'She quit in disgrace': Hardworking nurse gets put on probation when a vindictive coworker files a false report; nurse gets payback by exposing them and making them quit

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jul 21, 2023 1:00 PM EDT

When a coworker is out to get you, it's not a simple task to evade them. Not only are you trapped in the workplace with this person, seeing their scowling face everyday, but it's not like you can just pressure them to quit. Or can you? In this case, one woman dealt with a vindictive workplace enemy by pulling an uno reverse on them, exposing their terrible work ethic and forcing them to face their lies.

OP is a nurse who works with a team of specialists to conduct patient research. After a new hire was brought in to handle entry-level tasks, OP quickly noticed a disparity between her rigorous work ethic and her new coworker's laziness. Bossy, overworked, and feeling drowned in her coworker's responsibilities, the two became fast enemies. The lazy hire eventually got tired of OP telling her what to do and decided to take matters into her own hands by filing a false patient report, which complained about OP's "inappropriate attire" in the workplace. Having worn lab coats, modest blouses, and slacks for most of her career, OP was baffled when she was put on probation.

But she quickly turned the tables around when dealing with her punishment for promiscuity, bringing justice to the workplace once again. Scroll for the full story on how one hardworking nurse got payback against a vengeful coworker, involving their supervisors in some personal business on the company computer. For more stories about malicious compliance in the workplace, check out this tale of a farmhand who flooded his boss's house with bubbles as retaliation for tedious tasks outside his job description.

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    Font - Posted by u/shoegazeslut 4 hours ago 5 You're so obsessed with how I dress that you're going to involve HR? All right, let's get a supervisor involved and see how that goes for you. XL OC
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    Font - I work at a hospital that doubles as a research institution. Since I'm on the research side, I have to involve lots of other departments, and most people with whom I work with are very chill and understand that I have to beseech them for things to do my job. I'm one of
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    Font - those "she can go a hundred hectares on a single tank of kerosene" type of people, and I'm very on top of things, for which my coworkers value me. However, the one place where that camaraderie breaks down is with [some of] the nurses who work in my specific clinic (focusing on one particular disease).
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    Font - Right after I first started working in that specific clinic, unfortunately, one nurse in particular (let's call her Bichelle) had decided that I was on her blacklist. Belle hates doing work. She's like a kid
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    Font - playing Xbox when their parent asks them for help with groceries. She'll moan and groan, and if she helps at all, it's with an angsty indignation.
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    Font - I needed a series of blood tubes drawn in clinic for a patient one morning (instead of down in phlebotomy -- protocol rules -- more complicated and stupid than it's worth getting into here), and Belle was the only nurse available. She was extremely put off at my asking her to draw this
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    Font - protocol kit (despite my giving advance notice to clinic that this needed to be done). She clearly did not want to leave her computer (which was not open to anything work-related), but she begrudgingly went and drew the tubes. She was unnecessarily profusely thanked by me... just for doing her dajob.
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    Font - I came back down later to get a prescription signed for another patient, and a different nurse asked me what I'd done to upset Birelle because she'd apparently been going off about me to anyone who would listen. I explained what had happened. The
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    Font - other nurse informed me that Bthelle was pised at me, and also felt my outfit -- a white medical coat, a modest blouse, work pants, and high heel boots -- was too provocative. What? I just decided to let it go and try to avoid Bchelle as much as possible.
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    Font - This did not work. I kept running into situations where the other nurses were busy seeing patients. I was forced to walk back into the nurse triage room -- which is off- limits to patients -- and ask
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    Mammal - Bchelle to draw two more of these blood kits in the next month. She was never happy to see me, and she was always wasting time on her work computer when I entered the room.
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    Font - Maybe 2 or 3 days after that last kit draw, my supervisor called me in her office to discuss my "presentation". She very nicely, and with pity in her voice, told me she'd received a report about my dress habits in patient-facing spaces. She said she
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    Font - personally hadn't noticed anything (no s), but was obligated to discuss this with me anyhow. I assured her I had no idea what she was talking about. I thought about confronting Belle, but decided not to because, ya know. Loose cannon and whatnot. After a brief reminder of the dress code, I figured that at least it was over.
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    Font - It was not over. Two weeks later -- and I hadn't even asked anyone to draw any kits in the interim -- a formal report was filed against me for my conduct in clinic. This went to the hospital and then my supervisor who, even after reading the report, seemed totally clueless about what it could mean. I explained what had been happening with Brelle.
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    Font - But then my supervisor told me a second person had reported this as well, on the same day as who was obviously Bitchelle. This time, it was a patient. The patient had reported that I was dressing improperly for a patient-facing environment. Woah woah woah woah. I asserted that I wasn't, but I was nonetheless put on
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    Font - But then my supervisor told me a second person had reported this as well, on the same day as who was obviously Behelle. This time, it was a patient. The patient had reported that I was dressing improperly for a patient-facing environment. Woah woah woah woah. I asserted that I wasn't, but I was nonetheless put on
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    Font - probation, which meant that my supervisor, against her will, now had to come with me when I saw patients in clinic for the foreseeable future, and a nurse manager would have to accompany both of us when she was free since I was "dressing provocatively" in patient-facing spaces and that was her domain.
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    Human body - But as you can likely guess from her browsing habits, Bichelle was not the sort of person who needed MORE supervisors in her area.
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    Font - Cue malicious compliance. Fine, you want to punish me and force me to work in the eyesight of the supervisors? All right, let's get some supervisors down here as quickly as possible.
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    Font - My next in-clinic patient came in two days, and it was one of those stupid timed-in-clinic protocol kit visits, which meant I was forced to ask one of the nurses to draw the patient's blood. I informed my supervisor and we set off down for clinic. The nurse manager was in that day, so she accompanied the two of us.
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    Font - We all went back into the triage room so that I could ask for help with the blood draw. Brelle and one other nurse were there. What we saw upon entering was the other nurse entering vital signs for a patient into our health database, and helle... sitting at her desk with an online clothing retailer open on one monitor, and Facebook on the other.
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    Font - I asked for Belle's help drawing the kit, and she sighed heavily and spun around... to see two higher- ups looking on with disdain at her work computer. In embarrassment, she swiveled back and closed those two tabs, which revealed - you can't make this stuff up — a website
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    Font - for MARITAL AIDS that had been open in another tab, about which Behelle had clearly forgotten until now. I just smiled and handed her the bag like nothing had happened.
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    Font - In the hall, my supervisor and the nurse manager were talking about Benelle's display just now. Apparently, she had been previously been warned about goofing off at work. The nurse manager told the supervisor that she was going to check all of Bamelle's work computer activity, which I actually didn't know any supervisor could readily access.
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    Font - What followed was so incredibly beautiful that I hope it made the ending of this long, long post worth waiting for.
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    Font - According to the nurse who'd initially asked me what I had done to upset Belle, her activity was searched. She was revealed to have been spending hours upon hours every day browsing the web, shopping, and using social media. Since she had been previously warned about this behavior, she was given a formal write-up.
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    Font - But this was just the beginning. The day after the three of us went down to clinic, my supervisor called me in her office again. She told me that Bachelle had FABRICATED the patient complaint about me and posted it from her work computer. (How did they learn this? Oh, that'd be
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    Font - because she saved a draft of the message that reported me to the hospital, and she'd accessed the patient complaint/comment webpage the same day.) My supervisor sincerely apologized for the hassle and told me I was no longer on probation.
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    Font - As for Belle: apparently fearing the worst, she put her two weeks' notice in the same day after getting wind that she was in some far more serious trouble. For reasons I will never understand as long as I live, the hospital chose to let her quit after 2 weeks instead of firing her on the spot. Maybe they knew
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    Font - what a nightmare she was and were comfortable letting her quit on her own accord. It's not as though she was due to glean any glowing references from this experience. Maybe they just wanted some extra work - our clinic was VERY short-staffed for nurses at the time. In any case, they chose not to fire her and let her quit on her own.
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    Font - On Belle's last day, I ventured down to the triage room to retrieve some outside records from their printer. When I entered, Bitchelle was alone and browsing Glassdoor. I unbuttoned my white coat and told her, "Hey, good luck with your next job. I hope the employees are less provocative."
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    Plant - She slowly spun around with a scowl on her face. Then I lifted my dress up to my neck, flashed her my bares, and walked out, and I never saw Bitchelle again.
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    Font - TL;DR setup: I run drug trials at a research hospital. A clinic nurse decided she hated me because I made her do her job and, she claimed, "dressed provocatively". She made a formal report against me, and then a patient one surfaced. I was put on probation and made to see all patients with supervisors.
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    Font - TL;DR resolution/malicious compliance: I brought supervisors down as quickly as possible. Said supervisors found out the nurse had been spending many hours a day on non-work related websites, and the patient report against me turned out to have been fabricated by the same nurse. She quit in disgrace, and on her last day, I gave her a nice parting gift.
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    Product - "You're going to involve HR? All right. Let's get a supervisor involved and see how that goes for you."
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