#by /u/PawPaw06

[prorevenge]

Take all the credit for my work and tell the boss I’m a terrible employee, well it was because of me that you got fired!

I used to work in a marketing role in a government department. I was part time and worked along with a girl, who I’ll call Karen, who was working on a yearly contract. She’d been there for 2 years and was very friendly with the department manager and this was the reason her contract kept being renewed.

When my manager went on maternity Karen got temporarily promoted to the management role. This caused a lot of upset in the office as there were a number of more suitable and qualified people who didn’t get the chance to act up.

As soon as Karen became my manager everything changed. My work load increased and as I was part time I had to absolutely bust my ass to meet project deadlines. All of a sudden I wasn’t being included in staff briefs on new projects yet was expected to work on them. My department manager was acting really off with me too. This went on for months before I approached my department manager and asked to discuss my workload etc. She sat me down and basically told me that I really needed to get my act together as Karen was having to pick up my work load and it was affecting her output because I was, in Karen’s words ‘so lazy I should be fired’.

I told the manager what was going on and the actual work I was doing but she took Karen’s side, and said I was just assisting with some parts of projects and it was ridiculous of me to claim I was managing and completing so many projects on my own.

So I started making mistakes. Simple things, adding wrong briefs for designers, not including prices, adding incorrect budgets and deadlines that were 2 days out etc.

Karen started to get pulled by various managers asking why she was making so many mistakes then I knew for sure she was passing off my work as her own. She called me in for a meeting and exploded. I walked out.

She had began bitching about me to team mates saying how lazy I was etc. My friends began to tell me what was going on. One friend informed me that Karen was online for on average 5 hours a day planning her upcoming wedding in Spain and was using the office phones to make international calls to the wedding planners. He could see her screen and could t believe how lazy she was. So she was planning her wedding while I was busting my ass off.

So I decided to skip talking to the managers and went straight to HR. I told them to have IT monitor her internet usage and her out going calls. I said I could prove she was a lazy bitch and was relying on me. I was obviously able to show email trails and the project documents I had completed and she had then taken and saved down as her own.

2 weeks later Karen was called to HR and told her contract was not being renewed and she was given 1 months notice. She told everyone it was because of budget cuts.

My department heads brought me in for meetings to apologise and commend me on my excellent work and I got a promotion.

I left a couple of months later, if they’d believed me in the first place I wouldn’t have endured so many months of stress and anxiety.

(source) story by (/u/PawPaw06)