Dad Gave Our Family Business To My Lazy Brother Instead Of Me, A Month Later...

Dad Gave Our Family Business To My Lazy Brother Instead Of Me, A Month Later, He Almost Unalived A Customer With Allergies & Now Dad's Begging Me To Come Back & Fix Everything.

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[Crowe]

Oh no. After being humiliated like that, I would not only NOT gone back, I would have gotten a loan and set up a competing business to prove a point.

[DarkEinherjar]

Father clearly expected OP to work her butt off while his golden baby earned all the credit. Screw that.

[tdexth]

Why people think giving an irresponsible person alot of responsibilities and the power to do whatever they please would teach them to be responsible?

[Skorge]

Your dad screwed up and publicly humiliated you and you go back to fix his mistake and inherit a lawsuit all without an apology? Absolutely the wrong choice.

[blueflameSM]

OP is much kinder than me, I would not have gone back until my dad apologized. The ego to refuse a formal apology is terrible. I get it, she wanted to inherit the business but that’s just me.

[xOrion]

Dad: "DOORMAT! DOORMAT COME BACK AND FIX THIS!"

[Withjoy]

If he wasn’t gonna do a formal apology I would have made him sign over the business so this wouldn’t happen again.

[SailorLavender]

"He's a good for nothing with absolutely no experience in business ownership, so I give him my primary source of income."

[unaagabii]

I feel like as soon as the restaurant starts going well, the dad will try to push Derek back into the business and turn Derek into OP's problem

[acegl]

If you are a weak doormat people will treat you like a weak doormat. The dad is horrible and he walks away without losing anything.

[areszeudion]

Dad thinks it was humiliating when the truth was that, he DID screw up by picking his son, and insulted OP by fighting with her on the day that was meant to be his retirement party. OP, is NTA, and the dad owes that apology.

[asherdales]

A public apology is insane and humiliating but what he publicly did to her isn't? GFSF

[mattharrell]

I will go back but you will be signing the entire business over to me, MINUS any settlement debt. Take it or leave it. Otherwise he will let the kid run it and then sell it out from under them OR give it back to Derek when he gets "older and wiser now"

[_juju_jojo_]

“You’re not thinking about your brother’s future!” Bruh not even Derek gives a fuck about his future, why would she?
Op such an idiot for going back lol

[Nirvash]

So the father:

1. Chose a complete and total novice to take over a legacy business instead of a fully-trained and respected staff member.
2. Publicly declared his intent to support the same novice in front of the staff and his family.
3. Also publicly shamed and humiliated the same trained and respected staff member, who is his own daughter, by declaring she would need to be her younger brother's minder instead of running the business herself.
4. Chose to throw his successor, his son, under the bus when that same bratty kid screwed up and caused an actual legal backlash.
5. Attempted to gaslight his daughter, who he had humiliated previously, into returning by "offering" her the position he had so carelessly handed over to a complete idiot.

And he has the brass to say that the daughter is asking for too much when she demanded an apology in front of the same people he had humiliated her in front of, as well as admitting to his own idiocy by having the clueless son take over instead of the seasoned daughter?

Honestly, O.P. is so far from being the @$$hole in this situation, she's not even in the same galaxy as the father. The old man tried to use the "shock and awe" method to force his youngest son to grow up and take responsibility, when they should have been going about other methods, such as forcing him to find a job to pay rent, or the kid is out on his can. This grown baby is 26 years old, and has been a shut-in for 2 years by this point, my parents would have made me either stick with a job to pay bills, or would have tossed me out after only a few months.

I'm a little disappointed that O.P. didn't stand her ground on this, but at the end, it is something that has been part of her family, so I can't give any grief over her decision to return to help out.

[bspencer]

OMG it goes on and on and on and on …. Get to the freakin’ point!

Also, OP is a doormat. What she demanded was reasonable and she caved. Dad screwed her, humiliated her, cheated her, and she crawled back. As soon as Derek starts whining again, the Golden Child will be right back. Unless he puts the restaurant in her name she shouldn’t unpack her bags.

[sanddagger]

you'd be surprised how quickly irate customers can be satiated just by learning someone was fired.
Obviously the customer was in the right about this manager, but i don't think she was trying to protect the public from a dangerous person, she should've tried to get more money from them but hearing he was fired was enough to calm her down.

[happybkwrm]

OP is a fool. Dad will keep them on, then leave the restaurant to the brother in his will.

[kevinbadger]

What slight feelings of sympathy I had for OP went down the toilet when they decided to go back.

[EdcelJannMCorre]

Somebody get a hold of OP and relay this idea.

OP sets up another party for dad but rather than tha king him, she says this. "Oh, remember that one time you f'ed up royally by giving your worthless son the business and he almost ran it to the ground and you had to ckme and beg me to save your ungrateful ass? Yeah, I'm still waiting for my apology and what better time to give it than now."