I didn't bother reading this the first time around since it was a Keeeeeevin post but since you posted this I read it and it just confirms what I already thought of him based on his SE posts, which is that he's an idiot.

Guy I know goes to town and forget to bring his wallet on purpose so his friends have to buy him drinks. He told one of us and that was quickly the end of it.

Another bar one but that prolly goes under the student thing.
2 friends are really good at fussball(the soccer table thing) so they would go out with very little cash and just play for beers with other drunken guys. It was okay untill they started wearing tank tops and shorts because it was too hot to play in the bar.

I agree with you, I am surprised that multiple posters feel like you are in the wrong.

About 5 years ago I had started a new job in a very small family owned business. The people who owned the business were incredibly wealthy, owning tons of rental properties, a strip mall, etc.

I did a/r so it was my job to do the bank deposit. I was told that the person before me brought it at the end of the day, and didn't leave early she dropped it off on the way home. It was only about 5 minutes out of my way, so I just would drop it off after completing my day.

I was also told that I was expected to go to evening credit meetings 2 times a month, but that I would not be paid for it. The person before me did this without pay, and I didn't want to start on a bad note. I just did it as well without getting paid for the extra hours. I was hourly, not salary obv.

The end of my first month I was told what I "owed". For what? Soap and paper towels. Excuse me? The owners only provided toilet paper, if we wanted soap we had to buy it ourselves. They also provided a hanging towel to use but if we wanted something non disgusting to dry our hands on, we would have to buy it. We also had to provide our own coffee and tea. The owners (father and son) would come in and pour themselves our coffee and tea all day.

So, I realized fairly quickly it wasn't the place for me, and started looking. I was there almost 3 months when I had an emergency with my dog and dropped him off in the morning before work. I had to get out a few minutes early to take the deposit to the bank and pick up the dog, so I told my boss and left literally about 5 minutes early. That week he docked my pay by 1/4 of an hour, even though I still went to the bank for him and went on my own time every night, also to credit meetings.

I called him out on it, and he said "leave early, don't get paid". At that point I went and composed a list of every bank deposit I made, the time it took to make them, and the hours spent in credit meetings and presented him with a bill for the unpaid hours I worked, all at OT rate. He said "you realize if I pay this you are through here". Yep. Not a prob. He paid me and told me to leave and not return. He then fought unemployment saying he never fired me, but that I had abandoned my job and just never showed up. I won.

potatoes,

I don't know, those guys sound like a couple of awesome dudes!

You should have talked to a lawyer afterward and sued for wrongful termination.

I worked with a guy who was well into the six figures salary for many years. He was in his upper 50s and looking to retire early.

One evening a young gal co-worker about 25 years old is offering to pick up dinner from the local chinese restaurant. She is part-time and struggling to make ends meet, everybody knows this. So she goes out of her way to ask this guy if he would like anything. He says "get me an egg roll. How much is that." Glancing at the menu an egg roll is $1.10. He hands her a paper dollar and holds out some change in his hand saying "I haven't got a dime." She says "that's okay." He replies "great" and puts the change back in his pocket. (He had a couple quarters and a few pennies.)

Unbelieveable, I know.

This guy would also order two pizzas for dinner, then sit there and charge co-workers a dollar per slice if they wanted a piece.

When I was in middle school, my friend's older brother asked me if I wanted some Ice Cream.

I said, "yes."

He comes back with a spoon and a stopwatch (along with the quart-sized container of ice cream). He said for two dollars I can eat all I want for 2 bucks for 2 minutes.

I declined the offer.

DMC,

Is there a cultural component to your story- or are these like run of the mill Americans?

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Oh I just remembered a story!

I am drunked and at karoke. I accidentally tip the KJ $20 instead of the $5 in my wallet. This means I have $5 for drinks, which is obviously terrible. When I realize my mistake, I go back to talk to him. We're pretty good friends, and so he's really understanding about the mix up. The funny part of the story is that the person who was walking away from the booth as I walked up told the KJ that HE put the $20 in there. (KJ had noticed right away that there was a $20 in there because it didn't happen to often) We had a good laugh and I ended up buying him a drink and tipping the $5.

People are amazingly stupid when it comes to employment law, and you are no exception.

No longer correct as of 2008

god damn.. reading posts about people getting tilted about being tilted because of posts is tilting the **** out of me

Not sure what you're talking about. He would have a good case, at least in California.

And no I'm not interested in a legaltardoff so I'll drop it here.

Oh, well if it's like that in California it would probably be like that anywhere.

"In 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that merchants cannot be required to collect sales tax from a customer in another state unless the retailer has a “physical presence” in the customer’s state (defined generally as a store, office or warehouse)...

Flash forward to last year [2008]. New York governor David Patterson signed legislation that would require out-of-state internet merchants who have on-line affiliates in the state to collect sales tax from customers there. Estimated to net an additional $50 million a year in added revenue, similar legislation has been considered in several other states. Amazon then filed a lawsuit against New York on the grounds that an affiliate does not constitute a physical presence in a state and thus the New York law would violate the Supreme Court’s 1992 decision." - Source: E-Commerce News


NY will lose the case when it gets to the Supremes

So?

If/when the SC overturns NY's law, then it will be correct. As of now your statement is not correct.

"The New York law was immediately challenged in court by Amazon.com and Overstock.com, and has never taken effect. That case is now being considered on appeal..." - Washington Times, March 23, 2010 (emphasis added)

Back to stinginess (I'm going to stop tarding up the thread with sales tax stuff and I'm sorry I started)

My wife's grandmother used to take toilet paper home from hotel rooms. (Not much but it's all I got.)

On our honeymoon we stayed in a timeshare condo for a week, then in a 4-seasons for the last 5 days. We did some cooking in the condo as there were a few nights we wanted to stay in. We bought a small bottle of cooking oil for ~$1.50 at the grocery store.

My wife brought the rest of the bottle back home with us on the plane, along with the small bottle of dish soap we had purchased.

I don't know if I would call that stingy, unless it was some kind of hassle to pack it, it's just not being wasteful.

Edit: I was assuming this was pre-no liquid days. Putting an open bottle of oil in your luggage is pretty lol.

I can't think of one thing specific but I would say my friends dad is by far the cheapest person ever. Some things he does include:

-Only buys groceries at a place called "Mike's Discount" (Basically everything is about to or already has expired) or sometimes he may "branch out" to Aldi's....

-Will go around the house and unplug anything that is not in use. I'm talkin like even if a lamp is turned off because it is still technically using SOME energy....

-Cuts open his tubes of AIM toothpaste to get every last bit....

-When he buys mouthwash, he will dump it all into a bigger jug and add water to the remainder of it...

Oh and you better believe this is the same guy who pisses away all of his money at the casino....god these people tilt me...

The only thing worse than tipping posts are legal nittery posts.

To be fair theres no reason he couldnt sue. He would lose, but he could still do it.

ty for this tip.

I'm fairly sure the motivation behind this was a practical joke, not stingyness.