r/Pettyrevenge How I Got My IDIOT Boss Fired

[@djs2182]

“The first psychologist she’s seen working the register at McDonalds” made me rage. Shame on the dad for letting his wife treat his daughter that way. How can you love someone who abuses your child

[@lmaChroma]

Typical narcissist and enabler combo

[@phoenix5719]

@@abiean222 Men can marry normal women and not some bat-shit crazy old hag. He is just as bad as his second wife.

[@eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee8]

no honestly like so many people HAVE to work there way through college anyways, it’s literally the stepmoms fault that she’s even working at mc Donald’s, just so much wrong with that

[@dx1450]

Like OP said, he's a doormat.

[@djs2182]

@@eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee8 Exactly, that’s amazing of OP to have been working her way through college while having aspirations. You don’t become a psychologist overnight. And who kicks their child out of the house the summer before they leave for college.

[@shadowlizard7830]

One thing I've learned from the channel is to NEVER move somewhere with an HOA.

[@arieltran406]

Good luck with that though. Almost every housing complexes have an HOA

[@Namdrahsirhc]

Ever

[@leinaluo9763]

And to never mess with the IT guy 😂

[@paulgrotebeverborg1119]

​@@arieltran406 not outside of America, so the solution's obvious lol

[@berrylace5218]

I often see comments like this but it's not always realistic. I'm sure it varies depending on where you live, but where I'm from, any decent place has an HOA. Also, people won't make reddit stories on HOAs that more or less does their job. It's probably best to do research, know your local laws, and weigh the options instead of disregarding somewhere based off of one thing that's becoming more commonplace. However, if you can find a great place to live without an HOA, more power to you. Though if it's a developing neighborhood, one make pop up later.

[@lonnyscott6231]

For the story involving the baker . The baker should have decorated the cake by putting a tombstone that reads over the hill.

[@danielbrant6740]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@giggle_snort]

A cane, a walker, maybe one of those housecoats that all old ladies seem to wear, the possibilities are endless 😂

[@DarkEinherjar]

Stepmom is lucky she even got a cake AT ALL. I wouldn't have bothered.

[@dragonsteamworks6675]

Or give her an empty cake tin. Have it covered first so it's a "surprise"

[@poohbear4515]

If it was an AITA, not only was step-b@tch the biggest, dad would come in second place for not only marrying her, but allowing everything to happen. I wouldn’t even give single fricks about either of them if I was OP. Hell, I’d spit on both graves after telling everyone at the funeral how pure trash they were.

[@abiean222]

its like really low effort to make a box cake, especially if you make fancy cakes from scratch for a living. like, i bake in my spare time and box cakes are super easy. 10 minutes to until into the oven, and i'm counting gathering all the ingredents and opening the box in those minutes, then you can do whatever until the cake is done and cooled then like 5 minutes to slap on the frosting and boom - lazy petty cake that makes your bitch of a stepmom cry lol. all for 15 minutes of effort.

[@sherrita80548]

She would have got the same kind of chocolate cake that was in the movie the help

[@RobDaCajun]

If she had been told that there won’t be any cake coming. Then the flying monkeys would have been sent and more oversight imposed. Agreeing and sending a substandard cake than expected hit stepmom on her blindside. The father is a POS for letting his daughter be mistreated and for it’s continuance.

[@SkyEcho751]

My grandmother also raised 3 addict sons which my living grandfather still supports, with the last son leaving home. This was a mentality of the "It's better they are Addicts at home, then being Addicts out on the street" which resulted in all 3 of them experimenting with drugs, my dad being the only one who didn't mess around from what I understand. They are still layabouts who can't even hold jobs down, though one of them is now on Disability pay for a mental health issue, so he's less at fault.

[@lightningcat815]

My grandma also raised 3 drug addicts, but she was one of the sweetest people to walk this earth. In Arkansas, there’s nothing to do except drugs and “passionately hug” your cousins.

[@oi2715]

LMAO. Yeah, I’ve also seen in a lot of older households the woman would be super fucking sweet, but the man a complete asshole/abuser towards his kids. That can turn them shitty real quick

[@giggle_snort]

At least y'all are self-aware 😂 It's not always the parents' fault when people go off the deep end. I think Grandma sounded awesome!

[@avamasquerade]

Yeah, but *three* addicts?? And I've known (and heard of) plenty of people that were profoundly abusive to their kids but change their tune and try and yuck it up with the grandkids like they can just get a "do over" later in life. It's also another form of emotional abuse, treating the grown kids like they're now ruined and were just an expendable practice run anyway, not to mention the damage done by pitting the grandkids against their own parents. And anyway, Grandma's the common denominator here...look, I'm not saying she's an arsonist and it's a three alarm fire, just saying there's three very suspicious pillars of smoke left in granny's wake....

[@lightningcat815]

@@avamasquerade while I do agree that where there’s smoke, there’s fire, you’re making a lot of assumptions about people you don’t know, so I’ll clarify a bit. Addiction runs in my family. My grandpa was a life-long smoker (which is what killed him), and of their 5 children all of them struggled with addiction their entire lives. Three had their lives ruined, one kicked his 30 year smoking addiction, and my dad has tried kicking chew many times to no avail. My sister is a smoker and has tried kicking smoking to no avail. Knowing this, I have never and will never try anything stronger than alcohol, which I am very careful with. Currently, I am addicted to caffeine. As to WHY they started drugs, it probably is a combination of my grandpa is a veteran and so spent many of their formative years overseas leaving my grandmother to raise 5 kids by herself, and that in that town a lot of people were doing drugs because there’s nothing else to do there. While she is a very kind individual, she is only one person. I know what it’s like to have a grandparent that is nice to me but cruel to others, because that’s my mom’s mom, and she was not that. I have never met anyone who has ever said a bad word about her.

[@fatigue8675]

Interestingly, being sweet can still mean your a bad parent. Enablers are pretty onpar with abusive parents in other ways.

[@TellyKNetic]

My great-aunt did something similar in her will. She left a bunch of money to family members who were in her good books, but one nephew of hers, she left him exactly $1. This was so he couldn't argue that she had simply forgotten to mention him in her will.

[@sosansational]

my mother did this with her adoptive sons, my former stepbrothers. she’s not dead, she has a living will, but she did it simply so they could not contest the will and claim my mother left them out.

[@silverflight01]

Story 1: Imagine being so cheap that you're making such a big deal over a $31 check from a lawsuit I hope that those greedy bastards are eventually off the board

[@misabodybuilder]

They are the owners so it will never happen sadly

[@brendanboomhour7606]

​@@misabodybuilder if they got into an "accident", they'd be gone

[@Fiery_Latina_Goatchan_GF_681]

Doubtful

[@Fiery_Latina_Goatchan_GF_681]

​@@brendanboomhour7606 ya if you are that f cing stu pid to try something that pathetic and get arrested ya brat XD

[@savannahs3893]

I've run into this specific brand of rich people a lot and they are the worst. They will yell at a cashier for charging them for a 5 cent bag they didnt need. Meanwhile, they have millions in the bank.

[@richewilson6394]

I'm surprised that that building is still able to have people in operation it because of all the violations. And also the fact that an elevator is not an operation for a building that has senior residence in there, OP needs to get a hold of him The fire Marshal and the state home inspector that relates to those kinds of buildings.

[@MorgothBauglir13579]

in* operation residents* No need for "him"

[@queenofputrescence5167]

I know there has been an issue near Milwaukee with a building that has had the elevator broken and won't be fixed for another few months. There is a resident who uses a wheelchair on one of the upper floors. It took one of the local tv stations reporting it to get anything done. The management temporarily moved the resident to a first floor apartment until the elevator can be fixed.

[@MizuMing]

Story 3: If only Op recorded the terrible messages from the stepmother and sent them straight to the father so he could see what kind of vindictive terrible person that he had married after his wife had passed away. This terrible human being was torturing his child for so long and he just didn't know or didn't care. Either way he never got involved and it didn't seem like Op ever told him for whatever reason.

[@artcasual99]

Op did call her dad a doormat, so even if he knew and was angry about how his daughter was being treated, he was either too much of a coward, or too much of a people pleeser to do anything. Or maybe the stepmom has god levels of manipulation.

[@MizuMing]

@@artcasual99 I would guess more manipulation in the beginning, and then doormat. Still, he never fought for his daughter and that is terrible. He deserves a butthole score.

[@giggle_snort]

@@artcasual99 Was literally about to say the same thing. He may be a victim of her abuse and manipulation as well, or he may just be an entirely useless doormat. Either way, it sounds like he was aware, and never did anything. Not great.

[@bubblegum_b]

Lol I was in the abusive stepmom+doormat dad situation, and oh boy… If I tried to send my dad screenshots of her insanity, he would try to talk to her… Aaaaand she would harass me even more. And him. So not really an option

[@RealCoolstriker64]

She evicted his own daughter from his own home that she was living in rent free. He knew.

[@GoldDragonJewelry]

Tbh I half expected the baker op to do something more severe than slap frosting on a sheet cake. I expected that they would write something mean (but true) on the cake or use a joke pan to make it lol.

[@SeanBZA]

Clould have, but the no effort cake was the better option, only way to have improved it would have been to leave the waxed paper on the fondant when putting it on.

[@abiean222]

@@SeanBZA went back, OP didn't say anything about using fondant lol. just shitty box cake and nasty canned frosting lol.

[@SeanBZA]

@@abiean222 Most of the canned frosting I see comes in sheet form with a plastic layer, so could have left that on as well, making it worse for cutting.

[@KattoTang]

@@SeanBZA Wait what? How would *canned* frosting come in sheet form?

[@SeanBZA]

@@KattoTang Not canned but sheet form frozen stuff, or you just have a tin with ready made, that needs to be put on with a spatula. Zero effort will be ready rolled sheets, like wedding cake.

[@silverflight01]

Story 2: Wow, him constantly running to his daddy lawyer really says everything. He's an arsehole and can't take responsibility

[@TJDious]

And it's all daddy's fault.

[@Fiery_Latina_Goatchan_GF_681]

I could care less if his dad is a lawyer

[@fanfictiondreamer7836]

Not to mention a man child. "Daddy!! These people are being mean to me!!!" "Don't worry, son. I'll chase away all those big bad accusations that those awful people placed on you."

[@cynister7384]

@@Fiery_Latina_Goatchan_GF_681 Couldn't*

[@giggle_snort]

I call it Draco Malfoy syndrome. "MY FATHER WILL HEAR ABOUT THIS!!!"

[@Arylwren1]

There are so many great parents that end up with kids that are addicts. Sometimes there is nothing a parent can do and granny gave them money because she still loved them.

[@TanookiSuit]

That birthday cakes story, that step mom is a classic case of torment, torture, and legal harassment that if there were karma should have an accident with a wood chipper. Disgusting.

[@poohbear4515]

They say that you shouldn’t get angry at man-children who screw everything up because their raised by extreme enabling parents. But when that dumbass is over the age limit when they should know better, it’s very hard not to wring their necks. Lawyer daddy made his son a threat to society and should’ve actually got fired for abusing his job.

[@timon6759]

I respect for Dabney, the only Reddit KZbinr that can understand when too much information is missing before making an opinion. Edit: I take this back; he made a judgment on a different story where too much info was missing and assumed some bloke was a psychopath.

[@DayKiyokki]

You would be right, except when the information that's missing isn't relevant to the story. For example, in the last story, the grandma raising the children and them turning out to be addicts could have nothing to do with each other. What rSlash does most of the time is assume there is more to the story because he is unsatisfied with the ending.

[@Fiery_Latina_Goatchan_GF_681]

​@@DayKiyokki cause it doesn't make any sense the idiot grandmother was continuing to give money to the addicts x.x

[@DayKiyokki]

@@Fiery_Latina_Goatchan_GF_681 You should not be calling her an idiot as we don't know the situation in it's entirety. Also maybe the aunt was using emotional blackmail, which happens a lot in the stories that rSlash reads. You don't seem to maintain this energy for them. My point was that clearly most of you don't understand addiction and how it works, or the emotional toll it takes on loved ones. Also if you read or listen to the story, them being addicts had nothing to do with anything.

[@Graves933]

​@@Fiery_Latina_Goatchan_GF_681 unfortunately it does make sense. My grandma died recently and she still had her youngest son leeching off her. She gave him money for booze and drugs, he stole from her, insulted and threatened us all, and she still defended him. Parents can be really codependent on their children and fear ending up alone. It's really common for parents to fund their kids bad habits and addictions in hope they'll change.

[@danielmorton1606]

@@DayKiyokki I mean he's saying theirs a pattern and as the majority of the population are not addicts, there is a common thread.

[@TruthNerds]

"Dear stepmom, this cake reflects all the love and support you ever gave me. In fact, I think it might be a bit over. Happy Birthday!"

[@TruthNerds]

(Just have to point out here "for the record" that my stepmom is the absolute best. ❤)

[@littlemissmarie9662]

Dabney, I’m honestly very disappointed by that final comment before the videos end. Addicts are still people deserving of someone to care for them. Sometimes people don’t go out looking for hard drugs. Sometimes the softer things they’re interested in get laced and they become addicted without realizing it. Others suffer from severe mental issues or trauma and try to cope with hard drugs because they feel therapy, friends, or family wouldn’t help or care enough to do so. OP's grandmother is most assuredly not a bad person for making sure her CHILDREN survived. I hope they were able to seek counseling and rehab.

[@Jay-Gruener]

The last story I aspire to be that level of petty displayed by OP's grandma.

[@MorgothBauglir13579]

Your aunt objectively did *not* "leave without looking back" if she constantly asked your grandmother for money...

[@dracko158]

Landlord: **Is selfish and douchy** Everyone: "Why are we not surprised?"

[@ElkiaStellar]

HOAs are such a funky thing to me, imagine buying a house and paying someone every month like you're paying rent.

[@dudeorduuude5211]

You aren't paying a person, you are paying a co-op organization. I live in a high rise condo and it includes heat and water and maintenance. Owning a house you still pay for those things and costs more for maintenance and utilities.

[@thebosshouse]

​@@dudeorduuude5211 Owning a house without an HOA means you can make your own decisions about your property as long as you obey the law. You can decide which maintenance company to use and decide when to have that maintenance done. HOAs are just spicy property management that can foreclose on something YOU supposedly own. 🗑️

[@avenfantasy7498]

@@thebosshouse it's basically just rent but fancier

[@thebosshouse]

@@aduckofsomesort Yeah, the concept of a condo is weird to me. They technically own the condo, but don't own the building so it's just an apartment with a 15-30 year lease. So strange.

[@TsukiKageTora]

You cannot kick out person, don’t care they are homeless, mock their decision in life to work and save money instead of go to college, mock their professional baking, and still expect that person to make them a gorgeous cake and other desserts.

[@stephanieramirez15]

I’m surprised she didn’t bake a cake for the stepmom and decorate it as her being the devil 😂😂😂😂 ”what can I say stepmom… I was inspired”

[@phonc]

In the last story I don't think the grandma can really be blamed for raising 3 addicts. For still financially supporting them, maybe, but that's the kinda thing people try to do for those they love. My grandparents were great people, but 2/4 kids still became addicts. They are people on their own, and you can't blame thair parents for that.

[@Tortilla.Reform]

Yea rslash has terrible takes sometimes, at least we didn’t have to hear him make one of his gross/lame and forced jokes

[@codylawson1257]

Abusive parents generally treat grandkids well. It's just another way to further humiliate their own kids. It's manipulative af.

[@Waterpark201]

For the last one. In my experience with family that turned to addiction, trauma is usually the reason. Something had to have happened to them. I'm not convinced that grandma was just so loving that nothing possibly happened. Spoiling? That's a possibility but there's a lot missing from this story

[@SansUTx]

The grandfather isn’t mentioned 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@destinecassady5576]

Nah. The addicts I have known had really good parents. Didn't even spank or rarely yelled and their kids still became addicts. All because they wanted to be cool in HS and hangout with a crusty crowed of people. Started off with cocaine and alcohol turned into pills and heroine.

[@cb.on.yt22]

@@destinecassady5576 right but those are usually one person from the family, ALL three kids went down a bad path in the last story. I’m no expert of course but that seems to suggest it was the way they were raised rather than who they hung out with outside of the house

[@jaimedritt4622]

@@cb.on.yt22 I agree. It's odd that all three kids raised by these parents became seriously troubled.

[@alidan]

@@cb.on.yt22 it depends on where you live. in america alcohol is illegal till 21, so getting it is a bit harder than getting many forms of drugs, and if you live in the middle of nowhere, what else is there for you to do other than chores and homework for most people. I had a lot of friends from bad homes turn out ok and ones from good ones go down bad holes.

[@sassyghost_8]

The last story reminds me of what the mother of a friend of the family did with her will. One of her kids became an addict and he never really grew up either. I only met him a small handful of times and he was already in his sixties. Their mother was a pistol but she was also very willing to bail her kids out of trouble even when she shouldn’t. When she passed, he expected an inheritance but she said SIKE! and wrote in her will that he had already used his portion of the inheritance with all of the debt she helped him pay off and the weed he bought with any emergency funds she gave him. Needless to say he was toddler levels of angry.

[@anti-classist]

On the last story... kinda proved rslash doesn't know what it's like to live in a bad area... sometimes your parents can do everything right but the environment is near impossible to beat.

[@JHyde-tv3if]

As a former baker, I 100% love what she did. While decorating it terribly or harshly would have also been fun. I like the plain cake. Though "Bappy Hirthday" it the worst piping possible would have been great.

[@ZeakaXorrFitchus]

For the last story with the grandma, I can see where she would be coming from by continuing to support her addict children. My grandmother had four children, and one of them ended up a complete nobody loser. Went to prison, burned all the bridges by being an unreliable AH, losing jobs as fast as he could land them. He always went to my grandmother for money, and she would give it to him, even knowing she'd never get it back. Despite her other children begging her not to, she'd give in because no matter what she still saw him as her baby boy. Other than that, she was a sweet and kind woman who did her best to see the best in everything and everyone.

[@kelsmister]

For the step mom - why not just wrap the cake mix and frosting cans in a basket drop it off at the party saying “well you said the last one was box cake mix flavor well here you go! Better get baking!”

[@GeneralArin]

Wow, that sounds ultra illegal with the HOA, several times over. Good job for the whole building working to screw them. But a $31 lien cracked me up. Gottem Edit: get rekt Tim lol you love seeing the real world smack down an entitled brat

[@dudeorduuude5211]

I was on my condo board once, and there is a family that owns about 1/4 of the units. They never sat on the board though, the condo board were hyper aware of their activities and would have caught any little thing to make sure that didn't happen. That family did regularly pull things, like being overdue on payments... for 23 units... and pay just before it is time to call the lawyers. And they would regularly complain about the board at the AGMs.

[@ProjectDv2]

My grandmother was a warm, sweet, caring woman that raised six kids, of which only one didn't turn out to be a drugged-out waste. Don't be so quick to think that kids can't turn out to be selfish trash bags all on their own.

[@kierrific1357]

Fun fact for rSlash, I have actually listened to EVERY SINGLE VIDEO that you have currently listed as public. Edit; ngl this is the most replies I've had on a single comment ever, let alone like count

[@somethingmarriott]

Twins

[@madmattman5675]

Me too. I listen every day ☺️

[@dreddit]

I prescribe more reddit videos

[@obscenities4073]

Same and for years

[@shortwave737]

I used to, and I still love him, but his AITA takes show an obvious bias against Christians and so I refuse to watch them anymore.

[@fcontini]

RSlash, about your comment on the dudes grandma (last story). I have a childhood friend that comes from a rich family, he was NOT spoiled rotten, he was a good guy, but I HATED visiting him whenever he had friends around. He lived in an upper class fancy apartment complex and most of his friends were annoying wanna-be millionaire kids. His parents are great, but in the end, he was arrested for dealing drugs. What I'm trying to say is, it is not ONLY the parents fault, sometimes the environment and the other people around are just so bad, there's just no saving.

[@Hybrid301]

You know, some people willingly pay that much for someone to grab them by the balls. But what they do in the bedroom is their business.

[@cdleachxiii]

So, I hate to be that guy, but math, grammar and human interaction are definitely not basic. You may be good at one or two of those things, but it's rare to find someone who is good or better in all those departments as they are all learned subjects, and if you had a shitty teacher or no teacher at all you could very easily suck at all three.

[@BrassKneecap]

I think the use of the word "rare" is a bit of a stretch. Most people with a high school degree would pass with these three at a basic level.

[@cdleachxiii]

@@BrassKneecap Except they don't. I've met way too many high school graduates who lack both good grammar and social skills. Don't even get me started on the overwhelming number of people who fail basic mathematical arithmetic. Rare is a perfectly adequate term here.

[@WishGender]

@@cdleachxiii Fr though I’m in college and some of the people in my classes honestly make me wonder how they even got to college

[@Houleigan]

"Birthday Cake" story = Explain to me how a person can kick out someone so easy, yet on the other hand you hear about how hard it is to get rid of squatters???

[@abiean222]

either different countries with different laws or bullshitting cop who doesn't care and wanted to go home. i'm leaning toward the latter reason honestly.

[@nellnelia]

I love the grandma story! As someone who grew up with a lovely mother, but my older sister turned out rotten, it is NOT always the parents faulth

[@giggle_snort]

@@Burnttoastwithvegemite Oh, man. Saying "I'm sorry" doesn't even begin to cover it, but I am SO SORRY. You don't deserve that. Hope your sister gets a rude awakening soon, and I hope you find, or have found, a better life. ❤

[@noranizaazmi6523]

⁠​⁠@@Burnttoastwithvegemite i’m sorry to hear that, i assume you’ve gone slightly no contact, and i hope your family stays happy and are well, have a nice day :)

[@queencars802]

Okay what about her supporting addicts? They're people too struggling with a disease too many dont understand but will happily judge about. Every family struggling with addiction handles it their own way and often times, does it always work? No. Do some stay addicts their whole lives until death? Yeah. It's an incredibly sensitive and difficult situation and all are different. Its disgusting you'd insinuate something about OPs grandmother because she raised some that became addicts and possibly supports them. Judging them without knowing why they're addicts, if they're trying to get clean, or anything about their situation is disgusting. Most don't become addicts for no reason. So my parents arent great because I became an addict? Because they got me into rehab once then kicked me out at 17 when it failed? Or does that make them better since they stopped supporting an addict? I've been clean now for 10 years without any help from them.

[@charminglady2011]

She raised 6 children. All of them were behaving badly more than half addicts. She then picked and chose which addict she wanted to assist. Please don't project your beautiful story to this story. Op deleted her story because she was mad that people were not vilifying Aunt J. They asked questions she refused to answer, so it led people to blame grandma. And she then got worse with the update by saying things like, "Oh yeah Aunt J is an addict too so don't feel bad. Then people further questioned her and she deleted it.

[@queencars802]

@@charminglady2011 But we dont know the backstory. Not all addicts are the same. She could of cut certain ones out because they robbed her multiple times or were violent under the circumstances. The issue is we just don't know. Judging her tho based on the small amount of info we have is pretty messed up. It's a very sensitive topic and I can understand why she'd get upset. Judging the grandmother based on one little post without much detail isnt fair especially when the ones she stopped supporting may of been to protect others like OP/grandkids

[@charminglady2011]

​@@queencars802 yes and no. The post said she spoiled all 6 kids and half of them were addicts. At 1st the story made you think oh so she was supporting addicts and those who left she ignored. Then when people questioned it, OP was like Oh yeah Aunt J was an addict too. This post was intentionally vague which is why RSLASH is taking his stance. You have 6 terrible children, not a good record for being a wonderful saintly grandmother. Don't get me wrong, I do think there are factors, but the point was getting mad at 14 bucks seems pretty abusive. Even if Aunt J wasn't greedy, everyone got money, but she got an invoice. That doesn't sound like mother material to me. So yeah judge her. Also the post backfired, Op wanted to gloat about Aunt J, and reddit for once wasn't in the mood to kick someone while they were down.

[@davesaylor7829]

​@@charminglady2011 It doesn't say anything about 6 terrible children. Not in the story that was read here, at least. You can choose who to give money to; and it can be for any reason or no reason. Maybe the other addicts kept their tabs paid, or at least made some effort to convince her they were trying to get clean. Regardless, your comments don't rebut a word that Carissa said.

[@davesaylor7829]

@Carissa L Glad you got out. Have you considered becoming a counselor? Your comprehension and expression seem to be above average; more importantly, you grasp the concept of accountability better than most who are commenting on this story.

[@maieen2665]

I thought the same thing about the last story. I'd like to hear "Aunt J's" side.

[@breezy3392]

Step-mother story: It really took years for OP to realize that they could block the step-mom ??

[@kellylee4696]

Dabney, that last comment about the grandmother was just terrible! SHAME ON YOU! The grandmother didn't raise addicts. She raised three children/grandchildren who became addicts. You must come from a very privileged background to be able to look your nose down on other people who are struggling. I come from a very poor city (Detroit) and I can tell you first hand that no matter how much love and support you give people, they are going to do what they want in the end. I witnessed first hand a family that raised their children with all the love and care and 4 out of 5 children became crackheads. The fifth son became a prominent attorney. The three girls all turned to prostitution to support their habit. Now, only 3 of the children are still alive an all of them are clean. My point is that it's not the grandmother's fault that the younger generation turned to a life of crime and abuse. Have a heart because that was just mean. As a husband and father who clearly loves his family, you would know better. How would you feel if your daughter turned to a less than respectable way of life? Would you immediately take the blame? Probably not.

[@MartinBarker]

basic tasks does not include Maths, Spelling or Gramma nowadays, you don't needs any of them to move boxes in a warehouse, be a picker, delivery drive, forklift a lot of low skilled jobs don't require them that's what they mean by basic tasks, and all 3 can be countered with software now for office jobs. and thank god they do otherwise i would be stuck unable to the job i love and am really good at.

[@danielbrant6740]

The 2nd Story doesn't feel like a Petty Revenge. It feels more like a "Idiot who doesn't know when to quit" story because all OP did was defend themselves over Tim's baseless accusations and just kept digging that proverbial hole deeper and deeper.

[@leandrodlamas8993]

But.. They didnt no anything in the 1st story, he just got 31 dollars and they will keep screwing them over 😴

[@abiean222]

the pettiness is that the guy took a lien out on the scumbag's house over $31. also, they are fighting them in court so it is very possible that thing will get better.

[@leandrodlamas8993]

@@abiean222 i hope so

[@AlexRising_]

From the last story: The aunt was not an addict, just an asshole. OP’s dad and uncle were addicts.

[@Nerobyrne]

So, at my job, I'm incredibly good at two things: 1. Written communication 2. Customer support. So, grammar and interacting with adults. I'm basically Mr. Basic.

[@LunaMane]

To answer your question about basic tasks, RSlash, either OP has a different perspective on what basic tasks are or he sets the bar so low for humanity that someone who wakes up gets a gold star even if they can't boil water.

[@LadyKattrina84]

R/Slash: "This story only sounds like part of the picture" The story: "I don't know the full story but I got the just of it" I mean... 🤷‍♀

[@thephantasm94]

The cake story, i feel like this is a mixture of pettyrevenge and malicious compliance. She compared OP's baking to Betty Crocker and she got exactly what she deserved.

[@Some_Guy6]

Some type of Karens we all hate : I want to speak to your manager. Assaulting Karens, stalking/harrasing Karens. The 1st spamming Karens in comment sections. HOA Karens. Child/animal abusing Karens. And many more. EDIT : Tim story. I would report Tim's daddy with all the proof. With that, he will lose his license as a judge and will be permanently terminated for ever becoming one again. Because all the corruption and cover ups.

[@ScooterBond1970]

For the evil stepmother cake story, OP should have gone the extra mile and made the cake red velvet.

[@Zeusthecat]

"You owe me 14 dollars", that granny literally died on that hill.

[@Arachne97]

Last story: A lot of people who were terrible parents make amazing grandparents. Both of my grandfathers were downright abusive to their kids. They would hit, yell, prevent their kids from eating, the whole shebang. Somehow, they both became awesome, supportive grandfathers who took their grandkids fishing, helped pay for school, babysat when they could, and showed up for graduations/ recitals. One gave me great advice on how to pick my college major, and the other encouraged me to verbally stand up to bullies. I'm not sure how it happens. Maybe they realized if they wanted a second chance they'd have to improve. But it can happen.

[@spikertaker]

Something is weird about the last story, OP said the aunt hardly repaid the grandma, and that amounted to 14$, for an addict? Maybe she still cared about the aunt enough to not shame her for the amount of money she actually owed?

[@BubblyBlackbird]

I assume what the grandma did was total up what would've been the aunt's portion of the inheritance, and then subtract that from the amount that she lent her over the years. The difference was $14.

[@giggle_snort]

@@BubblyBlackbird That's what I took from it as well. What a petty queen. 😂

[@kp2223]

Why does the Baker even bother talking to her father anymore? He clearly doesn't know how to stand up to the stepmother and that's fine but why should OP have to be exposed to her in order to spend time with him? And better yet I would feel really let down by my dad if he watched his wife do all this to me without stepping in

[@thetruth1816]

Same...op is in denial..

[@abiean222]

love for the parent is hard to shake. parents have done worse to their kids and the kids still talk to them. also, its only becoming a thing now-a-days that going no/low contact with toxic family members, it wasn't a thing and if someone did it, it was the toxic ones because getting cut off from family was, and kinda still is, viewed as a bad thing.

[@kp2223]

@abiean222 I recognize that it's hard, but it's clearly only making OP suffer, so she might want to take a good hard look at that relationship. As someone who has cut off a parental figure, it's hard but possible.

[@natalieleske8382]

.....all I have to say to the bad people in this story is wow AH! 😂😂😂

[@emilpetersen6880]

in regards to the last story the idium goes perfect " raise your kids and you can spoil your grandkids however spoil your kids and you will have to raise your grandkids"

[@Sakiko23]

With the last one, the poster literally wrote as their first sentence that they didn't know the full story...

[@kostas13524]

Last story: what she probably had on her mind was the wellbeing of her kids, addicts or not i doubt she could bear the thought of them not having enough to feed themselves as alot of addicts spend every dime to fuel their addiction often forgetting to eat

[@georgiawilliams1096]

The last story: ‘if you spoil your kids, you end up raising your grandkids. If you raise your kids, you get to spoil your grandkids’

[@Wolfie713]

Story with the abusive stepmom (Even-Summer), her father could have done something to invalidate the eviction and allowed OP to continue living there. The cop was indeed full of BS because since it's the dad's house, he outranks the step-mom and can limit or even remove any authority she has to evict or trespass anyone, unless being married overrides that based on the laws where they are. But even then, anytime she files to evict OP and it's granted, the dad can invalidate it in some way so that it's a wasted effort. Also, the cop isn't supposed to give out legal advice. The most he should have done was to say for OP (or OP's dad) to talk to a lawyer about the matter.

[@raymondnunez6937]

Aunt: ugh she's finally dead, now where's my inheritance? G-ma's will: u still owe me 14 bucks

[@franciscojaviermendezrinco1902]

First story: Their answer to catch them making illegal stuff and sued for that is doing more illegal stuff. Speaking of stupid.

[@mikumikumania4574]

No offense but I think you saying “well she [the grandma] did raise addicts” as a point against the grandma is a bit callous. People from all backgrounds/upbringings can fall victim to addiction. It doesn’t mean that they weren’t loved or cared for

[@MrKingArthurhk]

Some older people become enablers to twisted or destructive behavior because they fear not being loved. I have seen this firsthand.

[@DarkEinherjar]

Maybe the father and uncle were using some lighter drug that didn't create a tolerance effect, thus keeping the drug habit somewhat sustainable, or they eventually got clean and paid off their debts, so their mother never held anything against them.

[@WishGender]

Yeah my assumption was that the dad and the uncle got clean and maybe the grandma paid for rehab or something but the aunt didn’t want help/rehab

[@strikeforce1500]

Birthday Cakes story: I am geniuly surprised OP re stablish contact with her dad, and in consequence, the stepmother. No, seriously, why bothering contacting a proxy/enabler toxic person?. F that.

[@skaarphy5797]

The last story is really weird. Two of grandma's children became addicts, and the third one went NC. And the one that went NC was left out of the will over 14 dollars? And grandma's supposed to be the best person ever? I agree with rSlash, something's not right here.

[@damitafrost4228]

I thought the aunt would have owed over $1,000. $14 is definitely a petty amount.

[@jaimedritt4622]

Agreed. I think information was missing and OP is possibly in denial or ignorant about how grandma treated her three kids.

[@jennysmith38]

​@@damitafrost4228 the grandma deducted how much her daughter owed her from the amount she should have gotten in the Will, and the daughter still owed her $14

[@damitafrost4228]

@@jennysmith38 That makes so much more sense. Thank you! Lol

[@aviandekeizer9208]

Hey rSlash...grammar and interacting with adults can be especially hard for neurodivergent people (ADHD, autism, anxiety, etc) so calling them "basic tasks" can be demeaning

[@L1K34PR0]

Final story "Bruce it's been 15 years you still owe me 5 dollars"

[@digifreak90]

For the baking story, if I'd been OP I would have just straight up refused to give that horrid creature anything. She wouldn't receive a single cake crumb from my kitchen. Though I do love how OP got their revenge.

[@ianstevenson3354]

Grandma in the last story didn't raise addicts; she raised kids that became grown ass adults who chose to become addicts. And I don't say that to judge because everyone has their own problems they face in the world; but I speak because I don't think grandma was bad or malicious in what she did, but I will say this: I don't know what in the hell aunt J smoking where she can't pay back 14 dollars.

[@jacob6071]

#3: that stepmom deserves a lot more than petty revenge

[@SelflessHero]

Basic Task: "Go get coffee" "Put these packets together" "Keep recycling oxygen to carbon-dioxide"

[@yilincai5873]

Can't start my mornings without rslash, hope everyone has a nice day!

[@ozoravalda]

Omg same.

[@Chuckf66]

He lands at 11pm here, so it's great to wind down to.

[@Thatmemegeek]

Its 6:40pm here in India

[@devlynandlink]

So what where mornings before r/slash?

[@yilincai5873]

​@Link that was about 4 years ago, can't remember lol but I imagine they were pretty boring

[@bubonic_bird6628]

Love listening to this on my way to school! Thanks for all the stories, RSlash!

[@Mmoraltz]

by basic task i think he means working dog level. fetch this, grab that, come here, go there, stay, don't pee on that man.

[@MorbidKat]

Ok good lol I'm not the only thinking that the last Op was actually raised by a narcissistic grandma that destroyed her own children to the point they couldn't even raise kids and then built herself up as a martyr to her grankids.

[@GamerSapss]

Or... maybe the grandfather was the problem or something beyond the grandmothers control at a certain point

[@dudeorduuude5211]

I think some addiction is a pre-disposition, like chemically or genetically. And maybe they are low income and in an environment where it is prevalent.

[@MorbidKat]

Poverty and uncontrollable circumstances don't cause 3 of your own children to hate you and its incredibly offensive to push it off as "oh they must have been poor", nah, there's one common factor and it's their mom (grandma)

[@abiean222]

@@dudeorduuude5211 don't buy into the propaganda dude

[@davesaylor7829]

​@@dudeorduuude5211 You're correct. These people haven't taken accountability for their own addictions and are projecting their own crappy relationships onto the grandma.

[@technodelights9632]

rSlash. You don't choose to become an addict and I feel you need to take stock of what it means to have an addiction, It can happen to ANYONE for ANY reason.

[@MetaDragoon]

Aww, expecting morally just and fair stories in pettyrevenge? Nevah!! I still salute that granma for her final blastoff.

[@Amber417]

8:52 I resent that. I can’t do basic math because I have a learning disability and I’m not good at interacting with people because of my autism/anxiety. Does that make me a moron?

[@TherezeMuz]

Aunt J wasn't an addict. Just the dad and the uncle... Love the little mention in the will! Brilliant! XD

[@Junji_Seishin]

its not the parents fault if their children turn out to be addicts. i cant count how many of my family members turned to drugs with loving parents. rarely are people raised to be addicts, so it comes off as extremely tone deaf to put it all on the grandmother in the last story. then again im not surprised, takes on this channel have been super hit or miss lately

[@gayrights8315]

call me insane for this if you want, but I think rslash is being a bit harsh on that last story, my mom and late uncle were both drug addicts, my mom got help but my uncle cut himself off and drugged himself to death, but my grandmother did everything she could to help them both before her passing she didn't raise them to be addicts, my mom became one after nearly a decade of abuse by two different men and my late uncle was mostly ok with just being addicted to pot before getting married and brought into worse substances by his wife calling the grandmother wrong for the way her children wound up isn't entirely fair and ignores the realities of what causes people to become users

[@IixiXOuOXixiI]

😬 Daph... Just because someone struggles with math, grammar or talking to adults, doesn't make them an moron. Some people have intellectual disabilities. Tim could have been good with organizing, lifting stuff, etc. I have a learning disability ontop of Autism and ADHD, I did terribly in school and people scare me, but I've made it this far and have a part time job (due to physical disabilities associated with my neurodivergent disorders). My dad can't read, but my lort is he great with math. That comment hit like an abelist...

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

16:10 ????? No? They BECAME addicts. And how dafuq is it reasonable for the aunt to go NC randomly? Like what are you snorting? She’s a gold digger 16:16 no she didn’t

[@calumv988]

The last story I was gonna say the same. You can love your grandma all you want, but their is a reason all 3 kids are messed up. Before my mum died, 4/5 siblings and step siblings were no/low contact. It always happens for a reason

[@Nekulturny]

That last story, clearly OP doesn't know the family history, Dabney is right, but I'll go further and say, yeah, she was a bad person. I understand some kids despite parents best efforts still turn out to be burglars, addicts, something worse. But when you raise 3 kids who end up like that and then you tell me your grandma was petty over 14 dollars. Yeah, I see why she raised 3 addicts as a recovering alcoholic with an overbearing mother myself. Seriously OP, thats all I need to know about what kind of woman your grandmother was. I'm sorry.

[@abiean222]

yeah and OP says her aunt never paid her grandma back, but just 14 dollars? either grandma was being petty and not counting the full debt or grandma was being petty and was counting the full debt.

[@samalvarez8776]

​@abiean222 she was including it in her will. For example, if the aunt asked for $1,000, the grandma subtracted $1,000 from her inheritance. So if everyone was supposed to get something like $20k, and the aunt actually borrowed $20,014, hence the "you still owe me $14"

[@davesaylor7829]

Nah, the addicts are the problem. Grandma raised 2 generations. Not allowing your addict child to run up a huge debt is not petty, it's prudent. Especially when you have to pay for a bunch of kids that aren't yours.

[@TsukiKageTora]

But she raised the grandkids and they didn’t turn out that way. You do realize that there is a village to raise a child? Like there are so many influences for a child in life My grandma was a good mom, my mom turned out just fine. However, my uncle and aunt (and thus most of their children 4/5 cause they were also crap parents) ended up as drunk addicts. They were the ones who ended up in the wrong crowd and hung out with the wrong people.

[@growinghigher420]

​@@davesaylor7829 actually there are a lot of shitty abusive parents that will step up and be loving grandparents, especially in the hood

[@TheCentruroides]

5:04 cuts on old sidewalks or bridges on walking paths across ditches. Damn, rSlash casting some powerful magic here!

[@JuniperDenn]

As a non-American, the concept of an HOA absolutely baffles me.

[@kstricl]

Basic tasks change by industry, but any job with manual labor is going to have jobs that need some degree of skill that is separate from math and grammar. Not everyone picks up on these skills. Definitely not going to call this a bad take, just a lack of real world experience on Dabney's part.

[@WishGender]

yeah also neurodivergence can result in a difficulty with any number of so called “basic tasks” such as math, grammar, socialization, personal hygiene, etc. It’s a pretty privileged take on Dabney’s part, but I don’t blame him. I’ve had my share of privileged takes.

[@AliSakurai]

Yes it's true you should raise a child with love but you also need to discipline them. Without it, they'll go crazy and do things that will break your heart.

[@Ken17-b8g]

Don’t know if that’s fair. Anyone can be an addict even if they come from a good family. Yeah sure all three of them became addicts but I don’t know if that fully reflects on the parent. Life is tough and we don’t really know what kind of environment they are living in.

[@mizu7662]

So, I think that the 'you still owe me 14 dollars' was a funny way of proving that she hadn't forgotten about J by accident and preventing J from suing over the will by declaring it was obviously a mistake and granny had just had a senior moment when writing the will and forgotten J. By putting in the little quip about her still owing 14 dollars she proves that she very intentionally snubbed her in the will and kept J from having any grounds to contest it.

[@Asmodiusempire]

That grandma was an absolute boss

[@HammerdWalrus]

You can theoretically "will" some one a debt, but it's most likely going to be unintentional. Before my mom passed from cancer, she was receiving money from the government in some sort (I'm guessing Social Security since I get some money from there and its relevant), but apparently while she was getting that money she wasn't supposed to be working. Since she was gainfully employed while battling Cancer, the money shouldn't have gone to her. Idk if it's because she forgot to tell them, didn't know to tell them, or was an oversight in paperwork on the govt's side, but apparently that amounted to 30,000 USD. My grandmother and I went to the local Social Security office since the amount I was getting was less than what we were supposed to get. We were shocked to find out about it. We had no idea that was a clause (although it makes sense looking back), but I was 16 and still in high school w/o a job so a 30K debt on a kid in high school would ruin me, so the worker said that it doesn't make sense that it would fall to me, so (to my knowledge) they forgave the debt. If there is a debt to be "inherited" it's most likely going to be a next of kin situation.

[@LancerkingNoel]

Cake story. Should have placed a card "A cake fitting how good of a mother you are"