A woman set up a rude boomer work colleague for the perfect revenge by tricking her into sending an incriminating email directly to her boss.
This happened to the woman more than ten years ago. But thinking about it still makes her smile.
She worked with a real ‘Karen.’ Not her real name, but we all know what she means.
Karen’s job title was project manager, but she was just an office administrator in charge of making things run better.
The bosses realized that one of Karen’s projects was beyond her competence range, to put it politely. So they reassigned the project to the woman.
Karen was not happy. In fact, she was livid.
“She hated this and stonewalled me,” said the woman. “It caused the project to get delayed, and I was getting lots of pressure from some of the executives because of this.”
This got back to Karen, and her demeanor completely changed. But not in the way you would expect. She became super-helpful and super-sweet to the woman, saying how she would bend backward to help her now.
Karen was laid off a few weeks later, right in the middle of this big project. And that’s when the woman discovered that Karen’s nice girl act was all for show. Plus, it was covering up some devious and sneaky behavior.
“I went to grab some files related to the project, and everything was gone,” said the woman. “Karen had deleted everything.”
This was way before people started using Teams and Google Drive, where everything is shared and backed up automatically.
In other words, Karen had done a real number on the woman, making her job ten times harder.
The woman was furious, and she wanted to get even.
She knew Karen was a bit of a boomer when it came to tech, so she decided to use that against her.
It was company policy for work emails of recently departed employees to be forwarded to their department heads for a few months. This woman knew that boomer Karen was the type to use her work email for all her personal accounts, including LinkedIn, so she dropped her a friendly-sounding email.
It read:
“Hi Karen – I heard about your departure. I hope you can use the time to take the vacation you talked about. I went to grab some of the files but noticed they were missing. Do you have backups you could share?”
And Karen took the bait – hook, line, and sinker.
She responded with this confession:
“Don’t pretend to be nice. I wouldn’t be surprised if you helped me get fired. Good luck finding any of those files. I DELETED EVERYTHING. Screw you.”
That message went straight to Karen’s old work email address, arrived in her former manager’s email box a few seconds later, and then quickly found its way to the human resources department.
Karen was embarrassed and humiliated. But that was the least of Karen’s problems.
She’d admitted to gross misconduct and breaking the terms of her severance agreement, meaning she forfeited all future severance payments.
When this woman found out what had happened to Karen, she only had one thing to say:
“Oh, so sorry, Boomer.”
And Karen isn’t getting much sympathy from Reddit, either.
“I still don’t understand why people use their work email for anything personal. So stupid,” wrote one person.
“Why would anyone put something like that down in writing at all, anywhere?” asked another.
Was this too much, or did Karen get what she deserved?
Source: Reddit
She Uninvited Her Rude Mother-in-Law to Her Wedding but Now Her Husband Is Threatening To Leave Her
Her Husband’s Snoring Is Killing Their Relationship but She Doesn’t Know What To Do
