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Nothing tests a family’s definition of fairness quite like a surprise refund landing in the wrong hands.

One dad paid $1,500 out of pocket so his teenage daughter could take a scholarship trip overseas, only for her return flight to get canceled, stranding her at LAX for 22 hours without support.

After months of back-and-forth with the airline, a full refund finally came through, and that’s when the real disagreement started.

He figured the money was simply his since he footed the bill originally. She figured differently, given everything she went through to earn it back.

Keep reading — Reddit had some strong opinions on this one.

AITA for not giving my daughter compensation for a flight I paid for

So I’m a dad. And my daughter, who is 16, got a scholarship to go to another country for a month over the summer.

It was a great scholarship, paid for all the housing, food, etc. However, the flight had to come out of pocket. I ended up paying for the whole thing, which was $1,500.

But unfortunately, the return home was a little bumpy.

Everything went smoothly, however, on the trip back is where her connecting flight got cancelled and she was stuck in LAX airport for about 22 hours. The whole situation was pretty bad, as she wasn’t given any of the accommodations she was supposed to. It was a mess.

So he worked hard to try to make things right for his daughter, only to run headfirst into a big misunderstanding over the finances.

Now, months later, after sending in lots of emails, the airline gave a full refund for the flight. I told my daughter I got the money back, and she reacted like she was getting all of it.

Which I explained to her that I paid for the flight, so I would be keeping the money they refunded.

She did argue back and forth with me for a while, but she eventually just gave it up.

So AITA?? Because right now I’m on the fence about whether I’m making the right choice.

Sounds like this father and daughter need to get back on the same page.

What did Reddit have to say?

This user takes the daughter’s side.

This commenter argues that if it was her inconvenience, it should be her who gets the refund.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a group trip that sours when additional guests are added without agreement.

This redditor explains the daughter’s line of thinking.

He paid the bill, sure, but the daughter paid with 22 hours of sitting in an airport with nothing to eat and nowhere to go. Redditors argued that distinction matters more than the receipt does.

Refunds exist to compensate whoever actually got screwed over, and in this case that wasn’t him.

He never lost sleep in a terminal or went hungry waiting on a canceled connection.

He may have funded the trip, but his daughter earned the refund payout.

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Imagine living in a climate where it’s really hot and humid outside. Would you think it would be okay for a teenage boy to go for a run around the neighborhood without wearing a shirt, or is that inappropriate?

In this story, one teenage boy didn’t think he was doing anything wrong by running without a shirt, but after talking to a neighbor and his own mother, he’s starting to wonder if he should put a shirt on.

While he’s not really doing anything wrong, should he put a shirt on anyway?

Let’s read the whole story to decide.

AITA for not wearing a shirt while I run in my own neighborhood

Alright for some background, I’m currently in high school (ik, my issue can’t be to significant because of my young age).

Also, I workout nearly 3 hours a day in hopes of playing college football eventually.

This of course has made me significantly larger than a lot of other individuals my age.

He’s staying active.

Ok, to the story. So due to the quarantine, I have been going on runs around my neighborhood.

I enjoy running shirtless due to the Florida heat.

On my route, I’ll usually pass a woman who sits on her porch, and occasionally her son playing basketball in the driveway.

Yesterday, the lady flagged me down, so I stopped and looked at her.

She was pretty demanding.

Before any kind of civil greeting, this lady starts lecturing me on decency and how it makes her son self conscious (he is at least 3 years younger btw).

I told her sorry he felt that way, but it was to hot to run with my shirt on, and I started up on my route again.

When I looped back around, she ran out in front of me trying to make me stop again.

I just ran around her.

Now, he’s wondering if he’s wrong.

When I got home and told my mother, she said the lady was out of line, but did have a point.

I was surprised she had never even batted an eye to the notion before, but made me think maybe I was in the wrong here.

It doesn’t sound like his mother thinks he’s doing anything wrong, but she understand’s the neighbor’s perspective.

Let’s see what Reddit suggests.

This person doesn’t think he’s doing anything wrong.

A woman who lives in Florida weighs in.

This person thinks the neighbor’s son must be so embarrassed.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a home buyer who was surprised to learn his neighbors were upset about him removing a fence.

Nobody thinks he’s doing anything wrong.

It was really inappropriate of the neighbor to flag him down and reprimand him. He isn’t doing anything wrong. If the neighbor’s son feels self-conscious he can start working out more.

That neighbor sounds like a Karen.

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If you think you’ve had a crazy work day, it’s probably nothing compared to what the person who wrote this story experienced. He was just doing his job when the fire alarm went off, and this was not a false alarm.

To make it even worse, the fire was in the server room!

What follows is a tale of the IT department trying to save the servers, but can they do it despite fire, water and the help of the fire department?

Keep reading for the whole story.

Do not call unless the building is on fire. So about that…

For the past month I have been off of my normal duties as we set up a new office building for the support staff.

We are all getting our own building with zero executives or anyone else that is not part of networking or IT. (So much joy right now. So much joy.)

Last month we had some excellent excitement brought on by idiocy redefined. But we will come to that later.

What’s going on?

It was a normal Wednesday morning. I was busy setting up phone and desktop systems for users techs in the new building.

I had just finished wiring up a docking station into the desk and setting up the phone when suddenly the lights flickered. Then there was an audible pop followed by the power going out.

I stand up and tell everyone to remain where they are as I walk to the server room.

Since we had no power the doors were forced open by the safety systems and I walked in only to suddenly clutch my left ear in pain as the fire alarm went off about 1 foot from my head.

Yikes! This is bad!

I walked into the server room to see smoke and the server guys motioning me to come in desperately.

One of the racks had a fire in the back of a blade server. Not a blown cap or fried wires, a full on fire in the back of it.

We had 3 server racks set up so far. The first two were hurriedly unhooked and pulled away as the rest of us rushed to take 7 1u server blades out of the rack and put them onto carts.

I pulled out two myself when I heard the sound of the fire suppression system going off.

He had a question.

$ME = William Riker

$SG = Server guy. Or Geordi La Forge

I hear the fire suppressors going off and turn to one of the server guys.

$Me – Are those water sprinklers?

He was outta there!

$SG – No thats a halon suppression system.

$ME – Was already running out the door full sprint the instant the word Halon was spoke.

The rest of the server guys soon followed me out of the building where we all gathered in the parking lot.

I know some people say Halon is perfectly safe to be around, but I just did not want to take that chance so I bolted the instant I heard the word Halon.

The fire department showed up.

I know I made it sound like the room was filled with smoke and that there was a raging fire. Truth is the fire was small and there was only a small amount of smoke.

This would soon change.

The fire alarm sent an automatic signal to the nearby fire station. Took then 3 minutes to show up.

We sent them in and warned them that the halon went off. They donned gas masks and walked in to set up fans to blow everything out.

They accessed the damage.

This is not the end of the story.

About 10 minutes after we were given the all clear to come in, we started taking inventory of what was and was not ruined.

Turns out a power surge had occurred in one of the servers and caught fire the instant the rack was turned on. The server and the one above it were ruined.

We were able to save the hard drives but just about everything else was destroyed.

Not again!

The firefighters were just about to leave when suddenly the power flickered off again.

This time it would not turn back on.

One of the server guys noticed smoke coming from behind a cabinet.

A firefighter opened it to find a fuse box. Yes. A fuse box in a building with breaker boxes that was still wired up and just happened to have about 15 cents worth of pennies jammed in it.

This is crazy!

No this is not a lie.

We actually found an old fuse box with pennies shoved in it in a corporate location which was recently updated to modern standards.

The firefighters noticed the wall was very hot. Too hot to the touch and told everyone to leave as we heard an ax slam into the wall.

As we were exiting the building the sprinklers went off. Welp there goes two weeks worth of hard work wiring desks.

He made a call.

I get in my car with one of the server guys, we carpooled, and call my boss’s boss. The EVPIT. Or the executive vice president of IT and technology. (Yes that’s his actual title.)

$EVP = President Dugan (Red alert 2)

$EVP – IF you are calling me on my vacation then the building better be on fire.

$ME – Soooo About that…

$EVP – What?

The VP instantly knows this is bad.

$ME – So apparently the building had an old fuse box in it.

$EVP – Ooooh god.

$ME – And some idiot shoved a bunch of pennies in the fuse box.

$EVP – How bad is it?

About this time a second tanker pulled up and a second hose was brought in to the building.

Time to loop in the supervisor.

$me – Not too sure yet. But my best guess is a total loss.

$EVP – Call your direct supervisor the head of IT. I will be there Monday.

I called my boss and he told me to just go home as soon as the firefighters give the OK.

Thursday and Friday of that week no one was at the building. $EVP had given orders for everyone to stay out of it until the damage could be assessed.

They accessed the new damage.

Monday of that week.

The EVP, myself, supervisor, and about 15 other execs who simply wanted to watch the building burn showed up to oogle at the damage.

It was a total loss. The sprinkler systems had destroyed all electronics in the building. Including the backup sprinklers in the server room.

Thankfully the building was leased and insured. Since the fuse box that caused this was old and hidden, our company took zero blame. The owner of the building is going to be out some money though. A lot of money.

Let’s hope this goes better.

Since then I have returned to my normal duties.

Until last week when I was informed that a new building was leased out for the support staff. I spent all of last week running drops to desks and installing monitor and docking stations to prepare for all of the techs to start working here at the beginning of next week.

Last thing my boss told me before I started this project?

$EVP – Try not to burn the building down this time $ME.

Yikes! That was certainly a crazy and awful work day!

Let’s see how Reddit responded.

This person agrees that Halon is not safe.

Another person shares a part they found funny.

This person has a suggestion.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about an employee who was denied a raise for “not being dedicated enough,” but then went on to discover what was really going on behind the scenes.

Another person hopes the building owner has good insurance.

Talk about a total loss! They acted quickly, and it still didn’t help. At least the fire department was there and found the problem, and nobody got hurt.

That was really bad, but it could’ve been worse.

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Imagine living in an HOA and finding out that the HOA wants to use the money from dues and fees to start a business on the side. Would you be all for it or upset?

In this story, one homeowner is in this situation, and while he seems pretty surprised this nonsense is moving forward, he also discovered why the HOA might be able to get away with it.

Keep reading for all the details.

My HOA is Using Our Money For Drone Business; It Looks Like The President Replaced Attorney with Personal Lawyer Too

My HOA voted to use our money to effectively launch a thermal-camera-equipped-drone-based roof inspection business for unaffiliated communities.

They did in fact buy the drone. I do not know if it’s the thermal one they voted to purchase, but I am certain they bought a drone and are preparing to use it.

They have notified us that the first mission is scheduled to take place in the coming days within our community.

OP was surprised at the contents of the notification.

To my surprise, the notice was filled with legalese.

It was surprisingly restrained and referenced many restrictions that the community noted.

While I was initially surprised an attorney actually approved this nonsense, that was of course until I found out that a month after staging a coup on the Board, my President and their spouse (who they named the VP) promptly fired the existing attorney and replaced them with their personal attorney’s law firm (I believe it is likely their same attorney too but still confirming this).

OP is used to dealing with this annoying HOA and knows what to expect.

This shouldn’t surprise anyone, but the drone isn’t the first issue I’ve had with these people.

In fact I have been dealing with sporadic disputes with them since they were elected.

Every time I pull up the bylaws or argue with some outrageous action they take, like deferring maintenance to owners, governing almost exclusively from a Facebook Group they adamantly claim is a social channel, extending their terms and canceling an election, or owning property that’s delinquent on dues in a state that says disqualifies eligibility, they always come back saying something to the effect of “the association attorney says it’s okay. Matter closed or else”.

OP has had a couple realizations about the board.

Imagine my surprise today when I found an old set of records that mentioned the name of the President and VP’s lawyer from a time they made a stink prior to their election. Then another record showing that same firm replaced the community’s existing counsel within weeks of their election win.

I guess now it makes sense why they feel like they can do whatever they want.

I also think i found the rule that they’re using to justify the drone business. It say the community can enter into an agreement with another community to share expenses.

My understanding is that this applies to sharing the cost of landscaping or sidewalk repair. For example, getting a larger order and benefiting from a volume discount, not for the community to operate a for profit unlicensed unmanned aviation inspection business.

HOAs are awful. This sounds like one of the worst.

Let’s see how Reddit responded.

Here’s some advice.

A drone operator weighs in.

Is the HOA a nonprofit?

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about people who have to go to court to get their land back after their neighbor sells it.

Here’s something else to look into.

OP got a lot of good advice in the comments. It sounds like there are several different things to try to get the drone business shut down before it even starts.

The HOA shouldn’t be running a business. It exists to manage the neighborhood. End of story.

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Nothing tests a friendship quite like two important days landing on the exact same date.

One woman discovered that firsthand when her best friend’s wedding turned out to fall directly on her 30th birthday, a milestone she’d already spent months planning around.

She brought it up gently, expecting a simple conversation about scheduling, but her friend’s response quickly turned into pressure to just reschedule her own celebration instead.

Her friend accused her of making the wedding all about herself, and now their mutual friends are piling on with the same opinion.

You’ll want to keep reading for this one.

AITA for not wanting to go to my friend’s wedding because she scheduled it on my birthday?

My friend Rachel is getting married next year.

She just sent out save-the-dates. Her wedding is on my birthday.

So she immediately lets her friend know — and her friend seems apologetic at first.

I texted her and said, “Hey, did you realize that’s my birthday?”

She said, “Oh my god, I didn’t even think about that. I’m so sorry.”

She’s very upfront about her intentions for her birthday, which leads some entitlement to start creeping in on her friend’s part.

I said, “It’s okay. But I don’t think I can come. It’s my 30th birthday and I had plans.”

She said, “Can’t you celebrate your birthday another day? This is my wedding.”

I said, “I’ve been planning my 30th for months. It’s a big deal to me.”

Now things between them are super tense.

She got upset and said I was making her wedding about me.

Now she’s not talking to me, and our friends are saying I should just suck it up.

AITA?

Sounds like this story was never going to have a happy ending.

Reddit had some pretty mixed feedback about this one.

A milestone birthday is nothing to skimp out on.

This user basically says, “who cares — we’re adults.”

Ultimately, it’s not an easy choice, but she still gets the final say.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a woman who is hurt she’s being blamed for not caring for her friend’s dogs, but no one asked her to.

This commenter thinks she was maybe a little more dramatic about this than she should have been.

Reddit split hard on this one, and that tells you everything you need to know about how messy this situation really was.

Half the comments think refusing to attend automatically counts as making it about her, while the other half point out that declining an invitation was never actually a demand for anything.

Rachel didn’t do anything wrong by picking that date months in advance, and her friend didn’t do anything wrong by already having plans locked in for a milestone birthday.

There’s only so much time in the day, so scheduling conflicts like these are bound to happen.

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When you are at work, you should be focused on doing your job, not engaged in any self-serving activities.

What would you do if one of your employees joined an MLM scheme and began trying to push essential oils onto the customers who came into your store?

That is what happened to the manager in this story, so after trying ot tell her to stop several times, he fired her. Unfortunately, several other employees are now mad at him for firing her, so he wonders if he did something wrong.

I don’t think it could be any more obvious that he did the right thing, but read through all the details below and see what you think about it.

AITA for firing a person who was ‘just trying to make a living’?

I (30M) a general manager at a big box retailer (think Walmart, Target, Best Buy) and have been for about a year, though I’ve worked here total 5 years.

These MLM companies can be problematic.

I’ve had this employee who has been great, I’ll call her Sam. Hard worker, been with the store for 3 years.

But recently, she’s joined some sort of MLM. Don’t remember the exact one, something like Terrad? Idk, some essential oils company.

Hopefully, this will be the end of it.

Anyways, I’ve been getting complaints from customers and other employees, saying that she’s been pushing her oils while helping and talking to them.

I had a talk with her about it. She apologized and said she wouldn’t do it again.

She can’t be trying to sell her own products while at work.

That was about a month and three talks ago. The complaints haven’t stopped, so I talked with the store manager (big boss). Last week, and we let her go.

Well, since then, other employees have complained to me that it wasn’t right, that she was “just trying to make a living”.

The fact that their store is a competitor makes this even worse.

While I understand that, it’s strictly against our policy to run a side business while you’re working (and to my knowledge, it’s that way with most stores).

Plus, we sell essential oils, so by doing this, she’s directly interfering with our business.

AITA?

Honestly, I’m surprised that they let this go on for as long as they did. Her behavior was unprofessional, and she deserved to be fired.

Let’s see what the people in the comments have to say about it.

This person sums it up nicely.

She can do her MLM outside of work hours.

There is undoubtedly a policy that prevents this.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about an employee who decides to mute her boss’s number after he insists on calling her at home after hours.

What she was doing hurt his business.

This person says that the MLM is very shady.

What she was doing was against store policy and downright stupid. She definitely deserved to get fired.

If the other employees don’t like it, they can leave as well.

The post An Employee Kept Selling Essential Oils to Customers Despite Being Told No Repeatedly — She Got Fired, and Now He’s the One Getting Blamed appeared first on TwistedSifter.

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When you move to a new city – whether that’s for college, a new job, or any other reason – there’s a whole lot to think about, especially if you’re moving there alone. For starters, where to live? There are a lot of variables here, mostly depending on your budget and the proximity from your school or workplace that you’re looking for. But more than that, you’ll likely want to know that you’ll be safe and that the accommodation within your budget will be secure and liveable at the very least.

Of course, if you’re a single person on a budget, you’ll most likely be living with roommates, which introduces even more questions. What are they like? Will they be kind and respectful or noisy and rude? Will they accept you the way you are? Will you and your possessions be safe and welcome, or will you have a less pleasant experience. Will you see eye to eye and make friends, or will you bicker and end up arguing over petty things most of the time. Ideally of course, you’ll end up living with folk that – even if you don’t see eye to eye on everything – are decent and respectful at the very least.

However for the student in this story, rude and disrespectful roommates have been the biggest issue since moving to New York for college.

Read on to find out why.

AITA and a bad roommate?

I’m 19 years old and have high functioning Aspergers. I try as hard as I possibly can to be a good person and kind to people, but sometimes I honestly can’t tell when I’ve done something wrong so I need to ask.

I go to college in NYC and my parents pay my tuition and rent but NOTHING besides that. So no money for transportation, books, utilities, clothing, etc., that’s all me.

I’ve honestly gone some weeks where I didn’t eat anything but a loaf of bread, I’m not saying that for sympathy it’s just how it is and I’m making it work.

I can’t afford to live alone so I have to find roommates and it’s not easy. Finally I found two 22 year old guys who recently graduated from a suburban private college and moved to NYC.

Let’s see how the living situation situation is.

They seemed nice at first. But I’ve been living with them for two months and they seem to absolutely loathe me. I don’t know why because I do all the obvious things (clean, don’t leave dishes around, pay rent on time) and I’m not home much.

Recently I came home and sat at the dinner table ONCE to do homework while they watched TV. I only sat in one chair and had one book and notebook in front of me, and didn’t ask them to change anything.

One of them said to me angrily, “You know, you can’t just take up the dinner table with your work. You’re not the only one that lives here and that table isn’t for that.” I apologized and moved to my room.

They play cards and games at that table all the time, besides eating, but weren’t just then.

And that wasn’t the end of their horrible behaviour.

One time I came home and one of them came home just after me. A few minutes later they “confronted” me and told me I had put something that smelled disgusting in the kitchen garbage. I told them I didn’t and just got home.

They repeatedly insisted that I had and wanted to know what it was because it reeked. I promised I didn’t and they kept saying I should just admit it and what I had done was really disgusting. I told them I didn’t and had no idea what else to do.

Another time I got home and they told me they had bought new curtains for the apartment and “my portion” that I “owed” was $60. I told them I didn’t have $60 and they said tell my parents I owe it. I said my parents don’t just give me money and they said they didn’t believe me at all and

I still owe them the $60. I literally didn’t eat for days and sold several things while I was trying to find the money. I had to borrow some from my boyfriend.

And when it came to the aforementioned boyfriend, the roommates had some opinions.

They have also horribly mocked my boyfriend, he has Aspergers too but he’s the sweetest person on earth, but they think he is annoying and weird.

Plus they have told me I’m really weird and awkward and make people uncomfortable.

They have also told me I have an easy life and should never complain about anything because they have to work while my parents support me. I said I have to work too and they said “must be nice to still have Mommy and Daddy paying rent.”

AITA and a horrible roommate for these things?

Honestly, these two roommates sound like awful people.

It sucks that this student has to live with them right now, and a fresh start should be on the cards as soon as possible.

Because there’s no way that this student is the problem.

Let’s see what folks on Reddit made of this.

This person thought that the guys were bullying the student.

While others encouraged the student to find a new place to live.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a woman who shuts down her neighbor’s construction project after her property gets damaged.

Meanwhile, this Redditor gave a full breakdown as to why the roommates were the only ones in the wrong.

These two guys that the student is living with are clearly completely insufferable bullies that have very little care for anything but their own amusement. When you share a home with other people – regardless of whether they’re strangers you’re living with as roommates, or friends or family that you’re living with – respect is one of the most important factors. Mutual respect. And they clearly have no intention of respecting their roommate whatsoever.

Whether it’s that they’re picking on them because they have Aspergers, or whether it’s that they simply chose a target, maybe someone who was a bit different to them, and are now bullying them for their own amusement, it’s an abhorrent way to behave. It’s something that you expect to see of middle schoolers, and it’s not even okay then – as adults, there is absolutely no way that this is anything other than disgusting behaviour towards a disabled person.

The roommates are horrible people, and that’s the truth of this.

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Career changes rarely arrive conveniently, especially when new licensing rules suddenly put an entire job at risk.

This young truck driver needed a CDL, but his employer initially refused to fund the qualification required to keep its deliveries moving.

Instead of absorbing the cost himself, OP calmly let management approach a deadline it could not afford to ignore.

Let’s see how this road test unfolded.

How I got My (CDL) Commercial Drivers License.

“In high school I went to tech school for auto mechanics.

Since I was little, I always wanted to be a mechanic. Upon graduation I went directly to work as a mechanic.

The work didn’t bother me so much, but I didn’t like the shop, One day I realized the best part of my day was the test drive.

So, I thought being a truck driver would be the perfect job for me. So, I worked towards that goal. Soon after my 20th birthday I got a job driving a truck.

He was a big fan of this job!

I loved the open road!

Back then Pennsylvania used the class 1, 2, 3, license system. Class 1 was for 18 wheelers. Class 2 was for large trucks over 30K lbs. gross vehicle weight; Class 3 was passenger vehicles. The company I worked for had 2 delivery trucks and I was driver #2.

All was great, till….

About 3 and a half years after I started Pennsylvania decided to go with the Federal Commercial Driver’s License.

The classes all worked the same, with differences. Instead of 1, 2, 3, it is now A, B, C. Class A is 18- wheelers, Class B is all other trucks over 27k lbs. And Class C was passenger vehicles.

Class 3 and class C vehicles only needed a regular driver’s license to drive them.

All other classes required extra testing to get the proper license. Once you had your truck permit you had to be able to get a truck and licensed driver to test drive and practice with.

Then take the driving test. Followed by the written test, to get your license.

I have a problem.

I don’t know another CDL driver, nor anyone who will allow me to borrow a truck to take the test. My only other option is to enroll into a truck driving school. At 20 living on my own, that was not an option.

Our trucks were originally rated at class 3 because they had no air brakes and weighed 28k lbs.

The company chose this route so they could pay drivers less. However, with the Federal class system, our trucks are now class B requiring a CDL.

So, the characters. There is me (OP). A 20M truck driver.

Fred 40ishM (the company part owner).

John 30ishM (my manager under Fred).

Pennsylvania had a 3-month deadline to get your CDL, or you cannot drive. One day John asks me “Are you going to get your CDL”?

I say “I don’t know. Is the company goanna pay for it?” “I don’t know” said John” “Lemme talk to Fred”.

Fred was a problem…

At this point I am the only driver they have. John and I work together well. I have a great working relationship with everyone in the company, and our customers as well, well, everyone but Fred.

Fred bought into to the company a year ago. From day one he had an issue with me.

He always assumed I was doing the wrong thing but never had true cause. Since day one, he would only speak to me if he had to. No small talk, no smile.

A month passes and I do not get an answer one way or the other. Till Fred asks me one day. “Are you going to get your CDL”? I say, “Are you paying for it”? “No” he says. So, I reply “No” as well.

Another month goes by, and Fred and I have the same conversation. But this time Fred asked,” What are you going to do for work”? I looked at him in the eye and said, “This isn’t the only job”!

He had a plan…

The malicious compliance.

What I knew that Fred apparently didn’t realize was that in just over 2 weeks they could not deliver product unless they hire someone for a lot more money to drive.

So, they were going to have to comply to my demand or lose 85% of their business!

With almost 2 weeks to go till the deadline John says to me,” On Saturday take the company pickup, drive to Harrisburg, and get your permit. You will be paid for your time”!

I found a few weeks earlier that if I drove the same truck for 3 years, I could get a waiver of the permit.

As long as the company owner is willing to sign an affidavit that I drove there 3 years or more, I could skip all of the driving portion, get my permit, then take the written test and get my CDL.

I did not tell Fred that. Instead, I went to the other owner of the company and had him sign.

Saturday comes, I get on the road at 4 am to be in Harrisburg DMV by 5:30 or 6 am. When I get there, I am surprised.

The line for the DMV runs out the door and around the block!

I estimate when they open at 7:00 am I will be about 500th in line! It took another 2.5 hrs, but I walked out with my permit. Now for the test!

To Pennsylvania’s credit, they had a firehouse in every county as a temporary CDL testing site, due to the volume of people who needed testing.

I tried to get into 3 different testing sites, but they were packed and closed before I navigated the line to get in. After that my office called around to reserve a spot for me.

Finally on Thursday afternoon I get a call to get to a particular testing site in one hour, and I have a seat to take the test.

The problem… I was an hour and a half away from the site! Well, I floored it, bent a few laws, but I got to the site as they were closing the doors, and got in.

To get a CDL you must pass the general truck test, and the air brake test. Then you can take the test for endorsements on your license.

They include Tanker, School bus, Passenger (bus), double busses (think long bus that bends in the middle), double and triple trailers (commonly seen behind Fed EX and UPS trucks), and lastly HazMat (for trucks hauling hazardous materials over 50 lbs.).

I was there to take two tests; I took all but one! I took every test but HazMat. I was the last person to walk in and sit down with my test. I was the first to leave.

As I was walking out I heard one guy say to his friend “I guess he failed.” In the back of the room was a computer that graded your test and gave you the score right then.

He nailed it!

80 and above to pass. Fingers crossed my test was ran through the computer. I passed all tests with my lowest score being an 87, each test scored individually!

That Saturday same deal. Take the pickup, drive to Harrisburg, get my license. But this time I left at 3:00 am, and good thing I did.

This time I was about 300th in line. It still took about 2 hours once I got inside.

By the time I came out with my license the line was over 1,500 people and growing.

All in all, over that 2-week period I got about 25 hours of overtime, a CDL, and a pay raise. I left the company about a year later; I continued to drive trucks for the next 11 years before becoming a diesel tech.

Having a CDL was very helpful through my diesel career. In most cases having the CDL got me to the front of the line and/or increased my starting salary. In some shops I worked I was the only tech legal to drive a truck on test drives!”

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And another TikTokker weighed in.

Once management realized losing its only driver could jeopardize most of the business, it paid OP to pursue the CDL on company time.

He secured a waiver, passed nearly every endorsement test, and finished with 25 overtime hours, a raise, and a credential that strengthened his career.

Fred refused to buy one license, then accidentally purchased OP a professional upgrade package with overtime, endorsements, and years of better job prospects.

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Imagine dating someone who is in debt, but you have plenty of money and hardly any bills. Would you let them figure out how to pay off their debt and mind your own business, or would you pay it off for them?

In this story, one young woman is in this situation, and she decides on an impulse to pay off her boyfriend’s debt. She doesn’t think it’s a big deal and thinks it’s a nice thing to do.

Her mom disagrees. In fact, she’s calling her daughter a “thief.”

Is her mom overreacting or did she really do something wrong? Keep reading for all the details.

AITA for paying off my BFs 7k debt with ‘my parent’s money’?

As the title implies, I (21f) paid my BFs (26m) debt, and now my parents (specifically and kinda only my mom) are really unhappy.

So here’s all the context that’s probably needed:

My family lives very comfortably. I wouldn’t say we’re “rich”, like we’re not sharing a tax bracket with bezos, but we’re comfortable and we’ve never really been worried about bills and stuff like some people.

I do have a job that l’ve saved a lot of money from, but my parents also give me a pretty big allowance (most of which enters my savings as well.)

She knows her boyfriend doesn’t make a good first impression.

I’m gonna add this next descriptive part only because I wanna give my mom the benefit of the doubt.

But yes, my boyfriend is not the typical man a parental figure would jump at their daughter dating.

He has a lot of body tattoos. He doesn’t have facial tattoos, but from his neck to his legs it’s pretty much ink. He also has some piercings, and he’s overall a very large and intimidating person.

But wait, there’s more.

Finally, and please don’t judge, but as a teenager, he did face time in prison.

I’m adding these details because I want to be fair to my mom’s perspective, and I can see why someone with those things looks like a red flag.

Those are also her MAIN reasons for disliking him.

She decided to help her boyfriend out.

A little over a week ago I was at my BFs house alone, since he was out at work. I don’t live with him, but I like hanging around his place.

On this day, I opened the door to some people asking about my bf. I’ll sum it up by saying they were debt collectors, but l’m not going to go into the reason for the debt or otherwise.

It was kind of a rash decision, but I decided to cover it. My BF is really sweet, he pays for basically everything for me, he spoils me a lot, and it’s not even a really easy thing for him to do since he doesn’t come from money, and most of the little extra cash he does have is from amateur boxing on the side of his real job.

Since I am comfortable enough to have my schooling, utilities and housing covered, I have a pretty hefty amount saved, so I just did it kinda without thinking.

Let’s see how her mom reacted when she found out.

My parents can see the activity in the shared account I have with them, so my mom called me like only a few hours after, asking what l’d purchased.

And I told her the truth and she’s totally furious at me.

She hates my boyfriend’s guts basically, and she thinks he’s a deadbeat (even though I told her he didn’t make me pay it).

It feels like since yesterday me and her have been arguing NON stop since that day.

She sees her mom’s point.

My dad is mostly neutral even though he hates my BF too.

My mom has been trying to convince him to stop giving me money, and she’s claiming I’m a “little thief”.

I’ll admit I probably only covered like 1k of the debt with my own earned money, the rest was given by them, but a gift is a gift and I feel like I can do what I want with the money they put in my account.

Pls gimme advice. Like I can see why my mom’s mad, I’d be upset about my kids dating a guy like my bf, but I wouldn’t do all this over it.

She keeps saying that she knows her boyfriend doesn’t look like a guy you’d want your daughter to date, yet she’s still dating him. What does he do for a living? Why was he in debt? Why was he in prison? What are his redeeming qualities? What does she see in him? These are the things I’d want to know.

Let’s see how Reddit responded.

This person thinks she really messed up.

Another person thinks her boyfriend has money.

This person thinks she needs to try living on her own.

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Another person points out the real issue.

As far as the last comment, if her parents gave her the money as an allowance, it’s technically her money now, right? So, I wouldn’t really consider that spending someone else’s money.

Maybe her parents should cut her off if she has proven that she can’t be responsible with the money they give her.

She’s old enough to live on her own and support herself. Then, maybe she’d understand the value of a dollar.

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Imagine moving into what you think is a nice, quiet neighborhood, but then you find out that one of your neighbors likes to throw loud pool parties. What would you do if the noise were so loud that you couldn’t work while working from home?

In this story, one woman is in this exact situation. She tried to be neighborly about it, but she’s pretty sure the neighbors don’t like her. She’s also pretty sure they’re not going to turn the music down just to be nice.

Now, she’s considering calling the police. Is that going too far? Let’s read the whole story to decide.

AITA for considering calling the cops on my neighbors and starting a neighborhood war?

I (f25) and my husband (m24) just bought our first house earlier this year.

It’s in a small neighborhood out in the middle of nowhere and we loved it immediately.

We later found out that our neighbor behind us tends to throw lots of pool parties and play music super loud.

Aparently a couple of older couples have actually moved because of it, and other people in the neighborhood just put up with it.

How bad is this music, really?

My husband is super sensitive to noises where I am pretty chill and could sleep through a hurricane – so we waited until the first music party to decide how bad the sound level actually was.

Turns out, it is not the volume of the music – it’s the bass they have. It vibrates a lot and that’s what we can/feel in our house.

Today was the first day we heard it/had an issue with it.

It was during the day but I work from home full time, and it was to the point where it was disrupting me while I worked.

The neighbor doesn’t seem to care.

I have already met that neighbor one time and she didn’t bother to say “hi” during our introduction – she just gave me a nasty stare and continued talking to my other friend (don’t worry my friend asked her what her problem was). So I was a little nervous just to walk over there.

I found her on the neighbor FaceBook group and send her a friend request and a message asking her if there was a way to turn the bass down a couple notches while I finish my work day.

She completely ignored my message, and when my friend texted her on my behalf (I don’t have her phone number), her response was “it isn’t late”…

I know it wasn’t and I appreciated that but it was causing my house to vibrate.

She tried again.

I tried to wait it out, but after a couple hours it was still pretty bad.

I went to her front door and rang her Ring, and I heard her turn her music down to check the notification. She turned her music back up and Ring notified me I was being recorded.

I walked back in defeat to ask my husband if I was being unreasonable.

I really liked the music she was playing, and I know during the summer there may be gatherings in the evening or parties in the weekends. But she wouldn’t even respond to me about just turning the bass down while I finish working.

She wanted a friendly relationship with the neighbors.

I wasn’t trying to throw a wrench in her day, I just don’t understand why it was so unreasonable for me to ask that?

We have heard some parties she throws lasts until 3/4 in the morning.

My husband said if she was blasting music past 11pm that we should just call the cops with a noise complaint and I honestly agree.

I was trying to be friendly and have that neighborly relationship.

She’s over trying to be nice.

If I could just message her “hey, it’s a little loud” and her go “sorry didn’t realize I’ll turn it down”, I would be fine.

I went to college. Sometimes you just don’t realize how loud it is.

But she blew me off multiple different times today, made it seem like I was unreasonable, and decided she didn’t like me/wanted nothing to do with me about a month prior to this.

So why should my husband and I keep trying to be nice and keep it between neighbors? Doesn’t make sense to me. AITA?

Bass can be worse than volume. While her neighbor technically isn’t doing anything wrong, she is being inconsiderate.

Let’s see what Reddit suggests.

This person thinks it’s okay to call the cops.

Another person thinks it’s reasonable to want the neighbor to turn the noise down.

This person thinks all the neighbors should call the cops.

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Nobody thinks the neighbor is a good neighbor.

I lived in a neighborhood once that was pretty quiet except for our next door neighbor who would occasionally throw very loud parties late at night. We called the non-emergency police line on them every time, and they always ended up turning the music down. They would still do the same thing the next time though.

I don’t think it’s overreacting to call the police. If the neighbor won’t be nice, she can at least be forced to follow the law.

One neighbor is all it takes to ruin a quiet, peaceful neighborhood.

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Whether in your personal life or your professional life, there are times you will need certain information in order to finish a task. There are also times you will need to provide information in order for someone to complete a task for you. In either case, without the proper information, the task can’t be completed.

That’s not a hard concept to grasp, right?

In this story, it seems to be a hard concept for some managers to grasp. A systems administrator sends out an email to every department clearly stating what information he needs, but he doesn’t get back all the information he requested.

Keep reading to see how he handles the situation.

I may be good but I’m not a miracle worker.

So I’m a Systems administrator for a large company.

We have recently rolled out a new ticketing system for the users to use.

I told them 3 to 6 months to get it all up and running but the project management team say na it can be done in 1 month. That’s a story for another day.

They worked really hard.

Me and my team worked our butts off for the last month. Coming in early, leaving late. Most days we were working 12 gours a day doing what we can to roll this new system out company wide for the due date.

We made compromise with the PM team stating that when it is rolled out some functionality won’t be there as they haven’t given us the time to develop it into the system.

They were fine with this.

He told the department what he needed from them.

With the new system comes new reports for different departments directly from the system.

Now I sent event department a email with very simple instructions of what we required to build these reports which is stated below.

Report Name What reports need creating What is the criteria of each report Schedule Who to each report get sent to. What information will needed on each report such as ticket number category status – Will need this individually unless all report will have the same information required. What layout is required – Horizontal or Landscape Output Format – PDF (l advise against this if they want there pivot tables still) or Excel

He did not get nearly all of the information he asked for.

Low and behold the information I got back from the department and the project managers was the below.

Welfare Support Welfare Admin Welfare Time to close ticket

They give me stupid and unreasonable deadlines and 2% of the information i requested i give them exactly what they said.

A report that shows the close times of tickets for the specific department with 0 other information. Doesn’t show what tickets they relate to when they come in who submitted them.

He wasn’t messing around.

Safe to say they were not happy and they said thats not what we asked for.

I referenced their email with mine below what we required to build the reports and a statement under stating your report will show the information you provide to me. Once your report is done we will be moving onto the next. Failure to provide the correct information will result in going to the back of the queue.

They decided to ring me and get mad with me so I hung up and move onto the next report which had sent us everything correctly and were very happy with there report.

Be nice to IT otherwise your mega urgent and Important stuff goes to the back of my list of things to do.

Ps. Be extra nice to your SysAdmin as they can just revoke licenses as they please.

This is a basic case of not following directions. I don’t blame him for moving on to the next report.

Let’s see how Reddit responded.

This person knows this situation all too well.

Another person blames the project manager.

Another person offers advice.

It can be really frustrating to ask for specific information and basically have your request ignored. At least OP had everything in writing so he could refer back to the emails when they complained.

It doesn’t help that he was on a time crunch. It’s not like he had all the time in the world. He was trying to be efficient.

Following directions isn’t that hard.

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Imagine being a homeowner and taking pride in the way your yard looks. What would you do if there were a cable utility box in your yard, and the cable guy left a mess behind? Would you clean it up, wait for him to come back, or find a way to make this work in your favor?

In this story, one man is in this situation, and he’s pretty upset about it until he talks to some friends at a pool party. After a few drinks, they came up with an idea that not only benefited him but also benefited most of his neighbors.

Keep reading for the whole story.

Forget to clean up, fine, EVERYBODY gets free cable

Pre-children (PC) , my wife and I purchase our first house. We were very excited to be homeowners.

We were particularly proud to show off all of our gardening and yard skills we have developed over the years of childhood chores.

Don’t tell mom, but who knew that seemingly punishment of yard work would actual translate to adulthood.

We are off to a great start with a meticulous yard spending way too much time, and money.

He noticed something interesting.

On my small suburban lot is the Utility Box for one of the 2 cable choices in the neighborhood. Along the EE Cable Corp, you know the one who Forbes always lists as one of the worst companies in the country.

I come home from work one day and notice the utility box is open and the cables are fileted all over. I did not think too much of it at the time and made a mental note assuming they are on a break.

The next day, I come home from work and the utility box is still a mess.

This is so annoying!

I called the Evil Empire Cable Company to kindly let them know that they left a mess in my yard after a repair.

They told be nicely that they will be out in the neighborhood the following day to finish the work.

Many weeks come and go without them fixing their mess.

Define “eventually.”

It was coming up on our first pool party and we wanted the house to be perfect.

I call the EE Cable Corp again. Not to bore you with the details of the conversation, but ended with a rude ending that they will be out there “eventually.”

Now I am I seeing why nobody likes this Evil Empire Cable Company.

Drinking led to a realization.

At our first PC pool party, maybe after a margarita, or 4, we start aimlessly discussing the Evil Empire Cable Corp.

Now we are a bunch of engineers, and a truck driver (important later) drinking margaritas, the discussion turned from complaining to scheming.

While poking around the utility box and the box on the side of my house, we notice that this EE Cable Corp does not use multiple line blocks on the cable. They merely hook up the cable from the house to the utility box, easy peasy nice and easy.

I am guessing the lack of security is a genuine artifact of “midwest nice.” Why protect something that nobody steals.

They decided to take advantage of the situation.

We also notice that there is only one house of the 8 that is serviced with cable.

So we proceed to hook up free cable to the 7 remaining houses.

We neatly stuff all the wires and close the utility box.

They weren’t done yet.

As I mentioned the only non-engineer in the group was a truck driver.

An earlier pointless discussion was about different padlocks and why truck drivers use a specific round kind. Basically so that it is impossible to break with small bolt cutters.

He grabs a large round padlock out of his truck and we try to place the it on the utility box.

It won’t fit, hole is too small.

They didn’t let that stop them.

So a few seconds of drilling, we now placed our own padlock on the EE Cable Corps.

Utility box along with 7 houses with free cable protected by an industrial padlock designed to prevent trucker theft.

After meeting the other neighbors and making sure they are trustworthy I let them know about our party.

Each one smiled and began enjoying free cable.

Eventually, the cable guys did come back.

A number of months later, enjoying free cable, the EE Cable Corp is in the backyard staring at our handiwork. They bend over regularly really studying the padlock.

I can only imagine their discussion on what they are seeing.

They bring out the bolt cutters from the truck, I assume they carry them if they lost a key or padlock is rusted.

Now looking at the bolt cutters, I can tell this will be a futile exercise. After only about 3 minutes, they both shrug their shoulders, get back in their truck and leave.

They enjoyed free cable for quite a while.

That was the last time we ever saw the EE Cable Company. Since all but one of us was enjoying free cable, there was no reason for them to be out there.

Our gig was up when the one who did pay for cable, who we never really met, moved.

The next technician was very dedicated, after 3 trips each with a larger bolt cutter, resulting in using one more than 4 feet long, put everything back to the way it was before.

And thus concludes the story of 7 houses enjoying free cable for more than 4 years because the laziness of a single technician and a rude customer service rep.

At least they enjoyed the free cable. This is a great example of making lemons out of lemonade; although, technically they were stealing.

Let’s see how Reddit responded.

Here’s another story about someone who got free cable.

This person expected a different story.

Another person did some math.

Here’s another story about a cable company.

On the one hand, what they did was stealing. On the other hand, if the cable company employees hadn’t been so lazy, this never would’ve happened, and like the guy at the end, they could’ve broken the lock if they’d tried hard enough.

Brainstorming at the pool party worked out really well.

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Imagine studying for a test, and your dad asks you to give him a massage. Would you do it, or would you refuse?

In this story, one teen is in this situation, and he really seems annoyed with his dad. He has stood up to his dad multiple times, but his dad never takes it well.

Now, he’s not sure if he’s being unreasonable or if his dad is being unreasonable.

Keep reading for the whole story.

AITA for saying NO to my dad?

Me and my siblings are obliged to massage our dad EVERY night.

Back when we were younger, we didn’t really mind to massage him since he was usually not at home and only comes home during weekends and vacations when me and my siblings were not that busy with school.

Due to the pandemic, my dad lost his job so he’s at home everyday.

Here’s what his parents are doing for work.

My mom and dad are now operating our food business and drives to the next town on our motorcycle with mom, everyday.

I understand that it can be very tiring because he’s the one who always drive and cooks in our business.

Since he’s becoming old, he has more body pain and as usual, we massage him at night.

They don’t always want to follow his rules.

Here’s the deal, he wants us to massage him before he sleeps, like in a pampering him in a way.

He does a rollcall of us upstairs and we got to the bedroom to massage him. When he doesn’t do the rollcall or we don’t go upstairs voluntarily, we don’t massage him and he just sleeps.

Sometimes, on nights where we are working on our requirements, we tell him that we’re busy and the deadline is before midnight so we can’t massage him before he sleeps.

And when we do that, we are now “brats” who are “disobedient” and “ingrates”.

Their dad doesn’t care about their explanation.

I tried explaining to him that we could still massage him after we finish our requirements but he reasons out that the time we use to massage him could also be our time for resting, in which me and my siblings DOES NOT consider as rest in any way.

We also tell him that we have to finish first our requirements to meet deadlines but he wants us to prioritize massaging him (there are nights when he just says OK but we still have to massage him after even if we’re tired).

As someone with anger issues and a loud voice, there have been times where I explained to my dad in an angry way so I know that I have been disrespectful towards my dad sometimes.

Exams are important.

I also want to add that there are days that we can’t massage like for 3 days straight since we’re preparing for exams or reports and he just lets it be.

Last month, I was very busy on my report and I slept at 6am already (still have online classes at 9am) and my dad kind of woke up so he was asking me to massage him.

My eyes were hurting from looking at the screen too long and my hands were tired from typing all night BUT he still wants me to massage him.

This didn’t go well.

I told him NO and that I’m tired and I could always just massage him the next day and he just says “I will remember this time when you did not obey me”.

I remember crying myself to sleep because my mental health can’t take this kind of treatment.

So, AITA?

Is their dad being unreasonable, or are they really “brats”?

Let’s see what Reddit thinks.

This person thinks the whole situation is very wierd.

Another person calls the dad a bad parent.

This is a good question.

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Another person thinks the dad sounds creepy.

I’m going to be honest. When I first started reading this, I thought “massage” was a typo and that OP really meant “message” like sending a text. I assumed he meant his dad wanted him to send him a text every night before he went to sleep like to say “goodnight” because maybe the dad wasn’t always home when the kids went to sleep. That scenario made sense to me.

But the more I read, the more I realized that it wasn’t a typo, and the whole massage thing does not make sense at all to me.

This is creepy and weird. The dad is a bad parent. Where is the mom in all of this?

They need to keep saying no to their dad.

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