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WIBTA for taking advantage of my boss’ possible manic episode?

I know this already sounds bad but hear me out.

So I (30M) am the sole employee of this guy (62M) who’s honestly just a miserable boss and an even more miserable person. It sucks so bad working for him—the pay is horrendous, he’s verbally abusive, and the working conditions are awful (in the winter I literally have to stay bundled up the whole work day because he refuses to put the heat on in the office). He wouldn’t even give me holidays off if it wasn’t for the fact that there’s basically nothing to do those days because everywhere else is closed. I’m almost positive he unironically thinks poor people should die if they can’t work. His nephew (aka his only living relative and just the nicest guy) came by yesterday to invite him to Christmas dinner and he told him he’d see him in hell.

I cannot stress this enough—it’s BAD. I’d quit, but it’s been hard finding a better job and I’ve got four kids at home, including one with special needs.

Anyway, so here’s where I’m wondering if I’d be the asshole. Today was Christmas Day and he showed up at my house out of nowhere (huge red flag, I know). At first I thought he’d forgotten I had the day off and he was here to chew me out, which was worrying enough, but then his whole demeanor changed and he was super happy and excited and talking about how he was going to raise my salary. He even mentioned possibly making me a partner in the firm.

Now if that was it, I’d feel a little weird about the suddenness of it but it’d be fine. I’m not going to complain about having more money to feed my family. But then he started talking about how he wanted to pay our mortgage off. He talked about wanting to pay for our son to get the very expensive medical care that’s probably going to save his life. He mentioned at one point that he was going to be donating a huge amount of money to charity too—I knew he was rich but it staggered me. All this from a guy who doesn’t (didn’t?) even want to turn on the heat or the lights because it costs too much money.

It was such a sudden and drastic change that happened very literally overnight and now I’m kind of concerned he’s having a manic episode or something. I really, really want to accept his sudden generosity (I probably will; my wife is all for it and thinks he owes it to us), and I would love to believe that he’s truly had a sudden change of heart (an actual Christmas miracle lol) but I’m just worried about the possible consequences of accepting huge financial gifts like this from someone who I believe might be experiencing some kind of break from reality. Even if there’s nothing legally wrong with it, I’m worried about the ethics of it.

TLDR, my asshole boss might be in the middle of a mental breakdown. WIBTA if I accepted his offer to pay off my mortgage and my son’s medical expenses?

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Just read yet another BS “justification” for SR’s FYC submissions at the expense of his POC costars. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

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Also if all else fails, especially with older articles where accurate contact info may be harder to find, try interlibrary loan.

Found this on facebook but reposting to SAVE A LIFE.

Or at least some of y’all’s GPAs.

You’re welcome.

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the trolley problem vs. systemic oppression: a comic.

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personally I think we moved on too fast from the “he sometimes lingers when boats come into harbour” line not just for obvious adorable danlou reasons but also the implication that armand spends a significant amount of time by the harbour whenever there are boats is very precious to me. we know he loves watching the boats go by on night island in the books and when he’s in rome as a teenager, but there’s just something so emotional about the idea of assad’s armand just lingering by the water in one of his two default settings: either all meditative and full of longing, or conpletely elated and nerding out over his hyperfixation method of transportation true to his unbridled autistic gremlin form.

like. do we think he’s like a dog with squirrels? does he unhook his teeth from his victim and start doing zoomies whenever there are boats by the harbour? how many victims of his have had to be subjected to his waffling about steam engines and cargo vessels? does he simply get really quiet and pensive while his hair blows in the wind like a lana del rey music video? good god this man fascinates me.

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"save me, substance abuse!" i cry. before you can moralize to me about the dangers of addiction, a noble and powerful steed gallops into the room - my horse whom i have named "substance abuse". you learn an important lesson about making assumptions. i snort a line off its back

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I CAN LITERALLY NOT ANYMORE

SAG doesn’t have a supporting category so they put JA AND SR for actor (and of course ignore AZ again)? They can’t even give JA that ONE category by himself?

Are they fucking kidding me with this?

And of course they’re still unlikely to win or even get nominated, so all they’re doing by continuing this bullshit is alienating and angering their fans ahead of a season that is going to focus heavily on the character they’re making so many of us increasingly dislike. Great plan.

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Gentle reminder that the human eye is naturally drawn by noise and movement, so the next time you walk into a crowd or a bit late into a lecture or something like that, they’re not staring at you or judging; it’s just an instinctive reaction that has nothing to do with you doing anything wrong.

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Wait, you were actually born in the 1900's? Thats so cool

i am going to eat my own entire skin

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to anyone missing my writing please know i am also missing my writing

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- Blythe Baird

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I know there's many beautiful and stunning shots in IWTV but I just want to talk about this one for a moment because it's seems so simple but is one of my absolute favourites. Like, the beam of sunlight between them as a literal line that they can't cross back to one another as Louis tells Armand that he'll never make it up to him?? Chefs kiss 🧑🏻‍🍳🤌🏻

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don’t let armandaniel win, it’s devil’s minion

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your yearly reminder that Baby It’s Cold Outside is a song about a woman having CONSENSUAL sex, at a time when premarital sex was frowned upon. The female singer is offering up the token demurrals society expects her to, because it’s expected, not bc she doesn’t fully intend to stay and have awesome sex with a dude she’s into. The male singer knows this, and is in turn offering her an excuse to give to the neighbors in the morning (“it was too cold for me to go home, the only responsible thing to do was spend the night at his place. because of the weather, get your minds out of the gutter”). A 1950s audience would have understood all this, but the nuance gets lost in a modern age where women are actually allowed to say yes when they mean it.  

Also the “hey what’s in this drink” thing was a common joke at the time, where the punchline was that there was in fact nothing in the drink. the woman’s making a joke that she wouldn’t do this if she was sober, oh goodness no! it’s only a joke bc both she and the man are in on the punchline: she is sober, and is only staying bc she wants to

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So, re the fight scene...

When I turn the volume up and actually listen to what Armand says... it's down the throat, not down this road as the probably incorrect subtitles would have it. And that makes so much more sense. Someone please back me up on this, because I almost always see people just quoting the subtitles and it's starting to make me wonder if I should go for a hearing test.

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some of my favs