Hotel worker ignored for months by entitled coworker, refuses to switch shifts for her and shuts down her sudden attempt to act like they’re still friends

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• Entitled Coworker expects me to switch shifts when she has ignored me for months.

  
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• Here, a hotel worker has a “work wife” for a year and then watches the relationship implode over a few messy shifts. The coworker wipes clean a bunch of third‑party reservations and lets the problem linger until the next shift when someone else has to spend half their day calling to fix it. 

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• The only thing that confuses the coworker more than the screw‑up is the fact that it gets reported up the chain. After that she flips a switch and decides the other person is enemy number one. She stops talking she stops making eye contact she pretends the shift handoff is happening in a soundproof bubble.  

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• The coworker tries to play it right. She owns the moments her tone lands wrong she asks people to call her out if she messes up and she fixes it the second someone says something. When the silence stretches into months and makes her job riskier she finally tells the supervisor she needs at least a nod so she is not set up to fail. The supervisor scolds her for waiting but agrees and the other coworker finally starts acknowledging the handoff with the energy of a minimum‑wage robot. For months the only interaction is the bare minimum.  

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• Then after seven months of ghosting the coworker unexpectedly texts asking for four shifts. She does not open the messages she just forwards the whole mess to someone else and lets them sort it out. When the coworker corners her later demanding to know why she will not help and why they cannot “be friends again” she draws the line. She says the only relationship they are allowed to have is the one that keeps the hotel running and nothing more.  

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• It’s pretty clear who’s out of line here. Being the only one showing up for a relationship that feels like a solo exhibit isn’t a part of any job description, and finally stopping being the only one showing up is the only logical thing to do. 

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