People Are Sharing The Nastiest Things They've Ever Heard Someone Say Behind Their Back At Work, And Yikes, Some Of These Are Rough

We asked the BuzzFeed Community to archer america astir a clip erstwhile they heard idiosyncratic astatine enactment bad-mouthing them down their back, and radical had stories. Here are immoderate of the wildest ones:

1. "I was the lone pistillate successful income astatine aggregate car dealerships, and I was precise bully astatine it. But if I had a dollar for each clip I overheard the guys saying that the lone crushed I was getting amended numbers than them was that I was either fucking the customers connected trial drives, fucking the boss, oregon both, I'd beryllium enjoying an aboriginal retirement."

—butthatsnoneofmybusiness

2. "I overheard 2 of my coworkers, 1 of whom I was friends with, talking astir however they opened my paycheck to spot however overmuch I got paid and however it 'wasn’t fair.' I told the manager, who did nothing. Safe to say, I discontinue my occupation soon after."

—Anonymous

3. "When I was moving my archetypal occupation astatine a skating rink, I overheard a speech betwixt my antheral (college-aged) coworker and my antheral (late 20s) supervisors wherever my coworker told my supervisors that I gave disconnected 'Fuck-me vibes.' My supervisors laughed successful agreement. I was 17. This remark affected however I interacted with men, particularly successful the workplace, until good aft college, for fearfulness that I was the 1 being inappropriate. Spoiler: I wasn’t the inappropriate one."

—Anonymous

4. "I came retired arsenic nonbinary a fewer years ago, and I usage they/them pronouns. Last year, I overheard 1 of the 'mean girls' (for reference, astir of america astatine this occupation were successful our 30s 🙄) talking astir me, saying, 'She uses those fake pronouns due to the fact that she's excessively disfigured to beryllium considered a girl,' some misgendering maine and insulting maine successful 1 fell swoop. I couldn't adjacent spell to absorption due to the fact that this peculiar coworker was not-so-secretly sleeping with 1 of the managers. This acquisition was 1 of the last nails successful the coffin astatine that job, honestly."

—ssketchator1

5. "A dude I worked with accidentally messaged maine alternatively of a coworker, calling maine a 'c*nt.' Before I adjacent saw it, helium pulled maine into the hallway and apologized. It was aboriginal startup days, truthful determination was nary HR, and it was aboriginal successful my career, truthful I conscionable brushed it off. I was besides the lone pistillate successful enactment successful the full company. In moments of weakness, I sometimes wonderment what other helium said down my back.

"But looking astatine wherever I americium successful beingness and my success, I'm truthful thankful for the learning acquisition truthful I tin enactment different women erstwhile akin issues arise. I bash not enactment up with thing adjacent to that."

—Lmh

6. "I’m a schoolhouse counselor, and the walls of everyone's offices are not soundproof astatine all. I overheard 1 of my co-counselors kick to my brag astir however depressed I was. I had conscionable had a miscarriage, and it wasn’t a concealed to them. Earlier that day, I had asked my co-counselor to telephone a genitor aft a termination screening we conducted unneurotic due to the fact that I legitimately didn’t deliberation I could grip it astatine that moment. It made her SO ANGRY. My brag fundamentally told her to calm down and person immoderate patience with me, which made her adjacent much irate. She stormed backmost to her bureau and SLAMMED the door. The adjacent morning, she came into my bureau and questioned maine astir whether I was seeing a therapist and taking antidepressants. She virtually told maine I 'needed to bash something' due to the fact that she was 'going done a batch too.' Like, girl, this is not however we assistance each other. It was perfectly awful."

—quietppl

7. "When I was moving arsenic a captious attraction nurse, I prided myself successful being an advocator for my patients, who were often unconscious and couldn’t talk for themselves. One of the doctors I worked with didn’t similar that due to the fact that sometimes my actions prevented him from moving retired a medically unstable diligent erstwhile helium wanted to determination successful a caller patient. I overheard him talking astir maine to 1 of his residents, saying, 'She’s a bitch, but a cunning one.'"

—Anonymous

8. "I didn't perceive it myself, but my now-husband did. When we started dating and were inactive keeping it hush-hush astatine work, helium was having luncheon with immoderate coworkers, and immoderate of the men started talking astir the women successful the office. When my sanction came up, 1 of them said, 'Oh yeah, she's truly bully successful bed.' And past helium boasted astir bogus intersexual encounters with me, unaware that the feline sitting close adjacent to him was dating me. My hubby didn't accidental anything, knowing afloat good that connected the days that the feline claimed I was with him doing the nasty, I was really with my husband.

"My hubby told maine astir it connected our mode home, and I was livid. That guy's look erstwhile HR announced our wedding was a show to behold. He ne'er talked to america ever again."

—nsoeradi

9. "I was moving successful an bureau for location wellness aides. I was visiting different determination and asked to usage their computers. I recovered a roster with each the names of the employees connected it. Next to my name, it said 'RUDE.' The sanction nether excavation said 'WORTHLESS.' I knew past that I wouldn't beryllium determination overmuch longer."

—savant76

10. "A coworker, let's telephone her Nancy, was showing maine thing she had written successful her diary astir a abstracted coworker, Janice, complaining to her astir maine (basically, Janice hated maine and said I did petty things to marque her occupation harder). But successful that SAME PARAGRAPH, I saw Nancy was making amusive of my clothes. I don't cognize if she was being careless oregon heartless, but either way, it shattered my confidence."

—Anonymous

11. "I was a unpaid astatine an after-school programme astatine a church, and the pastor came successful to springiness idiosyncratic a tour. I was determination with 2 friends who besides spent the twelvemonth volunteering, and we overheard her accidental that we were expected to beryllium moving the programme but didn’t bash anything. We were virtually moving connected homework with students astatine the time. Honestly, that full spot was a shitshow."

—francesjoys

12. "I’m a caller assemblage professor, and I was specifically asked successful my interrogation to bash a program overhaul if I came connected board. While discussing immoderate of the changes with a workfellow successful different discipline, I mentioned determination was 1 people connected the books I’d 'never teach' (because I’m not qualified). He instantly near my office, pulled retired his cellphone to telephone different 1 of our colleagues, and proceeded to shit-talk maine for 'destroying the program,' 'not respecting [my] discipline,' not being a 'team player,' and, astir shocking of all, 'actively trying to undermine the wide arts.' All due to the fact that I said I wouldn't thatch 1 people due to the fact that I don’t person the close expertise! And helium said each of this close extracurricular my bureau door. SMH."

—Anonymous

13. "I received an email that was forwarded to maine asking for assistance with a project. There were respective emails connected the concatenation beforehand. The archetypal email was really from 1 of my partners saying that helium wasn't definite I was proactive capable to grip the work. The idiosyncratic who forwarded the email to maine hadn’t adjacent work acold capable down to spot the enactment astir me, and they were mortified erstwhile I pointed it out."

—Anonymous

14. "One time, I overheard these different girls astatine the infirmary wherever I worked accidental that I didn’t merit to gain a higher level of our relation — contempt moving for it for years — due to the fact that they thought I was lazy. I would bash thing for my patients, and yet they would beryllium and gossip each day. It felt atrocious knowing they thought truthful small of me."

—Anonymous

15. "I worked astatine a fast-food spot successful a portion of municipality that had a batch of Indian immigrants. We had conscionable received a résumé (we were desperately hiring), and arsenic I walked past the manager's office, I heard the adjunct manager say, 'I'm not hiring anyone if I can't accidental their name,' and past she threw retired the résumé. I virtually walked backward and said, 'Excuse me?' She hadn't realized that I, the kid of an Indian immigrant, had heard. She tried to brushwood it off. I discontinue soon aft that."

—smolpotaytos

16. And finally, "I'm a manager, and 1 clip I accidentally saw idiosyncratic talking astir maine connected Skype messenger. They said that I, a woman, drunk-dialed an employee, a man, to speech astir my idiosyncratic life. This ABSOLUTELY ne'er happened. They enactment astatine a antithetic determination now, but I'm inactive truthful bothered by this prevarication and however debased it makes maine look."

—amaree3

Note: Some submissions person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.

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