News reporter quits job after getting caught using ChatGPT to do her work, she plans a goodbye party, coworker refuses to attend: ‘I honestly have no interest in celebrating her quitting’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Sep 16, 2025 10:00 AM EDT

Some employees, as soon as they set foot on the first day on the job, will make it loud and clear that they do not want to be there. They have no problem letting everyone know that the last thing they want to do is actually work. 

How they keep their job for more than a week is beyond me…

That is exactly what crossed my mind when I read the story below. From day one, this news reporter was very vocal about her lack of interest in the job. So much so that she had no problem letting everyone know that she used ChatGPT to do her job. Surprisingly, she wasn't fired after getting caught, or after she made a big mistake live on-air, but it wasn't long before she decided to quit herself, six months into the job.

Now, some coworkers are planning her goodbye party, but one of them is refusing to attend. Keep scrolling to read why.

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    Co-worker quit after working 6 months and wants to celebrate

    My coworker (let's call her Sarah) and I are both on three- year contracts at a news station.
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    I hit my two-year mark last month, while Sarah was just hired in February.
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    She was a reporter and sometimes an anchor. I'm a news producer.
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    At first, she was fine and we had some nice chats. But about three months in, she started complaining constantly about coworkers she had to collaborate with,
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    about her personal life, all of it. Things got worse when she got caught using ChatGPT to do her work by another department head.
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    They didn't report her, but it was clear she didn't care as she freely admitted to me and other coworkers that she was using it to get her work done.
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    Whenever she complained, she broadcasted it to anyone who would listen.
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    Eventually, she realized she wasn't happy at the job and went straight to our boss and HR, complaining about the work and about not getting along with a coworker.
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    They tried to reason with her and find a compromise, but she refused to move past it and kept pushing to get out of her contract.
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    They finally gave in last month. She even showed a couple of us how much her buy out would have been.
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    She of course refused to pay it and the company settled on keeping her last paycheck (again, she's airing all of this out to myself and some other coworkers).
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    Since then, she's been telling the entire office about the process, bragging about how happy she is to be leaving, and joking about the whole thing,
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    and never forgets to let us know that she has nothing planned after this.
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    Today was her last day. Normally, HR sends out a company-wide email weeks in advance when someone is leaving, but they made an exception for her.
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    Another coworker, who's friends with both of us, invited me to hang out tomorrow to "celebrate" Sarah leaving.
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    I get it, I'm not a fan of the company either, and I had strong feelings about wanting to leave a few months in.
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    But I stuck it out because this was my first official job after graduating, and I wanted to maintain my connections.
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    Sarah honestly came in strong but got caught up in office drama and couldn't focus on the work and started getting arrogant.
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    The other issue is that her problems at work started becoming other people's problems.
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    She had to anchor last weekend and made a major slip on air regarding the number of d ths in a breaking story, and didn't notice until I had her correct it after we came back from a break.
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    I even gave her a chance to look over the script before we first went to air with the story, so I'm not sure how she slipped up.
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    The incident didn't phase her either. I realized that she just didn't care.
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    After the show, she continued joking about not caring if people complained about how she anchored, as we'd gotten several email complaints.
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    That's when I really started becoming annoyed with her because at that point, if our news director or another supervisor were watching and saw that mistake,
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    she wouldn't be the only one that would have had to answer for her mistake.
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    I wish her the best, but I honestly have no interest in celebrating her quitting, especially after that.
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  • Would you have congratulated a coworker like that? Or would you have secretly said ‘good riddance’ as they were walking out of the building?

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