Corruption People Experienced Firsthand

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Eric Lund
Jan 19, 2020 1:00 PM EST

Most people have a decent set of internal rules, but sometimes it's just not there. Businesses will scam their clients, landlords will screw over their tenants, and government officials will take bribes. Here are some times people got to see some classic corruption. You've gotta be on the lookout, because sometimes trashy people will do some real garbage stuff.

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    Text - twopacktuesday 450 points · 20 hours ago Raffle for a jet ski at a local carnival sponsoring the local volunteer fire dept. When they called the winner of the jet ski, I was standing right behind the guy who drew the ticket. When the ticket was drawn, he called a completely different name than was on the ticket. Winner was a close friend of the fire chief.
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    Text - picksandchooses 190 points · 21 hours ago A construction company I worked for: Buy a ton of extra material, bill the customer all of it (showing the receipts), return the massive amount of extra, cover it up with fraudulent bookkeeping. Every job. Every time.
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    Text - Kirk_Bananahammock 165 points · 1 day ago As for personally witnessed, it's fairly tame I suppose. I worked for a company that built machine parts and certain parts were plastic but they could be "upgraded" to their "urethane" equivalents for a pretty substantial up- charge. We always made these parts with plastic regardless of what the customers ordered.
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    Text - TortelliniLord 163 points · 22 hours ago Had a restaurant I own broken into, the cops told me that because I didn't have a security alarm permit, they wouldn't be even coming. I went on the city website to find that the security alarm permit is just you enter your store address and phone number and you pay 150o$ a year.
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    Text - shield-616 5.0k points · 21 hours ago · edited 13 hours ago My university makes us buy a public speaking textbook (published by the university) and tear rubrics out of it. Your grades are penalized if you don't turn in the rubric torn out of the book for the teacher to mark your grade on. This ensures that you can't resell your book, so the next class has to buy brand new books. All the while, the university is putting up signs about why you should recycle. Not big compared to some others
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    Text - Can_Not_Double_Dutch 2.6k points · 22 hours ago Most countries in Africa have the most blatant public corruption out there. Here is my example. Working in the country of Chad (which I don't recommend in case anybody asks) and brought my XBox 360 in checked baggage. Going through X-Ray screening on way out of airport and almost conned out of money by the screener, but he didn't speak any English so he gave up. One month later, flying out of the country you have to open all your bags before
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    Text - Lord-Ringo 2.3k points · 23 hours ago An old friend of mine got a job working for a church based charity. They would accept household donations and sell them in a thrift store they had set up to raise funds for the needy. His job was to drive around in a cube van, pick up the donated items and deliver them to the charity. He openly bragged about picking the best items for himself and would drop them off at his house before delivering the rest of the items to the charity. I called him out
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    Text - adastrally 1.7k points · 1 day ago When I was getting food at food banks, the employees and volunteers would take the best quality/tastiest food for themselves or their friends.
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    Text - Motorcharge99 1.4k points · 1 day ago In December one of my technicians at work called me while at a high end neighborhood we have a lot of problems with homeowners in. He told me to just listen since he had his bluetooth headphones on. The customer is sitting there on the phone talking to someone at his company asking how many essential personnel they can cut to get the most out of their bonuses. It's the kind of thing you see in movies, but it was surreal as hell to hear someone saying
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    Text - pullin2 9.1k points · 1 day ago EMS guy: In the days before the internet, I got fired by a (private) ambulance company for using the wrong pen to fill out Medicaid forms after a run. I used a ballpoint instead of the soft tip Flair pens and was immediately sacked by the owner. A few years later, I found out he was imprisoned for Medicaid fraud. Turns out the soft tip pens he provided didn't go through all the carbon copies on the forms, and he was changing the bottom sheet to show more mi
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    Text - Catshit-Dogfart 1.3k points · 1 day ago Realizing that I was the only one who wasn't stealing from the company. Used to work in the IT department, and over time I noticed that things were going missing. Replace a bunch of monitors in a lab, then a few weeks later notice all the old ones are back - what happened to the ones I just delivered? We don't have nearly as many of something in stock as it says on our shipping receipt. And why are we always out of service kits for the copy machines
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    Text - JHSimz 1.2k points · 22 hours ago · edited 21 hours ago My wife and I bought a house. The landlord wanted access to the apartment we were living in in the mean time so he could renovate it and sell it at an exorbitant price. We told him multiple times that we were going to keep and maintain the apartment to the end of our lease (only had 23 days left), and that we were going to clean it, etc, like normal. He didn't like that. So he performed an illegal lockout, then charged us a $750 clea
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    Text - PaperbackBuddha 854 points · 1 day ago Had a friend who taught at a ritzy private school. Parents there pretty much bought grades. ajlk24 P 674 points · 1 day ago Had a girl cheat off me in math class for two entire years - my GPA was better, but she was still ranked 4th in the class, me; 6th. Both of her parents were teachers/coaches. Know this one all too well
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    Text - goobermuslim 663 points · 21 hours ago Once while working as the night shift cashier at a store, my supervisor randomly told me to take a break and that he'd take over the register for me. I was just happy to sit down, and went to the break room while he made small talk with a customer he seemed to know. I thought nothing of it and finished my shift as usual. The next day, the store manager called me into his office and fired me. I was flabbergasted. He said that I gave a 99% discount on
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    Text - merrittinbaltimore 547 points · 22 hours ago I used to work at a nonprofit that provided financial education to middle school and high school students (achievement of juniors). The VP (my direct supervisor) was using money from our sponsors, the city schools and "No Child Left Behind" to pay for his girlfriend's apartment that was around the corner from our office. Somehow he was altering our records so that no one would notice. Side note: although this sounds like bullshit, his wife had
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