Texting your old roommate from the elevator at your dream...

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1. Elevator at orientation, HR just posted a screenshot from our old chat.
2. You're joking, what screenshot?
3. A three‑year‑old group chat screenshot says I plagiarized my project.
4. No way, who would have that screenshot?
5. It shows my drafts, filenames, and a message that looks like mine.
6. Did HR tag you publicly?
7. Yes, and everyone's watching; they want a written explanation.
8. I need to be honest, I saw a copy last night.
9. You what?
10. I posted it to a forum months ago, thought it didn't matter.
11. You posted my private chat?
12. I panicked when my application was rejected, I thought you'd handle it.
13. You thought I'd handle being accused of stealing my own work?
14. I never meant it to look like your plagiarism, I'm sorry.
15. Sorry isn't going to fix HR emails and orientation watching me.
16. I can try to contact the person who reposted it to HR.
17. Who reposted it then, you admitted posting already.
18. Someone took my old forum post and sent it to HR anonymously.
19. So you exposed our private chat for nothing?
20. I was jealous and selfish, I thought you'd get defensive.
21. You sabotaged me because you were jealous?
22. I panicked and I'm ashamed, I didn't imagine this outcome.
23. I'm meeting HR now, I can't believe you.
24. I'll call HR and say it was my post, I'll take blame.