I wouldn’t recommend it, because its an asshole move, but go into basically any mcdonalds and complain that you placed an order and it was missing (whatever you want). You may have to act the cunt here. They will just give you whatever you want for free. Sometimes you may need to escalate to a manager. They do not get paid enough to deal with it, and dont want your negativity affecting the other customers.
But if that complaint is based on a recent order, probably need to show them the receipt, and nowadays there are cameras everywhere for them to review the footage showing that you did receive everything you ordered.
Oh yeah its easy to prove you wrong but its likely they wont bother. They can look up on the till to see the time you claim to have placed an order, and maybe they’ll see an order similar to your claim, then explain to the manager and both go to the office and use the CCTV to see if youre there and then try and explain that to an angry guy who seems like theyre about to pop off and risk needing to involve the police and involve the local papers while everyone’s getting their phones ready for twitter and reddit to dissect your every microexpression - OR they can just give you a double cheeseburger and be done with it.
It probably doesn’t even need to be that extreme. Nobody’s gonna check cameras over this. I go back in when I didn’t get something. I’m polite about it. They’ve never asked for a receipt; they just get the item.
One time I called a fast food place that had a great deal on pimento cheese because I repeatedly got a 15oz serving from them and kept getting shorted by a few ounces. I weighed it at home with the container the last time. I wasn’t rude, nowhere near angry, just had gotten to the point that I needed to bring it to their attention. They told me to come through the drive through and mention the manager’s name and they’d give me a free tub.
You can get a lot farther in customer service by acknowledging that the person you’re talking to is trying to help while expressing things in a way that they can empathize with. You get a lot more through respect and thanking them for helping you.
And if it’s a big corp, as my mother taught me, if you don’t like the customer service agent, hang up and call back.
Karen, that you?
Pirate everything
They said unethical
Is that supposed to be unethical? Well I guess pirating everything includes things where paying would be fair.
I wish I could pirate food and rent and then I’d be all set!
Every year, call your insurance/internet/phone/TV etc. provider and tell them one of their competitors gave you a lower quote and you want them to match it or come close.
They will often give you a better rate just for asking. It’s easier if you do have an actual quote to compare it against but you don’t need one. Everything is made up. Just ask to pay less and threaten to stop paying them and they’ll often just give it to you.
Even if they refuse, just say, “Okay. I need some time to think about whether or not I want to continue our relationship or switch.” Hang up and do nothing.
Tell your boss too. I told a boss that I’d been offered 25% more elsewhere which was enough for me to take it unless he wanted to match it, he did.
USA centric.
This is known as policy walking and has been banned in the UK by the FCA.
(edit - specifically for insurance)
Not USA centric.
It is also solid advice here in Germany and probably many other countries.
Your comment might be UK centric…
You may notice I specifically called out my comment as UK centric.
I’m downvoting specifically because you took the time to return to your comment and ping users with a mention, just to complain about downvotes.
Worked for me in Europe. Do this yearly now.
Wait what??
The consumer is barred from swapping providers annually to get better rates? Or are they barred from lying about fake quotes to get a better rate from their current provider?
To me the it sounds a bit more likely that they’re regulating insurance companies and not the customers.
insane, huh?
A new customer and a renewing customer should get the same price.
If you go to an insurance company to get a quote, as a brand new customer or a renewal, the price should be the same.
Historically, its to prevent companies giving lower prices for the first year and then raising it for the second year.
Youre not allowed to increase the price just because its not a new customer.
Its nothing to do with regulating the customer - its regulating how insurance companies price their products for new vs existing customers.
I said policy walking, but price walking might be the more accurate term
Wish that were the case where I live. Still I’ve noticed that what they’re now doing is offering the same price to everyone, but then giving the option of free Netflix for 1 year as a sign up bonus or the equivalent credit towards your service for that year, which effectively is the same practice.
Oooooooh that makes sense! Thanks for explaining. Yeah I wish we had legislation around it here, it’s stupid that I have to play games to get lower prices on things.
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It was a question. I do not recall you at all. Why do you care enough to follow me around and downvote?
what “dumb shit” have I said today? Would you like to correct me on UK insurance law? How did that “make you feel dumber”?
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I gave specific, UK advice, in a thread that isnt country specific, since the comment I replied to was defaulting to USA centric. Not sure why youre so upset about that? At least I clarified the exact country Im talking about, rather than assuming everyone is from the same place.
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Youre the one following me around arbitrarily downvoting.
I looked back at our last interaction. I actually said something positive. I was sincere about you enjoying starfield. Why is that “making you feel dumber”?
For the US: The Supreme Court has ruled that flashing your lights to alert other drivers of an upcoming speed trap is protected by your First Amendment rights.
Flipping off a cop is also protected, but that’s less helpful to others.
Why would you help someone driving dangerously and putting others at risk?
I do get where you’re coming from, but there are a lot of roads where the speed limit is artificially low (or temporarily lowered for no legitimate reason) for the sole purpose of collecting income from speeding fines
This part. I live in a rural area near a city; lots of people commute into town, and the main road there is flat, wide, straight, not residential, not even any livestock near the road, just open fields. The limit is 35, and half the people I know have gotten at least one $375 ticket for doing 40. It’s literally just a cash grab designed to take money from poor people trying to get to work.
You’re a disgusting law enforcement shill. Cops have too much money as it is. If they’ve got time to sit on the side of the road and steal from us, then they must have cleaned up ALL the crime in the city, so their services are no longer required. Go be a school crossing guard.
Speeding cars kill like, so many people. Am I also a disgusting law enforcement shill now?
And if my flashing lights slow down somebody, so they don’t get a ticket, then it’s a great outcome for everybody but the cops.
Besides, nobody’s getting actively killed in my example, stop being so dramatic. I’m just flashing my lights in the neighborhood to alert my neighbor, and save him a ticket. That’s who I owe my loyalty to, not the cops.
Obviously, if it’s the guy who is always speeding through the neighborhood, I’m going to let that guy blow on past the cop. They deserve each other.
stop being so dramatic
disgusting law enforcement shill
🙄🙄
Don’t speed, don’t normalise speeding. Acab yes, but not because of speeding tickets lol
So maybe from your perspective, flash your lights when you think incoming traffic is going too fast?
Keep in mind, what you’re seeing is the combined speed of yours and theirs
US drivers do it regardless to help other drivers avoid getting unfair/unjust tickets. We’ve been ticketed 275$ going 1mph over the speed limit (it was down hill bruh) when we were 19 in the middle of no where Texas.
Also we no longer drive because we were never supposed to drive and we hate doing it anywho
Also we no longer drive because we were never supposed to drive and we hate doing it anywho
What do you mean? Do you live in NYC or something? I drive 4-6 hundred miles a week
Going 5 over the limit and feeding money to pigs via ticket revenues is not “dangerous driving”
If someone’s doing 105 im not flashing them
I guess it probably varies by location but 5 over the limit doesn’t usually result in anything either. It’s normally just people going significantly over that get fines.
Also it’s a limit, not a target. Plenty of roads have a limit that is too high to actually drive at safely too.
Something tells me you’re one of those who parks it in the passing lane going at or below the speed limit.
I don’t drive, it’s bad for the environment and costs loads of money.
You have a lot to tell drivers for someone who doesn’t drive. Consider that your perspective is heavily biased and likely inaccurate
Inaccurate? Its a fact that you are more likely to die or be seriously injured if a car hits you at a higher speed.
Going 35 vs going 30 on collision increases chances for pedestrians to die by up to two times btw
Why is there a pedestrian walking across the road while there’s a car coming at them at 35 mph?
But pedestrians rarely travel that fast.
They’re helping the other drivers, not the murderous Nazi pigs.
How adorably naive.
Yeah such an American take lol
In EU I would be glad that anyone going over speed limit is fined, even 1kmph, these rules are there so drivers don’t kill pedestrians. If someone is afraid to be fined for going 1kmph over limit, just slow down a bit
Especially when you keep in mind that the speedometer reads higher than your true speed, so if your true speed is over you were clearly speeding intentionally.
Drive at 30 in a 20, end up killing a child with your massive SUV - which is another problem in its self…
Fuck tha police
Torrent everything. If it’s legal for a company to cancel my subscription then torrenting isn’t unethical.
Use the free tier if you are low-income. Privacy and security shouldn’t be for those with money.
If it’s legal for the Zuck to torrent all the books, it’s legal for me to torrent a few books.
Alternative option is not to pirate the books and instead read the public domain ones that are just free. Project Gutenberg is a good completely legit source of free books.
If libraries didn’t already exist and you tried to make one now, you would be arrested and likely get pretty hefty sentencing for copyright infringement.
Books are one of the few things I am more than willing to pay full price for.
Sure the publishers eat a lot of the money, but the authors don’t do too badly.
The very nature of a book (unless something is published as an e-book only) keeps it from being enshittfied like streaming audio and video services. If someone were to print an ad in the book, I could just rip it out and throw it away.
Books are one of the last places where you just will not see an ad or be tracked, or have popups, and other irritating “features”.
Books are good.
I’ve seen some children’s books with popups.
Slightly more seriously though, I do have some books that have an advertisement for something else from the author or publisher.
I feel like being I am pedantic on the points here so I will make a point of saying that I agree with the spirit of your comment.
Lying will get you want you want most of the time.
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I admit that rat poison is definitely unethical: it causes a horrible, painful death, the animal’s gets perforated and the poor animal gets internal bleeding. But is is one of the best ways to get rid of a rodent invasion.
Just get a cat and the rats will leave, well most of them.
Technically you can just get used litter without odor control from someone who has a cat. Cat urine will keep rats away all on its own. Just give them a bag of dollar store litter and put the whole box where you need control. Works for months.
Edit: we have chickens and rats have been an issue with getting into their feed. The chickens don’t care about the smell but the rats stay away.
Except rats with toxoplasmosis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis
“Infection with T. gondii has been shown to alter the behavior of mice and rats in ways thought to increase the rodents’ chances of being preyed upon by cats.”
If you know that the rat poison you use causes a horrible death, why not do some research and pick a better formula or a different type of trap?
Presumably because they aren’t “one of the best ways to get rid of a rodent invasion.”
Considering that I don’t see any reason for this to be the case, I’m not going to presume that without some supporting evidence.
We have as much evidence for it being a horrible death as we have for it being one of the best ways to treat an invasion
I disagree. The deaths can be directly observed and also allow for post-mortem examination. They are not some sort of hypothetical conjecture.
It would also be patently ridiculous to suggest that poison is effective, but only the ones that cause painful death.
Furthermore, presentation matters. OP presented it as “definitely” being a horrible death with details that would support this. Follow-up comment was straight-up presented as conjecture with nothing to support it. If they aren’t confident in their own point, then why should I be?
My point stands. Nice try though.
None, I strongly advocate for ethics in all things.
Now if we want to talk about illegal lifehacks, that’s a different ballgame.
do you have any ethical but illegal life hacks in mind?
other than Internet piracy
Throwing away junk mail that isn’t addressed to you is a felony in the United States
but throwing it into the street is only a misdemeanor for littering.
What is your best illegal lifehack?
Stuff some cash in an envelope and send it to Sweden for a totally anonymous mullvad account, download and set it up on your device (legal)
Download qbittorrent, go to the settings and bind it to your mullvad connection (legal)
Torrent every single 1 and 0 you consume, and seed that shit forever and eternity (mixed legality)
If you’re ever in charge of a young child with a stroller, it’s the ultimate shoplifting tool. You can cram all sorts of things under or behind it under the guise of fussing with the baby, and just walk out afterwards, no one wants to stop a fussy baby from leaving a store. Use this to harm predatory corporations that you can’t ethically give money to.
That’s true, but when you work checkout, you’re told to look there, specifically. And cameras, so be careful. If you steal meat, for instance, move to a non monitored isle, something cheap they don’t care about you stealing, so they don’t monitor it, and stash the meat there. But also Buy one of whatever you steal. They see you pick stuff up, but they can’t really tell you picked up 2 of the same slab of meat, they see you pay for one, they think all is good. Be super friendly and nice to all the staff. It’s not them you’re stealing from, they hate the system as much as you. Wear glasses, and mildly but not flashy upmarket clothing. Don’t wear hoodies or sunnies or nondescript clothing. And then you’re magically invisible. After working in a supermarket for multiple years, I can tell you exactly who they watch, and who they don’t.
Oh, also, watch out for security disgused as shoppers, they’ll walk around with a basket without any refrigerated items, just weird random junk, and they look at the people more than the shelves, walk too slow, and they’ll randomly follow you, so go in weird directions so you can spot them, act like you gotta double back to a few different weird isles, out of order, then it’s too obvious for them to follow you. Then If you see them try to follow you, but get frustrated, you definitely know to steal away from them. Or come back another day, they’re not there every day, or all day.
Storytime, I had a lady with a stroller come through, saw her all the time. She never looked me in the eyes, never bought much, was always a little off, avoidant to the point of rude. I always knew something was off, but i never check prams, because f that. One day I see a line of big burly blokes lined up at the exit to my register, I was running, “what’s up fellas?” “Here to catch a thief, don’t worry about it” they apprehend her, she had been loading her pram, chockas full, with meat slabs, they tell me later, they watched her put them all in her stroller. They watch the expensive stuff like a hawk.
Don’t feel bad stealing from corporations, they don’t feel bad stealing from you.
Also in bigger stores like Target, there may not be an unmonitored aisle. Just… look up, if you don’t believe me. But maybe not too obviously.
Many places punish employees for excessive “loss” in their departments. Sometimes explicitly.
Even ignoring that places will price “loss” into their products, I think it’s important to consider that this can affect “the little guy” too. Disproportionately at times, imo
Pricing in the loss only makes sense if it recovered any of the losses. And if it did, I’m pretty sure they would’ve already done it regardless of whether there’s any loss since it would just be pure profit in its absence.
Pricing in the loss only makes sense if it recovered any of the losses.
Maybe I’m not understanding what you mean, but I don’t think that’s true. They raise prices to account for the fact that they will not receive any money and lose out on what they paid for some percentage of the items.
And if it did, I’m pretty sure they would’ve already done it regardless of whether there’s any loss since it would just be pure profit in its absence.
Not necessarily. Not if they’re trying to beat a competitor’s price, for instance.
When I wanted to start using contact lenses, they gave me a pair of those that last one month for free to try them out, I didn’t find them entirely comfortable so they gave another pair of another brand, and a third one. Then I started again on another place, and another, I think I went a full year without paying for contact lenses.
The optometrists over here change an extra fee for lens fittings on top of the fee for an eye exam. I think it’s $80 for us after insurance.
This might be specific to Spain then. I don’t know how the shop that sells prescription glasses is called, here they are called óptica. Their margins are big enough that they don’t charge you for the eye exam, the fitting or the test contacts.
In America, they have the big profit margin, AND they still have up charges for everything else. It’s the American way.
Years ago, before everybody had a printer with a scanner, I went into an office supply store to have a document scanned. They charged me $10, scanned my document, returned my document, and said Thank You.
I asked for a copy of my scan, but that was another $15. I had assumed that the original $10 also included a copy of the scan on some form of media, but No, the $10 was just to scan it into their computer. It was another $15 to take it home with me.
BTW, I spoke with the manager, who acted like I was being totally unreasonable to assume that paying $10 for them to scan a document they have no interest in into their computer was a weird thing to sell, and that ANYONE would assume that it includes a copy of the item you scanned. He eventually refunded my $10, and I got it done somewhere else.
That’s how things are done in America.
you wouldn’t download contact lenses… /jk
Absolutely.
Me right now
Worked as a lab manager for some of those one hour shops to pay for college. The drs would tell me horror stories where people would go to the strip malls and get these cheap “contact” lenses that had smiley faces or some shit on them. They wear them then swap them with friends. Basically not taking hygiene into account. They’d get some serious eye infections. Like nearly lose your sight serious eye infections.
Oh wow, another former optical lab tech in the wild.
I switched fields years ago and I’m glad I did. Visiting glasses shops today, there’s almost no on-site lab to speak of anymore. Maybe some finishing machines, but I haven’t seen a full surface lab in years.
I don’t have anything to add to the contact lens story except - wow, that’s nasty.
If you are working as a contractor and make above a certain wage it can be worth it to setup your own LLC/S-corp. I did it one year at the advice of my CPA and it immediately knocked off 30% of my AGI. Lowered my pass thru income and tax liability. Saved me many thousands over 20 years. Its what every corporation in America does.
What did you do just pay yourself in options and drive the stock price up with buy backs? I guess you could buy your competition and load them up with all of your debt while paying you and your friends bonuses.
I’m pretty sure that doesn’t work for small corporations where no one else even knows you exist. The share value is likely just going to be the company’s net asset value.
I’m not sure about unethical, but blocking ads is a big one for me. The WWW is unusable without blocking ads.
That’s just good advice 😂
Watch youtube through other apps like Grayjoy If people are having a conversation in a dumb spot, walk through the middle of them
Use Morphe
What is Morphe?
It’s like ReVanced, which is not working anymore. Morphe works. https://morphe.software/
This one is good, but one issue (and I hope someone has a fix for me please I’ll love you forever):
GrayJay
Authentication [YouTube] P:Login required (No fallback) Reason: Sign in to confirm your ageNewPipe
This video is age-restricted. Due to new YouTube policies with age-restricted videos, NewPipe cannot access any of its video streams and thus is unable to play it.Ytdlnis
ERROR: [youtube] OC49ZUiuidc: Sign in to confirm your age. This video may be inappropriate for some users. Use --cookies-from-browser or --cookies for the authentication. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp for how to manually pass cookies. Also see https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Extractors#exporting-youtube-cookies for tips on effectively exporting YouTube cookies(Note, using these cookies requires an acct, not an effective bypass.)
In my experience those disappear after a while, no idea what google does to cause that to happen
Not for me, it seems consistent. Maybe there’s a country I can VPN into that has no age restrictions or something though, I’m hoping.
Is grayjay any better than newpipe
In the US, a handicapped parking space is only an official handicapped space if it has both the sign and the painted wheelchair.
Now that’s some real unethical shit.
Not a lifehack, just a reminder that legality is not an indicator of whether something is ethical
If you get junk mail with a return envelope, it’s automatically paid by whoever sent it, so you can mail back whatever you want, like vulgar imagery or blank forms
Or bricks.
The post office got wise to that. Changed their regulations so that business reply mail cannot be used as a shipping label.
Those are typically paid by weight. Several spammers have gotten envelopes full of gravel because of me.
It’s paid by weight and thickness so fill it with trash like pieces of cardboard and sand.
Sand sounds a bit mean. Postal service is not our enemy.
They show me nothing but naked hostility. The feeling is mutual.
Fuck, I’m gonna start doing this. I’ve tried to get the postal service to return to sender, but they never do.
