Karen Gets Tipped Accidently and Refuses to Return It!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey there, mister Redder here, welcome back to another episode
of our slash entitled People's Stories. Our first story we'll
be reading today. Karen Server refuses to refund my tip.
After that, Am I the jerk for being upset that
my niece requested payment when I asked her to babysit
for a couple of hours, and after that, scam me
on my overtime. Cue the long, extensive revenge. Now for

(00:22):
every thumbs up this video gits one, Karen has to
refund someone's tip. Here's a tip for you, Reddit boy,
try getting some sun. You look like a ghost, so
please smash that like button and subscribe and turn on
notifications for new stories from Reddit every single day. Karen
Server refuses to refund my tip. I went into a

(00:42):
Burrito Bowl place to order takeout. They had this new
tip option on the card reader that they've never had before.
The card reader is not touchscreen, nor are there tabs
on the side to select options. There are just numbers.
Before I paid, the screen asked what amount I wanted
to tip twenty percent, twenty five, thirty or other. I
tried to press the number four for other, but the

(01:03):
button didn't work. I told the worker that number four
did not work and asked the worker what to press
for other, and she told me three. After I selected three,
it added a thirty percent tip to my card. I
told her I wanted to select other and not thirty percent.
She told me she was not aware that I was
not trying to tip, and she thought she remembered the
order number. I asked her to refund my tip, and

(01:26):
she said that's not possible since they can only refund
actual orders if there's something wrong with the food. I
told her the card reader buttons were not working properly
and it doesn't have an easy or obvious option to
select no, nor did the right option work. She refused
to refund me, saying it wasn't that much money anyway.
I asked to speak to the manager, telling the manager

(01:47):
they need a more user friendly option to select no
on the card reader, and the manager told me all
the card readers are like that, which it's not. Other
places have a no option and are touch screen. She
told me my tip would be really appreciated and it
would help her staff since the holidays are coming up
and this could be my way to make someone's day.
I told her that because they are using a system

(02:08):
like this, they don't care about their customers, let alone
their coworkers if they need to even rely on scamming
people to get tips and I want a refund. The
manager asked me why I selected a thirty percent option
if I wanted to select other, and I told her
the number for other didn't work, and when I asked
her worker about it, she told me the wrong answer.
She told me I was gullible and blaming her worker

(02:30):
for my own mistake, and out of good customer service,
she will refund my tip, but told me this will
not happen again. You're the jerk. See this is why
I have no problem messing with customer's food. My coworkers
and I have to deal with people like you every day,
and I can't tell you how infuriating it is. You
couldn't just spare a few dollars as a simple thank

(02:51):
you to the people who work their butts off making
your food. I hope they ban you from their restaurant
and that you learn to show a little compassion. Rich
boy goes to Chipotle and accidentally leaves a tip, then
goes full on Karen when they aren't able to process
a refund for the two dollars tip you accidentally gave them.
If I work there, so help me. God, you don't
even want to know what I do to your food.

(03:13):
I've been tested a few times like this before, and
let's just say some of the entitled customers like yourself
that rubbed me the wrong way got way more than
they bargained for. I do chemistry in my spare time
as a hobby, and I always have a full kit
with me at work for the problematic customers. Heck, I
even add some of my secret ingredients to random customer's

(03:34):
food when I just don't like the way they look. Dang,
mess around and find out. Well, who do you think
is the jerk op or the employees? Please let us know.
I always tip servers well and I don't plan on stopping,
but I am getting tired of these machines at the
gas station that tell you to leave a tip when
you're checking out for the chips that you bought. Am

(03:55):
I the jerk for being upset that my niece requested
payment when I asked her to babysit for a couple
of hours. My husband, who's in his thirties male, and
I thirties female. We have a three year old son together, Max,
Max is a sweet kid, but has a difficult time
in unfamiliar situations and he can get over stimulated easily.
A little while ago, my husband was across the country

(04:16):
on a work trip while I was home with Max.
I got a call one morning from his manager informing
me that my husband had been in a car accident
and he was in the hospital. He couldn't tell me much,
but said that although he was stable, it didn't look
good and that I should come as soon as I can.
I obviously freaked out. I booked a ticket just for
myself because it would be almost impossible to travel with Max,

(04:38):
and I could barely afford the last minute ticket for myself.
I called my mom, who lives a few hours away,
and asked her to come watch Max while I'm away.
At this point, I needed someone to watch Max for
the time it would take for my mom to arrive
so I could make the flight. Looking back, I probably
could have handled the logistics better than this, but I
was hysterical and was just doing things as I thought

(04:58):
of them. I called friends, One didn't answer, and two
were unable to help. Luckily, we live close to my
brother and sister in law, who have a daughter who's seventeen, Sarah.
We're very close with them. Sarah answered the door and
said her parents were out. I explained the situation and
asked if she had watched Max for a couple of
hours until my mom came. I should note that Sarah

(05:19):
babysits for a few local families and obviously charges them
for her services. We have never asked Sarah to babysit before.
She showed some concern from my husband, and when I
asked her again, she said something along the lines of well,
ye'll pay me right, I usually charge this much. I
stared at her for a moment, not really expecting that response,

(05:40):
and then my friend, who didn't answer, called me back
and said, of course she had watched Max. So I
took Max and left without saying anything to my niece.
I coordinated with my friend and my mom, then flew
to see my husband. He ended up needing surgery, but
is making a full recovery. A few days after he
was able to fly home, we had dinner with my
brother and sister in law. We were talking about the

(06:01):
accident and I mentioned that I had asked Sarah to
watch Max. I also noted that I was a little
upset that she brought up payment in that moment. My
brother was surprised and said he would talk to her
as that's not an appropriate reaction. My sister in law
interjected and said she was proud of Sarah for advocating
for herself. She and I argued, and she said that
I was entitled for being surprised that Sarah asked for money.

(06:24):
To be clear, if I asked Sarah to baby sit
under normal circumstances, I would absolutely expect to pay her.
It was unsettling that Sarah would bring up payment while
for all I knew my husband might not make it
in a hospital on the other side of the country.
I think it would have been more empathetic to bring
up the topic of payment after I returned and confirmed
that my husband was okay. My sister in law is

(06:44):
still being cold with me, and so is my niece.
Am I the jerk for getting upset? Not the jerk?
It was an emergency, a one off thing, and the
kids family for goodness sake, Your niece is sadly lacking
in empathy in decency, as is your sister in law.
I'll bet. Had she agreed, you'd have done something nice
for her upon your return. Glad your husband will be okay.

(07:06):
In my opinion, you are not the jerk, because if
you ask Sarah to babysit under normal circumstances, you would
absolutely expect to pay her. I would normally be on
her side. However, this was clearly a serious family emergency,
and the right thing for her to do would be
to help or to ask you later on to compensate
her in some more casual manner. Not the jerk. My

(07:26):
aunt refused to babysit my brother and I when our
dad almost didn't make it. This was twenty years ago.
My mom's relationship with her never recovered. Niece needs to
learn time and place to advocate for herself. Reddit likes
to say, we don't owe others anything, but you do
you owe them empathy if you expect to be part
of a family unit. No jerks here. Sarah is a teenager,

(07:49):
and really all she did was ask for payment for
babysitting socially flawless. No, but again, teenager, you were upset
and worried, and just in an answer, then went about
your business. It may have been awkward or something you
didn't like. But in my opinion, there are no jerks here.
It sounds to me that Sarah has had bad experiences
with other people not paying her. I know hard working

(08:10):
teens who have gone unpaid because they didn't know how
to negotiate or set boundaries and ended up feeling foolish afterwards,
especially when it comes to helping relatives. I'm not saying
that you wouldn't have paid her, but she had no
way of knowing without asking you. She didn't have an
empathetic response to your emergency. However, just as you expect
empathy for your situation as the adult, it would be

(08:31):
gracious if you overlooked her mistake. What would have been
a kind response is to say, of course you would pay,
but to privately express to her later that in the
emergency situation you were a little hurt that she wasn't
more concerned about your husband as her first reaction. By
bringing it up to her parents, you were making it
a more awkward situation. My kids are older teens and
they've benefited from relatives giving them the benefit of the doubt,

(08:53):
but also pulling them aside and gently speaking to them.
And I've done the same with my nieces and nephews.
I try to come to them with the assumption that
they have good intentions but haven't learned proper etiquette yet.
As a result, we have a good relationship. I don't
think anyone is the jerk here, just a lot of
high emotions and assumptions and a stressful situation. No jerks here,
because you were understandably distraught, But gentle reminder, it is

(09:16):
your responsibility to find childcare for your kid, even in
an emergency, and that includes paying for it when needed. Also,
she does this for work, so it makes sense she
didn't want to give her services away for free. I
know many family members that ask people to fix computers,
for instance, that look at theirs for free. Would it
have been nice if she did it for free being
that it's an emergency? Sure, but she's not obligated to.

(09:39):
You're the jerk. I'm sorry you found yourself in such
a terrible and stressful bind, but considering you would have
had to pay an emergency sitter if all your contacts
had fallen through, I don't think this is as unreasonable
an asked aus you're trying to argue it is, although
honestly this is the part that gets to me. You
think it would have been more empathetic to bring up
the topic of payment after you returned. You mean after

(10:02):
she had already rendered services and couldn't do anything about it.
If you continued to insist you shouldn't be charged, let
alone tried to argue, as most people would, she should
have said something in advance if that was the expectation. Yeah, no,
you didn't want to pay her rates, and fortunately you
didn't have to move on and drop the shame campaign.
I understand that you feel that your niece's reaction was

(10:23):
insensitive to your circumstances, but it's not unreasonable to be
asked to be paid for labor. Whether you're in crisis
or not. You're still asking her to work. In fact,
you believing that your emergency entitles you to free labor
seems problematic to me. Did you expect the doctors and
nurses at your husband's hospital to patch him up for free? Also,
did you expect the pilot flying you to your husband's

(10:44):
side to do so for free? No, you paid them
for their services. Why is your niece exempt from that? Gentle,
you're the jerk. I understand why you reacted that way
in the heat of the moment, But to continue to
bear a grudge for a seventeen year old negotiating the
terms of a labor agree is unreasonable. Well, who do
you think is the jerk op or her niece? Please

(11:05):
let us know. Don't you just love the way Reddit
flip flops their opinions? Scam me on my overtime que
the long expensive revenge. This happened in the early two
thousands when I joined a startup. We agreed on a
salary and no paid overtime and an evaluation in three
months and then annually standard stuff. Mostly it was a
very mediocre salary for the work, but I really liked

(11:28):
the work itself, which was extremely interesting and challenging for me,
even if the finances were so so, I felt I'd
learn a lot of skills which would be useful in
the future. After three years and having ten decent clients
and a bunch of clients trialing and money rolling in,
the talk turned to back pay and paid overtime plus
compensating for the past overtime. At that point, around fifty

(11:51):
thousand in overtime had been accrued, which is a lot. Legally,
it couldn't be back pay, so the talk was always
of a discretionary bonus. Now at this point everyone is
okay with this, myself included, and this was discussed in
writing via company emails too, so I felt secure that
no bad will was in play. I felt the company
should be able to afford the payment equally. I'd happily

(12:12):
settle for equity at a discount, which is legally possible
there if cash flow was an issue. The discussions about
back pay possible equity had now started to drag on,
and I was getting irked by this. In the end,
I was made an offer of equity which meant the
company valuation was far beyond anything reasonable and the hundreds
of millions, and I'd get a minuscule stake, less than

(12:34):
point zero one percent of a company with nine employees
and a projected annual turnover of around two million. It
was a forget you of sorts to do me out
of the money, and I didn't just want to take that.
Lying down to say I was furious was an understatement anyway.
The day he made that offer, I handed in my resignation.
This sent the CTO into panic mode because the CEO

(12:57):
had refused an updated contract and I was still on
a way one month notice period, plus I had a
lot of untaken paid leave. Basically, it meant I was
walking out right then and there, So off I went
that very same day, to the shock and surprise of everyone,
I guess. The next day, I sent an official registered
letter requesting my overtime and back pay and received a

(13:18):
negative response, which I followed up with another detailed demand.
This was also rejected because the bonus was discretionary and
there is no overtime. However, I'd been seeking legal advice,
and I understood that they don't have a leg to
stand on if I'm willing to pay for an attorney,
as the liability in such matters as firmly and one
one hundred percent on the employer, I was willing. You

(13:41):
need to understand that going to a lawyer was very
rare in these parts back then, so companies didn't generally
expect this outcome. Things have changed since then. When going
through the applicable laws with the attorney, I noticed there's
a limitation of seven years. So while my attorney was
laying out what to do in order to get me
my money, and as little as a few weeks, I
just asked him, what if we wait until it's six

(14:02):
years and eleven months after the transgression and then file
demanding interest. I wanted this because the law stated that
backpay is due at a nine percent APR above the
base rate three point twenty five percent at that time
accrude daily for every day passed the due date, we're
looking at about twelve to twelve point five percent compound
daily APR. The risk is that the company folds in

(14:24):
that time, but I decided to take that risk. I
sent one final letter stating that I expect all the
ODE and ACCRUDE amounts to date to be paid immediately.
Of course, nothing happened. For the next few years, life
rolled on. The company did grow and become a known
player in the area. When the time came, I found
an attorney and started the case. We had copies of

(14:45):
all of the communications, copies of the registered letters and responses.
The back pay demanded now included interest, which was one
hundred twelve thousand dollars. What I didn't know was that,
in addition to this, that there are fixed penalties for
each instruction to perform uncompensated overtime. The total demand was
something like one hundred thirty five thousand dollars. To say

(15:06):
that the CEO, who was still CEO, lost his crap
would be an understatement. I got a very nasty phone call,
which I dutifully recorded as it wasn't completely unexpected, and
was added to the filing. The CEO fought or tried to,
but when the judge heard the phone call, he took
an immediate dim view. Reading through all of the communication

(15:26):
just put more nails in the defense's coffin. The judge
just ruled and instructed the company to pay immediately and
without delay, and also ordered the company to pay all
of my legal costs. They also got a full audit
from the Department of Labor. The company paid up one
week later. To add insult to injury, the evening of
the court's decision, the CEO apparently got very drunk and

(15:47):
crashed his car into another vehicle while drunk. He got
a deui conviction and lost his driver's license for half
a year, and his insurance refused to pay out for
the damages to his vehicle, brand new Mercedes S Class,
as he was drunk. All in all, a glorious day.
Am I the jerk for pointing out that my brother
lives a very privileged life. I'm forty five male. My

(16:09):
older brother, who's fifty one, lives with me. He's never
really been good at life. He's had a few jobs
here and there, but mostly stuff like Walmart, McDonald's, and
he delivered pizzas for about a month. He's never held
down a job for more than sixty days. He dropped
out of high school and never bothered to get a
ged let alone any college or trade school. He mostly

(16:30):
just sits in his room, drinking my booze, smoking and
eating my food while he plays whatever Japanese role playing
game he's currently obsessed with. I don't mind this, I
truly don't. I did well in life, and my wife
invested our money very well, so we're comfortable. I have
more than enough resources to support him fully for the
rest of our lives, and I intend to do so.

(16:50):
He's not taking food out of my kid's mouths. He's
not cutting into their college funds. It's literally extra money
that I would just be squirreling away if I didn't
spend it on him. At dinner, my wife told me
that her brother lost his job. He worked for a
company that recently had massive layoffs, so it was due
to no fault of his own, and asked me if
we could float him some cash for bills and stuff

(17:11):
while he finds a new job. I told her to
have him send me an estimate of how much he
needs to cover six months. And that was that, or
so I thought. My brother proceeded to head over to
Facebook and post a rant about how people need to
be more self reliant and not ask for handouts they
didn't earn. He didn't mention my brother in law by name,
but it was pretty clear that was what had triggered

(17:32):
his rand. I commented on his post and I asked
him how living off of me for the past nine
years was self reliant. I told him that he's in
an incredibly privileged position because not everyone has a millionaire
brother to pay all their bills for them. I also
asked how the allowance I give him every week is
not a handout anyway. A bunch of his friends from

(17:53):
his video games started clowning on him in the comments.
Apparently he tells people online that he's an investment banker
the post and has not come out of his room
since there is an n suite bathroom. Don't worry. My
wife says that it was a messed up move for
me to call him out publicly like that, and that
I could have been more respectful about it, and my
aunt is furious with me for airing the family laundry.

(18:16):
So I kind of think I might be the jerk here,
not for what I said, but the fact that I
had said it publicly. But at the same time, I
don't feel like a jerk because his rant was public too.
Not the jerk a prime example of mess around and
find out. I'd kick him out to prove a point, honestly, op,
No way I could do that over this. It'd be

(18:37):
one thing if he was dangerous, like I'd toss him
out in a heartbeat, if I felt like we weren't
safe with him here. But being a bit of a
jerk isn't enough for me to make him go homeless,
And that's what I'd essentially be condemning him too. There's
nowhere else to go, and he has no skills that
could make him enough money to survive. Not the jerk
he decided to do something unnecessary in public. Your aunt

(18:59):
seems very fond of him. Will she be taking him
in soon? Oh? P She literally can't. She's in publicly
subsidized senior housing. They can't even have overnight guests, let
alone move someone else in with them. They'd both end
up on the street. Not the jerk, but he got
what he deserved. He shouldn't run his mouth like that.
The problem is that he doesn't view the wealth you've

(19:21):
earned as yours. He views it as ours. You should
sit him down and make sure he understands that you
take care of him out of the goodness of your heart,
and that he has no say at all about how
you spend your money. You sound very generous with your
family aunt. He can sit down and shut up, or
make arrangements to come pick him up to go live
with her. He's not privileged. He's lucky, lucky to have

(19:43):
your help and support that wasn't earned. Not just lucky,
but spoiled. Don't get me wrong. I have to hand
it to you and your partner for doing very well
for yourselves that you can house him with no issue.
You are both extraordinarily generous to have done this. But
this dude's past fifty. He's seriously got to do something.
He can't rely on you forever to give him a
way to live like myself, who's still working on it

(20:05):
in my twenties. Yeah, I know the irony. Does he
need some sort of medical help? Is it the way
his mind operates that's causing this non action problem? He
may need some kind of cognitive therapy or medication so
he can focus on whatever he should be doing, be
it schooling or working. Anyway, you're not the jerk. He
lied to his friends about what he does for some reason.
Then he tried to rant because someone else reminds him

(20:28):
of himself, and you called him out, which isn't a
bad thing. Well, who do you think is the jerk?
OPI or his brother? Please let us know. Sounds like
uncle messed around and found out. If you don't want
me to take advantage of your grading policy, then you
shouldn't have had that policy to begin with. Taking a class,
the class is graded on seven different projects of increasing difficulty.

(20:50):
Then we have a final at the end, and your
projects are worth sixty percent of your grade and the
final is worth forty. The policy is they will drop
the lowest project grade to calculate your grade. If the
first six projects I got five perfect scores one hundred
out of one hundred, and my lowest grade was eighty
five out of one hundred. This was the first project
I had some mistakes, which I learned from the last

(21:11):
project seemed particularly long and annoying, and I'm quite busy
with a lot of other things. I emailed the professor
to clarify his grading policy, and he tells me I
still need to submit something, otherwise the policy won't apply.
So I submit my project. And my project is literally
just the title of the project, my name, a summary
of the project, and that's It. Took me about five

(21:32):
minutes if that I submit. He tells me it's incomplete.
I tell him that's the project I'm submitting. He tells me,
I'm going to get a really bad grade on this project.
I say that's fine. I looked at the grading rubric.
I should get five points. We get five points for
the name and title. He tells me I'm taking advantage
of his grading policy. I tell him it's his grading policy.

(21:54):
He tells me he's not going to drop my lowest grade,
and instead of having a ninety seven point five project grade,
I'll have an eighty four point two project grade. I
go to his department chair ICCM, I highlight the part
in the syllabus where it clearly states lowest project grade
will be dropped. I also attached the email of him
confirming this policy and clearly stating something needs to be

(22:16):
submitted to be graded for the policy to qualify. The
chair responds and says that the policy outlined in the
syllabus needs to be the policy that's followed, and therefore,
when it comes time to calculating my final grade, he
needs to drop my lowest project grade, which in this
case would be a five percent grade. Oh, I already
thought about the final and how that might impact his
grading of my final, but his final is going to

(22:38):
be multiple choice and auto graded. The malicious part is
I obviously submitted subpar work knowing that the work would
get a bad grade, but it wouldn't matter because that
grade would be dropped. Professor tried to back out, but
department chair told him he needs to honor his grading policy.
A few reasons why I did this. Had I done
the final project, I would have probably spent eight to

(22:59):
ten hours working on it, my project grade would have
gone from ninety seven point five to one hundred best case,
assuming I got one hundred on it, and I would
have had less time to prepare for my final. If
those eight hours I spent preparing for my final nets
me an extra ten percent on my final, that's worth
more than the max benefit of two point five percent
I'd have gotten from doing my final project. Also, that's

(23:21):
assuming i'd have gotten one hundred percent. Obviously, anything better
than eighty five would have improved my grade, but the
scale would still be somewhere from zero to two point
five percent improvement. You should have spent three hours on
the project and assumed that the professor assigns these projects
to teach you something, especially if he cares enough to
actively go after little jerks trying to misuse his generous

(23:42):
grading policy. I assume he's young. Anyone who's been teaching
for a while, like the department head, has met a
hundred smug kids like you. Yeah, unfortunately, this just ruins
that class for the rest of them. They'll probably take
out their policy and now every project counts just because
they wouldn't put in one hour. Yeah, this isn't malicious compliance.

(24:04):
This is wilful misuse of a goodwill policy. Congratulations on
getting away with it, I guess, but it's not in
the appropriate spirit of the sub there was no antagonist
until you decided to manifest one congratulations that policy was
there to help out students who made a mistake to
be able to recover from it. Said policy will not
exist in the future, but you really showed him. I

(24:26):
usually support the malicious compliance, but this is wrong on
so many levels. You took a policy meant to help
struggling students and used it to be lazy, and I'm
willing to bet you've ruined it for every future student.
Stay in a receptionist place, okay, context, I worked front
desk at an optical store for two years. I had

(24:47):
no experience and knew nothing about eye health when I
started there. Over time, I learned to do contact lens training,
how to work the machine for glaucoma testing, visual field testing,
how to adjust glasses, and a little bit about sales.
There was a fire and we had to relocate, which
brought on a lot of stress to boss lady we'll
call her ma'am. We ended up losing our tech who

(25:07):
did the contact lens trainings and visual fields and our
lead optician. Being the type of person who doesn't like
to see other struggle, I always offered to help whenever
I could, especially if the patient was nice. When we reopened,
Ma'am's husband came to work at the office as a manager,
which at the time I thought was nice because I'm
sure she needed the extra support. We'll call him Sir.

(25:30):
He knew nothing about optical so he was also training
while managing the problems started on opening day with Sir
and I. He wanted to play meditation music and forest sounds.
Everyone else wonted general pop in regular music. Since I
had access to the speaker, I would adjust it for them.
He loved the new space. I missed the old space,

(25:50):
but we never spoke bad about the new one. If
the office was busy and a pair of glasses needed
to be adjusted, I'd offer or be asked to help,
and in front of the patient he had yell, do
you know what you're doing? One time I turned to
him and said, I've been doing it longer than you.
I'm sure he didn't like that. We had a meeting
where he had no bad comments about my work, but

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told me I make him want to leave. He would
report every word and minor mistake I made to ma'am
and she would send me random texts about them. Outside
of work, hours. I never got in trouble for anything,
but it was so annoying story. On one particular day,
I was doing mostly contact lenses trainings and a patient
called about a contact lens being stuck in her eye.

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These were considered emergencies, so I told her to come
in and see the doctor, ma'am. When the patient came in,
she looked really uncomfortable and asked how long until she's seen.
I offered to take a look until she could see
the doctor. When I took her to the back, I
tried taking out the lens and couldn't find anything. I
told her this and she looked discouraged. I said to her,

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I don't see her feel anything, so you'd be better
off waiting for the doctor. And that ain't me. She
laughed it off. I told her I'd I've been doing
trainings all day and was hoping to help her and apologized.
She said it was okay and sat in the front. Apparently,
she went into the room and Ma'am told her there
were no contacts in her eyes. The patient said that
the nurse told her that there's a lens in her

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eye and she wanted ma'am to double check. Ma'am was
really upset about this because she has to spend extra
time explaining to the patient that I was nothing more
than a receptionist. When she came out, she made sure
to go off on me in front of the patient
and my coworkers. I just nodded and apologized. Even after work,
she pulled me aside to ask what I said to
the patient, and I told her every word. Still she

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felt the need to tell me that I make her
job harder by misinforming patients. She said I should stay
at a receptionist level and not help anyone because it
causes trouble. I was shocked by how she spoke down
to me and still believed that I told the patient
I was a nurse and she had something in her eye.
All I could muster up was okay, I'm really sorry
about that. After that day, I no longer did contact

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Lench trainings, so now appointments are four to five weeks
out instead of one. I no longer assisted in visual
field tests. I put them all on her schedule. Now
we don't have any availability for regular appointments until a
month and a half later. I stopped offering to help opticians,
so if one person was scheduled. All patients will have
to wait for that one person for all adjustments, orders

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and dispenses. That one had patients very upset with complaints.
If anyone had a question about anything unrelated to front desk,
I couldn't help them. Even when she would ask, I
just told her I didn't feel comfortable doing anything outside
of reception anymore. I eventually quit and now work somewhere
with a much higher pay and benefits. They've lost a

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total of five out of eleven employees in the span
of one year, and I heard two more equitting before
the end of the year. Edit to all the people
saying I shouldn't have been doing anything I wasn't certified
for You're right, but that isn't how the business was run.
I think people were hired based on past experiences and aspiration,
whether or not they were likely to stay long. The

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only licensed people in that office were the optometrists. The
opticians and previous tech were not licensed or certified in
any way. They still did trainings, visual fields, started dilations,
et cetera. They cross trained as many of us as
possible to maintain productivity. Am I the jerk for not
helping my sister with her wedding because I'm not in

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the bridal party. My sister and I aren't best friends,
but we have a pretty good relationship, good enough that
when she got engaged, I assumed that I would either
be made of honor or at least a bridesmaid. She
ended up not asking me, despite having a bridal party
of ten, but I didn't say anything, even though I
was a little hurt. I totally get that it's her
wedding and that I'm not entitled to be in her

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wedding party, and eventually I got over it. A little afterwards,
my best friend got engaged and asked me to be
made of honor, and I happily dived into the responsibility
and it's been a lot of fun for the both
of us. I've already been able to plan and execute
a lot that has both made the experience fun for
my friend and also a lot less stressful. Onto the issue,

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my sister's maid of honor honestly drop the ball. I
know I'm going to be biased, but I've received complaints
from family members and other friends. She hasn't put any
effort into helping my sister with her wedding, didn't plan anything,
never responds to my sister's messages, and just generally isn't
interested at all. None of my sister's other bridesmaids are
stepping up either. They all have a reason for why

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they can't spend more time on my sister's wedding. My
sister recently approached me to plan everything for her bridal shower, bachelorette,
and the actual wedding. She wants me to give her
the same experience I've given my friend. I was a
little offended because she only asked me after she saw
what a great job I did for someone else. But
she's my sister, So I told her I'd be willing

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to help if she made me a bridesmaid. I feel
like it's the least she could do and it would
make me feel less like an errand girl and really
part of the wedding. She refused and said that I'd
make the numbers off and that I didn't have the
look she was trying to accomplish, which really offended me.
Like at this point, I'm just ticked off. So I said, fine,
I don't have to be part of the wedding, but

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then she needs to hire me as a wedding planner
because I'm not doing this for free. It takes a
huge time commitment to do all of this work. She
went crying to my mom and dad now and they're
all calling me a jerk because I should do it
as a sister. But she's basically asking me to do
hours of work for free, which I feel like isn't fair.
Now my family is saying that I'm ruining her special

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day by being selfish and making it all about me,
So I'm starting to doubt myself. Not the jerk. Unrelated
to whether you're a bridesmaid or not, that's too much
work to expect, demand or weedle out of someone. Let
her figure something else out, and enjoy not having any
responsibility as a guest. Wholly entitled princess Batman, Your sister

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refused to give you a spot of honor at her wedding,
insulted your look, and then cried to mommy and daddy
because you're not helping her. How is she even old
enough to get married? No, you are not the jerk,
And honestly, at this point, I'd consider not even attending
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