Having a genuinely good boss who has your best interests at heart is rarer than finding an oasis in the desert. And while there’s no such thing as a ‘perfect’ job, you still kind of expect your managers to get the basics right. But everyone has their limits. Even saints! Some workers snap when faced with non-stop incompetence, bullying, and problematic behavior, and concoct cunning plans for getting back at their superiors.
We’re featuring the best stories of subtle workplace revenge that creative and courageous employees shared in a handful of engrossing threads . Keep scrolling to see what they did. If you have an incredibly toxic manager making your life h**l, you may want to take notes. And don’t forget to share these stories with your colleagues!
If I like my boss I’ll try to follow his instructions and still get the job done. If I don’t like my boss, I’ll just follow his instructions.
saustin66 , Italo Melo Report
My boss loves chocolate. He hates coconut. I buy Mounds and Almond Joys for the office, just so he can’t benefit.
betsybotts , Rosalind Chang Report
I found a better job, and in my exit survey/interview I wrote full page letter about about how he has no social skills and leads purely through fear/manipulation, and why no good talent will ever stay at the company under him. It goes directly to the VP of H.R. One can hope.
ehhhhreddit , Vlada Karpovich Report
Kept a record with all kinds of proof about her abusing the systems/employees for her own gain, after 3 months of this I dumped the file on the CEO’s desk and an ‘accidental’ leak of that file happened at the same time to the rest of the company. She was fired.
El_Sjakie , Andrea Piacquadio Report
Caught him having s*x with a woman in her car in the parking lot. The woman was not his wife. Strangely, he became the best boss in the world after that.
scandaltron8000 , Polina Zimmerman Report
Go to a magazine stand. Leaf through as many magazines as you feel safe doing, and subtly remove those little cards you mail in to get a subscription. Put a bunch into another magazine, and pay for it and leave. go home and fill out the dozens or so magazine subscription cards with your boss’s name and address (an old typewriter is best for this, to be safe), and check the box “Bill Me Later”. Mail them. Wait for the fun to ensue. In fact, there are HUNDREDS of items you can have delivered anywhere, with payment expected on delivery or by billing. In any case, he’ll burn up a lot of his spare time sorting it all out, on the phone and what not. check out " The Berners Street Hoax " from 1810. It’s a classic.
goodgulfgrayteeth , Bruno Silva Report
I don’t necessarily do that but I try to k**l them with kindness. I smile at them, talk to them about the weekend. Make them speak to me longer than just them giving me orders. Also, when they get mad and write bad emails I respond in the best professional way because I sometimes think it makes them feel foolish after for writing heated emails.
ShotekSaint , Tima Miroshnichenko Report
My first job in h**h school my boss would like to give me a bunch of things to do before I could leave after a 10+ hour shift. I’d just stare at his ear lobe and nod the entire time. I think he thought I was mentally challenged but his reaction was always funny.
Superflypirate , Mikhail Nilov Report
I walked out during a meeting with her, telling her I’d get better sense out a brick wall. I then wrote a rather large email, detailing my grievances, failings etc and sent it to pretty much everybody in the company which also outlined my resignation. Apparently she hadn’t seen it because she told my colleagues I was sacked the next day 😂 thankfully hey all read my email and realised what a liar she was. I had lined myself up to start retraining anyway, but all this went down in April, I hadn’t planned to leave until September. I decided to pursue a constructive dismissal case against her, which resulted in full pay for a number of months and company benefits then the company asking me to come back. She had been “reshuffled”. Retrained and now in a happy place with a really happy job. Don’t know why I stuck it out so long in a place that gave me depression and anxiety at the thought of going in.
lylolo , Mikhail Nilov Report
Made friends with his boss then worked my f*****g a*s off. Now my old boss works for me. Suck it.
anon , nappy Report
Worked there a total of 12 years. Went 6 years without any sort of a raise, zilch, zero, nada. That whole time I was being given more responsibilities and working 10 hour days, even weekends sometimes. Always answered my phone & emails after hours. Finally got sick of it and started looking for something better. Found a the job where I currently work and earn $25k a year more. Only been here 8 months and have already gotten a raise. They had to hire 2 people to replace me and keep up the workload. I just heard they’ve fired both of them and several other people have quit since I left. They called me last week and asked if I would train a new employee. I declined.
thumbwrestleme , Getty Images Report
I do not enjoy my job because of my boss and I look forward to the day I can finally leave. My boss has stood between me and my goals any and every chance he gets, and I hate him for it. The way I fk with him is by striving to do as well as possible with my life, I use this experience to fuel me and to remind myself to never allow myself to be in a position like this again. I want to be able to look at him in the eyes in 10 years time and he’ll see how well I’ve done despite all he’s done to make my life awkward. That’s the way I plan on f***g with him.
anon , Mizuno K Report
Sneeze on his phone whenever I had a cold.
blatherer , Edward Jenner Report
I was underpaid and under appreciated. I had been looking for a new job for a while. The boss had also been having lots of meetings with a pretty large client, which had me feeling there was more than just service contract stuff going on. I found a new job, quit for 15k/year more and good management. Found out 2 months later the said large client bought out the company I worked for to acquire in house software and the employees who knew about it. Hope he eats a bag of d***s.
noclssgt , Thirdman Report
I had one that liked to steal the snacks from my lunch. I left “myself” a special brownie in the fridge and his fat a*s ate it. At that point a fresh email account, and anonymous suggestion of a targeted d**g test will cause a few phone calls, and a “resignation” by the end of the week.
tzenrick , Natilyn Hicks Photography Report
I handed in my notice and moved on amicably. Then I got them to put in a reference for a job that paid far more. Sure showed them.
LordFiresnake , RDNE Stock project Report
I quit and let them struggle to survive the rushes on Saturday mornings.
formershitpeasant , Marten Bjork Report
Go in every day and do a half a*sed job. That’s the American way!
TheStabbingHobo , Mikhail Nilov Report
I don’t always point out their mistakes. We do a lot of off site work. Forgot to factor in the 3 hour drive time between appointments? Not my problem. Double booked? Watch your schedule better.
frozenhell , Pavel Danilyuk Report
I’ve told certain people that I’m reasonably sure that he’s cheating on his wife. All while being told more information from an very reliable source.
omnicool , August de Richelieu Report
I was the head of the lighting department at a staging company, and I was pushing pretty hard to get stuff fixed and upgraded to bring everything up to a decent standard, only to have the production manager shut me down on every single request. We had a couple of old 1800watt colour changers (the kind you see lighting up buildings) and they needed parts, so I rang around, found the parts, filled out a purchase order with all the relevant information on it and handed it to the production manager to sign off and order them. 6 weeks later, the owner rings me at 7pm, ranting at me about how we need them for a show and why haven’t I fixed them yet. I shut him down very quickly, informing him about the purchase order that I had filled out 6 weeks previously and handed to the prod manager, and was STILL waiting for the parts to arrive. Totally hung this d******d out to dry. The owner apologises for going off at me, and tells me he’ll see me the next day. The next morning the prod manager comes into my section of the warehouse and sheepishly apologises to me for not ordering the parts when I first asked for them. He actioned every parts order I made within 24 hours after that.
wotmate , Kaboompics.com Report
Somewhere I used to work, a guy I know, would take the operations manager’s coffee cup to the back room every weekend and run his ballsack around the rim a couple of times then put it back where he got it. or so I’ve heard.
AffreuxLex , Mâide Arslan Report
My job does an internal survey every other year to check the pulse of the workers. Myself and a few more coworkers had an issue with our boss at the time, he is the biggest a*****e I’ve ever worked for. We severely blew him up on the survey one year, they mysteriously moved him to another city not long after that.
showmethebiggirls , Tima Miroshnichenko Report
I resigned due to bad leadership and i was the only person who knew how several systems worked. they had major issues afterwards, i heard from a few people who briefly worked there after i left but eventually left themselves.
anon , Andrea Piacquadio Report
Copied compromising data (the company was stealing intellectual rights of another company) to a USB stick, waited 2 years after I left the company. Then I sent the evidence anonymously to said other company. They got f****d a bit and had to pay up.
doskey123 , Kaboompics.com Report
I live a happy life.
anon , Moose Photos Report
Worked for Cutco in h**h school. My boss said that there would never be a grad party that was actually fun/missing work for. We hired Voltaire " to perform live at my house for mine. Side note: He’s a severely underrated musician and extremely down to earth guy
Forge_The_Sol , S. Bollmann Report
By taking my pay in exchange for minimal effort. And then leaving them to suffer under the weight of their own incompetence by going elsewhere.
anon , Marcus Aurelius Report
I quit. He begged me not to and I did. F**k him.
anon , Nick Fewings Report
I resigned after getting a different job. They couldn’t function efficiently without me. When they asked me to write down how to do my job for the next guy I didn’t write down the very important and very complicated st. And there was a lot of very complicated st. I just wrote down 14 things that looked kindof complicated but wasn’t that important. They closed down 6 months later. I ran into a coworker after the close and she told me things started falling apart after I left and it kept getting worse and worse until they were constantly hobbled because things kept failing that I used to maintain and fix . I feel sorry for the 200 or so employees that lost their job but I was just a little pissed at the time.
theskipster , Kampus Production Report
I used to leave litter beside his car…
anon , Pavel Danilyuk Report
I put in my two-week notice and walked away with dignity because, as a professional and an adult, I deal with my issues in a mature manner and don’t dabble in immature nonsense that could lead to burning important connections later down in your career ladder. You have no idea who knows who in this industry, better to act better than you feel.
anon , Getty Images Report
I banged his daughter for about a year and a half.
anon , Andrea Piacquadio Report
Warn anyone who works near me what she is like, most of the time its not needed they know already but I wouldn’t want someone to be blindsided.
anon , Felicity Tai Report
I was the employee from hl. Fg stole everything I could get my hands on and that I needed that I also knew wasn’t kept a terribly accurate stock take of. Ensured all the edibles in the shop with consumable dates were checked and found to be faulty the day before inspection, requiring empty shop space to be created. Actively encouraged shoppers to shop elsewhere. Actively disobeyed orders to make myself wander towards overtime just to scare them that I might somehow end up at over 40 hours for two weeks in a row, therefore making me full time de facto (terrifying though to them- they’d have to pay my medical. Gasp.) Found creative and innovative ways to fk up transactions where things would ring up or void halfway through. Nothing like taking a half hour minimum of them calling support after trying and failing to make it jive with their end of the day metrics. What did I care, I wasn’t earning commission and was paid pennies by the hour. Took as long of a st as I possibly could. Left 1-star review for the shop through various sock puppet social media accounts mentioning employee morale. The sad thing was I actually set their sales record for 3 months straight at peak season, when I gave a s*t. Then I realized how bad our products were, how sy our policies were, and how badly we as employees were getting fd over, and I bailed.
bwaway , Vitaly Gariev Report
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