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Petty revenge stories before changing Jobs?

  • 01-05-2022 5:13pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,244 ✭✭✭


    Of course the chances are that one won't feel hard done by when finishing at their company, but if you have been, have you ever had some fun in being able to walk around acting as if you own the place during your last week of work? Aren't you really a danger to your boss's egos once it's finalised that you are leaving... especially if you're already paid? When you're there at your desk thinking of all the tasks that only you could do that others didn't fully appreciate, was it ever nice to think that you could make it so that things would be difficult for the rest of them going forward... knowing that they'll probably be ringing you in a few months about some issue so that you can then play dumb about?! Anyone have any stories?

    This happened to my father recently. He would have been great at his job, but perhaps a bit too nice. So when he got a bit on and didn't fit in with the culture they shafted him. A few months later he was getting phone calls from about certain tasks. I've no doubt they tried everything else before having the awkwardness of ringing him!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭3DataModem


    Not exactly the same thing, but close enough.

    A long time ago I worked for the second biggest company (company F) in the world that did a thing. I had a complicated departure, and moved on to work for the biggest company (company P) in the world that did the thing, located abroad.

    Then a year and a half later, both companies faced legal problems, and it turned out that company F had done some sketchy stuff and were broke.

    As part of resolving company P's legal issue, they ended up acquiring company F and paying back their debts. I was directly involved in the due diligence and takeover work.

    Walking back into the office two years after I had left (when they literally couldn't afford lightbulbs or toilet paper) was 👌 but only for a moment, as I felt sorry for the people I had worked with. Most of them came to work with us, thankfully. But a small handful did NOT 👌👌👌.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭sam t smith


    Years ago a colleague working in the IT department of a small to medium was made redundant along with other staff members.

    Earlier that morning his PC had unexpectedly ‘died’. It had some important software that wasn’t installed on any other devices.

    It later transpired that he had been snooping in the HR ladies email and knew he was to be made redundant that morning.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,244 ✭✭✭Brid Hegarty


    How did he manage to hack in to her emails? and do you mean that they killed his PC because they realised the hack, or do you mean that he did this to his own PC to get back at the company?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭sam t smith


    It wasn’t a hack, as a system administrator he could access any email account but would have been ‘trusted’ not to misuse the access privileges.

    A word document with the list of people being made redundant was subsequently found on the desktop of the email server, copied from the mail account. (This is early 00’s before cloud.)

    The ‘PC’ died before he was informed of the redundancy. He ‘killed’ the PC because he wanted to inconvenience the company, as he knew that the PC was the only device that had certain software installed, one being the client used to maintain the corporate firewall. I think he just formatted the hard drive and pretended it had failed.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,510 ✭✭✭fun loving criminal


    I worked in a place where I was taken advantage off, over worked, little recognition, crap pay. When I left, they hired two people for replacement. So that is how much work they were getting out of me. So not really revenge but satisfying to know how a bunch of cheapskates had to pay for two employees as my replacement.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,513 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    Thread disappoints, I thought it would be stories of Top Decking the toilets or leaving sh*tes in filing cabinets.

    Re: leaving a job and having your former colleagues ring you afterwards looking for help - If you help them, eaten bread is soon forgotten, they'll go back to bitching/forgetting about you. If you don't help them, the world probably won't end and they'll bitch/forget about you.

    In a workplace you will rarely get credit for the work you do no matter how good it is. If you leave and they have to hire 10 people to replace you, they'll gloss over that fact and focus on any mistakes you made.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,585 ✭✭✭Ginger83




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭sam t smith


    Ha ha. Wasn’t me but I was the person who found the attachment on the mail server a few days later.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,419 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    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.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭TheTruth89


    A lad i work with told me in a previous job there was a lad that apparently knew he was going to be leaving/getting fired so he started leaving big sh*ts in random places (corridors, warehouse, offices, toilet floors... ect) they obviously didnt know who it was so he was known as the phantom shitter



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭Christine Neville




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,988 ✭✭✭Andrea B.


    I take it he was planning on never working, in any capacity, on this small island of ours again?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    "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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,419 ✭✭✭corner of hells




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,428 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,714 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    This isn't revenge, it's just breaking even.

    I worked in a pizza chain franchise in uni. The owner was a complete cowboy, string of failed businesses behind him, massive liar. He often short changed us with pay and we'd have to go argue with him and he'd try not to pay. I was lucky i stood into him the first time so he didn't do it much with me, but he did it regularly with other staff who he thought were a bit more timid.

    He was shutting down the business and reopening under a new name (same franchise) and he just disappeared for 3 weeks. No pay (we were paid weekly), no word on what was happening. The other manager was away on holiday for some of the period so I had to cover lot of shifts and racked up lots of hours.

    He arrived in and had a wad of cash and took the staff one by one and asked 'how much do you think I owe you? And how much will you accept?' Most people took about 2/3 or 3/4 of their wages. When it was my turn I said I expected to be paid the full amount. He was furious that I wasn't being a 'team player' and after a back and forth he paid me the full amount but said I wouldn't be offered a Contract at the new company.

    I was going to have to finish in about 6 weeks to focus on my dissertation and exams anyway so it wasn't a big problem. And this makes the story unbelievable, but it's true. On the walk home I found 20 quid on the ground. It's the only time I was fired and felt pretty good about it!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,157 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,713 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭macvin


    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"



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,428 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    ....and humans never get away with committing crimes!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,157 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    re-setting people's screensavers with a pornographic image



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,428 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,033 ✭✭✭griffin100


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,428 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    ah work mate could never resist an unlocked computer, he use to send emails from unlocked accounts, with some of the most vile of sexualised stories, one funny bastrad, got us through those tough days



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,585 ✭✭✭Ginger83




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭Gorteen


    Working in London for a number of years in a large organisation. A middle-manager who wasn't making much progress in her career in this organisation recognised her face just didn't 't fit so got another job elsewhere in the UK. In her last month she was involved in recruitment and interviewing new staff. Her revenge wasn't apparent until she had gone and there was an influx of newly recruited morons who were offered employment and caused havoc in their new jobs.....



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,474 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    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.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,344 ✭✭✭Grueller


    I had a lad on the farm here that didn't work out. I spent more time watching him than I did working myself as he was skiving at every opportunity. When I let him go the b@st@rd dropped the keys of one of the tractors into the diesel tank.

    He was going to work as a telehandler driver on a site for a builder in the next town. I rang a foreman there and lo and behold he had no job to go to the next week.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,181 ✭✭✭✭martingriff




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭macvin


    Rarely if you are known, your address and contact details known and most likely CCTV showing you do it.

    As I said, most likely in the imagination or at worst a small amount of divilment.


    If it was substantial as the poster claims (but didn't witness it), the owner would have taken action.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,428 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    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.....



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,585 ✭✭✭Ginger83




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,790 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Absolutely 100% the right thing to do. The dirty little scroat



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭3DataModem


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,113 ✭✭✭✭L1011




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,211 ✭✭✭Royale with Cheese


    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??



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭brookers




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭silliussoddius




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    i remember many moons back working in a supermarket and there was a quiet skinny young lad there over the summer who was constantly bullied by a co-worker, so on his final day he slashed the Bully's bicycle tyres and smeared the handle bars with dog sh1t😝

    and i don't blame him



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭sam t smith


    ^ We need more faeces related stories.



  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,867 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,430 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    the best revenge you can get is to better yourself



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 269 ✭✭JayPS 2288


    He would have been better sabotaging the brakes.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,430 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,790 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    It's up to you whether you believe it or not. I'm just telling you what she did. Yep, it was a sh1tty thing for her to do but she viewed what her boss was doing to her as being fairly sh1tty too. I personally wouldn't have done it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,790 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp




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