One of the most basic things that we can give to other humans is respect. Life is complicated and challenging, but we’re all in it together. So we might as well try to stand by one another. However, if somebody shows you their true colors, and you don’t like what you see, you’re under no obligation to give them any more of your time or energy.
Netizens have recently been sharing stories on Reddit of moments when they instantly lost respect for another person due to their behavior or something they said. It can take years to build a great reputation, but as we see from these stories, it takes only seconds to ruin it. Good luck reading through these tales of people that you probably couldn’t stand either, pandas, and be sure to upvote the ones that you find particularly shocking!
#41
I used to have a friend who moved here a few years ago. From the moment he arrived until the last time I spoke to him a few months ago, all he's done is try to live free on government benefits and whatever other scheme he can find to get free money at the expense of others. His ultimate goal is to find a way to never work and basically live for free off the back of taxpayers.
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10points
#42
Belittling your spouse in front of other people. Next door neighbors do it, best friend's husband does it, father-in-law did it. No respect for any of them after that.
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10points
#43
Guy admitted to me that he thinks monogamy isn't actually possible because every relationship he's been in either he's been cheated on or been the cheater.
9points
#44
I spent weeks doing free work for this guy. Guy is a loud, constantly talking, never shutting up braggart but he's related to a friend so I told him I'd help him for free. I spent weeks doing manual labor for him, taking his direction and even working when he sits there because "we don't need two people working"
Time comes and all I want is for him to leave a room so I can do my own work. I ask out of respect because the owner of the place told me I could use it and bragger says no. He asks if I could go somewhere else instead. Right then and there I stopped being nice to him, stopped helping, stopped everything.
A week later he comes over and says it's time to give him a hand. I say no and he whines like a twelve year old and says I told him I would and he came all this way...I said no but I figure maybe there's a chance I made an off comment that I'd help him so I gave him one more day of work but made sure he was listening when I told him it would be the last time I help him ever. He says okay.
The very next day he comes over and acts like he didn't even hear me. Same deal "come on, it's time to go" I say no and he's genuinely confused. I go over everything we said when he whined last time and the guy cries.
All I wanted was for him to leave the room and give me a couple hours of peace.
Time comes and all I want is for him to leave a room so I can do my own work. I ask out of respect because the owner of the place told me I could use it and bragger says no. He asks if I could go somewhere else instead. Right then and there I stopped being nice to him, stopped helping, stopped everything.
A week later he comes over and says it's time to give him a hand. I say no and he whines like a twelve year old and says I told him I would and he came all this way...I said no but I figure maybe there's a chance I made an off comment that I'd help him so I gave him one more day of work but made sure he was listening when I told him it would be the last time I help him ever. He says okay.
The very next day he comes over and acts like he didn't even hear me. Same deal "come on, it's time to go" I say no and he's genuinely confused. I go over everything we said when he whined last time and the guy cries.
All I wanted was for him to leave the room and give me a couple hours of peace.
9points
#45
I looked up to my JROTC teacher quite a bit. Then at a football game he sat down next to me and we had a conversation, and he made some incredibly racist comments about some of my black classmates. My opinion of him did a complete 180.
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9points
#46
Ghosting...i just think you're a coward.
And yes i have ghosted someone before and learned from that. Never done it since.
And yes i have ghosted someone before and learned from that. Never done it since.
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9points
#47
I was the new officer in charge of a small town in law enforcement . Was an older guy on section who I had heard a few whispers about. Let’s call him John. The guys worked single shifts and usually it was a quiet place, but I would patrol sometimes without necessarily telling them just as a bit of support as we were a long way from backup. On busy weekends shifts would overlap so they could back each other up. One night a violent domestic came in a woman being badly assaulted, kids present. I’m monitoring the radio and the first guy is calling John so they arrive at the address together. No answer. First guy is heading straight to the job as the call taker can hear this woman getting an absolute hiding. I head to back him up. Not far from the job I come across John’s patrol car on darkness parked off the road. Assuming a problem I pull up next to John and ask has he heard the radio? Yes I was just heading there he says, I will follow you. He’s literally shaking. Policings a hard job but I had absolutely no tolerance for that POS coward from that day on. Turns out he had form for mysteriously just arriving at jobs once the other guys had the offender in hand. He was an out and out coward but wouldn’t leave the job as the money was good. In my whole career I worked with guys and girls of all shapes and sizes but bless them, I never did come across another yellow dog like John.
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9points
#48
Had a guy i worked with who was all gung ho military and always swore to it. When he got called back he very conveniently had an old knee injury come back to haunt him.
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8points
#49
My MIL worked at a law firm that specialized in trusts and wills as a paralegal. While I was in college, I worked there as the receptionist and remember my then boyfriend’s aunt coming in to create her trust. She had no children of her own and named my boyfriend as the sole beneficiary of her estate. They had an amazing relationship. I mentioned it to him at the time, and life went on.
We eventually got married. About 15–20 years later, his aunt passed away from cancer. To our surprise, the will was never filed, and no one had a complete copy. My MIL produced an incomplete copy (pages 1 and 2 naming her as the executor) all of the middle pages missing, and the signature and notary pages at the end. He showed the records department at the courthouse, and they pulled him aside to tell him it was the shadiest copy they had ever seen. As a result, the will could not be validated. The estate went through probate, and because there was no valid will, my MIL was next of kin.
My husband chose not to challenge his mother or contest the outcome. I was alone one day and in a bad mood when she called me, and I let her have it. I told her that not only was she a bad sister, but also a terrible mom for purposely doing this to her son. She eventually made it right, but never ever will I trust that lady again. I still remind my husband to call her every once in a while, but inside I can’t believe any mother would treat her child like that.
We eventually got married. About 15–20 years later, his aunt passed away from cancer. To our surprise, the will was never filed, and no one had a complete copy. My MIL produced an incomplete copy (pages 1 and 2 naming her as the executor) all of the middle pages missing, and the signature and notary pages at the end. He showed the records department at the courthouse, and they pulled him aside to tell him it was the shadiest copy they had ever seen. As a result, the will could not be validated. The estate went through probate, and because there was no valid will, my MIL was next of kin.
My husband chose not to challenge his mother or contest the outcome. I was alone one day and in a bad mood when she called me, and I let her have it. I told her that not only was she a bad sister, but also a terrible mom for purposely doing this to her son. She eventually made it right, but never ever will I trust that lady again. I still remind my husband to call her every once in a while, but inside I can’t believe any mother would treat her child like that.
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8points
#51
Seeing what people I admired and respected posted on social media for likes and attention.
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7points
#52
I started working with them.
They had this amazing reputation for being incredibly knowledgeable and very well skilled at their job. Took me all of one week to start questioning their actual knowledge. And about another two weeks to really start questioning their skill. All the find out that their reputation was fully unearned and fully based on their assertive personality so people just assumed that what they said was correct. They also had the arrogance of God knows what this place did before I started working here it would fall apart without me. No it actually worked better before you started and we continued on just fine with you gone.
They had this amazing reputation for being incredibly knowledgeable and very well skilled at their job. Took me all of one week to start questioning their actual knowledge. And about another two weeks to really start questioning their skill. All the find out that their reputation was fully unearned and fully based on their assertive personality so people just assumed that what they said was correct. They also had the arrogance of God knows what this place did before I started working here it would fall apart without me. No it actually worked better before you started and we continued on just fine with you gone.
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6points
#53
Found out about my husband’s (soon to be ex) mistress who also knew he was married. Have zero respect for either at this point.
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5points
#54
Lie. I was friends with someone who I think had 100 personalities.
Told me her mom passed. Acted like it. Only to have me walk into her house to her having a conversation with her mom on the phone.
A month later she told me two of her grandkids were taken by CPS. Only for me to walk into the house and she’s face timing the kids who were with their mom.
Said she built a million dollar home but when she left her significant other and moved back to where she came from, she lives in a two bedroom apartment.
I haven’t spoken to her since she left.
Told me her mom passed. Acted like it. Only to have me walk into her house to her having a conversation with her mom on the phone.
A month later she told me two of her grandkids were taken by CPS. Only for me to walk into the house and she’s face timing the kids who were with their mom.
Said she built a million dollar home but when she left her significant other and moved back to where she came from, she lives in a two bedroom apartment.
I haven’t spoken to her since she left.
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5points