Work: Today, nearly six months later, my incompetent, lazy coworker...

By Anonymous - 09/03/2016 13:52 - Madagascar

Today, nearly six months later, my incompetent, lazy coworker still refuses to believe I didn't screw my way to the promotion both of us were competing for. FML

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By Jessy - 24/10/2023 00:00 - United States

Today, my coworker threw a bitch fit about not getting a promotion she'd applied for. My other coworker had got it, so after her fit, management worked something out: they gave the promotion to her, and the coworker that originally had it was given a promotion that I'd been promised for months. Now I have none. FML

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By Snurkles McGee - 22/05/2013 21:48 - Canada - Edmonton

Today, I confronted my boss to find out why I was denied a promotion that she promised to me. Her response? "You should know by now I'm a liar. Not my fault if you believe the things I say." FML

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By Anonymous - 31/10/2015 05:10

Today, I finally got a promotion at work. Today I also found out that no matter how long I work, no matter how much effort and unpaid overtime I put in for 6 years, my coworkers will be convinced I only got promoted because I'm the CFO's son. FML

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By Noname - 22/02/2009 06:14 - Australia

Today, I did my work, the work of my co-worker who called in sick and the work of my boss who has no idea what the hell is going on all at the same time. I didn't get a promotion because I don't work hard enough. FML

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The grudge

By Anonymous - 06/05/2020 20:00

Today, I was told by a former coworker that my former boss still talks about me being lazy, ever since the time I refused to do a few things on third shift when there was me and 2 other people working. I haven't worked there in 3 months. FML

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By Anonymous - 27/12/2016 13:16 - Australia

Today, my extremely lazy colleague received a promotion with benefits, while I was fired for "not being a team-player". I had stayed quiet about her constant negative behaviour because my supervisor said we needed to "have each other's backs". While I was protecting hers, she put a knife in mine. FML

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By Anonymous - 25/08/2015 05:51 - United States - Waco

Today, after putting in 110% at my shitty job for two years straight, my boss told me point-blank I'm too good in my current position for him to ever be able to justify promoting me. FML

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By NotJobbing - 11/08/2015 23:05 - United Kingdom - London

Today, my lazy bastard of a co-worker punched me straight in the jaw because he didn't get the promotion I did. Being his new manager, I fired him. A few hours later, I was fired for "abusing" my power. FML

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By KBBL - 12/03/2014 16:02 - Canada - Edmonton

Today, at a staff meeting, our boss sighed and asked why I'm always in the meetings instead of my co-worker. I reminded him that it's because I'm the department supervisor, not my co-worker. He wouldn't believe me until he saw it for himself in our personnel files. FML

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By Anonymous - 24/05/2019 06:14

Today, I worked a long shift at my job while feeling like crap, anticipating getting a promotion. As my boss was leaving work, he informed me that because I also go to college, the promotion was being given to another employee that I trained a month ago. This is the second time this has happened. FML

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Wideout40 21

Thursday 10 March 2016 0:07

Well screw him

aeuaie 6

Thursday 10 March 2016 0:17

It'd be funny if they actually did screw the boss and they're just mad that they didn't get the promotion.

Comments

cylonN6 3

Thursday 10 March 2016 1:37

They don't have to believe it. You just got it. "What? I can't hear you over the sound of my promotion." mic drop.

Setareh23 34

Thursday 10 March 2016 2:10

I guess one of the down sides of being attractive (or even just the sex the boss is attracted to) is that there'll always be those assholes who assume you got special treatment, no matter how much work you put into it. It's similar to how those who are related to the boss are treated. Just keep your head up OP. At the end of the day, both you and your boss know your worth, plus you get paid more....your bitter coworker can just go screw themself.

Eliiara 11

Thursday 10 March 2016 2:13

Couldn't that be a form of harassment? I wouldn't want people saying that about me. I'd report him. Or her.

Tegz0rz 12

Thursday 10 March 2016 2:58

That's because real and honest work is probably a foreign concept to them.

nightstalker94 18

Thursday 10 March 2016 3:00

Haters always want what you have and find a way to turn it into something it's not. You deserve it. Screw him

InfiniteSecret 20

Friday 11 August 2017 14:42

Why do you assume it is a guy.

GhostFox 33

Thursday 10 March 2016 5:11

Hate those sort of people. It's never that they didn't do enough, it's always that everyone else cheated. Given this has been an ongoing issue for 6 months, OP might want to take it to HR before their coworker spreads his/her slanderous opinion of OP. Once rumors like that start, they are hard to kill.