📝 AITAH for not wanting my younger brother to work in the same place I do?

By One-Sandwich2149 • Score: 7 • April 17, 2025 12:14 AM


I (20f) work in a pizza place that is not exactly the most wonderful job. I have only survived it because I had education in food service before starting this job, and I've been there for 10 months now. My coworkers are gossipy and love drama, and there are a lot of people who don't follow the rules (vaping in the bathrooms and the coolers, doing drugs in the parking lot, etc) and my brother (17m) is a rule-follower. It's also a very fast paced job where you have to be able to quickly adapt to changes, which is an area he's not super strong in. He was offered a job there at a career fair because I'm generally well-liked at this place, and he came home to ask me how I felt about it. I told him I strongly felt the type of job wasn't suited to his needs and mindset, and he seemed offended. But he hates cooking, which is a huge part of my job, and gets overwhelmed fairly easily when instructions aren't clear or there's too many things to keep track of all at once.

I also feel like working in the same place will create a lot of tension between us, which i don't want in the slightest. I can see my coworkers asking us both about each other and tattling on us if we do something wrong or weird to each other. They all feed off of drama, which is very much what will start if we work in the same place. He was also offered a position at our local YMCA, which will be MUCH better for him and more suited to his skillsets.

And its not that I don't want him working with me, just not at this job, specifically. If we both worked, for example, at the YMCA or in a doctor's office, we'd probably be fine. But he's just not suited to food service like I am, and won't thrive in that field whatsoever.

So, AITAH for not wanting him working with me?

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