#1
Her husband lost his job in the recession and that's when she said he turned into a different person. He ended up cheating on her, claiming he was driven to it because my cousin is infertile. She begged him to see a couples counselor. He agreed. She set up and did all the work to get the appointment. Even though he was unemployed and the one that cheated. The morning they were supposed to go, he gave her divorce papers. She was crushed.
Good news is, more than a decade one she is doing better than ever. Has met a great guy that worships her. The guy has a son and they all get along great with the boyfriend's ex wife. They all even celebrate holidays and vacation together. She deserves every drop of happiness.
#2
She told me that she had been off for a few weeks and on her 1st day back had given another colleague a lift home (massively out of her way). It was common knowledge in the office the vacancy was coming up and we were just waiting for HR to open up applications so whilst driving it came up but the other person said that applications hadn't opened yet and they hadn't heard anything about the role in a while.
Applications closed the following day and I know for fact the person who denied knowing about the vacancy had already put their own application in a few days before.
My colleague missed out on the role and we all learned there was a snake in the office. What's worse is the petty jerk never stood a chance of even getting an interview for the role because she was known as lazy and quite argumentative.
#3
There's an old fable about a gardener and two trees. The first tree is left completely alone, never touched, never challenged. It grows tall quickly, but its roots stay shallow, its wood soft, its fruit unremarkable. The second tree gets pruned heavily, repeatedly, in ways that look from the outside like damage. It loses branches. It goes through seasons of looking worse than the tree next to it.
But underground, quietly and without any fanfare, its roots are pushing deeper with every cut. The point of the story is uncomfortable but hard to argue with. The pruning isn't punishment. It's preparation. The pain of being betrayed, undercut, or stabbed in the back by someone you trusted supposedly builds something in a person that comfort and ease simply cannot.
None of this makes betrayal okay. Let's be very clear about that. The people in this thread did not deserve what happened to them, and the people who did it to them are not gardeners. They're just people who behaved badly. But the ones who came out the other side, roots deeper and fruit better than before? They are, almost without exception, the most interesting people in the room.
#4
Melvin wrote emails every day talking about his ministry and how things were going and asked Marjorie to send him money occasionally. Months passed this way and soon it was time for Melvin to come home. And he did. With a new 18 year old bride.
As it turns out, Melvin had divorced Marjorie in secret by forging her names on a do-it-yourself divorce kit and filing it with the Court. Marjorie defaulted, of course, and the divorce was finalized without her ever knowing. So when Melvin returned from the Phillippines, he dropped the news that not only had they been divorced for a year and a half but he now had this new "wife" and Marjorie would need to move out of the house and in to another which he "graciously" agreed she could have in the divorce she never knew about.
Coldest thing I've ever seen.
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#6
Instead they took the cupcakes and caked them quite literally on the girls new car. It was everywhere. The windows, the exhaust, the wheels, and a back window was also open a bit so anything they didn't smear on the car was shoved into that window. I felt terrible seeing the car afterwards and only ONE of the girls took the blame for it and didn't even end up getting into too much trouble.
Sorry about your cupcakes Hannah :(
UPDATE: Hello! Everyone asking for an update on Hannah... I dont have one :( She seems to live a perfectly normal happy life with 2 kids and no shes not a baker (although that would be a great way to end the story).
The thing about people who backstab the truly good ones is that they tend to be remarkably bad at covering their tracks. Not because they're careless, but because the kind of person who would betray someone kind and undeserving is also, almost always, the kind of person who does it more than once. Patterns emerge. Reputations form.
84% of Americans believe that what goes around comes around, and this thread is just the preview to a karma highlight reel. Story after story follows the same satisfying arc: a good person gets betrayed, the betrayer enjoys a brief window of whatever they thought they were going to get out of it, and then the universe quietly clears its throat. We are simply waiting for the part twos...
#7
He called and sent lots of messages, and really began to worry that she'd had some sort of emergency. 2 weeks after his twins were due, he decided enough was enough and drove all the way out there to see her in person. My poor gullible roommate thought he was about to meet his twins, but nope.
Not only was he not a father, but his girl had lied to keep him around while she was seeing another guy. It broke his heart. Here he was about to become a father to two perfect little babies, and then all of a sudden they never existed.
**TLDR; My roommate's long-distance girlfriend told him she was pregnant with twins, but when the due date came, she disappeared. She was never pregnant and he was crushed because he loved all 3 of them.**.
#8
He treated us like mature adults, with respect, in his class the students and him were on the same talking level, none of that 'im a teacher, you're the students' bullcrap. He just had a sort of, treat people the same way you wish to be treated attitude and EVERYONE loved him.
He had to leave because the school higher ups were horrible and liked the screamy type of teachers more, and he constantly had disagreements with them over issues I've mentioned above.
As far as i know, he became loved in the next school he went to aswell, but i feel like he's disappointed in me because i was always his favourite and i didn't talk to him once he left (i hate facebook).
#9
Shakespeare understood the backstabbing of good people better than almost any writer in history. Hamlet is, at its core, a story about a good person destroyed by the calculated betrayal of someone close to him. A trusted family member, motivated by greed and ambition, removes the most beloved and righteous person in the room in order to take what they want.
If that plot sounds familiar but you can't quite place it, it's because you've seen it. You've definitely seen it. You watched it as a child, probably more than once. The Lion King is, almost beat for beat, the story of Hamlet, a good king destroyed by a jealous brother, a traumatized heir who has to find his way back. Shakespeare wrote it in 1600. Disney gave it a soundtrack and made it significantly more fun to sit through.
The point, whether you're watching it in the Globe Theatre or on a Tuesday afternoon with a bowl of cereal, is exactly the same. Betrayal is as old as storytelling itself. The snake in the office has been there since the beginning. And Simba, much like every other good person in this thread, eventually comes back.
#10
The tiles around the oven and fryers needed to be relaid so they were and cardboard was thrown over them to cover the new grout. I told the kid when he came in "be careful, blah blah blah" and then it happened. He was moving from the cabinet above the oven to the fryers to the right and slipped. He wasn't around, I tried to catch him but missed and he hit hard.
I witnessed the entire thing from INCHES away and wrote the incident report personally, he literally stepped on it, gently, and the grease from the kitchen must have built up because he straight went back, head hit tile. He had a concussion, but was otherwise alright except "some" back pain, which I think was worse than he let on.
He filed for workman's comp and they denied it. Said he had a "history" of unsafe workplace practices or something formal for "go away." Yet they didn't call me, the CERTIFIED SHIFT MANAGER ON DUTY or even acknowledge the incident report.
#11
The principal was new to the school and let her go through two years of new teacher probation and let her think she was getting a continuing contract. He ousted her. Because he had final say on non-renewal and because she was probationary, he didn’t have to provide justification.
The justification was that he installed a 25 year old leggy blonde teacher from his former school.
She hated kids.
#12
If we're talking about the most famous backstabbing in recorded history, there is really only one place to start. Julius Caesar, by most accounts, was a very popular leader. On the 15th of March, 44 BC, he walked into the Theatre of Pompey and was stabbed twenty-three times by a group of senators that included some of his closest allies.
The phrase "and you, Brutus," Caesar's alleged last words to his friend Brutus, has become the single most enduring shorthand for betrayal in human history. What makes Caesar's story so permanently relevant is the motivation behind it. His assassins didn't betray him because he was cruel or corrupt. They did it because he was powerful, popular, and making them feel irrelevant. Sound familiar?
The backstabbing stories in this thread follow the same blueprint almost every time. The person who gets betrayed isn't targeted despite being good. They're targeted because of it. Goodness, competence, and genuine likability make people feel threatened in ways that are apparently still producing the same results they did in ancient Rome. The setting changes. The behaviour does not.
#13
She is honestly the sweetest, most loving, caring person. If there were angels on earth, she’d be one. That’s part of what attracted me to her, I was going down a bad path, she helped me change my life around, and we are happy as can be together.
Her family screws her over however they can. She tried buying a vehicle from her dad, a mechanic (right before we met), and before signing over the title, he spent the money and sold the truck to another buyer.
Her mom chooses anybody over her (men, their children, it is ALWAYS someone else), and it leaves my wife so broken. She tries so hard to have relationships with her bad parents, and is always hurt in the end. We make plans, have her family stay with us (we live in different towns), and always at the very last minute, they cancel. Normally for her mom to be with her boyfriend, or because her dad gets “sick” when he wants to hang out with his friends. My wife is ALWAYS picked last. There is so much more, so many ways they have hurt my wife, I could write a book.
She has such a view of “family”, that she keeps trying. I try to help, I try to tell her it is ok to cut toxic people out of your life, that family doesn’t mean they are deserving of our time, but she never gives up.
I’m so blessed to have met her, and to be in this relationship. Every time they hurt her, take advantage of her (financially), cut her out of plans, it kills me. I don’t know how to help, she deserves their love but by now, they don’t deserve hers. Any time I try to help, it makes it worse. But she doesn’t deserve to be broken by them.
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#15
So, I planned a party at my apartment. I invited them all to attend then go out after. However, I noticed hours before the party that none of them were answering my messages. Thinking I was skeptical, I trusted they would still come.
Nobody came. Nobody decided to tell me they were ALL not coming. I saw on Snapchat later they went out without me. And they all wondered why I was angry on Monday morning at work.
Here's what Caesar, Hamlet, Simba, and every person in this thread have in common. They were all, at some point, the most undeniably good person in the room. And they were all, at some point, betrayed by someone who mistook that goodness for weakness. It is one of history's most consistent mistakes, made by people who fundamentally misunderstand what they're looking at.
Kindness is not softness. Trust is not naivety. And the person bringing snacks to the meeting is not, as it turns out, the easiest target in the building. But this arc bends consistently in one direction. The roots of the pruned tree go deeper. Simba comes back. The accounts get settled. Not always on the timeline you'd like, but with a consistency that borders on mathematical.
So if you're currently in the middle of your betrayal arc, sitting in what feels very much like the "before" of a very difficult story, take some comfort in the fact that you are in extraordinarily good company. Caesar had his Brutus. Hamlet had his Claudius. And you, apparently, have Karen from accounts. The ending, historically speaking, is not hers.
Have you ever been betrayed in a disgusting way? Share your trauma with us in the comments!
#16
The parishioner later *withdrew* his charge, claiming that he was "unclear in his thinking because of troubled dreams that had no basis in reality."
Sadly, the priest's otherwise sterling reputation was sullied for no legitimate reason.
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#18
But my boss noticed that I'm performing exceptionally well with manual work and decided to keep me for manual work, which had lower wage, and send someone else for the lawn.
Yeah I got demoted and discounted for overperforming.
#19
I was the one who made the account and did most of the posting. Put in all the work to get it where it was.
One day I find that my password isn’t working on the account, and I can’t log in. Turns out my “friends” decided that they didn’t like how I was posting everything and wouldn’t put up pictures from their hunts (I’m not a hunter, and the page was for fishing) and decided they would change the password and not tell me, and completely rebrand the page.
I’m still upset about this, because I put so much work into it ):.
#20
Edit:didn't expect this to get this upvoted. Thanks yall.