People Share the Rumors at Their Schools That Turned Out to Be 100% True

I’m having a hard time pinpointing a huge rumor that captured everyone’s attention when I was in school, but I think it had something to do with a girl in my class getting pregnant and having to leave school due to her parents’ shame.

And I honestly can’t remember if that was true or maybe that poor girl just moved schools for another reason and had to deal with all that gossip.

Schools are total rumor mills, in case you forgot.

Folks on AskReddit shared stories about big rumors at their schools that turned out to be true.

22. Pregnant.

“That a 12-year-old 6th grader had gotten pregnant over summer break.

Our Los Angeles county suburb (it was a small and far-separated from LA itself, see how large that county actually is on Google if you are unawares) was so scandalized by this “rumor” that a newspaper article came out with a cartoon drawing of a pregnant girl in a pretty little girl dress and ribbon in her hair — playing with dolls and kneeling next to a doll-house — accompanied the story about the “little girl who got pregnant and planned to keep the baby.”

She was interviewed. I remember her name but it’s unnecessary— the whole town knew who it was.

What’s wild is that the kids in Jr. High actually had a baby shower for this 7th grader as she got close to full-term, and all brought in packs of diapers and formula for her on a designated day. With the teachers, principal, and probably the school district in support of this.

The year was 1984-1985.”

21. It’s all true.

“In high school: that the biology teacher was growing weed in the environmental lab. Supposedly he did it for 30 years without anyone noticing. No one could ever prove it though.

Later on, I was assigned to be the agent taking care of some of his financial matters, so I went to his house to have him sign some paperwork. He had a hydroponic setup there, so I asked him about the environmental lab. It was like Han Solo in The Force Awakens.

“It’s true. All of it.” Then he offered me a brownie.”

20. Whoa.

“There was a rumor that a teacher had s** with whole basketball team.

Well, turns out it was half of the team.

Worst part is her son was on the team.

Her husband ended up divorcing her and her son left with his dad.”

19. Scandalous!

“Our science teacher was having an affair with our science technician and regularly left class to do his thing with her in the technician’s room.

That rumor started on Day 1.

Four years, two divorces, and two very quick departures later it was confirmed and what was left behind was a technicians daughter in my year whose life had fallen apart.”

18. The cool teacher.

“In middle school, we had a “cool” Social Studies teacher. He loved the popular boys, especially the athletes, and not only ignored bullying in his classes of unpopular kids, he often took part in it.

He also offered up his services for tutoring to these boys. Everyone always thought he was a kiddie toucher, except the popular boys who would threaten you if they heard you talk bad about him. When we came back to school at the beginning of 8th grade, he was gone. As was one of the more popular boys in school. He transferred to an insanely expensive private school.

Turns out, sure enough, he was assaulted by the teacher several times during tutoring sessions at the teacher’s house. The school district agreed to pay to send the kid to private school as part of a settlement.”

17. Better be careful.

“That this girl at my school who was maybe 16 was banging all the older kids who never left for college.

Well she definitely was and everyone found out when she banged one of the cooler guys still in high school and there ended up being a herpes outbreak at my school.

Nearly 40 people got herpes.”

16. Acting!

“There was a family in my town that foster-to-adopted all their kids. They had a daughter of their own and then they adopted another girl her age when we were in 8th grade. They did NOT get along.

When the original girl developed epilepsy a few years later, her new sister claimed she was faking and everyone thought she was so mean and ostracized her.

Eventually, she had to fess up to faking the seizures all along when she signed up for basic training, which she never even completed. Unfortunately this was after we all graduated, so we never got to apologize to her sister.”

15. Undercover.

“That one of the students was actually a cop.

Turns out he was a cop and busted one of the actual students for selling handg**s in school.

If you thought 21 Jump Street was unrealistic, think again. The cop was a 33 year old male and undercover for like half the semester.”

14. Sad.

“In Elementary (about 15 years ago), our favorite school teacher didn’t come back after a summer break. He was awesome: funny, sporty, cool, down to earth, never shouted. Just a great role model to have around when you are a kid.

Rumors went round that his wife and daughter d**d in a car accident. No one believed it. It was just what kids said on the playground. Somebody heard it from somebody who heard it from somebody.

Then I went to the local grocery store with my Mom a little while after school had started again. I saw my old teacher. He was a shell, a wreck. I was only 8 but even then you can tell when someone isn’t there anymore. I asked parents of my friends, and they confirmed the rumors.

I felt so bad that something as awful as that could happen to one of the best guys I ever knew and always looked up to. Turns out he committed suicide a couple of years ago. Same bridge that his wife and daughter d**d on all those years ago.”

13. He’s cool, man!

“There was always a rumor that the head janitor was a huge pothead and would smoke with students in one of the storage sheds away from the main building.

I always figured it was bulls**t until my friend CJ sent me a pic of him and the janitor smoking weed while surrounded by folding chairs.”

12. Tunnel of love.

“In my Catholic (Jesuit) high school, one of the priests and one of the nuns were very close friends.

We all loved them, and we could see that they were quite fond of one another (and they made a really nice looking couple). We used to affectionately kid them about “meeting in the tunnel” between the convent and the rectory.

A few years after my class graduated, they both left their Orders, got married, and had kids. We’re all happy for them.”

11. Seemed like a nice guy…

“We had a dean who “retired” one summer.

Turns out, he was busted in a huge sting by cops. He had 2 ladies of the night and coke in his apartment when he got rolled up; ended up pleading guilty to felony drug possession (a few others I can’t remember), and sentenced to 5 years of probation.

He was an advisor for the school’s Drug/Alcohol Task Force.

Nice enough guy. Really cool with all of his students, maybe too cool.

Always seemed to have super red eyes.”

10. Crazy.

“That one of the kids hung himself on a swing set in a local park.

They didn’t say who it was, and just thought it was a vicious rumor about the same guy.

Then four girls who were close to him came down the stairwell crying and ran out the front door and started heading in the direction of the park.

It was confirmed around noon, we were sent home after lunch.”

9. Uh oh…

“Our freshman science teacher was a massive jerk to any girl, and would frequently throw the dress code book at girls for the slightest issue.

Everyone said it was because he was p**sed his daughter became a str**per… that ended up being true.”

8. Yikes.

“Some girl had s** with her half brother.

We all thought it was rumor until she got drunk at a party and told everyone.”

7. Put that thing away!

“I had a science teacher that was rumored to get a bo**r whenever he started shouting.

We thought it was a myth until we noticed it for real, he would always try put one leg up on a chair to hide it”

6. Learned a lesson.

“At our school this one kid was rumored to be a son of one of the local gyms amateur boxer teacher.

None of us had no real reason to think twice about it. Once we got to high school this kid started teasing that kid. I had a couple of mutal friends with the bully so I warned the guy he might want to let up on teasing him. A couple days go by the dude didn’t stop. And the boxer’s kid proceeded to give this guy one of the worst one sided fights I have ever seen.

The bully learned his lesson and never bullied anyone else for the rest of our high school years. So it turned out to be true.”

5. Okay…

“In middle school, there was a rumor my 7th-8th grade Social Studies teacher owned a pet donkey.

Turned out to be true.

The donkey’s name was Pedro the Donkey.”

4. Pregnant.

“Paige WAS pregnant….none of us believed her.

We were 13 and we were just about to start S** Ed classes in a few weeks to learn about s** so we all thought she was making it up. Then she started to gain weight but she had always been kind of overweight and so no one really believed her then either.

Then she brought sonogram pictures in because she was sick of people not believing her. Most people believed her after that. Then she got taken out of school and this was back when FB was super popular and everyone was talking about her baby a few months later she had posted all these pictures.

Sorry I didn’t believe you Paige….I looked her back up when I was 15. She had a second kid.”

3. Sounds fun!

“There were rumors that there was a network of underground tunnels that connected every building on my college campus.

Didn’t believe it til I walked through them myself.”

2. That’s crazy.

“We had heard an underclassman (she was 15-ish) was sleeping with a local army guy, but nobody really believed it until the day our school got locked down bc her boyfriend showed up with a knife.

The boyfriend (in his thirties) was intending to force her go get an D&E, but our principal was a bada** who locked her in his office, then took the boyfriend DOWN and held him in a headlock until the cops arrived.”

1. An odd duck.

“That the Biology teacher decided to use the scientific method to personally prove or disprove to himself that humans could photosynthesize.

He did this by laying bare a** nak** on his front lawn, landing him a public indecency charge.”

Were there any big rumors in your school that turned out to be true?

If so, please tell us about them in the comments.

We can’t wait to hear from you!

The post People Share the Rumors at Their Schools That Turned Out to Be 100% True appeared first on UberFacts.

People Share What It’s Like to Be in a Coma

Being in a coma or even being unconscious for a while has to be absolutely terrifying…when you finally wake up.

And that’s something you can never really understand unless you experience it yourself…and today we’re gonna find out what it’s really like.

AskReddit users who have been in comas talk about what they experienced.

Let’s see what they had to say.

1. Car accident.

“Brief 36 hour coma after a serious car accident when I was 16.

Absolutely no memories at all of my time in the coma. When I woke up, I was very confused for a number of days. The accident erased my memory of the month prior to the wreck.

Gradually (over the next year or so) those memories all came back up until the point I turned onto the road the accident happened on.”

2. Don’t remember…

“I don’t remember any dreams. I also don’t remember removing my IV needle – twice!!

Serious car accident when I was 9. My father sat in a rocking chair for 3 days waiting for me to open my eyes.

When I did I asked about a new friend my father didn’t know (she was in the car). He thought I’d lost it for sure.”

3. Pitch black.

“I was in a medically induced coma for 7 days, and I don’t remember anything at all. The entire week is just pitch black. I was awake for about half a day before memories started to form.

The following few days I would have crazy hallucinations that felt more real than actual reality. The weird thing is that I still remember most of my hallucinations vividly, but I can barely recall anything that actually happened.”

4. A strange dream.

“A couple years back I was only in a coma for two weeks, it wasn’t due to an accident or anything it was medically induced.

I did have a strange dream though, turned into a reoccurring nightmare for a little while afterwards, basically I had to climb up this black staircase that curved out of sight further up, as I started to climb water started pouring down the stairs making it difficult to go up it.

Eventually I’d hear noises behind me, sorta like heavy machinery but distorted to hell and back, that made me climb harder and faster but more water came down the stairs. As a kid it was absolutely terrifying. Couldn’t tell you what it meant but it still haunts me thinking about it. As for waking up though it wasn’t too bad, quite a shock sure, but honestly not too bad for me.

Weirdest thing that came from it all was how tired I felt, for weeks I couldn’t seem to get any energy. Definitely a 2/10 at best, LOL.”

5. Religious in nature.

“In coma for two weeks – lots of wild visions/experiences that were very religious in nature. Time went by quickly.

Was told I flatlined nine times and had to be resuscitated each time and remember (or dreamed?) hearing the steady beep of the heart monitor twice. Very confused when I came out of it.”

6. OD.

“I was in a two week coma after a h**oin overdose about a decade ago.

A couple of months after waking I was able to recall the days leading up to the incident vaguely. Naturally, there was just blackness and nothing once I had OD’d.

I then recall waking up while being intubated (f**king nightmarish experience), surrounded by nurses and doctors pinning me down by my limbs, bright lights, noise. Unable to scream. Unable to breathe. People yelling. Machines pinging. Then blackness.

After waking 13 days later, it was as if I’d awoken from a single night’s sleep with no dreams, no consciousness whatsoever. Just time-travelled basically. Took me a few hours to comprehend who and where I was. But I reckon I’d have been none the wiser if I had d**d that day.”

7. Small pieces.

“I was out for a week when I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.

I remember very small bits and pieces, but not sure if they were from coma time or from the wake up process.

No concept of time, no consciousness, no dread, no pain. Just felt like being asleep for me.”

8. Intense.

“I was in a medically induced coma for 6 days.

Iwas just about to turn 16 that month, we were out riding dirt bikes that night and I just so happened to run around a corner just at the exact moment my best buddy was riding his dirtbike around said corner going like 35mph or so, the dreams were insanely long, intense and I woke up thinking they all were real.

I freaked out and threatened to k**l everybody, because in one of my dreams I saw my mom get ripped limb from limb and I saw the people that did it, standing around my hospital bed smiling. They had to restrain me and put me back out, when I came to again i was more calm and my mom was trying to talk to me.

But I just wouldn’t look at her because I didn’t believe she was real because it felt so real watching her d** in that dream. I thought I only slept for a day at first until my dad told me it had been six days. In one of my dreams i got shot, when I was in the middle east somewhere fighting in the military, and he asked me if I knew why I was in the hospital, I said, “yeah…. I got shot”.”

9. Twice!

“I’ve been in a coma twice, both after delivering my children.

During the first one, my boyfriend had driven me to the ER and as soon as I walked in the door I was out. At some point, before they moved me to a room, I could hear my mom asking if I was d**d. I wanted to yell out “I can hear you”….but I couldn’t.

I don’t remember anything after that. After the birth of my second child my boyfriend made them keep me an extra day because he didn’t want a repeat of the last time. They said I must have tried to get myself up because they found me on the floor between the bed and the door during rounds.

A couple of days before I woke up they sent me for a CT or MRI or something and I could feel them wheeling my bed down the hall and being agitated when the wheels ran over rough seams (like moving from the floor to the elevator) making the bed slightly shake.”

10. Waking up.

“It’s a slow processing coming out.

It isn’t like the movies where you just wake up and then go k**l some zombies. Even after just a few days of not moving at all, all of your muscles begin to deteriorate. They waste away to nothing very quickly. People who have been in a coma for longer than a few days often can’t even lift their head up.

They often have to relearn how to move and even talk or eat. It’s definitely not a restful situation. Also… There’s a reason they were in a coma and they still have to recover from that.”

11. What happened here?

“I was in a coma for a few days.

The dream I had I was just floating around in the dark having having a heart to heart with myself about what I did to wind up in that position.”

12. Heard everything.

“I was in a coma due to a drug interaction after surgery.

I could hear everything my doctors and family were saying and was trying to communicate but couldn’t.

They finally gave me Narcan, which brought me back with it’s own special kind of hell.”

Have you or someone you know ever been in a coma?

If so, what was it like?

Talk to us in the comments and let us know!

The post People Share What It’s Like to Be in a Coma appeared first on UberFacts.

If You’ve Been in a Coma, What Happened? People Shared Their Stories.

I have a friend who was hit by a car while he was riding his bike and he was in a coma for a bit.

Luckily, he woke up and is doing great…but still, I think that kind of experience has to change a person in some way…

So, what is being in a coma really like?

AskReddit users opened up and talked about their experiences.

1. No concept of time.

“I was in a coma for 6 weeks with double pneumonia, sepsis and kidney failure.

I have very few vivid memories from being under but had some very strange visions once I woke due to the ammount of drugs I was pumped full of.

I had no concept of time and thought I had only been out for a day or so.”

2. Short blips.

“It was only a few days in a medically induced coma.

But I just remember it being dark, short blips of family being in the room, and when the doctor first tried telling me where I was and asking me if I knew my name, I was tempted answer it as Brittney Spears.

But I didn’t want my parents freaking out.”

3. Five long days.

“Five days in total.

They pulled me out of it after two or three days and I extubated myself, ripped out my IVs and punched a nurse before they sedated me again and restrained me. Day five I woke up and the first thing I remember is not knowing anything. Had to describe, but my brain was basically at a primal level.

The only thing I could process was fear. Then I “remembered”I was human. At that point it was “okay, my name is X, I’m alive. I’m in a hospital. Those are nurses. Holy s**t I fell off a cliff!” and I calmed down. After that things are blurry. I think they pushed something to relax me after my initial panic. I apparently signalled to ask for a pen and paper(I was retubed so I couldn’t speak) and wrote “can I have a whiskey IV?” And “I feel like a salad.”

As far as while I was under, my last memory was being loaded into a helicopter and the medic asking “X, you’re in the bird it’s gonna be okay. Do you understand?” And me saying “yeah, this s**t hurts, knock me the f**k out.” And something got pushed in my IV and next thing I know I’m experiencing what I said above. No dreams, no locked in syndrome, nothing.”

4. Out cold.

“I was in a diabetic coma for 2 days. No dreams, no nothing, just out.

When I (slowly) woke up I had some kind of mild / minor amnesia. I didn’t know where I was, or who I was, but I recognized my mom immediately when I saw her.

TMI but the doctors were just about to put in a catheter when I woke up, then I peed for like 2 minutes straight. The nurse was impressed.”

5. Wow.

“I had a C-section and woke up 4 days later in ICU. Amniotic fluid leaked into my lungs during the C section. I also lost a lot of blood and needed 3 blood transfusions.

I was only in a coma for 4 days. It was black, no dreams, no time passing. My memories of before the coma don’t have a timeline nor make any sense. To me it happened in surgery, I was fully awake and started getting tired and then black.

Family says it happened differently, that it was after and had visitors for those days. I don’t remember any of those days at all. I still have issues with short term memory.”

6. Scary.

“I was in an induced coma for 6 weeks due to pancreatitis.

What I remember was so scary. I guess it was a nightmare or something but I dreamed I was being held in a basement by demons. It felt so real.

When I told the doctors they said it was the Propofol that made me hallucinate.”

7. Brain virus.

“I was out for six weeks due to a brain virus (I wasn’t expected to survive). I had no concept of how long I was out when I woke and the first couple of days are very sketchy.

I don’t remember any dreams, but I do have memories of what happened in the room around me. So I can confirm that it is very important to talk to people in a coma.”

8. Lost time.

“I also don’t have any memory of being unconscious after passing out from high or low blood sugar (usually in my sleep). Just suddenly came to, sweaty, disoriented, or in the ER.

It’s really scary to see how much time you’ve lost, wonder why you’re so sore (seizures), and sometimes hear about what you said or did that you don’t remember at all. Other times you do remember the lead up to unconsciousness but you were too sick or confused to help yourself.

Fortunately with new continuous glucose monitoring technology I haven’t had any major issues for a few years now. It’s a huge relief!”

9. Vague dreams.

“I was in a coma for about three days back in 2018 and I don’t remember much, but I do remember having vague dreams? Like a whisper of 1-2 dreams the entire time and then I woke up as if only 5mins had passed.

It really just felt like I’d been asleep for a few minutes and teleported from my bedroom to a hospital bed but instead of a few minutes elapsing, it was three days.

Whatever meds they gave me wiped the vast majority of my memory all the way through about a week after I woke up though.

I did feel like a different person somewhat after the coma, like I was me but as if I’d been reset? Idk how to describe it well enough to make sense, but it was a very strange experience.”

10. Stuck in a loop.

“My husband was placed in an induced coma following a motorcycle accident.

He said it was like time stopped in his mind, and he was stuck in a loop of the accident.

He was conscious and remembers when he was loaded onto the flying doctors plane at the scene of the accident, but he doesn’t remember arriving at the hospital.”

11. Drugs.

“For me, the drugs were the most memorable part of the whole experience. They are very good drugs.

I remember nothing of being in the actual coma, and I know I was awake (conscious) at least half a day before any memories started to form.

There was no sense of panic or alarm when I was told what happened. My emotions were very much blunted by the benzos. You could have told me the doctors removed both of my legs at the hip and I wouldn’t have cared.

I wasn’t sure how long I had been out, but it certainly didn’t feel like “days.” I knew instinctively that the drop-panel ceiling tiles above my hospital bed that I had been staring at for hours were just standard rectangular drop-panel ceiling tiles, but I simply couldn’t make them appear that way, no matter how hard I tried. The ceiling looked like a Picasso painting to me. Also, I remember all the colors around me in the ICU unit were incredibly vivid; the bluest of blues, the yellowest of yellows.

The whole experience of “waking up” is not instant; it takes a couple days to become aware and functional again, like a computer rebooting after a power outage. Overall, it was like a foggy mushroom trip.

It does weird things to your memory that you don’t discover until after the fact. At the time it happened, I had a job operating a specialized piece of machinery, and I was pretty good at it. I spent months learning how to use it. When I returned to work after eight weeks recovering, I could remember my co-workers and the layout of the building and stuff like that no problem, but the machine I had spent the last year operating every day was completely alien to me. I couldn’t remember how to load it, how to turn it on, which button controlled which function, etc.

I’m a huge football fan but I have no recollection of my favorite team literally winning the world championship earlier that year, despite having rooted for them my entire life. Certain compartments of my brain have been zapped while others have been left unscathed.

During the time I was out cold, Donald Trump won the 2016 election. I had no memory of him even campaigning for president, much less winning, until my brother told me in the hospital. Like, how do you forget something like that? What the f**k? I should have told the doctors to put me back under until 2020.”

12. Sounds rough.

“I was in a coma for over 3 days, but was in the hospital for over 2 months. The doctors were trying different procedures for my brain to kickstart the short term memory.

I literally couldn’t remember anything. I would routinely reintroduce myself to nurses, not remembering them from a few minutes prior. I would start a conversation, only to forget what I was saying mid sentence, and just stop talking. It was so frustrating. I don’t remember anything from that time, but I remember how I felt about certain situations when they are brought up by others.

As an example, a person who I’m no longer with, yelled at me, with nurses present, and was banned from visiting. I don’t remember that exchange, but I remember feeling extremely hurt and sad, but don’t know why. When I was speaking with a relative, she brought up the “yelling situation” and the feelings came flooding back, but not what was said or who was there.

I’m getting better and I’m able to retain new memories, overall … just not during any extremely stressful moments. My brain protects itself and stops “recording” when I find myself in a stressful situation. It’s really not fun and can be truly challenging.”

Have you ever been in a coma?

If so, tell us what it was like.

Do it in the comments! Thanks!

The post If You’ve Been in a Coma, What Happened? People Shared Their Stories. appeared first on UberFacts.

People Share the Fanbases They Think Act Like Cults

I know my answer! And it probably won’t be a huge revelation to a lot of folks out there…

But I think that SOME people who are really into the Insane Clown Posse are basically a cult.

Come to think of it, they’d probably even agree with me!

People on AskReddit spoke up and admitted what fanbases they think act like cults.

Check out the responses below.

1. Absurd.

“I absolutely love Taylor Swifts music, been listening to it for years. But I only recently started seeing the fans on my social media feed and my goodness, it’s absurd.

Besides what you said, they care way too much about streaming/buying numbers and awards. They attack other fans, Taylor’s team, other fandoms and sometimes even Taylor herself when songs don’t rise to the top of the charts or she doesn’t win a fan voted award.

It’s so weird to me because what I’ve seen of Taylor Swift, she is quite humble and just focuses on music and putting on a good show. Also, she has really handled a lot of scandels that weren’t her fault with grace and kindness. Totally opposite of what her fand are like online LOL.”

2. Theater folks.

“Literally anything involving theatre.

Seriously. If you walk into a rehearsal 15 minutes late, you’re gonna see some weird s**t.”

3. Nerd alert!

“Star Wars fans.

I personally dont like star wars because I just dont but I dont really try bash on people who actually do

But whenever I watch Star Wars (insert that silver boba fett guy and baby yoda) and then i talk about why it didn’t make sense (silver guy was on ground and those droids just looked at him like there was nothing there instead of blasting him right away).

I get so much h**e and half a**ed bs excuses.”

4. Never heard of him…

“Jordan Peterson fans.

To give an unbiased answer, he’s a conservative political philosopher who became really popular after publicly criticising a Canadian law on misgendering people & giving an infamous interview on Channel 4 News in 2018.

He’s a highly divisive figure because of certain views he has shared regarding women and transgender people. A lot of people like him for his self-improvement works and because they think he’s right in his criticisms of society, whereas others don’t like him because they think he’s transphobic and m**ogynist.”

5. LOL.

“Fans of the Broadway show Hamilton.

I used to be a huge fan and suffered through the weird fandom. While Hamilton did great things for POC on Broadway, it opened the doors for teenagers to romanticize and s**ualize slaveowners.

I tried to criticize it one time online (and it wasn’t even that bad of a criticism.) and I literally got chased off of tumblr. Oh and, don’t get me started on Thomas Jefferson’s Hatsune Miku binder…”

6. Here you go.

“Rick and Morty

Sherlock

Supernatural

Steven Universe

Doctor Who.”

7. So weird.

“Zodiac signs.

People will literally divorce it break up or just ignore people because their signs are”incompatible”.”

8. VEGANS.

“As someone who tried to go vegan, vegans.

As is the case with all groups, not all vegans are had. I’ve met some very nice and not annoying vegans, but so many of them have to tell you every 5 seconds that they’re vegan. And the ones that will spent hours trying to convince you to go vegans are the worst.

This is coming from someone who was that annoying vegan that tried to convert everyone. I’m just vegetarian now and I’m way more sufferable.”

9. Bigshot director.

“Fans of Zack Snyder. I saw Army of the Dead yesterday and I just gotta say, that movie is like, objectively bad… but his fans honestly cannot see it.

Like, I’m sure they’re thinking stuff like, “Oh, his directing, writing, and cinematography was so stunning and brave! The h**ers are just jealous of all the wrinkles his brain has! I wonder what the robot zombies and UFOs mean! He must have had a reason to randomly start talking about time loops in a zombie movie! Tee-hee, who cares about stuff like plot, acting, and continuity errors, just turn your brain off you snob!”

Like, I’m not saying he’s a terrible director or something; he’s done some great stuff. But this movie was absolute dog s**t, and I just find it kinda weird how his fans, and major film critics for that matter, will defend it when it is just so blatantly terrible.”

10. K-POP.

“As a K-Pop fan…..K-pop fans. Now it’s not all of them, but there are definitely ones that get laughed at for how they fetishize/infantilize the idols and stuff.

It’s insane how they will defend and protect the problematic idols against those who rightfully call them out. Some of them have forums talking about personal not public business of the idols. They make up stories about them, and some of them gatekeep to know end.

Some also stalk and poison idols and so on, though the last point used to happen like in earlier years, it’s still freaking crazy. I just try not to associate with those ones, but the chill ones instead.”

11. Apple folks.

“People who buy apple computers.

Tell them that another company with windows OS has a better performing computer for 1/2 the price and they’ll say things like

“Macs have better display” or “the programs I use work better in apple” and I want to hit those people because usually the programs they refer to are the adobe suite, which a lot of my classmates in uni ran on windows machines.

Source:: Works in IT and studied Digital Art.”

12. USA!

“America First people.

Anything reusing a WWII American fascist/N**i sympathizer slogan in 21st century is not thinking their position all the way through.

Or, they’re terrible. One of those…”

13. I agree.

“Radiohead fans.

sSeriously, if you’ve ever been cornered by a radiohead fan in the wild, you know how annoying the hardcore fans can be. But the fact that I had one assume because i liked “real alternative music” (i was wearing my Slint t-shirt at the time) that I must like Radiohead.

And he went on for a good 30 mins (not letting me get a word in) and telling me all his wild theories about how all the albums are connected and if you add the barcode for the japanese release of ok computer with PI then divide by 3, you get a prize where tom york comes down from the heavens and gives you a gentle pat on the b**t (not really what he said but he was talking about symbols and s**t).

My major takeaway with Radiohead fans is they think they’re smarter than everyone else because they listen to them and if Radiohead are considered a smart band, then they, as fans, must also be smart.”

Do you think there are some fanbases out there that act like cults?

If so, tell us about it in the comments.

Please and thank you!

The post People Share the Fanbases They Think Act Like Cults appeared first on UberFacts.

People Talk About Things That Sound Futuristic but Are Happening Right Now

The future is now, people!

While it might seem like crazy inventions are a long way off, we’re already living in it!

And we’re about to get some inside info.

What sounds futuristic but is happening now?

AskReddit users shared their thoughts.

1. Robots.

“It’s quite phenomenal how much certain industries have developed their robotics.

You just don’t see it in your everyday life, but places like Amazon and pretty much all mechanical-related businesses are developing robotics at an insane rate.”

2. Didn’t see it coming.

“I still feel a tiny bit blindsided by lab-grown meat suddenly being commercially viable. Would not have predicted that one.

Those drone light-shows too. What year was it where radio-controlled drones just kind of showed up, and became commonplace?

I think around 2015 was when they really “took off.””

3. It is a big deal!

“Private companies launching rockets into space like it’s no big deal. You can literally walk outside one night and think “what tf is that???”

And someone will tell you “oh that’s just the latest Space X launch.” And you go about your business.”

4. There you go.

“My 2 yr old daughter, walking around the house following and talking to a robot while it vacuums our house.”

5. Pretty insane.

“I have a device that fits into my pocket.

I can get virtually every bit of information produced by the human race if I know what buttons to push.

It’s also voice-activated, so I can just talk to it and figure out when my flight leaves or where the nearest fresh tomatoes are being sold.”

6. Seeing double.

“Scientist have already managed to clone a living thing.

And it happened around 25 years ago.”

7. Open Sesame!

“Automatic doors.

I remember seeing the first 6 Star Wars films many years ago (I’m 18 now) and playing the Lego games of it and I remember thinking to myself how cool the sliding doors were.

I understand they’ve been around for so long, but recently it just came to me that they have automatic doors just like in Star Wars.”

8. Scary.

“In China, they are using AI to identify Uyghur Muslims from the rest of the population.

It detects “classic Uyghur features” based on complexion, and facial features.

It’s the worlds first instance of “automated racial profiling.””

9. Weapons of war.

“Saw the recent news of the Israeli-Hamas conflict, including footage of Iron Dome being used.

I remember seeing the prototypes of that system in a “future weapons” documentary on TV years ago, but was never really sure if or when it entered active service

So yeah, we have rockets that shoot down other rockets now and might have for years already.”

10. Antimatter.

“The fact that humans are capturing and containing antimatter for study is amazing.

The fact that we can store it longer than a year at a time is extraordinary.”

11. That’s crazy.

“Facebook is integrating occlus rift support.

I’m not sure what’s available to the public, but in-house, they are having 3d meetings like in Star Wars. They can project and manipulate a screen in 3D like the 3d map in the first Ray movie. It doesn’t wrap around you yet, it hovers in front, but it will.

My friend works for FB in the AI dpt. The first software I tried out was a demo for medical education. I saw a life size human and I could use gestures to look at his different body systems, right in front of me, like on the Holodeck.

You turn the system on by holding up your palm like a wizard and an interactive sphere appears on your hand.”

12. Gene editing.

“CRISPR gene editing. People’s genes can literally be edited.

Basically, people get this enzyme called Cas9 (a nuclease) inserted into their DNA somehow (don’t know how, maybe an injection?) and Cas9 slices the target strand of DNA open, allowing a sequence to be taken out and replaced with something else which can then be transcripted into RNA, translated into a protein, and used in the body.

It’s mostly being used right now for gene therapy, stuff like sickle cell anemia, and agriculture but it’s crazy to think about what it could be used for in the near future. It’s kind of controversial because people don’t like the unnaturalness of it (like people’s dislike of GMOs), and I can see their point, I just think it is very intriguing and revolutionary, and I will be interested in seeing what happens with it in the future.”

Now it’s your turn to sound off.

In the comments, tell us about things you know about that sound futuristic but are happening now.

Thanks in advance!

The post People Talk About Things That Sound Futuristic but Are Happening Right Now appeared first on UberFacts.

What Disturbing Movie Would You Recommend, But Don’t Ever Want to See Again?

Have you ever seen a movie called Inside?

It’s a French horror film from 2007 that is very well done…and it’s absolutely disgusting and disturbing.

Like disturbing to the point that I never, ever, ever want to see it again…

What disturbing movie would you recommend even though you never want to see it again?

Here’s how people on AskReddit responded.

1. Devastating.

“Come And See.

Wonderful movie, but even more devastating than Grave of the Fireflies, in my opinion.”

2. Mary and Max.

“I’ll give the same answer every time this comes up: Mary and Max.

It’s such a beautiful movie and so d**n sad. I’ve recommended it to lots of people.”

3. Haven’t heard of this one.

“The Hunt (2012).

A Danish film by Thomas Vinterberg starring Mads Mikkelsen.”

4. Harrowing film.

“Elephant. The 2003 Gus Van Sant film, not the Disney nature doc.

It takes place in the fictional Watt High School, in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon, and  chronicles the events surrounding a school shooting, based in part on the 1999 Columbine High School ma**acre.

The film stars mostly new, and non-professional actors, which gives it an even greater sense of realism.”

5. No one needs to see it twice.

“Threads

Made in 1984, it’s a harrowing depiction of a major nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union.

It is incredibly bleak and tragic–the most effective representation of the horrors of nuclear war that I’ve ever seen.

Everyone should watch it once, in my opinion. But no one needs to see it twice.”

6. Depressing.

“Boys Don’t Cry.

I saw that on a first date.

We drove home in complete silence.”

7. Brutally sad.

“Dancer in the Dark. Amazing performance by Bjork and brutally sad.

I bought a copy of the DVD after seeing the movie because I loved it so much.

I lent the disc to several friends and looked at it many times myself, but could just never summon the energy to watch it again.”

8. Good movie.

“What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?

Leonardo DiCaprio is phenomenal in that.

He did character studies to get his role to be believable.”

9. Once was enough.

“The Road.

Watched it when it first came out. Loved it. Can’t put myself through it again though.

It’s so hard going and heartbreaking.”

10. Tragic and beautiful.

“Life is Beautiful.

This movie is unspeakably tragic. But its also profoundly beautiful. The love that the family had for each other gets me every time.

Roberto Benigni was perfection in this role!”

11. A rough one.

“We Need To Talk About Kevin.

That was a truly visceral experience.”

12. Check it out.

“You Were Never Really Here.

Joaquin Phoenix should have won the Oscar for this performance instead of Joker.”

13. Here’s a HUGE list.

“Alright here is a list I’ve gathered so far:

Come and see

Dancer in the Dark

Mary and Max

Threads

The Hunt

Boys don’t cry

Once were warriors

We need to talk about Kevin

Melancholia

Life is Beautiful

Leaving Las Vegas

What’s eating Gilbert Grape

The pianist

Wind River

The road

Grave of fire flies

What dreams may come

Dear zachary

Stand by me

American History X

Schindlers List

The mist

Requiem for a dream

Manchester By the sea

When the wind blows

kids

Hachi: A Dog’s Tale

Trainspotting

City of God.

Philadelphia

Elephant

Martyrs

Brokeback Mountain

Earthlings

Pay It Forward:

Moonlight

Nightcrawler

Mystic River

Se7en

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

Sorry to bother you

Where the red fern grows

Atonement.

Children of Men

The Deer Hunter

Johnny got his gun.

AI

The Accused.

The Game.

The Last Unicorn

Big Fish

Click

Beautiful Boy

DONNIE DARKO.

Bridge to Terabithia

The lobster

A Silent Voice

5cm per seconds

your lie in april

Clannad

Breaking the waves

The Lighthouse

Coco

Precious

About Time

Gone girl

A marriage story

The Lovely Bones

Million Dollar Baby

A Clockwork Orange

The Haunting of Hill House

Interstellar

Blue Valentine

Jacob’s Ladder

The platform

I saw the devil

Amistad

Paprika

1917

Ordinary People

Uncut gems

Spun

Lost in Translation

Map of the Human Heart

Wolf Children

The Sweet Hereafter

The Vanishing

Legends of the fall.

Glengarry Glen Ross.

Lilya 4-ever

The Butterfly Effect

Jojo rabbit

Bone tomahawk

Enter the Void

The Nightingale

Blue valentine

Sophie’s Choice

Promising young woman

Pink Floyd’s The Wall

Sarah’s Key

Heaven Knows What

Prisoners

Seven Pounds

Sometimes in April

Cry Freetown

12 Years a slave

Serbian Flim

Hotel Rwanda

Antichrist

When the Wind blows

Salo

End of Watch

Green Mile

Buried

Incendies

Hard Candy

A Slient Voice

Okja

Whiplash

Love Kenny

Event Horizon

Away from her

Raw

The Chumscrubber

Tracey Fragments

World’s Greatest Dad

The Future

Unthinkable

Irreversible

Love and Mercy

Last King of Scotland

Blood Diamond

Full Metal Jacket

Memento

Reign Over Me

My Sister’s Keeper.”

Now it’s your turn.

What disturbing movie would you recommend to people but you don’t want or need to see again?

Talk to us in the comments and let us know!

The post What Disturbing Movie Would You Recommend, But Don’t Ever Want to See Again? appeared first on UberFacts.

What Fanbase Acts Like a Cult? People Shared Their Thoughts.

Have you ever been to a concert where you weren’t that into the band and you thought to yourself, “wow, these people are fanatical about this group?”

I have…and the band shall remain nameless…for now…

But the fact is that there are a lot of fanbases for bands and other things out there that are INCREDIBLY devoted.

What fanbase do you think acts like a cult?

Here’s what AskReddit users had to say about this…

1. Yup.

“As a long time fan of Tool, Tool.

I mean… yeah, the music is good (kind of disappointed in their last album, though) but the number of people spending forever dissecting every last word of every Tool album and je**ing off over the random time signatures is a bit over the top.”

2. Get fit!

“Crossfit.

My brother in law is a big time Crossfitter. His whole personality is literally his Wife, kids and Crossfit. Which I’m cool with. He’s really good people.

But he gets all frustrated when they come out to work cows with me and by 4 o clock he’s dragging a** and us out of shape looking cowboys are still rolling along strong. Granted at 4 o’clock we’ve been going for 11 hours.

And to be honest it’s a really good workout program. The BIL talked me into it, and I did it for 2-3 years. I also payed more attention to my diet. I got to where I had a 6 pack and looked ripped. It was cooler n hell.

I’ve kinda fallen off that wagon though. I’m doing traditional weights at home and a 20 minute yoga routine every day. I’m convinced with how I work, coupled with a bit of yoga to stay flexible is what will keep me in the best shape for the longest.”

3. Buy now!

“Cryptocurrency investors. Absolutely cult-like behaviour.

Well… not all of the crypto investors, but the ones who rave about it online are certainly pretty cult-like.”

4. Has an entourage.

“Yandere Dev.

He’s the Chris Chan of game devs, and no sane person wants to associate with him.

Yet he still has an entourage of underaged fans that still believe that he will one day finish the c**ppy game (which btw is infamous for s**ualising teenagers) that’s been in development for 7 years now.”

5. It’s true.

“The Harry Potter fandom.

I’m prepared to get lots of h**e but I’m sure I’ll get agreement too because it’s so true.”

6. Ouch.

“Beyonce and her cancerous fanbase that treat her like this otherworldly being.

She’s got a nice voice but everyone acts like she’s an angel sent from heaven or something.”

7. We get your point.

“Jojo’s bizarre adventure.

As a Jojo fan I can confirm it is at least somewhat like a cult. Once you’re in, you can never leave.

Not that I really want to, but my point still stands.”

8. Weird.

“Jared Leto and 30 Seconds to Mars…I’m pretty sure they think he’s the second coming.

Take a look at the pictures of his extremely expensive trip to a private island with his most devout fans.

Pretty sure it is an openly acknowledged cult.”

9. Part of the club.

“Rick and Morty fans were my first thought.

The show might be funny, but the people who act like liking it is signs of a high IQ or s**t like that make me not want to get into it.”

10. Definitely.

“Most sports teams.

There is always someone who is more passionate/knows more and will make themselves known about it. Alternatively they say you can’t be a real fan because you don’t know x or y.

I enjoy a few sports. I have teams that I support. But I don’t know the ins and outs of everything they do. Doesn’t stop me being a fan but it feels like to some fans you are worse than fans of other clubs.”

11. Totally.

“People on keto diets.

I’ve eaten a ketogenic diet before and looking back I was so annoying. I needed to tell everyone 24/7 that I didn’t eat carbs and how great keto was. And soooo many people are like that about keto. Keto is life, love, and the answer to our eternal questions!!!

Gosh I was so annoying, I’m grateful for every friend who didn’t slap me.”

12. Swifties.

“Taylor Swift Fans AKA Swifties.

I am going to admit that I do post on the sub and do like her music, but god d**n, they want her to constantly drop music all the time.

I’ve been a Brand New fan (and still am even through all the s**t that came out) for years and I know what it’s like to be waiting for new music, but man, these people don’t understand that they just got three album in nine month span.

Also, I don’t get why their so eager to meet their idol. Don’t they understand that you should never meet your heroes?”

What fanbases do you think act like cults?

Talk to us in the comments and let us know.

Please and thank you!

The post What Fanbase Acts Like a Cult? People Shared Their Thoughts. appeared first on UberFacts.

People Admit What Makes Them Nervous No Matter How Many Times They Do It

No matter how many times I’ve had to do it in my life, I just can’t speak in public without being scared to death.

Honestly, it’s probably my least favorite thing to do in the entire world.

And I’m already dreading the next time I have to do it even though I can’t even imagine when that might be…

Folks on AskReddit admitted what makes them nervous no matter how many times they do it.

Let’s take a look.

1. Paranoid.

“Driving past/behind/in front of a cop.

I’ve got a clean record and I don’t do anything illegal but I feel like they will pull me over anyway, and I start to panic if they continue to follow me, even when on main roads.

I look back every 5 seconds to see if they turned their lights and siren on to pull me over.

Paranoia?”

2. Noooooo!

““Before we start, let’s go around the room and say a little bit about ourselves…””

3. You can’t afford these.

“Anytime I go into a bike shop I get really insecure. The last bike shop I went to I was stopped at the door by the owner.

He said, “These bikes cost between $6,000 – $9,000.”

Then he gently placed his hand and on my back and moved me back onto the sidewalk.

It was probably harmless but I felt incredibly stupid.”

4. I’m with you.

“Public speaking.

I don’t think I will ever overcome this fear.”

5. The waiting game.

“Waiting for a result.

If I even think about an exam for which the results haven’t been declared, I get a LOT of anxiety. Currently waiting for the results of a very important exam I gave in February.

My heart rate is 120 while writing this. And now I have stomach ache.”

6. Up on the roof.

“Installing Christmas lights on my house.

I work in a Level 1 trauma center and see people who have fallen from their roofs installing Christmas lights several times a year.”

7. Thankful for texting.

“Calling someone on the phone.

I’m a fairly outgoing person and I love talking to people, but I rely a lot on seeing a person’s face and observing their body language, which isn’t possible on the phone.

Voicemails are less terrible, but I still panic a little because if I mess up while leaving a message, the other person has a freaking recording of me being really awkward. I’m so thankful texting exists.”

8. Twitchy.

“When I was learning how to drive, my mother took me on the interstate for the first time.

She’s a nervous driver as is, and I wasn’t ready, and there was a lot of crying and screaming and i almost sideswiped a few cars trying not to get run over by a truck trying to merge onto the interstate.

Needless to say, even 20 years later, I’m still twitchy on the interstate occasionally.”

9. Handle with care.

“Handling my six month old. They just seem so fragile and he is just so wiggly, I am constantly paranoid that I may accidentally drop him.

To be honest almost all the steps of parenting now that I think about it, if I’m not afraid of accidentally bumping him, I am constantly worrying about what I need to do to be a good parent to him.”

10. Takes a while.

“Starting a new job, because I can’t stand the first few weeks where I don’t know what I’m doing.

But I love walking into a job after 6 months or so when I might as well own the place cause they can’t operate without me!”

11. Not a fan.

“Having blood drawn.

I have to have it done pretty regularly, blood doesn’t gross me out, and I am also covered in tattoos and have had numerous piercings..so you’d think needles wouldn’t phase me.

But something about that little needle going into my vein and sucking out the blood…I always feel a wee bit nervous when I sit down in that chair.”

12. What do I do?!?!

“Coming face to face with people in my apartment building.

After being in lockdown and working from home I’ve become covid stupid.

I’m not able to even get out a hello.”

13. Still scared.

“Driving over train tracks and bridges. It just scares me so much and I have

to cross bridges and train tracks to get to some places so that doesn’t help. Walking on them also scare me. Since I was 5 it always scared me.

I don’t know, why it just does.”

Now it’s your turn to speak up.

In the comments, tell us about what makes you nervous no matter how many times you do it.

We’d love to hear from you!

The post People Admit What Makes Them Nervous No Matter How Many Times They Do It appeared first on UberFacts.

A Woman Wrote a Few Lines of Code to Convince Her Boss She Could Be Trusted to Work From Home

All the things that happened in 2020 has changed a lot of people’s perspectives on work. We were given options that we were previously informed didn’t exist – namely the ability to work exclusively from home – and more than a few of us would like to know why those options are going to extend past the end of the pandemic.

If, you know. It ever ends.

This woman’s employer did some restructuring when it was time to call people back to work, deciding whether people would need to be in person, hybrid, or full tie work from home employees on a permanent basis.

She was really hoping, for an array of reasons, to be listed among the last group.

As part of the plan to return to office post covid, my company has done a lot of re-designating of who can permanently work from home, who can hybrid, etc. I really wanted to work from home full time. I hate the office with a burning passion – it’s distracting, it’s a long commute, there’s no benefit to being there, so on and so forth. I’d just rather be at home.

When the lists came out, though, she was put with the group who needed to come back into the office full time.

Since she didn’t think this made much sense given her history with the company, she spoke with her manager and learned it was all because she went “idle” too often in their group chat.

Well when we thought May was going to be go back to office time they started giving out the new designations. I got designated as in office full time. It made no sense to me. I work on a team of 8 people and each of us is in a different office somewhere in the country. I’ve literally never been to an in person meeting or needed to do in person work in 3 years at this company. Every single other person on my team got designated to work from home.

So I brought it up with my boss and asked to work from home. When I started at this company and lived elsewhere I got to work from home for 4 months before I moved and the past 14 months during covid have been at home, so 18/36 months at the company have been WFH. What I was told is that I go idle too often in chat to trust to work from home.

This happens when you don’t touch your keyboard for 5 minutes straight, but as she points out – like we all didn’t know this already – there’s typically not 8 hours worth of work to do in an 8-hour workday.

Basically we have a company wide IM system that shows you as available, idle, or in a meeting. If you don’t touch your keyboard for 5 minutes you show as idle. So they’ve decided to use this as a measure for who is working and who isn’t. The thing is, like many people in many types of jobs, I don’t have shit to do for a full 8 hours every single day. The amount of work I have to do on a typical day takes 3-5 hours of actual attention. There simply isn’t something to do ALL the time.

Her performance evaluations and honestly, her use of time, have both improved while she’s worked from home, but that didn’t matter.

Just the chat.

My performance numbers actually went up working from home, by all objective KPI numbers I’m a better worker at home. In fact, in the KPIs that I don’t flat out lead the team in, I come in second. There isn’t work to do that I’m neglecting or procrastinating, when something comes up I simply do it until it’s done or until I can’t do anymore due to waiting on someone else then stop. And I’ve done that method long enough that my work queue stays empty because I worked to get my queue down to the point where when something comes up I can immediately address it and be done with it.

But because I have other ways to spend my time in down time instead of messing around online at my cube pretending to be working meaning I show idle more often, I’m a worse worker apparently. I was told if it weren’t for that they would let me work at home.

And so she fixed it quite simply.

So I wrote a 6 line powershell script that virtually inputs the period key every 4 minutes that starts running every day at 8am and stops at 5pm. So now I literally never go idle. I do the same amount of work and still read books, watch tv, and play video games on the side. But I have a shiny green check next to my name all day.

The next time the company looked at having employees come back into the office, they decided she could stay at home.

Because she was obviously working now.

Because of covid complications they eventually said no going back until after labor day. I just had a meeting with my boss and he said over this time they’ve noticed I go idle a lot less than I used to so they’re changing my designation to work from home, all because of a little icon in some software.

This concludes my TED talk on why low to middle level managers are the dumbest, most useless do-nothing positions in all of corporate America.

If you’re curious, here’s the code.

A lot of people are understandably asking for the script:

$dummyshell = New-Object -com "Wscript.shell"
$dummyshell.sendkeys(".")

That’s the backbone of the whole thing. There’s different ways to implement it with for loops or scheduled tasks or whatever, that parts up to you, but that’s all the powershell needs at it’s core to accomplish this. A lot of people have pointed out that sending Insert or F13 instead of period would be better so change that up if you want.

You’re welcome.

Y’all, I hope you’re not working harder than you need to be for a company that would replace you in a hot minute if something were to happen.

Do your job, sure, but also realize your worth – both are important if you want to get the most out of life.

The post A Woman Wrote a Few Lines of Code to Convince Her Boss She Could Be Trusted to Work From Home appeared first on UberFacts.

Here’s Some More Proof That Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Cold (Hearted)

There’s been more than one study that proves many, if not the majority, of people find jobs because of who they know and not what – not necessarily big, important jobs, either, but managers just seem to trust their employees recommendations over hiring a stranger.

This guy was happy with his job, despite the pay not being the best, because other benefits made it worthwhile.

This happened a couple of years ago. I was working on a part time basis in a small firm owned by friends.

Pay was not very good, but the atmosphere was and I was allowed to set my own timings. So life was good overall.

So worthwhile, in fact, that when his friend’s company first approached him with an offer that included more money, he turned it down.

Then a friend whom I knew only through social media approached me for a job in her company.

Even though they were offering good money I turned down the offer as I knew I could not get the benefits I was getting in my current job.

Plus the commute to the new office was very long. I would have to travel 2 hrs one way and change 3 trains just to reach office.

When the HR department for the same firm came to him a bit later with an offer he couldn’t refuse, though, he…didn’t refuse.

A month later the HR of the new firm approached me again. They offered me almost four times the money I was making and I could set my own work hours.

There was also extra pay for working overtime and on weekends. This was important.

I joined the new company.

The friend liked to gloat that she had gotten them the job, and eventually OP couldn’t help but correct her. They had negotiated their own, much more favorable terms, on their own.

Now, I’m not sure how smart or necessary that correction was, given that the friend was their boss, but there you go.

My friend did not know the terms of the new agreement I had with HR. She used to act like I owed her big time for the opportunity I got. So one day I corrected her. I told her that I had turned down the offer she had been part of and one month later I had had my own negotiations and I got much more favorable terms. So I was here because her company really needed me and not because of her.

Once the friend realized this meant OP was making more than her, she wanted them gone.

I didn’t share the details of my agreement with her, but we both realized that she was making significantly lesser than me. This totally changed her attitude towards me.

Now she wanted me out and I was determined to stick through for at least a year. So she decided that she would make it very difficult for me to work so that I quit on my own.

There are a lot of stories I have about how she tried every trick in the book to make me quit. I’m sharing some of them here.

She was my manager and was in charge of allocating work.

First, she tried assigning them more work, or asking them to come in on the weekends, not realizing that OP was getting paid more for overtime and weekend work.

Ka-CHING.

Malicious Compliance – 1

She started piling on more work on me than any other member of the team. I was happy to comply – she did not know that as part of my contract I would be paid 1.5 times the hourly rate for every hour I worked OT and 2 times the hourly rate if any work was allocated to me over weekends or holidays.

Every time she tried to ruin my weekend by calling me to office unnecessarily, I happily complied. This continued till the time I left the organization and told her how much extra money she had helped me make.

Then, she made a ridiculous rule about not having beverages in the office (what even), but too late realized that meant she would have to go out for her coffee.

Since OP set their own hours, they could enjoy their fruit juice and just start their day a bit later.

Malicious Compliance – 2

After the long commute to work, I used to be hungry so I developed the habit of stopping at the food court to pick up a glass of fresh fruit juice and carry it with me to work.

My manager thought that this way she could harass me without actually seeming to do so. So she sent a notice that bringing liquids to office was a hazard.

Ironically she used to have coffee delivered to get desk 3 times a day. Well, I pointed out that the rule applied to her as well and if I couldn’t have my juice, she couldn’t have her coffee. She had to literally spend an extra unpaid hour at work every time she wanted her special coffee.

Meanwhile I was happy to leisurely sit in the food court – have my glass of fresh fruit juice with some snacks and then begin my work day half hour later than usual.

I’m not sure what OP really got out of this except their own satisfaction, but honestly, sometimes that’s really enough.

Would you have called your friend out or just kept your head down and your working environment sound? Tell us how you would have handled this in the comments!

The post Here’s Some More Proof That Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Cold (Hearted) appeared first on UberFacts.