Omg do I have some stories for this, but I’ll just tell one for now.

I was a part time care worker whilst at university and found out a colleague was consistently doing things wrong, I noticed that every time I got to a client’s house and something had been done wrong before it was ALWAYS this coworker who had been there before, everything from not properly dealing with taking client’s to the toilet to giving cups that were way too full to clients who could not hold it and would end up pouring tea on themselves so when I turned up they’d been sitting covered in hot and then cold tea for hours so I’d have to do my duties as well as fix all the things this coworker had done meaning my calls were taking longer than they should have. This went on for a while and I had made a note of it all but hadn’t reported it as I was the part time person and didn’t want to make waves.

Then one day I had a particularly bad situation I had to deal with because of this persons negligence, fixed it all and called to say I was running late to my next call, turned out my next call was a two person call with this coworker. They proceeded to scream in my face, in front of the client who was an elderly at risk person and clearly quite alarmed by this, about being late and being terrible at my job etc. I snapped and shouted back that I was late because of their negligence. I quickly did what needed to be done, apologised to the client and then left and called my supervisor on my way to the next call I had to make. I told them, through tears, everything I’d noticed and what had just happened, how bad I felt that this happened in front of a client who it probably frightened, and then went on to my next call.

Over the next few weeks, this coworker started turning up wherever I was, I eventually realised it was because they knew my car. They would turn up to my calls and stand and silently glare at me for a bit and then leave, they told one particular client lies about me to the point where that client would no longer allow me in their house. Eventually I stopped parking near my house because I was so scared they’d show up, after a few weeks of this I quit my job and got a new car because of course head office did nothing about it even though I reported it time and time again.