Confessional: Giving Karma a Helping Hand

     Everyone has done something in their life, at one time or another, that probably wasn’t very nice but they for whatever reason don’t regret. Perhaps the most devious, possibly wicked, thing I have ever done was get a coworker evicted from his apartment…terrible I know but he deserved it.

     I had a coworker who was a real jerk. Even though we had the same job description and duties, he never did his share of the work. I was always cleaning up his messes. He took all sorts of smoke breaks and conversation breaks, he was a slacker and he got away with it because him mother was friends with our supervisor. I put up with all of this and more without ever complaining to the supervisor.

     He had recently moved out of his parents’ home and gotten a dog. He was constantly bragging about how he had a no pets lease but was keeping the dog in the apartment. The one time he nearly got caught he lied and told them he was dog sitting. He was so smug that he got away with it and thought he was above rules. He bragged that the dog was tearing up the apartment, peeing everywhere, and even had fleas. But what did he care he was above the rules.

     Mind you I never would have done what I ended up doing it if it weren’t for the fact that he verbally attacked me several times and made it personal. I didn’t feel my direct supervisor would do anything because of her friendship with his mother. So when I noticed one day that he left a bill on his desk I copied down the address. About a week later I made up an excuse to ask him the name of the management company and he freely gave it to me. I went back and forth about what I would do with the information until about a week before I left that job. He got particularly ugly with me one day and that sealed the deal. I wrote a letter to his landlord letting them know about the dog and his willingness to lie. I found out a week after I left my job that he had been evicted. To this day I can’t help but smile when I think about it. He deserved what he got; I just gave Karma a helping hand to speed the process up. I also found out he eventually got himself fired…I smiled at that as well.

     Life lesson don’t mess with someone who’s smarter that you are.