'Night person: DO NOT MOVE MY STUFF': Karen coworker refuses to share desk with night shift employee, leaves hostile note, cue petty payback

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jul 28, 2023 8:00 AM EDT

Sharin' is carin', Karen! See what I did there?

 

This Karen clearly doesn't understand that sometimes in a workplace, you have to make things convenient for your coworkers. Not only is that a respectable thing to do, but that's also an easy way to get people to tolerate you. This lady was supposed to share her cubicle with a night shift worker but did not consider their experience when decorating her desk. The night shift employee, who shared this post via Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit, needed to move things around in order to do their job. This, of course, frustrated Karen to the point that she posted an aggressive note on her desk at the end of her next work day. 

 

That's when OP decided it was time for payback. They checked with their manager if it was ok to move things around in order to get work done, and of course, their managed (who knew Karen and didn't particularly like her) approved. So, OP moved everything around and hid supplies, making life tough for Karen. Eventually, Karen was moved to night shifts, which could have caused panic for OP if she found out the identity of the coworker who made her life difficult. However, OP had enough friends in the office who ensured that their identity would be protected.

 

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions in the comments section. When you're finished, here's another tale of petty revenge involving an entitled neighbor and a classic parking debacle. 

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  • 01
    Motor vehicle - "Night person: DO NOT MOVE MY STUFF, IT'S NOT YOURS TO TOUCH"
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  • 02
    Font - Entitled coworker Many years ago I used to work nights and shared a cubicle workspace with someone who worked days. We'll call her Karen... Karen apparently thought the entire cubicle belonged to her and nobody was allowed to sit there, everything was labeled with her name and she would lock the desk.
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  • 03
    Font - I had to get a separate file cabinet just so I could store my files and stuff as she was not willing to share. She had little nick nacks (figures) all over the desk in inconvenient areas that made it difficult to work so I would simply move them to the monitor stand out of the way. I'm short and she's tall, I'd adjust the seat, monitor and phone to be comfortable (hated feeling like a little kid with my feet dangling).
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  • 04
    Font - Fast forward a few weeks of doing the routine of moving the figures and adjusting the workspace for my use. I come in and there's an 11x14 piece of paper taped to the monitor with an aggressive note "Night person- DO NOT MOVE MY STUFF, IT'S NOT YOURS TO TOUCH
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  • 05
    Font - and STOP adjusting the seat and monitor because it's NOT ERGONOMICALLY CORRECT blah blah blah..." I showed my manager the letter and how the desk was when I came in then again after adjusting it to my needs. He laughed and said she's crazy, continue to adjust it to better suit your needs and she can do the same when she comes in.
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  • 06
    Font - Que the petty revenge. I started moving everything into random configurations daily for a couple weeks (monitor in front of desk and everything behind it stacked up like a pyramid, unplugged phone from base and put the mouse in its place, left seat upsidedown etc...) I recruited coworkers to get in on the fun helping to redesign each new layout. It reminded me of what Jim used to do to Dwight in "The Office" we didn't go as far as putting "her" stapler in jello lol.
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  • 07
    Font - My friend worked days two cubicles over the managers office) and said Karen would stomp past her every day to complain to the manager about the night person who was destroying her stuff and making it difficult to work, she conveniently left out the fact she had left a note starting this whole petty revenge. (conveniently next to
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  • 08
    Font - 2 After about a week of her complaining the manager asked if anything was missing or broken and she said "well no, but". Tired of her b.s. they cut her off and said to simply readjust to her needs and only come to them if anything was vandalized. It was fun to hear from my friend how hot and bothered she was not knowing what she would find each morning.
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  • 09
    Font - I never saw another note from her but about a year later she was voluntold to move to nights. She was telling a few of us about the situation of course playing the victim and asked if we had any idea who it could have been. The cubicle was empty because I had promoted and no longer sat at "her" desk by this time. Guess she expected the person (me) to get thrown under the bus because the day crew was cutthroat, little did she know the night crew was ride or die lol. We all played dumb and
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  • 10
    Human body - No the cubicle does not belong to you, others are allowed to use it and adjust items accordingly, you entitled Karen.
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  • 11
    Font - LunarKnight22 +1. I drive for a living, and we all use shared vehicles. One coworker, who has since retired, told me one day that I needed to make sure I put the seat back to how he uses it at the end of my shift.
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  • 12
    Font - There was a person who drove the car for their eight hour intervals in between mine and his shift. No one in this job gets in the car and is comfortable right away. I am shorter than most of my coworkers, so they have to readjust the chair just to sit down properly. I point-blank told him I would try and then never did a d thing. Because it's not my job to make sure the seat is comfortable for you and I can't memorize how it was when I got in the freaking car.
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  • 13
    Font - I'm pretty sure he didn't like me because I was young and female. Which I've dealt with so many people that seem to think that those two things make me an idiot. 318 Reply Share
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  • 14
    Font - newprairiegirl +1. Too funny! We have a shared work space that we rotate through daily with a shared chair. When it was my turn I would adjust the chair to fit ME and then the dreaded coworker would come back, she was a casual and had only been there 3 or so months, told me to stop messing with her chair. Even though it's a shared work space. All bets were off at that point, I would adjust it everytime she left. AND to make things even better, she never landed a permanent job there, I mad
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    Font - CoderJoe1 +4. I was assigned a cubicle at one job but I refused to use it. I set up in a rarely used conference room and within a few weeks everyone thought it was my assigned office. 121 Reply Share
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    Font - Mamalion33 OP +3. Now that's the way to do it, just quietly assume the new spot and eventually everyone will think it's yours. Reply Share 57
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  • 17
    Font - ColdstreamCapple. Years ago I had to relieve reception for breaks and we had this one temp who started and within a week decided she owned everything and would even berate any exec who dared to question her
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  • 18
    Font - The final straw was we had a shared email box for reception and I noticed all these strange emails coming through So naturally I opened it and found a personal conversation between her and a friend of hers where she was complaining about all of us
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    Font - Next day she confronts me and says "How DARE you read my personal emails" Me: "It's a shared inbox, Maybe use your own email to talk to your friend"
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    Font - Later that afternoon an email comes through as a reply from her friend as I'm relieving her for an afternoon break calling me every name under the sun....But she'd also berated a few colleagues AND our boss I "accidentally" forwarded it to our boss asking was this appropriate behaviour for a shared inbox and she was let go No one was sorry to see her go Reply Share 109
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    Font - dannerfofanner +2. Worked in a 24-hour office. I was 2nd shift specialist so I was assigned a desk each night. Rude to me? You'll come back to find all the paperclips (we used a LOT) in a nice, 30 ft. chain. Managers laughed when they'd gripe. 86 Reply Share
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