30-year-old coworker tries to turn the office against a 23-year-old after her ex hits on the younger woman, but whole staff starts reporting her behavior and management issues last warning: ‘She went out of her way to corner my friends’

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Aug 12, 2025 10:00 AM EDT

Here sits a 23-year-old who mistook fast intimacy for solid ground. She shared history with a coworker who loved a narrative with a villain and a chorus. The ex made a clumsy pass, got rejected, and sprinted back claiming he was the hunted, not the hunter. The coworker chose the version that kept dignity on life support and vengeance well fed. For seven months she workshopped slander like it was a side hustle, repackaging diagnoses as stage props and loyalty as something owed in arrears. Two people quit just to escape the noise, which is how office folklore becomes turnover.


Office besties are a workplace speedrun. Swap a few medical war stories, braid some shared trauma, and suddenly two colleagues are texting like cousins while HR lurks like weather. Then the boyfriend exits the relationship and tries to enter the friend group, fails upward into a lie, and the break room turns into a courthouse where vibes file affidavits. Gossip thrives because it asks so little and pays so well.

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  • my coworker tried to make the entire staff hate me… now they’re all trying to get her fired

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  • My (23f) coworker (30f) and I had a close relationship when I first started.
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  • Management, famously allergic to early intervention, finally found the plot during a performance review. One more jab and the badge stops working. The department adapted overnight. Every stray insult now walks itself to a supervisor like a rescue dog. The young woman in the middle did not launch a campaign; she simply refused to join the theater, and the theater collapsed when the audience got bored and the ushers started writing reports.

  • We bonded over similar medical issues and family trauma, and we became SUPER close super quickly, not just in work but outside of work too.
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  • She and her boyfriend split up in September, and he immediately tried to make a pass at me.
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  • To which I at first brushed it off as a joke then when I realized he was serious expressed my disinterest...
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  • And he proceeded to turn around and tell her that I was the coming into HIM!
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  • She believed it and spent the next 7 months telling everyone who would listen about how I f ed her boyfriend, how I lied to her,
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  • how I used my knowledge of her medical history against her, how I was lying about a specific diagnosis had just gotten.
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  • She went out of her way to corner my friends and berate me to them, so badly that 2 ppl quit.
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  • Eventually word got back to management how awful she was being (bc I have let it go, I didnt care to make it into a big deal,
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  • were grown women and that says more about her then it does about me) and they pulled her in for a performance review...
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  • Where the proceeded to tell her one more word about me would result in her immediate termination!
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  • Now, every single one of my coworkers hangs on to her every word and any time it's something even remotely nasty about anyone,
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  • it gets reported to management. I didnt have to do a thing... the universe took care of that one for me
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  • I honestly feel bad for her. She barely has any friends, everyone at her job hates her, and I know she doesn't have family.
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  • But she made her bed I guess.
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  • Pity the coworker if necessary, but do not reissue a backstage pass. Loneliness is tragic. Weaponized loneliness is policy. She curated this mess, one rumor at a time, and the office did the filing.

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