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I Caught My Assistant SABOTAGING My Career For Months Trying To Get Me Fired | r/AITA Reddit

Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories

Mark B

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4.6860 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In today's AITA story, OP explains that they were put in a difficult position at work when their assistant and colleague made a serious mistake that risked OP's job. Faced with pressure from management, OP chose to rat her out, which ultimately led to the colleague being fired. Now OP is wondering if they're AITA for doing what they had to do to protect themselves.


0:00 Intro

0:20 Story 1

3:19 Story 1 Comments / OP's Replies

8:52 Story 1 Update 1

9:13 Story 1 Update 2

10:11 Story 2

12:33 Story 2 Comments / OP's Replies

14:14 Story 2 Update

17:11 Story 2 Comments / OP's Replies


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0:00.0

Hey Waffle Gang, I do hope you are well. My name is Mark and today we're checking out some more

0:08.4

Reddit stories and if you do love a Reddit story, why not consider in the like, subscribe,

0:13.6

maybe that notification bell too. Let's crack on with today's first story. Much love guys.

0:20.1

Now today's first story comes from NubMuffin from the

0:22.4

Am I the Assail subreddit and it says, am I the asshole for ratting out my assistant slash colleague

0:27.8

and getting a fire to save my own job. I know how it sounds, but please read before you judge.

0:35.3

I've 30 male worked at my current employer for three years.

0:39.3

Last year, I received a promotion to project manager.

0:43.3

In the beginning, everything went well, but in the last month, I've been getting more and more

0:48.3

negative feedback.

0:49.3

I did not understand what was going on or why people were becoming so negative about me.

0:55.2

I was losing clients, and several colleagues were really upset with me.

0:59.4

I was at a loss.

1:00.9

I started talking to my manager and my department head about following courses, getting

1:05.6

monthly feedback to perform better.

1:08.1

I just wanted to live up to the promotion I received, and I felt like I was

1:11.9

failing. Then a friend slash colleague, 27 female and mine, came to me angry and demanded

1:18.3

that I apologize for what I said. I was really confused and asked her why she was so upset

1:23.6

with me. She explained she received an email where I was basically blaming her for the issues

1:28.7

that I was dealing with. This was an email a client forwarded her. I was at a loss and explained I

1:34.9

never sent out an email like that and if she could show me. She did and it had my name, my send

1:41.1

address and everything seemed like it was from me. But I never sent it. Then it

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