'You never have your wallet when I need it': Mooching coworker gets called out and fired, blocks her work wife on social media

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Apr 3, 2024 4:00 PM EDT

If you're the mooching coworker in your office, don't expect other employees to have your back when the pressure is on. This lady had a ton of audacity when she told her coworker, with whom she frequently gets breakfast and/or lunch, "you never have your wallet when I need it!" For clarification, the moocher's coworker always ended up paying for her and never got her money back, so one day, she just stopped. She pretended she forgot her wallet, and the moocher had to pay for herself. After the moocher had the bonkers idea to act like this was all the coworker's fault, the two existed in quiet silence for the next few weeks and their working relationship never recovered. 

Then, the inevitable happened. It turns out that the moocher was also a reckless employee and was on thin ice with her boss. When she got fired, she was so embarrassed that she blocked her former work wife on all social media platforms. We interpret this as a blessing in disguise for the Redditor, whose two posts documenting the saga are included in the screenshots below.

Keep scrolling below for the full stories. When you're done, feel free to take a look at this post about an employee's malicious compliance regarding the company's OT policy.

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    G Pay "Crazy coworker expects me to pay for her food"
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    Crazy coworker expects me to pay for her food... My coworker basically had to leave the restaurant and go get her wallet, go back to the restaurant, and pay because I lied and told her I didn't have my wallet. For some context, this coworker makes less than I do but not a lot less, every time we go to breakfast or lunch she "left her wallet" somewhere new. I have paid before, and I'll then have to send her a venmo request which she sends back days or weeks later, sometimes I have forgotten,
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    and she has gotten away with it. I started to notice this and today she asked me if I wanted to go get breakfast with her, I told her I'd go with her but had already had breakfast. Of course when we sit down she says OMG I forgot my wallet and I said omg me too lol. I tell her go get it from the car and she says she'll try apple pay. She eats and when time to pay comes she asks if they use apple pay and they don't. I'm a very over-prepared person and was embarrassed that she waited til she ate t
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    The place let her come back a little later to pay since we showed them where we worked on the block. The whole way back to work she went on about how embarrassing that was and said to me "You never have your wallet when I need it"... to which I was so confused. THE SHEER AUDACITY. I said "Excuse me? I always have my wallet or a form of payment which is why we have been here before and I've paid for you and its crazy to say that to me when you never have your wallet and when I didn't eat" and she
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    Edit: I didn't expect this to go semi viral, thanks for all the comments and advice. Just want to add a couple of points that I think are important: 1. We are the only two women at the office, our boss is rarely here and all other employees are remote. We basically just make sure the satellite office doesn't fall apart and get whatever our boss needs, collect the mail etc. Soooo we have A LOT of downtime, we don't even have to answer phones so we go to breakfast at a cafe nearby pretty often sin
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    2. She may be this way with everyone because on her birthday she posted her venmo on facebook and asked people to send gifts through there.
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    Update: My mooching coworker who would ask me to pay for her food got fired!! OG Post: Crazy coworker expects me to pay for her food...: coworkerstories (reddit.com) She got fired over the weekend because she sent an email to the wrong client enclosing a bunch of confidential agreements. This is not the first time she's gotten reprimanded before, so I was not surprised since she and I both knew she was on thin ice with my boss.
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    The most shocking part to me was that she immediately blocked me on all social media/texts as soon as she left, even though I stayed cordial with her since the last time we went to eat and wrote the post.
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    So I definitely feel like even more of an idiot than I felt after the wallet comment. Can't believe I trusted someone for four years who was waiting for any second to remove me from her life. Let this be your reminder that coworkers are not friends.
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    Trifle MeNot 1 day ago . Never add coworkers to social media. 166 Reply Share
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    dragonagitator. 23 hr. ago Within the first week of starting a new job, I go through the company directory and systematically block every single person who works there 100 Reply Share
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    . razcalnikov 1 day ago What's the mooching backstory? She probably removed everyone out of embarrassment more than anything tbh. But yes, coworkers are never friends. A really hard lesson we all have to learn. 60 Reply Share
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    AccomplishedCod1527 OP 1 day ago She actually left all the WFH employees on her instagram and only blocked me I was the only person close to her because we were the only employees not remote. OG post is here: https://www.reddit.co m/r/coworkerstories/ comments/1bkdxlc/cr azy coworker expect s me to pay for her food/
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    Wynndee 23 hr. ago SOME coworkers are not your friends, however, I now live with a former coworker and she saved my time and time again... people and sometimes you have to work with those sucky people, but some are gems I promise!
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    AlfalfaNo4405 - 21 hr. ago I just read your original post and I'm infuriated for you and cracking up at her audacity. Omg. Just be glad the trash took itself out and you don't have to deal with her nonsense anymore. Hope she doesn't unblock you looking for a reference!
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    Noirjyre 1 day ago I never add co workers to my social media. I never hang out with co worker, outside of work.
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    Halbbitter 1 day ago . That's great though! Consider it like a thorn removed, a lesson left to your benefit. Also holy I can't believe she did that. What a moron.
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    Shoop420 1 day ago Maybe she knew you were talking Reddit on
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    AccomplishedCod1527 OP 18 hr. ago Can't say that didn't cross my mind Imao
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