cumshitter posted:

Most of my work is actually governed by FINRA, or the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. It's essentially a public/private corporation that charges a fee for services rendered in ensuring financial compliance. It's much more efficient than the inept and lazy government bureaucrats who make you, the taxpayer, pay to regulate brokerages and exchanges. It's much more sensible to have the people who use them pay for the service.

I was briefly employed by it as an officer, and I was a known as a bit of hothead. I'd casually place my gun on the desks of Chase Advisors or Merrill-Lynch executive's desks as a subtle reminder of my authority to use lethal force in my efforts to ensure compliance. Until that fateful day when I left my gun on top of of the toilet paper dispenser in the handicap stall of Fidelity's bathrooms and I was fired for gross negligence. Mostly because I wasn't supposed to be armed in the first place.

Evil Willow posted:

AITA for refusing to let a friend borrow my hotel suite during a group vacation?

Midnight Voyager posted:

aaaaaaaaaaaaa images of two women dressed as anime boys banging on my bed

camoseven posted:

Both of these people suck

Frequent Handies posted:

How does the OP suck at all? The only conflict here is the OP didn't want to give up his room so someone else, apparently a tolerated mooch, could get laid. OP sure sucks for knowing what they want and being able to get it and clearly explaining without dissemination what the situation was.

camoseven posted:

His friend says they were supposed to all share a room, pretty rude to go get one of your own and make the rest pay more

camoseven posted:

His friend says they were supposed to all share a room, pretty rude to go get one of your own and make the rest pay more

Foo Diddley posted:

wait wait wait, lemme get this straight: this was a bad thing?

e: well maybe you wanted to sleep or something. but still

quote:

My boyfriend (24) and I (28) have been together for two years. Yesterday, we were visiting my family because we won't be able to be with them on Christmas, so we wanted to drop off some presents. It was also the first time that my boyfriend met my entire family, so it was kinda important.

Here's the thing, I forgot to tell them that my boyfriend is vegetarian, so my mom made a turkey and there wasn't really anything else to eat, beside some snacks. When I realized that, I quietly asked my boyfriend to please not cause a scene, and just eat the food and compliment my mom on it. He tried to argue back, saying that he doesn't wants to lie to my mom but I told him he would come across as rude if he didn't atleast tried it, and I didn't wanted him to make a bad impression. So he sucked it up, ate an entire plate and told my mom that it was delicious, which obviously made her happy.

We had a good evening and everyone seemed to like him, but when we drove back home he brought it up again and said he thinks it was kinda hosed up of me to expect him to eat meat, when I know how much it disgusts him. I get his point and I apologized to him, bit I still don't think that it's that bad to eat a bit of turkey once, to not make a weird first impression on my family. AITA?

edit: a few people are asking why there was nothing else that he could've eaten and like I said, there were of course some other snacks and a couple of different sauces, but nothing that would've been considered a decent meal without the turkey.

Midnight Voyager posted:

CONTENT:

AITA for making my boyfriend eat meat at my family gathering even though he's vegetarian?

gently caress kind of meal is this? "Snacks" and "sauces" and then just a turkey, fuckin eat.

Midnight Voyager posted:

AITA for making my boyfriend eat meat at my family gathering even though he's vegetarian?

gently caress kind of meal is this? "Snacks" and "sauces" and then just a turkey, fuckin eat.

Sisal Two-Step posted:

Maybe there's bacon in everything?

quote:

My girlfriend Audrey does this thing, anytime we're going somewhere and about to leave she'll randomly remember she has to do something or grab something. Which isn't a big deal when we're driving ourselves. She does it when we take rideshares too. I've had to pay the $5 cancellation fee several times because she was dilly dawdling around. 5 bucks isn't going to break the bank but it's annoying and adds up. And of course I'm the one always paying the 5 dollars.

Yesterday we were meeting my brother and SIL for dinner and drinks. So we were taking lyft. I waited til Audrey was ready and triple checked she had everything prior to requesting a ride. We we're both in the living room waiting, as soon as the car was on our block she remembered that she wanted to grab a scarf she was giving my SIL. Then she couldn't find it.

I said "worry about it later I'm sure SIL doesn't care, let's go". Then I got the notification that the driver would leave in 1 minute. I said "come on let's go". Audrey told me to just cancel the ride and order another one. I said no and told her I was leaving and she should come with. She refused so I left.

She didn't come to the restaurant, and when I got home she was pissed at me. She said "you should have waited instead of being an rear end and leaving without me".

If this was a one time thing I would have waited (obviously) but this is easily the 4th or 5th time she's done it and it's starting to seem intentional.

She's still mad today and said I caused her to miss dinner last night.

AITA for leaving my girlfriend at home instead of canceling the Lyft.

Midnight Voyager posted:

Sisal Two-Step posted:

AITA for leaving without my girlfriend

Sisal Two-Step posted:

turkey, ranch, corn chips. bone apple teeth!!

AITA for leaving without my girlfriend

Foo Diddley posted:

okay yeah that is p hosed up. at least you got a story out of it i guess

mind the walrus posted:

Both people here suck so much.

SiKboy posted:

I swear to god I'll pistol whip the next guy who says shenanigans.

mind the walrus posted:

Both people here suck so much.

SirSamVimes posted:

Why does the guy suck?

Evil Willow posted:

AITA for refusing to let a friend borrow my hotel suite during a group vacation?

Sisal Two-Step posted:

turkey, ranch, corn chips. bone apple teeth!!

AITA for leaving without my girlfriend

Bodnoirbabe posted:

No, the girlfriend sucks. The boyfriend taught her a valuable lesson.

Foo Diddley posted:

for getting fed up with a passively aggressive chronically late rear end in a top hat and making them face consequences for being an rear end in a top hat

he should have just indulged this behavior forever, see? 'cuz you have to respect someone who refuses to respect your time as some bullshit loving power play

Sisal Two-Step posted:

AITA for leaving without my girlfriend

SirSamVimes posted:

Why does the guy suck?

Bodnoirbabe posted:

No, the girlfriend sucks. The boyfriend taught her a valuable lesson.

Biplane posted:

This reminded me of a kind of similar situation I found myself in on a weekend corporate retreat. My employer had rented out a whole hotel, and assigned rooms to everyone on a random basis. I had paid a nominal extra fee to get a solo room, and imagine my surprise when I got to my room and found it to be a large suite (in a Beatles theme..). Everyone begged me to switch or at least host some after parties. I was like lol no get out of my room, and promptly went to sleep. I think I missed every event except the dinners, rest of the time I was sleeping in my giant suite availing myself of the minibar. Good times.

mind the walrus posted:

Passive-aggressive moaning and then ditching her is some real "Middle School/I'm a Sigma Male" horseshit.

mind the walrus posted:

Passive-aggressive moaning and then ditching her is some real "Middle School/I'm a Sigma Male" horseshit. It ain't gonna solve her tendency to be late. All it's going to do is make it "him vs her" instead of "us vs the problem."

Biplane posted:

This reminded me of a kind of similar situation I found myself in on a weekend corporate retreat. My employer had rented out a whole hotel, and assigned rooms to everyone on a random basis. I had paid a nominal extra fee to get a solo room, and imagine my surprise when I got to my room and found it to be a large suite (in a Beatles theme..). Everyone begged me to switch or at least host some after parties. I was like lol no get out of my room, and promptly went to sleep. I think I missed every event except the dinners, rest of the time I was sleeping in my giant suite availing myself of the minibar. Good times.

mind the walrus posted:

Passive-aggressive moaning and then ditching her is some real "Middle School/I'm a Sigma Male" horseshit. It ain't gonna solve her tendency to be late. All it's going to do is make it "him vs her" instead of "us vs the problem."

SMEGMA_MAIL posted:

What even does this mean

Dazerbeams posted:

Give the guy a break. Some people need to work up to making the decision to sever. Unless you have a solution to fix chronic lateness?

littleratbastard posted:

Sorry your boyfriend left you at home but you really should have made sure you had the scarf ready beforehand if it was that important (or offered to pay the cancellation fee)

mind the walrus posted:

It means "you dunked on me." Good job. You're better than me. .

Involuntary Sparkle posted:

Edgewater hotel in Seattle?

mind the walrus posted:

Either they both give enough of a gently caress to talk it out and find compromises/fixes, or they don't. Unfortunately a big paternalistic "teachable moment about consequences" is gonna make it that much harder both to solve the issue, and exit the relationship with a clean conscience of "Well, I did everything reasonable on my end." Then again for all I know these are 19 year-old pseudochildren so .

mind the walrus posted:

Passive-aggressive moaning and then ditching her is some real "Middle School/I'm a Sigma Male" horseshit. It ain't gonna solve her tendency to be late. All it's going to do is make it "him vs her" instead of "us vs the problem."

mind the walrus posted:

It means "you dunked on me." Good job. You're better than me.

Either they both give enough of a gently caress to talk it out and find compromises/fixes, or they don't. Unfortunately a big paternalistic "teachable moment about consequences" is gonna make it that much harder both to solve the issue, and exit the relationship with a clean conscience of "Well, I did everything reasonable on my end." Then again for all I know these are 19 year-old pseudochildren so .

I like where your head is at but all you really did was reiterate the OP and not grab anything that connected me to being the girlfriend of the story. Pretty good for off-the-cuff though.

SirSamVimes posted:

Sometimes I just remember that the official employee photo for Jorts the cat was an orange sweet potato and laugh.