New hire picked the most expensive lunch AND stole the corporate card. She got destroyed.

Okay so I work at a company and I've met some characters but this one new employee literally broke my brain. I try not to be one of those annoying senior guys who complains about "kids these days," so I usually just let stuff slide. But this? Nah. I couldn't let this go.

So Monday last week, Kim (the new hire) starts at our team. First day vibes, right? Usually people are nervous, trying to read the room. Not her. She shows up with AirPods in BOTH ears just sitting at her desk. I had to physically tap her shoulder to get her attention when I was giving her work instructions. Weird, but okay. I figured she just had a vibe.

Then lunch happened.

Our team tradition is that when a new person joins, the team leader takes everyone out to celebrate. So the boss asks Kim what she wants to eat, tells her to just pick whatever. Normal move would be to go with what the boss likes or just say "anything's fine." But Kim? She *whips out her phone* and shows us this super fancy omakase sushi place. Like 80,000 won per person for lunch course (that's like $60+). Everyone goes silent. The mood just DROPS. But Kim's like "this place is trending on Instagram right now, I need to eat here on my first day to feel motivated" and just LAUGHS about it.

The boss is like... okay sure, let's celebrate. So he books it.

During lunch she's a NIGHTMARE. Before the food even arrives she's up taking photos of the restaurant. When the plates come out, she's snapping pictures before the boss even touches his chopsticks. And THEN, while the boss is trying to give her advice about work, she's making this bored face and going on about work-life balance and how nobody should contact her after 5pm. The audacity.

But the CRAZY part? When the bill comes, the boss goes to the bathroom for a sec. And Kim just... goes to his bag. Takes out his corporate card. Runs her own card through.

I'm standing there like "what are you DOING?"

And she's just like "the boss said to treat ourselves so I paid for it. What's the problem?"

She didn't even register that taking someone else's card is literally illegal.

The afternoon gets worse. I give her the training manual, tell her to read it when she can. She says her concentration is bad so she can't. Then she goes nap in the office massage chair for an hour. Comes back to my desk and tells me my outfit is "countrified" and her generation doesn't dress like this.

I finally snapped and reported it to the boss. This isn't a generational thing, it's a basic respect and sense thing. The boss had already been pissed since lunch. He calls her to the meeting room.

I'm standing outside the door and suddenly I hear her SCREAMING. She's yelling that this is workplace harassment, that she's being gaslit on her first day. The boss explains the card situation and her not following instructions. And she just... LEAVES. Grabs her bag and walks out. On her way she looks at me and goes "I feel sorry for people like you working under dinosaurs like that."

But wait. It gets better.

Less than an hour later, she posts on our company's internal board CALLING OUT the boss and me. Lying about everything. Says she couldn't pick her lunch menu, that we suppressed her, all this shit.

So I gathered the CCTV footage, the receipt, witness statements from the team, and filed a formal complaint with HR. Results? She got terminated on her first day (still in probation). Blacklisted from the company.

And THEN we found out she'd done the exact same thing at another company and got fired from there too. Word travels fast in this industry. She's basically unhireable now.

She even texted me later saying she was reckless and asking me to give her another chance. I just blocked her.

Look, I know not all young people are like this. We have some genuinely hardworking, respectful juniors. But these people who hide behind some "MZ generation" excuse while being absolutely clueless and disrespectful? They need real consequences. Call me old-school if you want. But breaking basic trust and rules in a workplace isn't about generations. It's about character.

Our team's back to peace now. The boss even jokes about how that omakase was expensive AND tasted like nothing.

Works hard but sometimes you meet these villains and get such clean justice out of it, you know? Feels good. Anyone else got stories like this? Don't put up with it. Stay silent and you lose. Fight back and justice wins.

Hope this gave you that satisfying catharsis if you're tired from work.