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* SomeoneRuinsItForEveryone:
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-sue-ted-to-modern-business/ This photo store]] had to stop offering photo-cropping services because too many people tried to sue them for damages despite signing a waiver. The customer they're explaining this to then demonstrates exactly why they stopped.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/bugging-out-about-it/ This car rental employee]] stopped telling a joke about charging extra for cleaning bugs off a rental car's windshield after a customer, as usual, took the joke seriously and [[MoodWhiplash nearly went berserk over it]].
** When [[http://notalwaysright.com/ruined-by-ink/ this customer]] asks why a store doesn't offer credit for recycled cartridges anymore, the clerk replies that people were getting cheap junk cartridges from other brands off the internet and recycling them for more credit than they were actually worth. Sure enough, the customer had been doing that scam himself.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/wow-you-really-ruined-it-for-everyone/246290/ An employee]] for a hotel chain decides to use the chain's discounted employee rate for stays at its Hawaii locations to take her family on vacation. However, when they get there, it turns out that she failed to have HR authorize the reservation and she must pay the full reservation. The resultant ear-shattering tantrum the woman throws costs her the trip, her job, and, for everyone else employed at the hotel chain, the employee discount at the chain's Hawaii locations.
** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/when-the-plane-should-be-doing-the-zoomies-not-its-passengers/308801/ this story]], the crew of a plane rapidly get tired of a mother not doing anything about her child running roughshod around the plane until...
--->'''Captain (on PA):''' "I'm keeping the seatbelt sign on for the remainder of the flight. Passengers are only allowed out of their seats to use the restrooms. For those who wish to complain about my actions, please mention in said complaints that some customers were unwilling to control their children until it became technically illegal not to do so. I wish most of you a pleasant remainder of the flight."
** Similarly, at [[https://notalwaysright.com/parenting-is-not-something-you-should-be-on-the-fence-about/327752/ this car racing event,]] the catch fence is damaged. It's not damaged enough to cancel the event over... until a bunch of kids [[ParentalNeglect whose parents are too busy with their cell phones and beer]] start messing around with the fence, opening up a hole. Then when the track crew try and get the kids away from the hole, the parents naturally tell them to leave their kids alone until the police have to get involved, and an announcement is made informing spectators that due to the kids' action and their parents' negligence, the remainder of the races have been cancelled. The submitter notes that the cops' prescence was likely the only thing saving the parents from being attacked by angry fans.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/stamp-of-disapproval-2/274446/ This postal worker]] isn't supposed to let people in when the post office is closed (like it is during her lunch break), but makes an exception when a woman desperately needs stamps. Then, after the woman turns abusive and demands a refund (stamps are non-refundable), the submitter regrets her decision.
--->''I no longer open that door during lunch for ANY reason. I don't give a s*** if it's some little old lady on the other side who just needs a single stamp to mail a card to her dying father.''
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/never-joke-with-the-customers-ever-part-4/275464/ This coffee shop owner]] decides to take down a joke sign that says children left unattended will get a double espresso and a free puppy after an employee had to deal with a dense customer who took the sign completely seriously and cannot comprehend that it is a joke.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/not-sue-ted-to-modern-business/ This photo store]] had to stop offering photo-cropping services because too many people tried to sue them for damages despite signing a waiver. The customer they're explaining this to then demonstrates exactly why they stopped.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/bugging-out-about-it/ This car rental employee]] stopped telling a joke about charging extra for cleaning bugs off a rental car's windshield after a customer, as usual, took the joke seriously and [[MoodWhiplash nearly went berserk over it]].
** When [[http://notalwaysright.com/ruined-by-ink/ this customer]] asks why a store doesn't offer credit for recycled cartridges anymore, the clerk replies that people were getting cheap junk cartridges from other brands off the internet and recycling them for more credit than they were actually worth. Sure enough, the customer had been doing that scam himself.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/wow-you-really-ruined-it-for-everyone/246290/ An employee]] for a hotel chain decides to use the chain's discounted employee rate for stays at its Hawaii locations to take her family on vacation. However, when they get there, it turns out that she failed to have HR authorize the reservation and she must pay the full reservation. The resultant ear-shattering tantrum the woman throws costs her the trip, her job, and, for everyone else employed at the hotel chain, the employee discount at the chain's Hawaii locations.
** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/when-the-plane-should-be-doing-the-zoomies-not-its-passengers/308801/ this story]], the crew of a plane rapidly get tired of a mother not doing anything about her child running roughshod around the plane until...
--->'''Captain (on PA):''' "I'm keeping the seatbelt sign on for the remainder of the flight. Passengers are only allowed out of their seats to use the restrooms. For those who wish to complain about my actions, please mention in said complaints that some customers were unwilling to control their children until it became technically illegal not to do so. I wish most of you a pleasant remainder of the flight."
** Similarly, at [[https://notalwaysright.com/parenting-is-not-something-you-should-be-on-the-fence-about/327752/ this car racing event,]] the catch fence is damaged. It's not damaged enough to cancel the event over... until a bunch of kids [[ParentalNeglect whose parents are too busy with their cell phones and beer]] start messing around with the fence, opening up a hole. Then when the track crew try and get the kids away from the hole, the parents naturally tell them to leave their kids alone until the police have to get involved, and an announcement is made informing spectators that due to the kids' action and their parents' negligence, the remainder of the races have been cancelled. The submitter notes that the cops' prescence was likely the only thing saving the parents from being attacked by angry fans.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/stamp-of-disapproval-2/274446/ This postal worker]] isn't supposed to let people in when the post office is closed (like it is during her lunch break), but makes an exception when a woman desperately needs stamps. Then, after the woman turns abusive and demands a refund (stamps are non-refundable), the submitter regrets her decision.
--->''I no longer open that door during lunch for ANY reason. I don't give a s*** if it's some little old lady on the other side who just needs a single stamp to mail a card to her dying father.''
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/never-joke-with-the-customers-ever-part-4/275464/ This coffee shop owner]] decides to take down a joke sign that says children left unattended will get a double espresso and a free puppy after an employee had to deal with a dense customer who took the sign completely seriously and cannot comprehend that it is a joke.
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** After a customer [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-danger-with-rhetorical-questions/68800/ tries to turn their keyboard into a wireless one]] by cutting the wire and fails to see why it's stopped working, tech support tries to make them see sense by asking if doing the same process to their phone would make their phone wireless too. The line goes dead twenty seconds later.
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* TakeAThirdOption: [[https://notalwaysright.com/hey-you-dont-work-here-but-that-could-change/278990/ This hardware store manager]] finds that the store's fastener section, which had previously been chronically disorganized, is suddenly in perfect order, but none of the staff will take responsibility; she eventually discovers that a teenage boy with autism has taken to organizing the section essentially as a hobby. Nobody really ''wants'' this to stop, as it's to the benefit of the store, the employees (who hated organizing that section), and the boy himself, but the manager can't legally or morally have someone doing work for the store if they're not employed there. The solution? Well, there'd be no problem with what the boy is doing if he ''were'' an employee...
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* TakeAThirdOption: [[https://notalwaysright.com/hey-you-dont-work-here-but-that-could-change/278990/ This hardware store manager]] finds that the store's fastener section, which had previously been chronically disorganized, is suddenly in perfect order, but none of the staff will take responsibility; she eventually discovers that a teenage boy with autism has taken to organizing the section essentially as a hobby. Nobody really ''wants'' this to stop, as it's to the benefit of the store, the employees (who hated organizing that section), and the boy himself, but the manager can't legally or morally have someone doing work for the store if they're not employed there. The solution? Well, there'd be no problem with what But, as the boy is doing if he ''were'' an employee...manager realizes, they ''can'' hire a new employee to take on the task...
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* TakeAThirdOption: [[https://notalwaysright.com/hey-you-dont-work-here-but-that-could-change/278990/ This hardware store manager]] finds that the store's fastener section, which had previously been chronically disorganized, is suddenly in perfect order, but none of the staff will take responsibility; she eventually discovers that a teenage boy with autism has taken to organizing the section essentially as a hobby. Nobody really ''wants'' this to stop, as it's to the benefit of the store, the employees (who hated organizing that section), and the boy himself, but the manager can't legally or morally have someone doing work for the store if they're not employed there. The solution? Well, there'd be no problem with what the boy is doing if he ''were'' an employee...
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-client-with-the-driveway-that-drives-everyone-away/294640/ This woman]] has a big house with (presumably) multiple bathrooms, but can't get any contractors to repair her driveway because she refuses to let them inside to use her bathroom (which she's legally obligated to provide if she wants them to do her driveway).
