He Threatened To Quit If His New Coworker Wasn’t Fired After She Wrote Rude Comments On His Facebook Posts, And Now His Coworker’s Furious About Losing Her Job
This man has been working for a small, locally owned business for nearly 12 years. Right now, their team consists of only eight employees, and they’re struggling with a staffing shortage.
Three weeks ago, the company hired a new employee, a woman named Karen, who was in her 50s.
At first, Karen was grateful to have been hired for this job because she and her husband were going through tough times.
Her husband was in a terrible car accident recently, so he has been unable to work until he’s recovered from his injuries. Plus, their house was going through the foreclosure process.
During this conversation, Karen also said that she’d been job hunting for several months and that before this job, she wasn’t able to find any companies who seemed willing to hire her.
She blamed it on the fact that she didn’t have any past work experience because she had been a stay-at-home wife (she and her husband didn’t have children).
Initially, he and Karen had a friendly working relationship. Last week, though, things went sour.
“She stated she has five dogs, and I simply made the comment that I don’t like dogs and could never have one as a pet. I told her I like other people’s dogs well enough but could never have my own, basically. She took it as a personal attack, apparently,” he said.
After his statement, Karen didn’t respond. Then, she spun herself in her chair so that her back was turned to him, and she didn’t speak to him for the rest of the workday.
fotofabrika – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
Later that night, his phone was inundated with Facebook notifications from Karen, even though they’re not friends on social media.
While his profile is private, the photos he’s tagged in are public. So, she was rapidly “laugh-reacting” to every tagged photo, all of which were of his kids.
“Karen then comments underneath a photo of my youngest (4-month-old), ‘Ew, you don’t like dogs, but you like these ugly things?’ And another comment not even 30 seconds later on a photo of my 12-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter, ‘Gross,'” he explained.
He took screenshots of Karen’s Facebook comments and blocked her. The following day, he went to work, marched into his boss’s office, and showed him the evidence of Karen’s harassing behavior on his phone.
“I tell him, ‘Either you fire her right now, or I’m gone. I refuse to be in the same workplace as this brat.’ Well, Karen just happened to walk into his office while I was there, and he immediately told her to collect the items from her desk and leave,” he shared.
In response, Karen questioned why she was being fired, and their boss gestured to the phone screenshots of her Facebook comments and told her that this was the reason.
In a rage, Karen yelled at him for ratting her out and getting her fired, adding that she was in a difficult financial situation and needed this job.
She continued, reminding him that she and her husband are going to be without a house soon, and she can’t find a job anywhere else.
Karen also accused him of making a big deal out of her actions, claiming that she only made those comments on the Facebook photos of his children in retaliation for his comments about not liking dogs.
What would you have done if you had been in his shoes?
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