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There is a satisfaction that no amount of therapy, meditation, or deep breathing can fully replicate, and that's watching the universe personally deliver consequences to someone who absolutely had them coming. Not revenge, not intervention, just the cold, cosmic clockwork of cause and effect doing exactly what it's supposed to do. Karma, in other words. And when it hits, it hits different.
An online community recently asked people to share their most jaw-dropping "they utterly deserved that" moments, and the thread delivered in ways that are equal parts deeply satisfying and genuinely humbling. These stories will make you want to live a better life immediately, just in case someone's taking notes.
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#1
I was waiting at this bus stop, and next to me was this quiet Jewish kid: white dress shirt, black dress pants and *kippah.*
Anyway, this one bus was lingering at the stop, and this "brah" was leaning out the window, holding a Big Gulp, and just shouting at the poor kid. "Hey, kike! Go eat a bagel, kike! Oy vey!" All this stupid s**t.
The Jewish kid was blushing furiously and pretending he didn't hear anything, and I felt just terrible. Suddenly, the bus driver must've decided to stop idling, because the bus jerked forward really suddenly, and the brah's Big Gulp popped open, drenching his face and his d****e haircut with beautiful, ice-cold stickiness. The guy swore on top of his lungs and yanked his head back in, and I could hear laughter inside the bus.
The Jewish kid was smiling hugely, and I shared a grin with him and a high-five. It was a good day.
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#2
An older (70ish) gentleman came into the restaurant I was working at in high school and said he had found a $5 bill in the parking lot. He asked if he could have it. I figured finders keepers and he asked what he could get with $5. We had a combo that was $5.45. He seemed really sad that he didn't have enough so I just told him not to worry about it. He asked if it would be okay for him to sit inside. It was a very hot day and he did smell pretty awful but we were in between rushes and we didn't figure it would hurt anything. He finished his sandwich and refilled his drink but he forgot to get his chips. So I put his chips in a bag and the kitchen fixed him an extra sandwich. I ran out into the parking lot to give him his "chips". He felt the weight of the bag and started to tear up just a little. He told me that it had been years since anyone had served him and allowed him to sit inside like that. It was a truely sad moment. A few weeks later he came back with a pocket full of change. He wanted to buy another sandwich but the owner of the restaurant turned him away. She said he would run other customers off with his smell and appearance. It was a weekday so my crew wasn't there but we heard that people actually left, angry that she wouldn't take his money. About a year later she went out of business. I still think about that old man. He rememinded me of my great grandfather. I bet they probably knew each other.
#3
I was walking downtown with a friend of mine on a Saturday night. While he isn't flamboyant, it is generally quite obvious to others that he is gay. While at an ATM, some drunk frat boy walks by yelling "you getting money out to pay for your midnight b**t s*x you f*cking queer" or something along those lines. Before I could shout something nasty, a man in a bright pink tube top, smoking outside of a nearby gay bar taps the guy on his shoulder, smiles sweetly, and then punches him straight in the face. The guy goes down like a lead brick, and while blood spurts from his nose, the man stands over him and shouts "taste the rainbow B***H." Everyone cracks up laughing and the guy can do nothing but lay there while another man strategically spills beer on his c****h. Gotta love instant karma.
Karma is one of those words that gets thrown around so casually that it's easy to forget it actually means something. Rooted in ancient Hindu and Buddhist philosophy, karma is the principle that every action (good or bad) sets a chain of cause and effect in motion that will, eventually, find its way back to you. It was never really meant to be a threat or a comfort. It's more of a cosmic accounting system.
The concept has two sides that people tend to forget about in equal measure. Good karma is just as real as the bad kind. The person who goes out of their way to help a stranger and then gets an unexpected call about their dream job a week later. The small, unremarkable moment of decency that somehow echoes forward in ways nobody could have predicted.
But the reason this thread exists, and the reason everyone clicked on it immediately, is mostly because of the other kind. The bad karma. The stories about people who lied, cheated, manipulated, and bulldozed their way through life right up until the moment the universe quietly cleared its throat and said: actually, no.
#4
I experienced some positive karma on a flight once. I was on my way back home after my third year of University. It was a long flight, Moncton NB to Vancouver, BC. The flight was quite late taking off, so I knew there was a good chance I would miss my connecting flight to Victoria, where I lived.
The most beautiful stewardess I have ever seen comes around telling us chocolate bars/snacks are for sale. I give her a $10 for a snack, but she gives me back change for a $20, not a ten.
I stop her the next time she comes down the aisle and mention she gave me incorrect change and give the rest back. She is elated, saying how honest and kind a person I was. I felt pretty good!
Later, when we arrived in Vancouver, they put up the guests connecting to Victoria at a hotel close by. I was a bit nervous since I was a student, had almost zero money and certainly couldn't afford a hotel room (didn't have a credit card at the time). Thankfully, I wasn't asked to pay for the room, whereas I overheard some other passengers complaining they had to pay.
I can't help but think the stewardess helped me out on that one.
#5
When I was in 6th or 7th grade my friend told me that the boy she was dating was allergic to wheat and I responded "What kind of loser is allergic to wheat?" Two years later I was diagnosed with celiac disease, now I can't eat wheat.
#6
My ex cheated on me and left me for another guy. I was in shambles to say the least. A year later, I get a text from her saying that she just found out her bf had cheated on her and she was on a bus to 'nowhere' (implying that I should come get her). I txtd back "thanks for the update!" and that was the end of that conversation. I never felt such satisfaction in my life.
Karma is one of those concepts that gets reduced to a bumper sticker when it has thousands of years of philosophical weight behind it. Rooted in Hindu and Buddhist traditions, it's technically a causal law, not a cosmic vending machine. Every thought, word, and action is a cause, and every experience is its effect, with merit and demerit accumulating quietly until the universe decides it's time to settle up.
What's fascinating is that almost every major philosophical tradition arrived at the same conclusion independently. Plato argued that the unjust always get their reckoning eventually. St. Paul wrote, "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." The Old Testament warned that punishment could extend to the third and fourth generation. Nobody, it seems, gets away with anything forever.
The Buddhist take adds the most interesting layer. The Buddha argued that the distinction between self and others is essentially an illusion, meaning that harming someone else is, in a very real sense, harming yourself. Every action reverberates outward to the end of time. This is either deeply comforting, mildly terrifying, or just a good reason to think twice before sending that passive-aggressive email.
#7
I worked at this place where the co-owner was also the HR directer and was just this tremendous b***h. She found out this 60 year old woman in my department was probably facing liver failure and conspired to get her supplemental insurance (which would be a major asset if she had to stop working) revoked. Among other horror stories.
Anyway we had one of our quarterly "outings" at her weekend house. It was a huge McMansion, normal enough for a woman who ran a company, but it was in the middle of 100 acres of woods on a ~20 acre fully private lake, with a massive multi-level deck with a built-in grill and hottub overlooking the lake. It was pretty much my dream house. She basically had to party to show us how well she lived.
Anyway it turns out she never got a permit to impound the lake. Some environmentalists found out and since it was a protected stream for some reason or another, she had to stop impounding the water. So now she has that huge house overlooking a mudpit. She let it be known that the house cost something like $3 million, including the landscaping and the lake... I saw it on Zillow for $2.25m and it had been listed for over a year. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving person.
Michael Largey 1 hour ago
If you have to judge someone's character, their impounding water is damming evidence.
#8
I worked for a complete p***k. He had a fiance and wzas also banging a girl on my "team" who he tried to get a better review for by changing her numbers and demanding I sign it.
I said "no"
As a result, he left me on the night shift instead of alternating like I had for the previous year... for the last 3 months of my wife's pregnancy with our second child. This meant that my heavily pregnant wife had to look after our oldest alone for 3 months.
Fast forward a few years and my wife is an HR person at the head office of a Bank when she hears a familiar voice from next door. Afterwards she asks her co-worker "Was that xxxxxx?" (my old boss)
Turns out it was, and he was applying for a VP job. My wife said she smiled, closed the door, and proceeded to tell the HR person a story or two.
He didn't get the job.
What comes around goes around.
#9
A friend of my mother's had been married to her high school sweetheart. He treated her like s**t but she was a door mat. He was cheating on her and finally decided to leave her for one of the girls he'd been cheating on her with. He moved out and into her swanky condo, making sure to spin the knife as many times as possible by visiting randomly with the girlfriend in the car to get his things and then mention how much nicer the condo was, etc.
Well, ol' girl stopped putting out and didn't pick up after him the way that his wife had. In that yearish my mother's friend had grown somewhat of a backbone. He called her and said he missed her, wanted to know if she still loved him, the works. She acted like she was so enthusiastic that he wanted her back and promised this lavish dinner once he arrived, so he broke up with the girlfriend and gathered all of his things up. When he got there, she was laughing through the locked screen door and then went to the kitchen to make herself a drink and watch him - homeless and single.
According to a survey of 2,000 Americans, 84% of people genuinely believe that what goes around comes around. That's not a small margin. That's basically a consensus. And perhaps because of that belief, another 84% say they actively go out of their way to pay it forward whenever possible. The cosmic accounting system, it seems, has a lot of willing participants.
The good karma side of the ledger is surprisingly active. The average American reportedly performs five generous acts per week, totalling 260 random acts of kindness per year. That includes generous tips, helping neighbors, donating to charity, and treating loved ones to something special. 72% of people report feeling better about themselves after helping someone else.
The bad karma numbers are equally telling. Americans attribute bad relationships, lost belongings, and arguments to karmic consequences, suggesting that even people who don't take the philosophy seriously are quietly keeping score.
#10
I had a "friend" who pretended to have cancer. She led us all on. A year later, she developed cancer for real.
Michael Largey 1 hour ago
Sometimes it takes time for the soul's cancer to spread to the body.
#11
Had the driver of a BMW hit my car and take off when I was waiting for people to finish crossing the street. He got T-boned by a pickup at the next intersection.
#12
I was walking down the street next to some typical rush hour traffic that stretched about three blocks to the freeway ramp, when this empty taxi pulls up at the end and just lays on the horn. He wasn't going to be going anywhere fast and sat on the horn for about 5 minutes all while people were yelling at him and giving the finger.
I reached the stoplight at about the same time he did and the light turned red. He decided to follow the car in front of him and gunned it to make it across (still on the horn), right into a police car that was pulling out.
Justice.
There's a long-standing idea that truly good deeds should be done quietly, without an audience, and definitely without a caption. Ancient wisdom and your most insufferable friend would both agree: if you post it, it doesn't count. But research from the University of Rhode Island has some genuinely interesting news on that front.
According to a study, sharing prosocial behaviour online actually increases trust, credibility, and social connection. Turns out the ancient wisdom missed the algorithm entirely. The study created a mock Facebook page and tested how people responded to different types of content. Posts about good deeds consistently produced a measurable boost in social capital.
People were more likely to follow, engage with, and trust someone who shared altruistic actions publicly. And when someone else shared the post on their own account? The effect multiplied even further. This raises a mildly uncomfortable but fascinating question about karma in the social media age.
If posting your good deed makes people trust you more, inspires others to act generously, and spreads the kind of content that social media desperately needs more of, is it really that different from just doing the thing quietly? The researchers seem to think not. The universe, apparently, has a public account now.
#13
A buddy of mine worked for a video game company. He stayed late often (sometimes until midnight) so they could release a game on time. When they thought he was done with the project they fired him. He had been working until 2am that day and when he came in after a few hours of sleep he no longer had a job. (After years of employement there. Plus he had relocated for the job.)
They fired him to cut costs because they figured they could do what he was doing themselves (small company, owner was manager).
Little did they know how much my friend was actually doing. They brought in a contractor who totally screwed everything up and they ended up being way behind before they finished and ended up spending more than a year of my buddys salary just getting things finished. He was like "I could have finished that in an hour. Oh well unemployement is pretty nice.".
#14
When I was a kid, a friend of mine had a crazy neighbour who harassed his parents mercilessly. The guy just knew how far to go without it technically being against the law. This went on for a couple of years until finally his parents move (at the top of the bubble so they sold their house for like 5x what it was worth) and then proceeded to build themselves a beautiful house.
A new guy moves in to the house and the neighbor starts his s**t with the new owners... only he takes it a bit too far... come to find out the new guy is a cop, a major a*****e and takes delight making the lives of others miserable... Oh karma...
#15
Bright young grad student me sent out my first ever paper submission to a journal. My advisor and I had picked that journal because it was a fairly new start up and she thought they'd be receptive to my topic. I got back an extremely rude missive that basically said "We don't even look at this kind of thing." I was confused, since it was pretty much tailored for their journal, and the only thing I could think of was that it was something about *me*, as a submitter, that was wrong with it. None of the traditional feedback was included -- they didnt' even look at the submission. I showed it to my advisor, wondering if this was normal, and she informed me emphatically that it was not -- that they were, in fact, extremely rude.
Fast forward three months: the Journal is having financial difficulties, and writes to my advisor, Very Famous Professor in the Field, asking her to write them a letter of support for their funding body. She politely inquired about their policy towards new academics in the field, quoted my letter to them verbatim, and when she didn't get a satisfactory explanation, basically told them she wasn't going to support anyone who treated young academics that way. It was very heartwarming.
-- to be clear, the paper was probably c**p, and got a much more satisfactory rejection letter from another journal a few months later that at least told me *why* it was c**p.
So here's where we've landed. Karma is a philosophical concept that's thousands of years old and backed by every major religion and tradition on earth, supported by modern research, believed in by 84% of Americans, and apparently now optimized for social media engagement.
The universe has been running this system since before recorded history, and it is, by all accounts, still very much operational. The books always balance. The receipts always surface. Nobody, at any point in human history, has successfully gotten away with anything forever.
The stories in this thread are proof of that in the most gloriously specific, deeply human way possible. Some of them are triumphant. Some of them are heartbreaking. Some of them are so perfectly timed that they genuinely make you question whether there's something much bigger quietly running the show behind the scenes.
The bottom line is simple. Be kind when you can. Pay it forward when you're able. Tip generously, help your neighbors, and maybe think twice before you do the thing you're currently considering doing. Not because someone's watching. Not because you want the followers. Just because what goes around comes around. And if this thread has taught us anything, it comes around with impeccable timing.
What is your favorite karmic event you have witnessed? Tell us about it in the comments!
#16
At my last job, there was a guy (Senior Program Manager) who decided that he absolutely hated me and his mission in life was to destroy my personal and professional reputation. His reason for hating me: I hung up on him one time for screaming at me on the phone about how to do my job. (He wasn't even my boss and had no right to tell me what to do.)
Anyway, I got pregnant with my first baby, and while I was on maternity leave this d*******g would tell anyone who would listen about how I had slept with all of the guys on our program and didn't know who my baby's father was. I had been with my husband for 5 years at that point, and he was obviously the only possible father.
This went on for a while before I was clued into by some friends of mine. I filed my first and only s****l harassment complaint, which of course went nowhere. He got a slap on the wrist, and within a month was back to making my life hell, complaining about how I wasn't doing my job properly, elevating his complaints higher and higher, etc. And the whole time everyone he would complain to would defend me because they knew he was out of line.
It was a little crazy the lengths this guy was going to to destroy me, but finally one day he totally lost his s**t on one of our high level government counterparts. The next day Senior Program Manager D****e was demoted 3 levels and removed from our program. It was the best day ever!
tl;dr-High level d*******g made it his mission to destroy me, but destroyed himself.
#17
The karma story that still makes me smile happened in the late '90's.
I have always been a huge fan of one particular sports car. So when I finally got a job that could afford me one I bought a new one. I love, love, love that car (still have it). Soon after I got it I joined a car club so we could all share the love of our cars with each other.
I was accepted into the club by most of the members, but there was this one guy who didn't like me or think I should get to have any of the fun. He did everything possible to make me miserable. All because I am a girl. Actually (I think) it was because I was a married woman that had no interest in him, I just wanted to be part of the club.
Of course we were all members of online message boards and bragged about our mods and accomplishments. Everything this guy did to his car was well documented on the internet.
Well this guy ended up blowing his motor due to improperly using NOS and racing the hell out of it.
So this moron removes all his mods, tows his car to the chevy dealership and tries to get a new engine under his warranty. The whole time he is bragging about how he is duping a major dealership in Dallas. were talking $7000. + labor costs for the new engine.
Someone on the message board tips off the dealership (not me, I don't think that fast). They ended up printing out pages of his c**p including pictures of all his mods and him racing and presenting it to him. Warranty denied!
tl;dr be careful what you post on the Internet if you are an a*****e.
#18
When I was younger, I talked a LOT of s**t about prescription d***s, how much of a scam they were, how people took them because they "couldn't handle life" etc etc etc.
I started Lexapro last year to battle my anxiety problems. Serves me f*****g right. But I'm humble enough to admit I'm wrong - this s**t is working like a charm.
#19
My grandmother was the most wretched, horrible person I have yet to meet in my existence. While my grandfather, sweetest man I've ever known, was in the hospital months before dying of cancer, he gave one of his daughters permission to use his truck to get back and forth to the hospital. My grandmother called the cops, saying that my aunt stole the truck.
Due to the amount of care she needed, having had a stroke some years ago, we decided it best to put her in a care center (read: retirement home) as but a few of us had the time, energy, or remote interest in caring for her.
I say that to say this. Not long after she called the cops on my aunt, the ambulance showed up to take my grandmother to the center. She sincerely thought that they were making a mistake and arresting her instead of my aunt.
#20
I had this roommate who got up at 6:15 every morning to work out, then was in his research lab by 7, class by 7:30, and usually didn't come home until 10:00 pm. Dude worked super hard all the time at everything he did.
Now he's an NSF fellow in a fairly prestigious PhD program, and happily married to his wonderful, sweet (former) girlfriend.
Dude totally deserved it.
#21
My ex had an affair with some dude that she met on Facebook. Turns out the guy was cheating on his live-in girlfriend at the time, who happened to be supporting his lazy, heavy drinking, non working a*s. He was even using her phone and facebook account. Girlfriend found out (I have noooo idea how), filed a restraining order. Guy violated said order. Three months in the slammer.
#22
At a 4 way intersection, my wife's turn to go. Some d****e to the left goes instead. He proceeds to stare us down the whole time and drives right into the car infront of him. I laughed till I cried. He was nearly foaming at the mouth.
#23
My ex-stepmom. Or whatever you call a lady who entrapped my dad, drove him back to alcoholism, leached all his resources, and when he died at a very early age, suddenly she declared herself common-law wife, just to get widows benefits. As far as I know you have to live together to become common law, he was never at her place for more than 3 days until he had to go back home and get s*******d.
Anywho, lady is a raging d**g-abusing bipolar manipulative psycho. Who shouldnt have a drivers license. Or kids for that matter. When my dad died, she never once asked me how I was doing, all she did was b***h and moan about how she got 'gypped' out of his inheritance or my grandparents must've intervened to make sure she didnt get it (there was no inheritance). Afterwards she decided I must've gotten everything, and was buttering me up bad until she realized, from the condition of my clothes, that I had nothing. Then she gave me something to remember my dad by - a cardboard box full of his old socks. My gratitude was endless...
So she proceeded to sell my dads two cars, gave away most everything else of his, and then with that money she bought herself a New Age trip to Egypt. She believed the merchant, he was after all, a friend of Sylvia Brown from TV! The guy would offer meditative overnight tours of the magical pyramids of Egypt.
Turn out he stole the money and ran. She was even more devastated. Thankyejeebus!
#24
Small instance of karma working out exactly perfectly:
Found $30 on the ground at work last week, found who it belonged to. Two days ago, someone spotted $30 under a table I was sitting at and asked if it was mine; it was.
#25
My bosses thought they could replace me (and the three jobs I do here) so they hired a girl behind my back and told me they'd give me another side job if I trained her. (I basically got fired)
In this economy I'm not in much of a position to say 's***w you guys, I'm outta here' so I took the deal BUT FIRST I demanded I get my overdue raise, more vacation time etc etc.
I train the girl for a month but after a series of schedule conflicts and her irresponsibility they have no choice but to fire her.
I get my job and hours back WITH my raise and everyone in the restaurant knows they still feel like a******s.
And I learned a valuable lesson about backstabbing.
(And I'm BANKING ^_^ ).
#26
In traffic in the left line of the highway when I get to a guy that's going under the speed limit. I honk, he doesn't budge, so I pass to the right, pull up ahead and get in front of him to keep traffic going.
He doesn't like it one bit and pulls up to my right, both of us going over 60. I look to my right, he's rolled his window down, eyes me down behind sunglasses, and he scrunches his face up to launch a loogie at me.
I wish I had slow-mo video of what happened next - this d****e who must have failed his physics class and common sense attempts to launch his chewing gum and loogie at me and it obviously goes no further than an inch from his face due to how fast we were going. It gets caught in the slipstream and tapers off like it was in the matrix. Beads of spit and his loogie fly back, some of it getting into his own car, back in his face, just beautiful.
I pointed and laughed my a*s off as I took my exit. He was mouthing "f**k you" and it made it even funnier because as he mouthed the "f" he kept drooling on himself and still had part of the loogie trailing on his chin.
tl;dr - Get out of the fast lane where you don't belong - move over to the right - George Carlin.
#27
I was walking to work one day and this j*****s started honking at me and making rude gestures, just being a d**k. He was at least twice my age, and I could have been a teenager for all he knew. (I was 20 and looked young.) I ignored him and carried on walking without even looking at him. Instead of backing off, he just got more persistent, whistling and carrying on. As a result, he was totally not paying attention to driving and rear-ended the car in front of him in front of about 20 other cars. No one was hurt or anything, but there was a bit of damage, and everyone saw what happened, so for sure he paid for the accident. Sweet justice.
#28
Age 16, had just finished my first visit to Mountain High in SoCal. Fun mountain if your into board parks but the locals are wannabe white trash gangsters. You can't leave your board anywhere and I've seen fights just about every time I go.
Anyways it was around 5pm, me and my friend are sitting by the side of the road waiting for our ride. The road is more of a highway, two lanes, real narrow, with snow piled about two feet high on each embankment. We are about five feet back from the road minding our own business when we hear a horn blast to our right. A compact car full of Bros is screaming towards us going atleast 20 over. Inside are four white trash hero's, middle fingers raised in our direction. We watch as the car swerves into the oncoming lane in a errant attempt to get closer and administer a more full bodied middle finger.
The compact had drawn parallel to our position when another horn sounded to our left. A large mini van is barreling head on towards our aggressors. I watched the bros faces morph from malicious laughter to sheer terror. The bro-mobile swerved right but far to rapidly, the car fishtailed back into the left lane and BAM. Sandwiched into the snow. The mini van basically T Boned them.
I'm sure the mini van's occupants were traumatized but the compact was close to totaled. The force of the impact was such that the trunk had flown open, revealing several snowboards snapped from the crash. Passenger door of the compact opens, bro 1 stumbles out, his forehead gashed open.
Bro 1 stares at us, blood streaming down his face. My mouth was agape, I'm generally a nice person....my friend not so much. He screamed "Karma!", our ride pulled up, we left.
I feel bad for the mini van and for the Bro's, not like I haven't given some one the finger before, I've just never swerved into oncoming traffic to do it.
TL:DR - Car full of Bro's swerved into oncoming traffic to give me the finger. Mini Van T Boned them and broke all their snowboards. Friend of mine screams "Karma", we leave.
#29
At the end of the year in Grade 7 we were all packed into the gym for the awards ceremony. They were giving out the sports awards. I played on the basketball team but I was hardly a Toni Kukoc out there. So the most improved award was being announced and I said to my friend "ha! most improved just means you sucked at the beginning of the year and you got a little better by the end. what a stupid award" .......I won it.
#30
There was a lady at my job who was on my team and had more experience than me. She took this to mean that she can order me around to do stuff. A lot of times I would do it since I had been at the company longer than her and knew how to get to most of the data better than most people. Long story short, she made my life hell. would always try to pass things on to me and took credit for a lot of my work. She alienated everyone by claiming to have done their work.
Came to a point that when the layoffs started, she was the first one on the list. Unfortunately in my company, when you get laid off, you get 6 months pay as you walk out the door. I was happy to see her go, but sad that she would get a severance package, but whatever at least I wouldnt have to deal with her.
so my boss told me that he was going to talk to her and let her know that she was being laid off. The same day a colleague that knew of her but didnt know her personally heard her talking on the phone to her husband. She was speaking in her native language which the other person overheard. she was telling him that she got the job at our competitor and was going to give her 2 week notice either that day or the next.
at our company, when you go to a competitor, you get two weeks pay and are walked out the door the same day. I convinced my boss to not tell her about her lay off for 2 more days. finally on friday she told my boss that she found a job at the new company and was walked out.
I saw her in the parking lot and she was all happy to be leaving the company, when i told her that she was going to get laid off and i found out that she was going to leave and told the boss to not have her layoff chat with her until she quit the job voluntarily. she could have walked out with a gross salary of 65K for 6 months.
TL;DR found out b***h at work was going to competitor and was about to be laid off. told boss to wait so she quits voluntarily to go to the new gig so we dont have to give her the severance package. told her in the parking lot that she missed out on check on net pay for $65K.
Look on her face was priceless.
#31
Got one. Was working at a company that went through multiple mergers. My division was re-absorbed into the larger corporate entity and shortly after that my original manager left because he didn't like the direction things were going in.
He was replaced by a "lifer", a manager who was close to retirement. Knew nothing about technology (we were doing support) and managed numbers, not people. He and I clashed over everything, he didn't support our group and the work we did and made my life hell. He eventually had me forced out.
Well, he was just trying to get to retirement and had everything tied up in the company stock. After I left, the stock went into a precipitous decline and I know he lost his shirt.
Not retired last I heard.
#32
My ex and I were dating for over 5 years. She always said she would never cheat on me, because the thought of being dishonest would make her sick.
Fast oreads to the end of the 5th year together, she is being distant and being just not friendly. Turns out she had been screwing around with her boss...who is married and has kids.
When we broke up she said he was leaving his wife for her, etc... Now 3 years later, they are still together, but he is still married and she is the mistress.
When I see her, she constantly complains about it, but refues to leave. What goes around, comes around. B***h.
#33
My bus ride home would always stop at this 4-way stop. The little sign would come out, saying "stop" to oncoming traffic (it was a 2-lane street).
Kids getting off the bus would cross the street the bus was stopped on, only to be nearly k****d by a car who ignored the stopped bus and drove right through the line of kids. After a few months of this, it became clear that this was almost always the same brown car.
One day the bus pulls to the stop, puts its little stop sign out, and just as a kid gets out and goes to cross in front of it, the brown car comes barreling towards him, nearly knocks him over, and goes past. A cop car was behind the guy, and turned on its lights, but the car kept going. A SECOND cop car who was following the bus pulls out in front of the guy, trapping him between the two cops. It was awesome. Everyone on the school bus cheered.
#34
Hopefully I'm not too late for this party.
At my old job, one of my co-workers was promoted to become the supervisor of our own department. She almost instantly became a miserable b***h, and I don't use the term lightly. Any amount of joy in the office was squashed with sarcasm and derision. If she heard workers having a conversation, she would stand behind them with arms folded and ask "Having a nice talk?" in her most sarcastic tone. She also started showing up later and leaving earlier, spending most of her time on the phone arguing with her boyfriend. S**t like that.
Anyway, we had an award ceremony after a while. Everyone showed up dressed normally, business casual. But she came in an evening gown and high heels with her hair all done up, and looked like she had been practicing her surprised face. Knowing what was inevitably going to happen, I watched her face intently as the night went on...
The bronze award went to... someone else. Her face remained calm. She knew she wasn't going to earn such a low honor.
The silver award went to... someone else. Looking hopeful and excited now, as gold is coming up.
The gold award went to... someone else. Getting a little tense now.
Platinum goes to... someone else. Starting to sweat, but there's always diamond.
And the diamond award...(eyes beaming with excitement)
goes to...(jaw dropping slightly. surprised look ready to deploy.)
...someone else!
She immediately stormed out of the room and down the hall. Several of us laughed in delicious schadenfreude. Two weeks later she f****d up an inventory order and got fired.
TL;DR: **Also one time while she was smoking, a goose s**t on her head.**.
#35
Wow, I've got a good one for this thread. I used to work for an environmental testing company. For a fee, they would run tests on environmental samples for water turbidity, total petroleum hydrocarbons, that sort of thing.
For some reason, my boss at the time had developed a real dislike for me. I suspect that it's because I ran all my tests as carefully and accurately as I possibly could, and never tried to fudge anything in favor of the customer. Maybe that's a self-serving interpretation, I don't know. My methods did make my tests take longer.
Anyway, for several months I had been running tests which involved condensers, which are double-walled glass columns with a water-inlet and outlet. Basically, a flow of cold tap water through the column cools escaping gases and causes condensation. One late Friday afternoon, she came up to lab hood where I was working, and started setting up an extraction to run over the weekend. I noticed she had chosen a particular condenser which had a problem with its water fittings, and I mentioned that I had had problems with the fittings coming loose.
No joke, she said to me in all seriousness, "Tommysmuffins, that is because you are an amateur, and I am a professional."
I kind of shrugged. My feelings were hurt, and I just went home since it was late in the day.
I felt much better when I came in Monday morning and found three inches of water on the floor of the lab, and her trying to frantically clean up before I arrived. Karma struck swiftly and hard that day.
#36
Schoolteacher at my Mum's school. Understand this is back in the 60s. He had a problem with mentally handicapped kids and my Mother's school and a policy of integrating them so the regular kids and them could benefit from it (my school did this too, I wish all schools would).
Well, this one kid had a toy guitar that he liked to play and the teacher in question decided it would be funny to make him play in front of the whole school. All the while he's encouraging people to jeer him and basically make him look like a fool. Apparently, it was a 50/50 split between people being horrified and joining in the "fun".
Well, this teacher's wife had a baby a few years later. That baby had Downs Syndrome. I've no idea whether or not he treated the kid well, I truly hope so.
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