28-year-old refuses to be entitled 31-year-old coworker's personal chauffeur after giving her a lift one time: 'I gave her one ride during a storm and was just trying to be nice'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Dec 2, 2025 4:00 PM EST

When someone does you a favor one time, that does not mean they will be available to you at all times moving forward.

You would think that this concept would be a self-explanatory one, and yet, this 31-year-old coworker "Sara" somehow assumed that the author of this anecdote was now her personal chauffeur after she gave Sara a lift home on one occasion. That one instance just so happened to be during a storm, and the author felt badly about abandoning her coworker in inclement weather.

For whatever reason, after that one act of generosity, Sara seemed to think that she had a carpool arrangement with the employee at the end of every work day. She would send her messages on Slack at 4:40 pm near the end of each day telling her she was ready to leave whenever. One time, the author was staying later to finish up some work, and Sara was visibly upset that her "driver" would no longer be available to her.

Keep scrolling below to find out what happened when the author refused to drive her around wherever she wanted from here on out!

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  • We understand that this might sound over-the-top, but we agree with a few members of this online community, who commented that the author should consider taking this up with HR. After all, Sara was ow spreading rumors about the author and making her look like she wasn't a team player. It's time to fight fire with fire!

  • "[Am I wrong] for not giving my coworker a ride after she kept assuming I would?"

    I (28F) work at an office about 20 minutes from my apartment. I'm pretty quiet at work, stay in my lane, finish my tasks, go home. A few months ago, a new coworker,
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  • Sara, (31F) started, and we got along fine nothing deep, just normal work friendliness. One day it was raining really hard, and as I was packing up to leave, she
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  • asked if I could drop her off at a bus stop a few minutes away. It was on my route, so I said sure. No big deal. The next day, she comes up to my desk at 4:55 PM with her bag and goes, Ready to go? I was confused and said, Oh,
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  • sorry I'm staying late today. She gave me a weird look but said ok and left. From that day on, she started acting like I was her personal ride. She'd wait by the door at the end of the day. She'd
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  • text me, "Leaving now?" even though I never told her I'd drive her regularly. When I didn't offer, she'd get a little cold with me the next morning. Last Thursday, she messaged me at 4:40 saying,
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  • Can you take me to the mall after work? The mall is 25 minutes in the opposite direction of my home. I told her, Sorry, that's too far out of my way. She replied,
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  • "Wow. Okay." The next day she barely spoke to me and acted like I'd betrayed her. Another coworker even asked me what happened, because apparently Sara told people I promised to help her out and then backed out.
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  • I've never promised her anything. I gave her one ride during a storm and was just trying to be nice. I don't mind helping occasionally,
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  • but I don't want it to be assumed or expected especially when it's inconvenient and she never offers gas money or anything.
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  • My sister says I was too nice in the beginning and that people like that will always push boundaries. Another friend says
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  • maybe I should've just driven her to avoid drama. I don't feel like I did anything wrong, but the tension at work is awkward now. AITA for telling my coworker I couldn't keep giving her rides?
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  • KuzcosWaterslide • 2h ago This will sound like an overreaction, but I promise you it's not. Tell your manager what's happening and that you're considering
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  • going to HR because she's starting to tell people a false account of what happened and you don't want a hostile. workplace. Now, hopefully your immediate manager will
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  • handle the situation themselves, but if they don't then you've taken the appropriate steps before actually going to HR. And then if she escalates her behavior after reporting to your manager then all the more reason to take it to HR.
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  • It seems small now, but if you allow her to build a false narrative about you now then she's going to continue to do it in the future so it needs to be nipped in the bud before it's allowed to
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  • get to that point. It's not a small matter when people start attacking your character at work directly to your coworkers. Immediate edit: Definitely NTA. She was
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  • definitely trying to force you into being her ride by trying to make you feel embarrassed about the whole thing.
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  • Adventurous-Ter... 2h ago NTA. Go to HR and get this shut down. "There is a misunderstanding between Sara and I, she has assumed I would drive her anywhere after work, including places
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  • one hour (round trip) out of my way. This has caused office tensions and I want it documented to protect me from any issues." Give them the examples. Good luck!
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