1. He's lost his job.

(Again)

(again)

I don't know WHY he has lost his job (again).

But he's no longer working at the car dealership he had been working at.

Presumably, he's bad at his job.

probably for all the same reasons as before (again)

Or yes, he did something that caused him to be fired.

He had a final paycheck mailed and the business sent it to his old address because he didn't update it with his work because that would be admitting he didn't live with his wife anymore.

And my sister got it. And realized it was a check.

And so when he came to get it she asked him "Why are you getting a check in the mail from your job? You've never gotten that before."

And his answer was

It's a Christmas in July bonus.

And my sister went. "Is this really what it is?"

If you could see the look I'm giving reading this right now.

And he admitted that it was severance.

"Christmas in July bonus" I am trying so hard not to lose it

TRUST ME the face I was making when my mom told me was one of childish amazement.

the actual funniest excuse I have ever heard

"CHRISTMAS? In JULY?"

2. He's OFF HIS MEDS.

I can tell this because when he goes off his meds, he starts posting dozens of times a day on Facebook late at night.

And he's reposting videos on Facebook like 20 times a night between 8pm and 3am the last week.

He has Bipolar Disorder.

3. The videos he's reposting are ALL CONSPIRACY THEORIES.

Mostly involving: Vaccinations, Bill Gates, and Religion

4. He's TOTALLY ABANDONING ANY PARENTING DUTIES (which I mean come on obviously)

According to my mom, he's just not shown up the last two times he was supposed to come over to have time with his child.

He's probably too busy spending his CHRISTMAS IN JULY bonus on hydroxychloroquine to spend time with his child.

He's like 3 weeks of being divorced.

Nothing about this is surprising.

Except the Christmas and July bit, I guess.

*in July

Christmas in July bonus... i’m so close to crashing out

CHRISTMAS IN JULY

god he literally might kill himself like this and I just. cannot find it in me to care. like I'm sad for his kid more than anything, but not for his dumb ass

i hope your sister has like. good locks on the doors and shit bc this man sounds literally insane and I don't want him

I hope he runs away.

yeah like i want him to go far, far away and forget they even exist so he doesn't go insane and do something that would be on a true crime show. bc holy flying fuck

Legit, he just... goes out for smokes (indomethacin) and never comes back.

HARD agree

He never got his sense of taste or smell back post-Covid.

The indomethacin (that very much saved his life!!!!) wasn't able to let him taste things.

My bet is he was back on his bullshit and harassing female coworkers to get himself fired, because after the last revelations about him, nothing surprises me

I mean it could be anything.

It could be many things

It could have been sticking jesus fish to every car in the lot

It could have been embezzling, if he were clever enough to pull it off

But yeah, it's probably him being a sex pest

it could just be him being bad at his job.

selling cars requires people skills, a thing Rodrigo doesn't have.

It could be both!

Sometimes you can try to coach a person to be better but not when they are also being Rodrigo (insert action here)

True, his general Rodrigoness makes him pretty well unemployable

in the 12 years or so I have known him he's had the following jobs: Workers comp from construction; home medical equipment installation; police academy; prison guard; home construction inspector; home inspector supervisor; halfway home prison guard; different construction company home inspector; city sidewalk inspector; unemployed sex pest; car salesman

he's been a sex pest in every one of those positions, i'm sure

The several times he was a sex pest with a job and the one time he was a sex pest but unemployed

Oh also he was a Volunteer Sex Pest at a local soup kitchen.

I wish he would get an entry level role as a human being

Would be nice!

He sounds like the sort of person who won't be making efforts at even being an entry level human being until he's too old to have the energy to be a pest anymore.

He's 51.

If he was gonna put the work in.

He woulda done it already.

Instead, he's posting this literally right now:

You won't have a goddamn clue what your kid takes, you ass

And my only reaction is

"Oh, you're going to get yourself hospitalized"

Id vitamin K safe????

He is a 51 year old man doing this shit???

I

I need to sit down

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

He's a decade older than my sister.

and has the emotional maturity of a toddler

he’s 51 what the actual fuck????

I mean I hate to point out that everyone in this thread is much older than they were when they first met me, but that is the case.

they got married back in 2013?

So he married her when he was 39? And he's just gotten worse since, hasn't he?

well he hasn't gotten better

the first time I met him, at least for an extended period of time, was at an Olive Garden, which I was being taken to to meet him as he was at that point engaged.

I had kind of seen him at things but he didn't live in my hometown and I was away at graduate school so I didn't know him at all really

and at that very first meeting I had with him I watched him be rude to the waiter.

imagine going to an Olive Garden restaurant and meeting the waiters question of "would you like cheese on that?" with "absolutely not" said in an angry tone as, if the waiter should know you didn't want cheese. at the Olive garden.

they were other things but I just generally watched him be dismissive of the wait staff while we were there.

and as we are leaving I say to my parents in the car "he was rude to the waiter. that's a bad sign."

my parents response was I didn't notice that. but I did.

so after 1 year of marriage and my sister confessing that her husband was verbally and emotionally abusive and sometimes she prayed that he died in a car wreck I reminded my parents well I told you he was rude to wait staff.

he started out rude and dismissive to people he saw as beneath him. which of course turned into seeing his wife as beneath him because he and my sister both belonged to a patriarchal version of Christianity that places men above women.

at the time, I told my sister that I would support her if she wanted to divorce him, but she said that the only biblical divorce is if one partner is unfaithful to the other so she didn't see that happening.

so truly, I'm perversely grateful that he somehow got even shittier because it gave my sister the free divorce card that she'd been lacking for 12 years.

as I told my parents when they broke the news to me that she was getting a divorce, the best time to divorce Rodrigo was 11 years ago. the next best time is today.

AI is run by literal demons. (sure, why not)

chat Chat GPT

Moon.

it's like he has that moon madness from ocarina of time but perpetually since birth

It's like he's a man who is ruled entirely by fear.

eaten by his paranoia that it skews his religious believes and reality fr

my mother tells me he skipped out on the last three Sundays where he was supposed to have time with his daughter in the afternoon.

on one day not even responding to text or phone calls. On another day texting like 15 minutes before he's supposed to show up to say he woke up with a fever of 101. a lie that nobody believes.

anyway the response is write everything down and in 6 months take him back to court and get those limited visitation rights removed.

Fucking coward

He has no spine

He's a shitty person.

moon

why is he fucking like this. like i know why but dude

A combination of untreated childhood trauma, serious brain injury in his 20s, 90s rightwing talk radio and internet poisoning.

papered over with evangelical Christianity

My mom called me, upset.

Adah was telling her about how her father said that gravity isn't real. And the Earth is flat.

And I went "yeah, he's crazy and paranoid and off his meds."

So that's great.

I keep waiting for him to Go Out for Smokes

Rodrigo is turning crashing out into an art form, my go

If only he had the decency to suffer for his art rather than making other people suffer for his art

Other Sister says that he looks terrible. Thin. Strung out.

Obviously he's not sleeping.

Paranoia.

I mean part of me is like "maybe he's on meth"

Seems like a thing he'd do! Fuck up his life.

seeing as how my nephew, his daughter's cousin, has a rare genetic condition which causes autism, a thing even my crunchy sisters know to be true, I would cordially like to invite Rodrigo to go to Hell.

WE'VE REACHED FAKE MOON LANDING LEVELS OF CONSPIRACY

it's really good that he is showing that he cares about the children (but not his child)

"Thoughts?" No, no thoughts were had in the creation of any of this.

no. why would he care about his own child.

although now you've put George Washingtonp, "he loves the children but not the British children" into my head. this is somehow an improvement.

that'd be so silly and not the apex of man

8')

and just for funzos, Flat Earth again.

maybe Rodrigo is an elf. maybe the World is Flat but only for him.

maybe he's being driven mad by the promise of a ring of power.

It already sounds like he's gone full nazgul so

9 rings for mortal men doomed to die (Rodrigo is speed-running this).

RODRIGO WAS SENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM FOR A COCAINE OVERDOSE INDUCED STROKE.

He lied about the cocaine. Of course.

he's. really speedrunning it.

So anyway he's doing great.

He's so speedrunning it.

Run, don't walk to court, Sister.

What the ever loving fuck, how is he getting even worse

He hit rock bottom and then found a pickaxe

Made of coke

Evidently my sister was the onlly thing keeping him alive.

Not that that is an excuse to stay with him.

my sister talked with his sister, with whom he has a very poor relationship. unsurprisingly. basically just to update her about his situation. the fact that he's unraveling.

jfc he's actually... speedrunning and crashing out

She was the only thing keeping him going? Now I wish she'd left him even sooner.

Like, he's bad at being a human being.

This is well established.

genuinely glad your sister left him as soon as she could

Agreed. It took a while, but she finally got out.

like of course, the best time was years ago, but the second best time was when she finally decided to leave him

Sister is like "I'm not even sure if he's really a Christian" and I'm like "let God sort that one out, he's a bad husband and father, which is relevant to you and your daughter here and now."

Amen to that.

Number one priority is keeping herself and her daughter safe and, like, a consistent 50 foot pole away from this guy.

Again, run don't walk to the court and petition to get his visitation rights removed.

there's a similar sentiment in islam teachings that in terms of a person's lack of faith, it's not our call to put judgement but god's. but things like being a bad husband and father are things even god would urge us to take action, not just pray for divine fate.

she needs to remove his visitation rights asap especially after the cocaine overdose

Oh hey, you were close, not meth but cocaine. Very similar.

but also hey can we please get RID OF THAT MAN

more than a little, my guy

Rodrigo, not understanding how perspective works.