She Got Her Coworker Fired After They Tried To Prove Her Service Dog Was Fake By Posting Photos Of Her And Her Pup On Facebook And Asking People How To Expose Her
This woman has a serious heart condition, so she has a medical alert service dog, Max. According to her, the pup has saved her life on numerous occasions by warning her before she passes out.
Yet, ever since she started a new office job about three months ago, one of her coworkers named Karen has been out to get Max, trying to “prove” that she’s faking her need for a service animal.
In the beginning, Karen began doing little stunts, like loudly announcing, “Pets aren’t allowed in the office,” whenever they’d pass by each other. She repeatedly tried to tell Karen that Max wasn’t just any pet, either.
In fact, she even showed Karen her service dog’s documentation, but that only made Karen stoop lower. Her coworker just proceeded to tell their colleagues that she was “obviously faking” her condition since she supposedly looked “too young” to be disabled.
“Things escalated fast. Karen would try to ‘test’ Max by dropping food near him. He’s trained to ignore it,” she recalled.
“And Karen reported me to HR weekly.”
However, the situation became even worse when Karen began purposefully wearing strongly scented perfume to work and spraying air fresheners around her desk. Both of these triggered her condition, and once, Max had to alert her three different times in one day due to the risks.
Still, she hit her breaking point when Karen tried putting her on blast on social media.
“I found out Karen was taking photos of me and Max and posting them in a Facebook group about ‘fake service dogs,’ asking for ways to ‘expose’ me. Karen included my full name and workplace,” she revealed.
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As soon as she heard what her coworker was doing, she went online, took screenshots of the posts, and went directly to HR. This caused Karen to get fired immediately for harassment and creating a hostile work environment.
Even though she thought that was justified, Karen’s friends and family members felt differently. They’ve since begun flooding her with messages, accusing her of being a jerk for getting a “mother of three” fired over a dog. Plus, they claim that she should’ve just worked from home if she was “so sick.”
She honestly feels terrible about Karen losing her job, too, especially because her coworker’s kids weren’t at fault, and she didn’t want them to be negatively impacted.
“But Karen literally put my life at risk with the perfume stunts, and doxxing me online was scary,” she vented.
Nonetheless, she’s now been left wondering if getting her coworker fired was too far or not.
Did her coworker deserve to face the consequences of her actions? Do you think she did the right thing by going to HR?
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