Is EVERYBODY wrong in the post ? POST :  I had two friends help build a PC back in May, with one being the subject of the post. He had helped me pick parts, and repeatedly said that he’d be more than happy to help me build it. Important thing to note here is that it was never a point of discussion pre-build that I would be paying him to help. 

As we start on the project, he’s did nearly all the work besides grunt things my other friend and I did. He was very controlling over the whole build, but at the time I was just grateful he was helping me out. PC gets built, and I’m ecstatic. I start to feel bad he did mostly everything, and so I nonchalantly tell him I owe him for it and that I’d give him $20 for all the hard work at some point after I got my paycheck. A few days pass and while hanging out with friends he mocks me for not having “paid” him yet. I found this odd as the tip I mentioned was more of a gesture that I would get to at earliest convenience, rather than an “IOU.” Almost every time I talked to him after building the PC he berated me for the $20, and it quickly started to piss me off until I finally decided fuck em’ I’m not giving him $20. Slowly we became distant, but this didn’t stop him from nearly 2 months later bringing it up in a group chat that I had yet to pay him his “fee” for building my PC. I kept ignoring him until he started calling me a “jew” nearly every other sentence just because he was so butthurt I didn’t tip him for what was originally just inviting my buddies over to help me build my PC. Finally I snap and tell him “alright what’s your Paypal I’ll send it to you” and he obliges. I then sent him 20 payments of $1, knowing full well Paypal deducts per transaction, and he’d only get around $15 of it. He messages me “are you fucking serious” and then proceeds to breakdown what I did like I was 5 years old and didn’t understand what I had done. I play dumb, say I’m sorry and that I was just trolling him a bit, and offer for him to refund it and I’d send it in full, but he takes all 20 payments anyways. I finally start to think this bs is over with, until today, nearly 10 months from when we built the PC, 7 months from when I paypalled him, he brings it back up in a group chat after getting roasted about something completely unrelated (and not by me), stating that I had never paid him for building my PC, and again calling me a jew. At this point I recap about everything I’ve said in this post in the group chat, and that it was ridiculous that 7 months after I in fact paid him, with him only losing $5 of what I originally was going to tip him, he still proceeded to act like I was this grand cheap ass for thinking I had a friend who wanted to just help me build the PC at zero cost. We argue back and forth, with his core argument being that he shouldn’t have had to say he wanted to get paid for it, I just should have been a good “customer” and assume he was not doing it for free. Reddit, am I the asshole?