Folks, let me impart some wisdom to you that should help you out during your journey in life…

Be nice to everyone!

And do your best to be patient.

It doesn’t cost anything AND you’ll find that things in your life will go pretty smoothly if people perceive you as a pleasant person.

And if you’re not, well, you’re gonna be in for a rough ride.

Check out what the hotel worker in this story had to say about someone who acted like a total jerk…and it ended up costing them their job.

The time I actually got someone fired.

“I used to work front desk at a large upscale hotel on the Mediterranean.

The hotel of course has in-house laundry that the guests can use, but it’s expensive, so often the guests just send their laundry down the street to a nearby laundromat.

The laundromat will come to the hotel, pick up the clothes, launder, dry, fold, and deliver back to the hotel concierge desk all within a few hours. The concierge desk will accept the clothes and give them a slip to take to the Front Desk to exchange for cash on the guest’s room bill.

All of this generally worked pretty seamlessly, unless you were Mr. Jerk.

This was going to be interesting…

I only met Mr. Jerk once. He was a delivery man for the laundromat, and apparently did not believe in waiting in lines.

I was about to call the next guest, who’d been patiently waiting in line, when Mr. Jerk just pops over from the Concierge desk and thrusts this slip in my face.

Well, you really don’t…

I tell him to get in line.

I’ll never forget his exact words. “I don’t need to wait in line, I work here.” (Ok, buddy, first of all, you don’t work here because you’re not an employee of the hotel. And if you were, you’d know not to cut in line in front of guests who are paying hundreds of dollars a night for their rooms.)

I told him I don’t care where he works, he needed to wait in line. It’s been a while so I don’t remember the exact rest of the conversation, but he was incredibly ignorant and rude.

Eventually I got him out of my face and was able to help the next guest, who was the sweetest, most patient person imaginable and had taken no offense. My colleague then came out from the back, to help with the line.

Give it a rest, buddy!

The delivery guy is next in line. He complains about me making him wait in line.

My colleague, who had heard the entire previous conversation because our rest area is behind a wall literally one meter away, also ends up in a shouting match with him.

He does eventually give him his money and send him on his way.

After that, there are no guests so we go inside for a breather and chat with the duty manager, who happens to be the assistant FD, who also happens to have overheard both of our shouting matches with Mr. Jerk.

She made a decision.

She decides to call the laundromat manager and ask since when their employees act like this.

The answer?

Since never.

Also Mr Jerk was already on thin ice for other reasons so we wouldn’t be seeing him again anyway.”

Check out what folks had to say about this on Reddit.

This person weighed in.

Another individual spoke up.

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And this Reddit user shared their thoughts.

Jeez, what an idiot.

He stepped WAY over the line…

And it cost him his job.

Not worth it!

This guy was already on thin ice, and then he took things too far….

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