u/Competitive-Car5955

Hi, I don’t want my identity to get leaked so you can just call me Griffin. I’m class of 2029.

So a little background, I lived in El Paso for nine years before I moved due to my dad’s job.

For most of my time, I’ll El Paso. I kind of jumped back-and-forth between private and public schools. I was a bit of a slow learner.

However, about six months ago, after being away from El Paso for about three years. My dad got a job back in El Paso so we decided to move back.

One of the first things we discussed about moving back was where I was gonna attend high school. My older brothers all attended Coronado. Currently, I attend a small Catholic school. (Im not catholic.) I was recently here for Easter visiting and checking out schools. We looked into four schools. Franklin, Coronado, El Paso high, and Cathedral.

My mom and I toward all four of them. Almost immediately we crossed out Coronado in Franklin. Largely because they were too big and we didn’t hear great things about him from some of my mom’s old friend.

So it was between El Paso high and cathedral. I liked both schools a lot, and it was hard to decide.

But eventually, I decide on El Paso high.

However, last week, my mom told me she really believes I should go to go to the cathedral.

Now my current school on that like I said is also a small Catholic school. And I’ve really enjoyed it. It’s honestly been an almost perfect experience for me.

And the more I thought about it the more I thought this cathedral would be more like it so eventually, I change my mind and decide I’m going to cathedral.

Do you guys think I made a good decision or no?

Little background I’m S (15 m) when I first started playing basketball during my seventh grade year. There was this kid on my team I’ll keep it private. So we’ll call him. Colton.

I never was the biggest fan of him, during my seventh grade year, but he never really caused problems. So I just deal with him. We talked a little bit during school.

But during eighth grade year, everything changed. He was a bit of a loud mouth. But I’ve had loudmouth teammates before so I wasn’t really concerned.

But during the first game of the season, we were playing against one of the best teams in our conference. His team was no joke. They reportedly cut 50 kids from their middle school team. And as a freshman now I heard about that one of their freshman is on varsity averaging 15 points. And is 6’6 and has three other freshmen on JV. But that’s besides the point.

This team is really good and at first we were playing good ones close. Keep in mind me and Colton who both starters. It was 14-9 to start off. But this team was way betters and started making a lot of shots. Now something I never liked about Colton was his play style. He was a bit on the dirty side and would always commit hard fouls.

In the middle of the third quarter he already had 4 fouls. And a kid from the other team drove to Colton grabbed him. They obviously called a foul. Colton was obvious not happy. But he was throwing a they have a tantrum as he subbed out. I was on the bench getting water and he kept throwing a fit.

Eventually, I said “bro you foul him” and he turned and yelled “shut the fuck up.”

We ended up losing by quite a bit.

Now I have to admit, maybe what I said, wasn’t the most mature. But things didn’t stopped there.

Now my school was divided up into two teams gold and black. Which was just evenly divided. We are practicing with the other team and my coach was out so the other team’s coach was in charge of all of those.

We were doing some scrimmage. Some kids were hard foul. So if actually our coach I was just calling coach Wilson. Told us to stop hard fouling just play.

But not even two minutes after he said that Colton. Lowered his shoulder into a kid as he was driving past.

Let’s just say, Coach Wilson lost his shit on him.

To say he was on discipline wasn’t understanding.

But this is part of your problem started.

The practice after one of our roughest games where we’ve lost 55-20. He was shitting on all of his teammates saying he was the only guy playing team so we need to step up. But my coach stepped in and said. “ you don’t play the defense so shut it.”

During the whole season, you kept disrespecting me. Saying I was trash and worthless. I don’t know why. But he had a major problem with me.

One of his friends told me that he just hated me. He didn’t know why. Here’s a thing for all the crap you talked. I was a far better player than him. I averaged more points, rebounds, and assist. During my seventh grade year, I wasn’t very good so he would always make fun of me. But now I think it was starting to get to him that I was better than him so he started taking out his anger on me.

My coach even noticed he always targeted me when other kids made mistakes he would tell them he was OK but me it was like a committee a felony. He would call me retarded, if I shot one shot that he didn’t like can you tell me to stop shooting. But immediately after telling me to stop shooting, he would airball four shots in a row.

But after one game is where I totally lost my shit.

During the whole season he would goof off during practice. But then get pissed at us when we goofed off. It was bad enough our coach called him out about it.

But during one game, we play that same team we played start of the year. We played in the goddamn demolished again. But after the game. I was talking to one of my friends who was on that team and shared a little laugh.

But after we were in the locker room. He told me. “ there’s no fucking way you’re smiling after we lost by 40.”

I literally felt my jaw clinch and hands formed in the fist.

To say I lost my shit wasn’t understanding. I screamed at him saying ” it’s pretty fucking funny you’re yelling at me for smiling when all you do during practice is goofball. You’re a fucking cancer of this team. Nobody fucking likes you. You’re a sorry ass player who will never not do nothing. All you do is shit on your teammates when you average. 0.5 points per game and 20 turnovers. Nobody on this team or respects you. Everyone just thinks you suck and frankly you do.

After the game by Coach heard about what happened and he pulled me aside and he told me to report him to the principal of my school because Frankie said he was done with it too.

So I reported him, and eventually, he was suspended for the playoffs. Now, during this whole thing, there was a school I was looking at going to. I thought about if I could go there but after this season I decided will actually go there because I never want to see Colton’s face ever again.

About a year later I’m a freshman now. And I’m doing very well. 3.5 GPA. Was the best shooter on my freshman team. I don’t know how Colton is doing and frankly, I don’t care. He’s a scumbag. And I’m happy I got him suspended for the rest of the season

I know this is r/badbosses, but I think this is close enough.

So in the middle of my sixth grade year, I moved to a different state. I wasn’t very happy about it, I loved the area I lived in and I had amazing friends.

I moved to the Midwest. And when I first moved there, people definitely weren’t nicest. The area I moved to. People pretty much grew up around each other their whole life. So it was kind of weird when somebody knew just randomly joined from a completely different area.

So going into my seventh grade year, I didn’t have a ton of friends. And I wasn’t very confident and I was pretty insecure.

However, I’ve always had a love for basketball. And I decided to try out the team. Thinking it’ll be a good way to make friends.

The first couple days of tryouts I wasn’t the best. And a couple kids told me I probably wasn’t gonna make it. Which hurt my confidence, but I kept working.

In eventually, I made it. Now here’s the thing I was 5 foot 10 as a seventh grade. Which was extremely tall.

So when I eventually did make it, most of the kids discredit me saying it was just because I was tall. Now I couldn’t really shoot either and dribbled. But I was big and could still finish and rebound.

So eventually, 18 kids made the team. They were divided up into two teams. They were evenly divided. Both the coaches were these young college kids which I was pretty excited to have because I thought they would be chill.

Boys was I wrong. My coaches name I’ll keep private so we’ll just call him coach Steve.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a guy yelled more.
Now I don’t really mind if coaches yell. It shows they actually care but his reign different level.

And I don’t know why he had it against me. Every little mistake he would scream. Take me out and make fun of me.

During practice we are running a scrimmage a kid threw a ball behind me completely miss me. I saved it at a bounce, but it was a turnover. Somehow, it was my fault and my coaching immediately sub me out.

Like I said, I couldn’t shoot. The one time during practice I missed a shot extremely badly. And he told me I was never allowed to shoot ever again. This caused the other kids to make fun of me.

That just lowered my confidence even more.

But it wasn’t just me he treated bad dude. During games he would constantly cuss out referees. During one game, we were struggling he told one of my teammates will call him Jared, that he just sucks and will never be a good player.

Another one of my teammates will call him Michael. He turned over the ball on an inbound. He subbed him out, yelled at him, told him to get down to the end of the bench, he sat on the second to last one and Coach Steve yelled. “NO, GET ALL THE WAY DOWN. YOU’RE NOT PLAYING THE REST OF THE FUCKING GAME.”

During that second game during halftime, we were down 34-11. Keep in mind our best player who averaged 35 was out due to in school suspension.

He told us that we absolutely suck his not his fault. I just don’t know what coach says none of it is his fault. That’s the point that I realized it’s not our fault this guy was just an arrogant young guy who needed to be gone.

He did lots of other stuff. Like he told one of my teammates to hit me for no reason. He chucked up all at one of my teammates. And received two technical fouls.

One day after a really shitty practice, where he yelled at me a lot. My mom picked me up and saw how miserable I looked. She asked what was wrong and I just broke down crying.

I told my mom everything and she was absolutely pissed. She said she wasn’t gonna let this slide.

However, before my mom could do anything. We got news that he was fired. Apparently, my mom wasn’t the only person who heard about his crazy antics.

The varsity coach for our school issued a massive apology saying he was the worst coach he had ever seen. And he was sorry all the kids had to deal with him.

The craziest part is the school didn’t really necessary fire him. They let him quit before he got fired so it wouldn’t show his track record.

He’s still coaching at another school for what I’ve heard. I pray for those kids. Or I hope he’s matured and doesn’t act like an idiot anymore. Because at the end of the day, he was only 21. But still doesn’t excuse his actions.

But this story does have a silver lining.

Two years later during my freshman year, I transferred schools. Over those two years I got a lot better. Especially my jumpshot. Kid who are making fun of me for not being able to shoot. I was now better shooters than them. On my freshman team I shot 50% of three and averaged nine points a game. I was statistically the best shooter on my team.

(all these names are fake, keeping it private)

A little background I’m S (15 m) and I’m in a little friend group. The friend group consist of me, my friend Kaleb, (14 m) my friend, Adrian, (14 m) and my girl best friend Alexa. (15 m).

Over the last couple months that group and I have been hanging out a lot there’s some other people too, but they’re not really relevant to this story.

So last Friday, I was home and I saw my three friends were hanging out. I didn’t really care because I was tired, and they looked like they’re having fun so I just shrugged it off.

However, the next morning at around 12 PM. I was texting Kaleb on Snapchat. I asked me if you wanted to hang out Sunday he responded with “yes, as long as Adrian’s not there.”

At first, I thought he was just joking. But eventually. He started saying some bad things about Adrien saying he was a “bitch” and a “pussy.” I still was confused and I thought he was just joking. Until Adrian texted me about the same thing.

At this point, I started to realize it was not a joke. I got added to a group it was me, Adrianne and Kaleb. They both immediately started shit talking each other. I was really confused because over the last couple of months. Adrian and Kaleb became best friends and I was happy to see that because they were two of my closest friends.

But now they hated each other?

I texted Alexa asking what happened. And she told me they had an argument. But she didn’t give me any information.

That wasn’t until. Kaleb and Alexa added me to a group of the three of us. They called me and explained what happened.

So something I always knew about Adrien was he had a crush on Alexa. He’s had it since the start of the year. Alexa never really liked him back I thought he moved on.

But apparently during their hangout Alexa and Kaleb, we’re being really touchy. And apparently they went to a shed and they made out. Adrian was not happy at all.

Now here’s the thing I can’t denial Alexa is pretty attractive. I’ve had some feelings for her too. During last year, I confessed them to her, but she didn’t like me at all. She sees me more as her big brother. It hurt me at first, but I’ve grown past it.

But I learned that Adrian didn’t really lose his feelings.

However, Kaleb made his move and I guess it worked.

But back to present time I’m in the group chat with Alexa and Kaleb. The group chat is called “ Kaleb side.” that’ll be important later.

We were texting and talking about stuff. Until Adrian texted me. He told me his plan to jump Kaleb. He said he was gonna get some juniors and seniors to beat his ass. And he asked me if I was in. I honestly couldn’t believe my eyes, but I said yes, just because I wanted to get more information to keep Kaleb safe.

Me and Adrian kept talking about it, but then he asked me. “Are you texting Kaleb about this?”
I of course, lied and said no. Then he asked me to show him my recent text. So I left the “ Kaleb side” group chat. And I showed him my recent messages On Snapchat.

However. Then he said. “Why is there a group chat called Kaleb side?”

My heart dropped to my stomach. Turns out he used a website called snaptoird. (I’m pretty sure I spelled it wrong but who cares?) basically he put my account in and it showed my recent messages.

I honestly couldn’t even believe it. He was borderline stalking me.

I asked him why is he doing this and he said it’s all because of Alexa.

I told him it’s not worth it. You’re ruining a friendship over a girl. And he said this isn’t just a girl.

I’m honestly starting to wonder if my friend group is turning into a toxic love triangle or is Adrien just a toxic one and we need to cut them off.

What do you guys think?