To ask the most immature or spoiled behaviour you've seen from an adult?

[HellaFitzgerald]

Today, in the supermarket, I saw a woman (I actually heard her before I rounded the corner and saw her, to be accurate) of about 40 loudly berating a man who worked there about something she wanted not being in stock. She then started to jump up and down on the spot stamping her feet like a toddler and then sat cross-legged on the floor in the middle of the aisle, arms folded, bottom lip pouted out. I was mortified for her, the worker, the people witnessing it, for everyone involved. It was so bizarre (though I was secretly glad to witness it as everyone on here always shares bizarre stories from people in public and I always feel left out I'd never seen anything before)

A staple got stuck in her stapler so she tried whacking it off the desk, getting angrier and angrier till she eventually chucked it across the room.

Another time I can't remember what she was getting so cross about but she eventually worked herself into her usual rage till she finally got up to kick the wall. Put a nice hole in the plaster board right near the skirting.

I've honestly never seen anyone behave like she did in my working life, it was really uncomfortable to be present when she got like that. I think she was quite an unhappy woman in her private life sadly.

Lived and worked with a woman who I now believe had some mental health issues. One day she suddenly turned on me out of the blue, I had done absolutely nothing to her. I went away on holiday and when I came back she told me that everyone had been offered a promotion except for me (which I later found out was a lie)
She started giving me really sarky answers when I spoke to her, these incredibly evil glares and saying the most incredibly nasty stuff.
One day she told me she wasn't sure I was in the right career. I reported her for bullying and was then told she'd been spoken to.
Back in our flat she had caught wind of it all and honestly started shrieking like a banshee, I had a recording of her on my phone. Banging her fists on the table, she followed me into my room even though I'd shut the door (had no lock on it) told me I was a joke who everyone laughed at behind my back, couldn't do my job and that's why they gave my work to other people (they didn't)

Anyway eventually I found out what my 'crime' had been and why she hated me so much. I had referred to her nationality as the country she had grown up in as opposed to the country of Asian origin that her parents originated from. (Yes really)
Instead of talking to me about it like a normal human being she'd decided to launch a 2 month hate campaign against me.
On the very last day of seeing her she apologised and told me she'd been under a lot of stress with family illness, gave me a hug and so on. I just didn't care as I knew I'd never see her again.

She also told me my life lacked stability and I 'lived on the edge' because I wasn't married with a kid at 27 lol... it's a cultural difference I guess.

Throughout school there was a group of four of us who were the best of friends. We stayed close after school and regularly met up, went on holiday and things

When the first one of us turned 30, the other three of us decided to do her a surprise afternoon tea party. She’d always said she wanted to do an afternoon tea so we thought it would be a nice one for her. However our rookie mistake was we decided to do it at her parents house so her mum could invite her over for Sunday lunch and instead it was our surprise. One of made the scones, one made the cakes, the sandwiches was my domain but it all looked lovely.

She turned up, saw us, saw the table covered in the spread we’d made and she lost it big time. Proper sobbing that she’d come for a roast dinner and wanted a roast dinner. She’d been looking forward to it all week and couldn’t believe we’d tricked her, we were all horrible people, saying this while sobbing and having her BF trying to comfort her.

Our group of four became a group of three after that!

She was extremely rude in her reaction but to be fair, this sounds pretty crap!

😂Leading to highly satisfying fisticuffio.

I once got a phone call out of the blue from my DS primary school saying DS had been isolated after sexually assulting another boy and 'grabbing the boys testicals'.

I was told that I should pick him up at regular pick up but he is being removed from other children and it would be reported as 'safegaurding' issues, lots of big scary threats as if my DS was a rapist or something that he wasnt safe to be around other kids and the authorities would have to investigate.

As I was pulling up at the school I got another message saying they needed to talk to me when I arrived, I went in and was met with instant apologies. Told that they had had several children including multiple trusted seniors come to them to tell them they where wrong (they then interview all the children present, about 60 from 4 different year group who ALL bar the bullies gave the same story).

Apparently MY DS had been being bullied for several months (my DS just tend to ignore stuff, he doesnt 'fight back' he just goes quiet and huffy) and he had been thrown to the ground by a group of boys and punched and kicked, there was no 'sexual' assault at all and my DS was solely the victim.

The fact they got it so wildly wrong is shocking, the fact that before they even knew what was going on they started action against my DS as if he was a 'pervert' and that the bullying had been going on for months in their care without them even noticing dispite the fact they are suppose to be under supervision.

How did no adult witness this happen yet every kid on the playground did?

Just crazy, I would now take the schools 'thoughts' on what happened on the playground with a MASSIVE pinch of salt because they clearly know fuck all.

I've been going to festivals and things for nigh on 20 years and I've never had someone put a wristband on me, like a child.

Politely handing someone a wristband is not "chucking".

Out of 800 people only about 5 asked or expected for their wristbands to be fastened for them, so clearly most people expect to do it themselves and have no problem doing it. Having one staff member open and fasten 800 wristbands would take hours!

Yes of course if someone is disabled it's perfectly fair to receive assistance and of course assistance was given to anyone who requested it, but for most non-disabled/NT people it's extremely easy. Certainly not "hard to impossible." I'm disabled and ND and I wouldn't even blink twice at it.

I think you're missing the point of the story which is that the young woman demanded THREE wristbands (holding up others in the queue) because they had to be exactly right. If you're that demanding about the exact looseness of a wristband either do it yourself or get your partner to do it! Don't expect a minimum wage casual employee to ignore a huge queue building up to pander to your exact requirements. Or attach it to your bag or clothing or something if it's that big a deal.

While kicking off and crying is clearly excessive, if I'd prepared to eat a cooked savoury full meal and got light cold sweet snacks and cakes instead, I wouldn't be happy.

Afternoon tea is delicious but I can't eat that much sugar unless I've kind of prepared for it first; the rare occasions I do afternoon tea I cook a savoury breakfast with lots of protein earlier in the day to kind of balance things out. Whereas if I was invited for a full roast lunch I might not eat breakfast at all, and if you're starving and want something hot and filling and savoury, a load of cold sugar just doesn't hit the spot.

Though it was a lovely thing to do!

I think paninigate ended three or four long posts ago, but if this were a thread on sense of humour failures and rudeness, you’d win. Hands down.

Yep. It got a bit self-congratulatory and was over-egged by one party who was gee’d up by support.

i just want to read stories about entitled cunts, not relentless posting by people who think they’re funny.

The granny having a tantrum in the front garden wins it for me.

I gave sneaking sympathy for the cream tea lady to be fair.

Well I have been going to festivals over 20 years and worked them and its only been very recently they didnt fasten them on, it is litrally the job (the point of wristband is they are not removable non transferable validation of payment, if they arent attached they dont serve that purpose - you cant just attach it to your bag/clothes thats not how they work).

Also you say of course disabled people but your fully assuming this woman isnt based on nothing... people assume Im not disabled all the time and the discrimination gets tiresome honestly.

As for get your partner to do it, lot of people dont have partners or go to things alone.

Its not remotely bizaare to not be able to wrap something tightly around your own wrist and then magically peel and stick it while also holding it steady entirely 1 handed (because of the way they are designed peeling them first causes them to stick to themselves).

I worked at a festival one summer and the instructions were very clear in that we had to put wristbands on for people, not give them to them. Otherwise they’d have people giving them to their mates over the boundary walls and using them for re entry

Afternoon tea is mainly sandwhich based, yes there are often scones (both savory and sweet options) followed by a few small indervidual cake bites and a fruit garnish but the point is it starts with sandwhiches and you work your way from savory to sweet.

I dont really understand how its any different from having sandwhiches for lunch at work followed by a small mr kippling cake or something and you dont have to prep for that with special breakfasts.

Agreed. The usual drill is they put the wristband on for you and clamp the end.

That was in response to mam0918 😅

Ok I think this thread has died, sadly. It’s gone mental. It was quite good. First the panini debacle and now the wristband hoo-hah and special savoury protein-rich breakfasts to ‘prepare’ for afternoon tea. What. The. Fuck.

Agreed, I was quite enjoying it in between working until it was derailed by nonsense.

Shame

A woman I worked with started playing every ringtone on her phone, full volume, because the men of the office were looking at something on another female colleague's screen.
She could not deal with attention on anyone else, for any reason.
I did not stay in the job long.

For fuck's sake.

There was one person handing out wristbands for 800 people.

All but a few were happy to put wristbands on themselves. Do you think 785 people were all wrong?

The woman was part of a group who were all happy to attach their own wristbands so she had plenty of friends who could have done it for her. No reason to demand an employee do it.

Event was inside a building, not at a festival, so no "walls" anyone could pass a band over. It isn't physically possible to get inside the building without showing a ticket.

Wristbands are used purely to show what group people are in for events, which is completely random. The evening comprised various events run on a strict schedule (three events run simultaneously, and all three events are then repeated three times) but each event is limited capacity. So each person is randomly assigned either a blue, green, or red wristband on arrival. If you have a blue wristband you do activity 1 first then activity 2 second. If you have a red wristband you do activity 2 first. Green wristbands do activity 3 first. That's the sole reason for the wristbands. NOT to show that you've paid! If you hadn't paid then you would not be inside.

Management rule was that holding wristband or attaching to clothing is fine, since there's zero possibility of giving a wristband to anyone else.

If people want to swap wristbands then that's perfectly fine since the only reason for the wristbands is to ensure you don't get 800 people all trying to do activity 1 at the same time. So if a red and a blue swap it doesn't matter, since the total number of reds and blues remains the same.

You're all missing the point that asking to have your wristband put on is fine. Rudely demanding that someone use up three different wristbands just on you because you have such specific yet unstated requirements on exactly how loose you want the wristband to be is not.

and special savoury protein-rich breakfasts to ‘prepare’ for afternoon tea.

Sorry me being profoundly physically disabled and autistic and having specific dietary requirements upsets you.

Plenty of people choose to cut down on sugar, and wouldn't want to eat a sugary breakfast right before eating a ton of cake. Hardly some abnormal thing!

And plenty of people would chose to eat no or light breakfast if they knew they were having a big roast for lunch, and would be disappointed and hungry to find no cooked meal, just sandwiches and bits of cake.

Still doesnt make sense.

You claim you have NEVER had a wristband put on you 'like a baby' (a very abalist and offensive comment) in 20 years of attending festivals, which is standard protocol... which festivals have you been attending?

Demanding anything would be rude but you attitude, assumptions, insults and incorrect knowledge on wristbands make it seem like she didnt 'demand' you just dont understand the standard ettiquette and though a completely average request was wrong.

The senario doesnt actually matter at all it was your ignorance being called out and you the continued to display it.

But afternoon tea isnt 'a tonne of cake' on average it's usually per indervidual person 4 sandwhichs, a scone (choice of sweet or cheese) and usually 3 indervidual bites of cake.

Thats whats confusing, its not a dessert buffet theres plenty of savory things on an afternoon tea, Im usually full before even reaching the cake stage and its not an over abundance of cake its actually a small amount akin to a small desert.