Life hacks are ingenious little tricks and shortcuts that can significantly improve your daily life. They’re like hidden gems that make tasks easier, save time, and enhance efficiency. Let me share some practical life hacks with you. Reddit user Massive_Quit_7844 was interested to know that how the people use these life hacks in daily life in tricky way and raised a question in community asking “What’s the most unethical life hack you know?”
As you peruse the responses, it’s essential to keep in mind that research has consistently shown that being unkind or unethical doesn’t necessarily lead to personal success. So, if you decide to explore these dubious life hacks, proceed with caution!
#1. Do you want to sound sick when you calling to office?
“When you call in sick to work, call lying down as it makes you sound more congested.”
#2. Work correspondence hack:
“Anything that benefits you, put it in an email, letter, etc. so it can be memorialized when possible.
Anything that is detrimental to you, make a call or discuss the issue face to face verbally. Don’t leave a paper trail.”
#3. Need to gain access to backstage areas at events, concerts, or other venues. With no hustle of Security personnel.
Wear black carpenter pants, black polo, multi tool, flash light and a clipboard. Walk with purpose. Get you backstage 90% of the time. Security personnel may assume you’re part of the crew or staff.
#4. How to tell a lie in realistic way?
“If you want to lie, make a part of the lie something shameful. Everybody will believe you.”
#5. To Make a realistic sick leave
“If you’re planning on calling out sick, schedule an email about it at a weird time early in the morning. People don’t doubt it when they think you were up at 4:37 am vomiting.
Then if you need to physically call, you can do that later and have written documentation that you were “up all night vomiting” or whatever.”
#6. Enjoy the VIP facility
“On a trip to Las Vegas, I decided to visit their adult pool area at the Delano. Upon paid entry, they provided me a bright neon wristband. I also happened to be attending a Red Hot Chili Peppers show the same night and still had my pool wristband on when I entered the venue.
While trying to navigate to my seating area, I asked the usher for directions to get to my seat.
Well, they didn’t look too closely at the ticket location on my phone and only noticed my wristband. The next thing I knew, I was being directed into the VIP access area right up front.
Apparently, the VIP wristband was the same color, so I was able to enjoy the show as a VIP.”
#7. Best parking hack
“If you’re looking for parking and you ended up somewhere where rows of cars got fined, just pull up, park your car, walk over to one of those cars, take the fine from their windscreen and put it on yours. Enjoy your day.”
#8. Be smart in Online shopping
“For ubereats, mcdonalds, burger king, etc start like 20-30 accounts on their apps. Once they realize you have been inactive for a period of time, they will almost always give you offers for free food, or like a burger for a dollar or whatever. Because i have so many accounts i can check through them and there is almost always ways for me to get a full meal for about 3-4 bucks at most. You can also use multiple accounts at the same time to make different orders and pick them up all at once if you really want a lot of basically free food, but that’s a little riskier.
Ubereats regularly sends me 25 dollars off orders of 25 or more for the first order on a new account if i don’t order anything on that account for a bit. Now you can’t use the same card you have used on other accounts so you have to buy a cheap prepaid card each time.
If done right it ends up being like 20 dollars off any order of 25 because of the cost of purchasing the prepaid card. I do this regularly and order exactly 25 dollars of food which ends up being 5 dollars + fees + tip. Generally, means i get to order 25 dollars of food from any restaurant for around 15 bucks all fees and tip included vs the 40+ it would be normally. Cheaper than going there or picking it up myself.
15 bucks for enough food to feed 3 people and have it delivered is pretty awesome. It takes a few steps but honestly not more than just starting a new email address and a quick stop on the way home for a cheap prepaid gift card.
For the accounts you have already used your first order deal on they will still send 40% off 3 orders of 25 dollars or more almost consistently on accounts that haven’t been used in a few weeks and i always have one on deck if the girlfriend and i want to order food on the weekend.”
#9. Shop lifting is not good but!
“I worked at a grocery store and saw the same 3 people show up all the time and steal stuff. The manager said there aren’t even recordings for the cameras and they don’t care if people steal. I started treating myself to lunch after that.”
#10. Get the best flight rate
Flights around 9/11 are cheaper
#11. How to buy organic at cheaper
“In the self-checkout aisle, you call the shots. Organic pears become regular pears. apples become regular pears. meat becomes regular pears; if you tear off the bar code.
The scanner is just a mindless machine, take control of your own destiny.”
#12. Postal chargers free
“If you mail a letter without a stamp with the return address as the actual address you want it go, they will “return” it to the return address. 😉.”
#13. Do you need more ice cream?
“To get more ice cream at a shop, order a single scoop first then change your mind and tell them 2 scoops instead. The scoop for the second will be bigger if not same to match the first scoop.”
#14.
“If you’re any major city pick the nicest hotel you can find and walk in like you’re staying there. Use the bathrooms as they are often very nice and with little pressure to rush. My primary source is the 4 seasons bathroom in downtown SF, top tier, has those tough paper towels that are so nice to use.”
#15.
If you own a restaurant, make fake dating profiles and lure Women and Men to your restaurant to Sunken Cost fallacy them for increased profits during your less busy times of year!
This is actually something Restaurants are doing. If you get stood up at a food place, just get up and leave. They probably baited you in to buy the food.
Remember, life hacks aren’t just about efficiency; they’re also about having a good laugh and embracing the quirky side of problem-solving. So go ahead, invent your own hilarious hacks—it’s all part of the fun!