#A CHRISTMAS CAROL

[drag0nalias0]

[azure-aeon-dragaeon]

Reblog to erase Twitter from existence

reblog to send three ghosts after elon musk

[saywhat-politics]

[drag0nalias0]

[beggars-opera]

Am I reading this wrong or did Charles Dickens write a woman acting as her brother’s boyfriend’s beard into the Fezziwig ball

[jilliankayeart]

✨[internal screaming]✨

[paloma-ascends-into-hellfire]

obsessed with how vhscc is “couple cutely sells things to buy each other presents” and “grouchy old man learns the spirit of christmas” and then sandwiched in the middle is “little girl dies of exposure after hallucinating her dead grandma”

[swim-forthemusic]

picspams: Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)

Tonight, you will be visited by three spirits. Listen to 'em. Do what they say, or your chains will be heavier than mine.

[loquaciousquark]

INFO: have you reached out to the nephew? Has this kind of behavior change ever happened before? He might have some background on whether this is a real change or something that'll revert to normal bad behavior in a few days.

That said, NTA, and take this guy for all he's worth, obviously. This is frankly a borderline AmItheAngel post. "WIBTA if i save my dying son's life by screwing over my parsimonious Silas Marner-esque boss who regularly violates OSHA, abuses every employee and tenant he has, & sucks every possible penny out of my paycheck?" 🙄

Hit Facebook, delete the lawyer, and stop making excuses about getting a new job. Your kid deserves better. Grow a spine as soon as he pays off your mortgage and QUIT. Tech industry's always hiring. I hear steam engines are right about to take off.

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?

[spacemanspiff0fficial]

I know in vhscc(s) the implication is obviously that like the book Scrooge is an old man based off the way he's hunched over and gesticulates but the idea of him being like mid 40s and acting like that is supremely funnier to me. they all refer to him as a senior and a geezer to piss him off

[mismess]

Oh he's seeing this shit

[artexmachina]

A Christmas Carol

Wanted to cook something for Christmas and the whole idea of using the dreamjolt Past, Present and Eternal Show as the ghosts of Christmas was very fun(in my head)

[davidaugust]

Scares the Dickens out them. 😳

[steelbluehome]

[impostoradult]

you know what's funny about the all the supportive internet commentary re: the murdered health insurance exec? it's weirdly reminiscent of that scene in A Christmas Carol where the ghost of Christmas future shows Scrooge all those people who are bad-mouthing him after his death

like...bizarrely reminiscent