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A survey of 3,000 American full-time employees by researchers at Olivet Nazarene University, Illinois, found that they consider 2% of the people they work with as "enemies". The number seems low, but anyone who has had at least one knows that it's all it takes to make the job a living hell.
So much so that sometimes you simply can no longer ignore it. To show just how frustrating these interactions can be, we at Bored Panda dug around the subreddit 'Petty Revenge' and put together a list of stories where average people decided to get back at their annoying colleagues.
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#1
Petty Revenge
I quit smoking to get even with a coworker. She and I shared an office, but she wanted my job (which was higher), so she began complaining vociferously to management that her health was being affected by sharing the office with me. (This was back in the '80s, when you could smoke in your office.) Since I knew that she lived with a boyfriend who smoked, I knew her complaint was bogus. So one weekend, I quit smoking. When I entered the office on Monday, I had not been smoking for three days. I continued for the week, waiting to see when she would notice. She never did, and she continued complaining to management. After two weeks, my boss sat her down and told her that despite her statements, our office had been smoke free for two weeks, and she never saw it. He suggested that perhaps she needed to find a job with a different office-mate since she had pretty well poisoned her relationship with us.
I still don't smoke, and it's 40 years this year. So I thank her for her deviousness!
Amy Beckler 2 years ago
Another one of those "ouch! blessings in disguises". Hah hah! Blessings on her.😁
Mickeynsync 2 years ago
Very petty, but amazing nonetheless. Congratulations to this person 👏🏾
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#2
Dyed My Hair Blue So Boss Would Stop Blaming Me For Hair In Customer's Food
I used to work for a sandwich shop. All the other employees there were Indian women with very long black hair. Mine was sort of similar I suppose? Medium length and brown. But every time a customer would complain about a long black hair in the food, my boss would immediately blame me without any hesitation or investigation, despite the fact that I was the only person who wore my hair up and netted. So one day I dyed my hair blue with the sole purpose of not being blamed for black hair being in the food. You guessed it, it happened. And how huffy and annoyed my boss got when I said it couldn't be my hair because mine is blue, was beyond amusing
Fizzer 2 years ago
It's really nice that your boss can't blame you anymore, besides blue hair is really cool!
Jessica N 2 years ago
Mine is blue and the only other person working had a shaved head when we got a hair in food complaint...the offending hair was very long and black. The person complaining? Long black hair. I had their sandwich remade but told them we had no workers with long dark hair like theirs (truth)
FakeOptimist 2 years ago
I think you mean "seems" , could also be the rest of the workforce were friends and family
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CrazyKnitter 2 years ago
As someone who has blue hair, I understand this! No one can blame me when my hair is clearly not to blame
#3
Food Thief Will Never Steal Someone's Lunch Again
I worked in an office where there was a break room food thief who would not quit no matter how many angry meetings were held about it. For some reason, the thief really liked my sandwiches. So one day, I finally had enough, and I liberally doused my sandwich with the most ridiculously top Scoville rated hot sauce that I could find. Like so hot that the reviews from people who loved really spicy things were saying that they couldn't handle it.
The thief didn't think anything was wrong, because I often put hot sauce on my sandwiches. We found out who the thief was really fast, because all of a sudden, an employee who I knew did not like me started yelling "Oh my god" again and again and trying to drink a million glasses of water. They never stole a lunch again.
Clown fish 2 years ago
Lol, me and my friend made a dog food pie to stop a thief from eating our food. And before people start it is probably better meat then the burgers that you can buy
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
I actually knew someone who had worked in a pet food factory, and he told me the meat he saw being thrown in the grinder was perfectly good quality stuff, so you're probably right. ;)
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Sarah SH 2 years ago
Why do so many people do this? Spite? Too cheap/lazy to get their own lunch?
Rylosalex 2 years ago
I would actually like to hear the answer to that question from the thieves mouth
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Frogspawn 2 years ago
My thoughts exactly... or maybe both! Think of how it'd burn coming out! Oh the revenge would be sweet.
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Cat Chat 2 years ago
Maybe they immediately learned their lesson and didn't want to risk stealing someone's milk, instead. But, yeah, my first thought was water just makes it worse!
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A Bobcat From Philly 2 years ago
When someone at work steals your lunch from the refrigerator, bring a cat food sandwich in the next day. Bon Appetit A*****e!
Lori Rommel 2 years ago
If your name is on it (meaning they couldn't have stolen from you by "mistake"), it shouldn't matter what you put in it. OK, nothing actually lethal, but gastric distress from stolen food shouldn't rate an assault charge!
Cat Chat 2 years ago
Ha! "I didn't bring my own lunch, but I truly stole the sandwich by mistake". I get what you mean, but even without a name, it's hard to mistake one homemade sandwich from another made by someone else.
Load More Replies... Vasana Phong 2 years ago
I hated this, bought a sandwich that was cut in half, saved the other lunch the next day, gone, we all knew who it was, but she was never caught in the act
Cecilia Matthews 2 years ago
My friend always put her name on her bottled water in the fridge, and someone would take it. I urged her to put some diluted white vinegar in it, but she was too scared to do that.
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A Jones 2 years ago
I had a colleague who had their sandwiches not only taken at some occasions, but the thief took a bite out of it (seemed like they did it to mock my colleague after a sign was put on the box). It stopped after one wiggly wormy ingredient was added to a trap sandwich. It was none of the day staff though, might of been night crew.
#4
A Got Some Payback On A Annoying Coworker!
For a little backstory, I work construction. When work is slow, I deliver pizzas with a company, whose name is synonymous with a table top game. I knew this coworker from the construction job. When I was very new, he was my lead. He was the kind of guy that would watch you make a mistake, then berate you and call you an idiot for that mistake. Not a nice guy by any right. But one thing he loved to do was brag about how doting his wife was [and] how she was a homemaker. But also bragging about how hot his girlfriend was, and how much they sacked when his wife thought he was working overtime. I got a delivery with a familiar name (we’ll call him AC). I arrived at the house, knocked, and he opened the door. He looked quite surprised. AC: 'Hey, I didn’t know you delivered pizzas!' Me: 'Yeah, when work gets slow. Anyway, that’ll be $15.' AC: 'Here you go.' He hands me $16 and looks kinda smug about it. I take the cash, am about to turn around and say just loud enough that anyone inside might hear, 'Hey AC, is this your girlfriend’s house, or you and your wife’s place?' The color drained from his face, and he handed me an extra $20.
Joe Cannon 2 years ago
At worst it's a bribe. The delivery driver never asked for anything.
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Annamarie Dodge 2 years ago
i hope his wife heard you and she divorced him and got a cool settlement out of it
tHeBoRdEsTpAnDa 2 years ago
`whose name is synonymous with a table top game` Hmmmm I wonder what that means...
#5
A Coworker Would Kick My Lunch “Seat” Across The Room Every Day At Lunch And I Got Him Back.
For lunch a group of my coworkers, our foreman, and myself would sit and each lunch in the foreman’s little hut everyday. My seat was an empty lidded 5 gallon bucket and everyday as I was getting ready to sit one coworker would kick it across the room before I had a chance to sit down. Everyone found it hilarious. It was funny the first couple times but it got old.
So one day I thought it would be hilarious to cut the bottom of the bucket off and then fill it with nuts and bolts and put the lid back on.
That day at lunch we go in he tries to kick the bucket, of course it goes nowhere and he angrily picks it up and tosses the bucket across the room. And of course as he picks the bucket up all the nuts and bolts go spilling out of the bottom. It was hilarious and everyone in the hut was laughing. I had brought in a camping chair pulled it out and sat down and said, “Damn man looks like you have a mess clean up!”
April Stephens 2 years ago
Me too! I love that it's a prank as revenge for a prank. OP admits it was funny at first, so I think the revenge was all in good fun, too.
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Nilsen 2 years ago
.....and whoever found this illustration scanned the text and found the word "nuts"...... There is a difference between "hazel nut" and "bolts and nuts"
Zedrapazia 2 years ago
Absolutely not, I always screw in my bolts with acorns. What else will stop Scrat the Squirrel from breaking my stuff?
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weatherwitch 2 years ago
I've heard this one before but unlike the accompanying pic here, I never thought it was hazelnuts 😂
Ryan Swope 2 years ago
I thought that was going the direction of a cement filled 5galn bucket. Broken toes can be funny too lol
#6
Write Me Up, I Love A Good Paper Trail!
The second I clocked in, my boss (let's call her K) pulled me aside for a serious talk. She handed me a write up for discussing salary with other employees. I am paid a good bit more than others, being cross-trained and having relevant experience and education to back it up. The issue is, I'm paid more than the assistant manager, and she's pissed that I make two more dollars than her and has eight years with the company while I've been here only two months.
My boss says it's a final notice — next time is termination as per company rules. I pointed out this is in violation of not one, but two federal laws, and she retorted, 'This is a right to work state. I'll fire you for chewing gum; don't press it! I got home, did a little research, and found the exact place to help me: The National Labor Relations Bored. I talk to an agent who helped me through the process of filing a claim and helped me upload both the pieces of incriminating evidence, both with corporate approval, and my manager's signed confession of retaliation and corporate policy in clear violation of federal law. They can't really defend themselves when they drafted the incriminating paperwork to intimidate me. The real kicker is the penalty — on top of restitution to employees affected (me), they also lose government contracts. ... This hurts my job extra hard as a pharmacy. As a pharmacy tech, I know for a fact that 50+% of our money is from Medicare and Medicaid programs that we will lose permanently. I've already got a job lined up, and I was planning on jumping ship the day my new one started, but I couldn't be happier to burn the ship down on the way out.
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
It was always burning, since the day I was earning
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C.B. 2 years ago
I understand the comments below about other people losing their jobs and elderly people losing their pharmacy HOWEVER OP would not have taken that course of action had management not broken the law - in writing! I'm assuming that government contracts means taxpayers money is being spent? I would not want my tax money going to an employer that thinks the law doesn't apply to them! Begs the question what else were they up to?
Jessica J. 2 years ago
I was a pharmacy tech for about 14 years...then went to management. The stupidity of some other managers, at store level and up, will always astound me. The term "failing up" absolutely applies.
Whozrite 2 years ago
I was waiting for you to say how you corrected her about the "right to work" and "chewing gum" comment. It's "at will" states that can terminate someone for almost any "reason" like chewing gum. "Right to work" means you can work for a unionized employer without joining the union.
Ugh_What_Now 2 years ago
If only they played all their employees fair wages they wouldn't have to be afraid of them sharing wages to begin with... let alone threatening them over it.
Peppy Piplup 2 years ago (edited)
So.... OP made everyone else lose their jobs? Including the other people who work at the pharmacy that aren't the boss? OP jumped ship, stole the only lifeboat and left the innocent passengers to burn behind him.
Zelda Fitzgerald 2 years ago
He did the right thing by reporting his boss's illegal actions. So this is no one's fault but "K's"
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#7
Coke On A White Shirt
Did this to a fellow correctional officer (captain) back in th day. Our office had a refrigerator used by all captains in our office. I worked days and would keep some plastic bottles of Coke on hand. The captain on nights would always help himself to my Coke so when I got down to my last bottle I heated up the end of a straightened paperclip and poked three evenly spaced holes into the bottle just down from the cap. Wish I was there to see it, but a coworker said he took a swig and dribbled coke down the front of his white shirt.
Rose Button 🇺🇦 2 years ago
Reminds me of a story about my great grandfather: He lived in Egypt, and for whatever reason had to take a boat to get to America. He shared a room with this guy he knew who would drink from my Great Grandfather's beer stash at night. After a week on the boat, my Great Grandfather's fuse was short so he just started pissing in the bottles. A little far, but a funny family story!
sherry allison 2 years ago
To Prentice Tompkins reply, you obviously didn't read the entire statement. The cap hadn't been removed, they heated a paper clip and poked three holes on the bottle under the lid. I don't think Alex is going to award you any money.
Giobemo 2 years ago
So the holes were big enough for the Coke to dribble through (enough to noticeably stain a shirt to the extent it was embarrassing?), but not big enough for the gas to escape before the captain got to it? Gotta say, I'm inclined to agree with Prentice...
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AK to LV 2 years ago
He probably poked the hole in the air gap above the liquid line and just below the cap. If he did it right before he left, then the air wouldn't have escaped much.
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#8
Cut In Line? No Food For You
I bartend at the airport. This happened last night, and it felt absolutely glorious. The security line through TSA was wild. There is an employee line, but it's mixed in with the regular line (hard to explain, but it's basically not any faster). After a coworker and I had already been waiting 25 minutes, we finally hit the front of the line. Two employees apparently thought they were more important than everyone else, and cut in front of us. I was furious. I remembered their faces. We have hot grab and go burgers and sandwiches at my store, and what we don't sell at the end of the night, we usually walk around and hand them out to employees or random people flying out. One of the line cutters came up 20 minutes after close, and we had, like, 30 hot sandwiches left. She asked if she could order food still, and I said we were closed.
She says, 'What are you going to do with those sandwiches?' I replied, 'That's up to my manager.' She told me I better find out fast because her break was almost over. I was counting my till, and had just finished it. I told her I couldn't ask until I finished counting my till. I recounted it six times until she left. Then I bagged up all the sandwiches and handed them out to every single other airport employee I could find, with a smile, like I was Santa Clause. Take that, you line-cutting jerk.
Angie Falzarano 2 years ago (edited)
I've seen this happen to often when I was TSA. But I have to tell of one of the airport employee (restaurant if I remember correctly or one of the fast food). This young lady was coming back in from her break and I was running x-ray. I see her smile and continue my job. I look up about 5 mins later and she still at the belt at the x-ray machine entrance. I was little confused why she was still there until I saw why. She was helping passengers get their stuff in buckets and loading them on the belt. She did this for 10 mins. Eventually she came thru and went back to her real job. After I rotated off x-ray I told my sup what she had done and that I would like to do something for her. So I got a gift card and a coffee mug with card signed by everybody. I told her she made my job much easier by helping the passengers.
Patricia Poinsett 2 years ago
It would have been more effective to tell her that you are a bit backed up because you were shoved aside when entering this morning so sandwiches wont be done for a while
Roberta Bray-Enhus 2 years ago
Last summer, my husband and I went out for some ice cream,at a farm that makes their own. It’s very crowded on weekends. The building they serve from has 6 windows,with high school and college kids as servers. We’re in one line, with 7 or 8 people in front of us. There were parents with young kids in every line. Along comes this couple with a boy that’s maybe 8 years old. After about 5 minutes the kid starts fidgeting and getting restless. The parents are on their phones,ignoring him. So instead of explaining to the boy that we’ll be there in a few minutes,they walk up to the serving window,and the next family waiting to be served. They have the nerve to ask if they can cut in line, as their kid doesn’t want to wait anymore. Their kid doesn’t want to wait anymore. So many parents expressed their parenting skills immediately. The couple decided to leave,with their kid loudly expressing what he thought of his parents.
#9
Slacker Coworker Gets Her Comeuppance
I used to work in a warehouse where one other girl and I worked in one area together, except I did all the work while she played on her phone all day in between occasionally yelling at me for stuff I didn't do. I'd hustle to get the job done, and I cleaned up on recognition from supervisors who saw me hustling. She tried to blow it off when she got busted for slacking but never did clean up her act. She even occasionally had the nerve to tell me to 'calm down' because I work fast and she looked bad in comparison just standing there. Eventually, I found another job, but I made a point of not bothering to mention to this girl when my last day was. I knew she was going to be unpleasantly surprised by suddenly having to take over my job the next day, so I set her up to have the worst first day ever. I used up all the good packing tape and left out only the identical looking stuff that tore easily, I hid the good tape gun and left out the identical looking but broken one, and I unhooked the UPS scale. (When you unplug the scale, you have to restart the computer.) And I changed the password. Resetting the password was a massive headache because IT was terrible and inevitably took a couple of hours to do anything. The whole thing took less than 30 seconds, and I sabotaged at least half a day for her. I later learned she got fired for not doing her job.
JammaCoast2Coast 2 years ago
Sounds like you didn't need to sabotage her, she was completely fine failing on her own.
Cory Tollman 2 years ago
Might have expedited her firing and helped the company out. Resetting the scale was a bit over the top but the rest of the stuff wasn't so bad.
René Sauer 2 years ago
Hm, giving her the bad tape and equipment is one thing, but messing with the computer was a step to far in my opinion.
j robin estrella 2 years ago
honestly, this is b*tch juvenile behavior. you'll understand when you've grown up a bit.
beverly ledbetter 2 years ago
God, I wish I could get this kind of revenge on people...especially when my brother was living because he was really lazy, as is my sister!😊
#10
Coworker Complains About Free Pizza
One of my coworkers is a huge choosing beggar. Like, aggressively choosy to the point he will bully people who are buying him free things to get exactly what he wants. ... Unfortunately, the person who does all the food ordering and general paperwork stuff in our office is a super sweet older lady that isn't comfortable telling people no. One day we had pizza for a lunch meeting, and we all realized that the favorite pizza of everyone in the office...was obviously different. ... She straight up told me that [my coworker] had stood by her desk and basically berated her until she changed half the pizza to be what he wanted. ... The straw that broke the camel's back was when I noticed that he hadn't even touched the pizza. He was eating a different one. I decided to casually ask why he wasn't touching it. Come to find out he didn't actually want any during that lunch. ... He figured he might want some leftovers later in the week, so he had her change the order. So basically, this motherf**ker bullied a sweet old lady...on the off chance he might want leftovers later. So you want to guess what I did. I ate it. All of it. I didn't want more than one piece, but I ate all six pieces...just so he couldn't have any. You can bet your a** he complained about it, too. I just looked back and was like, 'Oh sorry, did you want some during this meeting? 'Cause if I had known you wanted it today, I would've saved you some.' He glared at me for about a week and I felt like I just ate Thanksgiving dinner, but [it was] worth it.
Fat Harry 2 years ago
That's not pizza, that's a cry for help. Who in their right mind puts sweetcorn on a pizza?
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
I like vegetables on my pizza. I also love corn. I'd try it. It looks good.
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Charles Maze 2 years ago
Try some seaweed pizza guarentee ull love it. Props if u can guess what movie that's from. The seaweed reference not an actual line from a movie. Hint it's a Disney movie live action not cartoon.
pik biscuit 2 years ago
I do not know the reference but seaweed slaps so I'm game
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#11
Petty Revenge
They told me that if I were to leave tomorrow, no one would notice. Well, I quit last week, took all my stuff in the middle of the night, including the microwave, all cutlery, all spices, and all the pots and pans from the break room. I think they WILL notice.
ADHD raptor 2 years ago
Omg in need an update ASAP do you have any co workers that can tell you what happened? Omg this is to good xd
I Am LoKitty Of Meowsgard 2 years ago
Was almost going to add to the downvote, but then my inner voice said no, they've got a point. So apologies, I concur, and take my upvote.
Load More Replies... j robin estrella 2 years ago
was it your microwave or did you steal company property to be petty? serious question...
#12
Guy Interrupts Me Whenever I Spoke So I Do The Same To Him
I (22f) work at a kiosk in the mall, and A (20s M) works at the kiosk right beside ours. I disliked him from the first month I started working there. ... He's a douchey guy and says a lot of misogynistic things. I usually ignore and don't partake in the conversation, but when it's a joint conversation with my coworkers (who are all men) and I'm talking, if he gets bored or doesn't want to wait till I'm done, he'll face the other guy and stop me halfway so he can talk about whatever he wants. The other guys don't pick up on it or are used to doing this as well, so I completely stopped engaging if he's around.
Recently, a new girl started working, and he tried to do the same to her, and she picked up on it. The very first time he tried to interject four times. He actively tried to stop her from talking four times, and she would not budge — she continued talking to me and our other coworker. At that point, I just decided 'f**k him.' So now, whenever he struts over to our kiosk to talk or he tries to talk to anyone, i interrupt him midway and start a new conversation or pull my coworker into doing a task. Every time without fail. It's enough to keep me content at work. We also don't let him get a word in when it's just the girl and I, and I full on ignore him if it's just me at the kiosk.
ThatSunniChick 2 years ago
It took me a really long time to get up the courage to not just mousily stop talking when interrupted. But now, if they are especially frustrating, I just get a touch louder and keep talking while looking them dead in the eye. Most of the time it works with pretty amusing facial expressions when they realize im not backing off and shutting up
#13
Petty Revenge
I use my Deliveroo plus account at work to get me and my colleagues lunch, who then transfer the money to me. ... This week, I realized that one colleague hadn't sent money for his lunch in four months. I told him he hadn't, and he replied saying I should have reminded him. He again ordered lunch with the rest of the group. I told him his total; he said he'd pay later, but didn't. I reminded him two days later, and he still didn't send the money for that week's lunch. I realized not only is he not going to pay for previous lunches; he also doesn't care enough to start paying for his lunches either. I created a spreadsheet with everyone on the lunch run's name on It, and all the different amounts people owed me. Obviously, everyone else was on zero, or a small amount. And this coworker was owing me just under £150. I then shared that spreadsheet with my coworkers. ... My colleague freaked out, and I told him that until he pays his outstanding balance, he won't be allowed to use my account for his orders and will need to pay his own delivery charge each and every time. He has since said that I'm mistaken on how much he owes, and I've told him I'm quite happy to give him a full cost break down.
Beruthiel45 2 years ago
Yes. I'd have stopped much sooner. 150 quid? My gawd.
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Garritt VS 2 years ago
Standard tactic. First, argue that the charge doesn't exist. Then argue that the math is wrong. Last, sir and glare at everybody the next time everyone orders lunch together.
Charles Maze 2 years ago
Reminds me of the time I used to sell candy and soda during school and some people tried to do iou's and I was like no only my close friends get iou's because u know why they actually pay me back. Cue the people that tried to get real chummy with me I told them to shove it up their a*s.
Karen Tyas 2 years ago
Even with the conversion £150 for four months worth of lunches isn’t bad
Dawnieangel76 2 years ago
I couldn't have waited over a month. I'd have made it an issue after the first time I wasn't paid back.
#14
Petty Revenge
A group of us would go to lunch every week, and one of the guys always figured the check. After a while, it was obvious that he was overcharging the rest of us for his own benefit. One time, I insisted on figuring the check, and I overcharged him. After stuttering around for a few minutes, obviously uncomfortable but unwilling to point our my math error, he pulled out his wallet and paid. He never cheated us again.
#15
How Do You Take Your Coffee?
An unfriendly coworker used to use my Keurig in my cubicle all the time. She brought her own pods in, so I really didn’t care. Then she started emptying my Brita pitcher to fill her water bottle up every day after I left and never refilled it. Annoying, but whatever. Then one day, a friendly co-worker was standing at the entrance to my cube talking to me about a serious operation his wife needed to get soon. He was clearly worried and needed to talk to someone. The unfriendly walked up behind him, tapped him on the shoulder, and snapped, 'You’re in the way.' The guy seemed embarrassed, apologized, and walked off. She walked in, started her coffee, and walked off while it brewed. I grabbed my bottle of MiO blackberry water flavoring and squeezed probably 1/3 of the bottle in her cup as the coffee filled it. She never used my Keurig or water pitcher again.
Sarah SH 2 years ago
I would have been less passive when that coworker snapped at the person whose wife was in need of an operation.
Mike Loux 2 years ago
Same. "You're in the way." "He was here first, you can F**K RIGHT OFF"
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Id row 2 years ago
So many people need to learn to use their words instead of trying to construct plots.
Mickeynsync 2 years ago
I agree, a lot of this nonsense could be avoided by a conversation. Sometimes people honestly don't realize that they are a problem.
Load More Replies... Beruthiel45 2 years ago
Sorry, but she would have been told to p**s off a lot sooner if it was my appliance. Too many doormats in this list I'm thinking.
Lupita Nyong'heaux 2 years ago
yeah, ion like this one. she shoulda checked ol' girl verbally and immediately. foh
Doug FM 2 years ago
Well since the Keurig fills the cup, adding another 1/3 of a bottle would completely overflow it so this definitely didn't happen.
Min 2 years ago
Those water flavorings are really concentrated. Even a third of one of those little bottles wouldn't be all that much fluid.
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#16
Coworker Tricks Me Into Donating To A Cause I Dont Agree With. Two Can Play At That Game
Earlier today, a coworker was walking around with a can asking for spare change donations. From what I could see of the label (I realized afterwards he was likely obscuring the full label on purpose), it was a kid's charity. Okay, cool. He got to my desk, and I did have some loose change, so I dug it out of my purse. As he held the can out and I put the change in, I saw the full label and noticed it wasn't a kid's charity; it was an anti-abortion foundation. I am quite fiercely pro-abortion rights. Maybe I gave about 30 cents (I held the rest of the change in my palm once I realized what it was), but it was the clear deception that pissed me off. And I know a good bunch of my other co-workers tend not to ask details about donations, so he got a lot of mindless donations.
So, I pulled out my phone and made a nice donation to my state's local abortion fund, and they let you do it in honor of someone, so I wrote, 'In honor of (a**hat coworker's name) who thinks he can pull one over on busy office people.' Suddenly, Monday doesn't seem so bad
ImNotVerySocial 2 years ago
I wish I could like your comment more than once, thank you pro choice grandma
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Gardener of Weeden 2 years ago
I can not afford to continue to donate to planned parenthood everytime an AH ticks me off. But I Keep trying. Make sure they sent him a thank you note for tax purposes
Stephanie Rigg 2 years ago
You just helped to unalive an innocent life. Life begins at conception. If you research the history of abortion and Planned Parenthood you'd see it was originally meant to be used to reduce the population of black people. The more you know.
sancho delgado 2 years ago
Reminds me of that guy saying make sure my spare change goes to a white family. He said it to a Salvation Army Santa. It’s pocket change. Better to get people educated about who they are voting for.
#17
Guy Was A Cocky Jerk, So I Had Him Promoted
I worked at an auto parts store and we had just hired a new guy that seemed to have prior experience in the buisness but christ was he a cocky bastard. He was super jealous of my position and I had gotten a raise and I'm not shy about it. So anyway I'm a sales lead and hes under me. He constantly undermines my authority and is just a general pain in the ass all the time. Ignores my instructions and always tries to threaten me with policy. So what I did was drop a hint that there was a store manager position I was considering, which normally was a good position, but this store was a wreck and everyone knew it. Never held a manager for over a month. So ofcourse he applies for the position just because he thought I did and got it by default, nobody else had applied in over a month of it being open. Pretty soon he was working 120+ hours on salary with no OT and the store barely broke even so he didnt even get very good commissions, which is supposed to be like a 1/4 of their pay. I was making over double per hour with all the chill cushy shifts in a fully staffed store that made bank. The store ended up shutting down and he got moved somewhere else. Didnt ruin his life, but it had to be miserable for a while and he made less money per hour than he did before. Dont assume your smarter than people you dont know.
GadgetGirl 2 years ago
Especially in a sentence where you imply that you are smarter than someone else
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Thomas Ewing 2 years ago
Never pretend to be smarter than people who DO know! One new-hire tried to act like an ace instead of learning the ropes, so we let him totally embarrass himself out of a job. Took about two weeks.
meowi.anne 2 years ago
"He was super jealous of my position and I had gotten a raise and I'm not shy about it" So you went around bragging about your raise?
#18
3 Months Ago I Decided To Quit My Job, As A Parting Gift I Worked Extra Hard To Raise Our Targets
Three months ago, I decided to quit my job — as a parting gift, I worked extra hard to raise our targets. Long story short, I was transferred to a team with bad statistics, bad workflow, attitude...bad everything. It came to the point that when I said to a colleague, 'Please get back to work, there’s backlog,' it blew into a fight how I’m a princess who thinks I'm better than the rest. ... After a year and half of arguments, attempts to tell HR how I ruined the team (for making them work), I left my notice at my manager’s desk. For the last three months of my notice, I’ve been working extremely hard, giving my 150%. Our higher ups raised monthly targets three times already and will do it once again. But this time, they will not achieve them. They have never achieved them before I came. Petty? Very much. Do I care? No.
Lane C 2 years ago
Yea. "I got petty revenge on my company by making them more money than they've ever made until I leave." And in my experience, management won't even notice.
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Aiodensghost 2 years ago
Don't. You just subject the person that comes to fill your shoes to /=/e//
Mauve Mouse 2 years ago
Leaving them with no notice is the best revenge. There’s nothing they can do about it.
#19
Petty Revenge
My ex-manager was a total nightmare. I worked at a small office for about three and a half years, and I trained about five people during my time there, but none of them stayed because the manager was a complete hell-on-wheels supervillain. She was really getting on my last nerve one day, and I knew she had a zoom meeting at 3 o'clock. She would always take her work laptop to the back of the office, where the bathroom is located, for these meetings. Around 2:50, I got up from my desk and went to the bathroom. I took a very large, very smelly dump and did not use any air freshener afterwards. When she went to the back to start her meeting, she FLIPPED out! She immediately went to the front of the office and swung open the front door and turned on the A/C. She muttered curses under her breath while I sat at my desk holding back my laughter. I had to put up with her s*** all day long; I figured she deserved to put up with mine for an hourlong zoom meeting.
JoJoB 2 years ago
I think that being able to dump on command should be recognized as a superpower!
john Whitehouse 2 years ago
If only I had that power. Think of the pooping in dog poop guys yard. He would everyday take his dog through my yard and let them both s**t then one day he had the nerve to tell me to clean up my yard if only I could poop on demand
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#20
Rival College Revenge For A Coworker
I work with a guy, we'll call him Bob, who is a bit of a prick. ... The quick rundown is he's very abrasive, he talks down to people, he's creepy about women who visit the office, and he looks down on people who do manual labor for a living. ... He doesn't really know how to do data analysis, so I find myself more often than not crunching numbers for the guy. It's not something I mind doing, I actually like data analysis; I just don't really like doing it for him because I don't like dealing with him.
I have, however, found a way to entertain myself with the way in which I present the data to him. You see, Bob is a die-hard Ohio State University fan. He grew up around there, he went to college there, and he will sing the praises of the only FBS Team not to score a point in a bowl game last season.
My revenge: All charts and graphs I create for him are in the University of Michigan's color scheme of blue and yellow, and every chance I get, I try and slip a quote related to Michigan, wolverines, or media that references wolverines in any form. I'm not sure if he's noticed it yet, but it's getting harder and harder to subtly insert Red Dawn/X-Men quotes into my emails these days. Either way, I am entertaining myself, and that's all that matters.
Niall Mac Iomera 2 years ago
It baffles me how people get attached to and deeply care about sports teams.
Yeah, okay. 2 years ago
As far as petty goes, this is perfect - it's super annoying but you can't get in trouble for it because anyone complaining will sound like a loon.
Fox with a Dragon Tattoo 2 years ago
I get that it probably pisses him off when and if he ever figures it out. And I applaud OP for that. But I'll NEVER understand that (imo twisted) obsession with highschool or college sports. The amount of self worth and insane pride wrapped up in a football team from a for profit college is baffling.
#21
Fired From Job, Gave All Company Shirts To Homeless People In Neighborhood
I worked for a company in Austin Texas for over a decade, and in that time had amassed over 30 company shirts. I had a pile of polo type shirts and button ups. The company was a high end specialist retail and corporate sales place that had really nice bathrooms. After the company was sold to a genuine prick, he decided to fire a good quantity of about 100 employees including me.
Anyone who knows Austin, knows the huge number of homeless people living under highways. So after my firing I passed out shirts to all of the local homeless population, telling them that if they wore the shirts, they could use the bathrooms in the store.
Edit: this all happened 2 years ago, but the wife says she has a even more shirts put away... Might need a quick post holiday trip into town to drop off a few... Just to keep the revenge up, I'll put a merry Xmas from "boss name" note with them.
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
Wouldn't this potentially cause problems for the homeless though? So sounds like a nasty prank to play with the homeless getting possibly detained or worse for the op's lie
Gabriele Alfredo Pini 2 years ago
Detained for? Going to the bathroom in a store? It could be a good idea if outside is too hot or too cold! XD
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Rocco MZ 2 years ago
I worry that his old boss might have some of the homeless people arrested for trespassing or loitering. Not many stores have public bathrooms these days. He could be putting the homeless people in danger. He should have just given them the shirts and left it at that.
Lemonz 2 years ago
Oh no…. A bed and food, not to meantion your just making assumptions on policies at a place you don’t even know
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Giving out the shirts to the homeless, brilliant at first.... Being a twat and telling them it means that they can use the bathrooms in those stores is despicable. Homeless people suffer enough stigma, abuse and daily hell without the abuse they'd get if they tried to use the store bathroom. Might even get the police called on them or man handled by security. Your apparent compassion in giving the homeless people the shirts to keep warm was just part of your 'prank'and not done out of compassion. Idiot
Edwardo Scalottieo 2 years ago
I buy company shirts at goodwill once I had a shirt said security. Got in to Joe Walsh concert free its all about how you hold your head up high
JOHN DOE 2 years ago
Using homeless people for your petty revenge is wrong. Grow up, homeless people are toys for you to play with.
Stay Off My Lawn 2 years ago
Wow. Messing with homeless people and potentially getting them arrested to get back at your boss. You’re the real prick in this situation.
Dana Dickinson Scott 2 years ago
Giving shirts to the homeless was a nice gesture. Giving them info that could get them in trouble…or causing them unnecessary humiliation…not nice at all.
john Whitehouse 2 years ago
Actually getting detained by the right official could change a homeless person's life for the better. Not usually but it could and sure they'd be locked up for 24 hours but they'll be warm and eat
J 2 years ago
That could be a reasonable guess from someone who hasn’t looked at the actual outcomes of such ideas.
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#22
Calling Her “Fake Quitting” Bluff
This happened years ago but still makes me smile. I started working in a corporate office in a secretarial position for my first job after college. There were two older ladies who were also secretaries working in the office. One of them was just fine, but I spent most of my time sitting beside and working with Agnes. Agnes was quickly approaching retirement age but wasn’t going anywhere without a big push. This was in the days where we just started getting computers and she was absolutely hopeless. She’d pull stuff like “I can’t answer the phone - I’m on the computer.” Multi-tasking was not in this woman’s repertoire. She was super fussy, and annoying. If I ever came back from lunch 5 minutes late, she would exclaim loudly “OMG - there you are! I was wondering what had happened to you!”, making sure the whole office knew I was late. Meanwhile, she was usually late coming in in the morning, and often left early for various appointments. If I made a typo in a document, she would make sure the rest of the staff knew about it, loudly.
She tended to pout when when things didn’t go her way, and she would “quit” her job when someone pissed her off, and then my boss’s boss would talk her into staying. I’d heard about this tactic of hers and one day, our boss did something that annoyed her and she “quit” again. My boss’s boss was away that day so I had my chance. I quickly advertised and planned a big retirement party for her. It was a done deal by the end of the day. People were dropping by and congratulating her and everyone looked forward to the party. At that point, I guess she figured it was too late to pull her usual shenanigans and she actually retired. I told my boss to not bother replacing her because it was damn easy to cover the little work she actually accomplished every day.
#23
Coworker Took My Night Shift Napping Reclining Chair So I Removed The Cord So She Can Never Recline On It. Then I Took Her Old Napping Chair So She Couldn’t Go Back To It
On the night shift, we nap — there’s nothing to really do from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. I always would nap in this one area. Everyone on their shift has their designated spot that they always go to. No one would use that chair because it wasn’t reclining correctly. I looked up how to fix it, and it was reclining properly again. The next time I worked, I saw my coworker's bag and blanket on the chair. I asked her when she was leaving the spot since that’s not her normal spot (not even thinking she was trying to sleep there). She goes, 'I’m watching a movie.' I found another spot that night. The following day, the same thing — three days straight! I’m like, this girl really took my spot. So before she got in, I removed the cord I fixed it with and put it back in the upright position and was already sitting in her old spot. I would come in slightly early every time she worked to claim her old spot.
Lord Mysticlaw 2 years ago
Wait so you were being paid to sleep for five hours? I wish that's what my night shift was like. I was lucky if I could nap for my 1 hour lunch break
Jay TheSaltLord 2 years ago
I did graveyard shifts at an animal welfare shelter. sitting in the pens with the animals and dozing for half an hour or so every couple of hours was considered part of the job (and it was the best part).
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weatherwitch 2 years ago
I'm extremely curious about a job where you can Openly sleep, and from the sounds of it, Several of you!?! Clearly they don't need that many staff unless it's a facility where a minimum number of staff are required to attend an incident. I mean the fact blankets are mentioned for a napping chair? Good grief!
#24
(Former) Employers Messed Me Around, I Cost Them Money
Extremely petty and probably didn't really cost them that much in the long run, but I felt satisfied doing it so
I worked for a government organisation that spent the better part of last year messing us around about contracts (it's cancelled - no wait we legally can't do that - have an extra three months - wait no we REALLY need you guys and it's the week before your contracts are up but could you maybe stay an extra three months and apply for permanent roles? Haha jk you don't meet the criteria for the permanent position!)
So yeah, I was pissed and totally done with them.
Well it was a WFH position and they provided a bunch of equipment, which of course had to be return. I literally live a five minute walk from the office...but I made them pay for a courier, AND pay to send me the labels. The first time round, the courier came before the labels did, so they had to rebook and send new labels...which happened over Christmas and coincided with a bunch of strikes so I never got those labels. Third time was the charm, and I found out it cost them £50 for the courier to take it basically round the corner
Ultimately it achieved nothing, but I got some satisfaction from messing them around like they did with me!
#25
Petty Revenge
Among the many egregious sins my former boss committed (including gaslighting me into returning to the office mid-2020 when literally no one in said office wore masks or believed the pandemic was real), the worst was when he attempted to deny my bereavement leave request after my grandfather, who helped raise me and whom I was close to, passed away. He could see I was clearly not okay, then had the gall to say, 'It's just a grandparent. So what? I lost mine, too, over the weekend. I saw red and nearly snapped, but somehow managed to stay mostly calm with only some sobbing. I had been struggling not to cry all day at this point. Fast forward about five months later as I'm approaching my final days with the company and I had accepted a new job closer to home and a far better fit. In a fit of pure f**k around and find out, I changed the lock screen image and desktop wallpaper on my work laptop to the most terrifying image of Gritty I could possibly find. Now my ex-boss, despite being a young Gen X person, is not good with technology. So now he wound up trapped with cursed Gritty staring at him with those cold, dead eyes.
Cory Tollman 2 years ago
As a Gen Xer whose parents made an effort to get me and my sister started early with computers it took me awhile to come to realize that a lot of people much younger than I am don't have a clue on how to do much with computers and printers because they've always worked with stuff that just worked and didn't need much set up or finagling to do so.
#26
Basic? I'll Give You Basic
I work at an animal shelter, and lots of dogs that come to our shelter don't have names, so we get to name them. Last week, we got a transfer of about 20 dogs from a shelter in New Mexico, all without names. It's kind of an unspoken rule that whoever bathes the dog on intake gets to name it, and it's common courtesy to not argue unless it's offensive. So my coworker named a dog Bentley because she thought it was cute. One of our really mean coworkers was really annoyed by this and said, 'Can you not give our dogs basic names?' (This same coworker has been known to give the dogs stupid names like 'Dooper.') So we proceeded to name all the dogs things like Spot, Benji, Rosy, Ruby, and Bella because f**k her.
Sharkie 2 years ago
They are. These are the most basic names they found. That is the joke or revenge.
Load More Replies... Niall Mac Iomera 2 years ago
Should have gone with: "Alakali", "Barium hydroxide", "Hydroxyl Amine" or "pH 12". Those names are truly basic.
Rochelle E. Pigman 2 years ago
How are people not comprehending this? Mean person didn’t want basic names, so now all dogs get basic names.
Kim Kermes 2 years ago (edited)
Um, what's "basic"? I'm older than the Space Age and haven't got out much during the plague. I am fascinated by the English language anguage and its evolution.
SageHare37 2 years ago
I don't get out much either, but I think it means boring with a negative intent. Unoriginal or mainstream. I've only read it as an insult.
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Dragon Mom 2 years ago (edited)
I'm very concerned by the fact that there is a really mean person working in am animal shelter.
Angie Falzarano 1 year ago
My neighbors standard poodles name is bentley. Nothing wrong with that name
#27
Fed Up Of The Constant Negativity, What's Going Well In Your Life Right Now?
I'd left the job on what I thought was good terms after 6 months. The work wasn't as challenging as I'd hoped and the company was very small. As a younger person I wanted to be somewhere bigger.
A few months later out of the blue I get a call from a private number. It was my old boss. He didn't bother to make small talk and went straight to asking if I'd reported his use of downloaded software (I didn't know this at the time but he admitted it right there and then).
It's illegal to make money off software you're not paying for. He was really paranoid and said the software company was onto him (without elaborating).
When I told him I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about and that I was quite annoyed by his call, he raised his voice and became threatening. Clearly he had been holding a grudge.
I was so pissed off I reported him straight after the phonecall ended.
Edit: it was unlicensed AutoCAD (which is a really risky thing to use without paying). He'd probably had a notification rather than a report and the paranoia set in. I sadly never heard back from the case!
Shelby Moonheart 2 years ago
I worked at a consulting company that was caught sharing software between computers. They purchased a few licensed copies and shared them with the rest of the computers in their offices. They were caught and fined (before I worked there). The next day a lot of other consultants were lined up at software stores buying additional licensed copies to cover their offices. Crazy times.
#28
Coworker Constantly Taking First Dibs On Break Room For Night Break, So I Get To Work 30 Minutes Earlier And Take Their Break Spot
The first thing a coworker I normally work nights with does is put a sticky note on the break room saying they're using the room for their break. It's normal on night shifts to take all your breaks in one go and take a nap. But normally, you talk to your coworkers about where everyone's gonna go. This one coworker is the only one who just puts a note on the door calling dibs. After months of kinda just being a little annoyed and finding other random weird spots to break, I found my inner petty self. Now I make sure to get to work 30 minutes early, and if it's that coworker on, I put a note on the door exactly like the ones they always did. It brings me great satisfaction to see them approach the break room sticky note in hand to then just walk away. And I sleep very well indeed.
Cory Tollman 2 years ago
Where are all of these night shift jobs with napping. Most of the nigh shifts I see bust a*s. If not, then they aren't there and are on call to come in if really needed. Personally, I think there should be more low key standby jobs or staffing where people are already there to deal with issues but it seems to bug lots of employers if their staff isn't busy until they are needed for the real reason they are there. The problem is that overtime the busy work they were doing becomes expected and the other shifts get ticked if it isn't done.
Patricia Murphy 2 years ago
Me too, every night shift I worked was more work then day shift.
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Jeania Kearns Powers 2 years ago
I have a family member who works (and naps) a night shift. Some jobs are actually geared towards it. He works in a Special Needs Adult Care Facility, where he goes in, makes them desserts and helps get them ready for bed. After lights out he cleans and preps food for the next day. When he is finished, he can sleep, watch TV, play video games, or play around with his phone. As long as the residents know where he is, and he can hear the "call board", everything is good till 5, when he gets breakfast and medication ready for the 6 a.m. shift.
AK to LV 2 years ago
No the worker was calling dibs on a whole room so that the worker would have a room to himself with a closed door. In my experience, most breakrooms usually include a microwave and a coffee machine plus someplace to sit, depending on the number of employees. This worker was cutting off access to everyone else for however long.
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Jen 2 years ago
This who article is abreviated reposts of thier longer ones. Each story was its oen article initially. But thats the point of compilations like these.
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Richard Ross 2 years ago (edited)
It still baffles me why people steal other people’s food at work 🤔🤔
Cory Tollman 2 years ago
I can kind of see it when people decide to stock a communal fridge with items like it's their personal fridge at home (bulk items, family sized condiments, cases of drinks etc...) but some of these stories have people stealing other people's sandwiches. Talk about a good way to get me hangry.
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Littlemiss 2 years ago
I had an a**hole of a workmate who made my life hell. I took great delight in notifying the right authorities that her license to practice was signed off by a family member (instead of a qualified person who would judge her work on merit, not just because they're related) and pointed out that she wasn't doing her job. Last I heard her practicing cert was revoked and she had to actually perform a job instead of bully and harass people. I gather she's currently being auditored by authorities for helping herself to the till. Karma is a b***h maggot.
Roddfergg 2 years ago
Years ago I worked for the government in a contract position. I had a surgery that was going to happen after my contract ended, which was right after a 6 week surge where we would work +80 for 6 weeks. I found out that a permanent position became open that I was supposed to get, but my boss gave it to a guy that was just promoted into a position similar to mine because, as my boss said, "We can't lose you in the position right now." Even though he knew I would now be unemployed in 10 weeks. I had 160 hours of sick leave, so I moved up my surgery, then 2 days before the surge called and told him I was admitted for emergency surgery and would be gone for the next 5 weeks.
Ellen Midgley 2 years ago
Hey! I'm on the bored panda! 😂 I started reading and suddenly thought 'thias sounds very familiar...' Turns out it's the post I made on Reddit only a few days ago (And no, I won't say which one)
Richard Ross 2 years ago (edited)
It still baffles me why people steal other people’s food at work 🤔🤔
Cory Tollman 2 years ago
I can kind of see it when people decide to stock a communal fridge with items like it's their personal fridge at home (bulk items, family sized condiments, cases of drinks etc...) but some of these stories have people stealing other people's sandwiches. Talk about a good way to get me hangry.
Load More Replies... Littlemiss 2 years ago
I had an a**hole of a workmate who made my life hell. I took great delight in notifying the right authorities that her license to practice was signed off by a family member (instead of a qualified person who would judge her work on merit, not just because they're related) and pointed out that she wasn't doing her job. Last I heard her practicing cert was revoked and she had to actually perform a job instead of bully and harass people. I gather she's currently being auditored by authorities for helping herself to the till. Karma is a b***h maggot.
Roddfergg 2 years ago
Years ago I worked for the government in a contract position. I had a surgery that was going to happen after my contract ended, which was right after a 6 week surge where we would work +80 for 6 weeks. I found out that a permanent position became open that I was supposed to get, but my boss gave it to a guy that was just promoted into a position similar to mine because, as my boss said, "We can't lose you in the position right now." Even though he knew I would now be unemployed in 10 weeks. I had 160 hours of sick leave, so I moved up my surgery, then 2 days before the surge called and told him I was admitted for emergency surgery and would be gone for the next 5 weeks.
Ellen Midgley 2 years ago
Hey! I'm on the bored panda! 😂 I started reading and suddenly thought 'thias sounds very familiar...' Turns out it's the post I made on Reddit only a few days ago (And no, I won't say which one)
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