People Confess The Shadiest Practices From Their Profession Most People Don't Know About
October 29 | 2020
One Reddit user asked:
What are some shady practices in your line of work that the average person doesn't know about?
<p>So listen ... normally we start these articles with an intro to set thing up ... but fam. This whole thread was such an eye-opening dumpster fire that there really isn't anything to say. </p><p>Just look at this mess. Look at it. Look at it and cringe. </p>
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Dispatch Lies To Hospitals All The Time
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNDYzNDY0NS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2MjQyOTkwOX0.GbX4gA1OYwOfTDiLJ1CuvipeKk9nseFzJuLnZIXhTVw/img.gif?width=980" id="e710e" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="c82d0ec44f37481b3fbbc5711147961e" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="480" />Ambo GIF by St John AmbulanceGiphy<p>Worked for a private ambulance service that would still run high priority calls out of hospitals (if the sending hospital couldn't provide a service, either due to no personnel or equipment) or nursing homes/care facilities that didn't want to overuse 911.</p><p>Dispatch would lie ALL THE TIME about our ETA's to facilities. Say one of our units was 40 minutes away. Hospital would call us, dispatch would say 20 minutes, that way the hospital wouldn't call another service that might be closer. And by the time the sending hospital realized we weren't there in the time quoted, it would be too late/silly to call another service.</p><p>In other words, critical care was often delayed to make a set number of calls since calls = money.</p><p><span></span>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjmlwh/what_are_some_shady_practices_in_your_line_of/gadoe9z?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Proverbs10_4</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Specialty Boxes
<p>Many moving companies will force you to buy overpriced specialty boxes--I'm talking like thirty-forty bucks--for things like your tv or mattress so ask about that beforehand. We do charge $10 for a mattress bag if it's unwrapped as a bedbug precaution but that is clearly stated in writing beforehand and price is not jacked up.</p><p>Also, especially in NYC and Philly, many movers will charge the client for a parking ticket--that is not legal.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjmlwh/what_are_some_shady_practices_in_your_line_of/gadn4c8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">manwithavandotcom</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Lawyer's Intimidation Tactics
<p>Lawyers have a bunch of opportunities to be shady. Just going to list one of the worst offenders below. Standard disclaimer that this isn't legal advice and I'm not your attorney.</p><p>Shady lawyers bully average people ALL the time with sh!tty intimidation tactics. These bad lawyers count on you not knowing your rights or just shutting down because 'a lawyer' is yelling legal terms (I know it sounds like a commercial but it's absolutely true).</p><p>For example, debt collection companies routinely hassle people with debt that is past the statute of limitations (SOL). When a claim is past the SOL, that means its almost impossible to sue someone on the claim. But that doesn't stop them from being cunts and sending scary letters with big red font. They are just hoping you give up, don't ask an independent attorney for help, and pay them.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjmlwh/what_are_some_shady_practices_in_your_line_of/gadpq15?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">MeowSchwitzInThere</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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End Of The Fiscal Year Spending Spree
<p>In case you didn't know, the government is incredibly irresponsible with your money, particularly as the fiscal year comes to a close.</p><p>Everybody is familiar with the concept of fallout money or spend down- the idea where you spend your remaining budget in an all out-spending-spree in order to justify retaining the same budget for next year. It's so wasteful.</p><p>My office of appx 40 people spent 120k in a week on sh!t none of us need. We had brand new office chairs last year. Bought new ones, the most expensive ones we could find, at that. We all got new monitors (that we didn't need) and four 70' plasma TVs that we're trying to figure out where to hang.</p><p>We didn't need any of this stuff. We blew through all of that money and we are a SMALL office. At the end of every fiscal year, the federal government pisses away hundreds of millions (if not billions) of dollars on dumb sh!t just so we can all say, "Yup, gonna need that same budget for next year."</p><p>If we didn't penalize being responsible spenders, we could fund all sorts of programs without needing to raise taxes/draft new legislation/enter the political mudslinging arena, but nope- instead, I have a brand new chair, monitor, and giant TV in my office.</p><p><span></span>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjmlwh/what_are_some_shady_practices_in_your_line_of/gadi97l?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">WatchTheBoom</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Spotify Is Making Bank
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Here's Why You Hate Your Bank's Customer Service
<p>When you call your bank, there's a better than solid chance you're not talking to anyone who works for your bank. You're probably talking to someone who works for a company like Fiserv. Any single employee can be answering calls for 20+ banks at a time. Say you're calling Navy Federal Credit union. The Fiserv employee gets your call. Just before you come on the line, an automated message tells the agent you're calling Navy Federal, so they say "Thanks for calling Navy Federal." The call they got just before yours was answered as: "Thanks for calling Bank of America."</p><p>And here's the worst part, they can't really do sh!t to help you besides reset your password for your online account or something of that nature. They're trained to just transfer you if you need any actual help with your account. But when they transfer you over to the actual bank, that bank may be backed up. If the wait is really long, they'll just reroute you back to the Fiserv queue. Right back to someone who cannot help you.</p><p>If you hate your bank's customer service, this is probably why.</p><p><span></span>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjmlwh/what_are_some_shady_practices_in_your_line_of/gae8mj9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">CDC_</a></p>Passengers Mail And Luggage
<p>I work in the airline industry. Heard a story from my coworker about another station going through passengers mail and luggage and stealing any valuables. Laptops, phones, gift cards but mainly electronics. There was a system of maybe 20 workers in on it including people working the cameras. They got busted and there was a deep police investigation. A lot more than 20 people got fired and charged.</p><p>One thing that was messed up, the thieves would bribe other workers with the valuables they stole and if that person accepted without knowing what was really going on then they got fired too.</p><p>"Hey can you cover my shift? I'll give you this 100 dollar gift card." Unknowing worker accepts thinking its a sweet deal and gets fired during investigation. Smh</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjmlwh/what_are_some_shady_practices_in_your_line_of/gae61ma?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">CyberPunk77</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Re-Sticker The Store
<p>I used to work for a well known supplement store... Let's say it's 3 letters that start with G and ends with C.</p><p>The week before any big sales, we would have to re-sticker everything in the store. The items that were due to go on sale would go up in price, so that "save 30%" was actually more like saving 5%</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjmlwh/what_are_some_shady_practices_in_your_line_of/gaeuyjn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">PokeyGumdrops</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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The Poor Schmuck Who Got Stuck With The Bag
<p>I'm an attorney so nothing shady we do isn't well known but there is one area of law that really bothers me. There's something called the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Basically, don't do something oversees that is illegal here. </p><p>Big example is bribery. The fines for it are a joke for the company but for the <em>individua</em><em>l</em> can be life destroying. Here is what happens and EVERYONE knows it except for the poor schmuck who go stuck with the bag. </p><p>They hire some business student fresh out of school and give him the job of export manager in some country that basically requires bribes. They offer a salary that anyone would jump at. The poor schmuck eventually finds himself in a situation where he pretty much has to offer a bribe in order to meet a quota/deadline. He does. </p><p>The company then does an "investigation" and are shocked (shocked, I tell you) to find this guy paid a sunshine payment. They self report to the government and pay some tiny little fine. The fine is less or sometimes nothing since it's just an "oopsie" and the government goes after the poor schmuck instead. And the schmuck get his life destroyed. </p><p>The company then goes back to some business school and find another schmuck. Rinse and repeat. I always feel so sorry for these guys.<span></span></p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjmlwh/what_are_some_shady_practices_in_your_line_of/gaezs22?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">voice_of_craisin</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
Through Another Office
<p>I work for a major market research company. We fudge the numbers heavily and do business with countries that are illegal to do business with. The work around is that we have an office in a country that can work with the country that we can't work with so we do business with them through another office.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjmlwh/what_are_some_shady_practices_in_your_line_of/gae1zmw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Preparation_Asleep</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Driven By Money And Greed
<p>I worked for a cardiac holter monitoring company as a holter technician. In the beginning when I started working there it was a small amount of patients, then our small company got bought out by a large corporation. </p><p>This meant that we had more doctors' offices signed up with our service, more patients and a shit ton more reports to do. In order to keep the dollars rolling in and scans rolling out, they basically had asked us to let the program run the EKG with little to no editing, which was literally never accurate due to artifact and interference as the patient wore the monitor. Jeopardizing people's lives in the process. </p><p>I brought this up multiple times how this wasn't right and there's just no way we could possibly be sending these reports out to doctors offices. Got fired. LOL. </p><p>Also heard by my friend still working there they have gotten in trouble for a patient passing away on the monitor and it was not on the report as asystole. </p><p>As much as I had dreamed all my life to get into healthcare, I found it is pretty much always driven by money and greed.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjmlwh/what_are_some_shady_practices_in_your_line_of/gajdc0x?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">xccrunky</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_9" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Attracting Anti-Mark Tourists
<p>I don't work here anymore, but I worked a part time job in the tourist trap part of town until my actual job started this past summer. </p><p>They instructed us to not wear masks because it would bring in foot traffic from the anti-mask tourists. It worked, but holy shit did I quit so quickly and have to borrow money from my parents so I could pay rent without putting myself and others at risk. </p><p>F*ck that place.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjmlwh/what_are_some_shady_practices_in_your_line_of/gahdf45?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">FunkySpiders</a></p>Sure To End Up Sick With Something
<p>I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but as someone who works in catering/parties, it's pretty unsanitary. It's true for most food-oriented businesses, but it's a pretty big deal right now. </p><p>We have parties back to back in the middle of a pandemic with no sanitary measurements in between. </p><p>Hell, the bathrooms don't get cleaned for days at a time. You're touching stuff potentially hundreds of other people touched before you. Masks aren't enforced either. </p><p>I can't fathom how people think they're safe not wearing masks in a room full of hundreds of others not wearing masks. You're just one of many - and if something as basic as masks aren't enforced, what makes you think something as complicated as complete sanitation would be, either?</p><p>We're not allowed to leave the floor or wash our hands, so I'm putting straws into your drinks and handing you food right after picking used plates and dirty silverware up. Even if you don't wind up with COVID, you're sure to end up sick with something.</p><p><span></span>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjmlwh/what_are_some_shady_practices_in_your_line_of/gagzyr5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">colakit</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_10" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Whatever Ashes
<p>I work for a veterinary who also owns a crematory. My boss is a very upstanding person and would never do this, but some crematories will stack a bunch of animals together and give them whatever they scoop out, so you may not even be getting any of your pet back even if you are paying more for individual cremation.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjmlwh/what_are_some_shady_practices_in_your_line_of/gafuvhu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Spare_Volume_8025</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_11" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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It's All A Scam
<p>I work in commercial construction.</p><p>It's all a scam. The price the contractor gives you isn't what it will really cost to do the job. The first price you get is just to get their foot in the door. Then they nickel and dime you with change-orders.</p><p>Some contractors are actually honest, but you'll almost always get screwed if you're going low bid. Good rule of thumb:</p><ol><li>Always have 15% extra money for contingency....but never let your contractor know that it exists.</li></ol><div>- </div><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_12" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Not all of our relations can be fine, upstanding folks.
Families are a very loose way to define similarities. We may be related by blood, but how else? Are we alike in any other way?
Often the answer is no, especially when you compare peoples' real lives and trajectories.
<p>u/poop-machine asked:</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h/whos_the_shadiest_member_in_your_family_tree/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Who's the shadiest member in your family tree?</a></p><p rel="noopener noreferrer">Here were some of those answers.</p>
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The Most Awful Fake
<p>I have an aunt that faked having cancer for 10 years so she could use her fundraising money for drugs. She's now in prison for credit card fraud and possession</p><p><span></span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h/whos_the_shadiest_member_in_your_family_tree/eykzjvb/" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h...</a><span></span></p><p>I also have an aunt who faked this weird "illness" last year and started a go fund me account and raised like 15K. It was so bizarre. My family distanced ourselves from her years prior. I saw on social media that she was raising money and even had this whole long video made about it. Now she has this weird life coaching "business" and sales a bunch of garbage. Her bio on all her social media etc. has these really gross over exaggerations and flat out lies about her life and experiences as a "business" woman. Her kids who are in their 20s believe it all and actively help her.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h/whos_the_shadiest_member_in_your_family_tree/eyl814p/" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h...</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Lives Of Crime
<p>Shadiest, my grandfather. His entire career was him bribing public officials for the company he worked for. He ran moonshine during prohibition. Had a secret family for 30 years. I always remember him smiling but it is sad to hear his kids say they have no good memories of him.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h/whos_the_shadiest_member_in_your_family_tree/eyl5yit/" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h...</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Five Fingers
<p>Ah yes.. My cousin we nicknamed <span style="background-color: initial;">"Five Finger Frank"</span></p><p>See, no matter what the circumstance or setting, if ol' five fingers is around, he will try to sell you something he "gots from a friend" yes, the "s" in gots is there on purpose. he speaks this way. "I gots a great phone for sale.. whatcha gots in cash?"</p><p>Wedding of his sister? he tried to sell me speakers for my car.</p><p>Funeral of our grandmother? he had something in his trunk he just KNEW I would want to buy...</p><p>And he not only tries to sell to me or my brothers, he will sell to ANYONE. Aunts, other cousins, friends, pretty much anyone with a pulse.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p><br>And everything he tries to sell is obviously stolen. A toolbox with the name "Jason" engraved in it. Loose jewelry, car stereos, generators, tv's, etc.</p><p>It has almost become a game with us... what will ol' five fingers try to sell us today?</p><p>Last time, I said "tools", my brothers claimed "a watch, a car, and a ring."</p><p>What he did try to sell us was a john boat with the numbers removed and no tag on the trailer.</p><p>I am sure he will be in jail soon.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h/whos_the_shadiest_member_in_your_family_tree/eyl7huz/" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h...</a></p>
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It Me Fam
<p>An ancestor of mine was an outlaw because he killed a cop. I think it was in the late 1800s in Gästrikland in Sweden but i'm not sure.</p><p>Apart from that dude it definitely is me, my cousin comes in a distant second.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h/whos_the_shadiest_member_in_your_family_tree/eyl3bpu/" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h...</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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If You've Been To The Moon, She's Been There Twice
<p>My 50 something year old cousin who thinks she's better than everyone else. Good God, I've never met a more insecure person. Got a new apartment? She'll tell you about her new house. Got a new relationship? Shell tell you they're cheating on you. Got health problems? She'll tell you you're weak for getting treatment.</p><p>I cut contact five years ago, but she's so far up her own bedazzled behind, I don't think she noticed.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h/whos_the_shadiest_member_in_your_family_tree/eyl9kfj/" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h...</a></p>Zero To Nero
<p>Some great uncle who was a baker, whose bakeries had the unfortunate habit of catching fire. After the fourth one burned to the ground someone started suspecting it was an insurance scam. In the village he was known as Nero for this.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h/whos_the_shadiest_member_in_your_family_tree/eyl8wxi/" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h...</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Life Without Perole
<p>I have a great uncle who's been in prison since I was born (1985) and I still don't know what crime he committed or why our family's elders still don't discuss it.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h/whos_the_shadiest_member_in_your_family_tree/eyl2vor/" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h...</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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The Town (2010)
<p>There's been several with the title but my mom's second cousin was the "band-aid bandit" in Ontario back in the 80s/90s or something.</p><p>She used to tell the story when I was a teen and haven't really asked since but it was always kind of cool.</p><p>He put band aids on his fingers and robbed banks. He was in jail and got out in the late 90s if I recall correctly.</p><p>I should ask her again for more information</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h/whos_the_shadiest_member_in_your_family_tree/eyl67xi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h...</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
Knobs For Heads
<p>Uncle Knobhead, as he is now known to us.</p><p>Going back about 17 years now, my aunt and uncle put my parents' names down as guarantors for their mortgage, without asking first.* There was an argument when my parents found out (as you might expect), which resulted in Uncle Knobhead deciding that my aunt (my mum's sister) and their son (Obvs my cousin) were no longer allowed any contact with any of our family.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p><br>A couple of years later, my grandma died, and my mum and aunt went along to the care home where she'd spent the last few months of her life to sort through her belongings and do whatever paperwork was required. My dad stepped outside and knocked on the window of Uncle Knobhead's car, saying "If we've got a problem, don't you think we should sort it out?" Uncle Knobhead simply wound the window back up, and we haven't seen any of them since Grandma's funeral.</p><p>*I believe this could be considered fraud, not 100% sure</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h/whos_the_shadiest_member_in_your_family_tree/eyl6bzm/" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h...</a></p>
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Safety
<p>I have an uncle on my father's side of the family who abused my grandfather and stole money out of his safe and tried to run off with it. He wanted to live in his house, but never took care of him or took him to any medical examination. He even tried to rewrite my grandfather's will in his favor and hired a lawyer to accomplish that. My father told me that he used to spend his money on drugs, hookers, beer, cigarettes, and gambling. The Department for Human Services were wanting to go after him, but declined after a month. We managed to get our grandfather into a retirement home and managed to retrieve the money from the safe back from him, and now he is living with his friend.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h/whos_the_shadiest_member_in_your_family_tree/eyl9avm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cxh07h...</a></p>
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People Share The Most Effective Psychological Tricks They Use To Get By
January 24 | 2019
Mind games. Life's survival is based on the best of the best of mind games. Sometimes you just gotta get someone to do what you need, like diffuse a dangerous situation. Is it always right or morally ethical? NO. But please, let he is without sin cast the first stone. A little trickery goes a long way... often for good.
Redditor u/PM_ME_UR_PUPPYDOGS wanted us all to fess to some shady yet clever mind games we've all played.... What is the most effective psychological "trick" you use?
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I am an absolute out-and-proud Daddy's girl. My dad and I share the same ridiculous sense of humor. He was only 19 when I came along, so he has often been more of a friend than a true "dad." We have spent decades tormenting my poor mother with poorly sung renditions of Bon Jovi songs, and when things in life go sideways a hug from my Dad is everything I need to feel okay again. One of my favorite things about my dad is how absolutely stereotypically Dad-ish he has gotten now that he's older.
<p>As a kid he was the cool dad that all my friends had crushes on (don't worry about mom, Dad has been hopelessly hers since the day they met and she did pretty decent in that department too. She was young and beautiful and at least 3 men have dumped me because they were too interested in my mom) </p><p>Now that he's older, he's started doing things like buying 5 of the same pair of sneakers because he doesn't want to have to come back when he wears them out. His dad jeans game is flawless. He refuses to throw anything away because he needs it all for ... something. Oh, and you want puns? He's got you covered in multiple languages. His favorite joke is a play on the word "vacation" and asking what cows need a break from. The spanish word for cow is "vaca." I've heard this joke at least once a month for ten years and the only person who ever laughs is him - and he laughs until he cries. It's glorious. </p><p>One Reddit user asked: </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a34lkh/what_is_the_most_dad_thing_your_father_has_ever/" target="_blank">What is the most "dad thing" your father has ever done?</a></p><p><br></p><p>And yeah, dads are a magical creature, aren't they? Here are some of the daddest dad stories we found in the thread. </p><p><br></p><listicle id="listicle-2622582178"></listicle><p>So tell us, what's the Daddest thing you've ever witnessed? </p>
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