Man Gets Called 'Whipped' By Coworkers For Offer To Watch Kids While His Wife Goes On A Trip

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May 4, 2022 6:00 PM EDT

Going on a trip for work is one of the best luxuries there is. Think about it, one of the reasons it's so hard to take a vacation is because you think about how much work you'll have to make up, and the potential grief you'll get from your boss just for being slight MIA. It's fine though, we all have to brave the discomfort from time to time and manage to enjoy a little vacation time when it's necessary. This boss, however, seems pretty chill. He gives his employees bonuses to go on trips and supports the time they get to bond together.

One father doesn't want to go, however, so that his wife and her friends can go on a trip together without him, but his coworkers are calling him whipped for doing so. The misogyny is real. But let us know who you think is in the wrong here. We have our own theories, but feel free to register your own.

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  • 01
    Font - r/AmItheAsshole · Posted by u/daddydoesntwanttogo 14 hours ago O 2 O 2 17@33 3 17 AITA For being "whipped" for my wife enough to get a trip replaced?
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    Font - I (28m) have 5 kids with my wife (32f). Please don't come after us with how many kids we have. I work roughly 50 hours a week (10 hour days m-f) and my wife is a SAHM. She does the majority of everything, cleaning, cooking, everything minus the shopping which my wife orders online and I pick up at the store.
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    Font - So here's the AITA scenario, my work schedules a work bonding fishing trip from Friday night to Sunday over the summer. I said no way I'm going, for the following reasons, (despite my wife telling me to go and have fun).
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    Font - First of all every Saturday I schedule my wife for some type of treat your self appointment and send her on a mini shopping spree/kiddo free morning to do what she wants with one rule no kid shopping. It's about her and her only.
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    Font - Second, I'm not leaving my wife for 2 nights and a day for fishing and getting drunk. If I want to go fishing I'll take the 5yr old twins with me to give my wife less to juggle and create some memories
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    Font - Third, the ladies that work at the office feel excluded because they don't like the fishing trip because they feel excluded.
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    Font - Fourth, they call it a stag weekend (despite no one getting married) and I don't trust that phrasing, especially since they are going fishing near a very popular college age vacation spot known for bars and wasted weekend shenanigans.
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    Font - So my coworkers have been calling me whipped since I said no, and saying it'll give them a chance to know me better since I don't go out with them on Wednesdays when they go to the bar and have always missed the trip.
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    Font - All my coworkers all have wives, kids or significant others so I recommended we do a family campout during the planning meeting (would cost the same amount) and do those blow up things on the lake, boating if you have one, skis ext. and do a cookout kind of deal with family activities with my work renting small cabins for families to use.
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    Font - My regional manager who was at the meeting loved it even more than the fishing trip, gave me a yearly bonus to plan this family event every year instead of my coworker who gets one to plan the fishing trip.
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    Font - Now my coworkers are calling me whipped and more bs names and are mad because their wives are happy about my idea (their wives have even emailed me about a mom Saturday morning idea like my wife has and I added it into the plan) and are mad their stag weekend is canceled and quote "spend a work paid trip babysitting".
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  • 12
    Human body - So reddit AITA for getting a work trip canceled and replaced with a family friendly event?
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    Font - Edit for clarity: I also included the childfree coworkers of mine in the planning and said if they need a break or are getting overwhelmed they are more then welcome to borrow my boat for relaxing without kids or for more extreme waters ports.
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    Font - OP has offered the following explanation for why they think they might be the asshole: I may be the asshole because my coworkers use this trip as a bonding and distressing trip but I beileve that I'm not because it doesn't include all of our Coworkers and is probably an up to no good trip.
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  • 15
    Smile - kastalaesi · 14 hr. ago It's not babysitting if it's your own children. You're being considerate to your wife and it sounds like you're a good husband. You're NTA. 21.7k Reply Share ...
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    Font - themisfit123 · 14 hr. ago NTA You came up with an idea that would benefit everyone and not leave anyone left out. I find it weird that a workplace would even have such an exclusive fishing trip to begin with. I'd bet the women have been trying to get the trip changed for years but no one would listen to them. It definitely sounds like they felt left out. If the fishing trip is that important to them, they can still go and pay for it themselves. Literally nothing is stopping them from doin
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    Font - milliebarnes · 13 hr. ago Partassipant [3] You sir, are one in a million. Congratulations for truly loving your wife and respecting your relationship enough to be there for her and your children. Who cares if they call you whipped? You know you're a good man, you know your wife loves you and you love her, it sounds like you have your priorities straight. So hold your head up and just laugh at him when they tell you that you were whipped.
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