MY COWORKER HAS BEEN TAKING MY PARKING SPACE AND WHEN I COMPLAINED, SHE KEYED MY CAR

For months, I came to work and found someone in my assigned parking spot.

It was always the same car.

My coworker.

The first few times, I let it go.

I assumed she was running late.

Then it became routine.

Every Monday.

Every Wednesday.

Sometimes Friday.

I started arriving earlier just to get my spot.

One morning, she was already there.

I asked her politely to move.

She said:

“It’s just a parking space.”

I reminded her that it was assigned to me.

She laughed.

I reported it to security.

They warned her.

For a while, it stopped.

Then one morning, I found a long scratch across the side of my car.

I immediately suspected her.

But I had no proof.

She denied everything.

Security checked the cameras.

Unfortunately, the camera didn’t cover that section of the parking lot.

I started parking elsewhere.

Then something strange happened.

My coworker stopped using my spot.

Completely.

That should have been good news.

Instead, I received an anonymous email.

It said:

“Maybe you should stop complaining.”

I showed HR.

They said they couldn’t determine who sent it.

I changed my email password and ignored it.

A week later, my car was scratched again.

This time, there was another vehicle parked beside mine.

Security footage showed my coworker walking past it.

She didn’t touch my car.

I was beginning to think I’d blamed the wrong person.

Then security discovered something.

A different coworker had been using the parking lot after hours.

He was the person who had access to the camera system.

When they reviewed archived footage, they found him scratching my car.

But why?

The answer was almost ridiculous.

He had wanted my parking spot.

He knew that if I kept complaining about my coworker, she would eventually give it up.

Then he planned to request the space himself.

My coworker had been annoying.

But she hadn’t damaged my car.

The person who actually did it had been quietly manipulating the entire situation.

He was fired.

My coworker apologized.

We actually ended up laughing about how absurd the whole thing had become.

I learned something important.

When someone looks guilty, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re the person behind the problem.

Sometimes someone else is counting on you to blame the obvious target.