I’m rude to debt collectors who call me trying to collect debts from people who happen to once have had the same phone number as I once did. Like, I’m not who you’re trying to collect from, fuck off.
I’m also rude to generally any scam caller, they’re some of the few people I take great pleasure in telling off because I can get away with it. They’re scammy assholes, what’re they gonna do? Cry to the authorities? Knowing that they’re pieces of shit who scam people out of money? Good fucking luck.
Who? Religious people at my doorstep.
Reason? They came to MY doorstep with their BS.
The audacity of thinking you have such an important view on life that random people need to hear it. They also need to come to your clubhouse reguarly and give you money.
Religion in a nutshell, right there.
Devils advocate (tee hee), if you believe that you have the answer to all sadness, are you an asshole if you are not sharing it (especially if sharing is low cost)?
I’ll share with you this answer for the low, low price of buying my book! Only $49.99!
On one hand yeah they’re stupid annoying
On the other hand, I’m pretty sure for like Mormons and JWs where they’re sending over like kids barely out of highschool for missionary work in another country that’s the entire point. They’re not there to convert anyone, they’re there to instil a sense of fear into these kids by showing them that everyone who isn’t apart of their church hates them even though they’re only trying to ‘help’. Being rude to them just proves their church’s point.
Or: actually the fastest way to get put on their blacklist is to be really genuinely nice (but still firm) to the missionaries because you’re proving them wrong about how mean and horrible the outside world is
I’ve heard that before but really wonder if it’s true. My last encounter with (I believe Mormons though it’s been a LOT of years ago) was while we were eating dinner. The front door was open with the glass storm door closed. They came to the door, knocked, then stared at us while we were eating dinner as a family. We stared back and they proceeded to knock another 3 times before leaving. I mean, regardless of what you are at the door for that’s just rude as fuck so how would they expect a nice response?!
knock 3 times
oh boy, the knock 3 times rule, that brings back some memories. I spent a miserable 6 months as a Mormon missionary and my first companion would always knock 3 times. I always felt it was rude, especially when he would do it at a house where we knew someone was home and just not answering the door.
For me it’s anyone that comes to my doorstep trying to sell something (including religion). To get to that point you have to walk past TWO “no soliciting” signs. That makes the person blind, incompetent, or both.
I’m not rude to these guys. They believe in fairytales but I’m polite. I just tell them I’m a firm atheist and there’s nothing they can say to sway me. They usually thank me and leave.
I like to show them that atheists are good people instead of devil-possessed or whatever they think we are.
No one. It’s too much energy to be spent on people that I dislike.
I wish I was made of stone.
I’m the same. Spam caller? Just hang up. Someone cuts me up in traffic? I’ll be upset but not gonna waste any time on the ass who did it. People with dumb ideas? Tell them what you think but close the conversation or walk away.
I remember in a tech shop someone ranting after being asked for their email address when paying. Kept a few of us in the queue waiting and what did he win from it?? Did he really feel good after shouting at shop staff?
Can’t see any win from being rude to anyone. Just live and let live man.
It’s not on other customers if a shop has you waiting. It’s on the shop for making it needlessly complex. It’s like blaming someone who is reading out their coupon numbers: they are the user. Not the dev team. Take your complaint to the right people who can make the difference to the business model. Long queues isn’t the customer’s fault. It’s on how that business is managed. you could hold your breath if you ever think your happiness is a prerogative by another customer’s responsibility.
And while I agree about the energy thing with scammers, I do not agree with calling it a waste of time if someone else is going to stand up to it.
Scammers take advantage of the vulnerable elderly. So good on the ones who slow them down. No need to minimize their effort by calling it a waste of time. Like you said : live and let live.
Antimaskers, antivaxxers, “stop the steal” assholes, homophobes/terfs/bigots in general. If your ideas injure and kill others, I am going to treat you like someone that spreads ideas that injure and kill others not as someone to be debated in a “civil” manner.
I like the cut of your jib!
Holocaust deniers. There is no excuse, fuck em
I work in IT and occasionally encounter super sexist people who want a man to fix their computers. I’m not rude to these people while on the phone with them and I make sure to be extra kind. I totally talk shit after hanging up though. Fuck anyone who thinks I can’t do my job because I’m a woman.
I hate that. I used to run an auto business and some customers wanted to speak to a man. I’d always tell them that this woman here has the most experience in the shop and if they don’t want to hear her, they can go to the next shop.
I wish I could tell some people who talk down to me to just fuck off. It would be so satisfying.
You can, but you have to be able to accept the consequences lol.
I mean, you’re not wrong lol
Why does the IT crowd instantly pop into my head…lol
Awesome show. :)
I used to work at a lube shop with a female tech and occasionally we’d get the same shit from old dudes where they didn’t want her to touch their car because she was a woman. I always made them wait for the shift change because “we don’t switch positions until lunch break and she’s in the pit”. Have fun sitting for 4 hours assholes. She was one of the better techs we had anyway having actually gotten a certification.
I’m rude to those and I’m a guy. Women are as good as men at our job and everyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot lacking respect and I don’t respect that.
Thats kinda sad that people do that… your fully capable of helping her. Theres enogh stories that show she will never have “the right person for the job”.
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Most women in tech are not very good
Citation needed.
Anyway you don’t have to be very good to be better than 95% of the population, because most people can barely operate outlook.
I also resent the implication I have to be a super nerd to be good at IT. It’s not actually that hard, you just have to bother to read the instructions.
Sure. It’s always hard to know exactly what kind of skills we are even taking about here. IT is a huge area.
You don’t have to be a super nerd to be good at IT but you do have to read instructions and learn things, which means you are actually interested in it. That’s all it takes.
Most girls are not interested in those things so they become project managers or IT managers and other things that are more interesting to them. That’s my experience at least.
Just. Stop. Digging!
We get it; you’re a “Nice Guy that has helped plenty of little ladies figure out their career paths because their stupid little heads don’t know better”.
Good god - do you have any idea how much of a tool you sound like? I hope you don’t have supervisory authority over anyone. I pity them if you do, and cheer the eventual hostile workplace/harassment lawsuit brought against you and your employer/enabler.
The level of sexism and condescension in this comment is embarrassing.
Lmao wow. Way to insult an entire demographic of people.
They managed to sound sexist and also insult all IT people because “if you have a personal life you clearly are bad at your job”.
I’m mad as hell. Pissed because of the sexism but mad because how fucking dare he say that programmers can’t be good if they have an actual life? I’ve been very appreciated in all the jobs I’ve done and turns out that being able to give several solutions fast and being reliable is way more important than coding on your free time.
I’m just sorry that they can’t actually be good at their job by investing their work hours into work/training/testing, it is what it is. Yeah there’s people with disabilities that need to invest more than the usual programmer to be good at their job, but that’s how it is and expecting everyone is the same is pathetic.
Oh, to have the confidence of an average man.
I had the chance to bring on some summer help. Two kids from the local career center. A guy and a girl. Halfway through the summer, I let the guy go because he had no self-start, desire to learn, or eagerness for projects. The girl is great with people, an information sponge, and seeks out new challenges.
And because of attitudes like yours, she’ll have to work twice as hard to appear half as competent as the lazy ass I let go, once she gets out in the soul-crushing tech industry.
So, in summation, eat rocks.
Okay boomer
Actually you were downvoted for being a troll
It’s clear you have never met a woman…
Source: a woman who beat every other male in every grade in my comp sci degree and is top of the class.
Also has a life because WOMEN CAN MULTITASK APPARENTLY.
I’m very good at IT and I can assure you that when the clock hits the time, my laptop gets folded and I switch the screens to my games, where I pay no mind to work anymore. I’m a man.
Fuck off with that attitude.
Solicitation at my door.
- I have a sign, on my door, that says “no solicitors.”
- By law, all solicitors must have a solicitation license from the county on their person. It’s a photo ID issued by the county. None of them do.
- I work from home with a handicapped wife. Do not bother me.
I give them one chance to go away. If they press it, I demand to see their license, which “Oh it’s in the truck” or “it’s in the office” or “I am not soliciting, I am giving you a FREE ESTIMATE…” I call the cops. Fuck em. Non-emergency number, I state a description of a suspicious man who refused to show me a solicitation license, and kept asking me to open my door. I describe the direction they are going with dates, streets, and times.
A few get nabbed. Some of these guys are known to the police because they are possibly casing your house and they have a ton of camera evidence of them peeping in windows and gates.
Non-American here.
I have lived in three different countries and solicitors are extremely rare. And in the few cases one ringed my door it was for charity or school kids collecting donations for some summer trip (not sure if this is called soliciting or not).
Is that bad in America that you need to put a sign at your door? How frequent they visit?
Depends massively on where you are. Out in a really rural area, you’ll probably get one a year tops. Middle class suburbia, but not a gated community? Probably substantially more, like 1+ a week.
I’m in the suburbs but up a couple of hills so I generally get fewer than 1 a month (that I know of. I have my doorbell disconnected and live with others so it’s possible I get more and just don’t know about it)
I think it depends on where you live. In my case, I see about 4-5 a week on my security cameras, but only a few a year ignore the sign. On nextdoor dot com, it’s discussed and video camera footage is shared, so we know which neighborhoods are targeted. Mine is because of the aging population of upper middle income folks.
These people saying one a week must be living in hell, but they’re definitely outliers. I’ve lived in the same spot for three years here in Seattle without ever having a solicitor come to my door.
Pedos that ruined lemmy shitpost
Morally degenerate hackers payed by ____ to shut down the competition.
Do you really think 7000 CSAM a minute is really a bunch of pedos that collectively decide to abandon their .onion blacksite because posting on lemmy is sooo much better for them? Hellz to the nooooIts a looser, an abuser of social media or many with a butt ton of alts
Wether its reddit or not, reddit still doesnt denounce the actions of these people, its already in reddit admin blood.
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They closed the community because of that
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In general, yes
They did this to lemmy to attack the fediverse.
I like to ask the phone scammers if their moms are proud of them. I had one a few days ago who got so pissed off by that question that he invited me to suck his dick and then called me an asshole before hanging up, lol. Damn, social security agent Robert, you angry.
I fucked with a phone scammer so bad once that he kept calling me for two weeks to abuse me. I answered every call with, “You mad, bro?” He was fucking infuriated.
Three years later I’m still waiting for Ramal to pool together all his rupees and fly over here and kill me like he promised.
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I’m sorry, is the man of the house available?
What do you
evenmean by this?it’s a term used to belittle women, by implying that they can’t make “important” decisions by themselves while also implying that they must have a man with them to be able to fullfill life.
I believe that the commenter above wrote it as a joke, by roleplaying one of the people the original commenter complained about and giving an extra example.
Thanks
“Sure, sport”. “You’re welcome, tiger.” “No problem, little buddy.”
I keep hoping someone will keep up the stupid pet names with me so I can just make the responses more and more absurd every time, but they generally stop after the first one. I have sooooo many ideas in the tank and I’m just waiting for the excuse to call someone porkchop or pickleface.
These pet names are lovely to those who want/expect it, and annoying and demeaning to those that dont. Im sorry others use these names on you or others in your life that dont like it. It sounds recductive but, ask them to stop, most dont want to hurt others and if they know you dont like it and ignore your request they are assholes that deserve the worst.
No. I should not have to ask grown adults not to call me these names. These are co-workers, acquaintances, strangers, not people who should be assuming any level of familiarity with me. The default should be basic respect.
“Just this. Just that.” Stop telling the people getting shit on to make excuses and accomodations for the behavior of people with power.
I feel like im not understanding your situation well enugh to comment. I seem to have not relized how systematic it is. I dont know how to help.
Street preachers
They’re awful and disruptive.
People who eat at restaurants/fast food and act like it’s okay to treat the employees like shit.
Like bro idgaf about your bad day. I’ve already dealt with 300 other people’s bad days and you really don’t want to deal with mine.
Call center scammers pretending to be “Microsoft Support” and the like. Especially if they call again after I already told them to F off the first time. The last time one of them called I told them to wait a moment, set the phone next to my speakers and then blasted The Mermaid Sisters - F[$%&]ng Bullsh*t Song at full volume until he hung up.
Super petty and not at all mature, but soooo satisfying.
You know what would be cool? An app that takes over the call and uses chatGPT and text to speech to fuck with them. Just press a button and bam! Theyre going through creepy/gross roleplay with a mindless AI chat bot
Lenny already exists!
But how else would I find out that my Windows installation which I haven’t booted for several months has a virus?
Unfortunately they are all both recently. It seems pointless to be rude to a bot.
Conservative because I find them insufferable and tone deaf.
Bigots. I ain’t bothering to be polite about calling out your racist/sexist/homo/transphobic shit and correcting your shit-brained thinking. If you’re a bigot, you’re a piece of shit and will be treated as such.
I feel like I’ve seen your username before. It’s probably just because it’s distinctive, though.
I comment on everything I’m remotely interested in (or have a joke based on the title) and I’ve got nothing better to do, so the likelihood of seeing my comments is high. 🤷🏻♂️
I also choose this guys pointless comments.
Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and generally anyone who wants to convert me to their fucked up religion when they knock on my door. Why should I be civil when they bother me at my house on my time off to dictate what I should believe in? If I’m interested I’d go to them and not the other way around.
If a JW approaches, just politely tell them you’re an apostate, and they’ll leave you alone.
Those people are genuinely brain washed into believing they are going save your life if they convert you.
If you tell them you’re an apostate, you’re telling them you’re ex JW, and you’ve been exiled, so they’ll turn around and refuse to talk to you. I say be polite because they’re just humans trying to “save your life”
The apostate thing won’t always work. It requires a couple of steps. The terminology you want to use is to say “I’m DF’d” or “I’m disfellowshipped”. That means they are not actually allowed to talk to you. They won’t even say okay, they just leave. Works 100% of the time IME.
Source: I’m disfellowshipped.
It sounds like it would work, im unshure if thats the safest or least safe way of convincing them to leave you alone. depends on if they think your a lost cause, a satan warshipper or re saveable
I’ve done that actually. It’s only been 2 months since that encounter but here’s hoping.
Their tactics are adapting: those motherfuckers started showing up at my house and they bring KIDS to ring the doorbell and give the elevator pitch. I can’t in good conscience tell a groomed/brainwashed child to eat my entire ass and I can’t even really be rude to the women standing behind them because they’ll just be like, “see how rude and awful nonbelievers are?”
It’s always fun to answer the door to JW when you’re a goth. They’re already in a state of panic before you’ve opened your mouth.
One of my prouder moments when I was younger and thinner, was answering the door for some JW’s, while naked and handcuffed to my girlfriend.
They were working their way through our apartment complex, so we came up with a stupid plan.
I used to answer the door naked when I lived in a town where that was not a crime. Some of them try to lock eyes and pretend it’s not happening, some just run. Either way, I was amused.
You have to trespass well onto private property to get to my house now and it’s just to far a walk so I don’t get any JWs anymore.
I used to make sport of proselytizers, seeing how long I could string them along, but these days if someone hops my 12 foot fuck-off privacy fence and walks the 100 yards down my driveway past the no trespassing signs I will likely have already called the cops by the time they reach my door. So they would be met with hostility.
