It can be great when you meet a new friend at the perfect point in your life when you need them most.

What would you do if a friend who had helped you a lot started betraying you and was putting your job and home at risk?

That is what happened to the woman in this story, so she gathered all the evidence and presented it before anything could happen to her.

Let’s read all about it.

Friend tried to frame me for theft, and I got her fired

I (24F at the time) had been good acquaintances with my nail tech of over 4 years, we will call her Stacy (31F).

In the beginning of 2022, she offered for me to move into her parents’ old house with another client of hers and split rent.

I’ve been wanting to move out for a while and thought it would be a perfect opportunity as I would know my landlord to be her brother that we will call Simon (35M).

This is heartbreaking.

As I was a week away from moving in, my mother passed away unexpectedly. I was devastated and had to take care of all of her assets and my father within less than 24 hours.

It was a rough beginning of the year, but Stacy was “there for me.” At first she would always check in on me and try to cheer me up with dinners and hangouts.

Making new friends can be hard.

We were becoming close and I thought I was making a friend for life at this point.

Oh how wrong I was!

Three months after my mother passed, I had quit my job due to HR spreading rumors about my usage of PTO for grief (story for another day).

Wow, this is great.

When I told Stacy, she offered me a job at the nail salon as a receptionist.

I was excited to work at the place I went to relax for manis and pedis and hang out with my friend who would be my assistant manager.

Things were great at first and I even started making new friendships with others. I am still close with many of them to this day, but one of them named Alice (26F) was apparently going to be my new roommate in the fall as my previous roommate ended her lease early (lots of drama there too, I’ve got so many side stories).

Getting to know a roommate is important.

Alice and I began to hangout outside of work so we can learn more about each other since we would become roommates.

Well this made Stacy unhappy and she began to stir drama. She would tell me lies about my coworkers such as they talked bad about my weight, judging my boyfriend, backstabbing each other.

Stacy told me so many things that I felt I couldn’t trust anyone there for a while, but that changed when Stacy traveled abroad for a week and returned to work.

Stacy informed Alice and me, literally 3 days before Alice was to move in that she was also moving in.

What? Is that even legal?

But not to live there. To open her own nail salon.

Alice and I were confused, like where would the salon go?

Stacy told us it would be in the back of the house, across from MY BEDROOM.

Alice and I were shocked and upset.

She needs to start looking for somewhere else to live right away.

Alice decided not to move in because of it and I didn’t blame her for it.

But now I am stuck living across from a nail salon and Stacy began to show some true colors and her deceit began to surface.

Alice talked with some of the other nail techs and they told her that Stacy has done similar things before to receptionists.

Some people just love the drama.

She would be nice to them at first, then alienate them from the other nail techs because she wanted to manipulate the sales so she made more money.

Then when the receptionists would find out, drama would unfold and the issues would be blamed on the receptionist.

I didn’t want to believe it at first, but since she began to act suspicious with wanting to open a salon in the house I was renting in, which went against my lease, I began to move in the shadows and investigated.

She doesn’t just love drama, she is also a thief.

Stacy began to take things from the salon she claimed were hers without informing the owner.

She has been friends with the owner, we will call him Nick (34M), for over 11 years, so they were really close.

However, Nick began reaching out to me directly because he was told I wasn’t doing my job correctly.

Of course I asked him what was it that I wasn’t doing and he told me I was overcharging clients.

Protecting herself is very important.

I asked him what the prices were to everything (I played dumb) and set them up.

Stacy began changing the prices again and I began taking screenshots and documenting.

I also told him we were running out of certain supplies and he told me that was impossible because he recently bought them.

I told him “that’s what Stacy told me we needed,” but then she would tell me that’s not what she meant. Weird, weird, weird.

It isn’t her job to question management.

Then the final straw happened.

One day she asked me to take some boxes to her car and I agreed. I didn’t know what was in the boxes until I placed them in her trunk.

It was some waxing supplies like the waxing beads, sticks, wet wipes, etc. Also some rhinestones, special gel polishes, and other nail items.

A week later, Alice tells me that Nick is investigating in missing supplies.

Of course, she is stealing supplies from work for her private salon.

Guess which supplies… yup you’re correct. The ones I carried to her car.

And yes, the supplies are at the house that I AM RENTING because that is where her new salon will be.

And there are cameras in the salon.

My heart dropped and I knew that Stacy was trying to frame me like she did with previous receptionists. I was hurt because I thought she cared about me, but I had already gathered enough evidence and it was time I came out of the shadows.

It is time to take action.

I compiled a list of everything she had done for the past 3 months, from missing supplies, overcharging, stealing clients by referring them to her salon without an LLC and expired license, defamation on current and previous employees, and text messages about her plans for her new salon, with a specific message saying she is doing this because Nick was a con artist.

I texted Nick I needed to talk to him and he set up a time for 3 days.

I told Alice and all my other coworkers about it and they said they would have my back if Nick asked them.

She is a real snake.

Stacy came in the next day and tried to be sweet to me.

I gave her a cold shoulder and told her “I’ll talk to you after work.”

She looked nervous but began working.

Stacy asked me to meet her in the back of the salon towards the end of the day and I did. She asked me what was wrong and I told her I knew the supplies she asked me to take to her car were not hers and Nick is investigating.

You can’t trust this woman at all.

I told her she has 3 days to tell Nick or that I will.

She told me she would and for the next 3 days she called, texted, and even came to me at work to reassure me she took care of the situation.

She even told me Nick already knows I took the supplies and I don’t even need to talk to him.

But I still did.

Is she going to make a run for it?

Nick arrives and Stacy didn’t show up to work.

Nick asks where is Stacy and I told him “avoiding you because she has been deceiving you.” I told him everything and showed him the evidence.

He looked pained and told me “This isn’t the first time Stacy has done something to hurt my business, but this has gone too far.”

He told me I should not renew my lease (wasn’t planning to) and that he will be talking to Stacy about all of this. He asked if it was okay if he mentioned me.

And I told him I wanted her to know it was me.

Evil people like this love to get angry when they are called out.

That night Stacy blew up my phone calling me a liar and asking how could I betray her for everything she did for me.

I told her yes she did a lot for me but that doesn’t make it okay to frame me for theft.

She tried to tell me it was hers and I sent her the screenshots of receipts that it was under Nick’s card.

Nope, nobody is believing these lies.

She then said I have been brainwashed by the other nail techs and that they’ve been out to get her since day one.

She texted a lot of nonsense but I just kept mentioning the theft and told her this is over.

She said she would tell Simon to not renew my lease.

And I told her I wasn’t planning on it anyways.

Good, she was fired.

Fast forward a week, Nick texts me that I need to change the passwords from the system and to take Stacy out. He was changing the locks and access codes to everything because he fired Stacy!

He thanked me for my honesty and told me I am temporary assistant manager, but I left 2 months after to go back into my field of psychology.

I moved in with my now husband, Alice and I are best friends now, and Stacy apparently lost a lot of her clients due to her ethics and overcharging.

She also lost a lot of friends and had to work outside of being a nail tech to make ends meet.

Stacy caused a lot of problems, but in the end it all backfired on her, like these things so often do.

Let’s see what the people in the comments on Reddit think about this story.

She did the right thing.

I am wondering this as well.

She was an idiot.

Right, just lay down and take it.

This was a great story.

She should’ve known she wouldn’t get away with it!

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