I (F 18), reported my dad (M 58) to his boss for breaching confidentially. My father’s job is a social media marketing job. His job is to travel to certain offices in Singapore and help companies that are in need of product marketing.
Here’s where the story begins: for the last few months, he’s been coming home and sharing details about his clients, which goes against all confidential contracts. He was telling my mom and me the names of his clients, their financial situations, how some had dirty little secrets.
My mom and I would tell him not to share this information as we knew the importance of it. While I know it’s mentally a lot for him to hold, I felt like it was very inappropriate to share with me.
Last week, my dad came home and started talking about his female client and how she felt broken and insecure after living her whole life with a failing business and was in need of a product marketing manager.
I repeatedly told him to stop telling me and even made an effort to leave the room so he would say more. I had enough. The next day, I talked to my mom and we found the personal phone number of his boss on my dad’s phone.
I called the boss and told her how uncomfortable I felt and how long my father had been oversharing. She was shocked and pissed. That day, my father went to her office to drop off client papers. She fired him on the spot and told him about my phone call.
About 20 minutes later, I’m getting calls, voicemails, and texts from my dad, calling me a liar, selfish, worthless, and anything else you want to consider an insult.
He told me I was a bad daughter and that I was trying to “destroy” his life. Since I live with my parents, my mom thought it would be best if I went to stay with a friend. So now I’m staying with my best friend. I’m afraid to go home even though it’s been a week. But maybe it’s a lesson?
I feel conflicted.