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25:09I doubt it, especially in my workplace where women two seats down from me wear far more provocative clothing than my damn slacks. I asked her, what should I wear instead?

25:32That's awesome.

25:36Yeah, I need to see a picture of the bulge. Here's the exact pants I wore on the day of the incident. Note that my member is sitting to the right of the zipper. Ew! Relative to the viewer. Show us the dick. You can't see anything. pants. That's a, that's a... Is that his hog? I don't know. On the right, on the right, on the right. No, he said his hog. I can't see his dick. You can't see his dick. I thought that was it. I thought that was it. I was like, holy shit. It's this thing, this indent. I don't think, that also could be just a crease or whatever. I can't even tell, bro. I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be honest.

26:06This is a photo of just any man wearing pants. Yes, correct. Wait, let me, let me get another look at it, actually. zoom in look I'm thinking that's Shaq normal chinos what if that's Shaq I don't think it is I'm gonna be honest I don't think it is no way they've lost their mind okay I guess a lot of things could be the dick here and maybe that's the point the fact that we can't definitively see the bulge means there's nothing to worry about here this poor man had to take this lower body shot and post it on reddit of his tapered chinos right um well That's the most normal picture of pants I've ever seen.

26:45Yeah. It is one of the most normal things I've ever seen. It is normal. It's like if you were like, it's a Halloween costume of the Onward guy. You're like, yeah, it's the pants. Imagine if the dad from Onward had a huge bowl. She's like, dad! Dad! Jesus Christ! Dad! That's crazy. Onward and upward. That's good. He goes on this rant at one point about, like, when a woman with large breasts be told she can't wear anything. I'm like, I think, unfortunately, that is very common. He lost us a little bit there. Yeah. I think when he's kind of started to compare to other people, I think lots of people maybe experience this kind of, you know, sort of dress code situation.

27:29I do think he's in the right in that those pants seem fine to me. Yeah. He's a shower, you know? What can he say? It seems like people are probably just trying to look for a problem there. Yeah. Because that's literally what I think we were doing was we were searching. And it's not obvious. It's not clear. Upon first glance, you're not like, whoa, whoa, whoa. And therefore, I just feel like that is enough to dismiss it. Yeah. I could see a NARB situation where he's getting a no apparent reason boner. And people like, he doesn't even know it. He doesn't even know it. And it's like around the office and the lady's like, oh, he's got a fucking boner again.

28:11And then it's like hard in his pants. So then when he goes to the office, then he doesn't have a boner anymore. Yeah, true. Is there a photo with the boner? Is there a photo with the boner? No, there's not. No, I think this guy's just being treated unfairly. If everything that he's saying is true, I think this is really unfair. Shane's like, yeah, there's a picture with the boner. He goes to his own pictures. What are you going to say about this one? Where's the pants? Oh, he has a full-on dick pic here. That could be the reason. It could be that during the day. I don't think so. I think the boss would bring that up.

28:53She's asking him to change his entire wardrobe. Sure, sure, sure. That is crazy, Tash. She's saying he needs to wear different pants. He's wearing completely normal pants. No, this is as unfair as when bosses do this to women. Yeah. And he's dealing with the same situation. Comments, I would be concerned that someone stared at my crotch enough to notice that. He said, I am too. I am in a long-term relationship and planning to propose early next year, so I can't afford financial or emotional turbulence right now. She didn't say who exactly brought this concern to her, so as far as I know, it could have been anyone in the office.

29:26Someone said, you need to complain to HR and ask her why she's staring at your crotch. Send an email so it's documented. Maybe even include this picture and the fact that they're tailored specifically to your professional fit. That's ridiculous. Someone said, big-breasted woman here. I have absolutely been told to wear different clothing. And no, I was not showing cleavage. They just stand out. However, I totally back you. That is some absolutely ridiculous shit. If anything, you should go to HR. I agree with that. I think, I mean, my interpretation, I'm like, this feels like harassment. Yeah, and he got the pants tailored.

29:57It's not like he was guessing and went too tight. Those are supposed to fit his body. Back to the show. Update. I contacted two well-known lawyers in my area and got a consultation from them about my situation. They both thought that while I was sexually harassed, the case wasn't bulletproof, as there was little evidence and no pattern of abuse. They then also warned me about going to HR without any evidence, as it can cascade into me losing my job in unexpected ways. Fine. Since I needed evidence and a pattern of abuse, I first wanted to read up on what standards my company has set for my managers when it comes to dealing with sexual harassment.

30:37I requested from our online learning catalog to take the sexual harassment and tough conversations courses that are normally required only for managers. In the Tough Conversations module, there was a scenario where a male supervisor needed to ask a female employee to correct her work outfit as it did not meet the company's dress code. The module in plain English states that the supervisor is not to intervene and to refer the issue to HR. I assumed that the inverse, a female supervisor reprimanding a male's outfit, would follow the same standards. I then sent an email to my boss asking her to follow up on our previous conversation.

31:10I wrote, To boss, I want to clarify some things regarding our previous conversation. Please confirm whether or not my understanding of your statements is correct. My pants violated our dress code by being too tight and revealing my bulge. The issue pertains to all my pants, not a specific subset of my wardrobe. This is a requirement from management and not a request. Please get back to me. It took over a full day, but the response I got was, yes, I did tell you to fix your wardrobe. This is not a request. My face went. I immediately replied to boss. If management is demanding that I replace such a large amount of work clothing, it must be done at the expense of company name.

31:45Please let me know if this is possible as we will have to work something else out if it isn't. And her response later was, this can be done, but I must be with you to supervise your shopping. Check my schedule for my availability. What? Okay, what? They want to shop together? Good Lord. Suddenly the she wants to bang you theories seemed less crazy. I backed up the emails to a personal account and sent everything to HR. Less than two hours later, I received a phone call asking me to come to HR immediately and drop my work unless it was time critical. I complied. I was told they were taking this matter very seriously and that I should take the rest of the day off.

32:22I came back to work today and boss is gone. I was told right before lunch that she had been placed on administrative leave pending a full investigation and that I shouldn't worry. It's against company policy to engage in any form of professional retaliation. I sit here now like a king on a porcelain throne telling you about my victory during my post-lunch dump. Bye-bye, boss lady. All right, man, don't. Now I feel harassed. You had us. Whoa. She's like, yeah, and I need to supervise your shopping. It's like, all right, you went to that. You have a crush on this man. Yeah, damn. What? Wow. I need to supervise your shopping is unbelievable.

33:03She put that in writing. Yeah. She wrote that out. And that's so stupid. God damn. That's so dumb. Yeah. Like, she thinks he has no, I mean, he played his cards right by not being like, I lawyered up and I know the truth and whatever. And just being like, hey, just want to make sure I have all of this right. Is this what happened? So that she could, in paper writing, we could have, yes, that is what I said. Yeah. Damn. I mean, I'm glad for him that she was dumb and did that. because if she didn't, I wonder, like, if she had not responded to his emails that way or responded being like, I didn't say that, like, he would be stuck.

33:44But, hey, happy for him that this all worked out and good on him for doing what he did. I mean, I predict that she would have been persistent, though, in other ways. Even if she were to clean up her language on email, I think she would have had another meeting and been like, hey, we need to still fix this problem and there would have been more discourse there. Yeah. Oh, if she's able, if she's moving the way she's moving, she's going to keep doing this to him or eventually do it to someone else if she hasn't already done it to someone else before. Right. She's abusing her power. I'm just trying to figure out what her end game was.

34:21She's like, oh, if I tell him to change his pants, he'll be into me. Yeah, I don't know. Was the plan always to go shopping? Maybe in her mind, I don't know. I have no actual idea. But I'm just throwing out thoughts. It's like maybe just by mentioning his bulge, she thought like, oh, I'm noticing this. You need to change because of this. And he's like, he fortunately interpreted just like literally. And he's like, wait, I have a normal size penis, whatever. Maybe in her head she's like saying it as a compliment. She's like, I can see your big penis. Yeah, he'll be into this. It also could be a power play.

34:59It probably is that. Just controlling him, and she gets off on that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't actually know. Right. Doesn't matter. She's getting fired. She's gone. Administrative leave, at least. She's gone now. But he's a king. And he took a dump. He's taking a dump. That was my favorite part. Not mine. All right. Next story. This is a confession that comes from September of 2025. I lied to my pick-me friend. and she got a tattoo based off of it. Ooh! A pick-me friend! I'm excited! It's been about two years since this happened, but I just got confirmation from a friend who attended her tattoo appointment that it was because of what I said.

35:44The backstory. I, a 25-year-old woman, was introduced to Peggy, a 25-year-old woman, through a mutual friend. She had recently moved into a friend's neighboring apartment unit and was quickly introduced to our friend group. Almost immediately, I could tell we weren't going to get along based off of some backhanded compliments that were given, but I decided that it was too quick to judge her fairly and invited her to a game night that a friend and I were hosting. Huge mistake. Game one, sardines. During a drunken game of sardines in the dark, Peggy faked a fall and pushed my head into a shelf. How do I know she faked it?

36:16Because she literally told me in front of everyone and laughed about it, saying, I found him first, that's why I pushed you. Game two, King's Cup. Peggy called me out during the never have I ever portion for having gone through a divorce. Talking about it normally would have bothered me since everyone who was there already knew about it and were really supportive during that time, but it was the fact that she was trying to single me out and shame me for it. Throughout the rest of the night, this kind of behavior continued, and by the end, I was thoroughly convinced she had some sort of vendetta against me.

36:46Finding out what, or in my case, who it was, took almost no time at all. One of our friends, who we'll call Mark, was in attendance that first night. Mark, 28-year-old man, is a tall, kind, funny, and generally attractive guy. Essentially, he's catnip for her type. At this time, we were pretty close friends, and Peggy did not like that. For the next six months, any time he was around, I had to deal with the most ridiculous, awkward, and petty attempts of her trying to single me out or embarrass me. Now here's where the tattoo comes into play. I'd been planning on getting a dragon tattoo for over a year.

37:16I am fully aware that dragons are a common and trending tattoo, but I wanted it anyway because it was special to me and my mom. I had even worked with my tattoo artist on incorporating her favorite flowers into the piece and figuring out what kind of style slash other details I wanted. About a month before my appointment, Peggy heard a friend and I talking about the tattoo and started asking questions. I swear I could see the moment the light bulb went off in her head because she grew the biggest shit-eating grin I've ever seen. My light bulb moment happened shortly after. When she asked where and what kind of dragon tattoo I wanted to get, I lied.

37:48I told her about how much I loved the movie Spirited Away, because I do. It's a banger. and went on a tangent about how I grew up on that movie, how my dad showed it to me, and that it'd be cool if he, Haku, was wrapped around my arm or something. Peggy had never seen this movie before, so I encouraged her to check it out and ended the conversation there. Now, considering she had never seen it before, I didn't think she'd actually do it, but read it, she did it, and it wasn't just a tiny, cutesy little thing either. She committed to my exact description. The thing is freaking huge. When she showed it to me two weeks later, I was in shock.

38:22Two weeks. Two weeks later, I was in shock, and she probably thought I was upset for taking something from me. But I went home that night and switched between feeling awful for lying to her and laughing for how utterly unbelievable she was for doing it. Two years later, and I'm still doing that. I had confessed to a friend recently about my lie, and that's when she told me. She went to the tattoo appointment with Peggy that day, and word for word, Peggy had said, She's going to be so upset. This is like the exact tattoo she wanted. Okay. What the hell? All right. All right, we have an update. Oh, ready?

38:56Holy fuck. I showed this post to the friend who went with her to the appointment, and she was kind enough to supply a picture of the tattoo in progress. The crazy thing is she did this to her too with a tattoo commemorating her favorite music artist. From her, quote, I initially wanted the tattoo because he's literally my favorite artist, and so I sent my artist, the one you met, my reference photo, and she said she wanted to come because she was thinking about getting one too. So we got there and he started doing my stencil and stuff. And when she saw, she said, oh my gosh, that's so cute. It'd be so cool if we got matching tattoos.

39:29I being excited and at this point having no issues with her whatsoever was like, yeah, girl, it's your body. So I just was like, okay, and let it happen. I guess it's a memento for her. She got the exact same thing and exact same placement too. Look at how big this tattoo is. Oh my God. That is a whole sleeve. That's an entire arm. So she went, so the second that OP was like, oh yeah, I want to get the spirited away dragon tattooed on my arm. Here's how I want to have it done. This girl was like, I'm going to go do that right now. Which I don't even know if that's a pick me friend as much as it just kind of sounds like a bully.

40:10I'm so confused. I'm like, are you bullying yourself here? You're getting tattoos? You're doing all this stuff. But her motivation is to upset this other person. And it's like, so you're willing to get a permanent tattoo on your entire arm because you think that it's going to really upset another person. Okay, so remember what I said when I believe in the goodness of people earlier in that last story? Yeah. I'm remembering how many people there are. Yeah. And unfortunately. There's a lot of people. There's a lot of people. Yeah. Most are good. And even that, I'm like, oh, God. It's like, good, bad, whatever, the gray.

40:55There's so many people who just operate on such a different wavelength that I'm like, I kind of know this person. Right. I think I've met this person. And it's like, no, like, as soon as someone has an idea, they're like, that's mine now. Yeah. That's my idea. I'm going to take that. I'm going to do it. I'm like, well, yeah, because you don't have original thoughts and you can't make things by yourself. You need other people to do it for you. That comment that she made, I think, is just really, like, messing with me. She's going to be so pissed. She's going to be so pissed because it's like, at first, you know, especially with the update, with the other story of like, oh, we should do matching tattoos, that gives more of, like, somebody who is maybe not as strong with their sense of self and is kind of trying to find a place within their personality and maybe kind of borrowing or taking other people's desires, like their favorite movie, their favorite musician.

41:54Like, why would you want those tattooed on your body? I think this reminds me of the people who are like, bringing other people down makes them feel good. They feel so down. It's, yeah, it's like just like stealing stuff. Like maybe making them feel less special and being like, you know, I will also have this so that you can't be possibly better than me. Just take, yeah, taking away things from other people is the best thing they can do for themselves. I think so. But it's such a self-own. I don't know. I'm like, you got a huge tattoo on your arm and you're like, ha-ha, owned. I'm like, is this a sketch?

42:32Right. This feels like a, it's always sunny episode. You're banking on them being more miserable about it than you. And that's a permanent thing you just did. And a lot, that's a lot of money. That's definitely over$1 ,000 and a lot of time. And you have that forever. People are going to be, 20 years from then, people are going to be like, oh, I like that tattoo. It's like, yeah, I wanted to piss someone off. Right. I want to go back, too, to the game night because the other example I think that stood out to me was in King's Cup when they were playing Never Have I Ever. And it sounds like Peggy had something to say, like, oh, never have I ever been divorced.

43:04And it sounds like she maybe was the only one to put her finger down. And that also feels directly. That's immediate, too. That's the first meeting. This is a jealous person. I think so. Just somebody who wants to call out another person's flaws. Or like, it kind of reminds me of Peter from Heroes, how he takes other people's power. Or the spirit from Avatar The Last Airbender that takes people's faces. Yeah. The face stealer. What's it called? The face stealer. The face stealer. Oh, you know what? I actually think this woman is just the face stealer. I mean, it really is. It's like you have no face of your own.

43:40You have to take everyone else's to create a personality. I mean, the best case scenario is she goes to therapy or has a big reconciliation and goes, oh, wow, I'm awful. I'm being a horrible person. And then she just has that tattoo forever. Right. That's a lot to get removed. I don't think she was thinking ahead in any of these decisions. I don't think there's much thought going on. No, no. It sounds like this is how I feel right now, and this is going to maybe make me a little bit happy. This is really— It's permanent. This is some very, like— Look, she's awful, but I'm curious as to why, what her motivations deep down, because this feels like she got stuck somewhere as a five-year-old.

44:25Because this is stuff like five-year-olds do, right? When it's like, oh, you have that toy, I want that toy. Just copycatting. Oh, now that you have that toy, I want that toy. she is stuck in that line of thinking as a 25-year-old. Right, right. Because I'm like, it's so, it's perplexing, this type of, like, thinking that she's doing. You're right, you're right. I think, I mean, you know, who's to say? But we can maybe predict that somewhere along the line she became really lost with her own identity. And now she's kind of going around taking from other people's and finding some sense of self-esteem in that or like pleasure in just making other people feel a little more uneasy, maybe like she is.

45:09Yeah. I just want to see how far people could go with it. Just being like, oh, what are you guys up to this week? And like, oh, I'm just going to strap meat to myself and go to a swamp. And she'll be like, oh, me too. With an alligator swamp. She's like, I'm going to actually, I'm going to do that. Yeah. It's like, great. It's like, oh yeah, there's a bear cave over there. I'm going to, you know, go walk into it. Totally. Yeah. See what she would do. Right. It'd be really funny. I forgot to read the comments. Goddamn, that's some dedication just to get on your nerves, LMAO. Or maybe she was just that desperate to be you.

45:38Either way, depending on the execution, Spirited Away, especially Haku, is a pretty good choice for a tattoo. True. Anime is a classic, and the dragon's design can be pretty cool. So I guess it's not too bad for her, LOL. Someone said, as much as the idea is cool and the concept of Spirited Away is beautiful aesthetic, I think it's still bad for her because intrinsically, she knows that it's not part of her essence. At one point, she will come to her senses, and when she realizes that she wasted her skin just to irritate or try to be the other person, it will be bad for her. And I would make it very clear to her and make sure she knew just to make fun of her.

46:09Someone said, I think I'd be pissed at my friend for not telling me sooner that she said that when they went to get the tattoo. OP said, this would be a fair point, but me and her became friends after the incident. During this time, we were just acquaintances, mutual friends, and she ended up cutting Peggy off for her own reasons. Before we became close. Yeah, I don't think Peggy's going to have too many friends. So, wow. Yeah. Not so much friends as inspiration to clone. Yeah. Peggy's full on like a sketch character. Like that's a hilarious character. Yeah, yeah. This person who's going to copy you knowing what.

46:49And OP sort of is like, let's see how far she'll go. And I'm very happy with what they did. Yeah. You're an idiot. Before I get into the next confession, trigger warning, death. This comes from True Off My Chest. It was posted in June of 2024. My negligence cost my partner her life, and I'm about to lose everything. All right. Buckle up. I hate that. I have a feeling Peggy's about to look like a very... A saint. Like a saint. Everybody that we just read about, the shallow girl from earlier, we're going to miss her dearly. I'm nervous. Me too. I, a 35-year-old man, have been married to Lisa, a 28-year-old woman, for three years.

47:37Together, seven. A year ago, I fell deeply in love with Amy, 24-year-old woman, and had been planning to end my marriage for her. I know it's terrible and not what my wife deserves, but we were the real thing. Two weeks ago, she had an allergic reaction when we were getting food after work, but she used her EpiPen and seemed mostly okay afterwards. She usually gets checked at the hospital after a reaction, but I asked if I could take her home and she could get her friend to drive her there because my wife was expecting me back. All I know is that she had a secondary reaction that evening and died.

48:09I didn't even find out about it until the following Monday through a work email. It has been eating me up ever since, and I will never forgive myself for not sacrificing an hour of my time to possibly save her. I sent some childish messages to Amy when I didn't hear from her over the weekend. Because I thought she was angry, I didn't take her to the hospital. I am thankful she never saw them and ashamed that I assumed the worst. Our relationship was great, and the highs far outweighed the lows, but I have always hated being ignored, and I lose my cool when it happens. It is not a regular occurrence, and I would have more than made it up to her.

48:45Yesterday at work, HR and legal were in the CEO's office all day, and my manager ended up canceling our project meeting because he was with them all afternoon. I was on edge, but an affair isn't exactly a corporate crisis, and I thought something would have already happened if anyone knew. I am now 99 % certain it was about me. A few hours ago, I received a message from Amy's phone which said, This is Amy's brother, Tom. I want you to know it was me. I tried to call, but it went straight to voicemail, and none of my messages have been delivered. I tried to call my manager more times than I should have, and he sent a message saying, please don't contact me until Monday morning.

49:22I can't discuss anything with you right now. So it looks like my universe is going to collapse. I'm going to be fired, and my wife will definitely find out why. All I can do is hope that Amy's brother only showed them the messages from that weekend, and they were bad enough. I have no family except my wife and daughter and nowhere to go. All of my friends are either people I've met through my wife or my colleagues. On Monday, everything I've spent over a decade working towards disappears. I can't stop it. I can't talk to anyone about it. So here I am. I know cheaters are the devil, so I'm not expecting sympathy.

49:53But this is making my chest hurt, and I need to get it out there. I knew it was going to be allergy. Okay, so. I knew it. I knew it. We have a lot of people with allergies at Smosh, and they've explained this to me, that when you use an EpiPen, you then immediately need to go to the hospital. I didn't know that. Yeah, an EpiPen's not like, you're done, you're good. And it's like, you use an EpiPen, it's kind of like, all right, you've delayed this, is my understanding. Basically, I just understand, like, it's not over. It's still going, go to the hospital. So he, they use the EpiPen, and he's like, oh yeah, can you get someone to take you to the hospital?

50:29I'm out. Oof. Can't be revealed as a cheater. You're not dying right now just yet, so. That is like an entanglement. He's talking about like, I know I'm a cheater. I'm the devil. I'm like, that's not even somehow the worst thing you've done here, man. Right. It's like you don't care for either of them enough. You don't care about anyone. No. Good God. And while you were committing this heinous act of cheating on your wife, a worse thing happened. And that is what he's admitting to. And at the end of all of this, cheating on his wife, he has, frankly, largely in part allowed someone to pass away for just not caring about them and taking them to the hospital.

51:10All he's talking about is his world collapsing. Right. He's like, my friend group, my job, all this stuff. Oh, this is so awful. It's like someone died. And there's no guilt. There's no grief. What about this person? Yeah, he's not going on about Amy. He's not going on about Amy and being like, oh my God, I can't believe she passed away. This is so awful. No, he immediately thinks about himself. I get mad when people ignore me. So even though she was dead and not answering my texts, I got mad. It's not like I feel so bad. But he's describing it as childish. And if he's saying that he gets upset when people ignore him, it sounds like he's like, Amy, hey, Amy, Amy, stop being so immature.

51:50I'm sorry I didn't take you to the stupid hospital. I had to come back to my wife so that she didn't figure out that I was cheating on her. But he also probably was texting her about the allergic reaction. Yes. And so they know, they have the trail of like, oh, she used the EpiPen. And then he drove her home and asked if she could have someone else pick her up from home to take her to the hospital. That's a lot of time. Dude, you're already awful. Just lie. Like, find some other lie to tell at that moment. Someone's life is at stake. Right. At that point, other things jumped to the top of the list, which is save this person's life, deal with everything else going on underneath that after the fact.

52:29I also don't trust this guy at all when he writes, she had an allergic reaction when we were getting food after work, but she used her EpiPen and seemed mostly okay afterwards. She seemed mostly okay. No. I don't know, man. No, not good. I don't buy anything from this dude. Did we talk about the brother already? How the brother, this is Amy's brother Tom. I want you to know it was me. That's awesome. Yeah. Straight up Game of Thrones shit. He's about to Batman this dude. Absolutely. Yeah. This is the worst guy. It's like as if you're trying to, you know, excuse the cheating, the affair. He's trying to appeal to us and be like, listen, I know it's a terrible thing.

53:04She doesn't deserve that. But, like, Amy, like, this is the real thing. I love her so much. And then goes on to tell the story where he completely ignores her and is the reason she had a second allergic reaction and died. Yeah. So none of that means anything to you. Those words are empty. They're nothing. This man has zero, zero consideration for any of the women in his life, any person in his life. At no point in this story do I believe this guy loves anyone. Because, yeah, Amy's the real deal. She dies, and he says nothing else about her. No, at all. He's completely focused on himself. He was like, oh, my wife, who I now hate, but I found a newer model that I like.

53:46I think that's how his sick brain works. It feels like there also isn't even that much language about his already existing marriage crumbling. He's like, oh, all my friends that I got through this. Oh, my job. Everything else that's going to collapse when this comes out. It's not even this concern of, oh, I lost my wife. I lost this other person that I was having an affair with. It's all about him. I also think it's funny when people end these types of posts with like, I know cheaters are the devil, so I'm not expecting sympathy. It's like, yeah, man, you know the reaction you're about to get.

54:21Like, think about that. Yeah. Like, you need to change entirely. Yeah. You need help desperately. Comments. Tom has real Olenna Tyrell energy. True king shit. Someone said, wow, you hate being ignored but are totally cool with ditching your wife and child. Are you really this self-centered? you probably have been ignoring your wife and child for ages over a lady you couldn't stand to not respond due to her medical emergency. She had a reaction in front of you and you got mad instead of maybe possibly thinking she was dealing with anaphylaxis. Everything that's about to happen to you is your karma.

54:54Lastly, someone said, it sounds like childish messages is shorthand for abusive language. Your lack of family is a choice you made when you cheated on your wife. The real victims here are Amy, her family, your wife, and your daughter. The best thing you can do is make better choices and try to start being a decent human being. It breaks my heart when there's a kid involved like that, too. Oh, my God. Like, how irresponsible do you have to be? Yeah. I mean, we could go on and on about how awful this guy is, but update. I don't know why he came back. Oh, God. Like, dude, you know there's nothing to be said.

55:27Tell us you got fired. Maybe it's a big life change. There's a lawsuit. Update. I have been consistently harassed for an update since posting, so please take it, Gloop, because you're such wonderful people in comparison, then stop following me around Reddit. Goddamn. I am suffering in the wake of my infidelity and unprofessional behavior as I knew I would. I understand that it is an appropriate outcome and I am taking full accountability. I was suspended from work on Monday and I'll probably be fired sooner than I thought. I'd hoped to be able to save money as HR built their case, but it looks like Amy's brother basically performed the entire investigation for them.

56:01After an excruciating three-hour run-through of everything they had, I spoke to the founder and he recommended the solicitor I am now using. The issue is that the company has come down hard to protect themselves because even though Amy's family doesn't have much chance of a claim, any suggestion of a cover-up could cause damage regardless. The founder still thinks my offer to pay them back will keep it out of court and some more information has come to light, so it's not certain I won't be prosecuted, but I'm quietly hopeful. I can't afford to keep the solicitor if this goes much further, especially with a divorce on the horizon.

56:32Things are not good with my wife. I'm still committed to making this as easy as possible for her, but I had to draw a line when it came to my daughter. When I got home from being unceremoniously escorted out of my office, she already had a bag packed for me. She wouldn't let me wait at the house until my daughter was back. She wouldn't let me check I had everything I needed. She wouldn't let me take the car, and she didn't care that I had nowhere to go. I spent two nights in a hotel, then went back when she refused to let me see my little girl. She tried to stop me, but we owned the house jointly, and it was my only option.

57:02My wife has family she could stay with, but she won't leave our daughter here, and she's absolutely not taking her. So we're at a stalemate right now. I'm keeping out of her way as best I can, which I appreciate is the least I can do. The Amy situation is quite difficult to talk about, and a lot hasn't sunk in yet. It turns out that she didn't love me as much as I loved her, if at all. Oh, my God. Her brother sent me images of her talking to her friends about me, and it's hard to believe they came from the person I loved, but they are real. Sorry to those who were heavily invested in me being a predatory abuser, but she and her friends had a good laugh about her manipulating me for money and a promotion.

57:37The role came with a big pay raise, and it looks like her plan was to treat it as free cash, then go work with one of her friends when it fell through. She knew I'd come under scrutiny whenever she messed up and assumed I'd keep stepping in to save her. She was right. Obviously, I'm completely humiliated. I was planning to give up everything to build a life with her, and she was treating me like a joke the whole time. My feelings are complicated, so please don't feel entitled to any expansion on this. But I no longer feel guilt over her death. Reddit acted like I kept her hostage while she begged for help.

58:08What actually happened was that I asked if she could ask her friend to take her to the hospital because I had to go home. She said that was fine because she needed to get some clothes back from her anyway, and I dropped her off as normal. Ultimately, she was an adult who had a better understanding of her medical needs than I did. I still don't know what happened between us saying goodbye and her death, but whatever it was, it had nothing to do with me. I'm sorry for her family's loss, but I bear no responsibility for her passing. After Amy's messages to her friends were passed around, a few people quietly reached out with words of support.

58:38I assumed everyone would write me off like Reddit did as an abuser and predator. Now it's clear that Amy was using me. They see me as a fool who had then lost it all. It's beyond humiliating, but I have learned I'd rather be pitied than despised. It improves my legal position with work. They're small mercies, but I'll take what I can get. I remain filled with regret, and I will have learned many lessons by the time I get through this. I may have been deceived, but I am a grown man who made my choices, and I take full responsibility for them.

59:09It felt like we were starting to get somewhere. And then he just fully went back down to hell. Truly, truly. I mean, to have everybody turn on their perspective again. Like, oh, you know, Amy mistreated me, actually. I'm the victim. It's also like, yeah, she was mistreating me while I was trying to manipulate her with money and my position of power. Yeah, 100%. And cheating on my wife and all this stuff. And then I'm kind of also at the end of it, I'm like, I kind of don't care, man. Like, I don't care if she was worse than that. She used an EpiPen. She's probably not in her right mind. She's dealing with anaphylaxis.

59:51And you dropped her off and you were like, oh, well, she's an adult. She can handle it. Yeah. At the time, this was the person you wanted to build a life with and loved more than anything. Right. I don't believe that. You did not act as such. Yeah. And now that you're finding all this information that's justifying all your horrible thoughts. Yeah. and your self-centeredness and your cruelty. He's excusing himself. He was always going to find a reason to justify. Yeah. We knew that. Which is what's confusing because he starts off by saying, I'm taking full accountability. Whenever people say that though.

1:00:24It's also so like, it's, I got to step in and save her whenever she messed up. Like I got to come in and like save her like at work whenever she like messed up. That is so like gross to me. It's so like, I get to save her. I get to fix her mistakes and save her. It's like princess. I'm like, I don't care what she was saying to her friends. I don't care about any of it. We've now gone past, like, we've gone past infidelity and petty squabbles, whatever. She died. She died, yeah. And we're going down to that moment of, and you acted so selfishly. And was it her brother that sent the messages to him again and was just like, I want you to know all of this was happening too, you know?

1:01:08Like he sent the screenshots of what her friends were saying with Amy. Yeah, I think that's how he found out. There was a lot. Yeah. But it's also kind of like, he's like, oh, but look at all this stuff. It's like, dude, you're getting fired from your job. You have to pay them to avoid a court case. This is all adding up and the evidence is showing you are worse than you're letting on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Your wife knows you were cheating. And then probably from her perspective, with not having all the information, is like, I don't know what's going on. Did you murder this woman? Yeah. And I draw the line at my daughter.

1:01:49No, you fucking don't. You don't get to draw any lines now, man. Yeah, no. No, not at all. And he's acting entitled. She is getting full custody. Oh, 100%. Yeah. Yeah. They're like, sorry, you might be responsible. the person you were cheating, having an affair with, is dead. Yeah. And you were with her that night. You're never seeing your daughter again. Right. What happened to the friend? He dropped her off and the friend was supposed to take her to the... That's what she... From my understanding is he was like, oh, I need to get back to my wife so she doesn't find out I'm cheating. You just used an EpiPen.

1:02:23Let me drop you off at home. And she goes, yeah, I guess I could be dropped off at home. I need to change clothes anyways. And then my friend could take her off. doesn't wait for a friend to show up. Doesn't just throw up by herself at home and then leaves. That is crazy. Yeah. And I don't, like I said, I don't know much about the situation itself. But it's just, if someone is in a situation where they have to use an EpiPen, where they have to use life-saving measures, someone needs to be with them. And like, even so, again, it's a terrible, terrible thing that he's doing when he's having this affair.

1:02:54But he could even try to put the words together of like, I was desperate to go home and like not get caught. And now I feel so bad. I should have stayed. I should have helped her. I should have done this. None of that. Yeah. Just plain excuses of, well, like I did everything that I was supposed to and she's a grown up and she knows her body. I did everything I could. No, I fucking hate how he in the first post is like, I would do absolutely everything for her. She's my world. I want to rebuild a life with her. And then suddenly it's, well, she's her own person. She can figure it out. She's a grown up.

1:03:26It's like you're changing your entire tact right now, man. 100%. You're trying to protect your own sanity right now from the fact that you are the worst person alive. Yeah. Again, it reads similar where he doesn't have this sense of self. Again, he's being steered even in the sentiment that he makes where he'd rather be pitied than be despised. Yeah. Like that's all. It just feels like information for him on how he's supposed to feel about himself and his situation. He can't come up with any of that on his own. I think this is a thing I have read about. You can become a worse person when you do a bad thing and then justify it in your own head.

1:04:13You lower the bar inside your own mind. And, like, you can become worse in that way. I think this guy is going to become a, he's clearly becoming a, somehow becoming a worse person. Yeah. Throughout all this. We have our final story here. It comes from Coworker Stories. It was posted September of 2025. I'm a coworker of someone whose Reddit story about work went viral. I'm feeling chatty, so AMA, I guess. Inspired by this post, the post we just read, someone asked if they'd ever seen a Reddit post about themselves. I'm in the comments because I worked at the same company as this guy and in the same department as his affair partner who died under very sad circumstances.

1:04:58You can read all about it from his perspective conveniently. I only joined Reddit quite recently, but I was aware of the post a few weeks after it was made because it was passed around the office and gave us all a ton of information, which made a lot of things suddenly make sense. We were all extremely invested at the time. And weirdly, the story you all saw set off a series of events, which basically led to an entire division of the company quitting. Oh my God, I'm so excited. Oh my God. I've seen it repeated on a few of those TikTok Reddit read-through accounts, and a few people in the comments of the post I saw earlier today seemed interested.

1:05:32So because the company didn't think to get me to sign any additional confidentiality agreements when I left, an equally dramatic but also closely related story, I figured I'd spend a Friday night drinking wine and spilling tea if anyone wants some. This person is a godsend. We want. One thing I do need to mention is that the original OP has a brain injury he didn't disclose in his posts. I can't speculate too much on that, but I'm not saying it makes his actions forgivable, but it would be crazy to pretend it's not a factor. He lives independently, but from what I'm aware, his brother helps him a lot.

1:06:07Okay. Wow. All right, so these are all comments with responses from OP. Did it end up going to court? No, they all used to abuse their expenses, and they knew he could bury everyone if it ever saw the inside of a courtroom. He claimed to be running out of money in his last post, but it was common knowledge he got a huge payout after his accident. A sign wasn't properly mounted on a shop front, and it fell on him when he was walking past. So he could have easily afforded to take it all the way. So I imagine the first question would have been why they gave someone with brain damage a company card with no restrictions and no written policy on what they could and couldn't use it for.

1:06:49So the company at large was corrupt. Any chance he could have spent the payout all on Amy or on drugs? I mean, I guess there's a good chance his wife would have noticed, but he obviously hadn't been thinking clearly for a long time. OP said definitely not drugs. He drank in moderation but was pretty judgmental about anything else. Amy, absolutely. He spent thousands and thousands on her. She would link him to things over and over again until he bought them for her. The HR guys were disgusted when they got the phone back and saw all the messages. I haven't seen the messages myself, but they said enough to confirm it was extremely predatory.

1:07:26Wait, wait, wait. Say that part again, sir. I haven't seen. The HR guys were disgusted when they got the phone back and saw all the messages. So whose phone and what? OP's messages to Amy. OP messages to her. I haven't seen the messages myself, but they said enough to confirm it was extremely predatory. Got it. Maybe I'm misreading this, but it seems like they're saying Amy was sending links like getting him to spend money on her. Yeah, that's what it sounded like. Did any of you know she was having an affair before it all imploded? Did you attend her funeral? What's coworker doing now? We had no idea.

1:08:01They didn't work together directly and didn't have any reason to interact much in the office. The pairing didn't make sense to any of us. You'd never put them together in a million years. She had one friend in the office who attended the funeral and who was dismissed because of the content of their messages to each other. She was in the kind of role that can make or break a project even though she had absolutely no talent, experience, or interest. That mystery was obviously solved pretty quickly after she died. So even though it's objectively super shitty, we were basically relieved because we wouldn't have to deal with it anymore.

1:08:31For context, she was project managing a team of physicists and electrical engineers on a pretty heavy government-backed project, and she was initially hired as an office admin assistant with zero previous experience. We were all surprised by the promotion, but it was the kind of company you could build your way up in, so it just seemed like a misstep. Former coworker hasn't worked since from what I know. He's living independently in what I'm vaguely aware of being a retirement-type community, but his brother deals with his finances and helps him out with general life stuff. He's allowed to drive and stuff, so he's obviously finding the ways that matter, but I'm not sure he'll work again.

1:09:07Someone said, he never mentioned the traumatic brain injury in his post. In your opinion, did he think of his abilities as diminished post-accident? Do you think he could see any of his new shortcomings? Your company wrapped him in cotton wool to protect him, it seems. Was he aware of any of these accommodations? I wonder because the traumatic brain injury makes his actions seem far less callous than if he had all his faculties. His personality definitely changed significantly. He can hold a conversation and his knowledge level remained extremely high, but he became quite immature and couldn't deal with anything if he wasn't expecting it.

1:09:41He could provide really insightful feedback about something we were working on, then two minutes later lose his temper or shut down completely because he'd spilled a drink. He had to step back from dealing with clients because he couldn't be trusted. He'd just say yes to whatever they asked for and it led to a few nasty surprises. He didn't take any new clients after the injury, so they were generally very understanding because they saw the same changes we did. It's tough to explain. If you met him on a good day, you could spend a few hours with him and not realize. But any more than that, and you'd almost certainly go through, oh, that was a bit odd, to, okay, there's definitely something wrong here.

1:10:15To my knowledge, nobody tried to figure out how aware he was of the brain injury. The key phrase drummed into us when he started coming back to the office a bit was, meet him where he is. And he was a really well-respected member of the team, so we were all really sympathetic to the situation. I did hear him make a few comments about his brain being broken, but they were fairly lighthearted and mainly centered around him forgetting small things. This sucks. This sucks a lot. Unfortunately, it does kind of change a lot, too. Yeah, absolutely. Now it shifts from him being predatory to her being predatory, using the brain injury to not only climb up through the company, but manipulate him financially.

1:11:01Yeah. Oh, God. And I don't know if the timeline lines up as well, but I'm feeling like I'm going back to the other story of him having this happy marriage and this daughter. And then I feel like he said, like, but about a year ago, I fell for somebody else. Like, that also just feels like that complete behavior change has to do with that. These choices that he's making and the contradicting lines that we're talking about of him caring so much about his daughter, but then making this, like, crazy choice to cheat on his family. It's like, well, he's got a brain injury. He's not thinking straight.

1:11:36Yeah. It's always a fresh reminder for me, and I try to keep this in mind whenever we're reading a story of, like, we're missing most of the angles of a story. even when it seems so clear cut. Yeah. But whenever we get a third party perspective and it's just like, oh, and there's always so much crucial information and it doesn't necessarily change the situation, right? Like it's like he still abandoned her when she needed someone. But it's like, oh, but you introduce a brain injury into this story. And I'm like, well, now I don't know what's going on. It's also interesting because he wrote the original story and he still seemed like the asshole, but he omitted a big part, which I wouldn't want to talk about that all the time either.

1:12:21And I'm curious if the wife is considering any of that. I don't. I mean, where this is now at is in a place where I'm like, I can't. We don't know enough. I have no, I can't offer any. My views are as good as anyone else's. I want to see the messages. I'm not a neurologist. Yeah. But it is scary, and I've heard that a brain injury can completely change. Totally. It was just so scary. Well, and also just like affect the decision making, right? Because a lot of what we were giving feedback on and critiquing were his choices. Yeah. The affair and I mean, the crux of the whole story was him choosing to let somebody who just had an allergic reaction not go immediately to the hospital.

1:13:04Like it's clear that that was a reason for his misjudgment too. Yeah. Who we know absolutely for certain is an asshole is the entire company. Yeah. Because he got a brain injury. It sounds like they completely swept it under the rug. Yeah. Completely. We're just like, yeah, you're fine. Everything's good. Which then led to all these other events. Yep. And so, the company was corrupt the way they were spending money and everything. Yeah. So all these awful things happened under it. But it sounds like he should not have continued in that job position. And having a credit card with no restrictions or anything.

1:13:38I mean, this was wild. Yeah, the company too. This is wild. She was an ad administrator, and now she's running things. A government-backed project? She's not equipped to be running the things that she's running. And yet, they had to show up every time and be like, okay, I'm going to do this, I guess, even though she's not equipped. Yeah. This is one of the wildest stories we've ever read. It's just that there's so much nuance. There is so much going on in one story. No, I need a miniseries out of this. I'm sad she passed away. Like, that's tragic. Right. And regardless of her actions before, it's still tragic.

1:14:15Yeah, that doesn't mean, like, death. Yeah, none of that adds up to she deserved what happened. None of it, yeah. And here's the crazy thing. We covered a couple questions. OP, the coworker, answers way more. Oh, that's awesome. There's probably way more information. So if you're listening to this, watching this, go to that Reddit story. Yeah. There's probably so much more to it. She like tucked into her couch with that glass of wine and was just like, oh, yes. No, that's a story you talk about forever. Oh, yeah. Whew. Wow. Damn. Anyways, thank you both for joining me for that ride. People had to get stuff off their chest.

1:14:55Oh, my God. So at the end of it all, Peggy's the worst. Yes. Agreed. I think we can agree Peggy. Because her name is Peggy. Because her name's Peggy. And this isn't Mad Men. Stop, stop it. Yes. Or Hamilton. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's always funny. We read a story like that, it's like, all right, now let's go do another video where we have to be silly. Let's go be silly now. Let's go play board games. Yeah. Thank you for watching. And hey, we'll see you next Saturday. Leave a confession in the comments. Yeah, confess. Confess. Confess in the comments. Confess. Confess. Confess. Confess! Confetti!