I guess this is how I got my revenge
I started a new job and actually really enjoyed it. It started out as a small company and eventually turned into a pretty large corporation, but when I first started there were only maybe 5–7 staff members total.
There was one payroll/HR person, 2–3 call center staff, one dispatcher, one CSR/office manager, the president of the company, and our technicians.
There was a girl I worked with who, for the sake of the story, we’ll call Dawn. She trained me when I first started, answered questions I had as a new hire, and honestly seemed pretty new herself. She was new, just not as new as me.
Anyway, Dawn was pretty “in” with the manager and another girl who worked there. We’ll call them Letty (CSR manager) and Nadia (CSR/dispatch help/install coordinator).
Dawn was actually pretty nice compared to the other two, so I felt comfortable asking her questions when I needed help. She even started telling me things management was saying, supposedly to help me be more receptive to everything going on.
Looking back, I think she was probably trying to get me comfortable enough to talk shit with her.
She would tell me that Letty and Nadia were mean, that they talked shit about everyone, and that she was just doing her job and trying to stay out of it. But she definitely seemed more involved than I initially realized.
Well, low and behold, she ended up landing me in an office with Letty, Nadia, and HR from corporate.
Great.
To be completely honest, during that “talk” with Dawn, I did say that I felt Nadia might have been homophobic because of how I felt she had been treating me at the time. Thankfully, we all apologized, things were settled, and I didn’t lose my job.
Eventually, Letty left the company, and Nadia moved departments and went completely into install.
Dawn was left in the office while the company started hiring more CSRs. Eventually, we had around 10 people in the office and it was getting kind of crazy.
Then a new manager came in, and suddenly Dawn was the odd one out. She didn’t get along with him at all. I actually got along with him pretty well.
At some point, Dawn had the nerve to message me about another employee calling her a “fat bitch” and saying other nasty stuff about her. It was pretty wild.
And honestly, I don’t know why she thought I would be on her side after everything that had happened.
She had spent all that time telling me she wasn’t really “in” with Letty and Nadia, that they wanted her to be, that she was just doing her job, etc. She made me comfortable enough to say things I probably shouldn’t have said.
And yes, looking back, I was stupid for falling for it.
So when she sent me the messages about our coworker, I showed them to the new CSR manager.
He ended up writing her up. He told her that IT had found the messages in Teams.
She was pissed.
Later, she literally texted me telling me that she’d been written up (or something along those lines). I don’t remember exactly what I said, but I apparently said something that made it obvious that I was the one who had shown the manager the messages.
And that’s when it clicked for her.
I guess I basically gave her the same feeling she gave me when she landed me in that office with HR.
We never spoke again.
But honestly? It was pretty damn satisfying knowing she knew I was the reason she got written up, and now she doesn’t even work there anymore while I’m still there. 😂
Was it petty? Absolutely.
Was it revenge? I guess so. lol