“I’ve Never Forgotten That Day”: 78 Times People Witnessed Instant Karma Putting Toxic People In Their Place

Had a manager who was a tyrant and thought everyones lives revolved around the store like hers did.

One of my friends had a personal matter and requested off, this was denied. She worked but looked and found another job. At the same time, I had two specific days every week off so I could schedule my college courses on those days. One day she "needed" me to work while refusing to work the day herself. I told her I had class, she said I could work or look for another way to pay for those classes. Both the way she treated my friend and myself pissed me off to look for new work.

Now, my friend with the personal matter: the matter was sensitive and she really needed that day. Word spread about it, as well as myself, and another coworker whom was also quitting for the way they were spoken to. All of it came down to the manager basically wanting days off while forcing us to cover. Most had just had enough and one by one began quitting.

I had a hard time but finally got an offer for another job. The day I was going to quit, she pulled me into her office in a panic. She told me another employee had quit - this was the beginning of November with black Friday right around the corner. I remember her coming up with a "game plan" for scheduling and reassuring me we would get through this together. I got to respond with "no we won't because I found another job, this is my two weeks." She just stared at me, it was like looking at a ghost.

She called me a few days after my last day asking if I could please work black Friday because she couldn't pull a double shift and was exhausted from working every day without coverage. I got to respond with a simple "No"

Felt good knowing she was forced to work because she forced others.

Worked my tail off running a help desk as a contractor with no benefits for three years. Working approx. 70hrs a week, granted a lot was telecommute but still. Was told the whole time that I would get the position of manger because the customers loved how the help desk functioned. Got perfect on every performance review, and raises each year.

Time came for them to make the position permanent and they advertised and hired without my knowledge. Never asked me once to apply, and I was not looking for a job so I did not keep an eye out. They hired from outside the company and I found out when they asked me to train my new boss.

Well I obviously did not stay much longer, I gave them thirty days notice and trained the new manager as best I could. I got the entire help desk ready for the transition, even spending countless hours building an idiot proof knowledge base of how the place ran, of every aspect I could put down.

I left and went about my merry way, found out later that the new manager quit after three months, they went through six different managers in two years. Plus they lost half of their customers because they did not like the new help desk.

I on the other hand have been working for the same money, no overtime, full benefits with retirement for the university I grew up rooting for.

My dad and I were driving up the PA Turnpike going 70ish when these 2 black sports cars came flying up from behind us at what had to be about 120 MPH weaving in and out of traffic. We passed them about 10 minutes later, both pulled over and the driver of one of them with his palms on the hood of his car about to be arrested.

Not me but a friend of mine. A karma story is a karma story right?

She was driving along a busy avenue in Vancouver, saw that the traffic light ahead in the distance was red and took her foot off the gas pedal. Her car is decelerating rather slowly since she is in no particular hurry to stop. In fact she was slowing down MUCH to slowly for the jerk-off driving behind her. When she was stopped, he got out of his car and started pounding on her window, raging at the fact that she had decelerated so slowly. Well the violence demonstrated by his actions caught the attention of the police squad car that had pulled up behind him to stop for the light as well. They didn't ask any questions but got out of their car and one of the officers pummeled him with his baton and then hand-cuffed him and dragged him back to the squad car for a trip to the station. The other officer then got into the idiots car to drive it out of the way of traffic and called a tow truck for it. Road rage... doesn't pay!

In chemistry class one time, my best friend had a nose bleed that just wouldn't stop, I laughed at her sitting with paper towels shoved up her nose. 5 minutes later I'd felt something running down my nose and noticed that my nose started bleeding too! Might I add, mines lasted twice as long.

I had a roommate that decided to sleep with the guy that I was dating at the time. She ended up dating him for a few months, only for him to cheat on her at a party at our apartment.

I was driving along, on a road with three lanes, all of which where clearly marked. A BMW zooms past me in the right (straight or right turn) lane, pulls in front of me in my lane (center lane, straight only) and stops on a green light, in front of me, after cutting me off, so that she can turn right and avoid the line in that lane that is waiting to turn. I lay on the horn, causing a patrol car that had pulled up in one of the cross-traffic lanes to notice what she is doing. He pulls her over, and I laugh.

One of the guys who use to bully me so hard in highschool that I had to change schools is currently doing 10 years in prison for selling [illegal substances].

All throughout high school, this one jerk kid bragged that he was going to Georgia Tech for Atomic Physics. No honors or AP classes, laughed at the nerds and advanced kids who were stressed all the time. He was an entitled jerk. Anyway, he ended up not getting accepted anywhere, lives at home as he goes to community college, while everyone else moved on with their lives. I love it.

So my neighbor pointed a shotgun in my face (in a hallway at my condo) because he was angry that someone was messing with his laundry. If I had ignored him he would have prob just walked on by, but I was trying to be friendly to him. Anyway, one swat team and a night in jail later he was back on the street as it were. He was charged with a felony (wrongly, but not my fault) and a lesser charge. He got off legal wise, but he had so many lawyer bills that he lost his house, and un-became my neighbor.

I took my neighbor to court because she refused to pay 1/2 for the fence between our properties (this is in Australia btw). I ended up winning, and she had to pay half as well as some additional legal costs

NOW she has had to take her neighbor to court for him not wanting to pay 1/2 the cost of a fence between their properties.

When I found this out, I couldn’t believe it.

Went to a small local Sears in the very early days of the small dish satellite tv, and told them we had 3 tvs. The middle-aged men who worked there insisted I absolutely could NOT have satellite on 3 tvs, and I should make sure that that's what my husband said we needed. Found a local tv repair guys who was able to give me satellite tv on 3 tvs. The Sears burned down.

Once I was getting onto the freeway, and some ~~dude~~ punk kid sped past me on the right and then cut me off to make the light to take a left onto the on-ramp. He was already speeding so when the car in front of him had to stop for the light he rear ended the car.

I was at the light behind him so I got to see it all unfold.

A lady cut me off in traffic and then got t-boned 100 yards down the road. (everyone was ok).

One of my ex-coworkers is graduating from CalArts this summer with a bachelors in some form of animation/film. Back in October, he was stressing out at work and I asked him what was wrong. He procrastinated and had nothing for his final film project. I've been working on a series of reoccurring dreams I've had my entire life and incorporating it into a film. I offered to help him with his project if we could be co-directors. He agreed.

We met pretty much every day for a couple weeks working out details with myself doing most the work. I typed up scenes, worked out details and we met up to discuss. It's November now and I asked him if he had shown the scripts to his professor. He told me that his professor thought the entire idea was flawed and that there was no such back story. I asked him if he described it to his professor wrong as I've been working on it for years and it *definitely* had a back story. He couldn't give me an answer.

He stops talking to me, doesn't return my phone calls and avoids me at work. It's December now and we have to start casting if we are going to get the project done by May. I ask my boss to tell me when he's leaving, so I can catch him before he runs out the door. Our conversation:

**Me:** "Hey, did you change your number?"

**Him:** "No..."

**Me:** "Oh... Well, I've left you a bunch of messag-"

**Him:** "I've been stressing about school! I haven't called ANYONE back."

**Me:** "Okay... If you're busy, you can just tell me. I'd understand. We have winter break. I'm just trying to help you."

He walked away and never said a word to me after that. From that conversation, pretty positive he either found a new partner to piggyback on or stole my idea. My consensus is the latter.

Few weeks later, he's fired for being involved in a scam with a customer.

**TL;DR Helped co-worker with film project for CalArts, he stops talking to me after we work out all the details, fired few weeks later**.

A girl who bullied my friends and me mercilessly in middle school didn't like her new high school too much. Apparently, the boys all made fun of her. So now she's transferred to our "weird" all girls school, and sat at the "loser table" a few days ago.
Although I hate having her at our school... the mantra "We're happy now and she hates her life" helps quite a bit.

One morning on the way to my jobsite I stopped to grab a coffee at a Tim Hortons. When I left the parking lot there was a car approaching in the direction that I would be going but far enough away that I would be able to pull out and get up to the 60 km/h speed limit without any problem.

This jerk was travelling well over 60 km/h though, so I was not going fast enough and clearly caused him a horrible inconvenience by having to apply his brakes... He swerved into the oncoming lane and then proceeded to cut me off and slam on his brakes. However because of his little stunt the next light had time to turn red and he was stuck with us behind him screaming obscenities for nearly causing a very avoidable accident.

As the light turned he speeds off obviously and I make a comment to my coworker that it would be hilarious if he's also going to be turning down the county road coming up on the left because it was a pretty common shortcut and we'd be turning there too...

He was indeed turning there and was stuck waiting for a gap in the oncoming traffic when we pulled in behind him with our signal on... He peeled out through a very small gap and we both had a good chuckle since he clearly thought we were following him.

After waiting for another few seconds for our opportunity to turn we continued on our way, just in time to see an flash of police lights and cloud of dust as a cruiser whips around pulling a U-turn.

A little further down the road our friend had just been pulled over as we got to have a good laugh at his expense.

TL:DR; Cut off by a jerk, finally a cop around when you'd actually like to see one.

This guy always pulls up behind the apartment building next to mine and honks for about 30 seconds to get the attention of whoever he is there to pick up. He does this just about everyday, but last week the cops got called on him. Was pretty fun to watch.

I walk to and from school everyday, my home isn't that far away so I have no trouble getting there. But this one time, I was walking home like I usually do, then a group of three years 7s road pass me on their bike. This has happened a few time, they usually ride pass, and don't say a thing or do anything to me because I'm in the 9th grade and I'm much bigger then them. But on this particular day (I think it was a Wednesday?), they road passed me on their bikes, but one decided to pull down their pants and moon me. All three of them started to laugh. As the kid pulled up his pants and road off, his shoe lase got stuck on his chain, and he fell off his bike going over the handle bars. I thought it was funny, so I looked away and laughed my way home.

My sixth grade teacher was a jerk that took some kind of enjoyment from getting the boys in class in trouble. She would not grade our assignments, including throwing away an essay that I wrote and in general throwing a fit because she wanted *me and only me* to type it on a computer and would pick on the shyer kids (i.e. me) and also tried to convince my parents to hold me back a year. When I asked one of my friends that was in her class with me some years later I found out that she tried this with all of the boys in that class.

I found out in high school that she had lost her teaching licence for being a jerk. Kind of bitter that this is all that happened to her and she didn't get hit by a truck or something.