The most dramatic workplace conflicts often come from people with no sense of personal boundaries.

When one overweight hospital employee used a different bathroom for health reasons, one cruel coworker couldn’t stop sticking her nose in her business.

What followed was a chain reaction that turned a private issue into a very public showdown in front of the boss.

Keep reading for the full story.

AITA for telling on my coworker to her boss?

Hi, I am a woman in my 30s, and I work in a hospital.

I am very obese, and I am working on it, but it is obviously not happening overnight.

Our department got renovated, and we got three bathrooms: female, male, and patient.

She’s found that the patient bathroom is the safest for her to use.

The issue is that the weight limit in the female toilet is lower because it hangs on a hollow wall, while the patient toilet is on a very sturdy wall.

Because of this, I go to the patient bathroom in order to avoid destroying the toilet.

I do not know the exact weight limit, but it makes weird sounds when I sit on it in the female bathroom.

But one of her coworkers won’t stop nagging her about this.

My coworker, a woman in her 50s, started telling me off for going to the patient bathroom.

She said that what if a patient needs to go and I am there.

Mind you, I am there for 2–3 minutes, just to pee, and then I am out.

Then, one day, the conflict escalated.

Today, when I came out, she started shouting at me in front of other people, and worst of all, in front of a patient.

I tried to explain myself, but she kept interrupting me.

I snapped and told her, “What should I do? Do you want me to go pee outside in the snow?”

She told me she does not care, but she does not want me using the patient toilet again.

This employee had finally had enough, so she went to the boss.

This was the third time she humiliated me over this, so I just said **** it and went to complain to her boss.

Her boss told me it is absolutely okay for me to use the patient toilet, and that it is actually a safety concern otherwise.

She also told my coworker off pretty badly.

That only made this coworker even more of a headache to deal with.

After that, my coworker came back and started slamming things around.

She called me names and an entitled cow who thinks that just because she earns more money, she can do anything she wants.

For context, I am a medical physicist, and she is a nurse’s assistant.

Now she questions if she did the right thing.

The nurse who was there with us told me that I was the one who was right.

Even so, I really feel bad about it.

AITA for telling on her to her boss?

This coworker had no right to disrespect her this way.

What did Reddit think?

This judgment is a no-brainer for this commenter.

Surely policing the bathrooms isn’t a part of her job description.

HR also needs to get involved here.

It’s important to make sure this disrespect is properly documented.

At the end of the day, letting the boss handle it was the right move.

Some conflicts are just above your pay grade.

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