I went to renew my license in Phoenix back in March and they said my birth certificate was good to go. Fast forward to July after 3 more trips and 9 hours total waiting in line, turns out I needed a certified copy from the hospital instead of the one from VitalChek. Nobody at the counter ever mentioned the difference until a supervisor finally glanced at it for 2 seconds. Has anyone else dealt with getting totally different answers from different workers at the same office?
Found the receipt for the cleaning fee in my lease file last week. They charged me but I took photos of the caked-on grease. Has anyone else fought back on move-out fees with hard proof?
Last week, I'm out walking my dog in my neighborhood in Cleveland, and I see this 12-year-old kid ring a doorbell and run. The homeowner came out laughing and just waved. When I was his age in 2008, I did the same thing and the guy chased me down the street and called my parents. Seems like adults are cool with kids doing stuff now that they'd punish us for back then. Has anyone else noticed this shift in how kids get treated for minor crap?
Last winter I moved into a house in Buffalo and a guy next door warned me to insulate the outdoor spigot with newspaper and tape. I thought it sounded dumb and ignored him. After a 3 day freeze in January, the pipe burst and cost me 400 bucks to fix. Has anyone else got cheap advice that turned out to be dead on but you dismissed it?
So I had roaches in my kitchen last summer in Austin and my dad kept saying just spray Raid along all the baseboards like he did in the 80s. I listened to him for two months and the roaches just got worse plus the smell was awful. Turns out I was just scattering them deeper into the walls and the spray was eating away at my vinyl flooring seams. Finally called a real exterminator who used gel baits and now I'm out $400 for new flooring. Has anyone else had older relatives give pest advice that backfired big time?
My son got sent home last Tuesday for wearing a hat with a logo on it. But I watched three girls walk past the office in crop tops and ripped jeans and nobody said a word. I looked up the actual policy online and it says no 'distracting clothing' but the examples are all about boys' sagging pants and hats. Found a study from a teacher's blog that said girls get dress-coded 3 times less than boys for the same type of violation. That stat in black and white made me realize the rules are just aimed at one group. Has anyone else noticed this at their kid's school?
Last month my neighbor got a $200 fine for having a small patch of brown grass near his mailbox after that heatwave we had. Meanwhile the HOA board president has had a broken sprinkler head spraying water onto the sidewalk for like 6 weeks now and nobody says a word. I called the management company to ask about it and they just said they'd "look into it" but nothing happened. It really ticked me off because it's not like the guy with the brown grass was being lazy, we all had trouble keeping things alive in that 95 degree stretch. So I took a photo of the sprinkler and emailed it directly to the board with a note asking if the same rules apply to everyone. They finally fixed it three days later but never answered my question about the double standard. Has anyone else dealt with an HOA that plays favorites like this?
I was at a small gym in Austin last year, paying $45 a month, when the owner put up a sign saying no deadlifts because they 'scare the members.' Fine, whatever. But then I saw his friend drop a 315-pound deadlift right in front of the front desk, and nobody said a word. I asked the owner about it, and he just shrugged and said, 'He's been coming here for years, he knows what he's doing.' Has anyone else seen this kind of favoritism at a local gym?
So there's this guy two houses down who lets his pitbull roam the neighborhood. It's been in my yard a dozen times, chasing squirrels, digging up plants. I called animal control twice, nothing happened. Then my cat got out last Tuesday, first time ever, and a cop shows up at my door within 4 hours with a written warning about 'at large domestic animals.' The pitbull was literally standing on my porch that same afternoon. Has anyone else dealt with this kind of selective enforcement in their town?
He swore people in the office work harder, so I compared my 45 remote hours to an on-site coworker who only logged 22 real hours a week - who's really slacking and does the location even matter?
I was at Planet Fitness in Austin last Wednesday and watched a dude in a lifted truck pull into the only handicap spot. No plates, no tag, he just stretched his legs for 2 seconds and ran inside. When I asked an employee, they said they can't do anything because it's not their lot, but I've seen them ticket people for leaving a water bottle on the bench.
Last month I got a $150 fine for mowing my lawn at 8pm on a Saturday, but the neighbor in the house he owns can rev his truck at 6am and nobody says a word, so has anyone else had cops actually enforce rules on one side and ignore the other in your neighborhood?
Last Saturday at the annual company picnic in Portland, the guys all headed home right after eating while the women were stuck scrubbing trays and hauling trash for an extra hour. The owner said it was just 'how things get done' when I asked him about it. Has anyone else had a workplace pull this kind of outdated division of labor crap?
I work at a high school in Columbus and last week a VP wore ripped jeans and a hoodie while the principal wrote up a new teacher for having a visible tattoo. If the rule is "professional appearance" it should apply to everyone in the building, not just the people who aren't tenured yet. Anyone else see this at their school?
Last Tuesday I was out watering my front lawn around 7pm and noticed my neighbor two houses down doing the exact same thing. We both have the same odd-even water schedule in Phoenix. He's been watering on odd days for weeks. I did it once on an even day back in June and got a $75 ticket. I asked him about it and he said the code enforcement guy just told him to check the calendar next time. Why does one person get a warning and another gets slapped with a fine? Has anyone else run into this kind of uneven enforcement with local ordinances?
Had a chat with my manager yesterday about why Sarah got the team lead spot after "taking initiative" on cross-department projects. Meanwhile I got a formal warning 4 months ago for "overstepping boundaries" when I literally did the exact same thing. Asked for specifics and got some vague corporate BS. Anyone else notice how office rules just bend differently for certain people?