I’m rude to debt collectors who call me trying to collect debts from people who happen to once have had the same phone number as I once did. Like, I’m not who you’re trying to collect from, fuck off.

I’m also rude to generally any scam caller, they’re some of the few people I take great pleasure in telling off because I can get away with it. They’re scammy assholes, what’re they gonna do? Cry to the authorities? Knowing that they’re pieces of shit who scam people out of money? Good fucking luck.

  • Lorindól
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    Anyone pushing their religion to others.

    I’ve had parents come to me and demand that their child would be excluded from classes involving sex education or something else they think is “wrong”. Simple but strict “no” usually infuriates them.

    I will teach every student according to the national curriculum and the matter will not be discussed further. Then the parents threaten to take this to the principal and see me reprimanded. Good luck with that, our principal is much stricter than me about going by the book.

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    I’m generally polite to everybody, but I do believe that it’s immoral to be a debt collector, so I judge them pretty hard inwardly. I’d live in a tent or get a job flipping burgers before I would stoop to that level.

    If your livelihood relies on hurting others, you’re a bad person.

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    Antimaskers, antivaxxers, “stop the steal” assholes, homophobes/terfs/bigots in general. If your ideas injure and kill others, I am going to treat you like someone that spreads ideas that injure and kill others not as someone to be debated in a “civil” manner.

  • @tallwookie@lemmy.world
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    52 years ago

    calls from China, speaking Chinese. usually I just say the few words in that language I know to waste their time.

  • @Someonelol@lemmy.ml
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    Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and generally anyone who wants to convert me to their fucked up religion when they knock on my door. Why should I be civil when they bother me at my house on my time off to dictate what I should believe in? If I’m interested I’d go to them and not the other way around.

    • @Copythis@lemmy.world
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      If a JW approaches, just politely tell them you’re an apostate, and they’ll leave you alone.

      Those people are genuinely brain washed into believing they are going save your life if they convert you.

      If you tell them you’re an apostate, you’re telling them you’re ex JW, and you’ve been exiled, so they’ll turn around and refuse to talk to you. I say be polite because they’re just humans trying to “save your life”

      • @JSocial@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        The apostate thing won’t always work. It requires a couple of steps. The terminology you want to use is to say “I’m DF’d” or “I’m disfellowshipped”. That means they are not actually allowed to talk to you. They won’t even say okay, they just leave. Works 100% of the time IME.

        Source: I’m disfellowshipped.

      • Hello Hotel
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        It sounds like it would work, im unshure if thats the safest or least safe way of convincing them to leave you alone. depends on if they think your a lost cause, a satan warshipper or re saveable

    • @negativeyoda@lemmy.world
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      Their tactics are adapting: those motherfuckers started showing up at my house and they bring KIDS to ring the doorbell and give the elevator pitch. I can’t in good conscience tell a groomed/brainwashed child to eat my entire ass and I can’t even really be rude to the women standing behind them because they’ll just be like, “see how rude and awful nonbelievers are?”

    • @Urbanfox@lemmy.world
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      It’s always fun to answer the door to JW when you’re a goth. They’re already in a state of panic before you’ve opened your mouth.

      • @CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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        One of my prouder moments when I was younger and thinner, was answering the door for some JW’s, while naked and handcuffed to my girlfriend.

        They were working their way through our apartment complex, so we came up with a stupid plan.

    • TipRing
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      I used to make sport of proselytizers, seeing how long I could string them along, but these days if someone hops my 12 foot fuck-off privacy fence and walks the 100 yards down my driveway past the no trespassing signs I will likely have already called the cops by the time they reach my door. So they would be met with hostility.

    • @I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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      I used to answer the door naked when I lived in a town where that was not a crime. Some of them try to lock eyes and pretend it’s not happening, some just run. Either way, I was amused.

      You have to trespass well onto private property to get to my house now and it’s just to far a walk so I don’t get any JWs anymore.

  • @Ejh3k@lemmy.world
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    I’ve had my phone number since 2005. Since the jump I have been getting calls for Janet Juarez, looking to collect on some debts. I just got another one a couple weeks back.

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          I’m guilty of this myself. Somehow I’m OK with eating meat but I can’t stand seeing any animal suffering.

      • Hello Hotel
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        Child abusers are worse but are the same monster as animal abusers. Its because kids are our own species and more intelegent. the former and ladder implies things hard to put in words. Id say same kind of auful.

  • @LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
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    I work in IT and occasionally encounter super sexist people who want a man to fix their computers. I’m not rude to these people while on the phone with them and I make sure to be extra kind. I totally talk shit after hanging up though. Fuck anyone who thinks I can’t do my job because I’m a woman.

    • @SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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      I hate that. I used to run an auto business and some customers wanted to speak to a man. I’d always tell them that this woman here has the most experience in the shop and if they don’t want to hear her, they can go to the next shop.

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      Thats kinda sad that people do that… your fully capable of helping her. Theres enogh stories that show she will never have “the right person for the job”.

      • TwoGems
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        Actually you were downvoted for being a troll

      • @Urbanfox@lemmy.world
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        It’s clear you have never met a woman…

        Source: a woman who beat every other male in every grade in my comp sci degree and is top of the class.

        Also has a life because WOMEN CAN MULTITASK APPARENTLY.

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        I’m very good at IT and I can assure you that when the clock hits the time, my laptop gets folded and I switch the screens to my games, where I pay no mind to work anymore. I’m a man.

        Fuck off with that attitude.

        • Fushuan [he/him]
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          They managed to sound sexist and also insult all IT people because “if you have a personal life you clearly are bad at your job”.

          I’m mad as hell. Pissed because of the sexism but mad because how fucking dare he say that programmers can’t be good if they have an actual life? I’ve been very appreciated in all the jobs I’ve done and turns out that being able to give several solutions fast and being reliable is way more important than coding on your free time.

          I’m just sorry that they can’t actually be good at their job by investing their work hours into work/training/testing, it is what it is. Yeah there’s people with disabilities that need to invest more than the usual programmer to be good at their job, but that’s how it is and expecting everyone is the same is pathetic.

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        Most women in tech are not very good

        Citation needed.

        Anyway you don’t have to be very good to be better than 95% of the population, because most people can barely operate outlook.

        I also resent the implication I have to be a super nerd to be good at IT. It’s not actually that hard, you just have to bother to read the instructions.

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          Sure. It’s always hard to know exactly what kind of skills we are even taking about here. IT is a huge area.

          You don’t have to be a super nerd to be good at IT but you do have to read instructions and learn things, which means you are actually interested in it. That’s all it takes.

          Most girls are not interested in those things so they become project managers or IT managers and other things that are more interesting to them. That’s my experience at least.

          • @Railing5132@lemmy.world
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            Just. Stop. Digging!

            We get it; you’re a “Nice Guy that has helped plenty of little ladies figure out their career paths because their stupid little heads don’t know better”.

            Good god - do you have any idea how much of a tool you sound like? I hope you don’t have supervisory authority over anyone. I pity them if you do, and cheer the eventual hostile workplace/harassment lawsuit brought against you and your employer/enabler.

    • @LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works
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      I’m rude to those and I’m a guy. Women are as good as men at our job and everyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot lacking respect and I don’t respect that.

    • @lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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      I used to work at a lube shop with a female tech and occasionally we’d get the same shit from old dudes where they didn’t want her to touch their car because she was a woman. I always made them wait for the shift change because “we don’t switch positions until lunch break and she’s in the pit”. Have fun sitting for 4 hours assholes. She was one of the better techs we had anyway having actually gotten a certification.

  • @Wobs@lemmy.world
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    82 years ago

    Lady at my office dumped a McDonalds coke out of her car door in our own company parking lot, splashing her own car and mine in the process. Shows zero respect - so she gets zero respect.