'If they shenan once, they'll shenanigan': 16 Times One Person Failed and It Ended the Fun for Everyone Else

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    Font - eighttesticles 16 hr. ago 2 My primary school used to do relatively frequent trips to a local zoo, until one boy decided to vault the fence and punch a penguin. I wish I was joking.
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    Font - ThatITguy2015. 12 hr. ago Had one kid in my class try to strangle a really friendly duck when we went to the zoo as a class. We never went back to the zoo.
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    Font - Corgiboom2 20 hr. ago edited 6 hr. ago At a previous job, we got full uniforms. Shirts, pants, hats, hoodies, winter coveralls, winter coats, gloves. But we dont get shoes or boots.
  • Font - Turns out a couple of years before I was hired on, they used to give boots. But one guy would take his boots and sell them, then request a replacement, then sell those. He did this about 20 times before anybody caught on because of municipal bureaucracy being slow to notice. When they caught on, they stopped giving out boots to their employees.
  • Font - Edit: I worked as a park maintenance groundskeeper for Parks & Recreation edit edit: No it is not like the show.
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    Font - wehrmann_tx. 16 hr. ago Other firefighters constantly ruin any sort of appreciation restaurants give out. We had a BBQ restaurant that would give a flat 10$ off your meal. If you didn't spend 10$ it was basically free. One guy ruined it on an 8$ order by demanded the 2$ be given to him as well.
  • Font - Had people going in uniform on days they didn't work. Had one guy have a family reunion at a local restaurant then made a big issue they wouldn't give his entire party the discount. I don't understand how out of touch people can be.
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    Font - Badass Bumblebeee 13 hr. ago ● Dude did this at our EMS service too. Not only did we lose the free on-shift coffees they'd been giving us, but our boss put in a policy that we couldn't go out in uniform at all unless on a call, which basically meant no leaving the station at all during shift or standby. (They later turned the second one around since it was stupid but we still hate that guy)
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    Font - Rescuepoet 5 hr. ago We had a hospital with a bomb a EMS room that had full sized candy bars and other high-end treats for us. A co-worker would regularly go in there with a backpack and empty the candy bar boxes into it and take them. Hospital got him on camera and axed most of the good stuff.
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    Font - rdocs 8 hr. ago Knew a guy who did this sh, took his whole family to a coldstone creamery and demanded ems discount for 9 family members. When he was called the fattest and laziest on our staff btw, he stated its my right as a hero. There went the discount and he lost what slight bit of respect he had from staff.
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    Font - Pokabu 12 hr. ago . I worked at a froyo place and after a certain number of visits you will get a free cup. Technically the rule was up to $5. However, the owner of the store was really nice and said, nah if they come here that often, then they should get their one cup free! For a few years it was going well,
  • Font - since it's self serve and based on weight, most people were careful about making their cups and never really overfilling. Sometimes kids would be a little overzealous, but no one really did anything crazy.
  • Font - Eventually one day, a guy who in all honesty was smart, I'll give him that...filled the cup to the brim. Then added our waffle cone chips around the edges to create a barrier. He dispensed even more froyo. Then made another wall on top of that. He did this about 6 times.
  • Font - Tbh I was very invested and also just amazed at how he did this. The average price for a small that was decently filled with toppings, most people were in the $5-$7 range. This dude managed to make this a $27 cup. FOR FREE. Because technically it just has to fit into the one cup.
  • Font - The owner asked me about that suspicious transaction and I told him all about it. He was like oh ok. Checked the cameras and even he was impressed. This dude ended up telling other people. Who then told more people and so on.
  • Font - At this point our store was actually losing money on the free cups. It got worse because now people were trying to cram so many toppings into their cups, that about 90% of the toppings would end up on the floor, so that was costing us even more. Eventually we changed up the policy to the $5 max.
  • Font - People weren't happy. But we all gladly explained that people were getting out of hand and we were trying to do something nice, and it was taken advantage of.
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    Font - neoprenewedgie - 21 hr. ago The person who apparently choked on a lollipop at my bank and now we don't get lollipops anymore.
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    Font - Juggalo13XIII 18 hr. ago I'm a contractor and I work in different kinds of plants and mills. In one mill I worked at, we had a gravy job, two hours of easy work, and get paid for twelve hours. Well, one guy decided he was going to charge them for sixteen, and now we get two hours for the job.
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    Font - Carol_Pilbasian 19 hr. ago The elementary school I went to let 6th graders go on an overnight trip to a lodge where we could go skiing and snow tubing. My dad volunteered as a parent and was "supervising" by letting me and 5 other girls pile on top of one tube down a steep hill and we all went flying.
  • Font - Two of the girls busted their arms when we all landed in a pile. It looked like a cartoon. Anyway, after that no more sleep overs at the lodge and tale has it 30 years later everyone at the school still blames my dad lol.
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    Font - Mi_trees 20 hr. ago Back around the mid 2000s I was around 10 years old and I used to go to this place after school called "the Boys and Girls club". They had an area with multiple basketball hoops on a court which we used to play all kinds of games in; one of those games being dodgeball.
  • Font - These were not those big rubber balls but instead the styrofoam filled balls with kind of a thin layer of plastic so otherwise... harmless. One of the kids thought it would be a good idea to shove a rock into one of the balls and throw it at someone he didn't like; well he ended up throwing it right into that kids face and broke two of his front teeth. We never played dodgeball again.
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    Font - Shiekh_Bodi 22 hr. ago Previous job I had used to be hybrid twice a week. One person, on their hybrid day, decided to slack off work and go out. They got a call from their manager because they were late for a virtual meeting and the manager heard a lot of background noise like they were at the mall or something.
  • Font - Said person eventually admitted they were not home working, got fired, and now everyone had to be in the office 5 days a week.
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    Font - Plus-Statistician80 - 23 hr. ago & 5 More 2 The guy who attempted to smuggle a bomb in his shoe in 2001 Now we all have to suffer taking our shoes off at airport security every damn time we fly
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    Font - Dynasuarez-Wrecks. 20 hr. ago At one of my previous workplaces, management played music as a way of promoting good mood. They played all sorts of genres so everyone got a chance to listen to something they liked.
  • Font - One person complained that sometimes they had to listen to music they didn't like, so they stopped playing music altogether.
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    Font - Otto_Correction - 21 hr. ago Had a job where as a dialysis nurse where we added a position to pick up add ons and emergency cases that came in later in the day. In this role we worked noon to midnight which helped us cut down from needing a nurse on call every night to maybe once or twice a week. Whoever took this role didn't have to take call and had weekends off.
  • Human body - We loved rotating through this role and enjoyed taking a break from having to be on call and enjoyed having weekends off.
  • Font - Then there came the nurse who went out at 7 am instead of noon, and finished at 5 pm. When there was an add-on or an emergency case she wouldn't answer her phone, which meant which meant everyone had to go back to picking up extra patients and being on call again.
  • Font - She did this every time it was her turn to go through the rotation so they eliminated the position and we went back to having to be on call all the time.
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