Petty revenge stories before changing Jobs?

Had a previous company contact me several times trying to work out how did I do X, what do we do for Y. Rather than being petty I answered the first couple of questions to be helpful, but the third time I got asked I said I'd have to send an invoice for my time and when it's paid I'll tell you how to do said task. Never got contacted again.

I worked as an electrician for years and a colleague of mine was told he was being made redundant at the end of the week.

In his last few days , he disconnected as many circuits he could get his hands on in sub boards and walked off the job with every single drawing and circuit diagram he could find.

"This is an urgent message for all shoppers. Please stay away from the the fruit & Veg section as its all fúcking manky. Actually everything here is manky. You're probably better off doing your shopping in Tesco." Said a guy at the end of his last day in Dunnes Stores. Presumably he went on to work in Tesco.

show me the money! never underestimate the power of experience, hope your father made a killing after leaving!

I know of a guy who decided Xmas eve was his last shift in the pub so as he was locking up turned all the taps on. This is in oz where kegs are banked up so ur talking 3 plus kegs multiplied by maybe 10 taps sitting there until someone comes into open up Stephens day. Probably a couple of thousand litres gone.

I suspect that story is exaggerated as doing such a thing would be criminal damage and lead to a very lengthy jail sentence especially in Australia.

I would suspect that the story is very much in the head of the "guy"

I didn't know the guy personally but I knew the manager of the pub. 2000 litres is 40 kegs. It's not unusual over there to have 40 kegs tapped up.

we had a serial emailer for a while, when computers were left unlocked, twas some laugh

Friend of mine was leaving an engineering consultancy on bad terms. On her last day she went into the client contact list database and changed 1-2 digits / letters in every telephone number and email address.

I come across one where an IT admin deleted all the HR files when he left.

Seems there was a constant row between one department and the IT department over backups. Something about the IT department not having the capability to backup everything required and backing up what they considered important.

For some reason HR got involved in this and it turns out that HR kept no backups of any HR files on the main servers - so the IT department couldn't read them. So as some sort of revenge just before he left one IT guy used his privileges on the network to access the HR PC's and delete all their files. I can't remember why exactly but it also turned out the none of the files were recoverable.

i seriously doubt that, ive probably been braking laws my whole life, and life is all good, and you can be damn sure im not the only human doing so....

if the perpetrator was leaving the country and/or illegally employed, theres a good chance the employer would have done anything.....

Not really a revenge story but..........

My cousin is an architect in the US. She was working in a State that had very poor employment laws etc. No redundancy. The boss can come in and say you are fired and that's it, out the door you go. No reason given. Just fired.

Anyway, her boss told her she was going to be let go at the end of the day. No reason given, she hadn't done anything wrong, just out you go. She thinks he wanted to do a bit of downsizing. She encrypted all of her files and off she went at the end of the day. The next day her boss phoned her looking for the passwords etc. and she told him she no longer worked for him and that she is no longer obliged to do anything for him. She also said she couldn't remember them but if she was rehired, she might remember them if she was sitting at her work computer.

He ended up having to rehire her to get the files unlocked (on a contract of her own making that prevented her from being fired within the next 12 months). She went back to work, obviously under a cloud as her employer was fuming with her, and she spent the next couple of months working and looking for a new job. Once she had a new job off she went and gave yer man no notice.

I suppose he didn't give a fcuk about her so why should she give a fcuk about him.

If we are talking about petty proactive actions...

If you are the chap who threw a few unsolicited punches at me at Silvio's in 1994, and are wondering why you never got a job in [Large Financial Services Company] two years later or [Large State Entity] a number of years later after two attempts, well wonder no more.

I've never had the need to take revenge on any employer of a real job I've had, but back in my school days though I did a week's work experience with a friend of mine in Walton's music store in Dublin city centre. We were given the menial tasks like cleaning to do and I remember spending two full days putting together these metal cabinets they had ordered in to display sheet music in. The actual staff at the time were mostly the stereotypical failed musicians and didn't appear to be doing a whole lot. This was in the days before internet shopping and the likes of thomann.de had really taken off, before Irish music stores were forced to drop their prices and up their customer service.

At the end of our final day my friend went in to tell the manager we were leaving, expecting a token 50 quid or so which most places who took on work experience kids seemed to do at that time. There was a long awkward silence where nothing was forthcoming and then he just left the manager's office and immediately told me to follow him to the back room where we just took a bunch of random shít. There was a splash cymbal, other random small crap and a few packs of guitar strings. When we got home we found out instead of taking 4-6 packs we'd ended up with about 24 A strings. We didn't really care, we considered this a victory.

That store has long since closed down, perhaps I am partly responsible??

24 G strings would have been better.

the best revenge you can get is to better yourself

i don't believe a word of that, she should be locked up . work you do in work isn't yours. They are not "her files" she essentially in this case blackmailed her boss like an email scam.

Yeah, it's not something I would have done.