I have a rental that my brother has lived in since 2016 and currently pays $1200/month rent (I know its low but oh well). He has 3 children (18, 24, & 24). The oldest 2 live on their own and the 18 y/o is in poly.

He got married in December and moved his new wife and her 3 kids in. So basically the house becomes a kampong.

The issue is my niece does not like or get along with her step-siblings or stepmom. WW3 broke out when her stepmom tried to take her room from her. But my sister in law wanted it for her son.

My brother had not made a final decision and I really don’t know which way he was leaning. My niece called me in tears and told me her stepmom told her that she would be giving up her room.

I called my brother and told him I found it unacceptable that his wife was trying to take his daughters room away and put her good for nothing son in there. He told me to mind my own god damn business and hung up on me.

I proceeded to email him and tell him that I was considering 2 options. I would raise his rent to $3000 a month if my niece moved out and I would mind my own god damn business. Option #2 I evict all of them and niece stays put and I mind my own god damn business. I also told him I did not want his stepson living there at all period. If he was there 30 days from now I would start eviction proceedings.

This got his attention and he backed down completely. He was angry with me, his daughter, and angry with his wife to never mention it again and told his stepson to find his own place.

Problem solved told my niece to call me if her stepmom caused her any trouble.

My brother has gone and told other family members how I interfered and if I just let him handle it he would have resolved it himself. He says his marriage is now in the ditch and no one is talking to each other now. Somehow that is my fault?

Did I involve myself when I shouldn’t of? The only place where I think I might be an A-hole is when I told him to kick his stepson out because this made issues worse with his wife.

The reason my sister has my house keys in the first place is that sometimes she has to use my home office for work. At her place, wifi is very slow plus she’s got 5 kids who bother her nonstop while she works. It didn’t bother me so I said yeah. Sometimes I leave the house so that’s why I gave her the key. But let me know ahead of time if she’s coming.

So my ex and I are still in the middle of a divorce. We separated 5 months ago and we have an 11-month-old son. Right now I have full custody of him. My sister is close friends with her, she’s also one of the people completely against me divorcing even after telling them I was never in love with my ex and everyone pushed me to marry her because she got pregnant.

This brings me to a week ago. My son’s out at the park with his sitter and she was taking him along while she does other errands so they wouldn’t be back for a while. A friend I’ve been seeing since December comes over and we’re getting into it on the couch. Sister shows up unannounced, catches us and leaves. But then not even a half-hour later I’m getting dozens of calls/texts from my ex because my sister went and told her what she saw.

My sister’s defence was ex needed to know so she can talk to me (still under the hope i can be convinced to take her back) about not seeing anyone. I’m mad because it’s neither her business or my ex’s who I sleep with. Now my ex won’t leave me alone. She’s showing up at my place demanding to know if anyone else is here and just causing so many problems now.

Of course, this is all my ex’s actions but if my sister hadn’t told her anything this wouldn’t be happening. My sister thought she was firmly in the right for telling her so she knows someone else is “trying to steal her husband away” some bull*** like that. The argument made me so mad I took her keys then and told her if she needs to work in my home office she’s going to have to knock on the door and wait till I answer because she’s not coming in here again on her own.

Well since it affects her job and all I’m not sure, with her being able to come and go it made her workflow a lot smoother. Now she’s mad because sometimes I’m not home which means she can’t do her work at my office anymore. And it’s there are too many issues, my sister thinks I’m being a huge jerk for overreacting this much when it means her job. 

I’m crying as I’m typing this one out. And I know the title sounds bad but please read on before commenting

Im 22-year-old female, just had an argument with my mom. It started because I told her that I wanted to eat a dish (made out of chicken) while she was about to cook another dish (made of chicken too) and she started ranting about how ungrateful I was to not accept what she is doing for me, how I disregard the fact that my dad is the sole bread-winner of the house (even though she owns a little shop of her own and just yesterday took my brother shopping) and I don’t adjust.

I spoke back to her saying she is my mom and I can only tell my parents that I am hungry and want to eat so and so food. This has been going on for quite a few days now where she always shut me down by saying how she had no money or how we are struggling financially whenever I asked her to cook something nice.

And I feel the conversation we had today was the last straw for me to explode. I don’t go out to parties and all my basic needs are provided by my father (after he decides if I need them or not), nor do I go on tours like my other friends. I don’t have my own vehicle and my parents have always refused me from getting a part-time job to make some money for myself. My school fees is covered by loan and other other materials are paid by the school like some charity.

I’m sick and tired of always listening to how they are struggling financially (in reality all of their money is being used to establish a comfortable retired life for their future) and how they refuse to give me money if they feel I don’t need it.

I lashed out at her and told her I never ask them money to go out and party with friends, nor do I drink or have any other interests. If I need something then I have to ask them to provide for me since I am not permitted to work. If feeding me is such a burden to them, then I can’t do anything about it because I didn’t ask her to give birth to me.

She called me an ungrateful bitch who will never let her be in peace and started crying. My younger brother told me that I crossed the line by saying that I make my money cry.

I’m a regular office guy who does IT and additional “this and that” for a mid-sized company. I program, set up, and run 4 POS machines at 4 locations islandwide and paid I have felt I am underpaid for a while and looked at other workplaces.

Got a job offer to do something similar for 20% more salary. The owner of the company where I work has said loudly on the shop floor that he does not compete for workers and never will. I, therefore, gave my 2-week notice to him in his office and went back to work.

I told my coworkers I quit and why. The next day the owner comes to me and offers me 25% more and another week leave. I accept out of a sense of obligation because I have received a lot of training from them. I tell my co-workers I am staying with no mention of the offer, but it’s not hard to figure out. My supervisor immediately goes and demands a raise.

The boss lies to him and says he made no competing offer. The boss comes to me and says that I need to tell everyone I lied about the job offer to squeeze more money from him and that I was not offered another job, and he did not offer more money.

I then quit and left. Emailed HR my resignation stating why. I then emailed my job offer letter from the other company to my coworkers to show I am no liar.

Here are what netizens think:

• Your ex boss is trying to control things that he isn’t allowed to. With that attitude he will be lucky to keep any employees.

• I’ve always felt that once you have decided to leave, leave.

• You are only worth what you can negotiate. Your ability to create value for your employer is only a part of your wages. Some employees DESTROY value, but are able to make the same wage (or even higher) than their coworkers because they can negotiate better.