Lazy coworker routinely sleeps 5 hours of her 12-hour shift, new manager photographs her: ‘She sees the phone still in his hands, and puts two and two together. She says, “Did you just take a picture of me while I was unconscious?”’

Sometimes you have to accept defeat

We can’t pull off a perfect Uno reverse every day; sometimes it goes badly. It’s better to accept defeat than to play dumb. As a society, we have forgotten that it’s noble to admit your own mistakes.

It must be beautiful, though, for this employee to see that his least favourite coworker finally got what she deserved. Hey! I’m not against nap time being allowed in workplaces, but those naps shouldn’t last for half your shift.

Obviously, this lady was meditating to improve her work, not sleeping. So HR now has to explain this and say sorry.

This is a fascinating scene that subverts who gets to occupy the position of the observer and who becomes the observed.  This woman should get a standing ovation. If we all learned to defend ourselves like that, maybe we would get so much more from life.

I would not be surprised if this lady got her way after this. Whoever gets to establish what the story is really about- whether it’s about her being asleep during work hours or her being harassed- is who wins. You see, it’s all about narrative control, and she pulled a magic trick to regain it- chapeau.

She is not denying what happened, but she is making the photograph the questionable object. Indeed, it’s not okay for people to take pictures of you while you’re unconscious. I’m not defending the fact that she was asleep when she should be working, but you have to admit it: the way she handled it is super funny.

This woman didn’t learn how to accept defeat gracefully, but she sure learned how to flip a script and manipulate the narrative in her favour. I mean, we have to recognize talent. We have to give credit where credit is due.

If you want to know what happens when somebody is caught doing something they shouln’t have been doing, read below.