Dan Jaman wrote: » Plain and simple theft. The Guards should have been called.
4Ad wrote: » Our lady on the till at work needed change one day, so she went through the poor box and replaced 50 euro of coins with a 50 euro note. When she checked the following day the 50 euro note was gone. She knew there was one shift in who are notoriously mean (and proud of it) they are so stingy they even had to bolt the chocolate vending machine to the wall as the used to rock it to get the chcolate out ! Couldn't accuse anyone but the meaness of them..
Canard wrote: » Thought I'd provide an update on my post about my stingy landlady -- some people might not agree with what I did, but I have no qualms. Bit of a long read but it involves various stinge stories from the past four months. So, firstly, from that post to now: in addition to taking my roommate's room as mentioned there, she then took mine too over the holidays for two nights (apparently). Again, didn't really have the option of saying no because she'd have done it anyway and just not given me any reduction for it because she always saw the place as her own. I asked her to clear out my wardrobe then (!!!) because it was full of her crap, she cleared out one shelf for me to put my stuff away. :rolleyes: Anyway, I came back and got a generous reduction of "€10 per night, same as if you have guests" -- can't acknowledge my magnanimity without reminding me of my (non-)contractual obligations, of course. She'd completely reorganised the entire room. Her poor daughter found it too dusty for her precious liking, so they moved all of my stuff and hoovered, and I was told not to store my things under the bed anymore to keep it clean -- again, she still hadn't cleared out the wardrobe and the room was quite small. I'm asthmatic and I can assure you that my room was not dusty! She joked that I should pay her cleaning fees for it. Another discovery upon my return was the replacement of the hall light (again, apartment building, so no natural light in our hallway) with a motion-activated one, clearly to save on electricity costs despite it being winter and the light being very necessary. I asked her if it wouldn't be annoying to walk down the hallway in the dark waiting on the light to come on and feeling your way around... she misinterpreted my question and said "thats exactly why I did it; I was walking down it and almost fell and decided we needed a way to turn it on from a distance!". Or a way to save a few cents here and there, every little helps. As the months went on she became more and more insufferable. One month she couldn't come back for the rent so she had her daughter come get it with no warning; we were just woken up by her in our hallway telling her mam on the phone that no one was home (lol) and how there were shoes everywhere and the paint on the ceiling was peeling (as if that could be our fault). I came out and greeted her then. :pac: We told her we didn't have the rent on us because we hadn't been told she was coming and she wasn't impressed (again, despite the already ridiculous set-up of it all). April was the straw that broke the camel's back. My roommate was away in Germany to see his girlfriend and, given that our workplace has been unexpectedly shut down for a while, kept extending his trip to avoid her, so I was on my own. She came back and instantly launched into a tirade about the state of the place, e.g. "the bins haven't been taken down". I pointed out that it was half-empty and she insisted that I still should've brought it down (???), "her" shelf in the fridge wasn't cleared (sorry what), she moved all of our stuff into "our" (smaller) shelf of the freezer, and when I told her she was just b1tching at the apartment looking, well, lived-in and that she ought to clean up her shelf by throwing away her sauces (THEY ALL EXPIRED BETWEEN 1999 AND 2006), she responded with "If I want to eat rotten food I'll eat rotten food, it's my shelf!". The cleaning fees were referenced again and this time she was insistent about it, but I didn't give her any obviously. I mentioned that I'd be in London this week and she asked when I'd be back. I told her, and she seemed disappointed (sorry for renting a room for myself like) and said she was having her granddaughter come and stay that (so, this) weekend and was clearly going to try take my room for it, no consultation on whether we'd be happy for her to bring her along or anything. The washing machine: we were using it, but not washing things that we knew she'd wash (e.g. sheets). She asked if I had any and I said yes, two sets actually, because they take up too much space in the laundrette machines (pretending we'd been going) "and since you wash them when you're back but we're not allowed, I left them for you". "No no no, you can't do that, if you have to, pay for another cycle at the laundrette". Cleaning fees indeed. So... she left early April, I found out I had to stay in England later than planned, a good friend of mine agreed that I could take his apartment for the bit of May I need to be in Paris and pay half his rent (so we both get a great deal), and I just left. Didn't tell her because her big selling point for her unorthodox modus operandi was "no contract, all under the table, leave when you want " and I knew she'd lose her sh1t at me leaving at such short notice, so I just left and blocked her number. Gave the place a clean and plonked my keys in the place we leave the rent, left with my suitcases in tow. Sweet, sweet revenge on a stingy, stingy cow.
Lollipops23 wrote: » I'd be pretty pissed off at two incompetent incidents in a row tbh.
Lollipops23 wrote: » Not stingy, outright theft.
Boom_Bap wrote: We have one of those boxes as well, when it's counted every week it's short. There is at least one or more stinge that steals from charity every week multiple times.
4Ad wrote: » Couldn't accuse anyone but the meaness of them..
Boom_Bap wrote: » ncmc wrote: » Thinking about work has reminded me about another incident. Though not sure if it’s stinge or just plain theft! We have one of those charity boxes with sweets, chocolate, crisps, cans of mineral etc for €1. Which is actually pretty good value as you’d pay more than that in shops. Every week the woman would come in to refill it and take the money and every week it would be short money. I moved it over to the reception desk and put an extra post it note on it reminding people to pay and still the money would be short occasionally. There was one woman who was buying a new car and had been coming in a fair bit for one reason and another. I’d seen her take stuff out of the box and was fairly sure but not certain that she wasn’t paying. One day I came back to my desk and caught her red handed and so politely pointed out that the items cost €1 each and it was a charity box. She proceeded to bluster and get thick and starting going on about how she was paying thirty odd grand for a new car and how it was only a couple of Euro. I tried to explain how it wasn’t us taking the money that it was an outside charity but she was having none of it. So in the end I made a big show of pulling out €1 from my purse and saying ‘sure this ones my treat’. She had the decency to look a bit sheepish but not sheepish enough to pay herself! Thirty something grand on a new car and stealing stuff from a charity box ffs. We have one of those boxes as well, when it's counted every week it's short. There is at least one or more stinge that steals from charity every week multiple times.
ncmc wrote: » Thinking about work has reminded me about another incident. Though not sure if it’s stinge or just plain theft! We have one of those charity boxes with sweets, chocolate, crisps, cans of mineral etc for €1. Which is actually pretty good value as you’d pay more than that in shops. Every week the woman would come in to refill it and take the money and every week it would be short money. I moved it over to the reception desk and put an extra post it note on it reminding people to pay and still the money would be short occasionally. There was one woman who was buying a new car and had been coming in a fair bit for one reason and another. I’d seen her take stuff out of the box and was fairly sure but not certain that she wasn’t paying. One day I came back to my desk and caught her red handed and so politely pointed out that the items cost €1 each and it was a charity box. She proceeded to bluster and get thick and starting going on about how she was paying thirty odd grand for a new car and how it was only a couple of Euro. I tried to explain how it wasn’t us taking the money that it was an outside charity but she was having none of it. So in the end I made a big show of pulling out €1 from my purse and saying ‘sure this ones my treat’. She had the decency to look a bit sheepish but not sheepish enough to pay herself! Thirty something grand on a new car and stealing stuff from a charity box ffs.
Boom_Bap wrote: » We have one of those boxes as well, when it's counted every week it's short. There is at least one or more stinge that steals from charity every week multiple times.
ncmc wrote: » It was the busiest time of year and we are only human, hands up, we made a couple of fairly basic mistakes. But there is absolutely no excuse for the way he acted which was over a tiny amount of money in the scheme of things. Just this week, I was charged twice by BOI for a replacement card, so overcharged €8. I had to make three phone calls so sort it out. So way more inconvenient than the guy in my story. But I still didn’t give the person on the phone abuse. These things happen and you will find yourself a happier person if you accept that and not go off the deep end at every mistake made.
ncmc wrote: » I had made the mistake but the absolute rage of this guy over a measly €1.09 was just scary.
ncmc wrote: » I work in a car dealership and a few years back we had a man in for a car service. Instead of charging him €109, the service advisor only typed in €1.09 on the credit card machine. I noticed the mistake the next day when doing the cash and had to contact the customer to explain what had happened and to get his credit card details again. He grumbled a bit, complained about inconvenience etc but to be fair, he eventually gave the credit card details and I said I’d send him out the credit card slip. Well cue a few days later and the same man rings back and he is angry, I’m talking apoplectic with rage. He wanted to speak to the manager, the owner, he called me names, he threatened Joe Duffy, you name it, this guy was going totally postal on me. Finally got him calmed down enough to figure out what had happened. Turned out, when I charged the card for the second time, I’d charged the full €109 and forgotten to subtract the original €1.09 he had paid. Now fair enough, I had made the mistake but the absolute rage of this guy over a measly €1.09 was just scary. I said I’d refund him straight away and he swore he’d never darken our door again and go somewhere that wasn’t staffed by incompetent idiots, blah, blah, blah. Course, he came back a few months later as it turned out he’d alienated himself from every other garage and we were the only ones that would deal with him!
Dial Hard wrote: » Jaysis. I've no kids but 9 niblings and we do the pool system too. Imagine how she'd feel in that scenario!
Deise Vu wrote: » I have a sister who has a touch of it too, (although not Templemore trained!). When we went from the bananas buying every kid a present to pooling cash and getting one or two really good present for each kid, she said she didn't mind contributing equally even though she had three kids to two for the rest of us. It took me ages to figure out why she thought this was magnaminous. Eventually, I cracked it. Under the old system her family was getting three presents from everyone but she was only buying two for everyone else. She genuinely thought paying equally under the 'pool' system was generous on her part. (You probably need to think that logic through very slowly). It's a bit of disease if you ask me.
ohnonotgmail wrote: » more stupid i would think. he is throwing money away. that is the opposite of stinge.
hobie21 wrote: » Some people get a kick from getting one over on others. He probably really enjoyed using ye, thought himself very clever and thought of ye as fools.
LirW wrote: » Could it be that the guy might be mentally unwell or starts to show signs of a degenerative disease? Sometimes an abrupt change in behaviour can be explained by that. Maybe he knows and is pretty scared of being on his own? It was quite similar with my nan when she started showing signs of dementia. Or maybe he's just a pr1ck.
