For some background, I (16F)have lived with my dad (64M) for about a year now. My parents are divorced and I am not close with my mother. I’m going into my senior year (I’m graduating a year early) and start school again in a week or so.
Last year in November, I began working at a restaurant as a hostess to save up for a car. I take the bus to and from school, as well as to work, and a car would save me a lot of time. I make minimum wage, and I pull in a little over 1,000 dollars a month after taxes. I put about 60-70% of that into savings and spend the rest on various things like going out with friends or funko pops.
In February of this year, my dad told me since I was making so much money I needed to start contributing to the household. At first this was fine. He asked that I pay for my phone bill and utilities. We rent from a family member so utilities are discounted, and my phone bill isn’t too expensive either. Both things are about $200. With this I was saving less so I still had spending money, but still had set aside 4-500 dollars every month for the car.
In July he decided I needed to pay a portion of the rent. I tried to argue with him on that but he threatened to close my account (which he can do because he opened it for me). I had to start giving him 500 dollars on top of the 200 a month, totaling 700 a month. With the 300 I had left I saved 200 for the car and kept 100.
I was pretty fed up at this point, but it gets worse. I have some cash in a jar in my room, in case I go do something that you can’t use a card for. I had about 300 dollars in the jar from several months. Last week I came home from work and the jar is empty. When I asked my dad he said that since I’m his daughter he’s entitled to the money I make. I was furious. I told him he had to give it back but he had already spent it on some BS Amazon purchases. Lucky me. He told me he wanted 100 extra dollars a month because “I shouldn’t have that much money just for me”. So after all this, I’m only pulling in 200 dollars a month, that’s if I don’t save any.
Last night I told my dad I was going to give my two weeks notice. I work hard and I’m exhausted, it isn’t worth the few hundred dollars I get. He was absolutely furious and said that I owe it to him to contribute to the household. I go to work in a few hours and I’m planning on letting them know I won’t be continuing. So, AITAH?
TDLR: My dad takes the majority of my salary for himself, and working is no longer worth it, so I’m quitting my job
