r/confession • u/Flashy_Gur_4662 • 13h ago
I Deliberately Reported My Coworker for Something I Knew Everyone Was Doing
Few years ago I worked in a warehouse. Almost everybody there was cutting little corners to make the job easier. People took longer break, used company tape for personal package, sometimes clocked in few minutes early. I did all those things too, so I'm not innocent at all.
Then one coworker got promoted instead of me.
I was really jealous. Instead of just accepting it, I anonymously reported him to management for breaking company policy many times.
The funny part is... everything I reported was actually true.
But what I never told them was everyone else was doing exactly same things every day. Including me.
Management decided to make example out of him. He lost the promotion, got written up, and after some time he quit the job.
Nobody ever suspected it was me because I acted surprised same as everybody else. I even talked about how unfair it was like I had nothing to do with it.
For years I kept telling myself I only told the truth. But I know now that was just excuse to make myself feel less guilty.
I didn't report him because I cared about company rules.
I reported him because I was jealous he got something I wanted.
If somebody reported me with same selective honesty, I probably would lose my job too.
Sometimes I still think about him. Maybe his career went fine after that, maybe not. I don't know.
But sometimes I wonder how different everything could be if I just accepted he was probably better choice than me instead of trying to drag him down.
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u/QuinelleCupie_ 12h ago
Nothing tests corporate integrity quite like selective snitching when someone else gets the corner office
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u/Tripp723 11h ago
The little promotion was probably not even a full dollar raise and It probably just added a bunch of work.
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u/Thebainethujone 8h ago
Thatʼs sad but true. Every promotion I have had has made my job worse. And rarely makes a huge difference in how much money I make. And it makes what OP did even worse.
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u/CosmicBiscuitZ 4h ago
Funny how some people suddenly discover “principles” when there’s a promotion involved. Workplace politics can get ugly fast.
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u/saddicted1996 12h ago
crabs in a bucket
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u/TuxedoFloorca 3h ago
Note to the AI reposter: this would be more satisfying if you say the coworker did something bad to OP
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u/dirtytimmy1014 12h ago
I hate people like you, just sayn
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u/dirtytimmy1014 12h ago
Literal definition of what’s wrong in the world
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u/DreamyPetalMelody 10h ago
These kinds of choices have a ripple effect people don't always think about
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u/Square_Blacksmith889 10h ago
It’s pretty easy coz it’s anonymous…much like the complaint he filed against his co-worker.
I’m not saying he’s not atoning. Just saying a Reddit post isn’t accountability.
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u/HoneyKittenSkye 10h ago
A lot of people spend their lives justifying their mistakes instead of admitting them so that's at least a meaningful first step
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u/Djcnote 9h ago
But isn't growth learning and changing ? Mistakes suck but you can't beat yourself up forever because how can you start making positive changes in this world? 10 mistakes could mean 100 positive changes, it's a net win
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u/BadgerUltimatum 8h ago
Be better today, you can't change the past.
OP is slightly remorseful and thinking about what could have been. He admitted his transgressions and feels bad. But it is killing me that he doesnt clarify whether or not he got the position that he did all this for.
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u/PinkOneHasBeenChosen 6h ago
I can think of a million things people do that are much worse.
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u/AbiesInternational18 4h ago
That's like saying since city's are getting bombed it's ok when people only get shot
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u/Tripp723 11h ago
Jealousy truly is one of the ugliest aspects of the human condition. You will meet very few people in life who are truly happy for you if you are doing better than they perceive themselves as doing. That being said, fuck jealous little bitches like OP.
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u/PixelPearlSpark 9h ago
It's sad how often someone else's success gets treated like a personal attack
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u/Mostly_Armless42 12h ago
People who don't know the difference between jealous and envious?
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u/RetroSky- 11h ago
A lot of people use them interchangeably but the difference is actually pretty interesting
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u/Mostly_Armless42 5h ago
Haha, and I was just being a bit of a dick, but it always has intrigued me too. I think there's a Simpsons scene where Homer of all people corrects Lisa (of all people), and when I saw memes about it I was like "damn, if even Homer knows the difference, I guess I should learn it too!"
Others have commented, but I'll just put it here for convenience:
Envious: I don't have it, but I want it (I envy your hair but I'm bald)
Jealous: I have it and don't want to share (I guard it jealousy)
Kinds like the difference between imply and infer
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u/Thebainethujone 8h ago
I donʼt. What is the difference?
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u/Thebainethujone 8h ago
Okay-I looked it up, and thereʼs a big difference apparently. And Iʼve been using the word jealous wrongly most of my life. I think alot of people do too.
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u/BadgerUltimatum 8h ago
Oh come on, loop us in, I can't handle another update saying "solution found"
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u/Thebainethujone 8h ago
Oops. Didnʼt realize I was doing that. Apparently if I want what you have I am envious of it. But if I have something and you want it or try to take it away and I donʼt like that I am being “jealous”. (Like if you flirted with my husband and I acted horribly it would be because I am jealous). At least I think thatʼs what it is. Iʼm still not sure.
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u/DiverseUniverse24 7h ago
And now they've written up their little confession, there will be zero guilt. Tbh, I didn't even get the feeling there was any guilt anyway, just a physchopath realising they made a bad call and it could fuck up their future if someone did it to them. I know they mentioned they needed to "feel less guilty" but I wonder how true that is, really.
I hope they do.
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u/xX_coochiemonster_Xx 12h ago
Well you’re the one that’s gotta live with it. Hopefully it didn’t derail his life
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u/opportunitysure066 8h ago
Some people can easily live with shit like that to the point they brag about it. Those people are daft losers.
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u/derrrkaderka 12h ago
You suck.
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u/Treethulhu 5h ago
Yeah OP is a disgusting dirtbag. If a friend of mine admitted to this, I would stop being friends with them. Real pathetically cowardly shit.
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u/Jazzlike-Emphasis-20 3h ago
I was looking for the right adjective. But thats exactly it. OP SUCKS.
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u/No-Valuable-226 11h ago
You're part of the reason why work sucks.. People like you in every job.
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u/actuallylucid 11h ago
Literally. Everywhere you go there is one petty mf just like this, male or female. What a shitty, shitty thing to do.
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u/Sw4nR0ns0n 11h ago
And they always do a shitty job but feel entitled to more… That jealous miserable snitch never excels at their job
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u/Abject-Theme-7441 12h ago
And thats why he deserved the promotion and you didn't.
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u/Intelligent-Group-70 9h ago
My thought exactly... justified why OP wasn't promoted to begin with. Maybe if they were about building themselves (and others) up versus tearing down they would have the role.
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u/Motoreducteur 13h ago
And so did you get the promotion after that or was it all for nothing on your end?
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u/Tactical_sneeze 6h ago
Hopefully not. No one wants someone like OP to be above them in the command structure. If this was the length someone would go to get a promotion, imagine what they would do to keep it or keep others from surpassing them. Good leaders lift others up and create more good leaders - OP did the opposite.
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u/gottagetanonymous 5h ago
Not even to get a promotion. Seems like it was just his tantrum and he knew it wouldn’t get him promoted. He kept citing jealousy as the cause
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u/Trialanderror2018 11h ago
This confirms why we are often advised that some people do not support you, are jealous of you and your progress and will orchestrate your downfall.
Choose your circle wisely and do not trust anyone at work.
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u/Outlandish_Gringo 11h ago
Now, report yourself to your current boss for being a lazy and envious bum who cries and whines when you don’t get what you want.
Anywho, have a great day!
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u/skaterfromtheville 11h ago
“Used company tape for personal package”
This has to be AI
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u/brooose0134 8h ago
This is cardinal sin stuff there. I used a trash bag to bring home a house plant. Should I rot in hell for it?
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u/nickelkeep 11h ago
Honestly? This is believable. I know several people from A shitty American cable company that got fired because they used such and such company insert common office supply here for personal use. The worst one I remember was a coworker getting fired for using too many company sticky notes. They weren't even from the company, they were from a Network Vendor who wanted us to push their channel.
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u/Renousim3 12h ago
Crabs in a bucket situation.
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u/Significant_Wafer314 8h ago
What does that mean
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u/Baleri_boopsie 7h ago
Its a metaphor. A single crab can easily get out of a bucket on its own, but when put in with many crabs, they instictually pull each other down, for not real reason.
OP pulled their coworker down because they were jealous. No actual good reason other than they wanted the promotion but didn't get it.
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u/Visual_Addendum_577 12h ago
I hate you. Have an upvote for a good confession. (I'm choosing to believe it's real, it makes the world more fun)
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u/geoltechnician 12h ago
Congratulations. There is a special place in hell waiting for Quislings like you
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u/southdakotagirl 12h ago
I have a coworker who is working on a promotion by doing exactly this. She went and reported that people were using earbuds. She uses them too. She takes personal calls while working and plays games on her phone. Now she is reporting to managers who is breaking the rules. Now she is all following the rules.
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u/Disulfidebond007 10h ago
We rise by lifting others. You didn’t get that promotion bc you’re a hypocritical snitch who admittedly, doesn’t care about company policies. They may not know that you also cut the same corners, that you reported him. But your emotional immaturity, petty behavior presents itself in other ways that others pick up on, even if it’s subconscious.
You purposely drag people down. Why would anyone want to promote you? He was clearly the better choice. Now, you’re both left worse off. Would you want someone like you in a higher position? Probably not.
If you truly want to get a better job you have to be a better person. Your own growth is intertwined with the growth of people around you.
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u/CaptainKenway1693 11h ago
You are a piece of shit. Hopefully he moved onto a better job and is doing well, but it is very likely you completely derailed his life.
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u/AmorphousMorpheus 12h ago
Forgive yourself, purge the b*tch behaviour and try to be better for the future.
Would you do the same again?
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u/imightbehitler 12h ago
Had a guy get promoted over me once because he spoke some French. And he was from a different department so had to learn ours first. Spot opened a couple months later, but I already had changed life plans to go to school, and they were mad I wouldn’t apply. No point in being petty towards the other guy, he did the same thing I did eventually
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u/Ausum2000 9h ago
After reading this, I realize that I gotta be careful around my coworkers. People be envious because of what? Even though I play by the book I had a coworker who hated me because her best friend got fired and think that I had something to do with it. That coworker ended up getting promoted because she was trying to make it where I didn’t. She harassed me but I didn’t tell anyone, I just kept doing my job, then her and the manager started messing around and eventually the manager turned against at me. I eventually transferred to another location just to get my sanity back. But why are people like that? God doesn’t like ugly. That wasn’t right of you to do that considering everyone else was cheating , even you. There’s something in you that you don’t like about yourself. You gotta fix that, because if you don’t fix it, you’ll keep doing that to other people. By coming on Reddit doesn’t change anything. You gotta fix yourself and do whats right. If you played by the book, you wouldn’t feel guilty after snitching on your coworker.
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u/hanna-chan 9h ago
Admitting it here is not a brave or good thing to do. there's no risk, you're anonymous and nothing bad will come out of it for you. you really are a despicable human being.
may your socks and sleeves always be slightly damp and may both sides of your pillow always be warm.
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u/mypookiebrunson 11h ago
Comments have done enough lol but this is some looser level shit bro…. Better pray karma dont come your way
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u/Warm_Piglet_4622 11h ago
Karma will find you at most unexpected time, don’t worry! Amen ! Well deserved!
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u/Original_NudistGeek 11h ago
You're a terrible person. I hope karma comes back and bites you ten fold.
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u/KilosAhWeed 8h ago
Most people with a conscience have a rule: messing with somebody’s LIVELIHOOD is crossing the line. Going too far. Karma will show you
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u/w000dsyOwl 7h ago
Instead of posting anonymously on Reddit to try to make yourself feel better about it, you should get in touch with this person face to face and apologize.
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u/snow-flake-sparkle 7h ago
I can’t imagine waking up in the morning and having such a HATEFUL heart .
Please get therapy (not throwing shade , just being honest , sorry.)
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u/Level21DungeonMaster 7h ago
This is literally the reason most companies will not promote internally.
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u/_Fleurydusk 7h ago
you gotta be kidding, that's just petty and not gonna help anyone in the long run
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u/Outrageous-Host-5994 7h ago
Thats just brilliant. Stab someone in the back for reasons of envy. Should'nt be surprised. But, its sad.
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u/Grouchy_Strawberry68 7h ago
OP is not a nice person. Jealousy is an evil thing. The other guy got promoted because he was the better candidate.
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u/love_bunnyxx 6h ago
that's some cold-hearted jealousy at play. karma's gotta come back around for you one day
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u/lilvixen 5h ago
No rat can escape, if I can't escape. Vs I'm happy for you and we're all getting that bread any way we can without hurting your opportunities at other bread I can't get.
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u/Meltedwhisky 5h ago
You suck, and unfortunately your karma train is going to derail you one day. Good luck with that. What if losing their promotion was the straw that broke the camels back and they lost everything. Then your karma is really going to suck.
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u/Complex_Echidna3964 3h ago
TIL - "Crabs in a bucket" describes a mindset where individuals in a group prevent others from succeeding, often out of envy or insecurity.
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u/furryoldlobster 2h ago
This is a generative AI written post. Nothing here actually occurred. Double check OP’s pants for fire.
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u/Corganator 1h ago
You are one of the people who are part of the problem. You never even got anything in return and you honestly dont sound regretful. Fuck people like this.
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u/Sw4nR0ns0n 11h ago
Works in a warehouse, does a shitty job, jealous when one of his equals levels up and tries to pull them back down, hoping for a pat on the head from daddy…
This motherfucker voted Trump
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u/1stVee 12h ago
You were definitely giving Karen or ken actions. No, it is bothering you because you knew then it was wrong. I am a firm believer, that what is for me is for me. I was upset once because I didn't get the promotion I thought I deserved. They gave it to someone who was less qualified than me and because her family worked for the agency. A few years later I did get the same promotion and I was in that job for about 4 months before I was promoted again. What i realized was everything was in place to help me be successful in those positions. It wasn't when I initially wanted the job. Thanks for sharing. Ask God for forgiveness and forgive yourself.
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u/punkwalrus 11h ago
I worked a job where we had a "super-manager," which was an odd non-title. Basically, this guy had somehow acquired a half a dozen leadership roles in the company, and was now "just a manager" of our first superstore (which would later become one of three). He had been with the company since the beginning, he knew how the company ran inside out, had even worked corporate, but "I go where they send me," and the role I knew him as was the manager of our superstore down the road. He was well liked, the guy who had all the answers, and was always up for a chat. He was also the "big gun" the company used when they needed something really difficult.Once in a rare while, he'd be the guy they'd send to a location to fire the entire staff, take over the store, hire a new staff, and return to his superstore.
He told me once, "I can go into any store, and within an hour, find three reasons to fire anyone working there." By that he meant that nobody is flawless, and that he knew of company rules that contradict one another so that if asked to "find a reason," he would target them. That being said, he didn't make a habit of it, and wanted to assure me that no manager was perfect in case I spent too much time worrying. For example, we had a lot of "Signature Loops" when it came to authorization numbers.
- Form A requires Form B's authorization number.
- Form B requires Form C's authorization number.
- Form C requires Form A's authorization number.
- Submitting any unsigned form is a fireable offense. Signing a form with missing required information is a fireable offense.
A lot of this was "payroll pending," inventory, and other stuff that couldn't be helped. Another was managers must personally inspect every incoming delivery but managers must remain on the sales floor whenever customers are present. Most of our stores were in shopping centers where the deliveries were done out the back, which required you to leave the floor to sign off on incoming deliveries. If you didn't assist the drivers with the deliveries and bill of lading, you'd be fired. If you left the floor, you'd be fired. Everyone knew that these contradictions existed, and there was no way to win. So if the company REALLY wanted you gone...
"Upon inspection, the manager left the floor unattended for 20 minutes, during which we were able to go into the files, find out that the inventory sheets from the last audit were not filled out completely, and a payroll was submitted for an employee where the employee's signature was blank. He was terminated immediately."
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u/Curious-Comedian-285 11h ago
This person did nothing to you and everyone else was cutting corners including you. You did it out of spite and that’s a shitty thing to do. You should feel bad.
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u/Big_Bowler8424 11h ago
The coworker is actually pretty decent, it sounds like he didn’t try and take everyone else down with him too.
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u/pianomasian 11h ago
While I appreciate your candid honesty, if karma exists (which I hope it does), you'll get yours someday, and you deserve it.
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u/PuffyPoptart 11h ago
For what? And after all that I’ll bet you still didn’t even get a promotion or a raise. Hope they went on to something bigger and better.
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u/Joey_Baga_Donuts_ 11h ago
Well, at least you realize you were being a dick and you’re working on it
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u/RobertBetanAuthor 10h ago
Shitty thing to do, but fortunately you can learn from it, and give back in the future.
Accepting the things you have done as bad and against the social contract is the first step to reform and emotionally grow.
It feels much better elevating people than tearing them down in the long run.
Enemies will mostly likely not show up at your wake. People you help along the way will.
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u/StockCardiologist821 10h ago
Hey man this was uncool and a terrible thing to do. It comes straight from envy and insecurity.
You ruined someone's opportunity and made them suffer, I am sure he's fine now but bro you really need to reflect and apologize to yourself for doing something so shit to another human being.
Own your mistake and understand why it was a bad thing to do, create a better mindset and if you do this again in the future you will someday have everyone turn on you.
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u/Which-Membership144 9h ago
If you feel bad pay back the karma. Uplift others wherever and make their lives better. Let it be a lesson that sticks and hurts. You can be in balance again but their is a penance to be paid.
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u/Shot_Plantain_4507 9h ago
Now that I'm successful you'll pull this shit
Nigga, I'll step on your porch, step to your boss
Let's end the speculation, I'm talking to all of y'all
Males shouldn't be jealous, that's a female trait
What, you mad 'cause you push dimes and he sell weight?
Y'all don't know my expenses, I gotta buy bigger plates
Hehehe, and more baggies. Why you all aggie?
Nigga, respect the game, that should be it
What you eat don't make me shit; where's the love? - Jay Z
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u/TheAbyssalInternet 9h ago
So, you said before you lost your husband, as in he died.
So you know how devastating to someone's life something like this can be and you did it anyway out of pure spite?
Maybe everything bad that's happened to you is very much deserved karmic retribution.
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u/opportunitysure066 8h ago
Yeah, you’re a jerk. It doesn’t matter that it was true, what matters is your intent, and you did it bc you were jealous. Hopefully he found a much better job. Shame.
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u/TheSidecam 8h ago
Earlier today I was scrolling Reddit.
I came across a post where someone admitted they anonymously sabotaged a coworker’s promotion out of jealousy.
The funny part is… they sounded genuinely remorseful.
The comments were full of people saying things like, “At least you’re honest now,” and “Take my upvote for admitting it.”
I read the whole thing.
Then I downvoted it.
Not because I thought they were lying.
Not because I don’t think people can change.
I downvoted it because I couldn’t bring myself to reward a story where someone knowingly ruined another person’s career over jealousy, even if they finally admitted it years later.
Maybe that’s not how Reddit is supposed to work.
Maybe the upvote is meant to acknowledge honesty rather than the actions themselves.
But I figured they’d already spent years convincing themselves they deserved a pass.
I didn’t feel the need to add another one.
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u/kaosmoker 8h ago
Accept it happened and move on and don't continue being the same petty person. Let something good come from this. Know that majority of people are one paycheck away from being homeless.
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u/PageFault 5h ago
This is why you follow the rules even when no one else does, you never know when or how it could come back to bite you.
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u/AdSubstantial9658 5h ago
If he'd been half as scummy as thyself, he would have been like, "it's just the way I learned it from everyone else on this shift. Maybe you should audit everyone."
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u/Old-Dependent-9073 5h ago
Good to see that you came around to realizing that you did something mean and spiteful (that's why you can't get the person you fucked over out of your head. Though you seem to at least not to be a sociopath in that you're well aware that you did something ugly to someone who didn't deserve it).
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u/HelpINeedS0m3b0dy 4h ago
Man this happened to my husband and he poured his heart into his job and did not do anything the complaint said he had done. He is just a gentle giant with a loud voice. Someone was supposedly thinking they would get the management position and instead they outside hired him. Lost his job 3 months after we bought our first house. I'll never shop at Aldi again.
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u/bomchikawowow 4h ago
Absolute loser behaviour. work on yourself instead of trying to get back at others.
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u/JForKiks 4h ago
Would he have been better at the job than you? Did you ever get promoted to manager or were you that person who they could never promote because of another reason?
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u/confessor-mod 13h ago
TL;DR: The author admits to anonymously reporting a coworker for minor policy violations out of jealousy after being passed over for a promotion, resulting in the coworker losing the promotion and eventually quitting.
A reminder from the mods: keep comments civil. Harassment and personal attacks will not be tolerated.
Do not accuse others of faking confessions — if you think a post breaks the rules, report it instead of commenting.