Remote worker sends sister an invoice for childcare after she starts regularly dumping her 3 and 6 year old daughters at her house before dawn: 'I sat down and did the math'

Sometimes the phrase, "You give an inch, they take a mile," rings unfortunately true – especially if you're the "reliable one." The very moment that you offer one, tiny favor, you accidentally sign a lifelong, unpaid contract that you never really agreed to. That's what happened to one 28-year-old remote worker who casually offered to cover the occasional daycare closure for her sister and then became a full-time, pre-dawn childcare center without notice or compensation.

She didn't mind playing the role of the sweet auntie from time to time, but eventually, the expectation turned into an every day thing that started putting her carreer at risk due to missed client calls and a yogurt explosion on her work laptop. When she tried to set boundaries, her sister basically just hit "Ignore" and kept right on dropping the kids off like it was her God-given right. After months of this, our narrator finally sat down, crunched the numbers, and sent an invoice. Not out of spite, either, but out of sheer survival. Instead of getting compensation, she started a family feud that is still currently raging.