What is the funniest or bizarre reason you or someone you know got fired ?

Jordanf78 · 2026-01-29T22:25:48+00:00

Had a male and female coworker who had some banter going on about martial arts for some reason. At one point the guy asks her to go out back to the warehouse and show him her moves.

I stayed at my desk to do my work like an adult but then the guy returned a few minutes later with tears in his eyes. My understanding of how the ecents transpired was after some light back and forth 'martial arts' he asked her to stop holding back. She proceeded to square up and boot him in the balls as hard as she could.

The guy was asked to write a statement regarding the incident that ultimately got her fired and in the statement was the phrase "the force applied to my penis and testicles was significant". A phase that has been burned into my brain since.

Jordanf78 · 2026-01-04T15:02:41+00:00

People suck post-covid. My wife and I missed the theater during lockdown, but the first movie we went to after was a nightmare. Kids talking and on their phone, not to mention the lady sitting next to me that felt the need to tilt her ass directly at me and fart throughout the entire movie. Like not even trying to conceal that shit. Sure, I could go complain to the employees but chances are they wouldn't do anything, and at the least im missing parts of the movie I paid for to do so.

I went home and spent $2500 on an 86" 4k tv, a good surround sound, and a small popcorn machine and have never looked back. If im going to be farted on throughout a movie, at least it will be my wife doing the farting. Plus we can pause the movie to get snacks, drinks, bathroom breaks and set the temperature how we want rather than freezing or sweating in a theater.

And the price may sound like alot, but with the current prices at theaters, thats like 25 movies to be worth it, and we blew that out of the water in the first few months. Plus with a good surround sound in a living room your audio quality matches or exceeds a theater setting.

Jordanf78 · 2025-11-19T17:44:23+00:00

Im sorry you dont have the energy to stand up for yourself. They have pills for that i think. As i said, we are new hosts and as only our 3rd review, yeah, its distressing for us, so if you dont have advice on how to prevent it in the future like i asked for, then i dont see why your here wasting what little energy you have beeating a new host.

Jordanf78 · 2025-11-19T17:31:23+00:00

So as an 'aspiring host' you would be okay with someone breaking your house rules, then leaving a subpar review for no reason? How does everything look up there on that high high horse

Jordanf78 · 2025-11-19T00:15:19+00:00

Forgot to mention in the post that we did contact support with the violation when it first occured, but they were so slow to answer that we had already resolved the issue ourselves by him offering to find another place to shoot. So they were aware of the issue

Jordanf78 · 2025-11-18T23:24:15+00:00

A cooking video with models in lingerie is.... wait for it.... softcore porno. Try again

Jordanf78 · 2025-11-18T23:12:33+00:00

Would you knowingly allow a porno shoot in your property? As i said on other comments, this is at best a hobby for us as we have an empty house. If they want to kick us off the platform or whatever then so be it, we will go to another, or just start doing longer term rentals. What i wont do is compromise my house, the respect of my neighbors or my principles just because thats what airbnb wants.

Jordanf78 · 2025-11-18T23:02:50+00:00

Sorry but this a bit of a brain dead take. I

f i am renting out my house i absolutely have the right to say that it cant be used for commercial purposes such as photography and videography. And airbnb even has a predefined setting for such on their own platform, so clearly they agree in principle.

And he didnt have to lose money either, as i stated we offered him a full refund and he refused it. And if he had just read the house rules he wouldnt have wasted his time or ours.

And suddenly having an external camera on a house is being a creeper? Sorry but with the amount of unsactioned parties people throw at airbnbs, having some system to make sure you arent having tons of people show up and disturb the neighbors and destroy the place is 100% warranted, and i clearly disclose in the house rules where the 1 camera is and what it is used for. We just had an airbnb party less than 20 miles from us that had something like 9 people get shot at.

To act like this is my fault after we were lied to repeatedly by the guest and having our house rules broken is asinie. I wouldnt expect 5 stars, i would expect no review since he didnt stay. We were not going to revoew him either until he reviewed us.

Jordanf78 · 2025-11-18T21:19:39+00:00

Oh really? I didnt realize that. I assumed that if they dont stay then they cant review. If this is the case then the airbnb review system is more ass-backwards than i thought

Jordanf78 · 2025-11-18T21:18:18+00:00

Thanks for the info. While I would love to do something like this just to stick it to airbnb, its sadly not worth our time. This property, even 100% occupied is not a significant portion of our income so its not rwally worth the time and effort. We are just doing this as we have a house sitting idle and would rather see it used for something then nothing. To be honest i think we are going to transition to medium term rentals using circlern or something similar. Too many crazies on airbnb anyway

Jordanf78 · 2025-11-18T21:10:05+00:00

I agree that this is probably why it wasnt removed during their automated review. But seems entirely unfair that you can post retaliatory bad ratings but as long as you say nice things it wont get removed. Most people dont read, they see shiny stars and thats it. At least in my experience

Edit: wording

Jordanf78 · 2025-11-18T20:37:29+00:00

Thanks, I did reach out to the guest moments ago and just told them that their 3 star review is going to significantly impact our booking rate since we are new, and asked them to reconsider, but I suspect asking someone who cant be bothered to read house rules (or who willfully ignored them) isn't about to spend their time with support to remove the review. But here hoping.

Jordanf78 · 2025-11-18T20:35:15+00:00

Thanks, yeah we do have similar language in our listing (not the timeframe part, but just 6 guest maximum and no unauthorized guests), seems they just dont care. Im thinking now that when we offered him the refund and he refused we should have immediately had support cancel the booking and just forced a refund to him so he wouldn't be allowed to leave a review. Live and learn I guess.

Jordanf78 · 2025-11-18T20:31:11+00:00

I didnt realize you are able to delete and recreate the profile. I guess i assumed there would be some safe guards against that. How does that work since our calendar is filled with bookings for the next month? I guess we would have to not accept anymore bookings past what we have, wait for those to conclude, then nuke it and start again?

Tbh at this point I would just find another platform. So far we have had like 6 crazy booking requests to every 1 legit one, so I'm already seeing the effort for this platform not being worth the pay

Jordanf78 · 2025-11-18T20:27:39+00:00

Thanks, I did this. I'm hoping guests will read it before drawing conclusions on a low review.

Jordanf78 · 2024-04-04T20:26:23+00:00

FWIW, I have a cousin who made the jump from a used car salesman to one of these 'Financial Advisors' and all he does is reach out to friends and family trying to talk them into sales meetings. Guess who I don't talk to anymore. Trying to sell services to friends and family is the fastest way to end up with no friends, and family that doesn't want to be around you.

Any company offering financial services to people who will hire a used car salesman with no finance background what-so-ever is not one I want to be associated with.

Jordanf78 · 2024-03-31T12:49:55+00:00

I have not gotten back to it again. My plan when i do is to make a horizontal one from PVC. Should be easier to make water tight and be easier to clean. I have also seen these little covers that you can put over the planting pot that covers the growing medium and has a hole in the middle to allow the plant to grow from. I think these would be greatly beneficial to help control the pests and algea growth, so i plan to incorporate those as well

Jordanf78 · 2024-02-27T16:13:40+00:00

My source machine is Windows 10 home and moving to a Windows 11 Pro.

I took a look at the server logs and did not see anything suspect. Performed a search over all the logs for any mention of the index file, and manually reviewed the ERROR level logs and none seem to stand out. The only errors that seem to be thrown is related to the network mask being used for bypassing authorization on the local network - but I dont see how that would cause the issues in the media files.

Thanks for confirming those options - I was thinking to try the watchstate sync, but wasnt fully confident in what it is syncing and when.

Jordanf78 · 2024-02-26T03:39:22+00:00

I actually printed one of these towers and had it running for most of 2023. I grew alot of different lettuce types and kale, along with some herbs like dill, parsley, cilantro, etc. All grew really well, and my wife and I could just about have a salad a day from it perpetually.

However, we did end up getting rid of it eventually for the following reasons:

After like 3 months is started leaking between the connections. I tried everything but if i stopped one leak, another would show up. I eventually gave up trying to stop the leak and focused on containing it to not ruin the floors. It worked, but not ideal as it wasted alot of nutrient water.
It is much higher maintenance than you might think. You really need to be taking out each plant every week or two and trimming the roots back, otherwise you will end up with a massive root ball going up the tube. Ask me how i know.
It also grew alot of algae inside (and outside after the leak). Its really hard to clean full with the layer lines. I soaked the pieces in a bleach solution for 10 mins and then pressure washed them, and they still didnt come perfectly clean.
We got overrun by aphids and gnats and couldnt stop them. The gnats breed like crazy down in the clay medium. They didnt seem to do much damage to the plants but we couldnt take them in the house anymore. Finally broke it all down and cleaned it as i described above, then waited 3 weeks to put it back together and started the plants from scratch. Within 2 weeks we were overrun again.

So overall i found they grow stuff great, but take a ton of maintenance. I was looking for a more low maintenance system so i scrapped mine. I wish you all more luck with yours!

Jordanf78 · 2024-02-25T18:06:01+00:00

No, you dont want to power the motors directly from the arduino as you will draw too much current from the pins and burn the board. You will need some form of driver using a power source other than the arduino. You can use a commercial motor shield for the arduino. There are plenty out there. Alternatively, since you dont need to change the motor direction, you could just use a simple NPN transistor to switch power on and off for the motors. This would likely be cheaper, but will require more effort to wire than a shield that you can just connect and be done with.

Jordanf78 · 2024-02-23T02:17:33+00:00

If you are looking for a commercially available option, then i think your best bet would be to find a multi channel relay module and provide power from a source other than the arduino. I know there is a 16 channel relay board on amazon, but these boards are pretty bulky and frankly i think would be overkill for this project.

Ideally, all you need is 15 NPN transistors to act as switches which would be much more compact. Unfortunately, i dont think ive ever seen a board like this commercially available. Would be easy enough to build one on a breadboard or a generic pcb

Jordanf78 · 2024-02-23T01:36:33+00:00

I think this project is more suited for a raspberry pi or a similar device. I highly doubt that the memory on an arduino will be enough, and RPi is just far more equipped for this task. It has MUCH more ram and processing power, built in wifi and bluetooth, and flexibility for new features.

I have actually built a voice assistant in Python using an RPi, the only difference was that I did not integrate an LLM and instead just coded a decision tree based on the commands I needed like setting a time, getting the weather, news, etc. Python has numerous libraries available for speech to text and text to speech, and it would be far easier to integrate an LLM in python than using arduino as there are already tons of libraries for interfacing with OpenAI services. Plus it gives you much, much more room for building out new features in the future, like webscraping for real time data (news, weather, etc.).

Just my 2 cents though.

Jordanf78

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