This is not that funny but I was amused watching it happen. One time I was at the DMV in a college town and a kid was at the counter trying to get his license renewed. From what I could gather he had it revoked because he was underage and had a DUI. Lady at the counter bounced the kid and a few minutes later, the kid came back in with his father and they were apparently from a rich family. Or at least rich by Ohio standards. When the lady at the counter explained that he could not have his license renewed because he had a court order against him, the father started in on the “Do you know who I am? I will buy this whole town!” routine, but the DMV lady was not having any of it. Both the kid and the father insisted that the judge did not have any right to take his license away from him and that it would be over turned on appeal so the DMV lady had to give him his license, because dad would make sure she got fired if he didn’t. But the DMV lady would not relent and issue a license. The father and kid were getting pretty animated, so finally the lady picked up the phone and said something to the effect of “Your kid lied on this form and is probably violating his probation, we can call the court right now and see what your judge thinks about that.” Which at that point caused them to sheepishly leave. When I got to the counter she told me that was not the first time in her career someone tried to do that to her.
She’s weaponizing the soulcrushing banality of the DMV for good! Her deadpan face and stolid “I’m here all day anyway” refusal to give an inch, and then the little chink of sunshine through her castle wall as she helped you, a normal person who treated her with respect.
Honestly, as someone who has held similar customer-facing positions when he was younger: it’s interactions like these that keep you going. It’s even better when it’s a government agency, because they’re not trying to turn a profit so they’re not going to bend over backwards to make a rich person happy.
The best is when people like this demand to speak to a superior, and then the superior comes over and says the exact same shit the employee just did.
It’s also pretty great to be the superior and just stand there telling them No and not elaborating any more because it has already been explained to them.
We are all equally worthless at the DMV.
Nah, the really rich get their own private after hours DMV visit.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kim-kardashian-shut-down-dmv-121732151.html
One time, I had to get my ambulance license renewed (it’s a thing in CA). The lady asked for my state EMT license and I handed her my paramedic license (it says “paramedic” on instead of EMT-P. Paramedic is a level of EMT in the US). She looks at the card, looks at her computer, and hands my license back, saying “no, I need your EMT card. This says paramedic on it.”
Not going to lie, I was pretty stunned that she split that hair. I asked her to please confirm with her supervisor, which she did, and we all went on our merry way.
I don’t totally understand why I feel cheered up by your comment.
DMV isn’t a judge and has no power over a court order lol. It’s also ridiculous that employees have to deal with this kind of abuse in the first place. It sounds like she was bad ass though.
Imagine thinking someone who works at the DMV gives a single shit who you are lol
That submarine imploding near the Titanic will never be not funny. Especially since the guy who designed it believed in the “move fast and break things” nonsense.
Every person on board paid a pretty penny to be on that sub, so no pity from me either (except perhaps for the teenager who was reportedly terrified to go on, but did it to please his rich prick father).
It’s the teenager that makes it sad.
Is this AI?
No this is Patrick
Nice.
Probably? Someone posted it shortly after the actual oceangate situation happened, and it went straight to my downloads folder, lol. No idea what the original source was.
Moving fast and breaking things can be a great R&D philosophy…when health and safety aren’t a concern or have been addressed.
And to add on that R&D thing. It’s supposed to be move fast and break things to learn what things are not working good enought so you can deliver a finished not-breaking-stuff-thing.
Break things not humans
The photo of the shitty Logitech controller will never not make me laugh… Anyone who has ever handled a controller before knows those things are absolute garbage lol
And he did break things
He was 19, he was an adult and able to refuse if he wanted.
When you were 19, did you have much of a say if your parents wanted to take you on a trip? Legally, sure. But in reality?
Bro you could say that about any age at that point.
This is a ridiculous statement. If a 40 year old can’t tell their parents no to a trip, that’s a problem with the 40 year old. At 19, even though you’re legally an adult, you’re probably still very reliant on your parents, don’t have a very high paying job, and likely don’t have your own place.
So what age are you officially an adult? when do you come off the apron strings? when is it OK to finally treat someone like an adult?
If a 19 year old cant tell their parents no, TO A TRIP, that is a problem with them.
e: and I forgot where I was, i like that you are trying to say this 19 year old millionaire spawn has a low paying job, with no place.
“officially” is an ambigious term here. Legally, 18 years old in the US. “completely” an adult? depends on a variety of factors. Most people under 25 aren’t allowed to rent a car by themselves in the US, so that brings up the age in regards to that. Regardless, I think this is a tangential question.
I think what you mean to ask, is at what age does a person make decisions for themselves completely, as we’re talking about this 19 year old being pressured into going into the sub. Well that depends on the situation of the person in question which is basically what I said in my previous post. Does this person live on their own? Provide income for themselves? How is their relationship with their parents? How confident is the person in themselves?
At 19 years old, many people are still reliant on their parents for many things, and also living with them. Arguments are way more impactful in this situation because you can’t just go home and leave, or you can’t ignore certain things because they may be ongoing or consistent problems. There’s probably already arguments happening in this relationship about how each person wants to handle different things. This may be a situation where the 19 year old thought, “I don’t want to cause a big argument over this” so they give in.
e: and I forgot where I was, i like that you are trying to say this 19 year old millionaire spawn has a low paying job, with no place.
You should at least reread things before commenting to not waste your time my previous post with added bold, and brackets:
At 19, even though you’re legally an adult, you’re probably still very reliant on your parents, [implied you] don’t have a very high paying job, and likely don’t have your own place.
We don’t know if this 19 year old has a high paying job. I doubt it since many people don’t have a degree at this age.
Having the legal right and feeling in any way empowered to exercise that right are wildly different things.
so what age does he become an adult like the rest of us? 25? or when he is empowered enough?
“Ugh, it’ll probably be fine, and it’ll get my dad off my back.”
I worked security for a pro baseball stadium. Some guy and his teenage sons had front row season tickets behind home base. The boys were underage and openly drinking alcohol. We went to tell them the kids had to cut it out.
This guy (who was drunk too) throws a fit that we dared tell him what he could do. He starts shouting “do you know how much I pay for these tickets!? My sons can do whatever they want” blah blah blah.
I wave down the security head and he radios for the police to come deal with it. The man and his sons were marched out to boos from the crowd. They were ejected from the game and fined. They potentially lost their season ticket rights too, but I don’t know for sure. I never saw them again though.
Good on you, fuck em
Nice…
However, poor parents would have likely gone to prison and had their children taken away from them.
But poor parents wouldn’t have been in those seats and a large reason we cared so much was the people in those seats were shown on TV each time a player was up to bat.
Most states allow minors to consume alcohol in some manner if parents are consenting and present. I mostly hearing about that applying at home or in bars and restaurants, but I’m not sure how it works for baseball stadiums.
The stadium required anyone drinking to show valid ID and get a wristband. The city keeps a very tight watch on the stadium following the laws under threat of getting their liquor licence pulled. In this state a liquor licence can be pulled if the facility knowingly allows minors to drink alcohol, even if the guardian of the minor permits it.
oh yeah no shot the stadium would risk losing that. the dude is kind of an idiot for thinking the money he spent on seats would compare to what the stadium earns in beer money as a whole. must be new money. old money knows how to exploit people and stay in power; new money just exploits and throws it away
Texas allows underage people to drink if they are with their parent, guardian or spouse (if the spouse is 21). However, the establishment can still refuse to serve them. And in fact most places will refuse because the risks are just too high.
I’m a union organizer, so I got to see some truly golden moments. My favorite was during a campaign, we took over a Q&A session with a member of the C-suite present. In a previous meeting he tried to convince me of some bs, so I asked him directly “why did you lie to me?” during this take over. The look on his face was priceless, and it took him over a minute to respond pathetically with “I don’t appreciate being called a liar”
Can you tell us any more about the lie and the rest of the response? Sounds juicy
Yea for sure! We were organizing around performance metrics, quotas, discipline, etc for quite a while. My work is in QA, where quotas are actually really bad for software development. We had been trying to get management to research and implement modern QA practices that would reduce/eliminate quotas, without much success. We also wanted progressive discipline with real guidance, because if you don’t meet metrics then the performance improvement plan (pip) was really just a do-or-die meet the metrics for 10 days or get fired.
In the previous meeting, it wasn’t a take over but coworkers and I relentlessly asked about pips, metrics, etc. We were very clearly getting under their skin, to the point where he asked me how I felt pips should work. He was probably thinking I never planned that far ahead and would discredit myself, but I had done significant research on modern QA management techniques and gave an overview of my minimum for a 3 step pip. Right before he ended the meeting, he essentially “confirmed” that we do it exactly like that, no sword of Damocles or anything.
Of course having done the legwork to actually talk to employees that had gone through the process, we knew that it was total horseshit. Just to be sure, we talked to a few more people to confirm that pips were still being used to cut people for cause instead of improving their metrics before planning the takeover. To open the meeting, I asked this to the COO:
I’d like to preface my question by saying thank you for hosting these sessions again, and preemptively note that a lot of us are here to discuss PIPs. In the last Q&A session I attended, I was told by you that PIPs follow a progressive discipline model. However, we’re aware that most if not all employees that fail a PIP are terminated immediately, and multiple employees have been fired shortly after passing a PIP for failing to meet productivity expectations. Why did you lie to me?
His face went beet red and you could see the anger build in his eyes. After about a minute, he responds with “I don’t appreciate being called a liar. You’re hostility isn’t welcome and I reject the question”. After that, you could cut the tension with a knife. I reiterated my question that pips don’t work the way he said they do, but he continued to refuse it until I moved on to the many other “hostile” questions I had.
For the aftermath, he lied to us again in that meeting when someone uninvolved with the take over asked about remote work, and said there’s no plans to change anything for the foreseeable future, before RTO was announced a week later. There was another meeting about RTO with him that I attended, and he made a vague threat about “respectability” and ending the meeting if he felt disrespected after looking at the attendees. I wanted to ask a legit question over mic, and he ignored me until it was becoming obvious to others in the meeting. He stopped doing all q&a stuff after this for some reason.
Nice! Well done, very brave. Good on you for doing the research too, you couldn’t be easily slammed down.
I hear these isolated stories of bravery and no-BS defiance of corporate overlords, and for the longest time I’ve been thinking:
How do we start an organization that could train people to handle these jerks like you did, and plant these newly educated, hardened, prepared badasses-like-you in every organization in the country? These C-suite pricks need to be made famous, treated to detailed records and long memories of their every lie and falsehood toward their workers.
I’ve learned professional union agitators are called “salts” which sounds awesome, but their impact isn’t very well understood or recognized, I think.
Well, I’m sure YOU didn’t appreciate him being a fucking liar either so i guess it’s even XD
Super rich guy tried to pick up my then girlfriend at an industry event after party kind of thing. She was not impressed by any of his shit. The look of disappointment on his face after showing off his $250k watch still makes me smile all these years later.
I’m not even gonna lie, chief, if somebody shows me any kind of luxury fashion like that and boasts that it costs more money than I’ll ever see in my lifetime, I’m just gonna ask if it was worth the human suffering incurred in the making of these luxury goods.
There are apparently a surprisingly different levels of strata of “rich people”. The groups in the middle range are apparently the most desperate to appear to be in the higher ranges of rich people.
So if someone comes up to you and brags about their $250k watch, you already know that they’re not in the “rich rich” group, and they desperately want you to think they are. So hit them where it hurts with a reply like: “Ahh, I understand now. You’re not really rich. People that actually are rich don’t tell others how much they paid for a watch. Maybe someday you’ll get to that level like really rich people. Until then, could you please leave me alone?”
Money talks, but wealth whispers.
I had a boss years ago and I knew everything about his financial situation because he had hired me to trade S&P500 futures with/for him. He had about $20 million in stock, a beach house in South Carolina worth a couple million, and he owned a temp agency that paid him about $40,000 a month, so he was certainly rich by any normal human standards. But he had moved from San Francisco and was friends with a bunch of venture capital types who were all worth more than a couple of hundred million dollars, and it was obvious that his (relative) poverty absolutely burned him to his core. This was why he imagined that day-trading futures was going to be his key to the really big time - he could never see that the brokerages we dealt with were just scamming him.
Yup that sums it up.
Or you could just start planning to rob the fucker.
deleted by creator
Is anyone into watches at the age when rich men try to pick them up? I could be easily impressed by a watch now (a personalised G-Shock $50-300, any diapason $500-2k, an enthusiastic watch geek explaining their Jaeger-Lecoultre…), but not part of the target demographic.
I do events, one of the events was a medical conference. We had an exec for a pharmaceutical company presenting and he wanted the entire stage layout changed 45 minutes before the presentation. Like completely different projectors, screens, mics, that sort of thing. Not a quick fix by any means. We told him it wasn’t possible, his response,
“Anything is possible if money and physics allow it, and I have money.”
Their pharmaceutical company wasn’t invited back to the next years event. We were.
He forgot the most important variable in that equation, and it’s time. I continually have to remind clients of that. You can throw more people and money at a problem but you can’t get 9 people with uteruses to give birth to a baby in 1 month.
He included time by saying physics. However he said money and physics, not or physics. He has money, sure, but time, under the banner of physics, makes the task impossible.
“Physics does not allow it”
“Biology doesn’t allow it.”
- “…what biology???”
“I am biology.”
“So make it rain and then we’ll talk about physics.”
Was the layout changed for them?
It was not, the event organizers were not happy with that statement as we try to accommodate and had made all of the presentations up till that point go off without a hitch.
Good! Glad to hear it
I bet it was.
So, how much you guys charged him for the layout change?
We looked at our client, the event organizer, who was the one paying us, not the presenter. They were not happy with that statement.
“They get what they get, don’t even bother moving the furniture.”
Yes ma’am.
About seven years ago when Trump was president the first time, my wife and I went to see Roger Waters in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
We bought 7th row seats but had looked at 1st row and they were something like $800 each so we passed. Well, day of the show and you can only imagine the massive vitriol spewing from Waters and the huge screen behind him for Trump. He had an inflatable pig drone with TRUMP on it flying around the arena and all kinds of elaborate props.
A group of four dressed in cowboy regalia, presumably MAGA, walked out from the front row, enthusiastically flipping Roger Waters off as they did it. The seats alone were $3200ish.
Roger Waters and Pink Floyd. What the hell did they expect?
Found this Australian video with clips from that tour. Being beneath the giant laser pyramid was awe inspiring. Waters says, “Haven’t you been listening all these years?”
No, people don’t listen to the lyrics.
No, people don’t listen to the lyrics.
“Man, when did RATM become so political?”
That’s fucking funny…
Roger Waters and Pink Floyd.
Not even… It was him alone, which is always far more political and vitriolic. Everybody knows this. These were likely boomers who liked Dark Side of the Moon when they were kids, and 50+ years later decided to waste a shit ton of money on tickets, knowing nothing about the man.
Hey now, I’m a Boomer. We’re rare, but there are a few liberal Boomer Oklahomans. Haha
Thank you for your service
Saw the same show in Canada sitting in row 6. Waters was freakin’ incredible!
Blues Traveler had a hit song that is a 3 minute essay about people not listening to the lyrics. It was called Hook.
Hum… not really, it’s more about how a song works lyrically and a bit musically, it’s like a magician showing you how he does the trick, but you’re still amazed at the trick, as it somehow keeps working on you. It is fascinating that the lyrics also point to the fact that the listener brings most of the meaning and emotion to the song, not the song writers. Which is true, I had no idea Pearl Jam’s Red Mosquito was about sitting sick in a hotel room with a literal Mosquito. I thought it was a very complex song about the concepts of God and The Devil.
Must’ve had a bad day. I saw him not too long ago and he did some minor commentary on political issues, but there was no ranting. Waters is all over the place politically sometimes. Great show though.
That video of the rich prick at a coffee shop who throws something at the worker and then gets put in a headlock and held on the ground and struggles weakly
Are you talking about Joel Michael Singer? The Joel Michael Singer who headbutts people and then gets his ass locked and then begs his daddy to use his money and influence to remove the evidence from the internet? That Joel Michael Singer? Because that guy is Joel Michael Singer, and that’s the only Joel Michael Singer I have ever heard of.
I can confirm that it was Joel Michael Singer. Joel Michael Singer was the guy in the video about Joel Michael Singer. We must not forget Joel Michael Singer.
I didn’t know his name was Joel Michael Singer. But I’m going to remember that. Joel Michael Singer.
I have seen the video before, but did not know his name was Joel Michael Singer. So I had to search for his name, Joel Michael Singer, and click on a few links to learn more. I also rewatched the video with Joel Michael Singer headbutting people and then getting taken down.
If it wasn’t Joel Michel Singer, then there must be two separate incidents that happened where one was clearly Joel Michel Singer and the other wasn’t Joel Michel Singer.
That’s weird, maybe they’re referring to another Joel Michel Singer?
Some prick in a Porsche demanded that he get to pick his own spot in the valet lot where I work. The valet guy just grinning and shaking his head while the rich dude had a meltdown was some good schadenfreude. Then i got the spot he wanted because the valet guy was my homie.
It’s a valet service, why the fuck do you care which spot? You’re not going to or from it.
Its because certain spots let you retain your keys and no attendants can move your car. Its a weird garage
Huh, that does sound odd
Doesn’t that defeat the point of a valet? Or is the idea that they just park your car and then hand your keys back…?
It was set up more to manage the parking shortage problem in the high rise i work in. Its a stop gap and is not a good one.
Isn’t that just parking with extra costs at that point? Lol
It is 🙃
Had to look up Schadenfreude and I think its my new favorite phrase:
Reminds me of the police chef meltdown in Fear & Loathing and the clerks response
I only heard about it after it happened. Guy in the last year of high school said his parents wanted him to go to college but he probably wouldn’t because that was “stupid” or something similar. Girl in the group blew up on him because she desperately wanted an education and couldn’t afford tuition basically anywhere. She called him spoiled and selfish, I believe.
That’s great. Hopefully that was a formative memory for that kid… I’ve had one or two moments when I was a young teen, where I had to have a friend break a hard truth to me about my behavior/attitude, and I still remember it because he was absolutely right and just being aware of it made a huge difference from that point forward. I still think about what he said sometimes.
I only wish someone had said something sooner…
I think I might be misunderstanding. If he felt he wasn’t smart enough to get anything out of college, isn’t it better that he not go? Like it seems more spoiled to go to college without the expectation you’d get the degree. You’re taking a spot from someone who thinks they’ll graduate, wasting your parents’ money, and delaying becoming a self sufficient adult for no pay off.
Shoe at G.W.'S head
Dubya dodged them shoes like he dodged the draft.
“God called me a duck that day.”
We’re all thinking it
When Link charged up his hearts and took down Ganon?
Gamestop stock boom
But the rich won that one and then enforced regulations to ensure that it couldn’t happen again?
Perhaps, but it exposed some companies, namely Robinhood, as chumps for doing just that. And those that won big by sitting on Gamestop so the other chump couldn’t buy it out chose philanthropy, which is a minor victory in the long run
Donno how rich but Saw some model and photographer doing a photo shoot on a scenic overlook. They had a lot of equipment and she was doing wardrobe changes. Someone’s unattended large dog comes up right next to her and takes a big shit. Must’ve gone on for over a minute. While I cried laughing and they could hear me.
And what did the model or photographer do to warrant this being an example of they deserved it
Obliviously junking up a scenic area with equipment for an extended period of time, and no doubt expecting exclusive space to do so qualifies in my book. May all the dogs shit on this level of entitlement.
Pathetic take. Some of you are clearly miserable ppl who just want to hate on ppl doing stuff.
They just seemed super wealthy or famous or something by the car and clothes
Adding due to downvotes that only one of us was there and even where there is, so I’ll laugh at the armchair analysis
Eh even poor models will try to have expensive looking clothes. It’s extremely unlikely a random photo shoot in public will involve a model who actually makes decent money. Photographers are also notoriously poor. Maybe they make bad financial decisions but hardly seems like they’re rich.
Poor models ?
Yes? Do you think all the people in every magazine you’ve seen, or product advertisement, was rich? It’s rare for a model to actually be rich, usually modeling has to be a side gig that they can use to support themselves, it’s rarely a full time job.
They’re richer than us, that I am certain of by 100% I’m tired of pretending otherwise
I hope the photographer snapped a few photos. Seems like a once in a lifetime situation.
I’m a wedding photographer, a few months back I had a pooping dog behind a bride and groom and you better believe I took pictures! We all had a pretty good laugh about it especially because it was a private wedding venue and even the venue owners had no idea where the random dog came from but he just popped and disappeared lol
Some hospital royalty’s grandparent needed ECT for their treatment resistant depression. Said royalty fought tooth and nail to let gamgam get her very first set of induced controlled seizures under surgical level anaesthesia done outpatient. The ECT doc said fuck no (you can do them outpatient, but you always do the first set inpatient case shit goes pear shaped). They then tried to get gamgam to spend her time in the fancy hospital rooms (yes that’s a thing) instead of on the psych unit with us crazies. The ECT doc said no. This was also right after admin got mad at us for throwing out a piss soaked mattress. Don’t want granny sleeping on somebody else’s piss? Nobody should be sleeping on somebody else’s piss. DEAL WITH IT you bourgeoisie bastards.
Gods, I remember interviewing to be a floor tech at Doctor’s Medical Center in Modesto when they first got their bourgeoise floor. It still upsets me to think about it 12 years later. Healthcare is healthcare, there shouldn’t be a damn luxury floor, and especially not while other people are getting bankrupted with bills where the numbers are basically snatched out of thin air anyway.
