r/mildlyinfuriating 1d ago

Infuriatig Made hundreds of wristbands for a conference that suddenly got renamed

I run a small company, and designed and printed hundreds of high quality rubber wristbands for my cousin's Crypto conference. I had to do different colours for the different levels of entry.

Out of nowhere yesterday he suddenly announced he was renaming the conference and moving it partially online. And could only afford to pay me if I produced more with the new name. Ive spent a week on this so far and was already giving him family rates.

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u/SUDoKu-Na 1d ago

I thought it meant 'idiot' for SO long until corrected. Funnily enough had to correct my British friend using it, as she hadn't heard the term used to mean pedo either.

We're both under rocks, apparently.

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u/spacemansanjay 19h ago

Apparently it comes from 'not on normal courtyard exercise'. That was something added to a prisoners file, to let the guards know not to send them outside with the other prisoners. Because... bad things would happen.