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

Former coworker. She didn’t like me, so she’d try to sabotage my work as part of some long scheme she was trying to pull to get me fired. I got fed up one day and she saw me as I was walking to the management office to speak with them about her nonsense.

Turned out she had been there that morning trying to get me (and 2 others) fired. I spoke my piece, management thanked me and said they’d call me with an update. 5 minutes later, she ran in there accusing me of stealing time. They called me back again, we went over my work hours, lo & behold I definitely didn’t steal any time. They told her to stay away from me.

A couple days later, she’s going to other employees accusing a different person of the same stuff. This time we didn’t stop her, but we didn’t encourage her either. After one more meeting, the lying-ass woman was fired.

It's happening right now. We're depleting our arms. We're scrapping the bottom of the barrel for troops. The Navy no longer requires a high school diploma for example. We're sending secret airplane parts to our friends/enemies. The list goes on.

Had a grievance meeting where I let management keep talking. I had a well-prepped argument and documentation to back it up, so after they rambled from about five minutes, I just presented literal screenshots of conversations, badge-in / badge-out times, and strictly controlled procedures which all supported the exact opposite of what was presented in the tirade.

Wasn’t even a lot of work to prep. During my prep, I actually asked the person who was tossing accusations at me where to find the specific documents I needed.

When the apprentice at work assures you he knows what he’s doing, you have to let him fail (and cause more downtime). Hell only listen once the mistakes been made.

At a concert at MSG an old man cut a whole line for merch. Decided to cut in front of me and my friend with his gold digger appearing gf. They were giggling the whole time. After 20 min of waiting they got to the front and were picking out merch when I told the employee “they cut the whole line, mind if we send them to the back”

The employee grinned and asked them to move to the side. The Pikachu shock face the old man had that his actions had consequences and that he wasted his time had them scoff and walk away. The people closest to the whole ordeal booed them as they walked off

I will never be this cool again, and I think about this more than I care to admit.

Anyone with authority over you starting to get louder and/or yelling in an argument.

If you yell, you're often wrong.

I played poker against a guy wearing mirrored sunglasses once.

Remind me of a reporter who asked someone who cut down trees to make paper and other things, and plant back new trees to talk about ecology, and when the man explained he used wood to build house and bridges too, the reporter asked him why not use concrete, and the man said simply "you can't grow concrete"
And the reporter answered back immediately "yes you can".
Everyone stayed silent for a good 10 seconds to process the stupidity. That was funny.

I once told a guy at work he was doing something incorrectly just to try and be helpful and he basically told me to shut up and what make me think I know everything so I said ok do what you want. He was an arrogant prick so it was hard not to laugh when he caused a bunch of damage and then got demoted for it. He was on a lower rate of pay for 6 months after that, if only he had listened.

I write software, and work with a guy who is extremely difficult. He has said he doesn't want to talk to anyone, or anyone talk to him.

So I go to management and tell them let's give him what he wants, and whatever the future of this company is, I want to get on it.

So a new flagship product is launched, and I'm on it. He's left to support his legacy product by himself.

Now he has FOMO and wonders how I, the new guy, "surpassed" him. Dude, this is what you wanted! You did nothing but complain, very loudly, that you don't care what you make, you don't care what you do, you just want to toil until you retire and not have your boat rocked. Alone.

So have it.

I'm a defence lawyer. A large portion of my job is telling people to shut the hell up and let the prosecution talks.

People always ask how we can defend people accused of horrible crimes, and yeah sure we do defend some pretty crappy people. But at the end of the day, the prosecution must prove it's case. I am an auditor of that process.

My apprentice, who was supposed to be fired that day for sloppy and negligent work habits, showed up at the workshop that morning wearing gloves as socks and Crocs because he had forgotten his socks and work shoes. This presented us with a great opportunity to explain our viewpoint.

My dad was getting divorced, and my dad’s lawyer was basically like “let me handle her.” And proceeded to lead my dad’s ex into lie after lie, only to eviscerate her with receipts over and over. She said the vacation to Key Largo was for her birthday, but wait, the lawyer had the evidence for the ski trip literally on the receipt of her making birthday requests for room service. The brand new car was for the family! But wait, here’s the location tags for a month showing she only used it for her and her kids.

So after about 30 minutes of my dad’s ex slowly crawling into a meltdown the judge puts her out of her misery and gives my dad everything in the divorce except the car everyone knows she can’t afford anyway and will have to return to the dealership.

Two days ago, Benjamin Netanyahu stood on the UN podium, and facing a humiliating mass walkout that reflected his isolation, he completely lost his temper and scolded those remaining in the hall, calling them 'cowards.' This was not merely an angry speech, but the beginning of a resounding downfall and a direct political end live on air before the world.

I was pumping gas. woman pulls up in front of me. she grabs the diesel hose so I immediately try to stop her. I call out to her "Maam maam" and she wouldn't let me speak. She kept interrupting me. "because you're a man you think..." I was trying to explain that i'm not messing with her but she wouldn't let me get a sentence out so I just said "i'm sorry. i didn't mean to disturb you." and went on my way.

I think I did this once but accidentally. We had a scientist who was coming in maybe two or three days out of the week, and coming in hungover etc. They were doing a study which involved using a machine that takes several hours (so most people run them overnight) and the resulting sample slides could not be dipped in alcohol to dehydrate them, they had to go into an oven for 40-60 minutes.

Scientist messages me and asks if I can take their slides out of the machine tomorrow because I always get to the lab the earliest. Sure, no problem. I put the slides in the oven and messaged them to pick them up when they got into the office later.

The scientist never came in that day. The slides, unbeknownst to me, sat in the oven for *24 hours*. Now their study had a big hole in the data and... yeah they eventually got fired. I still feel bad about it.

In a past job where I was an onboarding trainer for new hire employees, I had a trainee who was a total suck up in class but was terrible at her job. Part of my role involved 1 on 1 coaching with my small team of new hires to monitor their progress and keep teaching them how to get better as we went. Initially I felt bad for this employee since they struggled with understanding the concepts at times, but she remained positive and did make an effort for the most part despite being the slowest moving and progressing employee out of our group of 50 people. I would have to spend a lot of time 1 on 1 trying to help her, like multiple calls that lasted longer than an hour for things everyone else in the group had already mastered with ease. It wasn't looking good and we were having to turn the heat up on her more and more because if she couldn't figure out how to keep up with these very basic job functions, she was going to get fired soon enough.

And I could see that stressed her out so I was trying to help the best I could. I forced her to take very detailed notes, use job aids over and over until she gets it, talked her through issues, etc. I wasted A LOT of my own time at work on this person. I also tried to use strategies and approaches from other trainers. But nothing was really working, she was just kind of dumb in all honesty. That being said, she was always gracious and thanked me for taking time to help, that it *was* helpful for her and her understanding. But the unspoken reality was that she may not be able to handle the job. Anyway, we get through the multi-week onboarding, and everyone else in class is going to "graduate", except her. And even with that, our manager was going to see if they could place her in a lower job tier with less "complexity" so at least she can land in some kind of role, that is until what happened next.

We get to the graduation week, and she's told if she can't hit the basic metrics then we will need to find a different role for her (luckily for her they weren't just going to fire her). She *freaks out*. Suddenly, NOW she's directly blaming me for her performance. Starts lying about what we did in coaching sessions, tries to say I taught her incorrect things for the job, that I withheld resources, ***that I should be fired***, etc. She decides to try and escalate all this to management, and that's when I turn into a complete jerk. Unbeknownst to her, I kept MANY detailed notes on her performance, what things she internalized, what things I coached her on every week, how it progressed and then noticeably regressed as though she wasn't focused or using her notes I gave her, repeat questions she had the answers to, new excuses around why work wasn't getting done. etc. I basically burned that woman's 's reputation to the ground in the eyes of leadership and proved she lied to their faces about everything she said. My manager literally laughed when I showed her what I had. That new hire was terminated almost immediately afterwards. As a last ditch effort before she was let go, she tried to write some letter thanking me again and praising me and blahblahblah to get back on my good side. But that bridge was totally burned. Get lost Catherine. I hope you remain unemployed for life.

In construction meetings, I saw this more than once: somebody would make a weak argument, then keep talking until they exposed the flaw in it themselves. The smartest person in the room usually wasn’t the one interrupting. Sometimes you just let the silence do the work.

Had a coworker, a call off queen and one of the loftiest examples of weaponized incompetence I have encounters on this silly little planet, try to leverage having "covered" for me on a day she was trying to get out of a task. Firstly, her definition of covering me at work is actually taking care of day to day job basics when I'm not around, off-site, or otherwise indisposed. These are job basics she should be doing, anyway, and the rest of the team can handle as a side task. We have a group text for checking in, calling out if we're on task or handling a call, but she never responds to texts unless she's calling off or our Boss explicitly asks her to do something. Well, was one day, she tried using said group texts to be like "Derps, could you do X today? I did your job last week (aka....our basic job duties she avoids)." X was one of her absolute basics that she more or less puts off until the Boss yells at her. I immediately shot back with "Well, when was the last time X was done?" Boss was like "I haven't seen X completed in awhile." Things got real quiet, and before you knew it, she was magically caught up with that task. Moreover, I don't take well to folks trying to play leverage on me, especially when they don't have a darn thing to stand on.

In the early 2000s, I was competing in 4 man bobsled.

A competitor (much better than me) recruited 3 new guys to his 4-man crew and was using a different sled.

He wandered off for a moment, so I went over to tell the crew the flaw with the sled's brakes.

He saw me and started yelling at me for trying to poach his crew. So I walked away.

I made my run and waited for his run.

The crew failed to activate the brakes, and he was screaming ,"Brakes!"

They drove off the end of the Track, ruined their runners, and dropped out of the competition.

I quietly got into the truck that took us back up to the start line. Finished 7th instead of 8th.