Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

tommy21

peatcass wrote: »

In comparason to what you got her, what did you get her?

Nothing, not many 16 year olds now would get their parent's friend a presnet. But prior to that incident I had always made her feel very much at home in our house. I would be the one who would have entertained her when she arrived early and my mother was not home from work, cups of tea, dinner etc., being friendly. I had even done some gardening for her (for free) from the age of 14 on. As I said I was not expecting a present nor did I ask for one, but it felt as if she was doing it deliberately in comparison to what my siblings got. It was pretty embarassing for all involved as we opened them together. She just has a mean streak, can't put it across here very well.

Rick Deckard

tommy21 wrote: »

Nothing, not many 16 year olds now would get their parent's friend a presnet. But prior to that incident I had always made her feel very much at home in our house. I would be the one who would have entertained her when she arrived early and my mother was not home from work, cups of tea, dinner etc., being friendly. I had even done some gardening for her (for free) from the age of 14 on. As I said I was not expecting a present nor did I ask for one, but it felt as if she was doing it deliberately in comparison to what my siblings got. It was pretty embarassing for all involved as we opened them together. She just has a mean streak, can't put it across here very well.

At 16 I'm sure you could have afforded a €3 pack of buttons for her.

tommy21

peatcass wrote: »

At 16 I'm sure you could have afforded a €3 pack of buttons for her.

:rolleyes:

IvyTheTerrible

seamus wrote: »

This is surprisingly common in some companies. A good friend's father passed away recently. Another friend attended the funeral for an hour, but was told by her boss that she would have to make up the time during her lunch hour.

Seriously, where do these tightarses come from? It's a funeral FFS.

When my brother died, I had to show a death certificate by the end of the year to get my 2 whole days of compassionate leave.

minidazzler

tommy21 wrote: »

Nothing, not many 16 year olds now would get their parent's friend a presnet. But prior to that incident I had always made her feel very much at home in our house. I would be the one who would have entertained her when she arrived early and my mother was not home from work, cups of tea, dinner etc., being friendly. I had even done some gardening for her (for free) from the age of 14 on. As I said I was not expecting a present nor did I ask for one, but it felt as if she was doing it deliberately in comparison to what my siblings got. It was pretty embarassing for all involved as we opened them together. She just has a mean streak, can't put it across here very well.

Ruin the garden, salt the earth.

SerialComplaint

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

When my brother died, I had to show a death certificate by the end of the year to get my 2 whole days of compassionate leave.

If your manager doesn't have any contact with you outside of work, this isn't really that unreasonable, though I can understand that it might be upsetting.

seamus wrote: »

A good friend's father passed away recently. Another friend attended the funeral for an hour, but was told by her boss that she would have to make up the time during her lunch hour.

Seriously, where do these tightarses come from? It's a funeral FFS.

Yes, it's her friend's father's funeral, not the organisation's friends funeral. Why would you expect your boss to pay you to attend your friend's funeral. You'd be amazed at how people would be attending a funeral every week or every month if they got paid time off for it.

seamus

SerialComplaint wrote: »

Yes, it's her friend's father's funeral, not the organisation's friends funeral. Why would you expect your boss to pay you to attend your friend's funeral.

Because plenty of things are more important than business. Allowing an employee to go off and help a friend in a time of need is more important than the few euro it'll cost you for those few hours. Giving someone a set amount of time to attend a funeral and forcing them to work the time back, is the action of a tightarse. He'd probably have no compunction taking a whole day off for himself in the same scenario.

If someone starts taking the piss then fair enough, but any reasonable boss or employer would accept a funeral as an unforeseen issue out of the employee's hands rather than a reason to penalise them. Obviously there needs to be given and take on both sides. A morning or afternoon off to attend the funeral, not a day or two.

YFlyer

seamus wrote: »

This is surprisingly common in some companies. A good friend's father passed away recently. Another friend attended the funeral for an hour, but was told by her boss that she would have to make up the time during her lunch hour.

Seriously, where do these tightarses come from? It's a funeral FFS.

One guy was a day late moving out of a house that he was finish renting because he was at his uncles funeral. The landlord (<snip>) took the days rent from the guys' deposit.

sunflower27

tommy21 wrote: »

Its you isn't it

Nope. You'd have got nothing off me.

SerialComplaint

seamus wrote: »

Because plenty of things are more important than business. Allowing an employee to go off and help a friend in a time of need is more important than the few euro it'll cost you for those few hours. Giving someone a set amount of time to attend a funeral and forcing them to work the time back, is the action of a tightarse. He'd probably have no compunction taking a whole day off for himself in the same scenario.

If someone starts taking the piss then fair enough, but any reasonable boss or employer would accept a funeral as an unforeseen issue out of the employee's hands rather than a reason to penalise them. Obviously there needs to be given and take on both sides. A morning or afternoon off to attend the funeral, not a day or two.

Expecting your employer to pay you while you manage your social obligations is the action of a tightarse. Man up, and pay for your own socialising.

seamus

"Socialising"? Maybe down the shticks a funeral is considered "socialising". Jesus wept.

Arktura

I love this thread:
When in college a few yes ago we had this extremely scabby friend, here are two of his most famous stingy moments,

He was notorious for skipping rounds so one night one of the guys called him on it and demanded a bottle of beer back, the bottles were on offer for €3, so your man went to the bar, came back after 5 minutes with one bottle of beer, said that someone had bumped into him and knocked his friends drink and smashed it, he then took a drink out of the other bottle and walked away while my friends jaw dropped!

Another time we had a huge house party and the house was trashed so we were all cleaning after it cos the landlord called over in the evening. He rang and said he was gonna call down, we thought he was gonna offer a hand with the cleaning. He had actually hidden 2 cans of lidl beer under the stairs!! He walked 2 miles for 2 cans of lidl beer.

Could write a book on him

Coriolanus

tommy21 wrote: »

What, even in direct comparison?! I suppose maybe if you knew her she is pretty much like that in most scenarios, my sisters got lucky that time.

Maybe she just thinks you're a horrible bastard.

vincenzolorenzo

Yay 200 pages, epic thread!!!

No stingy stories to add i'm afraid

eoin27

A friend of mine always walks everywhere. A load of us hopped into a taxi to get from Pearse Street to Wexford Street and he said he'd meet us there and walked over on his own!

Same friend also walked back from Blackrock into town for 2 hours because the taxi driver wouldnt negotiate a fare beforehand.

garv123

I dont know is it him been stingy, but it sure is horrible.
Where I work in a bar a fella orders pints and he takes gulps out of it like you do but then he spits most of it out of his mouth back into the glass. its disgusting and everyone has copped on to how he drinks it. one point could last him hours.
He's the only person who can drink a pint and have more head on it when he's finished than when he started. its mostly saliva though:eek::( we double wash his glasses because its so disgusting.
he's not short of money so we think hes just too stingy to buy pints. if you dont want to drink it fast just sip away no problem.

Stretchryan

Out on a session one sunday after coming back from Stuttgart from the Germany V Ireland game a few year back. Watching the All ireland hurling in the pub and one of my french mates was there and as usual was broke.

Bought him a beer - then the group decided to go for a meal so i subbed him 50eur(never got it back) but worse after the meal we went to the pub and he made a show of buying a round. The clown left me out....

garv123

eoin27 wrote: »

A friend of mine always walks everywhere. A load of us hopped into a taxi to get from Pearse Street to Wexford Street and he said he'd meet us there and walked over on his own!

Same friend also walked back from Blackrock into town for 2 hours because the taxi driver wouldnt negotiate a fare beforehand.

if it was under half a hour id rather walk. taxi drivers are robbing c**ts. they add 2 euro on per person then too using the taxi.

Twee.

A group of mates and myself got Tweetseats for dinner at Crackbird a few weeks ago. The deal was free food and you pay for drinks. We all got a drink, except one who got a tap water. When it can to the end, the bill was about €15 for the drinks, so we all threw in a few extra euro because the food was great and we had good service. Missus on the tap water just says "Oh no, I didn't get a drink".

I know it's a free meal, but come on! Tap water and no tip!

She often forgets to go to the ATM, or has no change for the shared taxi fare after a night out.

Elba101

Years ago a friend of mine used to work in a restaurant that had a great reputation and was doing very well.

When it came around to pay day the manager paid the waiter and waitresses out of the tips they got off customers?!

Stingy baxterds!!!

bluemooncity

if you ever come across a lad from mayo but says hes from dublin trust me run hes as main as dish water, hes in u.l college thats in limerick does a bit of reading for news on newstalk. description, tall ,skinny bushy hair,very stingy,dresses like a lad from fair city dunnes stores job, not even the bargains now the sue ryder jobs, hes also known as aka skidmarks

face1990

bluemooncity wrote: »

if you ever come across a lad from mayo but says hes from dublin trust me run hes as main as dish water, hes in u.l college thats in limerick does a bit of reading for news on newstalk. description, tall ,skinny bushy hair,very stingy,dresses like a lad from fair city dunnes stores job, not even the bargains now the sue ryder jobs, hes also known as aka skidmarks

Cool story bro?

DEFTLEFTHAND

bluemooncity wrote: »

if you ever come across a lad from mayo but says hes from dublin trust me run hes as main as dish water, hes in u.l college thats in limerick does a bit of reading for news on newstalk. description, tall ,skinny bushy hair,very stingy,dresses like a lad from fair city dunnes stores job, not even the bargains now the sue ryder jobs, hes also known as aka skidmarks

Who banned this POET:eek::eek:

wild_cat

bluemooncity wrote: »

if you ever come across a lad from mayo but says hes from dublin trust me run hes as main as dish water, hes in u.l college thats in limerick does a bit of reading for news on newstalk. description, tall ,skinny bushy hair,very stingy,dresses like a lad from fair city dunnes stores job, not even the bargains now the sue ryder jobs, hes also known as aka skidmarks

I just read that with a bogger accent and it kinda makes sense.

QuiteInterestin

Shared a house with a girl for a few weeks a while back (she moved out shortly after I moved in....not connected, I'm not that bad to live with ). When she left, she took everything, and I mean everything, that she had ever bought for the house. Now fair enough taking the big stuff (iron, extra knives and forks) but she even took a half used bottle of washing up liquid and (my personal favourite) any light bulbs that she had replaced while she was in the house!

skregs

Twee. wrote: »

We all got a drink, except one who got a tap water. When it can to the end, the bill was about €15 for the drinks

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but I sure as fúck wouldn't put money down on a shared drinks bill if I'd had tap water

onlyrocknroll

skregs wrote: »

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but I sure as fúck wouldn't put money down on a shared drinks bill if I'd had tap water

If I had a free meal I'd probably buy a drink. Even if I didn't I'd still leave a tip.

Birneybau

skregs wrote: »

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but I sure as fúck wouldn't put money down on a shared drinks bill if I'd had tap water

The food was free!

Redlion

eoin27 wrote: »

A friend of mine always walks everywhere. A load of us hopped into a taxi to get from Pearse Street to Wexford Street and he said he'd meet us there and walked over on his own!

Same friend also walked back from Blackrock into town for 2 hours because the taxi driver wouldnt negotiate a fare beforehand.

To be honest, I hate giving fare to taxi drivers when I can avoid it. In my opinion, I'd call it laziness on your part for not just walking from Wexford Street to Pearse Street. Sure, it's only a 10/15 minute walk. Now unless it was raining or your leg just managed to fall off, then a taxi is right.

Capt'n Midnight

eoin27 wrote: »

A friend of mine always walks everywhere. A load of us hopped into a taxi to get from Pearse Street to Wexford Street and he said he'd meet us there and walked over on his own!.

http://hittheroad.ie/#from=Pearse+Street&to=Wexford+Streed
Walk for 24 minutes (1.8 km)

Less if you walk faster, and a lot less if you use dublinbikes