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Someone Asks “What’s Your Best ‘If I Go Down I’m Taking You With Me’ Moment?” And 27 People Deliver
Revenge is a powerful feeling. It’s the juice of countless soap operas, reality shows, and TV dramas filled with the most satisfying plotline twists and turns. It's hardly surprising why we devour them, considering how motivated we get to seek small victories over people who get under our skin, right? When someone wrongs us or mistreats us — we seek justice. And sometimes, we do it in the pettiest way possible.
"What’s your best 'If I go down I’m taking you with me' moment?" asked Redditor StickyHoneyDude and invited fellow members of the 'Ask Reddit' community to share their entertaining stories. Needless to say, people immediately jumped in on the topic. Dozens revealed their elaborate plans of how they got their just deserts and made people pay for their crimes by dragging them down together — with different results.
We at Bored Panda hand-picked some of the best responses from the thread to share with you all. So sit back, grab a cup of coffee, and enjoy laughing through this wild and extremely petty ride. Keep reading to also find an in-depth interview about our tendency to seek revenge with psychologist Joshua Klapow, Ph.D. Then be sure to upvote the replies you enjoyed most, and let us know about your own vengeance stories in the comment section below!
Psst! If you’re interested in even more similar tales, then check out our earlier piece right over here.
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#1
My boss had fired me because I wanted to get into the plumbing field. I had an office job for this plumbing company, and at the time I was a dispatcher for them, just a normal office job. But when I started to express interest in going into the field, he fired me because he didn't like the idea of a "woman" being anywhere other than the kitchen. So... what do I do? I showed the police screen shots of him sexually harassing his female employees, along with a video of him grabbing a coworkers a*s. :)
Molly Whuppie 3 years ago
I hope the fact that you had the screenshots means that you were planning to report him regardless of being fired or not.
Chris H 3 years ago
So... rather than report him for the sake of reporting him, only report him when he harms you?
Cold Eagle 3 years ago
Those saying that she should have reported him immediately (ASSUMING that the timing want close enough to the event to be negligible) DO need to understand that sometimes it's not safe to do so if you're stuck in an environment with said person. I just feel it's a little harsh to throw at the OP. I think we can all agree that creep got what he deserved.
Seth 3 years ago (edited)
That mentality is precisely why creeps get away with predatory behavior. Imagine this scenario: while using the restroom at a bar, a good samaritan sees a creep spike your drink, and when you return the Samaritan discretely informs you of one of the following: 1) They saw someone spike your drink, and they'll walk with you if you want to leave, or 2) They saw someone spike your drink, called the cops, and they will sit with you until the cops arrive. Lots of people would chose option 1, because they don't want to make a scene and potentially have to face the creep; they don't want to experience any more victimization for themselves, and don't care if someone else becomes that victim. Option 2 may be more stressful, but if that was chosen more often there would be far fewer creeps.
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Angela Kelley 3 years ago
So it took him denying you a job you desired to turn him in or did he just start doing this out of the blue?
Allan Felipe 3 years ago
That should've been done earlier, but at least it was done in the end
iblewsheep 3 years ago
She should have shown that stuff to the police as soon as she knew about it not just hold on to it for revenge.
B Jean the Jelly Bean 3 years ago
Not cool, unless you would have done it even if he had let you go in the field..
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#2
My brother tried to scare me and push me in the lake, the way I was standing I was going in no matter what but I saw him coming so I jumped and turned around and bear hugged him, his momentum took us both into the water. He had all his clothes on and his phone in his pocket lol, that was the last time he tried to prank me
Down With Agent Hedgehog! 3 years ago (edited)
My friend tried to push me into a water sports lake when we were canoeing with my other best friends, because they were goofing around and fell in, and they wanted ME to get in too, saying it’s fun. I have fear of deep water, and plus THEY were on paddleboards, and I was in a CANOE, so it would be IMPOSSIBLE to get back in my canoe because the sides are so high. Not to mention I had zero chance of swimming back shore since we were in the middle of a lake. Well, the coach chewed them out
Brivid 3 years ago
Last spring a women, who was out with a group of people celebrating on pontoon boats, pushed a man, not wearing a life preserver, overboard. He couldn't swim, so his best friend went in after him. Unfortunately they both drowned. She was charged and convicted of two counts of involuntary manslaughter. Pushing people in the water is no joke.
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Dina Anastasakos 3 years ago
Why don't people understand that pushing someone into water is dangerous? l hate practical jokes because someone is always humiliated.
Ozzie Ogawa 3 years ago
I swear i would cut my relationship to anyone who tried to shove me into deep water, an a*****e classmate tried to drown me during swimming lesson, everyone just laugh even the teacher. That moment gave me the worst trauma in my life.
Emerald Ocean 3 years ago
Yeah I had similar happpen to me. I was five and just learning to swim. I had a pool noodle and this older girl took it from me and laughed as I panicked. Thankfully my grandfather got to me in time. Weirdly I don’t have a fear of water tho
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Addicted to Haribo Goldbears 3 years ago
Reading that so many of my fellow pandas feel the same way I do really made me feel better about myself. I'm 56 yrs old and never learned how to swim. My daddy's brother drowned when they were little and he had to pull his deceased brother out of the water. So when me and my sister were growing up, he never liked us being near the water. He should have instead made sure we learned to swim, but I totally understand his fear. I thought I was just about the only grown person in the world that doesn't know how to swim at my age. That whole pushing people in is just not funny at all.
Jack and Coke 3 years ago
I'm older than you and I don't know how to swim. I'm afraid of the water and avoid it.
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I was at a pool party at the house of friends of my granddaughter. The 'host' thought it would be funny to push me into the pool full dressed. (I can swim well, but....) I got out of the pool to hear my granddaughter screaming at him, "You pushed my GRANDMOTHER the pool." As soon as the host's wife lent me some dry clothes, she packed up her husband, baby, and me, told him (in front of his parents) that she was leaving and wasn't coming back until he learned some manners.
Saracynthiasylviastout 3 years ago
I was about 9 years old one summer when I got to go to camp. I was an ok swimmer, no lessons or anything. Well for some reason, we had to jump off a wall into the lake for our swimming test and tread water for 2 minutes. I was scared to jump because it was was about a 10 foot drop. One of the teenage counselors pushed me and it was terrifying. I didn't trust any counselor after that and never went back. I'm 40 now and I still feel that way when I'm around water and heights.
Courtney Christelle 3 years ago
Pushing someone into the water like that when they aren't expecting it can cause severe injury. Never thought it was funny.
#3
Not mine but my dad’s. My dad was always a trouble maker & by the time he was 16 he had a fake ID that was passable enough for a couple of bars and clubs in his city. One of these clubs was a strip club. So he’s 16 years old & he’s in this seedy strip club enjoying himself, and he makes his way across the club to get a drink from the bar. On his way he bumps into HIS dad. Apparently they both did a double take, and my grandpa got upset with him and angrily went “what are you doing here?” to which my dad responded “what are YOU doing here?”. My grandpa just kind of nodded and considered that, before they both parted ways. It’s never been brought up again and especially not in front of my grandma.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Bart skips school and then almost walks into Homer, and they BOTH freak out. "Oh no, I can't let Dad see me playing hookey!" "Oh no, I can't let the boy see me skipping work!"
Terran 3 years ago
It reminds of the episode, where Bart works in the strip club and his grandfather walks in and turns on the spot.
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Atreïdes 3 years ago
Maybe probably not. It’d be more believable if this took place in a country where 18-year-olds can drink than where 21-year-olds can drink, as a 16-year-old is more likely to pass as an 18-year-old than a 21-year-old.
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Mike Loux 3 years ago
Dad: "Well, I see where I got it from, then..." Grandpa: "Guess the apple didn't fall too far from the tree."
"Turn the other cheek" may sound great on paper, but as we all know from experience, it can be incredibly difficult to put into practice. Especially if other people consistently wrong or annoy you to a degree you just can’t stand anymore. Most of the time, it seems impossible to balance the scales of justice and get back at them for causing these problems. But sometimes, a perfect opportunity to get vengeance and put these people back in their place may reveal itself. Then, you're presented with only one question: is it really worth it?
To find out what’s going through our minds when we feel an overwhelming urge to retaliate, we reached out to Joshua Klapow, Ph.D., a psychologist and creator of Mental Drive. He started this initiative to help people improve their well-being and live healthier, more fulfilled, and successful lives by teaching them about psychological tools they can use every day.
#4
I ended up doing a college group project with only one other person in my group. We were both pissed since we were probably going to end up with a fail due to not being able to complete it in a week time period with the lack of action from the other team members.
So we did not do their part. We only did our part, and emailed (thank God the professor asked for this) a list of who's responsible for what in the presentation not saying a word about them not doing anything.
They lost points on the project while we got full credit.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
In highschool I was forced to do a group project with the two dumbest, laziest guys in the entire class. I soon realised they weren't going to do anything so I put the whole presentation together myself. On the day I stood up and said "well [name and name] wouldn't do any work, so this is just my presentation". The teacher said "IS THAT RIGHT?", glaring at the two bozos. I gave my solo presentation and got good marks, while the bozos were forced to do their own version with no help from me. They got maybe two lines in before the teacher pulled them up for getting their information completely wrong, and flunked the assignment. So in this case it was pretty much me refusing to be taken down with them.
Amanda Rose 3 years ago
I hate group projects for just this sort of stuff. I've always ended up carrying the project while everyone else goofs off.
JayWantsACat 3 years ago (edited)
Professors who care do this since they know there are always people who don't do their part but assume others will for the sake of getting the project done. I actually made a deal with a group for a project back in college. Since most of them were ESL and I hated writing research papers, that if they handle all the research and writing I will review, edit, correct, etc the final project. And then I will present our entire project by myself. This worked out since they were stressed about doing the presentation & I wouldve had to review, edit, correct, etc everything anyways while also having to research and write my portion. We all essentially did have the work we would have normally done. And we got an A. Obviously only works if the Prof doesn't require every team member to participate in every aspect.
Alicia GriffonLady 3 years ago
Whew! I hate teachers that just insist you should be able to convince the others in your group to be responsible, just magically, and the average the grade for the group. Like i have any authority over another student?
Portia Reddy 3 years ago
Similar experience in grad school. The other people were totally jerks. I flew home from the east coast up catch the end of Hanukkah with my family. It's a six hour flight. I told the group I was leaving and would be unavailable for like 9 hours. I got so many emails in that time span of increasing aggressiveness. I sent the professor a very long email about their actions when I submitted my part. They too had their grade impacted!
Britches are for everyone 3 years ago
Did this same thing in middle school. I was in a group with my buddy and another guy. The other guy just didn't do anything, so my buddy and I did our part and the teacher actually asked us to give ourselves grades based on who contributed. We gave ourselves an A and him an F and that was the grade our teacher gave us.
Hugendubel 3 years ago
Professor probably has a lot of experience with this- hes smart aaand fair.
Daniel O'Neal 3 years ago
Ugh. Group projects were the bane of my existence when I was a university student.
#5
Actually had my boss deliver that message for me.
Guy at work made a complaint about me and another guy not doing work. As if our boss wouldn't talk to everyone and get the truth? The guy making the complaint is the laziest piece of s**t in the whole department, everyone agrees on this.
The boss had to say to him "if you're wanting an inquiry into exactly how much they are getting done on the job, you need to expect the same level of scrutiny aimed at you."
He withdrew the complaint within 18 hours.
MJ 3 years ago
He didnt want that inquiry for obvious reasons; all the more reason to push for the inquiry.
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Anyone-for-tea? 3 years ago
That nice to read about a good boss who has the back of their employees who are performing. Although it seems they need to address the underperformance of the other employee regardless.
joop 3 years ago (edited)
Had a micromanaging manager who asked my collegue to set me up against the other collegue, because one of us had to leave. Some ppl stayed home with a burn out, because they couldn't handle his micromanaging. We got rid of him and have a real great, sweet manager now. And the other collegue said: My husband has a job, I'm 62, no kids, I don't like the job anymore. You can have it. You need it more. So sweet.
JayWantsACat 3 years ago
Kind of reminds me of a co-worker, who I love to death, but she has an insane inability to understand the potential consequences of her words and actions.
Remi (He/Him) 3 years ago
The level of lazy that it took him 18 effin hours to manage even that speaks volumes
#6
I was being fired over a joke I made and my boss didn't try to fight for me at all, so when the HR lady was telling me my remark didn't fit in with the standards held by the council, I looked at my boss and asked how did all of the racist, sexist, misogynistic remarks he'd made fit with the standards held by the council. He's bald f*****g head turned bright red and rather than deny that he'd said any such comments, he went on an insane tirade demanding to know why and how could I do this to him. Bastard.
Candi Cabral 3 years ago
Nope, you had no issue with his comments until your back was against the wall. You're just as bad as he is.
Munnin 3 years ago
Also, this is a "I'm taking you down with me post". Morality isn't a factor here. It's just stories of people throwing a gut punch to the person responsible for their downfall.
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"As a result, when we experience them and have a person or persons who we identify as the 'cause', we are almost reflexively driven to 'hurt' them. It is a deep-seated, primitive response. One that we can override and don’t have to act on, but one, nevertheless, that we feel very intensely," Klapow explained.
#7
I had a very bad manager at one company I worked, she was terrible, knew nothing and we honestly didn't know how she got the job.
It was her, then 3 team managers, then us team leaders then 100+ staff members. She came in, within 2 month the team managers left and the lad that bluffed his way in to replace them disappeared after 2 weeks due to the stress so I took over.
I was doing her job + 3 managers + my own for 3 months with no issues, then just before Christmas I got attacked by 2 lads. I had a knife wound to my abdomen and 2 bruised kidneys + other minor injuries. Signed off for 2 weeks bed rest.
She was phoning me after 4 days off asking if I was going to be working over Christmas, it fell within my 2 weeks signed off, I said no and hung up. I then got nearly a dozen texts threatening my job, emails saying she was pissed off as she's had to cancel her plans etc and was going to get me fired.
So, upon returning to the office I promptly told her to stick the secondment up her backside and she told me I was going to be in front of HR within the week. I went back to my desk, did a little tinkering and within released her work Lync messages on to a public drive which detailed the affair she was having with someone in our London office, changed her flatshare request on some website to utter filth and fired it all off in an anonymous email to HR and the directors. She was gone in 3 days. :D
April Dancer 3 years ago
Changed her flat share request to utter filth? Considering everything else you legit had on her, it's a shame you decided to do that.
Lonely Tentacle 3 years ago (edited)
So... What I don't get is, in those three months, why didn't she (or anyone else, really) mention to HR or to some boss that the higher managers had left? It was 3 whole months!
#8
TL;DR: Power-tripping Air Force security officer attempts to enforce traffic laws on open highway. I latch on to him, figuratively speaking, and pull him into the mud with me.
In the Air Force, we have (not sure about now; this was several years ago) security police (SP) who are essentially guards for government installations. They aren’t law enforcement or traffic officers (we also have those). The base where I was stationed happened to have dozens of nuclear missile sites associated with the installation but scattered as far away as 150 miles from the base, with lots of desolate country in between. The SPs were charged with securing these missile sites, which, obviously, had zero to do with traffic law enforcement. As for me, I was a missile operator and often got to the remote sites via helicopter. Just as often, though, weather or other circumstances required that we drive. There were long days on the road to get to and from the duty locations.
One fine day I was in the home stretch headed back to base in a government Suburban after being in the missile field for the previous 30 hours. My crew partner and I were grimy and exhausted, but had just about 30 miles to go. That’s when an SP in a government Bronco comes up behind me flashing his headlights. Obviously something was up, so I pulled over.
Now, I must mention that the posted limit was (I believe) 70, but there was a standing order that government vehicles were not to be driven at speeds greater than 55 mph. I was probably doing between 60 and 65, and still getting passed by everyone, occasionally even a school bus.
Anyway, this self-important SP walked up to my window and informed me that I was speeding. I was flabbergasted that this was why he flagged me down. I figured there was something serious going on in the missile field. Nope, he just wanted to flex.
So, this guy was an a*s from A to Z and he just drug me through the wringer, going so far as to confiscate my military ID and order my passenger to drive the remaining distance to the base. Now, I would have happily just told him to get f****d, except he was a captain and I was a lieutenant. Not much I could do at the time but say “yes sir” and follow him back to base as ordered, where he then marched me to the squadron commander like I was his hunting trophy.
I was seething with rage by this point and the squadron commander was in a bit of a pickle because he couldn’t very well dismiss this infraction now that it had been explicitly called out. So, being a decent guy, the colonel allowed me to make a written statement explaining things from my perspective. I asked for extra paper and sat in an adjacent office and wrote for a solid 30 minutes.
In the end, I received a formal letter of reprimand. However, my written statement was accepted by the colonel and used as a basis to issue a formal letter of reprimand to the dipstick SP captain for several lapses in judgement. I successfully argued that the captain who clocked me either did so with a radar gun—which, although he was a security officer, he didn’t posses—by merely estimating my speed, in which case the allegation would be worthless, or by simply matching my speed and looking at his speedometer. When later pressed by the colonel on his method for determining my speed, the captain admitted to matching my speed and looking at his speedometer. With that admission, the colonel issued the captain a formal letter of reprimand as well for exceeding the 55-mph limit. Being a security officer didn’t excuse him from the standing order any more than it excused me. He also got reprimanded for some other inappropriate uses of his position as a security officer, such as confiscating my military ID while I was on duty in the missile field.
It stung getting my military record tarnished like that, but dragging that captain into the mud with me made it almost enjoyable.
Cashme Outside 3 years ago
I know that was back in the day, but the air force’s security forces (yeah, they changed the name) haven’t changed a bit. Got pulled over once for not having a seatbelt on while on base…while returning from a mission… in an armored combat truck (hilux)… that didnt even have seatbelts… in afghanistan. Yeah. Super dumb. Our CO had some choice words for the sec forces commander over that and it didnt happen again, at least not while I was there lol
Val Reilly 3 years ago
Got a ticket on NAS Norfolk back in 1976 for 1 mile over the speed limit. I was 9 months pregnant. Federal Court, it got thrown. Out as the 17 other people's tickets said officer had given lol
Samantha Maddog 3 years ago
I remember getting pulled over by MPs when I was 17. I wasn't speeding or even doing anything unsafe, I just happened to transition from an older stretch of blacktop to a newly laid piece and my car did a slight (and I mean VERY slight jig to the right) whereupon I immediately got pulled over. The officious butt-nuggets thought they could terrorize a couple of teens who in their eyes were only out joyriding. No explanation could suffice to excuse our transgression, so my license was confiscated and a ticket issued. I was informed that my parents could retrieve my license at their headquarters later that day( this was in the early 1980's so no cell phones). Now here's the extremely funny part of the story..... My last name differs from my Dad's because he's my stepfather. He also happened to be the Base Safety Commander ( the MPs boss) and my friend's dad was the Base Senior Master Supply Sergeant. The MPs ended up doing perimeter patrols on foot for a week
arienne libbrecht 3 years ago
That must have been a LONG time ago if he was in a Bronco. The new one hasn't been out for long.
Rumple Schleppskin 3 years ago
I too, will make a point of getting passed by a SCHOOL BUS .. When relaying an impression of how slow I'm going.. It's the perfect example.
Dean Johnson 3 years ago
I was USAF Security Police Law Enforcement Specialist during the Bronco Era. Several issues with your story, but the biggest was the good Captain did not know how to defend his law enforcement action. Pacing is a viable enforcement action when no other speed measuring devices are available, even when it requires exceeding the speed limit to accomplish. Yah, he was flexing on you, but I could have made it stick. I was a lowly Senior Airman.
John G 3 years ago
But, he would have had to exceed the OPs speed to catch up and pace. I would think that would matter. WDIK.
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Matt Wheeler 3 years ago
SP's are not, and have never been security officers. They are police officers.
#9
My younger brother found my cigarettes in my backpack when I was a senior in highschool. Mind you, he was 11 at the time. He tried to steal some to earn bragging rights from his friends but I caught him. He tried to force me to let him keep them or he'd tell our parents. So I straight up went to his dresser, looking him dead in the eye, I pulled out a f*cking mr.vapor dispo vape he got from his friend. His face went from a smug smile to a horrified look. He BEGGED me not to tell my parents, and me being an agent of chaos, I recorded the confrontation in case he ever tried to take me down. I shall never lose to my younger brother.
SCP-3998 3 years ago
More than likely, that kind of addiction is generational.
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Trinity Cottrell 3 years ago
I always secretly audio record certain abusive family members of mine in case they try lying and pinning the blame of something on me. I especially do this with my hypocritical, abusive Grandmother, since she likes to verbally, physically and financially abuse people.
joop 3 years ago
A boy in my son's school sold cigarettes to kids in school and the guy from school had a talk with him. He didnt tell his parents.
Courtney Christelle 3 years ago
I stole my sister's cigarettes when I was 14, she was PISSED! Didn't tell our mom tho, she ain't no snitch.
As it turns out, we are wired to feel a universal thirst for retaliation in the face of a threat. When we are suddenly filled with a whirlwind of emotions, we also feel this instinct that pushes us forward to make seemingly irrational decisions that make complete sense at a time. But in the long run, we’re more likely to regret our actions.
When it comes to the "If I go down, I’m taking you with me" moments, Klapow pointed out that dragging people with us makes us feel better in the short run. "It’s the easier way to validate that we are not alone in transgressions, that it wasn’t completely our fault and that the responsibility for the wrongdoing lies with others, not just us."
"All of this is our emotional response," the psychologist continued. "Deciding to take action and bring someone down with us, is one that comes with consequences," Klapow explained there’s one disparity many of us fail to see before acting on our emotions. "There is a difference between letting a person know they have a responsibility and letting them know that you want them to take that responsibility, versus making them take responsibility."
#10
A couple of weeks ago the scariest s**t of my life happened. I work nights, get home at 0430 and am getting out of my car. I start walking around the front to grab my stuff out of the passenger side so I can head inside. Someone starts calling out to me from the corner behind me. Its this 150-200lb 5' 7"ish hispanic kid, dressed in all black, Hoodia, and face mask. He's approaching me kinda fast which already made me nervous cause usually at 0430 the streets in my small town are dead. As he is closing he's asking if I smoke, and if I have a lighter. Even after saying no he's still coming and I know somethings isn't right and my hand goes to the knife in my pocket. The entire time he's approaching I kept moving around my car and put him in front of me as he came around the front as well. As soon as he's around the hood I see he's got a knife in his hand. I always carry a knife on me. I got used to having one on me for work and just never stopped even after I changed jobs. Its a 4 1/2" flip knife. I pulled my knife out and flipped it open and squared up with him. I was scared shitless and about to p**s myself. I told him, "Come on man, this ends bad for both of us." Not a single word, he just backed away around the front of my car and continued on down the street. I grabbed my s**t and backed into my house as fast as I could only taking my eyes off him long enough to get inside. I called and filed a police report but he was long gone and all I had was a generic description that covers 50% of the population.
Hales M 3 years ago
... if he has s face mask and a hoodie with the hood up... how do you know he's hispanic?
Lizzy Crit 3 years ago
Accent when he's speaking and skin tone of the hand holding the knife
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Munnin 3 years ago
How is this a "if I'm going down, I'm taking you with me" story? It's not meant as a literal thing
Kimberley Broyles 3 years ago
I'd like to know why it even matters what ethnicity he was. A punk is a punk.
Ivan Petrov 3 years ago
Three things I always carry - a knife (a folding one, because of work, just like OP), a lighter, and a flashlight. So far, I didn't really needed to use the knife. I hope I never need to.
Rumple Schleppskin 3 years ago
Pepper Spray / Bear Spray would have been nice too. Then call cops and they'll probably get him. .. Just follow the pepper smell. And look listen for the guy groaning..
#11
I once failed a test in hichschool, the guy sitting behind me leans closer to me and whispered “Damnit man, I was cheating off of you” I didn’t mind failing that test
AutumnSong2009 3 years ago
A guy in my class last year was (not so subtly) sitting behind me and shifting his desk closer to mine to copy off my laptop. He was in a group with me for the other part of the assignment and thought he was going to get a good grade for once. My laptop died :)
Hales M 3 years ago
One time my prof told me that in my midterm two people had copied off of me. So I decided to eff with them. I used to circle my answers in the test sheet in full view and then last minute fill in the scantron. The funny thing is that I would circle the incorrect ones and then only on the scantron do the right ones. Just before handing it in i would write this on the top of my test so my prof would have my answer key in case something happened to the scantron. I'd write [circle] a=e, b=a etc... they very quickly stopped and got super confused when I would get 90's on something they copied and failed.
Avocado Toast 3 years ago
It serves him right because he shouldn't have been cheating in the first place
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
In junior high school, my history teacher was pregnant and was struggling with morning sickness. It was last week of school so she was just pushing through. During the final test, she left repeatedly to deal with it. First time, my bully scooted over and copied my answers (it was a scantron dot test). I then answered every question wrong after that and they ended up copying all my wrong answers each time she left. I had a study hall the next period so when class was over, I asked the teacher if I could retake the test because someone had been copying me but I didn't want to name them (snitches get stitches). She let me retake the test during study hall. I ended up with an A-. Pretty sure the bully ended up failing. We moved the next week before report cards came out.
Jose Cabanas 3 years ago
Oh man, this reminds me of a funny story. It was in highschool and we where doing a science "make up" test that I missed because I was absent that day, in the library on this big round table, there was about 8 of us sitting in one. I also happen to be sitting next to one of my best friends, he kept leaning over and asking me for answers to certain questions, of course I would help him out. Then he would turn around and say he wasn't sure if I was right since he noticed everyone else had different answers, so he decided to go by everyone else. Turns out, I was the only one who passed the test that day, my friend was pissed and we always have a good laugh when ever this story comes up. =XD
#12
college was assigned to a group for the whole semester with a team of slacker.
So none of them, show up to the project meeting...
I did all the work, I email the professor about it, she didn't care...
So I tank the project grade on purpose( I could just retake the course and get the grade replaced)..
So all 3 of them was very sad.... I was happy.
Down With Agent Hedgehog! 3 years ago
Nice. I think people who slack off and expect a single person to do group work FOR them should just not get a grade at all. I had this situation too in school, I did the same and the bratty girls I was assigned with yelled at me for ‘being selfish’. Then they hit me. So I hit them back, because they were the stupid group of girl bullies going around in makeup at school, picking on people. And I didn’t do it because I was infuriated, i was totally calm, I did it because they deserved it. And I probably didn’t even harm them much except for their ego, because I normally didn’t speak much at school and I’m a nerd who have never hit someone or yelled at someone since kindergarten. *shrug*
In too many fandoms 3 years ago
Ah hum *internal screaming* NERD UNITE!!!!!!
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Dre Mosley 3 years ago
I was in a similar situation. I eventually gave up meeting with them to work on it(they always had some excuse), told the professor, and did the whole thing myself.
Tony Pott 3 years ago
I read about a lot of this kind of thing. Genuine question: do American colleges have no academic integrity rules that forbid taking credit for another's work? If so, and if you have an e-mail/IM documentation trail, can't you bypass your professor and raise the matter directly with the college administration. Because if someone claims part credit for a project they played no part in, that is what this is.
Spencer McClure 3 years ago
If the teacher refused to do something then the OP could have taken it to the head of whatever major those classes were for. To not acknowledge and punish students like that is no better than to let cheaters go without punishment.
MJ 3 years ago
Pretty cruddy (for you, BP 🙄) for the prof to just not care that their students weren’t pulling their weight and earning their grade. It sucks that your options were earn other people their grade when you did all the work, or tank so that those slackers got the grade they deserved, but im still blaming the prof on this one.
Matt Wheeler 3 years ago
The hardest part of this story to believe is that you went to college. It's almost unreadable.
Jessica Julian 3 years ago
Are you sure it wasn't your terrible grammar and punctuation that tanked the project?
"Dragging people down typically creates a new problem because now you become a person of blame for dragging them down. You are now the object of a transgression and they no longer have to take responsibility because you forced them into action," Klapow said, adding this is rarely a good short-term or long-term approach.
#13
TL;DR: Worked for a joke of a company. (Toys R' US Corporate, 1997) Idiot coworker and management deliberately prevented my success. I wrote a detailed paper to upper management detailing their (true and verifiable) history of theft, abuse of expenses, poor judgment, and atrocious work quality. They canned the whole department (including me) and outsourced I. T.
April Dancer 3 years ago
That one might be edging towards 'cutting off your nose to spite your face'. You might not have been getting the promotion you deserved but you did have a job.
Cory Willson 3 years ago
Who cares if you have a job of they refuse to pay you remotely what youre worth
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Party Poison (They/Them) 3 years ago (edited)
So, did he only report this because he wasn't getting a promotion, or did he plan to do it regardless? For me it seems like the first one. OP did this out of spite and most certainly got people in the department canned that had nothing to do with the whole thing.
KWhiskers 3 years ago
Yeah, I was also thinking if the entire department got fired when it was management and one (singular) coworker then there were obviously a bunch of innocent ppl who got fired. That's messed up and nothing to be happy about or proud of.
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Michael Largey 3 years ago
The people who fired you might have been afraid that you'd turn your scrutiny on them next.
Kelly Smith 3 years ago
So far, this is the only post that actually does what the title says by getting someone back while you go down too. Oh yea, the girl whose brother tried to push her in and she pulled him in too, that one qualifies too but this one is better!
Candi Cabral 3 years ago
Notice you were okay with his abuse and theft and poor judgment until you didn't get what you wanted. What's the matter with you.
#14
In grade school we had desk in rows, I was part of the group in the back these were 6 kids side-by-side. I was leaning backwards in my chair and felt myself falling as I ended up leaning too far. I tried to grab the two kids next to me for support and pulled them off balance since they ware also kinda leaning back, comically I remember one of them reached out and pulled yet another kid down.
Rumple Schleppskin 3 years ago (edited)
That is one of those cute, funny, I'm taking you with me.moments. .. Teacher had to be like.. .. WHAT IN THE.. H..E..DOUBLE HOCKEY STCKS IS GOING ON BACK THERE!!
#15
7 years old in deep end of pool on noodle, lose balance and fall off, can’t swim, twin brother has noodle, splash over to him, cause him to lose his noodle, we can’t swim.
Lifeguard had to rescue both of us.
Scott Dixon 3 years ago
So your parents just let two kids who can't swim go into a swimming pool alone? Why are some parents so bad at the job.
Patricia O'Rourke 3 years ago
Why wasn't anybody with you? (maybe they were with grandparents or friends). Thank goodness for that lifeguard!
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What kind of parent lets their children, who cannot swim, in a pool with a deep end?
Many people believe revenge will make them feel better and help them gain closure, others report feeling worse and worse over time after retaliating and then ruminating on their deed. But studies have shown that, usually, the taste of revenge is bittersweet, as it's capable of evoking both positive and negative emotions.
"Getting revenge very often is a way to displace our own hurt," Klapow said. "It can temporarily help us redirect our intense emotions from focusing on ourselves to having an object of blame. It makes us feel like the world is right and stable."
Taking vengeance on someone, however, is different from looking for justice, he added. "Seeing a person be held responsible for their transgressions can help us heal. It does create closure."
"The difference is when we seek revenge, we seek to harm for what was done for us. This creates more anger and more distress. When we seek justice, in contrast, we seek for equality to be restored. Getting justice is not something where we seek to harm. And in that way, the toxicity of revenge is neutralized."
#16
First time I went snowboarding I was 19. My company jn the army did a morale boosting event and we all went up for a day.
A few of us took the beginners lesson with about 10 other civilians and things went like you could have expected. The 20 year old army guys being loud and making fun of each other for not doing well.
I walked away from my friends to the cutest girl around our age and said "I'm going to stay over here with her. You guys have fun" It was well received and this young lady and I had some laughs while finishing the lesson.
Well its time to put our newly found knowledge to the test on the bunny slopes. I was fully prepared to snowboard down the mountain.
What I was not prepared for was the chair lift that would take us to the top. This rickety bench held onto a wire clothesline while one foot was strapped onto this long board seemed daunting. The plan was for my friend to sit on the left. Me on the middle. And my new young woman friend volunteered to help me and sit beside me on the right.
Our turn arrives and this park bench sweeps me off of my feet and off we go. Mission a full success, beers for everyone upon our return.........up the mountain we ride and then I realize we still have to.....slide off this thing.
We are at the top and our turn is up. I get my board facing the right way. My friend talks me though it and here we go........I start to slide a foot away from the seat. Now two. Now three. I've done it!!!
Nope. Lose my balance and grab the first thing i can to keep my balance......this 120 pound woman was then thrown to the ground as I regained my balance and perfectly snowboarder away I looked back over my shoulder and apologized.....it was too late. They didn't stop the lift and the people behind us had now piled on top of her with a third row of people on the way.
Whoever you were lady. I really am sorry. I have never heard the end of that to this day.
Victoria Spies 3 years ago
Huh. I didn't even realize until I finished reading it lmao
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Pam Derck 3 years ago
As a snowboarder myself-- chairlifts are the worst! They were designed for skis. Even experienced snowboarders still fall occasionally and take someone out. The second group of people crashing into her is the fault of the liftie for not stopping it and giving her time to recover and move away.
SCP-3998 3 years ago
Well this makes me feel better when I went boarding for thr 1st time and the lift operator had to stop and back the lift up for me to get off 🤣🤣
Load More Replies... Aaron Matye 3 years ago
At first is started off like a stereotypical romance story, then ended with her getting dog-piled into the snow while you rode away. Lol
Tania L. Williamson 3 years ago
My Mother had the same problem with chair lifts. I her case it was because she broke her leg getting off of a chair lift. She hated skiing as a result. My Father was a narcissistic a*****e who couldn’t be bothered to help her, or anyone, who was having difficulties with anything. I often wished she would just divorce him. Unfortunately back in the 1960s, and 1970s, that just wasn’t done. My amazing Mother became an alcoholic to cope. Decades later, she died first. She died from a fall because he was “too busy” to help her get out of bed. He was diagnosed with cancer 6 weeks later. Nothing changed. He was still an a*****e until the day he died.
Sascha Rambeaud 3 years ago
So, no one chiming in that the thing to do was to stop, take off that snowboard and walk back to help her?
#17
Late to the party. But- was touring Tower Bridge in London. There is a glass floor and I, in all of my infinite acrophobic wisdom, decided to give it a try. I put one foot on it, felt faint- which is typical for me, then put the other foot on it and immediately screeched and grabbed on to the COMPLETE AND TOTAL stranger next to me for dear life.
So, dear stranger, don’t be near me if I start to fall- I’m taking you with me.
Midoribird Aoi 3 years ago
Look up the glass bridge that exists in real life. See what you think 🤔😂
Load More Replies... Hannah Evans 3 years ago (edited)
Try the one at the top of the CN Tower in Toronto Canada. My Mum managed to put half her foot on it. My Grandmother and I stood in the middle and it was a slightly weird feeling but so cool!
SCP-3998 3 years ago
I was pushed on it by my "friends" when we went on a field trip in middle school. I'm PETRIFIED of heights, I froze and completely disconnected mentally, I had to be pulled off by the teacher.
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Dawn Harris 3 years ago
I've never heard that term before, I love it!! It totally describes the feeling 😄🤪
Load More Replies... Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
Well it wasn't me, because you'd never have got me up there in the first place
A B C the Third 3 years ago
They could at least have used a picture of Tower Bridge's glass floor. BP, you asleep?
Frances Blades 3 years ago
We have that here. In the Calgary Tower. My younger brother can do it. I think my baby brother can do it🤔. My younger sister get to the windows to look around at the view. I can't get within 5 ft of the windows and I will walk down all those with crutches and 2 shattered legs before I go anywhere NEAR the glass cage that sits you on the outside of the building 😳😳😳🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃
#18
I told my little brother I was procrastinating instead of doing homework one time while sitting in the car waiting for my mom, and he opened the door, and knowing that he was about to snitch, I told him that if he did I would tell my mom that he watched porn. He closed the door silently.
Bella V 3 years ago
Technically they had it in your day too. They were just hidden and in magazine / video form. Nothing new just easier.
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Leon/Moxxie 3 years ago
Dude I have a sister that snitches on me but I have no blackmail against her ;-;
Cat Monaghan 3 years ago
Oh please...kids have been reading " that filth" for years!! If it wasn't the internet, it was Playboy and Penthouse, if it wasn't those it was whatever else was around before. Don't make it sound like kids today are the only ones who ever looked at naked people.
Ansi 3 years ago
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The next time you find yourself in a situation where you feel this profound desire to get payback, stop for a second and analyze your feelings. "Know, accept and even embrace that our natural desire to seek revenge, to bring someone down with us who has betrayed us, is how we are wired," the psychologist suggested. "It is not inherently bad. It’s okay to think about revenge, ponder it, play it out in your mind."
But thinking about retribution and actually committing to it are two different things. "Allowing the thoughts to emerge does not mean you will act on them. In fact, telling yourself it’s okay to think these thoughts of revenge and then allow them to pass without taking action is a way to help reduce the feelings of intense anger and distress."
#19
I worked for a hotel at a resort and I had been there for 2 years and never had a holiday off. I was supposed to be helping the wait staff instead of my usual front desk duties on Easter Sunday. But dammit, I wanted to go to Easter lunch with my family.
So, they had me working waiting tables the night before and I was helping shut down the kitchen for the night. One of the kitchen crew guys mopped and left a decent sized puddle on the floor and I knew right where to walk as me, the host, and the night manager went to walk out. "Slipped" right in it and twisted my ankle.. I knew the night manager wouldn't do any of the required reports so when I called out the next morning and my boss starts bitching about how I should have reported the incident and I was getting a write up and i was lucky i wasn't being fired on the spot, I can confidently tell her that I fell in front of the night manager so he was aware. She shut it after that because that meant they were liable and had no documentation.
I got my Easter holiday off and one more to go to the doctor and get a note.
Egg 3 years ago
It's called America, and somehow it's still considered a first world country.
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Sascha Rambeaud 3 years ago
The land of the free. Where you have to hurt yourself to get off work on a public holiday.
Lisa Elliott 3 years ago
Faking an injury is a jerk move and exactly why the ACTUALLY injured victims aren't believed and can't get help. You are making it harder for other people just because you felt entitled to a day off. Not cool. Bad coworker.
LinkTheHylian 3 years ago
The injury was real, it was the slip that was intentional.
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#20
A friend of mine and I were trying to build and grow a local chapter of our political party and were heavily involved in the youth segment of the county level of said party as well.
The leadership on county level (like, still a laughably miniscule position in the party) was an influence-obssessed, twisted petty middle-aged couple who basically kept sabotaging us and cutting funds once they saw we actually wanted to change s**t and not just be numbers in a statistic they could use to show ofd their "growth" to the state level of the party. I guess they felt threatened in their control over the party chapter or something.
So, long story short, once this conflict escelated and we saw we're just wasting our time, the youth section conspired against the county-level leadership and collectively left the party.
This led to the disbanding of the entire youth section, two local party chapters, the county-level lost about 30% of all their members and the whole thing was the solitary hot topic for a week in the local press, publically humiliating the county leadership for being the absolute garbage human beings that they were, as they provoked this damage to the party with their leadership style.
Jefferson Selvy 3 years ago
If that is representative of the party leadership, would you want to?
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LinkTheHylian 3 years ago
I'd be willing to bet a chocolate bar that it's the Republicans in America.
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#21
When I was in school I got a question wrong on a test but had cheated off someone who got it right. When we were reviewing the test I asked about said question and argued I was correct but I wasn’t. Without thinking I blurted out “then why did Matt get it right?!” And I got in trouble for cheating and he got his grade change to reflect he got the question wrong
Patricia O'Rourke 3 years ago
All he had to do was, say they compared answers after the test, duh.
CultOfBambi 3 years ago
Duh, unless Matt didn't mind them cheating off him he wouldn't have gone along with that lie...
Load More Replies... Raine Drop 3 years ago
I have a similar story. So when I was in 8th grade (sometimes happened in 9th too) and I had the same science class as my friends, we would just copy off of each other. One day we got homework, and I think I was the only one to do the assignment that night. Well the next day I show my friends, they copy, then the next day after that we get the results. I had the lowest grade out of all of us on that assignment, and they copied my assignment. I was so confused, but didn't call anything out since I don't think the teacher would have cared, and at that time I didn't want the teacher to know that they had copied off of mine.
"It’s critical that you always ask yourself what an act of revenge will accomplish beyond making you feel better in the short run. Will it have negative effects on your life later on? Will it cause others to see you in an unfavorable light? Will it tarnish the very reputation you may be trying to hold? Thinking is ok. Acting upon the thoughts is often not okay," Klapow concluded.
#22
This guy (who was already expelled from my college) got reported to the police for dealing heroin by his ex's boyfriend. He then reported the ex's boyfriend to the college for dealing weed and got him kicked out.
#23
My brother was about to be grounded for several months because he snuck out, got drunk and did damage to property which our mom later found out about. When he came home he knew if he opened the front door it would wake mom so he climbed the porch to the roof of the porch and made me let him in through my window. He told me to keep my mouth shut and gave me twenty bucks. I didn't know he'd been drinking and doing drugs, I just thought he went out for a walk and got locked out at 3am (I was 13 and very naive and innocent). A few weeks before the night out I bought an Xbox with money I'd been saving for several months. My brother has a habit of being greedy so I never let him play on it and that pissed him off.
As our mom is passing down his punishment my brother says that I should be grounded as well since I knew he'd snuck out and didn't say anything. Our mom grounded me, as well, and took away my Xbox and electronics for a week. My brother was grounded for several weeks but he wanted one small thing I guess.
When I got my Xbox back I got the Red Ring of Death a couple days later and my mom wouldn't help me ship it to the Microsoft facility for my warranty repair. It would be years before I had any other system besides my PS2.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
It's a bit like the Blue Screen of Death on a PC. It means your XBox is broken.
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Rumple Schleppskin 3 years ago
This is kind of refreshing, a story of taking someone down, but it's the teller getting took.
#24
Barged into a meeting my boss was holding with some Very Important People, and very loudly quit my job, knowing that she has a hatred of being embarrassed.
April Dancer 3 years ago
Not sure everyone is quite understanding this topic. Just out of interest, what sort of reference did you get to give your next 'lucky' employer?
Cat Ballou 3 years ago
References aren't really needed these days. Employers in the US are only allowed to verify dates of employment. You can sue if they a dry anything negative
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Apathetic Bovine 3 years ago
...who likes being embarrassed, though? Feel like this one needs a bit more context.
María Hermida 3 years ago
Nobody likes being embarrassed, but some people deal with it much better than others. In general, narcissists can't deal with anything that spoils their aura of grandiosity and authority. I guess the boss was a total a*****e who shouted or shamed employees in front of others, and OP decided to give her a spoonful of her own medicine.
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Cat Monaghan 3 years ago
I don't necessarily condone this but you pull this type of stunt AFTER you've sealed the deal with the next employer.
#25
When my boyfriend walks the dog at night (we do morning together and I do lunch and noon) and he comes home with frozen hands.
No matter where I hide, no matter how much I beg for mercy, he always pull up my shirt and put his cold hands on me. Causing me to jump.
If he is freezing so will I.
Aunt Riarch 3 years ago (edited)
Time for you to do the night shift methinks.... Just once should be enough
Susan Howell 3 years ago
Or be kind and give him a nice warm pair of gloves.
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Random person 3 years ago
If both sides consent, it is cute in my opinion
Load More Replies... Patricia O'Rourke 3 years ago (edited)
Buy him some gloves!! And yes, this is just mean, not funny at all.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago (edited)
My dad used to ride his motorcycle to work, including during the winter, and if you were sitting watching TV when he got home he'd sneak up behind you and stick his cold hands down the back of your neck!
Richard Anderson 3 years ago
Someone would be getting a bucket of ice water over the shower curtain.
Cat Monaghan 3 years ago
As you see him coming up the walkway,, hold some ice cubes in your hands for a bit then of course get him before he gets you!
Tania L. Williamson 3 years ago
Where is the middle part of the story where you cause him to freeze?
#26
Someone was being transphobic to my now-boyfriend, and made him start crying. Dude kept going, so I beat him up (I had anger issues in middle school.) The school knew I had issues, and I told them "Yea I f****d this kid up, but he was being a d**k to my friend." Kid got in trouble cause I NEVER admitted when I was wrong, I only got off with a 2 day suspension (which is really good since I punched this kids lights in)
SCP-3998 3 years ago
They were defending a friend who was being horribly bullied, admitted to having anger issues BACK THEN. Reading comprehension would do you some good
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Jackson Vinc 3 years ago
Actions speak louder than words however I'm not really sure this was the right thing to do in the situation
Debrina Blackmoon 3 years ago (edited)
Hugs to everyone in every group undeserving of toxic bitchfungus assholevirus vilebullshittery. WTF
Elizabeth Paul 3 years ago
Good for you! Love that you two are dating now. I hope you have a long beautiful future. I was always the one that "had words" with the bullies. Bullying isn't cool
Debrina Blackmoon 3 years ago (edited)
I was frequently bullied from junior high/middle school and all through hs(still am, but whatever) but always figured it was deserved whether I reported it or not each time I doubted it would be dealt with properly, either way.
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#27
Playing a game of Yugioh.
I know the guy has a face-down Magic Cylinder (negates my attack and deals me damage equal to my monster's power), which will kill me if I attack. I stall until I draw the last card in my deck that can destroy it, but he's set a bunch of other cards face-down as decoys. I use my card, pick the wrong target. I know now I cannot win.
I activate Overload Fusion to fuse every monster in my Graveyard into Chimeratech Overdragon, then use Limiter Removal to double its ATK, pumping it up to 19,200. I then flip over Ring of Destruction to destroy it and deal damage to both of us equal to its ATK.
The only time I've been proud of a ragequit.
Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
This is a perfect example of how fandoms are almost cultures in themselves. Specific language and ritual. We, the outsiders, observe with an Attenborough-like intensity, but can never truly understand.
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Billy Harrelson 3 years ago
Did it take five days of constant inner monologues to play that out, lol?
Adam L 3 years ago
Did they shout that they believe in the "Heart of the cards"?
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Bennett Eubanks 3 years ago
As a yu gi oh nerd I actually understand this and my friend does the same sort of stuff except he just likes to go out on his terms flips over the card and loses. Really funny tho.
Weeblet 3 years ago
I have many Yu-Gi-Oh cards, don't know how to build a deck or link summon, and I want to play with someone but nobody wants to/knows how to play. Lol
LinkTheHylian 3 years ago
You can find the game rules online, and YouTube videos will help you with the game mechanics. Then you could probably go to Reddit or something to find fellow players.
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Ruby Serene 3 years ago
Don't play that specific card game but have played/watched people play others. That sounds like an awesome way to go down! Just hope the other person isn't a sore loser.
Cat Monaghan 3 years ago
I only understood a bit of this because my son had all that stuff and watched the show every afternoon.
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marianne eliza 3 years ago
Where I worked before retirement, the 1st level managers would get an annual bonus if their team had no reportable on the job accidents. Upper management suggested that some of the money be used to treat the employees some how, but isn't wasn't required, just expected. My last manager never did. So one year I vowed that I would throw myself down the stairs before I would ever let her get that bonus again. Them getting money for something we did.
Patti Vance 3 years ago
because i had refused to be part of some sketchy behavior of the boss & supervisors i went from literally being employee of the year to the office pariah. this was while working in the district atty's office. couldn't go to HR because they were all bff. so, ended up laterally transferring to different dept. but before it happened they tried to blackball my personnel record. there was mandatory exit interview required by the d.a who was a stand up no nonsense guy. usually a verbal report was provided to the d.a.regarding the inteview. refused to give oral interview but instead gave my responses in written form, knowing that d.a. would want to see it. i let go of every little dirty secret and action that the group had done, from using resources for personal use to manipulating info to make the dept look good to the organized sabotage of other employees who would not 'play' their game. from what i heard there was a flurry of activity trying to cover their tracks
Tania L. Williamson 3 years ago
I don’t know who submitted this piece but their preachy comments in between the stories is utter bu||$h!t. If I wanted a lecture, I’d go to church. Tell him/her to knock that $h!t off.
anthony moring 3 years ago
I fires an employee and he tried this on me. He said I was always on my phone and never at work and just wanted to fire him because I didn't like him. So HR called me and asked why I was firing him. I gave her a list. He used the store as a daycare, played heavy metal on his phone speaker when I wasn't there, got in fights with every single other employee I had and even got in fights with people from other locations somehow. I also got complaints from female employees that he made them uncomfortable without doing anything "over the line". He even went over my head to warn my boss that he was going to get sexual harassment allegations against him. Even though he was "completely innocent" he made sure to get in front of it and the woman never made a formal complaint. So now we have a 3 way call with HR. He complains about me always being on the phone and I explain it was for work because the company was so dysfunctional. She asks about the list and he cussed her out.
anthony moring 3 years ago
Then my boss looked at my call history and saw how many work calls I took outside of working hours. He told me to submit my hours for the last 3 months and I got a nice check for it.
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Cat 3 years ago
Wish I could have done the same when my then boss screwed my job. But it was a small circle in the market and many people knew what happened despite his attempted badmouthing of me, especially when my replacement showed up, it couldn't have been clearer that my boss fired me to make room for a kid with family connection up the corporate chain. I took a solo trip for a while and then took my parents on vacation for 2 weeks. 3 months later, I reported to duty at a competitor with bigger role and package. Not as gratifying as taking him down, but enough to know it hurt his reputation in the market
marianne eliza 3 years ago
Where I worked before retirement, the 1st level managers would get an annual bonus if their team had no reportable on the job accidents. Upper management suggested that some of the money be used to treat the employees some how, but isn't wasn't required, just expected. My last manager never did. So one year I vowed that I would throw myself down the stairs before I would ever let her get that bonus again. Them getting money for something we did.
Patti Vance 3 years ago
because i had refused to be part of some sketchy behavior of the boss & supervisors i went from literally being employee of the year to the office pariah. this was while working in the district atty's office. couldn't go to HR because they were all bff. so, ended up laterally transferring to different dept. but before it happened they tried to blackball my personnel record. there was mandatory exit interview required by the d.a who was a stand up no nonsense guy. usually a verbal report was provided to the d.a.regarding the inteview. refused to give oral interview but instead gave my responses in written form, knowing that d.a. would want to see it. i let go of every little dirty secret and action that the group had done, from using resources for personal use to manipulating info to make the dept look good to the organized sabotage of other employees who would not 'play' their game. from what i heard there was a flurry of activity trying to cover their tracks
Tania L. Williamson 3 years ago
I don’t know who submitted this piece but their preachy comments in between the stories is utter bu||$h!t. If I wanted a lecture, I’d go to church. Tell him/her to knock that $h!t off.
anthony moring 3 years ago
I fires an employee and he tried this on me. He said I was always on my phone and never at work and just wanted to fire him because I didn't like him. So HR called me and asked why I was firing him. I gave her a list. He used the store as a daycare, played heavy metal on his phone speaker when I wasn't there, got in fights with every single other employee I had and even got in fights with people from other locations somehow. I also got complaints from female employees that he made them uncomfortable without doing anything "over the line". He even went over my head to warn my boss that he was going to get sexual harassment allegations against him. Even though he was "completely innocent" he made sure to get in front of it and the woman never made a formal complaint. So now we have a 3 way call with HR. He complains about me always being on the phone and I explain it was for work because the company was so dysfunctional. She asks about the list and he cussed her out.
anthony moring 3 years ago
Then my boss looked at my call history and saw how many work calls I took outside of working hours. He told me to submit my hours for the last 3 months and I got a nice check for it.
Load More Replies... Cat 3 years ago
Wish I could have done the same when my then boss screwed my job. But it was a small circle in the market and many people knew what happened despite his attempted badmouthing of me, especially when my replacement showed up, it couldn't have been clearer that my boss fired me to make room for a kid with family connection up the corporate chain. I took a solo trip for a while and then took my parents on vacation for 2 weeks. 3 months later, I reported to duty at a competitor with bigger role and package. Not as gratifying as taking him down, but enough to know it hurt his reputation in the market
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