Lmao, this is a broken and overly negative mentality to have. They both make mistakes I agree but the employed brother is in a position to super easily help and makes zero attempt to provide any support.

There is essentially zero risk to providing a referral for your sibling. Nobody is going to hold you accountable for other peoples work and everybody knows we refer friends, family and random business connections all the time. The only situation in which this could even be slightly a concern is if it’s a very small team and the siblings would be working directly with each other. Vast majority of jobs, you can refer them to a different team or office. By the time they do decide it isn’t a good fit and let them go, they probably won’t even remember or care that you referred them.

The unemployed brother doesn’t respond with appropriate professional behavior because he obviously has no idea what that looks like. The man is clearly unwell and probably has a mental disability. Instead of making any attempt to show his sibling the right way to respond to the situation he takes the opportunity to belittle him and act like a self righteous asshole because he has a job, lmao.

It’s absolutely a bitch move to take advantage of someone like this who clearly needs and is actively seeking support. I don’t think anybody who could respond in this manner to a sibling is capable of providing that support. The unemployed brother is likely fucked up because his family is fucked up.

But hey Redditors and hating your family goes hand in hand right?