July 28, 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. My Karen wife won't let my mother
come visit us for Christmas? After that, am I the
jerk for accepting my family's Christmas invitation despite my husband
being upset? And after that got fired from a place
I was never employed at. Now, for every thumbs up
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this video gets one, Karen doesn't get to stop her
mother in law from visiting for Christmas. Oh but I
can't stand you, mother, Reddit boy, her head's even bigger
than yours. So please smash that like button and subscribe
and turn on notifications for new stories from Reddit every
single day. My Karen wife won't let my mother come
visit us for Christmas. My wife, my mom, and I
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have a huge point of contention when it comes to visits.
We live about a seven hour plane ride away from
my mom and there hasn't been a single visit in
five years. My wife and my mom never had a
great relationship. It wasn't too terrible, but just very different
people and they get on each other's nerves. So my
wife doesn't want her to stay in the house. It
makes me sad, but my wife feels the home needs
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to be a sanctuary and no one who upsets her
should be allowed to stay in her sanctuary, and I
chose to support that. Her ideal visit would be my
mom staying at a hotel and having designated visiting times.
My mom says, we can make our rules, but we
can't seriously expect her to put her time and effort
into traveling to stay at a hotel. I also understand
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that train of thought. My wife, however, thinks my mom
owes it to our kids to make the effort. My
mom says my wife is selfish for expecting her to
sacrifice her time, effort, and peace of mind just to
be treated like a burden. I've told my wife to
leave it alone. I called my mom recently to talk,
and my wife came over and began making digs about
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how the kids don't recognize my mom and we're asking
if I actually have parents. My mom said my wife
needed to leave the conversation or she was going to
hang up. My wife said, it's it's so sad that
my mom won't just come and see her grandkids because
she feels entitled to stay in our house. I just
snapped and told my wife that she needs to stop
acting entitled to my mom's time, energy, the money it
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would take to visit, and that she's the entitled one.
My mom began laughing and my wife looked devastated. I
quickly hung up, and I tried to talk it out
with my wife, but she was furious and said I
broke a cardinal rule of marriage by calling her out
in front of my mom. I do get that, but
I've given her my opinion in private so many times. Oh,
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there's so much more to this story. Your mom didn't
just get relegated to a hotel for nothing. How long
does she expect to stay. I've had relatives come visit
for four to five weeks at a time in a
small house. After the last visit, I said, nope, hotel.
The visit ends terribly when it's that long. Having so
many adults crammed in a small space for too long
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isn't pleasant for anyone. I think it's completely reasonable for
your wife to ask your mom to stay in a hotel,
visit all day together, but retire to separate places to decompress.
I also think it's sad that your mom doesn't come
to visit her grandkids. I'm team wife all the way.
You're the jerk. My wife feels the home needs to
be a sanctuary, and no one who upsets her should
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be allowed to stay in her sanctuary. This is an
eminently reasonable approach, But you are the reason your mom
does not see your kids. You could take them and
visit her, so your wife is right. You and your
mom are not interested enough to make it happen. You're
the jerk, typical mama's boy who refuses to support his
wife when it comes to his mama. If I were
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your wife, this crap would so not fly with me.
I'd kick you out in a heartbeat and file for divorce.
It doesn't matter what the argument is about. As a
good husband, you're supposed to support your wife no matter what,
especially when it comes to entitled in laws like your mother,
who honestly sounds insufferable. Is it your mom's house, no,
so why should she get to come and stay there
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whenever she wants against your wife's wishes. Selfish little man
babies like you do not deserve to be married period.
Both of my ex husbands ended up being mama's boys,
and look where that got them divorced and both paying
me alimony for many years to come. Bottom line, want
to keep a beautiful woman, Stop choosing your mom over her,
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Grow up and be a man. Well, who do you
think is the jerk, Opie or his wife? Please let
us know? Am I the jerk for accepting my family's
Christmas invitation despite my husband being upset? I female thirty two,
met this wonderful man, Philip male, thirty six, two years ago.
We got married four months ago. For context, I have
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a ten year old son, Billy, from my previous relationship,
and my ex isn't in the picture. I have to
admit that Philip's relationship with my family isn't so great.
They would disagree on a lot of things. For example,
he had an argument with my dad when he said
that he was keeping their grandson away from them, but
Philip stated he it wasn't and that he couldn't visit
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with Billy because he had work. I was sick at
the time. The latest argument was what made things worse.
My mom and sister were discussing natural remedies. They're in
to this stuff for my niece and Philip. He's a
pediatrician called both of them ignorant for not using meds instead,
which caused a huge argument, and Philip being no longer
welcomed at my parents' house. Now, they sent me and
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Billy an invitation for Christmas, but did not include Philip,
which I expected given how strain their relationship has become.
I called my mom to confirm that I'll attend, but
the minute Philip found out, he went off, saying he
could not believe I was fine with my family excluding him,
and then agreed to go and leave him behind. I
told him it's their celebration and I don't get to
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decide their guest list for them, and also I'm not
leaving him behind because he did not have any plans
for Christmas. He said he thought that we would automatically
celebrate together, the three of us, but now I'm taking
Billy away from him as well. Thought I thought that
was a bit melodramatic because it's literally just a few
hours at my parents' home, but he insisted it was
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about principle and respect. We had a big argument, and
I said that he basically alienated himself by continually picking
arguments with my family, and he started ranting, saying it
wasn't about the fact that they didn't invite him, but
the fact that I was willing to let him spend
Christmas alone without me and Billy. We went back and
forth on the issue, but did not seem to reach
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a solution. My parents are used to spending every major
holiday with Billy, so you can see how much pressure
I'm getting from both sides here. You're the jerk. He's
your husband and he's done nothing wrong. One, your dad
picked a fight because he had to work and you
didn't defend him. Two, you're encouraging your mum to be
an idiot and not be knowledgeable on medications and wanting
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to do natural healing. And when your husband, as a
medical professional, stated the facts, you let them be terrible
to him. You think it's okay to leave your husband
alone on Christmas because they're being horrible to him, And
I'd be upset too that you're not doing anything to
defend him when he's done nothing wrong. You're taking their side,
and in doing so, it shows that you don't care
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for your husband. Keep this up and he will leave.
Maybe Mum can calm the situation down with some lavender oil.
How are you not outraged? That your parents left your
husband out of the invitation to spend Christmas with them,
And how could you possibly contemplate leaving your husband alone
at Christmas? Do you actually want to be married to him?
You accepted an invitation which excludes him, and you think
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this is reasonable. You're the jerk. You're the jerk. You're right.
You don't get to decide their guest list for them. However,
you do get to decide whether or not to spend
Christmas with your husband. Every married couple I know would
automatically expect to spend Christmas together. Not the jerk. Your
husband had no right to talk to your parents like that.
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He's a fraudster who capitalizes off the pharmaceutical industry. I
can't tell you how many so called doctors have told
me that my case need to be on all that crab.
I tell them the same thing every time. God put
us on this world thousands of years ago, and we
never needed this stuff before. Why the heck would we
need it now? Oh, yeah, we don't. You just want
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tolign your pockets by taking advantage of me and my family.
Son having seizures. Oh, he needs to be on these
three different medications, which will run you one thousand dollars
a month. Daughter's blood sugar too high. Oh, she needs
to be on this and that which costs seven hundred
dollars a month, and test her glucose every twelve hours.
When did people stop trusting in the power of prayer
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and decide to fall victim to the lies of these fraudsters.
I feed my kid's natural diets, which consists mostly your
fruits and veggies. You'd be surprised how many high quality
fruits and veggies are now sold at the dollar store.
Don't believe all the organic nonsense. Any fruits and veggies
are one thousand times better than the crap they feed
your kids at school. This is also part of why
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I homeschool all six of my kids. I refuse to
allow them to be taught the false his story that
is taught in schools Now. I teach my kids the
truth of how we got here, what are purposes the
light work that we were put here to do. I
teach them that they are in fact stars. I teach
them that they are in fact star seeds who are
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here to change the world. Five of my six kids
are indigo children, and one is not an indigo Unfortunately,
he also doesn't look a thing like his siblings, which
really was a disappointment to me. He gets angry every
time I tell him that even though he's not special
like the others, he can still make a difference in
the world. It just won't be as powerful as his siblings.
He's the one that doctors told me needs to be
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on antidepressants, and I tell them every time that no,
he doesn't need that. He's just disappointed that he's not
an indigo and he has to accept it. I can
tell they look down on me for my beliefs, which
is unfortunate since so many are awakening to the light
in truth, love and light. I must stay and this
is why I believe that not everyone out there is
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cut out to be having kids. You can say that again, well,
who do you think is the jerk? Opie or her husband?
Please let us know you spend Christmas with your spouse
and your kid in law's inviting you, but excluding them
his way out of line. I don't think Philip's going
to be sticking around with her too much longer. Got
fired from a place I was never employed at. So
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I work at a place where the uniform is a
stunningly fashionable red polo with black trim. This occurred at
a store where they wear the slimming black with a
lime green tram. I'm on my way home from work
one winter day and decide to stop by the grocery store.
As it's winter. I'm wearing my winter jacket, which is
a very vibrant purple, and because it's kind of warm out,
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it's unzipped to reveal my work shirt. I also have
my headphones in a headband on and a bright blue
shoulder bag. AKA. I'm clearly a customer. So I'm kneeling
down in front of some drinks, pondering which one I
want to buy. When this woman starts getting up in
my business. I shuffle over, thinking maybe she wants to
look at the drinks as well, and start pushing a
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couple in my basket. Then I hear the dreaded excuse me.
I glance around, hoping she's going at someone else, but
to no avail. I look up, pulling out one of
my earbuds and say, sorry, am I in your way?
Because my parents raised me to be polite, where's the
coconut oil? I just blink and shrug. I don't know.
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Sorry over there maybe, and I point over towards the
baking aisle. What do you mean you don't know? Are
you that incompetent at your job? Well, now I'm ticked off.
I clearly don't work there, And for the record, I'm
very competent at my job. My job, not at this
grocery store. Lady, I don't work here. Go find someone else.
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You're wearing a uniform. You have to help me for
a store down the street, not here. I don't have
to help you with anything. Now leave me alone, and
I start to walk off, but she screams at me
as I'm leaving, I'm going to report you to your manager,
to which my mature self tells her go for it. Now,
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I finish up my shopping and I'm using the self
checkout because between work and this Karen, I've had more
social interaction than my introverted self can handle. When I
hear there she is, that's her, I look up to
see who's screaming, and lo and behold, there's Karen, and
she's dragging this poor sap along with her over to me.
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She wouldn't help me. I want her fired, ma'am. She
doesn't work here. I don't care. I want her fired anyway.
She's useless and rude, ma'am. She doesn't work here, she
works somewhere else. I literally don't have the authority to
fire her. Are you telling me you're not going to
fire her? Even though she was rude. At this point,
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me and Buddy make eye contact and a moment of
understanding passes, as it does between fellow retail staff, and
I give him a small nod and he sighs, very well, miss,
I'm afraid it's just not working out. I'm going to
have to let you go. I just nod solemnly. I understand.
I'll be going now then, And I gather at my
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groceries and go to leave, and Karen just has the
biggest grin on her face. And that is the story
of how I got fired from a store I never
worked at a single day in my life. Added to
those accusing me of stealing someone else's story, I didn't.
These Karen's are all over, and this same situation is
happening all over. Also for those saying that Buddies shouldn't
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have done what he did. He was a trainee, not
a manager, just a poor sap who was suddenly way
over his head with a belligerent woman that we both
just wanted to go away. Never encourage these idiots, Never
let them think they actually got someone fired for crap
like this, because they'll just escalate from there. Fussy guest
demands discount for lack of parking. I maliciously comply. On
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sold out weekends are already limited, parking becomes even more limited.
Guest and her husband arrive early evening. Car park is
already full, so they park in front of the guest
door to check in, blocking other vehicles in check in
is non eventful. I rattle off my spiel and hand
the guest her keys. Guest walks off, then stops all
of a sudden as she turns to face me again.
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I know that she's about to complain about something. We
all know. The polls eyes widen as they ready themselves
to plead their case as they point and wiggle their
index finger in the air at shoulder height. Game on, guest,
you need more parking spots. There's not enough for forty rooms.
Your car park is already full. I reserve to space me.
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I'm sorry, ma'am, but our parking is on a first come,
first serve basis, we do not reserve spaces. If the
car park is full, all of the on street parking
is free. Her well, there should be forty spaces for
all forty rooms. Side note, we have twelve spaces at
the front of our property, which stretches from the street
to our front entrance. Local council regulations state that we
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only need one space per four rooms. We beat the
regulations by two. Me. I understand your frustrations, missus nitpicker,
but our plans to construct an underground parking garage have
been delayed due to lockdown induced shovel shortage. Not a
shovel to be found within one hundred kilometers. It should
be dugout and fully operational by the time our city
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hosts the Olympics in twenty thirty two, though, Her, you
should extend your car park until then so every room
has an assigned space. I think we should be given
a discount for no parking. Me. The owner did consider
just knocking this place down completely and making it into
a public car park, but then he realized that we
would have no rooms left for our guests, which would
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lower our property rating, so we decided to keep things
as they are. For the time being her and the
discount I asked for. I type away furiously while umming
and eyeing for dramatic effect. Me. I've applied the discount
to your fully, y'all. I've calculated the total amount it
will cost you to park on the street for your
seven days stay and have deducted that amount from your bill.
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Is there anything else I can help you with? Ma'am?
Her huffs and gives me a smug smile. Well, I
should think so, guest walks off. As I stated earlier,
street parking is free twenty four to seven. Her total
discount was zero dollars. She never even noticed. Update to
my nephews stealing cans from my shed to recap. As
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many previous readers know, my nephews stole a ton of
cans from my shed after breaking into it and cash
them in at the bottle drop for about two hundred dollars.
My sister and brother in law acted like I was
a jerk for wanting the money back for the cans
and damages. I ended up pressing charges because they refused
to pay, and things turned pretty ugly. I filed a
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small claims lawsuit and they had to pay me back
for the cost of damages, theft, emotional damages for constant harassment,
and the cost of the lawsuit itself, all adding up
to five hundred dollars, which finally made my sister and
brother in law raise a white flag and actually start
parenting their kids. My nephews got all of their privileges
taken away and were forced by a judge to work
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community service, which they hated and had to be forced
just to complete. They didn't get more than one hundred
hours each because I had been repaid by their parents
when we settled out of court, so the judge pretty
much fast tracked the case. The nephews ended up picking
up garbage and doing work around several local parks, and
the man directing them, I heard was a retired drill sergeant,
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so they had no fun whatsoever. My eldest nephew constantly
showed his issues with authority and got into screaming matches
with everyone who told him to work. His father had
to be called over just to make the boy pick
up a rake. The kid openly blamed me for his predicament,
and his brothers were both initially on his side, but
after a while they realized that he's just crazy and
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and titled, and they no longer wanted any part of it,
so my two younger nephews stopped following his lead because
it finally clicked just how in the wrong they were.
Problem is that my sister and brother in law blamed
me for the divide in their family, which didn't end
well for them, as no one in the family was
on their side about it. Everything was put on them
and they're bad parenting, and without me to blame, they
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just became silent and bitter. Half the family doesn't want
to associate with them now, and their own kids are
divided because the eldest refuses to change. It got so
bad that my eldest nephew resorted to something so incredibly
dumb that you're not going to want to believe it.
In the middle of the night, he snuck out and
assaulted my house with a pair of his dad's claw hammers.
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I say a pair because he literally had one in
each hand. The first thing he did was start smashing
the new lock on my shed, and it didn't break,
but he heavily damaged it to the point it was
no longer usable and I had to later remove it
with a bolt cutter. He also did a lot of
damage to the shed door with the hammer claws. I
awoke to the sounds of the hammers and called the
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police after peeking out of my bedroom window and seeing
someone outside hitting the shed. Though I didn't realize it
was him at first because he had his face covered
with a creepy looking mask, he saw the bedroom lights
come on and chucked one of the hammers through my window.
There was broken glass everywhere, and I'm lucky I didn't
cut my feet on any of it because I was barefoot.
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Then my nephew started beating on my back door with
the remaining hammer. He did major damage, breaking the knob
and the window on the door, and also tore into
the door itself with the hammer claw. I was worried
the door wouldn't hold out, so I yelled. The police
were on their way, and he took off before they arrived.
The night vision on my cameras showed that it was him.
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He had a mask on, but he was wearing his
school hoodie as well as his Nike shoes that were
also pretty identifiable since his brothers don't have a pear
like them. His fingerprints were also on the hammer he
threw out my window. My nephews had already all been
fingerprinted when they were arrested the first time, so police
matched the ones on the hammer to him. When the
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the cops came from my eldest nephew, he obviously denied
it was him, but there's no one else it could
have been. The other hammer was found in his room,
along with the clothes and the mask that he wore,
all of which were taken as evidence. The mask was
of a Star Wars character I was told is called
the Grand Inquisitor this time, though, his parents did nothing
to try and protect him, and they didn't try to
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pass the blame on me either. They just let their
son be taken away screaming. I wasn't there to see
the arrest, but I was told by my sister that
my eldest nephew was switching back and forth from crying
that he didn't do anything wrong to screaming that it
was all my fault and he had to get back
at me. The boy had to go through a serious
mental evaluation and was found to be potentially bipolar. Doesn't
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really excuse what he did, though. Later on, when he
was properly diagnosed as bipolar. He started blaming everything he
did wrong on that and acted like he should be
vilified just for getting treatment for it. But he ended
up having a month long stint in juvenile hall. They
got my nephew you properly medicated, and he pleaded guilty
to forego court again in exchange for more community service
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and mandatory counseling, as well as probation. This time, his
dad came to my house and personally replaced the window
and the door, though he barely said a word to
me while doing it. My two younger nephews are still
excluding their older brother from pretty much everything, and he
still hasn't apologized for attacking my home either. He's also
unfortunately repeating a school year because of how badly his
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grades tanked, which his parents are still very unhappy about.
My two younger nephews dropped by on their own in
July to personally apologize to me. They said that they
always just followed their brother's lead and he made everything
they were doing seem so fun, but the punishments for
the crimes are not worth the kind of fun they
were having, and they don't want to do it with
them anymore. They want their fun uncle back and asked
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if we could start over. I said we can, but
they'll have to earn back my trust, which they happily
agreed to. My eldest nephew had his seventeenth birthday a
few months ago and basically got nothing, not even a cake.
It was part of his punishment for what he had done.
I can only imagine how much money he's cost his
parents in the past year alone. He led his brothers
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to steal from me and then destroyed my bedroom window
and back door. I imagine in total with the lawsuit
I'd previously filed and replacing the door and the window
cost them over one thousand dollars. Doors and windows are
not cheap. Meanwhile, my youngest nephew had his birthday a
month after that and got a new mountain bike among
his gifts. This really upset my oldest nephew, and he
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slashed the tires on the bike, which landed him in
even more trouble. I know a thing or two about
fixing bikes, so I went out and bought new tubes
and tires for the bike and put them on it.
So the bike is fine, and my nephew thanked me
in a lot for fixing it. My eldest nephew resorted
to trying to run away because he wasn't being enabled anymore.
He just walked out, got on his bike with a
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backpack full of stuff, and rode off. His parents quickly
reported him missing because he left a good bye letter
that basically blamed me and his bipolar for all his problems.
In the letter, he stated that he can't wait till
he's eighteen to get away from all of us, so
he was doing us a favor by getting rid of
himself sooner. But he came back three days later without
his bike or backpack and looking beat up. He wouldn't
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tell anyone what happened. We still don't know, but he
was chewed out for continuously using me as a scapegoat
for his personal issues, because blaming me was the first
thing he did after he got back. I didn't make
him steal from me, I didn't make him attack my house.
I didn't make him run away. That was all him,
and he nearly ended up back in juvie for running
off because he violated his probation, But he got off
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easy somehow. Currently, he spends his days pretty much in
his room when not in school, or doing chores or
going to counseling. He finished his community service, but his
probation will last until he's eighteen. He got some lenians
for being diagnosed as bipolar, but it couldn't get him
off the hook, and believe me, he tried many times.
Once they told him what was wrong wrong with him,
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it became his excuse for everything. But plenty of people
go their whole lives with that same mental condition and
never do the kinds of things he did. I've been
mending things with my two younger nephews, but I don't
want to be around the ildest at all, and the
feeling is clearly mutual on his part. I've only seen
him once in person the past few months, and he
glared at me with more hate than I've ever seen
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from anyone before stomping away. He can't paint me as
the villain anymore without being called out on it, so
there isn't much he can do other than just try
and get through this. For the most part, he's totally
shut down since school started. I'm told he barely speaks
even at school. My other nephews tell me he's getting
laughed at and ostracized, which I don't think is going
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to help him get better. My sister and brother in
law are also not on their best terms with me
right now as well, but they can't exactly put any
blame on me either. They know it was all on
them and they're bad parenting. I've basically forced them to
be more active in their kids' lives, which they should
have been doing already. They complain a lot about being
tired from work and keeping an eye on their kids,
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so whenever we talk as of late, it's always awkward
and forced. They don't come to my house or me
to theirs, but we do see each other at my
parents' house, and our mother demands we be civil there,
which I have no problem with. My two younger nephews
have regained most of their privileges. They got their TV
and video games back, but my eldest nephew isn't allowed
on them at all. I'm told he's got some electronic
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entertainment in his room, but what kind I don't know.
I just know he spends most of his time in
there unless he has to be somewhere else. My eldest
nephew is also not welcome pretty much anywhere in the family. Anymore.
I've recently heard from my parents that they don't even
want to see him on Thanksgiving or Christmas Eve this
year because they're sick of his behavior and petty thievery.
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I guess I can understand that, but even I feel
it's a bit harsh. My sister and brother in law
do as well, because they're threatening to boycott if he
can't come to either holiday. I can't stand that kid,
and would not want him in my house either, so
I can understand why they've made that decision, but I
don't think excluding him from everything and everyone is going
to make him better. It's going to take a long
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time from my eldest nephew to mend bridges, if they
can even be mended at all. The way things stand,
he may try running off again once he's of age,
unless the last time scared him too much to try
it again, but hopefully things will get better for him
in time if it's not too late to fix his behavior.
I may not seem like it, but he's still my
nephew and I care, but I'm kind of powerless to
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do anything, so for now, the most I can do
is just keep my nose out of it and offer
support where I can, don't touch anything that isn't on
the schedule. Okay, a little bit of context. I work
in a manufacturing plant for a multinational company producing microchips.
I'm the shift lead engineer on night shift for the
front end of the week Sunday through Wednesday, so there's
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very little oversight from management except when I see them
in the morning on my way out the door. The
machines we work on are huge, think greyhound bus size,
and require fairly strategic planning to get the most we
can out of them. In recent months, the day shift
team has been slacking on their scheduled maintenance items. Normally,
this isn't a big deal since we are understaffed just
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like every other company in America right now, and we
pick up the slack where we can. On night shift.
The machines run twenty four hours a day, so if
you have to pass work to the incoming shift, it
isn't an issue and everyone tends to help out everyone.
The problem comes in when day shift or the other
end of the week move scheduled maintenance off of their shift,
but don't move it into our scheduled work calendar. When
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the machines reach their critical threshold, they shut themselves down
until the work is performed. This is normally at midnight
on days I'm working well. As it happens, this has
been occurring more and more over the past few weeks,
and I've been letting my senior manager know that's why
we've been seeing an availability drop, not from our lack
of effort. He's a newer senior manager, so I tried
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to explain the critical thresholds to him and how we
need to at least keep the count or accurate so
we don't have any surprises by machines shutting themselves down unexpectedly.
He didn't really seem to want to listen to this
and brushed me off, telling me, if it isn't on
the calendar, don't work on that machine. Q malicious compliance.
On Sunday night, when I get into work, the schedule
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is completely empty, not uncommon for weekends, but wouldn't you
know it, three maintenance items had been moved from the
back end of the week and were never rescheduled, So
at midnight, three machines shut themselves down for maintenance. But
I've been told if it isn't on the calendar, I
can't touch those machines. I walk up to the production
floor and tell all my technicians that we won't be
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working on any of those machines as they aren't scheduled
for us to complete, and per the area senior manager,
we don't touch anything unless it's on the calendar. They've
been getting more and more frustrated recently with this, so
their eyes light up as I tell them we won't
be completing any of the work. Then comes Monday morning,
I tell the incoming shift and my direct manager about
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the machines and they have a good laugh about the situation.
It's only roughly two hours of work per machine, so
I didn't completely do over the day shift. And then
I run into my senior manager on my way out
the door and casually let him know we have three
machines that have been down for six hours and need
to be added to the schedule so somebody can start
working on them. His eyes just about pop out of
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his head and he says, how could you let three
machines sit down for half the night and not even
start on them? Were there other machines down that stopped
you from getting to them? And I responded with nope,
you just told me if it isn't on the calendar,
don't touch it. His face went beat red, and I
saw the vein on his temple start throbbing. But he
knew I was right. Since then, the calendar has been
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pretty dang accurate, and if I see a tool going critical,
he's now informed me that I'm allowed to work on
it to keep the product flowing. If you want to
sit around, you can do it from home. This isn't
my tail, but one of a friend of mine, Craig.
This took place about ten years ago. He worked for
IT company, maintaining the mainframe and other technical needs throughout
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the building, along with electrical safety checks. He was a
bit OCD and this helped him by being on top
of things that were needing sorted. He had custom spreadsheets
documenting the last ten years of repairs on everything he
was responsible for. This sheet, by the five year mark,
had already given him a fairly good idea of what
items were likely to fail, either due to updates or
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physical parts failing due to the twenty four hour running
of the system. There was a period of a week
where he was ahead and decided to get ahead of
his upcoming repairs, checking the items and replacing what needed
to be done. Two weeks later, he was sitting in
his office when the VP arrived, and on the rounds
she noticed that all three times she passed he was
sitting idle in his office. Outraged he was being paid
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for doing nothing, she had his boss pull a mob.
Boss VP noticed you haven't done much today and pulled
your work log for the last few weeks. You've only
logged four jobs in two weeks, Craig. I've been ahead
for the last couple of weeks, just knocking off jobs
before they came up to make time for the bigger
jobs that are about to come up next week. Boss. Well,
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you're paid to work, not sit about. If you want
to sit about, do it at home. Craig shrugging internally. Well,
I've got some holiday time to sake. If you give
me a week to organize the cover and take care
of the large jobs, I'll take time off. Boss. Deal off,
you go enjoy your holiday, Craig. But what about the
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work next week? Boss, No, butts, you're on holiday effectively immediately.
I'll clear it up with HR now off you go,
Q malicious compliance. Craig decided to not try and reiterate
just how much work was due next week, and went
on holiday for two weeks, turning his work phone off
in that two weeks due to a lack of warning,
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the tech from another center that usually covered wasn't available.
At the same time, there were safety issues, software updates,
and other minor issues that were expected, not to mention
the dozens of unexpected issues that came up. When Monday
after his holiday came up, he turned his phone on
to find twenty plus texts, His phone inbox was full
of voicemails, and he had dozens of emails from Paniking management.
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He got into work and was set upon where have
you been? We needed you? XYZ all failed while you
were gone and we didn't have cover. Craig smiled and
reminded his boss about the conversation two weeks prior, and
also had a coworker that overheard the entire thing back
him up. After that, not a single manager dared to
question his slow week. Not even the VP challenge accepted
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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. My Karen wife won't let my mother
come visit us for Christmas? After that, am I the
jerk for accepting my family's Christmas invitation despite my husband
being upset? And after that got fired from a place
I was never employed at. Now, for every thumbs up
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this video gets one, Karen doesn't get to stop her
mother in law from visiting for Christmas. Oh but I
can't stand you, mother, Reddit boy, her head's even bigger
than yours. So please smash that like button and subscribe
and turn on notifications for new stories from Reddit every
single day. My Karen wife won't let my mother come
visit us for Christmas. My wife, my mom, and I
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have a huge point of contention when it comes to visits.
We live about a seven hour plane ride away from
my mom and there hasn't been a single visit in
five years. My wife and my mom never had a
great relationship. It wasn't too terrible, but just very different
people and they get on each other's nerves. So my
wife doesn't want her to stay in the house. It
makes me sad, but my wife feels the home needs
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to be a sanctuary and no one who upsets her
should be allowed to stay in her sanctuary, and I
chose to support that. Her ideal visit would be my
mom staying at a hotel and having designated visiting times.
My mom says, we can make our rules, but we
can't seriously expect her to put her time and effort
into traveling to stay at a hotel. I also understand
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that train of thought. My wife, however, thinks my mom
owes it to our kids to make the effort. My
mom says my wife is selfish for expecting her to
sacrifice her time, effort, and peace of mind just to
be treated like a burden. I've told my wife to
leave it alone. I called my mom recently to talk,
and my wife came over and began making digs about
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how the kids don't recognize my mom and we're asking
if I actually have parents. My mom said my wife
needed to leave the conversation or she was going to
hang up. My wife said, it's it's so sad that
my mom won't just come and see her grandkids because
she feels entitled to stay in our house. I just
snapped and told my wife that she needs to stop
acting entitled to my mom's time, energy, the money it
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would take to visit, and that she's the entitled one.
My mom began laughing and my wife looked devastated. I
quickly hung up, and I tried to talk it out
with my wife, but she was furious and said I
broke a cardinal rule of marriage by calling her out
in front of my mom. I do get that, but
I've given her my opinion in private so many times. Oh,
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there's so much more to this story. Your mom didn't
just get relegated to a hotel for nothing. How long
does she expect to stay. I've had relatives come visit
for four to five weeks at a time in a
small house. After the last visit, I said, nope, hotel.
The visit ends terribly when it's that long. Having so
many adults crammed in a small space for too long
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isn't pleasant for anyone. I think it's completely reasonable for
your wife to ask your mom to stay in a hotel,
visit all day together, but retire to separate places to decompress.
I also think it's sad that your mom doesn't come
to visit her grandkids. I'm team wife all the way.
You're the jerk. My wife feels the home needs to
be a sanctuary, and no one who upsets her should
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be allowed to stay in her sanctuary. This is an
eminently reasonable approach, But you are the reason your mom
does not see your kids. You could take them and
visit her, so your wife is right. You and your
mom are not interested enough to make it happen. You're
the jerk, typical mama's boy who refuses to support his
wife when it comes to his mama. If I were
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your wife, this crap would so not fly with me.
I'd kick you out in a heartbeat and file for divorce.
It doesn't matter what the argument is about. As a
good husband, you're supposed to support your wife no matter what,
especially when it comes to entitled in laws like your mother,
who honestly sounds insufferable. Is it your mom's house, no,
so why should she get to come and stay there
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whenever she wants against your wife's wishes. Selfish little man
babies like you do not deserve to be married period.
Both of my ex husbands ended up being mama's boys,
and look where that got them divorced and both paying
me alimony for many years to come. Bottom line, want
to keep a beautiful woman, Stop choosing your mom over her,
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Grow up and be a man. Well, who do you
think is the jerk, Opie or his wife? Please let
us know? Am I the jerk for accepting my family's
Christmas invitation despite my husband being upset? I female thirty two,
met this wonderful man, Philip male, thirty six, two years ago.
We got married four months ago. For context, I have
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a ten year old son, Billy, from my previous relationship,
and my ex isn't in the picture. I have to
admit that Philip's relationship with my family isn't so great.
They would disagree on a lot of things. For example,
he had an argument with my dad when he said
that he was keeping their grandson away from them, but
Philip stated he it wasn't and that he couldn't visit
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with Billy because he had work. I was sick at
the time. The latest argument was what made things worse.
My mom and sister were discussing natural remedies. They're in
to this stuff for my niece and Philip. He's a
pediatrician called both of them ignorant for not using meds instead,
which caused a huge argument, and Philip being no longer
welcomed at my parents' house. Now, they sent me and
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Billy an invitation for Christmas, but did not include Philip,
which I expected given how strain their relationship has become.
I called my mom to confirm that I'll attend, but
the minute Philip found out, he went off, saying he
could not believe I was fine with my family excluding him,
and then agreed to go and leave him behind. I
told him it's their celebration and I don't get to
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decide their guest list for them, and also I'm not
leaving him behind because he did not have any plans
for Christmas. He said he thought that we would automatically
celebrate together, the three of us, but now I'm taking
Billy away from him as well. Thought I thought that
was a bit melodramatic because it's literally just a few
hours at my parents' home, but he insisted it was
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about principle and respect. We had a big argument, and
I said that he basically alienated himself by continually picking
arguments with my family, and he started ranting, saying it
wasn't about the fact that they didn't invite him, but
the fact that I was willing to let him spend
Christmas alone without me and Billy. We went back and
forth on the issue, but did not seem to reach
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a solution. My parents are used to spending every major
holiday with Billy, so you can see how much pressure
I'm getting from both sides here. You're the jerk. He's
your husband and he's done nothing wrong. One, your dad
picked a fight because he had to work and you
didn't defend him. Two, you're encouraging your mum to be
an idiot and not be knowledgeable on medications and wanting
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to do natural healing. And when your husband, as a
medical professional, stated the facts, you let them be terrible
to him. You think it's okay to leave your husband
alone on Christmas because they're being horrible to him, And
I'd be upset too that you're not doing anything to
defend him when he's done nothing wrong. You're taking their side,
and in doing so, it shows that you don't care
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for your husband. Keep this up and he will leave.
Maybe Mum can calm the situation down with some lavender oil.
How are you not outraged? That your parents left your
husband out of the invitation to spend Christmas with them,
And how could you possibly contemplate leaving your husband alone
at Christmas? Do you actually want to be married to him?
You accepted an invitation which excludes him, and you think
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this is reasonable. You're the jerk. You're the jerk. You're right.
You don't get to decide their guest list for them. However,
you do get to decide whether or not to spend
Christmas with your husband. Every married couple I know would
automatically expect to spend Christmas together. Not the jerk. Your
husband had no right to talk to your parents like that.
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He's a fraudster who capitalizes off the pharmaceutical industry. I
can't tell you how many so called doctors have told
me that my case need to be on all that crab.
I tell them the same thing every time. God put
us on this world thousands of years ago, and we
never needed this stuff before. Why the heck would we
need it now? Oh, yeah, we don't. You just want
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tolign your pockets by taking advantage of me and my family.
Son having seizures. Oh, he needs to be on these
three different medications, which will run you one thousand dollars
a month. Daughter's blood sugar too high. Oh, she needs
to be on this and that which costs seven hundred
dollars a month, and test her glucose every twelve hours.
When did people stop trusting in the power of prayer
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and decide to fall victim to the lies of these fraudsters.
I feed my kid's natural diets, which consists mostly your
fruits and veggies. You'd be surprised how many high quality
fruits and veggies are now sold at the dollar store.
Don't believe all the organic nonsense. Any fruits and veggies
are one thousand times better than the crap they feed
your kids at school. This is also part of why
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I homeschool all six of my kids. I refuse to
allow them to be taught the false his story that
is taught in schools Now. I teach my kids the
truth of how we got here, what are purposes the
light work that we were put here to do. I
teach them that they are in fact stars. I teach
them that they are in fact star seeds who are
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here to change the world. Five of my six kids
are indigo children, and one is not an indigo Unfortunately,
he also doesn't look a thing like his siblings, which
really was a disappointment to me. He gets angry every
time I tell him that even though he's not special
like the others, he can still make a difference in
the world. It just won't be as powerful as his siblings.
He's the one that doctors told me needs to be
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on antidepressants, and I tell them every time that no,
he doesn't need that. He's just disappointed that he's not
an indigo and he has to accept it. I can
tell they look down on me for my beliefs, which
is unfortunate since so many are awakening to the light
in truth, love and light. I must stay and this
is why I believe that not everyone out there is
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cut out to be having kids. You can say that again, well,
who do you think is the jerk? Opie or her husband?
Please let us know you spend Christmas with your spouse
and your kid in law's inviting you, but excluding them
his way out of line. I don't think Philip's going
to be sticking around with her too much longer. Got
fired from a place I was never employed at. So
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I work at a place where the uniform is a
stunningly fashionable red polo with black trim. This occurred at
a store where they wear the slimming black with a
lime green tram. I'm on my way home from work
one winter day and decide to stop by the grocery store.
As it's winter. I'm wearing my winter jacket, which is
a very vibrant purple, and because it's kind of warm out,
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it's unzipped to reveal my work shirt. I also have
my headphones in a headband on and a bright blue
shoulder bag. AKA. I'm clearly a customer. So I'm kneeling
down in front of some drinks, pondering which one I
want to buy. When this woman starts getting up in
my business. I shuffle over, thinking maybe she wants to
look at the drinks as well, and start pushing a
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couple in my basket. Then I hear the dreaded excuse me.
I glance around, hoping she's going at someone else, but
to no avail. I look up, pulling out one of
my earbuds and say, sorry, am I in your way?
Because my parents raised me to be polite, where's the
coconut oil? I just blink and shrug. I don't know.
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Sorry over there maybe, and I point over towards the
baking aisle. What do you mean you don't know? Are
you that incompetent at your job? Well, now I'm ticked off.
I clearly don't work there, And for the record, I'm
very competent at my job. My job, not at this
grocery store. Lady, I don't work here. Go find someone else.
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You're wearing a uniform. You have to help me for
a store down the street, not here. I don't have
to help you with anything. Now leave me alone, and
I start to walk off, but she screams at me
as I'm leaving, I'm going to report you to your manager,
to which my mature self tells her go for it. Now,
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I finish up my shopping and I'm using the self
checkout because between work and this Karen, I've had more
social interaction than my introverted self can handle. When I
hear there she is, that's her, I look up to
see who's screaming, and lo and behold, there's Karen, and
she's dragging this poor sap along with her over to me.
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She wouldn't help me. I want her fired, ma'am. She
doesn't work here. I don't care. I want her fired anyway.
She's useless and rude, ma'am. She doesn't work here, she
works somewhere else. I literally don't have the authority to
fire her. Are you telling me you're not going to
fire her? Even though she was rude. At this point,
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me and Buddy make eye contact and a moment of
understanding passes, as it does between fellow retail staff, and
I give him a small nod and he sighs, very well, miss,
I'm afraid it's just not working out. I'm going to
have to let you go. I just nod solemnly. I understand.
I'll be going now then, And I gather at my
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groceries and go to leave, and Karen just has the
biggest grin on her face. And that is the story
of how I got fired from a store I never
worked at a single day in my life. Added to
those accusing me of stealing someone else's story, I didn't.
These Karen's are all over, and this same situation is
happening all over. Also for those saying that Buddies shouldn't
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have done what he did. He was a trainee, not
a manager, just a poor sap who was suddenly way
over his head with a belligerent woman that we both
just wanted to go away. Never encourage these idiots, Never
let them think they actually got someone fired for crap
like this, because they'll just escalate from there. Fussy guest
demands discount for lack of parking. I maliciously comply. On
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sold out weekends are already limited, parking becomes even more limited.
Guest and her husband arrive early evening. Car park is
already full, so they park in front of the guest
door to check in, blocking other vehicles in check in
is non eventful. I rattle off my spiel and hand
the guest her keys. Guest walks off, then stops all
of a sudden as she turns to face me again.
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I know that she's about to complain about something. We
all know. The polls eyes widen as they ready themselves
to plead their case as they point and wiggle their
index finger in the air at shoulder height. Game on, guest,
you need more parking spots. There's not enough for forty rooms.
Your car park is already full. I reserve to space me.
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I'm sorry, ma'am, but our parking is on a first come,
first serve basis, we do not reserve spaces. If the
car park is full, all of the on street parking
is free. Her well, there should be forty spaces for
all forty rooms. Side note, we have twelve spaces at
the front of our property, which stretches from the street
to our front entrance. Local council regulations state that we
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only need one space per four rooms. We beat the
regulations by two. Me. I understand your frustrations, missus nitpicker,
but our plans to construct an underground parking garage have
been delayed due to lockdown induced shovel shortage. Not a
shovel to be found within one hundred kilometers. It should
be dugout and fully operational by the time our city
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hosts the Olympics in twenty thirty two, though, Her, you
should extend your car park until then so every room
has an assigned space. I think we should be given
a discount for no parking. Me. The owner did consider
just knocking this place down completely and making it into
a public car park, but then he realized that we
would have no rooms left for our guests, which would
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lower our property rating, so we decided to keep things
as they are. For the time being her and the
discount I asked for. I type away furiously while umming
and eyeing for dramatic effect. Me. I've applied the discount
to your fully, y'all. I've calculated the total amount it
will cost you to park on the street for your
seven days stay and have deducted that amount from your bill.
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Is there anything else I can help you with? Ma'am?
Her huffs and gives me a smug smile. Well, I
should think so, guest walks off. As I stated earlier,
street parking is free twenty four to seven. Her total
discount was zero dollars. She never even noticed. Update to
my nephews stealing cans from my shed to recap. As
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many previous readers know, my nephews stole a ton of
cans from my shed after breaking into it and cash
them in at the bottle drop for about two hundred dollars.
My sister and brother in law acted like I was
a jerk for wanting the money back for the cans
and damages. I ended up pressing charges because they refused
to pay, and things turned pretty ugly. I filed a
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small claims lawsuit and they had to pay me back
for the cost of damages, theft, emotional damages for constant harassment,
and the cost of the lawsuit itself, all adding up
to five hundred dollars, which finally made my sister and
brother in law raise a white flag and actually start
parenting their kids. My nephews got all of their privileges
taken away and were forced by a judge to work
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community service, which they hated and had to be forced
just to complete. They didn't get more than one hundred
hours each because I had been repaid by their parents
when we settled out of court, so the judge pretty
much fast tracked the case. The nephews ended up picking
up garbage and doing work around several local parks, and
the man directing them, I heard was a retired drill sergeant,
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so they had no fun whatsoever. My eldest nephew constantly
showed his issues with authority and got into screaming matches
with everyone who told him to work. His father had
to be called over just to make the boy pick
up a rake. The kid openly blamed me for his predicament,
and his brothers were both initially on his side, but
after a while they realized that he's just crazy and
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and titled, and they no longer wanted any part of it,
so my two younger nephews stopped following his lead because
it finally clicked just how in the wrong they were.
Problem is that my sister and brother in law blamed
me for the divide in their family, which didn't end
well for them, as no one in the family was
on their side about it. Everything was put on them
and they're bad parenting, and without me to blame, they
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just became silent and bitter. Half the family doesn't want
to associate with them now, and their own kids are
divided because the eldest refuses to change. It got so
bad that my eldest nephew resorted to something so incredibly
dumb that you're not going to want to believe it.
In the middle of the night, he snuck out and
assaulted my house with a pair of his dad's claw hammers.
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I say a pair because he literally had one in
each hand. The first thing he did was start smashing
the new lock on my shed, and it didn't break,
but he heavily damaged it to the point it was
no longer usable and I had to later remove it
with a bolt cutter. He also did a lot of
damage to the shed door with the hammer claws. I
awoke to the sounds of the hammers and called the
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police after peeking out of my bedroom window and seeing
someone outside hitting the shed. Though I didn't realize it
was him at first because he had his face covered
with a creepy looking mask, he saw the bedroom lights
come on and chucked one of the hammers through my window.
There was broken glass everywhere, and I'm lucky I didn't
cut my feet on any of it because I was barefoot.
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Then my nephew started beating on my back door with
the remaining hammer. He did major damage, breaking the knob
and the window on the door, and also tore into
the door itself with the hammer claw. I was worried
the door wouldn't hold out, so I yelled. The police
were on their way, and he took off before they arrived.
The night vision on my cameras showed that it was him.
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He had a mask on, but he was wearing his
school hoodie as well as his Nike shoes that were
also pretty identifiable since his brothers don't have a pear
like them. His fingerprints were also on the hammer he
threw out my window. My nephews had already all been
fingerprinted when they were arrested the first time, so police
matched the ones on the hammer to him. When the
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the cops came from my eldest nephew, he obviously denied
it was him, but there's no one else it could
have been. The other hammer was found in his room,
along with the clothes and the mask that he wore,
all of which were taken as evidence. The mask was
of a Star Wars character I was told is called
the Grand Inquisitor this time, though, his parents did nothing
to try and protect him, and they didn't try to
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pass the blame on me either. They just let their
son be taken away screaming. I wasn't there to see
the arrest, but I was told by my sister that
my eldest nephew was switching back and forth from crying
that he didn't do anything wrong to screaming that it
was all my fault and he had to get back
at me. The boy had to go through a serious
mental evaluation and was found to be potentially bipolar. Doesn't
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really excuse what he did, though. Later on, when he
was properly diagnosed as bipolar. He started blaming everything he
did wrong on that and acted like he should be
vilified just for getting treatment for it. But he ended
up having a month long stint in juvenile hall. They
got my nephew you properly medicated, and he pleaded guilty
to forego court again in exchange for more community service
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and mandatory counseling, as well as probation. This time, his
dad came to my house and personally replaced the window
and the door, though he barely said a word to
me while doing it. My two younger nephews are still
excluding their older brother from pretty much everything, and he
still hasn't apologized for attacking my home either. He's also
unfortunately repeating a school year because of how badly his
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grades tanked, which his parents are still very unhappy about.
My two younger nephews dropped by on their own in
July to personally apologize to me. They said that they
always just followed their brother's lead and he made everything
they were doing seem so fun, but the punishments for
the crimes are not worth the kind of fun they
were having, and they don't want to do it with
them anymore. They want their fun uncle back and asked
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if we could start over. I said we can, but
they'll have to earn back my trust, which they happily
agreed to. My eldest nephew had his seventeenth birthday a
few months ago and basically got nothing, not even a cake.
It was part of his punishment for what he had done.
I can only imagine how much money he's cost his
parents in the past year alone. He led his brothers
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to steal from me and then destroyed my bedroom window
and back door. I imagine in total with the lawsuit
I'd previously filed and replacing the door and the window
cost them over one thousand dollars. Doors and windows are
not cheap. Meanwhile, my youngest nephew had his birthday a
month after that and got a new mountain bike among
his gifts. This really upset my oldest nephew, and he
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slashed the tires on the bike, which landed him in
even more trouble. I know a thing or two about
fixing bikes, so I went out and bought new tubes
and tires for the bike and put them on it.
So the bike is fine, and my nephew thanked me
in a lot for fixing it. My eldest nephew resorted
to trying to run away because he wasn't being enabled anymore.
He just walked out, got on his bike with a
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backpack full of stuff, and rode off. His parents quickly
reported him missing because he left a good bye letter
that basically blamed me and his bipolar for all his problems.
In the letter, he stated that he can't wait till
he's eighteen to get away from all of us, so
he was doing us a favor by getting rid of
himself sooner. But he came back three days later without
his bike or backpack and looking beat up. He wouldn't
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tell anyone what happened. We still don't know, but he
was chewed out for continuously using me as a scapegoat
for his personal issues, because blaming me was the first
thing he did after he got back. I didn't make
him steal from me, I didn't make him attack my house.
I didn't make him run away. That was all him,
and he nearly ended up back in juvie for running
off because he violated his probation, But he got off
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easy somehow. Currently, he spends his days pretty much in
his room when not in school, or doing chores or
going to counseling. He finished his community service, but his
probation will last until he's eighteen. He got some lenians
for being diagnosed as bipolar, but it couldn't get him
off the hook, and believe me, he tried many times.
Once they told him what was wrong wrong with him,
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it became his excuse for everything. But plenty of people
go their whole lives with that same mental condition and
never do the kinds of things he did. I've been
mending things with my two younger nephews, but I don't
want to be around the ildest at all, and the
feeling is clearly mutual on his part. I've only seen
him once in person the past few months, and he
glared at me with more hate than I've ever seen
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from anyone before stomping away. He can't paint me as
the villain anymore without being called out on it, so
there isn't much he can do other than just try
and get through this. For the most part, he's totally
shut down since school started. I'm told he barely speaks
even at school. My other nephews tell me he's getting
laughed at and ostracized, which I don't think is going
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to help him get better. My sister and brother in
law are also not on their best terms with me
right now as well, but they can't exactly put any
blame on me either. They know it was all on
them and they're bad parenting. I've basically forced them to
be more active in their kids' lives, which they should
have been doing already. They complain a lot about being
tired from work and keeping an eye on their kids,
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so whenever we talk as of late, it's always awkward
and forced. They don't come to my house or me
to theirs, but we do see each other at my
parents' house, and our mother demands we be civil there,
which I have no problem with. My two younger nephews
have regained most of their privileges. They got their TV
and video games back, but my eldest nephew isn't allowed
on them at all. I'm told he's got some electronic
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entertainment in his room, but what kind I don't know.
I just know he spends most of his time in
there unless he has to be somewhere else. My eldest
nephew is also not welcome pretty much anywhere in the family. Anymore.
I've recently heard from my parents that they don't even
want to see him on Thanksgiving or Christmas Eve this
year because they're sick of his behavior and petty thievery.
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I guess I can understand that, but even I feel
it's a bit harsh. My sister and brother in law
do as well, because they're threatening to boycott if he
can't come to either holiday. I can't stand that kid,
and would not want him in my house either, so
I can understand why they've made that decision, but I
don't think excluding him from everything and everyone is going
to make him better. It's going to take a long
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time from my eldest nephew to mend bridges, if they
can even be mended at all. The way things stand,
he may try running off again once he's of age,
unless the last time scared him too much to try
it again, but hopefully things will get better for him
in time if it's not too late to fix his behavior.
I may not seem like it, but he's still my
nephew and I care, but I'm kind of powerless to
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do anything, so for now, the most I can do
is just keep my nose out of it and offer
support where I can, don't touch anything that isn't on
the schedule. Okay, a little bit of context. I work
in a manufacturing plant for a multinational company producing microchips.
I'm the shift lead engineer on night shift for the
front end of the week Sunday through Wednesday, so there's
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very little oversight from management except when I see them
in the morning on my way out the door. The
machines we work on are huge, think greyhound bus size,
and require fairly strategic planning to get the most we
can out of them. In recent months, the day shift
team has been slacking on their scheduled maintenance items. Normally,
this isn't a big deal since we are understaffed just
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like every other company in America right now, and we
pick up the slack where we can. On night shift.
The machines run twenty four hours a day, so if
you have to pass work to the incoming shift, it
isn't an issue and everyone tends to help out everyone.
The problem comes in when day shift or the other
end of the week move scheduled maintenance off of their shift,
but don't move it into our scheduled work calendar. When
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the machines reach their critical threshold, they shut themselves down
until the work is performed. This is normally at midnight
on days I'm working well. As it happens, this has
been occurring more and more over the past few weeks,
and I've been letting my senior manager know that's why
we've been seeing an availability drop, not from our lack
of effort. He's a newer senior manager, so I tried
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to explain the critical thresholds to him and how we
need to at least keep the count or accurate so
we don't have any surprises by machines shutting themselves down unexpectedly.
He didn't really seem to want to listen to this
and brushed me off, telling me, if it isn't on
the calendar, don't work on that machine. Q malicious compliance.
On Sunday night, when I get into work, the schedule
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is completely empty, not uncommon for weekends, but wouldn't you
know it, three maintenance items had been moved from the
back end of the week and were never rescheduled, So
at midnight, three machines shut themselves down for maintenance. But
I've been told if it isn't on the calendar, I
can't touch those machines. I walk up to the production
floor and tell all my technicians that we won't be
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working on any of those machines as they aren't scheduled
for us to complete, and per the area senior manager,
we don't touch anything unless it's on the calendar. They've
been getting more and more frustrated recently with this, so
their eyes light up as I tell them we won't
be completing any of the work. Then comes Monday morning,
I tell the incoming shift and my direct manager about
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the machines and they have a good laugh about the situation.
It's only roughly two hours of work per machine, so
I didn't completely do over the day shift. And then
I run into my senior manager on my way out
the door and casually let him know we have three
machines that have been down for six hours and need
to be added to the schedule so somebody can start
working on them. His eyes just about pop out of
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his head and he says, how could you let three
machines sit down for half the night and not even
start on them? Were there other machines down that stopped
you from getting to them? And I responded with nope,
you just told me if it isn't on the calendar,
don't touch it. His face went beat red, and I
saw the vein on his temple start throbbing. But he
knew I was right. Since then, the calendar has been
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pretty dang accurate, and if I see a tool going critical,
he's now informed me that I'm allowed to work on
it to keep the product flowing. If you want to
sit around, you can do it from home. This isn't
my tail, but one of a friend of mine, Craig.
This took place about ten years ago. He worked for
IT company, maintaining the mainframe and other technical needs throughout
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the building, along with electrical safety checks. He was a
bit OCD and this helped him by being on top
of things that were needing sorted. He had custom spreadsheets
documenting the last ten years of repairs on everything he
was responsible for. This sheet, by the five year mark,
had already given him a fairly good idea of what
items were likely to fail, either due to updates or
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physical parts failing due to the twenty four hour running
of the system. There was a period of a week
where he was ahead and decided to get ahead of
his upcoming repairs, checking the items and replacing what needed
to be done. Two weeks later, he was sitting in
his office when the VP arrived, and on the rounds
she noticed that all three times she passed he was
sitting idle in his office. Outraged he was being paid
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for doing nothing, she had his boss pull a mob.
Boss VP noticed you haven't done much today and pulled
your work log for the last few weeks. You've only
logged four jobs in two weeks, Craig. I've been ahead
for the last couple of weeks, just knocking off jobs
before they came up to make time for the bigger
jobs that are about to come up next week. Boss. Well,
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you're paid to work, not sit about. If you want
to sit about, do it at home. Craig shrugging internally. Well,
I've got some holiday time to sake. If you give
me a week to organize the cover and take care
of the large jobs, I'll take time off. Boss. Deal off,
you go enjoy your holiday, Craig. But what about the
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work next week? Boss, No, butts, you're on holiday effectively immediately.
I'll clear it up with HR now off you go,
Q malicious compliance. Craig decided to not try and reiterate
just how much work was due next week, and went
on holiday for two weeks, turning his work phone off
in that two weeks due to a lack of warning,
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the tech from another center that usually covered wasn't available.
At the same time, there were safety issues, software updates,
and other minor issues that were expected, not to mention
the dozens of unexpected issues that came up. When Monday
after his holiday came up, he turned his phone on
to find twenty plus texts, His phone inbox was full
of voicemails, and he had dozens of emails from Paniking management.
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He got into work and was set upon where have
you been? We needed you? XYZ all failed while you
were gone and we didn't have cover. Craig smiled and
reminded his boss about the conversation two weeks prior, and
also had a coworker that overheard the entire thing back
him up. After that, not a single manager dared to
question his slow week. Not even the VP challenge accepted
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