‘She thought she was being super clever’: Employee tattles to the boss as a power move to force coworker to cover her Thanksgiving shift, ends up duping herself instead

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    Fi "She tried to use the boss to [dupe] me... For Thanksgiving weekend.."
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    Posted by u/Any-Primary9697 AITA for not covering Thanksgiving for a narc. Not the A- ble
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    At my workplace we regularly bribe each other to trade shifts. Usually it's like a good bottle of wine/booze or a gift certificate for a restaurant. But it can be cash. We keep it on the downlow and it works. We do IT services for financial companies. So Thanksgiving weekend is sort of important.
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    So one of my coworkers does not like to pay to trade shifts but has before. They always complain about how it's not fair that people like me who are unmarried and have no kids get holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas off.
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    Sorry ma'am but even though I don't have kids I am one. Maybe my parents want to see me too? So anyways my parents are actually going to Bermuda this Thanksgiving because that's where my sister is and she just had a baby. I would love to go but I don't have enough vacation time to make it worthwhile. Instead I have plans with friend. They aren't super important to me. We are just going to eat turkey and watch all the Thanksgiving episodes of Friends.
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    I mentioned this to another coworker and the other one overheard. It is her turn to be in the office and on call for the holiday. She couldn't find anyone to cover her shift. So she basically begged me to cover for her. I liked my plans so I said no. She finally offered me money. Well if the Simpsons has taught me anything it's that "Money can be exchanged for goods and services". So we
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    haggled and then agreed. She would take my New Year's Eve shift and give me a couple of hundred dollars to cover her from Thursday to Sunday. Win win I thought. Two days later my boss came over and asked me if I wanted to change the schedule as I had
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    agreed. I asked why he was getting involved as we usually just handled it amongst ourselves. He said that he had gotten a complaint that I extorted money out of a coworker for covering their shift. He said that while it wasn't against company policy it was frowned upon. I said that I understood and that no money had changed hands and that no I didn't want to change shifts.
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    My boss was promoted from the ranks so he knew the score. He knows how we trade shifts. So he was cool. My coworker, not so much. She started bugging me, saying that she had already told her parents that her family would be coming. And that I was being for not covering like an I said I would.
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    I told her that someone has gone to the boss and tattled on our deal so I could not follow through since I could get in trouble. She said that I could do it for free. I declined. She said she would pay me more than we agreed on. I said no thanks I don't want any trouble.
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    So now she is acting all issy because I won't work for her and now she is being shut out of the regular shift trading because everyone knows she tried to use the boss to screw me over. She says that I'm an shole for not following through. I think she's an shole for trying to change a deal she agreed to.
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    ackayak shole Enthusiast [5] NTA, she wanted to get you to agree to cover, than report the money changing hands so she could get it back while still having her shift covered. Tried to pull a fast one and she suffers the consequences.
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    Emerald BlueZen shole Enthusiast [5] YUP. She's a piece of work. Now she'll have a much more difficult time getting people to switch schedules with her for the holidays. She thought she was being super clever but ended up looking like a complete shole. ΝΤΑ
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    MissSuzieSunshine. Professor Emeritass [90] ΝΤΑ We had a similar type deal at my work. There was a guy who would agree to cover a shift, and then he wouldnt show up for the shift he promised to cover (told the sups that the other person changed their mind) so the other person would end up suspended from trading for a period of time AND in trouble as a 'no show no call' to work.
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    He screwed over a long time employee on Christmas one year. After that he was blacklisted. When summer came and he needed to have his shifts covered because there was some big family reunion in Paris and NO ONE would work for him.
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    He was offering $500 for a 4 hour shift and still NO ONE would work for him. He ended up not being able to go to the family reunion. Karma! Your coworkers tried to screw you over. That makes the deal 'off' and 'void'.
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    Bitter-Conflict-4089. Professor Emeritass [98] ΝΤΑ No cash had exchanged hands. Therefore, there was no "deal" for you to go back on. She was trying to scam you out of your shifts for free. I would never negotiate anything with her again.
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    calliatom Partassipant [3] Yeah... she was clearly hoping that you would get in trouble with a boss who didn't know the score and would make you go through with the shift change without the promised compensation. Honestly she deserves the blackballing she's getting.
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    ValenciaHadley. My friend has a similar problem with getting time off during the summer holidays, tourist town and really busy here so the workers with children are first to get time off. He had to argued with them that spending time with his misses of 20+ years was just as important as workers having time off to spend with their children.
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    He has the same problem of not minding if people ask him but being told he doesn't get a few days off for six months of the year because he doesn't have children, is when he'll argue.
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    kingofspookyseason . Enthusiast [7] NTA. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. She tried to have her cake and eat it too. Had she just left well enough alone, everything would be good. She had to go and get greedy and reneg on the deal.

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