Sometimes being envious can also come back as karma!

This guy shares how his friend tried to get him fired because he was making more money than her. She was furious about this and tried multiple things to make him quit, but everything she tried backfired.

Check out how the tables turned!

Manager tries to make life difficult for me, doesn’t know as per my contract it benefits me.

This happened a couple of years ago.

I was working on a part time basis in a small firm owned by friends.

Pay was not very good, but the atmosphere was and I was allowed to set my own timings. So life was good overall.

This is where it gets interesting!

Then a friend whom I knew only through social media approached me for a job in her company.

Even though they were offering good money I turned down the offer as I knew I could not get the benefits I was getting in my current job.

Plus the commute to the new office was very long. I would have to travel 2 hrs one way and change 3 trains just to reach office.

A month later the HR of the new firm approached me again.

That’s INSANE!

They offered me almost four times the money I was making and I could set my own work hours. There was also extra pay for working overtime and on weekends. This was important.

I joined the new company.

My friend did not know the terms of the new agreement I had with HR. She used to act like I owed her big time for the opportunity I got.

So one day I corrected her.

I told her that I had turned down the offer she had been part of and one month later I had had my own negotiations and I got much more favorable terms. So I was here because her company really needed me and not because of her.

This sounds bad…

I didn’t share the details of my agreement with her, but we both realized that she was making significantly lesser than me.

This totally changed her attitude towards me.

Now she wanted me out and I was determined to stick through for at least a year. So she decided that she would make it very difficult for me to work so that I quit on my own.

There are a lot of stories I have about how she tried every trick in the book to make me quit. I’m sharing some of them here.

She wanted to kick him out!

She was my manager and was in charge of allocating work.

Malicious Compliance – 1

She started piling on more work on me than any other member of the team.

He was happy to do the extra work!

I was happy to comply – she did not know that as part of my contract I would be paid 1.5 times the hourly rate for every hour I worked OT and 2 times the hourly rate if any work was allocated to me over weekends or holidays.

Every time she tried to ruin my weekend by calling me to office unnecessarily, I happily complied.

This continued till the time I left the organization and told her how much extra money she had helped me make.

Malicious Compliance – 2

After the long commute to work, I used to be hungry so I developed the habit of stopping at the food court to pick up a glass of fresh fruit juice and carry it with me to work.

He knew how to find his way around this one!

My manager thought that this way she could harass me without actually seeming to do so. So she sent a notice that bringing liquids to office was a hazard.

Ironically she used to have coffee delivered to get desk 3 times a day.

Well, I pointed out that the rule applied to her as well and if I couldn’t have my juice, she couldn’t have her coffee.

She had to literally spend an extra unpaid hour at work every time she wanted her special coffee.

Meanwhile I was happy to leisurely sit in the food court – have my glass of fresh fruit juice with some snacks and then begin my work day half hour later than usual.

YIKES! That must have been fun!

The friend/manager basically got revenge on herself!

Let’s find out what people on Reddit commented under this story.

This user wants to know the reaction of the manager!

Exactly! This user is confused why friends are so envious of each other!

This user wants to know more stories!

This user also demands more things that the friend did!

This user finds it absurd that this guy is making four times more money than his previous job.

She doesn’t sound like a real friend.

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