r/Entitledpeople Karen Gets Her Business Shut Down!

hey there Mr redder here welcome back to another episode of Reddit podcast stories where today I spent over five thousand dollars to embarrass a competitor who treated me like crap it was totally worth it so I used to run a small business in the wedding space and I was very successful in a very short period of time to the point that I was getting all expense paid invites to Industry conferences less than six months after I opened needless to say this ruffled feathers intercade Kate is a chief Karen who competes in the same space and has been nothing but awful to me from the moment she became aware that I wasn't just competition I was doing better business than her she would complain that I had gotten expenses paid implied that it was because I was pretty said that she felt people who had been in the space longer deserved it more and a statement about how my outfit colors don't look good on me she also reported my booth for accidentally being less than three inches outside our 10 by 10 slot and has tried on more than one occasion to have my competing products removed from vendor Halls needless to say I despise her now fast forward a little bit into lockdown I see major issues on the horizon for my business and so I decide to step out and sell for a pretty penny bought a condo took a job at a non-profit and moved along with my life but some of my friends still in the industry would give me updates arvind and I was absolutely right to sell most everyone doing what I do has already closed including the person I sold to Kate however was still going strong though I noticed her prices were really aggressive my friend then showed me screenshots that Kate had bragged privately about claiming to be unemployed and disabled by using her longtime partner as a cover for her business then dropping prices below what other sellers could do because she was double dipping this really made me angry I have a Mobility disability and I felt horrible for the people she was running out of business by pricing so low so I of course reported her but nothing seemed to come of that then one of the biggest conferences of our local industry came up on my calendar this conference cost eight to ten thousand dollars to vendat and many vendors make 50 plus of their yearly income from this one event my friend runs the vending Hall so I asked her to place me right next to Cade now when I left the industry I still had great contacts on the manufacturing side because I speak Chinese fairly well I found the manufacturer for Kate's top selling items and I ordered a sizable inventory to take with me to the conference I priced them at cost and made ginormous signs about inventory liquidation and created these super aggressive bundle deals that made it nearly impossible for her to do any business being right next to me I could see her over there fuming and she did try to come over and complain but our booth was too busy to even entertain her obnoxious huffing and puffing she closed her shop last week I lost about five thousand dollars doing this but I got a lot of people deals on packages and items that they never thought they could afford for their special day and it was honestly fun to help people out especially at her expense I have known my parents were cheating on each other for years they found out and got mad at me when I was 11 I saw my mom kissing one of her co-workers since I didn't know what to do or even who to ask I ended up talking to that co-worker they worked at a sort of family restaurant so I was there pretty often and one day I just told him that I knew about their thing and straight up asked what I should do I don't remember exactly what he said but I know that he was really nice to me and advised I stay quiet so as to not hurt my father while it made sense to me I spent around a year feeling bad for my father whenever I saw mom leave for work or stay there late then one of the days Mom stayed for the night at the restaurant my father brought home another woman it made me have a sort of epiphany I started thinking that they knew and after some very productive internet research I figured they were simply in an open relationship As I Grew Older I realized this wasn't the case the two jerks somehow managed to put two and two together after years and noticed I knew so they started using me to cheat more efficiently from around my 15th birthday they started trying to get me to make excuses for each other ask one of them to go out for the day when they wanted the house alone and even arrange meetings with their side pieces they're both some of the stupidest people I've ever met but they somehow believe that they're Geniuses I think this is what brought them together they enable each other but it also meant that they were so busy thinking they were cheating Gods to realize the other was doing the same at some point I stopped helping them but I never said anything it was such a normal thing that it never even crossed my mind telling them last year I started uni and moved away which meant they had to deal with each other on their own I figured divorce was coming they didn't expect them to last long without having me around to keep them at peace you know the way two toddlers have to be kept under adult supervision to make sure they don't like throw each other at upcoming traffic that was what I had been doing ever since I can remember stopping them not only from making the other one mad but also separating them whenever they had a bad idea that the other would enable I was right they are going to divorce and they decided to announce this at a family gathering a couple weeks ago there was a very funny silence when they said it and it was broken by them starting to fight and trying to get the other to look bad my mother was oh so hurt by his cheating and my father was oh so hurt by hers I couldn't help but laugh it was ridiculous they were acting like complete kids when I said that yes I knew they both had been doing it for more than seven years there was silence they didn't find this funny they got so mad at me started screaming that I ruined their marriage that they could have worked it out if they had known sooner then how could I have done this to them blah blah blah I left and just went to my apartment I think they only found out about recent cheating and they might have been mad because outed all those years plus apparently I've been playing both sides this two weeks since then I've been receiving calls from everyone in my family a lot of them are just puzzled my parents would do that others know them and are telling me that they're sorry for me it seems unanimous though that I'm a jerk for not saying anything earlier personally I just think that they deserved it you're telling me that they could peacefully cheat but not be cheated on it's wild they're both jerks in many ways and they're perfect for each other the fact that they got divorced the moment they knew about the other cheating just proves me right they wanted it to be hidden they wanted it to be behind the other's back not one single other person in this world deserves to deal with either of these two they need to stick together to keep them from hurting others I don't really know what to do they haven't talked to me at all in these past two weeks the only contact we've had has been through other people I've never spent this long without talking to either of them update let's start this by thanking everyone for the support and comments most of them gave me so much courage to just step away from the situation the ones that didn't were those that mentioned how different I was from my parents or how glad they were I didn't turn out like them those comments made me feel guilty because I might actually be just like them not in the cheating way that's horrible but in the manipulative jerk way so actually getting to what happened I went on ignoring everything for a couple of days it's exam season after all I wanted to take full advice from here I just didn't know who I could talk to about this in real life but on Friday I was talking to a professor and mentioned all of this she told me that I should look into possibly taking them to court for psychological damages and that sort of thing that same day I got an email from my dad's lawyer requesting a DNA test the cousin I've kept in contact with all this time told me that my dear Mother admitted to cheating before I was born so I may not even be my father's kid honestly I don't give a hoot in fact I've been looking into changing my full name and transferring to another uni far away from here so I didn't care but coupled with my professor's idea it made me realize something I could do them over a little bit a lot of people think revenge is stupid I think it's only that way if you let it consume you I spent a night awake planning this but it ended up being so easy I replied to the email from the lawyer but not to him I replied to a joint account my parents had told them how I didn't see them as my parents regardless of biological bonds so I would not be taking the test how I was waiting for their divorce how much better it'd be like that it just went on I know they read it because I got responses from both of their lawyers it made me so mad that even after reading all of that they still didn't talk to me then on Saturday evening I had lunch with my uncle mom's brother and Dad's best friend and his wife they were supposed to be on my side they were the ones who told me they were sorry for me I told them about how I planned on taking my parents to court so that they would have to at least still pay for the rest of my degree but I also told Auntie how I was planning on posting about all they had done I asked them not to tell my parents and confessed how I had been planning their divorce so that I could get money on Advance without waiting for either of them to pass it almost made me sick saying all this stuff but it worked not even a day later and the entire family was turning against me even my cousin seemed a bit put off but she lives for the drama I guess so she still talked to me a family full of rats not a single trustworthy soul I mostly confirmed it to some of the people who talked to me telling them about how I really wanted the money and couldn't care less about my parents I was contacted by the lawyer now apparently their lawyer and with the help of my professor we crafted a contract where they would give me right now enough to finish my education it was way more than just enough but I wanted it to be as bad as possible we wouldn't have contact again and I would give up the right to sue them for this reason in the future it took them days to announce they'd be renewing their vows now this time without a devil by their side they said that they could work through anything if they had each other they have each other but they don't have me anymore that's the curse they're disguising as a blessing I know for a fact they won't divorce now they already tarnished their little perfect reputation by publicly admitting that they cheated but they messed with their own egos by going back on their word and not actually divorcing there's not a single possibility now that they admit they were wrong again they cursed each other when they met they passed the curse on to me and now they took it back they are once again getting stuck in a Loveless marriage that's filled with hate and resentment but this time around they don't have a middleman they're going to make themselves miserable and I'm so happy about it sure they may have taken away my childhood from me with their crap but I sure feel like one now watching with Glee is the two people I resent the most bind themselves to one another permanently the best part is knowing that if they were at any point even remotely decent people they could so easily get out of this but no they never will because they'd rather rot in that misery than admit they messed up they got exactly what they wanted they're the victims the poor souls who were so in love that they couldn't see through it it's perfect at this point it's too late for them to do anything even if they do realize what I did what are they gonna do admit they're not the victims that I played up how bad I was to make them look better that there's no real love there no they won't they will not realize because right now they're riding the high of getting what they wanted and by the time it fades away they'll be like two bowls in a pit too busy fighting to think about anything else if they ever do realize they won't tell why would they who would even believe it when all I've done is try to prove them right as for me my professor has been a lifesaver she helped me gather the paperwork I needed to transfer to another uni and got me in contact with the amazing lawyer who helped me write the contract I needed it to be a contract if we had gone to court over this I would have had to deal with these jerks for so much longer on top of that well a contract that seems entirely made by me makes me look so much worse than a decision made by a judge right now I'm trying to focus on passing all my finals but I'll update again if I happen to be wrong and they do divorce I'm sorry to those who assumed I wasn't like them I wanted them to suffer the way I did and I truly believe dealing with each other or having to admit they were wrong is the worst suffering I could inflict on them so yeah I guess the Apple doesn't fall far from the tree how can I mail 33 Comfort my wife who's 27 and her depression after she fell for a scam and spent 25 thousand dollars my wife of eight years fell victim to a scam in which she sent roughly twenty five thousand dollars to a scammer who promised to transfer 10 million to her so that she could help people in Africa so it was well intended but did not seek my counsel initially after she sent six thousand dollars she then approached me and I pointed out the red flags in the story she prayed about it and felt that God told her it was the right thing to do this became a point of contention in our marriage for the past three months she opened and maxed out two credit cards to keep it from me she never lied to me about it when I asked her but certainly avoided telling me the whole truth this bled into our normal lives as well she used to call and text me about her days and think she has questions about she's withdrawn from me except for the day-to-day items needed to keep the family running I feel similar to having been cheated on just more of a financial affair I obviously have trust issues when it comes to money with her I've opened separate accounts and taken her name off my credit cards there isn't anything left of our savings including our emergency savings I've cut my spending back tremendously I used to go out to eat twice a week and bring food from home the other three days I now only bring food from home I haven't bought a new video game in the last three months this has impacted my life and limited what I can do I understand that she is who I married and I have no interest in divorce I accept this hardship that she brought upon us I just want to move Beyond this and grow back together this brings me to the point that I am writing for advice about she told this scammer she isn't sending any more money they're still in communication but the scam is starting to fall apart my wife is becoming more and more depressed as it does she says this gave her a lot of purpose in her life I want to comfort her and do whatever I can to bring her out of her depression I know that time will be my best friend but I know that I can do things to help but I'm still angry at her for spending our entire savings and racking up credit card debt how can I comfort her without condoning her actions edit thank you to the very few of you that actually offered objective advice on her depression to the rest of you shame on you wait she's still communicating with a scammer is she insane or are you one of you has to be in order to let this situation continue look the behavior has to stop before forgiveness and comforting can stop you've just avoided the conflict by restricting her access to what little money you have left but that's not good enough you need to actually get through to her and talk this out or it will happen again surprised no one else had pointed this out yet why on Earth did she think it was okay to spend twenty five thousand dollars without asking you in the first place forget this scam for a second she made a life-changing financial decision behind your back that's messed up on so many levels no matter what it is if DeForest isn't on the table she absolutely needs counseling this is the type of Reckless behavior that leads to I bought you a new car for Christmas yeah yeah surprise the whole thing is on Loan in our names isn't that awesome only 900 a month for 72 months absolutely seen this happen especially with credit cards did she send the money directly from the credit cards if so can't you dispute the charge and do a back charge on it especially if it was done fraudulently is she still in contact with the scammer have you contacted the authorities both of you should seek therapy her depression likely was there before this scam and you need to find out the source of her depression if you want to improve your marriage my husband ditched us to go see the Grateful Dead and I'm done my husband is a deadhead his entire identity is built around this band and he's seen them in their various incarnations over 50 times normally I don't mind but two years ago I was in an accident that left me unable to work I now receive a tiny disability check once a month for it he works but it hasn't been easy with the cost of everything skyrocketing my disability check doesn't even cover the full cost of our rent even though our rent is the lowest in our area long story short dead and Company is made up of what remains of the Grateful Dead and this is supposed to be their last tour we live on the east coast where he's already seen them twice which was already more than we can afford but a few days ago he took out a loan and bought tickets to go see their final show in San Francisco along with round-trip air and hotel for whatever else he needs out there me and the kids are left with 10 bucks some pocket change and what feels like a very big forget you school starts back in a month and the kids both need school supplies and clothes I could name a thousand things that we need things that were going without while money is tight but this is what he chose to do we're not going to starve over the weekend but I don't even have enough money to go get them a pizza while their dad is having a blast on the other side of the country and hanging out with some of his online deadhead fam I understand that this band means a lot to him and I tried to be supportive of that but I feel like he's crossed a line here he refused to talk about how much all of this is costing us but when I looked up the cost of the concert tickets flight tickets hotels transportation and food the bare minimum figure I could get is still around one thousand dollars it could very well be and probably is a lot more than that I've supported him through a lot of things but this weekend while he's off having fun and leaving us to fend for ourselves I'm slowly planning my divorce I'm playing nice while I get all of my ducks in a row but this is it for me I'm tired of watering down Essentials like shampoo or laundry soap living off rice and beans just for him to turn around and take out a loan so that he can go to his show all by himself across the country update I wasn't expecting I'd need an update already but he knows someone here decided to share my event elsewhere and he saw it on Facebook he's angry that I've made him look like a jerk I told him all I did was talk about it without naming him and if people decide he's a jerk based on his actions he's got no one to blame but himself I'm so nervous I'm shaking and I feel like I'm sick some friends have offered to come help me pack and let me and the boys stay with them until I can figure out something more permanent edit also please don't try to send me or anyone pretending to be me or pretending to collect on my behalf anything we're in good hands right now and we're not going to go without I figured since this whole thing blew up today I might as well tell all of my friends what's going on and they've really pulled up for us so we're definitely going to be okay my ex was a huge juggalette knowing all their songs was big in the community All That Jazz like you I tried to be supportive even though I didn't like their everything for the most part it was almost her whole identity to be one I too learned the hard way that the needs of us slash me were secondary to that lifestyle we never spent Valentine's Day together because that was Juggalo day so she had to be somewhere the one time I decided to give it a try I had to back out because I needed to work a bunch of overtime in order to not get behind on bills and she went without me she would bend over backwards to overwork herself in order to pay for tickets to these events but wouldn't do the same when money was getting tight for bills when I broke my foot two days after buying a house for us she would barely work to help with the bills but would work to buy tickets while I was out of work and unable to walk she would leave for a week or two to go to these events and leave me alone all the while trying to convince me to go with a broken foot all while I had to dip into my dwindling savings to pay for everything in the four months I was out of work she contributed twelve hundred dollars total for all four months even though we agreed to go half and half on bills which was about 8.50 for both of us after everything was said and done normally I don't respond to these kinds of posts with you should leave them because it feels callous to say because sometimes you can't just leave them like you leave a bad party but this leave them let them live their OneNote life maybe like my ex he'll find someone just as into that culture and they can be happy together you deserve someone who doesn't throw you to the side just because it's maybe the last time I'll get to see them live or whatever other excuse they come up with the excuses never stop and that trust can't realistically be rebuilt am I the jerk for trying to get my daughter to switch schools my ex and I share custody of our daughter Kelly who's 12. she was three when we split we have a court order that we have to share the cost of her education through her graduating high school and we have a two yes one no policy we did this as we always intended for her to attend private schools which is quite the investment plus she's both of our kid Kelly's been in a private school that focuses on stem it's K-12 so she's been there since kindergarten she loves it the only issue has been it's a bit of a drive 45 minutes and they don't have buses we've tried to find carpool situations but the only person from the school in our area moved a few years ago no relatives nearby to help we tried hiring someone to drive her but they weren't reliable still it's been worth the sacrifice important note Kelly lives with me during the week and sees her dad on the weekends I'm the one who brings her to and from school last year I remarried my husband brought his two kids into the relationship they're 16 and 17. both attend a private school in town similar issue with no busing we also don't have their own cars and we can't afford that my husband is a widower so he's their only parent he starts work at 6am so it's up to me to get the kids to school every day it's been a bit of a mess trying to get everyone there on time my step kids private school doesn't have before or after school programs and starts after Kelly's it's a tight squeeze to get her there then get back to their school after much discussion my husband and I decided it would be best for Kelly to start at her step sibling school we talked to my ex about it and he was very hesitant but said if Kelly wanted it he'd be on board Kelly doesn't want to this school doesn't have a stem program she doesn't want to leave her friends she asked why her step-siblings don't have to move to her school and I said it's because that's more than my husband can afford I'd chip in but I can't afford to pay two and a half tuitions the half being what I pay for hers plus they aren't into stem or science which is what the school is heavily focused on Kelly is refusing to go I've tried talking to her bribing her Etc she isn't budging therefore neither is her dad and it's frustrating and I voiced that I even try to compromise that it would just be up until her step siblings graduated two years and she said in that case I should easily put up with this for two years now she's been at her dad's and says she's not coming home until I drop the matter I said I want to talk about it but she refuses am I the jerk edit as it's come up several times prior to me my husband and his kids lived closer to their school now they live with me and that's out of walking distance my stepkids are on financial aid for school we have a mortgage it isn't just the cost of the car but gas and insurance yes I can't afford my daughter's tuition and a driver at one point but I was splitting the cost with my ex who makes far more edit two the money saved from going from two homes to one has gone to medical debt from his wife passing of cancer plus helping me pay off my mortgage we don't have the money there's no public transport no one is willing to take them you're the jerk you have a kid who actually likes going to school and you pull her out because of your stepkids ask your husband to drive his own kids before work instead of neglecting your own you can afford three kids in private school and to hire a driver but can't afford cars for the teenagers that's laughable get them cheap cars like Most teens get or tell them to save up and buy their own car like the rest but you can absolutely afford a car just maybe not one as nice as your apparent lifestyle would be accustomed to and you're the jerk it sounds like she's in a better school and it wouldn't be such a tight run if she was dropped off a bit earlier you can't just uproot her social life and aspirations like stem Etc because it's easier for your new family which she didn't get to say in maybe you should switch so she lives with her dad in the week and you on the weekends to make school transport easier or hire a better more reliable driver for her but she should stay in the school she's in why should she get a bad deal because it's inconvenient for you and your new family when she is your biological daughter should come first if hubby can't afford his kids school fees that's his problem not hers Karen expected me to risk my life for her I 29 male work for a small hardware store in my city I'm about six foot two chubby but still muscular from all the heavy lifting I do for work early this morning me and we will call her Nancy 49 female we're at the store before opening to do inventory it was about an hour before opening and Nancy went outside to grab something from her car she came back in a few minutes later with someone walking behind her holding her at pew pew Point I've never been involved in any kind of robbery before aside from minor shoplifting attempts so I froze in place the guy then pointed it at me telling me to keep my hands visible and to follow them Nancy was technically the opening manager and therefore had keys to the store and vault in the back office so he held me up while she emptied it he was gone in about 10 minutes but it felt like an eternity our store doesn't have any kind of silent alarm so once we were sure he was gone I went and called 9-1-1 after I got off the phone Nancy comes up to me and asks word for word what is wrong with you I stare at her completely caught off guard and asked her what she was talking about she proceeds to rant at me up until the police arrive to sum up her rant she basically said I was a pathetic excuse of a man for not protecting a single mother when she was in danger I asked her what she expected me to do in that situation she expected me to try to get the pew pew away from him so that he couldn't hurt her it was around that point that the police arrived to take our statements and ensured we were okay my actual boss is on vacation this week but has given me the next two days off paid I love this guy to recover from the shock of the situation and to call him if I need anything I haven't told them about Nancy's rant yet I'm still trying to process everything she said to me Nancy is divorced and her son is a 19 year old college student who doesn't live with her during her rant she kept going on about how who would watch my baby if something happened to me stuff like that I'm hoping it was just adrenaline from the robbery but if the next time I see her she's still acting this way I'll report her edit too there have been some comments claiming Nancy was in on it she seemed genuinely terrified so I doubt she was but no I can't get that thought out of my head update the hardware store I work for is small just in the physical sense it's still technically one of the big name hardware stores in the US just not Warehouse sized like the ones with the orange and blue logos two when I said that Nancy had emptied the Vault I wasn't referring to an actual safer lock box the vault in our store refers to a small double locked room where they store the money orders the store receives from the big armored trucks 3. Nancy actually is the HR Manager for our store because the store manager was out of town for the week she was the acting store manager along with the other person who was off that day my actual store manager Nancy and the third associate are the only ones with keys to the Vault now for the update I'm not sure if I'm more angry or scared right now but I got off the phone with my store manager half an hour ago he was reviewing the security camera footage that was sent to him from his hotel room I knew the store had cameras what I didn't know is that we have cameras that face the parking lot some of you mentioned it in the comments so you may not be surprised to hear that Nancy has been a arrested for assisting in robbing the store I can't go into extreme detail but according to my boss the robber was seen exiting Nancy's car when she went outside they spoke for a bit before walking back to the store I don't know much else aside from the guy was her new boyfriend I'm feeling so many different emotions right now confusion anger fear Etc she did all of this for just a few thousand dollars I don't know if she was chewing me out about the single mother thing because she had hoped I would have done something to Warrant getting hurt over all I know is that this woman who originally did my hiring interview is insane as I said I think I'm going to look into therapy for this it's just too much for me to process alone my boss has offered me additional leave of absence if needed as well so for now I'm going to take some time off and if I get any more info I can share I'll further update you ten years ago I gave dating advice to a neckbeard and still think about him so this happened when I now 30 female was in college on a dating site I was messaged by a Nick Beard looking guy and his profile pic he wore a fedora had a beard was overweight Etc his opening message was something along the lines of I know there's no way you'd ever be into me but you seem really cool I knew that I wasn't interested in him romantically but I checked out his profile because I was also looking for friends and wanted to see what we had in common what I saw on his page broke my heart just paragraphs of him saying self-deprecating things about how he's lame or ugly or a loser that no one would ever want to date he was practically apologizing for existing I think what hurt the most was knowing a lot of what he wrote down was probably said to him in the past and as someone who's been bullied before and also had self-confidence issues I couldn't turn a blind eye I replied to him and politely told him I'm not interested in dating him but asked if I could give him some advice for his profile he agreed to hear me out and I began typing away I think I spent a solid 15 to 30 minutes writing my reply I explained that if you write paragraphs about how much you think you suck and aren't fun to date people will believe you and not give you a chance I said he should try to talk more about his interests and what he likes to do so that he's more likely to appeal to someone with the same interests and hobbies as him I emphasize that he should try and put his best foot forward and talk more about his good qualities being a good friend or a good listener or open-minded Etc once I clicked send I waited for his response with baited teeth I don't remember exactly what he said but it was something along the lines of honestly I was expecting you to tear me apart and make fun of me but this sounds genuinely helpful thank you we wished each other good luck and never spoke again since it's been over 10 years since that exchange happened and I frequently wonder what happened to him I've been thinking about him a lot more since the rise of alpha bro podcasts I want to believe he tried working on his self-confidence issues and was able to move forward but I also know that people online are mean and there was definitely a culture of making fun of people in fedoras with neckbeards even if they weren't pulling the Milady stuff I know that even if he's on Reddit the odds of him finding this post are slim to none but if you're a guy who wore a fedora in Maryland or DC 10 years ago and got online dating advice from a lady who was an art major I hope you're doing well and I hope you're doing better I hope you learned to love more about yourself and I hope you found love too do this next tap here on your screen to come see our new podcast playlist where you'll find thousands of hours of the best stories you've ever heard or tap the one on the right that episode is specifically just for you based on other videos you've enjoyed the most

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Published: Fri Jul 21 2023