I can totally understand helping out at the family business and not getting paid, but you gotta admit that it’s a little weird to work for free when your sibling is doing the same thing and getting paid.

Say whaaaaaaat?

So did this teenager act like a jerk when she put her foot down?

Let’s see what the heck is going on here…

AITA for not helping my family’s restaurant because my brother was being paid and I wasn’t?

“So my (17f) parents recently came into a fair bit of money (inheritance from one of my mom’s elderly relatives I think) and decided to buy out a local ice cream shop that was going out of business.

They love that place because it’s where they met and has tons of sentimental meaning to them. They also hired my 18 year old brother to work there because they want him to have job experience before going off to college.

They didn’t offer to hire me, and I didn’t ask because I already have a fast food job.

Anyway, my house is pretty close to the shop, and my friends and I decided to meet up there yesterday for ice cream and to hang out. For reference, we’re a group of four high schoolers.

Her brother needed a hand.

It was pretty busy, so we got in line.

About a minute in, we brother came out of the back and waved me over.

He handed me an apron and asked me to help out his coworker in the back because they had to clean the machines ASAP but my brother had to open a second register because of how busy it was.

But she wasn’t having it.

I refused on the grounds that I wasn’t being paid, and he said that I had to help out because it’s the “family business” and because of how swamped the place was and how panicked his coworker was.

He even offered to let my friends skip the line if I helped out for ten minutes to give his coworker a hand, and said I owed it to him to help out because I “brought such a big group in”.

I decided that that would cause a scene in a packed shop, and refused again. He huffed and waved me off, then went to open the second register.

I went back to my friends and the rest of our meet up went well, but my brother kept giving me dirty looks until we got our cones and left.

Now she’s in hot water with her family.

Later that night, my parents confronted me and said that what I did was petty. They told me to work a shift the next day to make up for it, but backed off once I reminded them that I have an actual job that I was scheduled to work pretty much all day the next day.

I ended up getting off scot free, however my whole family maintains that I’m petty and lazy, and now I’m wondering if they’re right.

So, AITA?”

This is what Reddit users had to say.

This person asked a good question…

Another individual said this would have been a lot more than 10 minutes.

This reader doesn’t think she did anything wrong.

Another Reddit user said she might not have actually been any help.

And one individual offered some advice.

Stack that cash, sister!

I think she did the right thing.

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