I Had an Emergency & My Coworker REFUSED to Cover my Shift… Later She Came Asking ME for Help
Am I the Jerk?
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🗓️ 16 March 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pregnant co-worker gets her just desserts. |
| 0:03.2 | So, I worked in this small, family-owned office that runs 24-7. |
| 0:08.3 | That's about 25 employees total, but in the office there's only like 12 of us. |
| 0:13.1 | The rest work off-site. |
| 0:15.1 | There's a woman who works there. |
| 0:16.7 | We'll call her Jill. |
| 0:18.6 | Jill is almost 40 and has been here for about 10 years. Reference, I've |
| 0:23.3 | been here for just over four years. Since I've been hired, and from what I hear for her entire |
| 0:28.3 | employment, she's never agreed to switch shifts with anyone. Not once. Not a single time has she |
| 0:35.6 | done anyone a favor, no matter what. Yet, she has no issue constantly |
| 0:40.3 | asking other people to switch shifts with her. She'd always take a shift from whatever person she was |
| 0:45.3 | switching with to keep the hours even for everyone. But it was only when she needed it, and not the other way round, |
| 0:52.3 | and it would always be within the same work week |
| 0:54.4 | since we got paid by the hour. So ultimately, it wasn't like the person working this shift |
| 0:59.5 | instead of that shift, all within the same week, was doing them any favours in the end. So, |
| 1:04.8 | she asks to switch shifts all the time, but won't agree to switch shifts when someone else |
| 1:09.2 | needs to, is what I'm trying to say. Switch |
| 1:12.1 | is in, she works their shift and they work her shift. The only way to return that favor is to |
| 1:17.2 | agree to switch shifts with them the next time they need it, which she does not do. A year into my |
| 1:23.2 | employment, my brother needed emergency surgery. And I begged her to cover my shift the next day, and all she said was, |
| 1:31.2 | Sunday's my only day to sleep in. Sorry. I never forgot that. Whatever, she's not obligated to switch shifts. |
| 1:38.4 | It's her prerogative if she just wants to be universally disliked by our entire office. |
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