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Siblings don’t always treat each other as well as they should, and that can often go on well into adulthood.

What would you do if your eldest sister was forcing your youngest sister to babysit and clean her house for free, and prevented her from going to school or working full time?

That is what happened to the family in this story, so the middle child went on a months long effort to get her eldest sibling fired and ruin her life.

Personally, I think what she did was over the top and it was really the little sister who should have stood up for herself. Read through the full story below and see what you think.

My sister doesn’t want to free her live-in unpaid maid, so I got her fired

Backstory: Many of you have probably heard of families with strong hierarchy structure, normally with the eldest in the family having the most influence.

This is not a healthy family setup.

My family is one of them, except that my parents are drug addicts deadbeats so my eldest sister (31F, our EntitledMother) raised all 5 of us.

She is the boss of the family. She says “Jump”, everyone says “How high?”.

It is awful that her older sister takes advantage.

The focal point of the story is my youngest sister (20F, who I’ll call LittleSister). Most of us have a handful or at least a couple of memories with our mother before she lost her mind, except for LittleSister.

For her, EntitledMother is the only mum she ever had, and EntitledMother knows how to take advantage of that.

Why can’t their father take care of himself?

All of us noped out of our parents house as soon as we turned 18, except for EntitledMother, who waited until LittleSister and our brother were raised and in their mid-teens to move across the country (and soon found jobs and accommodations for all of us to move to the same state as her).

LittleSister begged for years to move in with her, but EntitledMother always denied, saying that somebody had to take care of our father and because she and her new husband needed privacy and space.

LittleSister needs to start her own life.

That was until EntitledMother got pregnant. She got LittleSister to move in with her and she has been there for the past two and a half years, “helping out”.

Now to the story: EntitledFather’s family wanted to visit for a couple of weeks, so LittleSister had to stay with me for that time so that they could use her room.

Going to school would be great for her.

One day she saw me studying for my masters degree and said something about how she always wanted to go to college and this is how it went:

Me: “So why don’t you?”

It doesn’t seem like EntitledMother wants to let LittleSister grow up.

LittleSister: “Oh, I talked to EntitledMother about it but she said not everyone is the college type and that I wouldn’t have time to work, study and take care of Niece at the same time. And it’s expensive.”

Me: “Most people work and study and at the same time, and she can put Niece in a daycare. I’m sure it wouldn’t be that much more expensive than what she’s already paying you.”

Why does she do this without getting paid?

LittleSister: “She doesn’t pay me. She already gives me food and shelter and if I need money I just take a shift at work.”

And this is how I learned my sister was not only babysitting, but also cleaning the whole house for free everyday.

Great! She can start going to college.

She was even only working 8 hours a week at her normal job because she was too busy taking care of our niece.

Long story short, it took me weeks to convince her to apply to community college, and then more weeks on the actual process, but she finally got confirmation she would start in september.

and now another obstacle.

All of that behind EntitledMother’s back. She was planning on telling everyone the next time we all got together, which would be Independence day.

But before that could happen, EntitledMother got everyone together at her house to announce that she was pregnant.

She is a full adult, she needs to act like it.

LittleSister starts crying because now she wouldn’t be “allowed” to go to college.

EntitledMother gets “deeply hurt and offended” that she planned this behind her back. I butt in. Our other siblings butt in. It’s just generally a mess.

Wow, talk about an overreaction.

“How could you do this to me? Who’s going to take care of the babies? I can’t believe you’d be so selfish! If you like your sister so much, go stay with her!”

These were all some of the things she said. She kicked me and LittleSister out, who stayed with me until they made peace.

Why would she move back in with that awful sister.

Both of our siblings reached out, one to say that I should have minded my own business, and other to tell me she was on my side but wouldn’t say anything.

After that, LittleSister moved back with her and didn’t go to college.

How is this a good compromise.

But they agreed she would get paid 6 dollars an hour and be allowed to take more shifts at her job until the baby is born, and then go to real college after the child turns one year old.

I know it’s messed up, but all of them – especially LittleSister – worship EntitledMother like a god.

I waited a year to act on my revenge, making sure my sister had saved enough money to live on her own.

Let’s see what she is going to do.

The revenge:

First, what I did was research the legality of paying a homeless person in food and shelter.

In the US, depending on the state, it’s legal as long as you do not cross the line and the person becomes an employee.

These rules apply to contractors, not siblings.

For example: You can give the person a list of tasks you want done, however you can not say that it has to be done in a certain amount of time.

You also can not request someone to be somewhere at a certain time. You can ask but not demand on the time.

You can’t just kick people out.

It comes down to a choice of words. Also you have to comply with rental laws.

If your local laws say that you must give 30 days notice to a tenant, then you must give 30 days notice to this person as well.

If nothing else, it shows that the eldest sister is truly a bad person.

I had proof of all of the situation, several screenshots of EntatliedMother admitting not paying and not allowing LittleSister to move out or get a job, and also admitting to kicking her out whenever she wanted.

All this technicality seemed worthless since no one would sue her. But that didn’t matter, I just wanted to make sure that her boss knew that if she were to be sued, it would be a sure case.

Again, I’m not sure that this would apply to siblings.

EntitleMother works for a civil rights attorneys’ office, so discovering she has a literal modern day slave would probably get her fired.

I could have just created a burner email and sent it all to her boss, but then they would explain to her why she’s getting fired, and that would get me and LittleSister in trouble.

What is she planning?

So, what did I do? EntitledMother was always complaining about one of the bosses on her job that hated her and had tried to get her fired for ages.

I went to the company site, found the woman (thankfully she was the only “Ashley” that worked there), found her on Instagram and Facebook.

She is really putting a lot of effort into this revenge.

There she had a post tagging her yoga studio. Went to said studio and created my membership.

It took a few weeks of trial and error trying to find exactly what class Ashley belonged to, but I finally found her.

This is really becoming over the top.

Then I went to yoga class every Tuesday and Friday at 8a.m for months, slowly building a friendship with her.

Around 3 months in she asked to follow me on instagram, and I was already prepared for this scenario, having deleted the few pictures I had with EntitledMother.

It is time to spring the trap.

After 9 months, when our friendship was a strong baby, I brought up the crazy coincidence that I found out she worked with EntitledMother.

Before things could get awkward I said “It’s ironic that she works for civil rights, considering, y’know, everything…”.

Ashley will be only too happy to help.

That got Ashely’s attention. I told her everything. Showed every screenshot. I could practically see her eyes shining.

They had their own history that is not important to the story, all you need to know is: EntitledMother is a bad person. Ashely wants revenge as much as I do.

The friendship was all part of the plan.

I told her about LittleSister situation and why EntitledMother couldn’t ever know about this.

This is why being friends with Ashley was so important – if I had just sent them the proof and explained the situation they would have probably just ignored it, since this was a very legitimate reason to fire her.

The law firm was onboard.

And they wouldn’t risk firing her for a minor mistake and maybe getting sued. I sent her the files with her promise that EntitledMother wouldn’t hear about this, but she needed it to convince the other owner – who was the reason why she wasn’t fired yet.

Two months later, EntitledMother was fired for minor mistakes, lateness, and general bad productivity.

Her older sister’s life has become miserable.

Small victory, sure, but I loved coming to visit her during the 4 months she was unemployed.

She was looking so tired and miserable all the time since she had no money to pay for a babysitter and LittleSister is away at college, so she actually had to take care of her children.

Well, that is kind of extreme.

Moral of the story: check on your siblings, they might be living in a modern slavery arrangement.

This story is pretty unbelievable, and even if it is true, what she did was wrong. She thinks she is the hero of the story, but that is not how I see it.

Let’s see what the people in the comments have to say about this story.

Here is someone who thinks she did the right thing.

It is unlikely that what happened in this story would count as slavery.

Yeah, this is a bit crazy.

This person thinks she did a good thing.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a sister who let her brother maintain a shared car for years, and doesn’t want to start doing it herself now that he has his own car.

I was wondering this same thing.

This is some very serious revenge to take on your own sister. She should have spent that time and effort trying to help her little sister instead.

Overall, it is unlikely that this story actually took place. What do you think?