Employee finds out a coworker is living in a tent and spreads the information around the office, coworker teaches him a valuable lesson in response: ‘Don't dish it out if you can't take it’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Oct 18, 2024 7:00 AM EDT

Being the source of some really 'juicy gossip' at work is never a pleasant experience, especially if what people are saying about you is true. It can be surprising how much an office can look like a high school, with real-life adult mean girls who can really make your work life difficult if they want to. 

Like Mean Girls, sometimes all you want to do is give an entitled coworker a taste of their own medicine, and show them what it feels like to be the talk of the office. Exactly as the girl in this Reddit story decided to do. After her coworker found out that she was living in a tent due to house pricing, instead of being supportive, he decided to spread that information around the office, creating an extremely difficult situation for her. But, instead of dwelling on her own misfortune, this employee decided to get payback in the best way possible – more gossip.

Keep scrolling to read what happened next. After you are done, click here for a story of a boomer boss who blamed his mistakes on an IT employee.

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    "He never spoke to me again"
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    Coworker slandered me so I got revenge....
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    I was working in a kitchen doing some casual work mostly food preparation. C. by job tbh. Anyway one of the dishies found out that I was living in a tent. (House prices are out of control)
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    And spread it around work telling everyone and started making snide comments to me in front of others like offering to lend me his bed wink wink.
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    So I started telling people that he was just mad at me because I stopped sleeping with him.(we never did lol) Eventually someone told his gf and they had a big fight over it to me again He never spoke
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    forever_single_now • 2d ago • You can send her a kit for paternity test if he tries to take revenge. Guess whatever he said to convince her it's fake might be questioned if you are willing to go that far ;)
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    Girlonfyre OP • 2d ago • Oh I like that idea too ②. Though real ossue will be if they do end up fully breaking up then he will have no reason to avoid me anymore.
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    HawkyMacHawkFace •2d ago Raise the temperature by sending an apology to his gf lol
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    Ratlochet1472 • 2d ago If he can't take it, he shouldn't dish it out. I hope you're in a better place now, OP.
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    Common Chester • 2d ago I can't for the life of me understand this mindset. I had a prep cook who I found out was homeless. I thought him everything I knew about how to be a cook. When he was ready I found him a decent job and helped him get an apt. He now has a nice GF and a normal life.
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    Proud-Cat-Mom-2021 2d ago • Coworker more than had that one coming. Don't do onto others what you wouldn't want done to you put into practice. Well done.
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    notmysundaybest3 •2d ago. If he can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Literally.
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    Laurag68 2d ago While what your coworker did was wrong by spreading gossip - slander is a legal term. Someone can't slander you if what they are saying is true.
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    Nyardyn 2d ago • burn with a self-burn. the level of pettiness in this one is out of control, lol. you have my respect.
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    S99B88 2d ago • You did not get slandered, but you slandered him
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    unwaveredwarble • 2d ago • You're the a ole. Sorry, wrong sub. Anyways... You got hurt and slighted, so you decided to hurt somebody else
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    because of it (his gf). Not to mention the only person guilty of slander here. Dude was an aole, but you're the bigger one.
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    Girlonfyre OP • 2d ago So what? I never said I was a saint...
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    Every-Astronomer6247 • 2d ago Wow, did you ruin his marriage?
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    mc1rginger 2d ago • Can't ruin a marriage that doesn't exist.
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