Will You Be My Work Wife? | Reading Reddit Stories

- Hello and welcome to Smoshreed's Reddit Stories. I'm Shane, and today's theme is co-workers. And I actually am genuinely joined by two of my co-workers. - What? - I get to actually like, not be alive from one of these interviews. - Not be alive. - But not be alive, it's like sometimes, like I say silly ones all the time, but you are both legitimately my co-worker. - And today's episode, my fidget will be my head phone. - Whoa! - Look at you, you look like you're gonna tell us like to-- - We'll come back to 101.1, the mix. - The mix. - You'd be a really good radio DJ, I feel like. - That is so nice, Shane. - Yeah, you'd kill it. - Small radio? Is that our next big bad news? - Whoa, Smoshreed, we're gonna go to radio, you know, we've been doing YouTube. - Okay, drop out, went to cable, so we go to radio. - Okay. - Me too. - Actually, it would be fun to have a radio DJ. - It would be so fun. - It would be cool. - Even if it's like a station on Spotify, it's like you just turn us on and we're live, like talking to you. - I live in the heart of a local station to just like one random town. - That's awesome. - Somewhere with like a population of 2000. - We could do it to Oxnorn. - Yeah? - Oxnorn radio. - Oxnorn radio. - Oxnorn radio. - Anyways, you're both my co-workers. - Yeah, and you're our co-worker too. - Yeah. - So. - But yes, that's how that works. - You're not special. - Okay, cool. I'm assuming we're gonna get a bunch of bullshit co-worker stories today. I've only worked, as people know, on sets and then at Smosh. And Smosh is the most normal job I've ever had. Which is pretty wise, but just pretty wise. - That is a surprisingly normal. And there have been phases of Smosh throughout the years where it's been like an office job. Yeah, like we had cubicles for a long time, like back in the day. And like, it's like, yes, I'm working with the cast, but I would go over and like hang out and talk to all the people working, all the like administrative jobs and learning how they do their job. And I'm working with them, and there's a kitchen, there's a lot of room, there's aspects that it's like an office job sometimes. But the nature of the actual work itself is very silly for the most part. - You did a lot of service industry. - A lot of service industry, mostly service industry. Did some catering, did nannying work. - I did nannying too. - Worked at camps, a lot of camps. - Nice, I wish I would did camps, that'd have been fun. And then I worked in a pharmacy for a long time. And then a play play. - A play play? - Yeah, it was like a wannabe Chuck E. Cheese, but there was no mascots. Like it was like finaft, but without the finaft. I don't even know. - That sucks. Devastating, anyway. - But anyways, I feel like, so whenever we read these types of stories, I feel like I'm like a Martian reading about humans. So I get like a very outside perspective. - I work at Google for two months. - Two months. - I feel like you've talked about this before. - Yeah. - Wow. - It was my first job out of college. - Aw. - It was Google Maps doing vertical integration on Google Maps. - That's crazy. - Whoa. - Damn. - Okay, jobs. - All right. Let's hop into our first story. This comes from today I fucked up. This was posted back in 2023. Today I fucked up by adding the celery man to the name of my friend on his resume, which he did not notice. - What? - My friend has a bad habit of not double checking or revising his work. Earlier in 2022, he asked me to look at his resume as he was looking to apply for new jobs. I said, "Sure." Let's say his name was Tom Henderson. I added the name to be Tom the celery man, Henderson. I also added a bullet point to each of his positions in job experience that said, crunching and munching that celery. Why did I do this? I did this as a joke, assuming he'd see it and remove the silly edits. When I gave him feedback on the resume, I asked him if he would be sure to make some revisions before sending it out. He said, "Sure." Well, he didn't, not only that, but he never noticed the edits. It turns out since April 2022, he has been sending out resumes with the celery man on the resume. He has good experience and has been frustrated all year how he got like no interviews. - Oh! - He actually had one initial call with a recruiter and was perplexed when the recruiter guy called him celery man. He had no idea what it meant, but just went along with it, never got a second interview. Finally, before New Year's, he had a legit interview. They also made a celery man joke, which astounded him and he asked why they made this reference. They told him it was all over his resume. He was mortified. He even told them he had no idea this was on there, but in doing so, it basically came out that he had never looked at his resume. He thinks this is the reason he didn't get the job. In any case, I had to confess to him. I was the one who did this, but it had never been my intention that he would actually send it to jobs. I thought he'd have noticed it right away. Well, he's quite mad at me. He said I've made him the jackass to all of the New York City tech scene and that I went beyond all acceptable lines of pranking. I think he is overreacting a bit. I mean, it is just a silly prank really and how in the world does somebody not notice this for almost an entire year on their own resume? I am worried it might cost me this friendship though, so I'm hoping to find a way to make it up to him. Okay. - Ooh. - Okay. You got to look at your work. - Yeah, you got to look at your resume. Like, especially if it's, I mean, I'm not trying to blame him wholeheartedly, like it really sucks that someone did that to his resume and he was just trusting his friend when he was proofreading it. Like, you know, he was trusting his friend. He was like, make sure to make some revisions and he said, for sure. But I feel like when he gave it to his friend to check, it's like the friend should have been like, "Hey, it's a celery man all over your," like I think that's what the friend would have expected. I think it's also like, it says it right in the title, like in between your name. Like, you would have opened the documents, yeah. And the fact that it's like, if you were getting, you were struggling for so long, if I was in that position, I'd be like, damn, like maybe I gotta fix my resume or something. Like maybe the way I wrote it isn't good. There's always so many hacks online of like how to make your resume work for the jobs you apply for. - Right. - So yeah, I'm like shocked. And I don't think the guy did it as to like, trip him up or to like sabotage him. I think it was a cute little bit that didn't get caught. - It's a funny little bit. - Yeah. - It was a funny little bit. - But lost wages. - I mean, it's not a brand that's like he did no job for a whole year. But it's not like, oh, I didn't have a whole job for a whole year because of him. It was that he, for that entire year didn't look at his resume. - Yeah. - And it kind of does reflect on him. - He did it back. He said, look at the edit before you send it. - Yeah. - Yeah. - No, it's on the guy. Like if you're gonna have a friend edit your resume and not look at it, you're being a little lazy there. - Especially if he told you to look at it. - Yes. - And you said you would. - Absolutely. I was gonna say instead of a salaryman, he should have had Tane and then had been like, oh, show me nude Tane. Neither of you are getting this reference. - That's what is that? The friggin, the, the, the, the, what? - What's his name? - It's the Paul Rudd sketch. - The Paul Rudd sketch. - It's like, it's salaryman. It's like, show me salaryman. And then. - He gets in there. - Yeah. - Oh, is that the reference? - Have you never seen this? - No, he hasn't seen that. Paul Rudd sketched many times before. - Oh, I can't see with love this shit. It's so good. - It's very good. - It's weird as hell. - It's just like vibes. - No, salaryman, and thank God it was something like innocent and not like, not like Tom Fuck Face Henderson. - Right, like, Tom's sexual harassor. - Yeah, yeah, the, the, the, the, - Yeah, the skill, sexual harassment. - It's harmless and it's like super hunting, munching on some salary. That's good. - Apart of me thought, like, as the story was progressing, like, is he gonna get a job because of it? 'Cause it'll like, hey, you like your vibe, man. - It's like a icebreaker. It's like a silly thing that if only he had known about it, he could have leaned into it when they brought it up. And like, yeah, I just love salary. I love being healthy. I got good discipline. - How confused those recruiters had to be when they're like, oh, yeah, salaryman. And he was like, what are you talking about? Or, or someone who's playing, was like, hey, salaryman. And he goes, oh, yeah. Then I'm like, what? - Yeah, sorry, I don't, I don't, I don't do that. - I don't go by the name anymore. - Hey, that's my father. - I love your resume. But then also, if he applied to Smosh, I think it would do well. - You'd do gang busts. - I think it would do really well. The people who handle the hiring at Smosh are about to see so many salary resumes come to. - Okay, okay. - Don't be original. - Be original. I'm not mad at OP, but if I pulled a prank like that, and my friend made no reference to it, I'd been like, did you see? - I would just be kind of like, because I want to know what he thought of my joke. - Yes, agree. - I like a day or two later, I'd be like, hey, man, you haven't said anything. - I want to perform for you on mine. - It's okay if you didn't like the joke. Do you have notes for my jokes that I put in to your resume? - There was a really weird time at speaking of performance reviews. There was, we've changed leadership here a couple of times. And there was a good section of Smosh when I first started where we were getting performance reviews, which is such a weird thing to be like, this is a job and now I'm getting performance reviews on actual performance. - Yeah. - And I'm like, is it gonna affect my pay? Like, if I'm not funny enough, we're broke. It was so strange. I've never gotten like creative feedback in a corporate way. - In a corporate way. - No, it's not. - Like in an email. - Yeah. - That's why Smosh, I think it has always been the strangest job I've ever had because it is like a bunch of incredibly creative, eccentric even on our best days. Like creative, kooky people, theater people, all into a corporate like office setting. Like it is so. - Yeah, it's weird. - It is an interesting little mix of it all. - Comments? That's [BLANK_AUDIO] It's both hilarious and you should have brought it up to him maybe a week or two later to make sure he was aware of it, tops. Never following up with the aftermath, especially if you fail to notice him ever mentioning it to you is not good. A week or two, maybe sent out to a couple companies would have been funny, a year, almost of its gone past fail. Yeah. He let it go on too long without checking in. Someone said always work on collaborative documents with track changes on, then it will be harder to mischanges other people make. Someone said, "Or, you know, just double check your resume before sending." Yeah. Yeah, because if it's that big at the top, I mean, it's the title. It's literally. Someone said, "My boss would toss resumes with spelling errors, not enough time to run a spell check, not good enough to work in his medical clinic." Yeah, fair. Someone said, "I act in community theater, comedy, storytelling, et cetera. So I have my own resume for all my credits. I also have my work resume because I'm not at the point where the money I make for entertainment is enough to quit yet, hopefully soon." But I was applying to office jobs with my actor resume for like three months because somehow I switched the names of the files. Eventually, one company replied and was like, "Very cool, but I think you sent us the wrong thing. I was mortified." She understood and I sent the correct one and fixed the file names. I got that job. Wow. Okay. You're vigilant. Yeah. Imagine the actor world where like some things you need actor resumes for like theater and musical theater, usually you'll need a resume. Yeah. Unless you're like now a lead role in Broadway where it's like your resume is how famous you are. Yeah. They're aware of your work. Yes. The resume is out there kind of. And a lot of actors are that way too for like streaming things. Yeah. Well, I know who this is because I was blah blah blah blah blah. Here I come. Next story comes from Am I the asshole? Am I the asshole for stealing my co-workers dream honeymoon? This is fucked. They told you what their dream honeymoon was and then you went and did it. Well, but if you didn't do it at the same time. But how much did you do it? But how much? How hard did you do it? How hard did you do their honeymoon? And before they did it. I have a co-worker who loves being engaged. She's the quintessential typical bride to be. She has her wedding plan to the smallest detail and talks about it all the time. She's the type to share mood boards and swatches with us during lunch. This isn't something that bothers me but I wanted to paint a picture for context. I actually like talking to her about her wedding. The issue that recently came up was that she was sharing with us about her honeymoon destination. It's a cute seaside city and honestly I thought it sounded great. I shared it with my husband and we decided that we'd love to take a vacation like that too. Because of our itinerary, we decided to visit a different but very similar city in the same country. Think San Diego versus Santa Barbara if you're in America. When I came back from my trip, my co-workers were excited to see pictures and hear about the trip and I shared some chocolates that I brought back as well. The entire time my co-worker was kind of icy and I finally found out it was because she thought I stole her idea for a vacation. She said that since I've gone on a similar vacation, I've stolen the magic of coming back to talk to our co-workers about it. Even though it's a different place, she says it was similar enough and that it was kind of shitty for me to take the attention when she's been planning on her trip for a long time. I personally don't feel like I did anything wrong since we went to a different city and did different activities than what my co-worker talked about. She likes sporty things like hiking, whereas I visited museums and dined out more. And she's so upset she's talking about changing the destination of her honeymoon entirely. So I feel like I'm missing something. Please let me know if I'm the asshole in case I need to apologize. You know what this reminds me of, but I will never forget. I was going to a restaurant with friends in high school and we were going around ordering what we were going to eat at the restaurant and I ordered something and my friend looks at me and goes, "Oh." And I was like, "What?" and she's like, "I was going to order that, you heard me talking about it." I was like, "You can order it, too." What? And she was like, "I'm just going to get something else." And I was like, "What?" And she was like, "I guess I'll just, I'll get what? I'll get that." And she got ordered the same thing. I was like, "What is going on?" Oh my goodness. It was like, "You food like the Highlanders." She's like, "No, there can only be one." There can only be one, but that's exactly the type of thing. I feel like it's kind of like a fun moment when you're with a group and you people order the same thing. You get that, too? Yes. This is, but this is even weirder in that it's not even the same thing. It's not the same thing. Or inspired to go on a vacation. Like, I thought it was going to be like, "Oh, she stole her hotel room or something." Like, "Yeah, I thought it was going to be like stealing for a temporary, doing all the same stuff, like taking the same opportunities." Like, a part of me would almost be stoked, it'd be like, "Great." Someone went and like, test drove it and said, "Oh, that's a great vacation spot." Hell, yeah, I don't have to worry about it being a scam or not turning out to someone going to the Eiffel Tower. I'm being like, "Oh, I can't go now. You already went." You went to the Eiffel Tower. You did it. It's like, it's like, I'm going to go to Paris. But it's not. I just found out there's other people already there. Yeah. I can't go. It's even weirder where it's like, "Oh, you're going to Italy? Now I can't go to France." Yeah. Like, hello? Yeah. It's not even, they're not even, they didn't even go to the same city or do the same things. This person feels like they're like, you know, with the wanting to share so much of the wedding planning, like loving being the center of attention and getting and having their unique experience that everyone wants to know what their experience is. And so now that everyone is excited to see OP's experience at this thing, she feels like the attention's off her and is being so stubborn about it that she needs to start from scratch on her honeymoon. That's what I was like too much. It's insane that she admits like, "Oh, you took away like I wanted attention from being able to come back and talk about it." It seems like that was her number one priority. She doesn't actually give a shit about her fiance and the actual trip, she's more excited about coming back and talking about it, which I don't like, I personally don't like talking about a trip after I go on it. I like going on the trip. Yeah. But then to re, like. No, I literally, I agree with you so passionately, but I hate having to do that. I'm like, I'm recapping you and like, what things do I, I don't know, it's just like, it's a weird stressor for me that I'm like, interesting. It's so weird. I don't really want to. It's like working. It's like hard work. Like when we went to Japan, we were like, "How was Japan?" I just wanted to go, "Good, it was good. That's all I wanted to say. I really agree with you." Yeah, it was cool. It was Japan. That is so funny. Yeah, but I do think it kind of like sums up what I think things are for a lot of people now. Is people are not excited about the actual thing anymore? They're excited to tell people or show people the thing. Which is, it's attention is okay. It's okay to want attention. Like everyone deserves attention. But you're getting engaged, you're getting married. You're going on a honeymoon, like I on the prize of what's actually fun here. What's like the number one most exciting thing and she does not see, she's going to change her honeymoon so that she can tell her co-workers about it. Like how lame is that? If I'm her fiancee, she comes so much and she goes, "We have to change our entire honeymoon." It's like why? It's like, "Well, because Nancy and finances. " When do we? Similar. When do we? Similar. Close city. I'd be like, "We're not getting married." There's something so similar to in that, like when I go on trips, I am very much like not on my phone a lot. I'm not taking a lot of pictures. I'm not taking a lot of videos. It's like, I'm like in the moment doing the things that I'm doing. And then sometimes I'll regret it where I'm like getting back and I'm like, "Oh, I want a post." And I'm like, "I have. " Yeah. I'm really bad at putting pictures. Yeah. But that's not what I did the trip for. Yeah. I did the trip to work. I did the trip or didn't do the trip to share it with people. I did the trip to experience it myself. Yeah. Courtney can attest. I'm horrendous about taking photos. Yeah. I'll be like, "That's the coolest thing I've ever seen." And I will not. Yeah. Cheers. I'm going to touch all that. I'll not take photos. The cooler something is, the less likely I'm to take a photo. Because what is your photo going to do? Mm-hmm. Yeah. I mean, it's like, I can Google that thing and see a landscape shot. Yeah. For sure. Who was that celebrity who was on a talk show recently? He was like, "I saw someone take an iPhone photo on the top of Mount Everest." He's like, "I shouldn't be able to see that." He's like, "You. This person climbed over dead bodies to get over to the top of this mountain." You're so right. Mm-hmm. To get there. And I can see it from my living room. Yeah. Keep it. Keep it. What I do like to take photos of, the best thing to take photos of are, like, mundane little silly things. Because you can't Google that. Mm-hmm. You can Google it. Because there was the sign in Japan that I post on Instagram was that it's a sign that I said no pissing. Yeah. And so I took a photo next to that. And I'm like, "That's perfect." Yeah. I'm not going to take a photo of, like, you know, some famous temple or something in Japan. I'm like, "You can Google that." It's so. I do love, like, a picture of, like, a coffee table and what's on the coffee table in that moment. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I love mundane photos are the best, I think. Yeah. But I think what I was saying about the coworker and attention is, like, this OP doing this thing doesn't take away from her attention. And I think everybody deserves attention. Just know that there is unlimited attention, eventually. Yeah. And not worrying about someone doing something similar to you, like, I wonder what would have happened if she did do the exact the same thing as this honeymoon plan. Like, I'm like. Yeah. I just feel like the reaction was very big. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. I see. Definitely a lot. I like the word. She needs to add an air of mystery, too, and people in her coworkers are going to find that more interesting. I'm also the type of, like, I think Marcus recommended a hotel to us, and then we went and now, like, I'm obsessed with it, and it's, like, now my personality trait. And, like, I'm telling everybody about it. Like, I'm the one who invented it or something, but it's, like, I love when people impact each other. And it's, like, oh, I love that thing that you've got. - You do, I now do it every day. - I love when people go to some place that we've talked about. I get a little nervous 'cause I'm like, I hope they like it. - Yeah. - Like I hope it was good. 'Cause I'll be sad if they go and they're like, that's something to be like, oh yeah, for sure. - Okay, you guys can drop places right now. You can drop one place, one thing. - Oh, we know. - I've got one. Audi Nocle in Mexico City. - Ooh. - It's like, I'll describe it as the in and out of tacos in Mexico City. - Oh. - It's amazing. - It's got chills. - Whoa. - Yeah. - Hell yeah. - Go try it. - Yum. - I'm not gay keeping up. - Okay. - Go. - Wow. - When your mix goes solid. - Yum, yum, yum. - Yeah, I'm excited. I'm driving there now. - What? - Getting in my car. I'm leaving this and I'm driving. - No, no, shame. Okay, verdict, not the asshole. - Oh, comments. - I forgot about this. - Right, right, right. - We're reading reddit stories. Someone said, "Not the asshole. "Your coworker just has severe main character syndrome." Someone responded to that saying this. "You didn't even go to the same town. "Even if you did, that's like trying to call dibs "on Bali or Fiji." - Whoa. - But my wife and I recently traveled to Japan. - Did you write this? - Upon my return to the office, I spoke about the trip. At least four people said Japan was at the top of their bucket list. They're dream destination. None of them got upset. I had visited there. No one owns a destination when it comes to travel. - Right. - Literally at Smosh, someone is always in Japan. - That's true. - Someone is always there. - At any given time, someone is in Japan. - Yeah, boots on the ground. - I think Selena's in Japan right now. I think a rosh is in Japan right now. She's back. - Ian might still be there. - Ian tagged back. Selena went in. We always have someone in Japan. - One pair of boots on the ground. - At any given time, someone from Smosh is in Japan. Just wait for Smosh Japan. - Smopad. - I had nobody recognize me in Japan. They were not watches. - Anybody who did recognize you was a tourist from Australia. - Yeah. - And there was a lot of those. - Yeah, a lot of us. - There's a lot of fans. - I was from Afghanistan. Yeah. - Someone said, wait. She's choosing her honeymoon destination based on how she can talk about it later instead of how it would feel with her fiance in the moment. That's messed up. She's planning a wedding, but not a marriage. - Ooh. - Ooh. - Ooh. - Ooh. - Dana to all of them. - Ooh. (laughing) - Not the asshole. A well-adjusted person would be happy to have been an inspiration. - Yeah. - I mean, yeah, weird. - Yeah. - Weird. - Weird. - We'll see you in our next story. This was posted in 2020. It's comes from Tales from the Front Desk. - Tales. - O.P. writes, I invented a coworker. I usually work the afternoon shift, three to 11. So I get a lot of calls asking about reservations and check-ins. One night, I got a call from a man asking about our availability. I informed him we did have openings that evening and that I could make a reservation for him. I asked for his name and credit card number to reserve. He gave me a reward number. Then he started cutting out since he was driving. I tried to explain that I needed more information and especially a credit card to reserve the room, but he kept cutting out until the line went dead. Well, the hotel wasn't particularly busy, so I decided to put a room on hold for him. I thought that since he was driving, he would arrive in about 30 minutes. He doesn't show up, so I released the room and go back to work. When I have about 20 minutes left in my shift, guess who shows up. He says that a woman over the phone reserved his room. Now, I have to point out that I am a man. I have a higher pitched voice and it is exacerbated over the phone. Now, the guest is upset about not having a reservation and I've got 20 minutes left and I'm not in a mood to deal with him. I tell him, Susan must have been talking to him but her shift ended hours ago. We still had rooms, so I made a reservation for him and checked him in. He still seemed angry, so I typed up a note about him and emailed it to my co-workers so they would be aware. Next day, I go to my manager's office first to get pass-alongs and information about the day. She walks out first and I follow her to the front desk and guess who's there. Since my manager was in front, she addressed him first before I could get there. He says that I'm not mad. Always a red flag whenever that gets said. But I want to know what woman was working here last night. My manager is a little confused but says that she will check the schedule. She clearly hadn't seen my note yet. So I jump in and say, as I said last night, Susan was working yesterday but today is her day off. No one named Susan has ever worked at the hotel and my manager slowly turned away from the guest to look at me. In a, what are you talking about face that the guest thankfully cannot see? My co-workers behind me who did read my notes had to contain their laughter. The guest accepted this and left. I then had to gather everyone and have them stick to the story. To this day, that guest thinks Susan was responsible. - You made, you got a room anyway. - Yeah, what are you even at the front for? - What the hell? - You already spent the night, like what do you want? - I need to talk to Susan. - I don't get people who just can't let shit like that go. Like, I'll be mad about something but I'm like, yeah, there's nothing that's gonna be done now. And it's also like, you got a room. You got a room, it was fine. - You just came out of the room that we gave you a room and just came down to say, I'm not mad, but. - I'm not mad. - What, I love the barrier of information. Do you know what I mean? I love that they could make up a co-worker to avoid conflict and everything is okay. And nobody was harmed in the making of this information co-worker. - No, I think every place should make up a co-worker, you know? - The fall guy. - Like, you know, 'cause we don't have fake co-workers. We have Sadie who, like, people just kind of don't remember a lot of times. - Yeah. - And it's hard to forget Sadie. - It's hard to forget Sadie. - She's a dream. - Sadie's the best. Republican, bye. (all laughing) - Hey, hey, hey, hey. (all laughing) - Listen. - She's actually really nice. - She really does. - And I'm surprised. - She's surprisingly nice to me. - She's Republican. She's Scientologist. - Oh, he's gonna meet everything you just said. - She's both a rare combo. Somehow a combo. - I don't understand what this guy would have said if he did learn of Susan. Like, like. - What do you want? - What do you want? - What do you want Susan? Leave Susan alone. - He just wants to, he just wants to hurt someone. - Want it to be superior. - Comments? I read something similar a while back. I think at a pharmacy. Basically, when any customer was mad about something, especially unjustified, but didn't have a name, the employee would ask if it was anesthesia. The customer usually agreed and was then informed that anesthesia had been let go for cause. Pulled their fangs. Someone said, "I invented a whole planning department for clients that wouldn't agree with the news that their project couldn't be finished earlier." I really did my best with my colleagues at the planning department, but unfortunately, it cannot be done. A lot of people are lying out there, but hey, for shitty customers-- - To protect themselves. - Do it. - Especially, I worked at a pharmacy and there's so many bits of information and complicated things about pharmaceuticals and getting your medicine that like, they just get mad at you, whoever's in front of them. And it's just such a nightmare. - It's interesting to see like when controlling people to meet like a wall, that they can't control. And they just cannot handle it. - Yeah. - At the airport, every time you're at the airport, you're gonna see someone doing it. - Isn't it, yeah. - I think I talked about this, but I saw on. I think it was Facebook at the time, but I saw on Facebook how someone were like, was the manager on the shift? And so did the turnaround. I'm the manager on the shift when they want to talk of the end, to the, and I worked at a restaurant in college and I tried it and it did not go well. - Oh, really? - Yeah, they like-- - I have the manager. Like I did, I was like, can we get to talk to the manager and I was like, yeah, one second. And then you turn back around and he's like, hey, how can I help you? - Oh! - They did not go well. They like looked up the owners, they like called them. They were like, that was not funny. It was like-- - Bad joke. - Yeah, bad joke. - I think my view on these things is like, no matter how even, unless I'm being robbed of money from this business or something, I'm like, you're just wasting your time. Like people will spend hours, days. Like, I'm like, what, do you not want your life back? Do you not want to go do something fun instead? It is-- - My God, so trivial. And it's like move on, put your energy elsewhere. - Yeah. - You're gonna loot like how many years of your life are you gonna lose throughout your entire life from just following all this petty bullshit? One more comment, about a week after Chris was fired, I was wearing his shirt with his name patch and got a little jerky with a customer. Customer came back the next day to complain and I hid in the office laughing while the manager told them that Chris had been fired. Someone replied, but why were you wearing Chris's clothes? The original commenter replied to that. I ran out of shirts and there was a whole pile of his, they were rented from a uniform company. - Ah. - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah, right. - Yeah. - Where's my move? Where's one of your co-workers' name tags? - Yeah, and then the crimes. - That's why sometimes on podcast episodes, if I feel like I'm not being very funny, I'm just like, by the way, I'm Amanda. (laughing) - That's our audio listeners, I'm Amanda. And then they think Amanda's the one who's not funny. - Yeah. - Got 'em. - Got 'em. - Our next story comes from Am I the asshole? Am I the asshole for refusing to help my co-worker paint his new house in work clothes? - Huh? - Okay, so I, a 27 year old man, have a friend from work, the 31 year old man. We've known each other only about two years but have gotten fairly close. When I moved to a condo a few months ago, he helped me paint and I've been meaning to help repay him the favor on a house that he just bought. Things keep popping up and we're in a busy season at work. We're both teachers and it's middle of the year testing period. So I have admittedly been pushing it off. Anyway, last Friday he asked me if I wanted to stop by after work and see the house. He doesn't live there yet so it would be mostly empty. But I could finally get a look at it and then we could grab dinner and drinks in the area. I say that's great. He drives and I'm immediately taken aback that the house is further than I thought. He had said about an hour away, but it ended up being close to a two-hour drive with traffic. I'm trying to enjoy seeing the house, but I'm immediately stressed because I'm realizing that this is going to be a massive out-of-the-way inconvenience to do after work. He can't do weekends as that's when he has custody of his kid. I see that the paint is already broad, and I say since I'm already out here, why don't we do it now? He had already prepped the place to be painted and he seemed into the idea. That way I wouldn't have to do a whole other trip. The issue was I was wearing fairly nice work clothes that I didn't want to mess up, so I asked if it was cool if I just wore my undershirt and boxers. He looked at me like I was crazy. He said if I didn't want to do it, just don't do it, but please don't make dumb excuses. I felt taken aback because I didn't think it was unreasonable to not want my clothes to get dirty. I ended up not painting because he wasn't into the idea, and I just went home. At it, since everyone's asking, he had no stuff at his house. He was also planning on traveling back that night. He hadn't moved yet. Mmm. It's like, "Hey, man, can I just get naked?" Well, it's like, let me just get a little naked, man. It's also just like, that's kind of when it's. Did it say if they were gay or anything? No. I'm assuming no. I don't even think it doesn't matter. I would think I would just be like, "Okay, I'm going to do it in my boxers, so I don't get it on my pants." It's not a thing. The way he's writing that the guy took it as like, "Oh, you don't want to do this. Okay, fine, you can just go." Like, "Oh, you're trying to come up with this." It doesn't sound like their communication was very direct or just overall good. If he couldn't go, "No, no, I want to do this. I really want to keep my clothes nice." And like, being in an undershirt in boxers, I'm sorry. That doesn't sound like. That's not that crazy. That's a full-on outfit. Yeah, that's a full-on outfit. Yeah. Like, I see girls wearing that to Coachella. Like, you know, I mean, I guess the guy is allowed to. Like, because it was OP's pitch to paint it then, so that he couldn't wear another two-hour trip. And OP also said, like, "I was trying to enjoy seeing the house, but was stressed." So, so, okay, clearly, OP was maybe putting out bad vibes, like, just stressed in general about the whole situation. And it sound like the friend, the coworker, was down to paint it. Yeah, he was down to paint it, but then when he was like, "Oh, can I take off my clothes?" I'm just being a change from boxers to paint this. Then he got weirded out. I will also say a lot of people have trouble asking for help and asking for favors, especially, and they feel really guilty and, like, they're a burden for asking for a favor. And so then they're like, "Oh, you're probably looking for any excuse to get out of me being a burden here." Yeah, that's kind of my assumption here, but I don't know. Verdict, there's no official one, but comments leaning towards not the asshole with a few everyone sucks here. Comments? No one's an asshole. I think your title is misleading, though. You proposed to paint right then, but in your underwear because neither of you had a change of clothes and you didn't want to ruin yours. That was a reasonable proposal, and it was also reasonable for him to decline and preferred to do it later when you were both better prepared. Someone said not the asshole, you were basically kidnapped. If he had everything set up already, he knew what he was going to do when he asked you over. The least he could do was offer you a change of clothes if he didn't give you a chance to pack something appropriate. 5,000 upvotes. I don't think he was, I think that maybe they're assuming because they think that they rode together and this, "Oh, he didn't have a car to get back." He's stuck there without anything to do. Oh, I guess if they rode together. I was in the situation. We don't know that they rode together, right? We don't. I think that to assume this person is being held hostage and being kidnapped, to check out a house is a bit extreme. But I think if I was in the situation, I'd go, "Hey, let's go run to CVS and get those cheap t-shirts and pants." Sure. So then we can. There's so many fixes to this stuff. There's like $5 shirts and like $6 pants at CVS or something. Yeah. But. Where a Mumu? Get some Mumu's. Get a Mumu. I love Boo Boo in a Mumu. It is. It is. I love Boo Boo in a Googoo Dolls Mumu. And now you're cooking. I knew La Boo Boo in a Googoo Dolls Mumu. I knew, Newly La Boo Boo in a Googoo Dolls. I knew La Boo Boo in a Googoo Dolls. Wow, wait, you gotta say what I mean. God, that's hard. A new La Boo Boo in a Googoo Doll Mumu. No. You didn't do it right. A new La Boo Boo in a Googoo's. No! A new La Boo Boo in a Googoo Dolls. Bumu. That's hard. Okay, with Newtongues for some luck, you want to try? Yeah. A Newly? You just. You couldn't even say one word. All right. Someone said, "Uh, I had a coworker like that except instead of helping him paint, he wanted help moving." He made it sound like he had a crew of multiple friends that would be helping that everything was packed and ready to load into a U-Haul and that the distance between the two places was close. False. First, there was no U-Haul. There was his new boyfriend who had a compact car and an elderly female friend that is a hoarder, so she was basically unpacking things and standing in the pathways. So the transportation was my SUV, the compact car, and his sedan. The distance between the places was two hours. He had no food or even water for us. There were two dogs who were not trained and pee pads everywhere. Everything in both places was dirty and gross. Whoa! Damn. Did you sign up for hell? Yeah. I'm out. I'm out. He signed up for a tough mutter. They continue on. Hardly, anything was packed and the furniture was not taken apart. My husband, who didn't even know him, did the best he could to fit what he could in the vehicles. We agreed to do one trip to the new place and then my husband and I went out to eat and went home never again. Damn. They had more of a story than, oh, he didn't. Like, we almost painted, but not really is that. Yeah. One time, I almost had my buddy paint, but then we didn't. My ex, his friend needed to move. Like, and it was like one unit over in the same building, but like was completely not packed. And it was also my ex's birthday that day. And we were like, well, he really wanted this friend to come to his birthday thing that we arranged. But he needed to help his friend move in order to have him. It was just so weird. I was just kind of there. And that was the first time I heard Post Malone. Oh, okay. Moving is the worst. Moving is rough. I did a, I just moved and I did a pretty good job of it. I'm not going to lie. Yeah. I was quick. I was quick. I was fast and I was organized. Yes. I was also like ready to leave that apartment. Sure. That feeling. That feeling. So I was like, I was like, I know exactly where. And as soon as I got to the new space, I was like, I know where everything's going already. Cool. Yeah. That's awesome. You were cooking. You were nesting. My mom, after the divorce, my mom moved like every year for years. And then when I started living on my own, I kind of did that because jobs change and things get better or worse, whatever. And I just, I got very good at packing up and moving and getting unpacked very fast. Same. I was that way for a long time. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Military brought, turn after. Well, yeah. Well, I only remember one move as a kid. But for many years, I moved to a different apartment for like five straight years. It's kind of fun. I hated it. I had like super light, cheap furniture. I was like, whenever I would buy furniture, I was like, what's the lightest thing I can buy? So I can move it super easily. Hey, what do you have all those muscles for? Why? Yeah. What do those muscles do anything? Glamour. Glamour muscles. Not couch muscles. He can't move couch, but he can move your feelings. Okay. It's working. All right. Let's move on to our next story. This was posted in what is this May of 2020. That's a rough time. That's a tough time. That was a natural that time. This comes from Am I the asshole? Am I the asshole for demanding my fiance tell his co-workers that he will not be renewing his vows with his work wife when they return to the office? What the fuck is happening? Okay. What is happening? My fiance, Mark, works closely with a woman, Megan. They both have similar responsibilities and need to work together as a team. I've never had any problems with this. They don't really interact outside of work. We have been working from home the last several weeks. I happened to be in the living room with him yesterday while his office had their weekly Zoom meeting. During that meeting, people began talking about what they wanted to do when everyone returned to the office. I could hear someone say that my fiance and Megan must really miss each other. Several other people began referring to them as work wife and work husband. Then someone suggested that my fiance and Megan should renew their vows when everyone is back in the office. Mark just played a long and joke that they would be registered at office depot. I left the living room in tears while he continued oblivious to how I was feeling. I confronted him after the call and said I felt humiliated. Our wedding was supposed to be in September, but we've had to postpone it and it's not clear when it will be safe to reschedule. And here he is talking about renewing his vows with someone from work. Mark explained that it was just a joke and not a big deal. He tried to show me some joke article his office had been passing around about how teleworking is ruining work wife relationships. I said the term work wife itself is offensive been humiliating because I'm supposed to be his wife. demanded that at his next meeting he needed to publicly apologize to his office and tell them that he will not be renewing his vows with Megan because he is engaged to marry someone else. I said he also needs to tell his office that they need to stop calling him and Megan works spouses. He says he can't do that because it will be embarrassing and hurt his reputation at work with his colleagues. I said, "Oh, is it hard to feel embarrassed? I would never know what that's like." He called me an asshole. Now that I've cooled down a little, I need to figure out if I overreacted. It's a bit much. It's a bit much. This is one where our job being so silly goofy, it's hard for me to relate and understand. Because the concept of that gets thrown around by our fans and stuff so much of obviously talking about us that I'm like, "Whatever, we don't think anything of it." And if you're working a very different type of job, like an office, like corporate job, and someone's referring to someone as a work wife, I understand why people probably feel really weird about it, especially this woman is so insecure because they've had to postpone their wedding. So she's in her feelings about a lot of stuff. So that gets brought up. Now, it wasn't her fiance himself saying, "Oh, we got to renew our vows instead of someone else saying it." Yeah. But it's weird. I also think he's not reacting like she's really messed up from this and he's being like, "Oh, it's not a big deal." I think the work wife thing, I feel like when we joke about it, it's very ironic, you know, because I feel like work wife ties into the same terminologies of like when a workplace goes like, "We're like a family year." Totally. We get to, like, nasty, a little bit too unhealthy of a workplace. But it sounds like if an article was going around and a group of people who are going through a pandemic together are working together and are making jokes about the work wife because you know, sometimes a bit just keeps running to the point where it would not make sense to a newer person, like, I'm sad that this fiance, the OP, feels just the right amount of insecure about their relationship that this is affecting her so much. Yeah. You know. I think the demand of, you need to publicly apologize to your entire office and say to some like, "That's a lot." Yeah. That's a lot when what she needs is just assurance from him that they are secure in their relationship and that this is nothing like. I also, yeah, I totally get that and I think that there is something so playful about work wife and then there's a point where it goes too far and there's like vows doing the vows and like, "What is happening here?" Renewing them. Right. Yeah. Was there a vows at one point? Yeah. Was there a wedding? Like, I don't know about this. I think she could, I think he could have offered to like be like, "Oh, I can just like start chatting on the work wife thing." Like, it is a little inappropriate. Right. And also, he could have just really like taken that moment to, because clearly she was not feeling very validated in their relationship and just isn't. She's talking about how like insecure she was about that they're postponing, they're wedding and stuff. He could have just taken that moment to really be like, "Hey, like." Yeah. I know. I feel like. You are my fiance. I'm so excited to be like married to you. It's like, you are my person, but he's just kind of playing it off like casually. Yeah. In playing off the work wife thing, he's also kind of playing off her emotions. Yeah. He's probably feeling dismissed. I think it just, it's not one of those situations where I'm like, "Oh, you guys, one of you is an asshole." It's more where I'm like, "You guys are not on the same page." Clearly, there's insecurity and like something going on here that you need to talk through. The verdict was everyone sucks, which is maybe I guess like the closest to what I would agree with, because it's not that I think like no one's the ass, so there's nothing going on here. I'm like, there's a, there's a problem going on. But they are in the middle of lockdown. It's, it's May. So it's been those couple months. So they're at the peak of life. It's the worst. It's really spirally. Yeah. Nobody's in a good place. A lot of maker-based relationships. That everyone sucks here, I think the whole work wife thing is disrespectful and silly, but you did overreact to what was obviously a joke. He's not literally going to be renewing his vows with anyone or registering at office depot. And forcing him to tell everyone that they need to stop calling him and Megan workspouses is going to make a mountain out of a molehill and give everyone the impression that you're a difficult person. Just ask him to stop joking about it. O.P. said, no, they were actually planning out how to do it. Like where in the office to hold the ceremony and reception, et cetera. My fiance was fully on board planning. Meanwhile, I have to nag him constantly to help me reschedule our actual wedding plans. Someone said, in that case, not an asshole for asking that, he don't go through with it, but it would be embarrassing for him to publicly apologize and say he wouldn't go through with it in front of everyone. Maybe ask him to talk to Megan separately and tell her it's only a joke and won't be doing a ceremony. Yeah, hearing that, I'm like. It's embarrassing to publicly apologize. Is this not also embarrassing to have like a public renewing the vows thing at work with your work? I'm like. No, it feels weird. I've seen you're like, what the hell is this? You're adults. Like you're grown adults. We don't. Yeah. That is confusing. I mean, that's sad that he's, it sounds like they were just doing bits and I want to assume that it was like, oh, they're riffing or like, oh, we'll do it in the break room next to the water cooler that we always like. Yeah. And she interpreted that, like, and that's me, that's putting the benefit of the doubt on them. They were, yes, standing each other and she took it as, no, they were actually playing this out. Yeah. But, you know, even if it was like, they're going to do this as a bit as a, like, that hurts if she's feeling like pulling teeth when she's trying to play a real wedding. Right. Yeah, it's just like a lot going on. Someone said, you're the asshole. It sounds like they were just joking, demanding that he tells everyone that he's engaged, sounds pretty controlling. If they bring it up again, then he can say that he's engaged so he can't be married again, but what you're asking is a little much. Someone else said, it sounds like you have more issues than this. You say you have to nag him about planning the wedding and you clearly have some insecurity around his faithfulness if the joke upsets you so much. Getting married will not solve these issues. Perhaps it might be wise to try couples counseling before you're wedding. I'm sorry. I'm still blaming this on COVID. Like you were, I was unwell. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, it's prime time. It is bad time. Yeah. Yeah. Questioning everything, the world is in shit. It is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Truly was an apocalypse. So I'm like, I can't even take this. It's true. I'm like, it's really true. You're so focused on this thing. Yeah. Yeah. The world is ending at this point. We've kind of forgotten like the places. Yeah. I think if you were like scale it, like if we were to like really tear down all the like, the chaos of it all, like I think it would have been so reasonable for her to just express that it made her uncomfortable. Yeah. Yeah. And and like and see what he would have done with that, you know, really upset like she was probably so excited for their wedding. And it's May. It was the wedding was only going to be four months away at that stage. And now it's not happening and they don't know when it's going to happen. She's probably thinking like at that point in in COVID, you're probably like, oh my god, are we ever going to get married? Right. So she's losing her mind over that and he's just playing this off. I remember there were so many weddings planned for like 2020 that got pushed like a year, a year and a half later, but they didn't know when it was. I remember they a lot of the weddings that were planned. And like, okay, we're doing the same venue next year this time, same date. Yeah. Yeah. And they still didn't know. Yeah. There was no knowing. Um, lastly, someone said everyone sucks here. You did overreact a bit, but knowing how uncomfortable it makes you, he should be willing to quit playing along with the work wife thing, a dumb concept anyway, but I digress. Um, but I don't agree. I digress. Um, yeah. Tough and that's all we've got to say about that. I can understand. I really understand her though. If she's hearing like, why are you guys taking this bit so far? Is this a relationship that is deeper than I understand? Like, yeah, it is room for doubt, you know, but yeah, I agree though with chance of like that era. Yeah. All these things are exacerbated. Do our zoom meetings, our monthly zoom meetings are in the pandemic. What were they like? Oh my god. Crazy. It was just everyone trying to get their quick little 15 minutes of being funny. And we're all just kind of, it was just weird. We're all just like trying to be like doing stand up in a big meeting. Like just, it was such a weird time because we were filming a lot. We were filming the same amount of videos from home, just from home, yeah, but just from home. It was weird. But that monthly meeting, yeah, we did a sketch about Tiger King. No way! I'm Carol Baster. Oh my god, play it. I want to see it. I'm going to look it up later. No, it's really bad. It's like really bad. Wait, it was really tough because we had to change our entire design of how we made things. And we were just. And it had on a hat. So it was Tiger King, but we couldn't do like, we didn't do real Tiger King. It was Tiger King. So he was obsessed with Tiger King. Not Tiger King. I know. I know. I know. I'm scared. It was Tiger King. And there was lots of Winnie the Pooh merchandise around our apartments for a while. Yeah. Yeah. Shane, that's tough. And a monthly Zoom meeting. Who was the Tiger King? Ian. Yeah. She was here to look. The things we did. The things we did. The things we did. - Yeah, it was like, my day was film the sketch, have maybe one meeting, and then Animal Crossing. - Ah, I did some Animal Crossing. I did a lot of Overwatch. - Nice. - That's when I learned who were probably so good in the pandemic. - Before so good, I was ranked. I was ranked, yes, ma'am. What? - Who's your main? - At that time, I think it was a Rissa, but it was an Rissa still had the shield in front. - Oh, okay, I love it. - Wow. - And then right when Moira came out, I was like, that's my girl right here. (laughs) Our next story comes from Am I the Asshole? Am I the Asshole for not paying for my co-workers lunch? - Okay. - This is genuinely the dumbest Am I the Asshole I've ever made slash red, but here we are. I'm a first responder and was writing along with another shift for training purposes. The first day we drove through a Chick-fil-A, I ordered a small mac and cheese in our area that's about four dollars. He ordered a whole meal. When we got to the window, they gave us 50% off making mine $2. The guy I was writing with said, "Don't worry, I'll cover you." Cool, thank you for covering my $2. I appreciate it, LL. Second day, we went to a local bistro that's decently pricey. I ordered a salad that was about $10. His meal totaled out to just over $20. When we went to the register to pay, he told them she's going to cover mine while pointing at me. To say I was appalled is an understatement. The cashier looked at me and I calmly stated, "No, I'll just be covering myself." The guy I was writing with got mad and started saying he covered me for lunch yesterday so it's only right that I cover him. I'm not confrontational, but I'm also no punk, LL. I calmly stated $2 does not constitute $22, or whatever the total was. If you'd like me to give you $2 to cover my small side, I ordered yesterday, I will absolutely do that. But I will not be paying for your meal and handed my card to the cashier. He paid for his meal and we went outside where he refused to let me get into the vehicle. He continued to argue and cause a scene in the parking lot. He told me I'm no longer allowed to ride with him. So I called for a supervisor. Once the supervisor arrived, he told them that he covered my lunch yesterday and that I refused to extend the same courtesy and that I embarrassed him and caused a scene and he no longer feels comfortable riding with me. I explained-- - Oh my God. (laughing) I explained my side to the supervisor and apologized because this is literally so ridiculous LOL. The supervisor essentially said I was wrong because I should have just been respectful and paid for him like he did. - What? - At this point, I was pissed and told them this sounds like extortion and that I wasn't going to be taken advantage of. I told them that $2 is a whole lot different than $22. We are first responders. We don't make a lot of money. I continue to say if you wanted me to buy him a drink from the gas station or give him $2, I had absolutely no problem doing so. But I was not going to be bullied into covering his meal because he covered mine. I ended up riding with someone else because obviously riding with him is no longer an option. The person I switched to also said I was wrong and should have just paid for his meal. - What? - I don't think I'm wrong here. Had I known the previous day that I would be expected to pay for his expensive meal after paying for my $2 mac and cheese, I would have never let him cover me. I feel like since he put me on the spot, me putting him on the spot and return was only fair. I don't feel like I caused a scene. I wasn't the one who argued and refused to unlock the doors. But now everyone's saying that I'm not a team player and I embarrassed him as well as our place of work. Am I wrong here? Am I the asshole? - What in the world? - She is in a tough spot. Okay. I have feelings. Okay. - Do tell. - There are 3,400 billionaires on the planet. There are 8 billion people. Billionaires should not exist. This problem should not exist. We should be paying first responders more. - Right. - This should be a non-issue. There are so few people with so much money that could fix so many things on this planet and we're not angry enough about it. Instead, we're yelling at each other over $2 and Chick-fil-A mac and cheese. - I hear you, dude. I mean, yeah. - Like this sucks to hear their first responders and this, that amount is bothersome. That should not be an issue. It should not be a conversation. - Right. - I agree. I shouldn't, it shouldn't. I think what I'm thinking about is she's newer, right? She's in training. She's right along with the opposite. - She's the trainer. He's the trainer. - He's training them. And so he covered her on $2 and sounds like the restaurant 'cause like my dad was a firefighter and sometimes a restaurant would like comp them the meal or give a big discount 'cause it's like thank you for everything you do. But like, it's just, it seems so like there's a dynamic issue. - The dynamic feels a little weird and it also feels like this guy and all the other co-workers are very much of the vibe of just like, oh, just, yeah, you should just done it. Like, I agree with her. I think it's like an unfair dynamic 'cause it's like when I'm like, 'cause yes, to the whole situation you screwed, but it's fuck, when it comes to, when it comes to though like splitting the bill and like you pay for someone's coffee one day and then like expecting them to pay for your coffee the next, I do take into consideration like the amount of money that was spent, right? - Yeah, and also like, you can assume someone's covering a meal but I'm never going to just assume someone's covering me. If I'm gonna assume, I'm like, oh, I'm just gonna assume I'm gonna cover them. - Yeah, I'm very emotional too. - But you need to have the conversation, especially. - But there is like, also levels to it, it's like if I buy someone Burger King, I don't expect them to buy me a steak dinner. Like, there's, that's very true. That's what I feel like is kind of on a, some level is happening here. That's a little ridiculous. She also ordered a side, not a full meal. - Right. - And he's expecting, this just feels a little bit like, kind of just taking advantage of it, just feels like a little bit of like a weird toxic workplace type thing. - Like, and if he had to say like, and she embarrassed me, it's like that shouldn't be a more murderous issue. This feels like it needs to be taken to HR. - It's a personal issue. Let's look at this too. He tells the cashier that she's gonna cover it instead of asking, oh, did you want to cover this? - Right. - You're inputting this third party so that you have leverage over her. She's not gonna tell her no. She actually had, she's not a punk. So she told her no, he's gonna cover his own 'cause he's a grown ass man. - And to just like, okay, now the job it needs to continue and not letting her continue her job because it's something that is so not work related. Like, I just, that's so, that's so petty. - It's really petty. The verdict is not the asshole, comments, not the asshole. I bet that most everyone who is saying you are wrong or men. I bet you have violated some unspoken bro code that you as the trainee need to pay for the person with more experience. What the dude did was a form of theft. The $2 snack meaning you need to pay for a $20 lunch that was double the price of your lunch. Then he locked you out of this vehicle. This is a toxic work environment, 5,000 upvotes. OP said, funny enough, I technically wasn't the trainee but instead the trainer. It was definitely not a fun situation and I've requested not to work on this shift again. I told my supervisors if they want me to train that shift, I will not be working under that supervision again. Someone said to that, not the asshole. I covered lots of people's meals but it's because I decided to, not because they demanded it. You're better off avoiding these assholes. If you have HR or a union rep, I would lodge a formal complaint to get it on the record. So now I said, not the asshole, my husband works EMS and I wish I could say I was surprised. These guys are bullying you. I don't know why but that's what they're doing. Someone said, not the asshole. If it had been a few dollars of difference, that would be one thing but $20 is a lot. It would be different if you had been partners for a while but it sounds like you barely know this guy. He was trying to take advantage of you because he didn't think you'd push back. Him refusing to let you in the vehicle was super unprofessional. Unfortunately, it sounds like everyone knows and likes this person so they're siding with him and anyone who disagrees is probably staying out of it. If you have to work with these people for a while, you might be better off apologizing even though you did nothing wrong. It would be easier than being the outsider who no one wants to work with. Sorry. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's tough. Oh, my sister's an EMT and I'm like, I'm trying to, she's never talked to anything like this. But, you know-- I'd be different region to region, like those specific shifts. But jobs like that and just like, 'cause my dad's a firefighter, a shift is 24 hours or two days on, three days off, like that's a dynamic. You would not just hang it out each other nine to five or apart-- You're basically living with this person. A time shift, it's a different environment. And yeah, like part of me was thinking about like, oh, well, if this is gonna be a long standing work relationship, they're just like, yeah, this because over time, we are going to hopefully that it's gonna be equal over time. But this person doesn't know that. It's just, it's just tough. That's really tough. Oof, our final story comes from Petty Revenge and it's probably one of my favorite titles of a red story I've ever seen. What? "Farted on my stupid coworker." (laughing) Angela Fritten, my Angela. (laughing) "Farted on my stupid coworker." That's awesome. That's awesome, awesome. What? You kicked me. Are you okay? I'm gonna fart on you. No! (laughing) Guys, stop farting and fighting. (laughing) This happened a while ago, but I'd figured I'd share. I used to work as a hostess at a massive three-floor restaurant slash bar. One bartender, Mac, had the tendency to do what I like to call Mac explaining. He would always go on about how the highest paying tables should always be seated in his section. Before my shift, he'd always give me the same lame speech about how his section of the restaurant was the most prime seating with the best service. So of course, I should only be seating people who look like they're going to spend a lot of money there. Whatever that means. Typically, I'd just be like, sure, whatever Mac, and then seat people without profiling them because obviously this place was also always jam packed with the Mac. So it's not like there was much room for me to shuffle people around based on how much they looked like they might ball out. Also how the hell am I supposed to gauge who is going to ball out? Anyways, Mac took this personally, apparently. One time I sat a group of older women celebrating a birthday in his section and they ended up ordering some food with no drinks and then left. Mac went on this massive tirade about how I was incompetent at my job and how I should clearly have known those women weren't going to spend much money and should clearly have sat them in another section, another server section that wasn't Macs. One shift, I felt a particularly heinous fart brewing and got a sinister idea for context. I forgot about the fart. But here comes the fart. For context, I'm not a regular farter. I'm not a regular farter. I've got. So I'm really getting. I'm an irregular farter. I'm getting into farting recently. Context, I'm out of regular shame. Guy who's learned about farting. For context, I'm getting into farting. Clip that. Clip that. A lifetime of terribly disordered eating habits has rendered my gut to be a few strokes shy of a chemical weapon and I've instigated several heated arguments on fart politics amongst my friends, all with the power of a single fart. So there it is, behind the bar washing glasses, fast as hell during a rush and I thought, wow, how helpful would it be if I go put them away behind the bar for him while he makes orders for customers? So of course, I go out of my way to go behind the bar to help Mac and right as he's behind me shaking cocktails, I let it rip. Some of my finest work I must add. I peeked over to Mac to see if he'd been caught in the radius and sure enough, there he is with his face twisted and sheer disgust. To make matters worse, there were two pretty girls seated across him at the bar, seemingly clear of the nuke zone. As I was fleeing the scene, I caught Mac trying unsuccessfully to keep his cool in the midst of the stench while attempting to chat up these girls LOL. The satisfaction of that moment led me to get a little carried away and I started systematically targeting Mac whenever I needed to fart on shift. One time I even made myself a protein pack green smoothie to up my impact after a shift where he'd been particularly menacing. When I saw Mac frantically talking to a manager, pointing at the open drain under the bar and checking the fridges for milk spills, I knew I'd gone too far. Anyway, Mac wished you the best, you thought you were a smart fella, but you're really a fart smell. LOL. Oh my God. God. So he never knew it was her? Didn't he figure it out? Yes. The comments were all just a bunch of fart jokes, someone said Mac dusting, someone said big Mac attack. Oh, come on. I hate it. Yeah. I started to get a little cringy as soon as you started changing your diet, okay, we're done. We're done here. We're done here. You got him. When it was one fart, I was like, one fart was awesome. One fart was awesome. It continual harassment of fart rockets as well. Right. It's also like, that feels like chemical warfare. Like I feel like, I feel like two targets. I remember. Okay. Now that we've been talking about the pandemic in this episode, when people who were anti-mask would fake cough or sneeze at people and that was like called, I think it was called like a form of torture, like a bioterrorism, I mean, a bioterrorism. I'm like, how is a fart different from that? Like if you're targeting people, I can say I've never wanted to fart on it. I've never wanted to fart on anyone. I feel like I have this weird, you guys, I've never wanted to fart on anyone. I do feel like I have this bad luck thing though. Where when I'm out in public and I'm like, okay, I'm by myself. And I like kind of like silently fart at that moment, some person is going to suddenly approach my area. Not sure. You're like, hey, can we just, and I go back up, back up, back up, back up, back up. No, no, no, no, no, that's away from them. Like I'll be in a grocery store. I'm like, I'm alone in this aisle and then as soon as I fart, it's like everybody comes there. They're like, they're like, oh, we're going to go to the aisle six now. I feel like I'm telling their friends, they're like, come here on. And then multiple cases, they'll be in an elevator. And like the second I'm like, okay, like I'm going to do this and then it stops, opens up and like people get in and I'm just like, the guy who was in here before fought it really bad. The guy before me. The guy who was a guy. My house elevator. My house is a fart freehouse. It's a fart freehouse hold. Take off your socks. Please don't fart. No sharten. No sharten. No sharten. No sharten. No sharten. No sharten. No sharten. But all the shardonnay. No sharten. No sharten. Can we go back to how shitty Mack is? Yeah. Because he is wanting to discriminate and send the rich people to his section. Don't you love the feeling when it's like, like, I remember being really not like not having a lot of money in my pocket. You know, like really, really struggling and then you get seen at a restaurant and you're like, wow, we got a really nice table. This is so nice. Well, he's saying his area is the best service because it's him. Yeah. Well, and he has the prime seating. So it's like best looking, like maybe maybe his side of the restaurant has a view of the city. Me. And he thinks his service is the best and he's making, he's taking, he's like, the view of the city is me. I am the good city. I am the service. I am the good city. I am the good city. But like, that's so sad. Like, he wants, like, you know, the whole like we rich getting richer. Like, oh, so the rich people get to have the nicest experience in the restaurant. Yeah. Like, come on. It's a bullshit. And Mac, maybe he should, and maybe I'm glad he got farted on. Oh, I'm glad he got farted on. Yeah. I'm indifferent. I'm getting farted on. Unfortunately, other people are getting farted on. There's collateral damage here. She's out there farting all over the place. Other people are getting hit by that. But he's not connecting those things. He's not going, I'm getting so stinky smells around me. Maybe it's because I'm discriminating. But the hope is that people think that Mac is the one farting. That's the hope. But I don't know if that's occurring. That's not my hope. What's your hope? It's not farting. Peace on earth. Yeah. Don't be fart. Don't be farted on earth. Peace on earth. Peace on earth. Nice. I don't want, yeah, piss on earth. Hell. I've been quoting a lot of things that nobody knows the reference from in this episode. And it's, I'm really curious. Okay. People in the comments don't know. I don't want to anybody to fart on me. And I don't want you guys to fart on anybody. No, I would. I won't. I promise I won't. Thank you both for being here. I'm glad that our co-worker situation is not like these. No. We're good. I would paint your house. And I would, I would work your wife. Wait. No. Nope. I will work your wife. You would work her wife? Work. Why? Work. Anyways. Thank you both for joining me. Thank you all for watching and listening. And, um, hey, uh, we have a lot of live shows this year. Woo! Sportsroom's red stories live. They're going to be all over the place. So keep an eye out for them. And we will see you one of them. But we will see you next Saturday. Right here. Bye!