73 Times Arrogant People Got Put Right Back In Their Place

I have always had a pretty good relationship with my bosses and they're usually reasonable. It's an engineering position and occasionally some people have to travel. I was asked to cover for someone for a relatively trivial meeting on the west coast. It was not my project and the only justification was to send a warm body to show that we were present.

Boss told me to go, I said no. He said "this won't look good on your performance appraisal." I said "the only way you can hurt me with a performance appraisal is to roll it up and poke me in the eye."

I did not go to the meeting.

One day after we got our results we were already and officially not part of the school anymore. We were walking out and chatting/laughing about the good times when the french teacher (who everyone hates) comes out and says we owe her a two hour detention for not getting an A for her class. She was literally mad cos she got refused a raise/promotion cos she was a bad teacher (i got a total A with a C in her class).

One of my mates said “oh stfu u were a c**p teacher” and tries to walk past, she physically tries to block him and she says No u r going to stay. He replies: w*f are u gonna do - expell me?

The funny part is that she rushed to get other teachers to back her up but they hated her as well.

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.

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.

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

I had put in my two week's notice at a job and they suddenly had me working bizarre split shifts when they found out that I was training for my new job around my previously set schedule. My schedule which had not changed in months. The schedule which was preventing me from finishing college.

I finally had my fill and decided to leave. As I was leaving, one of the supervisors said I had to check in with a manager and I said, "Naw, I don't work here anymore.".

"I'm the most senior employee here so I'm technically the boss."

No you're covering from another department... regardless of how long you've worked here. You're only filling in and are not employed for us. You are technically the least senior, according to company policy. Even less senior than the girl who started twenty minutes before you got here.

Working in an inner city retail store, the new store manager changed our working hours so everyone finished at the same time the store closed and wouldn't let us escort customers out of the store until after closing time. She also threatened to report anyone logging the overtime we were doing to close the store as though we were lying on our timesheets. This went on for about a week before we unanimously decided to just sign out and leave the store at closing time with customers still in it and the store manager all by herself, about 30-40 people (part timers and casuals) all risking our jobs to oppose her. She called upper management who threatened to fire everyone, we passed that on to the retail workers union, suddenly the old store manager has returned, our working hours have gone back to the way they were and the union is asking us if we would like to pursue a class action lawsuit. We didn't because we liked the old manager, in the following months there were lots of pizza days, prizes for meeting certain sales goals, lots of "recognition for hard work" speeches and we even got end of financial year bonuses.

I used to be a manager at a hotel and had an employee who had had a terrible ex. The first time I worked with her was an evening shift and I was in my office with her at the front desk. All of a sudden I hear some guy yelling at her, dropping f-bombs and insults like crazy. I went out to the desk and asked what was going on. He said, “Mind your f*****g business.” To which, I had a Captain America-like response, “Language!” His retort was “First f*****g amendment!” To which I responded, “This isn’t a public forum, get out or I am calling the police.” Apparently he had warrants out for his arrest so he noped out after that threat. Felt bad for the employee, she thought she going to be fired, but she ended up working for me for another four years or so and also lists me as a reference for jobs.

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 was a manager at a strip club for around 10 years, and we always loved the customers who complain about nonsense and think something will happen because the world has taught them the customer is always right.
I used to give them a piece of paper and a pen, and tell them to write it all down and I'll put it in the suggestion box. When they were done and handed me the paper, i'd ball it up and throw it right in the garbage can, and tell them their complain had been filed.

A few years ago my ex wife left me in a hurry and then the weekend afterwards demanded that I be home around lunch time so that she could pick up some things she left behind. Some friends of mine had organised to take me out to lunch in the city that day because I was feeling s**t about the whole situation and it was the first time in years that I was able to say "no, I have plans and you'll have to work around them". Felt f*****g amazing to put myself first for once.

I was working for a huge clothing store chain as a temp student worker one summer many years ago. I worked there for two days before one of the employees started acting weird around me, bossing me around (we weren't working in the same department so she shouldn't even have been telling me anything), coming to the changing rooms where I was folding the discarded clothes, to talk on the internal phone next to me to say "omg the new student hasn't even finished what you asked her to do yet, w*f. She's wasting my time" and basically just being demeaning for no reason.
One day, I realized she was following me around the store, hiding behind clothes racks or watching me while pretending to be folding pants (she wasn't even in her own area so she stuck out like a sore thumb). At one point, she started coming up to me to berate me for the smallest things. She was leaving and coming back every few minutes doing the same routine until she had a "real" grievance about something I forgot to pick up in the stock room and she sent me there to do it "immediatly!!!!".
I'd been there only a few minutes when guess who walks in? The crazy stalker.
She started yelling at me, telling me everything I did wrong, that I was sitting around instead of working (I sat once to do my shoelaces), she said "you're f*****g up MY store" (she was barely above me, working 20hrs a week).
I listened and replied to some things, until she got to the end of her rant and delivered what was to be her mic drop line : "Well, *anyway*, you're just a f*****g temp worker!". I just looked at her and said "well, yeah, I'm a student, I'm just here to pay my plane ticket to go on vacation, you're stuck here."

The best part, was she went to talk to the floor manager afterwards, saying I yelled at her and called her all kinds of names. The manager came up to me and told me that the girl was crazy and was doing the same thing every time a new temp student came in, to the point they had a hard time finding student workers.
I asked the day after to be sent to another store.

Military medical field: Every time a dependapotamus comes along trying to act like their spouses rank and threatening us that their spouse is [insert rank here]. I actually laughed at one once when she told me her husband was a SSgt(AF E-5) and she would get him to give me an LOR if I didn't draw her blood right then and there. A little unprofessional on my part, but that was just too d**n funny.

Parents came to visit me at my apartment back in college. I typically always have the door locked but if I'm expecting company I'll unlock it so I can just tell "come in", all my friends knew this because we all did similar but we all had the courtesy to knock on each others doors.

Parents came and just walked straight in. I calmly got up off the couch and made them go back outside and knock. My dad laughed and tried to argue but I was having none of it, "Not under my roof." mmmm that felt good.

Don’t know if this counts. I Had a s****y group project teammate in college. Didn’t do any work. He applied for the company I worked for about a year after college. My bosses asked if I knew him and I said “yup, don’t hire him”

Was the ultimate peer review revenge.

I work at a local mountain resort and in the summer we have an alpine slide and chair lift running. You aren't allowed to go down the slide if you're under the influence of alcohol. A group of 5 or so people bought tickets, went down once and then went up to the restaurant. They then came back down and went down the slide again, they drank a ton at the restaurant and one girl fell out of the slide and got all burned up (not a big deal, it happens to people every day on the slide, we're all trained in first aid). But the reason she fell out was because she and all her friends were drunk. Our supervisor came and told them that they couldn't go down again and they argued saying "we aren't that drunk... we're fine etc." And we just had to keep telling them that they weren't allowed to go down again.

The girl who fell before says to my supervisor, "I'm pretty sure I'm older than you so..."

And my supervisor replies, "Umm I'm pretty sure I work here.".

I was working a show where the stagehands had to walk onstage in costume to hook up some of our performers during a scene for a flight. This HAD to be done by a technician due to the life safety involved and our agreement.

We all grumbled about wearing the stupid costume, but it was provided for us and it’s in our contract that we can wear whatever they want us to as long as they provide it.

Somewhere along final dress, the director notices that some of the techs are female. She requests to make all stagehands that do that track male and is unceremoniously told by our steward that no, she can’t do that. It is in fact, against the law and discriminatory because we are not hired for our “look” like the actors are, but by skill.

She then started requesting the women style their hair a certain way, remove glasses and jewelry, and do their makeup. At this point the steward met up with the production manager with a note from our lawyer again reminding everyone that technicians are not actors and she gets no choice if she wants to keep the effect

The director was summarily told to shut the hell up in a closed-door meeting and never bothered us again, though I can guarantee it still bothers her to this day.

My job has a system based on seniority if you are doing the same job. For example: promotions are handed out to the people who been there the longest, or if the job is overstaffed the seniors gets first dibs to leave. In the interview they ask if you are comfortable if a 20 year old is your senior and can bossnyou around (assuming you are a 50 year old), if you answer you have problem with it, they won't hire you...

So I'm 22 and this 45 year old was telling me what to do, I am his senior by 2 years. He was telling me how to do my job on his first month. Hell Nahh, tried to throw the I'm old enough to be your grandfather/dad card. He told the supervisor that I was being disrespectful and rude and threaten to call HR...

HR fired him.

Middle school, we were stupid edgy kids who wanted nothing more in this world than Call of Duty and Family Guy.

Teacher found out we were watching Family Guy, tried to get the school to ban it/phone our parents and tell them we were watching it. Plot twist: most parents know their kids are watching it, and don't care because around the age of 13 you're typically responsible enough to not repeat the stuff you hear when it's not appropriate.

Whoever would have guessed schools can't control what you do at home!