‘I got her everything she didn’t like': Woman organizes gifts for coworker who quit in an attempt to settle the score

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Eleonora Bader
Jan 15, 2024 10:00 AM EST

We all have that one coworker we can't get along with for the life of us. If you were given a chance to get back at them, would you take it?

One person working at a microbiology lab got really petty when she learned that her coworker was quitting, and made sure to be the one organizing the goodbye gifts. She remembered everything that this coworker had ever said about products they did not like and got every single one of them. Why? Well, the coworker in question was doing very… questionable things at work. She would bully other coworkers, not do her job properly, and was overall the least considerate person she could be. OP was not having it, and after a particularly funny (and sad) debacle at work that you can read about below, this awful person finally quit. But before she left, OP got back at her for everything she had ever done. Sift through the screenshots to find out what went down, and then take a look at this client who kept calling IT and telling them that they had to update her website.

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    "I got a chance to get back at her, and I took it..."
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    Organised leaving gifts for co- worker I knew she wouldn't like I used to work in a microbiology lab in a hospital. We had a big staff, lots of people coming and going, and the managerial staff were honestly not very good, most of them had been promoted due to seniority of lab experience and qualifications, and very few had any management training whatsoever.
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    A big issue I had with management was that they'd arrange collections for co-workers selectively, usually they'd only "remember" to do it for managerial staff, but there was an expectation for staff on every level to chip in. So I took it upon myself to organise the "forgotten" collections; leaving presents, significant birthdays, and collections for new parents for members of staff at every level, not just the ones who were chummy with the Heads of Department.
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    This colleague, I'll call her Linda, was an older woman, with a lifetime of experience working for a well-known travel agency that had recently shut most of its branches nationwide. Linda resented being trained by younger staff, even though she had no clue about anything remotely scientific, she was lazy and would refuse to do tasks she found boring, even if they were essential for lab maintenance, but worst of all, she was a bully. She particularly enjoyed picking on an autistic colleague and a
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    seemed vulnerable. This culminated in her trying to make Sarah jump as a "prank" after she learned Sarah was particularly jumpy and prone to panic attacks when triggered. (We never disclosed this, but it was due to her past in an ak ve relationship.) Linda thought that people who were triggered were "snowflakes" and "woke." On a particularly busy day, Linda jumped suddenly at Sarah, who responded in flight-or-fight mode and punched
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    Linda in the face, breaking her glasses and busting her nose. Naturally, Linda couldn't handle the humiliation and the dirty looks she received after that, everyone was unanimously supportive of Sarah. She handed in her notice, and found a job as a carer.
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    I had spent a lot of time training her, and decided to do a collection for her as I did for everyone, and I did feel kind of bad for her, even though she was dreadful. While I'd been training her, she'd told me a lot of her personal gripes, she didn't like chocolates with raisins or nuts in, she didn't like books as gifts (homework), she didn't like when people bought her bathing products (intimate, ¦ è, presumptive and insulting), and she thought candles were for
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    hippies. (Tbf, I think she was making a joke about some of these, but she was also very rude about hippies around a Jamaican colleague who wore dreadlocks) I got a lacklustre collection for her, and we got her a leaving card signed by everyone in the department (including Sarah), some fancy chocolate-covered fruit, a gorgeous copy of
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    Wuthering Heights (my least favourite book at school), regifted bath bombs, and incense sticks with a wooden holder tray. Honestly, she was beaming when she was given them, and she seemed genuinely touched. I hope she's happy now, and who knows? Maybe she's an excellent care worker. I'm not sure if this counts as petty revenge, but I still feel wicked when I think about it.
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    She Who LovesToDraw 9 hr. ago A person who thinks people with past trma are "snowflakes", picks on autistic people and thinks it's funny to trigger other people, went on to be a CARER? That's absolutely appalling to think about. 648 Reply Share
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    GargantuanGreenGoats · 9 hr. ago She's a carer now? The bully who enjoyed pushing around vulnerable people? Vulnerable people like the ones she is now "caring" for? FK 86 Reply Share
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    vio tpancakes 10 hr. ago It's giving "k" em with kindness" lol, but a good read :) 167 Reply Share SC_Nico74 10 hr. ago Give Sarah a hearty handshake and a clap on the back from me! Sucks she was put in that spot, but she did alright, it seems! Reply Share 83
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    ValkyrieSword. 9 hr. ago Brilliant. But now she has a job as a carer? That's a frightening thought. 36 Reply Share
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    sydmanly 8 hr. ago The ideal candidate to become a carer? Carer of those she does not negatively profile. Reply Share 3 Estudiier 7 hr. ago Oh boy, she's a peach! You took the high road. Reply Share 3
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    Kitepolice1814. 3 hr. ago Finally a petty revenge, that isn't outright malicious or bad. 3 Reply Share
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    Decent-Finish-2585 - 3 hr. ago She probably thought they were gag gifts, you must have liked her because you were paying attention to her dislikes, and the fact that you noticed and teased her meant that you cared about her. 42 Reply Share
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    SecondHandSlows - 1 hr. ago I hated Wuthering Heights. I read it without the threat of school, and finished it only because of the time I had already spent reading it and the hope that it must have some redeeming quality since it was so famous. 41+ Reply Share
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    Arkof Vengeance - 16 min. ago I love to hear that sarah's fight or flight reaction, especially considering where it came from, was to fight. 1 Reply Share
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