CuriositiesAUG 28, 2023

30 Stories Of Stupid People Ruining It For Everyone, As Shared In This Online Group

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The history of humanity knows many cases when literally one person ruined everything good for all other people. Whether it's a traitor opening a hidden gate in a besieged impregnable castle, a coward who abandons formation, rallying against a cavalry charge, or a kicker who misses a decisive field goal in the final seconds of the Super Bowl...

A distinctive feature of such situations is that they are remembered, cut into the public memory no less than a cavalry wedge bursting into a gap in the infantry monolith of Roman legionnaires, or, for example, the desperate commentator’s cry: "It goes wide!" And then in threads like this one by the user u/KeanKho, netizens eagerly bring up this and many other similar stories. And we, Bored Panda, then collect for you a selection of the best...

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30 Stories Of Stupid People Ruining It For Everyone, As Shared In This Online Group

The guy who claimed vaccines caused autism has some serious blood on his hands.

TabularConferta, Artem Podrez

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511points

#2

Maybe this isnt a single persons fault. But, i feel like for those of us with chronic pain from major accidents (or syndromes or diseases), the people who abused opioid use has made it hard for everyone with legit problems.

I broke my neck, hip, and 20 other bones in a car accident. My drugs are so tightly regulated, that if theres a hang up of even 12 hours, i can run out of meds. And im not even taking heavy pain meds just enough to work. I feel like im the lucky one vs stories i hear of cancer patients, people with longer term issues, or diseases. Between the pill mills and the pharmacies, those with real issues were f****d.

djbeaker, Engin Akyurt

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325points

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That executive at HP who said, "You know, people love our printers. They are tough and reliable and work for decades. We should make them suck, break constantly, license the ink, make it all internet-linked so the printer won't even work when the wifi is down."

Ignorad, CartridgeSave Images

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322points

In fact, traditions and precedents play a big role in such stories. After all, if something unpleasant happened once, then it definitely can happen again and then over and over. And if so, it should be prevented. And it is not in vain that they say that every line of the army charter is written in blood - this is absolutely true, just to ensure that one person does not later ruin everything this exact way. And it actually works... or that guy ruins everything in another way. That happens as well, you know.

#4

The religious fruitcake mother who said that Halloween was satanic so that ended the kindergarten costume parade.

franceandmain, Conner Baker

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300points

#5

The guy who attempted to smuggle a bomb in his shoe in 2001

Now we all have to suffer taking our shoes off at airport security every damn time we fly

Plus-Statistician80, Matthew Barra

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291points

#6

The American bastard who said “all cashiers must stand for their entire shift because that’s good customer service”

Because OBVIOUSLY when you’ve got a s****y worker that treats customers like c**p, you blame the damn seat. Now get back out to the front of your register Samantha, I don’t care that you’re recovering from foot surgery, if I gave you a chair, I’d have to give everyone a chair and that’s not good customer service.

Rhaynebow, Ketut Subiyanto

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271points

What can I say, after all, we all know one story about two people who ruined everything for literally everyone on Earth. As Paul Anka sang, “there was a story I'm sure you all know, I'm sure you remember and I know you believe - the story of Adam and Eve!” And if the whole of human history, at least according to one of the common versions, began with something like this, what can we expect from the humble and imperfect descendants of Adam and Eve?

#7

My primary school used to do relatively frequent trips to a local zoo, until one boy decided to vault the fence and punch a penguin.

I wish I was joking.

eighttesticles, Dick Hoskins

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267points

#8

Other firefighters constantly ruin any sort of appreciation restaurants give out. We had a BBQ restaurant that would give a flat 10$ off your meal. If you didn't spend 10$ it was basically free. One guy ruined it on an 8$ order by demanded the 2$ be given to him as well.

Had people going in uniform on days they didn't work. Had one guy have a family reunion at a local restaurant then made a big issue they wouldn't give his entire party the discount.

I don't understand how out of touch people can be.

wehrmann_tx, RDNE Stock project

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255points

#9

I worked at an office that had casual Fridays. One day a lady came to work on casual Friday in her gym clothes, and management was uptight and appalled by it. Instead of telling her that she couldn’t wear gym clothes to work, they abolished casual Friday for everyone. It pisses me off to this day.

VolumniaDedlock, Nathan Cowley

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242points

“Probably, each of us has a similar story behind us, and sometimes we ourselves act as such a weak link,” says Valery Bolgan, a historian and editor-in-chief of Intent news agency from Ukraine, whom Bored Panda asked for a comment. “In any case, when we are in a hurry to stigmatize the guy who suddenly made everything bad, we need to try to put ourselves in their place. After all, in the end, it is they who often feel the worst of all, desperately trying to overcome such a burden on their soul."

“A classic example can be cited from sports. In 1994, the FIFA soccer World Cup was held in the USA, and it was marked by two dramatic stories. In the match between the Colombian and the USA national teams, the Colombian defender Andres Escobar, by coincidence, sent the ball into his own goal. Colombia lost - and a few weeks later, Escobar was shot dead in his hometown, and with each shot, the attacker hysterically shouted: 'Goal! Goal! Goal!'"

“But in the final match, another tragedy broke out, though not fatal. In the penalty shootout that determined the world champion, the best player on the planet and that tournament, the Italian Roberto Baggio, missed at the decisive moment. He was subjected to devastating criticism, but he managed to cope with nerves - and at the next World Cup, when he went out to shoot a penalty (and this happened several times), he scored every time. Therefore, when we accuse someone of causing us inconvenience - just think, how do they themselves feel at that moment?" Valery ponders.

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Previous job I had used to be hybrid twice a week. One person, on their hybrid day, decided to slack off work and go out. They got a call from their manager because they were late for a virtual meeting and the manager heard a lot of background noise like they were at the mall or something. Said person eventually admitted they were not home working, got fired, and now everyone had to be in the office 5 days a week.

Shiekh_Bodi, Peter Olexa

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205points

#11

Kanye West was ruined by Kanye West

RubberEyeBall, Daniele Dalledonne

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203points

#12

My third grade bully got mad because I didn’t want to include her in my version of tag game. She went to the teacher and told on me and then it had to be announced in front of the class that my game was officially banned. F**k you and your big onion head, Rayna.

croustashun, Arthur Krijgsman

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199points

Be that as it may, among the stories that are collected in this list, there are both small and completely epic, global scale, sad and funny, great and petty... So please feel free now to scroll and read this selection to the very end, comment on your favorite submissions and perhaps add your own stories of how anyone ruined everything - even if it was you yourself... After all, self-irony is a great feeling inherent in truly outstanding people!

#13

At a previous job, we got full uniforms. Shirts, pants, hats, hoodies, winter coveralls, winter coats, gloves. But we dont get shoes or boots.

Turns out a couple of years before I was hired on, they used to give boots. But one guy would take his boots and sell them, then request a replacement, then sell those. He did this about 20 times before anybody caught on because of municipal bureaucracy being slow to notice. When they caught on, they stopped giving out boots to their employees.

Edit: I worked as a park maintenance groundskeeper for Parks & Recreation

edit edit: No it is not like the show.

Corgiboom2, Craig Adderley

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194points

#14

This is going to be buried but I have to share it in hopes someone sees this and laughs.

I used to work for state government in Alaska. I was reviewing some department policies to update and I noticed a particular statement in the employee behavioral policy about adhering to basic hygiene (expected) and wearing clothes at work (not expected). I went to my boss to ask him about that and the look on his face told me I was in for a good story.

Our department had satellite offices all over the state and in some very rural, very isolated areas, these were nothing but glorified shacks. Local fire brigade shows up to one of our shacks in middle-of-nowhere to find a department employee standing outside the burnt building, in the nude. In February. Turned out that the guy, who was the only on-site employee, happened to be a nudist. Now, no one can work naked for the state of Alaska. What a bummer. 🥲

puritycontrol, Angela Bailey

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193points

#15

The Tylenol poisoner—I figure he’s directly responsible for the ridiculous amount of overpackaging in otc drugs, vitamins, etc. Plastic lid wrap seal, cap, sealed bottle, cotton…all inside another box or (shudder!) clamshell package. What a jerk.

SM1955, Mike Mozart

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188points

#16

The name Adolf has gotta be up there

anon, Claudio Mota

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171points

#17

I'm going to go with red baseball caps. It's tough being a KC Chiefs or even a Limp Bizkit fan these days if you are not a conservative.

Edit to add: I should have specified MAGAt instead of conservative in general. I do know quite a few conservatives that would love to go back to supporting a sane political party. They don't wear the hats.

kingfisher_42, Ryan Hyde

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153points

#18

The elementary school I went to let 6th graders go on an overnight trip to a lodge where we could go skiing and snow tubing. My dad volunteered as a parent and was “supervising” by letting me and 5 other girls pile on top of one tube down a steep hill and we all went flying. Two of the girls busted their arms when we all landed in a pile. It looked like a cartoon. Anyway, after that no more sleep overs at the lodge and tale has it 30 years later everyone at the school still blames my dad lol.

Carol_Pilbasian, Sergey Platonov

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141points

#19

Every policy at every company I've ever worked at or owned was because of one person abusing something. So whenever you wonder "why the hell do we have to do this?", it's because of one a*****e who ruined it for everyone else.

oldasshit, Andrea Piacquadio

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141points

#20

At one of my previous workplaces, management played music as a way of promoting good mood. They played all sorts of genres so everyone got a chance to listen to something they liked. *One* person complained that *sometimes* they had to listen to music they didn't like, so they stopped playing music altogether.

Dynasuarez-Wrecks, Alina Vilchenko

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134points

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