I always find the sentence "the likelihood to die in a school shooting is ridiculously low" very irritating.

It shouldn't be low. It should be nonexistent.

Donate money to the political career of billionaires.

"pLeaSe dOnAte tO mY reElEctIoN"

You're worth $2.5B and I'm trying to save $0.30 on groceries, donate to it yourself, fu**face.

Mom, brother and I were at Olive Garden about 20 years ago. We had the worst waiter in the history of the world. He was outrageously rude to the point of being abusive to us. At the end of the dinner my mom left him a dime for a tip and as we were leaving the waiter threw the dime at my mom (I was a little kid otherwise I would have probably at least attempted to defend her). Waiter's boss saw the dime throw and fired the waiter on the spot. Everyone has a bad day, but that guy was just a prick.

The summer between undergrad and graduate school, I was working in the customer service department of a Canadian department store. I got minimum wage + $1 extra an hour because I was the only person capable of answering the phones in English and French.

I asked for a Saturday off to attend my sister's high school graduation. They said "what's more important to you-- this job or the graduation?" I said, well, the graduation actually (particularly in light of the fact that I was starting my second degree in another city about 10 weeks later.) Axed *immediately*.

Well, good luck finding a bilingual Albertan willing to work for minimum wage plus one, you stupid c**ksuckers.

Chef here. Got fired because I sent a steak out that "had char on it".

The only "char" on it was grill marks.

Ok lady, you probably just saved me a huge mess.

I told my manager at a fast food place that I was going to be looking for a new job, and to not schedule me after this pay period. The next week, I see my name on the schedule and ask her what the deal is.

"I told you I was going to get a new job and not to schedule me"

"Well, did you get a new job yet?"

"No. But I'm still not sticking around this one."

"Well you know what, you can just not come back here now with that attitude."

She sure showed me.

I was working for a small family owned restaurant. All the wait staff, and most of the kitchen staff was family or friends with the owner. I was hired as a waitress, and I did okay, not great, not terrible, it was my first time being a waitress.



One day, one of their regular customers came in, who is a bit of a local celebrity. He apparently came in once or twice a week, and tipped very well. Normally the owners daughter would take the table, but she was out sick so I took them. I got an amazing tip from him, and he told the owner that he would like me to wait on them if I am available in the future. The second he left I was fired.

Fired a person for disappearing on their first day of work for a couple of hours. We worked in a manufacturing plant and he took off to try to find some cute girl he knew that worked there, the guy was married and he asked "what am I supposed to tell my wife?" I said, " probably not the truth".

I was 16 and working as a dishwasher at a summer tennis camp at an exclusive tennis club. The owner of the club was upset that I hadn't taken all the trash out. I explained to him that the dumpster was full and overflowing. He told me that I needed to climb into the dumpster and jump up and down on the trash to create more room in it. I said that I wouldn't do it. He told me that he wouldn't ask me to do anything that he wouldn't do himself so I said "Fine, I want to see you climb into the dumpster and start jumping up and down".

He fired me on the spot.

Edit: For those of you that agreed with the owner you should really check up on how OSHA and the health department would feel about this.

Me and my friend were two young Irish lads working on rebuilding the Canary Wharf tower in London (which had been blown up by some other Irish lads a year earlier, but that's another story.) It was like the Nakatomi Plaza. There were so many floors, if you didn't feel like working, you could just go to some random floor and hide out for a while.

So me and my friend, both 18 years old, were hungover one morning. We went to the 23rd floor where there was a comfortable couch and we lay there smoking weed. Suddenly the English foreman appears and fires us on the spot. As he was walking away, he says "That was taking the p**s, lads."

Unfortunately, there was somewhat of a misunderstanding here. What he meant was that our behavior was so bad we had crossed a line. However, in Ireland at that time, "that was taking the p**s" meant I'm only joking. So we continued working for another three or four hours before he came back and said "I fired you this morning, what the hell are you still doing here?".

Worked at a call center.(Telemarketing)
It was my grandmothers birthday.
We didn't hit sales quota for the day the boss told me I had to stay until we hit.
I told him family was more important.
Got fired immediately. Best decision ever.

Was working in the deli counter of a supermarket. Asked from my closest manager that if I could come next week on thu 2 hrs later because I had a final exam that morning.

Got fired on the spot. " Don't bother coming to work tomorrow, you're fired"

O.o.

I handed my boss my two week notice and she ripped it in half and said "Don't bother, you're done today."


HR wasn't too thrilled with her decision as they had to pay me a severance because of her hatred towards me.

When we were first dating, she found out that I didn’t have a bedspread/comforter, so a few days later she gave me one, that she sewed herself. On our second date, she gave me a piece of fossilized dinosaur poop (coprolite, she was a rock collector). On our honeymoon, she surprised me with a side trip where I got to drive a tank (at one of those adventure type parks).

Not a relationship but my group of friends. I had been in a bad relationship for a couple of years, she was very abusive. I finally cut it off and she lots her mind and got really physical. EVERY SINGLE one of my friends (6 guys) left work rented a moving truck, moved me out and let me crash on their couch while I figured things out. There was only love and support from them and I would not have made it without them.

When I tried to give them money or buy pizza as a thank you they told me that all they cared about was that I was safe now. I love all those guys like family.

Right after we started dating, she once called me from London after being away for weeks on a school trip. She spent what was at that time a fortune in long distance charges just to tell me she loved me, missed me, and wanted to hear me say I still loved her. Made my day.
She also told me once, “I would rather do nothing with you than something with someone else.”
We’ve been married for almost 42 years.

My dad donated one of his kidneys to me. I knew already that he loves me, but that was a good sign.

My partner got viciously beaten by his father when he got outed, he was very visibly bruised, his face swollen. When I came to pick him up, I didn't know his father had learnt of our relationship, so it took me a moment to understand what was happening, but my partner's first instinct was to launch himself between me and his father, so that his father wouldn't be able to hit me and would only be able to hit him. It's been forty years, we're still together.

I had surgery and couldn't really do anything on my own for the first week afterwards. As much as I hated the fact that my gf had to take care of me as if I was a small child, I realized that she must really love me if she's willing to put up with this.

My mom doesn't like touch, she doesn't ever hug me voluntarily. Shes a good mom, I think she just has some trauma from childhood related to touch so shes never been physically affectionate to anyone. My dad however was super physically affectionate and hugged me all the time, so I got used to it from him. When he died unexpectedly two years ago, my mom and stepdad drove 16 hours to attend the funeral. I ran out of the funeral crying seeing my dad in the casket and my mom came after me, and stood next to me while I sobbed in a chair and held me the entire time I cried. I realized then that despite her lack of physical affection, that woman loves me with all her heart and was willing to put her comfortability aside to comfort me the way I needed.

I had a stroke in October.

I'm in Australia. My ex wife lives in China.

She was at my bedside in the hospital within 2 days.

I fell at work and broke 3 bones in my hand, hand to have surgery to repair them. A day or two after my surgery, my then girlfriend (now wife) went out to do our weekly shopping, and she came home with three new pairs of basketball shorts for me (since I had trouble putting on regular shorts at the time.)

I actually burst into tears when she gave them to me.

The only person who reached out to wish me a happy “soberversary” besides my group chat (where one friend remembers and the rest likely jump on board) was my brother in law. I f*****g love him. He’s such a caring and special human.

This was year 7 and I moved into the house I closed on a week prior. This was a big one. I’ve gotten a masters, met my now wife, bought my car outright, moved across the country, rescued a dog and now closed on a house. The odds of achieving this “normal” life were damn near 0.

He’ll always reach out to tell me he’s proud of me and it’s just so appreciated. Thanks Phil.

TW: Pretty Disgusting

I had this abscess on the side of my face around 2006 and I was on a waiting list to get it fixed. Needed an actual surgery with local to cut all the bad stuff out.

It used to build up and burst and get puss everywhere. I would wake up with it on my pillow.

Not only did she not leave me, she would help me clean it out sometimes.

Not exactly romantic but you know someone loves you when they stick with you through something like that.

60M happily married for 30 years...there are so many but the biggest one. She comes back from a girls night out and proceeds to tell me all the S**T the other ladies say about their husbands. I say, "Geez, I wonder what you say about me?".

She replies, " I will never talk bad about you to others because it is you and me against the world".

A friend of hers later confirmed that there was nothing they could do to get her to talk trash about me,..... even tho I know she could have

That was over 20 years ago and I still think of that often....and had no idea how safe and loved it would make me feel to this day.

Had a super early train ride at 6 am, when I got to the station I realized I forgot my anti depressants and knew I would be having withdrawals all Christmas without them, I called my roommate as a last ditch effort and asked if he could bring them to me at the train station, he literally got up at 5:40 am and brought them to me no questions asked

We're still best friends even though we don't live with one another.

“I won’t eat in a restaurant with filthy bathrooms. This isn’t a hard call. They let you see the bathrooms. If the restaurant can’t be bothered to replace the puck in the urinal or keep the toilets and floors clean, then just imagine what their refrigeration and work spaces look like.”

— Anthony Bourdain.