will make her sterile, ignoring the patient repeatedly saying that she was already sterile due to the condition she's getting the operation for. Eventually the nurse snaps and says that the patient's godly duty as a woman is to have children. At least the nurse was kept away from the patient when the incident was reported to the surgeon.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-lack-of-military-intelligence This waitress]] actually cuts a female sailor's military ID in half because she thinks women can't serve in ''any'' capacity in the Navy and it's therefore a fake ID. The customer ended up getting the meal free instead, along with a coupon for another free meal at a later time, while the waitress was chewed out by the manager over the incident.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/engineering-a-problem The new manager]] in an aerospace company dismisses what he thinks is an overpaid secretary. Nope, she was the only one with the applied mathematics skills necessary for the group to do the work... and the CEO, once it became known ''why'' certain projects had been stalled for months, [[WhatWereYouThinking tore into the supervisor]] before firing him.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/test-driving-back-to-the-fifties This car dealer]] who assumes that the wife of a pair is only interested in the aesthetic features of the car, and is subsequently surprised when not only is she the one doing the test driving, she proceeds to rattle off everything that's wrong with the car afterwards.
** In an inversion, [[https://notalwaysright.com/sexism-hasnt-got-your-back/65698/ this male employee]] refuses to help a male customer with back problems carry bags of gardening rocks to his car on the grounds that "he is man and is strong enough to do it himself" and complains that a female employee, who did help the customer, shouldn't do that as it's "that man's job" even thought both the customer and female employee repeatedly point out the customer's back problems. And it turns out, this wasn't the first time the male employee did something like this.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/mismanaged-your-attitude/99364/ This coworker]] doesn't think it's a man's job to clean, and tries to order [[BullyingADragon his own manager]] (who is female) to do the cleaning instead, snapping his fingers and shouting as if ''he's'' the boss of ''her''. [[LaserGuidedKarma This gets him sentenced to cleaning the staff room during the evenings,]] [[TheyJustDontGetIt not that he's budged on his views even remotely.]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-clean-quit/108807/ This part time seasonal worker]] outright ''orders'' the female submitter, who is the store manager (and five levels above him) to clean up a mess he was asked to sweep up thirty minutes prior, under the logic that “MEN don’t clean.” When the submitter attempts to write him up for refusing to work, the worker [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits on the spot.]]
* StealingTheCredit: A hallmark of bad managers, like [[http://notalwaysright.com/managers-cause-a-latte-problems this one]].
* StealingFromTheTill: An extreme example can be found [[http://notalwaysright.com/process-of-elimination here]], involving a manager and his daughter embezzling from the financial services company they both work at for over six months, trying to get another employee to take the fall for them, and finally finding themselves in jail for stealing from multiple businesses they had worked for.
** Somehow, the business owner in [[https://notalwaysright.com/fire-that-glitch/101025/ this]] story believed the tills were off by ''a couple hundred dollars each day'' because of a software glitch in the registers. When a new cashier's till is never off by more than a nickel, the boss eventually realizes it's not the registers that are the problem, it's the other cashiers.
* StockYuck: [[http://notalwaysright.com/ordering-fish-in-troubled-waters This pizza place worker]] makes the assumption that teenagers ordering a pizza with anchovies is a prank call - and, in typical Not Always Working fashion, is unnecessarily rude about it, which gets him fired within five minutes.
* StupidEvil:
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/disabling-your-bosss-attitude/64603/ This boss]] proudly bullies the disabled employee, right in front of the employee's ACAS representative.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/one-of-the-worst-managers-youve-ever-produced/135206/ This produce manager]], instead of apologizing over the phone to a wrongfully fired employee, delivers an outright ''brutal'' TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the employee, '''right in front of his boss'''. [[LaserGuidedKarma Not surprisingly, the idiot is instantly fired]] [[PersonaNonGrata and banned from the store for life]].
* StupidSexyFlanders: [[http://notalwaysright.com/glad-we-straightened-that-out Discussed here]], including the sexual-orientation flip.
* SurroundedByIdiots:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/sunday-not-so-fun-day This poor cashier]] gets stuck with a grill worker who cannot seem to get a burger right.
** This poor clerk [[https://notalwaysright.com/reading-ticket-thats-ticket/97817/ nearly says it verbatim]] after resolving a ticket written by an incompetent inspector.
* SuspectIsHatless:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/no-hopeful-on-finding-opal This]] worker at a nursing home, who describes a resident as the one who "has gray hair and glasses, and is sitting in a wheelchair." A coworker points out that that description doesn't narrow it down very much.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/an-un-fairer-observation The only clue]] the submitter is given on the identity of a secret shopper is "she's a lady".
* SustainedMisunderstanding:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/type-bigot-positive "Oh... I didn't know they let Nazis donate."]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/causing-a-latte-problems This fast food worker]] continues to believe the customer wanted a latte despite both the customer and the manager saying otherwise.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/need-to-keep-your-mouth-shut-too A teenager]] buying diapers for her new baby sibling gets harassed by a nosy cashier who assumes that she is a teen mom and refuses to listen to her explanation otherwise. It's bad enough that the teen winds up going to a different store to buy the diapers.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: A lot of stories that deal with a BadBoss will often end this way, with the submitter quitting because they have had enough of their boss's bullshit.
* TeasingFromBehindTheLanguageBarrier: [[https://notalwaysright.com/how-to-win-the-war-against-telemarketers-part-3 This submitter]]'s uncle uses this to take care of a persistent caller that kept bothering his nephew:
-->'''Uncle''': ''(in Arabic)'' Why do you not listen? [[NonSequitur He is not here! I am in a kitchen! The bananas are not ripe yet. My nephew’s cat does not like me! Soccer is fun to watch.]] [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext My ears are on fire! My face is made of coins! There are clocks all over the ceiling]].\\
'''Caller''': [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere *click*]]
* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat / ImprobablyPredictable: A former telemarketer encounters another telemarketer [[http://notalwaysright.com/my-mime-self-and-i working from the same script]] he used at his old job. So he joins in.
* ThatCameOutWrong:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/longing-for-when-thongs-werent-wrong An oblivious grandpa]] asks for "children's thongs" for his grandson. He probably means thong ''sandals'', or "flip-flop"s. The cashier's mind goes straight for the ''other'' meaning. [[DiggingYourselfDeeper The customer's next words do NOT help matters.]]
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/not-the-most-chair-itable-way-to-say-things Ah yes, you’re part of the furniture. Er... we’re getting new furniture.]] ...Oh my! No, no, no! [[LiteralMetaphor I mean we really ARE getting new furniture]]!"
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/no-need-to-get-crabby We have crabs! And we're just itching to sell them to you!]]"
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/sugar-daddies-for-desert I'd like a boy toy, please!]]"
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/this-isnt-panning-out-well I just need to cut the cheese.]]"
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/just-runs-with-it Well, I think everyone has ‘diarrhea.']]"
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/sealed-with-a-kiss Where's my kiss?]]"
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/no-one-should-take-a-bite-of-his-bark Hey, any of you guys want to see my woody?]]"
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/causing-a-stink-with-your-customers Hello. I have a delivery of gas for your rear.]]"
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/hold-tight-when-freudian-slipping Better to be tight than loose!]]"
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/holding-on-to-your-clients Hi, Mrs. [Patient]. May I hold you?]]"
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/conversational-balls-up Yep, so I’ve got two balls!]]"
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/that-blew-up-in-his-face I’m here to blow you this afternoon!]]"
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/ill-go-with-option-number-two Would you like an apple pie]], or our new [[ToiletHumor poop]] tart—''[[VerbalBackspace pop]]'' tart ice cream sandwich?"
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/scrub-your-dirty-mind The classic "I didn’t recognize you in clothes!" moment]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/endowed-with-knowledge This worker]] meant to say that her manager is well-informed. She says he's well-endowed instead.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-so-handy-handbook/60569/ The "Not so Handy Handbook"]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/touch-technology/117620/ "I can no longer touch myself.]] [[AccidentalInnuendo Is there a reason I can no longer touch myself?"]][[note]]this is in reference to the submitter's work schedule, which the submitter has inexplicably been barred access to[[/note]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-so-family-friendly-magic/120882/ "[Submitter]! Do you have your balls on you?"]] Bonus points for the hapless coworker [[DiggingYourselfDeeper digging themselves deeper]] when they desperately try to correct themselves.[[labelnote:*]]For context, the "balls" in question are a bunch of small foam balls the submitter uses for magic tricks.[[/labelnote]]
** "[[https://notalwaysright.com/hold-that-thought/135870/ Would you like your nuts in a sack, or would you prefer to hold them?]]"
* ThatsWhatSheSaid: Attempted by a ''female'' worker here: "[[http://notalwaysright.com/equal-opportunity-innuender God, that took forever! It felt so good to finally shove some meat in there!]]"
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/drawing-blood-and-laughter This one]] comes from a blood clinic worker, with the customer saying that he would've gone for it had the worker not done so.
* TheyJustDontGetIt:
** Stories under the "Ignoring/Inattentive" (formerly "Not Listening") tag tend to be cases of this.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/infinitely-loopy-part-21 Taken to the extreme here]]. The caller tries to get her problem reassigned to another IT Manager, because the current one is on vacation. The help desk person ''repeatedly'' says that the away manager is already assigned to the case, and ''not once'' seems to understand what the caller is actually saying.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/companies-will-pay-for-not-paying-attention And here too]]. Apparently for these workers (and [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-grapes-of-a-customers-wrath these workers as well]]), "I don't want to buy the wine" means "I don't want to show you my ID, give me the wine".
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/what-an-alco-hole This worker]] goes even further, construing the laws for "You can't sell alcohol to minors" and "You can't sell alcohol to an adult buying on behalf of minors" to mean "You can't sell alcohol to an adult who happens to be accompanied by minors, even if the alcohol is clearly for the adult".
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-penny-saved-is-a-customer-spurned In response to a customer who has a malfunctioning debit card]] (on a Sunday, while on vacation), the bank employee not a few times says "just don't spend money", not seeming to get that ''this isn't an option'', especially for that customer at that time.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-boss-needs-work This boss]] really doesn't seem to understand that when an employee quits, that's ''it''; they ''don't work there'' anymore.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/mails-a-thousand-papers-but-doesnt-get-the-message This company]] has a similar problem.
** From [[http://notalwaysright.com/breaking-bank this story]]: "..as I have explained, I am unable to pay any more at present." "[[BlatantLies I understand]], but why are you not paying a greater amount?"
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-transaction-has-gone-up-in-smoke Here]] is a tobacco example similar to the liquor examples above.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-transaction-has-gone-up-in-smoke-part-2 Part 2]]: an idiot/JerkAss cashier who needs to have their manager called in for ''basic math skills''.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/tgim This employee]] ''really'' wants to work (read: get paid for) Mondays even though the store in question is not open on Monday.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-debtor-way-to-deal-with-them This company]] had to deal with a bill collector that continued asking for someone who never had anything to do with them despite filing multiple complaints with the FCC. Even after the boss [[TheGadfly gave them permission to mess with the caller]], they still had to prank the collector no less than ''six'' times before they finally gave up.
** Apparently "I don't have a bag" is too complicated a concept for [[http://notalwaysright.com/serious-baggage-issues this girl]] to understand.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/how-to-polarize-your-customers This teller]] keeps telling a customer they have to remove their sunglasses, not understanding when the customer repeatedly tells them that they're ''not actually sunglasses''.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/cannot-change-the-change-outcome This clerk]] insists on giving a customer five dollars back for a one-dollar DVD return and taking one dollar for a five-dollar DVD purchase. The customer just accepts it (and gives the extra change to charity) after the clerk fails to understand the problem after it is pointed out to her two times.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/security-going-all-full-metal-jacket This security guard]] decides that a family helping their young daughter put on a jacket means that they stole it. It doesn't matter that it's stained, has no tags, and is a brand the store does not sell. When the guard ''finally'' gets that it was not stolen, several hours later, [[NeverMyFault he asks a coworker "why didn't you tell me?"]], when said coworker ''did, numerous times''.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-vacuum-of-sales This demonstrator]] seems to believe that a family claiming they don't have carpeting on their floor means they ''don't have a floor at all''.
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/affogato-be-kidding I suppose if they misheard 'ice water' as 'affogato,']] mishearing "I'm allergic" as "I'd like extra" isn’t too far of a stretch, but still..."
** The conversation in [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-new-white-bread-america this story]] was apparently a daily occurrence for the submitter.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/working-against-the-clock This clerk]] at a jewelry counter can't seem to understand how a wind-up watch works without a battery. Despite having it explained to them by ''multiple people''.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-bill-that-keeps-on-billing This]] receptionist just doesn't get that the customer in question has not been getting bills for eight months because a.) they moved from Connecticut to California, and b.) their old address was wrong in the system, so the bills were not forwarded, and keeps saying "you should just pay your bills when you get them, because we've been sending you bills for eight months".
** For [[http://notalwaysright.com/blt-better-luck-tomorrow-part-4 these employees]], customers apparently have to specifically ask for lettuce and tomato to be added to their ''BLT sandwiches''. That lettuce and tomato are in its name, right after the bacon that they ''did'' add, means nothing.
** Likewise for [[http://notalwaysright.com/with-no-bacon-comes-irresponsibility this restaurant]], where a BBQ '''bacon''' burger apparently does not come with bacon - and, to add insult to injury, the waitress the submitter asked about it charged extra for the "add-on" after getting them the bacon they were supposed to get in the first place.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/how-to-win-the-war-against-telemarketers-part-7 This Indian Telemarketer]] doesn't seem to understand that the family he's repeatedly calling is not interested in what he's selling despite the numerous time they insult him and threaten to call the police. The Telemarketer finally stop after the police contacted his superiors.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/pig-headed-about-the-sign Despite the US Navy]] telling their cooks to put meat signs on their food so their Arabic guests won't accidentally eat food that is against their religious beliefs, one cook doesn't understand why he has to put a sign on his Calicon corn despite the fact the dish contains pork.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/theyre-all-high-on-e These two tech support]] don't seem understand because the submitter new computer is a Mac that runs OSX, they cannot install Internet Explorer which is only available on Windows.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/caught-in-the-middle-name This employee]] refuses to believe that the 24 year old submitter has an unconventional middle name, screaming that she's been "lied to" even after the submitter explicitly states multiple times that the name in question is her middle name, not the first part of a hyphenated last name. The supervisor who scolds the employee and takes over notes that the employee always did this and was likely going to be let go because of that incident.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/might-well-sleeping-job This submitter]] was suffering from excessive fatigue and oversleeping. The doctor, for whatever reason, decided his patient was clearly suffering from '''insomnia''' [[note]]which is when you ''can't'' sleep, just for the record[[/note]] and needed to take over-the-counter sleep aids. "He's my ex-doctor now."
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/your-credit-score-is-underage This credit card scammer]] calls a 12 year old boy's cell phone, and simply cannot get through her head, even after being repeatedly told by the boy's mother, that the boy cannot possibly have a credit card at his age.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/steve-me-alone/93645/ This debt collector]] does not get the idea that "Steve" doesn't live in the household he is calling, and never has. Even after being told that "Steve" had ''died'' the previous spring, the collector continues berating and harassing the submitter at least three times a week, prompting her to file a complaint with the Attorney General.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/say-bye-bi-coworker/110476/ This female co-worker]] does not seem to understand her male co-worker is a bisexual and not gay. Even worse, for all of her concerns that her male co-worker maybe being forced to "date" his girlfriend by his parents and not because he actually likes her, she immediately judges his girlfriend must be a transsexual as the reason why he's dating her and thinks he's into gay stereotypes like drag queens and good fashion sense.
* TooDumbToLive:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/totally-pill-aged This nurse]] downs an entire bag of pills, despite not knowing who they belong to or what they are for. Fortunately for her (and possibly unfortunately for the rest of us), they were mostly harmless lactose-intolerance pills, so no Website/{{Darwin Award|s}} for her (at least, not yet).
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/putting-your-selfie-in-danger These coworkers]] stop in the middle of a stairwell during a fire drill to take a selfie, [[LethallyStupid endangering the people behind them]] as ''well'' as themselves. Had this been an ''actual'' emergency, photobombing their selfie (as the submitter suggested) would have been ''too light'' a reaction.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/totally-off-your-nut This guy]] has a nut allergy severe enough for him to take an Epipen to work everyday and thinks the reason for nearly dying after eating an ALMOND JOY! was that that it had coconut in it.
* {{Troll}}: [[https://notalwaysright.com/do-you-speak-asian/108817/ When the submitter's boyfriend]] runs into a racist cashier who assumes he doesn't speak English [[FailedASpotCheck despite the fact that he just did]], the boyfriend responds by swapping to Mandarin until the cashier [[RageQuit leaves in frustration]], then swaps right back to English.
* UnwantedAssistance: [[invoked]]
** An optician has to bend the glasses to fit properly on the patient's face...[[http://notalwaysright.com/infinitely-loopy-part-6 then proceeds to unbend them so they'll fit in the hard case]]. Eventually the patient uses a paraphrase of the former trope name "Stop Helping Me".
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/return-this-rep-to-sender This Cable Rep]] claims he/she can help the submitter but is being difficult in settling an unjustified shipping cost. The submitter asks for someone else to help her instead.
* 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 buisness in the process. [[RealityEnsues Needless to say, the worker got fired afterwards for her misconduct and the consequences that ensued]].
* 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.
* VengefulVendingMachine: [[http://notalwaysright.com/drives-you-round-the-vend Yep, they exist.]]
* VetinariJobSecurity:
** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/just-got-rid-of-his-breadwinner It took exactly two days for the new owner to realize that he had fired the only man who knew all of the recipes and who dealt with over half our regular clientele.]]"
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-in-a-happy-replace This]] salesperson has a WrongGenreSavvy moment here because she assumes this is the case. She's very firmly proven otherwise.
** [[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.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/you-cant-dismiss-the-karma-on-this-one/131545/ This manager]] managed to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard invoke]] it, by giving the submitter the most difficult possible tasks as part of a bullying campaign. When she ends up firing the submitter for not giving in to her bullying (resulting in the manager losing a wrongful dismissal suit), it turns out that, since the submitter was doing all the hard work on a project, ''nobody else had the required knowledge to finish it''. And while the submitter certainly ''can'' help them out, they make it clear that there's no way they're going to lift a finger for their BadBoss.
* WackyCravings: The poster thinks this is going on in [[http://notalwaysright.com/showered-with-irresponsibility this]] story, and tries to warn the customer about the dangers. It turned out that while the customer's daughter ''is'' pregnant, she doesn't have a craving for mayonnaise -- she's making deviled eggs for the baby shower.
* WaifFu: [[http://notalwaysright.com/secure-in-her-ability Two former bouncers]] are hired for a security firm and notice a 5'1" girl in one of their training courses. They complain about the girl getting higher pay than them, just as one of the men is brought up for a demonstration with her. She then proceeds to flip him flat on his ass during the demonstration, much to his surprise. The instructor's line at the end sums it up perfectly.
--->'''Instructor:''' Celebrities hire guys like you to stand in front of them and look scary; millionaire businessmen hire people like her if they want real security.
* WaxingLyrical:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-is-not-one-of-the-better-times With lyrics from "Tubthumping" by Chumbawumba.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-great-gummi-massacre "Gummi bears...]] [[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears lying here and there and everywhere..."]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/i-like-my-coworkers-better-that-way "Why did Constantinople get the works?"]] [[Music/TheyMightBeGiants "That's nobody's business but the Turks'."]]
* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: [[http://notalwaysright.com/if-you-cant-stand-the-heat-stay-out-of-the-microwave The worst they can say is no.]]
* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: [[https://notalwaysright.com/cleaning-at-an-alarming-rate/56544/ This new employee]] finds an unlabeled button near the register and presses it, thinking it might release something that they would have to clean. Turns out that button was the silent alarm and pressing it alerted the police. The employee doesn't end up reprimanded because, as their bosses say, they are not the first employee to do so. "People just like pushing buttons, even if they don’t know what they’re for."
* WhamLine: At the end of [[https://notalwaysright.com/analyse-this-i-quit/119844/ this story]]:
--> Oh, and did I mention the boss was my step-dad?
* WhosOnFirst:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/ques-on-second And Qué's on second.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/listening-with-reckless-a-banned-on The difference]] between "band" and "banned".
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/saved-by-the-bell Anita Bellman]]. ''Not'' "I need a bellman."
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: [[http://notalwaysright.com/when-live-wires-get-their-wires-crossed Well, spiders in this case.]] It scares the guy so much he ScreamsLikeALittleGirl.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/walking-playing-dead/102883// Or perhaps this opossum]]
* 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).
* [[WritersCannotDoMath Workers Cannot Do Math]]:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/penny-unwise-and-pound-foolish Here are two people who don't understand fractions.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/your-math-is-my-gain Here's one]] that doesn't understand subtraction.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/makes-a-difference-when-cashiers-are-minus-a-few-brain-cells Here's another]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/being-patient-can-be-paint-ful Here's one]] who doesn't know how to convert a "recipe" for a quart of paint to a gallon.[[note]]For those who don't use those measurements: just multiply everything by four.[[/note]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-day-late-and-991000-dollars-short “The new store in [city] just made $9,000 last week. That’s almost a million!”]] That's an epic case of MisplacedADecimalPoint, ''at best''.
** When a person fails to understand that 12 ounces are three quarters of a pound, it's somewhat understandable. [[http://notalwaysright.com/an-ounce-of-common-sense-is-worth-a-pound-of-queries When that person can't comprehend a fraction like "three quarters", it's this trope.]]
** A dozen is twelve, but [[http://notalwaysright.com/their-math-dozent-add-up somehow these two never learned that]].
*** Likewise, [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-duh-zen this cashier]] thinks that a dozen means twenty, but is quickly proven wrong when her manager makes her fetch a carton of a dozen eggs and then count them out to him. She was fired over the debacle soon after.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-quite-a-bakers-dozen This bakery]] doesn't understand that a half-dozen is six, either.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/cant-think-outside-the-box This submitter]] splits two dozen donuts between three boxes, to which the cashier tries to charge them for three dozen - apparently a "dozen" is simply however many donuts happen to be in a box, rather than a concrete number.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/yes-age-no-standing/97083/ This liquor store cashier]] doesn't seem to get that a customer born in 1989 is old enough to purchase alcohol in the UK in 2011. When the submitter tries to correct her and say that they are 21, she tries to use [[InsaneTrollLogic her own mathematics]] to prove them wrong... only to end up with 18 as her answer, which is ''still'' old enough to buy alcohol under UK law. Fortunately, the owner eventually steps in and rings up the submitter, and the cashier is fired some time later.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/only-half-listening This sandwich shop worker]] doesn't understand what "cut it in half" means and has to be told to cut the sandwich into 2 pieces.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/theyre-not-on-the-same-page This lawyer]] cannot get a single printer to print a Word document - which turns out to be because he's telling the printers to print the fourth page of a document that only has three pages.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/making-a-fractionally-better-coffee This coworker]] doesn't get that a drink which is three-thirds coffee would be ''all'' coffee.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-number-must-have-popsicled-into-their-head This cashier]] doesn't know how "buy one, get one ''free''" works.
*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/ive-gotta-find-this-pizza-place This one]], meanwhile, misunderstands the "buy" part and thinks the customer gets ''everything'' free.
** The introduction to [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-minor-business-flaw this story]] mentions that some of the interviews the submitter went to were doomed from the start, because they were looking for someone with five- to ten-years' experience with software that wasn't even two years old.
** Same deal in [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-a-pleasant-experience this story]], where the interviewer is looking for people with ten years' worth of work experience, but then refuses to hire the submitter who has double that, because he's not in his mid-20's [[AggressiveCategorism and therefore cannot possibly know anything about computers]]. The submitter points out the ridiculousness of this as he's leaving by telling them "good luck finding someone who graduated at age 10".
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/has-zero-understanding-of-zero This agent]] cancels a woman's tuition account because the woman didn't pay anything over the last two months, even when ''both'' the agent and the submitter plainly see that the woman's charges for those two months is zero dollars.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/i-can-write-you-a-cheque-but-it-will-all-come-to-naught/64130/ The submitter here]] gets an electric bill for £0.00. When he sends nothing, the company threatens to send bailiffs to recoup the amount of the debt, continually failing to understand that the bill is for "NAUGHT pounds and NAUGHT pence." It gets to the point that the submitter simply sends a check for £0.00 to satisfy the electric company.
* WorstAid: The "Medical Office", "Hospital", and "Health & Body" tags are ''full'' of [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal doctor don'ts, nurse nuisances, and receptionist rejections]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/sleeping-on-the-job This story]] is particularly cringe-worthy.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-painful-diagnosis Sometimes, it pays to explain things to the doctor]]--the hospital goes into a wild goose chase over a nurse's incorrect diagnosis until the patient finally is able to talk to a ''doctor'' and tell ''them'' what's wrong. The doctor gets a major OhCrap moment when the patient's description of the symptoms hits home--turns out the patient had cancer!
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/wont-let-finnish-sentence These paramedics]] state that an elderly woman is being "uncooperative" all while completely ignoring the woman's family's insistence that she only speaks Finnish.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/how-to-be-a-total-asthma/92393/ This Doctor]] fails to notice a five year old girl has asthma, dissmissing the girl's mother's arguments, even though she is a nurse and knows the sympthons of asthma. Worse, the Doctor claimed to be a member of the board of Asthma Awareness. Fortunately, another doctor knows better and sends the girl to [=ICU=], where she makes a full recovery.
* WouldHurtAChild: Not in the usual sense that this trope implies, but [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-feeding-frenzy/65023/ this callous NICU nurse]] cares so little about her patients that she lays a premature baby down flat after nursing (causing her to vomit) ''and'' carelessly gives her breast milk from another baby's mother (which could have been contaminated).
* WoundedGazelleGambit:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/born-to-help Inverted with this manager]], who thinks an 8-months-pregnant cashier is faking a sickness. Turns out, it was very real.
** Also inverted with [[https://notalwaysright.com/thought-it-was-some-kind-of-sick-joke this manager]], who threatens to discipline the submitter for feigning illness to take the previous day off, despite them exhibiting ''obvious signs'' of illness and even '''passing out''' in front of her. Fortunately, [[LaserGuidedKarma the manager was later fired]].
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/his-race-card-has-expired In this story]] the submitter's manager reveals that a customer accused them of racially abusing him. It turns out that he (the customer) bullied the submitter when they went to school, and [[EverythingIsRacist cried racism whenever the submitter complained.]] When the coworker's classmate vouches for the submitter, the manager immediately drops the complaint.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Quite a number of bosses and co-workers fall under this.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/hater-waiter In this case]], the manager believes he's in a Not Always Right story, handling a rude and aggressive customer. Turns out, he's in a Not Always Working story, with his waiter being mean.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/cardboard-cut-cashier-better This cashier]] thinks she is the OnlySaneMan in a Not Always Right story to the end, refusing to let herself be proven wrong.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-crazy-fan-with-a-few-wires-loose/ This repair company]] thinks they're in a Not Always Right story with yet another customer overreporting a problem (saying a ceiling fan was hanging by its wires; every other time someone's ever reported this to them, it was only the canopy that fell off). The electrician they eventually send to humor the crazy customer is quite surprised to find that said customer's problem was NotHyperbole - unlike every other customer who reported that issue, her fan ''really was'' hanging by its wires and ready to fall at any moment.
* WrongRestaurant: Subverted in [[https://notalwaysright.com/misteaken-cowmprehension this]] story. A man goes into a vegetarian restaurant and orders a steak. The newly hired waitress (telling the story) has to inform him that as a vegetarian restaurant, they don't serve steak. But then the owner's daughter reveals that they do serve steak. It turns out she doesn't know what "vegetarian" means, and the owner doesn't have the heart to tell her - which leads to the restaurant closing down just weeks later after an ''actual'' vegetarian restaurant opened across the street.
* YouAreAlreadyDead: [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-baker-they-need-not-the-baker-they-deserve Discussed.]]
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: [[http://notalwaysright.com/whining-about-the-dining A coffee-shop employee]] gives a self-loathing coworker a pick-me-up this way, DrillSergeantNasty style. Note that the narrator delivered it that way because they thought the "self-loathing" coworker was just whining to get attention, and given that it apparently worked they were likely right.
* YouCantMissIt: [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-colour-derple This receptionist]] gives directions from the current doctor's office to the office of a specialist for people with color-blind vision... citing landmarks by color. Thankfully, once the patient spells out the problem, the receptionist finally seems to realize what they were doing wrong.
* YouDidntAsk: [[http://notalwaysright.com/served-by-sheldon-cooper A perfect demonstration]] of just how annoying this trope really is.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord:
** [[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 (since, given the above thought process, he ignores the customer's request to not add bacon to their dish and then insults them for complaining).
--->''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/not-determined-on-terminology This developer]] keeps using the wrong terms for a piece of software, and can't be convinced to use the correct ones. It's implied the developer uses a rather naughty term for the spinny thing that lets people know that something is loading (normally called a "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throbber throbber]]").
* YouMakeMeSic: [[http://notalwaysright.com/cant-quit-good-grammar This woman]] corrects a poorly-written comment from her manager.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: A ''doctor'' believes [[http://notalwaysright.com/taking-a-pregnant-pause-on-menopause a 29-year-old woman to be in her mid-40s]], accusing her of being afraid to own up to the possibility of going through menopause... [[SustainedMisunderstanding and when he meets her later during her pregnancy, he berates her for being such at such an advanced age.]]
** "[[https://notalwaysright.com/winker-waiter-father-cry/59480/ She's fourteen!?]]" And then the flirting waiter was never seen or heard from again.
* YourCheatingHeart: [[http://notalwaysright.com/fit-for-the-job This guy]] was on the other end of this trope - his wife was sleeping with his boss, who promptly fired him when he discovered it.
* ZillionDollarBill: Nope, [[http://notalwaysright.com/customers-actually-know-a-thing-or-two $2 bills exist]].
[[/folder]]