'I wanted her to know it was me': Nail tech exposes her manager after getting framed for theft, getting her ex-best friend fired for betraying their boss and their friendship

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Dec 18, 2024 7:00 AM EST

Friendships start to get complicated when you either A) start living together or B) start working together. This woman realized that by failing to keep a 'separation of church and state' in her friendship (ie: segregating your work life, home life, and friendship), she quickly unraveled her entire life.

We've all been in a down-n-out state when we're between jobs. The mania of the job search coupled with the fear of losing income each month to your bills is a terrifying sensation, so at a certain point, you'll say yes to just about any offer–especially if it comes from a friend. The woman in our next story had no experience working in a nail salon, but when her buddy–who was managing a nail studio at the time–extended a manicured hand to help her out, she gladly accepted. Except, after a few months, she realized there was more to this salon's lore than she was prepared for. 

Keep scrolling to read how a friendship, roommate situation, and career were all unfurled when this lady's supposed 'friend' and manager decided to frame her for theft in the workplace, only to get caught red-handed herself.

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    Friend tried to frame me for theft, and I got her fired I (24F at the time) had been good acquaintances with my nail tech of over 4 years, we will call her Stacy (31F). In the beginning of 2022, she offered for me to move into her parents' old house with
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    another client of hers and split rent. I've been wanting to move out for a while and thought it would be a perfect opportunity as I would know my landlord to be her brother that we will call Simon (35M).
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    As I was a week away from moving in, my mother passed away unexpectedly. I was devastated and had to take care of all of her assets and my father within less than 24 hours. It was a rough beginning of the year, but Stacy was "there for me." At first
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    she would always check in on me and try to cheer me up with dinners and hangouts. We were becoming close and I thought I was making a friend for life at this point. Oh how wrong I was!
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    Three months after my mother passed, I had quit my job due to HR spreading rumors about my usage of PTO for grief (story for another day). When I told Stacy, she offered me a job at the nail salon as a receptionist. I was
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    excited to work at the place I went to relax for manis and pedis and hang out with my friend who would be my assistant manager. Things were great at first and I even started making new friendships with others. I am still
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    close with many of them to this day, but one of them named Alice (26F) was apparently going to by new roommate in the fall as my previous roommate ended her lease early (lots of drama there too, I've got so many side stories).
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    Alice and I began to hangout outside of work so we can learn more about each other since we would become roommates. Well this made Stacy unhappy and she began to stir drama. She would tell me lies about my coworkers
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    such as they talked bad about my weight, judging my boyfriend, backstabbing each other. Stacy told me so many things that I felt I couldn't trust anyone there for a while, but that changed when Stacy traveled abroad for a week and returned to work.
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    Stacy informed Alice and me, literally 3 days before Alice was to move in that she was also moving in. But not to live there. To open her own nail salon. Alice and I were confused, like where would the salon go? Stacy told us
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    it would be in the back of the house, across from MY BEDROOM. Alice and I were shocked and ped off. Alice decided not to move in because of it and I didn't blame her for it.
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    But now I am stuck living across from a nail salon and Stacy began to show some true colors and her deceit began to surface. Alice talked with some of the other nail techs and they told her
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    that Stacy has done similar things before to receptionists. She would be nice to them at first, then alienate them from the other nail techs because she wanted to manipulate the sales so she made more money. Then
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    when the receptionists would find out, drama would unfold and the issues would be blamed on the receptionist. I didn't want to believe it at first, but since she began to act suspicious with wanting to open a salon in the
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    house I was renting in, which went against my lease, I began to move in the shadows and investigated. Stacy began to take things from the salon she claimed were hers without informing the owner. She
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    has been friends with the owner, we will call him Nick (34M), for over 11 years, so they were really close. However, Nick began reaching out to me directly because he was told I wasn't doing my job correctly. Of course
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    I asked him what was it that I wasn't doing and he told me I was overcharging clients. I asked him what the prices were to everything (I played dumb) and set them up. Stacy began changing the prices again and I
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    began taking screenshots and documenting. I also told him we were running out of certain supplies and told me that was impossible because he recently bought them. I told him "that's what Stacy told me we needed," but then she would tell me that's not what she meant. Weird, weird, weird.
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    Then the final straw happened. One day she asked me to take some boxes to her car and I agreed. I didn't know what was in the boxes until I placed them in her trunk. It was some waxing supplies like the waxing beads, sticks, wet wipes, etc. Also some
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    rhinestones, special gel polishes, and other nail items. A week later, Alice tells me that Nick is investigating in missing supplies. Guess which supplies... yup you're correct. The ones I carried to her car. And yes, the supplies
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    are at the house that I AM RENTING because that is where her new salon will be. And there are cameras in the salon. My heart dropped and I knew that Stacy was trying to frame me like she did with previous
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    receptionists. I was hurt because I thought she cared about me, but I had already gathered enough evidence and it was time I came out of the shadows. I compiled a list of everything she had done for the past 3 months,
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    from missing supplies, overcharging, stealing clients by referring them to her salon without an LLC and expired license, defamation on current and previous employees, and text messages about her plans for her new salon, with a specific
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    message saying she is doing this because Nick was a con artist. I texted Nick I needed to talk to him and he set up a time for 3 days. I told Alice and all my other coworkers about it and they said they would have my back if Nick asked them.
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    Stacy came in the next day and tried to be sweet to me. I gave her a cold shoulder and told her "I'll talk to you after work." She looked nervous but began working. Stacy asked me to meet her in the back of the salon
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    towards the end of the day and I did. She asked me what was wrong and I told her I knew the supplies she asked me to take to her car were not hers and Nick is investigating. I told her she has 3 days to tell Nick or that I will. She
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    told me she would and for the next 3 days she called, texted, and even came to me at work to reassure me she took care of the situation. She even told me Nick already knows I took the supplies and I don't even need to talk to him. But I still did.
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    Nick arrives and Stacy didn't show up to work. Nick asks where is Stacy and I told him "avoiding you because she has been deceiving you." I told him everything and showed him the evidence. He looked pained and
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    told me "This isn't the first time Stacy has done something to hurt my business, but this has gone too far." He told me I should not renew my lease (wasn't planning to) and that he will be talking to Stacy about all of this. He asked if it was okay if he mentioned me and I told him I wanted her to know it was me.
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    That night Stacy blew up my phone calling me a liar and asking how could I betray her for everything she did for me. I told her yes she did a lot for me but that doesn't make it okay to frame me for theft. She tried to tell me it was hers and I sent her
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    the screenshots of receipts that it was under Nick's card. She then Isaid I have been brainwashed by the other nail techs and that they've been out to get her since day one. She texted a lot of nonsense but I just kept
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    mentioning the theft and told her this is over. She said she would tell Simon to not renew my lease and I told her I wasn't planning on it anyways. Fast forward a week, Nick texts me that I need to change the passwords from the system and to take Stacy out. He was
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    changing the locks and access codes to everything because he fired Stacy! He thanked me for my honesty and told me I am temporary assistant manager, but I left 2 months after to go back into my field of psychology. I
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    moved in with my now husband, Alice and I are best friends now, and Stacy apparently lost a lot of her clients due to her ethics and overcharging. She also lost a lot of friends and had to work outside of being a nail tech to make ends meet.
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    And that's my petty revenge story! Sorry it was long, but it was a lot. Thanks for reading!
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    Science_Matters_100 You did what was right instead of what was easy. My kind of people!
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    Who_is_my_Su... "Tell Cersei, I want her to know it was me", some Lady Olenna level of revenge.
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