Little is extra satisfying than seeing a jerk get a well-deserved comeuppance. For instance, some satisfying tales shared right here previously:
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“I labored with a horrid VP of Gross sales – conceited, obnoxious, only a nightmare. We had been in an inside assembly and he used the phrase ‘get in a circle jerk’ with them (and even used the hand movement). Then smirked at me, the one lady within the room and the youngest by far.
I’d had sufficient so (faux) innocently requested, loudly, ‘What’s a circle jerk?’ He tried to maneuver on however I requested once more, ‘Sorry I don’t perceive, what’s a circle jerk – if I’m negotiating the contract I have to know the phrases.’ Everybody froze. The CEO walked in and requested, ‘So the place are we?’ I loudly mentioned, ‘Nicely, we’re ready for ____ to elucidate what a circle jerk is as he’s actually fearful about it being a part of the contract.’ It was absolute gold and a profession spotlight that sadly can’t go on a resume!”
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“A colleague saved stealing my work – copy-pasting stuff from paperwork I’d written, and claiming PowerPoint decks as her personal. So I embedded my title in every part I made – within the footer or the slide grasp, in a tiny white font. Then when she claimed the work was hers in a gathering I requested for the mouse to ‘level to one thing’ and ‘unintentionally’ highlighted the place it mentioned ‘paperwork created by (my title) on date.’”
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“Years in the past I used to be working for a brand new group of attorneys – concurrently my mother was present process chemo therapies. Suffice to say, I used to be tremendous pressured on a regular basis, which took its personal toll on my immune system, so I ended up sick myself fairly a bit. One of many attorneys really advised that I used to be sick ‘on a regular basis’ as a result of I used to be out ‘partying an excessive amount of.’ Not one of the attorneys knew something about my private life, largely as a result of they by no means would ask, so he had no thought how insulting this was. Later that 12 months I used to be fired.
Two years in the past I bumped into the ‘you social gathering an excessive amount of’ legal professional who was out at a bar along with his spouse. I had DREAMED of today for years. I walked as much as him and was SUPER good initially, mentioned it was good to see him, and many others, after which mentioned since I didn’t get to say goodbye to him once I left the agency abruptly, I needed to deal with one thing he had mentioned to me. He meekly requested, ‘Hope nothing dangerous?’ I mentioned he had advised that I used to be sick rather a lot as a result of I ‘partied an excessive amount of.’ His spouse is now VERY why her husband had been speaking to me about partying, I’m positive. I defined that in truth, I wasn’t partying, I used to be coping with a hectic job with a bunch of assholes whereas my mother was present process chemo therapies. His face went WHITE at this level as he stammered that he had no thought. ‘And that’s precisely the purpose,’ I defined, ‘you don’t know what’s going on in somebody’s life. You’re an asshole.’ I’ve by no means felt so vindicated in my whole life as I did in that second, and in entrance of his spouse no much less. It was fully well worth the wait.”
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Within the remark part, please share your tales of jerks getting their comeuppance!