r/Askreddit What Is Your "F--- It! I'm Done Helping Others" Moment?

welcome to our slash ask reddit where we answer the question what was your screw it i'm done helping others moment our first replies from bad panda i had a friend years ago who was a bit self-centered and prone to stretching the truth but he was a nice enough guy with a rough backstory and my friend group liked him so i cut him a lot of slack i like to host and i have friends staying over pretty regularly back then i usually had one or two people spending the night on any given day anyhow over the span of a couple of years this guy starts abusing that staying over for days or even weeks at a time eating my food and drinking my liquor without contributing that sort of thing while constantly talking about his grand plans and daydreams as if they'd already happened a little sad but also pretty annoying after a while anyhow i sit him down one day and let him know that he's gotta hit home and that he's free to come over and hang out but i'm not comfortable with him staying over for the time being he leaves i think it went remarkably well and i head out to work as it turns out he broke into my house while i was away at work and stole a bunch of my sister's things because my birthday was coming up and neither of us even thought to get me a gift it takes a special person to rationalize how burglarizing someone isn't really their fault anyway all slack and sympathy went out the window immediately i called the cops and he's dead to me and what's even weirder about this is that this guy's justification doesn't even make any sense if his birthday is coming up then wouldn't it make sense for him to wait for the birthday to expect the gift typically people don't give people their birthday gifts before their birthday our next reply is from big fat smelly when a good friend of mine that i worked under had cancer and wasn't able to pay some bills i loaned her 200 just to help i was only 18 at the time and felt bad because she had kids it was right around the holidays and i just wanted to help however i could and be a good person in life she promised to pay me back when she could it turns out she lied about having cancer was stealing from the company i worked at scammed my other co-workers and would come in after calling out of work for a chemo to make fraudulent returns while i was overseeing the store myself because of her calling out i got that jerk fired and got promoted to her position after that it turns out she didn't have cancer it turns out she was the cancer our next reply from fire and iced tea i had a newish neighbor asked if he could borrow our lawnmower sure well more or less every week he would come and get it out of our garage use it to cut his grass put it away without cleaning it or adding gas in the fall we mentioned it was a good time to get deals on a new lawnmower and he never talked to us again our next replies from my name is sarah i'm a teacher a parent of a former student contacted me in an emergency situation she couldn't afford to pay bills and needed help she was super helpful to me in my first year teaching so i asked friends and family to help out and raised her about two thousand dollars never again she's contacted me every few weeks since then always with a new reason why she needs more money and when i offer her food and clothing resources she refuses it she's placed me in such an awkward situation and i regret ever trying to help her out in the first place and beneath that we have a similar story from sheep of wall street i had a customer who used to show up and just wear me down until i gave him free stuff he got so intrusive that even after i left that job he coerced my old co-worker into telling him where i work now this dude had the audacity to call my work and left a message asking me to go scout out campsites for him i ignored him and he called me over and over again finally my boss had to tell him to stop calling if it doesn't have anything to do with my business he kept trying and eventually gave up our next reply from scammer c my mother and her new husband had moved into a new place and invited all their kids over for christmas in previous years we would buy a whole turkey dinner from somewhere so that no one had to cook so imagine my surprise when my husband and i walk in my mother walks out of the kitchen she hands me a spoon and says good you're finally here and goes to sit down in the living room after a quick and awkward conversation it was determined that my job was to make sure everything currently in progress or not even started got to the table on time while everyone else socialized basically i was the help and should have realized that so any feelings i had about that were my fault so i did and not knowing the family dynamics my new step siblings were very thankful and appreciative of all my efforts which caused a meltdown for my mother about how we should all be thanking her that was the first time that i used the phrase that's come in handy for these situations i'm so sorry it'll never happen again and it never did they weren't happy when they finally realized what that meant and then when someone asks what the fallout was op says i guess it depends on what you mean by fallout my mother decided that it was completely out of line for me to complain and if that's how i felt we could just stay home from now on as you can imagine i was completely crushed that i wasn't going to be used for free labor anymore and would completely no contact the next holiday probably more to do with being in cuba but whatever the next year was dad's turn then a trip to visit my father-in-law the year after then i ruined christmas because i didn't want to spend time with my family that is to say none of the others wanted to be the kitchen slave while she hosted i never made my mother a meal again but i know from my stepsister that she would get pissed off whenever one of my friends or family would make gushing posts on facebook about one of my dinners and all because someone dared to thank me for cooking our next replies from i believe in space when i had a truck during college everyone suddenly wanted me to help them move most were cool and gave me money or ordered pizza unprompted by the way one time however some dude i barely knew needed help i show up and nothing is packed in his apartment he had a giant fish tank and lived on the third floor with no elevator it was a freaking nightmare and i never got a dime nor food or even some beers i never talked to him after that beneath that zig hextech says exactly what i was thinking oh looks like you haven't packed i'll come back tomorrow when you need help moving our next replies from rose feather i used to frequently stay late at work for clients who showed up at the veterinary clinic last minute with a non-emergency problem and no appointment then three times in a row three different people were told up front about the after hours fee agreed to pay instead of scheduling an appointment for the next day and all of them called back the next day fussing they shouldn't have been charged extra for keeping us 30 to 60 minutes past our scheduled hours and that we were terrible and trying to scam them by charging them for our time even though we told them upfront that they had another option it was exhausting and demoralizing we did more than we had to for them after already working a full day because a desire to help is why we're there in the first place and they responded by saying our time was worth nothing and we suck the entire staff said f that now unless it's a literal life and death situation if we can't fit someone in before closing and they didn't have an appointment it's a firm no i'm in this profession to help others and i still work late for real emergencies when they happen or if an appointment runs longer than expected but i'm done sacrificing my personal time for entitled people who don't actually need it and op clarifies in an edit the people did pay but they were calling later to complain about it and demand a refund or say they were canceling the transaction on their card interesting fact about vets vets actually have one of the highest suicide rates of all professions apparently because of people like these people the problem with most people who go to the vet is that they're expecting hospital level service on a dollar store level budget our next reply from carrie zero after working free of charge as a freelance graphics guy to build up my portfolio and having a client basically make the most minor of adjustments and constant revisions four posters which should have taken me a day tops really ended up taking three months and when they wanted four more posters i wanted money and i got ghosted lesson learned our next replies from hideout we were asleep one night with a window open we woke up because there's a couple walking down the road arguing the girl is closer than the guy next thing we know the girl is banging on the door begging to come in so we call the police they get there and the couple is gone the cops tell us that this is a common ruse being used in the area to get you to open the door so they can rob you and then on the other side of the coin we have this story from catfish tam i actually once was the girl banging on the door in the middle of the night screaming for help but i actually did need help and was covered in blood trying to escape my boyfriend who was beating me but now reading this seven years later i see why maybe the first couple didn't open up at all and then back to the other side of the coin we have this story from bye bye bye i had something similar happen when i was a kid a lady knocked on the door in the middle of the night holding a toddler who was asleep my mom answered and the lady asked if she could come inside because her car broke down my mom was generous and kind to a fault but something felt off my mom said the woman can't come in but she could call a tow truck or her husband to come help the lady says no but won't you let us come inside my kit is cold my mom became even more suspicious and told me to grab some blankets from the cupboard she said we can wrap the kid in blankets until someone comes to help the lady got all pissed off and walked away guess she didn't need help i still have no idea what she actually wanted but it obviously wasn't help with her car so there you have it folks next time a young lady knocks on your door in the middle of the night it's basically a 50 50 coin toss she's either knocking on your door because she's about to get murdered or you're about to get murdered our next reply is from red eye rob we've helped out my sister-in-law a few times with money and bills never a lot fifty dollars here a hundred dollars there usually for some build to avoid services being cut off i'm usually the more heartfelt one in my marriage but i ended up being the one to put my foot down we went over to her apartment once she had two big flat screen tvs a new couch a new fridge kids on a new playstation or whatever console she got them it was all renaissance stuff but that was the end for me i didn't have any of those things myself not to mention the incredibly bad financial decision those things were with their high interest rates part of me felt like i was taking food out of her kid's mouths but i realized that no her poor decisions were doing that and beneath that we have a similar story from ezra my uncle had a similar experience with a friend of his years back he thought they needed the grocery money for the kids turns out they were spending the money on frivolous luxury goods instead of necessities the next month his friend asked if he could help him through a tight spot and my uncle said sure my uncle brought over one jar of grape jelly one jar of peanut butter and two loaves of bread and he never heard from that guy again our next replies from ajax kid i have neighbors across the road who we extended ourselves to help out because they had young kids and seem to be struggling well they were really starting to take advantage to the point where we couldn't walk out of our house without them literally yelling for us because they needed a phone a ladder money someone to drive them somewhere diapers our wi-fi password are wood etc etc this started happening every day and multiple times a day it became ridiculous and oppressive they've since pulled that stunt with everyone else on the road wearing out one generous person after another once you realize they're merely moochers and are content to remain so that's when you're done and beneath that we have a similar story from rivers ford try having those people as family my wife's oldest sister has two young daughters her and her husband are constantly getting brand new cars the best liquor they can find and other expensive toys and such i personally can't stand them much then my sister-in-law who was on dialysis found out that she had a kidney donor to help out for the surgery my wife offered to get them groceries so they gave her a list of course it was filled with worthless junk while we could technically afford it we weren't exactly flush with cash we had to move our money around this went on for a month with my wife making weekly trips i was adamantly against it which my wife said was unfair as they needed the help on my wife's most recent trip i got a call from my wife apologizing for not listening to me my brother-in-law couldn't wait to show her the brand new movie theater he had put in she was beyond pissed all i could say was i warned you and then another bizarre story from princess nanny i lived next to someone just like this two young kids very friendly then they just start taking advantage of you i made the mistake of telling them that i was a nanny and i offered to babysit them all of one time after that it was seriously at least once a day that they dropped their kids off it wasn't even like the kids were easy two kids still in diapers who were little terrorizers i finally told them to screw off and they yelled at me for not being available they knocked on my door left their two young kids waiting there and peaced out i wasn't even in my apartment cops were called after a toddler wearing nothing but her diaper was found wandering the apartments our next reply from blitz and vixen one day i found a puppy dirty hungry and just scared and lost i gave him a good meal some love and went to drop him off on the address on his collar the dude thanked me then proceeded to beat the stuffing out of his dog and told me to mind my own business when i tried to get him to stop then the guy carried the dog by his collar to a five foot long chain in a muddy patch with a sucky broken three-wall doghouse where i'm guessing the dog spent 100 of his time i called the cops but they did nothing the dog technically had shelter which qualifies because he had three walls and a roof even if it was filled with holes and it gets down to 20 degrees fahrenheit at night here p.s i stole the dog three weeks later as a dog lover i don't get it like if you don't like dogs if you're gonna beat your dog and keep them in the yard all the time why get a dog the whole point of having a dog is that it fills your life with love and you get to play with it and it's fun but if you hate the dog why get it why spend money on it people like that guy are not only the scum of the earth they're also just completely moronic our next reply is from deleted me and my girlfriend were leaving at mcdonald's and pulling up to the stoplight there's this homeless old man that we've seen around the area ever since we moved there and my girlfriend decides that since we've never given anything to this guy and he's always there we should give him one of our mcdoubles he comes up to our car and says thank you then he walks back to his corner as the light turns green and he just tosses it on the road right in front of where we were driving dude what i'm not even homeless and if someone gave me a freebie double i'd be thrilled our next reply from life is sweet so am i i was donating baby and toddler clothes to a mom in need through one of those facebook donating pages she didn't have a car and i did so i drove 30 minutes away to deliver the stuff all for free i got in a bad accident less than five blocks from her house so i texted her to see if she could come get what she was able to because my car was totaled she wouldn't walk the four blocks then reported me to the group and got me kicked out for not following through i ended up with a fractured sternum yeah f that noise never again truly the audacity of facebook choosing beggars knows no limits that was our slash ask reddit and if you like this content check out my patreon where i publish episodes that were banned from youtube also hit that subscribe button because i put out new reddit videos every single day

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Length: 16min 13sec (973 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 24 2020