#by /u/nofuqsgivenmama

[petty-revenge-stories]

You promised it, you deliver it!

This happened last week Friday, and to my fiance, not to me. He's not on Reddit so I thought to post it. He told me last night.

So Fiance works as a Sign Writer at a printing company and has been employed with them for almost 5 years. His job atm is to ensure all the work gets printed for the Signage section. (Mostly stickers, posters or banners. Businesscards etc also gets done. Books have their own section) He is currently the only one that knows how to use their new printer (apparently something about UV ink? It dries with UV light basically.)

Note: one female worker went on maternity leave and the other one apparently just never returned to work, so they hire a new female worker to replace her. We will call her Agnes. Agnes has a massive holier-than-thou attitude, talking down to the male coworkers as if they are small boys and she is their elder, even tho she is only two years older. She acts like she thinks she is God's gift to all men. One of Fiance's coworkers and also a friendly face does the welding for frames and was appointed as the Supervisor of Signage section so we will call him Sup. Agnes is all over Sup all the time. I don't think anyone can tell where Sup begins and Agnes ends if you know what I mean. (And if you don't, that's how far up his ass she is!)

So Thursday Fiance takes a family responsibility day to take his daughter to the dentist, and he doesn't go to work. Friday he gets to work and starts queueing the printer to start. It is important to note that they do A LOT of work for the mines surrounding our town, and there are many. These places order safety signs in the thousands! They obviously take priority (as per a permanent contract the owner made that ANY order WILL be delivered within 3 days to the mines.) So around 10am, there is a client on the phone, asking about his order. We will call him Client.

Fiance: "Good morning sir, how may I be of assistance?"

Client: "Good morning. I am phoning in regards to order XXX. Will it be delivered soon?"

Fiance: "I am sorry sir, but I have JUST started with this order and it will not be ready for a few hours. The machine has been busy all day and I only got the opportunity to start this now."

Client: "No, no. Agnes told me that it will be ready by 10-11am today. Why did she promise yesterday?!"

Fiance: " I apologize, sir. I do not know why she would have made that promise. I'm afraid you will have to ask HER that."

(Note: Fiance HATES interacting with clients. He does not have the patience for entitled or rude customers and he is not supposed to be dealing with them in the first place. Another colleague has the same habit of making promises that they expect him to keep, and when he doesn't, the clients scream at him, so by this point, he is just OVER it. This colleague is, unfortunately, recovering after a terrible accident she was involved in, so Agnes is in charge of her work. Fiance does butt heads with the injured colleague about this habit when she does it, but because Agnes is new, and presenting with such a holier-than-thou attitude, he didn't stand for it.)

Apparently, the client was very understanding after that point and Fiance gets off the phone and goes to ask Sup where Agnes is. She left a while back. A few hours after Agnes storms into the shop, mouth resembling a pufferfish! She starts going off about the client, that called her, and she is upset! She comes to Fiance and starts ranting to him about how the client is upset with her, and why didn't he just do the order, etc.

Fiance shuts her down instantly, reminding her that she was the one that made the promise, even though he was not even in at the time, and she decided to choose a time without consulting him, who is the one who is supposed to be doing the actual work. He tells her firmly that he will NOT stop the mines' work for anything unless it is another mine's shutdown orders (these are emergency orders and they will pull through the night to finish them.)

Sup hears Fiance's firm voice and instantly appears asking whats going on. Agnes ignores him, looks at Fiance with a scowl, and in a whiney tone asks "Why do I have to deliver it to him with MY car?" Fiance just said, "Because YOU made a promise YOU couldn't keep."She just huffed and walked away. Sup just looked at Agnes, looked at Fiance and said "I wash my hands in innocence" while mimicking a handwash gesture.

Here's to hoping she learns her lesson about making promises on other's behalf. All I know is that Fiance was ripping himself with laughter explaining the story to me last night.

(source) story by (/u/nofuqsgivenmama)