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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey there, mister Redder here, welcome back to another episode
of Reddit podcast Stories. Our first story we'll be reading today.
Try to convince my wife to cheat on me. That's
why you're a single mom right now instead of a doctor.
After that, am I the jerk for telling my wife
we can no longer afford to give our dog an allowance?
And after that, my roommate's entitled boyfriend demands to park

(00:22):
his car in our driveway. Now, for every thumbs up
this video, kits one, Karen does not get to convince
someone to cheat on their husband. Unfortunately, cheating on your
husband's not an option when you look like I do,
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Try to convince my wife to cheat on me. That's

(00:44):
why you are a single mom right now instead of
a doctor. I'm twenty nine male. I have known my wife,
who's thirty female, and her best friend Jess, who's twenty
nine female, since we were all eleven. We attended middle
and high school together, but I wasn't in their social
circles at all. I was always one of the sort
of nerdy, awkward kids and the two of them were
both very popular. My wife in particular was extremely popular

(01:08):
because she was and still is extremely beautiful, kind and intelligent.
She was our student body president and valedictorian. Jess was
also very pretty, I even had a tiny crush on
her back then, and similarly popular. My wife and Jess
have been best friends since kindergarten. My wife and I
started dating our senior year of high school after we

(01:28):
were paired together to complete a project in one of
our classes. We realized that we got along really well,
and she asked me out, and I definitely wasn't saying
no to her. Jess, from the very start did not
respect our relationship and firmly believed that my wife could
do much better. She has in the decade plus since,
consistently told me that my wife is out of my league,

(01:49):
that I was lucky she settled for me so young,
and that my wife belongs with a more attractive and
successful man. Now I'm the first one to admit that
my wife is out of my league. She's far more attractive,
makes more money, and is just generally an amazing human being,
But hearing it so often doesn't exactly feel good. Jess
also has tried to convince my wife to cheat on

(02:10):
me multiple times, and has even tried to set her
up with other guys because she doesn't approve of my
wife and I being the only partners either of us
has ever had. Jess has a daughter who's five, whose
father bailed on her and raises her as a single mom.
Jess actually dropped out of med school to raise her
daughter once she realized the father wasn't going to be
in the picture. My wife and I absolutely love her

(02:33):
daughter and love having her over. Jess had a date
on Saturday night, so she left her daughter with us
for the night and came to pick her up on
Sunday and stayed for lunch. As I was preparing lunch
for everyone and her daughter was playing in the yard,
Jess and my wife were talking about her date. Jess
was going on and on about how attractive this guy was,
how good he was at Boom Chicken one whole, and

(02:54):
all of the details, but I just ignored it. Jess
then looked to me and said, lucky you locked her
down when you were so young, before she knew that
there was better out there, and then turned to my
wife and offered to give her the guy's number in
case she wanted to try him out. I got really
angry at that point, so I just said, I doubt

(03:14):
you know anything about better, since your taste in men
is why you're a single mom and not a doctor
right now. Both of them just stared at me in shock,
and then Jess called me a jerk and left quickly
with her daughter. My wife has been upset with me since,
so I have to ask, am I the jerk at it?
I just wanted to point out that my wife acknowledges
that what Jess said was inappropriate, but thinks that what

(03:37):
I said was unnecessarily cruel. It was always Jess's dream
to be a doctor like her dad, especially after her
dad passed, and now that's probably never going to happen.
Jess has said this to me before, so I was
aware of it, and my wife thinks it was uncalled
for to press on something that's so clearly a pressure
point for her. Jess also frequently bemoans the pain of

(03:58):
being a single mom and about how long all of
the guys she goes out with ghost her as soon
as she mentions her daughter. This is mainly why my
wife is upset with me, because she thinks I purposely
hurt Jess, while Jess's comments are a joke and aren't
meant to hurt my feelings, which is probably mostly true.
All Right, So I talked to Jess. Yeah, everyone said
not to apologize, but honestly, sometimes you can acknowledge that

(04:21):
you did something bad, even if the other person also
did a bad thing. And yes, what I did was bad.
Part of the reason I posted here in the first
place was because I was feeling guilty about it, because
I knew I'd been overly mean to her, and I
was hoping that this post would make me feel less guilty.
That didn't really work, unfortunately. So yeah, I was going
to call her to apologize, but Jess actually beat me

(04:43):
to it. Apparently my wife had texted her and told
her how I felt about everything she was saying, and
that led to Jess deciding to talk to me herself. Honestly,
I'm pretty impressed because my wife showed me the texts,
and my wife didn't actually even tell Jess to apologize,
so she did that on her own. I do believe
it was genuine, especially because when she called me, Jess

(05:04):
sounded pretty distressed, so she apologized profusely. Actually, she said
that she really didn't mean for me to take it seriously,
and she felt really bad when my wife told her.
I talked to her for a long time and basically
detailed everything she had done to disrespect me and our
marriage and how I felt about all of it. She
did apologize for it all and said that this was

(05:24):
how she was with all of her friends. She told
me all about how she would frequently tell my wife
that she'd steal me from her, or that she had
set me up with another woman that she knew. I
told Jess she needed to stop that too. It wasn't
right directed at me, and it wasn't right directed at her.
She accepted that. She said the only reason she thought
her jokes were okay was because it was so obvious

(05:46):
we'd never cheat on each other. Apparently Jess was never
serious about giving my wife's phone number, and she would
never actually disrespect our marriage like that, so at least
she has some boundaries. Jess even said if my wife
ever even came close to cheating, she'd be the first
one to stop it, which I doubt, but there's no
reason to rock the boat. I apologize to Jess for

(06:07):
what I said, but I pretty much just flatly told
her that her and I were not friends, so it
wasn't appropriate for her to talk to me like that.
She was pretty hurt by that, but said she understood.
I then asked her if she had any jealousy towards
our relationship, and she admitted that she did. She said
she wished she had a relationship like that, and then
it was pretty clear that my wife and I truly
do love each other. So everyone's saying she was jealous

(06:29):
gets a cookie. So yeah, she apologized, and so did I.
Do I buy it completely? Of course not. Do. I
think at least some of it was performance just crocodile tears. Yes,
absolutely do I think she's sorry and will be better.
I'd like to think so. Not the jerk. Your wife
is the biggest jerk. She's allowed Jess to talk down

(06:50):
to you for years and done nothing. You deserve better.
You are out of her league. Jess is obviously a
jerk for treating you like this and trying to get
your wife to see other men for you years. She
should be banned from the house. Oh pie, I wouldn't
say my wife's done absolutely nothing. I mean, she has
told Jess that her comments are inappropriate before, but I

(07:10):
honestly think my wife has a hard time standing up
to Jess in general, not even just about me. But
Jess also says inappropriate things about my wife, and my
wife still doesn't say much not the jerk, and your
wife should not be allowing Jess to disrespect you, especially
in your own home. I think you should lay some
ground rules out for your wife about how Jess treats
you and what you're willing or not willing to tolerate.

(07:33):
Jess is very much the jerk here, but your wife
is a close second for not stepping in. Dude, everyone
sucks here big time. She was also being nasty, and
I'm shocked your wife and you apparently have been letting
this dynamic go on for over a decade. But you
said that in front of a five year old about
her parents to dunk on your wife's friend in the
meanest way you could think of. Of course, that was

(07:55):
a vindictive move. Well hoo, do you think is the jerk,
Opie or Jes Please let us know if wife ever
did actually want a cheat, Jess would totally encourage it
and be happy. Probably always keep people like Jess out
of your life unless you're as crappy of a person
as she is. Am I the jerk for telling my
wife we can no longer afford to give our dog

(08:16):
an allowance. We got a dog a few years ago,
and training him was rough. He was already a full
grown dog and had never lived inside. Anyway, We'd give
him treats and encouragement, and eventually he stopped being so
wild inside and chewing things up, and he now uses
the bathroom outside, et cetera. Like I said, we already
give him treats for doing good things or listening to commands,

(08:37):
et cetera. But in the midst of the initial training,
my wife came up with the idea that we should
give him a weekly allowance for being good and not
having accidents, et cetera. This was set to twenty five
dollars a week. Of course, we didn't give him the cash. Instead,
she had take him to PetSmart and whatever he started
sniffing or seemed to like, she'd buy, or she'll get

(08:58):
him special treats beyond what we already have at home.
I thought it was silly then, but whatever, I was
just happy when we would go a week without him
going to the bathroom on the carpet or chewing up
a pillow. So I agreed, and it's been this way
for years, but now money is tight, we can't really
afford one hundred dollars a month extra. Not only that,

(09:18):
but that money takes priority over our own allowances. For instance,
I wanted to go out to eat last week, but
because I have to set aside fifty dollars every paycheck,
my wife said we couldn't go. Otherwise we wouldn't be
able to essentially pay our dog. Not to mention, going
outside to the bathroom or not chewing things up is
second nature for him now, and it's not like I

(09:39):
don't want to buy him stuff, but we're barely making
ends meet at the moment. Fifty dollars a check is
a big expense. I brought this up with her last night,
and she got very upset that I would even suggest
not rewarding him, that I was being selfish for wanting
to spend the money on myself. I told her we
already buy him food and treats, and he already has
thirty plus chew tool and that he doesn't need a

(10:01):
bigger bone every week. He doesn't need gourmet food all
the time. None of this is even including relatively frequent
dog spa visits. She told me I shouldn't have let
her get the dog if I didn't want to take
care of him. But I do take care of him.
We go on walks, play in the backyard. He has
a whole room in our house with chew toys in
a big bed. I think it's unfair to say I'm

(10:22):
not taking care of him because I can't afford to
give him a luxurious lifestyle anymore, or that I'd like
to go out to eat or have a little luxury
myself every once in a while. But maybe I'm in
the wrong. Am I the jerk at it? Additional info
I meant to mention my wife cannot have kids due
to a medical issue they would put her at high risk,
and was devastated when she found out, as was I.

(10:44):
But we also cannot afford to adopt or even have
that desire right now. To be honest, our dog, I
think was her way of coping with this and being
a mother in some sense, so he is like our kid.
I love him too, but she's attached to him in
a way that is much deeper than what I would
say is typical. Edit two. She does not believe the
allowance is teaching him anything. It's just her way of

(11:06):
doting on him. She knows that he is not associating
it with good behavior, so it's not an attempt at
teaching him anything. More of he's been good, so we
should do something good for him. Edit three just going
to answer a few more questions by copying my responses.
Why doesn't she get a job? Certainly something we could
look into, and not something she has said she is
opposed to at all. We were completely fine before all

(11:29):
of this inflation, but everything going up by a little
to a lot has really strained us. It took quite
a bit of time to even realize it was happening, really,
because we had had a little bit of a cushion,
and when you are slowly breaking even or dipping in
ten to twenty a chick, I just didn't realize how
little wiggle room we actually had. Now I'm just looking
at what expenses are the most frivolous and what I

(11:50):
can cut out. So really, it's been the last couple
of weeks to a month that I've begun stressing about it.
Dog allowance. I do think a lot of people in
here are unfairly criticizing her because of the phrasing of
dog's allowance. This is really her allowance to spend on
our dog. I think maybe I've done a poor job
communicating the finer details, which wasn't my intention. Why doesn't

(12:11):
she get out more or make friends? She does take
him to the park and on walks, but also she's
very introverted. I've tried suggesting she hang out with her
friends more, but she rarely ever does. Plus, most of
her friends have kids now and she doesn't admit it,
but I know it hurts her. A couple of them
didn't even want kids, and I think she just feels
jealous or like it's unfair, not that they have kids,

(12:33):
but that she can't. Not the jerk. I love my dogs,
but this is insane. Your dog can play with the
stick you find outside. He doesn't need expensive treats every week,
and he only needs healthy not the most expensive foods.
Good grief, not the jerk. Based on your edit, your
wife needs therapy. She is overcompensating for not having a

(12:55):
kid by focusing on spoiling the dog. Bottom line, you
can't afford anything else now. Maybe that will change in
a few weeks, but you can't afford it right now.
If she wants to continue to spend one hundred dollars
a month on the dog, then she can sacrifice something
else if it's really that important to her. You are
not neglecting the dog. He sounds cared for and in

(13:15):
a loving home, not the jerk. She's prioritizing your dog
over your relationship based on what you're saying, and it's
completely unfair to suggest you don't care about the dog.
I think it's good she loves him so much, and
it would be nice if you could give him all
of the extras, But it does not sound like you
are in a place to do so financially, and dogs
don't need all of that to feel happy or loved.

(13:37):
My roommate's entitled boyfriend demands to park his car in
our driveway. I'm an undergraduate college student and I live
with four other undergraduate college students. All of us are
twenty to twenty two female. We have a pretty decent
five bedroom house with a small yard and two car driveway,
with a garage which we use for storage. Fair college Town.

(13:58):
We live in a pretty nice area, but parking can
sometimes be a nightmare. All five of us have long
term boyfriends, four out of five of us have cars.
When we moved into the house last summer, we agreed
that the driveway spots would go to two of the roommates.
Our fifth roommate, A was one of the roommates that
was promised to spot. Unfortunately, she was tea bone just

(14:19):
before we moved in and her car was totaled. Even
though she really needs one to get her to classes
and internship, A's parents do not want to buy a
new one, and she can't currently afford to buy one herself. Instead,
she has her boyfriend drive her wherever she needs to go.
A's boyfriend parks in the extra spot in the driveway
whenever he comes over, and he's over for at least

(14:40):
six hours a day, every day and sometimes overnight. We
the four other roommates have asked A and her boyfriend
numerous times to park elsewhere, like at least six or
seven times. We've talked to both of them, separately and together,
to no avail. No matter the amount of conversations, A's
boyfriend continues to park his car the one remaining driveway spot.

(15:02):
This has been going on for almost a year. We
the four other roommates have all told our boyfriends not
to park in the driveway, and they have abided by
our requests. A sees nothing wrong with this situation, as
she was promised the spot at the beginning of the summer,
and she thinks that since they're sharing a car, he
has a right to park there now. However, since the

(15:22):
circumstances just happen to be that she doesn't have a
car right now, the other four of us think that
if the spot should go to somebody, it should be
someone whose name is on the lease for our house,
as three of us could really use the extra driveway spot.
When A's boyfriend isn't parked there, we rotate who gets
to use it. Of course, this rarely happens. It got
pretty heated today as one of my roommates came home

(15:44):
to see A's boyfriend in the driveway again, and she
said that if it happens one more time, she'll be
calling the police. I really don't want the cops to
get involved, but I am kind of fed up of
him parking there and feel a little disrespected that she
won't just ask him to move. Maybe I'm just being
too harsh? Are we being unfair? Are we the jerks?
At it? Here's some more info regarding why we promised

(16:05):
her the spot. We originally agreed to let her have
the spot because she had a small sedan and we
did not know if any of the remaining three roommates
cars would even fit in the driveway two pickup trucks
and a large suv. This was prior to us moving in.
Once we moved in, however, we realized that the driveway
was long enough that any of our cars could fit,
granted only two at a time, and we loosely started

(16:27):
who rotated. This was until her boyfriend started parking there
and she claimed that he shouldn't have to move. Not
the jerk. The parking spot is for the people on
the lease. If the person on the lease is no
longer parking there, and there's no plans for that to
be changing any time in the near future, the parking
space should go to someone else on the lease. Am

(16:48):
I the jerk for being annoyed at my girlfriend after
she turned off the power during her cooking while I
was gaming I mail twenty four have been dating Helen
female twenty two for two years and we moved in
together two months ago. This is my parent's old second home.
My parents gave it to me when I moved out
of the family home five years ago. Helen and I

(17:08):
are very happy with this house because it's comfortable and
well located. There's just a little problem with the kitchen.
There are two ovens, one big and one small. The
small one works well, but sometimes the big one cuts
off the power. When it switches off, you just have
to turn the power back on on the meter. It's
not every time, maybe once every five times, but to

(17:28):
avoid that, I always use a small oven, which was
more than enough when I was living alone. When Helen
moved in, at first we took turns cooking, but she
quickly insisted to manage the cooking alone. She thinks my
cooking is a bit too basic. Her parents' own a restaurant,
so I guess she has higher standards and she cooks
better than I do. I once suggested that we could

(17:49):
cook together sometimes so I could improve, but she doesn't
want that because she finds me too messy in the kitchen.
I warned her about the big oven and to prioritize
the smaller one, or to let me know before using
the big one. I like to play Football Manager on
my computer before dinner, and it would be a shame
to have a power cut at this moment. If she
tells me beforehand, I can save my game in case

(18:11):
of a power cut. Two weeks ago, Helen used the
big oven without telling me, and the power went out
while I was playing. I gently reminded her to warn
me next time, and it's okay. I had saved a
few minutes before, and everyone can forget or mess up. Yesterday,
she wanted to make cookies and use the big oven
again without telling me. I was playing, and I hadn't

(18:32):
saved for several in game weeks. Stupid, I know, so
it was lost. I was annoyed, and I asked why
she didn't warn me. Instead of apologizing, she said aggressively
to get over it, that I shouldn't get upset about
that stupid game, after all, cooking the dinner was much
more important. I got angry and answered that she shouldn't
disrespect my hobbies like that, and she could just enjoy

(18:55):
her so much more important dinner alone, and I stormed
off to visit a friend who's twenty four male. It's
a vent and I ended up sleeping there. I told
my girlfriend by message that I will sleep there and
it's best to talk tomorrow. My friend thinks that Helen
messed up and is in the wrong. But this morning
I received a text from a friend of Helen calling
me a huge jerk. After reflecting on it, I started

(19:18):
to feel bad. Maybe I did overreact or I was
completely in the wrong. Everyone sucks here. Fix the electrical issue,
save your game. Don't complain when someone is making your
meals while you're playing games. Apologize for overreacting and not
handling conflict appropriately. Don't storm off. She should apologize for
not telling you she was using the big oven and

(19:39):
for getting angry at you when you pointed it out.
You should also ask if she's upset that you are
gaming while she's doing chores and work out that issue.
Everyone sucks here. Get the oven fixed that's a problem.
Perhaps also by a small ups for your computer if
you're unwilling to do that now. If you went into
the kitchen ranting about losing your progress, then it it's

(20:00):
only you who is to blame. But she, according to
your side of the story, overreacted, however, storming out of
the house over something this trivial is ridiculous. You aren't twelve,
and it makes me question the reliability of your point
of view. You're the jerk. She's in the kitchen making
your dinner while you're playing games, and you're angry that
she forgot to ask your permission. That's not reasonable. You overreacted.

(20:23):
It's a game. If it bothers you that much, get
the oven fixed and get some cooking lessons. It's amazing
to me how many of these posts are based on
an argument starting over gaming. Grow up and fix your
electrical before your house burns down and you don't have
a computer at all. Am I the jerk for being
angry that I wasn't asked to be in the wedding party.

(20:45):
I'm twenty eight female and one of my best friends, Mark,
twenty eight male, just got engaged and he and his
fiance are planning to get married next spring. For context,
Mark and I have been good friends since high school.
My boyfriend, who's twenty eight, has also really I wonded
with Mark over the past two years of us dating,
and they regularly go golfing together. We have also done

(21:06):
a lot of couples vacations and dates and outings together,
and we were seemingly very close to Mark and his fiance.
My boyfriend and I just recently went to their house
for a party, and Mark and his fiance asked my boyfriend,
whom they know through me and only for a couple
of years, to be in the wedding party as a groomsman.
I was not asked to be a bridesmaid, so I
would not be involved in the wedding party at all.

(21:28):
When I asked Mark about this, he said it was
because they wanted even numbers five groomsmen and five bridesmaids
for the wedding party, and that his fiance already had
enough bridesmaids. I thought for sure I would be asked
to be in their wedding as a bridesmaid, seeing as
they were my good friends and I would have one
hundred percent included them in my wedding party if I
were the one getting married. So not only was I

(21:50):
not asked to be in their wedding party, but my boyfriend,
whom they had known for all of two seconds was
I felt very hurt that they would ask him to
be a part of their big day but not me.
I confronted Mark about how hurt, sad, and angry I
was about this, especially because I don't know if my
boyfriend and I will even still be together a year
from now. Mark told me that he was sorry that

(22:11):
my feelings were hurt, but he and his fiance don't
want to apologize for doing what they want with their wedding.
Mark told me that this situation has impacted our friendship,
especially since he doesn't think they have anything to apologize for.
My boyfriend declined to be a groomsman and we haven't
spoken to Mark since. Am I the jerk at it?
Just to clarify, I never expected to be asked to

(22:33):
be in their wedding. Of course, I would have loved
to be in their wedding party because they are my friends.
I've been friends with Mark since I was sixteen and
friends with Alyssa, his fiance for going on eight years now,
and I would love to celebrate their love and happiness,
but I never ever demanded it. If they never would
have asked either of us to be in their wedding,
I would have been totally fine with that. It's that

(22:54):
they asked everyone else in our friend group to be
in it, including my boyfriend. Everyone accept me when Alyssa,
Mark's fiance, talk to me about it. She said the
only reason she didn't ask me to be in the
wedding was because of the matching wedding party numbers, which
was disappointing and hurtful. I totally understand that it's their
wedding and they should do what they like, but I

(23:14):
also hoped they wouldn't exclude me like that because of
wedding party numbers. I know everyone says to not make
it about me, but what do you do in that situation?
Not say anything at all? I just felt a little blindsided.
Maybe Mark and I weren't as close as we thought.
Perhaps it's all for the best. Note. People are taking
the boyfriend bit way out of context. My boyfriend and

(23:36):
I have been off and on because of long distance issues,
but we love each other deeply. He's currently living back home,
but that might change in the near future. He might
have to move across the country for work, and I'm
not sure if I'm ready to uproot my life and
move with him yet. That's why I'm not sure where
we'll be a year from now. It's all up in
the air. Currently, you're the jerk. Groom has been socializing

(23:59):
solo with your boy for two years, which you changed
to all of two seconds at the end of your story,
and selected him as a groomsman. No mention here of
you socializing solo with the fiance, and she probably picked
people she was closer to. You're not owed a spot
in the bridal party just because your boyfriend got one.
You're being a bit dramatic here over a wedding that's

(24:19):
not even yours. I know I'm going to get massively
downvoted for this, but after going back and forth, I'm
going with everyone sucks here rather than you're the jerk,
because I feel like ultimately your friends are being the
bigger jerks. Mark and his fiance should have known ahead
of time that it's kind of insulting that you've been
his good friend since high school and he's including your
boyfriend and his wedding party and not you. I think

(24:41):
the considerate thing to have done was to not include
you both, or at least have a proper conversation with
you about it. I think you crossed the line by
expecting to be a bridesmaid, confronting him about it, and
saying that stuff about your boyfriend. The last thing was
really not cool. Isn't it amazing how much people fight
over weddings? Not as amazing as how much money people

(25:01):
waste on them. Boss tries to give disciplinary action for
working too hard. Midway through my career, I found myself
working for the most prominent private college in my state.
I was in the IT department and was in charge
of maintaining a few servers and all of the technology
and classrooms. Every summer, we would receive our budget for
the year, and the part of the budget I managed

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was spent mostly on upgrading the audio and visual presentation
systems in the classrooms, and most of that work had
to take place during the summer. This is fine normally,
but our college administration had created a ticking time bomb
for me. A few years before, they had decided to
spend about one hundred thousand dollars on a few classrooms,
but did not allocate any money in our budget to

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replace that equipment when it would eventually fail. I had
been there for five years, and now that equipment was
starting to fail, increasing our budget was not an option.
Despite faculty growing to depend on the equipment in these spaces,
I was left to figure out how to make the
same budget, replace all of the equipment in those spaces,
as well as the normal set of classrooms that would

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need to be upgraded elsewhere. Fine. I was up for
the challenge. I had to simplify and purchase more value
brands of equipment and do extra work to cut corners.
A couple of weeks of shipping delays for the majority
of the equipment saw me with roughly one month to
rip out, replace, rewire, and configure around fifteen classrooms, as

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well as update and test all of the existing classrooms
within about a month before the semester began. Realizing the
amount of work ahead of me, I began working. I
came in every day of the week for twenty eight
days straight, working eight to ten hours to ensure that
when the semester began, the professors would have working equipment.
I was salary, so I did not have to clock in.

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This gave me the freedom of scheduling work as little
or as much as required. I worked myself sick and
was literally sick at the end of the twenty eight days.
My supervisor was a guy we recently hired let's call
him Gus. Near the beginning of the semester, while testing equipment.
I realized that the audio driver and a common model
of computer we have in the classrooms was corrupted. Investigating it,

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I realized that the computer manufacturer had corrupted drivers on
their web server where we downloaded it from. I asked
my supervisor, who was in charge of managing the image
deployment server, to rebuild the image with a non corrupt
version of the driver I had provided him. He said
he would. I swing by the next day and ask
him if he had completed the rebuild. He had not.

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I tell him I really need it. As the semester
loomed closer and closer, and he tells me he will
work on it next day. Nothing, day after that, nothing.
Finally he figures it out and I continue my work.
He must not have liked being pressured, and perhaps the
perception that he was incompetent he was must have gotten
to him. He decides to power trip and call me

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into his office and ask why I was working so much.
I explained the administrative oversight a few years prior, shipping delays,
cheaper equipment, extra required work, and his delaying of a
working image. I tell him, look, I came in day
after day after day asking for that rebuilt image. Each
time I said day, I'm poking my fingers straight down

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on the edge of his desk enough that it makes
a sound to emphasize that those delays hurt the work
I was doing. He wanted to find some personal feeling
that he could pull out some form of disciplinary action
around I gave him none. Eventually, he ran out of
ideas and I left his office not thinking much of it. Gus, however,
was a jerk of the highest order. He would follow

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our IT director like a puppy. He joined a band
with my IT director, so my work situation was not
exactly fair. The semester began and not a single issue
in all of the classrooms was reported. I was proud
of my work I was able to complete given the challenges.
The second day of the semester, my IT director calls
me to his office. There, Gus is sitting beside him,

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and they both want to talk to me. I don't
like the looks of this. My IT director starts asking
me about why I was working so much. I explained
to him, as I did Gus, the various factors that
made this summer's work extra challenging. This destroyed any valid
criticism they could muster. Gus goes on to say that
he innocently inquired about my work and that I became

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violent talking about the gesture I made on his desk,
illustrating his failure to do his work in a timely manner.
I demonstrate exactly what I did on the IT director's
desk to show how ridiculous this claim was. My IT
director wanted to exert his authority, and they would not
stop until they had something to discipline me with. Nothing
I would say would change the result. I was to

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be in trouble for whatever transgression they imagined up in
this meeting. I make sure to point out how long
it took Gus to do the small task that I
depended on, knowing I could have completed it in about
an hour. He was incompetent. My IT director then alludes
to the fact that I should respect Gus Moore as
he is my supervisor. Forget it to myself. I then

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tell my director, it is as if Justin Bieber was
trying to teach you about music theory. It's only going
to upset you. This sudden, sharp, and in my opinion,
hilarious comparison was too funny. Both Gus and my IT
director immediately laughed, even though Gus was subject of this insult.
Once they had stopped laughing, my IT director put on

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a more serious tone. He says that I could manage
my time better despite the unique circumstances of this summer's work.
His voice gets really soft and slow while he's talking
to me. Now, this is a trick he forgot. He
told me that he uses in arguments to make the
other person seem like they're out of control. It's condescending,
as if spoken to as a child, and now he's

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using it on me. He tells me that he wants
me to take some time management class, also to take
a couple days off and think about it. I just
want you to think about it. However, he's going to
need my keys and badge. Cue malicious compliance. At this point,
he has provided me enough evidence that this is not
a job I want to stay at. The absurdity of

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working so hard and for twenty eight days straight on
salary with no extra pay and to be rewarded with
a disciplinary action was too much that in that moment
I had thought about it without saying anything. I hand
over my badge. I took all the many keys off
of my key ring and set them on his desk.
I have thought about it, I tell him, and the
exact same soft and condescending tone he used with me.

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And you can keep the keys and badge, I told him,
with the biggest ry smile on my face. I then
walked to my office. He follows me, and I noticed
his eyes become glassy, as if he was hurt by
the situation unfolding before him. He expected me to capitulate
and accept his punishment for a job well done. He
kept saying, I just want you to think about it,

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with each time becoming increasingly desperate, and I kept repeating,
I have thought about it. He disappears back to his
office with his little minion Gus, to discuss damage control.
I quickly pin an email to all my other coworkers
letting them know I was leaving and that I enjoyed
working with them. I had to work quick, as I
knew they would shut down all my accounts very quickly.

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I packed up my personal effects and left. Guss and
my IT director offered to help me, trying to walk
back the situation with some small gesture of goodwill, but
I was gone. I had been there for five years,
but I was willing to walk away the moment he
tried to treat me so poorly. I found out a
little later that the week before I left, a programmer
we hired left after he treated her poorly too. I

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was not aware of the reason she left when she did,
but our office manager shared that she quit abruptly, like me,
without anything lined up given his behavior. About a year later,
I hear from the office manager that the IT director
had left. Rumor is he was primarily working for another
company while in his office at the college, effectively double dipping,
or making money for two jobs while only doing one.

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He had been caught doing so and was warned by
the administration to stop. He opted to leave instead of
owning up to his own dubious behavior. My only regret
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