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“I Ruined His Life”: 30 People Confess To The Most Morally Questionable Things They’ve Done
Look, nobody’s perfect. We’re all human beings, and we all make mistakes. (Some more than others!) But whether you believe in objective morality or think that norms are all a byproduct of the society we live in, you can’t deny that some behaviors are a bit iffy and fall into a very gray area.
These are behaviors that you might be so scared of being judged on that you’d never admit to them aloud… unless you were protected by anonymity. Case in point, some members of the popular r/AskReddit community opened up about the most morally questionable things that they’d ever done. Read on for their candid stories.
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#1
Wiped the hard drive on the work desktop. Every tool, spreadsheet, database and how-to guide required to do the job just gone in a blink.
I literally wrote the book on how to do that job and how the training is delivered and systems implemented across the entire company, most of which I had to do in my own time as it was seen as a “waste of time”. I effectively automated processes that took hours to do manually and brought efficiency from 13% to 98%. And yet when the time came to give me the promotion they promised, they brought in someone new to the company and said that I had to train them.
Pulled the plug on the operation and handed in my notice. The department folded less than 3 months after I left as no one knew what they were doing and had no backup or go-to help anymore.
A little corporate espionage but f**k ‘em.
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 year ago
I don't see anything wrong with this - companies should absolutely suffer karma too.
Hmmm hmmmm 1 year ago
Pretty awful for the other employees of the company without a job anymore tho
Load More Replies... Sand Ers 1 year ago
It would be espionage if they took info to another company. This was sabotage.
tori Ohno 1 year ago
I walked out, no notice from my last job. I couldn't take their abuse and turning us slowly into slave labor. I took all of the years and years of hand written formulas with me because they couldn't be bothered with putting them in the controlled document book. They were in my toolbox. They had to start over, or pay thousands to have an outside company do it for them. Was that bad of me?
Mason Kronol 1 year ago
Before I took a job as a CSR at a big car dealership I was a cosmetologist, a waitress a bartender and worked for a marketing company doing inbound and outbound sales. (Before I worked there they tried to sell trump steaks. Did not go well) so I was expirenced and good on the phone. They had no script. I made my own. When my boss who liked my scripts moved out of state and the owners son became “my boss” and I took over for my boss things got ugly. They wanted my scripts because car manufacturers were starting to demand BDCs. I said I would run the BDC if they gave me the pay and let me help in hiring. I eventually ended up at a different dealership, different department and had to deal with the othe department managers, service and parts and they were awesome and helpfu. I did the same thing at that job. Kept my files I created to help me do payroll and things separate. Things went crazy when I got fired. I knew it was coming. Hilarious when they start trying to contact you for help😂
WindySwede 1 year ago
Now I wanna hear "Wipe it" by Devo. When a problem comes along (You must wipe it)..
leendadll 1 year ago
Even if that's an intentional error, it's killing me.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
Depends. Whose computer was he using? What does it say in his contract?
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Jorge Gonzalez 1 year ago
You would be surprised. Unless you work at a place with a super paranoid IT dept, usually only critical systems are backed up
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Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
Won't work today. At least in our corporate world, all is synchronized with the cloud.
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#2
I got laid off in 2009 and couldn't find work for almost 2 years. Found a job in the industry I loved (motorcycles) and they took advantage of my obvious desperation. Came in as an operations coordinator at $11/hr after 4 yrs working as a business analyst, directly under a VP at Citrix.
Worked my a*s off and, within 6 mo, was doing the job of an operations manager/analyst. I developed/supported the backbone of nearly every department's analytics. My manager didn't like me b/c she saw me as a threat to her job. Her boss's boss, the COO, knew the value I offered for practically nothing. So, being the good executive leader she was, blocked every attempt at promotions or department transfer opportunity that came my way - IT, marketing, and HR all made attempts to create jobs for me after seeing the quality/value of my work in projects I did for them.
After 18 months, and threats to quit, I was up to $40k/yr. Less than half of what the HR team's market analysis calculated my pay should be based on our location and my role, scope, and responsibilities. (I know about it because the HR director *showed it to me* after I'd started working with them extensively on their departmental analytics and had developed a very close relationship. She then mentioned that the COO told her, "So what? He makes what he makes" after HR informed the COO I was making a fraction of my fair market value) By this point, my self confidence had started to reestablish itself and my resentment of my department, boss, and COO had festered into a roiling fire.
Then I did a favor for the warehouse manager. I built an Excel/Access time and attendance tool since the one we'd been using didn't work well for warehouse staff. It was super accurate, handle OT and respected the big labor laws around lunch requirements. In vetting the accuracy I found that the company was applying CA law to stores in every state. I saved the company $75k/year when I called it out. In an attempt to get to my HR-established market rate, I asked for a bonus/pay increase for having saved them 2x my salary... per year. Their reply, "Saving the company money is part of your job. If you ask for a raise again you'll be written up and possibly fired"
I'd had enough. I found another, much better job at a niche distributor in the industry and, on my way out, contacted the DOL and informed them (with receipts) of:
* Severe wage theft by the company.
* Employer intimidation and retaliation against whistle blowing
* Wage/job discrimination against several employees and myself
The company was forced to pay ~$2million in back pay and $3million in fines.
Morally, nothing wrong with what I did above... the morally questionable part is meticulously breaking all automation I'd created 3.5months before I left. ALL of the (now business critical) reporting I'd built was hard-coded. No formulas. When they asked me to train someone to take over, I said no problem... trained him to do it manually, which took 20-30hrs/week vs 1-2.
A few months later the HR director let me know my job was posted again. At $95-110k/year. I notified the DOL and shared all the documents of my responsibility/market adjustment requests, the HR job analysis, and an email comment from the COO that she didn't feel I was worth market rate since I have only 1-arm. I never saw a cent but the company was, again, fined substantially and the COO was immediately fired.
F**k you, Tracy.
Kari Panda 1 year ago
"since I have only 1 arm" Wow, that part alone makes my blood boil. We as a society should long be past discrimination like that.
#3
I deleted the files to a project I had spent the last year working on when I found out that I was going to get let go at the end of the project. Basically, they had hired me to do this project and planned to fire me when they no longer needed me (not that I was actually told this at the time of my hiring).
Soo yeah. When I got word from other office staff that I was to be let go, I took my company laptop home, and I wiped everything. When they fired me the next day, little did they know, all of that work was gone. They had just the bare bones of the project and had to have someone else completely rebuild it in autocad.
F**k em.
Pablo Ramos 1 year ago
Theft. Pure and simple. If I get hired to paint a wall and they pay me, I must leave them a painted wall.
Moral behavior is something that is accepted to be right in the society you live in. So, somebody who’s said to possess a good moral compass knows the difference between right and wrong and strives to do good things. What you decide to do when presented with a dilemma will reveal tomes about your character, values, and motivations.
Of course, as we’ve probably all experienced, life isn’t as simple as what you can see in movies or read in books. Telling good from evil can be very hard when there are so many complex motivations working against each other. To oversimplify things, you have to weigh what’s good for you personally versus what’s best for your social circle versus what society finds useful versus what the world needs.
#4
I don't have a problem admitting it in real life because the statute of limitations has long-since expired, but..
My boss at a PC repair shop emptied the payroll account to buy himself a brand new BMW, so all of his employees quit. But I decided that if he wasn't willing to pay me in money he damned sure was going to pay me in inventory, so I walked out with enough parts to build me a new PC (somewhat more than my paycheck would've been, but PC parts don't pay the rent so I charged a 'conversion fee'.).
kissmychakram 1 year ago
Could be linux. You seem determined to be ornery in this thread, are you feeling ok?
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I told my grandmother that I needed $300 for an abortion, but in reality, I wanted it for h*roin. She gave it to me, and never said another word about it. That was 20 years ago. I've been clean for two years now, and I think about that lie every single day. I'll never forgive myself.
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
But if her giving you that money led to the guilt that helped you kick the habit, I’m fairly sure that in the long run she’d have been happy she gave it to you. Amazing job getting clean, I’m sure she’d be very proud ❤️
DC 1 year ago (edited)
Don't be too hard on you here - that role already is fulfilled, there's always some sober-supremacist around to make you feel worse. You don't even have to ask, they'll come on their own and blabber down their always identical preachrant. Don't even listen, cut them out entirely, they're only there to put you down, as nothing else - their sobriety as greatest and only achievement aside - can make them feel less of a turd than they are. I know there's more to it, and it wasn't right to lie to your Grandma, but it doesn't sound like you were in a position of ability to not do so. People who never experienced opioide withdrawal just need to shut up, I know they need this judgement, but they will never need it for you, and you will never need it to get yourself together - with or without addiction (there's a lot between a full-blown junkie and a flawless sobrietist, and the polar positions aren't for everybody, let alone always). Be proud of having beat that opponent, it's a tough one, and be assured - YOU are worth it. It is YOUR achievement, not that of people thriving in kicking those who lie on the ground already. They won't help you in times you're better, because you don't need it, and needing help, it's not them who will ever offer it to you. Even if they do, be cautious, it's more than likely that it's aimed at making them feel better, not at making anything better really.
stephen charles wright 1 year ago
The depth of the lie does not matter, you did what you did because you needed d***s, you being clean now is more important then whatever the lie was, forgive yourself, move on, good luck from London.
fly on the wall 1 year ago
Jeez I can't understand the negative Nancy's on here. As a parent ( nay even just fellow human being) I would be so proud of you. You pulled back from the abyss! Far to many are not successful. CONGRATULTIONS
Hannah Simpson 1 year ago
Congrats on getting clean. That’s your truth, but beating yourself up isn’t going to help the world. Try and forgive yourself, and commit to putting that saved energy into something positive for the future 💖
Brandie Litchfield 1 year ago
Addicts in recovery are the strongest, smartest people I've ever known. Addiction is a horrible disease that is trying to kill you. At the height of addiction, when someone is at rock bottom, they literally have brain damage from the d***s, affecting their impulse control and ability to maintain relationships. The fact that you are in a healthy enough place to feel that guilt now, is proof of how hard you've worked. Congratulations. One day at a time.
#6
When I was around 8-10, I was riding my bike with friends. We stopped at an apartment building (4-5 floors) to wait for one of our friends.
My friends started talking about a girl, about how much they dislike her. I had no idea who they were talking about, but didn’t want to be “left out” so I joined, and started saying mean things, like how stinky she was, and how ugly, and I think I even called her a pig, or something like that.
I was saying all that very loud (basically shouting), to make sure I’m louder than everyone else, so my friends would hear me and laugh (and they did…).
Well, it turned out we were waiting for my friend under that girl’s window, like exactly under it. The window was on the second floor, but it was hot outside so it was open.
Needless to say, the girl heard everything… her mom had to come down and send us away because she was crying so hard.
I wish I could go back and beat my stupid 8-year-old self.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Right? we all do dumb stuff, heck I still do. LEARN from your mistakes. Hopefully OP is a kinder person now :)
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You could apply that framework of your versus others' needs to every single small decision that you make, but you’d probably end up overwhelmed and burned out. So, it helps to have general moral guidelines and frameworks to follow. These can be religious, cultural, legal, ideological, etc., with their own nuances, dogmas, and inconsistencies. One of the deepest literary ironies is that antagonists in stories strive to do good, as they understand it. However, their perception and vision clashes with that of the society around them.
Someone who is said to be immoral also knows the difference between right and wrong, as per Writer’s Digest. However, unlike a moral individual, the immoral person will choose to do the wrong thing, regardless. In short, they’re aware that their behavior goes against cultural norms and the understanding of what’s good. For example, someone who knows that lying is wrong but decides to lie anyway to improve their situation is acting immorally.
#7
Was let go from my first job for making my boss look bad for finishing daily tasks too quickly, and being open about the division not being efficient. He made an example of me so others would back off. So when the company asked me to come in for an exit interview, I told them I had nothing to say but to follow my boss outside at lunch to the parking lot if you fancy an interesting view.
He was arrested for possession and distribution of c*caine, got a year in jail and life pretty much ruined. I bumped into him about 3 months after he was released while walking around a mall, and he told me I ruined his life, which I then came back and said "you had me fired for trying to make the company better, cheers."
Felt bad he got the year in jail, and looked like hell, but....
Sand Ers 1 year ago (edited)
(Line shamelessly stolen from the reddit thread). Fųck around limit exceeded, commence find out protocol.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Nope, he did that to himself. If you need to distribute, you never s**t on your work or home doorstep.
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
I’d argue the boss ruined his own life. OP may even have saved them from even worse addiction, although knowing how ‘difficult’ it is to get d***s in prison, that’s probably a bit naive of me.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
I doubt they can afford coke in prison - imagine how much that would cost!!!
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Debra Robinson 1 year ago
I would have no regrets except that he didn't get way more time and other bad luck in many forms.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
That dildo ruined his own life. OP didn't plant that cocaine in him.
#8
Sent an unsolicited d**k pic once. Never did before in my life and haven't since. I was at a very low point and hate myself for doing it. I apologized profusely and got lucky she was cool about it, we're actually good friends now, but i still regret it.
Just don't do it guys.
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
I’m actually proud of the guy for having the awareness he has - plenty of men never got that far 🫤
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
I don't understand what makes someone *ever* think it's a good idea! 99% of the time, the absolute best outcome is they don't go to the police.
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Wang Zhuang 1 year ago
Dock pics? Oh yeah, I've seen some nice docks in my day, Almost as nice as the ships that are docked at them.
Linda Riebel 1 year ago
I totally don't understand why anyone would want to see one of those. Much less SEND one. What's the point?
Heather Menard 1 year ago
When you do she will send it to everyone she knows and they will all be laughing at your little w***y
RajunCajun 1 year ago
any time I get asked for a nude, I just send my legs below the knee wile in the bath tub. Picks are on the internet forever, just not worth the risk.
whaaaaaaaaaa 1 year ago
Still can't be used against you. It's better to refuse and even block the person if necessary
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LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago (edited)
Here's my advice guys: just don't do it. I don't know why you think this'll get you anywhere, but unless you're on a chat with a group that caters to this, it doesn't work and it can have consequences. A friend of mine from work is learning this the hard way.
AKA AKA 1 year ago
oh my god why do you keep posting such negative comments
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My ex husband was a serial cheater. I stayed faithful for so long, tried marriage counseling multiple times, did anything and everything to please him. The last time I caught him cheating something snapped. I felt nothing for him except pure hate. So I decided to start cheating as well. Only, I didn’t chose randoms. Over the course of a year I slept with every single one of his close friends.
I thought about telling him when we finally ended things. The look on his face would have given me so much satisfaction. However I kept it to myself. Now seeing him still hanging out with the very men who were so willing to sleep with his wife is all the satisfaction I need.
Regina Holt 1 year ago
Yes, Charles, I would have loved to see his face when you told him.
Load More Replies... El Dee 1 year ago
The best revenge is to live well. Sinking to their level simply pulls you down. Rise above it..
Meanwhile, an amoral individual is someone who operates outside the confines of morality. They do not understand the difference between what’s right and what’s wrong, and they don’t care about these concepts at all.
The easiest comparison to make would be to say that robots or natural disasters are amoral. The former do what they’re programmed to do. The latter are simply part of the natural world.
#10
When I was in my early teens, my brother and I were shooting airsoft guns in our backyard. We saw a lizard start crawling up the side of the house and he bet me that I couldn't hit it. Brotherly rivalry blinded me and I went for it.
I was able to hit it first try (figured I'd miss since it was about 20 meters away), killed it instantly. I walked up to it and felt instant regret...18 years later I still feel remorse killing that lizard.
Sorry lizard...I'm torturing myself emotionally in repentance 18 years later...
Sand Ers 1 year ago
There’s a bunch more in the thread over there. I have one of my own. I was carrying a BB gun, but all I ever shot with it were cans, and 1-inch green plastic army men. I saw a bird land in a bush that had to be at least 30 feet away. I didn’t even aim - just raised the gun at waist level, and fired into the bush intending to disturb the leaves and make it fly out. Somehow I hit it right in the head. The only good part is that it broke its neck and killed it instantly. That was somewhere around 1976. I still feel it.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
A neighbor of mine blinded a girl in one eye with a bb gun. He was a nice kid and he didn't do it intentionally, but it really messed up his life. And hers of course. :(
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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
It wasn't the right thing to do, but at least OP felt remorse afterwards. It's different when they enjoy it and keep doing it. Those turn into psychopaths pretty quickly!
DC 1 year ago
They don't turn into psychopaths, they already are. It just is visible the first time then, often. Generally, if killing something makes you happy, something's wrong with you.
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Dragon mama 1 year ago
This is why cruelty to animals is such a good indicator of future cruelty to people.
DC 1 year ago (edited)
I get the regret and stuff, but ... how is it that it seems to surprise so many people? Few days ago, I watched some ancient cartoons, little Audrey was among them, who seemed to have killed a bird by shooting at it when "having fun with her gun". So sad, she was. Surprised? She was. Stupid, she was, too. Anyway, I still wonder what people who aim and shoot at animals expect to happen upon hitting them. The lizard's gonna climb by and say "Hey, bull's eye, man, congrats!", or what? There's a reason children aren't allowed to own or operate firearms in every society that tries to be somewhat civilized. Not everybody needs to actually kill something to understand the implications of killing.
Linda Riebel 1 year ago
You and Sand Ers (below) could soothe your guilt by DONATING and/or VOLUNTEERING for animal causes. Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Harmony Fund, Hope for Paws, etc. I'm glad you realized you did wrong long ago -- and you can MAKE UP FOR IT NOW! Good luck.
#11
In my early twenties, our apartment got burglarized. Most of what they took wasn't very valuable, but I had two silver pocket watches I inherited from my grandpa, that probably would have fetched $3000 combined.
The problem was that my renters insurance policy limited jewelry losses to $1000.
Conveniently, my roommate had lost a really expensive 35mm camera and his insurance policy only covered $1000 for it. He also worked at a computer store.
So I gave him documentation on one of the pocket watches, and he gave me a backdated fake receipt for a computer.
We were both able to adjust our claims and get extra money out of our insurance companies to help with our losses.
Thank god we used different insurance companies at the time!
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
Well, since insurance companies go out of their way to screw people in general, I’d say a one-time screwing back isn’t so bad.
ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago
Unfortunately it isn't a crime when they screw us but it is when we screw them.
Load More Replies... KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Having read about a case in the States, I tell people visiting the UK who come to our doctors' practice that it is legal to claim from both travel and health insurance. Lightbulb moment for many of them.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
I'd go Neptune personally, having seen health insurance try to deny a guy an ophthalmology visit for glaucoma based on conjunctivitis nearly 10 years before.
Load More Replies... Tommy DePaul 1 year ago
It should be a civil right to screw an insurance company. You paid the premiums.
#12
I had a d**g addict uncle who kept getting let out of jail. He was trying to rob granny's house. I told him I had a one-time job that was six hours away. I drove six hours away stopped at gas station and gave him fifty bucks to go get snacks. Then I drove off and left him.
Falafal salad 1 year ago
Um, he’s an adult human, not a dog. Pretty sure he could find a way to get back.
Richard Campbell 1 year ago
dogs find their way home from great distances pretty regularly. That's a poor comparison.
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Mad McQueen 1 year ago
That's the best. Had a group friend that would steal from everyone and blame someone else. We set a trap. Knew it was him. Took a long trip upstate to a backwoods gas station an sent him in with enough for a pack of smokes an pretended we were going to the bathroom around the side. He got out we all walked around the car as he goes inside and get back in an drive off. Late 1980s And no cells. So he prob had to call his folks to come to bumfuck to find an get him. Also the place was closing in ten min. So good luck outside in the woods douche. No one talked to him or took his calls after that. An we made sure everyone knew he was a thief. Like smokes. Tapes. Clothes. Money. Whatever was laying around he would pocket a pretend later it was his if caught. Or say the other person must have taken it.
DC 1 year ago (edited)
I still don't understand in what way "trying to rob Granny's house" is meant, and how leaving that uncle elsewhere might have helped. Let's do a quick assessment of what this possibly is meant to attempt to try to mean - uncle wanted to have the house transfered to being his property. People do such, and it sucks, but how this could be prevented by the means taken, I don't get. Does anyone know? Ok, next possibiity - he was trying to steal stuff FROM the house, not the house itself. "Robbing a house", pretty often, refers to such, to burglary or so. Then, this would prevent him from doing so for about two days, unless within these the locks are changed, or Grandma's naivism is cured, or the shady lawyer helping therewith is exposed for what they are, this only shifts it forth a few days. Robbing a house, also, isn't possibly the actually right word for it, as robbery is usually understood as non-secretive stealing from people who are threatened to make them hand over whatever is robbed off of them. Still, this needs more to being prevented from happening than just Uncle AH being off for a day, or a week. Having him off may be necessary to ACTUALLY do something about it, but isn't anything of a cure itself, but just offers the opportunity to not be interfered by said uncle. Anyway, it doesn't really add up. And, we're overlooking something still - OP might be even shadier than the uncle, or the intentions of that uncle weren't as OP said they were, but they mistook something, or are lucky and happy to, finally, have found a way to get rid of that uncle regarding inheriting Granny's house - after all, he's an addict, and it doesn't really need more to declare moral superiority, or general, supremacy of the sober. It seems easy to, unquestionedly, paint every person who has an addiction - "The Addict" isn't really what any person should be adressed by, as an entire person doesn't consists of that and nothing else - as morally bankrupt, and often (maybe not here, I don't know more than that paragraph atop), people don't even demand anything more, but easily and even welcoming thereof accept this assumption as almost an equivalent to laws of nature. "AdDiCt BaD1111". But, the story either is incomplete, or made up entirely. Doesn't add up, and ... frankly, OP, if you actively decide to share this story, but leave out how your attempt to prevent what your uncle is accused of from happening is supposed to work, it isn't exactly trust-inducing.
Logan Thorpe 1 year ago
it wasnt a legal job. come on fella, use your critical thinking skills
Load More Replies... BrownEyedPanda 1 year ago
Here's the rest of the story: "He hiked back two years later and never said a word to us and never came back."
Load More Replies... If you feel like you’d like to be a bit vulnerable, dear Pandas, feel free to share in the comments the most morally dubious things you’ve ever done.
What are some of the biggest moral dilemmas that you’ve personally found yourselves in? Why did you decide to do what you did? Have you ever had to atone for something that you deeply regretted? We’d like to hear about what you’ve been through.
#13
D**gged my step dad when I was 14 with ambien in his drink because my nana told me to. He was a violent man but when I say he slept for 2.5 days I mean it.
BrownEyedPanda 1 year ago
But what if they miscalculated and used too high of a dosage? That sleep could have been permanent, with both OP and Nana doing hard time.
BrownEyedPanda 1 year ago
Here's some additional info: "Now that I’m older I think he like od because he puked all over him self and it was just nasty he actually did pee him self a couple times, he was drinking when I gave it to him (he was always drinking lol)"
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Peeka_Mimi 1 year ago (edited)
Should have put visine in his drink. Not a lot just a little bit.
#14
My friend confided in me that her dad was SAing her. She cried and begged me not to tell anyone. I was scared, sad, and wanted her to trust me with this big secret so I didn't tell anybody. A year later her dad got caught (no idea the circumstances), and he was arrested and sent to prison for a long time. I feel so bad about it. If only I had told somebody, told my parents, told a police officer or SOMETHING, I could've saved her from another year of torture. I can't bring myself to talk to anybody about it. I don't know how to forgive myself for that.
Loudawg76 1 year ago
This person was just a child and shouldn’t blame herself. Kids are not equipped to deal with such issues. Poor kid
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
Agreed, this doesn’t belong on this list. The only wrongdoer here was the dad.
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Ever 1 year ago
I was in the same situation, she begged me to keep quiet and I did. Years later I told her how bad I felt for not helping her and telling an adult. She said that having someone who listened and believed her was all she needed from me. We were kids, she did not expect me to solve her problems. I've heard it from other people too, kids turn to kids to have someone that listens (when adults don't), but they don't expect kids to "fix it".
cerinamroth 1 year ago
Someone told me this once, too, also when I was just a kid. I was younger than her and didn't really even know what she was getting at. I was also confused by her sudden earnestness after we had been chatting normally just before. I wish I could go back to that conversation, really listen to her, comfort her and do something about it. The awful thing is, I think I know who abused her too.
Wang Zhuang 1 year ago
Man, I would have hated being in OP's position, because I probably would have kept quiet about it, too, if I was a kid.
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 year ago
Its hard, i did tge same thing but about a suicide attempt from my friend. Thank god they were ok
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
Just curious how most of you have come to the conclusion that OP was a child when her friend told her this? I have reread it a few times now and I can't find anything that points to them being a kid or a child. Either way no matter the age, it's a really difficult situation to be in because you don't want to lose the trust of your friend but you also don't want see them hurting. I hope the OP is able to find a way to forgive herself because she absolutely wasn't at fault.
#15
I was a math tutor in college that got paid minimum wage working out of their math lab. Students would come in for help on their homework. This elderly woman taking an entry-level math course would come in often for help and she seemed like a nice enough lady. But she was falling extremely behind on her homework and the semester was almost over. So she asked me if I would do it all for her for a couple hundred bucks. That kinda money back then was huge for me, so I took her up on her offer.
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 year ago
I think the college paying minimum wage were the ones with moral questions to answer.
Charles McChristy 1 year ago
I've done something similar. They paid me for "B" work, and got a "B" in the class.
Joanne Hudson 1 year ago
What would you do for a Klondike bar? That's not who you are, its the Klondike bar.
#16
Was working in a warehouse as an order filler. Was all the way in the back of a freezer when I suddenly became very sick to my stomach. I raced as fast as I could to the nearest bathroom but before I could get all my layers of clothing off it was too late. I was a mess. I went to my supervisor and tried to gently convey what was going on. His words were “just clean up and get back to work”. He said this multiple times as I tried to explain why that wasn’t an option. Was told I would receive points for leaving. I got so pissed off at the situation that I took all my soiled clothing, locked it in my locker with a personal lock and never went back.
To who ever had to clean that mess, I’m sorry. You didn’t deserve that. And to my old supervisor, you suck.
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 year ago
Shame you didn't manage to stuff them somewhere in your managers office.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Might have taken them off in their office and said "you still want to write me up?"
#17
When I was in high school, I dated a boy who was horribly abusive, and ended up cheating on me with my best friend the night before my senior prom. Also found out he had been cheating on me pretty much the whole time via the “meet me” app. I obviously dumped him. A few months later I found out he was already dating another girl, so I created an account on meet me, and proceeded to pretend to be someone else for multiple months, get him to virtually cheat on his girlfriend at the time, and send her all of the evidence using a fake social media account. Sorry girl:/ he would’ve done it anyway:/.
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 year ago
Nothing morally dubious here - you were helping to enlighten his next girlfriend.
Nikki Gross 1 year ago
I don't know why Elchinero was downvoted, because if he was cheating on her then she and the current girl needed to be checked for STDs. You have no idea who he was sleeping with or if he used a condom, so yes I would be visiting my Doctor ASAP.
#18
I used to work for a network of hospitals on the financial side. Due to some internal screwup, a lot of calls ended up getting forwarded to me that shouldn't have. Things from patients calling to schedule appointments to important legal issues. For months I continually raised the issue of my personal cell phone getting forwarded a lot of important calls. The issue was never resolved.
Anyways a few months after the call forwarding thing started, the company decided to terminate my employment. We had a difference of opinion, I didn't like working 6 days a week and the company thought I should be working 7. However the calls never stopped getting forwarded to my phone.
Due to the unhappy breakup, I started just blocking all the calls getting forwarded to me and I never bothered to respond to a single voicemail or call I received. Additionally I got some pretty important legal calls that if not responded to in a timely matter would cost the company significantly. I never forwarded on or explained anything to anyone and I deleted the voicemails and moved on.
I know eventually stuff probably got figured out, but they had months to figure out their call issues and never did. Hopefully them facing legal blowback got them to fix things.
Alexandra 1 year ago
No employer can tell you to work 6 days a week where I live: it's simply illegal. This really takes the term 'wage slave' to a whole different level.
Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
I see nothing wrong here. Others failures are not your responsibility.
Spocks's Mom 1 year ago
Ummm... that's such a huge HIPPA violation. If this was in the US, I would have gotten them in soooo much trouble.
Dallas McDaniel 1 year ago
Me trying to figure out why anyone other than your direct supervisor or HR would have/need your personal cell number for that to even happen.
#19
Mother in law is horrible. She’s also super paranoid about people “getting her information” like her email and phone number. She thinks they can steal her identity super easily with those two things. She pissed me off yesterday so I signed her email up for Trump's website and his newsletter and to get information on Scientology and a few conspiracy sites she panicked when she got the emails, thinking they were trying to “get” her. I just shrugged and said well places can sell your information, nothing to be done but she’s been freaking out and I find it hilarious.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Lol, signed my Jewish ex-prick of a boss up to Scientology because apparently they won't unsubscribe you.
Heffalump 1 year ago
Given that she's horrible (I'll take OP's word), I'm fine with this, but people should be aware that MIL isn't wrong. With email and phone numbers people can, and do, in fact, steal your identity. She's not paranoid.
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
There used to be ads in the back of things like Weekly World News where you could pay $5.99 to get your name on over 5,000 mailing lists. I sent the address of a friend who was in a court-mandated six month rehab facility and she loved it. It was a break from the tedium that entertained the whole place and when she finished she told them to not forward her mail, to just open it. She guessed it was my doing, of course.
#20
About 15 years ago I remodeled my kitchen. Got all new Samsung appliances. At the time Samsung had a promotion that gave you a free flatscreen TV with new appliances. Filled out the offer and was sent a coupon code and went to the samsung website to get my TV.
Added the TV to the cart, and noticed when I applied the coupon code. It changed the unit price of the TV to $0.00 instead of adding the $300 credit to the order.
Honestly I didn't even really need the first TV, but I had to know did they really screw up that coupon that bad? So edited the cart to add a few more TV's and checked out. The answer was yes they really did implement the coupon that bad.
DC 1 year ago
They messed it up, customers taking advantage of multi-billion-dollar corps making mistakes of that kind is not wrong at all, but one, while insufficient, means to correct wealth distribution.
Papa 1 year ago
Some people can rationalize anything if they try hard enough.
Load More Replies... Heffalump 1 year ago
I feel torn on this one. While an individual punishing a corporation in this way is _deeply_ emotionally satisfying, I'm not sure that taking advantage of their error like this is actually OK. OP knew the offer was for only one TV, and they were taking more than the offer entitled them to. This isn't actually much better than justifying shoplifting by saying the store should have had better security.
Aelin Wildfire 1 year ago
Most major chain stores mark up their merchandise way beyond what they pay for it, AND they're insured for thefts.
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I worked for a charity with an a*****e manager who was both too immature and too inexperienced to actually run things as they should be. When things didn't go his way he'd get passive aggressive, act like a child and blame everyone else for not reading his mind.
There are many times I could have snapped, like him sending me a voice note complaining about things that aren't my job and got my husband so riled up he wanted to break the guys legs for example.
But what really did it was when I stopped doing work that wasn't my responsibility or under the umbrella of my position and he threw my a*s under the bus because he got torn a new one by his boss because the work wasn't done.
Not only did I write a *very* lengthy email detailing every infraction, blatant disregard for the rules and times he broke the law.
I signed his a*s up for not only Scientology but a JW group. With his personal email because his dumb a*s left it signed into a work computer and the devil in me knew I'd need it some day.
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago (edited)
Firstly, this whole page is about morally dubious things people know they’ve done, and secondly, OP’s boss is hardly a blameless victim…? Also, did you mean ‘anyone’ rather than ‘everyone’?
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When I was about 11 or 12 my parents let me have a slingshot (I’m pretty sure they gave it to me but it’s been 25 years so maybe not). I used to live by the woods and we had all sorts of animals in the yard. One time I wanted to see what it would really do if it hit one. I took a rock, and I shot it from maybe 7-8 feet away a bird sitting in its nest in a tree. I hit it square in the head. It fell out of the nest and hit the ground dead. Same as the story above, I felt immediate remorse, beyond that, when I looked into the nest there were three eggs. Not knowing what to do, and in fear that my parents would punish me severely, I never told anyone. I went back to the nest each day to check the eggs, they never hatched. I thought the remorse I felt from killing the mother was bad. It wasn’t until I was a little more removed from the event that I started to feel the real shame of not owning up to what I had done and maybe saved the babies somehow.
I still think about it 25 or so years later. Now I value all life, I won’t let my spouse kill spiders, and I always try and speak up for the defenseless. I also own my actions and try to always be accountable for their impacts. It was a tough life lesson but I am proud of the person it made me into.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
This is literally a plot of "The Simpsons" episode, except that Bart managed to hatch the eggs.
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
I was waiting for the part where it was an invasive species of lizard.
Load More Replies... Nikki Gross 1 year ago
I think that when you experience a MAJOR death when you're young it has a large effect on how you regard other living things. Whether it's human or animal, you learn about the permanence about death and how it effects the people around you.
Nikole 1 year ago
Our family dog, Kayak (malamute), died when I was 8. I’d grown up with him. Previous to that I’d been to my great grandfather’s funeral, but Kayak hit me like a ton of bricks. And I knew my parents had him put to sleep, because even at that age I realized it was too much of a coincidence that he had to stay at the vet overnight and just happened to die (he was 15). Oh Kayak. My mom says he acted like I was *his* offspring.
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Third grade in the 80’s the teacher found a playboy centerfold a few of us had been passing around. We all blamed a kid that never saw it. He got paddled 7 times in the hallway outside. Screaming and begging like he was being m*rdered. Half the school could hear. Wherever you are Stephen, I’m sorry.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
That poor kid. This reminded me of back when I was in kindergarten or first grade and I brought one of my Dad's Playboy magazines to school with me. It never actually made it to school though, because I was showing it to other kids on the bus, who were very interested. I even showed them the awesome poster/centerfold that was in the middle of the magazine, which ended up getting ripped out. The bus driver pulled over on one of the neighborhood roads to investigate all the chaos around me. I of course tried to hide it but he ended up confiscating the Playboy. I didn't get in trouble with the school but when we got to my bus stop on the way home, my stomach was in knots because I knew I was going to be in trouble. The bus driver was very nice about it all and he returned the torn up magazine and told my mom that I had snuck it in my backpack. I don't remember my punishment but I do remember having backpack checks every morning after this incident, for the rest of the school year.
Michaelann Dahlman 1 year ago
Where in the heck was spanking students still legal in the 80s?! It was made illegal in 1972 in BC Canada. And I know that most laws, we were behind many other provinces.
Svenne O'Lotta 1 year ago
You're an enormous gaping asshóle. Just straight up a prick. Look it up anywhere.
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I installed Windows 11 on someone's computer.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN!!! I got blamed for someone f*****g up their own PC when they installed W7 - turns out they had so much spyware on it, Windows couldn't deal and failed the install (at best guess). That said, she also blamed me for conspiracy after she got taken to employment tribunal for firing her pregnant PA instead of paying maternity leave. And for a grand finale, she also hired her "lovely manicurist" as PA - this girl couldn't even spell the name of the street we worked on correctly. Wild times.
Woundwort42 1 year ago
Windows 10 updates stop next October. It's worth getting the free upgrade if you can in case you need it later, then switch to Mint. I can't get the upgrade because my PCs are to old, so I'll be switching to (probably) Mint next year
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Windows forced updates killed off two laptops because I no longer had the option to not "upgrade" and eventually the software became incompatible with the hardware... 🙄
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#25
I wrote somebody’s masters thesis for money once. Some poor employer hired that guy who knows very little about anything. I wouldn’t do something like that again, but at that time in my life I felt like I needed the cash.
Noe 1 year ago
Wait, but you have to defend your thesis right? Or you just write it in the US?
Chris Keller 1 year ago
I did that for someone when I was in junior high school, she complained that she only got a C, I said I'm only 13 (14?, it was over 50 years ago), what do you expect? Not a thesis, but I guess you'd call it a term psper, maybe?
#26
Had a 6 month affair with a married woman. We all lived in the same house. Their marriage was done, and she found being with me helpful in getting out of it, but still...pretty f*****g questionable and I'd make different choices 10 years on.
Emily 1 year ago
I know of someone where something similar happened. Her partner was a serial cheater and very emotionally abusive and manipulative. She was absolutely miserable and broken. Eventually, she fell into her own affair and because of that person, she was finally able to realize she deserved happiness and health in like and a relationship. Sometimes it takes someone showing us the other side before we find the strength to leave for better. It's not right to cheat, but it can fall into a rather gray area from time to time.
René Sauer 1 year ago
what´s so questionable about it if their marriage was basically finished?
DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago
This on is confusing... did you live with them as a couple? Like a third person and had the affair. At least I assume so.
#27
I had a professor in college that I despised. He despised me as well. He was a hateful angry old codger. I was a dumb*ss college kid.
One night my friend and I dressed up in all black (because that’s not suspicious) and snuck up to his vehicle, putting little bbs in each one of his tires’ intake valves and recapping them. The next morning, sure enough, he had four flat tires. Thank goodness this was in 2004 or so. Otherwise, some doorbell camera would have definitely caught our tomfoolery.
Nikki Gross 1 year ago (edited)
When I was 15 and my Bestie was 16 (my ride or die as previously mentioned) decided to take revenge on my Sister's Ex-Boyfriend. The Douchebag was violent and abused my Sister, stalked her after she left him and cheated on her with a piece of absolute trash. That's not me being mean because of my Sister. Now, my Bestie had a TON of issues at home so she lived at our house a lot growing up. Basically, Bestie is part of the family and was equally pissed at our Sister's treatment. We found out where trash lived, so one night we decided to enact our revenge. After going to TD's house and discovering he wasn't there we drove to the B***h's house and parked down the street. Since this was in a nasty side of the city street lights weren't a thing to worry about (they kept getting shot out, so the city gave up on replacing them) and there were plenty of cars to hide behind, we weren't to worried about getting caught. On with the revenge!
Nikki Gross 1 year ago
Growing up around cars I know that there are certain things that you do NOT want to get into your gas tank. We mixed a 3 liter bottle full of water, dirt and sand. That will clog your fuel lines, fuel pump, carburetor, rusting, etc especially on older model cars. TD had a 1970 Chevy Nova that was his pride and joy and loved that thing like it was his baby and since it was older that was before locking gas caps were really popular. Guess what we did? All 3 liters went straight into that gas tank. It takes awhile for that mixture to make it through the lines so the engine won't immediately lock up. A few weeks later we hear through the rumor mill that his car was completely f****d up and TD had actually cried. The great part is that the Trash girlfriend had a lot of pissed off Ex-Boyfriends so they were suspected and blamed. No one ever knew what we did that night and the ONLY regret I have is screwing up a beautiful car.
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ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago
Small metal balls (0.177"/4.4958mm) like ball bearings used in spring or air guns
Load More Replies... Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
This is better than slashing the tires outright.... assuming you can get the bbs out of the valves, all you have to do it reinflate the tires. So this is minor. Annoying, but not too destructive.
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
You seem oddly hung up on fairly irrelevant details on this page - is there any particular reason?
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My brother owed me $200 that i lent him when i was 16 years old. I busted my a*s helping a friend of my dad's lay tile for half my summer vacation.
As soon as i got paid, my brother hit me up for money.
Fast forward several months, still hadnt been paid back. I snagged $20 from his wallet to buy pizza for my friend and I.
Never saw that $200, never saw back most of the money i lent him, finally learned my lesson last year and went no contact, am 35 now.
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
If that’s the most morally questionable thing you’ve ever done I wouldn’t worry too much about the afterlife 😁
Blue Flower 1 year ago
I know, right?!? 😲I would have thought he learned a little faster!!!
Load More Replies... Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
OP was just taking back some of the hard earned money owed to him from his deadbeat brother. Even if it was in a sneaky way, I think it's fairly justified.
#29
This probably isn’t technically the worst I’ve done but I stole some of my stepmother’s son’s stuff after he died from cancer and pawned it so I could get high. I’ve been sober for 5 years now and I still don’t feel too good about that.
Margaret Shannon 1 year ago
That’s sad. But you’re sober now! Perhaps the lingering guilt can help you stay sober? You can clean up your conscience by living a better life, staying healthy and doing good deeds.
#30
I put an old boss's number on public bathroom stalls.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
I've been temped to do this with the ex hubby. But his current wifey doesn't deserve that...
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
My mate was a [supplier] and when we intervened and cut his gf off when she was so far into ket addiction, she ratted him out to the cops instead of going to rehab like requested and would have been paid for. Her photo and number appeared in a lot of phone boxes in London.
Natalia 1 year ago
He was breaking the law, why shouldn't she report him? That doesn't fit with these stories
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I got a superiour fired at a job once because he refused to train me (because he held key knowledge and didn't want anyone to threaten his position).
He was a creeper and all I had to do was spin a tale about how much it upset me and he was gone.
I didn't make anything up, but I definitely played up how much it affected me.
Regina Holt 1 year ago
Well, I hope you also told about him refusing to train you. Plus, if all it took was for you to tell them about the creeper to get him fired, you were probably not the first person to say that.
#32
Me and this girl spent a lot of time together while both of us were homeless. We were pretty destitute but we were getting by. I'd stay at a friends house, she'd do the same, and then during the day we'd hang out, apply for jobs, do our college homework. One day we stayed late on the beach and passed out at some point. When we awoke it was 1:00AM and we were completely alone. We made our way up to the concessions area in the parking lot from the beach, and my friend on a chance, slid the window open of the concessions building. We were hungry, so both of us climbed through the window to get some drinks and some ice-cream. She opened the freezer and went "DARB!" and pulled out a green deposit bag containing $200 in cash. Needless to say we stole the money, and lots of snacks.
It's something I regret, but the money did get me a haircut, and I got a job not long afterwards.
#33
Blackmailed my former boss after I was let go. He was stealing wages from his workers, myself included, but I never told any of my former co-workers because I hated them all. He paid me all my back pay and overtime he had skimmed on the promise that I wouldn't tell anyone else at the company.
Bewitched One 1 year ago
I think them keeping their word was the moral issue in the story
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When I was a young and new driver, a car in front of me kept swerving to keep me from passing them, when I was finally able to fly past them I threw my drink at them. Unfortunately, their window was open and my drink soared right in. Unfortunately, it was an elderly woman. She didn’t wreck or anything but god damn I have felt bad for that ever since.
FrogMan 1 year ago
That’s why you NEVER give in to road rage. If it wasn’t that old lady, it could’ve been a psycho with a gun.
k1ddkanuck 1 year ago
Uhh... why "psychos with guns" and not simply causing the old lady to crash into another vehicle or anything else? Sorry, I'm Canadian, so someone pulling a gun isn't something that usually happens while driving. I'd be more concerned about causing traffic fatalities by launching a beverage at someone's head. Please excuse me for saying so, but that's kinda what makes me (and maybe other people around the world) kind of weirded out, scared of and unsettled by the good ol' USA. I just can't comprehend *that* being the first concern here. That's wild.
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DC 1 year ago
... swerving to not allow to pass seems like asking for unkindness. Can be dangerous AF. I'd HOPE for them to have an open window, and for me to have a filled-to-the-brim ashtray (actually, an old candies' tin can, disposable if need be), because THAT serves them right. Man, woman, old, young, large, small, fat, thin, muscular, hardly able to move? That's not really the issue of people peacefully trying to take over. Don't provoke if you're unfit to collect the fallout, or have it handed to you.
René Sauer 1 year ago
@ BugABoo (who will probably not see this) OPs bust of road rage aside: If someone is having trouble controlling their car, they have no business driving around.
Wang Zhuang 1 year ago
OP is very lucky their road rage didn't kill someone. Lesson learned, hopefully
#35
Cyberbullied my bullies to the point that one of them had to change school. I was just a 14-year old boy having my sweet revenge.
Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
I was always an eye for an eye person, so... ok. You bully someone and find this acceptable, it is acceptable I bully you.
#36
When I was 10, I sat next to a boy in class who was stinky and unkempt. His clothes were musty, he had a lot of dandruff and almost daily he had a boiled egg sandwich. One day I had a bit of an upset stomach and I let off a fart in class. Silent but deadly. When it hit everyone and they smelt it, they assumed it was this boy and started to move away. I moved away with them and pretended it had been him. He knew it was me and I knew he knew and I never apologised or corrected the record.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
It's a troll. Just ignore them and report the comments.
Load More Replies... Dragon mama 1 year ago
I was that kid at one point, always got blamed for the farts. I was bullied relentlessly in many ways, but that one aspect was particularly traumatizing.
#37
When I was in university – I told a professor that the class WhatsApp chat was making fun of her pictures, because I cared about her and she was my favourite teacher and I didn’t want her to go through that. She ended up telling the Dean of the university, and it turned into a huge investigation – several people were given black points on their university records, some weren’t allowed to change subjects or courses – and some had to drop out. People thought it was this one girl at the university who did that – but I didn’t have the heart to correct people, or redirect them to something/someone else and I watched her get ostracised and completely ignored for the rest of the university term because of my actions.
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago (edited)
All that because people were making fun of pictures? I’m trying to imagine the context, but…anyone have any idea?
k1ddkanuck 1 year ago (edited)
The context is people. Young, cruel people. Some people get off on being mean. It probably wasn't just "making fun". Likely dark, terrible, utterly dehumanizing things. Hence OP's decision to inform the prof. The morally questionable bit lies in OP allowing someone else to get ostracized by the same people instead. When dinosaurs roamed the Earth and I was in high school, before social media, there were chat groups hosted on plain old websites, and if you knew, you knew. A substantial number of kids were part of one that basically existed to just say the darkest, most terrible sh!t about anyone they didn't like. It was led by the "popular" kids who sort of ruled the roost, so anyone who was the subject of their collective ire just didn't know about it. There were inside jokes only people privy to that group would understand. The kids who were being talked about didn't know why the "cool people" said nonsensical weird things and laughed hysterically while they walked through the halls. Everyone laughing did though. R@pe and murder jokes. Brutal.
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Back when I was 14 and in school, I was the altar boy. Teachers’ favorite pupil. Everyone thought I could do nothing wrong. One day, while fooling around with friends, I drew an erotic art and left it under the desk. A teacher found it and escorted me to the principal. Out of fear of them calling my parents (my parents were strict af back then), I lied to the principal that it was my friend to do it. Of course, they believed me since I could do nothing wrong. Poor chap’s parents got called to the school and he received a severe scolding even when he was saying it wasn’t him, but me. Despite the ordeal, we still remained very good friends till we went to college and we lost contact after that. Hey friend, I’m sorry for throwing you under the bus for a mistake I made. I hope you can forgive me.
Regina Holt 1 year ago
You could have just said that it wasn't you, you didn't have to tell them that your friend did it. Just leave it as an anonymous thing.
#39
In college I carried on a 2 year affair with a married woman twice my age. I knew going into it she was married but I kept telling myself “it’s not my marriage” so I didn’t care. I’ve never admitted it out loud though to my social circle because I know they would see me a little differently as I’ve always been seen as the “moral compass” of the group.
LuckyL 1 year ago
The moral compass tends to shift when you're an a situtation yourself instead of just watching someone else. For example "why does she yell at her daughter - being calm would work so much better" - no that I have a daughter - I know why. And I know it's not right, but sometimes I just can't help it. ---- It's ALWAYS really easy to judge a situation from the outside. Even saying things like "I would never" - right until you're suddelny in the position.
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 year ago
I am rhe daughter. It f*****g hurts being the daughter. And its right it doesn't work. I understand but damn i wish people would stop yelling at their *kids* who r still developing and stuff. This isn't a dig at u to be clear. It just hurts having a parent who the 1st thing they do when they get through the door is shout or complain about something... before a hello.
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Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 year ago
I really hate cheaters, but here it was the woman who was cheating. This guy, though not the best behaviour, wasn't cheating as he never made any vows to the woman's husband. This guy is in the moral grey area.
#40
When i was 12 i was involved in a fight with my cousin, he ended up torn cloths and a chip on his teeth, convinced him to blame it on some street kids in the neighbourhood.
#41
I f****d a woman I wasn't even attracted to who my best friend had strong romantic feelings for for no other reason than I was drunk and depressed and thought "maybe a little s*x will give me a morsel of a dopamine hit." It didn't. I woke up the next morning (IN THE SAME HOUSE as my friend was in, the three of us had been hanging out and drinking together late into the night) and I was so drunk that when I woke up in bed with this girl, I thought to myself "Oh s**t I better get out of this bed or he's gonna hate me" but then I'm like "you know what, f**k it?" I went back to sleep and of course my friend woke up next and realized I was in bed with her.
This is a friend who's been with me since I was 6 years old. It was the most pointlessly selfish thing I've ever done in my life. It's the equivalent of stabbing someone to rob them of 2 dollars, I gained basically nothing from it. I still hate myself for it 11 years later. And fun fact: That happened a whole year BEFORE my rock bottom of depression and junkie behavior.
Skogsrået 1 year ago
Yeah, this is a pretty shîtty thing to do to a person you call a friend. Hope he dumped OP:s trashy âss.
Natalia 1 year ago
What's to say she would ever be interested in OP's friend anyway?
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#42
Someone contacted me and offered to pay for my nudes. I just sent him ones I've already posted online for free and got a few hundred bucks.
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago (edited)
What? I mean, I know what a Dear Abby letter is, but…? Are you just having a really bad day?
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One time when I was 10 I saw a stack of Pokémon cards randomly in the towel aisle at target and they were all new it looked like. I saw them and just pocketed them not really thinking much about it. Then when I got home I realized someone probably opened it off the shelf and just threw away the wrapper. Then I thought oh s**t i stole from target I’m gonna go to jail so I immediately threw the cards away. Target never found out.
Aelin Wildfire 1 year ago
If they were already open, then Target would've thrown them away anyway... Not to mention that whoever opened the pack probably took any cards that would've been of any major value.
#44
I had a programming class in high school and I wasn't very good at it and realized part way through the final exam that I couldn't do it. Once you're done your test you were supposed to save to a folder that you could save to but not see what's inside of, but since the file name had a very strict format I was able to open a file from a kid I knew would ace the test, so I opened it, changed the name on it and some other things and submitted it. I never got caught but since I exploited a loophole on the computer I feel like I still sort of earned it.
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
I’d think that any decent teacher would realise it’s highly suspicious that a student who wasn’t very good suddenly aced the test…?
Rinso The Red 1 year ago
I had an easy time in many of my high school classes. I would blatantly allow others to copy of my exams. I'd answer a question and then lean back as if I was thinking of next answer, giving those in my immediate vicinity a chance to see. A topographical map of grades in our class would have a LOT of concentric circles around my desk
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Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 year ago
I'm assuming he changed some thinks so it wasn't identical to the other kids project. When I first read this I thought he meant the other kid would have failed because his submission was no longer there! Seems like a computer programming professor should have more robust protocols for submissions than your average professor.
#45
When I was a kid I had a screened-in back porch I hung out on. Just outside this screen, I had a trampoline. One day, I was sitting on the porch reading and saw that a frog was hanging out in the middle of the trampoline. I then noticed that a little 4 foot snake was working itself up one of the trampoline legs and just as it succeeded in getting to the top, the frog realized the danger and hopped off the trampoline onto the screen mesh in front of me. The snake followed and got close, clearly desperate for a meal. Being the little 8 year old s**t I was, I simply flicked the frogs belly thru the screen and the snake caught the flying frog mid-air and began swallowing it. The frog (maybe a toad??) swelled up with air and then proceeded to let out a morbid whistle-like shriek as it was slowly swallowed. I’ll never forget that sound.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
This is why I couldn't keep a snake as a pet-- I couldn't bear to feed it!
Emmy S. 1 year ago
Hi, snake owner here, it’s recommended to feed them [not-alive] prey bc 1: less traumatic 2: less chance of disease being carried & 3: the prey could accidentally scratch them while struggling
Load More Replies... Emily 1 year ago
IDK, this one isn't that bad. Snake's gotta eat too. You just helped him snag an easier meal, which saved the snake from burning too many calories trying to catch the meal. Who knows. You could be the reason that the snake lasted another year or two and had a happy snake life and made many snake babies.
#46
As a kid I kept some anole lizards in a jar for like a day or two and my cousin convinced me to dissect them. I still haven’t recovered from doing this. Peer-pressure as a kid sucks.
k1ddkanuck 1 year ago (edited)
I still feel bad for the jar I took from the kitchen when I was maybe 8, so I could take it to the pond down the street with a bunch of other kids, and fill it with a stupid number of tadpoles. I wanted to keep them as pets. This was in the 90s, no internet, no way to know I was gonna kill like 100 baby animals. Woke up the next day to a sealed mason jar full of dead tadpoles and was absolutely crushed. Not the worst thing I've done in my life by a long shot, but every once in a while those little guys still pop into my head. It's been almost 30 years.
#47
Had a boss that I used to get along with before she got promoted. After that she was a whole different person, just very mean for no reason. I put in an one week's notice and she started to sabotage my work. So I stepped out one day, called the anonymous s*xual harassment hotline stating she was flirting with all the men on the floor (which she was) and it made me uncomfortable (it wasn't, I didn't care that much) and it nearly put one of my coworkers in danger (which it did). I walked out that day and never came back. A week later I hear all managers have to go through mandatory se*ual harassment training and had to have their certificate framed and in display for the whole floor to see. It felt so good, but I probably didn't need to do all that lol.
#48
I stole two cloves of garlic from the grocery store.
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
How? Did they break a bulb open, or do some stores sell individual cloves?
#49
One night stand with the landlady, up outside her own pub, while her husband kept serving the beer inside. Then going inside for a drink.
Sand Ers 1 year ago
Reread it as “Pub owner” and see if that makes it different.
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I rush to storefront doors so i dont have to hold it open for anyone. It's not that I don't like to, it's just so awkward seeing people do a little mini sprint, and the timing is almost always off... Sigh.. then they might try talking to you and i just really wanna go in and out.
k1ddkanuck 1 year ago
Lol. I do the same thing when possible. But I will always hold the door if otherwise the case. I am going to take a wild guess and ask if you're a fellow Canadian? Sorry if I'm wrong
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
Your comment will not be seen by the OP. BP usually gets most of the content from Reddit and other sites. So if you want to ask the OP if they're Canadian you can click on the tiny username in the left side bottom corner of the post, This particular username is Griefer17. It's a link to the original post where the OP will be able to see your comment.
Load More Replies... #51
I love frogs and when I was little I caught a little green frog and put him in a bucket
The poor thing cooked in the sun.
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
I’d argue that things are more morally dubious if you know you’re doing something wrong, no?
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
I did that once with grasshoppers, you remember when Micky D's first put their happy meals in plastic buckets for Halloween? was like the 80s or something. Yeah. I was like 7, should have known better.
#52
In third grade, I cheated on my history exam. In fourth grade, I stole my uncle Max’s toupee and I glued it on my face when I was Moses in my Hebrew School play. In fifth grade, I knocked my sister Edie down the stairs and I blamed it on the dog…When my mom sent me to the summer camp for fat kids and then they served lunch I went nuts and I pigged out and they kicked me out…But the worst thing I ever done — I mixed a pot of fake puke at home and then I went to this movie theater, hid the puke in my jacket, climbed up to the balcony and then, then, I made a noise like this: hua-hua-hua-huaaaaaaa — and then I dumped it over the side, all over the people in the audience. And then, this was horrible, all the people started getting sick and throwing up all over each other. I never felt so bad in my entire life.
#53
As a teen. Catch lightning bug. Throw on ground. Smear it to see lightning glow. RIP lightning bug for a teenage curiosity.
Blue Flower 1 year ago
I used to catch them, wait for them to light up and pull off the light and stick them on my fingers like rings 💍 🤩🤩🤩
#54
Had an abortion.
Other than that I also put Lego in my Manager's coffee when I loaned him money and he didn't pay it back.
Skogsrået 1 year ago (edited)
I don't feel like having an abortion should be on this list? It's a necessary medical procedure, not something you do just on a whim.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
While it's true no one gets one "just because", that doesn't mean one can't feel guilty afterwards. There are the "what if's" and the "hope (insert family member) doesn't find out" and "society says it's bad" so you feel bad, even if it was medically necessary or you otherwise felt you had no choice but to do it.
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XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
You don't belong on this list. Having an abortion is in no means "morally questionable." Sure there are going to be some people that will be like "What if she blah blah blah...?" But no matter the reason, you made the decision not to bring a child into the world that you weren't ready for. Perhaps you would have pulled it together & made a great parent, or perhaps you saved someone from having a horrific upbringing. Your body, your choice, nobody ele's business. Now about the lego...lol.
Wang Zhuang 1 year ago
Maybe she has a different view on abortion now and thinks it was morally wrong for her to do so when she was younger.
#55
I ate a baby toad once.
#56
I found a wallet on the ground and took the cash inside as payment (around $100), then I went to the post office and handed it in to be mailed back to the address. There were IDs, credit cards, Social Security cards, and a Covid card inside. I don’t feel too bad about it honestly. Can always make more cash 🤷🏽♀️.
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago (edited)
Um, that’s not really how reward money works…and they must feel a bit bad, or they wouldn’t see it as morally questionable.
k1ddkanuck 1 year ago
I have to be honest. If I found a wallet with money in it, I would return the wallet. Not sure about the money.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Most found wallets are returned without cash. Sometimes by the second person who missed out on the cash but like me felt some moral need to return the wallet and cards. In hindsight, all those cards were cancelled anyway.
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john doe 1 year ago
I found a purse on a cart outside of Walmart in the cart corral once, I just grabbed the cash and brought the purse in to the customer service desk instead, the cash is your finders fee
Regina Holt 1 year ago
I found a wallet on a cart outside of Costco. I didn't even think to look in to it. I just took it to customer service, to be put in "lost and found" so that if the person came back looking for it, it would be there. I don't consider "finders fee" I just see it as doing the decent thing.
Load More Replies... Blue Flower 1 year ago
Just remember, karma is a petty wicked b***h, you don’t want to deal with that. 😉
#57
Boomer Karen came into the Subway I was working at, being a rude c**t to me for no damn reason.. well turns out she was alone in the store. As it works out I have chronic post nasal drip, so it's extremely easy for me to form a loogie.
I got a huge one and the second she turned her head I dropped it in her tuna sammich, yes I remember that it was tuna because this is the ONLY TIME I have ever f****d with anyone's food. Covered it with the bit of dressing she asked for, and the look of her walking out that door with her tunoogie Sub in her bag brought a tear of joy to my eye.
I'm not gonna defend my actions, just everyone reading this should keep in mind, be kind to people who are handling your food, even if they're in plain sight, it only takes one second for them to do something to your food and give it to you with a smile.
Sand Ers 1 year ago
The phrase my friend R uses is “never annoy the people who have custody of your food”.
Lorraine R 1 year ago
In the military, we would add " . . . your pay, your personnel record, or your mail."
Load More Replies... Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
I've never done it myself, but I imply it's possible for others to do it.... you really should be nice to the people who handle your food..... Just because it's good to be nice, not necessarily because someone might tamper with your lunch.
Aelin Wildfire 1 year ago
Yes, of course, but for those who don't care about being good, this adds "self-interest" to the list of reasons.
Load More Replies... Skogsrået 1 year ago
A mass of saliva and phlegm hawked up from the throat.
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Sylvia Baker 1 year ago
I don't get fooling with people's food EVER.... it's beyond disgusting
john doe 1 year ago
I used to deliver pizza, whenever we would have one of our problem customers ( super far away delivery and never tip types) we would take the pizza out of the bag and put it in the walk in freezer with the box slightly open to rapidly cool the pizza, once it was nice and cold the driver would then take the pizza for the delivery, it was out way to getting the people to drive their own asses 10 miles to pick up their own food. (The place I worked had an outrageously large delivery zone 3 towns were in it.)
Susan 1 year ago
But it's not really the customer's fault if they live out in the boondocks and happen to want a pizza but are incapable of going to get it.
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#58
So, my mom started dating this new guy. I never liked him. The worst part though is he had a kid too. The kid was a mess. Sloppy. Curly hair. Me and the kid were about the same age and we couldn’t stand each other. It was painful just being in the same room together.
Anyway, one day when I was home alone I placed my testicles on his drum set.
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
I’m not sure why ‘curly hair’ was included in the list of negative characteristics…?
Hellcaste's Wife 1 year ago
Sounds like Stepbrothers, maybe? Was one kind of tall and goofy looking?
#59
I once scared an entire group of people with just a penny above the doorframe to their hall.
I observed how many would notice and more who saw it got scared because they thought it meant some ominous thing.
It got so bad they turned around and walked around to the other side.
What do you think ?
LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago
Ok, here's mine and I don't care if it gets me banned because a good chunk of the comments seem to think they hold the moral high ground and lack empathy. I was still in my divorce process when this happened. My ex-husband has had trust issues our entire 20 year marriage, his insecurities would repeatedly convince him that I was cheating on him at various parts in our marriage, though I never did, never even gave him situations to work himself up about it. But because for the simple fact that at points I didn't want sex, it meant I was cheating. The reality was I was massively unattracted to a manchild who wanted to treat me like his mother. So after he last accused me I snapped. And I did. I don't regret it, it was the best night I've had in years. I'm aware this doesn't give me power or make me right, but I'd been unjustly accused multiple times for years just because he couldn't admit his own shortcomings.
LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago
We were pretty much over by the time that last fight occurred anyway. I was still legally married by that night, but we weren't together. Looking back, I'm wondering how much was gaslighting.
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Serena Myers 1 year ago
My secrets remain my secrets, and I'm not splurging them all over social media. In most cases (98%) they will remain my secret, in 2% the secret is shared with one other, which I can't share with anyone else because it wouldn't be a secret secret., but those who share the secret secret won't tell anyone else either.
LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago
Ok, here's mine and I don't care if it gets me banned because a good chunk of the comments seem to think they hold the moral high ground and lack empathy. I was still in my divorce process when this happened. My ex-husband has had trust issues our entire 20 year marriage, his insecurities would repeatedly convince him that I was cheating on him at various parts in our marriage, though I never did, never even gave him situations to work himself up about it. But because for the simple fact that at points I didn't want sex, it meant I was cheating. The reality was I was massively unattracted to a manchild who wanted to treat me like his mother. So after he last accused me I snapped. And I did. I don't regret it, it was the best night I've had in years. I'm aware this doesn't give me power or make me right, but I'd been unjustly accused multiple times for years just because he couldn't admit his own shortcomings.
LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago
We were pretty much over by the time that last fight occurred anyway. I was still legally married by that night, but we weren't together. Looking back, I'm wondering how much was gaslighting.
Load More Replies... Serena Myers 1 year ago
My secrets remain my secrets, and I'm not splurging them all over social media. In most cases (98%) they will remain my secret, in 2% the secret is shared with one other, which I can't share with anyone else because it wouldn't be a secret secret., but those who share the secret secret won't tell anyone else either.
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