Get Free Diapers With A Misprinted Coupon
[ranking: 7]
Redditor dearDem:
"Back when I was pregnant, some flyer for Kmart came out heavily discounting diapers. Something crazy like buy one get two free. Obviously printed wrong. I found out about it from a baby sub I was on.
Immediately went out to try it at my local Kmart and it worked, while simultaneously looking at the thread grow with other women trying it and posting their diaper hauls. At some point a woman had called corporate and alerted them (I guess trying to clarify) - and some rep told her they were calling store districts now and telling them not to honor the flyer.
I called both Grandmas and told them to quick, take the flyers and stock up.
I was set for the first year and half with diapers. Gave a lot of them away as baby shower gifts too."
Get Paid To Study Instead Of Work
[ranking: 24]
Redditor walkingcarpet23:
"Not quite sure if it counts but I definitely exploited it.
I'm paid hourly by billing those hours to various projects. I also get to charge non-billable time to my company, which obviously the company is not making a profit on, so they want me to minimize that and justify it.
Higher billable hours = more pay for me, more pay for them. Win-win.
They have a lot of communication issues and sometimes I'm left with only ~20 billable hours a week. That went on for almost a year and my pay suffered a ton. I'm talking sending multiple emails a day everyday asking for more work without anyone even replying to me.
As a result my raise was that I was to be allowed to take online courses that will further my knowledge in my field, and they'll pay my hourly rate (non billable obviously, so they take a loss) while I do so.
The IDEA was that I'd have ~35 billable hours a week and 5ish hours of online classes. During those times of terrible communication, rather than go the extra mile and pester people for work every 10 min I just decided to take classes.
I think I put in over 100 hours last October. When they noticed it hurting their profits they were furious at me for not asking for work. In response I forwarded them a chain of ~12 straight unanswered emails I'd sent them asking for work. Now I have no issues and they listen when I ask for more."
Get A Free Gym Membership
[ranking: 9]
Redditor lammy82:
"At my university you could pay an extra £150 per year to get 'SPORTS PASS' on your student card. This gave you free unlimited access to all university sports facilities including the gym and pool.
If you ever lost your student card, you had to go to the office and pay £10 to have a replacement made. They had no record of whether or not you had a sports pass, so they would just ask you whether you had it and make the card up accordingly.
So a lot of people got that £150 sports pass for £10 by 'losing' their student card."
Get Paid To Study Instead Of Work
[ranking: 24]
Redditor walkingcarpet23:
"Not quite sure if it counts but I definitely exploited it.
I'm paid hourly by billing those hours to various projects. I also get to charge non-billable time to my company, which obviously the company is not making a profit on, so they want me to minimize that and justify it.
Higher billable hours = more pay for me, more pay for them. Win-win.
They have a lot of communication issues and sometimes I'm left with only ~20 billable hours a week. That went on for almost a year and my pay suffered a ton. I'm talking sending multiple emails a day everyday asking for more work without anyone even replying to me.
As a result my raise was that I was to be allowed to take online courses that will further my knowledge in my field, and they'll pay my hourly rate (non billable obviously, so they take a loss) while I do so.
The IDEA was that I'd have ~35 billable hours a week and 5ish hours of online classes. During those times of terrible communication, rather than go the extra mile and pester people for work every 10 min I just decided to take classes.
I think I put in over 100 hours last October. When they noticed it hurting their profits they were furious at me for not asking for work. In response I forwarded them a chain of ~12 straight unanswered emails I'd sent them asking for work. Now I have no issues and they listen when I ask for more."
Avoid The Workout During Gym
[ranking: 23]
Redditor Mahedros:
"Back in middle / high school, gym grades were based on improvement on previous scores.
A friend of mine realized he could avoid any effort by intentionally doing worse than he could and then doing barely more the next time.
He'd stop at 10 push ups the first time, and then stop at 11 the next time, then 12, and so on."
Cancel Your Adobe Subscription Free Of Charge
[ranking: 6]
Redditor vyndaloo:
"You can't just cancel your yearly subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud. They charge you a cancellation fee, which makes around 50% of the remaining payments. However, you can change your subscription to a new one, which you can then cancel absolutely for free within 30 days. Eat it, Adobe."
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