August 8, 2025 • 32 mins
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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 stole my cat, so I stole
her back. After that, am I the jerk for taking
money from my wife's account to pay for my computer
that she broke? And after that new job bait and switch.
Now for every thumbs up, this video gits one. Karen
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does not get to steal anyone's cat, but I'm hungry,
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Karen stole my cat, so I stole her back. I
got Pebbles from a humane society when she was two
months old. I love her with my whole heart. She's
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now five years old, soon to be six. Fourteen months ago,
I had to move to an apartment that didn't allow
pets in the contract. I had no choice but to
rehome Pebbles, and I was heartbroken. But my grandma ended
up taking her from me. So it wasn't so bad
because I could visit Pebbles anytime. She was safe in
a house, all in doors and well taken care of.
Three months ago Grandma passed, and of course that was
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hard enough. But on top of that, Pebbles got grabbed
without anyone's consulting me and brought to my uncle and
aunt's house to live. They put her outside with their
other farm cats. I drove out on my day off
to see her, and she was looking scared and bedraggled,
but they insisted that she was fine. I went home
heartbroken and I was angry. Recently, I was able to
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move into a better apartment that's pet friendly with a roommate.
I asked if I could have Pebbles back, but my
aunt said no, that my cousins, who are fifteen and eighteen,
have grown attached. But frankly, oh well, so I said fine, okay.
Then last week, during work hours, I took off on
my lunch break, drove to the farm while they were
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at work in school, found Pebbles, put her in my car,
and drove home to my new apartment. It took them
two days to even figure out that she was gone. Then,
of course, my aunt called me and asked if I
had taken Pebbles. I said yes. She started to yell,
so I just said, she's my cat, and I gave
her to Grandma for a while, not you, and then
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I hung up. I think I'm legally in the clear
here because I took Pebbles back to the vet. I
took her to her whole life for a checkup, got
her papers up to date, got her microchipped, and put
her in my name. But my parents called me and
told me that they were disappointed in me, that it
was immature to steal Pebbles, and that the girls are
apparently heartbroken. I'm sorry my cousins are sad, but I
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would do it again. Pebbles is my cat and they
weren't taking care of her correctly. I never wanted to
give her up anyway. If I'm the jerk, that's fine.
Not the jerk sounds more like you rescued your cat.
To me, yes, putting a cat that's grown up indoors
outdoors with other cats who are used to being outdoors
is cruel. Cats are territorial, and we're probably quite hard
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on your cat, not to mention that outdoor cats have
a significantly shorter life expectancy than an indoor cat. OPI
did the right thing, she rescued Pebbles and getting her
chipped and vetted right away, was exactly the right move, OPI.
I'm so glad you have your kiddie back. Not the jerk.
Am I the jerk for taking money from my wife's
account to pay for my computer that she broke. My
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wife is a stay at home mom. She works hard
taking care of our kids and maintaining our home. I
do what we have agreed is a fair portion of
the housework and all of the yard work. She has
full access to all of our accounts except for my
personal spending account. I put the exact same amount into
her personal spending account, but I can only deposit, not withdraw.
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I have a home office, but I don't work from home.
It's just a place I can go to sit and
catch up on anything I might need to work from
home on, and also play video games or play with
my toys. My wife also has a room that's dedicated
to her and her hobbies. I've asked her multiple times
to please leave my room alone. I clean it myself.
I take my dishes to the kitchen and either wash
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them or place them in the dishwasher. I take out
my own trash. When I play with my kids in
my office, I clean up after all of us. When
my wife joins me in my office for video games.
I clean up afterwards. There's quite literally no reason for
her to do anything in there when I am not
in it. I do not have a lock on my door,
but I do have my laptop password protected. I like
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to line up some of my collection of Lego minifigures
by my screen on my laptop. I like to imagine
that Batman and Spider Man are watching me work. I
know it's silly, but I like it. For some reason,
my wife decided to go clean my office. I guess
she needed to move my laptop, so she closed it
not all the way because my minifigures were in the way.
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When I came home, she told me what had happened.
The screen was not working at all. I had to
get my old monitor out and hook it up so
I could check and see if anything else was busted.
It was just the screen. I checked, and it would
cost about two hundred and fifty dollars for parts in
labor to replace my screen, so I decided to replace
the laptop and use the old one with my old
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monitor for the kids. It was fine other than the
non working screen. The cost to replace my laptop was
only six hundred dollars Yay Black Friday. So I took
three hundred fifty dollars from my account and I took
two hundred fifty from the money I was going to
deposit into her personal account for December, and I got
my new computer. This will in no way affect our
budget for anything other than our own personal side projects
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and hobbies. I was looking forward to getting myself a
new Lego set to work on with my kids over
the holidays, but now I will have to rebuild one
of my old ones with them, which is also fun. Well,
now she's upset at me because she has to cut
back on her fun stuff for December. She likes to
have a spa day with her mom. For example, I
said that I wasn't responsible for my computer being broken
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and that she one hundred percent was. She said it
was an accident and that I should forgive her. I
said I wasn't upset, but that if she felt I
should forgive her, then I fully forgive her. But she
still has to help me pay for a new laptop.
Am I the jerk? I did not just take her money.
We talked about it for she is still upset that
I expect her to take responsibility. I did not make
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an unfair decision. We do not work that way. I
think you are a bit of a jerk. She's a
stay at home parent. She does not earn money that
can be saved up for things like spa days with
her mother. She relies on those funds that are budgeted
for personal fun. It feels to me like you're treating
her like a kid. How would you feel if you
accidentally broke something she valued then she insisted you pay
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for it. If she had broken it intentionally, it would
be one thing, but it was an accident and she
was trying to be helpful by cleaning your office. It
really does sound like a jerk move. To me, you're
the jerk. You sound like you're punishing a kid by
withholding their allowance, not talking with your wife. Grow up.
Stuff happens. You're in a marriage, in a partnership. Don't pertain.
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You didn't take her money and aren't a jerk. That's
exactly what you are. You didn't talk about it and
mutually agree. She clearly does not agree. At best, you
bullied her into giving into your childish and petty demands.
Enjoy those legos. They're going to cost you way more
than a few hundred bucks. You're the jerk. Stop treating
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your wife like a kid. What on earth? If losing
two hundred fifty dollars is not going to affect your life,
then what's the point of treating your wife like this?
Like honestly, this seems like a misuse of power. I'd
bet money that losing two hundred fifty dollars means more
to your wife than it does to you. Just wow,
sometimes people can be so trash. Well, who do you
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think is the jerk? OPI or his wife? Please let
us know. New job Baden Switch. I worked for a
national home improvement store, the Blue One. When I interviewed,
I applied for the sales position in plumbing no longer exists.
It was Monday through Friday, nine to five with a
commission program. Since I had years of plumbing experience, I
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was offered the job. The day I started, I was
told the sales job went to an internal promotion. Only
thing they could offer me was part time, lower hourly
raid no commission, had to work alternating weekends. I was
young and had a new baby, so I said sure,
as long as I could go full time in a
few months with weekends off. My manager agreed. Fast forward
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three months, not a word has been said. The guy
who got the sales job on Electrician asked me questions
about plumbing all day. I asked my department manager about
full time a sales job. Anything, Sorry, nothing available. I
reminded him of what I was hired for, the schedule
I was promised the pay I was originally offered DM.
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If you don't like it, look for another job. Jobs
at the time were hard to come by, but a
job that was available in that store even was a
stocking job. This position was always available, as the pay
wasn't great and it was a lot of physical work,
but the hours were Monday through Friday full time, so
I applied for that. When I interviewed, my manager found
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out he went to HR to stop me from transferring.
I informed h that if the position didn't get filled
and I was excluded from transferring, I would filter a complaint.
So I got the job. Fast forward two months and
the quarter ends no actual plumber in the department meant
sales dropped, so manager didn't get his bonus. He now
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begs me to come back. No thanks, I'm making more
money on Saturday doing side jobs than I made Monday
through Friday. So he asks, what can I do to
get you back in plumbing. I give him a ridiculous price.
He laughs and says that's more than I make. Oh well,
fast forward three more months. Store manager doesn't get her
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bonus because plumbing hasn't made budget in two quarters in
a row. Time to fix the problem. I get called
into a meeting with store manager and department manager. Store manager,
what will it take to get you back in plumbing? Me,
stupid salary DM. I told you not reasonable. Store manager,
give us a minute, please. I stand up to leave
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and store manager oh, oh no, I'm sorry. I meant
department manager should leave. Department manager surprised Pikachu face. Store manager,
if I pay you that, you'll have to work weekends.
We're busiest on weekends. Me. I'll do Saturday with every
Sunday and Monday off, no rotating days off like before
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I get my commission back. Store manager done, You cannot
talk about your raid. I'm the only person in the
store making more than this.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Me.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Well, I can, but I won't. The look on department
manager's face when we came out was priceless. If he
had only given me the job I was hired for originally.
But I am the manager. I'm the AGM at a
recently opened hotel in my city. I wear the fancy suit,
have the fancy name tag. It's magnetic and definitely don't
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look like a guest staying there. But I'm also the
only member of the team who wears a suit over
a generic uniform. We had a woman I'm estimating mid
to late sixties come in and was snooping around. Needless
to say, I approached to ask if I could help her.
She said she was just wanting to see the pool.
I explained that our pool is closed and still under construction.
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The door next to the pool itself is blocked off
with a coming soon sign. Lady, I saw that online,
but I just wanted to see it. You know how
sometimes things say one thing online and another in person.
Hotels really don't keep up on that stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Me.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I'm aware that this is sometimes the case, but I
assure you, madam, the pool is closed and still under construction.
We are excited and hopeful to see it open in January. Lady,
is there someone I can talk to? I really want
to take my granddaughter here. Over Christmas to use the pool.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Me.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I'm the AGM here actually, and unfortunately, as I said,
the pool isn't expected to be open until the new year.
There literally physically is no pool right now. Lady goes
up to the FDA and asks about the pool and
booking to use it over Christmas. FDA says, slightly confused
as my manager gestures to me explained the pool won't
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be open. Lady looks back at me, then back at FDA.
Is there a manager I can speak to again? My
name tag literally says manager in fun bold letters. Me, madam,
I am the assistant general manager and in fact the
current acting general manager. The actual general manager was away
aiding with another property opening. Lady looks at the FDA.
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I just don't understand. Why can't I speak to the manager?
Me and FDA exchange a confused look. Me Madam, I
assure you I am the only manager on the property. Lady,
I can't believe this. I want to speak to a manager.
Me again. I am the manager, I said, I want
to speak to the manager. Me again, more forcefully, Madam,
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I am the manager. I'm the one you want to
speak to. Lady turns to front desk agent. Call the
manager right now. This service is so unaccited. I just
want to bring my granddaughter to use the pool over Christmas.
Me madam again, I am the manager, and as I've
repeatedly told you, we do not have a pool that
will be available over Christmas. There is no pool. Lady
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gets angrier. Why didn't you just say that it says
you have a pool online. This is not acceptable. I'm
going to speak to the manager and get you all fired.
Me at this point, I'm Ryle Reynolds done with this. Sure,
please do. I'll be more than happy to fire myself
then collect severance for unlawful termination. It will make for
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a great Christmas bonus. I'll take my wife and kid
to Fiji. Lady red in the face, your manager will
hear from me, how dare you ruin my granddaughter's Christmas.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I'll make sure to tell everyone you won't let anyone
use your pool.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
The lady then stormed out. I recognize the lady may
be in her early stages of something serious, but in
the entire interaction she was very clear minded. I don't
think I've ever had anyone so forcefully deny my existence
like this before. Am I the jerk for watching TV
while my daughter eats dinner. I have a two year
old daughter. Most days, my wife feeds her breakfast. I
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feed her dinner. She mostly feeds herself, but we watch
her to make sure she doesn't spill stuff all over
or if she has any requests. I love my daughter.
I would like that to be clear. She's my favorite
person in the world. I spend a ton of time
every day horsing around with her, teaching her letters and numbers,
reading books. I put her to bed every other night,
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brush her teeth, et cetera. I spend a lot of
quality time with her. In my opinion, However, she is
very boring to watch eat. It takes her about thirty
minutes what amounts to maybe one and a half cups
of food and drink her milk. She spends about half
the time playing with her fork, singing the alphabet, or
blathering nonsense. We are also trying to be mindful of
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using electronics around or in front of her. In particular,
no phone's at the dinner table. About a week ago,
I was preparing dinner with my airpopt in and realized
that I could continue listening to music and podcasts while
I was watching her eat. To make it at least
a little more interesting. The other day, I decided to
stick my phone in the napkin holder on the table
so my daughter couldn't see it and watch Netflix. I
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thought this was genius. I only have one AirPod in
so I can still hear everything she says. I still
am keeping an eye on her. I'm still sitting in
front of her, looking in her general direction, but I'm
watching TV now instead of dreading dinner time. I'm fine
with it. Anyway. Yesterday my wife came home with my
mother in law and caught me watching TV. When she
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came in, I pointed to the AirPod, then to the
phone and gave a thumbs up, thinking she too would
think I'm a genius. Well, my wife's not happy. I'm
not sure if it's her or it's her mom who
was really not happy, but she thinks I should be
spending that time with my daughter. I think I am.
I think my daughter is completely unaware that I'm watching TV.
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So no harm, no foul, Am I You're the jerk
slightly Dinner time shouldn't be essentially a solitary experience where
you're at the table with family at two. Not everything
she says is blathering nonsense. Most parents would use this
time with the kid to encourage discussion about the food,
about the day, whatever. It's not too young to teach
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her about socializing over a meal, and we're talking about
half an hour for you make an effort here. I
kind of sympathize with op, but this is what you
signed up for when you have a kid. Perhaps something
more interactive could help, like, for example, if you feel
bored watching her eat, maybe you can read both of
you guys's story while she eats. That way, it's more
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of an interactive experience and you won't be too bored.
Maybe you can make up a story yourself, intellent, etc.
Talk to your kid while they're eating, Open up a conversation,
albeit mostly one sided, show interest in your kid quality time.
You're the jerk. Your daughter is interacting, watching your facial expressions,
talking to you and eating. Yes, it is the most
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boring thing ever, but your being part of it is
important for her development. Not the jerk at all. Single
mum of a two and a half year old having
her chatter to herself while eating is completely normal and
she would be doing the exact same thing if she
was at nursery. If you're spending quality time with her
during the day, you've met her needs and for that
period of time, you can meet your own. These comments
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are absolutely absurd. I spend all day either caring for
my little one or at work. When it gets to
dinner time is the only time I can get some
uninterrupted studying time. Some people think dinner time is the
most sacred thing in the world because they spend so
much time away from their family for the majority of
the day, but for many it can be the opposite.
You're the jerk for making a post and then arguing
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with everyone because you don't like the judgment. Meal times
are great times to interact with your kid, and yes,
I do realize they go on about all kinds of nonsense.
I have a two and a half year old who
plays really well independently, but there are certain times where
give them your attention matters. Well, what do you think
is Opie the jerk or not? Please let us know.
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Am I the jerk for calling my husband selfish for
not lending my family money to be able to afford Christmas.
I'm female, twenty five and my family is huge holiday
time is when they all gather together and have a
huge celebration. Unfortunately, Mom and Dad got into medical dead
and lost money on multiple surgeries in the past few months.
As a result, they said they could not afford to
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have a decent Christmas celebration, which is devastating since all
of our relatives wanted to come celebrate both Christmas and
their health improvements. Dad came up with a suggestion to
borrow money three thousand dollars from my husband mail thirty two.
My husband's family are well off, but my husband is
dependent on himself and rarely asks them for help. He
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has a savings account to start investing in the land
his father left him. He's been saving for three years now.
I brought up my dad's suggestion to my husband and
he refused, saying he didn't have that kind of money.
But I pointed out how he has a savings account
with over seven thousand dollars. But he said sorry, but
he needed it to fix and invest in the land
to be able to change his job and work less
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hours because the land will be a source of income
once he invests in it. He said, my family doesn't
need to have a fancy celebration and instead they can
have one that can fit their budget. I explain that
we're a huge family with many kids and the money
will go towards them. He told me he wasn't willing
to waste his money on a ridiculous cause. I got
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upset and told him that he'll get his money back,
but he pointed out basically how my parents are still
struggling with medical debt and question their ability to return
the three thousand dollars. We argued, and I ended up
calling him selfish and cruel for refusing to help while
having the means to. He said he didn't owe anybody anything,
then walked out of the room. I stopped talking to him,
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and now he thinks I'm being the cruel one for
not seeing how important his dad's land is for him
to get fixed and invested in INFO. My dad didn't
ask family to chip in with money because he felt
it might be rude and inappropriate to ask my family
to pay, and it'll make it look like he's basically
charging them to attend INFO. I can't help because I'm
a student and I have no income. Not the jerk.
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Christmas doesn't have to be a big to do the
important part is about having family around. Homemade gifts such
as batches of cookies or a homemade ornament are just
as valid a gift as a purchased gift that can
be a lot more expensive. I know where you and
your husband are both coming from. You're looking at short
term how to help your family, but your husband is
looking at the future and how to make a change
that will also benefit your family with him. That does
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require quite a bit of money to implement. It would
be great if he could help out your family, but
he has said no and established a valid reason for
why he can't with good reason. This medical debt doesn't
sound like it's going away anytime soon, and there's no
guarantee of repayment, which means the future plan would have
to go on the back burner and potentially not happen
at all. It's fine that you asked, but your husband
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has said no. He doesn't feel comfortable with it, so
if you want to help, it's best to try to
find another way. I don't see any jerks here. You
obviously care about your parents and want to help them,
and that is admirable. The money your husband has saved
is his money, and it does not sound like your
parents have a way to pay him back, and if
they don't pay it back, that's going to cost some issues.
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It is a really bad idea to loan family and
friends' money unless you really do not care whether or
not they pay it back, because there is no guarantee
even if someone has the means to repay, they could
lose their job, have a medical emergency, et cetera. Instead
of continuing to argue with your husband about this, maybe
try to find a new solution. Maybe pull the relatives
together and have them all contributed in a way. Point
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out that due to the health issues, they cannot afford
the same celebration, and as a way to support them
and help them celebrate, you want to invite everyone who
is willing and able to chip in. Maybe everyone can
bring a dish and maybe draw names and pick a
kid to get a gift for. And tell your parents
that you and your husband do not have the funds
available to loan them, that you are willing to help
out in other ways, and then get with the family
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and come up with a plan. If you have this
large family that cares about your parents and really wants
to celebrate, they should all be happy to chip in,
not the jerk. My husband knows better than to tell
me no when I tell him I need money. Honestly,
your husband sounds like a total money hoarder. Nobody just
needs seven thousand dollars sitting in his savings account. Six
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month emergency fund is all anyone needs in savings. Everything
else is fair play, and the fact that he doesn't
even care about your family is a huge red flag.
Hopefully you can divorce this rich boy soon and half
of that account should automatically go to you. When I
got divorced from my jerk ex husband, I was able
to get equity in the house, even though he bought
it before we met. Check if you live in a
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marital property state like I do, and as long as
you get a good lawyer, you'll be able to take
this idiot to the cleaners. Good luck, Sis, you deserve
so much better. Well, who do you think is the
jerk op or his wife? Please let us know. Never
loanani to friends of family, you won't get it back.
Small business client goes no contact after my uncle makes
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her a website, so he shuts down her site. Okay,
so to start, my uncle has been a competent programmer
for many years, at least since the earliest two thousands,
and even coded a system for his company once, so
it's safe to say that he's one smart cookie. But
one person thought she was smarter than him and that
she would do him out of a website, so my
uncle got back at her. My uncle sometimes does odd
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jobs for clients as a sort of side hustle, making websites,
debugging and or creating software, retrieving data that an intern misplaced,
et cetera. On one of these jobs, he gets a
woman that has her own small business. If I remember correctly,
he told me that she sold beauty products and cosmetics
like perfume, cologne, makeup, et cetera. She wants her website
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to have all the bells and whistles, so instead of
going to one of those websites that lets you build
one yourself, she decides to get him to do it
because of his programming knowledge, so he makes her website
and includes just about everything, links to various social media,
the ability to make an account on the website, subscription services, everything.
But after giving it to her server, she locked him
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out and not only ghosted him, but also blocked him
on her personal and business phones, so it's clear that
she had no intention of paying him the whole thing
q the pro revenge. So two things I should mention. One,
my uncle had her sign a contract which stated she
would pay one fourth the whole price in a lump sum,
which she did. Two, the contract stated she would pay
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in monthly installments roughly thirty days, and promised repercussions legal
or otherwise for non payment. So my uncle waits the
thirty days no payment, so he figures he should make
do on his portion of the contract. Inside the code
of the website is a code snippet which essentially checks
a variable payment every twenty four hours, and if it's false,
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the opacity is decreased little by little, but if it's true,
then the entire capacity is restored. So basically, if my
uncle didn't manually change it from his computer, the screen
would just be white. She eventually calls him and threatens
to sue him for sabotaging her business. My uncle reminds
her that she signed a contract with a witness and
legal counsel present, so it would be cheaper to just
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pay him. She instead did decide to try and sue him,
but in court. It was an open and shutcase since
she signed the contract and she was ordered to pay
the rest in a lump sum, which put her in
trouble because it ate away at most of her business profits.
Karen stole my cookbook, so now I'm suing her. My
family is originally from a country with a very distinct
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style of cooking that is hard to replicate in the States.
Growing up, my mom always did the cooking for big
family events and at home for the immediate family, so
her cooking was a huge part of my childhood. For
one of my birthdays, I asked her for a cookbook
of as many of the recipes as she could remember,
so I have this handwritten journal full of my favorite
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childhood rests. This cookbook has a lot of sentimental value
to me, especially since my mother passed away shortly after.
My cousin has been pestering me about borrowing the cookbook
for years. She claims it's fair because my mother's cooking
was just as much a part of her childhood as mine.
She feels this way because her own mother was neglectful
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and her dad was absent, so my mom was often
a mother figure to her, and in all honesty, her
only parent like figure. She spent some time living with us,
and she sometimes called my mom mom. I've offered to
let her take pictures or scan it, she says it
would take too long and wouldn't mean as much as
the real thing. The reason I'm against her just taking
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it is because my cousin is a messy and clumsy person,
especially in the kitchen. I've never seen her cook a
meal without causing some huge mess or spill. This scares
me because the cookbook is not lemonated or protected in
any way. It's just paper and pencil. I had the
family over for Thanksgiving and realized the morning after that
my cookbook was gone. I immediately sent my cousin multiple
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texts because I knew it was her, but didn't get
an answer. So today I went over in person. She
answers the door and immediately starts crying and justifying herself.
She spilled tomato sauce all over the book and then
soaked it trying to clean it up. And tomato sauce.
Most of the pages are pretty much destroyed and illegible.
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Nobody else in the family knows all those recipes. I
feel like I've lost a part of my mother and
a part of my childhood. I plan to pursue legal action.
The family has caught wind of this, and I've received
a flurry of messages calling me the jerk and various
other names, saying how I'm ruining the family over a
book and a mistake, et cetera. I really empathize with
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her grief over my mom, and I know they had
a close relationship. I also understand that she didn't spill
on the book intentionally and that she feels bad about it.
I don't think that justifies her stealing and ruining something,
let that level of sentimental value to me, especially after
I said no, gave reasoning for the know and offered
alternatives so read it. Would I be the jerk if
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I sue. I'm saying not the jerk, because your cousin
clearly shouldn't have stolen the cookbook and ruined it. But
I don't understand what you would get out of a lawsuit.
You're the jerk. You're seriously going to sue your cousin
over a cookbook. Chances are you have tons of things
that belong to your mom. There's no need to be
steny with a cookbook, and if you had just been
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kind and given it to her, then you wouldn't even
be in this situation. Well, what do you think should
OP sue her cousin or not? Please let us know.
I'd do a lot more than just sue. To be honest,
I told a customer her daughter bullied me back in
high school. So I work at a department store in
a mall near where I grew up. I was bullied
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in high school. I don't think about it a lot,
but sometimes people from high school come through my store.
I just do my job and I'm pleasant to them
because I need the money. Anyway, a woman came through
to pick up an and she gave me the last
name and spelled it. I thought, hey, that's Kristin and
Katie's last name from high school. It was a pretty
unique name. I didn't say anything at first, just normal
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pleasant chatter. She took this stuff out of the bag
to make sure it was right and commented, my daughters
will love these. They just finished college, et cetera. She
essentially confirmed whose mom she was. I was just making
small talk and said, oh, I think I went to
school with it. Kristin and Katie last name. She said, oh, yeah,
how funny were you friends? I said, oh, no, I
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just knew they were in my grade. She said, were
you on the volleyball.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Team with them?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I said no, I don't think so. She looked at
my name tag and said, that's odd. I think I
remember them talking about a penny back then. You must
have come over for their birthday or something. That just
kind of made me sad because I've never been to
a birthday party before. And I said no, I definitely
never came over. Kristin bullied me. I don't think I
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ever talked to Katie. Her entire demeanor changed, which was okay, honestly,
I had people in line. She didn't say a single
thing after that and just kind of left without taking
her order sheet. I didn't chase her down to get
it to her. She'll have a copy in her email anyway.
The next customer in line said something like pooh, that
was awkward, and my coworker at the counter agreed. They
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both laughed about it, but later on my coworker said,
it was pretty rude of me to tell the woman
that her kid was a bully. She has a daughter.
I don't have kids. I have a bedefish named Carl.
On the one hand, yeah, I guess it was like
four years ago, but at the same time it happened,
and I think a parent would want to know that
their kid was a jerk to others so they could
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talk to them about it even as adults. Am I
the jerk? You're the jerk. You brought the connection of
what did you think was going to happen? She didn't
know who you were, Her daughters probably never mentioned you.
She was trying to be polite to someone who seems
to know her family. This entire interaction wouldn't have happened
if you hadn't forced it. What did you think You
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would tell their mother how awful her daughter was, and
she would tearfully beg your forgiveness and call your ex
bully on the phone in front of you and disown
her for her crimes. You put this woman who just
wanted to do her shopping in peace in an uncomfortable
position for no reason. It seems I'm going against the
grain here, But you're the jerk. Obviously the daughters are
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jerks for the bullying, but they're not part of this story.
This is an interaction between you, who works in customer
service and their mother, a paying customer who didn't bully
you in high school. As part of your job, you
usually have to make small talk as you complete the sale.
But you recognized her, she didn't recognize you. You were
the one to bring up knowing her daughters, and being
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asked how you know them was bound to be the
next question. You may have answered honestly, but there was
always the option you didn't take say nothing in the
first place, take her money, let her leave with her shopping,
and forget about it. Instead, you went with a nuclear option.
I noticed in another comment someone said you were unprofessional.
This is what they mean for minimum wage and retail.
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Professional means you say, have a nice day and then
shut up. You've probably embarrassed a customer into not coming back,
and you're lucky your management didn't overhear the conversation. Well,
what do you think, is OPI a jerk for what
she said or not? Please let us know.
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I'd be proud if I found out my kids were bullies.
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You won't believe what Karen does in that one
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 stole my cat, so I stole
her back. After that, am I the jerk for taking
money from my wife's account to pay for my computer
that she broke? And after that new job bait and switch.
Now for every thumbs up, this video gits one. Karen
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Karen stole my cat, so I stole her back. I
got Pebbles from a humane society when she was two
months old. I love her with my whole heart. She's
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now five years old, soon to be six. Fourteen months ago,
I had to move to an apartment that didn't allow
pets in the contract. I had no choice but to
rehome Pebbles, and I was heartbroken. But my grandma ended
up taking her from me. So it wasn't so bad
because I could visit Pebbles anytime. She was safe in
a house, all in doors and well taken care of.
Three months ago Grandma passed, and of course that was
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hard enough. But on top of that, Pebbles got grabbed
without anyone's consulting me and brought to my uncle and
aunt's house to live. They put her outside with their
other farm cats. I drove out on my day off
to see her, and she was looking scared and bedraggled,
but they insisted that she was fine. I went home
heartbroken and I was angry. Recently, I was able to
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move into a better apartment that's pet friendly with a roommate.
I asked if I could have Pebbles back, but my
aunt said no, that my cousins, who are fifteen and eighteen,
have grown attached. But frankly, oh well, so I said fine, okay.
Then last week, during work hours, I took off on
my lunch break, drove to the farm while they were
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at work in school, found Pebbles, put her in my car,
and drove home to my new apartment. It took them
two days to even figure out that she was gone. Then,
of course, my aunt called me and asked if I
had taken Pebbles. I said yes. She started to yell,
so I just said, she's my cat, and I gave
her to Grandma for a while, not you, and then
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I hung up. I think I'm legally in the clear
here because I took Pebbles back to the vet. I
took her to her whole life for a checkup, got
her papers up to date, got her microchipped, and put
her in my name. But my parents called me and
told me that they were disappointed in me, that it
was immature to steal Pebbles, and that the girls are
apparently heartbroken. I'm sorry my cousins are sad, but I
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would do it again. Pebbles is my cat and they
weren't taking care of her correctly. I never wanted to
give her up anyway. If I'm the jerk, that's fine.
Not the jerk sounds more like you rescued your cat.
To me, yes, putting a cat that's grown up indoors
outdoors with other cats who are used to being outdoors
is cruel. Cats are territorial, and we're probably quite hard
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on your cat, not to mention that outdoor cats have
a significantly shorter life expectancy than an indoor cat. OPI
did the right thing, she rescued Pebbles and getting her
chipped and vetted right away, was exactly the right move, OPI.
I'm so glad you have your kiddie back. Not the jerk.
Am I the jerk for taking money from my wife's
account to pay for my computer that she broke. My
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wife is a stay at home mom. She works hard
taking care of our kids and maintaining our home. I
do what we have agreed is a fair portion of
the housework and all of the yard work. She has
full access to all of our accounts except for my
personal spending account. I put the exact same amount into
her personal spending account, but I can only deposit, not withdraw.
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I have a home office, but I don't work from home.
It's just a place I can go to sit and
catch up on anything I might need to work from
home on, and also play video games or play with
my toys. My wife also has a room that's dedicated
to her and her hobbies. I've asked her multiple times
to please leave my room alone. I clean it myself.
I take my dishes to the kitchen and either wash
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them or place them in the dishwasher. I take out
my own trash. When I play with my kids in
my office, I clean up after all of us. When
my wife joins me in my office for video games.
I clean up afterwards. There's quite literally no reason for
her to do anything in there when I am not
in it. I do not have a lock on my door,
but I do have my laptop password protected. I like
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to line up some of my collection of Lego minifigures
by my screen on my laptop. I like to imagine
that Batman and Spider Man are watching me work. I
know it's silly, but I like it. For some reason,
my wife decided to go clean my office. I guess
she needed to move my laptop, so she closed it
not all the way because my minifigures were in the way.
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When I came home, she told me what had happened.
The screen was not working at all. I had to
get my old monitor out and hook it up so
I could check and see if anything else was busted.
It was just the screen. I checked, and it would
cost about two hundred and fifty dollars for parts in
labor to replace my screen, so I decided to replace
the laptop and use the old one with my old
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monitor for the kids. It was fine other than the
non working screen. The cost to replace my laptop was
only six hundred dollars Yay Black Friday. So I took
three hundred fifty dollars from my account and I took
two hundred fifty from the money I was going to
deposit into her personal account for December, and I got
my new computer. This will in no way affect our
budget for anything other than our own personal side projects
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and hobbies. I was looking forward to getting myself a
new Lego set to work on with my kids over
the holidays, but now I will have to rebuild one
of my old ones with them, which is also fun. Well,
now she's upset at me because she has to cut
back on her fun stuff for December. She likes to
have a spa day with her mom. For example, I
said that I wasn't responsible for my computer being broken
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and that she one hundred percent was. She said it
was an accident and that I should forgive her. I
said I wasn't upset, but that if she felt I
should forgive her, then I fully forgive her. But she
still has to help me pay for a new laptop.
Am I the jerk? I did not just take her money.
We talked about it for she is still upset that
I expect her to take responsibility. I did not make
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an unfair decision. We do not work that way. I
think you are a bit of a jerk. She's a
stay at home parent. She does not earn money that
can be saved up for things like spa days with
her mother. She relies on those funds that are budgeted
for personal fun. It feels to me like you're treating
her like a kid. How would you feel if you
accidentally broke something she valued then she insisted you pay
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for it. If she had broken it intentionally, it would
be one thing, but it was an accident and she
was trying to be helpful by cleaning your office. It
really does sound like a jerk move. To me, you're
the jerk. You sound like you're punishing a kid by
withholding their allowance, not talking with your wife. Grow up.
Stuff happens. You're in a marriage, in a partnership. Don't pertain.
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You didn't take her money and aren't a jerk. That's
exactly what you are. You didn't talk about it and
mutually agree. She clearly does not agree. At best, you
bullied her into giving into your childish and petty demands.
Enjoy those legos. They're going to cost you way more
than a few hundred bucks. You're the jerk. Stop treating
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your wife like a kid. What on earth? If losing
two hundred fifty dollars is not going to affect your life,
then what's the point of treating your wife like this?
Like honestly, this seems like a misuse of power. I'd
bet money that losing two hundred fifty dollars means more
to your wife than it does to you. Just wow,
sometimes people can be so trash. Well, who do you
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think is the jerk? OPI or his wife? Please let
us know. New job Baden Switch. I worked for a
national home improvement store, the Blue One. When I interviewed,
I applied for the sales position in plumbing no longer exists.
It was Monday through Friday, nine to five with a
commission program. Since I had years of plumbing experience, I
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was offered the job. The day I started, I was
told the sales job went to an internal promotion. Only
thing they could offer me was part time, lower hourly
raid no commission, had to work alternating weekends. I was
young and had a new baby, so I said sure,
as long as I could go full time in a
few months with weekends off. My manager agreed. Fast forward
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three months, not a word has been said. The guy
who got the sales job on Electrician asked me questions
about plumbing all day. I asked my department manager about
full time a sales job. Anything, Sorry, nothing available. I
reminded him of what I was hired for, the schedule
I was promised the pay I was originally offered DM.
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If you don't like it, look for another job. Jobs
at the time were hard to come by, but a
job that was available in that store even was a
stocking job. This position was always available, as the pay
wasn't great and it was a lot of physical work,
but the hours were Monday through Friday full time, so
I applied for that. When I interviewed, my manager found
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out he went to HR to stop me from transferring.
I informed h that if the position didn't get filled
and I was excluded from transferring, I would filter a complaint.
So I got the job. Fast forward two months and
the quarter ends no actual plumber in the department meant
sales dropped, so manager didn't get his bonus. He now
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begs me to come back. No thanks, I'm making more
money on Saturday doing side jobs than I made Monday
through Friday. So he asks, what can I do to
get you back in plumbing. I give him a ridiculous price.
He laughs and says that's more than I make. Oh well,
fast forward three more months. Store manager doesn't get her
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bonus because plumbing hasn't made budget in two quarters in
a row. Time to fix the problem. I get called
into a meeting with store manager and department manager. Store manager,
what will it take to get you back in plumbing? Me,
stupid salary DM. I told you not reasonable. Store manager,
give us a minute, please. I stand up to leave
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and store manager oh, oh no, I'm sorry. I meant
department manager should leave. Department manager surprised Pikachu face. Store manager,
if I pay you that, you'll have to work weekends.
We're busiest on weekends. Me. I'll do Saturday with every
Sunday and Monday off, no rotating days off like before
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I get my commission back. Store manager done, You cannot
talk about your raid. I'm the only person in the
store making more than this.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Me.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Well, I can, but I won't. The look on department
manager's face when we came out was priceless. If he
had only given me the job I was hired for originally.
But I am the manager. I'm the AGM at a
recently opened hotel in my city. I wear the fancy suit,
have the fancy name tag. It's magnetic and definitely don't
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look like a guest staying there. But I'm also the
only member of the team who wears a suit over
a generic uniform. We had a woman I'm estimating mid
to late sixties come in and was snooping around. Needless
to say, I approached to ask if I could help her.
She said she was just wanting to see the pool.
I explained that our pool is closed and still under construction.
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The door next to the pool itself is blocked off
with a coming soon sign. Lady, I saw that online,
but I just wanted to see it. You know how
sometimes things say one thing online and another in person.
Hotels really don't keep up on that stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Me.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I'm aware that this is sometimes the case, but I
assure you, madam, the pool is closed and still under construction.
We are excited and hopeful to see it open in January. Lady,
is there someone I can talk to? I really want
to take my granddaughter here. Over Christmas to use the pool.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Me.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I'm the AGM here actually, and unfortunately, as I said,
the pool isn't expected to be open until the new year.
There literally physically is no pool right now. Lady goes
up to the FDA and asks about the pool and
booking to use it over Christmas. FDA says, slightly confused
as my manager gestures to me explained the pool won't
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be open. Lady looks back at me, then back at FDA.
Is there a manager I can speak to again? My
name tag literally says manager in fun bold letters. Me, madam,
I am the assistant general manager and in fact the
current acting general manager. The actual general manager was away
aiding with another property opening. Lady looks at the FDA.
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I just don't understand. Why can't I speak to the manager?
Me and FDA exchange a confused look. Me Madam, I
assure you I am the only manager on the property. Lady,
I can't believe this. I want to speak to a manager.
Me again. I am the manager, I said, I want
to speak to the manager. Me again, more forcefully, Madam,
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I am the manager. I'm the one you want to
speak to. Lady turns to front desk agent. Call the
manager right now. This service is so unaccited. I just
want to bring my granddaughter to use the pool over Christmas.
Me madam again, I am the manager, and as I've
repeatedly told you, we do not have a pool that
will be available over Christmas. There is no pool. Lady
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gets angrier. Why didn't you just say that it says
you have a pool online. This is not acceptable. I'm
going to speak to the manager and get you all fired.
Me at this point, I'm Ryle Reynolds done with this. Sure,
please do. I'll be more than happy to fire myself
then collect severance for unlawful termination. It will make for
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a great Christmas bonus. I'll take my wife and kid
to Fiji. Lady red in the face, your manager will
hear from me, how dare you ruin my granddaughter's Christmas.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I'll make sure to tell everyone you won't let anyone
use your pool.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
The lady then stormed out. I recognize the lady may
be in her early stages of something serious, but in
the entire interaction she was very clear minded. I don't
think I've ever had anyone so forcefully deny my existence
like this before. Am I the jerk for watching TV
while my daughter eats dinner. I have a two year
old daughter. Most days, my wife feeds her breakfast. I
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feed her dinner. She mostly feeds herself, but we watch
her to make sure she doesn't spill stuff all over
or if she has any requests. I love my daughter.
I would like that to be clear. She's my favorite
person in the world. I spend a ton of time
every day horsing around with her, teaching her letters and numbers,
reading books. I put her to bed every other night,
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brush her teeth, et cetera. I spend a lot of
quality time with her. In my opinion, However, she is
very boring to watch eat. It takes her about thirty
minutes what amounts to maybe one and a half cups
of food and drink her milk. She spends about half
the time playing with her fork, singing the alphabet, or
blathering nonsense. We are also trying to be mindful of
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using electronics around or in front of her. In particular,
no phone's at the dinner table. About a week ago,
I was preparing dinner with my airpopt in and realized
that I could continue listening to music and podcasts while
I was watching her eat. To make it at least
a little more interesting. The other day, I decided to
stick my phone in the napkin holder on the table
so my daughter couldn't see it and watch Netflix. I
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thought this was genius. I only have one AirPod in
so I can still hear everything she says. I still
am keeping an eye on her. I'm still sitting in
front of her, looking in her general direction, but I'm
watching TV now instead of dreading dinner time. I'm fine
with it. Anyway. Yesterday my wife came home with my
mother in law and caught me watching TV. When she
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came in, I pointed to the AirPod, then to the
phone and gave a thumbs up, thinking she too would
think I'm a genius. Well, my wife's not happy. I'm
not sure if it's her or it's her mom who
was really not happy, but she thinks I should be
spending that time with my daughter. I think I am.
I think my daughter is completely unaware that I'm watching TV.
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So no harm, no foul, Am I You're the jerk
slightly Dinner time shouldn't be essentially a solitary experience where
you're at the table with family at two. Not everything
she says is blathering nonsense. Most parents would use this
time with the kid to encourage discussion about the food,
about the day, whatever. It's not too young to teach
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her about socializing over a meal, and we're talking about
half an hour for you make an effort here. I
kind of sympathize with op, but this is what you
signed up for when you have a kid. Perhaps something
more interactive could help, like, for example, if you feel
bored watching her eat, maybe you can read both of
you guys's story while she eats. That way, it's more
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of an interactive experience and you won't be too bored.
Maybe you can make up a story yourself, intellent, etc.
Talk to your kid while they're eating, Open up a conversation,
albeit mostly one sided, show interest in your kid quality time.
You're the jerk. Your daughter is interacting, watching your facial expressions,
talking to you and eating. Yes, it is the most
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boring thing ever, but your being part of it is
important for her development. Not the jerk at all. Single
mum of a two and a half year old having
her chatter to herself while eating is completely normal and
she would be doing the exact same thing if she
was at nursery. If you're spending quality time with her
during the day, you've met her needs and for that
period of time, you can meet your own. These comments
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are absolutely absurd. I spend all day either caring for
my little one or at work. When it gets to
dinner time is the only time I can get some
uninterrupted studying time. Some people think dinner time is the
most sacred thing in the world because they spend so
much time away from their family for the majority of
the day, but for many it can be the opposite.
You're the jerk for making a post and then arguing
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with everyone because you don't like the judgment. Meal times
are great times to interact with your kid, and yes,
I do realize they go on about all kinds of nonsense.
I have a two and a half year old who
plays really well independently, but there are certain times where
give them your attention matters. Well, what do you think
is Opie the jerk or not? Please let us know.
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Am I the jerk for calling my husband selfish for
not lending my family money to be able to afford Christmas.
I'm female, twenty five and my family is huge holiday
time is when they all gather together and have a
huge celebration. Unfortunately, Mom and Dad got into medical dead
and lost money on multiple surgeries in the past few months.
As a result, they said they could not afford to
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have a decent Christmas celebration, which is devastating since all
of our relatives wanted to come celebrate both Christmas and
their health improvements. Dad came up with a suggestion to
borrow money three thousand dollars from my husband mail thirty two.
My husband's family are well off, but my husband is
dependent on himself and rarely asks them for help. He
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has a savings account to start investing in the land
his father left him. He's been saving for three years now.
I brought up my dad's suggestion to my husband and
he refused, saying he didn't have that kind of money.
But I pointed out how he has a savings account
with over seven thousand dollars. But he said sorry, but
he needed it to fix and invest in the land
to be able to change his job and work less
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hours because the land will be a source of income
once he invests in it. He said, my family doesn't
need to have a fancy celebration and instead they can
have one that can fit their budget. I explain that
we're a huge family with many kids and the money
will go towards them. He told me he wasn't willing
to waste his money on a ridiculous cause. I got
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upset and told him that he'll get his money back,
but he pointed out basically how my parents are still
struggling with medical debt and question their ability to return
the three thousand dollars. We argued, and I ended up
calling him selfish and cruel for refusing to help while
having the means to. He said he didn't owe anybody anything,
then walked out of the room. I stopped talking to him,
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and now he thinks I'm being the cruel one for
not seeing how important his dad's land is for him
to get fixed and invested in INFO. My dad didn't
ask family to chip in with money because he felt
it might be rude and inappropriate to ask my family
to pay, and it'll make it look like he's basically
charging them to attend INFO. I can't help because I'm
a student and I have no income. Not the jerk.
(20:15):
Christmas doesn't have to be a big to do the
important part is about having family around. Homemade gifts such
as batches of cookies or a homemade ornament are just
as valid a gift as a purchased gift that can
be a lot more expensive. I know where you and
your husband are both coming from. You're looking at short
term how to help your family, but your husband is
looking at the future and how to make a change
that will also benefit your family with him. That does
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require quite a bit of money to implement. It would
be great if he could help out your family, but
he has said no and established a valid reason for
why he can't with good reason. This medical debt doesn't
sound like it's going away anytime soon, and there's no
guarantee of repayment, which means the future plan would have
to go on the back burner and potentially not happen
at all. It's fine that you asked, but your husband
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has said no. He doesn't feel comfortable with it, so
if you want to help, it's best to try to
find another way. I don't see any jerks here. You
obviously care about your parents and want to help them,
and that is admirable. The money your husband has saved
is his money, and it does not sound like your
parents have a way to pay him back, and if
they don't pay it back, that's going to cost some issues.
(21:20):
It is a really bad idea to loan family and
friends' money unless you really do not care whether or
not they pay it back, because there is no guarantee
even if someone has the means to repay, they could
lose their job, have a medical emergency, et cetera. Instead
of continuing to argue with your husband about this, maybe
try to find a new solution. Maybe pull the relatives
together and have them all contributed in a way. Point
(21:41):
out that due to the health issues, they cannot afford
the same celebration, and as a way to support them
and help them celebrate, you want to invite everyone who
is willing and able to chip in. Maybe everyone can
bring a dish and maybe draw names and pick a
kid to get a gift for. And tell your parents
that you and your husband do not have the funds
available to loan them, that you are willing to help
out in other ways, and then get with the family
(22:03):
and come up with a plan. If you have this
large family that cares about your parents and really wants
to celebrate, they should all be happy to chip in,
not the jerk. My husband knows better than to tell
me no when I tell him I need money. Honestly,
your husband sounds like a total money hoarder. Nobody just
needs seven thousand dollars sitting in his savings account. Six
(22:23):
month emergency fund is all anyone needs in savings. Everything
else is fair play, and the fact that he doesn't
even care about your family is a huge red flag.
Hopefully you can divorce this rich boy soon and half
of that account should automatically go to you. When I
got divorced from my jerk ex husband, I was able
to get equity in the house, even though he bought
it before we met. Check if you live in a
(22:45):
marital property state like I do, and as long as
you get a good lawyer, you'll be able to take
this idiot to the cleaners. Good luck, Sis, you deserve
so much better. Well, who do you think is the
jerk op or his wife? Please let us know. Never
loanani to friends of family, you won't get it back.
Small business client goes no contact after my uncle makes
(23:06):
her a website, so he shuts down her site. Okay,
so to start, my uncle has been a competent programmer
for many years, at least since the earliest two thousands,
and even coded a system for his company once, so
it's safe to say that he's one smart cookie. But
one person thought she was smarter than him and that
she would do him out of a website, so my
uncle got back at her. My uncle sometimes does odd
(23:29):
jobs for clients as a sort of side hustle, making websites,
debugging and or creating software, retrieving data that an intern misplaced,
et cetera. On one of these jobs, he gets a
woman that has her own small business. If I remember correctly,
he told me that she sold beauty products and cosmetics
like perfume, cologne, makeup, et cetera. She wants her website
(23:50):
to have all the bells and whistles, so instead of
going to one of those websites that lets you build
one yourself, she decides to get him to do it
because of his programming knowledge, so he makes her website
and includes just about everything, links to various social media,
the ability to make an account on the website, subscription services, everything.
But after giving it to her server, she locked him
(24:12):
out and not only ghosted him, but also blocked him
on her personal and business phones, so it's clear that
she had no intention of paying him the whole thing
q the pro revenge. So two things I should mention. One,
my uncle had her sign a contract which stated she
would pay one fourth the whole price in a lump sum,
which she did. Two, the contract stated she would pay
(24:33):
in monthly installments roughly thirty days, and promised repercussions legal
or otherwise for non payment. So my uncle waits the
thirty days no payment, so he figures he should make
do on his portion of the contract. Inside the code
of the website is a code snippet which essentially checks
a variable payment every twenty four hours, and if it's false,
(24:55):
the opacity is decreased little by little, but if it's true,
then the entire capacity is restored. So basically, if my
uncle didn't manually change it from his computer, the screen
would just be white. She eventually calls him and threatens
to sue him for sabotaging her business. My uncle reminds
her that she signed a contract with a witness and
legal counsel present, so it would be cheaper to just
(25:17):
pay him. She instead did decide to try and sue him,
but in court. It was an open and shutcase since
she signed the contract and she was ordered to pay
the rest in a lump sum, which put her in
trouble because it ate away at most of her business profits.
Karen stole my cookbook, so now I'm suing her. My
family is originally from a country with a very distinct
(25:39):
style of cooking that is hard to replicate in the States.
Growing up, my mom always did the cooking for big
family events and at home for the immediate family, so
her cooking was a huge part of my childhood. For
one of my birthdays, I asked her for a cookbook
of as many of the recipes as she could remember,
so I have this handwritten journal full of my favorite
(25:59):
childhood rests. This cookbook has a lot of sentimental value
to me, especially since my mother passed away shortly after.
My cousin has been pestering me about borrowing the cookbook
for years. She claims it's fair because my mother's cooking
was just as much a part of her childhood as mine.
She feels this way because her own mother was neglectful
(26:20):
and her dad was absent, so my mom was often
a mother figure to her, and in all honesty, her
only parent like figure. She spent some time living with us,
and she sometimes called my mom mom. I've offered to
let her take pictures or scan it, she says it
would take too long and wouldn't mean as much as
the real thing. The reason I'm against her just taking
(26:41):
it is because my cousin is a messy and clumsy person,
especially in the kitchen. I've never seen her cook a
meal without causing some huge mess or spill. This scares
me because the cookbook is not lemonated or protected in
any way. It's just paper and pencil. I had the
family over for Thanksgiving and realized the morning after that
my cookbook was gone. I immediately sent my cousin multiple
(27:05):
texts because I knew it was her, but didn't get
an answer. So today I went over in person. She
answers the door and immediately starts crying and justifying herself.
She spilled tomato sauce all over the book and then
soaked it trying to clean it up. And tomato sauce.
Most of the pages are pretty much destroyed and illegible.
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Nobody else in the family knows all those recipes. I
feel like I've lost a part of my mother and
a part of my childhood. I plan to pursue legal action.
The family has caught wind of this, and I've received
a flurry of messages calling me the jerk and various
other names, saying how I'm ruining the family over a
book and a mistake, et cetera. I really empathize with
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her grief over my mom, and I know they had
a close relationship. I also understand that she didn't spill
on the book intentionally and that she feels bad about it.
I don't think that justifies her stealing and ruining something,
let that level of sentimental value to me, especially after
I said no, gave reasoning for the know and offered
alternatives so read it. Would I be the jerk if
(28:07):
I sue. I'm saying not the jerk, because your cousin
clearly shouldn't have stolen the cookbook and ruined it. But
I don't understand what you would get out of a lawsuit.
You're the jerk. You're seriously going to sue your cousin
over a cookbook. Chances are you have tons of things
that belong to your mom. There's no need to be
steny with a cookbook, and if you had just been
(28:28):
kind and given it to her, then you wouldn't even
be in this situation. Well, what do you think should
OP sue her cousin or not? Please let us know.
I'd do a lot more than just sue. To be honest,
I told a customer her daughter bullied me back in
high school. So I work at a department store in
a mall near where I grew up. I was bullied
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in high school. I don't think about it a lot,
but sometimes people from high school come through my store.
I just do my job and I'm pleasant to them
because I need the money. Anyway, a woman came through
to pick up an and she gave me the last
name and spelled it. I thought, hey, that's Kristin and
Katie's last name from high school. It was a pretty
unique name. I didn't say anything at first, just normal
(29:11):
pleasant chatter. She took this stuff out of the bag
to make sure it was right and commented, my daughters
will love these. They just finished college, et cetera. She
essentially confirmed whose mom she was. I was just making
small talk and said, oh, I think I went to
school with it. Kristin and Katie last name. She said, oh, yeah,
how funny were you friends? I said, oh, no, I
(29:35):
just knew they were in my grade. She said, were
you on the volleyball.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Team with them?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I said no, I don't think so. She looked at
my name tag and said, that's odd. I think I
remember them talking about a penny back then. You must
have come over for their birthday or something. That just
kind of made me sad because I've never been to
a birthday party before. And I said no, I definitely
never came over. Kristin bullied me. I don't think I
(30:00):
ever talked to Katie. Her entire demeanor changed, which was okay, honestly,
I had people in line. She didn't say a single
thing after that and just kind of left without taking
her order sheet. I didn't chase her down to get
it to her. She'll have a copy in her email anyway.
The next customer in line said something like pooh, that
was awkward, and my coworker at the counter agreed. They
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both laughed about it, but later on my coworker said,
it was pretty rude of me to tell the woman
that her kid was a bully. She has a daughter.
I don't have kids. I have a bedefish named Carl.
On the one hand, yeah, I guess it was like
four years ago, but at the same time it happened,
and I think a parent would want to know that
their kid was a jerk to others so they could
(30:44):
talk to them about it even as adults. Am I
the jerk? You're the jerk. You brought the connection of
what did you think was going to happen? She didn't
know who you were, Her daughters probably never mentioned you.
She was trying to be polite to someone who seems
to know her family. This entire interaction wouldn't have happened
if you hadn't forced it. What did you think You
(31:06):
would tell their mother how awful her daughter was, and
she would tearfully beg your forgiveness and call your ex
bully on the phone in front of you and disown
her for her crimes. You put this woman who just
wanted to do her shopping in peace in an uncomfortable
position for no reason. It seems I'm going against the
grain here, But you're the jerk. Obviously the daughters are
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jerks for the bullying, but they're not part of this story.
This is an interaction between you, who works in customer
service and their mother, a paying customer who didn't bully
you in high school. As part of your job, you
usually have to make small talk as you complete the sale.
But you recognized her, she didn't recognize you. You were
the one to bring up knowing her daughters, and being
(31:47):
asked how you know them was bound to be the
next question. You may have answered honestly, but there was
always the option you didn't take say nothing in the
first place, take her money, let her leave with her shopping,
and forget about it. Instead, you went with a nuclear option.
I noticed in another comment someone said you were unprofessional.
This is what they mean for minimum wage and retail.
(32:09):
Professional means you say, have a nice day and then
shut up. You've probably embarrassed a customer into not coming back,
and you're lucky your management didn't overhear the conversation. Well,
what do you think, is OPI a jerk for what
she said or not? Please let us know.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I'd be proud if I found out my kids were bullies.
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