This happened a long time ago (my sister and I are adults now), but I still get mad about it some times
My sister (16 at the time) and I (17 at the time) both lifeguarded at our local pool. My sister had been recently hired and her first shift ended up her being called in to work short notice and she wasn’t properly onboarded or given a lifeguard shirt. On that first shift, she wore my second shirt, which I didn’t think anything of at the time.
Cut to a couple weeks later, she is still wearing my lifeguard shirts to work. I have two, but I also work pretty much every day. I told her she needed to ask the manager for her own shirt and that she couldn’t use mine anymore.
We got into an argument about it and both my parents ended up yelling at me, saying I had to let her use it. My argument was that she wouldn’t ask for a shirt if she didn’t have to, and that it wasn’t like the manager could get mad at her for not having a shirt if he hadn’t given her one.
I know on that specific day my parents made me let her use my shirt, but I don’t know how the situation resolved—we both worked there for years and I know she got her own shirts at some point.
So, was I the AH for telling my sister she couldn’t use my shirt and that she needed to ask for her own?
Two points of clarification:
I love my sister and my parents, they’re all great people, this was just one argument that sticks with me
The pool management was always a bunch of college kids so expecting a normal amount of managerial competence was absolutely unrealistic