This article was originally published on 365Economist
Mankind is a tricky species to say the least. We are hard to understand, even harder to read, and even harder to handle. Although there are definitely some truly good people in the world (it's not all bad out there), this list might just make you have your doubts. In case you want to see some examples of people doing really outrageous things and being caught in their poor behavior, this list is for you. The dark, the sad, and the mean sides of humanity are all here for your viewing pleasure.
The Lowest Effort at All
Everyone has very different opinions when it comes to the rules of dating. Some people expect the man to pay for everything and make grand gestures while other people find that offensive. This man is pretty clear, and quite aggressive, that he belongs to the latter group. The way that he describes it though makes him seem very angry and quite rude. There were certainly more polite ways to express this.
The girl probably wouldn't have cared if the man paid for everything or not, especially if he communicated this kindly before, but he was so rude and angry about it, she had to write something in response.
Seat Cover Vs Entertainment
The worst sides of people oftentimes come out on a flight. Squish a bunch of people in very tight quarters for a long period of time and you will start to see things you never wanted to see. This person decided to put a seat cover on his airplane chair, which normally would be very reasonable. However, he did not take into consideration that the back of the chair is someone else's entertainment system and now they can't use it.
Hopefully, she moved the seat cover when the person explained what happened, but either way, it was not very considerate of the man in the front.
The Wrong Way to Negotiate
There is nothing wrong with trying to negotiate when you are making a big purchase, especially when it comes to second-hand items. Since it is pre-used, people are often willing to be much more flexible with their prices. However, there is a right and a wrong way to do everything and this person definitely did it the wrong way. He started off talking nicely but then when his offer was (kindly) refused, he got upset.
The seller had no patience for buyers like this and told him quickly that if he is going to be rude, he can go buy the product from someone else.
Trying on All the Shoes
Kanye West decided to show the world his true colors in this colorful shoe store. He went to the Bape store in 2005 to look for a pair of shoes. The saleslady patiently waited as he tried on pair after pair after pair. You can see that he tried on almost every color in existence. However, at the end of this shoe experience what did he buy? Not even one pair of shoes.
If he didn't think they were comfortable why did he continue to try on other pairs? Don't waste people's time just because you can and you think that you are important.
He'll Be Stuck With That Car Forever
Selling items second-hand is a great way to preserve the environment and reduce waste, and it is a great way to save (or earn) some money. Cars are often sold second hand and it is very common to ask some basic questions about the vehicle before purchasing it. This buyer was communicating with the seller, asking basic details such as how many miles the car has, how long was it owned for, and if there were any particular reason they were selling it.
Apparently, the seller thought these questions were far too personal and snapped out at the buyer in a very rude manner.
Cheeseburger or Hamburger
It's one thing to not be the brightest bulb on the lamp, but it's another to be among the dimmest and also among the rudest. This person wanted to order a cheeseburger without cheese. As this is obviously the same thing as a regular hamburger, the person taking the order tried to be kind and explain that they could save a dollar by just ordering a hamburger instead of a cheeseless cheesbuger.
Instead of saying thank you, this person got angry and insisted on ordering the cheeseburger. They even told the person that they would be receiving no tip for being so "rude" as to offer a money-saving tip.
Homophobia in Oklahoma
Did you ever think that you would live to see a sign at the entrance of a movie theatre with a big WARNING written across the top, telling parents that there is a same-sex kissing scene in the movie that they are about to watch? However, beyond the warning, things get even worse. Then they proceed to explain that the theater will be fast-forwarding through this scene, and apologizes if they don't do it fast enough,
The fact that there are enough people in this town that feel the need to fast forward through a scene with same-sex kissing that they put a sign up is pretty sad.
Taking up Four Spots
Ahhh the world of parking...it is every person's least favorite part of driving, especially if you are in a city. Some people, however, don't care much about anyone else around them and they just do as they please...like the driver of this large pickup truck. Instead of parking decently, he took over the space of four different parking spots, blocking them all for himself. This is a whole new level of selfishness.
Although there are still plenty of other parking spots in the area, there was no need for this car to take up so many spaces. It would have taken them just as long to park in only one space.
Please Don't Argue
Landlords are known to be some of the worst people on earth. Obviously not all of them, but the vast majority of them are not usually the best people. Here is a prime example of one of the worst ones. This landlord entered his tenant's apartment without their permission, opened up the drying machine, and took a picture of the lint trap complaining that it was not cleaned well enough.
When the tenants complained that this action was illegal, the landlord simply messaged back "please don't argue", not apologizing for his behavior and not saying that he will not do it again.
The Veterans Discount
There is nothing worse than an entitled person, no matter what their background is. This person started off the conversation by rudely requesting a veterans discount. When the seller thanked him for his service and offered the discount, the veteran then proceeded to claim that the discount was not enough and "not worth his time". The rant didn't end there however as he rudely claimed "we do not need luck we are marines. lol".
Most veterans would be ashamed to see this kind of behavior from fellow veterans. Entitlement and ungratefulness are ugly in every person, no matter the background.
He's Not Even Ashamed
Group projects can be a lot of fun or they can be a complete nightmare...it all depends on the group that you are assigned. This group looks like a particularly terrible one. One person in the group clearly did not do their part and had the audacity to ask someone else in the group to do it for him. Another group member, annoyed by the request, asked why they couldn't work on it today and the answer was even worse.
If you are going to obviously put no effort into a group project, maybe they should have tried to at least come up with a better excuse than the fact that they are playing video games instead.
The Best Office Rules
What is the worst experience you have had in the workplace? People certainly have their fair share of horror stories to tell, and this can go right on the list. They put up a sign explaining their new office rule. For every minute that you are late to work, you are forced to work an extra 10 minutes after 6pm. The "thanks" at the bottom of the message seems a bit futile.
This seems like a pretty toxic place to work. Who even checks the minutes that exactly? And why would they exaggerate so much even if a few people were running late.
The Worst Type of Parent
How can you tell someone you're racist without telling them that you're racist? You can send an angry email to your child's teacher explaining that your child will no longer be learning or doing assignments surrounding slavery. To make the point even stronger, you can then explain how unnecessary it is to learn all of this all the time. Don't forget to use all capital letters for the extra effect.
The "thank you for understanding here" is perhaps the most comical part of all, as there are probably no teachers that would be understanding in this terrible situation.
Thinking That Juneteenth Is "whatever"
What can someone possibly have against the concept of a federal holiday that celebrates the emancipation of African-American slaves? Apparently, this business has an issue with it and wants to make that very clear to the entire world by putting this sign in their window. They find the holiday of no importance and are almost complaining about the fact that they have to be closed for the day.
Putting the concept of Juneteenth aside, who complains about a holiday and a day off from work? They must have a serious qualm with the concept to be upset about a day off.
Mothers and Facebook
Although the older generation certainly does not fully understand the concept of Facebook, except with being overly obsessed with it by posting constantly, that does not give them the right to post private information on there for everyone to see. This person's mother posted the full hospital test results of her child on Facebook for everyone to see. Even when she was asked to remove it, she refused, saying that she was getting great advice from there.
Facebook friends are probably not the best place to get medical advice, even if they are medical personnel. You can always ask a friend in private to help with the test results. There is no need to share it with the world.
Shame on Luke
Dating can be incredibly difficult. Besides navigating the compatibility and the differences, you never know what people are actually like. This woman was dating a man named Luke for two months before she found out that he was engaged. When confronted, he did not try to deny it but had the audacity to ask her to not tell anyone about it. Being a good person, she went directly to tell the finance.
You can see the moment that the man realized his fiancee knew everything. He tried cursing and name-calling, but it was already too late for him and hopefully, his fiancee got out before it was too late.
The One Trampoline Rule
People oftentimes try to put the blame on someone else when things go wrong. This person broke her leg at a trampoline center and blamed it on the staff who were not paying enough attention to the one-person rule. What they do not take into account is that they knew it was a one-person rule and ignored it. They even posted about it on the public page, showing their silliness.
The best part is that the owners of the trampoline park comment back with snarky remarks to all the stupid comments that they receive and call out this person's behavior for what it is...victimization.
Sleeping in the Aisle
Although it is very difficult to get comfortable enough to sleep on an airplane ride, this person took things to the next level. They sprawled out across the seats and even let their legs dangle in the aisle, blocking the walking path for everyone. Everyone was forced to walk around or over her legs until one of the flight attendants woke her up and made her move to a normal position.
Everyone wants to stretch their legs a bit on the plane, but that does not mean that you can at the expense of everyone around you and their comfort.
How He "suffered" at the Barber's Shop
Sometimes it's actually pretty funny to see how much people exaggerate circumstances to seem much worse than they actually were. This person, although very happy with the haircut, was not satisfied with the movie they were "forced" to watch while it was happening. He even requested not to get a female barber in the future so that he wouldn't be subjected to a "nauseating chick flick". Next time maybe he should just ask to change the channel.
Although most people should be able to survive watching a chick flick for a few minutes, even if it is not their favorite genre, he also could have asked them to put on something else.
The Ultimate Creepy Neighbor
This is actually a horror story of neighbors. This man is clearly aggravated that his neighbor is out of town for a while. However, he is not ready to just leave it at that. He asks her when she is returning and gets upset when she does not respond fast enough. He then accuses her of lying that she is out of town because he can see a light on in her house.
How did he see the light on in the house? He peaked through the eyepiece and eavesdropped on the door. That is a whole new level of creepy neighbor.
Run Away From This Landlord
Landlords can make your life hell...to say the least. When you just want to be peacefully enjoying your life in your rented space, you can be confronted by your terrible landlord. This landlord is certainly among the worst, judging just by their initial conversation with potential tenants. They expect people to offer prices based on just one photo and will not give any additional information to the potential tenant.
There is no way this landlord will be responsive to any issues that arise in the apartment if this is how they are replying even before the place has been signed.
Wrong on so Many Levels
The fact that this conversation and sequence of messages were out there on the internet for everyone to see and no one ever cared or did anything about it, is quite sad. Even if it was just a joke, it was an inappropriate one and no one should be joking about sexual relationships with underage females. However, they both joked about it and there was no outrage at all from anyone.
There are far too many likes and retweets on this post and far too little outrage for the inappropriateness of it all. Why did everyone think that this was alright?
Mixing War and Ice Cream
It is hard for many people to focus on anything else when there is a terrible war being fought and it looks like these people were offended by the menial ice cream tweet that was put out by Baskin Robbins during the start of the Ukrainian-Russian war. They would have rather had them make a decision on their Russian operations and not just post silly tweets about ice cream and trending themes.
The last commenter was not a fan of combining the Ukrainian war with an ice cream tweet, not happy in the least bit.
The Delivery Man Wanted Some Bread
It must be tempting sometimes to be a food delivery person if you are hungry. Think about how difficult it is to go to the grocery store when you're hungry and to resist all of the food there. Maybe this delivery person was in the same boat and they just couldn't resist taking a bit of this bread. However, this is most likely not the case and they were probably just being rude.
The people who purchased the bread can definitely complain and maybe the delivery person will be given a warning to stop taking bites out of people's bread before he delivers it.
Not the Art You Should Be Proud of
This grandma looks a little too proud of her grandson as he spray paints the wall on a public street. Although everyone wants to support an aspiring artist, this is not the right place to express that artistic desire. This young boy should be taught that this is vandalism and if he wants to pursue art, he should try it out at home first before vandalizing the street.
The grandma is smiling so broadly as she watches the young boy spray paint. It almost looks like this is her proudest moment of her grandson, which would be very sad.
The Nurse Was Overly Concerned
Although everyone wants to see some true care and appreciation from nurses and doctors, it looks like this nurse took things a little too far. Instead of being polite and kind, he was harassing this woman after her family member was sent to the hospital. The fact that he got her number from the emergency contact list was already extreme, but to then send that many messages was just too far.
He hardly gave the woman time to respond before sending another message. If you look and see the time that he sent them, it was also all throughout the night, when she was probably asleep.
No Male Friends on Facebook
This woman has reached her last straw of patience when it came to her male followers. She is happy with the fact that 85% of her followers are women and it seems like she wants to keep it that way. It is unclear why she even accepts friend requests from men if she is going to be so upset about them. She even says that they should just remove themselves.
What do you think the 15% of male followers that she has did that irked her so much to create a post like this for everyone to see?
Why Take up Two Parking Spaces?
Parking in the city is always a challenge, but people like this white car tend to make it even worse. They took up two parking spaces. Although you can't know all of the circumstances and perhaps the cars that were parked before him were actually the problem, there are still plenty of people who just don't think and mindlessly take up muil; tiple parking spots, not thinking of other people at all.
It does look like there is still a little bit of room in the back of the white car, so maybe someone can still park there, if they just go outside of the lines?
There Is so Much Wrong With This Post
There are so many issues with this post it is difficult to think of where to begin. Should you start with the fact that the "Ask Women" group of Reddit had a post taken down because someone asked for advice specifically from women? Their post was removed even though that is literally the purpose of the group, to ask women questions and get answers from women. Seems like a strange rule to follow in this context.
The clarification of this rule is even stranger and has so many contradictions throughout it. It looks like someone did not fully think this through before making the rule.
Time off for Work
Although it is sad that this young man was denied his request to have Sunday off to spend time with his girlfriend, whose only day off was also Sunday, it can be a bit understandable depending on the job. To ask for a recurring day off on one of the busiest days in the business can cause lots of problems for the company even though it is inconvient for the employee.
Maybe the employer wanted to give him those days off but he just really was not able to. Maybe he can also have some Sundays off but he can't be promised to have every Sunday off.
Requesting Unskilled Labor
Although no one wants to spend a lot of money when making repairs, these people took things a little too far. When the contractors explained the price they were requesting was far too low and why they were not happy. They even requested that the contractors used unskilled labor to do the "simple" parts so that they would not have to pay the extra fees for the quality work and workers.
There are some things in life that you should not be so cheap about. These people could afford the extra costs and were just trying to rip off everyone else for no reason.
Begging for Some Tips
It's sad to think that people have to give a sad backstory just to get some tips out of customers. Although the entire tipping culture is pretty terrible in and of itself (people should be paid a decent wage irrelevant of tips), it's even sadder when people don't tip at all despite that. Some people live off tips, as this person explains, and she needs it to help put her daughter through college.
Hopefully, the sign helped and she was given some extra tips that would help her and her daughter financially.
Oversexualizing Everything
The modern world seems to have a general issue with oversexualizing just about everything. This is especially the case when it comes to women and sadly it is more and more the case with young, underage women. This adult is oversexulizating their cosplay of this character, who's just 16 yeas old. Some people appreciate this style, sure, but the internet was not happy about this more adult look for what's originally a 16-year-old girl.
We just hope that no kids were offended by this cosplay - it should be fun and harmless, not triggering!
No Financial Perspective at All
It's funny how people who have a lot of money tend to be the most stingy of all. This man, Molson Hart, talks about how a combined income of 1.1 million for a family is "not that much". In the same breath, he then goes on to complain that $14 an hour for his employees is far too much money and he does not want to offer any more to potential employees.
He even tries to justify himself by saying that they increased the wages from last year by about $2. What he doesn't take into account is general inflation was the main cause of that increase.