Hello,
Sorry for a long post, but in order to make myself clear, I must provide as many details as possible.
This happened in May 2020 but I still haven’t forgotten what my ex-colleague (let’s call her Lily) had done. I’m an Eastern European female, in my 20’s, and Lily is a British female in her early 50’s. We both worked in a warehouse which I now left a while ago. Lily was very afraid to catch Covid, and that possibly caused her crazy behaviour during the incident I’ll describe below.
That day I nipped into one of workplace toilets. The toilet was tiny, with 3 cubicles, the middle cubicle locked and marked as per Covid requirements, those on my left and on my right were not, and max 2 people allowed to be in the toilet at once. When I came in, Lily was washing her hands in the sink and clearly saw me in the mirror but said nothing. The door of the cubicle on my left was open, so I somehow ‘automatically’ got in. After I was done, I went to the sink; Lily was still standing there, with a very angry facial expression… and suddenly lashed out at me. First she pointed to the cubicle on my right and said there was someone sitting there! I had a quick look at the door lock; its indicator was red, which meant the cubicle was engaged (if green, then not engaged), so yeah, there was someone there. Lily then started yelling and slagging me off for ‘breaking the rules, as there are now 3 people in the toilet’, ‘how dare you be so irresponsible and put your colleagues at risk’ and so on. I asked her why the hell she hadn’t told me she wasn’t alone in the toilet when I was entering it, I would have waited in the corridor then, I couldn’t see through the cubicle door whether there was someone inside, I couldn’t see the red indicator as well because it’s very tiny and my vision is not the best. Lily absolutely refused to listen, she just talked over me, threw loads of insults and then left.
I was so ‘inflamed’ that I grabbed the toilet door harshly, stuck my head out to the corridor and shouted to Lily’s back in a very mocking tone: ‘OH MY GOOOOOOD, WHAT A BIG DEAL!!!’ Nearly all the people that happened to be around burst into laughter, Lily got even angrier and rushed to the managers’ room. The manager I’d been reported to took Lily’s side and warned me that if I did anything like that again, I’d face disciplinary for breaking Covid rules… She also took a massive dislike to me, and I never regained her favour.
Now that I’ve accidentally found out where Lily lives, I’m tempted to send her a letter in which I’d tell her what a nasty person she is and that it was her fault I’d lost any chance to be promoted at work… and I want to write something like ‘You clown, if you had been so afraid of Covid, then you should have quit the warehouse and found a job doable at home!’
Would this kind of action be reasonable? Also, who was right and who was wrong?