unethical life hacks

[spedrunner]

anyone willing to own up to any of these??


thoughtcatalog.com/madison-moore/2014/03/22-people-share-their-unethical-but-extremely-effective-life-hacks/

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

Well, asking for something special about your fast food so they have to make it just makes good sense.

[my4girls]

Sept 21, 2014 20:08:39 GMT -5 Ohhmm(bligo) said:

Well, asking for something special about your fast food so they have to make it just makes good sense.

I always do this so they make it fresh. 

[hereigo]

We've done the McDonald's fried thing for years.

[Miss Phryne Fisher]

Yea, for #15 "unethical" is not the word I would use.

[fluffydamn]

I worked at target and we were not allowed to change the price. Had to always do a price check.

[isabel]

Holy shit to #15!  ^o)

When DH and I were studying abroad, there was a booking website that was offering something like $75 off a hotel room when you registered on their site. DH and I used every email address we had between us, including old ones we no longer used, and registered about 8 times. We got cheap hotels for our entire spring break vacation. The company cut off the deal shortly after that. I'm sure we weren't the only ones using that work around.

[Deleted]

#4 isn't really unethical is it?

I have volunteered at conventions and I recommend people go to the hotel across the street to grab a cab.

[orangeblossom]

I do the no salt on fries, but the fresh batch is the bonus, I truly don't want salt on my fries.

[agnes]

Some of those are not just unethical, they are stealing.

[Yankees21]

 To the meat one. There's toeing the line and then there's stealing!

[hopecounts]

The Disney one is why they had to change the system.
No more GAC (which unintentionally was a front of the line pass) and now they have DAS which allows those with ASD/Cognitive issues that can't wait in line to wait elsewhere and then show up when it's time to ride.

[verycontrary247]

Some of my friends and I used to do something similar to the meat thing back in high school when we worked at a grocery store. We'd get the pay per pound Jelly Bellies (which are obscenely expensive) and ring them up as bananas, which are obviously way cheaper.

I feel guilty about it now.

[isabel]

Sept 21, 2014 21:08:43 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

Sept 21, 2014 20:16:59 GMT -5 isabel said:

Holy shit to #15! 

When DH and I were studying abroad, there was a booking website that was offering something like $75 off a hotel room when you registered on their site. DH and I used every email address we had between us, including old ones we no longer used, and registered about 8 times. We got cheap hotels for our entire spring break vacation. The company cut off the deal shortly after that. I'm sure we weren't the only ones using that work around.

Theoretically, you could probably do this for Amazon and/or Netflix.  Use a different email and sign up for a month free, cancel, make a new email address, repeat.

Yeah. I wouldn't do it now because it definitely is unethical, but I was young and dumb. Still, I'm sure it's something these companies consider when they offer promotions like this.

[jinkies]

When I bought a zoo membership I told them I had 6 kids (I have 2) so that we could bring friends for free.*

*a friend told me to do this and I thought it was a good idea, so I did. In the end, the only friends we ever went with also had zoo memberships, so there was no need for me to lie.

[birdistheword]

I don't know how people even think of these things. I'm such a rule follower I wouldn't be able to handle the inevitable anxiety I would feel if I tried any of these. Well, except for the fresh fries one.

[thedude]

Most of these are just gross. The guilt I would feel would totally cancel any financial benefit. The one about staring at people's foreheads made me laugh bc I just watched The Office episode where Jim does it to Dwight, lol.

[noodleskooze]

My mom used to do the "save the cup" thing.

[sapphireblue]

I am pretty appalled at a lot of these! The Whole Foods one and the windshield one I could never do.

The one about saying you've never orgasmed from oral sex cracked me up!

[Kristinmo]

Yeah I don't see how the cab one is at all unethical. I always go to hotels to get cabs in big cities.

[janiejones]

My sister's exBF used to half-fill a mushroom paper bag with shitake (or other pricey fungus), then top it with white button mushrooms.

[sapphireblue]

And no....if someone told me they'd never smoked weed before (#17), there is no way I am going to give them some of mine. Honestly, if I thought they didn't know what they were doing, I'd be LESS likely to give them some of mine and send them on their way. Someone who was a stoner and was jonesing, on the other hand, I'd help out...

[joshlyman]

Sept 21, 2014 21:31:24 GMT -5 Kristinmo said:

Yeah I don't see how the cab one is at all unethical. I always go to hotels to get cabs in big cities.

Ditto. I go where the cabs are, and pay for the cab. I am not going to stand on the street looking at cabs waiting for people lol

[steph96]

Sept 21, 2014 21:17:42 GMT -5 gravytrain225 said:

I think the windshield one is pretty bad.

All of the trucks I have seen have something on the back that says "stay back xxxx feet. Not responsible for broken windshields". I think it is 500 to 2000 feet--I can't exactly remember the distance. I wonder if that legitimately makes them not liable?

[mudslide]

Sept 21, 2014 21:20:08 GMT -5 birdistheword said:

I don't know how people even think of these things. I'm such a rule follower I wouldn't be able to handle the inevitable anxiety I would feel if I tried any of these. Well, except for the fresh fries one.

Ditto

[gingerjar]

I always ask for my egg white delight without butter so they have to make it fresh…and also because I don't see the point in them adding butter to it.

[Deleted]

I'm not sure being a rule follower has anything to do with most of these things. I'm not necessarily a rule follower but I'm certainly not a thief!

[lissaholly]

I accidentally did the chick-FIL-a one at McDonald's. I ran home and went back through the line to pay.

I have one upped the Goodwill hack of reselling to Platos. I used to find things left on the curb for trash all the time in Chicago. Some were worth good money, so I grabbed them and then turned around and sold them on craigslist. One time I made $50 and all I had to do was haul it into the garage that it was right I front of:/

I feel like confessing, I had a free game of bowling coupon that came as part of a birthday favor DD went to in Match that expired 90 days after the date of issue ( June). We decided to bowl this weekend with the girls so I made the "3" into an "8" :/.

[mcmel]

No, I haven't done any of these, but I remember once doing some shady shit by accident.

Right before Christmas one year I ordered H some shoes as a present. He was working nights so we didn't see each other much. Apparently the package came in and he thought it would be funny to open the package (the shoes weren't a surprise) and hide them. (I'm still not sure how this prank was going to play out in his mind)

I come home from work and open the package to find an empty box. Christmas was right around the corner so I immediately called the store and told them that I was sent an empty box and I need my shoes.

A few days later I'm wrapping the new shoes and H asks when I found them. I was totally confused and that's when it all clicked.

H called the store back and apologized, but they told us to just keep them.

[joshlyman]

I will say going to Disneyland with my fam after my Dad's knee replacement surgery was pretty awesome. He legitimately couldn't walk and was in a wheel chair, so nothing unethical, but getting on rides without lines was amazing. I would never lie about it or anything, but it was a pretty great day at Disney lol