'I got written up': Bank teller calls out coworker for not helping out, gets fired, but gets payback years later

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Sep 30, 2023 2:00 PM EDT

Sometimes, the opportunity for getting payback on your awful coworker does not arise until many years down the road. In this case, Jessica (said awful coworker) got this Redditor fired after they had called her out for doing nothing on the job. Of course, the wrong person was punished and everyone secretly knew this, especially the Redditor. 

However, while it seemed that the story ended badly for them, the opportunity for payback arrived years later when OP found themselves at a bank where they ran into one of the newer tellers there: Jessica. Jessica found a way to humiliate OP in front of other customers by mocking their account balance, which only confirmed and justified OP's need for some petty revenge. So what happened when OP ran into Jessica's manager on their way out of the bank? Well, they made sure that Jessica got a taste of her own medicine.

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions in the comments section. When you're finished, feel free to check out this empowering post about a guy who ghosted a job recruiter.

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    Motor vehicle - E ENQUIRIES Christmas Club 84. Enrol here 1 ENCUPIES "Finally got payback on an ex-coworker..."
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    Font - Finally got payback on an ex coworker... This is was few years ago, but it ran across my mind today for some reason. When I was 20 I started a job as a teller at At the specific location it was a "trailer" or that's what we called it any way. Just picture a super long skinny building. Also this was only for drive thru, it was located next to the actually bank. This drive thru had 8 drive ups and 2 pull ups for merchants. The merchant pull ups were literally on the building and the others
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    Font - Well one day my boss let everyone got to lunch at once except for three of us. Myself, Kim and Jessica. Well my half of the trailer (where I was completely by myself had to man the 4 drive thrus and the merchant. If you know, doing the merchant is time consuming. There's typically a lot of cash being deposited which takes time obviously to count etc. well on this fay Kim and Jessica just didn't feel like working, literally just sat there as I was trying to help 5 separate people at once.
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    Font - Whatever. Anyway, I ended up getting fired because Jessica just couldn't let it go. She was traumatized. Also didn't help my boss kept making me work the merchant lane (if you know about being a teller, you know that being a merchant teller requires experience. This was my first teller job ever)
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    Font - Ok, so the fun part. Years later I opened an account at a local credit union. It was just an account for fun money. Totally forgot about it after like a year and realized it was in the negative (can't even remember how that happened) but it was literally like $3. So I go in to take care of it and low and behold, there's Jessica. She immediately recognized me. I ho to the counter and another girl pulls up my account. I immediately tell her why I'm there of course. Well Jessica sees this as
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    Font - Well Jessica walks over, leans over this girl and LOUDLY says "her account is in the negative, she needs to pay that first" and then glares at me and smirks. Oh O NO. So I let the girl finish the call and get things squared away. Get my account to like a $100 balance. No much but again this is just my fun money account. I head out the door and if be me, I run into the branch manager. I tell her about Jessica and that I was considering closing my account over it. Well about 2 hours later I
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    Font - JeanParmesean70. 1 hr. ago I hope Jessica knew it was you lol
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    Font - gaudrhin 1 hr. ago Having been a drive thru teller with 3 lanes and 3 other tellers right next to me who NEVER HELPED, I feel this in my soul. Not direct revenge, but when I left the bank, I heard a number of local small business owners left the bank too. Apparently I was the only thing keeping them there.
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    Font - Fun-Problem5883 OP. 48 min. ago I've worked at three different banks. There is always at LEAST 2 other tellers that are always too busy balancing their drawer every half hour to get out of actually working.
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    Font - RedsVikingsFan. 2 min. ago Not doubting you, but that's bull (in terms of the supervisor allowing it). You work your window unless you're on break, and THEN you get to balance your drawer at the end of your shift. That's when you find and correct your mistakes. If you make so many mistakes that you have to balance your drawer during the day, you just get fired instead.
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    Font - baka-tari 1 hr. ago The universe blessed you with a totally random interaction with the Ohole that burned you before, and when she tried to burn you again, you hit her with the UNO reverse. Well played.
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    Facial expression - Lulu3454 1 hr. ago Karma is a 16 Reply Share
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    Human body - Artistic-Nebula-6051. 38 min. ago So was Jessica.
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    Rectangle - Fun-Problem5883 OP 57 min. ago She had to have
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