‘"Why not fire someone and hire me?"’: Jobless friend of man's wife demands he fire someone from his company so he can hire her instead, then claims another job is ‘beneath her’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
May 24, 2025 6:00 PM EDT

This job market is tough—there's no arguing that. We hope that the people we know (who are employed) will find it in their hearts to refer us to people they know who might be hiring, or just help us network for when the next role might be available. Applications upon applications, and you hear nothing; the real way to get your foot in the door after having been unemployed for a while is through friends. Keep in mind, however, that only friends who know your work ethic and can actually vouch for you should be sought out… If you think that you're better than certain jobs and find them beneath you, then reconsider the reason you don't have a job in the first place…

The entitled friend in this next story managed to mess up the only shot they had at landing a job, which their friend so graciously helped them get an interview for. Scroll below to see how the situation unfolds.

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  • "You're the owner, you can do anything you want.""
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  • "Entitled friend of wife wants me to fire someone to hire her, then sabotages a different job interview because it's ‘beneath her’"

    This one went from 0 to 100 pretty quickly. First, some backstory: I own a small business and our team are absolute rock stars. These are good people who could walk away at any time and land another job in minutes.
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  • We survived the p mic-that- must-not-be-named-on-Reddit with no layoffs, no reduction in pay (except for me), and transitioned to a 100% work-at-
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  • home which remains in place (the savings we enjoyed by not renewing our lease actually helped us out A LOT). We've worked together for a long time, with the least senior person being with us 7 years.
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  • A friend of my wife (I'll call her Stacy) is a complainer. She's one of those people who aren't happy unless they're not happy. My ever-patient wife (as demonstrated by putting up with me for 30 years) does her best to cheer her up.
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  • Last December Stacy put in a vacation request for the week Christmas. A week BEFORE Christmas. When everybody else had already put in their request
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  • was denied, and she thought she would leverage the situation by quitting, only to discover they processed her voluntary termination after she went home.
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  • It's now May and she's been out of work. She and other friends were visiting last Sunday for one of my wife's "Wine & Crafts" nights among her friends.
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  • Making small talk in the kitchen, I asked how her job search was going and she said it was going poorly. Then she asked me for a job.
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  • I didn't mind the ask. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. However, we're not hiring right now and I told her as much. Then said, "You know I'm a hard worker (I actually don't), why not fire someone and hire me?"
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  • It took me a second to process this before I explained our staff has been together for almost a decade, and I can't do that, to which she replied, "You're the
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  • owner, you can do anything you want." Ummmm, no. I'm a big fan of Simon Sinek's, "Leaders Eat Last". A bulls move like that would destroy the trust of the team.
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  • I apologized and made a quick exit before the conversation could continue.
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  • On Monday I happened to be on the phone with another small- business owner in town (I'll call him Bob) who said he was down a couple people. I remembered
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  • Stacy's request. I told Bob what little I know about her work life and he said to have her call. I told my wife who passed it along to Stacy.
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  • Fast-forward to today, Bob calls me. He led with, "How well do you know Stacy?" I was a little nervous, not looking to vouch for
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  • her, but also not wanting to torpedo her opportunity, so gave the best non-answer answer I could come up with.
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  • Bob then burst into laughter, explaining the his interview with Stacy lasted less than 45 minutes because she kept trying to interview not for the job he had available, but for other positions he already has filled.
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  • I apologized and things are OK with Bob and I, but holy cr ip did this go south quickly!
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  • SnooWords4839 Now the petty in me would ask her how the interview went, so you can hear her side of her B.
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  • HotRod Homebody Lol. and she just can't figure out how she keeps ending up in the same bed that she made. Odd.
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