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Brother Insisted I Skip Work to Meet His Disneyland Schedule and Called Me Selfish When I Said No
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Brother Insisted I Skip Work to Meet His Disneyland Schedule and Called Me Selfish When I Said No

About a month ago, my family decided our Christmas plans. We are going to exchange and open presents with all the kids at our parents house on Christmas Eve and spend Christmas day with our individual families (my brother with his wife a kids at his house, etc...). Because of this, I told my job I'd be willing to work the 26-31st. In response, my boss said I could make double overtime, since no o...

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AITA for telling my wife that putting our son to bed was now her job and then moving my bed into a separate room?
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AITA for telling my wife that putting our son to bed was now her job and then moving my bed into a separate room?

I (35m) and my wife (29f) have a two-year-old son. She is a SAHM and I work full-time, usually from 6:30am to 5:30pm or so. Being a toddler, my son should generally be sleeping between 11 and 14 hours a day. Therefore, what my wife and I aim for is for him to wake up at 7am, do all the typical daily activities, take a nap starting between 1:30pm and 2:00pm for two hours, and then go to bed again ...

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AITA for exposing my coworker's bathroom habits?
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AITA for exposing my coworker's bathroom habits?

I work at a smaller company of about 15 people. I get along with pretty much everyone with the exception of someone we'll call Alexis (40F). Alexis is very socially conservative and I am not. I do my best to not talk about things I know will cause an argument, but they sometimes happen anyway. One time I used the bathroom right after the cleaning crew finished cleaning it and didn't bother puttin...

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AITA for being rude to a customer outside of work?
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AITA for being rude to a customer outside of work?

I am the hostess at a restaurant. We are open until 3pm and then we close for 2 hours to do turn-over service before dinner at 5pm. Between 3 and 5 you can sit at the bar and have a small menu of appetizer items. On Memorial Day, which was a horrifically busy day, myself and my seater hostess got to 3pm and with relief we flipped our sign over from "open" to "see bartender between 3-5pm". We'd ...

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AITA for saying my wife will have to quit her job if we get booted from another daycare?
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AITA for saying my wife will have to quit her job if we get booted from another daycare?

My wife and I have a 3 year old daughter, Alexis. Both of us work and Alexis has attended daycare since she was 1. In the 2 years since, we have been asked to leave 2 programs because my wife is a micromanager. I admit both of us went into the first program not really understanding daycare. I quickly learned that they can’t provide personalized care and after learning from her teachers, I reset ...

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Overworked Husband's Dinner Plans Get Disrupted When Wife Asks to Share Last Pieces of Sushi
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Overworked Husband's Dinner Plans Get Disrupted When Wife Asks to Share Last Pieces of Sushi

I'm sitting here half annoyed half confused how to feel. Here is my situation: My wife did not work today. Has been hanging with the kids all day. I got home from work at 5:30 and did a turn and burn to jujitsu cla*s. Dinner was not discussed but since I was getting home at 8:30 from I a*sumed I was on my own for dinner. I get back at 8:30 absolutely starving and exhausted. I had been planning m...

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AITA for making a comment about my friend not having a job after she expected us to bye her food.
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AITA for making a comment about my friend not having a job after she expected us to bye her food.

Awhile ago, I was in the car with some friends, and we were all driving to an art store. One of my friends (let’s call her Anna) mentioned she was hungry. Her boyfriend was in the back seat with her, and they started talking about what to eat. For context, we are all adults, but Anna doesn’t work and doesn’t like spending her boyfriend’s money. We suggested a pizza place, but she said, "Well, I d...

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Jamaican Faces 'Gatekeeping' Accusations for Not Endorsing Coworker's 'Immersive' Jamaican Experience After Finding Out She Spent the Entire Vacation in a Resort
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Jamaican Faces 'Gatekeeping' Accusations for Not Endorsing Coworker's 'Immersive' Jamaican Experience After Finding Out She Spent the Entire Vacation in a Resort

My family (23F) is originally from Jamaica, and I’m very proud of where we come from. My parents emigrated in the 80s, but they made a point of traveling home several times per year and maintaining a Jamaican household to keep my siblings and I connected to our culture. I returned from this year’s vacation this past weekend, and I was telling Coworker A about it during our break because they aske...

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'AITA for not helping my husband get ready for work in the morning?'
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'AITA for not helping my husband get ready for work in the morning?'

I (25F) have been married to my husband (25M) for 4 years now. We have a child so it limits our schedule a lot. Here's how our mornings used to go 4 months ago : I would wake up around 6am, get ready and go to work by 645am. Husband would wake up when our 2 year old woke up. Usually around 645 to 7am, then gets ready and takes child to daycare. It worked for a bit but my husband hated the schedu...

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'AITA for secretly moving out of my BF's house while he's at work?'
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'AITA for secretly moving out of my BF's house while he's at work?'

H**lo All! IN A FEW HOURS I AM ABOUT TO SECRETLY MOVE OUT. I will be giving live updates and I will do my best to provide as much context. So here we go ... I (31 F) have been living with my boyfriend (42 M) for a little over 6 years. From the very start everything moved so fast and I jumped into a new life before thinking. There is so much to say about the 6 year history we have, mixed with good...

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'I found messages on my MIL/boss's computer that change my entire view of her. What do I do?'
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'I found messages on my MIL/boss's computer that change my entire view of her. What do I do?'

I listen to two hot takes literally every week and this happened to me a couple days ago. I’ve been at a loss of what to do so I figured I should finally make a Reddit account and post here. I work at my husbands family business that builds custom homes. I met my MIL when she came into the design firm I worked at to pick out some options for a client. She and I hit it off and after she’d come in ...

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'AITA for refusing to cover my sister's rent even though she just had a baby and can't work?' UPDATED
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'AITA for refusing to cover my sister's rent even though she just had a baby and can't work?' UPDATED

My update as of 4/25/25: my sister and her boyfriend are no longer in the household. It’s been building up to this moment but for the past few weeks it’s gotten so much worse. I caught him calling me names and saying I am dirty and nasty for not washing his dishes, when I just wash mine. I truly don’t understand why he feels this way, I have video evidence of him saying it and talking horrible ab...

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