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To ask if you've ever seen someone get what they deserve?

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Fishface77 · 19/09/2016 13:51

I was at a wedding in Saturday and there was an ex-couple there.
The ex-H d was emotionally, verbally and financially abusive to his ex-w (witnessed).
She finally left him, gained a stone, had hair and make up done, looked fab and has a hot new man.
Ex-h eyes nearly fell out of his head. He tried to chat to her and she laughed, asked if she knew him and strolled of.
The look on his face was priceless and he just slunk away.
Have you ever seen anyone get what they deserve?

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FoxInABox · 20/09/2016 21:01

I've had a driving one- dh was driving and we were in the lane to turn into a shopping centre when we decided it was too busy and we then joined the lane next to it- the woman in the car behind us seemed to decide we had held her up (even though the light was red and it was a long queue of traffic) for some reason then started hurling abuse at us, as she was doing that and was looking at us she managed to drive into the car in front. It was only low speed and slight damage but we did think she had got what she deserved.

Glitterbug76 · 20/09/2016 21:10

These posts have cheered me up I was doubting karma re : my dh ex she has been vile all her life sleeping with more men than most of us had hot dinners, finding it more pleasurable if they are married splitting the family up then dumping them having loads of abortions one because some one she was engaged to demanded a dna test as he found out she was sleeping with a 17 year old ! Even a lot of her family have disowned her she's now met some one who's rich changed my dsd name lives in a huge house fancy car and we can't see my hubbys dd as shes told people she wants to get us out of picture so her new partner will adopt her , we obliviously still pay for her never wouldn't hurts like hell I've had a miscarriage an hubbys mum passed away suddenly.

erudiostressed · 20/09/2016 21:22

I had a horrible ex boss know for being a bully bullied me and several others out of the workplace. I found a new job much happier. Saw ex work colleague who advised horrible boss got sack taking kick backs from partner agencies and affair with another manager. Couldn't happen to a more horrible person.

HectorPlasm · 20/09/2016 21:30

Few years ago now on the main road into Peterborough (A40?). Chap in a soft top BMW tailgated me mercilessly even though I couldn't pull over because of the string of lorries in the inside lane. Really really aggressively. I pulled over when I could and he shot off - only to approach the roundabout at the bottom too fast, clip the kerb and end up upside down on the verge. He was crawling out looking a little bit dishevelled as I pootled past. He was fine though. A big shit eating grin and a wave later, I was gone

Broody1976 · 20/09/2016 21:32

Horrible boss in my early career... bullied everyone & treated us all like dirt. The London Partners called him down for Partners meeting & in the meantime came to the office up north & performed a perfectly timed coup. I would have loved to have seen his horrid face when he discovered what had happened. It was the best karma & totally deserved.

Member251061 · 20/09/2016 21:32

I worked as a teacher in a brand new primary school & had the most power crazy, vicious bully of a headteacher. After working there for a few years, watching 18 members of staff leave mysteriously, I left to have a baby and never to return.
During maternity leave , I switch on the tv & see the bully headteacher dancing away with Phillip schofield recieving the headteacher of the year award at the pride of Britain.
8 years later having been deeply affected by the heads comments to me, I spotted the headlines in the local paper saying that she has resigned along with two senior teachers & that she has been accused of bullying teachers and pupils. Police were called in, new headteachers appointed & finally peace of mind for the now 24 staff she sacked and bullied. I never dreamt that would happen.

Topseyt · 20/09/2016 21:39

Some years ago just along the road from my house some teenage twats were behaving antisocially and arsing about with fireworks.

There is a dog poo bin on the corner, into which they shoved a lit rocket. The bin blew up. Nobody was hurt, just the teenagers' pride because they and their designer jeans etc. were totally showered from top to toe in dog shit. Grin

Notquitewhatiexpected · 20/09/2016 21:43

After a successful nine years in the same workplace, I broke my arm badly and needed two operations. My bosses treated me like crap when I needed time off (asked me to go into work when I was signed off after major surgery), then when I did return to work and was feeling fairly rubbish, failed to cut me any slack so I resigned. That workplace is now no more, and all my crap bosses are out of a job, whereas I recently have landed myself a fab job. Grin

TransvisionTramp · 20/09/2016 21:58

In my 20s i used to get hassle by a girl who drank in the same circles as me (because by friend was seeing her ex). She was much bigger than me and very intimidating towards me, calling me the usual nasty names and shoving me when no one was looking.
She applied for a job in the company I worked in, and as the HR assistant I had to meet her for her interview. She had no idea it would be me - but I knew it was her. Her jaw hit the floor when I smiled sweetly and led her to her interview.
She didn't get the job (I'd explained that she bullied me to my manager) and when I sent out the rejection letter I pp'd it printing my name so she knew it was me!
Karma's a bitch Grin

NameChange10001 · 20/09/2016 22:46

I used to have a job as a teenager for High Street catalogue based shop. I had worked there for several years whilst I was doing my A'Levels and I came back at Christmas and university holidays to work there as holiday staff. The new manager didn't like me and she said I was giving myself airs and graces because I was at university (I really wasn't!) She kept telling me off about my uniform (which was fine) and criticising me for being overweight (I was probably a modern size 12/14).

There was talk about some money being stolen and they interviewed anyone who had been working on the till from which money was missing. I pleaded my innocence and they didn't interview me again. A short time later the police turned up and marched the manager out of the shop and we never saw her again. Karma!

Woodyblueeyes · 20/09/2016 22:46

On holiday and got seated atTeppanyaki table that seated 12. Anyway as it takes a while for chef to get started there is always the awkward moment when you have to make small talk 😬. So we were seated next to a Canadian family - trying not to be stereotypical here but think this is what threw me, generally folk I have spoken to before are quite pleasant. Herself, husband, 2 sons and myself, dh and 2 ds. She gave me the look (think Bridget Jones) then spoke to my husband, sons and completely ignored me. Things got steadily worse through the meal until eventually we had to move to another room for coffee. Big sigh of relief. Not. I was seated directly opposite her on a long table. Anyway her having no choice now, we spoke about children (her sons were gifted academically), we spoke about weather (so much better in Canada), then holidays (they normally do butler service hotels) then homes (size of her swimming pool), back to children (her sons were gifted in sports as well). All the while she continued to do "The Look". I made my excuses halfway through to catch up with dh's family. So our extended family group met up in reception only for herself and husband to walk past with her nose firmly in the air. Well she only went and fell flat on her face in front of us all, her heels went flying, her skirt was halfway up her arse think thong showing lip😳. She wasn't hurt (I am not a sadist) but I do think my guardian angel stuck a foot out.

Dorris83 · 20/09/2016 22:53

Another horrible boss one: My lovely boss went on mat leave and instead of replacing her I just reported directly into the MD of the company (he was 'covering' her but actually I did all the work)
He was a very unpleasant person, cutting, dismissive and rude, but could also be incredibly charming (to strangers...) he was a nightmare to work for and regularly used gas lighting tactics- telling me to do something (that made no sense) then demanding to know why I had done it that way later. Everyone knew how awful he was and would shake their heads pityingly at me.
When lovely boss was on her way back I was made redundant and quickly got a better job in a fab company.
Soon after I left the board and his business partner booted him out. He had been fixing the forecasts and skimming off the top line. He's had to sell his house and get much less payout than he had thought he was going to.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy Grin

Gatehouse77 · 20/09/2016 22:56

I have a relative who,used to gloat how his kids would be so much better that myself and my siblings. One of his kids is on remand in a US jail on multiple charges and is likely to get a long sentence. Whilst I feel (a bit) sorry for the 'inmate' I cant help but secretly gloat that the parent who thought he'd be so amazing has spectacularly fucked up as a lot of the issues stem from really crappy parenting.

m0therofdragons · 20/09/2016 22:58

Dh had a boss who regularly shouted and swore at staff. He was escorted off the premises very suddenly and a memo was sent round saying he'd "decided to pursue an alternative career". He went from senior management to hotel receptionist (in a nice hotel his girlfriend worked at). Never found out what he did but there were lots of rumours about taking money on the side and making promises etc.

Momer · 20/09/2016 22:59

By doing a short paper in a subject. I have a half GCSE in Citizenship. It was still hard work.

PutUpWithRain · 20/09/2016 23:23

Waiting in the school playground for our darling DCs, chatting to other mums.

DD comes out, beaming, clutching Fucking Class Bear. I groan audibly. Another mum cackles 'HA! You've got Fucking Class Bear this weekend!' I hiss 'yesIknowthankyou'.(we're friends, so no real vitriol)

Her DD comes out. Beaming. Holding Maths Monkey. I observe: 'Looks like you've got Maths Monkey for the next ten days. And that, my friend, is instant karma'.

(we're still friends)

Pinklady1982 · 21/09/2016 06:36

Topseyt that's brilliant!!!! 😅😅😅

Misssss · 21/09/2016 07:06

When I was 18 on my gap year, I got a job working in the office of a sports equipment company. Was given very little training and was regularly humiliated by the sales team, and the owner who was the biggest cunt ever to walk the earth. He would do things like remove the kettle from the kitchen because he thought we spent too long drinking tea,

He also paid the most appalling wage, think about £2.50 an hour. He had a vapid trophy wife who used to dress up and play business woman. Her role seemed to be almost entirely made up of printing and laminating passive aggressive notes, to tell the staff how to behave.

Anyway fast forward a few years and there was the best article ever in the local paper. It appears that he'd sold a share of the business to an even bigger cunt who runs a much maligned sports retailer. The bigger cunt had apparently got fed up of him and changed the locks and installed security guards at the front door of his head office. Oh how I laughed! The trophy wife has left him too. I hope he's crying in a gutter somewhere.

paxillin · 21/09/2016 09:28

I think it's quite common people get what they deserve.

Relationships are build on love and trust, a love rat will never really have that. Bully bosses get caught out eventually and dangerous drivers will either be killed or caught. School bullies are misguided children, if tbey don't get caught and dealt with they never learn the usual social skills and fail as a result later in life.

In most instances a bully will eventually overdo it or do it to the wrong person, having gotten away with it for so long. Only the most accomplished narcissists who are also highly intelligent truly get away with it.

sami2885 · 21/09/2016 09:46

mybreadiseggy I had same, a girl who bullied me had a really shitty time a few years ago. Karma? I like to think so

I was doing just over the speed limit down a dual carriage way, about 43 in a 40, but it was dropping to 30 in 500 yards. A bloke in a fiat punto wanted to get round me must have wanTed to make a left turn at the traffic lights about 1000 yards away. I didn't speed up but I didn't slow. He started giving me hand gestures. He was so busy throwing abuse at me that he didnt notice the road cones in the outside lane.... Needless to say I waved and smiled as I went past him and he was pulling cones that were wedged under his front bumper...

tiredvommachine · 21/09/2016 09:55

hector the A47 Smile

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Queenbean · 21/09/2016 10:00

Madeinkent that is hideous, no one deserves that whatever she did or said

ayeokthen · 21/09/2016 10:21

madeinkent I literally have no words.