73 Times Arrogant People Got Put Right Back In Their Place

My sister and I have not always had the easiest relationship. We're very different people and while I love her we have never been close. She also can be very judgemental of me. She is older by 3 years and in HS she went through a really rough period of her life. Alchol d***s boys, but she moved beyond that and is an incredibly stable and successful person. I bloomed a little later and didn't start going through a "rebellious" faze till 18-early 20s. My sister got kind of judgy about some of the things I was doing which I called BS on because she had done much worse in her youth.

Her myself and my mom we're having lunch one day and I mentioned I was going away for the weekend with a fwb. I was 19 and my sister got all lemon faced about it and couldn't believe my mother was letting me go which my mother said "she is an adult." Then she turned to me and said something like,

"Isn't it a little inappropriate for you to be going away with a guy your not even dating at your age?"

To which I replied...

"I'm sorry but that's my choice just like you losing your virginity at 14 was your choice."

Yeah that shut her up real quick.

We had a company break contract in the middle of drilling a hole. Got told to pack it up right now and get off the site in 48 hours or else the rig is forfeit.

My boss, the tool pusher, had us cut off the drill string and let it fall 200 ft so the next drilling company had to fish it out.

The pusher and I stayed up for 42 hours straight while we had 2 crews working balls to the wall.

Anyways, this company man (he works for the client, and usually gets in our way) kept telling our guys that we couldn't do this, or couldn't do that and that wasn't allowed by our contract.

There wasnt a soul there that paid attention to him.

I worked for a company that had one of those video game buses with the TV's and couches and s**t on the inside. I was the only employee and was technically the "Event Manger and Supervisor". That was just a fancy term for me being the only one to drive the truck and set it up and do maintenance on it and s**t. All my boss did was schedule bookings and tell me where I was going. I processed the payments as well so I was basically in charge of the entire operation. This woman came into the trailer at the end of a party to b***h at me since her kid didn't have enough fun. I told her all the other kids were having a great time and nobody else complained.

She insisted I give her a full refund since her kid didn't enjoy himself and I told her I wasn't going to do that. She asked who my manager was and I told her I was the manager. She then asked who my employer was and I told her his name. She demanded I call him so she could talk to him and on speaker phone, my boss said "I wasn't there to see how things were going. It's up OP to determine whether a refund is called for or not". Side note: While he was technically my boss, it was more like two friends running a business. He's a few years older than me and hired me off the street but we were both in our 20's at the time (he just turned 30 like 6 months ago) and his dad payed for everything for him (very wealthy family) so he wasn't really concerned about sucking the customers d**k.

I ended up telling her I wasn't going to refund the entire $350 because one kid didn't have a good time and promptly left. What's funny is a bunch of the parents at the event apparently got raving reviews from their kids and that party actually brought in like 8 new customers, a few of which booked us multiple times a year. She apparently tried talking bad about the company to the other parents but that didn't seem to stop them since everyone else had a great time. I miss that job. Best job I ever had.

I'm gay, but nobody ever guesses it just by looking at me. I was a lifeguard one year, and this one trainee girl doesn't want to do X. I think it was collecting some weights of the bottom of the pool or whatever. She starts laying it on thick, hair toss, batting eyes, t*****s up and out just to get me to do it for her.

I laughed myself all the way home.

When I was a senior in high school I transferred to an alternative school, but before I could start the new school, I had to get papers signed by my previous teachers with my grades.
So I go do that, and as I was about to leave an old teacher (he didn't know I wasn't a student there anymore, as I only left a couple days prior) that really hated me rounds the corner into the hallway I'm in.
Basically went like:
*What's going on here?*
"Not much, what's going on with you?"
(see's a pack of smokes peeking out of my pocket)
*Give me those right now*
"No thank you"
*Give them to me and get to the office right now!"*
(I think about it for a second)
"Naaaah, I have things to do"
(his face turns red)
*GET TO THE OFFICE NOW, YOU'RE IN A TON OF TROUBLE*
"That sounds boring, I'm just gonna go home"
*NO YOU'RE NOT. OFFICE. NOW.*
"Naaaah, I'm just gonna leave"

And I turned and headed for the doors, down this super long hallway, with him threatening me the whole way.

Felt good, man.

When my ex FINALLY stood up to his mother (She was 90% of the reason for divorce) about our custody schedule and told her, "We have it figured out. Myself, their mother, and their stepdad. We do not need your advice or opinion."

I just wish I had been able to witness it.

Had a team staging for the US Ambassador to Iraq. They have to sit out there for sometimes hours at a time-on the chance he'll come out that minute and they can whisk him away.

Had a US army captain roll up and tell my guys they needed to get the hell out of the way because his LTC was coming out soon. Kindly but snarkily told him his LTC doesn't have any power here to which the captain replied he'd call HIS boss and let him know. So one of the shift leads just tapped his shoulder and said "we're waiting for our ambo, move along."

For reference, a US Ambassador outranks military as they are the direct voice of the sitting US president.

One of my old English teachers was giving me a hard time about writing, accusing me of plagiarism in one of the final assignments I wrote and marking me down because I didn't write it a certain way.

I turned around and said, "oh, you mean just like the lawsuit you're currently defending against that accuses you of plagiarism?"

If her jaw could have hit the floor, it would have. She was utterly speechless and thought no one knew about her ongoing lawsuits. Yeah, I knew about them. Both of them. I also found out about the third one that got her fired from the school when they showed a huge disparity in mark scores because she excessively marked down someone who wrote something she didn't like in the Australian equivalent of the SAT's, only for them to turn around and have it marked at 2 other schools. That was a few years after my encounter though.

She had a real chip on her shoulder with me after that, but man, totally worth it.

There was another one where a guy tried to physically a*****t me in Seattle, only to realize he bit off more than he could chew and ate pavement instead.

Had a nursing home patient call 911 them self and the nurse told us (EMS) to leave before we saw the patient. No, once an active emergency scene is established the competent patient and the emergency services providers call the shots. The police removed him from the patient's room. His boss removed him from his job later.

My father has been a salesman for close to 30 years. He was in a meeting with the owner and a much younger salesman. Young guy was going on about how he had a lead with a big company and how this could be great business. My dad quietly waited and then dropped how he and that company's vice president go back 15 years. Yeah, not the beat day for the youngster.

I guess probably yesterday.

I went to Mickey D's for some dinner and the lady served the guy in front of me first then started to work on my mcflurry. She was about to put in the m&Ms when the first guy came back, complaining that they usually added more ice cream than that. For the record, he's talking about an inch of ice cream.

For anyone unfamiliar with the ice cream going in a cup process of McDonald's, they put the ice cream in first, then put the lid on, then put the toppings in, then swirl it.

Dude was mad because the ice cream wasn't going all the way to the top of the lid after being swirled.

Before the argument could really get started, I interrupted them and asked her "if she could please finish up my mcflurry before dealing his greedy a*s". I remember she said sure, turned to the machine, then turned back to me with an incredulous look on her face and said "thank you". Then the dude thanked me too. I quickly informed him not to thank me because I was 100% *not* on his side at all and that I thought he was ridiculous for arguing over an inch of ice cream.

At this point, she's put the toppings in and he really said "let's do an analysis here" and started comparing how my mcflurry looked like it had more ice cream in it than his because it reach halfway up the lid. It's at this point that she pointed out she had yet to swirl it. Lo and behold, once she swirled it, our ice cream looked nearly identical.

At this point the manager came over, wondering why this dude had raised his voice. I explained he was mad because he didn't receive an extra inch of ice cream and got mad that swirling seemingly makes the ice cream magically disappear, and the manager laughed in the guy's face.

I am 5' 4" male who looks less muscular than I am. I was in line for priority boarding and it had just started when the woman behind me said "excuse me, this is for priority boarding. You need to wait with everyone else."

I ignored her and presented my boarding pass with my active duty ID. My only revenge was when the attendant said "thank you for your service" I turned to the woman behind me, grinned, and said "thanks!" Before boarding.

In middle school we had a very strict no cell phone policy in which you basically couldn't ever have it out anywhere on campus. But once you got to high school, the rule essentially disappeared and nobody gave a s**t if you were using it outside of class. My first day of high school, one of my old middle school teachers saw me on my phone and stormed up to come and take it. He then recognized i was a high schooler now and i gave him my s**ttiest grin and literally told him of his newfound lack of power.

I work at a domestic violence shelter, and our ex-executive director was asked to resign because she had embezzled over 25 grand worth of our grant funding. She was a verbally a*****e garbage human, doing things to the employees that were the same things that clients are escaping from. I never did stick up for myself, because it was easier to let her curse and scream about thermostats and cat litter and be done. She has been skirting the blame in our small town since she resigned and the other day sent a mass text out to all current and past employees once again passing the blame on to our current director and our board. I had had enough of this drama and her, and finally told her that she could politely "lose my f*****g number." It's just a small text, but that was literally my declaration of independence from her, agne I have NEVER FELT MORE EMPOWERED IN MY LIFE.

In my second job in a restaurant I was hired as a dishwasher in a recent opened trattoria, I worked my a*s up to the kitchen a year later I was the chief pizzaiolo, 3 years later I was the only open crew still working, the owner and I became friends, I was good doing my job and taking care of almost every issue in the kitchen as well, ff 5 years later the owner wife decides she wanted to work there as a supervisor/do as I like, she treated people badly, screaming an calling names, some good coworkers left because of her, leaving my with more work and the need of training people almost every week, I went to the owner, told him I wanted to quit because of that situation, he said wait a sec, we were in the management office he came back with his wife, I tough that I was gonna get fired, he look at her and said "if you go near the pizzeria he(pointing at me) is the boss there, so not mess with the guys there, he reports to me" she tried to say something and he interrupted her with "you know why I pay this f****r so well? Is because he gets s**t done and I don't have to worry about the pizzeria almost never" I said thanks and walked out, they got in some argument but they were used to it. She tried to get me fired for almost a year after that incident then we ended being in a weird friendship.

I work with season ticket holders for a sports arena. My job mostly revolves around accommodating seat changes, managing accounts, and giving tours to sell seats. The amount of self entitlement some of these people feel is absolutely dumbfounding. One man called and demanded a discount because we had sent him an invoice for his hockey seats stating the total he owed us. He hadn’t paid for his tickets yet but literally wouldn’t accept that as the reason someone would receive an invoice. After a few minutes of yelling, I just told him that we’d close his account until we straightened it out and hung up. He called back the next day and payed the full price.

However, that man was most likely trying to con me. That’s just the most recent example, but I also have to deal with neighbor disputes and other issues that our valued clientele might have. I might post more later.

This guy used to come into the movie theater I worked at every Monday night. Apparently he had worked there before, but I had been there for like 6 years at this point and I had never worked with him.

Anyway, every time he would come in he would come late to the very last movie and then expect us to pop fresh popcorn and put new hot dogs on the clean grill. We would save the last batch of popcorn in a plastic bag and keep the hotdogs in a steam drawer, so it’s not like we didn’t have what he wanted. He just wanted special treatment. Then he would try to pull that scam where he gives the cashier a $100 bill and then adds stuff to his order and takes stuff away to confuse the cashier and get free stuff. He was always super rude, too.


When I got promoted to management I was finally able to stand up to him a little. I said something like “You come in here every Monday, talk down to my cashier and try to scam us out of money. I’m not going to put up with it anymore.”


Dude flipped out. Started saying how he used to work here so he knows how everything works (ok???) and how he’s on the city council of a different city IN A DIFFERENT COUNTY. I’m pretty sure I just laughed and said “you’re in [my city] so that doesn’t matter.” He was pissed but he actually started being less rude and stopped trying to scam us all together. Eventually he stopped coming. I don’t even know why he came to my theater since his city has like 2-3 to choose from, one being the same chain that mine was.

F**k you, Griffin.

I got a fine for drinking on the street when I was 15, in Spain you receive the fines through a letter and the letter arrived at my previous adress where only my older sister lived at the moment, this b***h paid the fine (with my money) but tried to blackmail me with everything, tired of this I told my parents and when I finally didn't comply with one of my sisters demands she told them, they just told her that she was a f*****g snitch and such a s****y sister. It was like seeing someone trying to k**l me with a blank round.

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.

Watched a woman try to get speedy boarding on an easyJet flight because," I've had a British Airways Gold Card for twenty years".