I 3d printed this tea steeper for my desk at work. I thought it was really cute and it makes me happy when I use it. Apparently because I printed it in all white, someone made a comment in front of my bosses boss, that it looks like the little guy is sitting on a toilet. Now I got an email from HR stating that I have "objects inappropriate for the work environment" on my desk, and that it must be removed before the end of the day. Like it's just a dude holding a fishing pole.

So frustrating.

UPDATE: after this post has quickly blown up, and made me laugh a few times. I talked to my immediate boss who agreed with a few of you that HR probably doesn't even know what item I'm supposed to remove. So I have emailed HR back, and cc'd my boss, for them to come identify the "inappropriate object" as neither myself or my boss are able to identify what might be the problem. So we shall see what happens.

UPDATE 2: Electric Boogaloo: Just got off the phone with someone in HR. They are going to come over around 2pm (about an hour and 15 minutes from now) and look at the item. All they told me was that they received an email from an AVP (my bosses boss) that it was said to him that I had a 3d printed item on my desk that was about potty humor and that my "whole team" (it's just the one coworker who has a problem, none of the other 7 do) finds it offensive. The person in HR said they will look at it and determine if there is any reason for the complaint.

UPDATE 3 - Update with a vengeance: HR just left my office. Saw no problems, thinks the whole complaint is dumb and is going to write it up that way. Also asked if I could print them one too. So I will be doing that this evening. She (the HR person) asked me if I wanted to make a report of possible harassment by the coworker. I stated that I will write up something to put into a file with HR if needed for a future report, but not to open a case now on this issue.

So I work at Five Guys and for those who don’t know, when you order a burger there you get to fully customize the toppings on it (helps justify the price tag a tiny bit i guess). And you choose between a little (single) or regular (double) burger.

I had a pleasant enough exchange with a customer while ringing up his food… and when it came to his cheeseburger I asked what toppings he wanted on it. He looked at me and said, “Oh you know… just a plain, regular cheeseburger.” Ok great, a cheeseburger with nothing on it, easy enough.

Well we make the food, and a minute after he gets it he comes back up to me, visibly annoyed and holding the burger.

“You made my food wrong. There’s nothing on it.”

“Oh I’m sorry sir, I thought you’d ordered a plain cheeseburger.”

“I did. Do you not know what that means? Like a McDonald’s burger.”

Ok first of all, “McDonald’s” is not a standard for how someone orders burger toppings and second of all, this guys in his late 40s to early 50s and has never once run into this issue ordering a plain burger?

“Ok I’m sorry about that sir, we’ll remake that for you. What exactly did you want on it?”

I shit you not, with an annoyed voice he ordered:
Ketchup. Lettuce. Pickles.
So notably NOT a McDonald’s cheeseburger???

He got what he wanted in the end and I apologized because customer service but like?? I’m in awe at the sheer level of misunderstanding and audacity.

My son (15) wanted to buy some ice cream so he went to our local corner shop. They had an offer on Ben and Jerry’s ice cream - buy 1, get 1 free. He came home with 1 tub of ice cream. We asked him why he didn’t get the free one and he said “I only wanted one.”

The shop keeper reminded him of the offer and he said no. He knows I like it, he knows his mum likes it and his sister. He could’ve gotten a free one and given it to any one of us, or kept it for himself but no, he just wanted 1 tub. 1 at £6.99 or 2 at £3.50 each.

We know as well that when he’s finished his tub (chocolate fudge brownie if anyone is interested) he’s going to immediately want another one.

SMH

edit: to clarify a few things:

He has been to the same shop before and bought ice cream, and taken the free one so he knows all about it.

We wouldn't let him eat an entire tub in 1 go and then immediately eat another one. What I meant was, when the first tub was finished (knowing him, in 3 or 4 sittings) at some point (days/a week) later he would want another one

We had a talk with him about it and explained what we think he should have done and why, he understood. All of us, including him, had a good laugh about it because it was funny. He thought so too but he's still happy with his one tub

To all those people insulting a 15 year old boy with some truly awful comments - you should all be thoroughly ashamed of yourselves. This was meant to be a post that would provide a bit of amusement over a kid's daft decision, not a bloody witch hunt inciting harm on a teenager. I hope none of you have kids and if you do, enjoy it when they go non-contact with you.

Worst part is it's some sort of artisanal powder tea my wife bought which, from personal experience, are notoriously hard to clean off fabric.

Pray for me.

He roleplays, inputs game mechanics, and plays all day.

Yes, our entire home was also trashed. Booking was for 1 person but it looks like an unauthorised/undisclosed party was thrown at our home. It’s easy to dispose these cans at a designated hazardous waste facility but it’s also a hassle to haul them across town… oh well 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m currently car camping with my dog. Mornings start with activities to tire him out. I find out there’s a free agility course near where I spent the night, awesome, ready to go.

When I get there, a lady and her dog is already there. She’s not even doing anything. I talk to her to see about coming in because I figure the agility course is big enough for everyone and again, she isn’t using it.

“No you can’t. My dog can’t be around other dogs. Just use the big dog park.” She pointed to a huge, empty, muddy pit. So I can already see why she didn’t use that one.

WTF? Why are you even here then?

She says she’ll leave in 15 mins anyway. Obviously 15 mins turns to 45. She’s still here, no signs of leaving. I’m still waiting. Best part? She still isn’t doing anything with her dog. At most the dog occasionally paces while she’s on her phone scrolling away. I’m waiting it out in the muddy park out of pure spite and because I know my dog cleans up fast. But I’m still pissed

Edit: Just to add; there was another small dog park area. In this area was the woman’s other reactive dog and her husband. The husband was huge and looked like he’d be more than happy to shoot me so no, I wouldn’t have done anything crazy even if it didn’t put my dog in danger. Didn’t think I’d have to mention that as I didn’t realize everyone here would be so eager to see me and my dog hurt someone or get hurt.

A month ago, he mistakenly parked in my reserved spot and I asked him if he could move his truck. He took it very personally and has been doing this bullshit every time he walks to his car.

At this point I've gotten used to delivery drivers temporarily blocking the street to deliver packages. I also think that people who honk at them are silly most of the time. This was a different affair... I saw the one van\truck just idling with the person inside then as I was driving down the street, the other truck just drove up and parked next to it and started talking to the first ones driver.

Then they both got out and started delivery packages while chatting. I asked if it was necessary to block the whole street and I was told to "go down another street". So I decided to take a picture. When I did (leaning out of my car window) the driver yells out "go ahead and take a picture, like anyone will care"

It was a 3 minute inconvenience... But still a bit infuriating.

Update: contacted Amazon to report the drivers and the situation.

Explained everything and the response I received was:

Thank you so much for understanding and patiently waiting. We are so sorry for the inconvenience and disrespectful action that this has cause on you. WE promise that this scene will be taken care off and we can assure you that this isn't our standard on how we treat our valued customer.

I asked if they wanted the picture. They said yes.

Thank you for that and thank you so much for bringing this up to us. No worries this will be taken care off. I will now file a driver report on your behalf regarding this issue.

That's it. 🤷

Waiting for the doctor for a simple physical. I get handed this.

5.5 hour coast to coast flight. He boarded before me (aisle). I had to bend down and wave in his face to get him to see me during boarding (I had window). He did the whole audible sigh and dramatic show of how I had clearly inconvenienced him. He finally got up and out of his seat BUT refused to unplug his phone from the seat back charger in front of him, so all 5’ 10” of me had to crawl under his cord to get to my seat. Whatever, turd move, but whatever. Anyway, cabin door closes and I was pretty excited that the middle passenger didn’t show up—until Entiltled Aisle dude decides that all of his spent snack wrappers should be pushed as close to me as possible. And he was very particular about it. Spent several minutes ensuring each wrapper was pushed as close as possible to my seat. What is wrong with people!?!?

I took my son to Kohls because he needed some jeans and underwear. I haven’t been to a Kohls in a couple years because I think their store is always in disarray and I hate standing in long lines because they only have 2 or 3 of the 10 cash registers open.

But my wife had a coupon for 30% so off we went. Their clearance section is impossible to look through because they are not categorized by size, forcing everyone to just walk down the entire rack looking at each piece individually. Then, the hangers that indicate small, medium, large, extra large aren’t even on the correct size clothing, forcing you to read each tag individually.

We gave up on looking at clearance and went over to the regular priced jeans and he found two pair. Grab a bag of 6 Hanes boxer shorts for $38 and headed to the register, thinking the 30% off coupon will get out the door at $100.

After standing in line for 20 minutes, the cashier totals everything up at $138 and my wife hands her the 30% coupon. Their clearance total is $125. I commented that the discount didn’t work properly and the associate states that the jeans are name brand so not included in the sale.

I review the coupon’s fine print and see nothing about Levi jeans being excluded so I ask for clarification. The associate then states that “all high end clothes like Under Amour and Levi’s are always excluded from their promotions.” I asked how we as customers are supposed to know this unless it’s clearly excluded on the coupon. She just said sorry so we left; paying $125 for two pairs of jeans and a 6 pack of underwear.

It feels like deceptive advertising and it was the last time I shop at Kohls.

An hour later, these two people decided to walk exactly as far as we were and then stand directly in front of us until the wind got too strong and we left.

1. My dad already left to get food, and I ordered them before I noticed he had already left.
   
2. My brother and his girlfriend were about to go out to have a sit down dinner
   
3. The filling was too spicy for my mom

Went to put red pepper flakes on my pizza… 😅

Edit: Plastic shaker, no glass luckily

Single car driveway with a huge tree on one side and bushes on the other . Can’t even drive over the grass to free this giant suv. UGH!!

The note was expressive.

On Wednesday, Sept. 30 at 11 a.m., I texted a friend: "I'm driving through NYC next weekend if you are around!" He said yes, and we made plans to have lunch Sunday (without mentioning the date to each other). Today, Oct. 6 at 9:22 a.m., he texted me to say he was sorry we missed each other. He thought I meant Sunday, Oct. 4. I meant Sunday, Oct. 11.

How the hell did this guy think next weekend is the coming weekend on a Wednesday? I believe it's pretty clear that when making future plans, "this weekend" refers to the upcoming weekend and "next weekend" refers to the following. Especially middle of the week...

Anyways, I prepared this chart that you can send to your friends if they run into the same problem. It should prevent the whole "this weekend" vs. "next weekend" issue from ruining your future dates, anniversaries, retirement parties and convocations.

Went to an Italian restaurant to get a quick lunch/dinner pizza before checking out of my hotel and going to the airport.

Waitress walks up and asks "can I get you started with something". I reply "just water is fine". She wants to know "sparkling or still or tap". As soon as I hear the first two options I immediately start to answer "still" before processing that there is a third choice. As she walks I say I think to myself that maybe I should've gone with tap, but I figure it's okay, I can pay a few bucks for a small water bottle.

She comes back with a full freshly opened liter (1.06qt) water bottle and pours me a glass. I think to myself "surely not...".

Having drank exactly one glass of water by the time I'm done with my pizza, the check comes out and sure enough, Acqua 8.00.

I ask "you're charging me for the whole bottle?"

"Yes, that's the only size we serve, sorry. But it's okay because, see, you can put the cap back on and take it with you". It's not a plastic cap. It doesn't actually seal.

I'm sure that will work great in my luggage.

Note that every table in this restaurant has a small size bottle on it (probably .3 liters or there about) of this exact same brand, with a flower in it.

Anyway, am I the idiot for not realizing that I was going to get a full bottle? I would've hoped she might say something like "since you're just by yourself, are you sure you want to order a whole liter bottle of water?"

But nope.

Anyway, it's fine, just mildly infuriating to me.

He had the space, he didn't need to back up that far! It took every last ounce of willpower not to vandalize this truck... I left a polite note asking them not to do it again. If it happens again I'm calling a tow company 😤