Tech employee humbles his one-upper cousin in the office, revealing he was a nepo-hire after the cousin disses his work ethic in front of the entire department: ‘Focus on your own KPIs instead of [me]’

Throwing his cousin under the bus was a bad idea.

The corporate world is all about measuring KPI's, meetings that could have been an email, and climbing the ladder. With the ultimate goal of being so important at work that you can neglect your job and close every email with, "Sent from my iPhone," many workers start to get competitive in the office. But when your cousin is the one who got you the job in the first place, it's important to remembernot to bite the hand that fed your paycheck.

Lest you become like the entitled one-upper tech guy in this next story.

[I humbled] my cousin who won't stop making everything a competition at work

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Corporate meeting with the entire department.
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One-uppers are the worst.
Constantly obsessed with being the best (or appearing the best to management), they tend to step on the throats of everyone around them for a small step up. While we are all well-aware that climbing the corporate ladder is going to involve some backstabbing, paying your dues, and backdoor deals, what this new hire cousin didn't realize was that his trash talk was going to come back to bite him.
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Framing something as a “joke” doesn't automatically make it funny, especially when the punchline of the joke is your cousin's work ethic. Throwing him under the bus, this guy was just using humor as a thin facade to put himself on a pedestal, but his superior had had enough.
With payback in motion, he had other plans in mind.
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Although this is absolutely a conversation that could have been handled behind closed doors, the cousin must be put in his place publicly, especially if he was going to go around the office badmouthing him.
It's one thing to make jokes every now and then, but it's another to genuinely disparage a coworker and beloved family member. The aunt may have had a point, but she wasn't there in the office when everyone started looking down on this man's work ethic. Just because he wasn't working above and beyond his 9-5 work requirement doesn't mean he's a bad employee.
So to set the record straight, this guy just revealed the truth. It's as simple as that.
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Personally, I think it was warranted to reveal the truth about this guy's hiring history. If he was going to steamroll his cousin and his friend's reputation like that, he deserved a bit of a wakeup call. Welcome to the corporate world, but also welcome to the world of standard human decency. Treat other people like how you want to be treated, and you might not be humiliated in the workplace as often.