She Reported Her Coworker To HR For Using All The Office Fridge Space To Store Homemade Lunches And Sell Them To Other Colleagues, So Her Coworker Tried To Get Her Fired
When this woman was at work just a few weeks ago, she realized that it was becoming increasingly difficult to find any space in the office fridge to store her lunch. Day after day, the refrigerator was completely full.
“And I soon realized that one of my coworkers, Anna, was using it to store a bunch of homemade lunches she sells to other employees,” she recalled.
For some context, Anna is apparently a great cook who brings in around 15 pre-prepared meals every single day. Then, her coworker stores them in the fridge until other colleagues pick them up throughout the work day – which has become a popular practice among her team.
In the beginning, she didn’t care about this at all, either. But, more recently, she just became sick and tired of barely having enough room left in the fridge for her own food.
This pushed her to confront Anna and suggest that she consider some other storage options – such as a cooler. She also pointed out how the refrigerator was meant to be used by everyone.
Well, Anna didn’t respond kindly to her feedback and became super defensive.
“Saying that her food was in high demand and that she had every right to use the fridge,” she detailed.
“Anna even hinted that if I wanted more space, I should start buying her lunches instead of bringing my own.”
This confrontation only escalated things, too, because after she continued being unable to fit her lunch in the fridge at work for a few more days, she decided to go to HR and report her coworker.
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Then, HR actually spoke to Anna and placed a limit on how much room she could take up in the fridge.
If you couldn’t have guessed, her coworker was infuriated after that. So, Anna “made it her mission” to ruin her life at work.
All of a sudden, Anna was spreading nasty rumors about her. She got accused of being jealous of Anna’s success and even attempting to sabotage her meal prep business.
“Then, Anna took it a step further. She went to HR and claimed that I was harassing her and creating a hostile work environment,” she revealed.
“Anna even got a couple of her friends in the office to back up her story, lying about things I supposedly said and did.”
The drama caused her to get called into HR, and she was completely caught off guard since she had no clue Anna had been essentially plotting to get her fired.
Thankfully, she had already documented all of her interactions with Anna. This allowed her to prove that all of the rumors weren’t true, and HR dismissed the complaints against her.
“But the damage was done. The whole situation has left me feeling isolated at work, and now, a lot of my coworkers see me as the bad guy, thanks to Anna’s lies,” she vented.
This has left her wondering if reporting Anna to HR in the first place was justified or if she just made everything worse.
Would you also be annoyed if you could never fit your own lunch in the fridge? Should she have addressed this situation differently, or was going to HR understandable?
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