Navigating office politics is a rite of passage in the business world, but some players take the game to a whole new level.

One colleague weaponized her charm to shift the blame for her mistake onto an unsuspecting teammate.

Read on to find out how they overcame their colleague’s sabotage and got her fired!

Made me your fall guy, have fun being fired.

Many years ago, when I was fresh out of university and working with this big company that mainly dealt with import/export, I was an optimistic, fun, pour-all-in kind of guy.

Less than six months into working there, I was given a very big project that, truth be told, was way out of my league and capability.

Against the odds, the employee actually excelled at the task.

I didn’t realize the whole point of the project was to hammer me back down to Earth and actually do the job within a certain level of reasonable expectation.

So, I did my best.

Weeks of sleepless nights doing the job somehow managed to gain traction, and I was later assigned a support team and a main team.

That is, until someone else screwed it all up.

Everything was going great until an executive, Elizabeth, messed up big time with a major shipment.

Being out of the loop, I didn’t realize this mistake when Elizabeth came to me with the problem — a shipment that could be used parallel with the project I was handling.

“Sure, happy to help,” I said.

Elizabeth had a good reputation at the company, but there was more to her than meets the eye.

Elizabeth was someone we all knew as the innocent, happy-looking, short girl.

She had a sweet, cute voice, was always nice, and seemed harmless — a real-life psycho.

Elizabeth was determined to make someone else take the fall for her mistake.

By the time corporate found out about the problem with the shipment, Elizabeth had managed to convince those in charge that the fault lay with me.

Not just merely convincing them, she had fabricated evidence and paperwork pointing directly at me—some even with my signature.

Even the employee themself was confused.

It was so convincing that I actually thought it was my fault.

Given the magnitude of the mistake, I was sure I would be forced to resign.

The employee racked their brain, trying to figure out what went wrong.

After confiding in my mentor, he advised me to consider the grey area in this mess, try to figure out what had gone wrong, and at least learn from it.

Which I did. I spent hours of my remaining time reviewing what exactly had gone wrong and how either the company or I could have handled it differently.

It was then they began to stumble upon Elizabeth’s trail.

Rather than understanding the problem, I began to notice inconsistencies — different time stamps, dates, and specifications in the logs, database, and communications with partners.

Given the situation, the only person with any kind of motive to orchestrate this was Elizabeth.

But the employee didn’t know this at the time.

Naive as I was, I confided in Elizabeth before reporting this to the relevant parties.

She acted as though she were my ally, but secretly she went to those same parties, claiming that I was “being cornered” and trying to frame her for the mistake.

Her sweet, high-pitched voice worked its magic, and they believed her.

So the employee was the one to get punished.

I was reprimanded hard without anyone even looking at the evidence I’d gathered.

Frustrated and stressed, I called my mum.

Surprisingly, their mother had some connections in high places.

Despite being only a teacher, my mum is very influential.

By the next day, I was meeting one of the major shareholders of the company (a man my grandfather had helped send to university when he had no funds or support).

Over drinks with the CEO after their golf game, I presented my case.

They were professional and gave me the benefit of the doubt.

The employee started pointing out some of the evidence they were being framed.

By the end of the meeting, I managed to show the CEO that there were significant discrepancies that had somehow slipped through the cracks.

On Monday, the decision to force my resignation was halted.

Then, the company begins looking into the matter themselves.

A second independent investigation was carried out, this time under the CEO’s supervision.

Both the auditor and the IT team who interviewed me agreed there were mismatched logs in the database.

That launched a whole new hunt.

No longer focused on scapegoating the new kid, they had a real problem to solve.

Soon, they tracked down the rightful culprit.

It didn’t take long for them to find out who was behind it.

Lo and behold, it was Elizabeth — along with a long list of other shady things she’d done in the past.

Some of her schemes tricked people, while others involved colleagues who had knowingly gone along with her.

The ending was sweet. Elizabeth was fired with no compensation or recommendation.

Elizabeth’s behavior showed just how cold-hearted and calculated she really was, despite her sweet façade.

The nonsense she had pulled got her blacklisted by prominent companies.

Last I heard, she married a rich guy and became a housewife.

One thing that really shocked me was that, to the very end, she stuck to her narrative: “I’m the victim; they’re framing me.”

If it weren’t for the hard evidence of her two-faced behavior, I’m sure many people would have believed her.

What a story!

What did Reddit make of all this?

There’s something particularly devious about framing someone for a wrong they didn’t commit.

Unfortunately, not many people have the connections it took to get out of this situation.

This commenter can’t understand how Elizabeth was able to pull off her wrongdoings for so long.

In the end, even her spotless reputation couldn’t clean up the mess she had made.

She may have played the victim, but the evidence revealed who the real villain was.

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