Entitled employee refuses to complete her assignments, claims she's too busy, coworker gets her fired by proving she had nothing to do: ‘She was caught lying to our boss’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Jan 21, 2026 6:00 PM EST

Do you ever look over at some of your coworkers and wonder what it is that they do every single day?

Every office has at least one employee like that. Someone who no one really knows what they do, who always looks like they are just sitting around the office and waiting for 5 PM so they can finally leave. Usually, we don't think too much about that one employee. If someone hired them, and if they are still around, surely they must be doing something worthwhile to justify their employment, right?

Well, as it turns out, that is not necessarily the case.

Sometimes, an employee can actually get away with doing nothing, while still being able to convince their coworkers and even their boss that they are a valuable member of the company. Still, they must be careful if they want to keep their jobs, because all it takes is one coworker who notices that something is fishy, and their entire ruse can collapse within a week, which is exactly what happened in the story below.

Suzy is a lazy employee whose job is to support other employees when their hands get too full with assignments. Her entire job is to help others when things get busy by taking over the urgent tasks they can't get around to doing. However, as mentioned, Suzy is lazy, and she doesn't really want to do someone else's assignments, even if her schedule is completely free. So you know what Suzy does to get out of these tasks?

Suzy lies.

She tells people that she's too busy to take over their assignment, while in reality, she does nothing at all. Her manager doesn't notice, and her coworkers believe her lies. Well, every coworker except one, who completely saw through her deceit and decided they could not let it slide. After Suzy refused to take over one of their urgent assignments, they decided to catch Suzy in a lie and prove to the entire company that she is a lazy employee who does not deserve to be there.

It didn't take long before Suzy herself was caught in a lie, right in front of the boss. It also didn't take long for the boss to start looking for her replacement…

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    Got my lazy colleague got fired

    I was an admin assistant supporting 5 professionals, I was swamped with work, time was running out so I handed some of it off to Lazy Suzy, who only supported three people and had nothing to do.
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    Two days before deadline she dumped it back on my desk, saying she had been "too busy to get around to it".
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    I knew this wasn't true because her department had nothing on at the time. For me this was the last straw.
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    I wanted to get her fired. I went round to the three execs she supported and said "I'm doing a review of admin workflow, what admin tasks do you have outstanding?" "None right now" was the answer.
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    This wasn't unusual. Theirs was an ebb-and- flow kind of unit. Swamped one week, twiddling your thumbs the next.
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    But our unit was busy most of the time. I worked overtime to get it done.
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    I'd previously spoken with my manager about being overloaded, so I went to her office and used that info about no assignments in the pipeline in that other unit to make the case for revising the admin workflow.
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    At the Monday morning staff meeting our manager asked why I'd had to use overtime to get the work done.
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    I said "Ask Suzy. That work had been on her desk. Then she brought it back to me." Suzy said "Because I'd been too busy." Perfect!
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    She'd trapped herself in a lie! My manager said "May I ask, doing what for who?
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    Because as far as I know, you were completely available. Did any of you have tasks assigned to Suzy last week?" They all looked at each other.
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    See, none of her three people knew that the others had also not tasked her with any assignments.
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    Suzy blushed crimson red and stared at her shoes. She had just got caught lying to our boss in front of ALL of us.
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    It was excruciating. Everybody winced. I KNEW that Lazy Suzy not helping out when she had NOTHING to do would piss off our manager to no end.
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    Interviews for Suzy's replacement began the next week. She was gone by the end of the month.
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    consulent-finanziar One of those moments where you barely have to do anything at all and the situation collapses under its own weight :-D
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    Ponder_wisely Original Poster's Reply Just took a nudge in the right direction
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    SuitableEggplant639 why, oh why you didn't refer to her as Lazy Susan in your post?
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    Ponder_wisely Original Poster's Reply As someone pointed out, Lazy Susans do the job they are meant to do.
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    David_Apollonius Why would Suzy need to be replaced if she wasn't doing anything in the first place?
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    Ponder_wisely Original Poster's Reply Because when they do get busy, they get very busy.
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    MoistGoblettes Yo... you didn't just expose her, you orchestrated the ultimate self- own. Legendary
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    BayAreaPupMom This is why in every company I've been in, I make it a point to get to know the admins. Not only are they usually lovely hard working people, but they often know best how to work the system and are often the gate keepers to their managers. Most underrated ally to getting things done is the department or exec admin!
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    Original-Track-4828 Good for you! And "Lazy Suzy" had it coming. But I also have to point out: This is a failure of management to have no idea what work is in the pipeline, and how it's being assigned.
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    Marysews Cool! When someone is paid to do something, but they don't do it, good ol' FAFO to the rescue.
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