'She was always late for work': Coworker achieves petty revenge two years in the making

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
May 10, 2023 11:00 AM EDT

There are two types of people: those who can be on time, and those who cannot ever manage to do so. It clearly caused some workplace friction in this story shared to r/pettyrevenge. 

One employee had had enough of their coworker, "J," making everyone suffer the consequences of her actions. As the OP wrote, J had tons of bad habits, like not answering the radio as she disappeared for hours on end, and being so late that it impacted everyone else's shift. The OP even writes that she was over three hours late at times! It's no wonder this person was completely fed up with J. 

Scroll down to check out this story, as well as the OP's interesting solution to their coworker's antics. And after that, check out this delivery driver who is desperately trying to get back a $70 tip from their manager. 

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    Font - After two years, the petty revenge. I have worked my job for several years, and as any job there are good employees and bad employees.
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    Font - When I started there was one female that had been on the job for about ten years, I will call her "J" not because I don't want to call her out, but because I don't want to spell her four syllable, eighteen character name every time.
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    Font - J was LAZY, she would disappear for hours, not answer the radio when called, be on her phone when she was supposed to be working, take twenty minute bathroom breaks while we were swamped with work, claimed she was studying for school on her lunch break only for someone to wake her up after she missed her clock back in time by half an hour, no books in sight.
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    Font - But J had one habit that was in infuriating to coworkers and administration alike, she was always late for work. At my job you can not leave until the person working next shows up. If J was ten minutes late it was a miracle, once she was three and a half hours late to relive me, the on duty supervisor had to call someone to go knock on her door to wake her up. (All I got were dirty looks from her when she finally got to work)
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    Font - One time she kept showing up late and another coworker complained to her face. She purposely parked her car across the street and kept coming in later and later as the problem escalated. The other coworker was put on an earlier shift just to end the problem)
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    Font - The worst time was when she disappeared for two months. My supervisor called her after three days of no show and let a message. Two days later J had her mother call and say she was not ready to come back to work after a cousin di d in Florida. Checking her Facebook account proved that J considered morning to be dri king at back bars every night. When J came back she still had a job!
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    Font - Finally we got a new district manager that was a hard a and made sure many of the rules that had been ignored. The job has mandatory testing given every so often to make sure we are compliant with state and federal regulation. J bombed out and was fired, not a year was shed on her last day.
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    Font - One day I received a call on the office phone. It was someone wanting to talk to a former coworker that had quit due to health reasons. I asked why and found out that it was someone doing a background check on J, I was about to say that employee wasn't working here anymore when the person on the other end said they were with a certain government agency, (Think three letter agency) and the former employee was a reference.
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    Font - I put the person on a brief hold, took a swig of water, and answered as the former employee. Then I proceeded to tell all about J and her work habits. Not embellishing anything but also not leaving out any minor detail. When I was finished the person thanked me and hung up. This was about seven months ago.
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    Font - Today I found out from a coworker that was on face book and saw J complaint that she didn't get the government job she applied for. Petty Revenge completed.
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    Font - Behind_da_Rabbit +1. Thank you for your service. The universe needs more pettiness like this.
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    Font - sonorakit11 omg I have an ex- coworker that I would have LOVED to do this got me fired to. B when I was on vacation. Her name was also a J name. F HER
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    Commenters were seriously concerned that the OP wasn't being just unethical, but possibly breaking laws

    Font - Akicita33 Did you seriously just admit to lying to an official from a "three letter agency"? Impersonating someone, even if you are telling the truth, isn't usually looked on favorably.
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    Font - DrunkenVodinski OP. Yes. At my job being lazy makes more work for everyone else. At that three letter agency if you are lazy people die.
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    Font - Lch207560 +1. If you are in the US and that former co-worker gets wind of this you might get sued. And there is a good chance you will lose. Seriously. It might have been satisfying at the time but this is one of those situations where you may want to very (and I mean VERY) discretely gather documentation, or at least write down some notes to yourself, in case you are contacted.
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    Font - TelemarketingExpert. That was so illegal, she could sue your company for that
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    Font - MechaZombie23. Seems pretty unlikely. If this person isn't even in management, the most that could happen is they could be fired. A business isn't liable for every single thing their employee does, only for how they react to it.
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    Font - wow wow Quirky_Movie +1 Worked in HR. Any employee giving a reference on a company line opens the company up to liability.
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    Font - sanna43 +2. I've actually been told that if someone calls for a reference, you can only tell them yes or no that the person worked there, and the time frame. The reason being, if you bad mouth the person, they can sue for defamation. So good for you that she didn't go that route.
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