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Office “Borrower” Reprimanded By Boss For Taking Personal Items, To Colleagues’ Great Delight
Recently, I have been writing so many stories about the odd folks in the corporate world. It just makes me wonder whether that’s how they really are or if it’s the workplace environment that casts some voodoo spell on them.
Either way, some of them can be just too much to bear, and you have no option but to stick up for yourself. The original poster’s (OP) coworker is an entitled oddball who loves to “borrow” things from people but finds it a hard task to return them. Read on to see how OP dealt with her!
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The poster has a coworker (Lisa), who loves to “borrow” things from people but finds it a tiresome task to return them
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When Lisa asked to borrow the poster’s charger, she didn’t let her, as she had taken it before and hadn’t returned it for 3 days
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Lisa got offended upon the refusal and proceeded to make a big deal out of it in front of everyone
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However, their boss pulled her aside and reprimanded her, explaining that it’s not cool to just take people’s personal things
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They also found out that the poster was not the only one from whom Lisa had “borrowed” something
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The poster is thrilled that she didn’t even snitch about her, yet Lisa got reprimanded
Today, we dive into a corporate story about how a woman (Lisa) loves to “borrow” things from her coworkers but conveniently finds it too tedious to return them. When people go asking for their stuff back, she acts like they are bothering her for their own things. Wow, I can smell her sense of entitlement from miles away.
Anyway, one day, she came over to Reddit user sn0wcoach and asked for her good charger, you know, the one with a long cable. The thing is, just recently, she had borrowed the poster’s charger and failed to return it for 3 days. The poster had to ask for it back, and even then, Lisa had gotten all dramatic about it.
This time, OP refused, and an annoyed Lisa persisted, saying that her phone only had 9% battery left. The poster retorted that she only had 7% left and needed it. Frustrated, Lisa made quite a big deal out of it, so some of the poster’s colleagues said that she should have just given it to avoid the drama. However, when OP vented online, folks said no way and sided with her.
The poster soon gave us a delightful update that when Lisa was huffing about it, their boss pulled her aside and reprimanded her. She was reminded that personal items should be respected, and she should stop treating her colleagues’ desks like a rental shelf. OP is all too joyous about it as she didn’t even snitch on Lisa herself.
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Peeps online were also happy that Lisa got a reality check, and many shared similar stories. The poster quite quickly realized that almost all of us have a Lisa in our companies. Many also called out Lisa’s sense of entitlement, which was hitting the roof in the story.
It has been noted that when someone doesn’t give in to their demands, entitled people will cause a big scene. They may be very dramatic when something does not go their way. That surely sounds like Lisa, acting all exasperated when OP refused to lend her a charger. Of course, entitlement in a workplace is not a good thing.
If Lisa is so possessive about other people’s things, I can’t even imagine how she must be about her own things. Honestly, it’s a good thing that the boss called her out and told her that what she was doing was wrong. It’s better than letting her carry on with her behavior that is clearly annoying the rest of her colleagues.
Besides, it might even be causing a disruption at the workplace. Imagine having her come up to you and ask for your things, and when she fails to return them, you have to go to her and ask for them back. Seems like quite a hassle to me, and I wouldn’t want that disturbance to happen every other day.
Netizens also said the same thing, and many wished that they could teach a lesson to the Lisas in their offices. What about you? If you were in the poster’s shoes, how would you have handled the situation? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
People shared similar instances, and the poster was shocked to see that almost everyone has a Lisa in their office
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Paul C 5 months ago
I don't understand this. If someone asks to borrow my charger, the answer is "sure, leave me your phone, I'll tell you when it's done." If someone wants their phone charged, they would have no problem. If someone wants your charger, they might. We've all dealt with family or friends or work colleagues who "borrow" things with no intention of returning them. As the Bard once said, neither a burrower nor a lentil be. Or something like that. :-)
The Other Guest 5 months ago
Consider this to be 100 extra upvotes for making me laugh at 6am. Now I'm gonna be humming "Neither a burrower nor a lentil be" to the tune they used for musical Hamlet on Gilligan's Island.
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Tabitha 5 months ago (edited)
At one job, my coworkers had a tendency to go into each others’ desks to borrow stuff. Now, the group of them didn’t mind it, and agreed to let each other do it, but I minded a lot. I have worked too many places where practically every morning I had to go on a scavenger hunt to find my stuff on other people’s desks. Some things I never saw again. I also had purchased things like sturdy staplers, tape dispensers, pens, etc that I liked, because the office issue ones were usually junk. My desk at this particular job had a drawer that locked, and that’s where my personal stuff was put when I wasn’t there. The other people complained that I didn’t share. Well, my supervisor knew they were always in each others’ desks, and had tried to not only get into mine, but my supervisor’s also, as well as other coworkers like me who didn’t agree to that free for all, so it’s not like they kept it within their own group—-without permission. So she was just as sick of it as they were. She defended my position that, if I didn’t want people walking off with my stuff—-that I needed to do my job—-then that was my right, and the borrowers in the office needed to start stocking their own d**n desks instead of grabbing off of other people’s desks anyway! The rampant “borrowing” pretty much ended there, and that group was finally no longer in and out of everyone’s desk. I still locked my stuff up before leaving for the day, because I simply did not trust them.
Patricia Grande 5 months ago
The one commenter that said she was TA is probably Lisa herself or a relative of Lisa. If that’s not the case, then the commenter is a thief like Lisa.
Paul C 5 months ago
I don't understand this. If someone asks to borrow my charger, the answer is "sure, leave me your phone, I'll tell you when it's done." If someone wants their phone charged, they would have no problem. If someone wants your charger, they might. We've all dealt with family or friends or work colleagues who "borrow" things with no intention of returning them. As the Bard once said, neither a burrower nor a lentil be. Or something like that. :-)
The Other Guest 5 months ago
Consider this to be 100 extra upvotes for making me laugh at 6am. Now I'm gonna be humming "Neither a burrower nor a lentil be" to the tune they used for musical Hamlet on Gilligan's Island.
Load More Replies... Tabitha 5 months ago (edited)
At one job, my coworkers had a tendency to go into each others’ desks to borrow stuff. Now, the group of them didn’t mind it, and agreed to let each other do it, but I minded a lot. I have worked too many places where practically every morning I had to go on a scavenger hunt to find my stuff on other people’s desks. Some things I never saw again. I also had purchased things like sturdy staplers, tape dispensers, pens, etc that I liked, because the office issue ones were usually junk. My desk at this particular job had a drawer that locked, and that’s where my personal stuff was put when I wasn’t there. The other people complained that I didn’t share. Well, my supervisor knew they were always in each others’ desks, and had tried to not only get into mine, but my supervisor’s also, as well as other coworkers like me who didn’t agree to that free for all, so it’s not like they kept it within their own group—-without permission. So she was just as sick of it as they were. She defended my position that, if I didn’t want people walking off with my stuff—-that I needed to do my job—-then that was my right, and the borrowers in the office needed to start stocking their own d**n desks instead of grabbing off of other people’s desks anyway! The rampant “borrowing” pretty much ended there, and that group was finally no longer in and out of everyone’s desk. I still locked my stuff up before leaving for the day, because I simply did not trust them.
Patricia Grande 5 months ago
The one commenter that said she was TA is probably Lisa herself or a relative of Lisa. If that’s not the case, then the commenter is a thief like Lisa.
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