A couple of years ago I was working on a part time basis in a small firm owned by friends. The pay was not very good, but the atmosphere was and I was allowed to set my own timings. So life was good overall.

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.

But the offer becomes much more tantalizing.

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

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.

Watch the claws come out here.

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 would quit on my own.

She tried every trick in the book to make me quit.

I’m sharing some of them here.

It’s even worse that that she was her manager.

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

She started piling on more work on me than any other member of the team and she tried to ruin my weekend by calling me to office unnecessarily. This continued till the time I left the organization and told her how much extra money she had helped me make.

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.

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.

It really backfired!

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

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.

It doesn’t sound like they’re really friends.

Here is what folks are saying on Reddit.

People use the word friend way too loosely.

Laziness and incompetence!

Probably. She sounds satisfied.

Ego comes before money for some reason.

I guess so.

Being strong can help you!

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