Teen claims she wasn’t paid for babysitting duties — because she wore ‘inappropriate’ lace tank top

This Brandy Melville-bearing babysitter brought nan receipts.

A 15-year-old babysitter took to Reddit’s celebrated R/AmIOverreacting organization to inquire for thief connected an age-old rumor — costs disputes betwixt babysitters and nan families who employment them.

Mae, arsenic identified by nan matter screenshots successful the post, shared that she reached retired to a family she regularly babysat for aft they allegedly neglected to salary her respective days aft nan emblematic period.

The teen prefaced nan screenshots by explaining that nan parents were “more connected nan blimpish side, and a batch much belief than my family, but they are mostly nice,” truthful she initially approached nan business reasoning nan settlement snub was simply a mistake.

What she discovered erstwhile she texted Marianne, nan children’s mother, was wholly retired of near section — nan family had purposefully not paid her, claiming that they don’t consciousness comfortable doing truthful because of nan teen’s “inappropriate clothing.”

Mae explained successful nan station that she was wearing a sweatshirt complete nan transgressive vessel apical for nan mostly of nan visit, and only took it disconnected erstwhile nan 2 young girls asked her to tally astir and play pinch them.

Internet sleuths quickly discovered that nan inappropriate garment successful mobility was Brandy Melville‘s Skylar Tank Top.

As she explained successful nan connection to Marianne, nan 15-year-old wore nan tank apical and sweatpants truthful she could beryllium “in thing elastic to tally astir in” pinch nan kids.

Despite this, nan teen profusely apologized for making nan parents consciousness uncomfortable.

“If they had specified an rumor pinch nan outfit, they shouldn’t person fto OP babysit and should person dismissed her earlier moving a afloat 7 hours,” reasoned a reply. “The truth that they’re refusing to salary now, they’re 100% being shady.”

Others were simply successful awe astatine nan truth that Marianne offered Mae a “second chance” aft lowballing her, particularly astatine what galore replies agreed was already a reasonably debased complaint for 2 children.

“Sometimes nan worldly successful this sub makes maine deliberation everyone is faking scenarios and nary functional adults pinch kids tin be that stupid aliases that overmuch of an a–hole,” replied 1 shocked Redditor, “but present we are.”

Shortly aft her original station went viral, racking up thousands of upvotes and comments, nan teen made an update letting invested Redditors cognize really she handled nan conflict aft nan outpouring of support and advice.

When Marianne neglected to respond to Mae’s first consequence text, successful which she offered to judge a scant $75 successful speech for her services, nan teen followed nan Internet’s proposal and asked her mother to nonstop her aggrieved employers an email connected her behalf.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Mae was forced to nonstop a follow-up matter aft her mom’s email was ignored arsenic well, but changed her stance: “While I consciousness atrocious that I offended you and Dan, we had ne'er gone complete crushed rules astir clothing, and I do not deliberation it is adjacent for you to spell backmost connected your word.”

“I deliberation that it is nan champion determination for some of america if you salary maine successful total, and we tin put this down us,” she offered.

In response, Marianne reportedly told nan teen that she recovered it “disheartening” that she was increasing up into different type of her mother and has “prayed that [she] would find a sliver of normality among [her] parents,” earlier adding that she will not beryllium reaching retired for babysitting again.

Despite this, her hubby did extremity up transferring nan afloat $150 to nan teen.

Mae besides clarified that her mother is Jewish, and nan babysitting family is Catholic, and was not amazed astatine Marianne’s response, fixed that, she claimed, “they do not get on very good owed to opposing governmental beliefs and religions.”

However, nan existent win, it seems, was that Mae sewage nan past connection in: “I do not consciousness comfortable coming backmost successful your location anymore, considering nan measurement you person treated me, talked astir my parents, and attempted to usage maine and spell backmost connected your words,” she explained.

Many of nan Redditors successful nan replies of her posts were supportive of this consequence — nether nan original post, hundreds of users expressed interest complete nan sexualization of nan teen’s appearance, and wondered if it was a safe situation for nan 15-year-old to beryllium in.

“I highly uncertainty I will beryllium recommending you to immoderate of my friends who want to get into babysitting. Have a bully week,” Mae concluded tersely.