Line #49 Awesome/NotAlwaysWorking


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3	* [[http://notalwaysright.com/consider-yourself-ameliorated This one]] has a homophobic manager get fired by his boss. Turns out the manager had several discrimination claims against him, and the employee he insulted got his job instead.
4	* [[http://notalwaysright.com/we-read-your-attitude-loud-and-clear This]] is immediate karma in action. A girl who is hard of hearing turns in a job application, only to get smugly rejected. Upon hearing it, the girl sadly leaves... followed by all of the customers in the store, who leave in disgust at the manager's behavior.
5	* {{Bad boss}}es [[https://notalwaysright.com/affirmed getting owned]] is truly awesome.
6	* In [[http://notalwaysright.com/nice-to-get-helped-for-a-change this one]], a transgender woman has trouble with an ObstructiveBureaucrat who doesn't even pretend to not show disgust. Both her friend and the manager helped her while remaining calm, with the manager promising to fire the bigoted bureaucrat afterward.
7	* [[http://notalwaysright.com/enter-the-meowndarin Claw through this]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch b***!]]
8	* [[http://notalwaysright.com/hit-the-road-jerk Everyone hopes they get a customer like this.]]
9	-->'''Supervisor''': You can’t speak to me like that! You can’t give ME orders! I’M the supervisor!
10	-->'''Customer''': Then F*ING supervise, you little s, or I'll come in there and supervise YOU out of a job. to me* Doing good, darlin'. Carry on!
11	* [[http://notalwaysright.com/getting-his-just-desserts This guy]] gives a rude, lazy employee his just desserts.
12	* [[http://notalwaysright.com/have-no-truck-with-these-coworkers Karma strikes]] a shift manager who (essentially) fires an employee for being pregnant. Step one: ''His'' boss finds out about it, and the firing is reversed. Step two: The manager finds out the shift manager's been MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces with the coworker who lodged the initial complaint, which gets the shift manager ''and'' his lover fired.
13	* [[http://notalwaysright.com/fly-the-friendliest-skies/ This airport staff]] definitely knows how to make a bad situation better.
14	* [[http://notalwaysright.com/secure-in-her-ability/ "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."]]
15	* [[http://notalwaysright.com/making-up-and-breaking-down/ An autistic teenager]] who doesn't like makeup is assaulted by a cosmetics worker who, against her wishes, insists that she try her makeup. With the help of an off-duty cop, the teen manages to get the cosmetics worker fired.
16	* [[http://notalwaysright.com/sticking-it-to-the-miso-ji-stic/ Don't mess with the local Mario Kart champ and her little brother!]]
17	* [[http://notalwaysright.com/dying-to-learn-how-to-drive/ This kid]] drives their father to the hospital despite not only living an hour away, but having never learned how to use a manual transmission or drive on a highway. A police officer helps them deal with some obstructive receptionists, and later says he won't arrest the kid for driving without a license, as it was "one of the bravest things (he) ever heard!", and he was very impressed that she didn't strip the gears or get into a crash. For bonus points, the girl had broken her leg into two pieces and didn't notice due to the adrenaline and panic; and for even ''more'' bonus points, when the girl later turns herself in to the police for her moving violation, the police say they can't ticket her since she wasn't pulled over. It's a brilliant case of Legal Necessity - effectively, official policy that allows the police to say IllPretendIDidntHearThat in certain cases of ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight.
18	* [[http://notalwaysright.com/driving-home-the-sale/ This woman]] doesn't take any crap from car salespeople.
19	* [[https://notalwaysright.com/sins-of-the-father-4/60043/ This security guard]] got tired of the boss's son sexually harassing people, and duct-taped him to a table.
20	* [[http://notalwaysright.com/she-isnt-fired/ "See? That's what it takes to get a raise around here!"]] For context the babysitter had run into a burning house, rescued the dog, checked to see if anyone was still in there, checked on the boy who alerted her to the fire, and then passed out from smoke inhalation.
21	* In [[http://notalwaysright.com/speaking-up-for-those-who-cant/ this]] story, an autistic worker that can't speak is forced by a discriminating manager to answer the phone, which he obviously ''can't'' do. He picks up the phone, presses a button over and over, puts the phone down, and leaves while the manager wrongfully fires him for it. Turns out the caller was the worker's [[BigBrotherInstinct brother]], who is the company ''CEO'', and [[EveryoneKnowsMorse understood the Morse code that his brother used on the phone]]. Upon learning what happened, the now-''[[TranquilFury pissed]]'' CEO [[WhatWereYouThinking berates the manager for discriminating against his disabled brother]] and fires her instead.
22	* [[http://notalwaysright.com/we-love-to-pay-to-see-you-smile/ This person]], who gets a new job at a coffeehouse simply because the manager appreciates the service the worker is doing at their current job so much.
23	* "[[http://notalwaysright.com/dont-dish-out-what-you-cant-take/ But if you talk to the waities like that again, especially my dishie, and I hear it, I'll be carvin' off your face and selling it as a steak. You hear?]]"
24	* [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-theft-finally-registered/ This supervisor's approach to an employee robbing the store tills]] is to inform her that as supervisor, they are personally responsible for shortfalls and have to compensate for them out of pocket, thereby informing the thief that her crimes are actually hurting her coworkers and not an anonymous "company". [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone She immediately stops stealing from the tills.]]
25	* [[http://notalwaysright.com/badly-monitoring-the-orders/ This story]] includes a manager who has been bumping orders off the monitors [[SkewedPriorities in order to keep the serve times down]]. When a server learns about this, said server begins something of a mutiny with the help of a grill worker (and, later, the rest of the staff), making sure that the customers were served properly despite the managerial interference. The attitude is summed up nicely by these words: "I am not going to deliberately not serve my customers!" The story ends with the revelation that the manager (along with another one who was implied to be just as bad) left soon after, and two assistant managers were promoted to replace them.
26	* A minor one, but [[http://notalwaysright.com/gave-him-more-than-he-could-chew/ this guy]] beats a cashier [[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame at his own game]] - since the cashier kept giving him packets of gum in place of his change (Mexican stores often use gum packets in place of 50 cents coins for change, but only when they've run out of coins and the customer is OK with it), he decides to pay for his next purchase using ''only'' gum packets.
27	* With many stories of [[KarmaHoudini higher-ups getting away with refusing to make accommodations for disabled employees]], usually because the poster either grins and bears it or just quits/gets fired without further hassle, it is beyond satisfying to see some where the employees ''fight back'':
28	** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/disabling-your-bosss-attitude/64603/ this story]], the submitter is meeting with her bosses and [=ACAS=] representatives over the discrimination she was facing at the company. After the submitter makes a simple request for her boss to accommodate her needs and shows him the appropriate laws, he proceeds not only threaten to fire the submitter anyway, but ''blatantly advertise his discrimination '''right in front of the [=ACAS=] representative'''''. The unamused submitter proceeds to file a formal complaint against her boss.
29	** In a similar note, here's [[https://notalwaysright.com/you-cant-dismiss-the-karma-on-this-one/131545/ this story]] about a woman who sues her PointyHairedBoss after being relentlessly singled out and bullied by her, then fired under fabricated claims of theft. After a meeting between their lawyers which saw the submitter effortlessly shoot down each of her former boss's BlatantLies, the boss has the nerve to ask her to work on a client's project, even though the submitter isn't legally required or even allowed to do so. The submitter refuses, then proceeds with her lawsuit and ''wins''. Bonus points for the asshole boss being demoted to a non-managerial position, then later fired for gross dishonesty.
30	--->'''Submitter:''' It's called karma, you psychopathic b***, and there's a whole lot more of it coming your way.
31	** Likewise, after [[https://notalwaysright.com/printing-his-own-settlement/176713/ this employee]] is fired by his boss for "crippling the company" while he was away on vacation (the "crippling" in question being ''[[DisproportionateRetribution not being there to refill the printer paper]]''), he uses the literally ''dozens'' of texts, calls, and voicemails the boss sent while the employee was on vacation with his husband (some of which contained homophobic remarks) to ultimately win a settlement for lost wages.
32	* [[https://notalwaysright.com/theyre-not-always-alt-right/118392/ In this story]], the submitter, a post office manager, fires a new worker for being racist to a black coworker. When the new hire returns with a Union Rep to demand he hire her back, with an InsaneTrollLogic saying she can't be fired for her racism, the submitter stands his ground, pointing out her racism was acceptable grounds for her firing, and that the new hire [[PersonaNonGrata would absolutely not be getting her job back]].
33	* [[https://notalwaysright.com/i-scream-for-justice/123078/ This story]] about a newly-hired employee who, after several instances of employment abuse and wage theft at an ice cream shop they worked at, calls the police and ends up exposing the shop as a money-laundering front.
34	* [[https://notalwaysright.com/giving-yourself-other-peoples-daddy-issues/138063/ This story]] has an absolute banshee of an office manager screaming at the submitter for talking with his dad (the ''owner'') about an upcoming job. How does the submitter deal with the manager's abusive behavior? ''He puts his dad on speaker.'' Sure enough, when the manager tries to write him up for insubordination, his dad chews her out over the phone (it was the third time that month she had harassed his son), then suspends her when he returns. The manager later tries to retaliate by firing the submitter, but ends up fired herself, and loses a wrongful termination lawsuit soon after thanks to recordings of the phone conversation, in which her meltdown with the submitter could be clearly heard.
35	* [[https://notalwaysright.com/working-with-this-guy-is-just-a-scream/157001/ This story]] has a 75-year-old lady offer the submitter (a waitress) a tip out of sympathy for having to deal with her [[BadBoss aggressive general manager]]. Enraged by the lady's generosity, the GM then swoops in, [[StealingFromTheTill snatches the submitter's tip]], and [[DisproportionateRetribution fires her on the spot]]. [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech The lady's response]] to the actions of the GM (who was fired the next day) serves as a reminder of why you should NeverMessWithGranny:
36	-->'''Elderly Lady:''' “[[TranquilFury Now, listen here, young man.]] This poor girl has been nothing but nice and sweet this whole time. She’s been doing her job very well. You, on the other hand, have been nothing but rude and unprofessional. All you have done is [[NoIndoorVoice scream and yell at her for no particular reason]], and now you’re firing her and taking the tip I gave her? [[WhatWereYouThinking Shame on you! Shame, shame, shame on you!]]”
37	* It's always awesome when a liar or scammer gets proven wrong via security camera footage. Even more so when a lying worker's lie falls apart because of cameras in places other than businesses, as the OP in [[https://notalwaysright.com/god-bless-the-camera-age/168247/ this story]] reveals.
38	* One of the two owners of a sports restaurant finds out that [[https://notalwaysright.com/gordon-ramsay-would-be-proud/201208/ the other has brought a TV into the kitchen to watch the World Series instead of working, convinced most of the kitchen personnel and some of the wait staff to join him, and rudely dismissed the few workers who are still struggling to serve an above-average dinner rush during the game]]. The responsible co-owner refunds all the angry customers, shuts down the dining room, grants severance pay to all the personnel who ''did'' work that evening and want to quit out of stress, and then goes to the kitchen and beats the TV into scrap with a meat tenderizer. When the slacker owner throws a fit, the responsible owner offers to sell his share of the restaurant, minus the cost of replacing the TV. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome The next day, the slacker owner realizes he has a restaurant that lost money from the refunds and wasted food, lost popularity due to the terrible service and shut-down, and lost most of its actual workforce, including the head chef and sous chef.]]
39	* [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-well-placed-f-bomb-will-deter-even-the-most-persistent-salesmen/203028/ An overly-persistent cold-caller]] repeatedly calls the same company trying to sell them copier paper, despite having been told that they only print a few pages a month and have no need to buy in bulk. The second time, he claims [[BlatantLies he has an appointment with the stationery manager]] -- they don't have one. The third time, he tries the same trick, this time with [[BenevolentBoss the managing director]], a [[NiceGuy very polite man who has never been seen to get angry]] -- who tells him "[[BewareTheNiceOnes I am only going to tell you this once]]: [[PrecisionFStrike f*** off]]!" The caller finally gets the point.
40	* [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-master-of-work-smarter-not-harder/214851/ This hotel employee]] gained the nickname 'Wizard' for being the epitome of BrilliantButLazy; he'd constantly slack off on his normal job, but he could solve any difficult problem the hotel had easily. The poster has a list:
41	** Accomplished an ImpossibleTask that was actually an excuse to fire him (transporting boxes of stuff across town when he doesn't have a driver's license).
42	** Salvaged a couple’s honeymoon after their original plan suffered several cancellations
43	** Got rid of a waitress’ stalker for her. Twice. (Two different men.)
44	** Can somehow speak no less than three Asian languages and act as translator for foreign guests from East Asia.
45	** Has good enough alcohol tolerance to go drinking with a Russian guest. (Said guest half-demanded that someone take him to a cheap bar and drink with him. That was a weird request, but Wizard had fun.)
46	** Knows where to find cosplay events and dress-up parties even in the most inane times of the year. (Another weird request. I immediately handed it off to Wizard.)
47	** Figured out which guest was stealing stuff from another guest’s minibar.
48	** Administered first aid to an old man that fainted.
49	** Solved an issue where a regular kept pawing at a female janitor.
50	* [[https://notalwaysright.com/impressing-one-boss-by-sticking-it-to-another/289026/ These building supply store employees]] were being mistreated by their floor manager, messing up their schedules, cutting their bonuses, and just being incompetent all around. The store happens to sell an extremely strong glue, so the employees glue the floor manager's car to the concrete. The floor manager calls the CEO himself, who hears the story, and his response:

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