stupid parents

[biggestinuyashafan]

i am starting a job at gamestop soon and i fill out paperwork tomorrow. today when i was getting clothes for the job my mom was whispering to my g/f about me. my g/f tells me that my mom is expecting me to pay for car insurance,gas,part of the phone bill (when i am using it very rarely and the pay a flat fee),food,drink,and maybe even rent. well i can understand the car insurance,gas,some of the food and drink. but my little sisters b/f who is older then me and isn't even family doesn't have to pay rent. i also don't even have my own phone line like my younger sister does. i have the smallest room in the house (besides bathrooms) and my little sister has the second biggest. i don't mind paying my parents back for the clothes they just bought me,but i am not going to be making much money as it is and i will have to pay for all the car repairs because the car is a P.O.S. and is always having problems. my older sisters ex-b/f is living here and he doesn't pay rent and he even eats some of our food and doesn't have to pay. does anyone else have to deal with BS like this and how do you deal with it? i already have some anger issues that started with my family a while back and this is just pissing me off.

[Ledhed]

How old are you? And yes, considering you'll be working at GS, you definitely won't have alot of cash to throw around.

[bignick]

Welcome to the real world.

[Dead of Knight]

Sounds exactly like my boyfriend's family when he started a job. Tell them to go shaq-fu themselves, albeit in a nicer way.

[johnnyoski]

What? Is your Mom expecting you to bring home six figures a year working this job??
Once she realizes what you will be making I'm sure she won't expect you to pay everything starting this month.

[biggestinuyashafan]

i just turned 19. it just surprises me that my mom of all people here in this house is doing this. she has always been the nice one to me in this house. i think she is going through her mid-life crises,which is a pain because my dad just finished his pretty much. my mom expects me to buy a new cell phone because my older sisters ex-b/f had to use it while i didn't have my license and he got mad, threw it and broke it. damn i hate parents some times.

[Odenat]

Just save up what money you can and move out if it's that bad. My mom is like that and i haven't lived with her since i was 18

[Ledhed]

my mom expects me to buy a new cell phone because my older sisters ex-b/f had to use it while i didn't have my license and he got mad, threw it and broke it. damn i hate parents some times.

Wow. That is ridiculous. How old is your sister, considering her boyfriend is older than you? And how old is he for that matter?

Are you in school? I assume you are out of high school. As long as you are a full-time student, you should be able to be carried on your parent's automotive insurance. Instead of paying the ridiculously high amount you alone would have to pay, ask your parents if you can pay the difference on their insurance, provided they can carry you. Otherwise, wait for them to realize that your payceck isn't going to make a lick of difference (sorry, it won't, believe me I know) in what they are asking you to help out with.

[biggestinuyashafan]

only problem is,i have to take medicine and if i move out, i will have to get medical insurance and all that stuff to help get medicine. i have like 3 medicines i have to take,plus i have to see a counselor and a psychiatrist (for the medicine). so i would have so much to pay for that i couldn't do it until i am able to get a better job and it doesn't look like that will happen for a while since this will be my first job pretty much.

[epobirs]

It sounded somewhat reasonable in the field of parents delivering a reality check until you got to the part about the sister's freeloading ex-boyfriend.
Why do you parents like this guy so much, especially since he's no longer your sister's SO?

OTOH, if you aren't serious about getting into management or also going to school to qualify for better jobs, 19 is already on the old side for working at GameStop. The seeming advantages of a game store job can fade fast when you need to stop buying games for a while and pay bills.

[biggestinuyashafan]

i am finishing high school through home-school and my little sister's b/f is 19 and will be turning 20 in october. my older sisters ex-b/f which is living with us is 21 and is supposedly moving out soon. he has bought like 4 cars since living here and they all work fine at first until he starts messing with them. now he has 0 cars and isn't paying rent here. my mom doesn't know that i found out because she told my g/f not to tell me,which of course she did. i feel like saying something to my mom,but my g/f told me not to say anything because my mom might say something to her. last time someone in my family said something about her (my older sis.) was because she was mad at me and nothing she said about me bothered me,so she called my g/f a "ho" and i chased her to where she ran into the bathroom and i put a big whole in the door (not all the way through it). i don't want something to happen like that again because my mom is becoming a jerk.

[biggestinuyashafan]

It sounded somewhat reasonable in the field of parents delivering a reality check until you got to the part about the sister's freeloading ex-boyfriend.
Why do you parents like this guy so much, especially since he's no longer your sister's SO?

OTOH, if you aren't serious about getting into management or also going to school to qualify for better jobs, 19 is already on the old side for working at GameStop. The seeming advantages of a game store job can fade fast when you need to stop buying games for a while and pay bills.

i could understand if they were just giving me a reality check and had me doing a lot of this stuff,but it is just BS with them not making either making my little sisters b/f pay and not making my older sisters ex-b/f not pay like i am probably going to have to do.

[Trakan]

i am starting a job at gamestop soon and i fill out paperwork tomorrow. today when i was getting clothes for the job my mom was whispering to my g/f about me. my g/f tells me that my mom is expecting me to pay for car insurance,gas,part of the phone bill (when i am using it very rarely and the pay a flat fee),food,drink,and maybe even rent. well i can understand the car insurance,gas,some of the food and drink. but my little sisters b/f who is older then me and isn't even family doesn't have to pay rent. i also don't even have my own phone line like my younger sister does. i have the smallest room in the house (besides bathrooms) and my little sister has the second biggest. i don't mind paying my parents back for the clothes they just bought me,but i am not going to be making much money as it is and i will have to pay for all the car repairs because the car is a P.O.S. and is always having problems. my older sisters ex-b/f is living here and he doesn't pay rent and he even eats some of our food and doesn't have to pay. does anyone else have to deal with BS like this and how do you deal with it? i already have some anger issues that started with my family a while back and this is just pissing me off.

You have to chance it and tell your mom. Tell her you just figured it out that your sister's boyfriend isn't paying rent, and explain to her about the phone and bedrooms. She'll probably be like this until you grow some balls and talk to her. (No offense)

[biggestinuyashafan]

i know that the check wont be great,but i have to have a job while i am working on school work and going to try and save up for a technical college for a while.

[deathcabforcutie]

three words: JERRY! JERRY! JERRY! but seriously, if you need to pocket some serious cash, you might culd pitch your life as a reality show to one of the networks.. sounds more disfuntional than the osbournes :-)

[epobirs]

Sounds like once you get done with HS you need to strike out on your and get some control of your life. It will be hard but that is the choice. I'm currenntly in a similar situation. THe house I share with my mother and much older sister is being ssold out from under us. (It's owned by another sister and her husband. They found us preferable as tenants while the bad real estate market would have meant taking a loss on the sale but now the value has gone incredibly high.) They're thinking in terms of the three of us continuing to live together but I'll be damned if the developing 'Little Dictator' tendencies my sister is start to demonstrate will be allowed to control my life. Once I've got some debts paid off I intend to find my own place even if it means living off paper plates for a few years until I can buy my own basic household items.

[biggestinuyashafan]

she is going to tell me about it on the first paycheck my g/f said,so i am going to show her how much i make to change her mind. i just can't risk starting an arguement here,because my family has an obsession with calling the police on me,even when i am not doing anything wrong. there was this one time i was sitting out on the roof outside my window for like an hour and someone called the police after a while even though i was just sitting there,not even threatening to jump. the police come and start saying "please don't jump,is it okay if we send someone up there?" and i said "yeah,go on" and then they come upstairs to my room and i came inside,i get put in handcuffs and taken to jail (not put in a cell,just the holding room) until they talk to someone to see wether or not i need to be put in a mental institution even though at my house i said i wasn't ever planning on jumping and if i was,i would have done it way earlier before they got there.

[biggestinuyashafan]

i swear i could be on a reality show,but i wouldn't want to do that,because then i have to deal with them.

[Reality's Fringe]

If you're working at GS, be prepared for a $37 check every once in a while. I'm serious, they'll cut you to 4 hrs a week periodically. If you want some more details, let me know.

[biggestinuyashafan]

If you're working at GS, be prepared for a $37 check every once in a while. I'm serious, they'll cut you to 4 hrs a week periodically. If you want some more details, let me know.

i have to start somewhere and the manager was really cool at my GS. but i would like to know more details about it just incase. that way if that starts happening,i can start looking for a new job with all the new responsibilities i am going to have. i might even have to find a second job with all this crap my parents are doing.

[Reality's Fringe]

Well, your hours are supposed to be based on a combination of both sales and the amount of reservations, subscriptions, MST's, Used game Sales, and TICs you get. Let me break it down:
Reservations 10% total transactions
Subscriptions:10-20% total transactions. Varies by asshole DM to asshole DM.
MSTs(Multi Sku Transactions. This is a measure of selling more than one item per transaction)40% of your total transactions
Used Game Sales 40% of your total transactions
TICs(Trade In Credits. The amount of Trade in units you take) 20%-30% total transactions. Is not graded on a per unit basis.

Now, alone the numbers seem easy enough, but you'll soon realize it is IMPOSSIBLE to meet them. They were designed to give GS enough freedom to cut and rotate the part-timers as they please. In the event that you have a freaking AWESOME week, sales still come into the picture. The thing is, the sales requirement(this is what I've heard from my managers) is adjusted based on the time of month, type of releases, and the numbers your store gets on the aforementioned percentages. this translates into this one simple rule:
You are not guaranteed a steady check in the least. If you get in good with your manager, you may be all right, but just be observant of the other employees. More specifically, watch if a new guy comes in who isn't in real well with management. You'll see what I'm talking about.

[biggestinuyashafan]

i am probably going to try and work full-time,also the manager said he doesn't usually write up the employees unless they are doing back for a couple of weeks. the employees said that the manager doesn't get mad at all,they even joke around with him all the time. so i don't think it should be too bad,but thanks for the heads up.

[Lootr2Core]

What? Is your Mom expecting you to bring home six figures a year working this job??
Once she realizes what you will be making I'm sure she won't expect you to pay everything starting this month.

6 figures? to pay rent? gas, insurance.. holy crap I must be a millionare cause I pay insureance for a house, 3 cars, etc.

[LoganDX]

If you're working at GS, be prepared for a $37 check every once in a while. I'm serious, they'll cut you to 4 hrs a week periodically. If you want some more details, let me know.

Make sure you tell him about your glorious departure from GS! Maybe once he gets fed up like you did, he'll give 'em the same display! :lol:

[dafoomie]

Two choices.

A. Confront your mother.

B. Be a wuss and say nothing, and get screwed.


Thats all there is to it. If you don't say anything, you deserve what you get. You can't be a wuss forever and let people walk all over you. (not that your necessarily a wuss, but you would be with option B).

Expect to contribute a reasonable amount, but push hard for the b/f to pay up or get out (or have the sister pay his share).

[biggestinuyashafan]

i will tell my mom what i think when she asks for the money,i may not be getting on for a long time (since my parents are police calling happy). if i were to tell her to go f' herself,they will call the cops and say i did something horrible and i will probably go to jail. but i'm not about to put up with my mom doing this crap to me and not either of the non-family members here. oh yeah,i also have to deal with 9 freakin' animals living here besides the 7 people here right now. there are6 cats and 3 dogs. i can hardly walk through the yard and driveway to get to the car without stepping in crap. the cats have fleas which are now in my room and i don't even let the cats in here. there is hardly ever any towels,because half the people here take like 2 showers a day. my mom washes towels at least 2-3 times a week. i do my own laundry including the towels that i have to put away which gets used like right after i put them in. so i am always having to dig around in the linen closet looking for towels. whenever i have money to buy food,i have to write my freaking name on it so that others don't eat it.

[punqsux]

dude youre making 5.50 an hour for a good 12 hours a week! you obviously have to give your parents all of it...

past the insurance and gas, shes just being crazy

[biggestinuyashafan]

i am only going pay for gas,insurance and my food/drink. if she decides to kick me out over this, then i will go live with my grandma until i can get a good enough job to where i can live on my own. my grandma has put me up before when i had a fight with my dad. i might decide to make a reality show on my family. i think that fight was because my dad was arguing with my little sister and he hit her in the face,so i pushed him away and he tripped over some clothes in the hallway and hit his head on the corner of my little sisters bed. he then said "you tried to kill me" and came up to me and hit me,so we got in a fist fight and i cut him under his eye with one of the punches,my little sisters b/f ended up pulling me away. he doesn't live with his dad,because his dad does drugs. then another time i was in my parents room for some reason and my dad was telling me to get out though i was just talking to my mom. he then came can pushed me onto his bed and put his forearm on my neck,so then i started punching him in the ribs to get him off because i couldn't breathe and i broke some of his ribs. there is so many times i have been in trouble here. this one time i was arguing with my little sister and my older sister started pushing me,well i got past her easy and my little sister was calling the cops,though i made no threats or hit anyone. then i tried to grab the phone to hang it up before the call got through and my older sister grabbed me from behind around my neck,not choking me. so i turned that around not choking her either,because she was still talking,then she kicked me in the nads and as a reaction from it i just hit her right away without thinking. then the cops show up and i get arrested and she doesn't get in trouble at all even though she tells the officer she kicked me. figures it was a female cop that arrested me...she doesn't know what it is like to get kicked in the groin.

[tenzor]

i am only going pay for gas,insurance and my food/drink. if she decides to kick me out over this, then i will go live with my grandma until i can get a good enough job to where i can live on my own. my grandma has put me up before when i had a fight with my dad. i might decide to make a reality show on my family. i think that fight was because my dad was arguing with my little sister and he hit her in the face,so i pushed him away and he tripped over some clothes in the hallway and hit his head on the corner of my little sisters bed. he then said "you tried to kill me" and came up to me and hit me,so we got in a fist fight and i cut him under his eye with one of the punches,my little sisters b/f ended up pulling me away. he doesn't live with his dad,because his dad does drugs. then another time i was in my parents room for some reason and my dad was telling me to get out though i was just talking to my mom. he then came can pushed me onto his bed and put his forearm on my neck,so then i started punching him in the ribs to get him off because i couldn't breathe and i broke some of his ribs. there is so many times i have been in trouble here. this one time i was arguing with my little sister and my older sister started pushing me,well i got past her easy and my little sister was calling the cops,though i made no threats or hit anyone. then i tried to grab the phone to hang it up before the call got through and my older sister grabbed me from behind around my neck,not choking me. so i turned that around not choking her either,because she was still talking,then she kicked me in the nads and as a reaction from it i just hit her right away without thinking. then the cops show up and i get arrested and she doesn't get in trouble at all even though she tells the officer she kicked me. figures it was a female cop that arrested me...she doesn't know what it is like to get kicked in the groin.

:shock:

[johnnyoski]

What? Is your Mom expecting you to bring home six figures a year working this job??
Once she realizes what you will be making I'm sure she won't expect you to pay everything starting this month.

6 figures? to pay rent? gas, insurance.. holy crap I must be a millionare cause I pay insureance for a house, 3 cars, etc.

It's called exaggerating to make a point. Do you really think he can pay all those things he listed on a Gamestop salary ?

[int80h]

this translates into this one simple rule: You are not guaranteed a steady check in the least.

One word: Unions.

Find a job at a store where workers are part of a union. The whole purpose of unions is to get rid of these rules that "asshole DMs" make to screw their employees over.

[biggestinuyashafan]

What? Is your Mom expecting you to bring home six figures a year working this job??
Once she realizes what you will be making I'm sure she won't expect you to pay everything starting this month.

6 figures? to pay rent? gas, insurance.. holy crap I must be a millionare cause I pay insureance for a house, 3 cars, etc.

It's called exaggerating to make a point. Do you really think he can pay all those things he listed on a Gamestop salary ?

there is no way i would be able to pay all that stuff. my mom has no idea what type of salary i will be getting. if she seriously expects me to pay all that after seeing my first check,then i am going to have to find a new place to live. i must have one of the most screwed up families ever.