r/toRANTo

I am so sick of it and I am so close to snapping. I am an animal lover - I am. I am beyond tired of neighbours who let their dogs bark for hours. I am tired of seeing dogs in shopping carts at the grocery store. I am tired of seeing dogs at Winners. Your fucking dogs are not perfect angels above all rules that go into having a civilized society. The entire neighbourhood should not have to hear your dog bark for the whole evening while you chat with your friend and ignore its needs at the dog park (a dog park that is next to four large apartment buildings). People with allergies or, you know, just humans general should not have to use a shopping cart that previously had a dog's asshole on it, where you will then place your groceries.

I have to tell myself DAILY, constant reminders, that I do not hate dogs. It is a constant mantra I whisper to myself. Dogs are innocent animals who live by instincts and do not know right or wrong. Dog owners - especially Toronto dog owners - are in general, some of the most selfish pieces of shit I have ever come across. Toronto dog owners, for the most part, make our city worse. If you have put effort into training, controlling, and paying attention to your dog - congratulations. You are the 1%, and I am sorry the other 99% give you a bad name.

I am so fucking over it right now.

Is it the best pizza? No. But Is it total dog shit like you see so many people claim online? Also no.

Pizza Pizza is fast, convenient and reliable. I can order a pizza at almost all times of the day and night and they have a convenient app to use. The pizza isn't the best after its been sitting for a while, but it's absolutely delicious while fresh.

Not to mention that they often have different promos and sales year-round, especially those associated with the Toronto sports teams.

Also, their creamy garlic dipping sauce. Nuff said.

I'm sick of it! Stop shitting on Pizza Pizza!

As you can tell from the title, this franchise is scam. They are greedy greedy people. I worked for the one on Ellesmere and McCowan and I need justice to prevail.

1. The menu is expensive and you are not getting what you paid for. They charge more for less. This specific restaurant advertises 5 oz patties but in reality it's 4 oz for dine in customers and 3 oz for those who order online. ALSO this particular restaurant also buys everything CHEAP. cheap fries, cheap meat, cheap cheap cheap.
2. There are several health code violations.
3. The owner is greedy asf and the franchise doesn't even care how many laws she breaks. She underpays workers and always ALWAYS pays late. She owes the manager around 14k in wages. She begs workers to switch to under the table cash so she can ignore taxes and exploit. It is 1 person per shift, running the whole restaurant. When she comes in to drop off food, she assumes the master and slave mindset. HORRIBLE WOMAN HORRIBLE. I have been degraded in-front of customers when I asked for a little help during rush hour, there was a full house plus orders from online AND JUST ONE OF ME.

3 people have already filed complaints with ministry of labor but nothing is being done.

PLEASE BOYCOTT THIS RESTAURANT.

While I'm genuinely trying not to echo a Mayor Fisk-esque monologue from Daredevil: Born Again, here, I can't help but to feel that Toronto is devolving into a state of comic book level chaos.

People often rag on this sub for being too negative, but a lot of the experiences reported here just seem to be getting more and more common:

- Cost of living is out of control

- Affordable housing is basically non-existent

- The job market is a joke

- The TTC is a world class dysfunctional mess

- Basic etiquette is out the window

- Dog owners have abdicated their intelligence

- Teenagers are outright violent

- Things will get built with little to no city planning in mind

- Bureaucracy grinds everything to a halt

- Roads and sidewalks are an elaborate game of dodging bullets because everyone "NEEDS" their Slurpee delivered at lightning speeds

- City Hall's is mismanaging millions of taxpayer dollars with the public seeing little return

- The Ford government is sticking its nose in everything because Doug's ego is still bruised from not having won the mayoral race

- Homelessness is on the rise and the general public is increasingly dehumanizing people who have nowhere to go

If you have things happening in your life here that bring you joy, I'm happy for you. Regardless, we need to stop pretending like major systemic flaws don't exist here and and actually put some focused effort into solving these issues.

I swear to god I see more people smoking crack outside than I do people smoking cigarettes. Is smoking crack in public just defacto legal now? It's not even like its in conspicuous places, straight up in front of Bloor Yonge station, One of the busiest areas in the city...

Multiple ppl are actively coughing every 30 seconds at the library and just reading the newspaper or scrolling their phones

Pls go home if ur sick or at least go outdoors so ur germs are harder to spread.

It’s strange being a Canadian-born citizen and rarely experiencing racism from other Canadians, but then experiencing it more often from some people who moved here.

I’m not saying all immigrants are like this, but if you come to a diverse country, don’t bring your racist attitudes with you. I’ve had people follow me around stores, treat me with disgust, and talk about me in their language, not realizing I understand some of their languages because I took the time to learn more about their languages and cultures.

You don’t have to be overly friendly, but basic respect should not be difficult. If you move here, do better.

And no, the point isn’t that I should be racist back. The point is that nobody should be bringing racism into a country they chose to move to.

Holy fuck, this might be the slowest stretch of public transit in North America. I live on Queen E near River St and walk/bike most of the time but I stare at this shit and laugh constantly.

It’s basically an ultra slow subway line that has to share the road with cars. I’m 100% pro-public transit and wish there wasn’t a single car on the road but always having 9 streetcars bunched together going 7mph just fucks everything up for trying to get anywhere.

You can’t even pass them because patio TO (which I am also in favour of) takes up the passing lane.

The TTC just sucks.

I experienced several incidents over the last few months that really made me wonder what is happening in Toronto… does it have a culture problem?

First, in two separate incidents, two groups of teenage girls were talking about violently assaulting another individual. I was on the Go train, and these girls sat down next to me (They were 3). All of them seemed very nice until they started speaking. For the entire train ride, they were criticizing Ashley (not the real name), saying how ugly she was and how she’s a slut and how she’s pretty until you look at her and she’s actually very ugly. Ok whatever right? Then they began saying that next time they see her they will “rip“ her fake lashes off her face, and tear off her extensions. Then they pulled out her Instagram, and began ragging on literally every single post. I wasn‘t even sure if they were joking or not.

Then recently I was on the bus, and a separate group of teenage girls got on with me. They were taking shots of alcohol at the back, and literally screaming and laughing the entire way. They said they saw somebody’s story and that somebody was there and they’re going to fight her. Then, one of the girls said the other was drinking too much, and asked her to “hold her taser” while she drinks. She said she was born in 2018 and takes shots with guys and they believe that she’s 22.

Teenaged boys are not better. I saw a bunch of them stunting in broad daylight, doing wheelies and front wheelies on motorcycles. They were even doing this without helmets or protective gear and sometimes two people together on a bike together. There were also some doing that on skateboards weaving in and out between traffic; I don’t even dare to look at them when they’re doing this because the next second they could become a bloody corpse.

These are school aged kids and when I was their age, I don’t remember doing any of this. It was in downtown Toronto too. Are kids these days just bored? Or they just not educated properly? Like I consider myself very open minded, but I just don’t remember seeing any of this before.

My dog is an amputee from an attack. 3 or 4 times a week some idiot's unleashed dog charges at mine. I am sick of all the damn excuses. Hes friendly, hes just scarred. I don't care, I don't know your dog and I don't want to find out how friendly they are. And almost every time I politely ask them to leash the dog they act all entitled.. it's got so bad this year.

Currently 19C outdoors and 5:30am and I been awake all night. The indoor temperature never drops below 25C even with the balcony door in condo wide open. How weird is that. The building AC is broken and waiting repairs. Ever since long covid gave me respiratory issues I cannot sleep when bedroom temps get above 23. Even worse my condo faces west. Home depot guy yesterday told me to forget the portable AC units unless I have a way to vent the exhaust hose through a window. Just wanted to rant.

I walked up Yonge Street for ice cream and a few groceries tonight -- not dressed up, regular jeans and a tee-shirt, just wanted a walk and a snack and some pasta -- and it was eight (8), count 'em, eight dudes between Queen and Bloor staring at my chest, making comments, doing the hey-baby thing. One followed me half a block before I glared him down.

It is only May. It is not even hot out. I didn't even put on makeup because it's a holiday and I just wanted groceries. I don't know what's been going on with dudes downtown the past few summers, but I lived here during the years pickup artists were a thing and this is worse. It's making this neighbourhood unlivable. Sometimes people just want to get some pasta without playing incel Minesweeper all the way there and back. Let people live their lives.

Like do you really need to come buy a new handbag, get a watch repair or try shoes for fun today ? Can corporations or Ontario let us have life ?

I’m not a fireworks guy but I understand I live in a major city so we will have them but holy shit, can you fire happy people wait until it’s DARK to set them off?! Literally have been trying to calm my dog down and blasting music for the last hour because some dumb fucks have been setting off fireworks in the st Jamestown area for the last 2 hours.

I also understand these are probably people not fully all there mentally but omgggggg this year has actually been the worst for this and I’ve lived in this area for almost 20 years.

You have to STOP at a STOP SIGN. A RED light means STOP until it turns GREEN! I don’t know why this kindergarten lesson needs to be repeated to full grown adults. Half the time you are running reds or blowing through stop signs when there are pedestrians crossing. They aren’t optional. Read that again.

I’m saying this as a cyclist that stops at stop signs and red lights.

Like seriously, wtf? You wanna teach your kid to ride a scooter, great, go find a quiet stretch of road and give them a goddamn helmet. Why the fuck is your child zipping around the grocery store, on a literal vehicle, while you stand there with a smile on your face? Why is the scooter indoors in the first place? Why are you even letting your child get away from you, and enter the personal space of strangers?

Almost got hit by a little kid at the dollar store today, just zipping down the three-foot-wide aisle on his scooter while mom and dad casually watched. No reaction from them afterwards. What? What if I hadn't seen him? What if I'd had mobility issues and been unable to jump out of the way? What if he'd injured me, or worse, himself? Why didn't the employees say anything?

When I was six, my mom took me to Walmart to run some errands, and I noticed the toy section a few aisles down. Before she could even say anything I was sprinting towards the Lego, and ran right into an elderly man's cart as he was rounding the corner. After making sure that both of us were okay, my mom spent the next five minutes apologizing profusely, dragged my ass out of the store, yelled at me the entire ride home, and sent me to my room for the rest of the night. You know, like a parent does when their child misbehaves, and should know better? Because "don't run indoors" is one of the first things you teach a kid? And you dumbasses bring your kids in with a scooter???

I grew in a mid-sized town outside the GTA, so maybe this is just a big city thing? Toronto is a melding pot, and the mixing of people from different cultures with different childhood experiences is a part of what makes this city so great. But things like safety and consideration for others aren't negotiable, no matter what lens you're coming at life from. Kids are kids, they do dumb shit and don't consider the consequences. That stuff has to be taught to them. You know, basic decency and respect for the people around them. What the fucking fucking fuck? I feel like I see a toddler on a scooter in basically every other store these days. What are you parents even doing? In what universe is it acceptable to encourage that?

Might be an overreaction, but I'm just so fed up with the lack of common sense, or basic manners, or just an overall sense of propriety in this city lately—and this scenario feels like a perfect representation. And these jackasses are doing everything in their power to make sure the next generation is just as stupid. Do you want your kid to become one of those dipshit adults weaving their e-bike through crowds on the sidewalk? Do you even care? How the fuck does your brain even work? How do you think society works? What the fuck?

I just got this a few weeks ago: “I wanted to flag a small payroll error on our end - it looks like you were paid $X but you have not worked this pay period. Would you be able to e-transfer that back to accounting@sweatandtonic.com when you get a chance? Totally understand if you need a few days.”

Anyone else who works at Sweat and Tonic get these messages? It’s not my first time either. I haven’t worked there in months after quitting because it’s toxic as fuck there, and now they’re emailing me stupid ass payroll errors. Real talk to any lawyers out there - what if I don’t etransfer them back? Are they going to sue me for my hundreds of dollars? How much time do I have?

Also, PS to the readers- Everything you read online about the COO spending hours microscoping guests through the security cameras is a hundred percent FACTSS. And yes, the owner knows and supports but he’s also too busy siphoning money to his RFMD sugar baby. Go to another other gym in Toronto for god’s sake. There’s a good reason why ALLL of their top and OG instructors are leaving to Solis. They seen the sausage being made and it ain’t cute

If there is any amount of cyclists stopped at a light in the bike lane, and you decide to pass them on the left to wait at the front, you’d better be absolutely goddam sure that you’re going to move faster than those others.

I feel like this happens constantly on Bloor. You’ll have like 10-12 bikes stopped at a light, then someone decides to cruise up the left and wait at the very front. Then you’re forced to figure out how you’re supposed to pass them, only for them to do the exact same goddam thing at the next light.

Can you not notice people passing you? Do you not realize how much you’re getting in the way? The odds are you’re arriving at the light in the order you are for a reason.

Not ok. WTF?

Bring back the cold and snow.

He's wearing a white shirt, blue jeans, hair looks like never showered since he was born. And he dares to spat on my face and yelled racial slurs at me while my tax money keep him alive and not freeze to his death in winters on the street even I don't want to.

Seriously I just lost every bit of my sympathy towards drug addicted homeless people at this point.