22-year-old retail employee gets her friend and coworker fired when her friend lies to their manager about a "family emergency" to go to a party and tells the manager she will cover their shift: 'My manager called me and asked me why I wasn't at work'

When friendship meets workplace responsibility, one retail worker learns that loyalty has limits and actions have consequences

There are certain times in life when you can't support or be responsible for someone, no matter how close you are to them. At a point, people are responsible for the consequences of their own choices, and you can't always pick up the pieces for them.

This is something that makes working relationships so difficult. On the one hand, when you allow yourself to form a personal relationship with someone at work, you have a responsibility to maintain and honor it, but ultimately, you must remain professional. When that coworker you've developed a relationship with torpedoes their career or standing at work and expects you to ride the sinking ship with them, you need to recognize that they have made their choice, and now you need to make yours. 

When this 22-year-old retail employee had planned a weekend trip with her boyfriend to visit family, her friend and coworker called asking if she could cover them so that they could go to a party. When the employee declined to cover for her friend since she already had plans, the friend lied to their manager, claiming that they had a family emergency. They told the manager that the employee said she would cover for her.

At this point, you're probably wondering why the coworker didn't just omit the topic of coverage. An emergency is an emergency and you don't need coverage, having covereage planned for the "emergency" really raises suspicious as to how emergent that emergency is.

But this was an attempt to strong-arm her "friend" into covering for her. We've all probably had coworkers like this, that coworker who always wants their shifts covered for various reasons that are always urgent, yet when it comes time for them to return the favor, they always refuse. Simply put, their "wants" are more important than those of other people, so they'll always do the thing that they want to do. In this case, the coworker wanted to go to this party and noting was going to stop her.

So when the manager called, asking the employee to come in because the coworker had said she would, she decided she wasn't going to get involved and let the bus they had metaphorically thrown themself under run them right over. The coworker later accused her of this, of "throwing them under the bus." But really, the coworker just lay down in front of it, and she didn't lie down next to them.

Like what you see? Follow our WhatsApp channel for more.

Author image for Brad Dickson Brad Dickson
Advertisement

Stay up to date by following us on Facebook!

Tags

terrible coworkers workplace discussion employment issues antiwork workplace-stories jobs employee employment-discussion job malicious compliance work coworkers employees overworked-employees workplace Horrible Bosses coworker workplace malicious compliance employment in the workplace
Scroll Down For The Next Article

Also From FAIL Blog

'I requested a 25 cent raise and they said it wasn't in the budget': 15+ Workers who quit their jobs for great reasons

'I requested a 25 cent raise and they said it wasn't in the budget': 15+ Workers who quit their jobs for great reasons

Trending Now

‘I told her I don’t want anyone parking in my driveway, period’: Duplex resident snaps at neighbor who keeps blocking single-car driveway “just for a bit” everytime she can’t find street parking

‘I told her I don’t want anyone parking in my driveway, period’: Duplex resident snaps at neighbor who keeps blocking single-car driveway “just for a bit” everytime she can’t find street parking

01
Employee refuses to attend a mandatory, unpaid Saturday team-building event so he can spend quality time with his child, sparking workplace conflict as his boss questions his commitment to “company culture”: ‘Saturday is my one full day with my kid’

Employee refuses to attend a mandatory, unpaid Saturday team-building event so he can spend quality time with his child, sparking workplace conflict as his boss questions his commitment to “company culture”: ‘Saturday is my one full day with my kid’

02
‘She quit a week later. Three others followed. All four mentioned the "family" hypocrisy’: CEO calls company family for years, denies financial help to a longtime employee after she loses her house, then criticizes her for not being “team player”

‘She quit a week later. Three others followed. All four mentioned the "family" hypocrisy’: CEO calls company family for years, denies financial help to a longtime employee after she loses her house, then criticizes her for not being “team player”

03
'I requested a 25 cent raise and they said it wasn't in the budget': 15+ Workers who quit their jobs for great reasons

'I requested a 25 cent raise and they said it wasn't in the budget': 15+ Workers who quit their jobs for great reasons

04
'Guess I'll take lunch then': New manager triples employees' workload, refusing to let anyone go home before everyone is done, employee uses their lunch break to "avoid" working

'Guess I'll take lunch then': New manager triples employees' workload, refusing to let anyone go home before everyone is done, employee uses their lunch break to "avoid" working

05
New employee gets fired after only a week at the job, gets told by boss that their accountant claims they can't afford to pay him: ‘I thought it was my saving grace’

New employee gets fired after only a week at the job, gets told by boss that their accountant claims they can't afford to pay him: ‘I thought it was my saving grace’

06
Advertisement