'Witch #2 did not get hired': Employee gets revenge on former coworker after she tried to apply for a job at their current company

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    Rectangle - MINDRE r/pettyrevenge. Posted by u/Motya1978 Get me fired? It's a small world, isn't it?
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    Font - r/pettyrevenge. Posted by u/Motya1978 12 hours ago D Get me fired? It's a small world, isn't it? I'm recently retired from healthcare administration (and I feel for you younger guys who don't know how you can ever retire. Sometimes I feel like I was in the last generation that had any real chance at "the American dream". Anyway, that's not the story).
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    Font - Years ago I was working in a very dysfunctional academic medical center. My boss (a really decent guy) who didn't play the political games well enough got fired. He got replaced, the new boss witch hired someone else in a management position over me (let's call her witch #2). Among other things, W#2 had me write up a business proposal that I was in no way qualified to do (it really needed a group of actuaries and a whole lot of financial data we didn't have to do it right). Her instructio
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    Font - I kept my head down and worked hard (I was young and stupid) and was eventually fired for BS reasons so they could bring their own people in. Someone else in the medical center then hired me because I had a good reputation, which really pissed off W1 and W2, but my new boss didn't care.
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    Font - I eventually found a good job at another health system that was successful and growing. The academic med center I had worked at was not doing well financially. Then someone in another department said to me one day "you were at Academic Med Center, do you know Witch #2? She's applied for a position with us." I replied "yeah, she had me fake the numbers to make her proposal look good." My colleague thanked me for my input. Witch #2 did not get hired.
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    Rectangle - warm-saucepan 12 hr. ago It's nice to see karma in action. 4 398 Reply
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    Font - daikarasu 7 hr. ago This is why professional integrity is important. Even if you hate the job, and the company, if you stay in the field your interactions with people above and bellow you matter a lot. The world is a lot smaller than it feels, even something like retail can have you running people more than once if you stay in the same geographical region. 145 Reply Share
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    Font - piratical_gnome 2 hr. ago My husband and I used to work in a small academic field. One of his (fresh out of grad school) colleagues would tweet about how stupid all of her coworkers were, how stupid everyone at a conference was, and finally, how she could really help out a place where one of my very good friends worked because everyone there was so old and stupid. She applied for a position at my friend's place twice, and the second time she was rejected, tweeted about how it was starting
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    Font - She was finally let go/resigned for reasons that were never made clear, and continued to tweet about how she couldn't get a job in the field.
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    Font - Static Revenger . 9 hr. ago Tell Witch 2, I want her to know it was me. 82 Reply Share
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    Font - wolfie379 12 hr. ago Had to break even by year 2? Compared to something the Soakheads pulled when I was in University, that's long term. One form of student aid was eliminated, replaced by loans for students starting their own summer businesses. To be eligible, they needed to start up, run, and close down the business in the course of one summer - and document how they'd pay back the loan if the business failed.
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    Font - Motya1978 OP. 12 hr. ago I didn't want to be responsible for boring anyone to death by getting into healthcare finance... it was basically starting a provider based primary care HMO on a shoestring. So far beyond stupid....
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    Font - Consistent-Ad-7444 11 hr. ago Seems this happens quite frequently. "Hey Fred, didn't you work at X company?" "Yeah, why?" "So and so is applying for a job here. What's your opinion?" I think I've read a derivative of this story, maybe half a dozen times. Nothing against OP, it's just getting to be a common story.
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    Font - LAVA Grammy1948. 4 hr. ago Deceit in any aspect of life is abhorrent. Having it forced on a person in the workforce is even more so. So many with morals that refuse to lie or cheat for their employers are fired but at least they keep their reputations intact as being an honest worker and that goes along well with employers that only want honest employees. How nice they asked you about her before hiring her. I wouldn't have been easy to fire her and no one wold ever know if she was being t
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    Organism - Percyear 4 hr. ago I posted recently in another sub about word of mouth references. Some in the sub had the idea "this never happens". Here you go.
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    Human body - D Tasia528 1 hr. ago I have daydreams about my ex- coworkers applying for a job at my current company.
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    Human body - hassan_26 5 hr. ago Replace the W with a B and you've got a more accurate story.
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    Font - DonnyBomeneddy 32 min. ago Honestly this doesn't seem like revenge, it's just protecting your new employer.

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