Help! My brother doesn't want to look for a real job and his landlord is gonna evict him?

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My brother is in trouble. He recently lost a crappy low paying job that I got him and he's struggling to find work. At least according to him. I know it doesn't take 2 and a half months to find work.

I know for a fact that he isn't looking at all or hard enough. I go through the history on our computer. He would only go on craigslist for 10-20 mins looking for flyer gigs or moving gigs aka quick and easy money with little pay. And the rest of the day he's trolling on the internet looking to attack people and call them racist or bigots for any criticism of Obama and name call people for liking trump.

The sad part is that he has a bachelor's degree in graphic design and refuses to use it because he says find a real job is hard and you only have to know someone who can get you in. I try to help anyway I can via telling him to fix his resume, go on Monster and Indeed and Glassdoor but he says no and throw it back in my face. He uses that as an excuse to not try. It been this way for 6 years now.

It's coming to a head now. He owes his landlord a lot of money and he's crying for me to pay for him. I refuse to pay for him to sit and do nothing when he got 2 months for free to find a job. His landlord is gonna begin the eviction process next month if he doesn't pay by Friday.

What do I do. Do I pay knowing he won't look for work? Or do I let him become homeless knowing he did it to himself even though I don't want anything bad to happen to him?

kC · Answer

Do nothing, that's his own problem.

babyboomer1001 · Answer

You can help him by setting him free - cutting him loose.  Until he finds himself in a situation where he "needs" to be responsible and accountable for his self-destructive failures in life, he will continue doing what he is doing (or, in this case, not doing).  Don't enable him.  Let him get evicted and DON'T take him in either.  And, pay him for his portion of the computer so that he doesn't show up at your door.  Tell him to use a computer at the library or at the unemployment office, where he can look for a job.

Athena · Answer

Not your problem.
Not legally anyway.

Nosehair · Answer

The conspicuous political jab, to say the least, makes this post look completely bogus.

Nekkid Truth! · Answer

You do nothing.  You tried to help him find work.   You walk away, wash your hands of it.   Let him crash and burn.  Do not even help him once he is evicted.

Rosalie · Answer

Let him sink or swim.
He's addicted to his computer.
That's not going to be a habit he can sustain when he doesn't have a place to live.

DON'T pay anything for him.
DON'T take him.
Let him become homeless, and then he'll have to figure things out.
A reality check will do him good.

It's one thing if he had become disabled through no fault of his own, but this is his own laziness.He needs to be faced with the consequences. Don't answer his calls for awhile.

? · Answer

cool story brah

Anonymous · Answer

Your brother is a hopeless case   -  support him or let him go to the wall.

Badge203 · Answer

Let him put on his big boy pants and let him face the consequences, sounds like he has been babied enough

Stoo · Answer

Trolling isn't a career.  You can do that if you pay the bills somehow else.  Let him find that out the hard way.

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Help! My brother doesn't want to look for a real job and his landlord is gonna evict him?

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