Some coworkers love to throw their weight around, but they don’t always handle it well when the tables turn.

So, what would you do if a new hire constantly undermined you, nitpicked your work, and even took over your responsibilities just to make you look bad?

Would you put up with it?

Or find a fun way to make them regret it?

In the following story, one retail worker finds herself in this very situation and decides she’s had enough.

Here’s what happened.

Want to make me look bad? Don’t dish out what you can’t take

I used to work at a well-known retail chain that was popular for its cheap prices.

At the time, this particular store had a massively high turnover rate, especially for the supervisor/keyholder position, which I so happened to hold.

I was the most senior supervisor on staff by many months when Ken was hired, and I know this doesn’t sound like much, but for this store, I may as well have been there for years.

Like all other new hires, I treated Ken with nothing but kindness when he joined our team.

He returned that favor by mansplaining my job to me, blaming me for every single fault he found within the store, and using the grading system we used to rate the previous night’s close for bullying me.

She and Ken could not see eye-to-eye.

By that, I mean he would write absolutely no good things about my close, offer not a single bit of constructive criticism, and would only do this to me and no other supervisor on staff.

So, as you can see, Ken and I clashed with each other.

The crux of my petty revenge came when he consistently took over my closes.

For those of you who have never had the joyous experience of working in a retail setting, if you are the cashier, you are on a leash.

Their issue really began when Ken offered to work closing shifts.

You are not allowed to be out of eyesight of cash at any point, so for example, if you need to use the washroom, you have to ask permission and get someone to cover you.

One of the very few perks of being a supervisor at this job was that you had free rein of the store floor and weren’t tethered to a particular spot for hours.

On several occasions when I was scheduled to close, my closing cashier called out of their shift, and Ken volunteered to fill it.

Unfortunately, for me, that meant I got demoted to the role of cashier and was tethered to cash largely against my will.

Around the fourth or so time of this happening, I stood my ground and said I’d like to complete my close, and instead of being courteous, he ran to call the manager and was given my close instead.

Frustrated, she made a game out of messing with Ken.

After that situation happened and on top of his condescending behavior, I decided I would get back at Ken. When he took over my closes and when he wasn’t looking, I would go through the store and mess things up that he had faced, put things where they didn’t belong, and generally make the store worse.

This was especially fun when I was the opening manager the following morning, and I got to write up his closes as being bad.

And for those who were wondering, the reason I did not quit over this and believe me, I contemplated many times over my duration of working with him.

I stuck it out because I was too stubborn to let him have his way and let a man push me out of my job.

He ultimately quit for unrelated reasons and I was pretty sure my birthday came early the day that he did.

Wow! Working with that guy does not sound fun.

Let’s see how the folks over at Reddit reacted to this story.

Nice pun.

This person congratulates her tenacity.

Here’s someone who feels what she’s saying.

So true!

What a frustrating situation!

Bad coworkers are the absolute worst!

If you liked this post, check out this story about an employee who got revenge on a co-worker who kept grading their work suspiciously low.