31-year-old pregnant coworker Sarah tries to take a front parking spot from a colleague with a knee problem, leading to office drama and HR intervention: ‘I felt guilty, but I stood my ground’

Starting a workplace competition about who has a harder time walking from their car into the office will obviously have zero winners, that is, unless you view stress and clashes as a prize for some reason.

At this city office, rush-hour parking is exactly that, a whose-knees-have-it-harder competition, and the prize is a slightly less tragic commute, and everyone's got a dramatic backstory. The crew fights over asphalt like it's the last lifeboat, mixing medical excuses, sticky notes, and guilt-shaming in a game no one signed up for. One person's knee pain gets turned into office currency, traded for cold stares and vague team chat snark. Pregnancy is now a conversation starter and a bargaining chip. If HR had a bingo card, this story would fill half the squares.

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