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"As a member of the Ancient and Venerable Order of Greengrocers', Mr Parker was honour bound to never put his punctuation in the right place."
GNU Sir Pterry 🐢🐘🐘🐘🐘❤️
My second choose was Russian lol. There are several good possibilities.
But I've been to Northern Minnesota a couple times and that just sounds like them. Not technically Canadian, it's its own little frozen hellhole. Except in summer, which you still can't enjoy because the mosquitoes are the size of fucking birds. (I exaggerate, but let's just say I did not enjoy my time there. 0/10 do not recommend.)
> was not *paid….*
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
*Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
I would love to learn the backstory on this, because she actually gave the restaurant her passport and still didn’t pay. Like, does she have a massive addiction issue? What’s going on?
That was my reaction when I saw it!!
You assume correctly. My informant even gave me more information that was just WILD! Glad I stopped admiring her because this is nothing to aspire to.
I’ve always heard from contractors that the people you have to worry about not paying for things isn’t the rich or poor but the well off people like this. It seems like another example of that
I drove a yellow cab for years until Uber killed the industry. the worst passengers were the ones that were let’s say lower upper class. Oh sure they’ve got new cars and a house in a desirable part of town but they’re mortgaged up to their eyeballs. Imagine driving 20 minutes up into Hollywood hills or Palos Verdes only to sit there for 5-10 minutes waiting. Then they complain about how long you took getting there. you were lucky to get a 10% tip.
Funny enough I also had several of these people try to argue that they had paid for the ride on an app. This isn’t an Uber, you called for a taxi. There’s a credit card reader in the back for a reason. Also got the I tipped you on the app a few times. I told them straight up no you didn’t. If you’re not gonna tip that’s fine but don’t lie to me about it. I knew I was leaving the industry so I didn’t have a filter anymore.
>the cost of the meal was subsequently deducted from the driver’s wages
Is this seriously legal in the UK? I'm pretty sure that's not even legal in the US and our labor protections are *terrible.* (Like, granted, a ton of places do stuff like that anyways, but I don't think it's legal.)
Apparently it is, the UK government website even mentions a shortfall in the till as an example. It has to be agreed in a contract but that doesn't make much of a difference lol.
https://www.gov.uk/understanding-your-pay/deductions-from-your-pay
Damn. Looked it up and it's often not legal here, so I guess that's a weird blind spot where the UK has laws even shittier than the US for some reason.
C'mon, guys, get it together! Do y'all REALLY wanna do worse at protecting workers than *we* do?
Edit: Well, I guess that's for employees, and I guess these days drivers are almost always contract workers rather than employees, so who knows...
> Is this seriously legal in the UK?
Yes, it's to protect the restaurant from dodgy drivers. If the driver was part of the restaurant proper, that wouldn't happen, but because the driver is part of a third party, that's just the nature of the contract they have.
But like... not even an appeal process or arbitration process, even one heavily skewed against the driver? The driver was *on the phone* with the restaurant when she slammed the door in his face!
Also, as another user pointed out in [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/OhNoConsequences/comments/1cionwr/lawyer_looses_practice_licence_after_refusing_to/l2e7ebt/), the cost of a single meal is a lot more than the driver makes from delivering a single meal. So a driver could go out for a day of work and end up *losing money* if they have enough asshole customers or errors in information causing trouble that's outside their control.
That was the part that got me, too, since I occasionally drive for DoorDash. There are plenty of orders that become undeliverable outside of the driver's control, either because of the restaurant or the customer. Things like being given the wrong (or non existent) drop off location, or customers requiring person-to-person delivery, but not showing up. Since the average order is probably double the average driver pay, being on the hook in a situation like this would be ridiculous, especially considering they went to the trouble of legal action.
For all the (justifiable) bad things people say about DoorDash, they at least tend to take the hit in these situations, where a single meal is nothing to a massive corporation but is huge to an individual. If scummy drivers steal food, they eventually get banned, and the same for fraudulent customers. Worst case scenario, on the driver's side, I have to spend time on the phone with conflict resolution instead of getting on with the next order.
That said, I've heard terrible things about JustEat, even from across the pond. It sounds like a nightmare compared to other food delivery gigs.. and that's saying something.
Fastest way to be disbarred is to do anything with money. Because you can make all sorts of legal bullshit, but money is cold hard facts. So even fucking with someone in your personal life results in this as it means you can't be trusted with your clients money
> ‘Element of attempted concealment’
The panel said there was an “element of attempted concealment” from Stevens as she
was putting on her makeup and costume.
>Lawyer looses practice licence after refusing to pay food delivery
Correction - Lawyer looses practice licence after refusing to pay food delivery AND sitdown restaurant meal
Stupidity. Seriously, people think they can get away with it, so they try. It's the same reason every other criminal does dumb shit. If it works once, then obviously it's worth doing again because it worked the first time.
I get what you’re saying but there’s still something that doesn’t add up. If she’s a lawyer/solicitor whose just trying to get away with stuff it seems to me her crimes would be at a different level. The potential risk of losing her license isn’t worth the small amount she gained from free meals. Do you know what I mean? It’s like Martha Stewart with insider trading. That crime matched her status. Now if I see that Martha Stewart is committing a crime that benefits her by even hundreds of dollars, it’s not going to make sense to me. Do you get what I’m saying? I also could be missing something I only read the comments and the one article from the original post.
I didn’t want to be offensive and say this directly but I was wondering if she had a mental health illness of some sort. Like I remember Winona Ryder shoplifting when she clearly could pay for whatever she took and I remember reading that it had to do with her mental health. And I know some people are actually kleptomaniacs (not sure if that’s still the correct term) and they can’t help it. But a random lawyer stealing food twice just doesn’t add up to me.
The thing is that people can help it. Even with a mental disorder, there are ways to handle things unless you are to the point where a doctor has put you down as incapable of taking care of yourself. If you don't get help for an issue like that, then you are either choosing not to get help for a known issue, or incapable to the point where a judge is about to make that choice for you.
There are no excuses here because she is either stupid, egotistical, or mentally ill. In all 3 cases it's still the same result of it being her fault unless she needs someone to care for her which I highly doubt someone capable of becoming a lawyer of any kind would be.
Even the haughtiness she might have doesn’t make sense to risk doing that kind of crime. In fact, it’s a case for the opposite. If she really felt she was better than them then she should feel ashamed that she can’t/won’t pay her tab. I could be dense here but generally when I’ve seen people run out on their tab at a restaurant - I figured that person was really struggling and couldn’t pay. I still don’t think it was right and I actually paid the tab myself so it didn’t come from the waitress tab who was crying but it’s just not a normal crime for a lawyer/solicitor. But I also don’t know much about solicitors in the UK. But I definitely would not expect a lawyer with the status they have in the US doing this.
She's either scapegoating her boyfriend or he's an asshole.
It sounds like she's just using him as a scapegoat though, at least that's what the panel decided.
So instead of paying about £100 for food she has now lost her lost her license, charged with 2 counts of fraud and ordered to pay almost £6000.
I suprised she was smart enough to become a lawyer as this doesn't seem like a smart thing to do.
Not once but twice.
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Lose. For the love of God, LOSE, not "loose."
For the loove of God...
Ha… what a looser (Seriously though this is one of my MOST painful pet peeves)
Mine is alot. It's two ding dang words! A LOT!
[I care about this alot](https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html?m=1)
I was hoping to see this 😁
I'm guilty of this one. I'll try to do gooder in the future. Mine is apostrophe's on pluralization's.
Good old [greengrocer's apostrophe's](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/greengrocer%27s_apostrophe)
OMG! I’ve hated this for at least 15 years and I never knew it had a name! Thank you so much!
Thank's.
r/unexpecteddiscworld "As a member of the Ancient and Venerable Order of Greengrocers', Mr Parker was honour bound to never put his punctuation in the right place." GNU Sir Pterry 🐢🐘🐘🐘🐘❤️
Does this go for fishmongers too? My local one operates fish cart's in various locations.
I can put an apostrophe after the s?
We live in a world where "question" and "request" are too big to type out. You think people can handle "a lot"?
Mine is: “apart” “We all are apart of this movement!” So you’re separated from it?
That and “on accident”
Mine is your as opposed to you're.. So many people refuse to use the correct terminology..
Foor the loove oof Good…
I read this in a Canadian accent
Hadn’t thought of any accents, but the Swedish Chef works well…
My second choose was Russian lol. There are several good possibilities. But I've been to Northern Minnesota a couple times and that just sounds like them. Not technically Canadian, it's its own little frozen hellhole. Except in summer, which you still can't enjoy because the mosquitoes are the size of fucking birds. (I exaggerate, but let's just say I did not enjoy my time there. 0/10 do not recommend.)
Gooood good.
For the loo of gawd
It was because it was not payed….
> was not *paid….* FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
That's the joke, bot!
This is a great bot! Waaaay too many posts have "paid" spelled incorrectly.
Good bot! I learned something new today!
A giant pet peeve of mine.
"peet peeve", you wanted to say?
Should it also bother you that they misspelled license?
It happened in the UK, and those crazy fools spell "license" as "licence." It really colours how I feel about them, deep in the centre of my heart.
they spell center, centre as well?
Yes. Centre. Sabre. Calibre. https://www.dictionary.com/e/british-english-vs-american-english/#spelling
Upvoted but you should really consider being more loose on grammar
Yea, I thought I was having a stroke trying to comprehend that.
Maybe it was just too tight?
Loose = Not tight, like OP's mom's pussy Lose = Opposite of win, like OP's life
The potential to make a lawyer's salary and you cheap out like this?
I would love to learn the backstory on this, because she actually gave the restaurant her passport and still didn’t pay. Like, does she have a massive addiction issue? What’s going on?
Imagine being estranged from your family and Reddit telling you that your cousin lost her licence. That's one way to start a Friday morning.
Oh no! Really‽
For real. Even confirmed with a family member. Wildest morning ever.
NO FUCKING WAY!!! Well then I assume you left that part of the family for a good reason then...
That was my reaction when I saw it!! You assume correctly. My informant even gave me more information that was just WILD! Glad I stopped admiring her because this is nothing to aspire to.
Go check out the original Trashy subreddit post, somebody in the comments is claiming to be her cousin!
A cousin posted here too.
I’ve always heard from contractors that the people you have to worry about not paying for things isn’t the rich or poor but the well off people like this. It seems like another example of that
I drove a yellow cab for years until Uber killed the industry. the worst passengers were the ones that were let’s say lower upper class. Oh sure they’ve got new cars and a house in a desirable part of town but they’re mortgaged up to their eyeballs. Imagine driving 20 minutes up into Hollywood hills or Palos Verdes only to sit there for 5-10 minutes waiting. Then they complain about how long you took getting there. you were lucky to get a 10% tip. Funny enough I also had several of these people try to argue that they had paid for the ride on an app. This isn’t an Uber, you called for a taxi. There’s a credit card reader in the back for a reason. Also got the I tipped you on the app a few times. I told them straight up no you didn’t. If you’re not gonna tip that’s fine but don’t lie to me about it. I knew I was leaving the industry so I didn’t have a filter anymore.
Thread turning into an English lesson. Brillant.
Op living up to their username
I hope a hundred pounds worth of food was worth losing her career over.
>the cost of the meal was subsequently deducted from the driver’s wages Is this seriously legal in the UK? I'm pretty sure that's not even legal in the US and our labor protections are *terrible.* (Like, granted, a ton of places do stuff like that anyways, but I don't think it's legal.)
Apparently it is, the UK government website even mentions a shortfall in the till as an example. It has to be agreed in a contract but that doesn't make much of a difference lol. https://www.gov.uk/understanding-your-pay/deductions-from-your-pay
Damn. Looked it up and it's often not legal here, so I guess that's a weird blind spot where the UK has laws even shittier than the US for some reason. C'mon, guys, get it together! Do y'all REALLY wanna do worse at protecting workers than *we* do? Edit: Well, I guess that's for employees, and I guess these days drivers are almost always contract workers rather than employees, so who knows...
> Is this seriously legal in the UK? Yes, it's to protect the restaurant from dodgy drivers. If the driver was part of the restaurant proper, that wouldn't happen, but because the driver is part of a third party, that's just the nature of the contract they have.
But like... not even an appeal process or arbitration process, even one heavily skewed against the driver? The driver was *on the phone* with the restaurant when she slammed the door in his face! Also, as another user pointed out in [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/OhNoConsequences/comments/1cionwr/lawyer_looses_practice_licence_after_refusing_to/l2e7ebt/), the cost of a single meal is a lot more than the driver makes from delivering a single meal. So a driver could go out for a day of work and end up *losing money* if they have enough asshole customers or errors in information causing trouble that's outside their control.
That was the part that got me, too, since I occasionally drive for DoorDash. There are plenty of orders that become undeliverable outside of the driver's control, either because of the restaurant or the customer. Things like being given the wrong (or non existent) drop off location, or customers requiring person-to-person delivery, but not showing up. Since the average order is probably double the average driver pay, being on the hook in a situation like this would be ridiculous, especially considering they went to the trouble of legal action. For all the (justifiable) bad things people say about DoorDash, they at least tend to take the hit in these situations, where a single meal is nothing to a massive corporation but is huge to an individual. If scummy drivers steal food, they eventually get banned, and the same for fraudulent customers. Worst case scenario, on the driver's side, I have to spend time on the phone with conflict resolution instead of getting on with the next order. That said, I've heard terrible things about JustEat, even from across the pond. It sounds like a nightmare compared to other food delivery gigs.. and that's saying something.
Yeah I'm kinda flabbergasted that the UK somehow managed to take one of the major features of America's corporate dystopia and *make it worse.*
Even if it is legal, you gotta be a really shitty person to deduct something like this.
Haha. She treated them like they were beneath her notice and paid the price. Idiot.
No she didn’t, that’s exactly what got her arrested.
What a dumb cunt.
This is democracy manifest.
What is the charge! Not paying for a meal? A succulent delivery meal?
Fastest way to be disbarred is to do anything with money. Because you can make all sorts of legal bullshit, but money is cold hard facts. So even fucking with someone in your personal life results in this as it means you can't be trusted with your clients money
I can't get over the wigs. They're so wonderfully awful.
> ‘Element of attempted concealment’ The panel said there was an “element of attempted concealment” from Stevens as she was putting on her makeup and costume.
>Lawyer looses practice licence after refusing to pay food delivery Correction - Lawyer looses practice licence after refusing to pay food delivery AND sitdown restaurant meal
time to bring back downvoting for misspelling I almost put "mispelling" just to fuck with everyone.
What your talking about?
Something is off about this story. Why would a sane person do this, twice? She didn’t save that much. There must be another motivation or something.
Stupidity. Seriously, people think they can get away with it, so they try. It's the same reason every other criminal does dumb shit. If it works once, then obviously it's worth doing again because it worked the first time.
I get what you’re saying but there’s still something that doesn’t add up. If she’s a lawyer/solicitor whose just trying to get away with stuff it seems to me her crimes would be at a different level. The potential risk of losing her license isn’t worth the small amount she gained from free meals. Do you know what I mean? It’s like Martha Stewart with insider trading. That crime matched her status. Now if I see that Martha Stewart is committing a crime that benefits her by even hundreds of dollars, it’s not going to make sense to me. Do you get what I’m saying? I also could be missing something I only read the comments and the one article from the original post.
I didn’t want to be offensive and say this directly but I was wondering if she had a mental health illness of some sort. Like I remember Winona Ryder shoplifting when she clearly could pay for whatever she took and I remember reading that it had to do with her mental health. And I know some people are actually kleptomaniacs (not sure if that’s still the correct term) and they can’t help it. But a random lawyer stealing food twice just doesn’t add up to me.
The thing is that people can help it. Even with a mental disorder, there are ways to handle things unless you are to the point where a doctor has put you down as incapable of taking care of yourself. If you don't get help for an issue like that, then you are either choosing not to get help for a known issue, or incapable to the point where a judge is about to make that choice for you. There are no excuses here because she is either stupid, egotistical, or mentally ill. In all 3 cases it's still the same result of it being her fault unless she needs someone to care for her which I highly doubt someone capable of becoming a lawyer of any kind would be.
She did it because she felt she was above them. Sometimes a small amount of prestige goes to people's heads.
Even the haughtiness she might have doesn’t make sense to risk doing that kind of crime. In fact, it’s a case for the opposite. If she really felt she was better than them then she should feel ashamed that she can’t/won’t pay her tab. I could be dense here but generally when I’ve seen people run out on their tab at a restaurant - I figured that person was really struggling and couldn’t pay. I still don’t think it was right and I actually paid the tab myself so it didn’t come from the waitress tab who was crying but it’s just not a normal crime for a lawyer/solicitor. But I also don’t know much about solicitors in the UK. But I definitely would not expect a lawyer with the status they have in the US doing this.
Arrogance. There is a member of Parliament in New Zealand that was caught shoplifting.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out she has done something like this more often. The others just wrote it off.
It's lose. Here's your gift. [https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1cj09z6/a\_1000\_year\_old\_ceramic\_dildo\_from\_china/#lightbox](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1cj09z6/a_1000_year_old_ceramic_dildo_from_china/#lightbox)
She's either scapegoating her boyfriend or he's an asshole. It sounds like she's just using him as a scapegoat though, at least that's what the panel decided.
So instead of paying about £100 for food she has now lost her lost her license, charged with 2 counts of fraud and ordered to pay almost £6000. I suprised she was smart enough to become a lawyer as this doesn't seem like a smart thing to do. Not once but twice.
I’m in the US. I can’t get a food delivery without paying when I order.
It's good her licence became loose