Woman lies straight into coworker's face, leaving him questioning how to get back at her: ‘I just sat there like “uhum”, and tried not to roll my eyes’

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Olivia Arocena • Writer and Editor
Jul 22, 2026 4:00 PM EDT

This will not go the way you'd expect

At first, I thought I was going to read about something terrible a coworker had done to harm her teammates, but it turned out to be much less harmful than I expected, and it ended up revealing more about the teammate who wants revenge than about the lying coworker. To me, in normal customer service jobs where you are not saving the planet or curing a very serious illness, it's common knowledge that nobody really really wants to be there. One should always try to give the best service one can provide, of course, out of sheer humanity; but that's it. In my worldview, your teammates understand when you just need to rest or take an extra day, and everybody plays along with the 'sickness' performance because you are not truly harming anyone; in any case, the employee who's switching his day off with you will have their day off another day.

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    The lying coworker

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  • A coworker lied straight in my face

    I'm only sharing this because it's a bit hilarious and I want petty ideas to get back on her. I (F21) work in a zoo as a cashier, and the story will include me, my friend
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  • Jenna (F24), and Patrice (23F). Partice is well known of not wanting to work at all and always calling in sick when she's tired or not in her best. (If I
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  • did the same I'd be homeless lol) It has happened many times that she faked sickness etc. so she wouldn't have to come to work, and since we usually work alone in our
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  • shift, she always needs to be replace (so it always gets on us somehow, even on our days off or in an easier shift). Yesterday before my shift,
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  • Jenna sent me a screenshot of a notification in which Patrice tried to ask her to cover her shift on her day off, because "she's not
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  • feeling well". In my country it is not allowed to work more than 6 days in a row in our conditions, and Patrice probably saw in the schedule that Jenna
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    The zoo in question

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  • would have worked 8 days in a row if she had covered Patrice's shift. Thus, she deleted the message amd wrote "sorry, I didn't mean to send this to you". While we saw Jenna's name in the text
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  • like "Hi, Jenna". I was working with Patrice yesterday btw, and Jennal asked me not to say anything lol. I did not, in fact, but we had a minor fight over an
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  • administrative thing, in which she accused me of lying to her and saying things behind her back. It was not true, and I told her about it, expained to her
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  • what she misunderstood in our conflict, and it was fine. But five minutes later she mentioned "how tired she was", and that in the morning she was so confused that she sent Jenna a message that was
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  • meant to her cousin... I just sat there like "uhum", and tried not to roll my eyes. She accused me of lying in her face and did the same after. Nice shot, I guess, but she didn't know that I knew the whole lol. And the even better part:
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  • today she was in a shift that was not so important (I mean there were other people there but her absence is still giving them hardships since there are many many people going to the zoo), and SHE CALLED OFF FOR NOT
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  • FEELING WELL. Oh Gosh, I'm laughing even writing this. I told Jenna and she just called Patrice an idiot lol, and I agree. She even said she'd report this whole sh to our boss, but I don't think they would do
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  • anything. Any ideas about how to get back on her for making our lives and work harder and even lying to our face?
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    The coworker acting like she is sick

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  • hurley818 Let it go, just be the bigger person and ignore it.
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  • The_Baby_Is_A_Scamp This was ridiculously hard to read, you wrote it as if you were having a conversation with friends and not asking a question. Learn to let sh go
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  • We seriously need to take into consideration that any of these employees she asked to cover for her could’ve just said no, lol. Even though she could’ve really been sick, there isn’t someone available for us every time, it’s normal, people have their own lives, and they don’t have to explain them to us to deny something, so I truly don’t get the need to get back at her, if you or any of the other employees don’t want to cover for her, you can just say no!!!. I truly think this employee is so sensitive about this topic because he wishes he could be as mischievous as her but doesn’t allow himself that possibility, lol. I mean, who doesn’t want to skip work?

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