73 Times Arrogant People Got Put Right Back In Their Place

I had found another job and was just waiting it out to get my bonus. For about three months I was free to express myself in ways I wouldn’t have otherwise. I had noticed that my Vacation time had not been approved and normally would have asked about it but decided to see how it might play out. My manager called me in about 2 weeks before my vacation to inform me that it was denied. I wasnt the least upset but I informed her I was going anyway. She threatened me every way under the sun which only made me laugh at her. Everyone was surprised when I left her office smiling as they had heard her. I went to my desk, printed off my resignation and gave it to her.

Got my bonus, got my vacation, and also got an extra 2 weeks paid because I was going to a competitor and they didn’t want me sharing information.

When I realized I could just hang up on my sister when she wanted to yell at me on the phone. As a twelve year old that was a powerful moment.

I coached gymnastics at a very highly competitive gym. One of my duties was to select and train the youngest talent for compulsory team training.

Parents caught on to what I was doing when I pulled kids from rec classes and got all nail biting excited, but never confronted me if I didn't pursue a kid for higher training.

Until one high powered exec mom did: yelling in the lobby that I was blind, couldn't see Suzy's talent, her somersault (!) is better than all the other 5yr olds in class, we should be training her for free because did we know her soccer coach thinks she's a STAR. A STAR. I told her competitive gymnastics is a family commitment, and while Suzy is great, her family is what didn't make the cut.

I once worked for a shady company that sold and repaired expensive American vacuum cleaners. I was the service manager. I had planned a 6 week scuba diving trip with a mate for 2 years. They were well aware of this and said it was fine. When the time came close, I put in my application for 6 weeks leave. I was called into the husband / wife owners office and told that I could only take 3 weeks (I had saved the time up with their permission). I pointed this out but the were adamant that 3 weeks was the most they were prepared to authorise. I even tried to negotiate them to 5 weeks but that was firmly rejected. So I walked from the office, wrote my resignation letter and left. Had a great holiday diving the Great Barrier Reef. They rang me weekly for a solid 3 months offering all sorts of incentives to come back but by then I had won a great government job. F**k you Tony and Anne.

I worked at a dominos and there was this old lady who ordered from us a lot and was always unpleasant. One day she calls and makes an order that she must make a lot because she knew exactly how much it was supposed to cost down to the penny.

I put her order in and tell her how much it is and she starts getting upset because the order was two cents more than what it usually is and starts accusing me of trying to steal money from her. She asks “how much money do you make stealing two cents from every customer” well if I was trying to steal money and I did it to 100 customers I would have made a whole two dollars.

I didn’t know what to do because she wouldn’t accept the order unless it was exactly how much she thought it should be and there’s nothing I can do to remove 2 cents from an order so I ask the manager and she just tells me to hang up I was new at that time and I’m guessing this wasn’t the first time that store got messed up with by her. It felt amazing that was the only time I ever got to do that to a customer.

Had a client freak out on us and harass us with phone calls every few minutes because we couldn't accommodate her needs (she wanted to make her Countertops larger than the actual slab of granite. You can't grow rock...) so we just refused her deposit and told her to not call us any more. She was speechless, she was trying to get a discount and now she's gotta start the whole a*s process elsewhere.

We don't abide by "the customer is always right."

Edit: for all those asking, we can absolutely seam two slabs together but she rejected this solution because she's dumb 🤷‍♀️.

My boss sold the company and about a week after the official switch to the new owners he called me up to ask me to do something. I told him my consulting fees were $120/hr. He didn't take me up on it, unfortunately.

My last job.

Was hired to be on doing PC repair, only to be told an hour before my first shift that there wasn't any hours avail for that and they could put me elsewhere. Begrudgingly I accepted as I turned down another position and needed the work.

Fast forward a few months and the manager decides that I'm going to be filling in for the only person handling shipping and receiving for this giant Dept store single handedly with 3 days training.

Of course things aren't going so well as this is a two person position at a min for 8 hours and I'm expected to do it in 6.

The last day on the job I'm swamped, vendors are fighting with each other over dock space and another manager comes up freaking out at me because I couldn't get the extra work I had told her repeatedly couldn't be done was done.

Exasperated I pleaded my case, to which she callously said I don't give a darn. Now I'm getting mad, she replied to me at this point and says " do you know who you're talking to? "

I replied " ya the jerk is who is now running this mess show cause I'm out"

11.35 an hour with my promised hours gutted was not worth it.

Over the course of 6 months through countless phone calls to different union offices and the department of labor I eventually got my boss fired for changing people's time keeping information to steal overtime from them. During those months I was treated like absolute dog s**t by this guy but I never actually did anything wrong so I couldn't be punished. At one point management against contract rules denied my time off request to be in my best friends wedding and my boss brought me into his office and threatened to fire me. At this point I had called the north east district business associate on him and I will never forget the look on my bosses face when he realized I knew he couldn't do anything to me.

Guys birthday, someone found out he had guitar hero 3 and bet people they couldn't beat him.

Little did he know I'm super autismo good at it. Like, had a YouTube channel for a while with custom song FCs (100% runs) that could dry up every v****a in a 10 mile radius level good.

TL;DR: Credit union tried to bill my father's estate for a card they wouldn't provide documentation for. I told them in detail why that wasn't going to happen.

After my father passed away, there was a small amount of estate-related issues to take care of. I was the legal executor of his estate. While I was sorting through things, I started getting letters from a local credit union regarding a credit card account of his that they wanted paid off. Problem was, I could find no evidence on my end, in all of Dad's paperwork, of his having *had* that credit card. And though I knew he had a savings account with them, I didn't recall any prior bills from them regarding said credit card -- and I'd been handling his bills for close to a year before he passed away. I went in to ask for evidence, and got told that only the CEO could handle the matter. She was on vacation that week, so I left my name and number to have her get back to me. When she finally called me back, she didn't offer evidence but instead offered a number of demands that I immediately pay the money and that if there wasn't enough money in Dad's estate I should sell the house he had owned (for an alleged debt of about $600). Pointing out that he had not, in fact, owned said house for quite some time by the time he died fell on deaf ears.

The letters continued, some personally written and rather harassing in tone. I was feeling rather concerned, as I didn't know exactly what they could do, or what my options were. I know, the smart thing would have been to retain an estate lawyer to handle it, but what do you do when you're not an attorney and don't have the money to retain one? I had been handling things myself as the most financially-minded of my siblings, and trying to handle things as a matter of common sense and common decency. There weren't a lot of assets or debts with the estate, it seemed like it should be pretty straightforward (and other than this one case, all of it went smoothly.)

Fortunately, Oregon's estate laws are actually *really* easy to read for a layperson. I spent several nights studying the various sections, and determined exactly how things should go, and wrote a letter (sent Certified Delivery with a return receipt) back to the credit union CEO. In the letter I stated the following. First, that as there was no evidence presented for the claim, I was formally denying it in my capacity as executor, which the law allowed, with a window of opportunity of 30 days to appeal the ~~design~~ decision in court. Second, that if she wished to make an appeal to me personally and save on the court fees, she needed to provide documentation of the account, including a record of all transactions and charges to justify the amount claimed.

Naturally I got a letter back four weeks later. It contained some paperwork, including the paperwork establishing Dad's savings account... but nothing establishing a credit card. Further, the letter stated that it would be too onerous to provide full records of all the transactions. (Any bankers out there, take note: never tell a programmer it's too difficult for you to access your own data. We know it's either b******t or that you're admitting incompetence. This would have been a 5-minute database query for me, and that's if I had to look up the tables first.) It reiterated the demand for immediate payment, again stating the house (again, not actually Dad's, but she kept insisting it was) needed to be sold to pay for it.

I wrote another letter. In this letter I clarified several points for her. First, that as she had not provided the required documentation, she had not actually made an appeal that would be subject to evaluation, let alone acceptance; therefore, the original denial of the claim stood unchanged. Second, that it was not her place to determine my father's assets, as she was not executor of the estate. Third, that even if her claim had been granted, Oregon law requires six months from the decedent's passing to receive all claims before any of those claims may be paid out, and by demanding immediate payment she was attempting to get me to break the law. Fourth, that Oregon law declares the priority of claims by the nature of them, and credit card debts were rank N (i.e., "everything not covered above", where the above included taxes, medical debts, and various other things); even if her claim had been granted, she could not be paid unless there was money left after paying all higher-priority debts, and even if the house had been included that wouldn't have been the case. And fifth, as the one month deadline for appealing in court would expire by the time they received this letter, they had exhausted all of their legal options, and further attempts to pursue the claim would constitute unlawful harassment, and charges would be pressed in such an instance.

I didn't hear back from them again.

I was let go from a non-profit for no reason (re: wasn’t in ‘rich’ enough circles to be able to attract money to the org).

I then got a job at a large funder for non-profits. The non-profit eventually came knocking and I had the ear of the CEO.

I didn’t end up saying anything, but it was one of the most satisfying moments in my life to have that power and a friendly reminder to treat all people well.

When I was at school I was having trouble with this one guy - not a bully, exactly, but we didn't get on (we were later put in separate houses). Anyway, during one shouting match, he made a big thing about how he was whatever rank in the army cadets.

I stopped for a second, and just said "But, I'm *not* in the cadets."

"But I outrank you!"

"I don't have a rank. I'm not in the army, so you're not above me."

And then he said "But if martial law were declared..."

And I couldn't really carry on after that.

Got out of the army and joined the air force national guard in my home state. 20 minutes after leaving my new base for the first time i receive a phone call from a guy introducing himself as a sergeant first class from the army reserve informing me that his system shows my name had been pulled from the reserve pool to deploy to iraq within 3 months and congratulated me. Kindly informed him that 1. I had just returned from deployment before getting out and was still guaranteed more than 3 months stateside and 2. I had enlisted with the air guard and therefore exempt. He got irritated raises his tone of voice and said well you better get that paperwork to me asap because my system says you're going. Told him i signed a contract which binds me to that, not your system. So i told him its not my job to update to ensure your system for you. I gave him the name of the organization i was now affiliated with, city and state it was in, my recruiters name, rank and personal phone number. Now you have several different ways to contact who u need to in order to get your system updated and hung up on him.

My mother-in-law passed away last year and my wife and I got rid of the the leftover stuff. Most was easy, except the AT&T router for her Internet access.

We got a total runaround.

I brought it into an AT&T store, the same one my MIL had signed up from, and they said it had to be returned in some special box from the local post office. We went to the post office and were told the special box came from AT&T. We went back to AT&T, in a different city, and were told yet another BS story.

It caused my wife an amazing amount of grief. Her mother had just died. She's trying to do the "adult" thing and responsibly close out her mother's accounts. And AT&T was just being a bunch of a*s-clowns. The router became her albatross.

The router sat in the trunk of the car for weeks. One day I'm grabbing lunch and notice another AT&T. I walk inside and up to a desk where a rep is talking Internet plans with another customer. I don't interrupt, but the rep pauses to give me a story about how I can't return the router here and will need to set up a return "with a central office".

I calmly put the router on her desk and said "No, I won't be doing that. The owner of this account just died. I'm just trying to give you your property back. You've given me the runaround for weeks now and I'm done."

As I turn to walk away she yells "but we're just going to throw it away if you leave it here! You'll get charged for it!"

"Okay by me!" I toss over my shoulder as I walk out the door. "Good luck collecting from a d**d woman!"

I occasionally wonder if the other customer stuck around or not. But then I remember who runs the FCC and it's not like there's a real choice in ISPs in most areas of the country.

Company did restructuring; and laid about 30 of us off. My boss (picture female Limburg) gave me my contract package, which also included a lecture on if I was a better worker the company wouldn’t need to do this.

After a month, they realized it was a mistake and told us they were nullifying our contracts and we could have our job back.

I told that my attorney wasn’t aware of contract nullification given the language in the document and if they didn’t stand by their committment, we had already retained counsel so whatever would happen .....

They came back said we could have a one year package (over and above salary) if we stayed for a year.

I quit on the 366th day and my boss told me that she was hurt; and that this was very hard for her.

I called her a sociopath and walked out of the building.

I used to be a teacher. Leaving the graduation ceremony of my last year, a senior said f**k and then "oh no, I'm so sorry Mr. Jetpacks."

I said "You're a f*****g adult and I'm not a f*****g teacher. I don't give a f**k what you say".

When I left a job I was invited to meet with the CEO because he was unhappy I was leaving and wanted to understand why.

I explained that I was not being paid enough and the recently announced pay rise was not good enough. He got irritated and in a patronising tone started trying to lecture me on how I should have handled that situation better. I interrupted him, he didn’t like that, so I added “I’m leaving, I have nothing to lose” and then informed him that I had already been let down over pay multiple times, had witnessed others trying to get more pay and being refused, so I had no interest in begging to be paid what I already deserved to be paid.

When the kid who picked on me in highschool applied to work in my store.

When mom got ridiculously nasty & rude with me in my own home I just moved into - I told her if doesn't like my food, furniture, clothes, location of where my apartment is & the A/C; there's the door I'm gladly lock the top & bottoms locks. She STFU when she realize I was d**d serious when I open the door.