‘It literally feels like she's having a breakdown’: Coworker has a ‘temper tantrum’ after employee turns in their resignation, employee implores fellow corporate soldiers to share their worst coworker stories

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Aug 29, 2025 9:00 AM EDT

Coworkers, after working with them for a long time, can start to feel like friends. But, you know what they say: Don't ever mix business with pleasure. You might end up like the defeated employee in this next story, who is being cast out by their formerly-friendly coworker of 10 years, because they handed in their resignation.

The employee gave the company a whopping three-week notice, which they didn't need to do, thinking that would be a sufficient amount of time to transfer any work, knowledge, or data over. Even still, it seems like when they try to do something kind and efficient, they are met with a transgression they don't believe they can bear for the next three weeks.

Truthfully, the largest problem here is that management will not do anything about their coworker's behavior. The coworker is in full "breakdown" mode according to the employee, and goes so far as to refuse to be in the same room as the employee. I don't know about you, but this seems like workplace harassment in its clearest form. Possibly retaliation, too. Either way, this story has sparked a response of other stories from commenters about their difficult coworkers. Scroll below to dive right in.

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  • "Coworker is having a literal temper tantrum since I gave my notice- need some stories!"

    Title say it all- one of my coworkers is having a literal temper tantrum. She had a poor reaction to my 3 weeks notice (I
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  • thought I was being helpful adding a week to help tie things up), and now will not even be in same room with me- she takes
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  • routes around the building to avoid me, won't sit at her desk in the room that we share. Stomping around while passing
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  • me- even the boss is like "you good?" I'm just staying quiet until my last day comes. I don't know if that's the right move or not but
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  • I'm not sure what else to do at this point. We were friends for the last 15 years of working together and it's just such a weird
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  • turn of personality. Like it literally feels like she's having a breakdown. The company has pretty much just let her treat
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  • everyone like cr ip for the past 10 years because they're scared of her and her temper. It's all a bit ridiculous honestly. And I feel like
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  • it's putting all of the limelight on her and her misery and making my exciting choice feel really crappy.
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  • Anyway- ya'll got stories of crappy coworker reactions to make me feel not so alone? I'd love to hear them and what you did.
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  • BlackStarBlues Three weeks? So unnecessary, OP. I would tell the boss that I'm leaving this week because the co- worker is creating a hostile work environment.
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  • Puzzleheaded-Ice6191 That's what I thought! But according to that coworker...I didn't give enough time. It's so weird. If she continues like this for the rest of the week I'm def cutting it short. Good riddance.
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  • Therealchimmike "company has pretty much let her treat everyone like for the past 10 years"- cr p welp, you're leaving. Time to give her a taste of her own medicine. Maybe loudly, in front of others, say something like "you know, nobody likes you here because you treat everybody like your door mat. Maybe if you were nicer to people, they'd be nice to you, and your attitude would change."
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  • Puzzleheaded-Ice6191 Dude, it's such a weird dynamic here. Like the • place thinks it's cute when she's a j Almost like it's fun to be scared of her or something.
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  • MyDoglsSoWeird My coworker loses her mind and screams "you're being like that" when I disagree or offer another idea to her. She also throws temper tantrums and slams doors (like storming out of our boss's office, saying she's quitting and slamming the door) when she's not getting her way.
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  • I'm exhausted. She literally s ks the energy from you, and everyone walks on eggshells around her. She has literally snapped at me when I thought I was being helpful (fairly new when this happened) "that's MINE I do that".
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  • Throws backhanded accusatory comments, allows me to give incorrect information and do tasks incorrectly without letting me know or showing me the correct way (this she admitted once by mistake to me). Did I mention I'm exhausted? I've never experienced an actual toxic job/coworker/dept before.
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  • Puzzleheaded-Ice6191 Do we work with the same person??? I'm so sorry you're dealing with this situation as well. It's a HUGE reason as to why I'm leaving. The exhaustion from it is literally life draining.
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  • Next-Drummer-9280 On your last day, on your way out the door, tell her, "I won't miss working with you, especially after your extended temper tantrum these last few weeks. Grow up." What are they gonna do? Fire you?
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  • ConjunctEon I had a co-worker that did the "I'm sick of this company and I'm quitting " every few months. One day, I said "So, quit. Or shut up". He shut up.
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  • Particular-Crew5978 I recently left a job and I also had a very overly dramatic coworker like this. I thought we were really great friends. I helped her get a promotion. We had each other's backs ..I thought.
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  • Anyways, I went on maternity leave and came back. She got married in this time, and her new last name must've made her a completely different person. She wouldn't be in the same room as me to the point she would make eye contact with me and get really, really weird. I decided to leave and worked out a notice.
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  • Some of my other coworkers wanted to see the baby, so I brought her a couple of times. She was SO over the top and just weird my spouse asked me what was her issue when we were there with our baby. He did it loud enough for her to hear.
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  • I still, to this day, do not understand. I have a theory that she's jealous. We made a lot of changes and sacrifices so I could quit. I suspect she would if she could. The job was tough. No one else acted like that. I think it says way more about her than myself though.
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  • Also, she is a MASSIVE Swiftie and just got married herself. I'm glad I left when I did because she would be totally insufferable right now...I mean she kind of was in the end anyways.
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