Not all bosses have your best interest in mind, so it's no wonder that tensions can ocassionally flare, prompting workers and their bosses to exchange a few choice words.
After Redditor TwoMovies asked the online community, "What's the craziest thing you have said to your boss?" people were more than eager to share stories of their clueless bosses and the conflicts that resulted.
"She looked at me..."
Dumbest supervisor I had thought the full time employees were the supervisors of part time employees. She comes to me one afternoon and asked: "Why is 'James' never here on time? Don't you guys talk to him about that?"
Me: "We're not his supervisors, it's not our place."
Her: "Then who is his supervisor?"
Me: "You are!"
She looked at me as though I'd just told her the moon was indeed made of green cheese.
"I then calmly went out..."
This is how I quit my teaching job at a college.
I was sitting in the bosses office after being summoned. He was giving me rules specific for me that no other instructor was being given. I was sitting and listening. Clarifying that he was singling me out.
I then looked at his assistant (a very good friend of mine), started laughing and said, "Eff it, I don't need this job." I got up and started walking to his door when he stood up and yelled something to the effect of Sit the f*** down!
I then turned and told him something like I am a goddamn adult and if he doesn't talk to me like one he'll be calling the Sheriff to pull me of of him.
I then calmly went out collected my things walked around to inform the other staff and my students that I no longer worked there and left.
"She laughed it off..."
On a Wednesday, "I need to take Friday off. I'm going to be very sick."
She laughed it off and said, denied, you're coming in.
Thing is, I can almost always tell when I'm going to be sick in the next few days. Like I'll feel fine one day, iffy the next, and full blown sick the day after.
That Friday, I had already been puking since 3am. I tried to call out but they reminded me of the silliness of Wednesday and told me to come in. I still went to work at 7. Multiple times, I'd tried to go home, after puking outside around 5-6 times. They said "you're not sick, you're staying!"
At 10am, I was feeling mostly okay. Went up to the podium where the sups were to let them know I was going on break. Made casual conversation. They asked me something. And in response, I projectile vomited all over the podium, narrowly missing them.
They finally said I could go home.
"I was planning on quitting..."
I was planning on quitting as I had already lined up a better job, so thought I might as well say or do something outrageous, something that the office will keep talking about long after I'm gone. So I told the boss one day that she has "a nice bounce to her chest" (meaning I complemented her on her large tits.)
This actually turned out differently than I expected. She thanked me for the compliment and later invited me for drinks after work. I met up with her and she told me she wants someone for a non-serious relationship. She is divorced and doesn't want drama, just someone to sleep with. I then basically became her boy toy and I slept with her for about a year after I eventually quit that job for something else.
"Joe asked me nicely..."
We got a new manager (let's call him Joe) hired at one place I worked while our actual manager went to a different location in a different town to take over there until they can find and train someone to be the new manager (or something like that). This is how a conversation (or it went along these lines) went one day after one of my night shifts.
Joe: It's like I am always repeating myself with you, OP, you know? I keep saying "OP, do better, do better, do better."
Me (having finally snapped from being criticized so much because they gave me too much work and not enough time but expected everything of me): Yeah, well you seem to be doing that a lot lately.
Me: stands up to walk away before I do something I will regret, gets to the door
Joe asked me nicely and softly to come back and asked what was wrong and we had a calmer conversation. I still didn't like him though, he just rubbed me the wrong way for some reason, but it calmed me enough to stop the tears lightly flowing from my eyes.
"This was a regular behavior..."
Upon smoking a joint together during work hours, I admitted I was tripping too hard and that the micro dose of LSD I took this morning was actually accidentally much more than a micro dose, so I need to go home. The trip was getting too spiritual to continue my day shift in a budget retail store. It was a comic moment and I was permitted to leave early, after the joint was finished of course.
This was a regular behavior back then, only once have I lost my cool like that whilst tripping at work.
"Got called to the back..."
I was in the middle of helping a customer and she stepped right in the middle of me and the customer and told me to go up front and get on a register. I snapped and told her that it was rude to do what she just did. She wouldn't let me speak at first until I told her "I am trying to speak, shut up for a second."
Got called to the back and then I told them the way she handled it was out of line and we lost a sale because of it.
"Asked for a livable wage..."
GiphyAsked for a livable wage when my boss insisted market value was whatever he paid freelancers in third world countries.
"I'd had the same chair..."
"If you'd like to try to foist off the chair I've been farting into for 7 years, be my guest."
Last day at a job, I'd had the same chair the whole time and wanted to take it with me. He grinned and told the office manager that they would need to acquire a new chair for my replacement.
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"I had had some back problems..."
"I'm too high to continue this shift."
I had had some back problems and before an afternoon shift in my then retail job I went to see the company's doctor because of cramping muscles. I wasn't given any sick leave, but some muscle relaxing medicine that I was supposed to take and get to work an hour later. Well, that's exactly what I did, but I didn't react too well to the medicine, and ended up getting really drowsy. I told my supervisor the story mid shift as I had to leave.
"I worked at a real shady charter school..."
I worked at a real shady charter school in the middle of the hood. The principal was the laziest woman in the world and put everyone in danger during several situations, one of which was when a student had a handgun in school and she was refusing to call the police.
Anyways, she called me in one day into her office with the VP and wrote me up for going across the street and getting a coffee during my prep period. This wasn't so much a big problem but on top of everything else she had done (faked records, kept us in school til 6PM, etc) I just lost it and went off on her.
I told her how fat and lazy and incompetent she was. That she was the most miserable person I had ever met and I could not stand watching her ruin kids' lives. I handed in my resignation for the last day of school which was a few days shy of the 60-day mark for the end of the year notices.
The board let me stay till the end of the year and on the last day I handed her my keys and told her she was the biggest piece of s*** I had ever met and put my keys on her desk as she signed my end of the year checklist.
That school is shutting down at the end of the year and she has since been fired for forging signatures. I was 25 at the time but it felt good to just lose it.
"It was surreal."
ME: "Our techs had to leave the aircraft for safety. Electrical work was in progress nearby, and there was an accident. Several electricians were zapped, two are on fire. Sparks are raining down and live wires are arcing on the ground were too close to our guys. Local Fire Dept are en route and we are making a role call to ensure all of our people are ok."
Boss: "If our people are safe make sure they GTFO until the fire dept says its safe. How much of a delay are we looking at?"
Me: "Current guess is 45 min delay at a minimum."
This was all discussed in the same tone of voice that would be used to mention a photocopier malfunction. It was surreal.
"She and her husband..."
My boss is a married Indian woman. She and her husband own the business, but she runs it. They were going shopping hours away at an Indian grocery store and asked if I I wanted them to bring me back anything. I said, "a beautiful, Indian woman." When they returned, I said, "Aw, you remembered." My bosses really love me.
"I replied that I appreciated..."
Recently my team lead informed the team that he would be MIA on X days for X number of hours due to managment assigning him some training.
I replied that I appreciated management for, after the months that he had been team lead, finally recognizing that he needed training.
"When I was asked for a two week notice..."
When I was asked for a two week notice I told him to look around the shop for the next two weeks. You'll notice I'm not here.
"He then told me..."
As my manager left the room I looked over to a coworker and said "what a buttplug!"
He had not left the room. He then told me that took "managerial courage" and went about his business. Couldn't believe that's all that happened as he's usually a hardass.
"I had had some back problems..."
"I'm too high to continue this shift."
I had had some back problems and before an afternoon shift in my then retail job I went to see the company's doctor because of cramping muscles. I wasn't given any sick leave, but some muscle relaxing medicine that I was supposed to take and get to work an hour later. Well, that's exactly what I did, but I didn't react too well to the medicine, and ended up getting really drowsy. I told my supervisor the story mid shift as I had to leave.
"Got called to the back..."
I was in the middle of helping a customer and she stepped right in the middle of me and the customer and told me to go up front and get on a register. I snapped and told her that it was rude to do what she just did. She wouldn't let me speak at first until I told her "I am trying to speak, shut up for a second".
Got called to the back and then I told them the way she handled it was out of line and we lost a sale because of it.
"Last day at a job..."
"If you'd like to try to foist off the chair I've been farting into for seven years, be my guest."
Last day at a job, I'd had the same chair the whole time and wanted to take it with me. He grinned and told the office manager that they would need to acquire a new chair for my replacement.
"Didn't say anything out loud..."
Didn't say anything out loud, but I had a boss that would send the worst emails and texts so I started to proofread them and send them back with spelling and grammar corrections.
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Experiencing death is a fascinating and frightening idea.
Who doesn't want to know what is waiting for us on the other side?
But so many of us want to know and then come back and live a little longer.
It would be so great to be sure there is something else.
But the whole dying part is not that great, so we'll have to rely on other people's accounts.
Redditor AlaskaStiletto wanted to hear from everyone who has returned to life, so they asked:
"Redditors who have 'died' and come back to life, what did you see?"
Sensations
Happy Good Vibes GIF by Major League SoccerGiphy"My dad's heart stopped when he had a heart attack and he had to be brought back to life. He kept the paper copy of the heart monitor which shows he flatlined. He said he felt an overwhelming sensation of peace, like nothing he had felt before."
PeachesnPain
Recovery
"I had surgical complications in 2010 that caused a great deal of blood loss. As a result, I had extremely low blood pressure and could barely stay awake. I remember feeling like I was surrounded by loved ones who had passed. They were in a circle around me and I knew they were there to guide me onwards. I told them I was not ready to go because my kids needed me and I came back."
"My nurse later said she was afraid she’d find me dead every time she came into the room."
"It took months, and blood transfusions, but I recovered."
good_golly99
Take Me Back
"Overwhelming peace and happiness. A bright airy and floating feeling. I live a very stressful life. Imagine finding out the person you have had a crush on reveals they have the same feelings for you and then you win the lotto later that day - that was the feeling I had."
"I never feared death afterward and am relieved when I hear of people dying after suffering from an illness."
rayrayrayray
Free
The Light Minnie GIF by (G)I-DLEGiphy"I had a heart surgery with near-death experience, for me at least (well the possibility that those effects are caused by morphine is also there) I just saw black and nothing else but it was warm and I had such inner peace, its weird as I sometimes still think about it and wish this feeling of being so light and free again."
TooReDTooHigh
This is why I hate surgery.
You just never know.
Shocked
Giphy"More of a near-death experience. I was electrocuted. I felt like I was in a deep hole looking straight up in the sky. My life flashed before me. Felt sad for my family, but I had a deep sense of peace."
Admirable_Buyer6528
The SOB
"Nursing in the ICU, we’ve had people try to die on us many times during the years, some successfully. One guy stood out to me. His heart stopped. We called a code, are working on him, and suddenly he comes to. We hadn’t vented him yet, so he was able to talk, and he started screaming, 'Don’t let them take me, don’t let them take me, they are coming,' he was scared and yelling."
"Then he yelled a little more, as we tried to calm him down, he screamed, 'No, No,' and gestured towards the end of the bed, and died again. We didn’t get him back. It was seriously creepy. We called his son to tell him the news, and the son said basically, 'Good, he was an SOB.'”
1-cupcake-at-a-time
Colors
"My sister died and said it was extremely peaceful. She said it was very loud like a train station and lots of talking and she was stuck in this area that was like a curtain with lots of beautiful colors (colors that you don’t see in real life according to her) a man told her 'He was sorry, but she had to go back as it wasn’t her time.'"
Hannah_LL7
"I had a really similar experience except I was in an endless garden with flowers that were colors I had never seen before. It was quiet and peaceful and a woman in a dress looked at me, shook her head, and just said 'Not yet.' As I was coming back, it was extremely loud, like everyone in the world was trying to talk all at once. It was all very disorienting but it changed my perspective on life!"
huntokarrr
The Fog
"I was in a gray fog with a girl who looked a lot like a young version of my grandmother (who was still alive) but dressed like a pioneer in the 1800s she didn't say anything but kept pulling me towards an opening in the wall. I kept refusing to go because I was so tired."
"I finally got tired of her nagging and went and that's when I came to. I had bled out during a c-section and my heart could not beat without blood. They had to deliver the baby and sew up the bleeders. refill me with blood before they could restart my heart so, like, at least 12 minutes gone."
Fluffy-Hotel-5184
Through the Walls
"My spouse was dead for a couple of minutes one miserable night. She maintains that she saw nothing, but only heard people talking about her like through a wall. The only thing she remembers for absolute certain was begging an ER nurse that she didn't want to die."
"She's quite alive and well today."
Hot-Refrigerator6583
Well let's all be happy to be alive.
It seems to be all we have.
Trying to lose weight is a struggle understood by many people regardless of size.
The goal of reaching a healthy weight may seem unattainable, but with diet and exercise, it can pay off through persistence and discipline.
Seeing the pounds gradually drop off can also be a great motivator and incentivize people to stay the course.
Those who've achieved their respective weight goals shared their experiences when Redditor apprenti8455 asked:
"People who lost a lot of weight, what surprises you the most now?"
Redditors didn't see these coming.
Shiver Me Timbers
"I’m always cold now!"
– Telrom_1
"I had a coworker lose over 130 pounds five or six years ago. I’ve never seen him without a jacket on since."
– r7ndom
"140 lbs lost here starting just before COVID, I feel like that little old lady that's always cold, damn this top comment was on point lmao."
– mr_remy
Drawing Concern
"I lost 100 pounds over a year and a half but since I’m old(70’s) it seems few people comment on it because (I think) they think I’m wasting away from some terminal illness."
– dee-fondy
"Congrats on the weight loss! It’s honestly a real accomplishment 🙂"
"Working in oncology, I can never comment on someone’s weight loss unless I specifically know it was on purpose, regardless of their age. I think it kind of ruffles feathers at times, but like I don’t want to congratulate someone for having cancer or something. It’s a weird place to be in."
– LizardofDeath
Unleashing Insults
"I remember when I lost the first big chunk of weight (around 50 lbs) it was like it gave some people license to talk sh*t about the 'old' me. Old coworkers, friends, made a lot of not just negative, but harsh comments about what I used to look like. One person I met after the big loss saw a picture of me prior and said, 'Wow, we wouldn’t even be friends!'”
"It wasn’t extremely common, but I was a little alarmed by some of the attention. My weight has been up and down since then, but every time I gain a little it gets me a little down thinking about those things people said."
– alanamablamaspama
Not Everything Goes After Losing Weight
"The loose skin is a bit unexpected."
– KeltarCentauri
"I haven’t experienced it myself, but surgery to remove skin takes a long time to recover. Longer than bariatric surgery and usually isn’t covered by insurance unless you have both."
– KatMagic1977
"It definitely does take a long time to recover. My Dad dropped a little over 200 pounds a few years back and decided to go through with skin removal surgery to deal with the excess. His procedure was extensive, as in he had skin taken from just about every part of his body excluding his head, and he went through hell for weeks in recovery, and he was bedridden for a lot of it."
– Jaew96
These Redditors shared their pleasantly surprising experiences.
Shopping
"I can buy clothes in any store I want."
– WaySavvyD
"When I lost weight I was dying to go find cute, smaller clothes and I really struggled. As someone who had always been restricted to one or two stores that catered to plus-sized clothing, a full mall of shops with items in my size was daunting. Too many options and not enough knowledge of brands that were good vs cheap. I usually went home pretty frustrated."
– ganache98012
No More Symptoms
"Lost about 80 pounds in the past year and a half, biggest thing that I’ve noticed that I haven’t seen mentioned on here yet is my acid reflux and heartburn are basically gone. I used to be popping tums every couple hours and now they just sit in the medicine cabinet collecting dust."
– colleennicole93
Expanding Capabilities
"I'm all for not judging people by their appearance and I recognise that there are unhealthy, unachievable beauty standards, but one thing that is undeniable is that I can just do stuff now. Just stamina and flexibility alone are worth it, appearance is tertiary at best."
– Ramblonius
People Change Their Tune
"How much nicer people are to you."
"My feet weren't 'wide' they were 'fat.'"
– LiZZygsu
"Have to agree. Lost 220 lbs, people make eye contact and hold open doors and stuff"
"And on the foot thing, I also lost a full shoe size numerically and also wear regular width now 😅"
– awholedamngarden
It's gonna take some getting used to.
Bones Everywhere
"Having bones. Collarbones, wrist bones, knee bones, hip bones, ribs. I have so many bones sticking out everywhere and it’s weird as hell."
– Princess-Pancake-97
"I noticed the shadow of my ribs the other day and it threw me, there’s a whole skeleton in here."
– bekastrange
Knee Pillow
"Right?! And they’re so … pointy! Now I get why people sleep with pillows between their legs - the knee bones laying on top of each other (side sleeper here) is weird and jarring."
– snic2030
"I lost only 40 pounds within the last year or so. I’m struggling to relate to most of these comments as I feel like I just 'slimmed down' rather than dropped a ton. But wow, the pillow between the knees at night. YES! I can relate to this. I think a lot of my weight was in my thighs. I never needed to do this up until recently."
– Strongbad23
More Mobility
"I’ve lost 100 lbs since 2020. It’s a collection of little things that surprise me. For at least 10 years I couldn’t put on socks, or tie my shoes. I couldn’t bend over and pick something up. I couldn’t climb a ladder to fix something. Simple things like that I can do now that fascinate me."
"Edit: Some additional little things are sitting in a chair with arms, sitting in a booth in a restaurant, being able to shop in a normal store AND not needing to buy the biggest size there, being able to easily wipe my butt, and looking down and being able to see my penis."
– dma1965
People making significant changes, whether for mental or physical health, can surely find a newfound perspective on life.
But they can also discover different issues they never saw coming.
That being said, overcoming any challenge in life is laudable, especially if it leads to gaining confidence and ditching insecurities.