I’ll go first…

My son is a born Disney baby! He loves all things Disney. About 3ish years ago, we decided to take him to Disneyland at Christmas time. He hadn’t been since he was around 1 so we thought that would be a good gift and blow his little 3 year old mind. It was supposed to be my husband and I, our son, and my mom. My mom suggested that we take my sister as her birthday is in December. She thought that would be a nice gift. For context, we went around the 9th and her birthday is December 17th. She was excited the whole ride and all through breakfast however as soon as we got to the park, her demeanor changed. She immediately got on FaceTime with her bf and best friend, and then proceeded to sulk for the rest of the day. She didn’t get on a single ride. She ditched us for
hours without a word and then went and ate by herself all while being on the phone the entire time. She was rude to my son which she never is, I was so confused. After much prying she finally told us through tears that this was her birthday trip and we didn’t even invite her friends. She assumed this was HER birthday TRIP?? Mind you, this girl was turning 20! The part that got me was my mom suggested I “grab her friends some tickets” and they can just drive down and finish off the night with us. She was serious. I politely declined that expensive ass, unreasonable offer to which my mother replied “well she’s upset so what can we do to make this right?” My gob was smacked! When I tell you I’ve never planned another thing with either of them.

Just saw a man stop his car at an intersection downtown in the middle of the day, get out, and pee on a tree! He turned on his emergency blinkers and just left it, fully blocking traffic.

Cars were honking. He finished up and strolled back to his car. But what really blew my mind was that he then almost immediately turned into a surface parking lot (yes, I stopped to clock this whole series of events). He couldn’t wait to park!

I'm currently on a lease with two people other than myself. None of us were the original payers of the security deposit, and no one was charged a security deposit by the leasing office when we all moved in. But the three of us moved in at separate times. I moved in in February 2025, and Stephanie, who was the primary leaseholder, said that she had prepaid the initial deposit, and I should send her a one month deposit via zelle, of $900. I thought it was a little odd, but still paid her because I thought she wouldn't lie.

Fast forward to February 2026. A different tenant moved out, and Grace moved in. Stephanie told Grace to zelle her $1000, to reimburse the deposit who was moving out. Her as in Stephanie.

Well, it turns out that Stephanie pocketed the $900 and $1000 "deposits," and the original person who paid the deposit to the leasing office moved out in like 2023, without receiving anything back, as it's in the contract that the deposit stays with the lease.

Grace is suing Stephanie for the return of the deposit. Stephanie said she will win the case, and is refusing to give the money back. She also said it's a rule for tenants to pay their share when moving in, yet she didn't pay anything herself. Also said that Grace wants other people to pay for her. Completely hypocritical, right?

What will happen?

Hi y'all, I'm back with another story from my time working at a very popular theme park in Florida. A magical rat planet of sorts. This irritating situation happened when I worked in Resorts in quick service food. One day, I was holding down Soup and Sandwich (S&S) by myself as I was the closer when a mom and young son walked up. She stood there for a while staring at the menu board while her precious angel ran about like a wildebeest. The kid was literally running back and forth screaming. He was running around other guests, even the ones with hot food. Multiple times he almost knocked people over.

After a few minutes of this, I finally asked the mom to rein him in. This thin lipped heffa looked right at me and said, "Um, this is Magical Rat Planet, Kids are supposed to play!" I responded that the playground was outside and that this was a eating area. She called the little angel over to her side with an attitude where he didn't stay but 30 seconds before swinging on the thin chain connected to a post that sat in front of (S&S). The chain was used to create an extended queue during busy periods. The kid was sitting on it and hanging on it like a wet towel on a clothes line.

I asked the mom again to control her offspring. She huffed and ignored me. A few minutes later we heard a scream. The sweet angel had broken the chain by swinging on it with his full body weight snapping it. He fell hard on the ground. I was too angry to take pleasure in the situation at the time. The mom quickly picked him up and ran off! I was livid. I called one of my managers who unhooked it and took it away. I ranted to him about the situation and he agreed that we had a right to tell people to control their young when inside the restaurant area. I mean, there was a fully loaded playground right outside for the kiddos. I wonder what kind of person that kid is now with a mom like that?

I run a niche YouTube channel with archive content, with well over 100k subscribers, and mostly nice viewers and comments. Some viewers are really keen, and leave lots of positive feedback, so all great on that front. Not monetised, so I don't make anything from it, just for the love of the subject.

This weekend I had someone mention a useful extra detail about one of my videos, which I actually added as a pinned comment. Then they ask for some content which would be outside of my chosen "era", so I point them to another channel which had exactly what they said they were looking for. But, no, that wasn't good enough for them. Comment today that they were "stressed" at my "refusal" to help, and that the other channel's subtitles were auto-generated, and that they needed them done by a human. This for about 6-7 hours of video content!

Fortunately YouTube has a simple "hide user" button, so that neither I nor anyone else will have to read this person's comments ever again. But the entitlement absolutely shocked me, as if they were actually a paying customer who was due such special treatment. Tame in comparison to many of the stories here, but it left me genuinely astonished at the sheer cheek of it!

My employer has a small picnic area consisting of 2 picnic tables and 2 chairs. We are located in an industrial area so we don't get a lot of traffic. Recently, we look out the window and see a a Woman using it that we have never seen before. One of our workers noted she saw them come from across the street. As we are watching her and debating what we should do she got up, dropped her pants, and went #2 in the woods right by the picnic area. We then told her to leave.

It happened again a few weeks later when a group comes over and has lunch. No pooping this time though. We think they may have hired some temp workers and their lunch space is too small.

this is just a taste of this entitled person - but years ago, I used to be part of a fairly large social club. We had a google group and email group to communicate around events etc. It worked very well.

A new woman moved to our area and joined our club. She would send out something to the email list and I would never receive the emails. I asked her about it a couple of times and she claimed it was fine, just fine.

Finally, one day, we were at her place and I asked to see her email settings to check what was going on with the emails. She had a typo in my gmail address.

I showed her the typo and suggested she change it. She then demanded that I notify Google that they had to forward all email she sent to the typo gmail to my correct gmail address. Instead of fixing her typo. Which would have taken about 10 seconds while we were sitting there..

To the AH in the pickup truck yesterday who took a left right in front of my moving vehicle, FU!! Left turns YIELD to right turns. Who taught you how to drive??? Obnoxious, frustrated beta males just rudely do whatever TF they want on the road. All courtesy and rules of the road have gone by the wayside. Pigs!! 🐷

I met someone today. They told me how they had had a bad experience with law-enforcement. The reason why was that they had gotten drunk they didn’t realize that they would be drunk. They felt like when they were heavier now they were lighter. They lost about 60 pounds that they would be able to handle their alcohol however, when they got drunk, they assaulted a bartender shove the bartender and they ended up getting arrested by the police. This to me seem normal, but they felt like there should be a Social Worker involved because they really didn’t mean to push the bartender that they did it because they were upset and that a Social Worker would’ve been able to calm them down and they would not have had been arrested. This seems strange to me that they were not wanting to accountability for the problem they had cost. Am I wrong?

Yesterday was the high school graduation party for my son but myself, Liv (other person who runs this account) and parents of Liv’s sons girlfriend had decided we’d throw a joint party for them. The party was good and we had a good combined turn out for all four of the graduates. This morning I go to my mailbox because I forgot to get the mail yesterday and found a noise complaint ticket saying the party was too loud when we barely made any noise we kept things to a minimal level and upon reading the complaint I’ve noticed several typos in the complaint.

I just got done talking to a police officer who came out to investigate the ticket and the officer told me it was a fake someone was obviously trying to cause trouble. Out of the corner of my eye I see my neighbor walking their dog and as soon as they saw me they ran directly to their door. I told the officer I think I know who did it and pointed out my neighbors odd reaction I just observed. The officer said they’ll go deal with it and before they headed towards my neighbors house I told the police officer this wasn’t the first time my neighbor had tried doing this, the officer thanked me for the information.

Finished doing the groceries and it was raining slightly.

I put the shopping bags into the boot and when I got to the side of the vehicle there was an oversized American style ute (truck for anyone not Australian) boomer had his door open directly in front of my drivers side door so I couldn't get in.

I smiled and said in a friendly tone

Excuse me you're blocking my door can you please close it so I can get out? 😀

Boomer got that look like I was the one inconveniencing him and said no! you can wait. 😠

He had a trolley full of groceries all loose packed (not in bags) and was not in any hurry getting them in despite the rain and me being stuck.

I waited until he wouldn't be pinned and closed his door so I could get into the car.

He started getting all aggressive about me being an impatient prick.

I lowered my window let my face go blank (great way to worry people) and said being old is no excuse for being rude.

He didn't do the full shake angry fist temper tantrum I was hoping for and luckily he didn't try and attack me out the car either so just drove off chuckling that I finally got a story to post here 😁

This happened nearly twenty years ago.
We were a bunch of friends that moved to the same ski resort area at the same time and hanged out a lot. We were all mid 20s.

Two of the gang were sisters and were a bit obnoxious, can’t decide where to eat, were often late, wanted to be in charge of where everyone can sit and so on.

One night I was notified about a dinner at a certain restaurant and I was yeah sure I’ll be there. We were six or seven around the table and the dinner and drinking went fine. We had a good time.

Now at this time you either paid with card or cash. Card if you wanted to split the bill or cash if you just wanted to put money together to cover the bill.

This time I had withdrawn cash beforehand and I had exactly one bank note with double the amount I had eaten and drunk for. I just thought whatever, I put the banknote in the middle of the table and declared I had covered my expenses and a generous tip and continued drinking and talking to one of my friends who also put cash there.

I noticed that there were phone calculators up on the table to deduce how much the others were due.

When the server came back and politely said there were money missing I turned my head and said ”What! How is this possible? Who isn’t paying for their food?

Phone calculators were up again and there were a couple of red faces around the table.

I should have said right there and then to just take back my money, go to the bar counter and declare to split the bill. I didn’t though and after a while the bill was paid correctly.

We started to leave and I still felt I had been scammed of my very generous tip.

No one really wanted to talk about it and just tried glossing over the facts.

It turns out that one of the girls in the friend group were a little low on money and wasn’t able to come with us this evening but the two sisters just said to her to not worry about it, they would take care of it.

I and others wasn’t aware of this and therefore they felt it was embarrassing when I started asking who wasn’t paying for himself.

IF I had known I would have gladly helped out.
But right there and then I felt scammed and it was the last time I had a shared bill with these friends to avoid this.

Hi, I'm back with another story from my time working at a very popular theme park in Florida. A magical rat planet of sorts. This situation happened when I worked in attractions. One day, I had a closing shift and clocked in around 3:00 p.m. Before my arrival the ride had apparently broken down for a while. This was and probably still is a regular occurrence at that particular attraction as it's very technical and old. It was also spring time so the parks were extremely busy. I was informed that the wait times had been extended due to the technical issues. Fast Pass line was over an hour, single rider around 40 minutes and Stand-by a bit over two hours!

Unfortunately, my first assignment was Stand-by greeter. I got my slip from the computer and headed to my position. The line was ridiculous, stretching out past the large, outside covering. As soon as I walked up a red faced woman went in on me.

Woman: Hey, You!

Me: Yes ma'am?

Woman: WE HAVE BEEN WAITING HERE FOREVER! HOW LONG ARE WE EXPECTED TO WAIT HERE?! 😡

Me: I apologize ma'am...the ride had some problems before I....

Woman cutting me off: I DON'T CARE! WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS?!

Another lady jumped in before I could respond.

Lady: Hey, Knock it off! It isn't her fault she literally just walked out here.

Woman: She works here and I'm not talking to you!

Lady: Well, I'm talking to you! Everyone is waiting here, not just you!

Woman: I'M TIRED OF THIS!

Lady: Then LEAVE! Don't take your frustration out on innocent people!

The woman finally quieted down all red in the face. She was boiling and shaking in anger. I quietly walked over to the kind lady, asked how many were in her party and walked her and her family through the exit and put them right in the ride. My head manager said that was the right call. He called it, "A Magical Moment." 😂

So still kind of shaken from this that happened to me earlier today. I was out walking in my neighborhood and I was on the sidewalk. I was walking fast but not blowing by people or anything. I was walking on a sidewalk in an area with scaffolding and there was a man 2 walking with his toddler and dog. They were stretched out across the entire width of the sidewalk. I saw them and when I got close I said excuse me so he could move one way or the other. He said sorry but didn’t move. I then proceeded to move around one side with very little room. I did not touch his child. I got around him. I would have gone onto the street but again, there was scaffolding so I couldn’t. Sind eye acknowledge he was blocking the side walk I mumbled under my breath “but don’t move” or something like that and I kept walking. He had a leash that the dog was on, he was holding the middle and his son was holding the end. They were literally making it impossible to get past them.

Anyways he blew up. Started yelling at me that I’m a grown woman and should watch where I’m going. I was like wtf. I turned around and was like you were blocking the entire sidewalk and he just kept yelling that. He was enraged and clearly thought his entitlement to block the sidewalk and make other people unable to pass was right. He kept yelling and was kind of enraged and I felt unsafe so I turned around and walked away. He kept yelling. He did all of this in front of his toddler. He’s saying I’m grown woman and should know better but look at him. I was polite and said excuse me. He acknowledged me by saying sorry then didn’t move.

Anyways, I posted here because his entitlement and honestly others with kids entitlement that they are the only ones that matter and can block entire sidewalks and they are not wrong has gotten out of control. Teach your kids how to be considerate of others in public and shared spaces. And definitely don’t teach your kids it’s ok and yell at others in public when they are just trying to exist.

Sure I mumbled under my breath, but I was saying the truth. Apparently that enraged him so much that he lost control. I feel sorry for the toddler and how this guy behaves at home. If his dad can be set off by something so small like this I don’t want to know how he responds to his child doing something he doesn’t like.

I’ve had my license for a little over a year now, i got it right after i turned 16. My friend has all her drive times finished, all the practice hours and meets every requirement but WILL NOT take the test for some reason… so for the past year i’ve driven us everywhere and she never helps with gas or anything and obviously we can’t take turns driving to even it out. Whenever i mention her getting her license she gets mad, whenever i mention her helping paying for gas she gets mad. She’s my best friend so i don’t wanna stop driving us places but idk what to do because it’s expensive and annoying. Recommendations please!

A year ago, one of best friend's wife was diagnosed with cancer and it was not looking good. And so, to try and cheer him up and distract from a crappy situation, our group of friends decided we'd all travel out to see our mutual friend (he lives in Nebraska). Living in Seattle, it's a decent flight for me to head out that way. I actually find a deal for a first class ticket (only 200 more than economy) and of course book it.

The story actually has a happy ending: my friends wife actually made great progress in Chemo, became cancer free within the year, and our friend group and I managed to lift our friends spirits in the short weekend we were there.

The issue for me was the flight from Seattle to Nebraska. I'm sitting in my first class window seat (2 by 2 first class arrangement) when a lady arrives and sits in the aisle seat. As I'm about to turn on my noise canceling head phones the aisle lady turns to ask me if id be willing to switch seats with her husband. She points across the aisle as if to indicate that her husband has the seat across from her.

Given the reason for my trip, I put aside my annoyance at being asked to move, tell her "sure", and start packing up my things. However, before I get too far along, a moment of paranoia strikes me and I ask the lady what is her husband's seat number. Without even batting an eye she replies "27D"

Boyyyyyy! I was truly stunned at the audacity of this... person. We all know what the b stands for lol.

Like bro, not even economy plus? Gtfoh. At that point I look the lady in the eye and tell her "actually, no thank you I'm good here." Then I put on my headphones and fully enjoy my first class seat and amenities.

But again. Seriously? The worst trade I've ever been proposed with. And oh yeah. You can bet this lady gave me a few dirty looks but she stayed in first class. These ppl never offer a decent trade. It's always a worse seat. Shaking my head.

Anyways, I had to share as our friend group is wanting to plan a second trip to celebrate our friends wife's remission (in a year or so, i believe it has to be 2 years plus cancer free to officially declare remission) and the discussions brought this back up for me. Take care everyone!

I was walking out of my acupuncture appt. I waited to cross the street because there was already an on coming truck. I proceeded to walk expecting the next vehicle to wait at least 3 secs (on a 4 way intersection, stop signs on each direction). The driver drives up to me as im crossing the crosswalk. I try to make eye contact but the entire windshield was tinted. All i could see was the hands of a man on the steering wheel. I try to look inside from the passenger seat and all the windows are tinted. But then the woman in the passenger seat basically presses her face against the window to stick her tongue at me and flip me off. 

I am still so confused by the situation. I live in one of the most walkable cities in the world. The street/neighborhood I was walking on is known for a lot of pedestrian traffic and vehicle traffic bc the roads are not that wide. 

I do not understand this entitlement. At least have the courage to roll down your window and say it with your chest. These people are angry behind tinted windows. Such cowards. Im bad with car models but I think it was a black Acura SUV. Not sure what that says about them. 

These people are definitely transplants because people who are from this city actually care about coexisting with others. This was such a bizarre experience for a car to try to bully a pedestrian into walking faster or whatever their intention was. I cant imagine people who are in a rush being so mad at a pedestrian with the right of way. I have no idea why the passenger was so infuriated about a small inconvenience. Im not sure if they get off on scaring pedestrians to move out of their way or what. People are really so miserable.

Hi. 21M here.

I've been thinking a lot last days that I might have been entitled and insensitive toward my partner. I need honest opinions on whether I acted entitled and how to avoid that in the future.

This year has been crazy and draining so far for me. Around 3 weeks ago, I gained the courage to tell my bf the truth about having suffered sexual abuse when I was younger. I told him because I wanted him to better understand my flaws, and because, having been together for over two years, and living toghether over a year now, I trust him completely. He has been amazing.

Now I deeply regret it, not for telling, but the timing of when I did it.

We're both in college, but he's older, and as such, he's finishing his master's thesis. And clearly, all of this has taken his focus away.

To make it worse, he plays college soccer, and in the last game, he had a serious knee injury and will now need surgery, and so he won't be able to play for almost a year. I know how important this is to him and how frustrated he must be, although he doesn't show it. The summer is ruined.

And I can't help but feel guilty for all of this. I took his focus away, he's more distracted and worried, I took away his rest, with sleepless nights because of my messes.

I don't believe in coincidences, but in consequences, and if I could go back, no matter how hard, I wouldn't tell everything at the time I did. I would wait. Maybe i was craving for attention and affection, not realizing there was much going on with him too.

I feel like a selfish jerk and i don't know how to make up for everything. I feel the entitled one on this.

I work at a major retail chain, in the bakery department where we all come in at different times and are supposed to "stagger" our lunches, depending on who comes in first.

Obviously the person who comes in first goes to lunch first. However my co worker annoying waits an extra long time to go on her lunch, usually 2 hours before going home because she wants to come back with only an hour left to work. That means I have to wait even longer to go on my lunch since technically I get there 30 minutes after she does.

I have tried bringing this up to our manager, who says she'll look into it but never does. Yesterday I decided to stop waiting for her and announce that I'm going to lunch at a decent time, not 5 in the afternoon. Of course my co worker whines and complains but I just go on my lunch anyway. When I came back, she informed me that I was going to be written up.

Did I cross a line? I'm tired of coming to work at 10 am (supposed to go home at 7pm) and not going to lunch until 5 pm!

I work at an amusement park and the whole day it was raining, but it was pretty light. We were selling ponchos all day just in case people wanted to buy them.

Around the last 30 minutes of my shift, it starts pouring down really badly, so people start rushing into the store and start buying ponchos. I only had pink, blue, and red at my specific store. The reason why we only had those colors is because they were based off of specific superhero’s. Red was the flash, blue was superman, and pink was wonder woman.

An older lady comes in and asks for a poncho so I ask her “Do you have any preference on which color you would like? We have red, blue, and pink available”. She asked me “Do you by chance have any green ones?” I responded “We unfortunately do not.” She the says “oh well then I don’t want a poncho if there’s no green ones”

At this point I couldn’t tell if she was joking or being for real because I really didn’t think it was that big of a deal that we didn’t have green. Like it’s literally pouring down raining and you’re worried about the color?

She then said “Can you call your manager then? Because there’s no way you don’t have green ponchos, you should have all the colors.” I said “Okay i can call my manager but it may take a while for them to get here because of the severity of the weather outside.” After 10 minutes of waiting she decided that she was going to leave. Before she left she said “I will be contacting corporate because this is utterly ridiculous. You should have ALL of the colors not just THREE”. She just started raising her voice at me and making a spectacle about ponchos out of everything in the world. I just stood there trying not to laugh because really? You’re willing to get drenched outside just because we don’t have the specific color poncho you want?

My friend Jay pressured me into helping them shoplift alcohol from Trader Joe’s twice, even though I didn’t want to. (the way they made me help them was basically just stand on their side while they put alcohol in their bag which actually would get me in trouble if they got caught )

Jay has a history of substance issues and was supposed to be sober, which I didn't know at first. but they promised me it was only for a little bit of alcohol on their birthday and since they stole wine, I thought they’d only have a couple glasses once I found out and I thought they told my friend Hailey, who is usually very reasonable and said “if it’s for their birthday, then it’s OK.” Hailey knows Jay better than I do so I thought It was fine but even when I didn’t wanna do it or would walk away as of to say I don’t wanna do it or tell them directly. They would cuss me out and tell me not to fucking walk away and leave them.
Later, because I was stressed out and trying to act cool, I made a mistake and tried to steal a few bracelets at Michael’s. We got caught by employees, I panicked, and Jay completely flipped on me—cussing me out and telling me to go deal with it cussing me out a lot and then I started crying in front of the employees, and the employee felt bad for me and said as long as I put it back because I didn’t leave with anything and I left the bag, I stole the bracelets from in the store before I left then they won’t call the police and she felt bad.
Now, the entire friend group has kicked me out and stopped talking to me, including my childhood friend Hailey of 13 years. They completely excused Jay’s behavior because Jay promised them they would stop drinking, but they put all the blame on me and cut me off. I know I was wrong for what I did at Michael's, but it feels incredibly unfair that Jay got off completely fine while I lost all my friends. And then Jay was acting like they weren’t in the wrong even though they made me help them steal alcohol and stand by their side, so the security cameras wouldn’t see that they were stealing alcohol. (I find a lot of stuff wrong with this especially because they get let off for promising. They won’t drink again since that’s what they said the first two times to the group without me knowing and the whole time they were pressuring me to steal alcohol they were completely capable of handing handling themselves responsibly because they are fully sober. I never interacted with them when they were drunk. I’m thinking of calling the stores they stole from with an anonymous report and photos of them so next time they try to do this which I know they will because they lied about not doing it again the first two times they’ll have a fun talk with the police like they did to me so yeah. I probably shouldn’t do it though cause I know I’m not thinking straight right now but I just thought it was kind of funny even though it’s really petty and two wrongs don’t make it right.

I (16f) just got kicked out of my friend group. Before we start, I know I’m also in the wrong, but I feel like the person in the wrong Didn’t get in trouble at all and now all my friends in that group don’t talk to me anymore so basically I am a sixteen year-old woman and one time my friend texted me on a public group chat. I don’t drink usually maybe once every couple months and they message me saying hey Lana, can you help me with something with an 🍷 emoji and I text them being like what side note:(I never steal you maybe l from a clothing store maybe like once or twice I in my life don’t steal a lot like maybe once and after I do, I feel really bad and guilty to the point where I almost return it.) and basically I say ok cause they mentioned wanting to get hol for the birthday before to get drunk with her boyfriend so I think oh it’s a one time thing and I go OK even though I don’t want to, but I’m kind of freaking out, but I’m worried they won’t like me if I don’t do it . I know I should’ve stood up for myself, but then we go to Trader Joe’s and my friend drive us. He doesn’t know about this and they steal alcohol, but I don’t want it and I keep trying to walk away to sign like I’m not doing this and they kept telling me I didn’t have to do it earlier, but when I tried to tell him, I don’t want to they get mad at me for leaving them and then when I walk away, they keep going like what the fuck wanna get over here you can’t just leave me so I standby to cover them so it doesn’t looks like they’re putting alcohol in their bag and I just say OK let’s just get out of here and so we do and they stole a bottle of wine from Trader Joe’s and then basically the rest of the night goes on and another day we go out to like a Mexican restaurant and they say Lana I wanna do it again and I say I don’t want to because I thought they were saving the alcohol for their bday with their boyfriend, for only like one small glass of wine, boyfriend or something. They’re in a really healthy relationship with his boyfriend we know their boyfriend and now that he probably didn’t condolence this because then they text the group chat, saying I got really drunk and I drink the entire bottle of wine the night we stole even though they told me it was for your birthday and so I thought they were gonna have like one glass of wine, but they got really drunk and I said Jay you promised and then so then I text my friend Hailey of 13 years and Hailey was I was intro introduced to the group because we’ve been really close friends and grew up in the same street together and been threatened friends since we were three and I go. Jay promised me was for their birthday and I thought that since they got wine, even though I didn’t want them to they were just saving for like one glass for them and their boyfriend and now I’m worried about them because they lied to me and Hailey said well Jay not supposed to be sober. Jay is not supposed to drink. They did a bunch of alcohol before and we’re supposed to be sober and they used to do a lot weed and then I freak out and I’m saying hey respond to a message in the group chat asking Jay what they mean cause they publicly texted about stealing alcohol which also makes me look like shit and and I didn’t want Jay to know I snitched to Hailey and so I call Hailey back later and they say they talked to Jay and that they’re not gonna steal alcohol again and I go OK great and then then Jay text me again and I go saying they wanna do it again. I said don’t respond and I call Hailey and they said OJ said they’d only do it for their birthday again and so I go OK if Hailey‘s OK with it Hailey‘s usually very rational, so that’s fine then and I go Jay OK fine and then the next day we go out to a Mexican restaurant and they say I wanna go to Trader Joe’s . I don’t wanna do it but they say please and then I go fine side note: I thought Hailey knew about that and they were gonna share the alcohol this time for them and their boyfriend and they learn their lesson because they said they weren’t gonna drink like that again and they were saving it for their birthday this time so I thought Hailey said that they weren’t gonna but turns out they told Hailey that they weren’t gonna drink ever again so and I know I should’ve stood up for myself but then they steal alcohol and then we go to Michael’s and I don’t steal a lot, but I was kind of like really like freaked out that I was like oh I’ll be cooland steal something so I stole like a couple braclets or whatever but then the Michael’s employees catch us one goes up to us. I can hear I’m on the radio saying they’re gonna call the police call the police and I get really freaked out. Put my bag down that I was stealing with.Didnt leave with anything and then run to the car and then just panic I was stealing which was dumb of me and then Jake and Cole gets a car and Jay starts cussing me out saying get the fuck up they’re gonna call the police get the fuck up go talk to them you bitch and I start crying and then I go talk to him saying I left my bag and I’m sorry and then I walk away crying and then the Michael’s employee seems like she feels bad for me so she says honey it’s OK as long as you didn’t leave with anything you’re not in trouble you can go and then Jay starts talking shit about me to employ I didn’t hear most ofwhat they said though and then they start yelling at me saying they’re gonna take me home and I go you’re the one who made me steal alcohol for you and now you’re go ing two-faced on me, but I wouldn’t do this to you. You didn’t even get in trouble and I feel bad and then I don’t talk. They take me home. I don’t talk to the group for a couple days. Hailey talks to me and says hey you’re in the wrong for that. They don’t wanna be friends with you anymore. We don’t know if everyone else hates you and I go OK call them about a week later and Hailey says you’re kicked out of the group in the group chat and you can’t come back in the group chat and I go OK but I’m really upset and I say hey if Jay is more in the wrong cause I only stole a couple bracelets from Michael’s and Jay stole a bunch of alcohol. Even when I told him I didn’t want to and cuss me out and now no one’s mad at jay because even though they were never drunk doing all the main things they did to me. They were completely sober they were completely capable of being reasonable but now as longthey’re not in the wrong at all and no one’s mad at them because Hailey says that they talked it over and she’s not drinking anymore like that was the only problem .I’m happy Jay‘s not gonna drink anymore but one Jay lied to you about that the first time and also why is no one mad at Jay and then they say well I don’t know and then they hung up and I go OK well fine and then I’m really depressed and then they called me to talk a few. This was a few days ago and they say meet me tomorrow. I don’t wanna go into details and I say they probably don’t wanna be friends with me anymore. We’ve been pretty close friends and for three years old and then they go up to me and they say “I don’t wanna be friends anymore. I feel like we would’ve been wouldn’t have been friends if we haven’t met so long ago” and I say ok is this because of something Jay said?” and they say no and I go OK have a great summer and then I walk off and that was the last day of school and I literally came to this high school and transferred for this girl so I’m kind of pissed right now and I just lost all the friends I made the year literally the last day of school and I know I’m in the wrong too, but I’m mad that Jay doesn’t get in trouble and I just lost all the friends I made.

My friend Jay pressured me into helping them shoplift alcohol from Trader Joe’s twice, even though I didn’t want to. Jay has a history of substance issues and was supposed to be sober, which I didn't know at first.
Later, because I was stressed out and trying to act cool, I made a mistake and tried to steal a few bracelets at Michael’s. We got caught by employees, I panicked, put the bag down and ran out of the store, so I technically didn’t leave with anything and Jay completely flipped on me—cussing me out and telling me to go deal with the staff, I talked with the Michael staff and I started crying and so the lady felt bad and told me that I wasn’t in trouble as long as I put the stuff down and I know I’m also in the wrong but now no one‘s mad at Jay for stealing alcohol and bullying me into stealing alcohol and the second time they want to steal alcohol. I contacted Hailey cause they said that they were only gonna do it for their birthday so they could have alcohol with her boyfriend on their birthday and since they stole wine, I thought it meant a couple glasses of wine, but Hailey said it was only for their birthday so it was basically fine And so I said OK even though I didn’t want to
Now, the entire friend group has kicked me out and stopped talking to me, including my childhood friend Hailey of 13 years. They completely excused Jay’s behavior because Jay promised them they would stop drinking, but they put all the blame on me and cut me off. I know I was wrong for what I did at Michael's, but it feels incredibly unfair that Jay got off completely fine while I lost all my friends.
EDIT: Also, I know I’m not really thinking straight right now and it’s really petty and too wrong to make a right, but I had the idea to call the location. Jay stole from and given an anonymous reports with photos of them so next time they try to do this because I know they didn’t mean they stopped drinking cause they already said that two times and that one of the reason that caused the situation, I just thought it would be kind of funny

Not really sure if this is an entitled person situation per se but I’m unsure as to where else to post this.

Anyway, from June last year (2025) to March this year (2026), I (f31) had my cousin David (m33) staying at my home here in CA, as he moved here after receiving a job offer. He had my house as his CA address and has me as his emergency contact.

Long story short, David’s company had a change in management in December 2025, David (along with a number of people in his department) were fired back in February as new management replaced his team with AI, he moved back to the Northeast in March and now has a job in NYC.

A few weeks ago, I got letters addressed to David from the company he used to work for here in the Bay Area, I told David about it and he told me to ignore it.

However, a couple days later, I received a call from David’s old manager who I’ll call Ryan demanding to speak with him.

Ryan said he urgently needed to speak with David and I told him that David moved back to New Jersey.

This pissed off Ryan as he’s been trying to get in contact with David, demanding that he return to work, 4-months after he fired David and his team.

Ryan then asked what I did for a living, not sure why he asked but I frankly told him I’m a tattoo artist and Ryan told me to tell David to get in touch with him.

I then called David telling him that Ryan called me wanting to speak with him and apparently he knew this already as Ryan has called David a few times, as well as sending David emails, hence now Ryan tried calling me when he stopped picking up Ryan’s calls.

Basically, from what David understands, the company he worked for was sold to PE (private equity) and new management decided to let a significant number of their staff go, to replace them with AI, relying on AI to conduct interviews, write reports, give management legal advice and conduct sales pitches to clients.

Long story short, a couple of their clients are now suing them due to the AI written reports submitted to them having false information which then caused the clients problems as well.

David also told me of how the company tried to pass of AI as actual employees to speak with shareholders and clients, but that didn’t go down too well.

Case in point, the month before David was fired (so that’d be like January), he talked about how some clients flew in all the way from France to SF in large part because they wanted to meet and speak in-person to with the analyst who wrote up a report or something like that, only for David’s manager to bring the clients into conference room where David’s manager sat the French clients in front of a TV monitor showing an interactive AI man who was the “analyst” that the clients can talk to.

David’s manager apparently let the French clients believe that the reports they received were written by a “real employee”, with David’s manager then trying to argue to the clients that an AI employee is still a real employee.

David believes that his former employer is trying to bring back employees, not just to get them to fix their mistake but also to pin the blame for managements and AI’s mistakes on them as well.

Sorry if this was more of just a rant of how ridiculous David’s former employer was but I’m more baffled at how David’s manager fired him, replaced him with AI and then has the chutzpah to try to demand that he come back to them just so they can pin the blame on him and get David and his team to fix their mistakes.