25 Employees Recall Subtle Acts Of Petty Revenge They Took Against Horrible Bosses
Employees share their most perfectly executed acts of petty revenge.
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When we pull off an act of petty revenge, we don't get a lot of opportunity to express our pride on the matter. Being subtle with one's acts of retaliation often require absolute discretion. But the beauty of the internet is that people can comfortably share all the relevant spicy details under the shield of anonymity. The following satisying collection of stories was found on a few Reddit threads that left our team thoroughly engrossed. Scroll below to read all the thrilling tales of toxic managers receiving their comeuppance in the form of a cunning plan impressively executed by an employee bold enough to put them in their place.
Image source: ehhhhreddit, Vlada Karpovich
I found a better job, and in my exit survey/interview I wrote full page letter about about how he has no social skills and leads purely through fear/manipulation, and why no good talent will ever stay at the company under him. It goes directly to the VP of H.R. One can hope.
Image source: anon, Pavel Danilyuk
I used to leave litter beside his car...
Image source: saustin66, Italo Melo
If I like my boss I'll try to follow his instructions and still get the job done. If I don't like my boss, I'll just follow his instructions.
Image source: ShotekSaint, Tima Miroshnichenko
I don't necessarily do that but I try to k**l them with kindness. I smile at them, talk to them about the weekend. Make them speak to me longer than just them giving me orders.
Also, when they get mad and write bad emails I respond in the best professional way because I sometimes think it makes them feel foolish after for writing heated emails.
Image source: thumbwrestleme, Getty Images
Worked there a total of 12 years. Went 6 years without any sort of a raise, zilch, zero, nada. That whole time I was being given more responsibilities and working 10 hour days, even weekends sometimes. Always answered my phone & emails after hours.
Finally got sick of it and started looking for something better. Found a the job where I currently work and earn $25k a year more. Only been here 8 months and have already gotten a raise.
They had to hire 2 people to replace me and keep up the workload. I just heard they've fired both of them and several other people have quit since I left.
They called me last week and asked if I would train a new employee. I declined.
Image source: betsybotts, Rosalind Chang
My boss loves chocolate. He hates coconut. I buy Mounds and Almond Joys for the office, just so he can't benefit.
Image source: scandaltron8000, Polina Zimmerman
Caught him having s*x with a woman in her car in the parking lot. The woman was not his wife.
Strangely, he became the best boss in the world after that.
Image source: El_Sjakie, Andrea Piacquadio
Kept a record with all kinds of proof about her abusing the systems/employees for her own gain, after 3 months of this I dumped the file on the CEO's desk and an 'accidental' leak of that file happened at the same time to the rest of the company. She was fired.
Image source: Superflypirate, Mikhail Nilov
My first job in h**h school my boss would like to give me a bunch of things to do before I could leave after a 10+ hour shift. I'd just stare at his ear lobe and nod the entire time. I think he thought I was mentally challenged but his reaction was always funny.
Image source: lylolo, Mikhail Nilov
I walked out during a meeting with her, telling her I'd get better sense out a brick wall.
I then wrote a rather large email, detailing my grievances, failings etc and sent it to pretty much everybody in the company which also outlined my resignation.
Apparently she hadn't seen it because she told my colleagues I was sacked the next day ? thankfully hey all read my email and realised what a liar she was.
I had lined myself up to start retraining anyway, but all this went down in April, I hadn't planned to leave until September.
I decided to pursue a constructive dismissal case against her, which resulted in full pay for a number of months and company benefits then the company asking me to come back. She had been "reshuffled".
Retrained and now in a happy place with a really happy job. Don't know why I stuck it out so long in a place that gave me depression and anxiety at the thought of going in.
Image source: anon, Mizuno K
I do not enjoy my job because of my boss and I look forward to the day I can finally leave. My boss has stood between me and my goals any and every chance he gets, and I hate him for it.
The way I f**k with him is by striving to do as well as possible with my life, I use this experience to fuel me and to remind myself to never allow myself to be in a position like this again. I want to be able to look at him in the eyes in 10 years time and he'll see how well I've done despite all he's done to make my life awkward. That's the way I plan on f*****g with him.
Image source: goodgulfgrayteeth, Bruno Silva
Go to a magazine stand. Leaf through as many magazines as you feel safe doing, and subtly remove those little cards you mail in to get a subscription. Put a bunch into another magazine, and pay for it and leave. go home and fill out the dozens or so magazine subscription cards with your boss's name and address (an old typewriter is best for this, to be safe), and check the box "Bill Me Later". Mail them. Wait for the fun to ensue. In fact, there are HUNDREDS of items you can have delivered anywhere, with payment expected on delivery or by billing. In any case, he'll burn up a lot of his spare time sorting it all out, on the phone and what not. check out "The Berners Street Hoax" from 1810. It's a classic.
Image source: LordFiresnake, RDNE Stock project
I handed in my notice and moved on amicably. Then I got them to put in a reference for a job that paid far more. Sure showed them.
Image source: anon, nappy
Made friends with his boss then worked my f*****g a*s off. Now my old boss works for me. Suck it.
Image source: TheStabbingHobo, Mikhail Nilov
Go in every day and do a half a*sed job. That's the American way!
Image source: formershitpeasant, Marten Bjork
I quit and let them struggle to survive the rushes on Saturday mornings.
Image source: blatherer, Edward Jenner
Sneeze on his phone whenever I had a cold.
Image source: frozenhell, Pavel Danilyuk
I don't always point out their mistakes. We do a lot of off site work. Forgot to factor in the 3 hour drive time between appointments? Not my problem. Double booked? Watch your schedule better.
Image source: showmethebiggirls, Tima Miroshnichenko
My job does an internal survey every other year to check the pulse of the workers. Myself and a few more coworkers had an issue with our boss at the time, he is the biggest a*****e I've ever worked for. We severely blew him up on the survey one year, they mysteriously moved him to another city not long after that.
Image source: noclssgt, Thirdman
I was underpaid and under appreciated. I had been looking for a new job for a while.
The boss had also been having lots of meetings with a pretty large client, which had me feeling there was more than just service contract stuff going on.
I found a new job, quit for 15k/year more and good management. Found out 2 months later the said large client bought out the company I worked for to acquire in house software and the employees who knew about it.
Hope he eats a bag of d***s.
Image source: Forge_The_Sol, S. Bollmann
Worked for Cutco in h**h school. My boss said that there would never be a grad party that was actually fun/missing work for.
We hired Voltaire" to perform live at my house for mine.
Side note: He's a severely underrated musician and *extremely* down to earth guy
Image source: anon, Andrea Piacquadio
I resigned due to bad leadership and i was the only person who knew how several systems worked. they had major issues afterwards, i heard from a few people who briefly worked there after i left but eventually left themselves.
Image source: tzenrick, Natilyn Hicks Photography
I had one that liked to steal the snacks from my lunch. I left "myself" a special brownie in the fridge and his fat a*s ate it. At that point a fresh email account, and anonymous suggestion of a targeted d**g test will cause a few phone calls, and a "resignation" by the end of the week.
Image source: omnicool, August de Richelieu
I've told certain people that I'm reasonably sure that he's cheating on his wife. All while being told more information from an very reliable source.
Image source: doskey123, Kaboompics.com
Copied compromising data (the company was stealing intellectual rights of another company) to a USB stick, waited 2 years after I left the company.
Then I sent the evidence anonymously to said other company. They got f****d a bit and had to pay up.
#1
Image source: ehhhhreddit, Vlada Karpovich
I found a better job, and in my exit survey/interview I wrote full page letter about about how he has no social skills and leads purely through fear/manipulation, and why no good talent will ever stay at the company under him. It goes directly to the VP of H.R. One can hope.
#2
Image source: anon, Pavel Danilyuk
I used to leave litter beside his car...
#3
Image source: saustin66, Italo Melo
If I like my boss I'll try to follow his instructions and still get the job done. If I don't like my boss, I'll just follow his instructions.
#4
Image source: ShotekSaint, Tima Miroshnichenko
I don't necessarily do that but I try to k**l them with kindness. I smile at them, talk to them about the weekend. Make them speak to me longer than just them giving me orders.
Also, when they get mad and write bad emails I respond in the best professional way because I sometimes think it makes them feel foolish after for writing heated emails.
#5
Image source: thumbwrestleme, Getty Images
Worked there a total of 12 years. Went 6 years without any sort of a raise, zilch, zero, nada. That whole time I was being given more responsibilities and working 10 hour days, even weekends sometimes. Always answered my phone & emails after hours.
Finally got sick of it and started looking for something better. Found a the job where I currently work and earn $25k a year more. Only been here 8 months and have already gotten a raise.
They had to hire 2 people to replace me and keep up the workload. I just heard they've fired both of them and several other people have quit since I left.
They called me last week and asked if I would train a new employee. I declined.
#6
Image source: betsybotts, Rosalind Chang
My boss loves chocolate. He hates coconut. I buy Mounds and Almond Joys for the office, just so he can't benefit.
#7
Image source: scandaltron8000, Polina Zimmerman
Caught him having s*x with a woman in her car in the parking lot. The woman was not his wife.
Strangely, he became the best boss in the world after that.
#8
Image source: El_Sjakie, Andrea Piacquadio
Kept a record with all kinds of proof about her abusing the systems/employees for her own gain, after 3 months of this I dumped the file on the CEO's desk and an 'accidental' leak of that file happened at the same time to the rest of the company. She was fired.
#9
Image source: Superflypirate, Mikhail Nilov
My first job in h**h school my boss would like to give me a bunch of things to do before I could leave after a 10+ hour shift. I'd just stare at his ear lobe and nod the entire time. I think he thought I was mentally challenged but his reaction was always funny.
#10
Image source: lylolo, Mikhail Nilov
I walked out during a meeting with her, telling her I'd get better sense out a brick wall.
I then wrote a rather large email, detailing my grievances, failings etc and sent it to pretty much everybody in the company which also outlined my resignation.
Apparently she hadn't seen it because she told my colleagues I was sacked the next day ? thankfully hey all read my email and realised what a liar she was.
I had lined myself up to start retraining anyway, but all this went down in April, I hadn't planned to leave until September.
I decided to pursue a constructive dismissal case against her, which resulted in full pay for a number of months and company benefits then the company asking me to come back. She had been "reshuffled".
Retrained and now in a happy place with a really happy job. Don't know why I stuck it out so long in a place that gave me depression and anxiety at the thought of going in.
#11
Image source: anon, Mizuno K
I do not enjoy my job because of my boss and I look forward to the day I can finally leave. My boss has stood between me and my goals any and every chance he gets, and I hate him for it.
The way I f**k with him is by striving to do as well as possible with my life, I use this experience to fuel me and to remind myself to never allow myself to be in a position like this again. I want to be able to look at him in the eyes in 10 years time and he'll see how well I've done despite all he's done to make my life awkward. That's the way I plan on f*****g with him.
#12
Image source: goodgulfgrayteeth, Bruno Silva
Go to a magazine stand. Leaf through as many magazines as you feel safe doing, and subtly remove those little cards you mail in to get a subscription. Put a bunch into another magazine, and pay for it and leave. go home and fill out the dozens or so magazine subscription cards with your boss's name and address (an old typewriter is best for this, to be safe), and check the box "Bill Me Later". Mail them. Wait for the fun to ensue. In fact, there are HUNDREDS of items you can have delivered anywhere, with payment expected on delivery or by billing. In any case, he'll burn up a lot of his spare time sorting it all out, on the phone and what not. check out "The Berners Street Hoax" from 1810. It's a classic.
#13
Image source: LordFiresnake, RDNE Stock project
I handed in my notice and moved on amicably. Then I got them to put in a reference for a job that paid far more. Sure showed them.
#14
Image source: anon, nappy
Made friends with his boss then worked my f*****g a*s off. Now my old boss works for me. Suck it.
#15
Image source: TheStabbingHobo, Mikhail Nilov
Go in every day and do a half a*sed job. That's the American way!
#16
Image source: formershitpeasant, Marten Bjork
I quit and let them struggle to survive the rushes on Saturday mornings.
#17
Image source: blatherer, Edward Jenner
Sneeze on his phone whenever I had a cold.
#18
Image source: frozenhell, Pavel Danilyuk
I don't always point out their mistakes. We do a lot of off site work. Forgot to factor in the 3 hour drive time between appointments? Not my problem. Double booked? Watch your schedule better.
#19
Image source: showmethebiggirls, Tima Miroshnichenko
My job does an internal survey every other year to check the pulse of the workers. Myself and a few more coworkers had an issue with our boss at the time, he is the biggest a*****e I've ever worked for. We severely blew him up on the survey one year, they mysteriously moved him to another city not long after that.
#20
Image source: noclssgt, Thirdman
I was underpaid and under appreciated. I had been looking for a new job for a while.
The boss had also been having lots of meetings with a pretty large client, which had me feeling there was more than just service contract stuff going on.
I found a new job, quit for 15k/year more and good management. Found out 2 months later the said large client bought out the company I worked for to acquire in house software and the employees who knew about it.
Hope he eats a bag of d***s.
#21
Image source: Forge_The_Sol, S. Bollmann
Worked for Cutco in h**h school. My boss said that there would never be a grad party that was actually fun/missing work for.
We hired Voltaire" to perform live at my house for mine.
Side note: He's a severely underrated musician and *extremely* down to earth guy
#22
Image source: anon, Andrea Piacquadio
I resigned due to bad leadership and i was the only person who knew how several systems worked. they had major issues afterwards, i heard from a few people who briefly worked there after i left but eventually left themselves.
#23
Image source: tzenrick, Natilyn Hicks Photography
I had one that liked to steal the snacks from my lunch. I left "myself" a special brownie in the fridge and his fat a*s ate it. At that point a fresh email account, and anonymous suggestion of a targeted d**g test will cause a few phone calls, and a "resignation" by the end of the week.
#24
Image source: omnicool, August de Richelieu
I've told certain people that I'm reasonably sure that he's cheating on his wife. All while being told more information from an very reliable source.
#25
Image source: doskey123, Kaboompics.com
Copied compromising data (the company was stealing intellectual rights of another company) to a USB stick, waited 2 years after I left the company.
Then I sent the evidence anonymously to said other company. They got f****d a bit and had to pay up.DE
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