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Some Truly Wild “Am I the Asshole?” Stories From Reddit
There’s a pocket of the internet where people are brutally honest, hit “post,” and let the community decide their fate.
The Am I The Asshole thread says the entire subreddit is “A catharsis for the frustrated moral philosopher in all of us, and a place to finally find out if you were wrong in an argument that’s been bothering you.”
Catharsis is the process of releasing strong, pent-up emotions like pity, fear, or tension, which leads to a sense of purification, renewal, and relief.
And this thread is exactly like that. Essentially internet confessions, seeking sympathy. It’s a wild ride.
Dig in, there’s a lot to soak up here:
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AITA For Firing An Employee After His Parents Died?
I’m the VP of Sales at a software company, and one of our sales development reps’ parents passed away at the beginning of April. They were involved in a car crash, and both lost their lives.
Now the employee in question in very young 22-year-old guy and has been with us for about 10 months now. He’s a great employee, and we were thinking about promotions in the next ~6 months for him.
His job is a high-paying one for a new grad, about ~90k with commission and base, so we expect a lot from this position. Because of the accident, we let him take a 1 month paid leave of absence from work, and he returned a few weeks ago. His performance is severely lacking.
He’s super unmotivated, not cold calling, outreaching to prospects for the last 2-3 weeks, enough since he’s come back. Our whole mgmt team has noticed this, and we decided to let him go because we feel like he’d need months and months to be able to produce again, and we can’t just wait that long.
We called him into a meeting on Friday afternoon and gave him the bad news, he was very calm and rude about it. Told us to go fuck ourselves and got up and went to his desk grabbed his few things and left. I thought this was very very unprofessional and extremely rude.
I told my boyfriend about all of this and he said my mgmt team are a bunch of asses and pricks with no hearts.
AITA?
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