‘I decided to set a trap’: Hospital employee outs new hire's laziness when he doesn't dispose of an overflowing bin of medical waste over the weekend

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Feb 10, 2025 9:00 AM EST

Once someone lands a job that is ideal in terms of communication levels, expectations, and pay, it feels like all is right in the world and that missing puzzle piece was finally found and fell into place. After a few joyous months there, you hear that there might be a new hire. This could be an amazing opportunity to alleviate some possible workplace stress after taking on your entire workload as one person! There's nothing wrong with some teamwork and extra help, right? Well, not everyone might be as hard of a worker as you are…

The new hire in this story has a serious case of lazy bones. Hilariously enough, this fella was hired to dispose of medical waste and other trash from hospital garbage bins. The employee who posted this story had already been working there but was pleased to hear that they might have some help around the hospital. The new hire was anything but helpful—He was a conniving, lazy liar. If you don't respect the golden rule, expect to be given the same disrespect back. Scroll to read how the employee enacts smelly revenge.

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  • "Felt good knowing I did him in." A
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  • "Set a trap and got the laziest guy fired."

    A few years ago, I worked at a hospital in the environmental services where I gathered up the accumulated trash and medical waste to be
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  • disposed of. It wasn't a hard job, and worked well for someone like me with ADHD as it involved lots of walking. I could usually get lots of the hospital clear
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  • by my lunch break as we worked in pairs to clear the building, but then we had a new guy come in. His name was Ben. He seemed nice, but soon things began going downhill.
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  • I showed up for work one day and the bins were overflowing. Then the next day, and the next day were the same. I'd have so much garbage being
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  • accumulated that I wouldn't be halfway done with my section by lunch and had no time to get the medical waste taken out. I
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  • complained multiple times. to management who were also getting heat for the piling up of waste. We all suspected Ben wasn't doing his job, but we couldn't find proof and he was honestly a good liar. So I decided to set a trap.
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  • Lying on the job and disregarding assigned tasks as a new hire is bold, especially because he works in a hospital setting that depends on custodial staff for cleanliness and keeping sterile environments sterile. I can empathize with the employee; This is like tattling on the kid who keeps kicking the back of your seat during class in the third grade but you can't prove it because he stops the minute the teacher walks over. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and this employee intends to out Mr. Lazy Bones so he isn't made out to be a slacker, too.

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  • One Friday I saw that the bin in one area was overflowing, and that that particular wing of the hospital would be closed on the weekend so the trash wouldn't change. I
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  • took a photo of the bin and left it there unattended knowing Ben would be working the weekend. I came in on Monday and checked the same bin and saw it was exactly the same. I took another photo and showed my boss.
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  • Within minutes she was calling Ben into the office and confronted him. He tried his usual lies, but when I showed the evidence he just sat there stone faced. Turns out he
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  • spent most of his day hiding in the hospital and messing around on his phone. He was fired and blackballed from all the departments of the hospital. Felt good knowing I did him in.
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  • GrapeSoda223 If someone wants to be lazy at work, fine, im not the one paying their salary so i don't care But as soon as their laziness starts too affect my work and my ability to be lazy, that's when i start to care
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  • JulsTiger10 We had the janitor at a work who would sneak off and sleep. I was scheduled at different locations, and sometimes I would come in and find him sleeping in my office. Other times I would
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  • leave and he would be sleeping in his car. I overheard my boss complaining about things not being tended, and mentioned this. She asked for pics. I took pics. He was fired.
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  • delulu4drama The trash took itself out this time
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  • Psytrancedude99 He's now a has Ben
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  • Piddy3825 petty revenge - best served photographed...
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  • hypermapleorange Ben's just that good in taking trash out he took himself out with it
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  • sakurakiks094 What on earth were good excuses, that he could get away with it? I cleared it out but that trash is new? They must have had a lot more than usual the night after my shift? Oh this was clear after I was done, must have been the other guy who didn't finish his job??
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