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While performing in Australia in 1957, Little Richard saw a fireball flying across the sky and took it to be a sign from God to repent from secular music and his wild lifestyle at the time; he wouldn’t return to secular music until 1962. The fireball that he saw was the launch of Sputnik 1.
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Pizza was invented in Naples, Italy. Since 2004, Italian law insists Neapolitan pizza must include wheat flour, flour yeast, mineral water, peeled tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, sea salt & olive oil to be considered pizza.
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In 2015, Neil Moore, a prisoner serving time for a $2.7 million fraud conviction, walked out the front gate of a high security prison by forging his own release papers.
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Sea urchins will pick up objects and wear them as hats…and one aquarium enthusiast decided to 3D-print mini cowboy hats and viking helmets to accommodate them.
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The deposed Last Emperor of China was so used to having his needs catered to that whilst an imprisoned war criminal, it was observed that he had never brushed his teeth or tied shoelaces himself. Upon his release, others noticed that he would forget to flush the toilet and close doors behind him.
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In 1589, William Lee was refused a patent grant for his knitting machine after Elizabeth I feared automation would lead to mass unemployment.
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In 1938, a man in prison trained a cockroach to smuggle him cigarettes. He was later released because the warden said “a man who can train a cockroach doesn’t belong in prison”.
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Certain jobs can really make employees turn against each other. Maybe it’s the boss, maybe it’s just the culture of the place.
But either way, sometimes employees have to get down, dirty, and PETTY to get ahead or get revenge on their co-workers. Hey, it’s a dog-eat-dog world out there…
Let’s check out some stories from AskReddit users who pulled petty, yet very effective power moves at work.
“Our assistant manager has changed the schedule several times without notice, then happily tries to get us written up for being late, not showing up. I religiously document the schedule by photographing the screen, since we can’t access it at home.
After having to come in to HR twice on my day off to prove the schedule had changed, I began writing her up for every single time change without notification. She is let off the hook because I’m just a peon, but she still had to walk to HR to dispute them.
A few other people started doing the same. When she had to answer for five instances of it in a week, she was reassigned back to floor nursing on another unit.”
“When I worked at a grocery store I was in the meat dept. We closed the counter at 8 and cleaned until 9. My dept manager said if we finished cleaning early we could head out. But he was 9-5 so he wasn’t around.
I worked there for some years, and as the years went on one of the front end managers that did closing didn’t like us leaving early. It wasn’t up to them. They were not my boss. At some point they implemented a policy where we had to call the front desk and they had to come verify cleaning was done and sign off on it.
The manager that didn’t like us leaving early would say he was coming when we called, but then he just wouldn’t come til 9 to verify so that he could keep us there the whole time.
So my solution was, after I finished cleaning I would just walk to the front desk and find him, and tell him I was ready. He would say “OK, be right there.” And I would say “OK, I’ll wait.” And I would just stand right next to him until he went to check. He hated that.”
“I worked in a call center that had a Keycard security entry at all outside doors. My team supervisor was a tool who would penalize the smallest deviation from any rules yet he ignored them when it suited him.
One day when entering I realized too late that I had forgotten my Keycard at home. A friend swiped me in. I was ripped a new one and told everyone had to swipe their own card or they weren’t allowed entry. Under any circumstances.
Fast forward about three weeks later. Supervisor went outside to smoke on break, and left his Keycard on his desk. It was heavily snowing and probably 5 below with wind chill.
I went to the break room past the door he was banging on and ignored him. About 45 minutes later he finally entered the building and called me to his office and asked me why I didn’t let him in. I half-*ss apologized and said unfortunately that was against company policy.”
“My director had minimal respect for me, but our corporate office insisted I be a part of the management team.
Meetings are held at a rectangular table. I knew he’d sit at the “head”, so I arrived early and sat at the other “head”. He had to face me during every meeting.”
“Last day at a job, been at the place for 5 years. Going round, last chat with different folks in different areas.
One guy who always tried to get a reaction from me, I walked up to him and said I never bothered to learn your name. Walked off happy.”
“I learned that my manager hated me and wanted to fire me but I was so good at my job and well liked by the rest of the company that HR wouldn’t let her.
I showed up on time every day and completely ignored her. I would take smoke breaks and chum it up with the other department heads. When I finally got a better job and could escape her I gave her flowers.
She was such a toxic bully Ive never encountered someone so deliberately malicious and to this day I don’t know exactly why she decided I was the main target of her scorn. I think it might be because I requested a day off to go to a wedding the second month I worked for her.
After I left 7 others quit within a month 4 on the same day.
And then the new group didn’t last 3 months. And then she got fired.”
“When my wife was first hired there were three receptionists at her job, and it was about 40 hrs per week. Then they fired the oldest and hardest working one over some bullsh*t accusation of stealing or something.
So now two people are receptionists for the job that requires two and is six days a week. She was working 55 hrs/ week now and had much more work than before. This is also while being chastised by the sh*tty office manager/ owner.
So she and the other receptionist made talks of quitting, got everything lined up and quit 2 days apart. So then they had no receptionist and the sh*tty office manager had to do all the work herself until they could find a replacement.”
“I was an MA for a very wealthy, pretty arrogant doctor. They’d regularly not finish or even properly code charts, which means we don’t get paid for anything we did, yet they never knew why we were losing money.
They’d let the unfinished charts pile up into the hundreds and then task us with going through the notes ON OUR DAYS OFF while they sat at home, cruised on their yacht, or, my favorite, left the country entirely for a vacation.
And, they were a jerk to me and the rest of their overworked, underpaid staff. I was doing charts on their computer one day when I got curious and Googled, “Medicare fraud.” They didn’t like turning off computers in the office, so evidently either I forgot to close the window or they checked their search history, because they seemed to notice this.
For the rest of the time I worked there we never had to code a chart independently again and they were extremely nice to me.
Now that I’m studying medicine, I realize that what they were doing was legitimately Medicare fraud and I just didn’t know.”
“Lost out on a promotion to leading hand (construction) to nepotism.
Nevertheless tried to give the guy some advice when seeing some rookie mistakes popping up, which he promptly pulled rank and told me to follow orders.
So me and the team complied with instructions to the letter, resulting in $500k damage and the communications for a whole town cut off and the company nearly going under.”
“I had a manager try to twist me into working on a day that I’d booked off for a family funeral.
It was not a direct relative and I didn’t bother checking the official policy about what I was entitled to, but I did mention when I booked it off that it was for a funeral. Nothing was asked about who it was or if I was ok, but I didn’t offer any details.
Anyway, manager fed me some crap about ‘Friday not being ideal for time off’ and asked if I could work anyway. I said no, it was for a funeral. He pushed and I said I’d let them know by the end of the day.
I went back to my desk, looked up the policy and emailed it to him. I said I’d be off Friday as well as Monday, as per the bereavement policy (which was two days if it was family, 5 if it was a direct relative).”
“My old business partner tried to enforce a non-compete even though I was only doing residential work with the business I started.
We had previously had long email discussions and arguments where he refused to do residential work and was very clear he was only ever going to do B2B.
The non-compete got thrown out 5 seconds into arbitration (sadly, I never got to use the emails I had saved). After we left the courthouse I sat in my car calling every single customer I served when we were partners. Over 75% of them preferred my service over his and transitioned to my new business.
I then called the only employee he had that actually knew what he was doing and worked hard and made an offer for what he was actually worth (his pay went from $15/hr under old partner to $25/hr+monthly bonus+paid training under me).
The best part is that I had brought most of those customers on board his business, took all their calls, and did all the work for them. I didn’t even think of calling them until he put the idea in my head when he was arguing with the arbitrator that I was “trying to steal his business” and thought “motherf*cker, I was the one who built that entire part of your business”.
I wouldn’t have ever called them if he didn’t try to screw me.”
“I regularly butt heads with the sales team so when I saw the sales director at the front door fumbling to get his access card out, instead of opening the door for him, I stood there and watched him struggle.
It’s a glass door so he could see me standing 3 feet away, enjoying my coffee.
Looked him dead in the eyes and smiled. Man that felt great.”
“One of my former manager’s hated me because I was a “robot” who did their job and didn’t want to attend pointless meetings everyday to listen to her talk about weddings and babies when I had sh*t tons of work to do (that she’d ironically demanded of me).
Anyway, few months down the line I caught wind that she’d asked HR for pay raises for the other 2 members of our team who did the same job as me. I thought this a little odd as I’d out-performed them consistently for over 6 months but it was personal for her.
Knowing how incompetent and, quite frankly, dumb my manager was, I figured I’d be able to catch her out quite easily.
As predicted, with a bit of digging around, I found an unprotected ‘manager’ folder on a shared network drive accessible by the entire company (lol) that contained a range of juicy documents including 1-2-1 meeting notes between myself and my manager, as well as my manager and other employees. The notes on me were ridiculously negative with zero basis.
I discovered pay rise request documents and other sensitive employee pay material, which resulted in a data protection breach.
Fast forwarding a few months, after I won a tribunal case against the company (because they naively chose to try to protect her) and big payout, I found out that she had been demoted and is now working alongside the people she used to manage. I guess karma can be a b*tch.
The sad part is, I just wanted her to leave me alone and let me focus on my job.”
Now those are pretty good! And petty!
How about you?
Now we want to hear your stories of power moves at work!
Tell us your stories in the comments!
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It sure can be great to have neighbors who are helpful, reliable, and who don’t have raging parties at midnight on weekdays.
BUT, overly friendly and annoying neighbors who won’t leave you alone can also be a real drag. And sometimes it even gets to the point where you don’t want to step outside because you don’t want to get dragged into a two-hour conversation about the weather.
So how do you deal with these folks?
Let’s see what AskReddit users had to say about this.
“I live in an extremely religious community ( Mormons) so this happens all the time. I used to try to be vague and give hints but the best technique I have found is this one.
“I am kind of a private person.”
And then I compliment them on something I have noticed.
“Nice grass” or “Hey thanks for checking on me, I know it comes from a good place.””
“If you’re not very open to chat, just keep things polite yet quick. It’s nice to have a good relationship with your neighbors.
If they do delve into personal questions, just say “that’s a bit personal, I’d rather not talk about that.”
Most important thing is to be polite. Don’t be an a**hole, or act standoffish when it’s not necessary.”
“I ‘made friends’ with my neighbor at the beginning if lockdown. Now whenever I go out front of my house, he comes out. Every single time. Even when we just open our front door, he comes out and just sits.
One time, amazon dropped a package off when I was working on the side of the house. He opened his window, proceeded to YELL to me that Amazon had delivered a package.
I don’t go out of the front door anymore, unless going to my car. I just hang out around back and even take my dogs on walks leaving through and arriving through the back yard.”
“Be as polite as possible.
Seriously, its better than having a bad one who you are constantly at odds with.”
“I think maybe they’re not so much intrusive just trying to spark a conversation.
I would stop what you’re doing, give them 5 minutes of undivided attention, you don’t have to reveal too much, just get to know each other, then wrap it up with an “alright good to see you, I gotta get back to this”.”
“Keep your answers short, simple, and vague.
Example:
“What did you do this weekend?” “Ehh not much.”
The conversation will eventually fizzle out they’ll get the hint.”
“Hmm….first thought?
Always leave the house wearing headphones, even if you’re not actually listening to music.
Every time you encounter said neighbor, give them a friendly wave and continue to carry on…”
“The only time I’ve had that happen was in my first apartment. Older lady next door always wanted to ask personal questions about me since I was so young.
When she asked overly personal questions I’d usually just smile and jokingly say something like “You’ll have to buy me dinner and a drink if you want to know me that well.””
“I adopted a dog that absolutely hates my overly friendly/creepy neighbor.
Problem solved.”
“Anyways, I am generally a magnet for weirdos, so I have oodles of experience with this. The simplest way to deal with the nosey person is turn a lot of the questions back at them.
“Oh, thanks for asking, but I really need to know where you bought that fern. It’s so neat looking”.
“Oh, my job is boring. Tell me what you do for a living”.
Most of these busy bodies are looking for info to tell others. They’re so bored in their lives they have to know everyone else’s business. Either turn the question back at them or practice giving vague answers that say nothing.
“Oh, we’ve been married a while. Y’know, time flies”.
If you can’t or don’t want to talk to them, make sure you have very visible headphones on (even if your not actually listening to anything). Don’t remove them when they speak to you. Either just lift one each time they speak or leave them on and yell really uncomfortably loud when responding.
Occasionally misunderstand what they said because you couldn’t hear them. If they push it, say you’re listening to classes to learn a foreign language for work. The boss put you on a deadline to learn it. (Pick an obscure language)
If all that doesn’t work (those extra special nosey people), start feeding them really strange information that they’ll sound weird repeating to the neighbors.
Of course, the best remedy is to just talk to them for a minute, then excuse yourself and tell them you really have to get back to whatever you’re doing. Then step away. But it’s sometimes fun to mess with the annoying ones.”
“My partner and I just moved in to a house and got cornered by a neighbor for 30 minutes. My Midwest sense of guilt needs to clarify a few things.
We were on our way to do stuff, this neighbor started talking and didn’t stop for 30 minutes. I’m not exaggerating. Half an hour. Non stop talking AT us, not with us. We tried every little polite out we could take.
Plenty of “welllp”s and “Damn, that’s crazy”s and even a few god damn “well we should really get going”s. I even started leading the conversation into the middle of the street hoping a passing car would seperate us. None if it worked. We only finally made it out of there because it got dark.
I’ve decided the next time this happens I’m just going to tell her politely, but firmly, that I need to take a dump and then just walk away.”
“Try having a neighbor who tracks when you leave and arrive back home. Talks to your boss about your work schedule and when you’re actually supposed to be at home.
Asking my boss if I had Covid when she noticed I hadn’t left the house in a couple days. The list goes on and on. I hate nosy neighbors, is your life really that miserable you have to worry about STRANGERS?!
I told her off and we are currently looking to move. Some people are just bad neighbors.”
“I’ve learned this lesson a very hard way I’ve know my neighbor (56m) for around 15 years and considered him a family friend. He watched me grow up and our families have even taken a vacation together.
He was always nosey and asked personal questions but I shrugged it off as that’s just how he is. That was until my girlfriend (20f) moved in with us. He slowly became more and more friendly with her. Asking her where she works. About her family. And slowly changing his personality to hers. I suspected something was going on.
Keep in mind he is married with a daughter still in high school. One day I came home from work and my girlfriend was sharing a beer and talk with him in his garage nothing out of the normal he frequently invited us over for beers and what not so I thought nothing of it. A few days later my girlfriend comes to me in tears. And not of sadness but of frightened tears.
After what seemed like forever she told me. That the night she had a beer with him he told her horrible things. That he wanted to f*ck her brains out and steal her and tie her up. He’s thought about breaking into our home and taking advantage of her. He as well broke into her car and was leaving her love notes. My once friendly neighbor went crazy.
I confronted him about the situation and he admitted to it and told me I was no good and did not deserve her. And keep in mind he told me this in his backyard with his wife and daughter home. Fast forward a month later. (In this time he hasn’t showed his face since).
My girlfriend gets off work early and as she is walking into our house he was hiding in the bushes asking if she was afraid of him. She ran inside and we had to call the police.
And for the next Two months he sat on his property line next to ours with a small foldable chair and just watched our house. So the best way to deal with a overly nosey neighbor is to cut the convo short and walk away.”
Do you have any good advice about how to get your annoying neighbors off your back?
If so, talk to us in the comments.
We’d love to hear from you!
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Let’s have some fun, shall we?
Imagine that a person interrupts your life one day and claims to be you from the future. What do you do? You couldn’t just take them at their word, right?
You’d have to make them prove it somehow so you could be sure that you weren’t about to get duped by some clone or android from beyond…
So how would you make them PROVE it to you?
Let’s get weird with folks on AskReddit!
“I ask them how many times have you accidentally almost cut your fingers off on a table saw.
Hopefully I didn’t see that number going up in the future.”
“When I was 8, I made up a number to prove exactly this. I figured that unless I shared it or the imposter could read minds, I would be safe.
I’ve never told anyone, and my refusal to tell my wife started as a joke and ended up causing our only actual fight in 10 years together…which I now am finding very suspicious.”
“”Show me the fourth finger of your right hand”.
That’s my weird finger, it wasn’t stitched back together correctly after an accident so theres a wobbly line of 13 stitches going right through the middle.
If they’ve got it, and can tell me about the nerve damage and rehab process “we” sustained, then they’re me.”
“Ask them who are the top 3 artists I loved in my teen era.
Britney Spears
Justin Timberlake
Marilyn Manson.”
“I’ll ask them specifics about a recurring dream I had when I was a kid.
The one with the werewolf eating the neighbors across the street!”
“I’ve always done this thing where I take “snapshots” of my life, when things seem very surreal.
I have 5 snapshots in total.
Describe two of them.”
“I’d ask them what I said to my mom 5 minutes before she passed away.
Only she and I were there.”
“Me: “What number am I thinking of?”
Future me: “Sixty-nine, dude.”
Me: “WOAH!”
“In Jr. High I used to ditch class and spend time in the library because I’m a huge nerd. My school didn’t like letting students print or copy things because it was too expensive.
So to print or copy you needed a four digit code. I watched the librarian enter the code a couple times and memorized it. It’s a total random number with nothing to do with my life (think all your “typical” pin numbers like a birthday, anniversary or street address).
Even when I tell someone, like my mother or sister, they can never remember it, it is totally forgettable and I’ve been using it for 20 years now. You could ask me in 50 years and as long as I don’t have dementia I will remember it, it’s engrained in me.”
“When I was a kid I made my own written language with completely diff characters for English letters, so I would simply ask him to write my name in that language.”
“What is the maiden name of your mom?”
“What is the name of your first pet?”
“What is the name of your first boss?”
“Where is the tiny scar from the time I was bit by a spider at the age of 9? Where did I get the scar?
Answer: left thumb, at a water park in California called the Drop Zone.”
“I would ask them what the secret is that I’ve held about my ex-husband since before we split.
I’m a woman of my word, and no one but me would know.”
“Please describe one of the past events that I’m ashamed of and that haunts me in the middle of the night.”
One hour later…
Ok you can stop, I said ONE.”
“”Okay, if you’re me from five years in the future, tell me our secret passphrase.”
“You idiot, we look exactly the same. How much more proof do you need?”
“Yeah, that’s the passphrase.””
How would you have your future self prove themselves to you?
Tell us what you think in the comments.
We can’t wait to hear from you!
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