Have you ever snitched on someone as an adult?

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Reported bad service to a manager, told on a colleague, reported neighbours etc

I’ve reported dozens of safeguarding cases during my work. I wouldn’t call it snitching though. Because I’m not a teenager!

Ive also reported a number of safeguarding concerns at work. If someone is a concern around children, someone having the attitude that it is ‘snitching’ would make me watch them very, very closely too.

Yes, I have. It resulted in the bully being sacked. Mucho relief in the team.

I shopped someone for drink driving in my very early 20s. I was encouraged to do it by people who were a bit older than me and obviously didn’t want to take any potential fall out (we were working in a bar).

I don’t regret it (the person drove visibly drunk regularly) but it was horrible, I still feel sad when I think about it because I did like the person, but nothing happened in the end as I hadn’t actually witnessed her drive the car.

Well I’m talking about more lighthearted things…

Yes!! Recently I saw someone letting their child steal one of the Lego cars from the miniland part of Legoland. I told the front desk, hopefully they managed to get them on the way out. Imagine if everyone just took a bit home with them 😧. I felt sorry for the kid, absolutely no attempt by the parents to tell him that it was wrong.

Yes, an illegal practice by a member of staff in a business. I made senior management where to look. It had the potential to at best destroy the business but could have also resulted in serious harm and prison sentences.

Interesting, how were they a bully?

When I worked in a call centre after university there was a manager there who had a hobby of trying to sack people. It was horrendous. She then got sacked herself and that moment of karma was incredible.

I've reported people for driving whilst drunk, someone for mistreating animals and complained about a teachers very inappropriate comments.

Yes. Loudly bollocked a man for groping me on the tube in London a few years ago. The whole carriage heard it. He acted all shocked and then turned nasty when realised he'd been outed to the other passengers. He didn't seem to like being called a filthy pervert for some reason.

It's not going to be light hearted though is it?

None of this is snitching.

Snitching is telling on people in order to cause trouble. None of those examples are snitching.

No because snitches get stitches

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Snitching is such an ugly word.

i once told someone’s wife when her husband felt my arse at a social event. I said very loudly he’d just felt my arse. They both looked gobsmacked. The people with us, just grinned. The couple moved away. He literally touched my back and then ran his hand down and cupped my arse. So I just said “he just felt my arse” and looked at him.

it was a conversation stopper, i can say that.

This thread is odd. Snitching as an adult doesn't really exist does it? I mean I wouldn't report a colleague for taking too long on lunch break or something like that. Reporting something of concern to the correct organisation or whistleblowing is a completely different thing, it's not snitching which implies a petty intention to get someone in trouble for the sake of it.

Is that aged 10 then? I can't think of anytime I would grass anyone up unless it was a safeguarding issue.

do you understand what I wrote?

Reported a delivery driver who was driving oddly and then seemed unsteady on his feet when he left his van.
A bloke I’d been going out with boasted how he got a motorbility car and benefits from a made up condition. Dumped and reported. No idea what happened if anything.

Yes

I have reported bad behaviour in the workplace which resulted in dismissal and in one case imprisonment.

I have reported one neighbour to the police for threatening behaviours and another for dangerous driving.

I am an adult so not a "snitch". I am reporting serious and dangerous behaviour so not "telling tales".

I do you said "no because snitches get stitches!" which is a very juvenile statement.

There was a not very good new manager at work who not only had very poor management and engineering skills but was a massive bullying arse to boot. Could never work out how he got hired for the role as he was evidently terrible to the point of seriously threatening the integrity of the project we were on. I looked him up on LinkedIn and discovered some bold claims on his CV. One in particular was how he had managed a team on a fairly prestigious previous project. I knew it was bullshit as I was on the very team he was claiming to have managed. Later on in a meeting we were having difficulty trying to come up with a solution to a problem and I asked him in front of the whole senior management team 'what did you do when you were on the X project as the same problem was encountered then?'. He tried to waffle and wing his way through but it was impossible as it was a niche project that you would absolutely have no chance of blagging your way through unless you had actually worked on it. Dumb twat,

Loads of times. I often make complaints for bad customer service.

why is it juvenile exactly? I mean it's a saying I guess not used so much now but its meaning is keep your nose out so?

Because in most cases as adults they would not grass someone up just for the sake of it as in serious concerns for the welfare of children or vulnerable adults and such like.