54 Times People Lost The Respect Of Others In An Instant

Guy I worked with who liked buying, fixing, and reselling cars told me once how he sold one to an older woman. Said it had a busted this and that, wasn’t worth a quarter what he sold it to her for. He was laughing about it. I thought it was sleazy and told him so, so he told me to get lost. Just looking at him grossed me out after that.

I let a friend move in with me while going through a rough patch. I seen first hand how much she mistreated and neglected her pets.

Woman I know professionally got Covid during a meeting in the middle of the pandemic. Took two extra international flights while contagious to places that didn’t require tests instead of sitting tight and getting past it.

About 3 months after my wife passed away I was invited to a gathering for bereaved people by a well known hospice organisation. One of their volunteers told me I shouldn’t still be upset - it was three months ago.

Affer one if our company holiday parties, I volunteered to give one of the guys a ride home as he drank way too much. He was always very nice and helpful in the office. When I helped him inside, I just happened to look in one of the rooms and it was a shrine to Donald Trump. The walls were covered in Trump and MAGA flags. There were bookcases filled with, not books, but Trump merch including the Trump Bible and shoes. He also had an "altar" with a Trump statue and a light shining on it. I wish I had taken pictures but thought I was already intruding enough. Never talked to that guy again other than strictly business.

She let me take her on a date. She was flirty and affectionate. She kissed me. Then she revealed that it was a "prank" she was playing on her boyfriend, and I was just a prop for it.

At a party - cool, smart guy I recently met got pretty drunk. He insisted he drive despite his wife's half-hearted attempts to take the keys. Instantly lost respect; he endangered his wife's life, his own, and innocent drivers for no reason. Lame.

Friends dad got remarried like six months after his wife passed away because of cancer. Turned out he had been talking to her online for like a year. He was a pastor and the whole thing just grossed me out.

Made a simple mistake because I was being overworked, which I had already raised concerns about over email with management. One specific HR woman decided that my mistake warranted a formal investigation with in her words “a view to letting me go”. I had been with the company for over a decade, was the most qualified, had an immaculate record and this was my first infraction. Meaning that firing me would be illegal where I am. Not to mention that we were extremely understaffed in a specialty field and even if a replacement could be found it would be at least a year before they would be a productive member of the team.

During the investigatory meeting she actually cackled when the charge against me was read and full on pouted when the impartial hr observer from our head office reprimanded her and told her what she was trying was illegal and that the evidence was on my side.

We later found out that she was a psychotic sadist who was having affairs with several married managers.

In college a girl I was interested in dating told me she only dates Pre-med or Engineering students because they have good income potential.
As an engineering student, I was squicked out.

They chose their new girlfriend over their own kids.

So this is smaller than some things on this list.

Woman I used to work with. She seemed cool but I never really got a chance to talk with her. One day there was a conversation going on and she made an offhand comment about how she doesn't take vaccines because she doesn't know what is going in her body. That would've been enough, but she was smoking while she said it...

My boss, who was the country manager, asked me to lie about performance numbers in the upcoming meeting with the client... And asked me in front of my 3 direct reports.

We worked hard to get the numbers up and knew what drove them and where they would be in a few months. Knew it backwards and forwards.

He just wanted to look good.

I literally told him "Sorry, not comfortable with that. We worked hard for these numbers and are confident that we'll continue to progress, so that's how I'm going to frame the presentation."

I walked out of that meeting with a lot less respect for him and realizing how much of a sociopath someone has to be to move up in the company. Resigned shortly after.

It might sound small, but complete inability to apologize will do it for me. Even with friends I've known for 40 years. If our friendship isn't important enough for you to put on your big kid pants and own up for screwing up and promise to make a good faith effort not to do it again (people aren't perfect, so a good faith effort is all I ask for), that tells me everything I need to know.

At a diner, he mansplained the special to the waitress after the waitress had just explained to him.

As soon as I found out my new business partner had been cheating on their spouse for many years, with multiple partners.

Like, if you’re going to lie to the person you’re sleeping in bed with at home every night… You’re gonna lie to me too.

Being around people who start talking bad about someone who just left the room. The worst!

Had a friend of a friend I would hang out with sometimes, we like the same NFL team so we would chat about them. We'd go out to bars with the same group often, and while he had different political opinions than the rest of us, we didn't talk about it much and he seemed like a decent person. Invited him to my Halloween party, where he showed up, proceeded to get insanely hammered within about an hour, then started being gross to every single woman at the party, and proceeded to be slightly racist to a group of black women (including my fiancee) as well as my buddy's girlfriend who is Asian. We kicked him and out and he tried to fight my other buddy and a business owner down the street threatened to call the cops on him, he proceeded to antagonize them so they said "ok we're calling the cops." We threw him an Uber, told the driver good luck, and I never spoke to him again.

After my father died, his younger brother keep telling my mom that my dad would want him to have my dad's briefcase. My mom checked and found it full of cash. Turns out it was from gambling, and my uncle was happy to try to rob his sister in law less than a week after his brother passed.

I overheard a former coworker telling another a lie about me. When I later confronted them about it, they lied again and denied saying it.