Parents making me work for free
So I (19f) am living with my parents. They opened a bakery in our town a little over a year ago and of course expected me to help out. I make 90% of the bakery and food that is sold and also fill in on days that other employees took off with little to no pay. At most, I am paid for 1 day out of the 7 days I work a week. When the bakery first opened, I was making nothing at all.
Whenever I talk about moving out and not working for her anymore, my mom immediately tells me that they are going to go bankrupt without me there because she can't pay someone to do what I do. She guilt tripped my sister before she moved away as well. My mom thought she could count on my sister to work during the summer so that she wouldn't have to hire and pay another person. My sister had to tell her no, she's not moving back home at least 10 times before she moved and even now, almost 2 months later, my mom is still telling her she should come back (not because she misses her, but because she needs help with the business).
I also constantly clean up after my parents and get told I'm "getting to be so mean and selfish" because I refuse to warm up food for them anymore. And I literally mean taking food from the fridge, putting it on a plate, and microwaving it. I used to make full meals and dessert for them everyday after school but stopped after years of barely any gratitude. They also don't even rinse off their own plates, let alone wash them or put them in the dishwasher so I do that too.
I know running a business can be a lot, but expecting your kid to work for over a year for no pay is ridiculous. My mom also expects me to work for *another* year because then the bakery will get so popular and we can sell it and make so much money (her words).
I'm not sure this is the right sub for this kind of thing because I feel like my parents could fit into a lot of different subs but hopefully it's fine that I wrote it here.