Woman Forces Son To Go On A Weeklong Family Vacation & Quit Part-time Job, But He Gets Fired Instead

Getting fired is never a good feeling, be it for any reason. But imagine you had to go on a family vacation, one that your mom forced you to be a part of and you got fired because of that. Finding a new job would be embarrassing when you have to tell the new employer that you got fired because of a vacation with your mom.?

The story sounds funny but it really happened with a man who was a lifeguard at a swimming pool. Here's what happened according to the mom who shared the post on Reddit.?

Son gets fired for going on a vacation with mom?

A mom who pushed her son to take a weeklong family vacation and then got him fired for it has generated fury online.The mom used Reddit to announce that in March, her son secured a part-time position as a lifeguard at a swimming pool.?

"My husband and I have three children, a 16-year-old son and two 13- and 10-year-old daughters," the woman stated.

AITA for making my son quit his part time job to go on our family vacation?
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"He like his job and was content with the money; it was a nice job for him. His supervisor was a jerk about giving time off, that was the problem," she wrote.She claimed that ever since she was carrying her kid, her family has gone on an annual vacation to a beach property that they rent.

The woman claims that the family kids love this vacation and actually look forward to it. To go on the vacation the son told his boss about the week when he signed up, but because that was only six weeks after he started there, the boss turned down his request. The mom didn't back out and suggested that he should still go on the vacation.?

"It's just a part time job and there are a million of those. He protested, but we made him go, and his boss fired him. He was furious the entire time, he refused to do any family stuff or listen to us, so he was grounded when he got back," she wrote in the post.?

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"It's not that we don't trust him to stay home alone or anything like that. We just don't want him to prioritize work over family, especially some weekend job. He found a job at another pool two weeks later, so it's not like this impacted him in any way, but he ill holds a grudge about it. He claims we didn't respect his choices, and he's right, we don't respect him trying to choose his job over family time, though we don't hold it against him since he's just a teen," she further added in her post.?

People weren't happy with the mom's decision?

A user wrote, "Look, you forced him to go to vacation, causing his his job and income. Then you grounded him for being upset. Unless you offered to make up his income then I don’t see how you were being fair.?Did the kids love it or do you?"

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Another user added, "This is an exaggeration... the parents are 100% wrong, but a job held for 6 weeks in summer at 16 is not going to ruin his future job prospects. especially not part time jobs, anywhere employing teenagers for a minimum wage job doesn't care as long as it's legal and they get the job done."?

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Another user suggested, "Guess what momma, you’re not teaching him the things you should be teaching him.He’s not a little boy anymore and he had a commitment elsewhere. Then you punished him for being justifiably upset when he was fired."

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"Lord help that boy whenever he finds a partner in life. You gonna order him to come home for holidays?" wrote another user.?

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A man suggested, "YTA only because you grounded him for being upset. In the future, he will be less inclined to expose his feelings to you.?I'd say apologize for grounding him and instill in him the value and power he holds as an employee, that he's worth more than an unreasonable boss."

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