‘The look on her face...it was priceless and it felt so good’: Ex "supervisor" tries to act superior and snubs a coworker, but she gets payback and pretends not to know the former assistant manager’s name

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Sep 29, 2025 9:00 AM EDT

Service jobs always feature memorable characters, but the ex-manager who preferred playlists and cocktails to any actual supervising is in a class of her own. Crews run into this type often. She coasted by with charm and connections, spent her shifts chasing fun, and leaves the job in a fog of rumors. Months later, she pops up in familiar bars, still chasing attention, still tossing out fake greetings that mean nothing.

The aftermath is pretty standard. Once the spotlight fades, these attention seekers work overtime to hold onto relevance with snubs, lukewarm jokes, and selective forgetfulness.

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  • An old 'manager' of mine snubbed me while talking to my spouse, today, I was vindicated

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  • For context, I work in the service industry. This 'manager' was barely a manager and was kinda an assistant supervisor of mine.
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  • But I was her coworker for a while (about a year or so)? Eventually she got fired for drinking on the job.
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  • Best way I can describe her? Didn't do sh, was always dr_nk, and playing music extra loud in the dining room and twerking while doing it.
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  • She got her position because her friend was the big boss but literally for no merit of her own.
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  • She is a trust fund kid in the worst kind of way and her hobbies include: getting drink at every bar in town, throwing herself at every man she can...etc.
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  • My spouse is a bartender, (working at the same place as I do, same place she did before getting fired.) And one night recently she came and sat at his bar and asked him if he was still with "that girl he was dating" referring to me but not using my name as if I were some random person.
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  • I dont rememeber the context of the conversation but at the time he told me about it, it felt like a jab.
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  • They will greet old coworkers with an exaggerated hello and then act like names are completely optional. The best moment comes when someone flips the script and pretends they do not remember her either. The confidence fizzles and all that remains is an awkward pause nobody rushes to fill.

  • (By the way she knows. my name, spent more time around me than him when we all worked there...) Every time shes run into me prior to this she always gives me that fake "Oh hiiiii (my name)." So anyways, this didnt sit well with me and I never forgot it.
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  • And I know that if theres one thing this lady wants, its attention. So tonight I saw her out and about.
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  • The first time I have seen her since she snubbed me to my partner. And she gave me the usual fake greeting.
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  • But I did what I knew would send the loudest message. I pretended I forgot who she was.
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  • After she greeted me, I was like "Oh hey! How's it going. Im sorry but it seems I have forgotten your name.
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  • What was it again?" The look on her face...it was priceless and it felt so good.
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  • TL;DR an old supervisor snubbed me to my spouse, and in response, months later I conveniently forgot her name.
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  • Anyone who spends time among the regular drama learns how to tune it out. Crew members see the cycle of fake friendliness and ego and refuse to buy in. Instead, they quietly close the curtain on scenes that never needed an audience. Pretending not to remember a name is not blunt, it is a small way of reclaiming the peace that workplace stars do their best to disrupt. Service jobs are full of background noise. Fame fades fast and only the regulars stick around.

  • DaGrexican Nicely played!
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  • OP Possible-External-33 Thanks lol, it felt so good
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  • LompocianLady Thanks for schooling me on "How To Petty"
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  • OP Possible-External-33 My pleasure ;D
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  • Cat_lover_4851 Perfect
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  • Nammmieee she tried to erase you with that girl, and you erased her with what was your name again?
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