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It can be tempting to be lazy at work, but it will usually backfire on you in the long run.

What would you do if you and your coworker were supposed to split up some work, but your coworker told his manager that he was too busy, so you had to do it all?

That is what happened to the guy in this story, so years later at a different job, he saw his old coworker and manager’s resumes come in, so he made sure they never got an interview.

It is this type of revenge that most people never realize even happened to them. Read through the full story below and see what you think about it.

Former coworker and manager made my life miserable, I made sure they had no opportunity at my new company

Several years ago I was working at this company that already had pretty bad work life balance.

The work should really be divided equally between them. Or better yet, a new contractor should be brought in.

We had a coworker who was going on maternal leave, so my manager had me and this guy to taker over the work.

After my coworker left for maternal leave, I went to this guy and was trying to figure out how to divide the workload between us, and only to find out that he went to our manager behind my back and argued that he had more important stuff to do, so and I should take on all the workload myself.

The guy just doesn’t want to do any work.

My manager, of course, agreed because he hated that the big boss trusts me more than him (but I was there much longer than he did).

I later found that the “more important stuff” my manager had him work on, was actually just interviewing and I was more qualified given my experience.

At least he was able to move on.

Instead, I ended up doing double amount of busy work and was absolutely miserable.

I then found a new and better job several months later, and was promoted within a year at the new job.

Why would he ever give them a recommendation?

One day, my boss at the new job ask me, hey have you worked with these people at your previous job? It turned out my manager and coworker from my previous job applied to the same opening position at my new job!

I, of course, made sure to tell my new boss how they are not qualified and are not great team players, basically all the negative things without sounded like subjective.

This is an important lesson for everyone to learn.

Then my new boss basically just tossed both resumes out of the window and didn’t even give them an initial interview, which they would have gotten because of their experience.

Lesson here: treat your colleagues nicely and with respect. You never know who you will run into in the future!

People often never realize how much their bad choices hurt them in the long run.

Let’s see what the people in the comments have to say about it.

Sadly, they don’t even know it happened.

They failed to learn this important lesson.

This is why you don’t burn bridges.

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Interviewing them would have been fun.

They don’t even know what happened.

They will never know that their laziness cost them a job opportunity. This is why you should always do your best and treat people fairly at work.

You just don’t know how your bad actions will come back to bite you later in life.