'My coworker has it out for me': 29-year-old bartender on closing shift gets back at work enemy by making her opening shift the next day more difficult

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Nov 7, 2024 2:00 PM EST

Engaging in a petty back-and-forth with your coworker is, more often than not, a recipe for disaster. However, sometimes you have no choice but to defend yourself. 

Here, we have a 29-year-old bartender who often was put on the closing shifts at the small but popular bar where she worked. One morning, her coworker who was on the subsequent opening shift tried to get her in trouble with their manager for a mistake she had not made the night before. So, the Redditor decided that the best way to get even was to make her shift ever so slightly more strenuous the next time her coworker was scheduled to open after the Redditor was scheduled to close. This went on for a bit, and it made their working relationship all the more tense when they were scheduled to work together. This prompted the Redditor to opt to cover for any shift the coworker had to reschedule so as to avoid having to be in the same room with her, all the while masking that as generosity.

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more stories like this, check out this post about a micromanager who reprimanded their employee for wearing headphones in the office.

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    My Co-worker has it out for me, so my revenge was to do her a favour
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    I wanted to tell my story of potentially the least affective or potentially most affective petty revenge I performed.
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    I'm a 29 F, bartender working at a small but very popular pub. I've worked. there for over three years and have worked my way up to the shifts I want, so I often work 5-6 days a week.
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    I worked 6 days straight closing the bar. Which is a lot because unless it's Friday or Saturday I work alone, and we have to clean the entire place (sweep, mop, clean the toilets etc)
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    it's busy and I can sell anywhere between $1000-$3000 a night. (One time $3700 with a busser, but other than that always alone no help. Server bartender host food runner)
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    Anyways I close that final night, I do the entire checklist as usual and leave the place clean as I always do.
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    The next day the opener sent out a message around 1pm that said:
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    There was a full case of the Pinot upstairs. One and half bottle in the fridge. I have a bottle on ice for a couple that specifically came in for the Pinot. If we are super low stock Have a quick gander upstairs ✓
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    This employee gets one shift a week. She has proven to not be the strongest and completely has it out for me. Stocking the wine is a day shift job,
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    when she got there at 11:30am she could have taken a "gander" in the fridge and stocked accordingly.
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    So here is the petty revenge? I question whether this was actually revenge or just satisfying to me.
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    So if I close and know she's opening I will put the chairs up, and we don't put the chairs up. But even though putting the chairs up is annoying as , if she's
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    gonna complain about my close then I better do a thorough job. When we worked the next time together she ACTED LIKE I DIDNT EXIST! Like I
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    wasn't there!? I didn't do anything. That's what bothered me the most. Then guess who needs a shift covered that weekend. Her, of course. So who took me? Me, of course.
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    I felt satisfied with the fact that as much as she wants to hate me there I was to help her out. So, is that even petty revenge? You tell me
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    • Miauwtjee 10h ago • I kinda like your approach. If it makes you feel better by just being kind to her so she doesn't have a good reason to dislike you, then keep it up! Shows your character in a good way I think.
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    Blackho... 10h ago. • Don't become her. Just be you, that's already galling to her. Don't let her get to you, treat her like you would anyone else. The best revenge is none at all. Let them live with their hate, don't justify it.
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    Appropri... 9h ago. Covering their shift is the best way to ensure you don't have to work with them
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    PhoenixF... 9h ago • . If you keep being kind to her, it can go one of 2 ways: Either she feels guilty about her behavior & change her ways, or she'll keep up with being mean & make herself look like the bad guy to others.
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