'You better have all 30 bags on my car before I get back': Teenager mistaken for hardware store employee gets back at impatient DIYer

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
May 14, 2024 11:00 AM EDT

This DIYer got schooled by a teenager on how to treat employees. That's because this dude really thought that employee worked for the store he was at. Even though the kid literally told this guy, a random stranger, that he wasn't an employee, this guy just wouldn't take no for an answer. And in that case, as u/wing_nut_101 puts it, "be careful what you wish for." 

It was clear to the original writer of this story that the DIYer was inexperienced. He didn't actually know which concrete type he was supposed to be using. Like this man literally showed up at the store with no idea what he was going to buy. He just knew he had to buy 30 bags of whatever it ended up being. With that kind of thinking, there's no way this dude's project ever got off the ground. Not everything has to be DIY… sometimes it's best to hire professionals (you know, the ones with decades of experience) in order to save yourself thousands of dollars. If you build something badly enough and have to fix it afterwards, you're just wasting your hard-earned money on a silly project. 

Next up, read about the chocolate chip cookie Karen who's divided her workplace in two. 

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    RIDGID RIC
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    Think I work here and demand me to move 30 bags of concrete? Okay. Before starting this story, this will involve a bit of r/pettyrevenge and r/MaliciousCompliance, along side the promised r/IDontWorkHereLady. So. I live in Australia, and we have a supply chain of hardware stores here called Bunnings Warehouse. Picture a hardware store for everyone. Both Tradesmen, and your average Joe. I was a teenager at the time, and I was dressed in work clothes. I was working for a carpenter at the time. Ste
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    boots, work pants, the whole deal. The most important thing about this all is my work shirt. My company uses a black button up shirt, short sleeved, and collared. (Search FXD SSH-1 if you are interested). My company also had our logos plastered all over these things. for privacy reasons, I can't show you the logos, but these are the base shirts. Now, the people who work at this hardware store, they wear red polo shirts with green writing, the logo for their company. (Also, if you are interested,
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    Now, I was riding shotgun with my boss. He had gone into the store, while I was in the timber yard, collecting some bags of concrete for the footings we were about to put in. I was moving some of the bags, 1 at a time to my bosses work truck. These bags aren't overwhelmingly heavy, 20kg. (45 Lbs for the imperial readers.) But, I was only moving 1 at a time. The walk wasn't far, and this was at the start of the day. Last thing I wanted to do was injure myself before the real work has even started
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    He was your average DIYer. Certainly not a tradesmen, Just your average bloke, 50's, balding, and wanted to show off that they could successfully screw together a garden shed. He was just staring at the pile of concrete bags. (for context, there are several different kinds of concrete for different purposes. Rapid set, Mortar, Cement, etc.) He then asked me what concrete he should use to put in some fence posts. I told him he would be looking at the rapid set, it would suit his needs perfectly.
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    lowdown. dig your hole, pour the bag directly into the hole, wet it with your hose, dome it off. Pretty simple. So he said thanks. No issues here. So I grab my next bag, and begin to take it to the truck. Here is where the fun begins. "What? Where are you going?" He asks. Now, I'm quite confused at this point in time, and then I respond with "Oh, I'm going. to go put these bags on the back of that truck. Is that a problem?" He replies with "Mate, my car isn't over there. I'm the white Camry over
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    who goes to Bunnings knows exactly the guy I'm talking about. Anyways. I stand there trying to figure out what is going on. "Well?" He asks. I figure out that he thinks I work there. "Oh. Sorry mate, I don't work here. I'm getting concrete for my job, and I'm on a tight schedule. Sorry mate." Now, usually if I didn't have to be somewhere, I would have given anyone a hand. Moving these bags 1. But he doesn't seem to believe me. "What? Look at you! Of course you work here! You got the right clothe
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    bags on my car before I get back. Step on it." Well my dearest friend, be careful what you wish for. It didn't matter that I was busy, this was the new priority. Cue the Malicious Compliance/Petty Revenge part of my story. His exact words were "You better have all 30 bags on my car before I get back." His car had a box trailer. I knew exactly what he meant. But no. No sir. I tried to tell you otherwise. But you did not listen. I needed to move, so I started moving the bags, two at a time. I plac
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    layering the roof. I see him walk out. He sees his car and this mans jaw hits the floor. He nearly had a hear attack. "MY CAR! WHAT THE HAVE YOU DONE TO MY CAR???" | had a grin from ear to ear. "I put all 30 bags ON your car, just like you asked." I was giggling like a toddler. Now, after much screaming, I told him to can it, and he could move it himself. I was late as it was, and my boss was getting impatient, however, He watched this all, and was laughing too. "Sorry mate, I have to go to my A
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    At least the bags were now significantly closer to his car. He sucked it up, and began to move them. I was walking back to my car when I heard him yell. The thing about these bags of concrete is, that if you don't support them underneath, and just grab them from the sides, They tend to split, clean down the middle, dumping all the contents of the bag in a messy pile directly underneath the bag. He had split a bag, clean down the middle whilst trying to take it off the roof. This thing spilled it
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    He got the job done eventually, but not before splitting 3 more bags. His car was covered in concrete dust. I left him there, car covered in concrete, whilst he admitted defeat. This ones on you Camry guy, this one is on you.
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    Yugaindiran No.. that one's on his car giggling like a toddler
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    [deleted] Please tell me he used his windshield washer to remove the concrete dust.5
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    Contank "Mate my car isn't over there" | think the best response would be "yeah but mine is"
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    FourEyesDoe Eyes Jesus christ, how the mistake you for a worker? did he BUNNINGS IS FULL OF TRADIES AT EVERY HOUR OF THE DAY! My father goes to bunnings a lot (we joke that he lives there) and he either goes their after work during the week from his day job as a 'handyman' for a company (basically if someone needs something done they call him, anything from pouring concrete to building work tables to sorting
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    screws) so he's still in his work uniform-high vis to the max. On the weekend he runs his own business as a welder so if he needs to go to bunnings in the middle of it, he'll go in his overalls and workboots. In either of these situations, in the at least 20 something years he's been going there, he has never once been mistaken for a worker. In conclusion, you, sir, encountered a special kind of stupid today.
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    minimuscleR I work there, and used to work in the Timber yard. We don't actually even have to help you most 30 bags, as that is a lot of work. Technically you have to do it yourself (unless I've been told wrong my whole life.) However, unless you are (like this guy), we would always help you. I'd definitely help, as OP said, it having to do it.
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    My favourite part about this is, assuming its the same layout as my store, the person watching the gates would be able to see/hear this, and probably watched OP do this, laughing his ass off. I definitely would be. Usually they would get someone to help, but they themselves can't leave.
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