Workplace culture can be complicated.

If your boss asked for your opinion about a new hire, would you be honest, or would you bend the truth to protect a long time coworker?

This woman often did the physical labor to support her coworker who was struggling with chronic pain.

When her boss asked for feedback about a new hire, she gave an honest answer, but her coworker took this as a threat to her position.

Now her once-friendly colleague feels betrayed, and tensions in the office are running high.

Read the full story below to find out more.

AITA for being honest with my boss, even if it hurt my coworker’s situation?

I (26F) work at a pharmaceutical company.

My coworker (29F) has bad knees, and the pain affects her most days.

Because of this, I’ve taken on most of the physical aspects of our job while she handles the reports.

This woman found out that she only had 1 month to stay at the job.

I’ve even covered her workload so she could take days off, and on other days, I do all the physical tasks so she can sit.

Recently, I found out I’m leaving my job in a month.

A new person (26M) joined our team, and he has a shy demeanor.

She gave good feedback about the new person joining the team to her boss.

Our boss asked me about his skills, wondering if he could handle the work required.

I told them he has great computer skills, and he is efficient at reading references and typing.

All true, based on an assignment we worked on together.

Her coworker got mad at her.

After this, my female coworker was furious.

She said that highlighting his report and paperwork skills could harm her. That I’d set things up so she’d have to do all the physical labor after I left.

I told her I didn’t mean it that way. I just wanted the bosses to see his potential.

Her boss asked what was happening between them.

She snapped back that even if I didn’t do it on purpose, the damage was done.

I was hurt and sat at my desk, while she went to cry in the bathroom.

Our boss saw the tension and asked me what had happened.

I kept saying, “I don’t know.”

She told her boss the truth, but her coworker accused her of lying.

But she pressed me until I broke down and explained everything.

Later, my coworker messaged me, calling me a horrible person and a bad friend.

She said she’d overheard my conversation with the boss and accused me of lying and snitching to make myself look good and her look bad.

She apologized to her coworker, but she still appeared as the bad person.

I told her this could actually help her go back to doing reports.

But she said she’d rather suffer from knee pain than accept “pity.”

I sincerely apologized and asked to work things out, but she ignored me.

She’s known for being kind-hearted, so I don’t understand why she’s handling it this way. Also how am I going to go to work after the weekend?

She didn’t mean to mess things up for her coworker. Did she say something wrong, or did her coworker overreact?

Let’s see how others responded to this story on Reddit.

This user shares their personal thoughts.

Here’s another valid point from this person.

You didn’t sabotage her, says this person.

This user offers some useful advice.

And finally, people are saying she didn’t do anything wrong.

Some people only see the bad in what you do.

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