“I Got 2 Years’ Worth Of Chuckles For 10 Bucks”: 65 Times People Took Savage Revenge With Zero Regrets

Not me, but I helped my daughter get revenge on her old boss. College student who worked for a bougie events company as the lead server. Boss didn’t pay her in November, said “things were tight”. (yes, mom told her this was not right and to quit, but she’s 21 and needs to learn her own lessons). Come January, boss still hasn’t paid daughter and told her the company is closing down. Says he will pay her the $4400 he owes her from his own money. Daughter follows up. No reply. I get involved.

I send her the link for dept of labor and help her walk through all the steps and submit her evidence of non payment. Boss gets letter from CDLE notifying him he’s required to pay. No response.

She just got a copy of a Judgement letter in the mail that her boss is named in and who now owes her $18,000+ due to non payment/fees.

His wages are going to be garnished and her last year of college is going to be paid for from it.

Should’ve just paid the $4,000 buddy. [Messed] around and find out!!

I was a cart wrangler for Walmart back in the day. A lady left her cart next to her car as I was walking by with a full load of carts to return (with a strap, we didn't have the motorized things most places have nowadays). I left my row of 40-or-so carts behind her car, slowly walked over to her abandoned cart, added it to my row, and stood behind her car with all of them so she couldn't back out. I stood there about as long as I figured it would have taken her to simply return the cart properly, all the while she's watching me in her rear view mirror. She honked at me once, so I made her wait some extra time.

I was casually dating this guy. One day I get a phone call from his "fiance". Somehow she got my number (before cell phones) She was ready to dump him. We made a plan. I let her know our next date. She showed up. I walked away. She dumped a drink on him and walked away too. We're still friends. No idea what happened to him.

Was a teacher in a 9th grade class. My students pranked me like a master. I bowed to their greatness. Looked out at the class that I'd get each and every one of them. I never brought it up again. They were on the edges of their seats whenever they saw me. For four years this went on. On the day of their graduation they asked me why I didn't prank them. My response was I pulled the greatest prank I could think of. You spent fours looking for me to get you. Four years looking over your shoulders. Best prank ever. They agreed. Best innocent revenge story out there.

I worked with a woman who would always butt in when anyone gave presentations "I just want to say...." then talk nonsense just to be heard.

I started telling people to make a point to schedule Q&As at the end of anything, slowly every time she interrupted someone the replies would be "sorry you can have some time to speak during the Q&A at the end, unless you think this is vital?"

During her next quarterly review she received feedback that she needs to stop disrupting meetings, watching this slowly unfold over months was delicious.

We have a saying in Scotland, empty barrels make the most noise.

It's never been more true.

A history teacher in high school frequently used openly racist and misogynistic language so I recorded him over a few days and gave it to the head of the dept and the dean and he was fired.

I sent an anonymous glitter bomb to my art teacher who insulted my anxiety and made fun of me with the class when I was out for surgery. She came in with the herpes of the craft world all over her. I did it because I found out she hates glitter.

I was a very small for my age 12 year old girl on swim team. This boy wouldn’t stop standing way to close too me at swim team practice and talking like right in my ear while coaches gave directions. Looking back I’m pretty sure he was a year or two older than me and since I didn’t understand most of what he said to me and he was literally right on my back he was probably harassing me but I didn’t have the knowledge to know it. I kept getting in trouble for talking when I literally just would turn and say shut up to him or ask him to move. This kid was pudgy ah and like a foot and a half taller than me so no way I could push him off me. He also dived too soon after me and would swim right on my tail. So I delayed pushing off the wall just right so I could slam my foot into the spot I’d seen my cousins hit each other in that made them drop. He finally switched lanes and stayed away from me. I now know I kicked him in the nuts.

My immigrant mama’s boss yelled at her in front of everyone until she cried. i wrote to corporate, gave name and location, and he was fired.

I knew I was pushed out of my role in the next layoffs, and to add insult to injury, they hired a new person and made him sit next to me so I could train him and answer his questions. I took a medical leave (and was let go on that leave), but I was happy I didn't train him. Now, the whole department is struggling, as most of them are new or incompetent.

As a foreman I’ve given lazy people tougher jobs.

I got better while they remained the same.

I had some rude woman on the phone at work who said, “let me talk to someone who knows what they’re talking about.”
So I told her to wait on hold, went and made a coffee, chatted to a colleague then returns to my phone about 5-10 mins later and said, “I’m back. I know what I’m talking about, but you don’t want to listen so have a great day.” Then hung up the phone.

A teacher who’d been cruel to me in sixth grade was an aspiring performer. I was civil in later years but I could never forgive him humiliating me as a kid. So I saw him at a mall when I was 20 (he was involved in the community theater in my city, so we ended up running into each other a lot) & asked what he was up to I learned he was waiting to hear from a (paying) show he’d auditioned for. I got to tell him with a smile I’d been cast in the show & was sure they’d sent out all the notices.

My old employer made my last year with them hell. I knew they’d be building a website soon. After I left I sat on what would have been their best URL for ten years.

Several years ago I had a neighbor who would now be described as a Karen. She didn't like me making knives, swords, and axes among many other things in my shop. She repeatedly would tell other neighbors that one of these days a kid is going to get a hold of one of the swords in my shop and hack somebody's head off. She realized that none of them cared about what she had told them and most of them just told her to mind her own business. She started calling code enforcement on anything that she could find wrong with my yard. She would literally measure my grass with a ruler to see if I was more than 3 inches tall she would take photographs of any plant that she decided was [illegal] and she would call the police regularly complaining about noise. Mind you I didn't make all that much noise my Grindr was indoors and I primarily use a hydraulic press for forging.

My revenge, she was out of town on vacation for a full two months every year. The day after she left I went over to her place and planted several hundred bamboo shoots in her well-manicured garden. I also gave her around 20 Similac Vines starting them along her fences. Lastly I scattered wildflower seeds all over her nicely manicured lawn. 2 months later she came home to her wonderful Bamboo Garden now well-established. She was the type of person who had her shrubs trimmed into perfect squares and balls she had at one time owned a perfectly manicured front yard that she had been very proud of and very very forceful about telling everybody how they were lesser because they didn't maintain their property the way she did. She nearly went insane trying to get rid of the bamboo and the wildflowers caused her to tear up her entire front yard and completely re-sodded.

Worked w/ an Advisor for a few years who wasn’t a nice person. Owned his own firm, great at what he did, just a horrible man. Fast forward a few years- a client I had a great relationship with recalled that I previously worked at that firm- guy was trying to get into their country club & their private elite business only breakfast club as well. He asked my personal opinion of the guy.😬Needless to say he didn’t get in & I heard through the grapevine he was really upset about not making it.

When I was 15 years old I heard my boyfriend was hanging out with a new girl. He stopped calling me and hanging out. So I called in the radio station (back when it was cool) and told them the story and the name of the girl. They told it over the air and played Creep by Radiohead (I requested it)
He was not happy. But I got a little joy.

Just before a trip to Hawaii with my BFs fam and the ex GF invited by his sister, the ex sent him a card detailing how happy she was to be with him again on vacation and how she still loved him and couldn’t wait to be together again. He ripped it up and tossed it I fished it out, taped it back together and mailed it (along with the envelope for postmark proof) to her live in BF.

I decided to resign instead of breaking the law. So, I knew as an exec that they paid people for their resignation time if they wanted them to move along. “I resign” was met with you can use today as your last day, we will pay out your notice time as if you were working.

So I turned in a 90 day notice…. And got a three month break!