Aunt gives away family business to random 30-year-old employee instead of her son, he quits on the spot and she blames the other workers for ruining their relationship: “They haven’t talked since that day”

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    AITA for telling my aunt she ruined her own relationship with her son?

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    My aunt is a mechanic who opened up her own business 30 years ago. She has one kid, my cousin Jake (26) and he's always been her shadow when it came to the business. From the time he was young he was in the shop
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    with her and he started working there full time when he turned 18. And he was a hard worker. Doing so much to help keep everything working well, he balanced out my aunt's somewhat abrasive personality and he made sure
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    everything was where it was supposed to be. He worked the longest hours out of anyone. He wasn't the only person working there either. She hired me (30m)
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    and another cousin too. And she has a few other guys on staff. It was always called the family business and she said it was her legacy to pass down some day.
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    FAMILY BUSINESS
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    One of the other guys who works for my aunt is Dylan (30m).
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    For a few years now my aunt has taken Dylan under her wing to teach him everything she knows and has treated him like a son. I know Jake was jealous of that and felt left out and insecure about
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    his place in the business. It was very noticeable how my aunt was treating Dylan like the person who'd inherit the shop when she was ready to stop down. I
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    brought it up to her once and she told me to mind my own business.
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    Jake carried on working his a off. And his relationship with his mom grew more and more distant.
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    In March my aunt announced that when the time came for her to stop down, she'd be leaving Dylan in charge and passing over ownership to him. Jake confronted her about the
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    decision and she told him it was a business decision and he'd still have a job no matter what. Jake told her that all that talk about legacy and it being a family
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    business was bulls and he quit. My aunt didn't expect it but Jake hasn't been back since.
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    Jake told me and our other cousin to stay and not give up on it but he was going to find somewhere else since his mom had shown how little his effort meant to her.
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    Jake and his mom haven't talked since that day and he avoids her. She's starting to get all upset now because she doesn't have anyone to stay late and work if a client has a tight deadline. She doesn't
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    have someone making sure everything's running smoothly. That was always Jake. And she's also realizing that he means business because he was so good
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    to her. She mentioned how he hadn't called since that day and won't answer any of her calls.
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    She tried to blame me and my other cousin saying we ruined her relationship with Jake. She couldn't say how but she blamed us anyway. I told her she ruined her own relationship with him
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    and she needed to get the f over herself and face it. I told her she always talked about the shop being her legacy and she called it a family business but then passed over her only kid for a random
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    worker who she decided was more like her so deserved it. I told her she'd be lucky if Jake ever speaks to her again.
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    My aunt told me blaming her and being cruel wasn't helping anyone. AITA?
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    KitchenDismal9258 • 20h ago Why isn't Dylan staying late... it is his business after all.
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    If I was Jake I would never break NC. Your aunt deserves everything she gets. She discarded her son for what she thought was a better model.. well he wasn't and the chickens have come home to roost. She's going to be very lonely.

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