‘I called him out in front of the entire team’: Boomer delegates all tasks to his team, then calls young employees lazy because they enjoy working from home

Eleonora Bader

May 3, 2024 1:00 PM EDT

We all have a Harold at the office.

Harold grumbles, slams his stapler down with more force than necessary, and is practically a walking relic of the paper-pushing era. "Back in my day, we put in an honest day's work. Eight hours, no questions asked. Not this 'work-life balance' nonsense."

You're stuck collaborating with him while he shoots daggers at your laptop screen. He drones on about how working from home is for the lazy, and how it can't be possible to focus without the structure of an office. The dude is a dinosaur. You glance around the office and blink a few times, taking in the painfully bright fluorescent lights. You would much rather work from home. At least sometimes. Why is it better to work in a loud dungeon?

One employee took to r/pettyrevenge to discuss one such coworker (I told you, everyone knows a Harold) who was grumpy, mean, and also ironically lazy. He would talk about the younger employees slacking off because they were working from home, all while delegating all his tasks to them. Hmm, who is lazy, really? Scroll down to read what the employee did in response, and then check out this guest who checked into a hotel for 45 minutes, only to unsuccessfully demand a full refund.