59 People Share The Satisfying Moments They Saw Their Worst Enemies Fail Spectacularly

Neighbor. Was giving his purple Gremlin a tune up. It wouldn't start. We did a checklist. Plugs, wires, distributor cap, points, check rotor, no its fine. Dude it has to be the rotor. I was 18, he was 40, he worked on it three weeks. I kept reminding him he needed a rotor, nah. What can be wrong with a rotor? Finally I stopped reminding him. Another week and he told me that he would sell it if someone offered him 50 bucks. I ask him if he was serious. He was. I gave him 50 dollars and he signed the title. I excused myself and went to NAPA and bought a rotor. Popped it in. Started the car and drove it away. My sister drove that car for 10 years. The neighbor wasn't amused.

Went on a field trip with a female colleague who suffered from a migraine the whole day. Another participant - whom we had just met - tried to brag: "You know what would be a good medicine? Intimacy!" Not only was his comment inappropriate, but also completely ridiculous. I assumed he had read some sort of magazine article that explored the positive side effects of hormones - but even that seems far-fetched. We tried to poke fun at his suggestion, but this guy was very determined to proof us all wrong. So he pulled out his phone, called his girlfriend on loudspeaker and asked her in front of the whole group to describe in detail how his recent lovemaking session cured her headache. She then replied that it only made her pain worse, but he shouldn't feel bad because he didn't last very long anyway. He hung up on her mid sentence.

A guy called me up to basically brag that he was the one my girlfriend had been cheating with. It was serious and they had been seeing each other for a year or so. Even though we hadn't officially broken up we were basically done at that point so it wasn't a real surprise. I wasn't even all that mad.

What I didn't tell him was that she had hid about $400k in debt from me. I only figured it out when she tried to name me as a cosigner for another massive loan.

I think they got married eventually. So.. good luck buddy.

My Boss: "I want to be copied on EVERY e mail going forward"

My Boss 2 months later ANY time I copy him on something important: "Did you send that? Oh . Was I copied? Oh, well I get so many e-mails now I can never find the ones I need".


Bro created all of his own problems.

Prior to getting 50/50 custody of my children in late-May, I was paying my ex-wife child support. After getting 50/50, I filed to have support recalculated. With 50/50 custody and us making nearly the same amount of money, the court concluded during our tele-conference in July that I no longer owed my ex-wife support. She did not accept this and requested a hearing. When asked why, she said she felt entitled to support because she spent more time and gas transporting our kids to school, which she lived 10 minutes farther away from compared to me. Also at this time, our youngest's daycare provided lunch on a day of the week that both were in my custody. In her eyes, that was one less lunch a week I had to pack, which meant less money I spent on grocceries.

For those who do not know, gas and lunch money mean nothing with regards to child support. Child support is calculated based how much money you earn, the percentage of custody you have, and how health insurance expenses, childcare expenses, and extracarriculars are divided. I paid for our kids's health insurance and we split daycare and extracurriculars 50/50.

When I got the court order for the in-person hearing, the calculation sheet from the tele-conference was attached. Instead of saying $0, it said my ex-owed me $108/month, not in child support but rather as a reimbursement for me paying for our children's health insurance. The court had made a mistake during the tele-conference, and if she'd agreed to $0, that would've been that.

At the hearing in August, both of our lawyers calculations averaged out to my ex actually owing me $145/month due to my employer picking up better health insurance in the interim. But because payee of the support was switching from her to me, the hearing ended by the court closing out the current case number showing $0/month with a $767 credit because I'd overpaid. My lawyer wanted to enter an agreement for $145/month then and there, but my ex's lawyer refused, so after the hearing I opened a new case for support, which triggered another tele-conference one month later.

In the meantime, my lawyer realculated my ex's health insurance reimbursement to me at $158/month, which my lawyer offered up at the beginning of this tele-conference earlier this month. But becasuse this was technically a brand new case, the court wanted to run their own calculations. They ruled that she owed me $218/month, and that my $767 credit from the old case would transfer to the new case as an arrears she had to make up, bringing her total monthly reimbursement to $245. My ex-wife relented and agreed to pay,

She could've just agreed to $0. But hey, that's what you get for being greedy.

Putting tariffs on all your friends, all around the world.

Firing off all your offensive and defensive missiles.

Don't tell the scammer you have a dashcam until hes finished lying to the cop.

Years ago I adopted the workplace approach of
"letting people fail".

It's a great way to ensure problematic people go away. If you see someone you don't like walking towards the edge of a cliff, you don't pull them back. Even if the company suffers a bit.

I had a terrible boss at one point. An absolute jerk. He had been an officer in the military, and this was his first job after getting out. He incorrectly assumed that military tactics would work in the corporate world. They don't. You don't bark orders at people. You don't call feedback "insubordination". You don't make everything into a acronym nobody understands.

It became clear that the approach with this jerk was going to be twofold.. malicious compliance, and not walking him back from the cliff when he was about to make a mistake. And it wasn't long before the day came when he issued some dictum that flew in the face of our compliance with a government program we were audited for, and one where if we failed the audit, we would be unable to import goods for months.

Normally, I'd have said something. But given his distaste for feedback and his requirement that we followed orders blindly, I simply did what he said. And yes, we failed an audit and yes, when I was asked about it, I told HIS boss exactly whose idea it was. He ended up "resigning" but I suspect it wasn't by choice.

Decades ago now my boss at the time was getting a divorce. His lawyer told him going into the courtroom, "No matter what she says, no matter how egregious, you do not say a single word; you do not make any noises in response, you sit calmly." He walked away with full custody and no alimony. The lawyer knew from meeting with her during depositions that she was his best asset. And she was.

BTK was caught because he told police via a letter that he wanted to send them a floppy disk but only if it couldn’t be traced. Police lied and said floppy disks couldn’t be traced. He believed them and sent them the disk. Metadata told police where the files had been copied to the disk and BTK’s name.

I had ordered a birthday gift for someone from Amazon, and requested that the gift be wrapped. It was not wrapped when it arrived, so I got into live support chat to try to get my $4 credited to the account for the lack of wrapping paper

I told them about the lack of wrapping paper in the box, and while i was typing my next paragraph about requesting my $4 as credit, they refunded the entire order- roughly $100 worth, without requiring me to send anything back

like okay, i mean, i'll take it then, i only wanted $4 but if you're just gonna hand me all of it back? im not gonna stop you.

I had to write a user manual for a customer that was not a native English speaker. There is a method for doing this called AECMA Simplified English that has very strict rules on number of words per sentence, sentences for paragraph, subject, object etc. Once written it looks like a reading book for an 8 year old but it is clear, simple and unlikely to create confusion.

I wrote the manual and presented to my (new) boss for approval. He hit the roof and tore a strip off my in the main office in front of everybody - very unprofessional behavior on his part but I suspect that he was asserting dominance in a new department.

He insisted in rewriting it himself so that it didn't look like a "stupid Janet and John book" Janet and John was a standard beginner's reading book in the UK. I said nothing.

He spent all Friday and the weekend on it and produced a very good manual except that it was not in simplified English. It was clear to a native English speaker but confusing to a second-language speaker. On Monday afternoon at the initial review meeting he handed over his manual to a lot of puzzled looks and questions as to why it was not in Simplified English as per contract. I enjoyed watching him squirm and trying to answer. He then threw me under the bus and I handed over my version to even more puzzled looks.

I left not long after that.

You've got a young child. They're refusing to eat their favourite dinner. You engage in conversation with the other people at the table. It's about school or the weekend, something the young child can follow. A few minutes later, they forget they're being stubborn and start eating dinner.

You DO NOT say "Well done, sweetheart, keep going!" They will immediately remember they were being stubborn before. You just let them eat.

You're not ignoring them if they want to join in conversation - this isn't the "silent treatment" - but you're not *mentioning their dinner* once they forget they weren't eating.

Everytime my high conflict wife and I are in court for custody, divorce or support, I never interrupt, correct or defend myself during her insane tangents. I just let her bury herself. These judges and masters are pretty keen to this personality type.

My friend let one of the directors of his electrical company have a power trip.

Director wanted to flip on a main breaker, he asked him if he did the hazard assessment paperwork properly before they started, and he said he didn't need to.

Then my friend went and got him a flash suit to wear and gave it to him, which the director then promptly threw aside because he "didn't have time".

So my friend took a picture of him without any paperwork or proper ppe conducting fatally unsafe work and sent it to the board.

The board suspended him for 2 weeks without pay and demanded he completed(again) his entire workplace safety course before returning to work.

Director took the two weeks as a neat unpaid vacation and tried to come back to work without completing the safety course which resulted in him being further suspended but required to come into work every day to go through the course supervised or he would be removed by the board.

My friend got a text from a mutual and the director said "I will destroy him" to said coworker, which he then sent to the board again saying if any retaliation takes place against him he will file suit.

Needless to say the board further reprimanded him and basically restricted him from interacting with my friend indefinitely.

My friend left the company shortly after and got a unionized job same field.

Had a supervisor in a previous job hounding me on very stupid stuff that I had gotten approval for from higher up supervisor. He came over one shift and just went off on me. I just looked at him and let him keep going till he stormed off. I then looked at my surrounding coworkers and asked if everyone witnessed that. They all said hell yeah we did. I immediately wrote a very professional email to the director about it and within a week he was fired because my response got a number of others to come forward about other incidents.

During WW2, the British had deciphered the German encryption system known as Enigma.
They did their utmost to keep this a secret, including letting some deciphered attacks go through from time to time.
Right up to the end of the war the Germans had no idea that their unbreakable code had been decrypted and that the allies could read almost all their radio transmissions.

An obnoxious coworker that I don't report to, started to blame me in a general meeting for why all her work was falling behind.

I let them vent it all out, and before I can even chime in the end, the CEO tore them a new one, knowing that they were solely responsible and didn't knew they were trying to delegate work to other teams under the table.

Letting my irritating coworker continue CCing our boss on all the unnecessary and/or straight-up *wrong* emails he sends me. I think he thinks he’s “telling” on me when he’s really just proving my point.

I was in small claims court over a minor thing. No lawyers, just us and the judge. The other guy is answering the very first question the judge asked him, gets upset, and says that he doesn't think the judge knows what he is doing. Judge chuckled and I knew that this was going to be fun. He asked a few more questions of the other guy, who continued to get upset. I said literally nothing in the case and won. Was over in 5 minutes.