Working with animals means a lot of cleaning.

In today’s story, an employee at an animal shelter doesn’t seem to understand just how important it is to clean the cages.

Then another employee came up with a plan for revenge.

Let’s see how the story plays out…

Make me do your work everyday and cause cats to get sick? I’ll catch you in your lies and get you fired.

This woman who I’ll call Tootles worked with me at an animal shelter as cat caretakers.

We work opposite days and the first thing that she did to make me mad was telling me she had cleaned under furniture/restocked/refilled cleaning bottles.

She sneakily just made it clean enough that you couldn’t tell she was barely doing anything all day.

It would take me at least 30 min to an hour everyday to clean all the stuff that she hadn’t done the day before, and I had to do that in addition to my already extremely busy job.

So some days I’d have to stay late, and I have two jobs so I’m always exhausted, and then I have a 45 min drive home where I’m blasting music and chain smoking just to stay awake.

Tootles behavior didn’t improve.

I tried to tell my boss about this, but she said that I need to have a better attitude, and that I was complaining too much about Tootles.

She only told me this bc she’s mean most of the time and she didn’t want to deal with all the hassle of finding a new employee in a rural area.

Basically, when you have 20 cats housed in multiple rooms, it becomes a breeding ground for disease and infections.

The point of cleaning every single surface and under the furniture with chemicals is to kill these germs and what not.

After I started working there she got lazier and never did a single thing that she thought wouldn’t be noticed since my boss had no problem with what she was doing to me.

The cats got sick.

Because she wasn’t cleaning according to procedure, we now have almost every single cat (except the older ones with strong immune systems) come down with an upper respiratory tract infection.

We have to now take those sick cats and quarantine them.

For each cat, we have to now put on a gown, booties, gloves, and a mask if we are even going to touch them.

These are all single use, extremely wasteful, and very expensive, but required by law.

We also have to give them meds two or more times a day for the uri. This takes even more time(3x the amount of time I’d need to take care of a healthy cat.

They found a way to get revenge.

I knew immediately that the outbreak was her fault for not cleaning, and the boss was very angry at the whole situation, wondering why this is happening.

So before I leave I take tiny cat toys and hide them under every single thing she’s supposed to clean under.

I then make tiny marks with sharpie on all the kennels she has to scrub( we use a chemical that would dissolve the sharpie, and then rinse out and dry the cage so the cats paws aren’t affected.)

I also put tiny marks on the bleach bottles showing how much was in them so I’ll also have proof she’s not cleaning the toilets.

They told her boss what she did.

I come to work the day after hers and surprise surprise the same amount of bleach, sharpie marks still on kennels, all the toys still where I left them.

So I tell my boss what I’ve done.

I was nervous she would say I was kinda psycho, but she said I should have done this sooner and yelled at me a bit(I told you this was happening already.).

Tootles got fired.

We sign a log required by law and we have to initial that we completed every single thing so boss just calls her up, asks if she’s actually done these things, which if she just admitted to being lazy she could have just been yelled at and kept her job.

She lies and says she always follows procedures so boom she’s fired for lying about doing her work.

It’s been like 3 months, she’s still out of a job I think, and the outbreak of disease amongst the cat has completely cleared up.

She apparently really loved her job based on her fb so idk why she’d be so lazy and cause the cats suffering like that.

They really should’ve done her plan sooner so the cats didn’t end up getting sick.

Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story…

This reader guesses why Tootles liked her job.

Another reader thanks them for helping the cats.

This reader wanted a cat pun.

This reader misunderstood part of the story at first.

I’m glad everything turned out okay for the cats.

Some people have trouble getting and keeping jobs for good reason.

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