My entitled toxic coworker demands that I allow her to move into my apartment after she gets kicked

out of her own apartment for having a fallout with her roommates. But after I tell her no and that I

don't want to do that, she then goes back to my coworkers and claims that I let her be homeless,

spreading a horrible rumor about me and literally tried to tarnish my entire reputation,

leaving me in a situation where right now I seriously don't know what to do. Here's what happened. Okay, so I live alone in a small two-bedroom house where one room is mine and the other one is basically my everything room. It's my office, my closet, my storage. Sometimes I just lay on the floor in there and stare at the ceiling when life sucks. Stuff like that. But most importantly, it is not a guest room. I've lived with horrible roommates before, so I worked really hard to be able to afford my own place, and I love having my own space. It's literally my safe little bubble. Anyways, one of my coworkers got into a huge fight with her roommates, and they kicked her out. She was venting at work, and I felt bad, and I was like, well, that really sucks. Oh my God. And even sent her a few places to look at. And I'm sure you can understand that I was just trying to be helpful without inviting chaos into my life. Later that night, she sent me a text message saying, hey, I was thinking maybe if I could crash with you for a few weeks? Since you live alone and you have the space, would that be okay? When she sent this, I literally got the sinking feeling in my chest. No, I am not even close to her. We are cool at work, but we've never even hung out outside of lunch breaks, or even just us complaining about our boss. She doesn't know anything about me, and I don't know her like that. Why would she live in my house? So, I replied super politely. I said to her, I totally get that you're going through it, but I really value my space and I'm just not in a place where I can have someone else stay with me. And trust me, I was like really nice. I didn't ghost her. I didn't ignore her. I just said no. The next day, she starts acting really weird. Then another co-worker tells me that she said I let her be homeless when I have an entire room to myself. And it's like, my God, what is going on right now? First of all, she's staying at her boyfriend's place. Secondly, I pay to live alone. That's the whole point. I don't want to feel tense or uncomfortable in my own space. I don't

want to tiptoe around a person I barely know. And I definitely don't want to deal with just a few weeks, turning into two months of her saying, well, I'm looking for a new place, but nothing's coming through yet. Now, as a result of this, people at work are acting like I'm the bad guy. And it's like, well, sorry for not letting a coworker move into my apartment, all because she had a bad fight.

I honestly don't know what to do because I do feel bad, but also I don't. Because this entire situation is not my problem. So seriously, am I the jerk for not letting this happen and not letting this lady move into my home? Because right now, I seriously don't know what to do. Okay,

first off, you are not the jerk for not wanting this in your life. Because seriously, who would want this? If this was a close friend or a family member, and they had some weird falling out and they had to move out all the sudden, then yeah, absolutely, I would be more than willing to let anybody in and be like, hey, you can crash here and we can figure it out. Because you know what?

I would have some kind of like rapport with them and be like, yes, I trust them and I know they're not going to take advantage of me. But this is one of those co-workers that you just don't know that well, and you literally only see them at work. Like the second you leave and you clock out, they cease do exist. You just don't interact with them. So for this lady to be like, oh, please let me move

in. And then basically in the same sentence spread rumors that you're trying to let her become homeless. Like that is crazy, toxic and just completely out of left field. But thankfully, there's a little bit of details here that I haven't like completely shared yet because the original poster actually gave us an update to this situation and it is crazy. Apparently this co-worker is now in jail. The original poster went on to say that they don't know what happened and that they feel horrible to say this, but they laughed. And you know what? If I was in your shoes, I would be laughing as well. Seriously, this lady tried to ruin your reputation, all because you didn't want to give up a space in your house that literally is yours. And you know what? It's always selfish people like this coworker who try to step in and be like, well, you don't need all that extra space. I could easily occupy it instead. And it's like, dude, yeah, you probably could occupy that space, but guess what? I don't want you living there. Please leave me alone. It is so idiotic. It honestly just isn't fair for you or anybody else because you're under no obligation to take care of someone, especially if they're going to end up in jail. Like who knows what she could have done to your property while you weren't there. She could have robbed you blind. She could have destroyed stuff. She could have stayed put and refused to leave at all. Like that would have been a nightmare and honestly, I don't blame you for saying no. So hopefully your reputation gets repaired as a result of all of this and people begin

to realize that you are not the problem here because this lady is now in jail as there's obviously

another side to the story that clearly none of us know about. If you like Am I the Jerk, you're probably

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own stories. Two entitled male Carins back-to-back, walk into CVS and humiliate themselves in the

worst way possible, leaving me and the manager laughing our butts off and how stupid these two guys

truly were. Here's what happened. Okay, to start things out, I don't work for CVS, but I've been

sitting at an informational booth every week this month, and today I got to witness two entitled

mail-cairons complained to staff literally within five minutes of each other. The first guy came in here

demanding to speak to a manager

because there was a delivery driver parked out front making a pharmacy delivery. There is no

loading dock anywhere, so the front door is the loading zone. He was demanding the manager to

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