How do you get the Let's keep this between us badge?

Open Room 3's filing cabinets until you find the Room 3 key, open the locked side door, listen to the Sketchy Coworker's request, find his phone and carry it back to him. In the source recording the badge popup fires at the hand-over, not at the pickup.

Where is the Sketchy Coworker's phone?

In the September 2026 source recording it lies on a desk next to a shredder inside the unlocked side area. Other recordings disagree: one found it "just there on the sofa", and a badge roundup claims "the second room". The exact spawn is unverified and may vary by run — sweep the desks, drawers and sofas near the coworker rather than trusting one coordinate (see the item notes on the items page).

Where do I find the Room 3 key?

Inside Room 3's filing cabinets and lockers — open everything, including the easy-to-miss cabinets along the walls. The source recording shows it lying in an open drawer with a glowing prompt. Picking it up also unlocks the Keymaster badge, and one secondary recording shows the key being consumed when it opens the side door.

What do you get for returning the phone?

Two things in the source recording: the Let's keep this between us badge popup and the Golden Shredder — install it on any shredder for six stacks per pass at double cash with no cranking. The site treats the phone return as Method A of two community-reported obtain routes; whether the Golden Shredder can also come from upgrading the shredder line (Method B) is unverified.

Does the FBI stop you from finishing the phone quest?

Not in the recordings we checked. The FBI stalks the run with red-light jump scares — he turned up mid-search in the source recording — and the quest continued fine afterwards. Getting caught is its own badge (It's Not What It Looks Like); whether an actual catch can interrupt the phone hand-in is unverified, so if an agent is looming, finish the hand-over first and let him catch you after.

Shred the Secrets Let's Keep This Between Us Badge Guide

Q: What is the Let's keep this between us badge in Shred the Secrets?

It is a collectible badge whose official description reads "Find the Sketchy Coworker's Phone." Per the Roblox badge API (checked September 2026), it sits at a 21.3% earn rate with 300,298 players awarded — common, but far from universal, since it hides behind an optional side quest most runs skip.

How to get the Let's keep this between us badge in Shred the Secrets: find the Room 3 key, meet the Sketchy Coworker and return his phone, with screenshots.

Last updated: 2026-09-11

Quick answer

Let's keep this between us is a collectible badge in Shred the Secrets with one official task: "Find the Sketchy Coworker's Phone." Roblox badge API data (checked September 2026) shows a 21.3% earn rate with 300,298 players awarded. The recorded chain: search Room 3's filing cabinets until one yields the Room 3 key, open the locked side area where the Sketchy Coworker hides, pick up the phone sitting out in his corner of the office, and hand it back — the badge popup lands the moment the phone changes hands, and the coworker's thank-you is the Golden Shredder, the best shredder in the game. The phone's exact spot moves between recordings, so sweep the desks instead of trusting one coordinate. Full stats live in the badge database, and the phone's other reported spots are collected on the items page.

How to get the Let's keep this between us badge

1
Reach Room 3 — the filing-cabinet floor. Most drawers are empty (opening them still counts toward the Nosy Coworker counter), so open every cabinet you can reach while you work through the room's paper.
2
Keep opening cabinets until one contains the Room 3 key — in the September 2026 source recording it sits in an open drawer with a glowing interact prompt. Picking it up also earns the Keymaster badge.
3
Clear the paper stacks blocking the locked side door and open it with the key. A second recording shows the key being consumed on use — you do not get it back.
4
Meet the Sketchy Coworker in his shelf-lined corner. His lines: "Shh... they're listening. I work here, too. I forgot my phone somewhere in the office. Bring it to me and I'll make it worth your while." One recording adds a hint: "Check the desks."
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Find the phone. In the source recording it lies on a desk right next to a shredder in the same unlocked area — the player's own subtitle reads "This must be his phone...". Other recordings report different spots (one found it on a sofa; a badge roundup claims "the second room"), so treat any fixed location as unverified and sweep the nearby desks and drawers.
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Carry the phone back. The Let's keep this between us popup lands the moment you hand it over — and the coworker pays with the Golden Shredder ("hold interact on any shredder to install").

Open empty filing cabinet drawer with an Open prompt during the Shred the Secrets Room 3 key search — Most drawers are empty — open every one until the key shows up (source: bwoo, 12:21).

White side door in Shred the Secrets Room 3 buried behind floor-to-ceiling paper stacks before it unlocks — The side door bwoo cleared first — it stayed shut until the key turned up (source: bwoo, 13:54).

Yellow Room 3 key lying in an open green filing cabinet drawer in Shred the Secrets — There it is — the key in the drawer, prompt glowing (source: bwoo, 14:50).

Sketchy Coworker NPC with his dialogue box open among storage shelves in Shred the Secrets — "I forgot my phone somewhere in the office. Bring it to me and I'll make it worth your while." (source: bwoo, 15:10)

Sketchy Coworker's smartphone lying on a desk beside a shredder in Shred the Secrets Room 3 — The phone, sitting out on the desk — "This must be his phone..." (source: bwoo, 15:36).

Handing the phone back at the Sketchy Coworker's shelves as the Golden Shredder reward line appears in Shred the Secrets — Hand it over — his thanks lands instantly (source: bwoo, 15:43).

Golden Shredder installed on a shredder with the hold interact prompt in Shred the Secrets — The payoff: "Golden Shredder installed" — six stacks a pass, double cash (source: bwoo, 15:58).

What the phone pays: the Golden Shredder

Handing the phone back pays double in the source recording: the Let's keep this between us popup and the Golden Shredder, which installs onto any shredder ("hold interact on any shredder to install") and then shreds six stacks per pass for double cash with no cranking. Note the timing: in this recording the badge does not pop at the pickup — it lands when the phone changes hands, so don't panic if grabbing the phone alone gives you nothing. As for how the Golden Shredder itself is obtained, this site keeps two community-reported methods side by side — the phone return is Method A on the golden shredder page, while another badge video claims the shredder simply upgrades into its golden form (Method B); neither is officially confirmed. Whether the coworker's corner, the phone spot or the reward differ per run is unverified — the recordings disagree on the phone's exact spot (a desk by the shredders here, a sofa in another run), and one badge roundup even places it in "the second room", a room number we cannot confirm. The item's other reported notes live on the items page, and the wider secret routes on the secrets hub.

Let's keep this between us FAQ

Related guides

Full Walkthrough

Guide

The room-by-room route this side quest sits on, including the same phone run — /guides/walkthrough.

Badge Database

Data

All 30 badges with API-verified earn rates and awarded counts — /badges.

Secrets Hub

Secrets

Every secret route in one place — fake exits, hidden keys and the rest — at /secrets.

Items & Locations

Items

The phone, the Room 3 key and every other searchable item — /items.

Keymaster Badge

Badge

The Room 3 key that unlocks the coworker’s side door is its own badge — Keymaster covers every cabinet and locker worth sweeping.

Sources & data notes

Badge stats (21.3% earn rate, 300,298 awarded) come from the Roblox badges API snapshot in our badge database, checked September 2026. The full chain on this page — the cabinet search, the locked side door, the Sketchy Coworker's dialogue, the phone on the desk by the shredders, the badge popup and the Golden Shredder — is documented end to end in one recording: bwoo, I SHREDDED THE SECRETS on Roblox... (HIDDEN ENDINGS!) (July 2026, re-checked September 2026 — every screenshot on this page comes from it, with the source timestamp in each caption: cabinets 12:21, door 13:54, key 14:50, coworker 15:10, phone 15:36, hand-over 15:43, badge popup 15:45, install 15:58). Two more recordings cross-check the chain and add details we label video-reported: MR CRIBZ ROBLOX, SHREDDING all the SECRETS of Roblox... (the key auto-consumes on use; his phone was "just there on the sofa"; "Sketchy co-worker, you are the goat... We never spoke") and RANDY ON ROBLOX, I Found THE SECRET FILE in Roblox Shred the Secrets (the coworker's "Check the desks" hint), both checked September 2026. A fourth video, Vorzy's How To Get ALL BADGES In Shred The Secrets!, claims the phone is "in the second room" — we keep that room number unverified because no recording we checked confirms it. The phone's exact spawn per run remains UNKNOWN.