“He Has No Idea It Was Me”: 44 People Who Accidentally Became The Reason Someone’s World Fell Apart

I don’t take full blame, but I didn’t help. Had a boss. He was not a good boss. F*****g employees, never came to work, raging alcoholic, good ol’ boy type that didn’t understand why I was so good at my job with my personality type (sales). He was a made man, though. Basically, he was kept around because a connection with a high level executive. Anyways, he was still on thin ice because he would regularly get wasted at company events and start fights or whatever. Still, he did advocate for me at times.

He pissed me off and when his boss came to town (who was also a piece of s**t, but was forced to tolerate my boss), I unloaded. Let him know he was f*****g employees, that he never worked, and that he was drinking again. A week or two later my boss gets fired. New guy comes in who sucks maybe just a little less.

Heard a couple years back my old boss I probably helped get fired died of liver disease at 43. Rumor is he was begging to just be allowed to die. Year later the executive who always bailed him out also died. Not sure of the cause.

I outed a school friend accidently after stumbling across his photo on gay dating website. I told my brother about it while talking over the phone and I wasn't aware he had me on speaker. His roommate basically told everyone. When I heard her in the background, I knew the secret was out. I felts so bad that I outed someone. I died a little inside that day. This happened 20 years ago now. I don't know if I ruined his life, but his girlfriend left him, his friend group was now aware he was trying to suck D at gay dot com. It really wasn't cool. I really felt sooo bad.

I had an upstairs neighbor in apartments years ago. He was from a warm-weather climate, and one year it snowed and iced up, etc. One morning he tried to walk down the outside stairs normally, not accounting for the thick ice. He fell all the way down the metal stairs to the bottom. Injured, he knocked on my door for help. He wanted me to drive him to the hospital, but I decided to call the ambulance and let the pros deal with it. I didn't think about him potentially not having insurance; I just wanted him to get care. Well, I never saw him again. The cops came looking for him and I realized that he may have had no insurance to pay either for the ambulance or the care at the hospital. Today I feel bad because I could at least have saved him the cost of the ambulance. I suppose that he fled somewhere to avoid tens of thousands of dollars he couldn't pay.

I was pissed a kid in 5th grade kept copying off my tests so I went and told the teacher and after i bombed a test on purpose and they compared answers it was determined that kid was indeed copying off me.

The kid was tested and it was determined they were illiterate and they were made to go back a grade. I don't really feel bad because f**k that guy and hopefully he knows how to read now.