Worst adult tantrum you've witnessed?

jeanjolie

Saw a similar question on Reddit but that was mostly American experiences.

Wondering if you've seen some here in Ireland excluding obvious mental illness and situations in general that are stressful e.g airports and flying

Have mentioned it before on other threads.

Have had 2 adults threaten suicide in response to strident but wholly justified criticism from me. One felt he was being persecuted because the Gardai keep catching him for drugs and road traffic offences that he keeps committing. The other when I pointed out that her behaviour and the way she had treated a friend was not good enough.

Jim Bob Scratcher

hytrogen

This isn't Reddit, THIS IS Sparta!

Panthro

hytrogen wrote: »

This isn't Reddit, THIS IS Sparta!

Jeeeesh calm down WILL YA FFS!!!
ARRRRGGH!!!!




(/Tantrum)

hytrogen

Panthro wrote:

Jeeeesh calm down WILL YA FFS!!! ARRRRGGH!!!!

Finds rattle and fups it out the pram at ya (/tantrum)

wally1990

jeanjolie wrote: »

Saw a similar question on Reddit but that was mostly American experiences.

Wondering if you've seen some here in Ireland excluding obvious mental illness and situations in general that are stressful e.g airports and flying

Work in an accountants and when we sign people up we give them an estimate of their net take home pay

Bear in mind it is an estimate we do. It is not based official facts and figures

So conversation goes
So your earning are x per hour
You prob work 20 day in x month
That x gross
Take off x expenses and our fee and taxes
Use tax credits

And so on

Anyway we gave a women in U.K. An estimate of 350 pound per week basically saying , based on those types of rates and number of days and assuming tax credits/expenses and relief '' your looking at 350 a week' but we need official tax documents from HMRC(U.K. Revenue) and expense receipts and so on
And it's made clear it's only an estimte


So that was grand she signed up filled out a bunch of papers as a employee of an umbrella company


Began the job with the end client ( e.g. : IT firm)

So when it came to pay day we had her official documentation about tax affairs

Applied correct taxes based on hours worked etc

She took home 349.76

She rang up and LOST IT!!!!!!!! I kid you not

Shouting and roaring at the staff saying that the 24p is putting her over undue financial stress and she was led to believe she would get 350 a week and we lied and stole her money and we are not 1 bit professional as we mis lead our clients and steal and mess up their payroll

We tried to explain it was an estimate provided on a call(which is very clearly mentioned on the call) and the follow up excel file she received by email showing our calculations is even called an estimated payslip (name of file) for their records (which was all based on a chat)
and naturally a estimate which is over 99% is fairy excellent in my opinion as there is so many variables to effect the take home

Anyway... she F* cked us out of it!!!!!!

Then rang the recruitment agency and lost the plot with them about us (they referred her to us)

They rang us asking how we messed up her first payroll

We explained the situation and common sense hit them...



Anyway.. long story short ,,

the women quit the job over it( 1 week in)

...24p would ya believe

And I was thinking would she do the same if she was slighty overpaid ( she was bat S* it crazy so you never know)

Deer

My father in law, his wife and daughter are still not talking to us over a bar of chocolate this time last year. We were in Scotland when it happened.

They came to visit us from India and we went on a little trip. They were then to stay in cork with us for another 2 weeks. Nobody spoke in Scotland and instead of driving back to cork with us from airport they hired a car. Then packed their bags and drove back to Dublin and back to India.

Doesn't see his grandchildren or his son now. Stupid bastard.

tomwaterford

Used work in a job which involved long long hours (80+ aweek,few months a year) and the resulting tiredness/frayed tempers

and working with some of the best pisstakers and wind up people ive ever met used result in not too infrequent tantrums....but an hour or so at worst the following day it would be forgot

Gleefulprinter

Deer wrote: »

My father in law, his wife and daughter are still not talking to us over a bar of chocolate this time last year. We were in Scotland when it happened.

They came to visit us from India and we went on a little trip. They were then to stay in cork with us for another 2 weeks. Nobody spoke in Scotland and instead of driving back to cork with us from airport they hired a car. Then packed their bags and drove back to Dublin and back to India.

Doesn't see his grandchildren or his son now. Stupid bastard.

What kind of chocolate was it?

I love Sean nos

Deer wrote: »

My father in law, his wife and daughter are still not talking to us over a bar of chocolate this time last year. We were in Scotland when it happened.

They came to visit us from India and we went on a little trip. They were then to stay in cork with us for another 2 weeks. Nobody spoke in Scotland and instead of driving back to cork with us from airport they hired a car. Then packed their bags and drove back to Dublin and back to India.

Doesn't see his grandchildren or his son now. Stupid bastard.

Need more details on what happened with the bar of chocolate. Was there a sex act involved?

tedpan

Deer wrote:

My father in law, his wife and daughter are still not talking to us over a bar of chocolate this time last year. We were in Scotland when it happened.

Please explain what happened with the chocolate bar!

wally1990

Deer wrote: »

My father in law, his wife and daughter are still not talking to us over a bar of chocolate this time last year. We were in Scotland when it happened.

They came to visit us from India and we went on a little trip. They were then to stay in cork with us for another 2 weeks. Nobody spoke in Scotland and instead of driving back to cork with us from airport they hired a car. Then packed their bags and drove back to Dublin and back to India.

Doesn't see his grandchildren or his son now. Stupid bastard.

Hold on what ?
How did this happen over a bar of chocolate ?
I'm dying to know :L

tedpan

tedpan wrote: »

Please explain what happened with the chocolate bar!

Maybe it was a Secret?

Those were worth fighting over.

The_Valeyard

Bar of chocolate. Explain.

tedpan

Deleted User wrote:

Maybe it was a Secret?

Lol, very true

Deleted User wrote:

Those were worth fighting over.

I've flipped out over people eating the last galaxy caramel in a box of celebrations so I understand..

tabby aspreme

tedpan wrote: »

Please explain what happened with the chocolate bar!

I'm guessing the wrong person ate it

Necro

The_Valeyard wrote:

Bar of chocolate. Explain.

As much as I want to hear about the bar of chocolate, your tantrum in our last game is a story worthy of this thread:P

Ave Sodalis

Working in retail, I witnessed adult temper tantrums of varying degrees on a near daily basis. The longest running tantrum was about 3 hours because we didn't have postage boxes for international postage. The most angry was a man who got a different label on his roll in the deli but it was the correct price. He had an absolute melt down and did the whole "I'm never coming back here again" thing.

Tayschren

Whats the story with the chocolate?

Toto Wolfcastle

A woman told me to fcuk off when I politely told her that the queue was going the other way. She then joined the queue and specifically waited until she could go to the till next to mine and loudly asked for an refund on everything she'd bought from me earlier while ranting about how rude I'd been. Apparently because she had bought stuff already she felt that she didn't need to queue.

I also need to know what happened with the chocolate.

hytrogen

Just overtook a lad of the lycra brigade, shaved legs and all, earphones in naturally. Me in me jeans and T on a bike. Spastic doesn't even describe his reaction, I'm writing this as he's still trying to chase me lol
I'll show him up at the next lights if he catches up.

Neames

When my manchild of a boss got pased over for promotion he had a very public meltdown in front of myself and a bunch of colleagues.

Quite something to behold.

The_Valeyard

Necrominus wrote: »

As much as I want to hear about the bar of chocolate, your tantrum in our last game is a story worthy of this thread:P

I played that role excellently. Just jealous you were not Nelson :P

Yourself isit

hytrogen wrote: »

Just overtook a lad of the lycra brigade, shaved legs and all, earphones in naturally. Me in me jeans and T on a bike. Spastic doesn't even describe his reaction, I'm writing this as he's still trying to chase me lol
I'll show him up at the next lights if he catches up.

Thinly veiled I cycled faster than a guy who was just commuting and didn't give a ****.

Tayschren

hytrogen wrote: »

Just overtook a lad of the lycra brigade, shaved legs and all, earphones in naturally. Me in me jeans and T on a bike. Spastic doesn't even describe his reaction, I'm writing this as he's still trying to chase me lol
I'll show him up at the next lights if he catches up.

You had me up until the point you suggested a cyclist stopping at lights, spoofer haha

DrPhilG

I knew a guy who prided himself on being very smart. He had the Brain Training game on the Nintendo DS and was beating everybody's score. He did not take well to me beating him and spent the next few weeks presumably glued to his DS as he was texting me updates every time he increased his personal best.

Sadly for him I was also increasing my score and leaving his far behind.

After a while the texts stopped and I heard from a mutual friend a few weeks later that he had sold his DS and all the games because he was "fed up with it". I'd say it's more likely that the DS went through the wall.

We're not talking kids here, we were both about 30 at the time...

PS, also need to know the story behind chocolate-gate.

RickyOFlaherty

in a French fast food restaurant in Roscoff ... in 2004 .. height of the celtic tiger ... waiting for the ferry to Rosslare and the place was jammers. Only one waitress run off her feet. Irish guy sitting there with his family, he really didn't need the extra food, starts arguing with her saying that he said he wanted his burger medium rare. She says that she is very busy. He throws temper tantrum "take it back, I am not eating dat!". Young kids silently look on.

Deer

Bar of chocolate...

Prepare to be completely underwhelmed.

My 16 year old daughter, myself and the sister in law were in a shop. My 16 year old picks up a Oreo Milka and says...oh I must buy another one of these because your mum took mine into her room last night.

Sil goes in and tells mummy and daddy that my daughter said her mum stole the chocolate bar.

When told that this was not the case that at best the daughter had misunderstood what my daughter had said there was world war 3 and ended up in them going home.

The whole situation should have been sorted in minutes like any normal adults would.

Just to give an indication of how mental these people are... when we flew back to Dublin it arrived at 11.30. They just managed to hire a car and drove to cork, packed their bags and turned straight back to Dublin at what I think was 4 in the morning without even a hotel booked.

Same father in law chucked an absolute huge tantrum at our wedding because the photographer did not take his photograph with myself and husband first before anyone else. It was terrible, nearly ruined the day.

_Brian

I was managing a crew of technicians once, area beside us had a major bust and needed hands to help cleanup.

I sent a few fellas over to do the mop up so they could do repairs.

One of my technicians blew a fuse, he came to me ranting he was a skilled artisan engineer and not a lackey to mop floors. He said I had no interest in keeping up the appearance of professionalism in maintenance and he wouldn't be demeaned by doing this.

The guy was goood but was in tears for being asked to do this work, I insisted he did it but he said I had mortally wounded our relationship and he'd never forgive me.

He never got over it either. !

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Meeting to organise an art event at an anrchist squat in Berlin which got trapped in endless "consensus"discussion when I got a bit frustrated and said that someone needs to have the balls to make a decision.

Some feminist bloke (they do exist) objected to my blantantly sexist use of langauge and when I shrugged and carried on talking he started scremaing the house down. When they finally calmed him down, he unfortunatly overheard me mutter "****ing snowflakes" under my breath.

Three people had to escort him from the room.

weldoninhio

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

Bet ya if you'd put up a video of a muslim having a temper tantrum you'd be banned!!!!! :p:p:p:p:p

chin nuts

Deer wrote: »

Bar of chocolate...

Prepare to be completely underwhelmed.

My 16 year old daughter, myself and the sister in law were in a shop. My 16 year old picks up a Oreo Milka and says...oh I must buy another one of these because your mum took mine into her room last night.

Sil goes in and tells mummy and daddy that my daughter said her mum stole the chocolate bar.

When told that this was not the case that at best the daughter had misunderstood what my daughter had said there was world war 3 and ended up in them going home.

The whole situation should have been sorted in minutes like any normal adults would.

Just to give an indication of how mental these people are... when we flew back to Dublin it arrived at 11.30. They just managed to hire a car and drove to cork, packed their bags and turned straight back to Dublin at what I think was 4 in the morning without even a hotel booked.

Same father in law chucked an absolute huge tantrum at our wedding because the photographer did not take his photograph with myself and husband first before anyone else. It was terrible, nearly ruined the day.

That man sounds like a massive knob.

Dead Tribute Banned

I was in the passport office recently (:mad:) and witnessed quite a few tantrums.

The worst was a grown man, stinkin of booze, clearly hammered, calling all the staff c*nts. I'm not sure if he was looking for a passport even or had just wandered in there. He was quickly removed by security.

I think the minute you start screaming c*nt at people, you lose the argument!

Harry Palmr

Me, when beaten by my niece at Scrabble

Widdershins

I briefly had a boyfriend couldn't handle stress and was extremely negative. He could never look at the positives. One day he threw his food and I've still got an image of pieces of fish stuck to the kitchen ceiling. In the same day he smashed my computer.

And the other day I was in a friend's car and witnessed extreme road rage. Steering wheel thumping, shouting and swearing at every silly driver and slow pedestrian and awkward parking spot.

Gunslinger92

Booked a holiday with an ex, his little sister (she would've been 16 ish, so not really an adult I guess but still old enough to know better than this) proceeded to bitch and moan that it was unfair that we got to go on holidays (we paid for it ourselves) and she didn't...

jeanjolie

Widdershins wrote: »

I briefly had a boyfriend couldn't handle stress and was extremely negative. He could never look at the positives. One day he threw his food and I've still got an image of pieces of fish stuck to the kitchen ceiling. In the same day he smashed my computer.

And the other day I was in a friend's car and witnessed extreme road rage. Steering wheel thumping, shouting and swearing at every silly driver and slow pedestrian and awkward parking spot.

Negative in what sense?

Widdershins

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Meeting to organise an art event at an anrchist squat in Berlin which got trapped in endless "consensus"discussion when I got a bit frustrated and said that someone needs to have the balls to make a decision.

Some feminist bloke (they do exist) objected to my blantantly sexist use of langauge and when I shrugged and carried on talking he started scremaing the house down. When they finally calmed him down, he unfortunatly overheard me mutter "****ing snowflakes" under my breath.

Three people had to escort him from the room.

Says it all about the reality of anarchism

sbsquarepants

wally1990 wrote: »

Bear in mind it is an stomata because we do. It jave official facts and figures

What?


Was in Liverpool once, slightly the worst for wear. Get back to the hotel and go to get the room key, there's an English guy at the counter having a full on melt down that the girl in reception the previuous night didn't know what room he was staying in - it was booked under a different name apparently.

Anyway he's ranting and raving while I stand there quietly praying for death. Eventually (after maybe 5 or 6 minutes of a full on meltdown) my patience wears thin and I tap him on the shoulder "excuse me, do you know what room you're in now?" "yeah, why?" "do me a favour and fúck off back to it then would you"
Off he pops and the bloke in reception gives out to ME for interfering. You just can't win!

Hococop

Retail story from a few years back

Woman asked me and one of the lads if we could get the manager to order a few cases of cheap strawberries for her for Tuesday (think it was Friday or Saturday) we said we would and the manager ordered them

I was off the day they were meant to arrive so I'm quoting my manager here, she arrived in and asked for the strawberries my manager said they never arrived in ( cheap strawberries might fail quality inspection) she immediately went from all smiles to absolutely loosing the plot she started freaking out Calling him a liar etc, he went and got the order docket and showed they were ordered and never arrived, to her that wasn't good enough

Manager of the store came down to explain the same thing but she was having none of it she went on a full blown rant ran around to customers shouting "don't shop here they are a bunch of scammers and liars" at one point my manager thought she was going to punch the store manager, think she then wanted the expensive strawberries €3 sold to her for the same price as the cheap ones €1.50, can't remember if they did or not

eviltimeban

hytrogen wrote: »

Just overtook a lad of the lycra brigade, shaved legs and all, earphones in naturally. Me in me jeans and T on a bike. Spastic doesn't even describe his reaction, I'm writing this as he's still trying to chase me lol
I'll show him up at the next lights if he catches up.

This is the basis of my example. Driving along a fairly narrow road on the way to Bray, wife and young kids in the car. Two of these Tour de France wannabes cycling two abreast, taking up the whole road, line of cars forming behind. I manage to overtake and do a little pip of the horn as I go by - big mistake.

One of the guys starts yelling and I see him in my rear view mirror up the pace like he was in a time trial. I manage to leave him behind but after a while have to stop at red lights. This guy catches up with me and starts banging on my window, cursing and screaming at me. Woke up my two kids in the back who started crying, and my wife was terrified. I took his picture on my phone just in case, but I managed to get away. If my family hadn't been in the car I'm not sure I wouldn't have gotten out.

suicide_circus

^^^The lycra gang are invariably angry angry people.

Shivi111

Last Halloween we went to HomeStore to buy a 'bag of bones' for decorating the garden, they had run out but had some decorative skeletons that were broken. We asked if we could buy all of the skeletons at a reduced price; intending to take them apart and use the bones for the decorations, to which the manager agreed. All fine... but another woman in the shop had also arrived looking for a 'bag of bones' and was disappointed when there were none left. When she realised that we were getting the broken skeletons at a reduced price she lost the plot.

Stood in the middle of the shop shouting at the manager that she 'was there first', that 'nobody had told her she could buy the skeletons with a discount' and, 'Halloween was ruined for her children'. She then tried to grab the skeletons from our hands, screaming and shouting and had to be escorted from the shop.

Most bizarre situation I've ever been in!

Aglomerado

suicide_circus wrote: »

^^^The lycra gang are invariably angry angry people.

check out a YouTube channel called Cycledub, classic lycra man.

HowItsMade

was on a train in Heuston last weekend and when a man in his late 50's/early 60's sitting in the wrong seat was asked to move by two women he lost the plot.

After showing him their tickets with the seat numbers he pretended he couldn't see the seat number anywhere on the ticket and refused to move.

He was reading a paper and just delved back into it while the two women stood beside him with camping bags.

A minute before the train left the womens group sitting on the opposite side of the train pleaded with him to move for a few minutes.

In the end, he had to move got up bright red in the face and after they apologised and said thank you he burst off after telling to f**k off.

Hilarious.

DrPhilG

I used to work in a retail store in Derry and one year we had 2 middle aged ladies tossed out of the shop and then out of the shopping centre.

One accused the other of skipping the queue (which was all the way around the shop) and the accused denied it. Cue a rapidly escalating argument which hit boiling point when one called the other a "fenian bitch" and we turfed them both out before they came to blows.

TerrorFirmer

Hococop wrote: »

Retail story from a few years back

Woman asked me and one of the lads if we could get the manager to order a few cases of cheap strawberries for her for Tuesday (think it was Friday or Saturday) we said we would and the manager ordered them

I was off the day they were meant to arrive so I'm quoting my manager here, she arrived in and asked for the strawberries my manager said they never arrived in ( cheap strawberries might fail quality inspection) she immediately went from all smiles to absolutely loosing the plot she started freaking out Calling him a liar etc, he went and got the order docket and showed they were ordered and never arrived, to her that wasn't good enough

Manager of the store came down to explain the same thing but she was having none of it she went on a full blown rant ran around to customers shouting "don't shop here they are a bunch of scammers and liars" at one point my manager thought she was going to punch the store manager, think she then wanted the expensive strawberries €3 sold to her for the same price as the cheap ones €1.50, can't remember if they did or not

I was on customer service one day and a guy made such a racket on the phone you could almost feel spit dribbling out of the handset.

Roaring and shouting about how he'd taken the day off work, brought in a guy to help him, and was left waiting like a fool for delivery of something he'd bought earlier in the week and was promised would be delivered on Wednesday.

After a brief pause because I actually thought for a moment I must have it wrong somehow when he mentioned the Wednesday, but eventually I managed "Today is Tuesday...."

He instantly switched to this blase, almost good natured tone like 'Ah yeah, you're dead right' in a sort of jovial way - no big deal, aren't we a pair of eejits, type thing.

We also had a woman storm in one day roaring about how her house was in a right state because the cheap paint we were selling was coming off the external walls not long after going up and we'd better bloody well be coming out to provide new paint, clean-up and labor.

She had used normal interior paint the house....

Another guy came in one day and offered me two crumpled €50's for a €299 lawnmower - I politely declined the generous offer and he told me "You'd be an absolute fool to turn down cold hard cash in this climate' and got quite shirty and aggressive when he realised his €100 was going nowhere.

Not to me, but a customer also threatened to kill a co-worker.... because he wouldn't open the shop an hour early so the guy could get balloons for his kid's communion. He was banging on the glass roaring to be let in and ended up shouting "I know where you live, I'm going to get you, you'll see".

Customers are the best thing about retail. You just couldn't make up the stuff that goes on.

keano_afc

That snowflake that screamed "Nooooooooooooo" when she saw that the camera was on her during Trump's inauguration was pretty funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtOz90H9iB8

Sugar Free

Aglomerado wrote: »

check out a YouTube channel called Cycledub, classic lycra man.

I sometimes search his channel using my reg. just to see if I've came into contact with him, unbeknown to me.

Big Nasty

Sugar Free wrote: »

I sometimes search his channel using my reg. just to see if I've came into contact with him, unbeknown to me.

Thought somebody would have killed that pr1ck by now!