My entitled boss demands that I fix a plumbing issue at a hotel I was working at.

But despite the fact that I am most definitely not a plumber, and I don't really know what I'm

doing, I decided to maliciously comply, resulting in the worst flood this hotel has probably ever

seen, costing them thousands of dollars in the process. Here's what happened. Okay, so I was

working in a hotel in the United Kingdom as a lobby boy.

My afternoon job was to handle guest requests for extra pillows, blankets, etc. And the system

worked like this. The guests informed reception, the details were written in a notebook,

and every so often I checked the book, solve the problems, and tick them off when done.

Well, one night, during dinner, the hotel boss wrote a note in the book that said the following. It listed off the room number and then it said the hot water tap is not working. Now, I went to the room and I checked it and yeah, it definitely was not working. I then went back and I wrote in the book that I can't fix it and you need to call a plumber. On my next round there was a new message. It said, fix it now, underline three times. Well, I went back to the room, check the hot water tap again. And as a side note, in the United Kingdom, there are two taps on the sink, one for cold and one for hot, and still I couldn't fix it. I tried a few things until somehow the pipe, the one from the wall to the sink, popped right out. And right then, boiling hot water started pouring all over the floor at full force. And it was right about here that I started to panic. I grabbed the phone and I called reception. And guess what? They were busy. So I sprinted through the hotel. I jumped into reception and I shouted, We need a plumber right now. Then I rushed back to the room. The water was still gushing out at full force, so I just sat on the edge of the bathtub, holding the pipe so that the water poured into the tub instead of flooding the floor. After about three minutes of this, the hotel boss peeked into the bathroom, went pale, and then ran away. Five more minutes pass, and the fire alarm started going off because of the steam.

Fortunately, the staff already knew what was happening, so they told all the guests that it was

a false alarm and didn't evacuate the hotel. Another 10 minutes later, they finally shot off the

water supply to the entire wing of the hotel. And then a plumber arrived and fixed the tap

in three minutes. Now this is where the fun part comes in, cleaning this mess up.

Surprisingly, there wasn't much water in the bathroom, considering the tap had been gushing for over 15 minutes.

So I went one floor down to see where all that water had gone.

I entered the room's bathroom, switched on the light, but it was really dim.

And it's then that I realized the bowl-shaped lamp covered on the bathroom ceiling was filled to the brim with water, with the light bulb happily sitting inside of it. I think to myself, oh my God, and right then I turned the light off. I drained the water from the lamp cover, mopped up that floor too, but still, it didn't seem like enough water for what had happened. So I went even lower. Below that bathroom on the ground floor,

there was a corridor, luckily not another room, but the ceiling had gotten so wet that it collapsed.

In fact, a 2x3 meter section of it had come crashing down onto the carpet.

After 15 minutes in a sauna-like bathroom, 30 minutes of cleaning and clearing the rubble,

I finally stepped outside for some fresh air. And ever since then, whenever I say I can't fix something, these people actually believe me and call a professional, because trust me, we don't need that happening a second time. Oh man, this is tragic because seriously, what were these people thinking? Did they really think that you were somehow qualified to fix a plumbing issue? I just love it when managers are so incompetent, and they seriously try to sit there and save money by forcing you to do something that you're not qualified to do. Like, that is so obnoxious. I would lose my mind if I was in your shoes. So good for you for at least making an effort to try and fix it, even though you definitely did not know what you were doing. And in my opinion, if it popped out of the wall like that, then it was only a matter of time before that actually happened, regardless of if you actually got involved or not. So basically, what I'm trying to say is that this is not your fault, and the management that you had to deal with are complete morons. If you like Am I the Jerk, you're probably going to love Am I the Genius. Check it out, link down below in the description. Also, go to

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