Employee admits to coworker she's the reason they resigned from their job, after months of doing all her neglected tasks: ‘I couldn't continue working with her’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Aug 29, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

How many reasons does it take for a person to quit their job? Is it the accumulation of multiple factors that leads to this big decision, or is it due to one big reason that overshadows everything else?

Well, if you ask the 27-year-old employee in the story below, all it took was one coworker to drive her away from her job. After she helped this coworker get the job, defended her against rumors in the workplace, and even did her work when she neglected it, this employee decided she had had enough. She could no longer keep working with this entitled coworker, and for that reason alone, she decided to quit her job.

Some people quit because of their boss, some because of the commute to work, others because of their coworker… Should a person really make such a drastic change over this one thing? Keep scrolling to read the full story and let us know what you think in the comments below.

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    AITA for telling my coworker she’s the reason I resigned?

    I (F, 27) recently resigned from my university job. People assumed I did because I want a more stable job (work in government).
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    But honestly, the real reason was a toxic coworker who used to be my close friend. I actually helped her get her job.
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    I shared materials, teaching tips, and record-keeping techniques so she could adjust. I even went out of my way by talking to each people we work with to help her adjust.
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    I really wanted her to succeed. A few months in, rumors started that she was an "other woman" of a married colleague.
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    People warned me about her, but I defended her and stood by her even when it made me look bad (I didn't know what they we're doing to be labelled as having an affair).
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    Things changed when she snapped at me after I suggested a better way to organize her records.
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    After that, I stopped involving myself in her tasks. From then on, she avoided her assigned office and didn't complete simple tasks I gave her, like shelf reading and reshelving (we work in a library).
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    This year, I assigned her the semestral inventory because i was busy with an upcoming evaluation and visit.
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    She acknowledged it in a meeting, but the semester ended and nothing was done.
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    During summer, she used "Teacher's Leave" as an excuse not to do the semestral inventory assigned to her earlier.
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    She said she could if she's allowed to work during "Teacher's Leave" so she asked me to draft a letter asking her for work,
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    later I found out it was so she could earn service credits.
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    was called by our admin and told she's not allowed to work because she's on leave.
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    I later explained that it was a tasked assigned to her earlier and i only wanted her to finish it.
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    She was also paid extra for the upcoming evaluation and visit prep, but her outputs had errors.
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    When I asked her to correct them, she dismissed it and again cited her leave.
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    Later, I learned she told her program head I was "forcing" her to work.
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    It escalated to admin, and I felt like they believed her side more than mine.
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    That was my breaking point. I couldn't continue working with her.
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    I look for other job, applied, got accepted and recently, I resigned.
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    Before leaving, I told her to her face that she was the reason I resigned.
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    She looked upset, almost crying, but I honestly felt relieved finally saying it.
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    Later, she insisted she never said I forced her, just that she asked about her workload.
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    But considering how far things escalated, I still don't fully believe that.
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    So, AITA for telling her directly she was the reason I left? Or should I have just kept quiet and let people assume it was all about marriage and stability?
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    TL;DR: I helped a friend get hired, defended her against rumors, but she neglected her tasks and later made it look like I was forcing her to work.
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    Before resigning, I told her she was the reason I left. AITA for being that honest?
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  • If we had to deal with someone like this coworker every day, we would definitely consider quitting as well. Sometimes the job simply isn't worth it…

    What would you have done?

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