When it comes to starting a new job, everyone wants to make a good impression – so when one man invited his new co-workers round his home for dinner, he really wanted it to go well.
Unfortunately for this particular bloke, things didn’t quite go to plan, after he insulted his wife the moment they arrived, by introducing her as his ” housewife ” despite the fact she also works full time.
Unsurprisingly, his wife didn’t take too kindly to his joke and decided to hit back in front of his co-workers – and he was not happy about it.
“My husband invited his new co-workers over for dinner. When they arrived he introduced me by gesturing at me and saying, ‘this is Mrs Smith (didn’t even say my name), the housewife’,” his wife wrote on Reddit’s Am I The A**hole forum.
“I looked at him for a second then I started laughing hysterically. I then told said, ‘no honey I work full time and YES I still act like a housewife when I’m home because you simply can’t bother to help.’
“His co-workers were staring at him as he tried to laugh and change the subject and ask what they wanted to drink.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the dinner ended up being “super awkward,” with the man constantly giving his wife “looks and stares” as they ate.
“Once the guests left he blew up saying I embarrassed him by laughing like a lunatic and then making the comment I made in front of his new co-workers and ruining his image. I told him he was wrong to lie about my status and deny my degree to begin with,” she continued.
The man suggested that she should’ve raised her issues with him privately later instead of “making his co-workers think he’s useless,” before storming off.
Now, the woman has been left questioning whether she was wrong to say what she did in front of his colleagues, and turned to Reddit for their thoughts.
“Men who diminish their partners to look better at the office are gross. He only seemed to care about his embarrassment, and not yours. I’d be mortified if my husband used a lie that robbed me of my success and accomplishments to prop himself up,” one commented.
Another agreed: “He diminished (being a housewife is not a ‘low’ role, but he meant it that way) you in public, you corrected him. In public. As he deserved. Talk s***, get hit (verbally).
“I’m also a ‘housewife’ and a realtor. My husband just introduces me as, ‘My wife, she’s a realtor!'”