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Some workplace grudges settle themselves without a single confrontation.

One employee spent four months dealing with a toxic, self-serving coworker who makes up rules to suit herself and treats anyone in her way with open hostility.

So when a suspicious medical cushion showed up out of nowhere, followed by zero explanation to the team, curiosity took over.

A quick brand search revealed exactly what kind of comfort item it was.

Read on to find out what this employee did next to finally put this coworker in her place.

Revenge against a toxic coworker

A supervisor at my job, “Alice,” has been overbearing, toxic, and self-centered, creating and attempting to enforce rules that she made up (benefitting herself, of course), and generally has been a very hostile, pain-in-the-*** coworker, in particular towards me, since I was promoted to Supervisor 4 months ago.

Alice has been known to send mixed signals.

Recently there was an incident where she made public comments for one day that she could not do a particular job (which involves customer safety, and which is much easier on the supervisor doing that job) for medical reasons.

Suddenly the next day, she was doing this job again, and then the day after that, I noticed that she was using a special seat cushion.

No mention was made to other co-workers about this special accommodation.

The employee continued to observe Alice’s behavior, then she came to an interesting conclusion.

Then today, her first day off since the “medical” incident, I noticed a seat cushion stashed in a corner, but in a public area at our large facility.

I looked the brand up on Amazon, and it appears to be a cushion for hemorrhoids and tailbone issues. How à propos!

So this employee sets their plan into motion.

Since neither “Alice” nor any other supervisor had mentioned that one of our own might be using this item (“Alice” does not speak to me, except to tell me to go elsewhere when she is performing a task and I happen to come by), I innocently assumed that it was left behind by a customer.

When I was doing my closing rounds, I dutifully turned the item in to lost and found (which receives hundreds of items per day).

I’m looking forward to having the pain-in-the-*** return to work, and have her painful return.

Take that, rude coworker!

What did Reddit have to say?

This user has a way to really take this revenge up a notch.

It’s best to start building a case now.

Why not make it fun for the whole office?

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Nobody made her hide a hemorrhoid cushion in a public hallway with zero labeling. That one’s on her. An unclaimed item near the lost and found basically walked itself in.

Sometimes you don’t need a grand plan. You just need a toxic coworker who forgot to write her name on things.