Sometimes there are justifiable reasons for calling your SO while they’re at work, such as a death in the family or thinking that they were injured or dead because of a news report about one of their job sites, which is exactly what happened to this Redditor.
u/alphiotomas asked, “AITA for yelling at my wife after she blew up my phone with calls because of a fire?”
“I work in a place where we are not allowed to have personal electronics on us at all. No phones, no smartwatches, no pagers. I’ve been working here for about 6 months so my wife knows this and understands that she should not try to contact me by my cell at work. Phones are dropped off in our lockers and I typically have mine on Do Not Disturb. Before this incident, my phone has never gone off in the locker before,” he wrote.
“Recently there was a pretty big fire at a secondary worksite that I do work at occasionally but that day I was working at the main building. Local news covered the fire before I found out about it because again no electronics, plus the work we do isolates us a bit so news travels pretty slowly. There were a few casualties, a lot of seriously injured folk.”
His wife, understandably, panicked because she didn’t know if her husband was okay.
“My wife had been watching the news from home and started freaking out, I guess. She called me 20 freaking times, which (and I did not know this was possible) overrode my DND and my phone was ringing for a while in my locker. In the middle of my shift, I got called into my managers office and was chewed out (and written up) for my phone making so much noise. They told me to go take care of whatever it was making my phone go off before I went back to work.”
OP, however, didn’t get it. Clearly, he doesn’t have an empathetic bone in his body.
“I won’t lie…when I saw those 20 missed calls from my wife I was seriously pissed off. Like I said, she knows not to try to contact me directly and a citation hurt my chances of getting a raise or promotion. I called her back and she was sobbing and asking me if I was okay. I said of course I was okay and asked what the f*ck was wrong with her to call me so many times. She was still crying and started talking about the fire. After that I started half-yelling at her about all the reasons it was dumb of her to call me.”
“When I got home she was super upset with me. I apologized for yelling but she refused to talk. She’s been very chilly the past few days and sleeping in our daughter’s room. I know it was not the best decision to yell at her but I still think my anger justified . 1) she knows I don’t work in the secondary worksite very often. 2) she knows that I can’t be contacted directly and she could have just called the office. 3) 20 calls is absolutely *insane*. Am I the asshole?”
Redditored reamed out u/alphiotomas for being so callous when his wife thought he was injured or dead.
