u/ChampionshipFar1309

My coworker came into my office and asked me to fill in some details on a few forms. I told her I had already sent her all that information before by email. She said she needed help finding it.
So I did exactly what she was supposed to do: I searched through the email thread. I filled in the details on a few forms, but left the last one so I could review it with her and see which part was giving her trouble.
When I went to her office and told her I wanted to show her how to find it, she said, "Forget it. Leave it."
About 20 minutes later, she called me and started yelling at me because I hadn't just done it for her. She said things like, "It wouldn't have cost you anything to write it," and "When someone asks for help, you're supposed to help them, like I do when you have questions."
I told her it also wouldn't have cost her anything to write it herself, and that I don't ask her to do things that are my job. Anything I've asked her about before was directly related to her actual responsibilities. I've never taken something I was supposed to handle and dumped it on her, or on anyone else.
I don't imagine a single word of that even got through to her.
I'm still annoyed by her nerve and her sense of entitlement that other people should do her work for her.

He was a terrible person, and extremely exhausting to deal with in every possible way. Condescending, irritable, negative, overly dramatic, everything. Easily one of the most miserable coworkers I've ever worked with.

About six weeks ago, I sent him a task so he could do some checks for me. I had one wrong value in one column, in a file with about 120 rows and 25 columns. He sent me an email saying there were "multiple problems" in the file and that he wasn't going to touch it. He had previously told me that if I made any errors, he would go straight to management to complain.

Fine, whatever, copy my boss. But this time he copied my boss's boss's boss, who literally does not have time for this nonsense.

At the beginning of this week, they let him go. We were already dealing with layoffs, but by then leadership knew very well what he was like, so he was removed quickly and without any hesitation.

Instead of accepting the loss, he went to someone two levels below the CEO and threw a full tantrum. He sat there yelling and saying they were idiots for firing the only person who understood abc (which he wasn't) and that the company would regret it.

And then, and then... He tried to delete about 8,500 files from his hard drive.

The thing is, they had offered 3 months of severance, 3 months of paid insurance, and they were also going to cover the difference between the insurance and COBRA if he hadn't found another job by the time those 3 months were up.

So he didn't just burn the bridge, he basically poured gasoline on it, set it on fire, and stood there yelling in the smoke. He lost a very good payout too, and in the end the police escorted him to his car this afternoon.

My God, seeing the police car sitting in the parking lot was unbelievably satisfying.