This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Am I the A-Hole for using a broke guy to pay for drinks? If someone's offering me free stuff, you better believe. I am accepting it. Are they offering free stuff? Are they just, I don't know. Maybe we'll see. Okay. O.P. My friend Grace invited me to a board game bar to play and have drinks with her. Her boyfriend and one of their friends, Nick. Nick. Nick. Nick. Nick. We went to get drinks and pairs. Grace going with her boyfriend. Meanwhile, Nick and I stayed at the table and vice versa. So Nick and I had plenty of time to talk. Just the two of us. Nick started the night telling us about his recent career change.

He decided to quit his previous job, go to a coding boot camp, and he got a job as a developer

one or two months ago.

He was very proud of himself and his new salary and told me his new salary multiple times.

Smooth, Nick, smooth.

Yeah, really just laying it on lights. He never asked me what I do for work, but talked about his new job quite a lot, occasionally saying, sorry, you don't understand that. Ha, ha, ha, ha, I'm a smart developer. You wouldn't get it. You're poor, bro. You're poor and uncultured. During the entire evening, I never told him I had been working as a software engineer for the past four years because he never asked. Honestly, I found it a bit entertaining. Got to love it. When it came to the drinks, he invited me to every single one. Don't worry about it. It's not a problem with my developer salary. Which, you know, like, you know, sharing in the wealth. That's cool. You know, let, let him pay for it. Yeah, exactly. Do it. Nothing wrong. I told him multiple times he doesn't have to pay for me, but he insisted. All right. I see nothing wrong with it so far. Yeah. At the end of the night, when we were saying our goodbyes, he took out his phone to send me a front request on Facebook.

My job is listed in my profile. So that was what he realized that I'm a software engineer.

He asked me if it's true that I'm a software engineer and I answered yes. He asked me why I haven't

told him and why I let him believe I was a cashier

like Grace used to be, which I never implied that. And why did I let him pay for everything when I

probably earned more than him? I told him he never once asked me and it was his fault he assumed.

He could have simply asked me about my job, but he only wanted to brag about his. But if he wants me to, I can pay him back for the drinks. He was angry and said I made a fool out of him. I think actually, he did that, not me. But now Grace and her boyfriend are on his side too, saying that it would have cost me nothing to tell him early in the evening. and I only kept it to myself for my own

entertainment. Well, I did find it entertaining, but I don't really feel like I did anything wrong. Am I the A-hole? I think the answer here is not the A-hole. No. No, dude. I mean, like, if these guys are going to be a jerk and not ask. He's like, oh, no, like you don't have to do it. And he insisted multiple times.

That's on you, bro.

That's on you.

You wanted to be the big head and be the big shot.

So, He's like, oh, no, like you don't have to do it. And he insisted multiple times. That's on you, bro.

You wanted to be the big head and be the big shot.

Sorry.

Yeah, maybe be a little less braggadocious.

There you go.

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