r/Entitledparents "KAREN DEMANDS TO USE MY WIFI!"

hey there mr reddit here welcome back to another episode of r slash entitled parent stories our first story we'll be reading today karen demands to use my mobile wi-fi after that am i the jerk for refusing to watch my grandchildren overnight twice a week and after that manager bullies me for several months until i finally quit i made sure to get him fired now for every thumbs up this video kids one karen has to get her own wi-fi but i need it so please smash that like button and if you're new subscribe and turn on notifications for new stories from reddit every single day karen demands to use my mobile wi-fi i read a recent post on here that reminded me of an instance with an entitled mother last summer was on annual leave during the summer holidays we took the kids out to the countryside it was a beautiful day and decided to stop and have a few drinks and lunch in a pub now while my daughter 17 is very sociable and quite happy to sit in a pub garden and join the sunshine my son doesn't he actively avoids social situations even with family and hates to have his routine interrupted however we have found as long as he has access to his games through his phone or tablet he will relatively be happy as he can zone out while me my wife and daughter sit at a picnic type pub table my son plonks himself on a bench nearby and proceeds to play his games we had been said in the pub garden for an hour or so when entitled mom and another woman come into the garden with three kids and sit themselves in the shade next to the pub no biggie as we are on the top sunny end of the garden after about 20 minutes entitled mom approaches my son and demands to know not asks if he is playing online as her son cannot access the pub wi-fi the signal is poor in the garden area he nervously says yes and holds up the mobile wi-fi device he is using the following conversation ensues entitled mom what's that i respond as my son is now showing signs of elevated anxiety me it's a mobile wi-fi device so he can play his games entitled mom how do i connect to it my son needs to play his games me i'm afraid you can there's limited data on it and it's for my son's use but my son can't play his games me i'm sorry but that's not my problem but why should your son be able to play his games and not my son daughter because we brought a mobile device and you didn't gotta love my daughter me as i said it's for my son's use and there's limited data on it end of she then stomps back to her table in a huff and thought nothing more of it i have to point out that even if she had asked politely i would have still said no as the range on this thing is pretty poor which meant her son would have had to sit near my son to use it this would only raise my son's anxiety levels and he would not have been happy about 10 minutes later she shouts across the garden in a rather jubilant tone i've managed to connect to your device me i doubt that since you haven't got the password it's one of those default passwords that comes with a device that looks like you've just punched a keyboard i don't need it i have put my own in i'm like whatever there was no way she was connected to it so we carry on chatting for another hour before getting up to leave as we pass our table she demands to know why is your service provider charging me for data me they're not you were never connected to my device yes they are look and thrusts her phone in my face me i'm not with that provider but i assume you are i did not stay any longer and was not prepared to discuss the situation with her daughter stated she's quite technical with these things that she probably selected personal hotspot option thinking it was my device from her own device but there was not enough data available and when she entered her password it was to purchase additional data not a mega end to the tale and it's probably not as entertaining as some i've read on here but thanks for reading would you let karen use your wifi or not please let us know you better am i the jerk for refusing to watch my grandchildren overnight twice a week i have three kids a son who's 30 a daughter who's 28 and a daughter who's 20. my son has three kids my oldest daughter has three also and my youngest has one when my oldest grandchild turned one i'd occasionally have him overnight to give my son and daughter-in-law a break then as more came along i'd watch them too but now i feel it's at a point i can't cope with watching seven kids all in one night like my kids have wanted me to do so i've been watching them in groups of two to four once a week or so i don't want to sound like i don't care about my grandkids but i had my oldest kid at 14. my parents refused to help raise my kids apart from pain for the basics until i turned 16 which was obviously their choice so from a young age i've worked full time while raising kids i've told my kids on several occasions that i don't mind helping out now and then with overnight visits but at the same time i want to go traveling etc now that i have some time to myself and also finally work on my career i always take my grandkids my kids and their partners out once a week for a big family dinner and i see my grandkids several times a week between that today my three kids came over together and told me they had been talking and they felt i'm not pulling my weight when it comes to helping with my grandkids they've asked that i watch all the kids every friday and saturday night so they can get some time to themselves and their partners i told them no watching all seven kids is exhausting for two days in a row every week as they're so excited to see each other and it's also lots of work as a compromise i said i'd watch either all seven one night every second weekend or continue as things are watching them once a week in smaller groups they're not happy at this at all they said as the grandma i should be expected to help out so things aren't so stressful for them as parents i already help out financially by paying for each grandkid to go to two after-school activities a week i understand my kids are probably stressed from dealing with the kids all day every day through lockdown and i'm happy to make up for that time by watching them a bit more often for a few months but am i such a horrible person for not wanting to give up my entire weekend on a weekly basis they've left me to think it over but i've told them i won't change my mind i'll also add that they've all admitted they aren't done having more kids with my son saying they're currently trying for a fourth so i don't know what they expect me to do as numbers increase edit wow this blew up overnight thank you so much for the awards that people have given me i've sent a link to this to my kids for them to read and i haven't heard back yet i also told them in a group chat that going forward i think they should watch each other's kids on a rotation and i will help out once a month or so there's so many comments that i don't know if i'll be able to make it through them all but i'll try my best well what do you think do you agree with op or with her kids please let us know her kids sound almost as entitled as i am love it manager bullies me for several months until i finally quit i made sure to get him fired this happened around 2016 i had at the time 25 to 26 male been without a job for a while looking for a better paying job than i had before and i found one at a camera security company that was looking to hire someone for the service desk i went for an interview and got a call back later that day if i wanted the job it was mine now my new manager was an ex-military specifically x-army not american just pointing that out he really didn't like having people disagree with or going against him a thing i was very unaware of when i took the job for two to three months everything was going well the manager was cordial and seemed to really enjoy having me there i worked my butt off every day as the software we were working with was unknown to me so i studied a lot and even went overseas to another country to follow a course and succeeded on my exams however after that period my grandpa who was like a second father to me suddenly was hospitalized after a brain bleed he was found in the shower he had collapsed after he pressed his panic button this all happened on a wednesday the family came together in the hospital several times to show support and see grandpa however on friday afternoon 3 p.m i was called up by my father my grandpa's son while i was at work and he explained to me that grandpa unfortunately passed away i was in tears on the phone and in utter shock it took me a while to calm down i went to my manager and explained what just happened and that i'm going home to be with my family however that day there was an event the company was doing a charity event and this charity was going to be public news they already announced the amount of people participating and it would look bad if they were a person down it was basically just for good pr so he refused to let me go i told him that by law he cannot deny me as my contract states that i can take a day away for something like this and that i was leaving now this was the turning point he went from a nice manager to a manager from heck suddenly everything i did was wrong i was told he couldn't believe i was in this line of work for six years and be this bad at my job he yelled at me and ridiculed me in front of my colleagues and even clients this all continued for several months and severely began to impact my mental health i had to talk with my parents and my fiance at the time still my girlfriend i'd ask her to marry me in december of 2016 and they basically told me that this was not okay that i didn't have to take this and that i should give them my two weeks notice i agreed the following day i went to hr and explained why i was leaving the company and i couldn't stand the idea of working even a single day more with that excuse of a human being hr showed interest in my well-being and even more importantly in what i was claiming about my manager they had received more complaints about him but nobody had proof of his wrongdoings so they asked me if i had proof i told them i'd be looking for a new job but i'd gladly fit in the time to collect all i could for the next two weeks i collected everything memos emails voice recordings when on the phone the calls are automatically recorded and this jerk was stupid enough to talk to me this way while we were on the phone lucky me also lucky was that my colleagues at the desk had my back this entire time they had been trying to cheer me up said i was doing fine work and that they also didn't understand this man's behavior so when i came by and asked if they'd mind signing a document that everything i stated in the paperwork was true they gladly did i had one last talk with hr and him at the same time the last day i was there before he even walked in i told the hr person who was mediating he's going to walk in say what he wants to say and i'll be quiet and listen when he's done i'll explain my side and he's going to interrupt me tell you i'm lying and talk about completely non-related subject matter to drag the conversation in another direction she looked surprised at my comment but had no time to respond as mr army man walked in and began his spiel exactly as i stated he had blurred his side out and once i tried to talk he'd consistently interrupted me and tried to pick fights eventually i got up told hr i told you so here's the documents you've been asking for i placed a filled folder with several dozens of emails plenty of memos and a usb containing three phone conversations and even video footage of him yelling at me in both voice and video recordings you could easily hear him yelling at me i gave the manager a big bright smile who was smirking victoriously and said to him i don't think you'll be smirking like that for long enjoy your little victory his smirk disappeared into a confused scowl but i slammed the door on him before he could respond and left the building feeling like a huge and i mean humongous sized planet-sized amount of stress fall off my shoulders within a month i was back to my old self two months later i was working at a new job and out of curiosity i checked my ex manager's linkedin unemployed i called one of my old colleagues to ask what exactly went down my proof opened pandora's box he was being disrespectful to the female staff insulted the older staff and on multiple occasions was less than cordial with our extended hires none of these complaints were acted upon because it was his word against theirs and there was no proof however me providing overwhelming proof of his gross behavior towards me made all of the complaints now to be taken as fact he was promptly fired less than a month after i left and they refused to provide him with any form of reference in a field like his references mean a lot so not getting one from a company you've worked at for nearly a year is a huge red flag it's now 2020. four years passed and according to linkedin he's still not working in his field i'll gladly admit that i felt rather wickedly satisfied and still do whenever i happen to think about it have you ever had a manager treat you bad if so what did you do about it please let us know all the time and i've spoken to a lot of managers cleanup on aisle four better make that two cleanups i was reminded of this one while picking up my online grocery order the store added a little freebie bag of back to school lunch goodies including a packet of peanut butter or as i call this stuff distilled death many years ago i worked for a big box retailer that included a grocery section as a general grunt worker stock boy cashier parking lot attendant whatever they needed at the time i was scheduled either on the floor or in the parking lot it's been a very long while so don't remember which i had just gotten clocked in and checked out one of the walkie-talkies the non-cashiers used to coordinate with i still suck with names so i'll keep it simple we've got me and we've got boss me hey boss just clocked in where do you need me boss oh hey good timing i need you to bring a mop in a bucket over to aisle four somebody dropped and broke a jar of peanut butter me uh i'm deathly allergic to peanut butter boss is there any way you can get someone else on that boss annoyed look we've got a lot to get done today i don't have time for this either get it cleaned up or go home me okay boss i want it noted i'm doing this under protest one of the other managers on the floor acknowledged that for me so off i go to one of the cleanup stations to fill up the mop bucket to take over i can already smell the peanut butter from five aisles away and my gag reflex is informing me that yes this is in fact a very bad idea boss alexander where are you me on the way boss to set the scene he's on the far end of the aisle making sure nobody steps in the peanut butter or broken glass there is fortunately nobody else in the aisle i say fortunately because i didn't want anybody else in the line of fire for what was about to happen and i was maybe 30 feet away from the site of the accident when it did i threw up about half of it went into the fresh bucket of mop water most of the rest went all over the floor but the bottom shelf took some splash damage i wound up dropping to my hands and knees before i was done trying to back out of the aisle far enough to get away from the smell of distilled death and what used to be leftover pizza i should point out that it was early in the day there was no music at the store and everything was generally quiet i was not quiet not even slightly the guy who always opened the toy department halfway across the store got on the walkie-talkie to ask if everything was all right boss was staring at me in a mix of disgust and abject horror i was still on the floor when i looked up at him and wiped my face off on the sleeve of the company-issued polo i stood up leaned against a shelf and reached for my walkie-talkie looking right at boss the whole time me there are two cleanups on aisle four i'm going home i turned off my walkie-talkie and went to go clock back out i know boss tried to yell something at me down the aisle when i turned to leave the aisle but i was light-headed and dizzy and couldn't make out what he said didn't care really and he couldn't chase me down because company policy required that somebody stay at the accident to keep customers from doing something that could incur a lawsuit there was no fallout from the incident on my side of things but boss spent the rest of my time working there another five or six months avoiding me unless there was absolutely no getting around it from what i was told later the manager who had acknowledged my protest and half the sales floor all backed me up when the store manager showed up and asked where i was i even told the store manager my next day back that i had followed boss's orders i hadn't cleaned up the mess in aisle four as demanded so i went home do you have anything you're allergic to if so what is it please let us know i'm allergic to accountability am i the jerk for buying my rental home and kicking out my obnoxious roommates background my original roommate and i have a mutual friend who is our landlord i moved in because he was struggling to pay rent which impacted my best friend he missed an entire month of rent and my friend lowered his rent at his own expense to help him i came in to rent a room to help out to be clear i paid more rent than my roommate knew because my landlord friend couldn't really afford the charity decrease i can't tell the roommate because he would feel entitled to pay even less i accepted this but then the roommate got a girlfriend and two months into the relationship he moves her and her two poorly behaved kids in this is a four bedroom one bathroom place the kids scream and throw tantrums and the mother is exceptionally demanding both to me her boyfriend and our landlord she's costing money by finding every little thing under the sun to be fixed or replaced the kitchen counters need to be replaced etc she takes up almost all of the common spaces she weaponizes her anxiety to get her way to top it off they're living all together at the same price that my roommate was paying when he was single i did the math utilities included they pay 200 per person and i pay 400 yet they dominate the place and dictate everything now here's where i'm asking if i'd be the jerk my friend is considering selling the place to me as a lease to own would i be the jerk if i bought the place and gave them 30 to 60 days notice to get out to clarify they don't have a lease and pay month to month i paid in advance through next year update upon listening to y'all i have decided to give my roommates a talk and ask to pay an equal rent utilities per person before taking more drastic measures i would also say my roommate makes one thousand dollars a week at his job though he has debt he got himself into girlfriend just got her master's degree i think asking for a rent equalization is morally right if they refuse i won't feel bad about operation by and by also i care about this place a lot because i have invested a lot in my garden maybe 100 plus hours and title's mom tells me to eat my food and not to text my boyfriend so two years ago i was at a local shopping center with my mom and we were getting something to eat but since the places were all so busy the tables were full and there was barely anywhere to sit without having to sit with a bunch of strangers cast we've got my mom we've got entitled mom we've got quiet kid and we've got me so cut to about 10 minutes later when we got our food my mom and i had to go find a place to sit but like i explained before the place was full but behold there were two seats empty just opposite you guessed it entitled mom and her kid my mom is it okay if we sit here entitled mom yeah we're almost done anyways my mom and i had sat down and i went on my phone to answer my dad who would text me entitled mom teenagers are always on their phones my mom seemed that i'm texting my dad and probably didn't want to cause trouble yup entitled mom i hope my daughter doesn't grow up to be like this i ate some of my popcorn chicken and chips as she said this since i got the hint that entitled mom didn't want me on my phone my mom op i've forgotten your straw i looked at my mouth teasers crush them if you've had one before you know what i'm talking about i didn't want to take off the lid and drink it that way since i prefer to straw since it meant not accidentally getting the crush em on the table and causing more mess for the cleaners so my mom got up and went to get me one the counter with the straws wasn't too far and she was still an eye shot but this is where entitled mom talks to me ugh can't you eat your dinner and not text your boyfriend i'm sure you can go five minutes without sending a love text me i'm texting my dad and i'll eat when i'm ready truth be told i wasn't that hungry so that's why i didn't eat much but i had finished most of my food when she then turned her direction to her daughter entitled mom are you almost done quiet kid just nodded she didn't seem too happy and i could tell why anyways my mom came back just after entitled mom and her kid left i told her what had happened and i drank my crush him after that i bought some lego and we went home this was my first encounter with an entitled parent but not my last i have more stories to share and i'll post the next one maybe tomorrow edit sure it's not ideal to go on your phone during meal times but my main family parents grandparents and aunt are quite okay with me going on my phone when eating as they know i'm not going on it for long and they know i'll eat my food anyways am i the jerk for naming my daughter the name i chose years ago i had my daughter a week ago i had chosen her name a long while ago because it had a very personal meaning to me before i was pregnant my sister and i had been talking about what we'd like to name our kids and i told her the girl name i really wanted to use she complimented me on it and then we didn't talk about it again she gave birth to my niece five months ago and guess what name she used that's right the name i had chosen so long ago i didn't care was a little annoyed by it but i wasn't going to let it stop me from using the name now she's annoyed i used the name too she told me it was weird that i would use it and that the cousins have the same first middle and last name i told her i wasn't going to change the name i had wanted for a long time that had a deep meaning for me just because she decided to use it after i told her the name she said as the first one to have a baby she got dibs i told her to get over it and it was a name anyone could use am i the jerk i don't think she's the jerk for your information i think she's entitled to use the name but she's kind of being a jerk when she knows how i felt about the name editing to add details i provided below so it doesn't keep getting asked my husband took my name when we got married and my sister is a single mom hence the same name we live two hours from each other the first name was my best friend's name she passed away when we were 14 and i always planned to name a daughter after her to honor her so it is very special the middle name holds important significance due to a trauma i suffered and the healing it brought in a situation it's a weird story i will admit and i shared more detail and reply to someone but i'm not in the mental state to write it out again they're your rules i was an english teacher in moscow at the beginning of the school year i asked for a week of time off around a holiday so i could travel home i got denied so the week it came around i was pleased that most of my classes had been cancelled because the students had the same idea i had and were all going on vacation i got an email from the administration stating that i was to cover classes for another teacher who was taking vacation for the week i had asked for so i was already a bit upset that they had approved him but not me especially since i'd asked for it like five months ago anyway i accept the hand that was dealt and start preparing lessons the day of the first class i leave home a few hours early so that i had plenty of time to make sure i could find the place it was at a location i'd never been and that i had all the necessary equipment i needed to read the lessons it was pretty easy to find but when i rang the bell there was no answer i had some time so i went off to get a snack i came back to the school around 30 minutes early and rang the bell again no answer i try calling the school's administrator no answer i try calling the administrator who assigned the classes no answer for over an hour i rang the doorbell and called multiple times to no avail my contract stated that i had to wait 30 minutes for students to show up before i could leave so at the 30 minute mark i sent a text to all parties that read something along the lines of i was here on time i waited a half hour after the scheduled time but nobody answered the door i'm going back home it will take me 20 minutes to get to the metro if you call me before i board i will turn around and come back when i got home i got a call where the heck are you at home you have a class i'm aware i was there and nobody answered the door i called and nobody answered i also left a text texting is not an approved form of communication now this was before i had a phone with a data plan so text was the only way i could message someone they tried docking my pay for this but when i told the owner what had happened and showed him my call logs and the text i left he made sure that didn't happen fast forward a few months i'd been having a lot of issues with the administration so i'd become an expert on the finer details of our contract one of these details was that the administration couldn't assign a class with less than 72 hours notice so when they called on saturday to give me a class for monday i told them no again they tried to dock my pay the owner cited me and told me i was right my favorite part though was receiving a text that said i was to teach a class on a given day they made special mention of the 72-hour rule i ignored the text when the time for class came around i got another call where the heck are you at home you have a class no i don't i sent you a text i have it saved texting is not an approved form of communication how dare i mess up karen's milkshake context i live in a major city in my country though out of the fray of tourist attractions my boyfriend at the time we were both around 15 when the story took place we've been broken up for several years now worked in a high-end touristy neighborhood for a large ice cream chain as pay tended to be better in this area the people who frequent the shops there are either very wealthy or are tourists though occasionally middle class locals would adventure in for a little fun we had been dating for six months apparently a very big deal to our freshman year of high school selves so we decided to be a little fancy and go out in this area of town for a nice lunch and a walk down on the waterfront we didn't dress up too crazy but i was wearing a nicer outfit since it was a special occasion he even gifted me a necklace and it was a really lovely afternoon well it was a really lovely afternoon we decided to stop into the ice cream shop where we worked to say hi to his co-worker friend only one person was working despite it being a pretty busy area as it was a weekday we chat with her for a bit she was a woman in her mid-30s and she gives us each a free ice cream cone it was nice and i was very dazzled by his work perks we say goodbye and my boyfriend and i decide to shop around after finishing our ice cream admiring all the fancy clothes we would buy if we had the funds we're trying on some goofy clothes and taking funny photos typical high school fun when he gets a phone call it's his co-worker and she says we have to come back right away he's trying to tell her he has the day off and we're out on a date but she insists it's an emergency and we're the only people nearby so we go back to the ice cream shop it actually was an emergency the freezer in the back that held all of their stock nearly ten thousand dollars worth of ice cream in giant tubs this place was a huge operation had broken and the ice cream was beginning to melt she had to go to the regional warehouse to get a company freezer van to salvage what they could as they were losing money by the second the catch she wanted us to work the store and business was starting to pick up she found a company shirt for me to wear that was so big i was practically swimming in it and decided that even though i had no understanding of how anything worked and had never even had a job before it was perfectly okay for me to work the counter and before you say i was technically working there i never got paid for the couple of hours i was working and really was not qualified to be representing the brand the location later shut down there were a lot of subpar business practices happening there that contributed so with two 15 year olds in charge the manager heads out and the people start to flow in again i have zero training and my boyfriend is stuck on the register so i am scrambling trying to figure out which ice cream is which as behind the counter there are no flavor labels i just try to tell people i'm new are just helping out for the day and most people are pretty cool and accepting of this and don't mind the couple of extra minutes it was taking for me to serve them keyword most enter karen i later ended up working at a different luxury ice cream store later in my high school career and learned to spot the dreaded beast but my sweet summer child naive baby self had no clue she looked very typical of someone who was a native in our area very businessy and clean cut well put together with a permanent scowl painted across her lips she came up to me and seemed nice at first she complimented the song that was playing and even did a little dance this put me at ease she seemed so cool she ordered her milkshake the first non-ice cream cone order of the day as she was the only customer in the store at the moment my boyfriend walks me through how to make it i don't know why he didn't just make it and spare me the wrath but oh well we don't bother explaining i'm new or anything since we figure she'll put two and two together with how he's explaining to me how to make it it takes me a while to make it and find everything as i didn't work there but eventually i finished the milkshake and it actually looked pretty good i give it to her and she gets really weird she walks towards the register sipping slowly my boyfriend rings her up and karen stops drinking it i'm not paying for this boyfriend i'm sorry it's too thick it's like she doesn't even know how to make a milkshake well to be fair i didn't boyfriend i'm sorry ma'am she is new and still learning well she's incompetent and i'm not paying for this i could see my boyfriend getting frustrated and i felt tears passing at the corner of his eye he tells her she has already drank the beverage so she has to pay begrudgingly she obliges she walks towards the door hovers there takes another sip walks back to the register this is ridiculous i want a refund boyfriend i'm sorry i can't do that but i can't have her remake it [Music] fine but i don't want that girl making it my boyfriend annoyed makes her a new milkshake the exact same way i had made mine she seemed pleased with the one he made and left us with no tip just a snide comment as she walked out you really should fire that girl and i'm leaving you both a bad review we watch her walk out the window drinking from both milkshakes we decided to close the shop at that point and wait for the manager i then got my nice clothes hair skin covered in chocolate ice cream melt as we helped her load up the freezer van to take the ice cream to the warehouse watch this video next you're gonna love it and join as a channel member today and we'll give you a special shout out on our next video and to have us make any kind of video you'd like us to come visit us on fiverr link bend in the comments below

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Length: 30min 46sec (1846 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 14 2020