I have a big no soliciting sign on my door, when sales people knock anyway I make it a point to waste as much of their time as I can and not buy anything.

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[–] 149 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A lady came into a store I was working at, acting like an asshole, because they thought it would get them a better deal, tried to angrily tell me I needed to sell her a $1000+ dollar outdoor furniture set for much less than the display price, this was the last one in the store, the display set itself, and it was already clearance price. it was marked at less than $200 dollars. this was the culmination of all the things I hate most in shitty customers. So I told her I was so sorry it was priced too high and I'd get her a better price if she waited there. then I went and did something else for an hour, came back and told her it was already sold early that day and sorry for the mix up. still feel fine about this.

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  • [–] 136 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    I deflated somebody's tire because they were an ICE vehicle parked in an EV charging bay.

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  • [–] 66 points 6 days ago* (8 children)

    Pro-tip to anyone who wants to do this sort of shenanigans, you can remove the valve from the valve body quite easily. Just need a tool that costs a dollar. You take off the plastic cover, put the tool inside the valve body and start unscrewing. Doing this will of course prevent air from staying in the tire.

    Even more of a pro-tip, do this on two tires so the person cant just put the spare tire on.

    Obviously do this only on cars that are owned by arseholes, cunts or the actual ICE.

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  • [–] 45 points 6 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

    Only do this with no electronic devices on your person, or with them packed away in a faraday bag. Everywhere you go with a bluetooth or wifi antenna is being logged by a dozen data brokers, and the gov has access to all of it.

    You might get away with it once, but your radio fingerprint in range 2+ times of an incident is a pattern that's easy to spot.

    This goes for ALL resistance activity, including simple protesting. The nazis are building lists, and they can use those lists to destroy your life in many more ways than assault and imprisonment (e.g. covertly limit your employment opportunities, housing options, or credit/loans).

    EDIT: I suggest you leave your device at home, charging at your bedside. The faraday bag is an easily detectable anomaly (unless you make it a habit). If you need a device for maps/gps etc, your best bet is to buy an old android where you can physically remove the wifi and bluetooth antenna from the device.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    If they're good at collecting and analyzing the data, you stopping there for long enough to do this might be enough. Also, assume there are cameras, on the vehicle and the area nearby.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Security is not binary. Obviously you should be wearing something that covers your face, but you can't ultimately protect yourself from drones.

    The goal is to be smarter than average and defend yourself from the things in your control. The fact they're so heavily dependent on surveillance capitalism means they're less likely to use alt methods.

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  • [–] 84 points 6 days ago (62 children)

    I got a warehousing job on the far side of the city from me. To get there, I was dependent on the busses, but the first bus on the schedule for the day got me there ~5-10min late. This was discussed during my hiring interview and wasn't a problem... In the beginning.

    Just over three months working there, the manager pulled me into his office and told me I am required to arrive at work on-time. This needs to be fixed or he will begin writing me up for tardiness. He was the same manager that interviewed me and agreed the 5-10min because of the bus was not a problem. Now he's claiming no memory of this conversation and that It's my problem to fix despite me not having any other options.

    This is where I told him; Ok, I guess today was my last day then. I then told him I expect the overtime hours I have not been paid, to be on my final paycheque.

    This warehouse worked 4 x 10hr shifts per week, instead of the typical 5 x 8hr. This had not been discussed during my interview, I actually didn't find out about it until my first day, when I went to leave after 8hrs. I live in BC Canada. BCs Employment Standards Act requires overtime be paid for hours in excess of 40 per week, as well as more than 8hrs per day. This means the ninth and tenth hour of each shift, is overtime, per BC law.

    BCs ESA does provide a method of averaging hours across a week; allowing 4x10hr shifts without overtime. That requires a written and signed agreement between both parties though. I hadn't even been told the schedule, let alone signed such an agreement. I hadn't really pushed back about this though, because I was ok having an extra day off each week, it was still only 40hrs; this was basically just a matter of missing paperwork.

    When I told the manager I expected to be paid that overtime, he brushed it off and told me to collect my stuff and get out. Even had a supervisor escort me around to ensure I didn't take or damage anything.

    I left and immediately headed to the Employment Standards Office in my city. They took the details and opened an investigation. It wasn't a super fast process, but 3ish months later I received a cheque in the mail, as well as a call back from the ESA Office: the company apparently fired their entire HR department and backpaid myself as well as all current staff a years worth of unpaid overtime, to avoid direct fines and a possible lawsuit. All over some missing paperwork for an arrangement most of the employees were happy with anyway. They even ended up paying for my Employment Insurance claim, because EI agreed I was essentially forced to quit - ie fired without cause.

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    Yeah it is, a Big dick move. That guys got some cojonas

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (50 children)

    Big dick and big balls mean different things.

    A big dick move means you don't really have justification for your actions: it is considered petty and everyone else thinks you are making a mountain out of anthill. Karens and Kents are just big dicks.

    Big balls means courage to stand up for your bounderies against an opponent who is trying to be a big dick and at first glance, it appears they have the upper hand. Dude stood up for theirself against adversity, and fuck yeah, they won. It took a lot of balls and some people would have just roll over and bitched about it. Complained and sounded like a weak asshole and in turn, they get fucked.

    But that's not what dude did, and good on them. However, doesn't quite fit the post.

    Right now, I am being a big dick, as this is inconsequential to both you and I generally, however I made it a point to try and correct you, which is rather pretentious. But I feel this is, personally, justifiable.

    So this comment is my submission to the OP's question.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (48 children)

    Well, Big Dick Energy is also slang for confidence. Was more that meaning i was alluding to :P

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  • [–] 0 points 4 days ago (47 children)

    Only to big dicks. Take it you are an Andrew Tate fan?

    When people talk about big dick energy, they are saying you are a big dick, not that you have one.

    Did you kids fuck up yet another idiom?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (46 children)

    You take it im an Andrew tate fan cause i used slang in a way you dont like? That sounds like a you problem tbh. Youre very wrong btw, whack assumption to make based on nothing really.

    Did someone piss on your breakfast or why are you coming at me with this energy?

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  • [–] 0 points 4 days ago* (45 children)

    What energy?

    You are inconsequential to me. But I am likely old enough to be your father, and the number of idioms you kids are misusing is incredible.

    Hol' up, are you suggesting I am coming at you with big dick energy?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (44 children)

    Congratulations on being old ⭐

    But no, your energy is needlesly hostile more than anything. And weird.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 days ago (43 children)

    Not being hostile at all. You are just being dramatic.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (42 children)

    Thats a matter of perception sweaty

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  • [–] 0 points 4 days ago (41 children)

    Yeah, your perception, which you are imagining.

    I am sorry, but none of this remotely mattered to me. You are imagining your own self importance, dude. You don't matter to me. But if you what to imagine that you have me heated in the slightest, you go ahead and fantasize.

    But if you want to come back to reality, I don't care about you. I mean, I don't wish you harm, and I appreciate all forms of life.

    But it seems you want a battle of wits, and I refuse to fight an unarmed man, especially over a non-existent matter.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (40 children)

    Perceptions are subjective matters you absolute mouthbreather

    Im sorry but this is just pathetic and weird

    Stop obsessing over me old man

    im trying to have a normal conversation and you keep doing villain monologues

    "You dont matter to me", "i dont care about you", and the corniest one ive heard in a long fucking time "youre unarmed in a battle of wits" 🫠

    If you dont care so much why do you keep replying with a novel? And trying to come off as so above it all, and the most mature guy in the room, while literally being unable to have a normal conversation where you dont blast random insults around, was fun but at this point is concerning. Give me a break.

    Be better. This is ridiculous. And if this is how you like to spend your time, you are as well.

    Im done talking with you like a person. Any further communication from your end will be met by ragebait and shitposts of the highste caliber

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (39 children)

    Dear god, look in the mirror. I don't even give a shit about you. You are writing memoirs about me.

    This isn't villain anything: I just don't give a single fuck. Not angry, not sweaty, not upset in the slightest.

    Dude, just piss off. You are annoying and cannot grasp the basics.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago* (6 children)

    If you want me to piss off you can lead by example bitch

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    Do you have anything but toothles old man insults you dinosaur?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (3 children)

    Dude, you aren't getting any rise. Like I said before, drop it.

    Last word.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (2 children)

    As i said before, if you want me to piss of, you can lead by example, bitch

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago* (31 children)

    Nice try gramps. Thats one of 2 short comments to me out of all of em.

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    When you have a total of five brain cells of course not. Im calling you a hypocrite mr poopypants

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    Psyke, not anymore! Lmao i can keep going like this forever smoochums. Lets tussle till the heat death of the universe or the termination of this post!

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    Lol lazy is big words coming from you with all that copy pasting

    Also

    DENIED

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    Infinite cum. You sit on the toilet to jack off, but you begin to cum uncontrollably. After ten spurts you start to worry. Your hand is sticky and it reeks of semen. You desperately shove your dick into a wad of toilet paper, but that only makes your balls hurt. The cum accelerates. It’s been three minutes. You can’t stop cumming. Your bathroom floor is covered in a thin layer of baby fluid. You try to cum into the shower drain but it builds up too fast. You try the toilet. The cum is too thick to be flushed. You lock the bathroom door to prevent the cum from escaping. The air grows hot and humid from the cum. The cum accelerates. You slip and fall in your own sperm. The cum is now six inches deep, almost as long as your still-erect semen hose. Sprawled on your back, you begin to cum all over the ceiling. Globs of the sticky white fluid begin to fall like raindrops, giving you a facial with your own cum. The cum accelerates. You struggle to stand as the force of the cum begins to propel you backwards as if you were on a bukkake themed slip-and-slide. Still on your knees, the cum is now at chin height. To avoid drowning you open the bathroom door. The deluge of man juice reminds you of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919, only with cum instead of molasses. The cum accelerates. It’s been two hours. Your children and wife scream in terror as their bodies are engulfed by the snow-white sludge. Your youngest child goes under, with viscous bubbles and muffled cries rising from the goop. You plead to God to end your suffering. The cum accelerates. You squeeze your dick to stop the cum, but it begins to leak out of your asshole instead. You let go. The force of the cum tears your urethra open, leaving only a gaping hole in your crotch that spews semen. Your body picks up speed as it slides backwards along the cum. You smash through the wall, hurtling into the sky at thirty miles an hour. From a bird’s eye view you see your house is completely white. Your neighbor calls the cops. The cum accelerates. As you continue to ascend, you spot police cars racing towards your house. The cops pull out their guns and take aim, but stray loads of cum hit them in the eyes, blinding them. The cum accelerates. You are now at an altitude of 1000 feet. The SWAT team arrives. Military helicopters circle you. Hundreds of bullets pierce your body at once, yet you stay conscious. Your testicles have now grown into a substitute brain. The cum accelerates. It has been two days. With your body now destroyed, the cum begins to spray in all directions. You break the sound barrier. The government deploys fighter jets to chase you down, but the impact of your cum sends one plane crashing to the ground. The government decides to let you leave the earth. You feel your gonads start to burn up as you reach the edges of the atmosphere. You narrowly miss the ISS, giving it a new white paint job as you fly past. Physicists struggle to calculate your erratic trajectory. The cum accelerates. The cum begins to gravitate towards itself, forming a comet trail of semen. Astronomers begin calling you the “Cummet.” You are stuck in space forever, stripped of your body and senses, forced to endure an eternity of cumshots. Eventually, you stop thinking.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (16 children)

    Last word. You realize I am not reading a single thing you are writing, right? You need to get a life.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (15 children)

    You realize im just pasting a random copypasta that takes about 30 secs to find? Im having fun with this king doodoohead 🥳

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    What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo

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    Dicks are so cute omg(⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄ when you hold one in your hand and it starts twitching its like its nuzzling you(/ω\) or when they perk up and look at you like" owo nya? :3c" hehe ~ penis-kun is happy to see me!!(^ワ^) and the most adorable thing ever is when sperm-sama comes out but theyre rlly shy so u have to work hard!!(๑•̀ㅁ•́๑)✧ but when penis-kun and sperm-sama meet and theyre blushing and all like "uwaaa~!" (ノ´ヮ´)ノ*: ・゚hehehe~penis-kun is so adorable (●´Д`●)・:*:・

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    What the fuck did you just fucking say about Taiwan, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the study of the one-China principle, and I've been involved in numerous documented administrative exercises over Penghu and Taiwan since the year 230, and I have over 300 confirmed years of jurisdiction. I am trained in historical evidence and I am the top source in the entire international community. You are nothing to me but just another distortion. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit about Taiwan over the internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of 181 countries across the world and your claim is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call two Chinas. You're fucking dead, kiddo. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can cite you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with the Cairo Declaration of 1943, which stipulated that Japan should return to China all territories it had stolen, including Taiwan and the Penghu Islands. Not only am I extensively trained in the Potsdam Proclamation of 1945, which reiterated that the terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out, but I have access to the entire arsenal of UN General Assembly Resolution 2758, adopted in October 1971, which restored all rights to the People's Republic of China and recognized its government as the only legitimate representative of China to the United Nations, covering the whole country including Taiwan, so there is no such thing as two Chinas or one China one Taiwan. And I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little clever comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. Taiwan has belonged to China since ancient times, the Qing court made it the 20th province in 1885, China recovered it in October 1945 after the war against Japanese aggression, and since 1949 Taiwan's status as part of China's territory has never changed, you fucking kiddo.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    Last word. You know you aren't bothering me, right?

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  • [–] 26 points 5 days ago

    That was, in the end, an act of class solidarity. You did good by hundreds of people.

    This is also a reminder to everyone: don't trust management, get it in writing!

    (Not trying to rub salt with that reminder, I promise)

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  • [–] 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Telling a friend's girlfriend that he was doing much more serious drugs than she was comfortable with.

    This did kill their already strained relationship (They were broken up after he had drained their joint bank account with pay-per-minute online porn) but somehow my friendship with both survived for a few years after.

    They never got back together and his life went to shit, including some jail time for embezzlement.

    She, as far as I know, bedded the next guy to hit on her and had a kid. I hope it worked out as she deserved better.

    My other friends had always hated her, and loved that I had driven a wedge between them... until they found out that I essentially outed them for giving/selling him the drugs.

    Following that, all my friends knew where I stood, and those who distanced themselves from me... I knew why. One of them, more than a decade later, is in prison for murder after selling fentanyl-laced drugs and causing a fatal overdose.

    Several I am still close with. They know me, respect me, and understand that I will do the right thing, even if I am not the wronged party.

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    I got woken up by a caller in the middle of my afternoon nap, a big no-no where I come from. Since I was underage, they asked if my dad was home.

    I told them, all concerned, that we hadn't heard from my dad in months, and we were also looking for him. Asked the caller to please call us back if they managed to find him, as we were very worried.

    (My dad was having his nap elsewhere in the house)

    That was the first and only time that a spam caller hanged up on me! Great times.

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  • [–] 82 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    Loaned my spare tire to a guy once who was "going straight to the tire shop". About a week later I hadn't heard anything and he wouldn't answer my calls. Saw his car at Walmart one night so I grabbed a busted cinder block out of my trunk, stole my wheel and tire back and left the car on the block.

    Next morning he calls me mad that I stole my own tire back. I told him I didn't have a clue what he was talking about but he owes me for my wheel and tire.

    Never heard from him again after that.

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  • [–] 38 points 6 days ago*

    Have a friend, and we have a complicated relationship. Making friends as an adult is hard, but then life shit happens and even the friends you do end up making can be assholes.

    I had just gotten out of a divorce, and wanted to throw a big halloween costume party. Told everyone months beforehand, with plenty of reminders and groupchats, spent over $1000 on decorations, couple hundred on snacks, alcohol, weed I'd have stocked. It was going to be a rager. Well, a bunch of people cancel, because my house is like a 40 min drive, but my best friend at the time, he was, for some reason, not giving me a definite answer. Like, I figure even if nobody else shows up, my buddy and I could still hang. But come the day of the party, he tells me he's not coming, and it's just so he can maybe find something better to do closer. And I'm just... So upset. Cancel the whole party via an on-line thing, and just sit there feeling fucking awful.

    Shit messed me up so bad, it's like 5 years later, and some of the decorations I put up for that party are still up. I obviously haven't even tried to host anything since.

    anyway. like, a couple months after that fiasco, my buddies brand new girlfriend texts me, asking me to come to his birthday party. She was putting a bunch of work into it, making it a scavenger hunt thing for him and his friends. I told her immediately, "nope!" Not coming. She asked once or twice more and got the same answer.

    But in the end, I was still nicer, because at least I gave a clear answer right away.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    I tricked a 419 scammer into thinking the CIA was looking for them.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 week ago* (5 children)

    Actually very recently…

    I had been searching for a job, for a month and just wanted work. Accepted a job that’s kind of below my degree and what I can. Salary was pretty low and didn’t feel well with the interview.

    But I just wanted have a job, you know? However, I did not sign anything yet.

    A day later, I get called by a recruiter and mentioned he had a job offer. One I had been really trying to get. I took that opportunity, stalled the other job by not answering the email for the documents to sign.

    A week later and surprisingly got accepted by the other job! This job has better pay, better work, better opportunities and long term is just so much better for my CV, knowledge and self development.

    So I called the recruiter of the previous job, the one I did not want. Explained in most polite way that I will still refuse it because I found something else which fits my long term plans better. Of course he was polite but not happy at all. I also emailed the company and the person mailed me back decently but notable disappointed.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 week ago

    I dont think you have to feel Bad about this at all. Companies do this to you the other way round if the want a specific candidate and that one doesn't accept then they offer it to the next person often taking quite some time.

    That is less a dick move and more how job search is now.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    I did this a few years ago. I knew as soon as I walked out of the interview I didn't want the job, it was literally just stripping cables building harnesses all day in a room in the back by myself. They also started at like 4 AM "to beat the traffic" and it was in a part of town that would be miserable to drive in the snow to. Lots of turns and bendy roads through the woods.

    But for whatever reason they still offered me a higher pay rate than my job at the time which included control panel assembly, wiring, fabrication, testing, design work. I still acted interested and had them put the offer in writing and egged the dude on for like 3+ weeks as if I was interested.

    Reason I did this was I knew I was quitting my job, and there was a different one I had interviewed at that paid better than both, has way more responsibilities and career opportunities, is way more interesting custom work where every day is something completely different. Also my old job knew I was quitting so it felt better to have something in my back pocket if they just told me to get fucked. But after my first interview the manager wanted me to come back for a second round to meet his boss and carve out my role in more depth.

    Well they were both in the field so scheduling another interview took another few weeks. I felt a little bad for the wiring harness guy especially when I finally called him and told him I accepted my current job, he was like yeah I was holding off on making offers because I thought we were gonna hire you. He was a super nice guy

    Oh well, life goes on, I'm sure they found someone. Companies do this kind of crap to people every day.

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