'[I called] her fake quitting bluff': Karen threatens to quit, coworker throws impromptu retirement party, forcing her to actually resign

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    "She 'quit Magain" 1971 greatest rebellion in exist
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    Calling her "fake quitting" bluff This happened years ago but still makes me smile. I started working in a corporate office in a secretarial position for my first job after college. There were two older ladies who were also secretaries working in the office. One of them was just fine,
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    but I spent most of my time sitting beside and working with Agnes. Agnes was quickly approaching retirement age but wasn't going anywhere without a big push. This was in the days where we just started getting computers and she was absolutely hopeless. She'd pull stuff like "I can't answer the phone - I'm on the computer." Multi-tasking was not in this woman's repertoire. She was super fussy,
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    and annoying. If I ever came back from lunch 5 minutes late, she would exclaim loudly "OMG - there you are! I was wondering what had happened to you!", making sure the whole office knew I was late. Meanwhile, she was usually late coming in in the morning, and often left early for various appointments. If I made a typo in a document, she would make sure the rest of the staff knew about it, loudly.
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    She tended to pout when when things didn't go her way, and she would "quit" her job when someone her off, and then my boss's boss would talk her into staying. I'd heard about this tactic of hers and one day, our boss did something that annoyed her and she "quit" again. My boss's boss was away that day so I had my chance. I quickly advertised and planned a big retirement party for her. It was a done deal by the end of the day. People were dropping by and congratulating her and everyone looked for
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    I guess she figured it was too late to pull her usual shenanigans and she actually retired. I told my boss to not bother replacing her because it was to cover the little work she actually accomplished every day. easy
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    blandrice123. The power of office cake parties... 8.4k Reply Share
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    mountainsprouts This is amazing. You got rid of her and can't possibly look bad for it. 4.6k Reply Share
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    StevenBayShore Oh great, now I'm starvin' over here. Anybody got some office cake? 145 Reply Share
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    Derkely I feel bad for laughing at this. She kinda had it coming though. 2.1k Reply Share
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    NayMarine. check this out you tell your boss give me five dollars more per hour. and i will cover all her work. where are you going to hire someone else for $5? 1.0k Reply Share
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    yabacam If I ever came back from lunch 5 minutes late, she would exclaim loudly "OMG - there you are! I was wondering what had happened to you!", making sure the whole office knew I was late. I hate her and glad she is gone. I'd have pulled that right back at her every morning she was late. 556 Reply Share
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    beigemom Love this. I hate bluffers. Did a similar thing w a volunteer yet prestigiously invited position. Had to call them out on a few things. in a So when they said we were all dummies running the whole thing and they won't come back the next year if that's how we're running it I said, "OK" and announced it at the next meeting they were at.
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    They were totally caught off guard and angrily emailed me they were just kidding and I should have known this. I said they shouldn't have said it in the first place. Not as much revenge as overtly taking their word to my advantage. 441 Reply Share
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    wheatgrass_feetgrass. I had a girlfriend that did this all the time. She'd break up with me every time she was mad at me. I was young and stupid and a poor college student who needed her as a roommate for cheap rent so I just let her do it knowing she didn't mean it. Sure enough days later she's calling herself my girlfriend again and acting like nothing ever happened.
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    One time she did it right before my birthday and a mutual friend of ours was throwing me a birthday party that my gf couldn't go to because of work. I slept with that friend at the party and started seeing her. A few days later my ex called my new girl at 2am saying that when I didn't come home she drove past her house and saw my car there. She starting crying and asking "why MY girl?!" New girl shrugged, said "you broke up", and hung up her phone while my ex could be heard screaming "I didn't m
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    I moved out of that ex's place a few weeks later, had to pay double rent for 6 months (worth it), and 9 years later I'm happily married to birthday gal. Ex got married too; after she found out I was married. Literally announced her engagement after she learned about mine despite her relationship being like 3 months old at that point. One of those weird counter- marriages that exes sometimes do. I hope she's as happy as I am. 379 Reply Share
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    AFroggieLife. ...Did you at least get a pay raise for doing her work? Otherwise, I'd have let the company add another human to the payroll... 205 Reply Share
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    chief89. What is with people announcing small mistakes like this to the whole office? We've got a guy who sends an email to the whole company (15ish people) every time someone makes a mistake. He also words it like he's innocent. "Is this the way we're going to be writing these orders? I just want to make sure I'm doing my job correctly. I can change from how we've been doing things for the last 10 years." Reply Share 186

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