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People Reveal The Secret Loopholes They Exploited Until They Finally Got Fixed
Hence why when people discover hidden loopholes, they will likely take advantage of them for as long as they can.
Even when these loopholes weren't entirely within the law.
Redditor mr-friskies was curious to hear about loopholes people made use of until they were finally closed up, leading them to ask:
"What’s that loophole/workaround you’ve been keeping a secret that you can now share because they patched/fixed it?"
Nurses Are Heroes! Plain And Simple!
"I was going thru chemo 5 years ago."
"I started running a fever, which meant an immediate drive to the emergency room."
"My partner couldn’t drive me so I parked in the deck."
"However, I ended up being admitted for a week before they could bring the fever down."
"A nurse told me on the day I was checking out to list the ticket as lost and the system would only charge me for 1 full day ($20) instead of 7 days."- bal_swing
All Aboard!
"My company had a contest to help boost recruiting on LinkedIn."
"Grand prize was a cruise."
"We got points for various things."
"But what ended up actually mattering was the amount of new connections you gained - 1 point for each."
"We all started with like 100."
"The max was 30,000."
"I (with the help of my wife logged into my account) ended up winning with some 27,000 connections in the span of a few months."
"How?"
"Basically on the mobile app back then they would have a feed of '+connect' recommendations that would refresh/scroll infinitely."
"There was no limit to it."
"Every other UI for sending a connection request would hit a cap or you'd get emails accusing you of being a bot."
"And it turns out nobody on LinkedIn cares if they actually know you or what you say in a connection request (except a couple weird exceptions)."
"Most people just ignore it or say 'okay whatever sure' and accept."
"To this day I get so much recruiter spam because of how visible I am."
'And also the feed is like the dead Internet sloppiest of dead Internet slop."- PolyglotTV
Wrong Number?
"There used to be these phones at airports that were just a direct line to a rental car place."
"The thing is, the way old rotary phones used to work was actually hanging up and picking up real fast a certain number of times."
"If you picked up one of those phones and hung it up nine times real fast it would dial an outside line and you could use it like a normal phone."- funky_grandma
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Free Trial!
'I didn't pay for internet for years because you could renew those Comcast '1hr free internet' logins indefinitely with a MAC ID scrambler."- smallscrem
The Gift That Literally Keeps On Giving...
"Chipotle used to run a promo that gave you a free burrito with the purchase of a gift card."
"They allowed you to use a previously purchased gift card to purchase a new gift card so I would just use the same gift card every time to get a free burrito for the duration of the promo."- almostZoidberg
Almost A Literal Loop Hole...
"In college, you had to buy a parking pass if you wanted to be able to have your car on campus."
"The pass was a sticker that you put on the back driver side window, and it was pretty expensive for the full year!"
"There was one year where I knew that for the 2nd half of the year, I wasn't going to be on campus much because of an internship."
"The school also sold parking passes that were good for one semester, instead of the full year, so I bought that instead."
"What I realized is that the full-year parking pass and the semester parking pass looked exactly the same, except for one small difference: the semester pass had an expiration date in the corner whereas the full-year pass had that date punched out (like with a hole puncher)."
"So naturally, for the next 2 years, I'd buy the semester parking pass and just put a hole punch through the expiration date and saved hundreds of dollars on parking!"- kaypress
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You Know What They Say, Size Doesn't Matter
"Back when the Coke rewards were a thing, I used to enter the sweepstakes for the small rewards like $50 - $100 gift cards."
"Everyone else spent their codes on the high-end sweepstakes or direct gift cards or extra Coke beverages."
"I, on average, won one a month or more for many years."- darknight7884
Good While It Lasted
"Early nineties university parking passes had scratch-off dates."
"You bought it, scratched off the month, and in theory, you could only use it for that month."
"I got a silver paint pen and just filled them in as I went along."
"My teenage self was stoked to save on 11 months of permits per year."
"This caught on and they changed the permits a couple years later."- sombrerogalaxy
Just The Ticket!
"10 years ago, I would visit my girlfriend at her college."
"The parking garage was $25 for overnight parking."
"I found out after getting a flat tire that the parking ticket for leaving my car on the street overnight was only $10."
"Probably saved $500 from this."- Fallacies_TE
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Cracked The Code!
"Back in the day Netzero dialup's free version that had ads and time limits had really crappy programming to know it was free.'
"After the line connected while it was handshaking it would launch an exe that checked the version and ran the timer and ads if it was the free one."
"You could just write a batch file to transfer the exe out of the directory to a different folder and it would blissfully ignore that there was an entire freaking missing exe and just connect with no ads or time limits."
"I can share now because I haven't had a modem for a good 25 years."- unwittyusername42
Stacked Indeed!
"Didn’t keep it a secret, but never shared on the internet."
'I’m a veteran, and years ago I was going through college getting my CS degree."
"The company I worked for had a program where they’d subsidize the purchase of a new computer with the caveat that the computer would double as my work machine."
"I decided to take advantage and get a new MacBook Pro."
"Apple offered both student and veteran discounts, but they aren’t suppose to stack."
"During the ordering process, I opened up the pricing of the computer I wanted in two separate browsers."
"In one, I applied the student discount."
"In the other, I applied the veteran discount."
"Upon observation of the URLs, one of them had a “//“ in it."
"The two URLs looked something like:"
"Website.com//studenDiscountParameters and:"
"Website.com/veteranDiscountParameters."
"So I combined the two."
"Website.com/veteranDiscountParameters/studentDiscountParameters."
"And it stacked the discounts."- MillCityRep
Some Say Expiration Dates Are A Suggestion More Than A Reality...
"Way back when, at my university in Toronto, the parking ticket machines would accept any cards you put in."
"Including old expired gift cards."
"I knew someone who would park, swipe an old Future Shop gift card and be out the door."- mybigfatreddit
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Employee Discount... Sort Of...
"Relatively small, but my old job had to manually update prices for everything as sales went on."
"I noticed that Peppermint Patties were never changed to their original price, and made a habit of buying a few for 80% off every time I worked."
"Another from much later in life my job had an employee cafeteria that had fountain drinks, but there was no nightshift staff so drinks were just free at night!"- tbonehavoc
Savings Plus Interest!
"Back in 2002/2003, there was a gas station by my apartment that had an atm that, with every transaction you made, you could possibly win a free 2-liter bottle of soda."
"My roommate and I, as poor as we were discovered when we were both checking our account balances that every balance inquiry won. We walked out with a few bottles that day and would hit it up once a week or so till I moved away."- dking484
Oh Those Glory Days Of Shared Streaming...
"Up until a few months ago, there was a workaround that let you stream Netflix on a PS5 from outside the household by just opening the app through the recommendations instead of actually clicking the app."- AnythingGlum2469
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If no one notices a loophole and it doesn't negatively affect anyone, it's hard to see any reason not to take advantage of it.
Remembering, of course, that all good things eventually must come to an end.
People Break Down Which Careers Are A Total Relationship Turn-Off
I can understand certain career paths being a hard pass.
Psychiatrists, for one.
I don't need every argument to turn into a case study.
What are everyone else's line in the sand?
Redditor otherwise777 wanted to hear about which jobs keep a person on the no-date list, so they asked:
"Which career is a turn-off for a serious relationship?"
The set-up is sexy...
"In my dating experience, when I tell girls I work at UPS, they get excited. Then, when I tell them I'm NOT a driver, they act like I just offended their whole family lineage."
- santascumdumpster
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The House Loses
"Working in a casino should be. A long time ago, I left my job at a casino for 5 years, and one of the main reasons was that everyone who worked there for an extended period of time ended up divorced, everyone. It was always infidelity, gambling problems, or the hours, usually a combination."
- apetalous42
"You’d think working at a casino would make the odds feel more real and discourage gambling."
Is any of it real?
"Influencers."
- Mulberry2286
"Most of them, yes."
"My wife and I are friends with a guy who has struck it biggish on home inspection Insta/Facebook/TikTok reels. Started maybe 1.5 years ago after she pushed him to stay in the biz. We actually had to give him a minor loan to stay afloat for a month."
"He now makes $12-15k a month on his engagement alone across the platforms and has needed to get a few other guys onto his team because he’s too busy. The influencer's money is more than his actual business now. A very humble guy."
- scott32089
Too Much
"Surgeon. I have tremendous respect for them and what they do. But being married to the work is a requirement of the profession—you don’t want someone cutting into your flesh who isn’t intensely hardworking and passionate about it. They have an above-average divorce rate for a reason."
- woxianghekafei
"Obstetricians, too. Mine drove for 45 minutes in the snow at midnight on New Year’s Eve to be there for the birth of my baby. I am forever grateful to him, but I felt sorry for his wife and kids."
- crescendodiminuendo
No Me Time
"As much as I love my job, anything healthcare or management (heaven help you if you dare go into healthcare management)."
"I can't tell you the number of holidays and off time I've given up because of a phone call at 3 am telling me about some work disaster I gotta clean up."
"As a young adult with no responsibilities, it was awesome, as I get paid stipends when I go in to cover/deal with crises."
"As a man with a wife and kid, it's super not awesome telling my wife I'm missing Christmas because I'm dealing with an emergency involving the police, EMS, or both."
- Brendanish
Not so LOL
"I said this last time this question was asked, but it bears repeating: as a comedian, I can say, beyond a sliver of a shadow of a doubt, if you have the opportunity to date a comedian, cartwheel hard in the other direction."
- jayblackcomedian
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Eat at Home
"Anything in restaurants."
"I want to get ahead of this: generally speaking, one can definitely make a career out of restaurants, with little to no education, in both Front of House and Back of House Positions."
"That being said, the 2 decades I was in the industry, it promoted drinking culture and most folks have/had an addiction or 4."
- DueSurround5226
No Sunshine
"Anyone who works nights. It’s so hard to do anything together, can’t go out and get dinner, or go for show. As you get off work in the evening, they are heading to work, barely any overlap."
- Educational_Note_497
"Difficult but not impossible."
"I do healthcare 7 on 7 off nightshift. 80 hours straight, then a full week off. I see my girlfriend every morning when I get home, make her coffee, pack her lunch before she wakes up, and hang out for a minute before she goes in. Then I get a full week off to live a normal schedule."
"That said, I recognize I work an incredibly rare schedule and count myself grateful."
- Vreas
You Stink
"Anything that makes the person come home with a smell that you can't get rid of."
- carlosccextractor
"Oh, memory unlocked. I had to break it off with a girl I was dating in college when she started working in a zoo. We still really liked each other, but the smell was unbearable, and you could never get it out. We stayed friends, but anything sexy was just impossible for me when there's a permanent smell of zebra buttcheek in the bedroom."
"She eventually married a great guy who permanently lost his sense of smell from a really bad infection when he was a kid, haha. So it worked out great for her."
- bemusedbarnacle
Liars
"Personal trainers, they are all cheaters."
- Remote-Ad7314
"I only know one personal trainer - he used to be fat, then lost all the weight, and is now a bland, mediocre-looking man with an ego the size of a small continent. Absolutely a cheater and treated the lovely lady (who was completely out of his league by several stratospheres) he was with terribly. Also pretty broke because it doesn’t pay very well if you’re just a regular PT with normal clients. Not a great ad for dating personal trainers."
- J0hn_Keel
Yes, Chef!
"Chefs, they are never there for any event, Valentine's Day, New Year, etc. hahaha."
- North-Comparison5044
"I kept saying this, too. My parents were both in the industry, and I always felt like my childhood was a constant battle between my needs and 'the restaurant's' needs. Next thing you know, I fell madly in love with a chef. I was SO mad at myself lol. After struggling a lot with the same old competition with the restaurant, we sat down and figured out the best way to keep his creativity flowing, and for us to still have a life, was for him to become a private chef. Fast forward, and we now own a private chef business together. It’s the best thing ever lol."
- salbwassfith
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The Builder
"Architects."
"As an architect, most of them are broke and divorced. They often get so into projects, and crazy hours are put in. I met a few happy ones, but they are usually the ones who understand be gone by 6 pm and weekends are for family."
- omnigear
"Architect here. I feel like the divorces happen because of ego. It's similar in other creative professions where a degree of self-importance is required. On the flip side, though, I know a lot of relatively successful firms run by husband and wife owners. That wouldn't be my choice; in fact, it would drive me crazy, but I've seen it work. Yes, the pay generally sucks compared to other white-collar jobs, especially with the workload and responsibility, but it's pretty variable... if you own your own firm or are a senior exec at a big corporate office, the pay can be decent, but the path to get there is difficult and takes a while. And job security is always threatened by market fluctuations."
- jdelane1
DANGER!
"Chiropractor. Nothing more than a dangerous pseudo-science."
- The5thApe00
"Was over at a good friend's one night, and there was another guy there I had met a few times, and he started talking about how his parents were both chiropractors."
"I won the internal battle to not share the story of the family friend who was going to a chiro for 2 years for back pain before they felt a bump on her spine. It was stomach cancer that had metastasized to her spine. She might have been in her mid-50s and could have easily beaten it had an actual doctor ordered an X-ray to investigate the pain. Instead, she never even got to meet a single one of her 6 granddaughters."
"A 20-year-old I worked with got mad at me when I told her she needed to go to a physiotherapist for her back pain and not a chiropractor."
- Impossible_Angle752
The Usuals
"Flight attendant, bartender, lawyer. The usuals."
- Top-Building-2502
"The law is an incredibly broad profession. Many lawyers draft documents for real estate transactions and advise on property law. Many lawyers do wills and trusts. Many lawyers advise individuals and small businesses on compliance with laws and regulations. Many work for the government doing things that you don't even know lawyers do. Etc. Many of them work pretty normal hours and are not particularly confrontational at work or otherwise. A small percentage have the sorts of jobs you envision based on TV. Or act as you envision."
- JakeDC
Zoned Away
"Any profession that involves constant travel, it’s hard to build something stable if they’re always in another time zone."
- sweetcandypiee
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So many relationships crumble under the weight of job travel.
How can you be in a relationship with an absentee partner?
Some make it work, but it's never easy.
I also want to throw in actors, and I am one.
We are a rough breed to handle.
Just giving out a warning.
I didn't realize so many people steer clear of medical staff.
I wouldn't mind having a private physician just lying around.
To each their own.
Any other careers that should be on the list?
