Disrespectful Lazy Coworker Crosses Line, Gets Canned

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Aug 31, 2020 7:00 PM EDT

This tale of revenge will strike a chord for anyone who has ever had to muddle through a tough job alongside a careless, inconsiderate, and awfully lazy coworker. Basically, this "Aleck" dude thought he was invincible, and screwed around on the job, while he was actively stealing. It's just good they caught him eventually. Check out another recent tale of pro revenge with this aggressive ex girlfriend who stole from her boyfriend's bank account.

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    Text - r/ProRevenge Join u/TinyCatCrafts • 2h 1 A disrespectful, lazy coworker finally crossed a big enough line... and I got him fired with a single offhand comment. So, to set this up. I've worked in "Grocery Store" for about 6.5 years when this coworker is hired. I've worked on the front end registers for that entire time, with a couple shifts each week working for the sign/ price tag team. Basically, I've been there forever and *generally* tend to be someone some newer people go to with ques
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    Text - I've also made sure to speak up if I saw a coworker doing something against the rules or that would be looked down on by management, and I always speak up *to the person*, not to supervisors or management. Usually things like "Hey, Supervisor is real picky about using your phone, l'd keep that in your pocket for now." or "Manager is here today, make sure you keep the belt clean, they're crazy about that." Point is, the things I say to fellow coworkers are meant to keep them from getting i
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    Text - Ме: Ме. Aleck: The SmartAleck coworker. Super: One of my most favorite supervisors. Aleck gets hired on in a small wave of new hires for front end due to a bunch of other employees quitting in a short time over an issue with hours being cut. He is hired in along with three girls we will just call Sue, Jane and Liz. For the first few months or so, I don't have any issues with Aleck. He seems polite, respectful, he's always willing to... you know, do his job.
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    Text - Sue and Jane are a bit rambunctious and loud and boisterous, but they're like 17. They're graduating soon, and I'm thinking maybe the job will settle them down after a bit and they won't goof off so much. Liz is a bit more reserved, but gets pulled into their outbursts when they're all working together (on her own, Liz was great.) At some point, Aleck and Sue start going out. They're always with each other, she's visiting him while he's working and vice versa, chit chatting while waiting
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    Text - This entire group starts getting away with things that I have not only been reprimanded on, but threatened with firing over. Screwing around, shrieking and laughing and openly gossiping, loudly, in front of customers, while only paying enough attention to the customer to shoot a 'You want a bag?' here and there.
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    Text - They don't clean at all, they leave trash at their stations. They're always on their phones, leaning right over on the counters and texting away while customers are at their lines checking out. (I was once written up for using my phone at the completely EMPTY self checkout.) One of them even dropped an F-bomb *in front of customers* and then started yelling at me for "telling her how to talk". All l'd said was "Whoah, hey, careful. Watch your language, you're at work." Then, the Pandemic
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    Text - The other crap and garbage was frustrating, but this pissed me off. My best friend is Immunocomprimised, and here was this young, arrogant little jerk who was handling peoples food, touching his face constantly, never wearing his mask. He was risking lives. So I kept being a bit of a nag about it, until he turned to me one day and said "TinyCat, Shut the hell up. Who made YOU supervisor?" Oh. Okay. I mean I was trying to keep all this garbage on our level and give you a chance to stop scr
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    Text - Not wearing his mask? Supervisor (and eventually manager, this one happened EVERY day) Texting on his phone? Supervisor. Standing around chatting when he should be on lot? Supervisor. Sitting down on the furniture displays holding hands with his girlfriend when they should have been working on returns? PHOTOGRAPH, and Manager. Many other instances of language, slacking, even what looked like it could have been a theft of tobacco products, etc, right to Supervisors. And yet... he still kep
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    Text - Their antics are making more work for everyone else, they're making us all look bad to our customers, and we all know that if we'd pulled this crap we would have been out the door ages ago. It was like they were untouchable. (Surprise, turns out one of them has a relative working as a manager in another dept, and THAT manager is buddy buddy with our new Store Manager). By now, I felt pretty defeated. They could get away with dropping F-bombs, screaming and shrieking and rough-housing, str
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    Text - So when I saw Aleck leaning over his register one day to buy himself a pack of candy... I almost ignored it. I thought for a brief second about telling him he wasn't supposed to buy things on his register... but I just bit my tongue. He didn't want to hear it from ME, after all. Then I saw Super. Oh, well. Might as well report yet ANOTHER thing he's doing against policy. Me: Oh, hey Super? Super: What's up? Me: Not much, but someone may want to remind Aleck that we aren't supposed to buy
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    Text - Weirdly, she did not go speak to him. Instead, she vanished for about 20 minutes, and returned to me with a sheet of paper in hand. Super: Hey, so... did you happen to see what he was buying? Me: Uhh... yeah, it was *Specific Brand Candy*. Super: *looks down at paper* Huh. Okay. Thank you. Then she leaves again, and still doesn't go speak to Aleck. She goes to the Managers office. I had a day or two off, and didn't see her for a couple more after that due to schedules not lining up. About
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    Text - Super: Oh, he's gone. Me: Like... suspended? Super: Oh no, gone gone. Me: Wait, what?! Super: Yeah. He wasn't just buying candy. He got Cash back, from his own drawer. Ме: ОMG. Super: OH WAIT, THERE'S MORE. Oh was there more. After seeing on the report of the transaction that he'd gotten cashback, so blatantly and obviously in the middle of his shift, she checked his history. Every employee has a store reward card to get their employee discount. You also have a unique ID code to log into
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    Text - Super went back through the register logs to find every instance of him using his own Rewards Card under his own Log-In number, and found he had done this MULTIPLE times. On a few of them, she noticed some... discrepancies in the time stamps as compared to his schedule. Dude had been finishing up his shift, clocking out, going around the store to do his shopping... and then *logging into a register off the clock* and checking himself out. So my one little offhand comment, that I never wou
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