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“Now She Can’t Walk At Graduation”: 21 Times Karma Instantly Caught Up With People
Article created by: Indrė Lukošiūtė
Most of us were taught the "Golden Rule" from a young age: treat others the way you want to be treated. Despite how simple this sounds, plenty of people still have trouble being kind, considerate and empathetic. But it can be comforting to know that if someone has wronged you, karma will definitely come for them. And sometimes, it’s incredibly fast-acting!
Redditors have been sharing their best “instant karma” stories, so we’ve gathered the most amusing ones below. From people being punished for their selfishness to others being rewarded for their generosity, this list is full of stories that might convince you that karma is real. Be sure to upvote the ones that inspire you to behave a little bit better, and keep reading to find a conversation with Gina Vild!
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#1
I've worked at the same company for over 6 years. I was a loyal, good employee with a perfect track-record. Over the 6 years I've only called in sick twice. I had the best results, the least amount of errors on paperwork in the whole region and quite possibly the whole country. My new boss decided that that wasn't enough. He minimized my hours (they get a bonus to keep labor low), expanded my workload and never had anything nice to say. He seemed to think ruling with an iron fist is the way to go about this. Even after all this, I'm the one who kept his head above water, fixing his errors along the way.
So today I resign my position with immediate effect, which in terms cancelled his vacation plans for next week. On top of that, there is no one to fill my position. As soon as I mouthed the words "I quit" you could see the terror in his eyes. I've never felt such a sense of instant karma as today. I never meant to cancel his vacation, but I wasn't going to put his needs before mine.
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#2
I was stopped at a red light waiting to turn right. I couldn't see if there was any traffic coming because of how the intersection was set up and the bus in the left turn lane so I was just waiting for a green. The person behind me clearly wanted me to turn because she was honking, yelling and giving me the finger. After a couple seconds she decided to drive around me and was immediately T-boned.
#3
I ran into a guy I went to high school with at a bar one night. Always found him attractive and I had been drinking so I went to talk to him. He was very very drunk and I was not into it at all, but I'm a polite little butterfly who will suffer through horrible conversation I started.
I'm trying to tell him where I work when he suddenly interrupts me and asks if I got a college degree. I said no. He is DISGUSTED. Said he would never have talked to me if he knew that and I was a piece of trash. I went to the bathroom and cried. My inability to pay for college was a sensitive subject for me.
The very next day I am at work as a branch manager of a large local bank. One of my tellers needs me to do an override. I leave and go to the teller line to notice him standing with an older lady. Grandma, it turns out. She was there to transfer money from her account to cover his negative balance and wanted to know if any could be refunded.
I refunded all of them. The fact that he couldn't look me in the eye was the best karma I ever got.
#4
My kid was trying to throw sand in her cousin's hair, and a wind gust blew it back in her eyes. I shrugged and said, "instant karma, baby".
#5
When I was a kid, I was the youngest of all the kids on my block. The other kids (including my sister) would have fun tormenting me. They would try and exclude me from things on the basis of "you have to be X years old to do it."
The worst of them was Marcus. One day Marcus and I, along with some of the other kids, went to a nearby school to ride around on our scooters (oh yeah). Marcus convinced me that to be "cool" I had to jump down a flight of 5 stairs. I succeeded, but broke my scooter in the process.
As the kids rode off, laughing at me for not being able to join them, Marcus' front wheel caught in a crack in the concrete. He FLEW over the handlebars straight into a flagpole. I nearly died laughing. I broke my scooter; he broke his face.
#6
Today was the all day food drive I had spent months planning (we raised 13,000 pounds of food). On may way back from lunch I stopped to fill up my gas tank and left my wallet on top of my car, drove 30 miles down I-5 and back to the site where we were having the food drive. I got a call from the Anderson City Police. My wallet had fallen off the car, right as I reached an overpass, someone saw it fall and brought to the local police station. Not a thing missing. Instant karma for the good deed of the food drive.
#7
Today I missed my bus to help an elderly woman with her groceries only to have a friend pass me driving and offer to give me a ride home.
#8
I tried to explain to my company how they were breaking the law with one of their procedures. They didn't listen, said somebody up the line would have caught it. Later, illegally fired me whilst I was on FMLA leave. Was, statistically at least, their best employee at my position out of 500 people.
They got fined 250K for the violation I brought up several times. I'm still unemployed but I go hiking all day and love my life. Have enough saved up to last me until I do find work.
#9
My ex-wife got pregnant by some other guy. I took my son and moved out and he moved in with her. I stepped back, did nothing vindictive at all, and just let the two of them wreck each others' lives. They were so thorough about it, I wound up feeling bad for them. It wasn't quite instant but it was something that took care of itself. I never did anything to move it along.
#10
As the low man on the totem pole, I got to do all of the grunt labor and random tasks that required working on weekends and such... as a master engineer working in a 9-5 job... being paid less than a pizza delivery driver. Then my boss decided that I no longer got to comp time (leave early or whatever to get back some of the time spent working on weekends), because I was salaried and "it was part of the job."
So, when I quit to go get my PhD, they realized that I hadn't used any vacation time. The ultra penny pincher had to write me a check for two extra months worth of pay as I walked out the door.
#12
I did that once. Worked for a company that moved out over the weekend, cuz they were locking us out that Monday.. Yep, no movers. Moved into a new office, and being an internet company, it was important The internet worked.. Ever try to get someone out on a weekend from the phone company, the provider for our T-1.
Got everything hooked up, and gosh, no internet. So he called me in on Sunday to talk to tech support. I'm a family man, and we had a very nice dinner planned. But no, work was more important to my boss. Told him ok, but he'd need to meet me at the office. I did the tech support call, and still no boss.. Called him again, and told him I really needed him in the office.
I handed him my key, the list of passwords to the server, wrapped in my resignation letter. Told him I had a family, and being pulled away from Easter Sunday dinner to talk to tech support to only have them confirm what I'd told him Friday and Saturday was the last straw. To.d him that I was sure he could find another java/php/linux admin on short notice, or he could figure it out himself.
tl; dr: Left a sleezy boss after he forced me to come into the office to make a tech support call on Easter weekend, to get them to confirm what I'd been telling him all along.
#13
We were driving to Tulsa, Ok from Alabama in 2004 for Christmas. During the trip it started to snow...a lot. Now my spouse learned to drive in snow, so he was following the rules, drive cautiously and not be an idiot.
However there were a lot of people that apparently missed that. My favorite was the guy in the SUV who decided he had a big ol car and he was going to get pass that idiot driving slowly in the icy snow. He gunned around us, attempting to hit 60 mph...which he did, immediately before spinning a 360 off the road and getting stuck in the ditch.
We stopped counting cars in the ditch when we hit the mid 100's.
#14
I was dating this awful girl for awhile, because ya know, I was stupid. She had a temper and was always flying off the handle. One of those people who is never happy. Complains about everything. We had a fight that morning about her irrational temper. Later that day I called her to tell her I had to work late. She freaked out and punched the wall as soon as our conversation ended. Turns out she punched a part of the wall that was solid behind the drywall and shattered her hand. She was promptly dumped.
#15
Once quit a job to only then have the boss chase my jeep on foot screaming at me. He repeatedly called to get me to go back. Felt great.
#16
I was targeted for firing. It had nothing to do with my performance, everything to do with my manager's manager that took a disliking to me. I walked the line of perfection for about a month until I found another job. I handed in my 2 weeks' notice. That was victory number one. I stole about a half-dozen of their employees and got them hired into my new company, that was victory number 2 (yes redditors, sometimes being in a right to work state works for the little guy, non-compete clauses are almost completely unenforceable). I'd like to think that victory number 3 was the 30 or 40 employees they lost in the following year, but I cant claim direct responsability for that. Thing is, when you have employees with high-demand skills like software engineering, you best treat them right.
#17
Some guy at a gas station pulled the "stare aggressively at you from my car as I go past to assert my imaginary dominance" move as I was walking across the parking lot and he was pulling into the pump. He hit a pole that didn't budge and knocked his headlight out.
#18
My ex husband installed a key logger on my computer before moving out. When busted in court he claimed he had implied permission because he could have figured out my passwords anyway. And he wished he didn't have to read them because of all the hurtful things I said about him. Judge fined him 500 bucks an email, ordered him to reimburse me for a new laptop and told him if it ever happened again he'd spent a day in jail per email. In the six months that he'd been reading my email I'd sent almost 2000 emails on that machine. It was gorgeous.
#19
I worked selling shoes for 2 years on a weekend-only basis during school at a national chain. Never offered a raise, never offered to open the store, never given any recognition. When I asked for some more responsibilities, I was told I was unimportant, as two new outside managers were coming in. One managed a section of Petsmart, and the other had no prior experience. I put in my two weeks notice. Both people came in on my last day, so I showed them everything I learned and all the small quirks of the inventory that we had. Both quit within a week, and the store closed within 4 months.
#20
Kind of lame compared to these.
Once when I was a kid, I was on a ferry traveling between some islands in Canada (the thousand islands I think? I'm not sure if that was a joke the guide made or if she was serious). There's a guy on the deck smoking a cigar and being loud, rude and surly to everyone including me and my friend. Later on I saw him cursing in front of a soda machine that ate his dollar.
#21
One time, I was at the Burger King drive- thru and since I am a vegetarian I politely requested a cheese burger deal minus the meat along with fries. I believe it was 1.99 for the burger deal of the day, and the manger told me I had to pay 3.99 because that is technically a veggie burger. However, I was still not getting a veggie patty. So, I told him that I would just take the fries, and to please forget the burger. But, the other staff had already put it in my take-out bag so I got it anyway! And since I didn't pay for it, it was extra good.
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