I have been working this job for about 4 years and last year we had a new hire who kind of just included themselves into the friend group at work, I am going to call them Kal, Kal just kind of appeared near us and quickly got close to everyone but they had a very strong personality and Kal gave me a bad feeling but I pushed it aside and tried to be friendly. Also I am that person that stands up for others so I was the go to person if you had a problem because I would fight tooth and nail to get people to be respected in the workplace, We had an incident with an angry employee who was acting erratic and everyone froze and well I grew up in California so I have amazing fight or flight responses, I got everyone to safety and reported it and took care of their panic attacks and checked on them throughout the day, So I never once thought that it could all go so wrong, I was taught if you fight for people and care with your whole heart that it was enough to convey care.... I was wrong and while I don't regret helping them, I felt used.

About 7 months later and we were all pretty close but then Kal got fired for attendance issues and I had a feeling Kal had an issue with me for weeks and kept asking if everything was okay, They randomly blocked me on social media then I found out later from a coworker that Kal was bad mouthing me, Then everyone in the friend group started to act weirdly distant and I have had trauma in the past with this kind of thing so of course I freaked out and started to worry everyone hated me. So I kept asking if everything was okay and everyone seemed annoyed but then about 2 months ago they got even weirder like complaining about my jokes that were never an issue for 3 years, Telling me not to be myself and just all around judging me heavily.

So I decided to end the friendship entirely because I felt I couldn't trust them, Then more details came out, Apparently someone was going around and telling them I was bad mouthing them at work and they all hated me, A bunch of them changed shifts and that was it right???

Then someone said Kal was going to reapply soon so I freaked out, Because I started to remember all the jabs Kal would make.

(WARNING THIS NEXT PART MAY BE TRIGGERING: CONTAINS MENTIONS OF SA)

Kal had once made a joke about falsely accusing me of SA, Made jokes about getting rid of me.

So I know the policy pretty well and there is an anonymous reporting system so I used it and reported every policy they broke especially going into the system and using people's legal names to search them outside of work which breaks the policy and a few laws I think, They did this a few times to mock people's mental health problems they posted on social media.

I will admit I was furious that I lost friends of 3 years because of Kal so I was a bit peeved about them coming back but also scared Kal would try to get me fired, I also broke some minor policies in order to be more efficient but I never got hurt doing it and never got caught being careless, I did make sure to lie to the rest of the friend group about stopping all of those things long before I ended it, Just to make sure none could report me.

It has been 3 months since then and they should of been able to be rehired 2 months ago and I have checked the logs occasionally and Kal hasn't been back.

Now the part where I might be the asshole, This is one of the very few low effort jobs in my city that pays nearly triple above the minimum wage for my state, It is one of the more mentally taxing ones but also the easiest ones, I may of gotten them on the no hire list and blocked them from one of the best job opportunities.

I am writing this here because I hate lying and I am hoping that admitting this to people will stop me from opening my big mouth, I mean it won't because if someone directly asks me I will be honest but I am the sweet little thing that wouldn't hurt a fly and always stands up for everyone else so I don't think anyone is going to assume me.

Now they might if I get 2 of the other friend group people fired because I observed them doing time theft of around 3k which I can easily recall the dates and times but I feel that would be going too far, It's not their fault they got manipulated.

(Note: The policy I break is stepping onto a steel beam to grab certain items because I am short and don't want to waste 10 minutes getting a ladder from the other side of the warehouse, Which I stopped doing awhile ago after an unrelated injury)

(Update: I had my friend proof read this and they just got back to me and I forgor to add that this person incited violence in the work place, When they were fired the manager nearly got attacked and got screamed at repeatedly when again it was attendance, Kal told people it was racism and bias, Kal is white male before people call it a hate crime)