Employee Karl takes over a shared office space because he got there first, regrets it when coworkers apply the same rule to his biggest meeting of the year: ‘First come, first served’ – FAIL Blog

Nothing frustrates a workplace more than someone who thinks the rules only apply to everyone else.

An entitled (and new) employee took over a shared meeting room and turned it into his personal office, brushing off complaints from his coworkers with his phrase: “first come, first served”. The situation stayed like that for a while, and a little bit after, when he needed the main conference room for an important annual meeting, his coworkers beat him to it by following the same rule, leaving him with nowhere to host his guests.

I absolutely love these revenge stories, especially when they are about coworkers. We all have worked with one of those people who feel like they own the office and want to do whatever they want with it. They don’t believe in sharing and claim shared spaces as their own private office, leaving the rest of the team with nowhere to go and where to work.

As a consequence, I love it even more when people get back at them and give them a taste of their own medicine. When they took over the big meeting room where Karl was supposed to have a meeting with important clients, they not only felt great at doing justice, but also when they responded to him with his famous phrase, making him full of anger. That should have been a wonderful workday, for sure.

However, and like I always like to say, I don’t believe it is healthy or good to have a bad relationship with coworkers. Since we spend most of our day next to them, trying to have a respectful bond is important. In the case of this story, I’ll also say that Karl deserved that act of revenge and to host his guest in another room, not as pretty as the one he was anticipating using.