Given a real-life anecdote of a complex ethical situation, identify who is wrong here. Classify each post into the following categories : AUTHOR (if the author of the post is wrong in the situation), OTHER (if any of the others mentioned in the paragraph is wrong), EVERYBODY (if everyone mentioned is wrong) and NOBODY (if no one is wrong in the situation).

So, this happened a couple of days ago but I'm still haunted by it. I took my kids to the park (7yo girl and 3yo boy) with some friends around the same age. Weather is nice so the park is quite crowded with kids and parents.

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As I'm talking with another adult, I see two boys (brothers, around 4-6) using sticks as guns and messing with my daughter. I decide to observe and see my daughter walking backwards trying to keep the distance with the boys (who keep getting closer pointing her with the sticks), while my girl is very timidly saying "stop". Since it doesn't look like she can control the situation I decide to get closer and say "that is enough" while I let my daughter "escape".

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Seems that the boys forgot about her so they come with their mom, which is sitting in a bench next to the adult I was chatting with (let's call him F) when this started. The boys keep saying that they're the police and that everybody else are thieves, pointing with the sticks and so on, whatever. F decides to take part into the role-play and says that he's the sheriff and try to convince them to play less aggressively. Doesn't work and before F realises the boys are poking him with the sticks and even jumping on top of him. The mom manages to snatch them away for a few seconds as I'm starting to see that this is not going to end well (the mom just smiled and said "oh, boys... you know").

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Suddenly I see both boys are doing the same to my 3yo, I walk calmly giving some time for my son to react but before I can separate them as I did with my daughter, one of the boys pokes my son in the temple. I honestly lost my shit, grabbed the stick and violently threw it away, which obviously caused the kid to start crying. Next thing I know is the mom yelling at me like crazy about what the hell am I doing and that they're just kids and I'm an adult. Still in adrenaline-rush mode I yell back that it was dangerous, they could've hurt my son's eye, etc.

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Then is when things go surreal. The mom starts to say that I hit her kid and that she was calling the cops. I was shocked and could barely say that I grabbed the stick and that's it. Luckily for me other parents (most of them I didn't know) jumped and started to say that it was false and that in fact those kids had been all evening harassing their own kids. The mom doesn't reason and keeps yelling and insulting me. This goes for a good 10-15min and then she starts saying that my daughter started everything  by bossing her two kids (the mom was imitating some sort of club-bouncer posse). We feel that she's delusional and that there's no way to reason so we took our kids away and went for ice cream.

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I feel bad for reacting in such a childish way, and honestly I was shaking for quite a while. I feel like most of the other parents in the playground were also upset with these kids but were nice enough not to cross the line. AITA?
OTHER

So, to be clear the old employer I worked for did not make me sign a Non-disclosure or non compete.

5-6 years ago I started working for a ma and Pa welding supplies shop with only background in automotive/concrete pumps.I was to fix the welding equipment.

The company needed to have a certified tech to maintain their "premium" distributor status which means the get great discounts. I was sent to the first of two certification classes within 2 weeks of starting, I passed the first test after cramming, got back &amp; spent the next 3 months being trained by the guy who was currently in retirement. I go to the second class, pass &amp; get fully certified &amp; begin my career.

The owner retired the year I was hired, in hopes of leaving his company for his son whom was currently the store manager.That left his son, the top employee &amp; the accountant all tied for heirarchy &amp; they all wanted things differently. I steer clear of any political BS because it didn't matter to me. I was there to learn a dying trade &amp; learn it well.

Here is where the biggest pile of shit hit the fan. That poor poor fan..

The owners son, who was 6 months away from inheriting the company was found to have been stealing from the company for YEARS, like tens of thousands of dollars... He was subsequently fired and his dad became even more checked out &amp; left the accountant to be the general manager. Well fast forward a few years, I made a dying repair shop into a bustling repair business,with 40-60 machines in at all times in que, sent out Excel spreadsheet reports on the current status, expanded the repair shop from being a warranty center for 1 brand to all 3 major brands.

I had out grown that shop, and that they wanted to keep me at a certain level of capability that met their needs without taking into consideration that I have 40 years left in the industry.

Quickly management got worse and worse so I left this last October for a bigger company that called me at my place of work in the hopes of hiring me. The straw that broke the camel's back was the GM shutting down certain options we gave customers for repair against my will, after that I went to places I knew I could walk on to and said I was on the market. That was when this bigger company hit me up out of the blue by pure coincidence.

To wrap this up that bigger company is taking great care of me, letting me train on the high end equipment I dreamed of working on and like I said, this tradeskill is a dying trade. I'm now using my abilities and natural prowess with this type of work to give previous customers an alternative outlet for repair on welding equipment, both normal and specialty (CNC, automated sub arc, high end plasmas etc) but with the understanding that if they choose to utilize my skills I want them to bring over gas and hardgoods business, essentially taking customers from my old employer but making it 100% up to the customer.... And it's working...

AITA/did that smaller company Fuck up their best last hope??
OTHER

Ok, so I want to start this post by stating two things: 1) I'm sorry if the title is wrong or confusing, english is not my first language and I had trouble making that sentence, if you could correct me I'd appreciate it. 2) I love my mom more than anything in this world, we've had some problems and we're going through a rough situation but I don't blame her at all for this. 3) There's a TLDR at the bottom. 

So my mom and my siblings have been in a pretty rough situation for a couple of months now. My mom lost her job and our father is a crackhead good for nothing, our family doesn't really help us and we've been all alone for a good time, my grandfather (who was the only one that helped us) passed away recently, and left my mom his motorcycle, my mom, not being able to find a job, decided to work for Uber Eats and has done so for a couple of months, it's not like we can live from it because we don't have Wi-Fi or anything like that but she makes it work. God I love that woman.

Now, the problem started about three weeks ago. We got our light and water services cut off, we couldn't even afford food and if we did, we couldn't cook it but, magically, out of nowhere, big buckets of chicken would appear out of nowhere, pizza, tacos, all sorts of food. My brother and little sisters were happy because we haven't been able to eat that delicious food in a long time, so I just let it slip and thought she bought it.

After a week or so of that I asked her where she got that food from and she confessed to me she accepted Uber Eats trips and when she got the food she cancelled them so we could eat something, she said she felt terrible but if she didn't do that we wouldn't be able to eat. I got pretty upset and exploded over this, we got into a big argument and I called her a thief, I went to my room and I could hear her cry.

I told her if the problem was so big I could get a day job and study at night but she said if I do this I won't be able to graduate and to see me do it it's her biggest dream.

I feel really shitty and I don't know if I'm right or what. I know she's just doing what she has to do, but I feel extremely disappointed and embarrassed so, AITA?

TLDR; Family has been in a shitty spot for a few months, my mom has been cancelling Uber Eats trips after getting the food so we can eat something to eat, I exploded and called her a thief. AITA?

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