'He doesn't make as much as us real engineers': Entitled friends mock guy's career, so he picks up their hefty dinner tab

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Isabella Penn
Feb 3, 2024 5:00 PM EST

At the end of the day, you can't accurately gauge someone's income solely based on their job title. Salaries can fluctuate significantly across different industries. So, never think you're better than anyone because you assume you make more money than them. This lesson hit home when a group of entitled friends decided to mock their acquaintance for being an agricultural engineer, dismissing it as not a "real" engineering profession. Throughout their group dinner with their families, they belittled him with arrogant jokes until their wives told them to stop. In a bid to assert dominance, one of the friends proudly disclosed his earnings from the previous year. To the OP's surprise, it amounted to only a fraction of what he made as an agricultural engineer made. Yet, the OP wasn't ready to give up so easily; he wanted to deliver an even more cutting blow for his revenge. Keep reading to discover how the OP responded and the ensuing reactions from the entitled friends.

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    Posted by u/old-guy-50 13 hours ago Friends called me a Fake Engineer, I bought their dinner D
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    My daughter 17, asked me to post this here. And Im the Dad who does as the women in my life tell me, which is how I ended up in a restaurant tonight with snobs. So the characters, my
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    wife, wife's coworker 1 and her husband arrogant engineer 1(AE1), wife's coworker 2 and her husband my CPA, and Lastly AE2 and his wife. Each couple has two teenage children with us. We are at a Japanese steakhouse in America
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    where the chefs cook in front of you. CW1 and AE1 invited all of us for their youngest daughter's birthday. Since their daughter is close with our daughter. So the parents are at one table and the teens at another.
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    At the teen table my daughters (17 and 14) order sushi appetizers, mocktails, and shrimp with scallops. At our table the Sake is flowing along with a few top shelf drinks. My wife and I order
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    our appetizers, drinks and dinners. We are all paying for ourselves and I see AE1 and AE2 seem to in competition for who can spend the most. My CPA and I chuckle at them and stay
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    out of the fray. Until AE2 hears my daughter order and says to her, "careful now your daddy is only and agricultural engineer. He doesnt make as much as us real engineers." For context
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    they are structural engineers with Bachelor degrees, Im an agricultural engineer with a PHD. I work for governments, private investors, and several agro corporations. I own my own
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    consulting firm. I help build sustainable reusable gardens. And this work allows me to travel to poorer countries and help them use what they have to start growing their own food.
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    Apparently these men thought All I did was travel to impoverished places and teach people to dig in the dirt. They believed I did all this work for free and therefore made very little money.
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    Im not "rich" by any stretch, but Im comfortable. We dont do extravagance, so we have savings and my wife works. However in 2023 I was awarded a handsome contract to design tower gardens in several states. Its
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    a seven figure contract over three years. Back to dinner These guys ask me about the most ridiculous things. Like “is it good to grow onions and carrots in the same garden?" And were laughing
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    at me and my work until their wives told them to stop. I chalk it up to drunken arrogance and dont even bother to answer. My CPA was laughing so hard he almost fell out of his chair.
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    Apparently, he is AE1's CPA as well. And knows the ins and outs of both our finances. AE1 taunts CPA to tell the table what he brought home last year after bonuses. CPA pulled up the
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    figures on the phone and tells us. Its about 1/3 of what I brought home in 2023. The CPA says "I have yours up want me to share?" I decline. And he nods. Que another round of taunts. I go
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    to the restroom and find the waiter. I pay for the whole check and leave a generous tip on top of what they added for a big party. After our sobert the waiter thanks me in front of everyone for
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    the tip and wishes everyone a good night. AE1 and AE2 stare at me for a moment. I smile nod and tell CPA to tell them my income last year. After which I simply said goodnight. Petty absolutely, gratifying d n right
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