'He wants to be a boss without doing the work': Farmer's wife gets even with lazy brother-in-law by remotely changing the channel on his TV and ruining his night off

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Nov 18, 2025 8:00 AM EST

This lady had had enough of watching her husband do all the work for the farm he shares with her brother-in-law. 

For some context, this entitled dude actually believed that he deserved to be the boss of the entire farm. Somehow, he had the audacity to hold this belief while simultaneously shirking all of his responsibilities… as one does.

Now, it just so happens that these two brothers share homes that are right next to one another. This meant that the farmer's wife, who shared this anecdote, could see when her brother-in-law was sitting on his couch watching TV when he should have been pitching in. It also meant that she lived so close to her brother-in-law that she could log into his WiFi when he least suspected it. This would be important later for her petty revenge.

Let this story serve as a poignant reminder that when family members work together, it can only work well provided that all adults involved do their fair share in fulfilling their responsibilities. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from members of this online community.

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  • A farmer stands on a large green field during daytime.
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  • As for this lady's form of vengeance, she decided to ruin her brother-in-law's so-called “night off” by connecting to his WiFi and then remotely operating the Roku on his TV. Every time he tried to switch the channel, she put it back onto a PBS children's program. If he was going to do nothing all day, why should he be able to rest at night?

  • "Brother-in=law doesn’t want to pull his share of work at the farm"

    My husband and his little brother both grew up on the family farm, and are in the process of transitioning ownership from FIL
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  • to the two of them. My husband works his butt off, as one has to do if you're a farmer. Typically he works 70-80 hours a week, (oftentimes more- rarely less)
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  • and is the brains behind the whole operation. BIL probably works 45-50 hours a week, and doesnt like to be told what to do, but doesn't want to ever take the initiative to do anything either. He
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  • wants to be the boss without actually being the boss. We just finished harvest, and it was such a pain to get him to do anything.
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  • So when it was late at night and my husband was still out working and I would see BIL's pickup at home next door, it was so frustrating! (we live in the middle
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  • of no where, but our houses are RIGHT by each other. Yay, old farm houses)
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  • His wife and I do a lot of the bookkeeping, and since she still has babies at home, we work out of her house, which means I know her WiFi password. Since
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  • we live so close, sometimes my devices will stay connected to their WiFi when I get home if our WiFi isn't working super well. The other night, my husband was out fixing a problem at our dairy barn,
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  • and I looked out the window through BIL's living room window to see him watching a movie, and I just snapped. Both homes use Roku tvs, and I have used the app before when we couldn't find our remote. So I turned out the lights,
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  • connected to their WiFi, and then opened my roku app, which connected me to their TV. So while he was watching a movie, I randomly pressed the PBS kids channel on the app, so it would stream onto the TV. I watched BIL
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  • look so confused, and open the right channel to get his movie back on. After a few minutes, I did it again! And again. Then I did it again the following night!
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  • Watching him stress and take the batteries out of the remote brought me so much joy! So if he wants to sit at home when there are millions of things to do and
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  • he wants to be a boss without doing the work, I'm going to have fun making his movie watching a little more difficult. Dumb and petty, but man was it enjoyable!
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  • A woman in a pink shirt and blue denim jeans sits plants seeds and flowers on a farm during daytime.
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  • FreshResult5684 • 13h ago I like it. Next send your little ones over to watch tv with uncle lazy
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  • HeyWV132 . 12h ago If you can mute it. Then when he gets up to check the tv unmute just as he gets close. Then mute it again when he returns to his chair. Rinse and repeat.
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  • kfj3000 12h ago . Oh you should learn what the admin password to the wifi router is. Then you can block traffic to his devices as needed.
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  • • BeardsuptheWaz... 13h ago I am in a very rural area with only two neighbors in a 3 house cluster. It's insane how close our houses are considering how much open space there is around us. I can relate to that.
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