Coworker-turned-roommate accuses woman of ‘stealing’ her work promotion, then tries to kick her out of their shared apartment: ‘She DID NOT even apply!’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Jul 16, 2025 10:00 AM EDT

The saying folks always tell you is never mix business and pleasure. It's easy to refrain from doing so in work environments regarding friendships or romantic relationships, but do the idiom gods have a saying for rooming with your coworker?

In this economy, you're still better off footing the bill for a $2.5k studio than accepting an apartment share with someone you work with—you never really know someone until you share a roof with them. Now, draining our savings isn't an option for many of us, so we end up posting about our crazy roommates on Reddit in hopes we receive some sound advice from the rest of the world.

In this next story, a woman explains that she moved in with her coworker after leaving an emotionally taxing relationship. The woman wasn't put in the best position from the beginning, but anything is better than living under a roof with someone who makes you feel unsafe. Long story short, her roommate accuses her of "stealing" a work promotion from her, despite never having applied for the promotion to begin with. There's a bit of back-and-forth, but the solution for the roommate seems to be kicking the woman out. Good luck with that—she's paid her rent for all of July. Scroll below to read the rest of the story.

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  • "I told her if I was paying for July I would be occupying my room until then and she's LIVID."
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  • "AITA for taking my roommates promotion and then not leaving when she kicked me out."

    I (23f) moved into a spare room of a coworker (37F) in March after leaving an emotionally a ve relationship. We were
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  • friendly and things started out great. There was a third person that also lived in the 3 bedroom 1 bathroom home. In May I applied
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  • went through the interview process and was offered a promotion. This is where things go sideways..... my roommate stops coming home for multiple
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  • days at a time (not a huge deal, her kitties are pretty self sufficient) Things begin to be tense in passing and a couple of
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  • mutual friends/co-workers also go cold and radio silent. During all of this I discover my roommate at work stealing time (clocking
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  • out long after she actually left, showing up hours before she was schedulednot to work but to hide and scroll on her phone). Things
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  • started to get SPICY when two big things happened close together. First I caught her doing this. While she is on the clock
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  • hiding in a back office scrolling when I stumble upon her. I am a supervisor on shift this day. She is not a direct report for me but is
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  • among the level of staff that I supervise. As being new to the role and knowing this was an established issue i felt the need to report it to my superiors. To
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  • my knowledge she doesn't know it was me to report this (no she didnt get fired or anything) but she's a smart enough lady the
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  • math might be mathing. Anyway shortly after that she told me in passing while at home together that she was "pretty р ed that I took her promotion
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  • ". I was shocked and honestly felt a little bad initially as I know she's worked there longer than myself. However I also know that our
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  • company policy is the interview ALL internal applicants. So when I asked I asked how her interview when I was FLOORED her reply was that she DID NOT even
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  • Apply! After this and her ranting and venting about it we had very little contact. More than passing in the hallway or being at work
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  • together. Though I worked hard to maintain professional standards and distance. Until last week. I am supervisor and her
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  • and one of her best friends are my "team". In short it was an emotionally exhausting day where I made extra efforts to let
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  • them each do what they wanted in tasks and even managed to let them go on a break together. However to my shock a few days
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  • later I am pulled in to discuss "complaints" against me. I was asked to participate in mediated conversations with each party.
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  • My roommate declined this. However her friend accepted and had complaints like "not being supported but also could not give
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  • specific examples of how/when I failed or what could be better. So after a couple of days I reach out to my roommate in text to ask if we could sit down together to
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  • see if we could move forward to make our living situation more comfortable for both of us (the other roommate had moved out
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  • before things got bad e with us). Anyway she declines this also. A few more days go by and I run ibto her at home. I hand her my
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  • rent money and just ask how we can move forward. She essentially tells me the only moving is going to be me moving out. I say ok I can be out in the
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  • next 7-10days but. I'll need some rent back because im not paying for a month when I have to leave by the 15th. She starts yelling and how about how thats bulls
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  • disrespectful I've been as a roommate and how she's not giving me anything back. Her example were me not double locking the back door a couple of times and not closing the lid to
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  • the toilet a few times (because her cats could drown), oh yea and something about grunting at her while I was in the kitchen. I
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  • told her if I was paying for July I would be occupying my room. until then and she's LIVID. SO AITA for stealing my roommates promotion and not leaving when she kicked me out?
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  • JMarchPineville You can't steal a promotion that she didn't even apply for. She's jealous and decided to try to make your life miserable. You may want to let HR know what's going on for their awareness for when she escalates, because it's coming.
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