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My back's been messed up for years and my physical therapist recommended one of those percussion massage guns for muscle recovery. Look it up — the "medical grade" ones are $400-600, come with a pamphlet about "myofascial release," and half of them need an app. Meanwhile I'm scrolling Amazon and find the literal same motor, same attachments, in a case marked for "pet grooming and deshedding," for $38. Same RPM.
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Same stall force. Company just slapped a golden retriever on the box instead of a guy in a lab coat and cut the price by 90%. Been using it on my shoulders for three months. Works exactly the same. My dog's coat has also never looked better, so really it's a two-for-one. Get rekt, wellness industrial complex.
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Was walking into the grocery store yesterday and this guy in a giant lifted truck pulls into the compact spot right next to the cart corral, taking up basically two spaces, engine revving like he's about to win a race against absolutely nobody. I parked normally, walked past him, and just went "nice parking job!" with a big thumbs up. He goes "it's a truck, it doesn't fit in those tiny spots."
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I said "totally get it, that's why there's truck-sized spots right over there" and pointed to the empty rows about 15 feet away. He just stared at me. I smiled and walked inside. Came out twenty minutes later and he was STILL there, hadn't moved, just sitting in his truck on his phone. I walked past, waved, and said "still doesn't fit I guess!" He didn't even look up this time. Just flipped his blinker on aggressively like that was going to intimidate me somehow.
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10/10, no regrets, would absolutely point out bad parking to a stranger's face again.
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Manager: "We've updated the overtime approval policy." New Hire: "Okay, what changed?" Manager: "Any work done outside your scheduled hours needs pre-approval, or it won't be paid." New Hire: "So if I stay late, I need to ask first?" Manager: "Correct." New Hire: "Got it. Makes sense." A few days later, New Hire got an urgent Slack message at 6:45pm, after his 6pm shift end, asking him to fix a broken deployment.
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New Hire: "Sure, give me a sec to get approval for the overtime." Manager: "Just fix it, we'll sort the paperwork later." New Hire: "The policy says pre-approval." Manager: "This is an emergency." New Hire: "Understood." He fixed it. Took 40 minutes. The next day, he submitted the overtime for approval, after the fact. Manager: "You can't submit this after the work was already done." New Hire: "You told me to just fix it." Manager: "That's different." New Hire: "How?" Manager: "It was urgent."
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New Hire: "So urgent things skip the approval step?" Manager: "No. You still needed approval." New Hire: "From who? You were the one who asked me to do it." Manager: "You should have gotten it in writing." New Hire: "You messaged me in writing. It's right here." Manager: "That's not a formal approval." New Hire: "What's a formal approval?" Manager: "The overtime request form." New Hire: "The one that takes 24 hours to process?" Manager: "Yes."
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New Hire: "So during an emergency, I should've told you to wait a day for the form before I could fix the outage." Manager: "You're twisting this." New Hire: "I'm reading it back to you."
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Y'all I need to tell you about the chaos that just went down at my mechanic's shop because I genuinely don't know how a brake check turned into this. I don't usually post long stories but here we go. My car's been making a noise for a week, so I finally take it in Tuesday to a shop I found nearby, not my usual guy, he was booked out two weeks.
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I explain the noise, the guy (owner, I think) says it's probably the brake pads, quotes me $280, I say fine, do it, I need the car by Friday for a trip. Friday comes. I go pick it up. Pay the bill, get in the car, pull out of the lot... same noise. Exact same noise. So I turn around and go back. Me: "Hey, this is the same sound I came in with." Him: visibly annoyed "We replaced the pads. That's what you asked for." Me: "Right, but the noise is still happening, so something's still wrong?"
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He goes and grabs this little flashlight, shoves it at me, and says "Here. Look yourself if you don't believe me." I'm like... sir I'm not a mechanic, that's why I'm at a mechanic. Me: "I'm not saying I don't believe you, I'm saying the problem isn't fixed. Can someone take a listen?" He huffs, gets one of the techs, they drive it around back for two minutes, come back and go "sounds fine to us." Me: "It's doing it right now, can you hear that?" Guy goes "I don't hear anything."
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Doesn't even get closer to the car. Just says it from ten feet away. At this point I'm still calm, I just say "Ok, well I need this actually fixed before Friday, I have a trip. Can someone look at it properly?" He says "We already looked at it. You want us to look again, that's another labor charge." I said "I just paid $280 for the original problem to still be there, I'm not paying another labor charge to fix what you already charged me to fix."
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