Life isn’t fair. That’s something we all have to accept from a young age, or we’ll be in for a painful reality check. But sometimes, the playing field could certainly be more even, if favoritism wasn’t a factor.
Redditors have been recalling the most egregious favoritism they’ve ever experienced, so we’ve gathered some of their infuriating stories below. From nepotism in the workplace to parents picking a golden child, enjoy reading through these examples of playing favorites. And be sure to upvote the stories that remind you to always be as impartial as possible!
#1
* When I was 16, my 13-year-old sister got a brand new cellphone. I never had a phone, and I still didn’t at the time.
* I worked 3 jobs in college just to survive. My parents paid my sister’s tuition, rent, and bills. They also got her a brand new car. I spent my college years working and using public transportation. My sister spent hers partying and going on road trips with her brand new car.
* When I graduated college, I got nothing. My sister got a brand new MacBook, which was stolen a few months later because she left it in her unlocked car.
* My mother constantly told my sister that she loved her growing up. My mother only said it to me once, in the context of “I love you, but I don’t like you”.
I have plenty more of these stories. And, no, I don’t speak with my parents or sister anymore.
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#2
Worked in a company for years, my superior left the company and there it was, the possible promotion and new job title including leading a team. I was the only candidate in that team (because they didn’t want the responsibility). Boss decided to give the job to his son who had no job experience and told me to help him, because I was one of his best employees.
I quit.
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#3
My mom can kiss the dog as many times as she wants and he’s fine with it.
If I kiss the dog, I get growled at.
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#4
One of my classmates always got better scores on comparable essays in a high school literature class. I suggested it was favoritism so we decided to write each other's papers to see what happened. Our study found that no matter who wrote the paper, if I turned it in, I got a worse grade than if she turned it in.
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#5
Years ago, my Ma and dad re-did their will.
They called me. Said, “I just want you to know, that we re did our will and you’ll be getting less of our estate.”
K. I didn’t need to know that and I honestly wouldn’t have cared. But without even asking why, she continued, “You seem to be doing well and your brother works so hard. He’s going to need it more.”
I was a stay at home mom. My brother was (and continues to be) a top exec in a major corporation in a major city with two millions dollar homes.
I’m now twice divorced, living in an apartment, relocating for a full time job three states away.
Funny, she hasn’t called me telling me that maybe she re did her will again.
And this is why I forget Mother’s Day.
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#6
I’m female. Worked my way up in 9 months from a temp to a downstream operator. Applied for a promotion to the next position up that I and everyone else knows I earned.
Another person, male, on another shift, in my exact position, applied for the position too, but just before, (I will dispense with diplomacy and talk shop), operated the KUKA robot with the touch screen after an operations failure, which is suppose to be a direct call to maintinence, and if you as operator try to fix it yourself it’s suppose to be automatic termination. In doing so, he caused the robot to move backwards and break through the cement wall and cause 17,000$ in damage and shut it down for a week waiting for new parts to replace so we could restart the process.
He got the promotion. I quit in protest. He was fired not long after for bringing his guns to work to show off to people.
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#7
My nephew's school had two students who won a contest all by themselves. They got a chance to meet the prime minister and show their work. But at the last moment, the principal insisted to add his daughter in the team.
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#8
My grandma always yelled to my cousins, but she always pampered me and bragged about me to others.
She didn’t even try to hide that difference in treatment and I HATE IT when that happened. Even the little-child-me recognized and despised it very much.
Obviously my relationship with my cousins isn’t good till now.
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#9
When I was in grade 5, we had a music teacher that brought guitars in for everyone. I was a natural, and so I begged my mom to get me a guitar for Christmas.
Every year for five years straight I asked for a guitar on Christmas and my birthday. On the sixth Christmas, I saw what was clearly a guitar shaped box under the tree. I remember actually being so excited because I was finally getting it, and they had actually gone out of their way to surprise me with it.
And then, I sat there and watched as they handed it to my older brother.
#10
My friend is the middle child he had to find a job when he was 16 to pay for his car by himself, work full time through college to pay for it by himself, and had to pay for his new house and his parents didnt offer any help in fact they packed up all his stuff while he was at work and dropped it off in his garage and said good luck. While his siblings did not have to work in high school or college, parents paid for their cars and paid for most of their college when his older brother got a house they offered to help pay.
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#11
One of my professors was the same ethnicity as me and 2 other of my classmates. He always talked to me and the other 2 in our three hour lab and straight up told me in our shared language, “I help out my people. I don’t really help the white kids because they get enough help from everyone else in their lives”. I ended up getting an undeserved A in his class.
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#12
When I was in high school, my dad had a very public affair and my mom kicked him out of the house. A few days later, he sent an email to the whole family begging us to let him back in the house. He had a line for each kid in the email. My brother and I got a few sentences saying that he missed us, etc. However, he wrote an entire paragraph to my sister, starting with “I have always had the best connection with you out of all my children…”
i’ve since cut him off completely but that still stings a little, 7 years later.
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#13
My French teacher would tell the class who she liked and didn’t like and would give the kids she liked extra credit just for being there.
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#14
A girl I was friends with in high school was the middle child in a VERY wealthy family. The parents clearly favored the older sister and younger brother. The older sister got extensive cosmetic dentistry work done and the younger brother got braces. The middle child wasn’t taken to see a dentist for 5 years at one point; all while the other dentistry work was going on with her two siblings. The parents truly just ignored her and let the other siblings walk all over her.
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#15
In high school my sister was on the debate team. They would travel around and debate other school’s teams. It was all good fun, went out for pizza after no matter if they won or lost etc.
This year it was an exceptionally good team. They were just blazing through the opposition, had never lost. Then they were up against a prestigious private school’s team. Normally the contested are judged by representatives from both schools, with disagreements adjudicated by a neutral third part who reviews footage of the debate.
My sister’s team absolutely smoked them. Like, there was no question that the public school had won. But the representative from our school couldn’t make it at the last minute, so it was only the representative from the prestigious school judging, who announced that their school’s team had won. There was no way a school that charged enormous fees could stand the humiliation of being beaten by public school kids. The other team absolutely knew it too. They were all looking at the ground, and the captain actually apologised as he was shaking the hand of our members.
By mutual agreement the entire team disbanded after that match. There didn’t seem to be any point in competing any more when the winner was determined by postcode rather than skill.
#16
Once my step mom started dating my mom, they took care of my little sister and little brother more than me. New clothes, winter gear, game systems, TVs in their room, they got to eat out, huge allowances, and candy when ever they wanted. I got my mom's old clothes or had to buy my own with what little allowance I got, I had to use old socks for gloves in the winter, all I got for entertainment was books, never got to eat out unless I was with my dad, I was forbidden to have sweets, and I had to cook my own food.
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#17
My brother got everything he ever asked for. Brand new PCs or phones. His drivers license. A new car.
You name it and he got it all. Meanwhile I was wearing hand me downs, Had an old Nokia 3310 (This was about when Apple launched the first Iphone) and had to work after school to afford getting my license, paying for school trips and buying a PC for school.
She still to this day denies favoring him.
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#18
Had a step brother who was my same age. He asked my stepmom if he could spend the night at a friend’s house and she said yes. I then asked her the same question and she said no. I complained that other kid got to go and said it was unfair, so she grounded me. That was 23 years ago and I’m still bitter.
#19
In my school a kid got put into the top class despite his grades being very bad. He was a relative of the school board chairman.
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#20
I once got a birthday card, no other presents, from my parents that said, “we couldn’t afford to get you an iPod” and then, inside, said, “…so we got you a pea pod!”
My brother got an iPod.
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#21
Former teacher here; new coworker assaulted a special needs student and got suspended for the remainder of the school year, the racist principal brought him back and gave him a different yet better position. That year he let go 15 individuals all the same race that didn’t match the principals and hired more than 10 new teachers the same race as the principal.
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