Am I the jerk for telling off my class president and refusing to cooperate, all because she enlisted me in a school event without my consent. Because right now my classmates are saying that I'm the jerk for not cooperating, as I could potentially get all of us in trouble for not being involved. But despite the fact that I was never asked explicitly to be a part of this, I'm honestly now feeling very frustrated. And at this point, I seriously don't know what to do. Here's what happened. To start things off, I'm an 18-year-old female, and I'm currently in high school. Not too long ago, there was a school event that was organized to celebrate our trilingual institution, meaning that we held inter-class competitions in our local language, our national language, and in English. Every class is required to send one or two

representatives per competition branch. Now, compared to my classmates, I am quite fluent in English,

but I had another competition outside of my school that I needed to prepare for, so I did not enlist

myself. About two weeks before the day of the event, the guidebook was sent to my class's group chat,

as well as a list of who will be participating. Our class president, who's also an 18-year-old female, urged us to enlist ourselves, but since I was busy, I decided to ignore it. Fast forward a week after that, and at 7 p.m. on a Friday, my class president sent me a direct message. She asked me if I've already submitted the video for the upcoming school events English speech contest. When I asked for further information, she sent me a

screenshot of the list in the class group chat showing that my name was on their list under

English speech contest. Well, she admonished me for not paying attention since she tagged me

and the other contestants literally five days beforehand. In fact, she said to me,

you didn't know that you were enlisted as a participant? Oh, come on. We've already listed you in the

group chat since like a week ago. When I checked the actual list, I found that above it, she had

conveniently cropped out a text where she had said that this was a revised list, composed by herself

and our class's vice president. And apparently we can't protest this, as they've officially registered the people on the list. She literally said there's no excuses. Well, I screenshotted that specific text, and I circled the no excuses part before sending it to her. I told her that in that entire week, after she registered me and our other classmates,

neither she nor her vice president ever bothered to check in with me about whether or not I'm going to be able to participate.

I also emphasized the fact that only now, less than five hours before the deadline, did any of them bother to text me?

At the end of my text, I told her that everything must be done with consent and that there was no such thing as no excuses, considering that we live in a democratic country. Well, the class president left me on red, so you know what? I said to myself, fine, whatever. A couple of days later, it's Monday again, and the class president and vice president did not bring up this issue. My parents say that I'm right for feeling slighted, while some of my classmates have said that I'm the jerk for refusing to cooperate and potentially getting the entire class in trouble.

So seriously, am I the jerk? Because right now, I don't know what to do. No, you're not the jerk at all. I would not buy into this for a second. Because honestly, you have it right. No one's going to be like, um, there's no excuses. We already registered. You can't say no. But it's like, no, I'm not going to agree to this. You literally didn't even ask me. And you just sign me up because I'm the only person

that can speak English, apparently. And to any classmate who's trying to be like, wow, you're going to get all of us in trouble. Just cooperate. It's like, no stupid. The only person that's getting in trouble is the class president and the vice president. You're not the jerk for not wanting to do

something that you didn't sign up for. That's an insane precedent to set and honestly, I can't stand

anybody. president and the vice president. You're not the jerk for not wanting to do something that you didn't sign up for. That's an insane precedent to set and honestly, I can't stand anybody trying to like force you into this. So I know if I was in your shoes, I would absolutely go like to a higher up or some kind of principal figure and show them everything that's happened against you. Because these people literally have tried to sign you up for something against your will, almost as if they're going to like make you do it in some kind of way. And it's like, yeah, okay, buddy, like you're going to make me do anything. Because the way they handle this is incredibly idiotic and you don't deserve to deal with this in the slightest. If you like Am I the Jerk, you're probably going to love Am I the Genius. Check it out, link down below in the description. Also, go to am I the jerk.com slash submit if you would like to submit your own stories. Am I the jerk for yelling at a mom and her kid to get out of my house after they literally make a mess of everything? Because right now, I'm being slandered on Facebook and I don't know what to do. Here's what happened. I'm a 28-year- old female and a few months ago I started a new Dungeons and Dragons campaign and invited a few friends. One of them, who we will call Sarah, asked if her friend who we will call Ann could join us. For reference, Anne is a mom who doesn't get many chances to hang out with adults, so I agreed, even though I knew she might be flaky due to child care responsibilities. I then asked Anne if she could at least attend the first few sessions to get familiar with the game, and she agreed. She then proceeded to cancel mostly last minute every single proposed first session for the next two months. I told her, I'm sorry, but if she can't make it to the next proposed session, she won't be in the long campaigns, but still is welcome to join any

one-shots. She then apologized and said that she will make it. Well, to her credit, she did make it, but she brought her toddler with her without asking me first. As soon as they came, the kid needed to use the bathroom, and he made a mess since he can't fully use an adult toilet yet. I told Ann, that's fine, but asked her to please clean it up. And when I said this, this surprised her,

and she started being a bit on edge. use an adult toilet yet. I told Anne that's fine, but asked her to please clean it up. And when I said

this, this surprised her, and she started being a bit on edge. We finally sat down to the table and the

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