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19:30I don't really want to... I don't really want to... It's like working. It's like hard work. Like when we went to Japan, be like, how was Japan? I just wanted to go, good. It was good. That's all I want to say.

19:39Courtney Miller:I literally agree with you. It was cool. It was Japan. That is so funny. Yeah. But I do think it kind of like sums up what I think things are for a lot of people now. Is people are not excited about the actual thing anymore. They're excited to tell people or show people the thing. Which is, attention is okay. It's okay to want attention. Like everyone deserves attention. But you're getting engaged. You're getting married. You're going on a honeymoon. Like eye on the prize of what's actually fun here. What's like the number one most exciting thing. And she does not see. She's going to change her honeymoon.

20:12Courtney Miller:so that she can tell her co-workers about it. Like, how lame is that? If I'm her fiance and she comes home and she goes, we have to change our entire honeymoon. It's like, why? It's like, well, because Nancy and finances went to a similar close city. I'd be like, we're not getting married. I'd be like, uh-uh. There's something so similar too in that, like, when I go on trips, I am very much, like, not on my phone a lot. I'm not taking a lot of pictures. I'm not taking a lot of videos. it's like I'm like in the moment doing the things that I'm doing. And then sometimes I'll regret it where I'm like getting back and I'm like, oh, I want to post.

20:49And I'm like, I have two pictures. But that's not what I did the trip for. I didn't do the trip to work. I did the trip or didn't do the trip to share it with people. I did the trip to experience it myself. Courtney can attest.

21:04Courtney Miller:I'm horrendous about taking photos. I'll be like, that's the coolest thing I've ever seen. and I will not. Here's what I'm going to say. I will actually not take photos. The cooler something is, the less likely I'm to take a photo. Because what is your photo going to do? Yeah, I mean, it's like I can Google that thing and see a photo. Landscape shots, yeah, for sure. Who was that celebrity who was on a talk show recently? He was like, I saw someone take an iPhone photo on the top of Mount Everest. He's like, I shouldn't be able to see that. He's like, this person climbed over dead bodies to get over to the top of this mountain to get there.

21:41And I can just see it from my living room.

21:44Courtney Miller:Yeah, gatekeep it. Gatekeep it. What I do like to take photos of, the best thing to take photos of are like mundane little silly things because you can't Google that. You can't Google it. Because there was the sign in Japan that I posted on Instagram. It's a sign that said no pissing. Yeah. And so I took a photo next to that. And I'm like, that's perfect. Yeah. I'm not going to take a photo of like, you know, some famous temple or something in Japan because I'm like, you can Google that. It so is. I do love like a picture of like a coffee table and what's on the coffee table in that moment. Yeah.

22:12Mundane photos are the best, I think. Yeah. But I think what I'm saying about the co-worker and attention is like this OP doing this thing doesn't take away from her attention. I think everybody deserves attention. It's okay to want attention. Just know that there is unlimited attention eventually.

22:29Courtney Miller:Yeah. And not worrying about someone doing something similar to you. Like, I wonder what would have happened if she did do the exact same thing as this honeymoon plan. Like, I'm like, I just feel like the reaction was very big. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. I see. Definitely a lot. I like that word. She needs to add an air of mystery, too. And her coworkers are going to find that more interesting. I'm also the type of, like, I think Marcus recommended a hotel to us. And then we went. And now, like, I'm obsessed with it. And it's, like, now my personality trait. And, like, I'm telling everybody about it.

22:59Like, I'm the one who invented it or something. but it's like, I love when people impact each other. And it's like, oh, I love that thing that you do. I now do it every day.

23:07Courtney Miller:I love when people like go to some place that we've talked about. I get a little nervous because I'm like, I hope they like it. Yeah. Like, I hope it was good because I'll be sad if they go and they're like, that sucked. I'm like, oh yeah, for sure. Okay, you guys can drop places right now. You can drop one place, one thing. Well, we know. I've got one. Orinoco in Mexico City. It's like, I'll describe it as the in and out of tacos in Mexico City. Oh. It's amazing. I just got chills. Whoa. Yeah. Hell yeah. Go try it. Yum. I'm not gatekeeping it. Okay. Go. When you're Mexico, solid. Oh, yum, yum, yum.

23:40Courtney Miller:Yeah, I'm excited. I'm driving there now. What? Getting in my car. I'm leaving this. I'm driving. No, no, Shane. Okay. Verdict, not the asshole. Comments. I forgot about this. Right, right, right. We're reading Reddit stories. Someone said, not the asshole. Your coworker just has severe main character syndrome. Someone responded to that saying this. You didn't even go to the same town. Even if you did, that's like trying to call dibs on Bali or Fiji. Someone said, my wife and I recently traveled to Japan. Did you write this? Upon my return to the office, I spoke about the trip. At least four people said Japan was at the top of their bucket list, their dream destination.

24:17Courtney Miller:None of them got upset I had visited there. No one owns a destination when it comes to travel. Literally, at Smosh, someone is always in Japan. That's true. At any given time, someone is in Japan. We got boots on the ground. I think Selena's in Japan right now. I think Arash is in Japan right now. She's back. Ian might still be there. Ian tagged back. Selena went in. We always have someone in Japan. One pair of boots on the ground. At any given time, someone from Smosh is in Japan. Just wait for Smosh Japan. Smosh Japan. Nobody recognized me in Japan. They were not watching Smosh. Anybody who did recognize you was a tourist from Australia.

24:54And there was a lot of those.

24:55Courtney Miller:Yeah. Yeah, a lot of Australian fans. I love our fans in Australia. Someone said, wait, she is choosing her honeymoon destination based on how she can talk about it later instead of how it would feel with her fiance in the moment. That's messed up. She's planning a wedding, but not a marriage.

25:14Courtney Miller:Dana, to all of them.

25:19Courtney Miller:Not the asshole. A well-adjusted person would be happy to have been an inspiration. Yeah. I mean, yeah, weird. Yeah. Weird. Weird. Our next story. This was posted in 2020. This comes from Tales from the Front Desk. Tales. OP writes, I invented a coworker. I usually work the afternoon shift, 3 to 11, so I get a lot of calls asking about reservations and check-ins. One night, I got a call from a man asking about our availability. I informed him we did have openings that evening and that I could make a reservation for him. I asked for his name and credit card number to reserve. He gave me a reward number.

26:01Courtney Miller:Then he started cutting out since he was driving. I tried to explain that I needed more information and especially a credit card to reserve the room, but he kept cutting out until the line went dead. Well, the hotel wasn't particularly busy, so I decided to put a room on hold for him. I thought that since he was driving, he would arrive in about 30 minutes. He doesn't show up, so I release the room and go back to work. When I have about 20 minutes left in my shift, guess who shows up? He says that a woman over the phone reserved his room. Now, I have to point out that I'm a man. I have a higher-pitched voice, and it is exacerbated over the phone.

26:34Courtney Miller:Now, the guest is upset about not having a reservation, and I've got 20 minutes left, and I'm not in a mood to deal with him. I tell him, Susan must have been talking to him, but her shift ended hours ago. We still had room, so I made a reservation for him and checked him in. He still seemed angry, so I typed up a note about him and emailed it to my coworkers so they would be aware. Next day, I go to my manager's office first to get pass-alongs and information about the day. She walks out first, and I follow her to the front desk and guess who's there. Since my manager was in front, she addressed him first before I could get there.

27:08Courtney Miller:He says that I'm not mad, always a red flag whenever that gets said, but I want to know what woman was working here last night. My manager is a little confused, but says that she will check the schedule. She clearly hadn't seen my note yet. So I jump in and say, as I said last night, Susan was working yesterday, but today is her day off. No one named Susan has ever worked at the hotel and my manager slowly turned away from the guest to look at me in a, what are you talking about face that the guest thankfully cannot see. My coworkers behind me who did read my notes had to contain their laughter.

27:42Courtney Miller:The guest accepted this and left. I then had to gather everyone and have them stick to the story. To this day, that guest thinks Susan was responsible. You got a room anyway. Yeah, what? What are you even at the front for? What the hell? You already spent the night. Like, what do you want? I need to talk to Susan. I don't get people who, like, just can't let shit like that go. Like, I'll be mad about something, but I'm like, yeah, well, there's nothing that's going to be done now. And it's also like, you got a room. You got a room. It was fine. You just came out of the room that we gave you a room and you just came down to say, I'm not mad, but.

28:15I'm not mad. What? I love the barrier of information. Do you know what I mean? Like, I love that they could make up a coworker to avoid conflict.

28:24Courtney Miller:Yeah. And everything was okay. And nobody was harmed in the making of this information coworker. No. I think every place should make up a coworker. The fall guy. Like, you know, because we don't have fake coworkers. We have Sadie who, like, people just kind of don't remember a lot of times. Yeah. And it's hard to forget Sadie. It's hard to forget Sadie. She's a dream. Sadie's the best. Republican, but... Hey, hey, hey, hey. Listen. She's actually really nice. She's really nice. And I'm surprised. She's surprisingly nice to me. She's Republican. She's Scientologist. Guys, please delete everything you just said.

29:06Courtney Miller:She's both a rare combo. Somehow a combo. I don't understand what this guy would have said if he did learn of Susan. What do you want? What did he want? What do you want with Susan? Leave Susan alone. What does he want? He just wants to hurt someone. Wanted to be superior. Comments. I read something similar a while back, I think at a pharmacy. Basically, when any customer was mad about something, especially unjustified, but didn't have a name, the employee would ask if it was Anastasia. The customer usually agreed and was then informed that Anastasia had been let go for cause, pulled their fangs.

29:43Courtney Miller:Someone said, I invented a whole planning department for clients that wouldn't agree with the news that their project couldn't be finished earlier. I really did my best with my colleagues at the planning department, but unfortunately, it cannot be done. A lot of people are lying out there. But hey, for shitty customers, do it. Especially, I worked at a pharmacy and there's so many bits of information and complicated things about pharmaceuticals and getting your medicine that like, they just get mad at you, whoever's in front of them. Yeah. And it's just such a nightmare. It's interesting to see like when controlling people meet like a wall that they can't control and they just cannot handle it.

30:24Courtney Miller:Yeah. At the airport, every time you're at the airport, you're going to see someone doing it. Losing it, yeah. I think I talked about this, but I saw on, I think it was Facebook at the time, but I saw on Facebook how someone was the manager on the shift and so did the turnaround, I'm the manager on the shift when they want to talk to the, and I worked at a restaurant in college and I tried it and it did not go well. Really? I am the manager. I was like, can we talk to the manager? And I was like, yeah, one second. And then you turn back around and you're like, hey, how can I help you? It did not go well.

30:56They looked up the owners. They called them. and they were like, that was not funny. It was like... Bad joke.

31:01Courtney Miller:I think my view on these things is like, no matter how even, unless I'm being robbed of money from this business or something, I'm like, you're just wasting your time. Like people will spend hours, days. Like, I'm like, do you not want your life back? Do you not want to go do something fun instead? It is so trivial. And it's like, move on. put your energy elsewhere. Yeah. You're going to lose, like how many years of your life are you going to lose throughout your entire life from just following all this petty bullshit? One more comment. About a week after Chris was fired, I was wearing his shirt with his name patch and got a little jerky with a customer.

31:45Courtney Miller:Customer came back the next day to complain and I hid in the office laughing while the manager told them that Chris had been fired. Someone replied, but why were you wearing Chris's clothes? The original commenter replied to that, I ran out of shirts and there was a whole pile of his, they were rented from a uniform company. Yeah. Yeah, right. It's a smart move. Wear one of your co-workers' name tags and then commit crimes. That's why sometimes on podcast episodes if I feel like I'm not being very funny, I'm just like, by the way, I'm Amanda.

32:18Courtney Miller:For our audio listeners, I'm Amanda. And then they think Amanda's the one who's not funny. Got him. Our next story comes from Am I the asshole? Am I the asshole for refusing to help my co-worker paint his new house in work clothes? Huh? Okay. So I, a 27-year-old man, have a friend from work, a 31-year-old man. We've known each other only about two years, but have gotten fairly close. When I moved to a condo a few months ago, he helped me paint, and I've been meaning to help repay him the favor on a house that he just bought. Things keep popping up, and we're in a busy season at work. We're both teachers, and it's middle-of-the-year testing period.

32:56Courtney Miller:so I have admittedly been pushing it off. Anyway, last Friday, he asked me if I wanted to stop by after work and see the house. He doesn't live there yet, so it would be mostly empty, but I could finally get a look at it and then we could grab dinner and drinks in the area. I say that's great. He drives and I'm immediately taken aback that the house is further than I thought. He had said about an hour away, but it ended up being close to a two-hour drive with traffic. I'm trying to enjoy seeing the house, but I'm immediately stressed because I'm realizing that this is going to be a massive out-of-the-way inconvenience to do after work.

33:28Courtney Miller:He can't do weekends as that's when he has custody of his kid. I see that the paint is already brought and I say, since I'm already out here, why don't we do it now? He had already prepped the place to be painted and he seemed into the idea. That way, I wouldn't have to do a whole other trip. The issue was I was wearing fairly nice work clothes that I didn't want to mess up, so I asked if it was cool if I just wore my undershirt and boxers. He looked at me like I was crazy. He said, if I didn't want to do it, just don't do it. But please don't make dumb excuses. I felt taken aback because I didn't think it was unreasonable to not want my clothes to get dirty.

34:06Courtney Miller:I ended up not painting because he wasn't into the idea and I just went home. Edit, since everyone's asking, he had no stuff at his house. He was also planning on traveling back that night. He hadn't moved yet. It's like, hey man, can I just get naked? Let me just get a little naked, man. It's also just like, that's kind of when it's, or did it say if they were gay or anything? No. I'm assuming no. But it's just like, I don't think that. At that point, I don't even think it doesn't matter. I would think I would just be like, okay, I'm going to do it in my boxer so I don't get it on my pants. Like, it's not a thing.

34:42Courtney Miller:But I think the way he's writing it, the guy took it as like, oh, you don't want to do this. Okay, fine. You can just go. Yeah. Like, oh, you're trying to come up with this. That's so weird. Doesn't sound like their, like, communication was very, like, direct or just overall good if he couldn't go, no, no, I want to do this. I just, I really want to keep my clothes nice. And, like, being in an undershirt and boxers, I'm sorry, that doesn't sound like. That's not that crazy. That's a full-on outfit. Yeah, that's a full-on outfit. Yeah. Like, I see girls wearing that to Coachella. Right. You know, I mean, I guess the guy is allowed to, like, because it was OP's pitch to paint it then so that he can avoid another two-hour trip sometime.

35:19OP also said, like, I was trying to enjoy seeing the house, but was stressed. So, okay, clearly OP was maybe putting out bad vibes, like, just stressed in general about the whole situation. And it sounds like the friend, the coworker, was down to paint it.

35:34Courtney Miller:Yeah, he was down to paint it. But then when he's like, oh, can I take off my clothes? Can I just be in a t-shirt and boxers to paint this? Then he got weirded out. I will also say a lot of people have trouble asking for help and asking for favors especially. And they feel really guilty and like they're a burden for asking for a favor. And so then they're like, oh, you're probably looking for any excuse to get out of me being a burden. Here I am. That's kind of my assumption here. But I don't know. Verdict. There's no official one. But comments leaning towards not the asshole with a few everyone sucks here.

36:16Courtney Miller:Comments, no one's an asshole. I think your title is misleading, though. You proposed to paint right then, but in your underwear because neither of you had a change of clothes and you didn't want to ruin yours. That was a reasonable proposal, and it was also reasonable for him to decline and prefer to do it later when you were both better prepared. Someone said not the asshole. You were basically kidnapped. If he had everything set up already, he knew what he was going to do when he asked you over. The least he could do was offer you a change of clothes if he didn't give you a chance to pack something appropriate.

36:48Courtney Miller:5 ,000 upvotes. I don't think he was. I think that maybe they're assuming because they think that they rode together and this OP didn't have a car to get back. Did he? He was like stuck there without anything to do. Oh, I guess if they rode together. If I was in this situation. But we don't know that they rode together, right? We don't. We don't. I think that like to assume this person is being held hostage and being kidnapped to check out a house is a bit extreme. but I think if I was in this situation I'd go hey let's go run to like CVS and get those like cheap t-shirts and pants and so then we can there's so many fixes to this problem there's like$5 shirts and like$6 pants at CVS or something like wear a muumuu get some muumus get a muumuu a labubu and a muumuu a labubu and a gugu dolls muumuu a new labubu and a gugu dolls muumuu Anu LaBooBoo in a Goo Goo Dolls Moo Moo.

37:47Courtney Miller:God, that's hard. Anu LaBooBoo in a Goo Goo's Doll Moo Moo. Nope. You didn't do it right. Anu LaBooBoo in a Goo Goo's... No! Anu LaBooBoo in a Goo Goo Dolls Moo Moo. That's hard. Okay, with new tongue twister unlock, you want to try? Yeah. Anu LaBooBoo in a Goo Goo Dolls Moo Moo. All right.

38:38Courtney Miller:between the places was two hours. He had no food or even water for us. There were two dogs who were not trained and pee pads everywhere. Everything in both places was dirty and gross. Whoa. Damn. Did you sign up for hell? Yeah. I'm out. I'm out. No. He signed up for a tough mutter. They continue on. Hardly anything was packed and the furniture was not taken apart. My husband, who didn't even know him, did the best he could to fit what he could in the vehicles. We agreed to do one trip to the new place and then my husband and I went out to eat and went home never again. Damn, they had more of a story than OP did.

39:13Like we almost painted, but not really is that.

39:16Courtney Miller:Yeah. One time I almost helped my buddy paint, but then we didn't.

39:23My ex, his friend needed to move. Like, and it was like one unit over in the same building, but like was completely not packed.

39:34Courtney Miller:Oof. And like we, and it was also my ex's birthday that day. And we were like, well, we want, he really wanted this friend to come to his birthday thing that we arranged. But he needed to help his friend move in order to have him. It was just so weird. And I was just kind of there. And that was the first time I heard Post Malone. Oh, okay. Moving is the worst. Moving is rough. I did a, I just moved and I did a pretty good job of it. I'm not going to lie. Yeah. I was quick. I was quick. I was fast and I was organized. Way to go. Because I was also like ready to leave that apartment. That feeling.

40:09That feeling. And so I was like, I know exactly where. And as soon as I got to the new space, I was like, I know where everything's going already. Cool. Nice. That's awesome. You were cooking. You were nesting. My mom, after the divorce, my mom moved like every year for years. And then when I started living on my own, I kind of did that. Because jobs change and like things get better or worse, whatever. I got very good at packing up and moving and getting unpacked very fast.

40:36Courtney Miller:I was that way for a long time. Oh, yeah. Military brat, turn after. Well, I only remember one move as a kid, but for many years, I moved to a different apartment for like five straight years. It's kind of fun. I hated it. I had like super light, cheap furniture. I was like, whenever I would buy furniture, I was like, what's the lightest thing I can buy? So I can move it super easily. And you have all those muscles for what? Yeah, what are those muscles for? They don't do anything. Glamour. Glamour muscles. Glamour muscles. Not couch muscles. He can't move a couch, but he can move your feelings.

41:15Okay. It's working.

41:19Courtney Miller:It's working. All right. Let's move on to our next story. This was posted in What is this? May of 2020 It was a rough time I was in Nashville at that time This comes from Am I the Asshole Am I the Asshole for demanding my fiance Tell his co-workers that he will not Be renewing his vows with his Work wife when they return To the office What the fuck? What is happening? What is happening? My fiance, Mark, works closely with a woman, Megan. They both have similar responsibilities and need to work together as a team. I've never had any problems with this. They don't really interact outside of work.

42:00Courtney Miller:We have been working from home the last several weeks. I happened to be in the living room with him yesterday while his office had their weekly Zoom meeting. During that meeting, people began talking about what they wanted to do when everyone returned to the office. I could hear someone say that my fiance and Megan must really miss each other. Several other people began referring to them as a work wife and work husband. Then someone suggested that my fiance and Megan should renew their vows when everyone is back in the office. Mark just played along and joked that they would be registered at Office Depot.

42:31Courtney Miller:I left the living room in tears while he continued, oblivious to how I was feeling. I confronted him after the call and said I felt humiliated. Our wedding was supposed to be in September, but we've had to postpone it, and it's not clear when it will be safe to reschedule. And here he is talking about renewing his vows with someone from work. Mark explained that it was just a joke and not a big deal. He tried to show me some joke article his office had been passing around about how teleworking is ruining work-wife relationships. I said the term work-wife itself is offensive and humiliating because I'm supposed to be his wife.

43:05Courtney Miller:I demanded that at his next meeting, he needed to publicly apologize to his office and tell them that he will not be renewing his vows with Megan because he is engaged to marry someone else. I said he also needs to tell his office that they need to stop calling him and Megan work spouses. He says he can't do that because it will be embarrassing and hurt his reputation at work with his colleagues. I said, oh, is it hard to feel embarrassed? I would never know what that's like. He called me an asshole. Now that I've cooled down a little, I need to figure out if I overreacted. Okay. well it's a bit much it's a bit much this is one where our job being so silly goofy it's hard for me to relate and like understand like cause the concept of like that gets thrown around by our fans and stuff so much of like obviously talking about us that I'm like whatever we don't think anything of it but if you're working like a very different type of job like an office like corporate job and someone's referring to someone as a work wife.

44:09Courtney Miller:It's like, I understand why people probably feel really weird about it. Yeah. Especially this woman is so insecure because they've had to postpone their wedding. Yeah. So she's in her feelings about a lot of stuff. So that gets brought up. Now, it wasn't her fiancé himself saying like, oh, we got to renew our vows and stuff. It was someone else saying it that she overheard. Yeah. But it's weird. I also think he's not reacting like she's really messed up from this. And he's being like, oh, it's not a big deal. I think the work wife thing, I feel like when we joke about it, it's very like ironic, you know, because I feel like work wife ties into the same terminologies of like when when a workplace goes like we're like a family here.

44:55It's a little bit too like nesty, a little bit too unhealthy of a workplace. so like but it sounds like if an article was going around and a group of people who are going through a pandemic together are working together and are making jokes about the work wife because you know sometimes a bit just keeps running to the point where it would not make sense to a newer person

45:17Courtney Miller:right like I'm sad that this fiance the OP feels just the right amount of insecure about their relationship that this is affecting her so much. Yeah. You know, I think the demand of you need to publicly apologize to your entire office and say this. I'm like, that's a lot. Yeah. That's a that's a lot when what she needs is just assurance from him. Yeah. That they are secure in their relationship and that this is nothing like I also. Yeah, I totally get that. And I think that there is something so playful about work wife and then there's a point where it goes too far. Yeah. And there's like vows doing the vows and like what is happening here?

46:03Yeah, that's weird. Renewing them? Right. Was there vows at one point? Yeah, was there a wedding? I don't know about this. I think he could have offered to like be like, oh, I can just like start shutting down the work wife thing. Like it is a little inappropriate.

46:17Courtney Miller:Right. You know? Right. And also he could have just really like taken that moment to because clearly she was not feeling very validated in their relationship and just isn't. She's talking about how insecure she was about that they're postponing their wedding and stuff. He could have just taken that moment to really be like, hey, you are my fiance. I'm so excited to be married to you. You are my person. But he's just kind of playing it off casually. In playing off the work wife thing, he's also kind of playing off her emotions. So she's probably feeling dismissed. I think it's not one of those situations where I'm like, oh, you guys, one of you is an asshole.

46:53Courtney Miller:It's more where I'm like, you guys are not on the same page. Clearly there's insecurity and like something going on here that you need to talk through. The verdict was everyone sucks, which is maybe, I guess, like the closest to what I would agree with. Because it's not that I think like no one's the asshole. There's nothing going on here. I'm like, there's a problem. But they are in the middle of lockdown. It's May. So it's been those couple months. So they're at the peak of like the worst. Really spiraling. Nobody's in a good place. a make or bake relationship. I think like given that, but I also think clearly there's just a lot going on in this relationship.

47:32Yeah, like she deserves more validation if she's, you know, if she's feeling this way or something like this.

47:39Courtney Miller:Comments. Someone said, everyone sucks here. I think the whole work wife thing is disrespectful and silly, but you did overreact to what was obviously a joke. He's not literally going to be renewing his vows with anyone or registering at Office Depot and forcing him to tell everyone that they need to stop calling him and Megan work spouses is going to make a mountain out of a molehill and give everyone the impression that you're a difficult person. Just ask him to stop joking about it. OP said, no, they were actually planning out how to do it. Like where in the office to hold the ceremony and reception, et cetera.

48:11Courtney Miller:My fiance was fully on board planning. Meanwhile, I have to nag him constantly to help me reschedule our actual wedding plans. Someone said, in that case, not an asshole for asking that. He don't go through with it, but it would be embarrassing for him to publicly apologize and say he wouldn't go through with it in front of everyone. Maybe ask him to talk to Megan separately and tell her it's only a joke and won't be doing a ceremony. Yeah, hearing that, I'm like, it's embarrassing to publicly apologize. Is this not also embarrassing to have like a public renewing the vows thing at work with your work?

48:45I'm like, I just sitting there like,

48:46Courtney Miller:what the hell is this? No, like you're adults, like you're grown adults. We don't. Yeah. That is confusing. I mean, that's sad that he's, like, it sounds like they were just doing bits. And if, I want to assume that it was like, oh, they were riffing about, like, oh, we'll do it in the break room next to the water cooler that we always, like. Yeah. But, so she interpreted that, like, and that's me, that's putting the benefit of the doubt on him. They were yes-anding each other and she took it as, no, they were actually planning this out. But, you know, even if it was like, they're going to do this as a bit, as a, like, that hurts if she's feeling like pulling teeth when she's trying to plan a real wedding.

49:20he has just like a lot going on.

49:22Courtney Miller:Someone said, you're the asshole. It sounds like they were just joking. Demanding that he tells everyone that he's engaged sounds pretty controlling. If they bring it up again, then he can say that he's engaged so he can't be married again. But what you're asking is a little much. Someone else said, it sounds like you have more issues than this. You say you have to nag him about planning the wedding and you clearly have some insecurity around his faithfulness if the joke upsets you so much. Getting married will not solve these issues. Perhaps it might be wise to try couples counseling before your wedding.

49:52Courtney Miller:I'm sorry. I'm still blaming this on COVID. Like you were, I was unwell. Yeah. Oh, it's prime time. It is prime unwell time. Yeah. Like I'm questioning everything. No clue. The world is in shit. It is chaos. Truly it was an apocalypse. So I'm like, I can't even take this like story. I'm like, you're so focused on this. Yeah. Like the world is ending at this point. We've kind of forgotten like the places. Yeah. I think if you were like scale it, like if you were to like really tear down all the like the chaos of it all, like I think it would have been so reasonable for her to just express that it made her uncomfortable.

50:31Yeah. And, and like, and see what he would have done with that.

50:35Courtney Miller:And she seems really upset. Like she was probably so excited for their wedding and it's May. It was, the wedding was only going to be four months away at that stage. And now it's not happening and they don't know when it's going to happen. She's probably thinking like, at that point in COVID, you're probably like, oh my God, are we ever going to get married? So she's losing her mind over that. And he's just playing this off. I remember there were so many weddings planned for like 2020 that got pushed like a year, a year and a half later. But they didn't know when it was. I remember they, a lot of the weddings that were planned were like, okay, we're doing the same venue next year this time.

51:12Same date. Yeah. But they still didn't know. There was no knowing

51:17Courtney Miller:Lastly someone said everyone sucks here You did overreact a bit but knowing how uncomfortable It makes you he should be willing to quit Playing along with the work wife thing A dumb concept anyway but I digress But I digress I digress Yeah

51:37Tough

51:38Courtney Miller:And that's all I've got to say about that I can understand I really understand her though If she's hearing like why are you guys taking this bit so far. Is this a relationship that is deeper than I understand? Like, yeah, it leaves room for doubt, you know, but yeah, I agree, though, with chance of like that era. Yeah. All these things are exacerbated. Dude, our Zoom meetings, our monthly Zoom meetings during the pandemic. What were they like? Oh, my God. Crazy. It was just everyone trying to get their quick little 15 minutes of being funny. It was just weird. We're all just like trying to be like doing stand up in a big meeting like just it was such a weird time because we were filming a lot we were filming the same amount of videos from home just from home but just from home it was weird so that monthly meeting tiger king yeah we did a sketch about tiger king like the week oh my god play it i want to see it i'm gonna look it up later it's really bad it's like really bad it was really tough because we had to change our entire design of how we made things we were just had on a hat so it was tiger king but we couldn't do like we didn't do real tiger king it was tigger king so he was obsessed with Tigger.

52:41Not Tigger King. I know. Chance, I know. I'm scared. It was Tigger King. And there was lots of Winnie the Pooh merchandise around our apartments for a while. What? Yeah. Shane, that's tough. And in a monthly Zoom meeting. Who was the Tigger King? Ian? Yeah, I think he did his beard to look crazy.

53:04Courtney Miller:The things we did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was like my day was film a sketch, have maybe one meeting, and then Animal Crossing. I did some Animal Crossing. I did a lot of Overwatch. Nice. That's when I learned. People were probably so good in the pandemic. People were so good. I was ranked. I was ranked. You were ranked. Yes, ma 'am. What? Who's your main? At that time, I think it was Orisa, but it was when Orisa still had the shield in front. Wow. Okay. I love it. Wow. And then right when Moira came out, I was like, yeah, that's my girl right here. Our next story comes from Am I the Asshole. Am I the Asshole for not paying for my co-worker's lunch?

53:48Courtney Miller:Okay. This is genuinely the dumbest Am I the Asshole I've ever made slash read, but here we are. I'm a first responder and was riding along with another shift for training purposes. The first day we drove through a Chick-fil-A, I ordered a small mac and cheese. In our area, that's about$4. He ordered a whole meal. When we got to the window, they gave us 50 % off making mine$2. The guy I was writing with said, don't worry, I'll cover you. Cool. Thank you for covering my$2. I appreciate it. LOL. Second day, we went to a local bistro that's decently pricey. I ordered a salad that was about$10. His meal totaled out to just over$20.

54:25Courtney Miller:When we went to the register to pay, he told them, she's going to cover mine while pointing at me. To say I was appalled is an understatement. The cashier looked at me and I calmly stated, no, I'll just be covering myself. The guy I was writing with got mad and started saying he covered me for lunch yesterday, so it's only right that I cover him. I'm not confrontational, but I'm also no punk, lol. I calmly stated$2 does not constitute$22 or whatever the total was. If you'd like me to give you$2 to cover my small side I ordered yesterday, I will absolutely do that. But I will not be paying for your meal and handed my card to the cashier.

54:59Courtney Miller:He paid for his meal and we went outside where he refused to let me get into the vehicle. He continued to argue and cause a scene in the parking lot. He told me I'm no longer allowed to ride with him. So I called for a supervisor. Once the supervisor arrived, he told them that he covered my lunch yesterday and that I refused to extend the same courtesy and that I embarrassed him and caused a scene and he no longer feels comfortable riding with me. Oh my God. I explained my side to the supervisor and apologize because this is literally so ridiculous. this, LOL. The supervisor essentially said I was wrong because I should have just been respectful and paid for him like he did.

55:35Courtney Miller:What? At this point, I was pissed and told them this sounds like extortion and that I wasn't going to be taken advantage of. I told them that$2 is a whole lot different than$22. We are first responders. We don't make a lot of money. I continue to say if you wanted me to buy him a drink from the gas station or give him$2, I had absolutely no problem doing so. But I was not going to be bullied into covering his meal because he covered mine. I ended up writing with someone else because obviously writing with him is no longer an option. The person I switched to also said I was wrong and should have just paid for his meal.

56:06Courtney Miller:I don't think I'm wrong here. Had I known the previous day that I would be expected to pay for his expensive meal after paying for my$2 mac and cheese, I would have never let him cover me. I feel like since he put me on the spot, me putting him on the spot in return was only fair. I don't feel like I caused a scene. I wasn't the one who argued and refused to unlock the doors. But now everyone's saying that I'm not a team player and I embarrassed him as well as our place of work. Am I wrong here? Am I the asshole? What in the world? She is in a tough spot. Okay. I have feelings. Okay. Do tell.

56:45There are 3 ,400 billionaires on the planet. There are 8 billion people

56:59Billionaires should not exist Right This problem should not exist Right We should be paying first responders more Right This should be a non-issue There are so few people with so much money That could fix so many things on this planet and we're not angry enough about it. Instead, we're yelling at each other over$2 and Chick-fil-A mac and cheese. I hear you, dude. I mean, yeah. Like, this sucks to hear. They're first responders, and that amount is bothersome. That should not be an issue. It should not be a conversation. Right. I agree. It shouldn't. It shouldn't. I think what I'm thinking about is she's newer, right?

57:51She's in training. She's a ride along or the opposite.

57:56Courtney Miller:She's the trainer. He's the training. She's training them. And so he covered her on$2 and sounds like the restaurant, because my dad was a firefighter and sometimes a restaurant would like comp them the meal or give a big discount because it's like, thank you for everything you do. But like, it's just, it seems so like there's a dynamic issue. The dynamic feels a little weird. and it also feels like this guy and all the other co-workers are very much of the vibe of just like oh just yeah you should have just done it like I agree with her I think it's like an unfair dynamic because it's like when I'm like because yes to the whole situation being screwed but when it comes to when it comes to though like splitting the bill and like you pay for someone's coffee one day and then like expecting them to pay for your coffee the next.

58:46Courtney Miller:I do take into consideration like the amount of money that was spent. Right. Yeah. And also like you can assume someone's covering a meal, but I'm never going to just assume someone's covering me. If I'm going to assume I'm like, I'm just going to assume I'm going to cover them. Yeah. I'm very much so. But you need to have the conversation, especially. But there is like also levels to it. It's like if I buy someone Burger King, I don't expect them to buy me a steak dinner. Like there's. That's very true. That's that's what I feel like is kind of on a some level is happening here. That's a little ridiculous.

59:16Courtney Miller:She also ordered a side, not a full meal. And he's expect this just feels a little bit like a kind of just taking advantage of it just feels like a little bit of like a weird toxic workplace. And the fact that he had to say like, and she embarrassed me. It's like, that shouldn't be a work related issue. This feels like it needs to be taken. It's a personal issue. Let's look at this too. He tells the cashier that she's going to cover it instead of asking, oh, did you want to cover this. You're inputting this third party so that you have leverage over her. She's not going to tell her no. She actually had, she's not a punk.

59:48So she told her no, he's going to cover his own because he's a grown ass man. And to just like, okay, now the job needs to continue and not letting her continue her job because it's something that is so not work related. Like, I just, that's so that's so petty.

1:00:06Courtney Miller:It's really petty. The verdict is not the asshole. Comments, not the asshole. I bet that most everyone who is saying you are wrong are men. I bet you have violated some unspoken bro code that you as the trainee need to pay for the person with more experience. What the dude did was a form of theft. The$2 snack meaning you need to pay for a$20 lunch that was double the price of your lunch. Then he locked you out of this vehicle. This is a toxic work environment. 5 ,000 upvotes. OP said, funny enough, I technically wasn't the trainee, but instead the trainer. It was definitely not a fun situation, and I've requested not to work on this shift again.

1:00:39Courtney Miller:I told my supervisors if they want me to train that shift, I will not be working under that supervision again. Someone said to that, not the asshole. I cover lots of people's meals, but it's because I decided to, not because they demanded it. You're better off avoiding these assholes. If you have HR or a union rep, I would lodge a formal complaint to get it on the record. Sonal said, not the asshole. My husband works EMS, and I wish I could say I was surprised. These guys are bullying you. I don't know why, but that's what they're doing. Someone said, not the asshole. if it had been a few dollars of difference, that would be one thing, but$20 is a lot.

1:01:12Courtney Miller:It would be different if you had been partners for a while, but it sounds like you barely know this guy. He was trying to take advantage of you because he didn't think you'd push back. Him refusing to let you in the vehicle was super unprofessional. Unfortunately, it sounds like everyone knows and likes this person, so they're siding with him. And anyone who disagrees is probably staying out of it. If you have to work with these people for a while, you might be better off apologizing even though you did nothing wrong. It would be easier than being the outsider who no one wants to work with sorry oh yeah guys that's tough oh my sister's an emt and i'm like i'm trying to she's never talked about anything like this um but you know different region to region like the specific shift and and just like because my dad's a firefighter state a shift is 24 hours like or or like two days on three days off, like that's a dynamic.

1:02:06You would not just hanging out with each other nine to five or you're basically living with this part time shift. It's a different environment. And yeah, like part of me was thinking about like, oh, well, if this is going to be a long standing work relationship, they're just like, yeah, that's because over time we are going to hopefully that it's going to be equal over time. But this person doesn't know that it's just that's just It's just tough.

1:02:29Courtney Miller:It's really tough. Oof. Our final story comes from Petty Revenge and it's probably one of my favorite titles of a Reddit story I've ever seen. What? Farted on my stupid co-worker. Angela. Oh my God. Farted on my stupid co-worker? That's awesome. That's awesome, awesome. What? I didn't mean to kick you down. You kicked me. Are you okay? I'm going to fart on you. No! Guys, stop farting and fighting. this happened a while ago but I figured I'd share I used to work as a hostess at a massive three floor restaurant slash bar one bartender Mac had the tendency to do what I like to call Mac-splaining he would always go on about how the highest paying tables should always be seated in his section before my shift he'd always give me the same lame speech about how his section of the restaurant was the most prime seating with the best service so of course I should only be seating people who look like they're going to spend a lot of money there whatever that means typically I'd just be like sure whatever Mac and then seat people without profiling them because obviously this place was also always jam packed with a massive line so it's not like there was much room for me to shuffle people around based on how much they looked like they might ball out also how the hell am I supposed to gauge who is going to ball out anyways Mac took this personally apparently one time I sat a group of older women celebrating a birthday in his section and they ended up ordering some food with no drinks and then left Mac went on this massive tirade about how I was incompetent at my job and how I should clearly have known those women weren't going to spend much money and should clearly have sat them in another section another server's section that wasn't Mac's sorry one shift I felt a particularly heinous fart brewing and got a sinister idea for context I forgot about the fart but here comes the fart for context I'm not a regular farter I'm not a regular farter I'm an irregular farter I'm getting into farting recently For context I'm not a regular That's good Shane Guy who's learned about farting For context Angela's impression of you was like I'm getting into I'm really getting into farting Clip that Clip that For context I'm not a regular farter A lifetime of terribly disordered eating habits Has rendered my gut to be a few strokes shy Of a chemical weapon and I've instigated several heated arguments on fart politics amongst my friends, all with the power of a single fart.

1:05:00Courtney Miller:So there Mac is, behind the bar, washing glasses fast as hell during a rush, and I thought, wow, how helpful would it be if I go put them away behind the bar for him while he makes orders for customers. So of course I go out of my way to go behind the bar to help Mac, and right as he's behind me shaking cocktails, I let it rip. Some of my finest work, I must add. I peeked over to Mac to see if he'd been caught in the radius, and sure enough, there he is with his face twisted in sheer disgust. To make matters worse, there were two pretty girls seated across from him at the bar, seemingly clear of the nuke zone.

1:05:31Courtney Miller:As I was fleeing the scene, I caught Mac trying unsuccessfully to keep his cool in the midst of the stench while attempting to chat up these girls, lol. The satisfaction of that moment led me to get a little carried away and I started systematically targeting Mac whenever I needed to fart on shift. One time, I even made myself a protein-packed green smoothie to up my impact after a shift. where he'd been particularly menacing. When I saw Mac frantically talking to a manager, pointing at the open drain under the bar and checking the fridges for milk spills, I knew I'd gone too far. Anyway, Mac, wish you the best.

1:06:04Courtney Miller:You thought you were a smart fella, but you're really a fart smeller. LOL. Oh my God. God. So he never knew it was her? Didn't figure it out. The comments were all just a bunch of fart jokes. Someone said Mac dusting. someone said Big Mac attack. Oh, come on. I hate it. Yeah, it started to get a little crammed. I'm like, as soon as you start changing your diet to make it worse. Okay, we're done. We're done here. We're done here. You got them. When it was one fart, I was like, that's awesome. One fart was awesome. Continual harassment of fart rockets. It's also like, that feels like chemical warfare.

1:06:40Like, I feel like - At a certain point. I feel like -

1:06:42Courtney Miller:It's too targeted. I remember, okay, now that we've been talking about the pandemic in this episode, like when people who were anti-mask would fake cough or sneeze at people. And that was like called, I think it was called like a form of tort, like a - Bioterrorism. Terrorism. Yeah, bioterrorism. I'm like, how is a fart different from that? Like if you're targeting people - Giving people pink eyes. I can say I've never wanted to fart on anyone. I've never wanted to fart on anyone. I feel like I have this weird - You guys, I've never wanted to fart on anyone. I do feel like I have this bad luck thing though, where when I'm out in public and I'm like, okay, I'm by myself.

1:07:17Courtney Miller:and I like kind of like silently fart at that moment some person is going to suddenly approach my area and I go back up, back up, back up, back up no, no, no, no, no, no get away from them like I'll be at a grocery store I'm like I'm alone in this aisle and then as soon as I fart it's like everybody comes there they're like oh we're going to go to aisle 6 now I have and then I feel like on multiple occasions they're telling their friends they're like come here and then multiple occasions I'll be in an elevator and like the second I'm like, okay, like I'm going to do this and then it stops, opens up and like people get in and I'm just like, the guy who was in here before farted really bad.

1:07:57The guy before me. There was a guy in this elevator. My house is a fart-free house. It's a fart-free household. Take off your socks. Please don't fart.

1:08:05Courtney Miller:Take off your socks. No shirt, no shoes, no sharting. No sharting. No shoes, no shirt, no sharting. No shirt, no shoes, no sharting. No shoes, no shirt, no sharting. but all the Chardonnay. Oh!

1:08:22Can we go back to how shitty Mac is? Mac sucks. Because he's wanting to discriminate and send the rich people to his section. Don't you love the feeling when it's like, I remember being really not, like not having a lot of money in my pocket, you know, like really, really struggling. And then you get seated at a restaurant and you're like, wow, we got a really nice table. Isn't this so nice?

1:08:44Courtney Miller:He's saying his area is the best service because it's him. Yeah. Well, and he has the prime seating. So it's like best looking. Like maybe his side of the restaurant has a view of the city. And he thinks his service is the best. And he's like, the view of the city is me. I am the good city. I am the service. I am the good city. I am the good city. But like, that's so sad. Like he wants like, you know, the whole like rich getting richer. Like, oh, so the rich people get to have the nicest experience in the restaurant. Like, come on. It's some bullshit. It's a bullshit. Mac, maybe he should, and maybe I'm glad he got farted on.

1:09:16Oh, I'm glad he got farted on. I'm indifferent to him getting farted on.

1:09:20Courtney Miller:Unfortunately, other people, there's collateral damage here. She's out there farting all over the place. Other people are getting hit by that. But he's not connecting those things. He's not going, I'm getting so stinky smells around me. Maybe it's because I'm discriminating against the whole world. The hope is that people think that Mac is the one farting. That's the hope. But I don't know if that's occurring. That's not my hope. What's your hope? Stop farting. Peace on earth Yeah Don't be farted Don't use that Peace on earth, don't piss on earth Nice I don't want Piss on earth, hell I've been quoting a lot of things That nobody knows the reference from In this episode And I'm really curious People in the comments will know I don't want anybody to fart on me And I don't want you guys to fart on anybody No, I wouldn't I won't I promise I won't Thank you both For being here You're welcome I'm glad that our co-worker situation is not like these.

1:10:14Courtney Miller:No. We're good. I would paint your house. And I would work your wife. Wait, no.

1:10:23Nope. I will work your wife. You would work her wife? You would work wife.

1:10:29Courtney Miller:You would work wife. Anyways, thank you both for joining me. Thank you all for watching and listening. And hey, we have a lot of live shows this year. A lot of Smosh Reads Reddit stories live. They're going to be all over the place So keep an eye out for them And maybe we'll see you at one of them But we will see you next Saturday Right here Bye