56-year-old coworker makes a Google Doc of petty complaints to get the receptionist fired, shares it with entire staff, but no one backs her, and she just embarrasses herself: ‘She's all talk but no walk. She just wants to cause drama.’

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Aug 20, 2025 10:00 AM EDT

Some offices get spreadsheets to track expenses. This one got a spreadsheet to track leggings, nose piercings, and approved lunch breaks. A 56-year-old coworker apparently decided her best shot at relevance was to build a Google Doc cataloging everything the receptionist did "wrong." By wrong, she meant "young," "married," and "capable of holding a conversation with men in the office without combusting."

The masterpiece of this document was shared with everyone. Nothing bonds a workplace quite like being CC'd into a stranger's midlife crisis. Everyone opened the file expecting numbers and got, instead, a tattletale log demanding HR bring swift justice upon someone for wearing cotton pants.

This wasn't even subtle sabotage. She literally wanted her office mates to march with her to complain about traits most of them barely noticed. Receptionist five minutes late? Who cares. Receptionist has lunch with husband? Sounds better than microwaving leftover lasagna at your desk under fluorescent lights.

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  • KAREN OF A COWORKER WROTE A "LIST" TO GET OUR RECEPTIONIST FIRED

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  • The ultimate plan was to force a meeting where the villainy of leggings could be punished. But, much like New Year’s resolutions and juice cleanses, the meeting never happened. Turns out when you lead a coup against someone whose biggest crime is taking long lunches, the army doesn’t follow.

  • My coworker (56F) is a piece of work. Some days she's great with her jokes and sarcastic tone.
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  • But about 75% of the time she's really negative. About herself, about life, about her family, her situation, just everything.
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  • Complains about EVERYTHING. She's single, and is quite miserable with the fact that she's 56 and single.
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  • She has time and time again said "I hate the weekends I look forward to my week at work with my girls!" (First of all we are not 'your girls' we are your coworkers that are unfortunately forced to tolerate you.)
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  • To keep this vent relatively short, Recently my coworker had an absolute come- apart for *hours* about our receptionist.
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  • Granted, our receptionist is in her twenties. Young mom, her husband works from home. Overall kinda ditsy but she shows up and that's what matters.
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  • My coworker just starts RANTING about all the sh our receptionist "gets away with" (ie. wearing leggings to work, a nose piercing, being 5 minutes late sometimes, taking long APPROVED lunches with her husband.)
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  • The rest of the office has no problem with our receptionist. It seems my coworker has a personal nerve struck about our receptionist though.
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  • She started asking around "what do you think of [receptionist?]" Like she was trying to get rapport.
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  • Majority of those said they didnt care about her or no opinion. But apparently that triggered the point that she SHARED A GOOGLE DOC WITH THE OFFICE OF A LIST OF ALL THE THINGS OUR RECEPTIONIST DOES THAT SHE DOESN'T LIKE.
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  • So here’s the lasting achievement of this Google Doc. Nobody got fired. Nobody even got in trouble. All that remained was proof that one woman spent her time trying to bring office politics to a level even middle school would find embarrassing.

  • Most of it I believe was fabricated to make our receptionist look bad.
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  • It was pure bu y insecure behavior. It was disgusting. This coworker wanted to bring in our controller and HR to a "meeting" with our office on how THEY need to do better about THEIR responsibilities and how to take better care of their employees (aka our receptionist).
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  • Like, what the actual f ?! If I found out someone made a list about me I'd be absolutely mortified. Let alone SHARED with the office.
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  • For the fact that she wants to drag all of us down with her to "back her up" about her feelings.
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  • No, f you and your bu y mentality! I'm sorry if you're jealous of her life or our lives or whatever it is you're insecure about.
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  • Maybe she just solely wants attention. But like? Our receptionist is NOT YOUR PROBLEM. Why do you care so much?? You can barely do your own job.
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  • If you want to be the receptionist maybe bring that up to our manager and not get a poor girl fired.
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  • I just felt so icky after reading that list. Things like "always late, long lunches, dresses inappropriately, spends too much time on her phone, busy talking to male employees." etc etc.
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  • She's not under you, why do you care so much? How old are you??! This felt so tattle tale to me it was gross.
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  • Sorry you're not hot and in your twenties anymore. Don't know what else to tell you but you can't just write a list of reasons why you dislike someone and hope it gets them fired.
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  • The "meeting" has not happened btw, because she's too chicken. She's all talk but no walk.
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  • We're not going to back her up. **She just wants to cause drama.** *eye roll*
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  • Sidenote: My mom says I could write a book about this coworker because of how much sh I've had to deal with from the past 7 months.
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  • This is just a sliver of one of those stories.
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