📝 AITAH for not sharing my work bonus with my coworkers and telling them that i don't give a fuck about them so why i should care?

By Anonimo1864 • Score: 11 • April 25, 2025 12:47 PM


Not an English speaker.

Believe me at this point i start to doubt if i'm the insane one or if my coworkers are just so much entitled to make me look as greedy even if i'm not.

So for a bit of background: the relathionship between me and my boss is great. We first met for a couple of days a year ago when he find out a "black hole" of money disappearing in off shore accounts, fake companies and shady places so he did his job and reported everything meticolously to the CEO and a week after 14 people were fired. (Basically everyone in the "executive border") I worked with him for 2 days but that was it. But then almost 3 months ago he was given a big promotion and went to work here in the headquarters as "vice CFO" and during this months we worked together very often. We worked for a renewal of contract of our biggest client, an army tech company and we worked for it basically everyday for a month and a few days ago finally they signed and my boss got a very fat bonus while i got nothing but it's ok. I never expected nothing from anyone so for real no problem.

But coming to the main point, 3 days ago my boss decided to split in half his bonus with me because "you helped me a lot and most of all tolerated my shit" so he gave me half of it. I wasn't expecting it and i told him that it wasn't necessary because recognition is the only thing i wanted but he insisted so finally i gave in and accepted. Until now fine no? Finally i got a boss who cares about us and cares about recognition and value people so what problem could ever come? Apparently my coworker's jelousy is the problem. I admit that i didn't said to anyone of the bonus because me and my coworkers basically ignore each other if not only for work and i'm perfectly fine with this and because my office have the nickname "drama office" for a reason and i hate drama, gossip and all this stuff but every week something new happens so i have to tolerate this shit.

And yesterday morning when i came in my office i found a few of them around my desk with arms crossed waiting for me. I asked them what the fuck they wanted and they told me that they heard about the bonus and were shocked to know that i didn't told anyone about it. I told them that it wasn't their business so they could all go to hell but according to them i was being greedy and ungrateful(???) for no reason. So i simply asked them when they got their bonuses if they ever split it and their silence told me everything. But one of them replied that they didn't because it was always a small amount and mine was different cause it was a huge one. At this point i just replied to get the fuck out of my desk and to leave me alone cause i wasn't in the mood for their shit and after mumbling something they finally got the fuck out. It ends here right? Absolutely fucking not.

Since 2 days i got passive aggressive comments and strange looks from everyone around in my office because "you are being difficult for no reason to share your bonus". Like i owed something to people who don't even know when my birthday is and don't know anything about me. I'm doing my best to ignore this assholes but it's extremely difficult because if they were 2 or 3 it wasn't a problem but actually like 50 people acts this pathetic way so i'm actually wondering if i'm the insane one or if they are just pressuring me to cave in.

So AITAH for not sharing my bonus?

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