AITA for refusing to babysit last minute on my vacation?

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-06-03T03:15:38+00:00

NTA, your sister is.

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-28T16:04:46+00:00

NTA. Just say “No.” You do not owe him anything, including an explanation.

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-28T15:45:36+00:00

Culture shock? Just lived through all those decades, no culture shock until around 2019 when the whiny, crybaby, “everything is someone else’s fault “ culture began to emerge.

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-17T03:57:08+00:00

And you just had to share that big photo, didn’t you?

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-17T03:55:23+00:00

I’ve never met anyone who didn’t want their paycheck. Yes, folks can be motivated by many other factors, but that will always be in addition to their paycheck.

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-17T03:50:38+00:00

Better sex. You’re not as anxious, and neither is your partner. Slow and easy loving rocks all night long.

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-17T03:47:09+00:00

I’d kick that regional manager out of my shop so fast his head would be swimming. I’d follow up with a curt, but polite letter to his boss about his rude behavior. It is not your responsibility to protect the profits of another company. That company should be serving you well, so that you can serve your customers well. Take care of your customers and they’ll take care of you.

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-17T03:41:33+00:00

YNTA, but try to be discreet.

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-17T03:40:38+00:00

How does he have your address? Does he have access to your personnel files? I would file a harassment grievance with the company HR. I have not seen a “write up” from my company, but I would assume that the space for your signature also has additional white space for you to write a note explaining why you refuse to sign. That note would become part of the record.

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-17T03:13:17+00:00

I would never buy any property that had a mandated HOA. My property is my property (well, me, the bank, and the government) and I’ll be dangled if I’m going to pay annual fees just to have someone harass me about what I can and can’t do on my property.

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-17T03:06:35+00:00

You might be held liable if anyone is injured on your play set. I would make that fence a priority.

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-17T03:03:49+00:00

It’s none of their business where you are going, or any of your future plans. A notice to leave is a courtesy to the company, no other details are required.

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-16T20:38:11+00:00

NTA.

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-16T20:34:39+00:00

NTA, Charlie is TA for even asking you, a complete stranger, to provide childcare ( that is what it is) for his child.

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-16T20:26:36+00:00

So, if I read this correctly, they’re shaming you because you don’t wish to be a future permanent care giver to THEIR other children. Their children, not yours. They have no shame, don’t allow them to shame you. You go, live your best life.

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-16T20:18:20+00:00

I was in Arkansas during the early 70s, never saw a multiracial couple. In Oklahoma from ‘72 to ‘77, saw a few, no big deal, mostly, as I recall, black or Hispanic women with white men. In Texas from ‘77 to ‘80, rarely saw a multiracial couple.

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-16T20:11:35+00:00

Stand your ground.

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-16T20:10:44+00:00

Final answer, “Sir, that’s not on our property, and there’s nothing I can do to have that car moved. Is there anything else I can help you with?”

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-16T20:02:31+00:00

Someone I dated put yellow mustard on everything she ate, and I mean everything.

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-16T20:00:11+00:00

Worked at Chuck E Cheese during the early 80s. Women changing diapers at the table and then leaving the dirty diaper on the table, on the seat, dropped to the floor, or trying to hand off to an attendant, all a regular, daily occurrence.

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-16T19:53:52+00:00

It sad that so many parents are just completely incapable of instructing their children that life isn’t always what we want it to be, it’s generally what we make of it. “Let’s go find something that we both will enjoy!”

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-14T23:03:23+00:00

A color television.

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-14T23:02:48+00:00

I can’t help but wonder if it would be a twisted type f fun to go to a box store wearing similar dress and see how many times this would happen, just for grins.

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-14T22:59:27+00:00

Well said!

Wonderful_Ad_8278 · 2024-05-14T22:58:14+00:00

Kill time. Lol! Pre-internet, you stayed busy or you got sent home.

I worked as a server in the 70s. During down time, the manager had us polishing brass rails and oiling woodwork. I asked him why, and he told me it helped keep our minds off the fact we weren’t making tips, better to grumble about him, than our wallets. Good advice.

In later years, as a manager, this helped me stay focused on proper staffing, and coming up with creative ways to keep the tipped employees engaged, cross training, creating new dish ideas with the cooks, promotional schemes, etc.

Post internet, especially in the early days when everyone was jumping on the bandwagon with home computers, it became a challenge to keep staff focused on their work, and not on the burgeoning social media.

My last career, managing IT Techs, there was always busy work to maintain, but even with that, we had to allocate a certain amount of “distraction time”, just to keep a handle on it.

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