Karma Stories

In this episode, a 26-year-old woman who is nearly 12 weeks pregnant discovers an explicit Snapchat sent to her husband while he sits nearby, revealing a “best friend” contact and sparking fears of infidelity. After seeking advice and support, she investigates with her sister, consults her uncle (a divorce lawyer), and calmly confronts her husband. He initially lies and blames her pregnancy, but eventually admits to an ongoing affair that began around the time they met through his friend. She plans a divorce, prioritizes protecting her health with STI testing, intends to keep the baby, and focuses on securing her home and child support, leaning on strong family support as she prepares for court.

Enjoy 2 HOURS of Malicious Compliance!
This is a compilation of previous episodes all in a 2 hour package for you to play while working, driving or doing things around the house!

In this episode of Karma Stories, Rob reads a new batch of posts from the Entitled Parents subreddit, featuring multiple situations where overbearing or boundary-crossing parents create public drama and put others in uncomfortable positions. Across the stories and comment highlights, the common thread is adults demanding special treatment, refusing accountability, and escalating conflicts in ways that impact kids, partners, and strangers alike, with a focus on how important boundaries and consequences are when dealing with entitled behavior.

Rob shares malicious compliance stories: an overworked employee is pushed into an impossible deadline, stays late to deliver, then uses coaching and boundary setting to force realistic timelines in front of the team and regain control of workload. A UK worker has a small parking expense denied, so they follow travel policy to claim first class, hotel stays, meals, and taxis that cost far more. In a busy deli, an employee is yelled at for looking at a phone, so they take the full uninterrupted break they are owed during the rush. Finally, an IT developer forced to wear a tie complies with a ridiculous one, then takes a confidential side task that is far easier than managers expect.

Today I’m doing something different and reading from a series of family history letters my grandparents wrote in the mid 1990s after I asked what life was like growing up in the 1920s to 1940s and how the world changed. In Installment One, my grandfather recalls early cars, operator run telephones, and gathering around the radio, along with big family Sundays and how WWII forced young men and women to grow up fast. Installment Two shifts to romance as my grandmother tells how she met my grandfather at a Toronto house dance on the eve of her 16th birthday, then they describe how each joined the services during the war. I also read part of Installment Three with vivid childhood summers at a Lake Simcoe cottage, lake adventures, farm work, and roaming freedom.