20 Of The Best Examples Of Clever People Cheating The System

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Aug 8, 2018 11:00 AM EDT
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    Text - I work in a typical office building, but today I saw something interesting. Lazy Coworker #11 has been leaving around lunch time to go to the gym. Except I had to get something out of my car and I saw her (in her workout clothes) eating out of a tub of fried chicken. I didn't say anything but she walked back in 15 minutes later saying how sore she would be tomorrow. She "works out" everyday. My boss has a policy that if you're going to work out you don't have to clock out which means Lazy
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    Text - greyham0707 6y So I work in the luggage claim department for major airline. All day I get to hear customers yelling and complaining.What I did is borrow one of the wheelchairs from the airport and sit behind my desk all day long. Customers come in all angry see me in the wheelchair realize they are about to yell at a guy who is possibly crippled and all of a sudden they turn in to the nicest people. Physically my blood pressure has dropped and in general I'm in a pretty good mood most of
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    Text - amitrippin 6y My boss will often check the "Date Modified" certain files on our server to see if I have updated of even opened a certain file recently. So, I have installed a changer utility that allows me to modify the "Date Modified" on any file. This comes in most handy when my boss wants to give me weekend assignments. I just come in on Monday Morning and change the "Date Modified" to Saturday night and he thinks I was actually doing something for work on Saturday night! I've actually
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    Text - alexemalexem 6y I bring all my rechargeable items (shaver, cell phone, lap top, etc.) to work and plug them in there. I figure I must have saved at least $1-$2 last year in electricity.
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  • 05
    Text - m4nu 6y Lady friend of mine born in Cape Town, immigrated to USA at 2 African-American on all standardized testing and college applications. White as the yeti. It's a typical one, but still gold.
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    Text - vballbub10 6y Old lady(80's) at my college book store, walked the back with a bag, placed 2 books in her bag, and then i watched walk to the front as she sold them back to the book store. I wanted to say something... but was too impressed
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    Text - bioexplosion 6y A teacher I had in high school always said to his students "if you can get away with cheating go for it". Turns out he had gotten a raise for getting his masters degree, but never actually got the degree. This went on for over 10 years before the school system figured it out. Somehow he got hired at a new school too.
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  • 08
    Text - blueboybob 6y My wife and I were at a super fancy restaurant in NYC. Reservations not allowed, expect to wait. We get there and are told we would be waiting about 2 hours. No problem we planned on this. Some guy right after us shook the reservation guys hand handing him $200. Next thing I know I hear "Table for 2 for Thomas." Thomas being my name and I asked for a table of 2 say that is me. They sit us and we order drinks and apps. 5 minutes later they say we are the wrong Thomas but we c
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  • 09
    Text - [deleted] 6y I was flying last month, and the plane I was on had Wi-Fi. There was a free 15-minute trial, and then you could purchase a chunk of time. I just kept deleting the cookies on my phone, refreshing, and logging back in. I stayed online for over an hour for free.
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    Text - afcjl12 6y At my university I would always order delivery from a late night eatery and get a ride home with the delivery guy. Less expensive than a taxi, with meal included.
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    Text - superkiy 6y When I was in college, I had this meal plan where the school essentially took my "actual money" and turned it into "campus dollars" that could only be spent at school dining halls and cafes. I didn't mind so much until the end of the semester, when I was informed that any unspent "campus dollars" would "go away." | had more than a hundred bucks left, and only a day to spend them. Here's what I did. I went to the nicest campus restaurant - the one where you're supposed to take
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    Text - [deleted] 6y Back in highschool I discovered that if you call any "Questions/Comments" number on a food product, you could make up literally anything and get a coupon for a free whatever it was. So for instance we'd call Bisquick pancake mix and say we bought a jar of mix but inside we found three already-made pancakes... shit like that, just nonsensical stuff. We did it so much that we'd pile up the coupons, go to the grocery store and check out a full cart of groceries and just hand the
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  • 13
    Text - kfactors 6y Whenever people come to the pool where I lifeguard and have guests with them, I always ask them if they live more than 50 miles away (our policy is guests from more than 50 miles away don't pay guest fees). If they say no I give them the look and ask them again. They usually say yes after that. Saving customers two dollars like a boss.
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    Text - travellerw 6y Here is a Canadian one (being Canadian its even ethical) Wait outside a Superstore gas station and watch for users that leave the receipt. On the end of each left receipt is a "Superbuck". 20 minutes and you can collect enough for lunch Saw a bum doing this.. Thought it was pretty creative..
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    Text - badamant 6y l used to be a member of NY sports club. It is a semi expensive gym here. At the time if you forgot your ID card you could just tell the person behind the desk your number. I always forgot. After a while I noticed I was transposing two numbers in my ID and they were still letting me in. I cancelled my membership and had free all access gym membership for three years. Ha!
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  • 16
    Text - waningwax 6y When I was a (precociously computer savvy) 10-11 year old, I found a website that parents could set up as a reward system for children doing chores. The parent would set up an account listing several chores and assign them point values. The child, after completing these chores, could then use the points to buy various items offered on the website. There was (somehow) no charge for any of the stuff. So, I created two e-mail accounts, two passwords on the site, and set up a rea
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  • 17
    Text - IshotAbeLincoln 6y Ibought a wireless network adapter for my xbox off eBay that was broken. I paid like 8 dollars for it. I bought a new one at walmart for like 40. Returned the broken one to the store. Yeah that was stealing. Shouldn't have done that. TIL.. .if you want easy karma, write about ripping off walmart and say they are evil
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    Text - Zikben 6y Back in high school I would buy massive quantities of arcade tokens from the manufacturers off of ebay. I was getting about $10 worth of tokens for each $1 spent. I was there one afternoon when some kid went up to the counter and pointed out that the token machine was giving out tokens from some other arcade. The owner was more than upset and I knew it was time to find a new arcade
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    Text - midlothian705 6y my co-worker would leave at 4pm to "go to the bathroom". Leaving the office light on, his chair at an angle, and the computer on - no power save. He would disappear until 9am the next morning Boss never figured it out.
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    Text - Meepzors 6y 1. Get a credit card with free miles for every purchase 2. Buy Gold 1 Dollar coins in bulk from the U.S. Mint (free shipping) 3. Use the dollar coins to pay off your credit card 4. Profit Pretty sure it doesn't work anymore, but yeah.
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