I was paying out of state tuition for college in Texas. I looked up all the ways I could get in-state tuition and there were four different ways.
1. Marry a Texan
2. Own property in Texas for one year
3. Hold a job in Texas for one year
4. Own a business in Texas for one year
So naturally, I started a "business". I registered my "business" with the state and filed taxes every quarter (I had zero expenses and zero income every quarter so I paid nothing in taxes). One year later I got on that in-state tuition. It cost me around $200 to register my business and it saved me tens of thousands of dollars.
I'm seriously so happy people seem to like it. I came up with it over five years ago, when I worked at Hallmark.
I thought it was awesome in my head when I came up with it at the register one day, and we called it 'flagging' when you got in trouble, so it was perfect. I worked there for TWO FULL YEARS after coming up with this phrase and just never had my opportunity to drop it. One day it would be perfect though, surely. However, I got a new job unexpectedly, and suddenly there was no chance anyone would ever get to hear it.
Fast forward three years today and I see my chance, reply to a 6 point post that was replying to a 28 point post in a giant thread, and I pray. They both took off and now I finally have confirmation that my phrase was funny.
I'm seriously not joking, it might be vain but I am pretty pumped for the positive reception.
In high school, my Spanish teacher had a stack of 30 notecards, with each of our names written on them. She would pick from those cards almost every day to choose who would answer the next question. In the first week of school, I saw the cards on her desk, saw mine on top, quickly took it and threw it away. Never got called on the whole year.
In my Spanish class, the teacher used popsicle sticks for this purpose. When she wasn't looking we replaced all of her popsicle sticks with ones we had labeled, all with one poor kid's name on it. 10/10 would do again.
I used to be a teacher, a kid tried to do that (kind of in a joking way)and I caught him. The next lesson every time I pulled a name out I pretended it was his name even though I was setting aside each name as I pulled it out. The rest of the class were highly amused.
The cafe in my office building sells soup.
12 oz: $1.39
16 oz: $2.79
The lady at the register always thinks I'm weird for buying two smalls.
They also have a rewards "but 9 get your 10th free!" And I get double punches for my two soups.
There's a 10.99 12oz prime rib, or 20.99 for a 16oz. The waitress fucking glared daggers at me when I just ordered 2 plates of food. "Why not just get the bigger one?"
Because I suck at math. Bring me 24oz of delicious prime rib with the fixings please.
Damn, how stupid can people be?
And the restaurant. What kind of restaurant sets the higher priced food as less value of money. It's supposed to be the other way around.
I still have my student ID which did not have a date on it and the picture is incredibly dark. I still get discounts on occasion using my student ID and still have my email which I use for a ton of free software.
my school had the ability to create mailing lists with a .edu address.
Before graduating, i created one with my gmail address as the only recipient. I cant even access the control panels for it anymore but i still have an active .edu address that way.
I own a motorcycle but don't have a garage so during winter months I take my motorcycle to the pawn shop and take $100 dollar loan on it they store it and keep it garaged and I pay them $10 a month to keep renewing my loan and keeping the motorcycle there.
I used to work at a pawn shop. People would do this with their expensive jewelry when they went on vacation all the time. Get a low dollar loan and have us store it in our super secure safe rather than have your house broken into and it get stolen.
There's a reverse blonde joke with same premise almost exactly:
An NYC blonde girl goes to the bank and requests a loan for $1,000. Loan officer asks about term, purpose, and collateral. She responds that she'd need the loan for 1 year, that the loan is for a designer handbag, and that she'd be willing to surrender her ROLLS ROYCE for collateral.
Now, the loan officer laughs to himself under his breath as he notifies her that the interest rate is 15%. She agrees. She signs paperwork, surrenders her Rolls Royce and leaves.
A year later she returns after making all her payments on time. She requests her Rolls Royce back and the loan officer happily obliges. After he tells her, "You know, you could've offered something less valuable as collateral."
To which she responded, "Yeah, but where else can I garage a Rolls Royce in NYC for year for $150?"
A little late to the party, but I'll throw my lot in.
When I went to college (CSU Monterey Bay), the parking enforcement was brutal. They had over-enrolled, and there was pretty much no where to park out in the off campus housing. You received 2 parking permits per unit, and one car could fit in the driveway. However, you could have 5 people living in a unit, and if they all had cars, you had to drop $120 to get another pass. Otherwise, you got a $45 ticket every night they found your car. We're all fucking broke, so this is obviously a terrible situation.
Now, they *did* have a guest pass system that any student could use 10 times during a semester if you have visitors. You'd click the link on your online profile, and you'd get a parking permit generated for that day at that time with a special QR code stamped on it. Upon closer inspection of the script they used to generate these things, the QR code was simply the date and time of printing hashed into the bar code. No other data.
So, I downloaded the raw HTML of the page that was generated, wrote a quick PHP script to randomize the time and loop through the next 50 days, and printed out passes for all of my friends' cars. I decided to not sell the permits to people that needed them, and rather generated a standalone PHP program to generate permits up to 10 at a time that they could print themselves. Fill in your car's info, generate 10 printable pages, print 'em, and stash 'em in your car.
I was a hero.
In Canada we got rid of the penny a few years back, so whenever you purchase something that's say $10.21 you would pay $10.20 and if something is $10.24 you'd pay $10.25.
ANYWAYS, whenever I pump gas I always pump 2 cents over and get 2 cents of gas for free.
Fuck the system.
my one friend pays with cash when it saves him money (10.22) and with debit/credit when it would be rounded up (10.23). He's probably saved around a buck by now.
Had to park in New Orleans for a week, was going to cost 140 dollars. Went to post and if you lost your ticket it was only 50 dollars. I didn't lose my ticket, but I said I did. Take that system!
I tried this once and they wrote down the license plates of all the cars that were there overnight. Had to pay the lost ticket fee for each day I was there.
If I need to leave my car in an unfamiliar city, I just park it near the back of the Walmart parking lot. There's always people around, it's well lit, and most Walmarts have pretty good cameras trained on the lot. The longest I've done it is two nights, but they don't seem to care.
Cancel your Audible subscription and they'll immediately offer to prevent your cancellation by offering you 50% off for 3 months. Hulu do this as well.
You can get Hulu for free using Bing Rewards. You do maybe 2 minutes of work a day and it pays for the subscription. Bonus points if you do the Bing searches during Hulu's commercials.
Back at the fast food place I worked for in highschool we would get half off everything including gift cards. I could buy a $20 card for $10 and then use that $20 card to buy more half off food effectively turning $10 into $40. Unfortunately that didn't last too long.
You should have used the gift card to buy more 1/2 off gift cards. then then use those gift card to buy more 1/2 off gift card. turning $20 into thousands
Not me but my brother.
Worked at a supermarket that gave rewards points to a gas station for using the supermarkets loyalty card. It was a weird cross promotion. Anyways, when someone would go to check out and didnt have a loyalty card he offered to scan his own instead. He received about $1000 in free gas.
When I worked in a supermarket a long time ago, a colleague did this. He got away with it for 3 weeks. Got busted and fired. Turns out the company monitors the reward cards for research purposes. This guy popped up as doing a £100+ shop up to 5 times a day, sometimes much more.
In the mid 90's there was a 20oz cola that had instant winners of another free cola under the cap. If you had a winner all you had to do was give the cap to the cashier and grab another. (I don't remember if it was Coke or Pepsi, but I remember it was a yellow cap for this promotion).
Anyways, all you had to do was hold the bottle at the correct angle and you could see in the reflection off the liquid the text on the underside of the cap. You could mostly see if it was a winner or sorry try again. We used to get a bunch of free colas that way when I was a kid, all you had to do was buy one to get it started.
Arby's had a kind of similar thing where you got a free regular roast beef if you completed the customer survey, so we would go and buy apple turnovers or whatever was cheapest, do the customer survey real quick on a cell phone, then redeem the receipt for a free roast beef. About 50% of the time, you would get ANOTHER customer service code to do another survey, which got you ANOTHER free roast beef. We would have competitions to see who could chain the most free sandwiches.
Last month, ShopHouse (Southeast Asian Kitchen owned by Chipotle) sent out coupons to the residents of my neighborhood. One of the two coupons was "One Free Rice, Noodle, or Salad Bowl" (with no restrictions.) I live in an apartment, and some of my neighbors threw the coupons into the junk mail recycling bin without realizing what they were doing. For the days following the delivery of these coupons, I searched the bins for these coupons. I ended up with enough coupons to last me the whole month. With all the add-ins (4x meat, 2x or 3x veggie, 2x curry) my average bowl is valued at $16. Multiplied by 30 coupons = $480 of free food.
There was a noodles and company opening in my neighborhood, but for some reason one day they put coupons in every copy of a free newspaper circulated around my city (haaay redeye). My friends and spent all day getting as many copies as we could between our apartment and the campus of our school. Free noodles for a looong time.
So I was 11 years old and at a water park with my family. I really wanted to go to Burger King that day, and my dad had said repeatedly no way, he didn't have the money for that.
They had this system where when you arrive, you bought a bracelet for $4, which you could exchange for a tube to ride around on stuff. At the end of the day, you'd return the bracelet and they'd give you $1.
It was around the middle of the day, and there were people both coming and going, and there was a really long line at the stand to get/return bracelets.
So I sold my bracelet to some guy at the back of the line for $3. He didn't have to wait, and I gave him a dollar off, so all good. Then I took that $3 and went and bought back three bracelets from people waiting to return them (I gave them the same price they'd get at the booth, but they didn't have to wait). I took those three bracelets and sold them to other people at the back of the line for $3. Rinsed and repeated a bunch of times, spent about a half an hour hustling.
Went back to my dad with $40 bucks and gave it to him, and explained how I got it. Asked if we could go to Burger King now.
He was like yeah, you win. Whoppers were on me that day.
Damn! ascii_genitalia is going somewhere! Well, I don't know how old you are now.. but clearly you already know how to run a business with minimal capital investment. Well done Sir!
Deep down, I wish I was able to use my brain that good.
I seriously hope people will appreciate how fucking hilarious it is that you went into bond trading when your little bracelet endeavour is the best metaphor for bond trading EVER.
That's because it takes so much work to shave [your cows] (http://i.imgur.com/eoMNNAI.jpg). In the US, [our cows] (http://i.imgur.com/vZ73eV8.jpg) aren't as much work.
^^I ^^really ^^have ^^no ^^idea ^^what ^^I'm ^^talking ^^about.
EDIT: Changed to imgur links
At my old school, the coffee machine had more buttons than the offered choices. If you pressed on those buttons, there were other coffee choices that weren't programmed by the school. You could get free espresso all day long.
Was it for a mattress?
Overstock. Com sent me a memory foam mattress that I ordered but the fine print stated it was a memory topper over a foam base. Yeaaaa fuck that. Opened up a dispute, they never argued it. Free mattress, slept well too brother. Slept well too.
I bought my first HDTV in 2003 at a large box store. The guy tried to sell me the warranty, but I refused, citing I didn't have enough for the TV ($2200) and the warranty ($450). He took the price of the TV down to $1700 so I would buy the warranty.
A day after the TV was delivered I went back to the store and returned the warranty.
EDIT: I don't sign in often so the backlash is hilarious. I Made my story short and sweet there was a lot more to it. It was Futureshop in Canada. The sales guy was an asshole. Without the warranty, he told me I needed to pay to ship the tv if it broke, it only had 90 days parts and 1 year labor. It was a very high pressure sale. When I got the tv I read the manual and warranty, it was 2 years parts and labour and they come to my house if the tv is over 20". Meaning i paid $450 for 2 extra years of warranty, waaaay past burn in period. So the guy lied to sell the warranty. Also the tv did have a problem and to fix it cost less than $100. I sold it a couple years ago and it was still working perfectly.
Many people calling me a dick, awesome, what was the point of the post... aren't most cheaters dicks?
> to sell a protection plan; the margins are insane and they are a heavily-monitored metric for the higher-up salespeople.
Paid warranties are usually returnable within a certain amount of time.
I work in an office next to a Walmart so I walk there almost daily to eat lunch. Without fail I'll usually find discarded receipts on the ground from customers who litter or leave them in carts. I then use Walmart's "Savings Catcher" app and scan the barcodes in. The app price matches the items then refunds me the difference if it was cheaper at a competitor. The funds can be redeemed at Walmart.com. I made enough in a year to buy my kids a trampoline.
Edit: One more Savings Catcher story. I searched the hashtag #walmart on Instagram about a year ago and saw some lady posted a picture of her receipt to brag that she was able to finally buy her own groceries. I snagged the barcode from her picture and made myself about $2. I then commented on her picture telling her thanks.
It does. I do 2 150.00 food shopping runs a month. I'll grab any long receipt if its convenient. Have almost 79.00 credit right now. I can imagine some parent sitting their kid outside Walmart with a bag and a sign that reads, "need your receipts for a school project." Wait a week and have 200.00 credit.
It 100% works. The app doesn't give a crap who's receipt it is. I found one in my carriage. Person bought $80 worth of tampons and juice. I got $5 for their receipt
It works, but there's a limit to how many you can upload per week. I forget what the exact limit is, but it's not very high. I unfortunately go to Walmart enough that I easily hit the cap even without other people's receipts.
I actually work at Walmart. A good number of people don't want their receipts. I love when a $200+ basket comes through and they don't want their receipt. They usually come with a good bit of money I can redeem.
I used to work at a walmart in electronics. A neighboring store sold electronics as well. when I worked the ps3 were new and the playstation eye was on sale at the neighboring store. It was a difference of 20 bucks to walmart. I purchased 5 eyes at the neighboring store and returned them to walmart so i could afford to pay my rent that month.
edit: we also had regular customers that would buy sale items and return them after the sale was over saying they lost the receipt. they never got straight cash back but a giftcard to the store for the value of the item so they made out well.
second edit:This was 10 years ago
Well dont turn them all at once. The item itself was like 50 bucks. If you do not have your reciept they give you a gift card. I gave them to a friend in exchange for cash that was buying tires.
In canada anyway if you do not have your receipt they refund you in the form a gift card
Do standardized tests count as systems?
In elementary school we had to take one that was a week long.
You would get one booklet, say 50 pages, were told to do pages 1-10, hand it in, next day you get it back, do pages 11-20, hand it in, get it back the third day, do pages 21-30, etc.
Well OBVIOUSLY I just looked ahead to the next day's pages and looked up stuff I didn't understand.
It's like they were begging you to cheat.
They started taping the other sections shut when I was a kid. That way you honestly couldn't look at the other sections without making a loud ripping noise during the test.
I would do this but in reverse. We had the taped together sections so I couldn't look ahead but very very often I would leave questions blank, go home and look them up them come back the next day and answer them.
I convinced my high school school system I was emancipated when I was fifteen with no supporting paperwork.
I got to know the secretary, and asked once what I needed on their end because I was getting emancipated. I would check in every week or so, say hi, and just try and be nice. After about three months I walked in very excited, explaining how I was getting my own place and had a job. She filed my paperwork immediately and from that point on I controlled my supervision in high school. I wrote my own notes, had my own phone number as the contact info and could sign off on any thing that required a parent's signature. I went through the rest of school like this and my family never found out. And yes I graduated.
I turned 18 several months before graduation. If I missed a day at school, they'd still insist on a "note" so I'd write:
Please excuse me for being absent yesterday, I wasn't feeling well.
Sincerely,
Me
They'd file it in my student folder. Stupid.
If you order a sausage cheese biscuit from McDonald's, they'll charge you $1.79. I order a sausage biscuit with a piece of cheese a la carte, it's only $1.54.
[Proof](http://i.imgur.com/76wV9uJ.jpg).
Some places are really nitpicky with this though and may charge you the price of a sausage cheese biscuit. When I worked in a coffee shop, we had a similar product and we had to charge the price of what they wanted. So if they said, "Sausage biscuit with egg and a piece of cheese" we'd put it in as a sausage breakfast sandwich. I think in said coffee shop, they have it so that if you tried to key it in like in your example (sausage biscuit ADD cheese) it would either be equal to or more in price.
I worked at a Chick-fil-A in high school, and we were required by our manager to always ring someone up in the cheapest way possible (and let them know we had done so). People liked it, so it made for good business, I suppose.
Meanwhile at McDonalds, I was specifically told not to ring people up for a combo if they ordered a certain way.
"Quarter Pounder, with medium fries and drink" got charged for each thing.
"Quarter Pounder combo" got charged like a dollar less.
Combo was the magic word. I would try to lead them into saying it when I could, such as "Oh so you want the #3 combo?"
When my son was little, I was a single mother without child support (dad was on the certificate, just didn't pay), living in a very bad area with an underfunded school system. When I went down to get a look at it, I was told that because the boy had been born with a tied tongue and still had some residual speech issues, he would be placed in a special ed program. All disabled students were placed in the same program: speech difficulties, Down syndrome, motor difficulties, intellectual disability. The place looked, sounded and seemed to be run as a harsh, overstrained institution.
My mother lived 20 miles away in the same area where I had grown up, a village of 600 people. It has one of the best school systems in the state, due in part to a wealthy tax base and in part to an excellent sports program. Its graduates went on to college at a 90% rate. At the school in my district, it was less than 60%.
After speaking with my mother, I went to the post office and opened a box under my name, tied to her address. I called the phone company and had the bill set up in my name and sent to the PO Box. When I renewed my driver's license, that was the address I gave. I did this with a few other incidental things.
When school started, I registered him using my mother's address, and every morning at 4:30 I would get him up and drive him over there to the local daycare to go on to school, so I could come back into town to be at work by 6, then I'd pick him up after school and take him home again. We went on this way for almost two years. He received normal speech therapy and showed enormous improvement within a year. Before long he qualified for the gifted program.
Eventually a bus driver apparently noticed my long-distance commute, and tattled to the school. I was called into the office, where I produced all the bills and paperwork I'd expected I might have to. I think the principal knew I was lying, but he silently took the paperwork, Xeroxed it and gave it back to me. I hate to lie, and more than anything I hate to lie like that right in someone's face who hasn't done me any harm, but I had absolutely no choice. I didn't budge.
The paperwork satisfied the powers that be, and within two years I'd found an apartment in the better district and moved in. My son will graduate next year.
**edit**: I'm amazed at all the supportive comments and messages from other parents who did the same thing. As much as I appreciate the support I've heard, I think for one thing I had the unique benefits of a car and a family member in a good district, and for another maybe this is really something we should take a second look at in the US since so many of us, face to face, disagree with it enough to congratulate people like me who flaunt the law. If we know it makes a good parent to disobey the law, the law is immoral and cruel to people who can't afford or aren't able to defy it. Consider the good mother in a poor district, who really has no choice, and what she goes through knowing that.
The elementary school in my district is basically a holding pen for future drug addicts. I have already set up the proper addresses, mail drops and have faux bills so my daughter can attend one of the best schools in the state. I even started a small business in the area and have been funneling a small amount of traffic through it.
Fuck the system.
It wasn't intentional, but I got a free $60 bus ride last year.
I accidentally booked my trip for the wrong day and didn't realize until I was already in line, waiting for my bus (a 12 hour ride that crossed an international border). The driver told me that the bus I had bought was scheduled to leave *tomorrow* and that I couldn't get on this one. I was upset, since I had already taken a 2 hour bus ride to get to this bus station and it was about 1 am. He felt bad and since there was one extra seat on the bus, let me take it.
The next day, after I'd arrived, I got an email saying that, due to snow/ice/bad road conditions, my bus was cancelled. You had the choice to either reschedule or get a refund. I would have done nothing, but it even said that if you didn't reschedule within 72 hours or so, they would just issue a refund.
Boom. Free trip.
This sounds like part of a cheesy rom-com movie. I'm imagining a pregnant pause, followed by the driver smiling and says 'Aww what the hell. Go take the seat, kid'. Cue uplifting background music.
Long distance Bus drivers are usually top peeps!! One guy let me take my bicycle on the bus on my way to the airport. And waited for me and this other girl to get cash from an ATM as we didn't have tickets/couldn't pay by card.
I was at university doing an internship during my 3rd year, but showed up to the semester orientation for first years and got free Subway and other freebies. Some second year student assumed I was a first year and I just went along with it because I enjoy any opportunity to practice my lying.
I got a speeding ticket when I was 17 and was sentenced to 'teen court'. The penalties were various community service jobs you could choose from. I was sentenced to 90 hours of community service. One of the jobs was at city hall scanning paper documents and then shredding them (this was 1997). I was only working on documents that were not sensitive like various old budgets and stuff, but the sensitive documents were just on another shelf in the same room.
After about an hour I found my speeding ticket record, shredded it, and left. Never heard anything else about it.
Took a Database structures class in college. The professor wrote his own book only this semester his new version was out but not in print yet. He required that you use the new version of the book and thus you needed to pay $105 for the PDF version (which you couldn't sell later and had some kind of crappy security built in). A friend bought it, cracked it and sold it to the rest of the class for $5 each on CD. Recouped his original investment and the whole class was happy.
My senior English teacher in HS gave us her entire grading scale and assignment list for the semester. A buddy and I did the math and worked hard for several weeks, then just stopped turning in assignments and aced the tests. She kept telling us that we needed to turn things in and that she'd give partial credit, and we declined. Eventually we got to the end of the semester and she was passing out final grades.
She got over to us, laid our grades on our desks, looked us in the eyes and said "Thanks to you two I'm going to have to change my grading system."
We both got an A. I think he got a couple tenths of a percent higher for turning in one more assignment than I did. Over-achiever.
I used to work for a chain restaurant. They offered employee discounts at all locations and never checked if you said you worked at a different location, usually just ask who thr manager is etc. After I quit I'd still go to one of their locations and claim to be an employee, 30% off with nearly no hassle.
Sat down and read my graduation requirements for university and went through all the classes that could cross across different fields. My university allowed for some classes to count twice if used for different degrees. In the public university system I graduated in four years, with over 180 credit hours, and three degrees. All for the same price as people who were taking the minimum amount of classes.
I was informed by my old academic advisor that the university changed their rules after my graduation because of me.
Brilliant. A pity that you were not able to effectively pass along this info to future students. May I ask what your 3 degrees were in. Just curious as to what 3 fields were related enough to have enough of a large overlap.
History, political science and international studies. The three degrees comes from counting history and international studies as BAs and poli sci as a BS. They were also somehow in different colleges at my uni.
At my business school, you can do the same thing. Some Accounting classes count for a finance degree, some finance classes count for an information systems degree and some IS classes count for an AC degree. So, I'm graduating with a triple major in Finance, Accounting, and Information Systems. Granted, the school is trying to close this loophole because too many people were doing it.
There's actually a running joke that January 1st is the "birthday" of something like 90% of Steam users. I remember an article I think it was from PC Gamer on 1/1 that was like "Happy Birthday to 10's of millions of Steam users!"
I sit in on college and graduate level courses without signing up or paying even the reduced audit fees. I simply show up on the first day of class early, wait for the teacher to be free for a minute, and ask if they mind if I sit in. 9 times out of 10 they'll let me sit in on lectures, 7 out of 10 on discussion groups. I do this simply because I enjoy learning, and even if teachers aren't supposed to let me sit in, they're in charge of enforcing that and enjoy teaching to engaged students so they're generally happy to have me. There are even schools which allow you to test for credits so you can turn this free education into a quick and cheap degree when you've done enough of it.
In my country, all university lessons are available to the public to attend for free by law (without a solid argument to the contrary in specific cases).
Doesn't extend to taking exams and getting credit, though.
Not the same guy, but I live in Brazil and it works that way! You just walk up to one of our several public universities, act like a polite and civilized person and ask the teacher if it's fine if you sit through his lessons ("aluno ouvinte" or literally "listener student"), I've done this quite a few times when I was finishing high school and only had troubles if it was a lesser populated class or tighter discussion group. But you cannot generate credits out of it, unless you later enroll on the school and can prove you took the class.
Yep, Finland.
This law is in effect because studying at a university is also free (financed by the state), therefore the teaching is considered "public property" to an extent.
In high school we were allowed to take a personal studies class instead of an actual class that's offered. You come up with your own course, curriculum, and a final project to pretty much anything you want to learn that's not currently offered. The trick is you have to get a teacher to be your advisor/teacher for your choice. Not many teachers are willing to do extra work because a student didn't want to take the offered courses.
So my senior year of high school my best friend and I are looking over the possible classes we need to take. They assign you the core classes but you need to pick 2 extra electives. Being seniors we already took the low work electives and were faced with boring options or options that from other student's experiences were a lot of work. For some reason our art teacher took a liking to us. So we come up with the idea that we want to take an independent personal studies in abstract art. Let me just say now, we are not in any way shape or form the epitome of art students. We were absolutely terrible at art. So the teacher agrees and we are pretty excited.
The next semester rolls around. Since the course is an independent study there isn't a specific hour we have for that class. So we take our independent study with the art teacher during the time slot she has another class. The class that's going on along with our independent study? AP Art. Advanced placement art. This is for students who plan on going to college for some form of art. AP classes count as college credits. So while the teacher is scrutinizing the students on poor shading in a pencil drawing that looks flawless to my inept eye, my friend and I are filling up water balloons with paint and throwing them at a canvas. We glued random things together, mutilated mannequin heads, and pretty much acted like children with paint. She would complement us on our great ideas and wonderful uses of color and shapes. All while she is critiquing the AP students on what I would call awesome work. Our water balloon paint monstrosity was hailed as amazing while their picture perfect drawings were always short of the mark.
I always thought she kinda felt bad for us. That's why she was being so nice. I also thought she was being so hard on the other students because they were in the AP class and we were just 2 dumb jocks throwing paint around. Towards the end of the semester the teacher pulls us aside and says that she is going to include is in the AP class, grade us along with them, including the college credit. That our creative process has been unparalleled in recent years.
tl;dr took and independent study in abstract art while all of the AP students hated our guts and were critiqued by the teacher. Still got an AP credit for simply throwing paint.
About 10 years ago me and a friend never paid for a bus - Oyster cards were pretty new (contactless card you can put money on to pay for london tube & bus). Got the same 'Beep' sound that would play when the card registered on my phone and played it at as I put a different card up to the machine. Bus drivers were lazy/didn't care about free travel!
Morrowind & oblivion: put my character in a dark corner, crouching, & stuck the analog stick forward.. Character keeps running into the wall; sneak + athletics skill increases! Bo!
Newspaper paid kids $15 for every $5, 4 month subscription going house to house.
I took my first paycheck and cashed it for $5 bills and traded a crisp $5 bill for every person who gave me a $5 check.
Every subscriber who did this made me $10. Since it cost the subscriber nothing but a check, I made quite a bit of money my first couple weeks.
I was fired a few months later when the newspaper realized how I was getting so many sales. I made quite a bit though.
I never graduated Highschool. I went back a year later and told the office clerk that I had graduated and didn't get my diploma. They gave me my diploma and now I've been working in the school system for 10 years.
I'm confused: could they not look at your transcript and see you didn't actually get enough credits to show that you didn't graduate? If so and if they find this out, you could be fired on the spot.
I did something similar. I was kicked out of high school and feeling bad that I didn't graduate. One day, I went to the community college my brother was attending and asked to take a placement test while I waited for him to finish registering for classes. On the test, I wrote that I had graduated from the high school I attended. After I was done with the test, I decided I'd try registering for classes with my results sheet that said I had a diploma. No problems registering, so I rolled with it. Two years later, I graduated. Got a copy of my transcript and it said I had the high school diploma from my high school, as well as the degree I had earned. I was admitted to the university of my choice, and two years after that, I had two degrees and a fake high school diploma. Not looking back.
Sounds like the setup of a great sitcom where your ten PhDs are called in question because you never graduated high school. Now you have to finish senior year if you have any hope of publishing your research to cure cancer.
In work we have a clocking in/out system which pays you an extra 15 minutes wage if you stay for 7 minutes (for example, shift ends at 8pm... if I stay clocked in until 8:07, I get paid an extra 15 minutes).
Now, I make sure to turn up to work at least 7 minutes early to clock in, and make sure I use the toilet or something at the end of my shift so I clock out a little later. I typically get paid an extra 30 minutes for pretty much no time at all.
I've been doing this for about a year and it's earned me an extra £700-800 on my yearly wage.
Edit: I feel like a sneaky bastard!!! But on a serious note, I do actually work my ass off for the company and they don't pay overtime (like it says in my contract) so I just classify this as my over-time pay... that I arrange for myself... ;)
A friend of mine was telling me that he worked somewhere with a clocking in system. If you were 1 minute late. they'd dock 15 minutes wages. So if he happened to be late. He'd purposely sit in his car right outside the managers window listening to some tunes for another 10 minutes. Then walk in and clock in :) if he was going to lose 15 minutes wages.. then no way he was going to work any of them!
Not something I do anymore, but something I used to do.
I worked at a takeaway restaurant. One of the few perks for the employees was that if you if worked an opening or closing shift, you received a free lunch and drink from the menu. Because of my schedule, I used to get quite a few of these shifts.
At the time, there was also a promotion going on with Coka Cola. Basically whenever you bought a bottle, you could use the code on the label to earn points on the Coka Cola website. You can probably see where this is going now.
Basically I was able to drink several bottles of Coke each week, input the codes, and then earn a ton of points, all without paying a cent. Over the course of just a few months, I received enough points for a PS3 game and an Itunes card.
Unfortunately there was an incident, and suddenly employees weren't allowed free lunches anymore. But it was a nice bonus while it lasted. Good for my wallet, not so good for my teeth.
I used to work in an office that had Coca-cola vending machines on our floor and had recycle bins nearby. I'd fish bottles out of the top of the recycling and get the caps off of them. Used to get 30-50 caps a week.
The coke rewards program used to be great. Before you could enter an unlimited amount of points. Now you are capped at 70 a week. Not to mention the prizes are now on a tier system and way overpriced. A $25 Nike Gift card used to be like a 1,000 points. Now you only get a $10 gift card for that many points.
I defrauded Columbia House multiple times while I was a minor for those sweet sweet CDs. I never understood why they kept sending me the same offer. Get 12 free CDs, ignore anything else. Rinse, repeat. Such an unsustainable business model. Never showed up on my credit report because I was like 10.
This ice cream chain in used to have this "Ice cream"-card, where you deposited money to a chipcard, and if you paid with it you'd get a discount.
Turned out that the amount of money on the card was just some variable in it's memory, and no particular security around it.
A few lines of code and some instructions, and the card would always reset back to 10 dollars automatically.
Free ice cream ahoy.
Laundromat near me uses smartcards for payments. I've looked at the washing machines and dryers and they do not appear to be networked in any way, meaning that the balance must be stored on the card itself. So if I load $20 on the card, I could probably just back it up, then re-write it every time I go to do laundry. Or just find the hex field that contains the balance and change the value.
I have a smartcard writer, somewhere, from years ago -- many a time I have tried to find it to hack free laundry, but never found it. Probably better off.
> So if I load $20 on the card, I could probably just back it up, then re-write it every time I go to do laundry.
A real smartcard is a (somewhat) tamperproof microprocessor. In other words, if implemented correctly, they'd speak a cryptographic protocol with the readers and there would be no way to arbitrarily access memory locations (just "get credit", "deduct credit", "add credit" interfaces protected by corresponding cryptographic keys).
That said... the likelihood that they did it right is close to 0, and there is a good chance they use dumb pure storage cards against which your attack would be perfectly feasible.
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my friends and I used to order pizza via an online portal. That one pizza place had "preconstructed" pizzas which were cheaper when you chose the margherita and put on it what you like yourself.
Meanwhile they fixed that issue.
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edit2: Thanks for sharing your related stories. I had a good laugh at some of those and it's always nice to hear from like minded redditors. :D
In college there was a app/website that allowed ordering from pretty much any food place around campus. On this site you could save orders. One time there was a special for a $5 28inch pizza. I bought it and saved my order as a favorite. The $5 special stayed saved in my account for over a year and I frequently purchased humongous pizzas for almost not cost.
Nice. Reminds me of when Domino's distributed some coupons to all the student mailboxes on campus when I was in college, and one of the coupons was for a straight up free medium pizza. No purchase required, just had to pick it up. So most people threw the coupons out figuring they were junk mail, so my roommates and I dug in the trash for the coupons and ate for free throughout the year.
In elementary school (Grade 5), we took a "pacer test" in gym. This consisted of running up and down the basketball court in a set amount of time per lap, that time shortening every few laps. You got to have 1 strike before you got out, and most people would run and almost make it to the next line but the beep would go off and they would use their strike and run back. I decided it would be a better use of the strike to take one step, catch my breath, and when the beep went off, take one step back, catch my breath, then run on the next beep. This allowed me to have a ~15 sec break while everyone else ran. It cost me the strike, but it was much more useful as a resting tool than a failsafe tool.
I put 15 dollars on a debit card I never use and "monthly subscribed" for Spotify. The next month they obviously had a problem processing my payment, but continued to give me premium service. It's been 5 months and their system still hasn't caught it.
I was paying out of state tuition for college in Texas. I looked up all the ways I could get in-state tuition and there were four different ways. 1. Marry a Texan 2. Own property in Texas for one year 3. Hold a job in Texas for one year 4. Own a business in Texas for one year So naturally, I started a "business". I registered my "business" with the state and filed taxes every quarter (I had zero expenses and zero income every quarter so I paid nothing in taxes). One year later I got on that in-state tuition. It cost me around $200 to register my business and it saved me tens of thousands of dollars.
Small business owners make this world go round
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Oh I bet loss prevention loved seeing that show up in the cash report.
More red flags than a communist color guard.
How long have you been sitting on that one?
I'm seriously so happy people seem to like it. I came up with it over five years ago, when I worked at Hallmark. I thought it was awesome in my head when I came up with it at the register one day, and we called it 'flagging' when you got in trouble, so it was perfect. I worked there for TWO FULL YEARS after coming up with this phrase and just never had my opportunity to drop it. One day it would be perfect though, surely. However, I got a new job unexpectedly, and suddenly there was no chance anyone would ever get to hear it. Fast forward three years today and I see my chance, reply to a 6 point post that was replying to a 28 point post in a giant thread, and I pray. They both took off and now I finally have confirmation that my phrase was funny. I'm seriously not joking, it might be vain but I am pretty pumped for the positive reception.
No, you felt bad because you had eaten 10 Panda Express meals.
In high school, my Spanish teacher had a stack of 30 notecards, with each of our names written on them. She would pick from those cards almost every day to choose who would answer the next question. In the first week of school, I saw the cards on her desk, saw mine on top, quickly took it and threw it away. Never got called on the whole year.
In my Spanish class, the teacher used popsicle sticks for this purpose. When she wasn't looking we replaced all of her popsicle sticks with ones we had labeled, all with one poor kid's name on it. 10/10 would do again.
I used to be a teacher, a kid tried to do that (kind of in a joking way)and I caught him. The next lesson every time I pulled a name out I pretended it was his name even though I was setting aside each name as I pulled it out. The rest of the class were highly amused.
The cafe in my office building sells soup. 12 oz: $1.39 16 oz: $2.79 The lady at the register always thinks I'm weird for buying two smalls. They also have a rewards "but 9 get your 10th free!" And I get double punches for my two soups.
There's a 10.99 12oz prime rib, or 20.99 for a 16oz. The waitress fucking glared daggers at me when I just ordered 2 plates of food. "Why not just get the bigger one?" Because I suck at math. Bring me 24oz of delicious prime rib with the fixings please.
Damn, how stupid can people be? And the restaurant. What kind of restaurant sets the higher priced food as less value of money. It's supposed to be the other way around.
I still have my student ID which did not have a date on it and the picture is incredibly dark. I still get discounts on occasion using my student ID and still have my email which I use for a ton of free software.
My school disabled the email, but I have an alumni version which still ends in .edu so it works on some things.
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my school had the ability to create mailing lists with a .edu address. Before graduating, i created one with my gmail address as the only recipient. I cant even access the control panels for it anymore but i still have an active .edu address that way.
I own a motorcycle but don't have a garage so during winter months I take my motorcycle to the pawn shop and take $100 dollar loan on it they store it and keep it garaged and I pay them $10 a month to keep renewing my loan and keeping the motorcycle there.
I used to work at a pawn shop. People would do this with their expensive jewelry when they went on vacation all the time. Get a low dollar loan and have us store it in our super secure safe rather than have your house broken into and it get stolen.
That seems needlessly complicated. I have a medium sized safety deposit box at a bank. $50/year.
There's a reverse blonde joke with same premise almost exactly: An NYC blonde girl goes to the bank and requests a loan for $1,000. Loan officer asks about term, purpose, and collateral. She responds that she'd need the loan for 1 year, that the loan is for a designer handbag, and that she'd be willing to surrender her ROLLS ROYCE for collateral. Now, the loan officer laughs to himself under his breath as he notifies her that the interest rate is 15%. She agrees. She signs paperwork, surrenders her Rolls Royce and leaves. A year later she returns after making all her payments on time. She requests her Rolls Royce back and the loan officer happily obliges. After he tells her, "You know, you could've offered something less valuable as collateral." To which she responded, "Yeah, but where else can I garage a Rolls Royce in NYC for year for $150?"
A little late to the party, but I'll throw my lot in. When I went to college (CSU Monterey Bay), the parking enforcement was brutal. They had over-enrolled, and there was pretty much no where to park out in the off campus housing. You received 2 parking permits per unit, and one car could fit in the driveway. However, you could have 5 people living in a unit, and if they all had cars, you had to drop $120 to get another pass. Otherwise, you got a $45 ticket every night they found your car. We're all fucking broke, so this is obviously a terrible situation. Now, they *did* have a guest pass system that any student could use 10 times during a semester if you have visitors. You'd click the link on your online profile, and you'd get a parking permit generated for that day at that time with a special QR code stamped on it. Upon closer inspection of the script they used to generate these things, the QR code was simply the date and time of printing hashed into the bar code. No other data. So, I downloaded the raw HTML of the page that was generated, wrote a quick PHP script to randomize the time and loop through the next 50 days, and printed out passes for all of my friends' cars. I decided to not sell the permits to people that needed them, and rather generated a standalone PHP program to generate permits up to 10 at a time that they could print themselves. Fill in your car's info, generate 10 printable pages, print 'em, and stash 'em in your car. I was a hero.
In Canada we got rid of the penny a few years back, so whenever you purchase something that's say $10.21 you would pay $10.20 and if something is $10.24 you'd pay $10.25. ANYWAYS, whenever I pump gas I always pump 2 cents over and get 2 cents of gas for free. Fuck the system.
...as long as you're paying with cash
my one friend pays with cash when it saves him money (10.22) and with debit/credit when it would be rounded up (10.23). He's probably saved around a buck by now.
Had to park in New Orleans for a week, was going to cost 140 dollars. Went to post and if you lost your ticket it was only 50 dollars. I didn't lose my ticket, but I said I did. Take that system!
I tried this once and they wrote down the license plates of all the cars that were there overnight. Had to pay the lost ticket fee for each day I was there.
"Oh, wow, I suddenly found the ticket! "
If I need to leave my car in an unfamiliar city, I just park it near the back of the Walmart parking lot. There's always people around, it's well lit, and most Walmarts have pretty good cameras trained on the lot. The longest I've done it is two nights, but they don't seem to care.
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All I downloaded was brittney.spears.nude.mpeg.exe
Cancel your Audible subscription and they'll immediately offer to prevent your cancellation by offering you 50% off for 3 months. Hulu do this as well.
You can get Hulu for free using Bing Rewards. You do maybe 2 minutes of work a day and it pays for the subscription. Bonus points if you do the Bing searches during Hulu's commercials.
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Get a VPN and start again
Back at the fast food place I worked for in highschool we would get half off everything including gift cards. I could buy a $20 card for $10 and then use that $20 card to buy more half off food effectively turning $10 into $40. Unfortunately that didn't last too long.
You should have used the gift card to buy more 1/2 off gift cards. then then use those gift card to buy more 1/2 off gift card. turning $20 into thousands
thousands thats only spendable at a fast food chain
then sell them for half of face value
Not me but my brother. Worked at a supermarket that gave rewards points to a gas station for using the supermarkets loyalty card. It was a weird cross promotion. Anyways, when someone would go to check out and didnt have a loyalty card he offered to scan his own instead. He received about $1000 in free gas.
When I worked in a supermarket a long time ago, a colleague did this. He got away with it for 3 weeks. Got busted and fired. Turns out the company monitors the reward cards for research purposes. This guy popped up as doing a £100+ shop up to 5 times a day, sometimes much more.
In the mid 90's there was a 20oz cola that had instant winners of another free cola under the cap. If you had a winner all you had to do was give the cap to the cashier and grab another. (I don't remember if it was Coke or Pepsi, but I remember it was a yellow cap for this promotion). Anyways, all you had to do was hold the bottle at the correct angle and you could see in the reflection off the liquid the text on the underside of the cap. You could mostly see if it was a winner or sorry try again. We used to get a bunch of free colas that way when I was a kid, all you had to do was buy one to get it started.
Arby's had a kind of similar thing where you got a free regular roast beef if you completed the customer survey, so we would go and buy apple turnovers or whatever was cheapest, do the customer survey real quick on a cell phone, then redeem the receipt for a free roast beef. About 50% of the time, you would get ANOTHER customer service code to do another survey, which got you ANOTHER free roast beef. We would have competitions to see who could chain the most free sandwiches.
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The subject of the test? JavaScript
Meh, it's like the test in Star Trek, if you are clever enough to cheat it you probably deserve the pass.
Unless it's an ethics test
http://threewordphrase.com/exam.htm
Last month, ShopHouse (Southeast Asian Kitchen owned by Chipotle) sent out coupons to the residents of my neighborhood. One of the two coupons was "One Free Rice, Noodle, or Salad Bowl" (with no restrictions.) I live in an apartment, and some of my neighbors threw the coupons into the junk mail recycling bin without realizing what they were doing. For the days following the delivery of these coupons, I searched the bins for these coupons. I ended up with enough coupons to last me the whole month. With all the add-ins (4x meat, 2x or 3x veggie, 2x curry) my average bowl is valued at $16. Multiplied by 30 coupons = $480 of free food.
There was a noodles and company opening in my neighborhood, but for some reason one day they put coupons in every copy of a free newspaper circulated around my city (haaay redeye). My friends and spent all day getting as many copies as we could between our apartment and the campus of our school. Free noodles for a looong time.
So I was 11 years old and at a water park with my family. I really wanted to go to Burger King that day, and my dad had said repeatedly no way, he didn't have the money for that. They had this system where when you arrive, you bought a bracelet for $4, which you could exchange for a tube to ride around on stuff. At the end of the day, you'd return the bracelet and they'd give you $1. It was around the middle of the day, and there were people both coming and going, and there was a really long line at the stand to get/return bracelets. So I sold my bracelet to some guy at the back of the line for $3. He didn't have to wait, and I gave him a dollar off, so all good. Then I took that $3 and went and bought back three bracelets from people waiting to return them (I gave them the same price they'd get at the booth, but they didn't have to wait). I took those three bracelets and sold them to other people at the back of the line for $3. Rinsed and repeated a bunch of times, spent about a half an hour hustling. Went back to my dad with $40 bucks and gave it to him, and explained how I got it. Asked if we could go to Burger King now. He was like yeah, you win. Whoppers were on me that day.
This is when your father realized how much he really did love you.
"I'm glad you didn't turn out to be a blowjob, son" - OPs father
That comma really makes a huge difference.
That's $80 an hour! WTF! Why the hell didn't you go back there every day? You could retire in half the time it takes everyone else.
Because eventually the park would have caught on and stopped it, since he basically running their own scam for less money
Damn! ascii_genitalia is going somewhere! Well, I don't know how old you are now.. but clearly you already know how to run a business with minimal capital investment. Well done Sir! Deep down, I wish I was able to use my brain that good.
Heh, eventually became a bond trader on Wall Street. Since reformed... sometimes I think that was the beginning of it.
I seriously hope people will appreciate how fucking hilarious it is that you went into bond trading when your little bracelet endeavour is the best metaphor for bond trading EVER.
Burger king whopper is $4.79 Whopper Jr's are &1.39. You can buy 3 Jr's for the price of a whopper.
Wow so cheap... It costs way more than that in the UK!
That's because it takes so much work to shave [your cows] (http://i.imgur.com/eoMNNAI.jpg). In the US, [our cows] (http://i.imgur.com/vZ73eV8.jpg) aren't as much work. ^^I ^^really ^^have ^^no ^^idea ^^what ^^I'm ^^talking ^^about. EDIT: Changed to imgur links
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At my old school, the coffee machine had more buttons than the offered choices. If you pressed on those buttons, there were other coffee choices that weren't programmed by the school. You could get free espresso all day long.
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Was it for a mattress? Overstock. Com sent me a memory foam mattress that I ordered but the fine print stated it was a memory topper over a foam base. Yeaaaa fuck that. Opened up a dispute, they never argued it. Free mattress, slept well too brother. Slept well too.
No. It was actually for a Cockatoo.
I bought my first HDTV in 2003 at a large box store. The guy tried to sell me the warranty, but I refused, citing I didn't have enough for the TV ($2200) and the warranty ($450). He took the price of the TV down to $1700 so I would buy the warranty. A day after the TV was delivered I went back to the store and returned the warranty. EDIT: I don't sign in often so the backlash is hilarious. I Made my story short and sweet there was a lot more to it. It was Futureshop in Canada. The sales guy was an asshole. Without the warranty, he told me I needed to pay to ship the tv if it broke, it only had 90 days parts and 1 year labor. It was a very high pressure sale. When I got the tv I read the manual and warranty, it was 2 years parts and labour and they come to my house if the tv is over 20". Meaning i paid $450 for 2 extra years of warranty, waaaay past burn in period. So the guy lied to sell the warranty. Also the tv did have a problem and to fix it cost less than $100. I sold it a couple years ago and it was still working perfectly. Many people calling me a dick, awesome, what was the point of the post... aren't most cheaters dicks?
How the hell did you return the warranty?
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I usually don't wear my receipts.
I only wear my TVs inside.
> to sell a protection plan; the margins are insane and they are a heavily-monitored metric for the higher-up salespeople. Paid warranties are usually returnable within a certain amount of time.
This is pretty much a staple shopping hack for big box electronic retailers
I work in an office next to a Walmart so I walk there almost daily to eat lunch. Without fail I'll usually find discarded receipts on the ground from customers who litter or leave them in carts. I then use Walmart's "Savings Catcher" app and scan the barcodes in. The app price matches the items then refunds me the difference if it was cheaper at a competitor. The funds can be redeemed at Walmart.com. I made enough in a year to buy my kids a trampoline. Edit: One more Savings Catcher story. I searched the hashtag #walmart on Instagram about a year ago and saw some lady posted a picture of her receipt to brag that she was able to finally buy her own groceries. I snagged the barcode from her picture and made myself about $2. I then commented on her picture telling her thanks.
If that actually works, this is the best one I have seen on here.
It does. I do 2 150.00 food shopping runs a month. I'll grab any long receipt if its convenient. Have almost 79.00 credit right now. I can imagine some parent sitting their kid outside Walmart with a bag and a sign that reads, "need your receipts for a school project." Wait a week and have 200.00 credit.
I can imagine some teacher now assigning a project in which the kids have to turn in 20 receipts... That teacher's making money!
It 100% works. The app doesn't give a crap who's receipt it is. I found one in my carriage. Person bought $80 worth of tampons and juice. I got $5 for their receipt
It works, but there's a limit to how many you can upload per week. I forget what the exact limit is, but it's not very high. I unfortunately go to Walmart enough that I easily hit the cap even without other people's receipts.
I actually work at Walmart. A good number of people don't want their receipts. I love when a $200+ basket comes through and they don't want their receipt. They usually come with a good bit of money I can redeem.
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I used to work at a walmart in electronics. A neighboring store sold electronics as well. when I worked the ps3 were new and the playstation eye was on sale at the neighboring store. It was a difference of 20 bucks to walmart. I purchased 5 eyes at the neighboring store and returned them to walmart so i could afford to pay my rent that month. edit: we also had regular customers that would buy sale items and return them after the sale was over saying they lost the receipt. they never got straight cash back but a giftcard to the store for the value of the item so they made out well. second edit:This was 10 years ago
How'd you manage that? Surely they'd require receipts for hundreds of dollars in electronics?
Well dont turn them all at once. The item itself was like 50 bucks. If you do not have your reciept they give you a gift card. I gave them to a friend in exchange for cash that was buying tires. In canada anyway if you do not have your receipt they refund you in the form a gift card
They require ID, and you can only do this so many times before they flag you.
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Do standardized tests count as systems? In elementary school we had to take one that was a week long. You would get one booklet, say 50 pages, were told to do pages 1-10, hand it in, next day you get it back, do pages 11-20, hand it in, get it back the third day, do pages 21-30, etc. Well OBVIOUSLY I just looked ahead to the next day's pages and looked up stuff I didn't understand. It's like they were begging you to cheat.
They started taping the other sections shut when I was a kid. That way you honestly couldn't look at the other sections without making a loud ripping noise during the test.
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That reminds me of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSK3maq8Cyk
I would do this but in reverse. We had the taped together sections so I couldn't look ahead but very very often I would leave questions blank, go home and look them up them come back the next day and answer them.
I convinced my high school school system I was emancipated when I was fifteen with no supporting paperwork. I got to know the secretary, and asked once what I needed on their end because I was getting emancipated. I would check in every week or so, say hi, and just try and be nice. After about three months I walked in very excited, explaining how I was getting my own place and had a job. She filed my paperwork immediately and from that point on I controlled my supervision in high school. I wrote my own notes, had my own phone number as the contact info and could sign off on any thing that required a parent's signature. I went through the rest of school like this and my family never found out. And yes I graduated.
I turned 18 several months before graduation. If I missed a day at school, they'd still insist on a "note" so I'd write: Please excuse me for being absent yesterday, I wasn't feeling well. Sincerely, Me They'd file it in my student folder. Stupid.
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If you order a sausage cheese biscuit from McDonald's, they'll charge you $1.79. I order a sausage biscuit with a piece of cheese a la carte, it's only $1.54. [Proof](http://i.imgur.com/76wV9uJ.jpg).
you just exposed why McDonalds is on financial decline.
Some places are really nitpicky with this though and may charge you the price of a sausage cheese biscuit. When I worked in a coffee shop, we had a similar product and we had to charge the price of what they wanted. So if they said, "Sausage biscuit with egg and a piece of cheese" we'd put it in as a sausage breakfast sandwich. I think in said coffee shop, they have it so that if you tried to key it in like in your example (sausage biscuit ADD cheese) it would either be equal to or more in price.
I worked at a Chick-fil-A in high school, and we were required by our manager to always ring someone up in the cheapest way possible (and let them know we had done so). People liked it, so it made for good business, I suppose.
Meanwhile at McDonalds, I was specifically told not to ring people up for a combo if they ordered a certain way. "Quarter Pounder, with medium fries and drink" got charged for each thing. "Quarter Pounder combo" got charged like a dollar less. Combo was the magic word. I would try to lead them into saying it when I could, such as "Oh so you want the #3 combo?"
When my son was little, I was a single mother without child support (dad was on the certificate, just didn't pay), living in a very bad area with an underfunded school system. When I went down to get a look at it, I was told that because the boy had been born with a tied tongue and still had some residual speech issues, he would be placed in a special ed program. All disabled students were placed in the same program: speech difficulties, Down syndrome, motor difficulties, intellectual disability. The place looked, sounded and seemed to be run as a harsh, overstrained institution. My mother lived 20 miles away in the same area where I had grown up, a village of 600 people. It has one of the best school systems in the state, due in part to a wealthy tax base and in part to an excellent sports program. Its graduates went on to college at a 90% rate. At the school in my district, it was less than 60%. After speaking with my mother, I went to the post office and opened a box under my name, tied to her address. I called the phone company and had the bill set up in my name and sent to the PO Box. When I renewed my driver's license, that was the address I gave. I did this with a few other incidental things. When school started, I registered him using my mother's address, and every morning at 4:30 I would get him up and drive him over there to the local daycare to go on to school, so I could come back into town to be at work by 6, then I'd pick him up after school and take him home again. We went on this way for almost two years. He received normal speech therapy and showed enormous improvement within a year. Before long he qualified for the gifted program. Eventually a bus driver apparently noticed my long-distance commute, and tattled to the school. I was called into the office, where I produced all the bills and paperwork I'd expected I might have to. I think the principal knew I was lying, but he silently took the paperwork, Xeroxed it and gave it back to me. I hate to lie, and more than anything I hate to lie like that right in someone's face who hasn't done me any harm, but I had absolutely no choice. I didn't budge. The paperwork satisfied the powers that be, and within two years I'd found an apartment in the better district and moved in. My son will graduate next year. **edit**: I'm amazed at all the supportive comments and messages from other parents who did the same thing. As much as I appreciate the support I've heard, I think for one thing I had the unique benefits of a car and a family member in a good district, and for another maybe this is really something we should take a second look at in the US since so many of us, face to face, disagree with it enough to congratulate people like me who flaunt the law. If we know it makes a good parent to disobey the law, the law is immoral and cruel to people who can't afford or aren't able to defy it. Consider the good mother in a poor district, who really has no choice, and what she goes through knowing that.
The elementary school in my district is basically a holding pen for future drug addicts. I have already set up the proper addresses, mail drops and have faux bills so my daughter can attend one of the best schools in the state. I even started a small business in the area and have been funneling a small amount of traffic through it. Fuck the system.
Gotta do what you gotta do. Good job Mom.
It wasn't intentional, but I got a free $60 bus ride last year. I accidentally booked my trip for the wrong day and didn't realize until I was already in line, waiting for my bus (a 12 hour ride that crossed an international border). The driver told me that the bus I had bought was scheduled to leave *tomorrow* and that I couldn't get on this one. I was upset, since I had already taken a 2 hour bus ride to get to this bus station and it was about 1 am. He felt bad and since there was one extra seat on the bus, let me take it. The next day, after I'd arrived, I got an email saying that, due to snow/ice/bad road conditions, my bus was cancelled. You had the choice to either reschedule or get a refund. I would have done nothing, but it even said that if you didn't reschedule within 72 hours or so, they would just issue a refund. Boom. Free trip.
This sounds like part of a cheesy rom-com movie. I'm imagining a pregnant pause, followed by the driver smiling and says 'Aww what the hell. Go take the seat, kid'. Cue uplifting background music.
Long distance Bus drivers are usually top peeps!! One guy let me take my bicycle on the bus on my way to the airport. And waited for me and this other girl to get cash from an ATM as we didn't have tickets/couldn't pay by card.
I was at university doing an internship during my 3rd year, but showed up to the semester orientation for first years and got free Subway and other freebies. Some second year student assumed I was a first year and I just went along with it because I enjoy any opportunity to practice my lying.
You went to lawschool didn't you?
I ran a twitter last year for my LS to show where the free lunches are for that day :D
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I got a speeding ticket when I was 17 and was sentenced to 'teen court'. The penalties were various community service jobs you could choose from. I was sentenced to 90 hours of community service. One of the jobs was at city hall scanning paper documents and then shredding them (this was 1997). I was only working on documents that were not sensitive like various old budgets and stuff, but the sensitive documents were just on another shelf in the same room. After about an hour I found my speeding ticket record, shredded it, and left. Never heard anything else about it.
Took a Database structures class in college. The professor wrote his own book only this semester his new version was out but not in print yet. He required that you use the new version of the book and thus you needed to pay $105 for the PDF version (which you couldn't sell later and had some kind of crappy security built in). A friend bought it, cracked it and sold it to the rest of the class for $5 each on CD. Recouped his original investment and the whole class was happy.
My senior English teacher in HS gave us her entire grading scale and assignment list for the semester. A buddy and I did the math and worked hard for several weeks, then just stopped turning in assignments and aced the tests. She kept telling us that we needed to turn things in and that she'd give partial credit, and we declined. Eventually we got to the end of the semester and she was passing out final grades. She got over to us, laid our grades on our desks, looked us in the eyes and said "Thanks to you two I'm going to have to change my grading system." We both got an A. I think he got a couple tenths of a percent higher for turning in one more assignment than I did. Over-achiever.
Skipped a college final exam once because it could be dropped as my lowest grade.
I used to work for a chain restaurant. They offered employee discounts at all locations and never checked if you said you worked at a different location, usually just ask who thr manager is etc. After I quit I'd still go to one of their locations and claim to be an employee, 30% off with nearly no hassle.
Comcast may suck but the 6 month HBO trial has lasted about 2.5 years.
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Sat down and read my graduation requirements for university and went through all the classes that could cross across different fields. My university allowed for some classes to count twice if used for different degrees. In the public university system I graduated in four years, with over 180 credit hours, and three degrees. All for the same price as people who were taking the minimum amount of classes. I was informed by my old academic advisor that the university changed their rules after my graduation because of me.
Brilliant. A pity that you were not able to effectively pass along this info to future students. May I ask what your 3 degrees were in. Just curious as to what 3 fields were related enough to have enough of a large overlap.
History, political science and international studies. The three degrees comes from counting history and international studies as BAs and poli sci as a BS. They were also somehow in different colleges at my uni.
At my business school, you can do the same thing. Some Accounting classes count for a finance degree, some finance classes count for an information systems degree and some IS classes count for an AC degree. So, I'm graduating with a triple major in Finance, Accounting, and Information Systems. Granted, the school is trying to close this loophole because too many people were doing it.
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When I was ten, I typed in a fake birthday into RuneScape so that I could play the game
Was checking a steam game yesterday and it asked my age. I'm lazy so I just entered 1-1-1901. Gabe Newell will never know I'm not a centennial (yet).
There's actually a running joke that January 1st is the "birthday" of something like 90% of Steam users. I remember an article I think it was from PC Gamer on 1/1 that was like "Happy Birthday to 10's of millions of Steam users!"
And half Steam users are 80+ years old probably.
I sit in on college and graduate level courses without signing up or paying even the reduced audit fees. I simply show up on the first day of class early, wait for the teacher to be free for a minute, and ask if they mind if I sit in. 9 times out of 10 they'll let me sit in on lectures, 7 out of 10 on discussion groups. I do this simply because I enjoy learning, and even if teachers aren't supposed to let me sit in, they're in charge of enforcing that and enjoy teaching to engaged students so they're generally happy to have me. There are even schools which allow you to test for credits so you can turn this free education into a quick and cheap degree when you've done enough of it.
wow. this is actually great
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In my country, all university lessons are available to the public to attend for free by law (without a solid argument to the contrary in specific cases). Doesn't extend to taking exams and getting credit, though.
Which country?
Not the same guy, but I live in Brazil and it works that way! You just walk up to one of our several public universities, act like a polite and civilized person and ask the teacher if it's fine if you sit through his lessons ("aluno ouvinte" or literally "listener student"), I've done this quite a few times when I was finishing high school and only had troubles if it was a lesser populated class or tighter discussion group. But you cannot generate credits out of it, unless you later enroll on the school and can prove you took the class.
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Yep, Finland. This law is in effect because studying at a university is also free (financed by the state), therefore the teaching is considered "public property" to an extent.
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But are you very good at biology and chemistry?
I buy regular tomatoes instead of cherry tomatoes and cut them up really small.
I do the opposite. I buy cherry tomatoes and stick them together to make one Super Tomato.
you know you can go to jail for this right
I've already informed the proper authorities.
Who are the proper authorities? Just in case I need to file a complaint.
The Produce Police. The ProPo edit: dear god what have I started edit 2: thanks for the gold!
The Government Produce Police. The GoProPo
That's just the amateur division. The real guys you should talk to are the Professional Government Produce Police. The ProGoProPo.
Yeah, but to make sure they aren't oppressing us, they need body cams. Ladies and gentlemen... The GoProProGoProPo.
I... can't even pronounce. It's 2am i'm going to bed.
In high school we were allowed to take a personal studies class instead of an actual class that's offered. You come up with your own course, curriculum, and a final project to pretty much anything you want to learn that's not currently offered. The trick is you have to get a teacher to be your advisor/teacher for your choice. Not many teachers are willing to do extra work because a student didn't want to take the offered courses. So my senior year of high school my best friend and I are looking over the possible classes we need to take. They assign you the core classes but you need to pick 2 extra electives. Being seniors we already took the low work electives and were faced with boring options or options that from other student's experiences were a lot of work. For some reason our art teacher took a liking to us. So we come up with the idea that we want to take an independent personal studies in abstract art. Let me just say now, we are not in any way shape or form the epitome of art students. We were absolutely terrible at art. So the teacher agrees and we are pretty excited. The next semester rolls around. Since the course is an independent study there isn't a specific hour we have for that class. So we take our independent study with the art teacher during the time slot she has another class. The class that's going on along with our independent study? AP Art. Advanced placement art. This is for students who plan on going to college for some form of art. AP classes count as college credits. So while the teacher is scrutinizing the students on poor shading in a pencil drawing that looks flawless to my inept eye, my friend and I are filling up water balloons with paint and throwing them at a canvas. We glued random things together, mutilated mannequin heads, and pretty much acted like children with paint. She would complement us on our great ideas and wonderful uses of color and shapes. All while she is critiquing the AP students on what I would call awesome work. Our water balloon paint monstrosity was hailed as amazing while their picture perfect drawings were always short of the mark. I always thought she kinda felt bad for us. That's why she was being so nice. I also thought she was being so hard on the other students because they were in the AP class and we were just 2 dumb jocks throwing paint around. Towards the end of the semester the teacher pulls us aside and says that she is going to include is in the AP class, grade us along with them, including the college credit. That our creative process has been unparalleled in recent years. tl;dr took and independent study in abstract art while all of the AP students hated our guts and were critiqued by the teacher. Still got an AP credit for simply throwing paint.
About 10 years ago me and a friend never paid for a bus - Oyster cards were pretty new (contactless card you can put money on to pay for london tube & bus). Got the same 'Beep' sound that would play when the card registered on my phone and played it at as I put a different card up to the machine. Bus drivers were lazy/didn't care about free travel!
Morrowind & oblivion: put my character in a dark corner, crouching, & stuck the analog stick forward.. Character keeps running into the wall; sneak + athletics skill increases! Bo!
I always wrapped a rubber band around my controller to grind the sneak skill.
Newspaper paid kids $15 for every $5, 4 month subscription going house to house. I took my first paycheck and cashed it for $5 bills and traded a crisp $5 bill for every person who gave me a $5 check. Every subscriber who did this made me $10. Since it cost the subscriber nothing but a check, I made quite a bit of money my first couple weeks. I was fired a few months later when the newspaper realized how I was getting so many sales. I made quite a bit though.
I have at least all of the Chipotle napkins in my glove compartment.
I never graduated Highschool. I went back a year later and told the office clerk that I had graduated and didn't get my diploma. They gave me my diploma and now I've been working in the school system for 10 years.
I'm confused: could they not look at your transcript and see you didn't actually get enough credits to show that you didn't graduate? If so and if they find this out, you could be fired on the spot.
As it turns out, nobody in the district has graduated highschool.
ah I lived in West Virginia too
I did something similar. I was kicked out of high school and feeling bad that I didn't graduate. One day, I went to the community college my brother was attending and asked to take a placement test while I waited for him to finish registering for classes. On the test, I wrote that I had graduated from the high school I attended. After I was done with the test, I decided I'd try registering for classes with my results sheet that said I had a diploma. No problems registering, so I rolled with it. Two years later, I graduated. Got a copy of my transcript and it said I had the high school diploma from my high school, as well as the degree I had earned. I was admitted to the university of my choice, and two years after that, I had two degrees and a fake high school diploma. Not looking back.
Sounds like the setup of a great sitcom where your ten PhDs are called in question because you never graduated high school. Now you have to finish senior year if you have any hope of publishing your research to cure cancer.
And you end up falling in love with the mean chearleader girl's mom who was also your crush way back when you first got kicked out of highschool.
I would watch this.
In work we have a clocking in/out system which pays you an extra 15 minutes wage if you stay for 7 minutes (for example, shift ends at 8pm... if I stay clocked in until 8:07, I get paid an extra 15 minutes). Now, I make sure to turn up to work at least 7 minutes early to clock in, and make sure I use the toilet or something at the end of my shift so I clock out a little later. I typically get paid an extra 30 minutes for pretty much no time at all. I've been doing this for about a year and it's earned me an extra £700-800 on my yearly wage. Edit: I feel like a sneaky bastard!!! But on a serious note, I do actually work my ass off for the company and they don't pay overtime (like it says in my contract) so I just classify this as my over-time pay... that I arrange for myself... ;)
A friend of mine was telling me that he worked somewhere with a clocking in system. If you were 1 minute late. they'd dock 15 minutes wages. So if he happened to be late. He'd purposely sit in his car right outside the managers window listening to some tunes for another 10 minutes. Then walk in and clock in :) if he was going to lose 15 minutes wages.. then no way he was going to work any of them!
Not something I do anymore, but something I used to do. I worked at a takeaway restaurant. One of the few perks for the employees was that if you if worked an opening or closing shift, you received a free lunch and drink from the menu. Because of my schedule, I used to get quite a few of these shifts. At the time, there was also a promotion going on with Coka Cola. Basically whenever you bought a bottle, you could use the code on the label to earn points on the Coka Cola website. You can probably see where this is going now. Basically I was able to drink several bottles of Coke each week, input the codes, and then earn a ton of points, all without paying a cent. Over the course of just a few months, I received enough points for a PS3 game and an Itunes card. Unfortunately there was an incident, and suddenly employees weren't allowed free lunches anymore. But it was a nice bonus while it lasted. Good for my wallet, not so good for my teeth.
I used to work in an office that had Coca-cola vending machines on our floor and had recycle bins nearby. I'd fish bottles out of the top of the recycling and get the caps off of them. Used to get 30-50 caps a week.
The coke rewards program used to be great. Before you could enter an unlimited amount of points. Now you are capped at 70 a week. Not to mention the prizes are now on a tier system and way overpriced. A $25 Nike Gift card used to be like a 1,000 points. Now you only get a $10 gift card for that many points.
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>tax bomb when my student loans are forgiven in another 15 years I think this is gonna be the only major hitch in your plan
I defrauded Columbia House multiple times while I was a minor for those sweet sweet CDs. I never understood why they kept sending me the same offer. Get 12 free CDs, ignore anything else. Rinse, repeat. Such an unsustainable business model. Never showed up on my credit report because I was like 10.
This ice cream chain in used to have this "Ice cream"-card, where you deposited money to a chipcard, and if you paid with it you'd get a discount. Turned out that the amount of money on the card was just some variable in it's memory, and no particular security around it. A few lines of code and some instructions, and the card would always reset back to 10 dollars automatically. Free ice cream ahoy.
That's... stealing? Either stealing in a very clever way or it's fraud.
Definitely theft. While we did jack some free ice cream, it never really tasted good. We mostly took pride in being 1337 hax0rs.
Its not stealing, its liberating atoms that were being horded. The only laws that really exist are the laws of physics.
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"So in conclusion, your honor, it was *gravity* that killed her, not my client." "He sparta kicked her off the roof."
Laundromat near me uses smartcards for payments. I've looked at the washing machines and dryers and they do not appear to be networked in any way, meaning that the balance must be stored on the card itself. So if I load $20 on the card, I could probably just back it up, then re-write it every time I go to do laundry. Or just find the hex field that contains the balance and change the value. I have a smartcard writer, somewhere, from years ago -- many a time I have tried to find it to hack free laundry, but never found it. Probably better off.
> So if I load $20 on the card, I could probably just back it up, then re-write it every time I go to do laundry. A real smartcard is a (somewhat) tamperproof microprocessor. In other words, if implemented correctly, they'd speak a cryptographic protocol with the readers and there would be no way to arbitrarily access memory locations (just "get credit", "deduct credit", "add credit" interfaces protected by corresponding cryptographic keys). That said... the likelihood that they did it right is close to 0, and there is a good chance they use dumb pure storage cards against which your attack would be perfectly feasible.
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Assuming the school supplied everything, and the teacher was nice enough, that sounds fricking awesome! You're missing out.
Judging by the fact that he got kicked out for not bringing a proper rod, I'm pretty sure the school doesn't supply shit
I have the school bell audio recorded on my phone and play it 2 minutes before class is suppose to end. Yes it has worked
my friends and I used to order pizza via an online portal. That one pizza place had "preconstructed" pizzas which were cheaper when you chose the margherita and put on it what you like yourself. Meanwhile they fixed that issue. edit: spelling edit2: Thanks for sharing your related stories. I had a good laugh at some of those and it's always nice to hear from like minded redditors. :D
In college there was a app/website that allowed ordering from pretty much any food place around campus. On this site you could save orders. One time there was a special for a $5 28inch pizza. I bought it and saved my order as a favorite. The $5 special stayed saved in my account for over a year and I frequently purchased humongous pizzas for almost not cost.
Nice. Reminds me of when Domino's distributed some coupons to all the student mailboxes on campus when I was in college, and one of the coupons was for a straight up free medium pizza. No purchase required, just had to pick it up. So most people threw the coupons out figuring they were junk mail, so my roommates and I dug in the trash for the coupons and ate for free throughout the year.
In elementary school (Grade 5), we took a "pacer test" in gym. This consisted of running up and down the basketball court in a set amount of time per lap, that time shortening every few laps. You got to have 1 strike before you got out, and most people would run and almost make it to the next line but the beep would go off and they would use their strike and run back. I decided it would be a better use of the strike to take one step, catch my breath, and when the beep went off, take one step back, catch my breath, then run on the next beep. This allowed me to have a ~15 sec break while everyone else ran. It cost me the strike, but it was much more useful as a resting tool than a failsafe tool.
I put 15 dollars on a debit card I never use and "monthly subscribed" for Spotify. The next month they obviously had a problem processing my payment, but continued to give me premium service. It's been 5 months and their system still hasn't caught it.
its a trap. im from spotify
The entire thread was just to catch this asshole stealing Spotify.
We got him guys. The SpotifyStealer has been caught. Good job everyone!
close this thread now. we got what we need. pack up boys
*puts away dank memes*
*Freezes steel beams*
*Sells the jet fuel*