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The Things That One Person Ruined For Everyone Else

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Reddit user KeanKho asked: 'What was ruined for everyone by one single person?'

There's an old saying which says "a team is only as strong as their weakest link."

However, if the team loses a game or competition, in most cases their loss can't be blamed solely on whomever that unlucky individual is.

As it's the team's job to work together and lift up their struggling teammates.

In other cases, however, one individual can be blamed for the misfortune or bad luck of one or more people.

As it was their poor judgment or bad decisions that put them and everyone else in the unfair, unfortunate situations they now find themselves in.


Redditor KeanKho was eager to hear cases of one person ruining things for everyone, leading them to ask:
"What was ruined for everyone by one single person?"

A Penguin?!

"My primary school used to do relatively frequent trips to a local zoo, until one boy decided to vault the fence and punch a penguin."

"I wish I was joking."- eighttesticles

No One Likes A Snitch...

"I'm a contractor and I work in different kinds of plants and mills."

"In one mill I worked at, we had a gravy job, two hours of easy work, and get paid for twelve hours."

"Well, one guy decided he was going to charge them for sixteen, and now we get two hours for the job."- Juggalo13XIII

A Chaperone Has One Job...

"The elementary school I went to let 6th graders go on an overnight trip to a lodge where we could go skiing and snow tubing."

"My dad volunteered as a parent and was 'supervising' by letting me and 5 other girls pile on top of one tube down a steep hill and we all went flying."

"Two of the girls busted their arms when we all landed in a pile."

"It looked like a cartoon."

"Anyway, after that no more sleep overs at the lodge and tale has it 30 years later everyone at the school still blames my dad lol."- Carol_Pilbasian

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On The Other Hand, Better Safe Than Sorry?

"Not having to take your shoes off before boarding a plane."

"F*ck you, Richard Reid."- DonRicardo1958

"The guy who attempted to smuggle a bomb in his shoe in 2001."

"Now we all have to suffer taking our shoes off at airport security every damn time we fly."- Plus-Statistician80

Those Boots Were Made For Walking...

"I worked as a park maintenance groundskeeper for Parks & Recreation"

"No it is not like the show."

"At a previous job, we got full uniforms."

"Shirts, pants, hats, hoodies, winter coveralls, winter coats, gloves."

"But we don't get shoes or boots."

"Turns out a couple of years before I was hired on, they used to give boots."

"But one guy would take his boots and sell them, then request a replacement, then sell those."

"He did this about 20 times before anybody caught on because of municipal bureaucracy being slow to notice."

"When they caught on, they stopped giving out boots to their employees."- Corgiboom2

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Maybe CPR Training Instead?

"The person who apparently choked on a lollipop at my bank and now we don't get lollipops anymore."- neoprenewedgie

Even When Cheating The System, Cheaters Always Get Caught...

"Other firefighters constantly ruin any sort of appreciation restaurants give out."

"We had a BBQ restaurant that would give a flat 10$ off your meal."

"If you didn't spend $10 it was basically free."

"One guy ruined it on an $8 order by demanded the $2 be given to him as well."

"Had people going in uniform on days they didn't work."

"Had one guy have a family reunion at a local restaurant then made a big issue they wouldn't give his entire party the discount."

"I don't understand how out of touch people can be."- wehrmann_tx

No Time For Bullying

"Back around the mid 2000s I was around 10 years old and I used to go to this place after school called 'the Boys and Girls club'."

"They had an area with multiple basketball hoops on a court which we used to play all kinds of games in; one of those games being dodgeball."

"These were not those big rubber balls but instead the styrofoam filled balls with kind of a thin layer of plastic so otherwise… harmless."

"One of the kids thought it would be a good idea to shove a rock into one of the balls and throw it at someone he didn’t like."

"Well he ended up throwing it right into that kids face and broke two of his front teeth."

"We never played dodgeball again."- Mi_trees

You Still Need To Work When You Work From Home

"Previous job I had used to be hybrid twice a week."

"One person, on their hybrid day, decided to slack off work and go out."

"They got a call from their manager because they were late for a virtual meeting and the manager heard a lot of background noise like they were at the mall or something."

"Said person eventually admitted they were not home working, got fired, and now everyone had to be in the office 5 days a week."- Shiekh_Bodi

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Why? Just Why?

"The guy who killed the most isolated tree on Earth."

"Same with that woman who burned down the oldest tree."

"Imagine the history the trees lived through."- kavalejava

Seriously People, Do Your Jobs!!!

"Had a job where as a dialysis nurse where we added a position to pick up add ons and emergency cases that came in later in the day."

"In this role we worked noon to midnight which helped us cut down from needing a nurse on call every night to maybe once or twice a week."

"Whoever took this role didn’t have to take call and had weekends off."

"We loved rotating through this role and enjoyed taking a break from having to be on call and enjoyed having weekends off."

"Then there came the nurse who went out at 7 am instead of noon, and finished at 5 pm."

"When there was an add-on or an emergency case she wouldn’t answer her phone, which meant everyone had to go back to picking up extra patients and being on call again."

"She did this every time it was her turn to go through the rotation so they eliminated the position and we went back to having to be on call all the time."- Otto_Correction

You Don't Hear It Much...

"The name Adolf has gotta be up there."- Akatsuki_Accountant

Taste Is Subjective

"At one of my previous workplaces, management played music as a way of promoting good mood."

"They played all sorts of genres so everyone got a chance to listen to something they liked."

"One person complained that sometimes they had to listen to music they didn't like, so they stopped playing music altogether."- Dynasuarez-Wrecks

Dj Mix Clashing GIF by Digital DJ TipsGiphy

By definition, a selfish person is someone who only thinks of themselves, and doesn't give other people a second thought.

And sometimes, acts of pure selfishness have negative long-term consequences on many other people.

Seriously though, who punches a penguin?

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