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Barudak
May 7, 2007

dudeness posted:

I can't wrap my head around the fact that a place that sells gift certificates also does handjobs.

I dont know why a massage could even be called a gift.

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La Brea Carpet
Nov 22, 2007

I have no mouth and I must post

Xik posted:

This dude only made a few comments but :allears:

Some poor junior associate at a law firm is trying out a defense for Robert Kraft.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Barudak posted:

I dont know why a massage could even be called a gift.

It's often part of a larger spa package, and that can be a good gift.

Anne Whateley
Feb 11, 2007
:unsmith: i like nice words

Barudak posted:

I dont know why a massage could even be called a gift.
Feels good, man

quote:

I've started to get back into weight lifting after several years of being too busy and that makes things extra sore, so it was a thoughtful gift.

LadyPictureShow
Nov 18, 2005

Success!



M.C. McMic posted:

Fair enough.

I'm not claiming to be a badass either. I'd probably just leave without any food and write the dad off completely after he told me I was drinking water or nothing.

Then it's time to go to the girlfriend and test her by saying, "hey, so... your dad is a total loving psycho."

I getcha.

I'm on the side they're both bad. I have strong opinions about 'if someone tells you not to eat in the car, follow the rules'. One dumbass I was giving a ride to years back wanted to eat her nachos in my car and I said no. She tried to eat them anyway, dropped them, and I was trying to scrub guac, sour cream, salsa and nacho cheese off my light gray back seat for weeks.

therobit
Aug 19, 2008

I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time
He also dictated no eating in the car after probably working the kid to death, and then flew off the handle about it so I'm gonna say the kid wasn't the rear end in a top hat here.

Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004

коммунизм хранится в яичках

Cough Drop The Beat posted:

Right. It's really sad how there's a somewhat widespread belief that the care of low-functioning autistic children falls to family members solely and not to professional assistance or private/state facilities that are well-equipped to care for such situations.

At the very least, this poor girl's allowed to have her own life, which her parents are unable to grasp for who knows what twisted reason. :(

That is, of course assuming professional full-time care is available within their means. :(

Beds in state facilities are hard to come by since people in these situations tend to occupy them long term due to extensive care needs that don't lessen over time.

La Brea Carpet
Nov 22, 2007

I have no mouth and I must post

Liquid Communism posted:

That is, of course assuming professional full-time care is available within their means. :(

Beds in state facilities are hard to come by since people in these situations tend to occupy them long term due to extensive care needs that don't lessen over time.

Also history of violence and aggression really restricts your choices because a lot if programs or facilities won't take someone who has frequently injured themselves or others. You're likely going to be on a waiting list for one of the two places in the state that do.

GI_Clutch
Aug 22, 2000

by Fluffdaddy
Dinosaur Gum

Ytlaya posted:

Whoa, I think I may have encountered this same girl through online dating around the same time! I remember she had a cropped picture on her profile, and at some point sent an uncropped picture and then proceeded to harass me with a bunch of messages assuming that I had responded negatively to the picture (I hadn't even replied after the picture was sent). I remember being kind of creeped out by it (not the deformity, but the weird change in attitude prompted by nothing on my end). Afterwards I had thought that maybe it was some sort of bizarre prank or something. Never met her in person though, this was all online.

Dayton, OH area?

Cough Drop The Beat
Jan 22, 2012

by Lowtax

Serene Dragon posted:

Also imagine what would have happened if he went on this now explicitly spelt out for him romantic getaway. Melissa would absolutely have seen that as a clear sign that he likes her back. The whole thing is a clusterfuck that he was determined to make even worse until reddit knocked some sense into him.

Also I looked at the reddit thread and OP said he hasn't told Melissa he doesn't feel the same way yet, but is planning on meeting her for coffee later to tell her. Either he's the most dense moron alive or secretly likes Melissa and is getting a rush out of her interest. Otherwise, uh, holy poo poo. What in the heck?

M.C. McMic
Nov 8, 2008

The Weight room
Is your friend

LadyPictureShow posted:

I'm on the side they're both bad. I have strong opinions about 'if someone tells you not to eat in the car, follow the rules'. One dumbass I was giving a ride to years back wanted to eat her nachos in my car and I said no. She tried to eat them anyway, dropped them, and I was trying to scrub guac, sour cream, salsa and nacho cheese off my light gray back seat for weeks.

During high school, I let my gently caress-up friend borrow my car to go to the store. He somehow managed to step in dog poo poo either between his front door and the car, or between the car and the convenience store. He smeared dog poo poo not only on my floor mat, but all up in the grooves of my accelerator and brake pedals.

I made him clean it up, but he did a half-rear end job (shockingly) and my car smelled like poo poo for weeks.

Pick posted:

lmao jesus it's a handy, it's not actually that big of a deal, laugh it off--you both made mistakes

Agreed. He got an rub-and-tug because he misinterpreted his wife's signals. It's not the end of the world.

I could absolutely see people who are secure in their marriage/relationship finding this to be either a non-issue or funny yet regrettable.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

I think the wife is just mad because when she goes they dont do a full release for her and she realizes now shes been getting ripped off

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

dudeness posted:

I can't wrap my head around the fact that a place that sells gift certificates also does handjobs.

I wonder if somebody gave one to Bob Kraft

Cough Drop The Beat
Jan 22, 2012

by Lowtax

M.C. McMic posted:

Agreed. He got an rub-and-tug because he misinterpreted his wife's signals. It's not the end of the world.

I could absolutely see people who are secure in their marriage/relationship finding this to be either a non-issue or funny yet regrettable.

Uhhhhh wow. Are you kidding me? I feel like I'm posting in the fuckin Robert Kraft Twilight Zone because I can't see how any half decent dude who isn't dumber than dirt or a gross scumbag actually misinterprets their partner's obvious come-on as allowing a handjob from a sketchy massage parlor. :cripes:

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Cough Drop The Beat posted:

Uhhhhh wow. Are you kidding me? I feel like I'm posting in the fuckin Robert Kraft Twilight Zone because I can't see how any half decent dude who isn't dumber than dirt or a gross scumbag actually misinterprets their partner's obvious come-on as allowing a handjob from a sketchy massage parlor. :cripes:

she got the gift card to go to that specific handy parlour though, I mean that's like a little funny and also men are stupid

Anne Whateley
Feb 11, 2007
:unsmith: i like nice words
Also, theoretically it should be possible to conclude "even if my partner has okayed this, I think that actually, sex trafficking is bad and not fun"

Motronic
Nov 6, 2009

Cough Drop The Beat posted:

Uhhhhh wow. Are you kidding me? I feel like I'm posting in the fuckin Robert Kraft Twilight Zone because I can't see how any half decent dude who isn't dumber than dirt or a gross scumbag actually misinterprets their partner's obvious come-on as allowing a handjob from a sketchy massage parlor. :cripes:

Same.

And in a thread where "just open the relationship" is always seen as a joke I don't understand how something like this could be seen as reasonable in a monogamous relationship. Even if the wife INTENDED this it flips the situation around to her being wrong rather than him being a complete and utter moron.

Cough Drop The Beat
Jan 22, 2012

by Lowtax

Pick posted:

she got the gift card to go to that specific handy parlour though, I mean that's like a little funny and also men are stupid

Not sure if you're aware but like every single sex trafficking joint masquerades as an actual normal massage parlor with a real website, ordinary looking storefront, gift cards, all that jazz to lend legitimacy, and there was basically no way his wife could have known. While I agree that some (actually many) men are dumb as balls, uh, it doesn't take an astrophysicist to get that your wife wasn't secretly buying you a massage for a handjob.

Like, if my girlfriend bought me a gift card for a massage locally and the massage therapist offered me anything but a massage, I would immediately run away in horror. Definitely not let her give me a handjob!

therobit
Aug 19, 2008

I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time
I would be sketched out on even getting a massage once I knew what those hands had likely been doing 5 minutes before without being washed.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
omg she was rubbing other man ball sweat all over your back!!

therobit
Aug 19, 2008

I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

Pick posted:

omg she was rubbing other man ball sweat all over your back!!

Is it neurotic to not want to get rubbed down with another dude's jizz?

M.C. McMic
Nov 8, 2008

The Weight room
Is your friend
I think y'all are conflating, "I don't think this is that big of a deal," with, "I would totally do this."

Chill out. So, the husband's a bit thick. It's not necessarily a reason to submarine a marriage. Jesus, just move on.

jobson groeth
May 17, 2018

by FactsAreUseless

therobit posted:

Is it neurotic to not want to get rubbed down with another dude's jizz?

It moisturises and tightens the skin, who wouldn't want it?

therobit
Aug 19, 2008

I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

M.C. McMic posted:

I think y'all are conflating, "I don't think this is that big of a deal," with, "I would totally do this."

Chill out. So, the husband's a bit thick. It's not necessarily a reason to submarine a marriage. Jesus, just move on.

He WAS a bit thick. The masseuse took care of that.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

therobit posted:

Is it neurotic to not want to get rubbed down with another dude's jizz?

my omg was real, that's gross lmao

therobit
Aug 19, 2008

I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

jobson groeth posted:

It moisturises and tightens the skin, who wouldn't want it?

Sorry homie, but that was something we joked about telling girls in high school, not an actual thing. Of course, if getting young men to treat your crow's feet is what floats your boat, you are under no obligation to stop just because it isn't effective.

therobit
Aug 19, 2008

I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time
Cross posting from BWM thead in BFC:

moana posted:

My friend just told me her husband's parents are "gifting" them the down payment for a house. She said they will be paying the mortgage and everything else.

"Your names will be on the title, right?"
"Oh, uh, no, it's going to be titled in their trust. But if they die it'll go to my husband."

Hopefully I've planted a seed of doubt in her mind about paying for a house that's not even in your name. But sheesh, even if the inlaws are perfectly well intentioned, what happens if my friend wants to get a divorce? She is totally hosed sideways.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

therobit posted:

Cross posting from BWM thead in BFC:

Thank you for sharing this because I now know what I sound like while screaming incoherently

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

therobit posted:

Cross posting from BWM thead in BFC:

:stare:

DemoneeHo
Nov 9, 2017

Come on hee-ho, just give us 300 more macca


This week in Legal Advice, awful bosses with no boundaries

Boss constantly touches/chokes/body checks me. Others who report similar behavior to HR have been fired.

quote:

NJ: I am an adult male and my boss (male, few years older) consistently touches me in front of dozens of other people in a professional office setting. He has put me in a headlock, he often grabs my shoulders or neck and shakes me, he tousles my hair, he often hipchecks me when I’m standing at someone else’s desk. I’ve told him to stop but that makes it worse. Other people have complained to HR and been fired for this exact complaint, so I feel like I have no recourse there.

On top of that he is a blatant racist and sexist, and says poo poo out loud in the office that I wouldn’t even say to my friends at the bar.

Should I get a hidden camera on my desk and present footage to him or to HR? or try the HR route myself? Should I just talk to him first and then get a camera? Not sure what the best path forward is. Interested to hear your thoughts.

Maybe OP just works for Vince McMahon

DemoneeHo
Nov 9, 2017

Come on hee-ho, just give us 300 more macca


And another awful boss

Manager tried to cheat with me; spread rumors I'm an escort.

quote:

My manager came onto me multiple times. I didn't understand his persistence until I realized that my personal Gmail account had been hacked and accessed by people within the company.

I know at minimum my boss had access to my web browsing history, and he also had access to my Google photos, and he had access to all my phone contacts. He was cyberstalking me and spreading my information to coworkers who would also harass me. I was also followed; I saw my manager's car outside my partner's work one day.

When I rejected him, he reported me to HR and began to use my photos and web history to spread rumors that I'm an escort and discredit me.

Coworkers, and eventually HR, were able to vouyer on everything I searched on my phone, because my phone browser was linked to my account.

I found a lawyer who helped me negotiate to sign a NDA with the company in exchange for a severance. I no longer work at the company, but I have not yet received the money.

So I have 2 questions.

1.) I have signed an agreement that includes an NDA. Is this contract, including the NDA, valid if I have not yet received my severance pay in exchange for this agreement? Is this agreement already binding?

2.) I believe the photos were stolen and the rumors were spread not only to discredit me, but to also threaten me into silence. Nonetheless, I am afraid he may continue trying to stalk me, harass me to have sex with him, using these pictures and rumors to protect himself.

I want to flush out this leverage now. Are there any legal ramifications if I told his wife that he tried to cheat with me?

Edit: Washington state Edit 2: Several typos

This is just infuriating

jobson groeth
May 17, 2018

by FactsAreUseless

DemoneeHo posted:

And another awful boss

Manager tried to cheat with me; spread rumors I'm an escort.


This is just infuriating

Did her boss at least get the door?

Sounds like the only thing that happened is she lost her job and can't say why.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

A contract without consideration is invalid. If she receives no money the NDA is not binding.

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

jobson groeth posted:

That kid is black and the daughter is lily white.

Oh yeah, that became 100% obvious as soon as the dad went overboard that the guy was a gang member*.

lovely racist suburban dad.




* Also him having to sit on the couch with his hands up.

Miserable Maid
Apr 22, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
Where the hell are all these people working?! It's such an alien concept to me.

Like, creeps abusing power, harassment, I know that happens of course. But when like, an entire squad of coworkers join in, and even HR? You'd think the others would just try to stay out of the way with their heads down, not join the circus.

It's so weird, like I wish I could call fake but it happens way too often. It almost like large groups of people just never grew out of elementary school thinking.

Motronic
Nov 6, 2009

M.C. McMic posted:

I think y'all are conflating, "I don't think this is that big of a deal," with, "I would totally do this."

Chill out. So, the husband's a bit thick. It's not necessarily a reason to submarine a marriage. Jesus, just move on.

This is what I'm talking about.....here is the disconnect that I simply don't understand.

If that's okay for you then sail on........but this is not okay in the context of the relationships I have had or have now. This absolutely positively would put any relationship in jeopardy.

It's amazingly unclear on how you don' see it any other way.

Oh lol whoops accidental handy, no big deal.....I totally understand how you think I bought you that. WTF, seriously?

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

AITA for pushing a mentally disabled child in self defense?

So I wasn’t defending myself, it was my dog. I was walking my young cavachon and we had stopped in a park to rest. He was still attached to the lead, and there was no signs forbidding dogs coming into the park. A severely mentally disabled child approaches me and reaches towards my dog. My dog is not good with strangers (only men for some reason, god knows why) and he jumps back. I start looking around for the kids mom but there’s about 50 different white women and I have no idea who to look for, so I take my dog and sit at another bench. The child follows, and I’m beginning to get annoyed so I decide to leave. He then suddenly pets my dog from behind which spooked both me and my dog. Eventually, he started squeezing him and my dog started yelping. In fear for my dogs safety and the kids (in case he tried to bite) I pushed him, unsure of what else to do. He fell back (not my intention) and bursts into a fit of tears. His mother appears out of nowhere and starts inspecting him and holding him. I get dirty looks from all angles. I know the kid had no idea what he was doing, but I still feel I had to stop him before the situation escalated. Am I the rear end in a top hat?

TL;DR I pushed a disabled kid who was hurting my dog (unintentionally) and he fell and cried.

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

AITA for drawing attention to the disparity in income with my snooty coworkers?

I'm the front desk person at a small tech company. I made okay money for where I live, and considering I live a pretty tame lifestyle. It's not enough to afford vacations, eating out all the time, fancy clothes, etc, but none of that is stuff that I need or really want. When I take time off, it's usually to go camping in the back country, or to stay at home and enjoy a relaxing weekend.

Some of the women I work with (not all of them) are... snooty. They'll often times get together after work to go shopping at the fancy mall nearby (with stores like Nordstrom, Tori Burch, etc), and the next day will come in and brag about their purchases, or talk about the fancy meals they had after. I always smile politely and comment on how that sounds fun -- and it does! The snooty part comes in when they sometimes ask me where I got my outfit, I'll inevitably say Goodwill or something, and they give that polite tight-lipped smile that says "Oh, that's... cute." I've heard them make comments about my outfits before, but I don't really mind. There are other people who work there who are much more down to Earth.

Here's the part where I might be the rear end in a top hat. A few days ago, one of them was talking about how she needed a new hairstyle for spring, and she wanted to know if I knew of a good salon in the area, because my hair always looks nice. I said thank you for the compliment, but that I've cut my own hair since my mom taught me how.

She looked at me funny/wrinkled her nose and said, "You cut your own hair?"

I said "Yeah, salons are just too expensive for me, and I don't really do anything but trim it."

She snorted and said "A decent haircut might cost something like $45, but it's so worth it."

Here's where I messed up. My eyes got a little wider and I said, "$45? What am I, Nelson Rockefeller?"

She got that tightlipped smile again and said "Well, I suppose it might be a little high for... some people."

I said "$45 is my food budget for the week. I guess if I put that towards hair, it'd be a great way for me to lose a little weight!" and laughed because I thought we were just joking around.

Apparently, she didn't think it was all that funny. I can't stress enough that I wasn't trying to sound like an rear end in a top hat, but it honestly shocked me that $45 would be considered cheap for a haircut. But she ended up going to the other girls and talking about it, and later in the day one of them caught me in the break room and told me that I embarrassed the other woman, and that she felt judged.

I've been keeping to myself and not really engaging with them beyond work pleasantries. The other day, we were all pitching in for a farewell card for a coworker who got a new job, and the one who approached me in the break room said "Don't worry, we'll put some money in from you. I wouldn't want you to have to cut into your food budget." The two of them kind of snickered/laughed.

Sooo... did I really gently caress up? Am I the rear end in a top hat?

Mameluke
Aug 2, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
You did not gently caress up OP but you could have done to say "Looks like we both win as you obviously overspend"

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LadyPictureShow
Nov 18, 2005

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Megillah Gorilla posted:

Oh yeah, that became 100% obvious as soon as the dad went overboard that the guy was a gang member*.

lovely racist suburban dad.




* Also him having to sit on the couch with his hands up.

:eng101:OP clarified he is in fact, white!

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