TASK DEFINITION: Given a post that is a real-life anecdote of a complex ethical situation and an associated claim about its type, verify if the claim is true or not. The claim asks if the posts are historical or hypothetical. The posts are "HISTORICAL" when the author has already done something and they are "HYPOTHETICAL" when the author is considering doing something in the future. Say 'yes' if the claim is true otherwise say 'no'
PROBLEM: CLAIM : The following post is HISTORICAL. POST : Jessica (not her real name) and I started in the company on the same day, a year ago. We get along pretty well that’s why I feel so bad right now for going to my manager because of her work performance. 

Our company is a huge startup company. We only commenced our operations last year. I was hired as an Accountant and Jessica as an Accounting Analyst. She has an MBA degree and 13 years of experience working as a Financial Advisor in a for-profit school. On the other hand,  I am an Accounting major with four years experience. 

My previous job was very similar to what I am doing. My manager showed us how the process is done only once, I picked it up quickly. I had to help her learn everything which I don’t mind. It is sometimes annoying though because she is not “computer savvy”. Anybody who works in accounting should have at least basic knowledge in MS Excel and she has none. Our tasks are related and I come up with process improvements to help us do things pretty quickly, she is always iffy about it. I kinda feel like she doesn’t want changes in the current process so I adapt to whatever she wants, if she can’t be flexible, I’m the one adjusting. She eventually learned stuff. 

Recently, I noticed that on some of her emails she is using “Accountant” as her title instead of “Accounting Analyst”. I didn’t tell anyone about this. I don’t know if anybody noticed. One time I sent an email to our vendors and she told me that I’m not using the correct format. Yes, there is a template and me and my manager are not really using it because it’s a waste of time, a non-value adding activity really. I told her that and she told me she wants everything to be uniform. She was acting like a manager when I taught her most of the things that she knows. I schedule to reconcile vendor accounts monthly, as per usual practice, she wants to do it almost everyday because of the volume which makes no fucking sense, worst is she asks me for assistance or bossing me around like “email them, ask this, ask that”. One incident I was speaking to the Sr Manager of one our biggest vendors on the phone because we cannot pay some huge invoices due to IT issues, she was beside literally telling me what to say. She even forced me to put the Sr Manager on hold so she can coach me. She told me to call IT right now and make someone in IT talk to the Sr Manager since it’s not our fault. 

Outside of work we are fine and I wish we never talk about work. Yesterday, I told my manager if he can create a boundary between my job and hers. There’s no clear division but I didn’t tell her about my co-worker’s attitude and the incidents above. She wants to dominate everything but her ideas are out of the line. I might sounded like an asshole undermining my co-worker to my manager but I couldn’t take it anymore and now I feel bad because instead of talking to her first, I went straight to my manager. AITA? 

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: CLAIM : The following post is HISTORICAL. POST : I have a 4 year old son who I’ve raised vegan since birth. I raise him this way for health and moral reasons. I’ve talked to him about why we don’t eat meat, he loves animals and agrees that animals are our friends and we don’t want to kill them when we can eat other stuff. My son is happy and healthy but of course it can be challenging sometimes when he’s around other people who have non vegan food. He sometimes stays with my parents and up until now as far as I’m aware they’ve stuck to vegan food with him, even though they don’t agree with it. 

I went away last week for a few days and left my son with my parents. When I got back they told me that he wanted to try cheese so they let him. I was really angry because firstly he could have reacted badly to it, and secondly they destroyed my trust with them. They told me I was overreacting and that it was unfair of me to deny him from trying things. I told them they can forget about looking after him if they’re gonna go behind my back and do stuff like this without talking to me first. 

The thing is, I’m gonna let him try stuff when he gets a bit older if that’s what he wants, but at this age I’m doing what I think is best for him. My son is now begging for real cheese at home, 

AITA for being angry at my parents for this and not letting my son try stuff? 

SOLUTION: no

PROBLEM: CLAIM : The following post is HISTORICAL. POST : The street that I lived on was VERY narrow. One way, cars parked on both sides with just enough room for a car to pass through. I lived in one of two buildings that had about 8 units. Across the street was a building that had about 6 units. This building had two driveways on either side and a parking lot behind it. My building had no off-street parking. 

I would park my car in the first spot next to one of the two driveways (the one further down the one way road, so the other driveway was still an option. This is important.) I made sure to never block the driveway, always parking past where the curb turns into the driveway. Admittedly it made it tight for people to pull out of the driveway but any time you turned onto this road it was tight. 

One day I came out to my car in the dead of winter and my car was covered in what I thought was frost that someone had wiped around. I honestly didnt pay it much mind. (Figured out it was coffee they had poured all over my car) A few days later I came out and there were 4-5 pickle slices on my car. PICKLE SLICES! No broken glass around nor an excess of pickle juice. So as best I reckon someone came out with a jar of pickles. Opened it. Threw 4-5 of those suckers on my car. Closed up the jar and calmly walked it back into their apartment. Seems like well-adjusted behavior. At this point I think these events are a bit odd, but i honestly have no idea why someone would be messing with my car. 

Finally one day I come out and there is a pile of trash on my car. It's not really wet trash, mostly sunflower seeds, some food and alot of papers. I pull put a couple of pieces and find a name and address. Thinking I have the perp I go to knock on their door. A woman answers and i calmly ask her if she has been messing with my car. She says she has no idea what I'm talking about. I must have the wrong person. The real guy must have just grabbed the trash from a random trash barrel. I tell her I'm sorry and that someone must have been going through her trash and she should be careful what she throws out. (I was able to find a significant amount of information just from the stuff I found) So I leave still confused. 

The grand finale came when my girlfriend and I are parking in the spot one night. All of a sudden there is a guy pounding on the passenger side window yelling that I cant park there. I try to keep calm but I don't appreciate the aggressiveness hes showing, especially with my girlfriend present. I get out of the car. He immediately starts yelling about how I cant park there and that I'm blocking the driveway. I tell him that I'm within the curb and not blocking the driveway at all. This back and forth continues on for a while luckily doesnt get physical, after some yelling guess who comes running down the stairs? The Woman I talked to earlier! She really was the one dumping the trash on my car! 

There really was not much resolution. I told them that I will continue to park there, if they have issues they can knock on my door and I would help them get out. I parked there and they never said a peep afterwards. 

Where I parked wasnt illegal, I admit it made it tough to pull out, but parking was at a premium and they had an alternative driveway to use but it's been bugging me for a while, AITA? 


SOLUTION:
no

