Ghost Leviathan posted:

While we always say this, does it honestly really matter?

cumshitter posted:

Yeah, it needs a little work. It's more like throwing yourself into an elevator shaft. It's really exciting to see all those floors before you hit the ground.

BOOTY-ADE posted:

"Fourth floor - Dick Pics, Dirty Snapchat, Burner Cell Phones & Blowjobs In Bathroom Stalls"

sephiRoth IRA posted:

Holy loving fire that security guard into the sun

Neito posted:

IT's like a super STEMlord thing. It was, theoretically, a learned behavior, but I've found it tends to be rewarded rather than discouraged in a lot of fields. It feels like either a CS major or some weird high-level physics bullshit.

Pinecone Sample posted:

My boyfriend (28M) is mad at me (25F) for trading pictures of my feet for a steam game?

Smirking_Serpent posted:

My (24f) boyfriend (24m) constantly tries to prove that he is smarter than me in our arguments.

I have a better job, a degree while he couldn't finish school, I am not doing bad in life or anything.

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Like every year, me and a bunch of my online friends will comer together for celebrating New Year's Eve at my place. To my surprise, one old buddy of mine who never attended our parties until now, also accepted my invitation, and even though he never was a very big part of our group, I was kinda happy about that.

Until last week, when I had a rather strange conversation with him. This guy - who is a new trainee police officer, but will be off duty on New Year's Eve - asked me, if "there will be any people on the party who are likely to consume any controlled substances like marijuana" and proceeded to tell me that he will absolutely report anyone doing that to the police.

He didn't kindly ask us to please be considerate of his career and not getting him into trouble nor did he even adress this issue. He just bluntly told me that he will report us to the police - and not even because he genuinely believes that weed is that bad or drug users deserve to be punished, but only because "he doesn't make the laws, but he has to abide them and would feel like a hypocrite otherwise".

At first, I was pretty dumbfounded and didn't know how to react to that, so I just truthfully told him that I don't know about anyone intending to take any drugs. Actually, it's even pretty unlikely that me or any of my friends will smoke weed or do any other drugs other than booze on New Year's Eve.

But that's not the point. I feel like his warning - or rather his threat that he's willing to gently caress over everyone of his friends for his "own" agenda - lacks any spirit of friendship or respect for me and the rest of the group. Now, it doesn't feel like he would attend the party as a friend, but rather as a sharp-eyed overseer around whom we have to watch our every step. I mean, if he's willing to go that far, how can we know what we are "allowed" to do and that he won't call the police on us for crossing a red light, streaming a movie, doing a barbecue by the river or even just telling a story about doing something remotely illegal in the past?

For this reason, I decided to take back my invitation, yesterday. Or rather, I told him that he's only welcome at our party, if he is willing to leave his police club at home and act as a part of our group - which he denied. Still, I'm pretty conflicted about this, as I feel lovely for excluding him for staying true to his own principles. I already asked two other friends of my group about their opinion, but I would like to get some input from people who aren't involved and can judge the situation less emotionally than us.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

While we always say this, does it honestly really matter?

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A few months ago, a friend told me about an opening at the company where he works, I applied, and got the job. When I was offered the job, my friend said that I should know the other guys at the company can be "a little bit homophobic". Turns out they openly discuss how gay people shouldn't marry, they've discussed signing petitions against gay rights, donating money to anti-gay organizations etc. So my friend advised me not to let on I'm gay just to make it easier for myself.

About 5 months have passed and we were told a few days ago that there will be a Christmas party in the office and that we can bring our spouses/partners. Several of the guys started talking and joking about how they can't wait to meet some of the other guys' wives and girlfriends, to see "what sort of a woman would be with that idiot ha ha ha". They also asked if I was single and I said no, but I might end up coming alone anyway. They asked why, is it because I'm "embarrassed of introducing 'her' to my rear end in a top hat coworkers" and I said "ha ha... no... he's probably going to be away on a business trip".

So they collectively flinched and said "HE?" and I confirmed it was a "he". One of them said "what are you, a homo?" and I said "oh no, but my boyfriend is, ha ha". Nobody laughed at my joke and we just stood there in silence for another 20 seconds until we dispersed.

Since that happened, most of them stopped communicating with me unless it's business-related, but they're also shunning my friend, and he's really upset about it. He said he doesn't want to be ostracized for having a gay friend and he's angry at me for saying I'm gay even though he advised against it. I thought that his advice was for my own good, and I was free to choose whether to listen to it or not. He's also mad because I see this job as temporary, while he had plans of staying here "forever" and thinks his social life at work is ruined.

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At the beginning of the school year I had to watch my stepbrother for a week while my dad and his mom went on a trip to help out her parents with something.

Brought my switch with me because my school is more than an hour away and I wanted something to do on the train during my commute everyday.

My stepbrother wanted to play on it. Him being so into it actually turned into a big help to distract him while I studied, so I made a new profile on it for him so he wouldn’t mess up my saves.

When I got back to school I eventually got annoyed with having to click on my profile each time I started a game and each time I went to the eshop. So I just deleted his profile.

So, this early this morning I got on the train to go to my dads for thanksgiving. I usually go home to my moms, but she and my stepdad are going to see his family and Im not up for going plane trip. Anyway I brought my switch again for the train ride.

Just a little while ago my stepbrother picked it up to start playing and came into the kitchen, where I was talking with my dad, freaking out because his Zelda save was gone and he wanted me to help him fix it.

When I told him I deleted it he started crying. Like not full on crying, but his eyes were watery a little and red. Now he’s holed up in his room. My dad thinks it was mean of me to delete it because I know my stepbrother was enjoying playing it. I didn’t think it was a big deal since I usually never bring my switch over when I visit.

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for excluding a friend (a Trainee Police Office) from our New Year's Eve party?


It's time to let this friendship go

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for excluding a friend (a Trainee Police Office) from our New Year's Eve party?

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for telling my coworkers I'm gay even though I was advised against it?

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for deleting my stepbrothers profile on my Nintendo switch?


Pushing an extra button is sooooooooooooo inconvenient

DrBouvenstein posted:

(FL) Hospital Security Guard Tried to Deny Me Access Because I Didn’t Smile

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(UPDATE) (FL) Security Guard Tried to Deny Access for not Smiling
First of all, thank you so much to everyone who responding to my first post and gave me the courage to approach HR!!

Update: my sister (hospital physician) actually spoke to HR first. She went to them this morning (she was off yesterday) and then spoke to the head of the security team. I was asked to come into the hospital this morning to meet with hospital administration. My brother went in with me and corroborated my story. HR was appalled! They said that they’d heard rumors about this specific security guard but no one had ever escalated their complaints to administration. They brought in two more security guards who have worked with him to verify some of the rumors they’ve heard (apparently the guard in question has been caught lingering in front of the women’s restrooms on his breaks, and he denied a doctor’s wife entrance because she didn’t know the room number for the cafeteria where she was meeting her husband for lunch.) The final thing HR said to me was, “Today will be the last day you will see him. We do not support this type of behavior at our institution and he will not continue with us.”

At the end, the HR director told me that it is SO IMPORTANT to report inappropriate behavior. She said that so many times people will gossip amongst themselves about situations but no one will actually take it up with administration, which subsequently makes HR’s job more difficult to complete because then they don’t know about happenings within the organization.

Again, thank you thank you thank you!!

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for deleting my stepbrothers profile on my Nintendo switch?


Pushing an extra button is sooooooooooooo inconvenient

Power Khan posted:

AITA for how I handled catching my roommate's friend stealing my stuff?
I got a message from a guy saying that he recognized the girl, he told me her name and asked me if I could take down the picture in exchange for having my stuff returned, it was causing a lot of drama and embarrassment. The girl was going through a rough time and was sorry.

I said yeah, I'd take it down as soon as my things were returned.

He asked if I could sooner and I said sorry but no.

Then my roommate called me, mad I didn't wait for her to identify her friend quietly, because it was honestly tearing their social circle apart, having me put this up so public. She also was mad because she knew my bags were fake but I was letting everyone believe that this was about authentic bags which are worth a huge amount more.

Power Khan posted:

AITA for how I handled catching my roommate's friend stealing my stuff?

ScentOfAnOtaku posted:

Why the hell would it matter to the social circle if it's fake or not? That's just the funny icing for us in that they aren't worth much.

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for excluding a friend (a Trainee Police Office) from our New Year's Eve party?

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for excluding a friend (a Trainee Police Office) from our New Year's Eve party?


It's time to let this friendship go

Midnight Voyager posted:

Really they shouldn't have invited a cop in the first place. They should have expected him to press any petty little authority he can over any situation.

REMINDER: I AM THE LAW. If any UNLAW happens at this party, I will be forced to BE THE LAW.

Dienes posted:

Dad justice requires deleting OP's profile.

Beachcomber posted:

And yes, having to select that it's your account you want to use on your system every single time you want to use it would be annoying as hell.

Biplane posted:

You’re bad, and wrong.

Beachcomber posted:

You're acting entitled to something that doesn't belong to you. I'm guessing you're a younger sibling.

Power Khan posted:

AITA for quitting my job the way I did?

Let me start with a little background.

When I was initially looking for a job, I was nearly unhirable. I had a terrible resume, people skills and work experience. Finally, a manager at a local mom and pop shop who was hiring for retail took me under his wing and gave me a job. He mentored me as I grew into my position.

I've been working there for two years. And I've grown a lot, making a ton of high end sales while making a little over minimum wage without benefits. The pay never really bothered me because my manager's time in teaching and guiding me was super valuable to me.

Now, a big corporation of sorts has offered me a job. Full benefits with about a ~50% pay increase. I'd be foolish to decline it, but I love my work and the people there. I went directly to the owner of the shop early yesterday morning and asked for a 20% pay increase and benefits plan with a plan for future pay increases in the future. I cited industry standards and my performance. The owner said he'd think about it, and later in the day, I, my manager and the owner all sat down and they turned me down; offering a 2% pay increase.

Right then and there, I pulled out another letter citing my two weeks notice.

Apparently this deeply hurt my manager who wanted me to talk to him privately beforehand and was hurt I had pre-made my two-weeks notice.

AITA?

Barudak posted:

Your manager is upset you wrecked him so badly in front of the owner of the business that Gordon Lightfoot recorded a song about it.

Motronic posted:

When these get explained it often turns out to be a nearly zero skill service business that requires space (the expensive part) and some equipment. Think car detailing. Then you have the vehicle/equipment heavy ones like mobile detailing (where you can go for broke buying a truck instead of leasing space). Landscaping/mowing and food trucks seem to be popular as well.

Motronic posted:

When these get explained it often turns out to be a nearly zero skill service business that requires space (the expensive part) and some equipment. Think car detailing. Then you have the vehicle/equipment heavy ones like mobile detailing (where you can go for broke buying a truck instead of leasing space). Landscaping/mowing and food trucks seem to be popular as well.

Kitchner posted:

QuarkJets posted:

So I get that you're living in Perfidious Albion where the Bobbies spend most of their time bungling up murder investigations so that an autistic man and his gay lover can solve them instead, but I didn't see any extraneous u's in the post so I assume the OP is from America where the only police officers who act like the OP's friend are monsters who don't deserve sympathy or friends. This dude, who's like "my strict adherence to the law means that I will narc on you or anyone else who I see committing any infractions", is definitely just a monster.