‘She received EXACTLY what was written on her list’: Boss instructs employee to collect ex-wife's belongings from his home according to a list provided by his lawyer

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Eleonora Bader
Dec 23, 2023 1:00 PM EST

Your boss asks you to do something extra, and your insides immediately curl up as you internally scream no, no, no! Why me?

Except that in this case, the employee was more than happy to do extra work for his boss… What was this big ask? It was collecting all the boss's ex-wife's belongings from his home and sorting them into boxes. No, you did not just enter a strange portal in which you set foot in an even stranger universe where you get involved with your boss's personal life… Yes, this is really weird stuff. I can't imagine my boss coming up to me and asking me, as a favor, to pack up her ex's things.

But hey, that's not even the best part! This boss's ex-wife was quite the character. She had an affair, a midlife crisis, the whole bit. Then she got really petty when it came to dividing their things, and she asked for half of EVERYTHING. OP was more than happy to oblige with her request, just like he was more than happy to collect her things for his boss. Weird fella, but no judgment. Scroll down to read what that entailed, and then for more, check out this husband who bought his wife a vacuum for Christmas, expecting her to clean his garage with it.

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    "My boss got a divorce and made me pack up his ex wife's belongings... so I did."
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    The time I was petty during my Boss's divorce So, story time Around the end of 2017, my boss's wife went through a midlife crisis, and decided to have an affair and move out of their house. Divorce proceedings initiated shortly after.
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    In the following March, there was an incident between the two of them that necessitated court intervention, and for them to meet some requirements as a result. One of those requirements was her being required to walk around the house and make a list of all the items that were hers.
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    Cue pettiness on her part. Boss's lawyer stated that "in my 20 years of law practice, I have never seen a list this petty". Half of the dish towels Half of the paper plate holders Half of the pots
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    The curtains in the lounge Etc etc You get the idea. She made sure she got half of everything. HOWEVER, my boss did not allow her to come into the house herself tonpack, as
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    she had spent the previous five months stealing out of the house at every opportunity, and he didn't trust her to pack only her belongings. So, he made me do it (small company, nothing else really for me to be doing, so I dutifully started collating 'her' belongings)
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    This is where the pettiness comes in. She requested one saucepan; I shook both, and one had a loose handle. She got that one She asked for the curtains in the lounge; she didn't ask for the curtain hooks. So I took all of those out.
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    Half of the dish towels? She got all the grotty mismatched ones, not the nice red set. Half of the containers in the storage room? Never specified she wanted the contents, so she got empty containers.
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    I did this for the entire list, making sure I was as petty as possible when packing up the house. The result. Part 1: once she took all her stuff, she sent a very long letter via her lawyer, stating that what she received was not
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    what was listed in her belongings. We painstakingly went through the entire list, explaining that she received exactly what was written on her list, and we couldn't possibly be at fault, since she "wasn't specific enough"
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    Part 2: Their divorce was finalized at the end of 2019. Occasionally, we will still get the stray email saying we need to return items to her that weren't provided back in 2018.
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    It makes my petty heart burn bright, knowing that she tried to be a about taking things, and I turned it back on her and ruined it by being extra petty
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    StangF150 37 min. ago OP, the question is, Did your Boss know how Petty you were? An if so, what did he think about it??? Reply Share 42
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    Realistic-Salt5017 OP · 34 min. ago Yes He started to follow along once he realised what I was doing. After being dragged to court several times on phony assault charges, he wasn't too pleased with her behaviour.
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    Besides, he's a very very busy person, and so having me pack everything actually did help him take some of the load off 65 Reply Share
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    Realistic-Salt5017 OP 32 min. ago · edited 27 min. ago I will say this, as part of the pettiness, I did know which items she wanted. But if it wasn't explicitly specified in the court documents (which included her list) I deliberately packed the items I knew she didn't want
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    Contact No7201 ∙ 18 min. ago · edited 13 min. ago . I had similar with a small business partner who pulled all sorts of petty things, from saying they didn't make any phone calls one month sodidn't want to pay their half of the phone bill (flat fee, no call charges), didnt want to pay their half of electricity bill as I
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    used my laptop longer than she did. You get the idea. We decided to part ways a year after setting up. She wanted half the money of the cost of things we bought such as for coffee cups, kettle, an area rug, curtains etc. so instead of giving her cash, I gave her half the area rug (cut it in half), the top of the kettle
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    (my keeping the electric base), half of the now chipped coffee cups and half of each curtain. Completely useless. 14 ↓ Reply Share
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    Realistic-Salt5017 OP 16 min. ago Y'know, about two years later, I lamented to my boss that I didn't take the list literally like you did. One of the things requested was "half of the icecream containers". I only thought about it later that I should have cut them all in half.
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    Your pettiness warms my heart just as much, though. Knowing what I know now about life (I was a miserable 23 year old back then) I absolutely would do the same now. Zero F's given. ↑ 13 Reply Share
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    Alternative_Case_878 10 min. ago An old man calls his son and says, "Listen, your mother and I are getting divorced. Forty-five years of misery is enough." "Dad, what are you talking about?" the son screams.
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    "We can't stand the sight of each other any longer," he says. "I'm sick of her face, and I'm sick of talking about this, so call your sister and tell her," and he hangs up.
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    Now, the son is worried. He calls his sister. She says, "Like they're getting divorced!" She calls their father immediately. "You're not getting divorced! Don't do another thing. The two of us are flying home tomorrow to talk about this. Until then, don't call a lawyer, don't file a paper. DO YOU
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    HEAR ME?" She hangs up the phone. The old man turns to his wife and says, "Okay, they're both coming for Christmas and paying their own airfares.
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