I was on leave after a work place injury and my pay dropped to 70% for LTD when it was supposed to remain at 100%. I contacted HR and the woman I spoke to said it would be fixed on my next pay with retro. Next pay comes, another dropped pay and no retro. I call her again but this time she doesn’t answer, I leave her a voicemail, no call back. The next day I send an email but she doesn’t respond. I thought she might be on PTO but I wasn’t getting an “out of office” e-mail that HR typically uses. I was being ignored.

I waited a couple more days then I reached out to a senior level manager that I worked with for years and knew was reliable. The chain of events that followed was extraordinary. This senior manager sent an e-mail to the HR person and CC’d other senior managers, a director and a few other high level positions to have my concern resolved immediately. I was Bcc’d into the email thread and the negligent HR person was professionally shred to pieces after trying to blame someone else.

I thought she was rude and dismissive from the start so reading her e-mail full of excuses just to have it thrown back at her as being “totally unacceptable” was quite satisfying.

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I just told them no. Back when I was an insurance fraud investigator I had one particular claim that was referred that literally had no fraud indicators. Pursuing a fraud investigation on a claim with zero indicators is a recipe for a bad faith claim.

The particular reason this claim was referred over was because the adjuster did not like how the claimant had spoken with them and she happened to be buddy buddy with my boss. I always referred to these as mean man referrals and sent them back because being a jerk does not equal fraud.

With this claim I got a call from my boss telling me I needed to accept the claim for investigation after I had sent it back. I went over the claim with her, explained that there were no fraud indicators, and explained I wouldn’t do it. They continued to persist and I advised I wasn’t doing anything against our policy and if she really wanted it to be investigated she could do it herself. My persistent nos eventually made them give up and I never saw that claim again.

Long story short is my boss and her friend had a personal vendetta against the claimant and tried to use me to make their life a living hell and I was having none of it.

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Good on you! I hope that boss and her cronie got hot sauce up the cloaca.

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Someone around the office kept coming over to my desk and stealing my phone charging cable when I was away - and never returned it. I went through maybe 7 cables. So, I finally went in and bought an OMG Cable from Hak5 and I wrote a DuckyScript payload that ran automatically when it was plugged into a computer if my phone hotspot wasn’t nearby.

It used the Windows Text-to-Speech system, and added a powershell script as a service that ran automatically when it wakes from sleep. The script first set the volume to 100%, and then say: “$username, I love it when you turn me on.”

I then left it on my desk and waited… The very next day when I was at lunch, gone. And then … “Brandon, I love it when you turn me on.” My immediate supervisor, caught in the act.

He stopped closing his laptop screen when getting up to go to a conference room. Always just holding it open and sideways as he walked. All to avoid talking to IT to get them to fix, or to ask me what it was… And suddenly my 3 of my missing cables and chargers were back in the drawer of my desk!

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Pity you were not able to add the old porno "Bow chicka bow wow!" music to that script.

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I had a manager who was way over her head when she took her management position. She was from a super regulated, mature corporate setting and was joining a startup of like 150 where I was asked to help build out her team. I volunteered, as my workload was easing from my normal duties and figured I can learn some new things working under her quality department. Once she started she treated me like a total subordinate and gave super unclear instructions (she didn't know what she was doing) which evolved into me to just make documents and templates for her (I worked in supply chain and she had me making SOPs for random things lol).

She was super concerned with security and editing privileges (control freak) so she would only email documents and not have them stored on the company drive (SharePoint). There ended up being like 20 uncontrolled edits of documents disseminated throughout the company and it was a mess. Keep in mind we are a startup and these documents need to be shared and edited by engineering teams relatively easy. Instead I was her little scribe writing down every little process step listed in her convoluted meetings. Again, volunteered to do this and technically my job description or duties did not change on paper...

I asked the director above her if I could just make a SharePoint with permissions so only we had access and he was totally on board and gave me permission as he was also upset with the current methods.

So I made the SharePoint, added security privileges, and things got so much easier for myself and the engineering teams as they could just add the content they needed to add directly.

She did not like this one bit. During a meeting with the engineering team, she accosted me for going above her head and said to everyone that it was so easy for anyone to go in the documents and change things (even though I described how I added access to only the responsible members aka the people she would have me email a draft to which they would all edit and send separately). I showed everyone in the meeting how that wasn't true and they all backed me up as this being a way better method and she pulled me aside and scolded me like a child saying I was "disrespectful" and all that. No one in that meeting said my conduct was disrespectful in any manner btw.

Told her fine, I will only do what my job description tells me I have authority over, which was nothing to do with document control.

I was a supply chain engineer and my contract said I was allowed to be remote so I didn't touch a single document and I stayed home and "worked remotely".

Spent the next three months doing very bare minimum supply chain stuff. Mostly went to the beach and played videogames, got really into cooking. She would try to get on my case whenever I came in and I would just remind her she needs to get approval to change my job description. As soon as my one year came around and they were officially going to change my contract and put me under her jurisdiction, I quit.

Two months later 60% of the company got laid off including her and I picked up a job that paid me 30% more.

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Not my direct superior but a guy lateral to my manager at the time.

This guy (Let's call him "J") controlled the Materials and Warehouse area. I'm an engineer, and my project was taking a prototype product and working out all of the methods and processes to assemble it on the line. In order to work this all out, I was given permission to tear down storage racks in an area this guy controlled, and use that as a temporary assembly area and build two units. This was at the end of two long rows of storage racks, and I knew if I didn't block the area off, I'd have forklifts moving in and out of my assembly area all day messing around with the assemblers I got from the main line. Not only annoying but a real safety hazard.

Knowing how J operated, I knew he'd think he was getting his old, obsolete racking removed without losing any of his budget, and would still be able to access the racks from my end. I told him face to face I was planning on blocking off the aisles at that end. He asked how. I said there would be some floor stops and possibly other measures. In a meeting before the plant manager, other concerned managers and this guy, I again stated the end of the storage aisles would be blocked. "Floor stops, right?" says J. "And possibly some other methods." I reply. I also sent this out in an e-mail to all concerned.

Then "demolition day" came along. And instead of tearing apart all of the storage racks, I kept four of the best racks, put them in place perpendicular to the ends of the forklift aisles, and put the other two at right angles, neatly marking out my assembly area. I installed floor stops (basically 4" x 4" "L"-shaped steel bars) by bolting them to the floor. I also bolted the racks down, as I did plan on using them for parts and sub assembly storage.

As it happens, J was on vacation that week. When he got back, he went over to my assembly area with some tools, apparently planning on removing the floor stops. Did not expect to find the way blocked with racks full of materials and sub assemblies. So then he comes crying to me saying I never said anything about blocking the way with racking. I said I had planned on using *other measures*, as frequent forklift traffic through the assembly area would be unsafe.

He went to my boss, who said he'd been warned. He went to the Plant Manager, who said he'd been warned, in writing, even. J had the gall to mention it in the General Manager's hearing, who (having been informed by the plant manager) turned and said: "I read that e-mail, why did you think that area would be open for traffic?"

Turns out, J had ticked off a LOT of people in the plant. I was congratulated by many people from all levels in the company. J quit about six months later.

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I had a colleague in a corporate IT company. We were on the same level, talking regulary, sometimes friendl chat, but she wanted to become a shift leader, which she did one day.

When she became SL she started to treat me very differently. We had 99% home office and only had to show up to work once a month around 8am - but some came earlier and some later.

Anyway - I live far away from where the office is at, and it was a day to go. I arrived around 4 minutes late due to me not being able to plan a route I don’t really repeat often.

She started to belittle me, harrasing me on the chat. As time went she started to declare her position is higher than mine and that she is actually the boss. I always answered calmly, and never used any toxic words.

One day she said something about my family not being able to wake up on time. My brother at the time worked in a same company and happens to be late (he went by a bus - on time, but it just arrived late - nothing he could prepare for as buses only go every 2-3 hours from my village).

That was a last straw for me, I showed this convo to my friend, who reported it to the manager. Manager then asked me and the girl to provide screenshots. She denied and I provided everything.

She got fired.

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I had a boss who was very abusive to his staff. Blatantly sexist to the women on the team. Wouldn't pay people overtime. After three years, I negotiated a raise and then he only gave me half of it, claiming the other half had to come later at some unspecified point in time. I was furious. So I wrote a letter of resignation to submit to our Board of Directors, came in the next day, and told him that if he didn't honor his agreement, I would send it to every single Board member.

As soon as he read it, he knew he'd probably lose his job if the Board found out about the wage theft, the retaliation, and the sexism. I managed to negotiate proper raises for myself and three of my female colleagues. That gave me some big d**k energy for awhile.

But honestly, looking back on it, I wish I had just sent the letter to the BoD. Yeah, some things got better, but other things got worse and there was very little reason to protect his job other than the fear of the unknown of what would happen if he was replaced.

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I would have made him honor the agreement, then sent the letter anyway.

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I was an associate at the time and had just spent a good hour trying to get my student to do any work that didn't involve me writing down the answers for them. Finally (after a huge break down) got the kid to write with a marker and they were doing good age appropriate work.

In walks AEA. "You know it's actually more age appropriate for the child to be writing with a pencil."

I try to keep the child distracted with the math worksheet because they hear the word pencil and were already starting to re escalate. My student was still sweaty from their first escalation and had tears on their cheeks.

"Yes I know but they don't like them because they are scratchy and we just now started getting work done. I would like to work up to it later."

AEA still standing over my shoulder clears throat (unbridged style) "please insure your student is writing with a pencil. It shouldn't be that hard to switch them over."

I sigh and stand up because I know she's going to keep pushing. "Can you demonstrate what that might look like then?"
I watch her sit in my seat pluck the marker from the students hand and place a pencil in it.

I also stood by and watched as the student screeched attempted to claw her face and cleared all the materials off the desk before shoving her over a bookshelf. She stood up dusted herself off cleared her throat and said "ah, I don't think we're quite ready for a pencil yet."

Me "😯 really?" As she ran out of the room.

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I was part of a union so, I had to go before arbitration if anyone wanted to fire me.

No one wanted to except this underqualified manager. He got the position by just being there for 20 years and asking to change departments.

I was the only one who didn't put up with him not understanding project timelines, the correct way to do projects. I wasn't disrespectful, but I pushed back when he was setting us up for failure.

Well he asked me to do a project and I mocked up something for a COVID message with a getty stock model.

He wrote me up on bs charges and tried to fire me.

I informed the union and we went to arbitration.

I dealt with him by letting him testify. He was my absolute best defence. He was such an incompetent a*s that everything he said made me sound like the best member of his team.

Bonus: I let him write me up 2 more times while making sure I had all of our communications in writing. I just handed in the emails and the union brought him to arbitration for harassment. His bosses shoved him in a department where he couldn't cause any more trouble.

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And that is corporate America in a nutshell. They'll promote people who are actually bad employees every time while abusing and/or ignoring the good worker. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. It's almost like upper management is afraid someone actually capable of doing things better might climb the corporate ladder. There is always someone at the bottom with a better way of doing things that no one at the top will even listen to

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I had a manager that would start screaming at me in public. I was fresh out of college and it was my first job. After a few months of this I got sick of it and started yelling back at her in public. She said to take into her office but I refused. We had it out in the open and I
I made her look like a fool. After that I was reassigned lol.

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Worked at a lab. New Lab mgr was psycho. Started having meetings every morning which was good until it wasn’t. He’d pick one person and after their report he’d start berating them. Moved around day to day…diff person. Even our mild mannered scientists. He started on me one day (I was the one that handled reports on what was late but had no recourse to add staff, schedule or affect anything that would help late results) I pushed back and said scheduling needed to change to improve production. He seemed to put me in his sights after that. Would accuse me of ignoring emails (that turned out I wasn’t cc’d on), tell me not to do parts of my job description that others relied on me for and other crazy behavior. He even moved my desk away from where it was grouped with my coworkers to a hallway as a subtle punishment. He’d light into me every day. Told local HR but she was scared of him too I could tell (she did say something because it was after that he moved my desk). Got fed up. Called the company report hotline on advice from an HR (diff company) friend. They opened a case, hired an outside lawyer to investigate who interviewed me and many of my colleagues and he was fired. Turns out he was saying horrible untrue stuff about me to coworkers to undermine me, was doing similar things to others, took furniture home from the office to his apartment among other things. Never have felt so vindicated. TLDR: abusive bully boss - called the company report line - investigation - he got fired.

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Left the company only to have it bought out by the one I left 5 months later. At the new company, I was brought on as a supervisor. After we were acquired, my position is now considered to be a corporate level supervisor , while my old POS of a supervisor is still classed as a local one. When I see him, I don't say anything to him, I just stare. It makes him nervous AF. Then, I proceed to talk to all of my old coworkers and tell them how wonderful life is going now. At one point, I was willing to lose money and move three states away with the company to get away from him. It all worked out in my favor in the end. For the cherry on top, since I had been gone less than six months, I was able to keep all of my benefits that I acquired over 20 years, and right before I left, I blocked him from getting a manager spot.

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Had a buyer who was narcissistic and over-bearing to everyone, thought he was the absolute gods gift.

I noticed that he had two laptops on his desk, a company one and his own an identical model. Turns out he was doing ‘company’ work on the company laptop and his own work on his laptop basically cutting deals with our customers for cut-price goods and skimming the profits for himself.

A little tip-off to a couple of directors and IT had him being chased through the building desperately trying to lose his personal laptop somewhere but he was shown to be as guilty as f**k and he was escorted off the premises by security as everyone clapped and whistled.

No one ever knew where the tip-off came from, but I didn’t care as it was one less a*s-hole at work.

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Gave my 2 week notice without having another job lined up. This caught the attention of a senior executive who then asked to meet with me. We talked for 3 hours. 2 weeks later, my boss was fired and I got a raise and a promotion.

And to make clear, that story sounds like I'm a manipulative power player, but I assure you it was all inadvertent and unplanned. I just got lucky.

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I gave my 2 weeks notice at a terribly mismanaged, family owned company where the wife was head of HR (no conflict of interest there). By this point they really didn't like me, so after one week they escorted me out the door like a criminal. lol Fortunately, I already had a job interview lined up and got this new job at a wonderful company almost immediately. About a year or so later I walk by some of upper management and they ask me, didn't you used to work at (name of old company). I'm like, yeaaaa, why? Oh they went bankrupt and we might buy their building. Ah Karma. That was awesome.

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I sat for my pitty 5/10 minute lunch break with hungry and troubling stomach, and she started complaining how we all are sitting all time, and how she is only person in whole market who does stuff properly.

Overwhelmed and anoyed from everything that day, and her day over day, unjustified complaining about everyone the most, i answered that i can easily pack up and go home if she prefers, since i like everybody else am useless here and she can work alone in peace (worked at recieving, validating quantity and quality, sorting and storing products at shelfs too, also drove forklift when big trucks come).

Did not get fired, but i did shut her mouth for a while, made her angry, and later that day at end of shift quit job myself.

Best decision and most satisfaying answer of my life.

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Dude was a little arrogant. Hired out of house so the other guy was pissed he didn't get the offer. I just started. Dudes just on our a*s all day. 0 downtime, can't be autonomous, always had to pause and listen to how to do xyz less efficiently, etc. It got personal. We just turned out a vehicle, bro grabbed keys for another and we were talking about something for 10s tops. Dude sees it, snaps his fingers twice and yells "c'mon, let's go". Earlier in the week he started forcing us to take our lunch when he wanted and starting s**t if not. It just hit 12:00 on the dot and we were walking outside. As soon as he started talking I went" oop it's 12:00, I gotta take break or imma get written up" and dipped. I complained about the break thing and it got canned, back to normal. He was fuming. For the next week I did tiny things to make him blow up as I learned what got to him. We had a few spats in the shop and it got noticed. One day I made him say some crazy s**t while our manager was standing right behind him. Demoted the following week lmaooo.

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Maybe not as cinematic as the others listed here, but after a conversation about a jilted ex-girlfriend and well-connected co-worker who was deliberately spreading falsehoods about me in hopes of getting me fired, I stood up from my chair and said to him "I dunno. I had this foolish hope you held ethics over professional convenience." It's been almost 6 years, and late last summer he admitted to me, only after three doubles, straight up, that what I said really stung and he had trouble sleeping for weeks after. Plus, he thought I'd said something to his boss because he was caught off guard by the reassignment that happened, soon thereafter. I truthfully told him I had nothing to do with that, and I think he believed me as I didn't have half the leverage my ex did. I spoke from the heart and I don't regret it, in the least.

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This is the third where the toxic person got it. I mean the others are sort of funny, and interesting, and all, but these give me a drop of happy.

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I was doing a job with a title above mine for about a year as my boss kept dangling the promotion. I was doing well too, beating every metric. Come review time to see whether I’d get the promotion or not, I was told it still wasn’t enough. I said “you know what? I don’t want it anymore. I’m going to just stick to doing my actual job title’s duties (which I was also really good at, objectively). Boss didn’t like this, insisted I still had
to do the promotion job’s duties. I said “no, that’s not in my job description”. They couldn’t touch me because by every metric I was doing extremely well at the job for which I was actually being paid . Felt good. I quit this company shortly thereafter (I’d been there for 12 yrs) to a competitor that actually paid me for the job I’d been temporarily been doing for free at the old company.

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I got swine flu (or some horrible sickness) back in 2009. I missed three days of work in a row. I was only 19 at the time, and due to the rotten coincidence that me getting sick around spring break, my boss assumed I was lying about being sick and was just partying all week. On the third day of calling in sick, he told me that I could take that day off, but if I called in sick again the next day, I can just look for a new job.

I came back to work the next day looking pale, sweaty and noticeably lighter (lost a few pounds after battling it for almost a week). Boss doesn't say anything or apologize, even after a bunch of my coworkers mention how sick I look.

A couple days later, I'm called in on my day off. My boss got really sick and they were short staffed and needed help. It's worth noting my boss worked there for 24 years, and this was the first time he called in sick for work.

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I had a boss who was annoyed when I called in sick due to the viruses my little one kept bringing home from preschool. Probably 4 times over the couese of a year. No options to work from home back then (1998-99). She even brought it up in my review, saying that it was problematic. I responded saying that ataying home when sick prevents the virus from being passed to coworkers. She said that I should then work extra on the weekend to make up my sick time. I said I'd do that if needed for something important but we were at a small college where nothing was urgent. The next time I was sick it was a doozy of a headcold requiring an incredible amount of disgusting nose blowing. She insisted I come in rather than miss our scheduled 1:1 meeting. I went in and spent an hour with her in her office. She had a sister city trip to Japan scheduled 4 days later. Sadly she had to sit out a lot of events because blowing your nose in public is unacceptable and she happened to have a doozy of a headcold.

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I quit.

She dropped to part-time and had to find other jobs.

I now have a dream job making 150% of her salary.

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She complained about me to our boss. I won.

She’s a one woman IT department and I’m a paralegal. So she’s a department “head”, but not mine.

She was unkind while trying to help with a security clearance on my computer. While I wasn’t joyous during our interaction, I was professional. She failed to get her part of the job done.

During this time, I also asked her another question which she did not know the answer to and was further frustrated by her own ignorance.

She ended up yelling at me, stomping away complaining that I was just trying to make her look stupid.

I documented the exchange and listed my willing coworker as a witness. I did nothing more.

A week later, HR calls me in telling me the boss wanted him to get my side of her story.

So I went there with a file folder and asked more questions than I answered at first. Then they were asking me about my faith in her to do her job.

I said, “Look. I don’t have a copy of her job description so I’m not qualified to answer. But I can tell you, I have a file of documented incidents of her not solving my simple security clearance for me to receive records. The incident she complained about? Yeah, those records are still not unlocked for me to file. So…”

And that was that. She still works here, but I know damn well that she is on thin ice.

And I am not.

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Worked in a lab calibrating devices used in litigation. So everything around their repair and service is documented because it can be used in court and will be. Anyways the technical manager I’m supposed to go to if I can’t solve something (who I trained, should have been my first sign to quit) was super lazy and didn’t want to do her job. Literally refusing to write SOP guidelines for chemical uses and other stuff. Anyways in my exit interview I provided documentation (that I had already sent my manager several times) of standards violations with OSHA and other compliance agencies, and her and my managers unwillingness to do anything about it, including an email response from her(where she’s CCd my manager who was a pushover and never did anything, he sucked at standing up for anything) saying “I don’t give a f**k, get it done and stop complaining”, and then documented cases where she would attempt to mock my PPE requests. I wasn’t the only person escorted off site that day.

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HR required him to apologize. I didn't turn him in. Someone else did, on my behalf. So I worked with HR, proved my innocence. When he called me in and faked an apology he reached his hand across his desk to shake my hand. It may as well have been a rattlesnake. I couldn't take it, didn't take it and I saw him wince. I am so glad I never touched that rattler.

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I had a well-known AH of a company owner try and berate me by calling me lazy in front of the team on the worst of days and I looked him straight in the eye and said "I refuse to internalize that remark." He was speechless. Coworker took me aside and said "You're my hero."

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Quite a while back (a bit over twenty years now), I had a boss who was pretty vocally one of Those Guys. He was a holy roller, used to listen to right-wing radio at work without headphones (Rush Limbaugh and Jim Quinn, mostly), and would complain vociferously at his desk about Those People. I don't think he ever realized that the only sysadmin the company had (moi) was One of Those People. I kept my mouth shut because it was the best money I'd ever made at the time.

The moment I had a chance to jump ship I took it, but before I left for good I decided to take advantage of another of my boss' personality quirks: He was the kind of guy who'd get his mail in the morning, drive in to work, and go through it during lunch. So I got him a gift subscription to [Not Like Most](https://www.abc-directory.com/site/2645303), which was a glossy periodical dedicated to promulgating Satanic thought and philosophy.

A couple of weeks after I moved and got settled in a few states away, one of my ex-cow-orkers IM'd me. "Did you do something? Bill was going through his mail this morning and he freaked out over some magazine that came in his name." I was told that this caused him no end of heartache and panic, at home or at work, and he was beside himself every time he saw another issue arrive.

Gotcha, Bill. And I hope your eldest son came to his senses and got away from you.

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I was being outed at work by my supervisor, and his supervisor told me to come in before my next shift to discuss what was happening. He basically told me "deal with it" and that he wasn't going to do anything to stop rumors or make me feel safe. After a 20 minute conversation I handed him my badge and said I was resigning. The look on his face was priceless.

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I(M) was repeatedly hit on by our newly hired COO over the course of several years. It culminated with him getting a little too touchy. I went to HR and without naming names, I explained that a certain superior co worker was behaving badly toward me. She asked me to draft a letter with days/dates and what occurred, again without naming names. I had kept track. I gave her the redacted letter as asked and she held onto it until the day I put in for my retirement one month later, when she asked me who the offending party was. I told her and she said she would handle it. Apparently she told the principals who must have spoken to the COO as he submitted his resignation disguised as a "new opportunities await" email the next day.

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Left and got a job elsewhere at the same level as them for a better organisation, where I'm a better manager than them.

Sometimes the best revenge is simply to do your own thing and be successful.

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the best revenge is to crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentations of their women.

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I’m an event planner and one of our new VPs was a complete b***h. Though I had been doing my job well for well over a decade and she was new, nothing was ever up to her expectations. One time I did all the event planning, logistics, catering, AV etc for her sales conference in Miami but she didn’t want me on site for the event. Ok. You got it lady. What she didn’t expect is that since I negotiated the contracted with the host hotel and did all the pre-planning, they sent me the invoice. Not someone from her team. And let’s just say I’m like a MF forensic accountant when it comes to reconciliation of complex invoices. I did a deep dive and sure enough the b***h charged a massage, hair styling, dry cleaning and washing of over 20 PAIRS OF PANTIES to our master account WHICH IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN BY OUR COMPANY. We have a compliance department which I reported her to. I secretly met with them, and showed them some of the other charges that weren’t really allowed but they didn’t seem that concerned I deliberately kept the panties on the very last page a presented to them 😎 Didn’t happen right away, but yeah, she got fired and I still work for my company. And PS the conference was only 3 days so wtf are you doing with 20 pairs of panties??

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Got into with a manager, who wasn't my manager, but I did work closely with him. This was at a dealership, he was the used car manager, I was a detailer. Had an older guy in our department who was semi-retired. Used car manager decided this guy was his new personal assistant the 3 days a week he worked. Well one day we got absolutely hammered with sold cars and customers work, so we had to have this guy come back and help us out, which was technically his job anyways. Used car manager came back throwing an absolute toddler style tantrum over this guy working with us and not pulling cars off the lot just to run through the car wash and park again (aka busy work). I was about 6hrs deep already of non stop work, no lunch break and it was about 85 degrees that day. I wasn't in the mood as you can probably guess. I flipped out on him. We were basically nose to nose yelling back and forth for a bit. I eventually got him to the point where he knew I was right and he was left speechless and stormed out. I never even got written up let alone fired. But the manager didn't talk to me for awhile and he gave me the shittiest cars to detail for a while after, but he never came back with that type of attitude again.

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I can't count the number of times a higher ranking person either told or tried to tell me an/do my people what to do. The best one I can remember was when I was in mail ops at a bank and I had a crew working on Year end stock reports and an officer from another department ran them out of the room they were in to hold some course that had nothing to do with our company. Those annual reports have a deadline. So when the security officer came in the next morning and they weren't done ha came to me and then went and laid out that other officer. Best I remember he then took multiple people away from their jobs in that guys department and made them help us catch up. I hated that other officer anyway so seeing him put in his place was gratifying.

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New CFO kept putting off my request for new equipment. I kept email chains of all communications, and it blew up in his face later when we didn’t have the equipment I kept recommending.

Side note: some people try to get around this by doing things through calls and meetings. If you can’t do transcripts for those I HIGHLY suggest you summarize in an email and ask them for their input. If no input is given it is often interpreted later as tacit agreement.

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Someone stole my ID and rang up a few grand in phone bills in my name, and one of the things I needed to prove it wasn't me making those calls from a phone 1500 miles away was a note from my HR stating I worked there and the date I started.

Well literally months passing by, I managed to get old credit card statements taken off of microfiche(!?) and mailed to me before the dumb t***t upstairs could muster a 1 paragraph letter. Weekly requests, weekly pleas that she's taking care of it, and one ultimatum from the phone company later and I let her have it. Told her she was completely f*****g useless. Went downstairs to pack my things and my boss shows up with a letter and a smirk - he knew I was right. Told me not to say that to her again and we went on our merry way.

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I outworked them and showed my worth to the company, then refused a promotion and informed them that I was looking and interviewing for a position elsewhere, and would continue to do so, as long as he was still there.

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Email the higher ups, and just did my job in front of them. Their job is to be the skipper on a speedboat, mine is to be crew - they would just hop in the engine bay with the boat running if there was a problem and tell me to steer. With passengers on board it’s so dangerous and illegal to do that. Speeding down the Thames at 40knts in a 30 zone. Shouting at me when I do something I didn’t know I was doing wrong, and then expecting me to just accept their apology. It gave me such anxiety I couldn’t sleep, and while I wish I’d been more self assured that I was in the right to want the higher ups to know, I still felt like i was being bothersome at the time. Foolish.

I emailed and asked not to be put with him, which sparked a meeting that let me explain everything. I did it explaining what he did and how it made me feel, and that was that. He would apologise to me at some point and I told him straight that we didn’t gel, but I wish I’d gone further and told him he needed to get his act together because of how irresponsible he was.

So I did the right thing, but now I know I’d want to be more up front with things not being okay, instead of being so eager to brush things under the carpet.

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I was relentlessly bulied by my line manager when I worked in the pathology office for the NHS some years back. One day, I'd had enough and things got a bit heated. Eventually, I just snapped back at her "I'm right and you know I'm right, but you just won't admit it. So we might as well just end this here because I just don't care anymore!" And it did just end there. She was so shocked, she just said "Right." quietly and went back to working.

The argument was loud enough that the laboratory staff all heard and sent someone to check when it suddenly went quiet because they thought we'd either killed each other or I'd walked out. It was amazing! Still shocked to this day that I kept my job.

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We had an employee football game, I knocked him out. Gotta keep your head on a swivel. I for sure thought i was gonna get fired or something, but I found out that managers aren't supposed to hang out with employees so nothing happened.

Probably doesn't count but that's as close as I got.

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Sent him an email to read on the day he got back from a two week vacation telling him I was resigning my position. My last day would be two weeks from the day of his return. I got walked out but they paid me. I technically got fired, but I feel like this is in the spirit of the question.

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My district manager was never around enough to know what my real voice sounded like, so every time I talked to her, I would switch to doing my impersonation of her to her face. She never said anything.

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Caught them in several lies and had video evidence to back it up .

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I told him he reminded me of a famous tv show host that was in the news for being a terribly mean boss. He said to keep my voice down cause if management heard my joke he'd get in trouble. I shrugged and said I wasn't joking and got back to work.

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I can't remember what started it, but we got physical to the point of shoving each other a few times, before slipping on something and both falling to the ground. This guy was the owner of the restaurant. We just separated and went back to work for a little while, and then eventually i went in the office and was like "that was weird, my bad" and he pretty much said the same. Nothing else came out of it.

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