Her Workplace ‘Friend’ Demanded She Move from ‘Her’ Breakroom Seat—So She Refused to Budge

Mila Cardozo

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Any friendship can get toxic when one person starts treating favors and niceties like obligations.

In this case, a woman had been friends with a coworker for a few months, even occasionally giving or getting rides. But the vibes shifted when her “friend” started acting rude towards her.

She already had a history of getting into arguments with other employees, but now they got into an argument too.

Over chairs.

And now she’s wondering who’s in the wrong about it.

Read the full story below.

AITA for not moving out of my coworker’s “seat”?

I’ve been working with this coworker, Jasmine, for about 7 months and we became friends. I give her rides to work sometimes, and she and her mom have given me a ride home before.

I don’t mind helping her, and I appreciate the things she’s done for me, but lately I’ve been getting really irritated with her.

She can be pretty demanding. She’ll tell/ask me to do things and I usually just do them because I don’t want to make a big deal out of it.

But it bothers me because she doesn’t seem to have the same energy with everyone else.

There are red flags.

She’s even said she only listens to our GM, Jade, and basically ignores our night shift manager, Christian, when he asks her to do something.

She also gets into a lot of confrontations with people. She’ll talk **** about other coworkers, but gets extremely defensive if anyone says something about her. She’s gotten into several arguments over things like this.

The biggest thing happened today.

It’s getting toxic.

There are 5 chairs in our break room, and there are no assigned seats. Jasmine usually sits in the same one or two chairs.

The first time I sat in one of her usual chairs, she immediately said, “Girl, get out my seat.”

I told her, “You don’t own it. Your name isn’t written on it.”

She kept telling me to move and got annoyed, so I eventually moved because I didn’t feel like arguing over a chair.

But they did.

Today, I was in the break room with 3 other coworkers.

Carrie was sitting in the chair Jasmine had gotten upset about the first time, and I was sitting in another chair Jasmine usually sits in, which is closer to the door.

Jasmine walked in, stood in front of me, and said something like, “Bruh, get out my chair.”

I said, “I thought that was your seat,” referring to the chair she was already sitting in. She told me to just sit in the other chair, and I said, “You sit there too.”

Okay, this is giving me Sheldon Cooper vibes.

This time I didn’t move because, again, there are no assigned seats and there were enough chairs for everyone. Carrie even said, “I know we don’t have assigned seats.”

Jasmine got mad, walked away, and said, “You’re getting on my ******* nerves.”

What bothered me was that Carrie was literally sitting in one of the chairs Jasmine had previously claimed as “her seat,” but she didn’t have the same energy with Carrie that she had with me.

It felt like she specifically expected me to accommodate her.

She’s wondering if she did something wrong.

There’s also been another issue where Jasmine has said things like, “My mom gave you a ride, so don’t do that,” during arguments.

I appreciate the rides her mom has given me, but I’ve never used that against her or acted like she owes me something because I gave her a ride.

Then after all that she tries to talk to me like everything’s fine and i’m not in the mood.

AITA?

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