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Recently, I went to McDonald's and I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets.
I asked for a half dozen nuggets.
'We don't have half dozen nuggets,' said the teenager at the counter.
'You don't?' I replied.
'We only have six, nine, or twelve,' was the reply.
'So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?'
'That's right.'
So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets
(Unbelievable but sadly true...)
(Must have been the same one I asked for sweetener and she said they didn't have any, only Splenda and sugar.)
(And they think they are worth $15.00 per hour)

TWO
I was checking out at the local K-Mart with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those dividers that they keep by the cash register andplaced it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed. After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the divider, looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it.
Not finding the bar code, she said to me, 'Do you know how much this is?'
I said to her 'I've changed my mind; I don't think I'll buy that today.'
She said 'OK,' and I paid her for the things and left.
She had no clue to what had just happened.
(But the lady behind me had a big smirk on her face as I left)

THREE
Awoman at work was seen putting a credit card into her DVD drive and pulling it out very quickly.
When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM thingy.


FOUR
I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car.
'Do you need some help?' I asked.
She replied, 'I knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door un-locker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?'
Hmm, I don't know. Do you have an alarm, too?' I asked.
'No, just this remote thingy,' she answered, handing it and the car keys to me.
As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, 'Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries. It's a long walk....'


FIVE
Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift.
One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, 'I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?' 'Just use paper from thephotocopier', the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.


SIX
Amother calls 000 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid had eaten ants.
The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and he should be fine, the mother says, 'I just gave him some ant killer......'
Dispatcher: 'Rush him in to emergency right now!'

Life is tough. It's even tougher if you're stupid!!!!
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I could relate to just a few which keeps me in the Positive category only.
I will pray for the Comparative Lot later.
When I was a caseworker for Dept of Welfare, I told a client she needed to verify income.

"I can't. I work under the table." (Not any more!)

The rule was immutable and she finally brought me proof of income, several sheets of paper bearing the image of $20 bills.
@Mamapolo2016 As an employer, on a few occasions we were asked to fraudulently document employee dates of employment. We didn't. On one occasion someone had worked for us for 2 years while claiming unemployment benefits from the state. Good grief, it's almost guaranteed that someone cheating on that will get caught. Employers send the names, wages paid and SS numbers to the state department of labor every quarter ... the very same state agency that pays out the unemployment benefits. Natch that agency will cross-check the list of who is working with who is getting paid benefits.

When the state thinks they have nabbed someone it takes a while to investigate. Like maybe we had entered the wrong SS number, or otherwise made a mistake, etc., so the employer is in the loop as they work through the investigation. The final determination: Fraud by the employee.

The penalty: The state wanted the money back and gave her like 12 months to pay it back, and disqualified from possible future benefits for 12 months. Period.
@Heartlander We had a kinder, gentler bureaucracy. In truth, Medicaid fraud has a far higher cost than food stamps or cash.

We had to thoroughly, grindingly, grimly research Medicaid fraud, but only rarely (maybe 5%} did anyone get charged.
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