Saturday, September 5, 2020

Wife Gets Fired, Company Won't Pay Last Paycheck, Scary Letter Ensues


Those frightening litigious letters are super effective when companies insist on being cheap and criminal jerks. This guy's wife got fired, and the dentist's office wouldn't make good on her last paycheck. Fortunately, they were able to get the issue resolved. 

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Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/Gokus_Hairdresser • 2h Don't want to pay me my last paycheck? I'll take a full month of PTO instead! This is actually my wife's story, but a few years ago my wife had just landed a job as a dental assistant. She was picking things up as quickly as could be expected and she got along with her coworkers great. However, right after starting she was warned by her coworkers that the office manager was very hire/fire happy; she had a tendency to fire people on a whim and t

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Text - We naively thought that since my wife already had some experience as a dental assistant, that she had a head start on any other new hire that she would be fine... until just a few weeks in and without any notice she was fired for "not picking things up quick enough." (for what was advertised as an entry level position) Whatever, we live in an at-will state (UT) and knew there wasn't much we could do so we started looking for another job for her. However, we noticed after a week or two tha

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Text - Another few weeks went by with several emails and texts going unanswered by her before we finally asked Father-in-law, who is a lawyer, for some advice. He approached a colleague in the firm who specialized in employment law and was informed of a very interesting law here in UT that basically says that if you haven't been paid after being fired, NORMAL PAY WILL RESUME once a written request for payment has been issued. So basically my wife was due 8 hrs of pay for every day after she sent

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Text - After a scary litigious sounding letter from my Father- in-Law informing them of this law, it came out that the check had never been printed or sent and that there was no accounting issue. The office manager just never planned on paying her for the last pay period (which was seriously like a day or two). This ended up costing the dental office over a month's worth of wages, almost $2,500! TL;DR - Wife was fired and never paid for the last pay period. After several weeks of being ghosted,

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Guy's Roommate Enforces Weird Rules, He Moves Out Mid-Lease


This guy asked folks on Reddit whether or not he was in the wrong for stranding his roommate with full rent, because he simply couldn't take any more of his roommate's strange rules. The gist of it is that his roommate's girlfriend moved in with them. Said girlfriend seems to have suffered some kind of trauma in the past, and can't stand being caught alone with the guy when her boyfriend isn't around. Considering the uniquely tough time that we're all living through, and how many folks are forced to be at home most of the time, this created quite the conundrum. So, most folks agreed the guy really didn't do anything wrong. 

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Text - AITA for moving out mid-lease and stranding my roommate with full rent after his girlfriend keeps accusing me of being "creepy"? So l've been living with my current roommate for 2 years now. I'm actually subletting and l'm on my 2nd year which is month-to-month, but we've had an unofficial "verbal" agreement that I'd stay until the end of the year. I mean it's a pandemic, I didn't think I'd move either. Anyways his gf moved in beginning of this year. It's been...a lot. She's obviously had

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Text - Well when she first moved in my roommate had some "ground rules" for me so his gf would be more comfortable. She obviously wasn't thrilled about having another roommate. He said I couldn't talk to her (like strike up a convo) if he wasn't there because she doesn't want to have to talk to me if she didn't have to. He also said it would be best if we tried to not use the same facilities at the same time (like if she's cooking in the kitchen, I should wait until she leaves before I grab food

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Text - Things got worse in recent months cause we've all been working from home. It's REALLY hard to avoid someone 24/7. So obviously l've slipped up more. One time I came home from Costco and offered her a spare bottle of coconut water I couldn't fit in the fridge. Big mistake. My roommate had to have a "talk" with me that night about how I should know she would never drink my drinks and it's weird for me to even offer. The most recent one was when she was watching some GoT in our living room.

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Text - Long story short, my friend just had a place open up that's cheap and I'm gonna move. I told my roommate and he's pissed, because of our unofficial agreement and how he's probably gonna pay full rent for a while. I feel bad because yeah, I did say I wasn't gonna move. But I'm also pretty sick of both him and his gf. However, I feel kind of guilty because I agreed to their weird rules before all this started back when I thought it'd be ok. 23.2k 2.0k 1 Share

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Text - DormantDormaus • 11h NTA. He made the place super uncomfortable for you. Is it weird that I want to hear more about this bizarre situation though? Reply 5.1k ...

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Text - aliquilts71 • 11h • Asshole Enthusiast [3] 1 Award NTA. You agreed to stay there BEFORE you started getting treated like a would be criminal in your own home. It's ridiculous to expect you to live like that. If your roommates girlfriend can't live with other people in her living space, she shouldn't have moved in. Reply 3.0k ...

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Text - pukui7 • 11h • Colo-rectal Surgeon [37] NTA Move out and don't look back. If you are such a creep, they should be overjoyed to see you leaving anyway. Reply 1.9k ...

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Text - Storkey01 • 11h NTA - That's an insane way to have to live. Get out ASAP Reply 27.8k ...

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Text - SimonSpooner • 11h • Partassipant [1] NTA. If you leave there are still 2 people in the flat. Why is the gf not paying rent? Besides that, these were ridiculous rules. If she can't get over her past trauma it's not your responsibility to cope with her to the point you can't offer coconut water. Must be hard for her but she is TA. Reply 9.2k ...

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Text - SlytherClaw3 • 11h • Asshole Enthusiast [6] NTA. Move out. However, I feel kind of guilty because I agreed to their weird rules before all this started back when I thought it'd be ok. Exactly. When you thought it would be OK. This is a bit much. Obviously we don't know what trauma she's gone through, but that doesn't mean you have to put up with being treated like that at your own place. That's your home too. If you're not comfortable with how you're being treated - which, frankly, noone

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Text - Raoul_Duke_Nukem • 11h NTA Your roommate's girlfriend sounds weird and incapable of normal human interaction. How do you live in the same house as someone without striking up an occasional conversation once in a while or running into each other in common areas? That would be very uncomfortable. It sounds like your roommate is enabling her weird behaviour instead of explaining to her that it's just not how human beings act in a society. Get out of there. Reply 1 1.2k ...

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Text - WoodlandOfWeir • 11h • Partassipant [4] NTA by all means. However, out of curiosity, how did the girlfriend react when you offered her a drink or stood behind her in the living room? Are you sure that this ridiculousness is coming from her and he isn't just insanely controlling and inventing stuff? Reply 477

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Text - dr197 • 11h NTA. The place was your home just as much as it was theirs. From what you have said you seemed to have been nothing but nice and willing to put up with them. I understand she went through traumatic experiences but if she's going to act like this she needs to see a therapist before she moves in with anyone. Reply 251 ...

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Text - username20242024 • 10h NTA. 1. She shouldn't have moved in with him knowing he has a roommate if she didn't want a roommate and expected to be treated like a princess especially since you didn't mention anything about her paying rent. 2. The "ground rules" are creepy. You shouldn't have been ok with that because you pay rent, it's ur place too. 3. Moving out was the right decision because she could have accused you of something a lot more serious than being creepy just to get you to leave

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Text - Lizbot7 • 11h • Asshole Enthusiast [8] NTA. It's a pandemic, you didn't know you'd be stuck at home constantly and honestly it sounds like you've spent the last several months walking on eggshells in your own home. He has created a situation that makes it hard for you to keep living with him, this isn't your fault. Reply 1 49 ...

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Text - lisab2266 • 11h • Partassipant [3] NTA. You have every right to leave. He changed the terms of your lease by moving her in and creating a bunch of rules that limited your use of the apartment and made it extremely difficult and stressful to live in. He will have trouble finding a new roommate who would want to live like this. Also, with his GF there, he should have no issue paying the rent. She can pay for her use of the apartment. Reply 26 ...

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Text - wotsname123 • 11h NTA. They are strongly implying you are untrustworthy and a sexual predator. I'm amazed you have stuck it as long as you have. Reply 46

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Text - fuzzy_mic • 11h • Asshole Enthusiast [6] NTA - You are on a month to month lease. Typically, 30 notice means you're there and pay rent through Sep 30. NTA if that's what happens. Reply 50 ...

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Text - noshi191 • 10h NTA. Its beyond me that you would agree to live like that. Its like having a restraining order against you but in your own home. And your roommate is shitty to even think of making you do these things. In your own home. That you also pay for. Reply 10 ...

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Text - awill237 • 10h NTA You know how you become more comfortable with the people you live with and stop being terrified of their every move? You interact with them. It's been over six months and she's living in fear of normal roommate behavior because of the ridiculous accommodations you've been asked to make. Your moving out is justified, overdue, and better for all of you if you're the only one who's been asked to change. Go and enjoy freedom of movement in your new home. Reply 10 + ...

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Text - Zahra0121 • 9h NTA. I assume the arrangements have changed since you verbally agreed to stay until the end of the year and this is a consequence of him changing your agreement. Also, is his girlfriend paying rent? Call me petty, but i would hate to be paying 1/2 rent when there's 3 people living there. Reply ...

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Text - Medievalmoomin • 9h NTA I'm so sorry. It sounds like you can't win, you can't relax and live in your own home, and that's not fair on you. I have had experiences with grown adults refusing to talk to me, like eight-year-olds, and it's been horrible, but I didn't live with them 24/7. Please do move out. It's a reasonable consequence of some very questionable house rules, that all seem designed to cast you as 'the one who is in the wrong.' I'm sorry you face moving out during the pandemic a

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Text - laim2msbehave • 9h NTA - They asked too much of you and you were there before her, if anyone should have to adjust, it's her. The GF's expectations are beyond ridiculous and if she is that fragile then she should be at her own place where she feels safe or with her family. Don't come @ me about being too harsh either because I've lived through much worse and have to manage myself and my CPTSD every single day and still function in society as many others just like me also do. Part of devel

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Text - Thundering Tacos • 8h NTA It's been 8 months Like, I sympathize with her having serious trauma, I really do. That feeling of personal violation isn't something that just goes away And I can understand there being an adjustment period to get used to each other But at a certain point you'd think everyone could at least get along casually, see you less as a stranger and more as a roommate (who's going out of his way to respect their personal space), and acknowledge that you're being treated

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Twitter Thread: Economist Explains People's Investment Strategies


Daryl Fairweather churned out an interesting little viral Twitter thread about what goes into people's motivations for various investment strategies. That point about the doomsday preppers is just a little bit too real, with the current dystopian world that we find ourselves living in. 

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Text - Daryl Fairweather @FairweatherPhD One of the weird perks about being an economist is that acquaintances often want to tell me their investment strategies, and then that conversation weirdly turns into a deep dive into that acquaintance's psyche (thread (1/7))

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Text - Daryl Fairweather @FairweatherPhD· 1h Replying to @FairweatherPhD One acquaintance told me he was putting his money into gold bars because he believed the economy would collapse under a Trump presidency. He didn't trust the US government to even remain solvent, so he was holding his gold bars in Southeast Asia. (2/7)

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Text - Daryl Fairweather @FairweatherPhD· 1h One acquaintance told me he was putting his money in diamonds. He didn't trust the Fed, but also thought that gold was overvalued. (I told him about Debeers and how the value of a diamond is mostly tied to an artificially restricted supply, but he was unswayed) (3/7) 1

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Text - Daryl Fairweather @FairweatherPhD·1h Many have told me about their investments in cryptocurrencies. Sometimes it seems to be driven by a distrust in the Fed. Sometimes it seems to be driven by a belief the dollar is antiquated and crypto currencies are part of our inevitable techno-futurist destiny. (4/7)

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Text - Daryl Fairweather @FairweatherPhD· 1h Economics teaches us that the best investment strategy is to maximize expected utility. In layman's terms: you should assume the most likely future will happen, and you have the best return in that future, but also make sure you are doing OK if an unlikely future occurs. (5/7)

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Text - Daryl Fairweather @FairweatherPhD 1h But a lot of people I talk to fixate on being the best off in a very unlikely future. And I think that's because a lot of people aren't driven by absolute returns but returns relative to everyone else, i.e., status. (6/7) 4

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Text - Daryl Fairweather @FairweatherPhD- 1h And that makes investment strategies where you are the best off in a very unlikely future really attractive because you can fantasize about that unlikely future where you are on-top even if it never materializes. (7/7) ♡ 2

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Text - Daryl Fairweather @FairweatherPhD - 41m Addendum: I think this desire for status is also what's behind the psychology of preppers (people who prepare for an apocalypse). Even though everyone would be worse off in an apocalypse there is something intoxicating about being the most relatively well off during an apocalypse

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Fiancé Chooses Mother Over Bride At Wedding


The verdict on this particular AITA thread seems to be a collective, "dude sucks." It looks like he was more interested in the health of the relationship with his mother than he was with the actual bride. Whole lot of yikes at that wedding. 

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Text - r/AmltheAsshole + Join u/Throwaway331097 • 1d Aita For leaving in an Uber after my engagement party? Not the A-hole My fiance and I got engaged a week ago, It was an absolute disaster, I never wanted a party but my fiance's mom insisted, and wanted to have the engagement party at a restuarant that is expensive (to me) and made my fiance pull money out of his saving accaunt to buy a house just so she could show herself off to her family, She: Picked a restaurant of her choice • Invited her

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Text - She didn't even order meals until later, because she was arguing about how her favorites weren't on the menu • Lied to my parents about food and said in her invitation "Join us in celebrating Jake and Sarah's engagement with desserts and champagne" ONLY!. She said "no kids" but brought SIL's kids with her. She sat in the middle, next to my fiance, and they were both having a toast without me, I was feeling so uncomfertable and super pissed that I couldn't even hide it. My parents were the

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Text - We were about to leave, My mother in law wanted us to give her a ride home because BIL left with his cousin, my fiance said "sure" next thing I knew, she got into the passenger seat, SIL tagged along and stuffed her kids in the back where I supposed to sit, I found this so damn inappropriate and humiliating, I asked my fiance if he was serious, I told him I belonged in the passenger seat, But mother in law said I was being disrespectful and refused to sit in the back, and threw some | com

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Text - I lost it, literally called an Uber and told them to go, My fiance lashed out and called me crazy and told me to get in the car because I was embarrassing him, we yelled at each other, he refused to leave, I got in my Uber as they watched and went to my parents, cried my eyes out, and refused to answer my phone. To spare myself the shaming. It was awful, awful so awful that I regret not leaving early, I hate them all, they're treating me like trash and I've had it. I'm 24 and my fiance is

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Text - Cool-Tomato-5868 • 1d • Partassipant [1] NTA- This is what your marriage will look like. It will not get better. You are under no obligation to go through with it. You do not have to suffer being treated like trash then acting grateful for it. They are doing you a favor and warning you before it's too late. Take their warning. Reply 2.1k ...

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Text - WaDaEp • 1d • Asshole Aficionado [11] 1 Award NTA. It sounds like your fiance has a mama's boy complex. And please don't be one of those women who think that marrying him will make him shape up and be better about compartmentalizing his relationship with his mother. Nope. She'll be the 3rd person in your marriage. It's going to be a 3-way marriage with you as the least priority. Reply 4.5k ...

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Text - LeSchad • 1d • Asshole Aficionado [16] 6 Awards The party was for the love of your fiance's life. The problem: that person isn't you. NTA obviously, and you need to evaluate whether this is something you want to have governing your life going forward, because it will not stop. Your possibly future MIL is making sure that you know your place in the hierarchy, and if she's the most important person at *your engagement party*, it's not going to change. Reply 1 14.8k ...

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Text - UnsightlyFuzz • 1d • Judge, Jury, and Excretioner [394] NTA. And husband-to-be didn't back you up at all. Honey, it's not too late to change your mind! Reply 7.8k ...

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Text - e 2 Awards You're definitely NTA. You handled this situation a lot better than I would have. You said at the end that the whole family was treating you like trash and that you've had it. So I assume this has been going on a long time. Based on your fiancés actions in this situation, two things seem clear to me. 1 - He's close with his family (especially his mom), so you're probably going to be around these people a lot. It's not like it's an occasional visit or holiday which MAY be tolera

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Text - 6 Awards NTA. The real problem here is your fiancé, who allowed his mother to literally put you in the back seat. His mother is flexing her "I'm still the most important woman in my son's life" muscles by dictating how he spends his savings, who he sits with, and, crucially, whether her happiness and comfort is more important than yours. But, his mother wouldn't be able to flex that strength if your fiancé didn't allow her to have it. During dinner, and probably still, she WAS the more im

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Text - NUTmeSHELL • 1d • Galasstic Overlord [3015]. N 40 Awards NTA. Why would you marry someone who allows his family to treat you this way? Sounds like he's more interested in his relationship with his mother anyway. Reply 39.4k

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Text - kiwibird_99 • 20h I am so sorry you and your parents had to endure this straight up shitty treatment by your possible in-law. I saw possible because really and truly, even if you love your fiance, you have to remember that your not just marrying him. You're marrying into his family as well, and if they can't treat you and yours with respect AND HE ALLOWS THAT TO HAPPEN, I honestly think you would be better off splitting things off. If you do that now, you will most likely never have to in

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Text - DumbedDownDinosaur • 1d • Partassipant [2] NTA. Your fianceé sounds like a mama's boy to a selfish pest of a person. This isn't a good sign. The fact he chose his family over you in such a blatant manner, his future wife, should be a massive red flag. I hate the whole "break up" advice, but honestly, please run. He and his family sound insufferable and it won't get any better. Reply 259 ...

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Text - kindlefan12 • 1d • Partassipant [3] 2 Awards DO NOT MARRY HIM NTA Reply 7.1k

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Text - Wikidess • 1d •Judge, Jury, and Excretioner [328] NTA - is this how you want to spend the rest of your life? Because trust me, his mom sure as fuck isn't going to change at this point. And the fact that he got mad at YOU saying you were embarrassing HIM? I seriously hope you are rethinking this relationship because your fiance has ZERO respect for you. Reply 102 ...

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Text - nanimal77 • 1d •Colo-rectal Surgeon [33] NTA. Time to give that ring back and get away from this family. Reply 90 ...

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Text - nom-d-pixel • 1d • Certified Proctologist [23] NTA, but you have to realize that you anger is misplaced. You don't have an MIL problem. You have a fiancé problem. Reply 56 ...

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Text - kiralsuAlivr • 1d • Certified Proctologist [24] NTA. There are so many redflags over there. Don't stay in this relationship or your life will be hell after you get married. Reply 109 ...

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Text - GinnyFromTheBlock96 • 23h NTA. THIS. IS. NOT. OKAY. BEHAVIOR. You deserve so much better. If this is how he treats you just as his fiancé, not even his wife yet, you need to get out of there. Stat. His mother has LITERALLY no place in your relationship, your wedding or engagement planning and especially your future home. You future husband, should treat you with so much more respect and in regards to your feelings. He literally let her alienate you and your family from the rest of the gro

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