Man Refuses to Drive Buddy to Their Shared Office Due to His Tardiness

A person says his days of chauffeuring his good friend to work are over due to his fixed tardiness.

The 19-year-old man shared in a latest publish on Reddit‘s “Am I the A——” discussion board that he and his good friend, additionally 19, work for a similar small firm. Since his good friend doesn’t have a driver’s license, the OP (authentic poster) has been driving him to and from work every day, even though the good friend “has a behavior of all the time being a pair minutes late.”

“This isn’t an enormous deal at our firm as a result of we receives a commission hourly for a job that doesn’t have a set timeframe,” he famous, earlier than explaining that his good friend’s tardiness has been getting worse.

“These days, he’s been constantly a minimum of 10 minutes late,” the OP wrote. “Whereas it’s not a giant deal for my boss, I hate sitting in my automobile in entrance of his home for that lengthy. I wish to get work over with as quickly as potential and whereas these 10 minutes aren’t going to alter my life, I’d fairly get 10 additional minutes at house than sitting in a automobile.”

Pissed off, the OP determined he was now not going to “ignore” his good friend’s lack of punctuality. Forward of 1 morning commute to work, the OP recalled, “I texted him 20 minutes beforehand to ask if he could be prepared in 20 minutes [and] he stated sure.”

However when he bought to his good friend’s home, it took him 10 minutes to come back out to the automobile — so the OP lastly spoke up.

“Normally he begins telling me about his day and I type of recover from my anger, however this time I caught to what I informed myself and let him know that I didn’t wish to drive him anymore,” the OP defined. “I wasn’t impolite, I didn’t yell or something, I simply stated, ‘I’m sorry I don’t wish to drive you to work anymore since you’re all the time late.’ ”

The OP stated his good friend “began arguing, saying it wasn’t his fault and he was busy.” When the OP identified that “issues could be totally different” if his good friend wasn’t sufficiently old to get his driver’s license and actually wanted the assistance with rides, the 19-year-old replied that the topic of his license “stresses him out.”

“He type of phrased it like he thought I introduced it up out of concern, which I do each infrequently, however this time it was as a result of he’s making me late when he might very properly get a driver’s license and drive himself,” the OP wrote.

After the OP confronted his good friend, issues bought awkward between the pair. “The automobile trip was quiet. Then at work it was quiet. On the best way house it was additionally quiet,” he wrote. “So principally I believe he bought mad about the truth that I used to be completed ready round for him.”

“I actually don’t assume I’m within the fallacious right here, however possibly I’m lacking one thing,” the OP concluded, asking fellow Redditors to weigh in on the state of affairs.

Within the feedback part, the vast majority of individuals firmly sided with the OP, saying he set “an inexpensive boundary” along with his good friend. One particular person even identified that he is sacrificing rather more than simply 10 minutes a day to drive his good friend backwards and forwards.

“NTA [not the a——]. He’s costing you about three hours of your work week each week. Math: ten minutes to get to his home, ten minutes ready for him, ten minutes out of your means on the best way house. Thirty-some minutes every day, day-after-day,” the commenter wrote. “The least he can do is be outdoors ready for you.”

Another person chimed in: “You are not his private chauffeur. You gave him a trip for some time, however he is making the most of your kindness.”

“You have completed sufficient,” one more particular person informed the OP. “Your coworker now must fly along with his personal wings. Anybody who’s late for a trip (to work or elsewhere) regularly is simply lazy and impolite.”

Fairly a couple of different Redditors shared comparable tales of how their well-meaning supply to drive a coworker was a irritating state of affairs.

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“I used to offer a coworker or two a trip into work. I had 2 guidelines. #1) I’ll solely choose up, if it’s on my common route (no detours, no exceptions). #2) I gained’t wait round in the event that they’re going to be late. Each of them tried to guilt me into breaking these guidelines,” one particular person wrote. “They ended up having to seek out another sucker to taxi them round. Lesson discovered.”

Another person puzzled if the OP’s good friend has anxiousness about driving and whether or not this may be the push he must work on getting his personal license.

“He appears like he has driving anxiousness and must be pushed into it in some way so he can see driving is just not as scary because it appears. Making him discover his personal solution to work could assist push him,” the particular person commented.