54 Times People Lost The Respect Of Others In An Instant

I was living with a good friend (at the time) from highschool a year out of college. One day I noticed an expensive pair of sunglasses missing from my room and asked him if he’d seen them, he said nope. I thought I was going crazy because I have ocd and am very particular about where and how I put my belongings and knew for a fact I didn’t lose them. I hadn’t lost anything of value like that in my life and it was driving me insane. Well one day about a couple weeks later I was riding passenger in my friend/roommate’s car going to get some lunch with him and just randomly had the thought to open the center console in between the driver and passenger seat, not specifically to look for my sunglasses, I just had a weird urge to open it… well low and behold there were my sunglasses right there. I took them out and just stared at him for a minute. Needless to say he was embarrassed and shocked he got caught and didn’t know what to say. It was an awkward car ride back home and very shortly after that I moved out and never spoke to him ever again. The quickest way to make me lose all respect for someone is if they lie to me or steal from me.

Sent out an email announcing a fellow teacher had passed after a long illness. Included nice messages, ways to send condolences, funeral info. At the end, there was a statement from the district HR saying the teacher had exceeded their sick leave by 12 days, and they were asking for teachers to "donate" (give up) some of their leave hours to cover their missed days. Leave, for a deceased person. Absolutely insane and despicable.

I do tech work for a living. My grandmother passed away a few years ago, on my birthday. She was one of my favorite people and we were very close.
At her funeral, as I stand next to her casket, my step mom’s closest friend walks by and hugs me. As she hugged me, she pulled me down a bit to whisper something in my ear.
Most would think an apology or something sweet, due to circumstances.
She whispered “I have my laptop in the car with me, I’ll need you to check it out, there is something wrong with it”.
I’ve NEVER spoken to the women since that day. She had such little respect for anyone, she thought that was okay.

Fake service animals.

Or just any manipulation of benefits not made for you.

I had a female friend and she told me every time she gets on a flight, she would call flight attendant as many times as possible because she paid for the ticket. (economy) She was bragging she would call them minimum of 5 times and usually 8 times or more. When I heard that I knew there's something seriously wrong with her.

Told me he was into dog fighting...

A friend of my wife’s has been asking me for free medical advice pretty regularly in the last few years since I finished residency. Twenty or thirty times. I’ve written a few prescriptions for her kids for walk in clinic level stuff, as i would for any friends or family, but it had gotten more frequent, and shes never really asked “oh do you have time..” etc etc, just kind of starts sending me pictures of rashes, etc.

It should be noted that she does have a family doctor for her and her kids and doesnt have any barrier to accessing it, and that my wife has been saying I need to set boundaries with her.

A few weeks ago, when i was folding laundry after putting my kids to bed, having worked 27 out of the preceding 28 days, just exhausted, she sends me a picture of her kid, asking me to provide a medical opinion on his growth/weight gain.

She didn’t give me his weight, his historical growth charts, etc or any of the things a doctor needs to evaluate growth in a kid, and [she had an appointment for this kid with his own doctor two days later].

I responded, not rudely, but saying (more or less) “you’ve gotta stop doing this. For emergencies, absolutely I’m happy to help out, but this is what I do for a living - would you ask a carpenter to come and build you stuff for free in the evening just because you felt like it?”

Well, she went off on me, which wasn’t unexpected and idgaf bc she’s my wife’s friend, not mine.

Whatever. What caused the instant loss of all respect and put her in my bad books permanently is that she then called my wife and started giving HER grief, saying I’m out of line etc etc, and when my wife said “literally get lost” to her, she started texting very conveniently cropped screen shots to their whole friend group and telling my wife everyone’s talking about about how arrogant we both are.

I’m still so cheesed about this. Don’t yell at my wife.

Once I was in an informal meeting, at a politician's home, discussing future strategy for the next elections. There was this high profile professional, high hope political actor which everyone (me included) considered to be the next leader that'll save the country off the corrupted hands of the old establishment. 
At one time, the host's cat got near us. He kicked it when he thought no-one will notice, with a profound disgust printed on his face.
I lost the trust completely in the guy.

I was my mom's full time caregiver for 10 yrs when she had dementia. It was a 24 hour job doing everything from doctor appts, changing diapers, feeding, bathing etc. She was unable to do anything for herself so she needed full time care.

I chose to take care of her and it became a full time thing. My sibling was not really into it and would help here and there but didn't really want to do much.

My mom was in the hospital and after a few days passed away....me and my sibling were her only immediate family and were there when she took her last breath.

As we were getting in the elevator just minutes after she passed my sibling said "now you can get a real job". I just kept my mouth shut because my mom was the only thing on my mind and this moment in time was about her.

After that comment I lost all respect for my sibling.

When I learned that my aunt’s sister(no relation) abandoned her old dog in the woods.

My ex got mad at me for thanking the person who delivered our food a few minutes late.

My friend has been in a loveless relationship for 7 years with a partner who cheats on her all the time. I’ve always felt bad for her. Then one day, she nonchalantly told me…

1. She got pregnant on purpose at the very beginning of their relationship and made it seem like an accident. She claimed she was on birth control when she wasn’t.
2. Once she got pregnant, she told her boyfriend that he could either be with her and see his child 24/7 or she would do everything in her power to make it so he had no contact with her or his child.

After that, I lost respect for her and actually started feeling bad for him. I don’t think cheating is the best thing for him to do, but I definitely sympathize with him now.

I had a seizure at work as a server, in the middle of taking someone's order. I was severely anemic but at the time unaware of just how bad off I was and I'd never had one in the daytime before. It was humiliating honestly, and I refused an ambulance bc I couldn't afford that bill and I didn't want more attention on me.

Both the GM and his wife were working that day and fully aware that I usually walked to work. Not one single manager or the GM/owners wife even attempted to ensure i got home safely after a Public seizure, nor did they even bother calling or texting at any time afterwards to even make sure I got home safe.

I quit the next day. It was a second job and I was already insanely sick of the managers general behavior and the way they treated everyone but that blatant disregard for an employee showed their last true colors and I refuse to work for people like that and I was thankfully in a position where I could walk away.

My then GF and I made friends with another couple. Doing things together being around their kids and just a beautiful life that they had. After doing stuff as couples for about year. Him and I decided to go out, just the guys, and it was a pretty good time. Started a conversation with a group of women at the same bar. Pretty harmless banter. A few hours later he’s making out with one of them outside and all the respect I had for him was completely gone.

They made absolutely disgusting homophobia comments not knowing that one of my sons is gay.

Saw them wearing certain red hat….

Not paying the money they owe me.

Day after a guy’s mother passed away and suddenly he’a going on these weird rants about how weak women are and no woman could ever do his job (observe and report security sitting in a booth and sometimes directing traffic through a parking lot) and how all women are inferior. Any time someone tried to get him to stop, he’d just invoke the passing of his mother as some kind of immunity from criticism. .

My mom rented her home. Original owners were super. House changed hands about 7 yrs before my mom passed, because the owner had passed. Day of her funeral, owner walks into visitation. Asks me to step aside with her to another room. Mind you, I was in the receiving line. She proceeds to tell me I have SIX days to pack up my mom's stuff, and get out. I knew I had rights. But in such a state I didn't want to deal with going through the hoops. So I got it all packed up and moved, hoping Karma would find this wicked woman. 6 months almost to the day, this lady was deceased herself. I have seen alot of disgust and ugly in my life but this beat all.

I work with a guy who seems to get a lot of enjoyment from bad things happening to other people. Even his “friends”, I was in a room with him and he said to me “*blank* is getting screwed over” while snickering.

The person he was referring to was just getting transferred to a new office arrangement who didn’t want to be. It’s one thing to not be happy for others when something good happens, but I can’t stand a person who gets happiness from other peoples suffering.