Friends Workplace Fines Him After My Phone Call: AITA?

AITA for my friend's workplace fines and wage garnishment due to our conflict over a missed repayment?

Damjan

Published in Interesting
17 Mar 2026

Friends Workplace Fines Him After My Phone Call: AITA?

It started with a simple loan, and it ended with a friend getting hit with a £2,000 workplace fine. All because of one phone call, one restricted area, and one moment where the OP raised their voice at the worst possible time.

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OP lent money to help their friend with money problems, even adding more than they could really spare. The repayment was supposed to happen, the friend confirmed it would, and then the day came with silence. OP couldn’t reach them, missed the chance to buy something they needed, and finally called their friend at work, got upset, raised their voice, and hung up.

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Later, the friend said OP’s call is what got them “found out,” costing them an expensive contract and leading to £1,200 taken from wages over two months.

Original Post

I ended up lending my friend some money because they are having money problems. I ended up lending a bit more than I could afford.

My friend missed the due date for repay and I needed it back. So on the day I was supposed to be paid I told them that I needed it by a certain day to make a purchase in a weeks time and they confirmed that would be fine.

When the day arrived I tried contacting them and could not get a reply. As the hours went by I got more and more upset and concerned.

I ended up losing the opportunity to make the purchase and called my friend at work. After a bit of back and forth I got quite upset and raised my voice on the phone then hung up.

Later that day my friend called me and told me that me raising my voice caused them to be found out that they had used their phone in a restricted area at work and ended up losing an expensive contract due to this. Apparently doing this also broke to my friends employee contract with his work and they fined him part of the losses he caused to the company for losing the contract with the customer.

It ended up being a fine of £2000 and £1200 taken off his wages for two months. I think it was his own decision to answer a phone in a restricted section but he holds me partially responsible for this I would guess (50/50) and it has caused us to fall out for now.