YOU WONT BELIEVE: Coworker parking spot complained late reddit - You Need To See This
Plenty of things can get under your skin at work. Your boss scheduling last-minute meetings, the copy machine refusing to work at a crucial moment, and your colleagues bragging about their kids that you couldn’t care less about.
Unfortunately, dealing with small annoyances is just par for the course of working any job. But when one employee became extremely fed up with a judgmental coworker, they decided to teach them a lesson in the parking lot. Below, you’ll find the full story that they shared on Reddit, as well as some of the replies invested readers left.
There are few things more frustrating at work than an obnoxious, entitled colleague
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So this person decided that a certain coworker of theirs needed to be put in their place
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Dealing with toxic colleagues can be a nightmare
According to the author of the original post, they love their job very much, but lately they are occasionally late once or twice a week. Not by much – about five minutes, and not entirely through their own fault, because over the past year, four bridges located directly on the way to work underwent repairs at once. As a result, traffic jams periodically occur, and the Original Poster arrived at work later than necessary.
However, this is life, and no one is immune from force majeure. Yes, but unfortunately, not everyone agrees with this. For example, in the company where the OP worked, there was another employee who constantly complained about coworkers to their superiors for their slightest mistakes. In general, as the author of the post says, this colleague’s behavior was extremely toxic even in everyday communication, and once even played a big role in not having a seasonal employee rehired the following year.
And so, the toxic worker’s new target was the OP and their lateness. The colleague made comments to the author of the post several times, and then even began to harass the head of the department with reminders of this, so finally, the OP’s supervisor reluctantly wrote them up. Needless to say, the author of this story was not at all happy to have such a colleague. And what could be done here? After all, the snitch actually acted in full accordance with corporate rules.
However, an idea came to the Original Poster one day, and it looked absolutely beautiful. The author noticed that the snitching employee regularly arrives at work about ten minutes before the start of the shift and constantly parks their car in a very convenient spot, right in front of the entrance to the building. However, this was not their dedicated spot – just at the moment when they arrived, the perfect spot was always empty. Not for long…
Sometimes, people need to learn lessons the hard way
So, the author of the post decided that they would simply get up an hour or so earlier before work. Yes, it turned out to be quite difficult – but now the OP got to work literally before everyone else, sometimes even forty minutes before the start of the working day. And this, of course, gave a unique opportunity to be the first to choose a spot to park their car. Now, please, guess which place the Original Poster has been constantly choosing?
The colleague was, of course, beside themselves with anger, but they could not do anything – after all, they were actually repaid in their own coin. The Original Poster didn’t violate anything, arrived at work before everyone else, and the fact that now the mean employee had to look for a parking place for a long time – well, no one said that karma is a pleasant thing for everybody!
Most of the people in the comments simply praised the Original Poster for being so inventive. According to commenters, there’s no shame in the OP’s game at all. Someone simply went out of their way to put the author down, folks online suppose, so the OP just didn’t hesitate to give the snitch a dose of their own medicine, which turned out great and fair.
According to most of the commenters, this one is really good and not petty. Just making sure the Original Poster’s doing what the puritan moral guru so kindly escalated, people in the comments claim. “This is awesome! Keep taking that parking spot every damn day!” another commenter states.
For some reason, we are almost sure that you have also encountered this kind of employee in your own work, so please feel free to tell us how it was and how it all ended for both sides of the conflict. Well, in case nothing like this ever happened to you, just please tell us what you think about this particular tale.
Later, the author joined in on the conversation in the comments section
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Readers praised the employee for being so inventive, and many were glad the snitch got instant karma
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Share on FacebookI manage a team and if a team member started moaning at me about how another was late, I'd tell them to wind their neck in. It's my job to set expectations around availability and to monitor that. It's also my job to decide for myself what I consider acceptable when managing a team of grown adults. So long as no one is taking liberties, I really don't care if they are a few minutes late once in a while.
You leave an hour and a half earlier yet get to work only 15 to 45 mins earlier? Something isn't adding up here. So you could get to work on time for revenge but not for actual work? Glad you're not my coworker.
I live in NJ, 5-10 mins really can make a huge difference, especially during the school year or with sun glare. Honestly, if you're not relieving somebody for a shift, I don't see what the big deal is over 5 mins, it can be made up at the end of the day. Who actually leaves on time, anyway?
Load More Replies...Had a coworker at a previous job who would go by when they saw you as your arrival time, so if we were at work by 11 am and they just didn’t bump into us until 11:20 they would assume we just got there and would go to management to complain about us being “twenty minutes late” and would not drop it unless boss said “I saw them come in long before that”. We all got in the habit of greeting the boss both to be polite and as an alibi whenever that person was working.
I manage a team and if a team member started moaning at me about how another was late, I'd tell them to wind their neck in. It's my job to set expectations around availability and to monitor that. It's also my job to decide for myself what I consider acceptable when managing a team of grown adults. So long as no one is taking liberties, I really don't care if they are a few minutes late once in a while.
You leave an hour and a half earlier yet get to work only 15 to 45 mins earlier? Something isn't adding up here. So you could get to work on time for revenge but not for actual work? Glad you're not my coworker.
I live in NJ, 5-10 mins really can make a huge difference, especially during the school year or with sun glare. Honestly, if you're not relieving somebody for a shift, I don't see what the big deal is over 5 mins, it can be made up at the end of the day. Who actually leaves on time, anyway?
Load More Replies...Had a coworker at a previous job who would go by when they saw you as your arrival time, so if we were at work by 11 am and they just didn’t bump into us until 11:20 they would assume we just got there and would go to management to complain about us being “twenty minutes late” and would not drop it unless boss said “I saw them come in long before that”. We all got in the habit of greeting the boss both to be polite and as an alibi whenever that person was working.























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