'I've been doing hers last': Employee gets even with grudge-holding coworker who keeps sabotaging her by being too careful

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Oct 14, 2023 8:00 AM EDT

Coworkers who hold grudges need to get over it and get a life. It's as simple as that. Most folks who spend the majority of their emotional energy in the workplace stewing and thinking about vengeance are bound to get some of that negative energy thrown back in their faces. 

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by u/No-Scallion5434, an employee who works in insurance billing. OP learned three years into the job that during her second week at work, she asked her coworker a question about a certain task that really irked the coworker. Ever since that moment, the coworker has been trying to make it look like OP is bad at her job and even tried to get her fired several times. 

So what happened when the conspiring coworker tried to make it look like OP wasn't careful enough with her weekly tasks? Well, OP decided to be careful… so careful, in fact, that it would make her coworker's life challenging. Keep scrolling below for the full account. When you're finished, feel free to take a look at this post about another employee's malicious compliance.

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    Property - "THAT'S WHY SHE DOESN'T LIKE ME"
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    Font - Constantly try and make my job harder? I'll make yours take even longer. M OC I (28 f) work in insurance billing for a few big medical facilities in my area and one of my daily tasks is to save and download remits from program daily. I've been at this company for a little over 3 years now and I know how to do my job and I do it pretty well. There is this woman, we shall call her Jane.
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    Font - (51ish f) who is always trying to make things hard for me/get me fired. There is a set of 4 cubicles where I, another employee, and Jane sit and there is a printer in the other cubicle. She's lied to higher ups about me sleeping at my desk,
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    Font - wasting time, playing on my phone and just overall anything she could come up with to make me look bad. She's yelled at me for turning the lights off on her(which I really didn't know she was in the office because she always runs out 1st at go time) I apologized to her, and she just kept trying to go off and brought it into the parking lot. I just ignored her and kept walking but that turned into a meeting with the office manager, my direct supervisor, Jane the other employee and myself.
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    Font - short I basically told her I didn't understand where all the animosity was coming from. I'd been working here for 2.5 years at this point. She looked at me and said that I got her in trouble my second week of ever being there because she told me something about a job I had no idea about
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    Font - and I asked my direct supervisor who was training me after she told me how to do something. And come to find out, THATS WHY SHE DOESNT LIKE ME. I didn't go out of my way to get her in trouble or anything. I just was confused so I asked a question. I did apologize to her in the meeting but she just ignored me. Fast forward a week and I'm sitting at my desk and she comes up to me to say that she accepted my apology. Then she starts printing out bible verses and scriptures to put on her cork
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    Font - I think I just need to provide a bit of context. Now on to the malicious compliance- So I save and download remits for a few different clients every morning. Mondays are my busiest days for this because I have to pull them from different sites and a program that send them to us electronically. Jane does billing for one of the same client I pull remits for. She needs the remits to make deposits and what not. It usually takes me anywhere from 1.5 to 2.5 hours to complete this for all the cl
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    Font - Apparently Jane has complained that I keep messing them up when I save and download them. I know I'm not. I triple check myself. I received an email last week stating that Jane was complaining again so I decided Monday would be the day that I did things a bit differently. I came in and instead of doing Janes client first I did the other 4 and then I took my time with Janes because I had to make sure every letter and number was 1000% correct because she needs them to be. I didn't want her
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    Font - She was waiting for all the remits for a deposit so instead of the deposit getting done at 8:30 it just didn't get done until the next day. :) I've been doing hers last, since Monday and idk if anything will be said about me taking longer but I have to do as I'm told and make sure it's correct, right? Lmao
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    Font - hecknono 3 hr. ago what would happen if you cc'd them to your/her supervisor so that they could see themselves that there are no errors?
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    Font - No-Scallion5434 OP. 3 hr. ago I usually save the files to specific drives for my coworkers but that's a great idea to screenshot what I save to cover my own
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    Font - rossarron 3 hr. ago . Cover your and cc up the line ask your boss to check your work re Mad Janes complaint, if and when she moans your messing up, your Ois covered by your boss (keep his reply on email etc.)
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    Font - estoka 2 hr. ago Every single office my wife worked in had a woman like Jane. If you're reading this, and you're the self appointed person in the office that makes sure everybody does what they're supposed to do: jump up your own
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    Font - Zoreb1 1 hr. ago "...a meeting with the office manager, my direct supervisor, Jane the other employee and myself. Long story short I basically told her I didn't understand where all the animosity was coming from." Did you bring up her constant lying to get you in trouble? From what you wrote above, she admitted 'hostility' which would be an admission of her making a hostile workplace for you. That was the time to air everything out.
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    Happy - undergroundnoises. 2 hr. ago This is hilarious. Posting bible quotes about forgiveness, yet held a grudge for 2.5 years.
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    Font - PLACE PayApprehensive6181. 2 hr. ago If you're nifty with a bit of coding then look into RPA or create a macro to automate your job to one click. More time to come up with creative way to continue annoying your colleague.
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