A worker has divided the internet after revealing they stopped giving a coworker lifts without warning after months of chasing unpaid petrol money.

The pair started at the same distribution centre in June last year, with the coworker relying on two buses to make their 6am starts.

The poster offered to drive her instead, despite the pick-up adding about 30 minutes to their daily commute.

They agreed that she would contribute $40 a month towards petrol, but the poster claimed she only made two payments before the contributions stopped.

After raising the issue in January, the poster waived the outstanding money and told their coworker she could simply resume payments when her finances improved.

But despite another three conversations over the following months with repeated promises to pay, the poster claimed, “nothing came through”.

“Meanwhile I was leaving the house 30 minutes early, five days a week, and putting somewhere around $95 a month more into gas than I would have on my own,” they said.

“Two Mondays ago, I just drove straight in without messaging her.”

The coworker arrived almost two hours late and received a second written warning, with a third potentially putting her job at risk.

“You could have just told me you were done. I would have figured something out,” the coworker allegedly told the poster.

But they argued they had already raised the problem four times.

“I told you four times. Every time you said you’d sort it and then you didn’t,” they responded.

The decision split commenters, with some arguing the poster should have warned their coworker before abruptly ending the lifts.

“In that situation, I don’t give you a warning because I owe you a warning. I give you a warning because I’m a decent human (sometimes) and two wrongs don’t make a right,” one person wrote.

“She’s totally in the wrong and owes you, but you should have texted and said she’s on her own, so she knew you were not coming,” another said.

“You should have told her before you stopped. Just not picking her up was a poor choice, and it would have cost you nothing to send her a message yesterday afternoon saying you’re not going to be driving her anymore,” a third wrote.

“It was a d**k move to just not show up, and I don’t understand why anyone would be so passive-aggressive,” another said.

One commenter said the poster would have “come out a little better” had they warned their coworker they would not drive them around anymore.

Others sided with the poster, arguing they had already given their coworker enough chances.

“OP has been scammed and LIED to. OP owes the co-worker nothing! Not even kindness/consideration,” one person wrote.

“On the whole, I don’t sympathise with leeches. She brought the problem on herself as much as OP did by allowing her to get away with it so long,” a second echoed. 

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