To ask for your tales of minor revengeful acts (lighthearted)

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A friend's ex has done the most awful thing to her. He's jeopardising her career and his actions have caused her a lot of embarrassment in her workplace. She's a very private person and what he's done has had big implications, to the extent that even the company MD (it's a very large company) knows.
It's 100% vexatious but he's technically not done anything illegal.

I don't know the guy personally. I do know his e-mail address, his name, where he works, and home address.

I'd love to send him a glitter bomb but don't think that's wise.

So, to tide me over while I sit on my hands and prevent myself from signing him up to every type of spam I can imagine, can you tell me decent stories of petty payback?

I always got a pathetic sense of satisfaction signing my ex boss up for lots of sales calls when going to office equipment fairs. Used to arrange for lots of brochures to be sent as 'I don't want to carry those round the fair with me'. Would have a long chat about the huge mailings we sent out every week and need for envelopes, sticky labels, everything going. Mean i know wasting the companies time but life sucks sometimes.

My husbands friends came for a meal one evening, and one of them used to really rub me up the wrong way. Whatever he said just grated on me. So when preparing the meat free meal we were having to cook for everyone (as this particularly friend was a vegetarian who couldn't bring himself to eat near people eating meat) I used meat stock and meat gravy! He never found out. I felt brilliant ...but very guilty at the same time.

Back in the day before the internet, mobile phones etc, I was feeling revengeful on an ex who had done the dirty on me, so I left it 6 months and then sent a letter of resignation to his boss signed from him. It said he was sorry to go but needed to hand in his notice as he wanted to spend more time campaigning with others who also had genital problems.

Very childish I know. But it caused a kerfuffle!

I applied for a new position in a company I was already working in.

I didn't get the job, but didn't find out as the guy who interviewed me forgot to tell me. I only realised when the successful candidate started working there.

I was so annoyed that, every time I used the photocopier, I typed in the interviewer's pin code so that his department got charged and not mine.

Thewooster, that is wonderful. I want to do it to someone.

poor woman. is she sure that what he has done is not actionable? damage to reputation sort of thing? its worth her seeing a solicitor

She's already gone to get solicitor and our work solicitors are in it. He's boxing very clever. He's posed as someone in a whistleblowing capacity (not an employee so technically not whistleblowing) and had made what's pretty much a protected disclosure alleging wrongdoings in an area that she's responsible for (we're a state agency, not in the UK). It's 100% unfounded but the law is on his side so we have to follow due diligence and prove that process has always been correctly followed. The investigation will take months.

As a "concerned member of the public", he's entitled to do this, despite the fact that it's vexatious.

When I was a teenager I worked for a call center. Annoying job, I know, but there was very little work where I lived and I was only 17.

I called this guy and he started to say awful sexual stuff to me. I hung up. Then called back and hung up. A few hundred times. Every second call of every shift I called back, and he couldn't leave his phone off the hook because it was a business. Sometimes I'd just leave my phone off the hook and tie up his line while I went on my breaks. He used to scream down the phone. Sweet victory.

The other one is not exactly revenge. I used to work in immigration making visa decisions, though we had a rotation for who went on the front counter. Some people would be so rude to the person they assumed to be the "lowly receptionist". It was always satisfying to see their face change when they found out I'd be assessing their visa application too. I was always very fair of course but it was a funny moment.

As I had a horrible break up with a bf as I left the house i cleaned the toilet with his toothbrush.

I was allocated a phone no. which I liked, it was easy to remember. All was fine until someone had it printed on their business paper/cards by mistake and I was being inundated with calls. I worked out what the no. should have been and phoned it, the guy said he would change it, but the idiot kept on using the stationery so I told all his callers he had gone bankrupt and to write to him instead.

The calls stopped.

My husbands friends came for a meal one evening, and one of them used to really rub me up the wrong way. Whatever he said just grated on me. So when preparing the meat free meal we were having to cook for everyone (as this particularly friend was a vegetarian who couldn't bring himself to eat near people eating meat) I used meat stock and meat gravy! He never found out. I felt brilliant ...but very guilty at the same time.

That's a pretty nasty thing to do to someone who just 'grates' on you. Doesn't sound like he did aything bad enough to warrant this.

Sent my ex a potato in the post.

I had the most awful manager, a terrible bully. She made me cry on numerous occasions, all the juniors actually. This was 30 years ago. I finally had had enough and signed her up to receive loads of "free" offers. Where they send one thing and then you have to cancel or pay for everything they start shipping. Daft and petty, but it made me feel things were evened up a tad.

A few of these are quite nasty, especially the meat one. I would probably sue if someone did that to me.

Mine is... I trademarked my husband's family name which meant that my mean SIL could not use it for her business. In fairness to me, I didn't really think about it at the time, until MIL said, "but that's the name of SIL's business!" Oops.

Had a really horrible head of department. When I left for a nicer job I donated her favourite mugs to charity and redistributed the special keys she had to open her windows so that she would always have to ask for one. But her horrible behaviour caught up with her in other, bigger ways, so I needn't have bothered.

I cancelled the very expensive wedding present after it transpired that my brother had not invited my DH to his stag or asked him to be a groomsman. My DH had included DBro in both stag and as a groomsman. DM made a huge thing about DBro being included at our wedding. But it seemed perfectly fine for my DH to be excluded. I was livid.

I also got lawyers in on an ex boss who screwed me over after maternity leave. They weren't expecting that ~ especially as they were distant rellies to my DH. I won.

I cleaned the toilet with ex's toothbrush after he gave me an std from cheating on me.

Not me but a friend of a friend received a letter from the GUM clinic saying she had been in contact with someone using their services and she needed to make an appointment.

In this case it was worse because the recipient's mother worked in admin at the GUM clinic.

Recipient did see the funny side (I wouldn't have).

Junk mail is always a good one. As are free offers.

Back in the day early morning alarm calls were good because they not only woke people up but then they paid for it.

Someone left their Ebay account open at a place I worked, a few days later they received 3 my little pony dolls.

In one of John Grisham's books a teenager is left alone with a phone in a police office. He spends his time ordering pizza, Chinese food, Indian food etc all to be delivered to the police station and all to be paid for on arrival.

This was an accidental revenge.

I was groped and harassed by a man who is sort of prominent in my industry. I went to a woman I know who is boss-level and had been mentoring me, for advice, and told her everything. Her opinion was he needs to fall into a wood chipper.

Unfortunately he found out I'd told her.

Cut to a year later, and he's hired to work on a freelance job for a company at the same time she's running another freelance project at the same company, small building.

This is less interesting when written down than it really is, because you need to know the personalities involved. Basically I know he'll want to search her out to "explain" and defend himself against Toastie's evil accusations, and I know she will almightily freak out if he makes any attempt to come near her and will not hesitate to put him in his place. I'm predicting a very painful and awkward few months for him.

XH was a violent abusive bastard, after one of many hidings I realised that his milk allergy (he's one of the ones who never grew out of it) was a minor way of revenge. So I started adding sour cream to mashed tatties. Very petty, but it caused him pain and seeing him writhing around in agony when I had busted ribs and was a walking bruise gave me some small satisfaction.

A few of these are quite nasty, especially the meat one. I would probably sue if someone did that to me.

Lol good luck with that. You'd never know

My brother shat me off royally when I was younger. He left for work, I borrowed his spare key off our mum, let myself in and pushed all his furniture one inch to the left. All of it.

Seeing him walk around with bruised shins and stubbed toes was beautiful.

SisterMortificado I think you're my hero. That's genius!

When I was a student, a flat mate was famed for eating other people's food. I had a hugely important final and had saved a piece of Brie in the fridge as my treat. I put a post it on it to say "please don't eat this, it's my post exam treat!".
Of course the bitch ate it.
So when she was out I went into her room and ripped out every last page from every novel she owned.

She then did similar to another flat mate, who subsequently cut the gusset out of every pair of her knickers, leaving only the elastic edging holding them together.

A few of these are quite nasty, especially the meat one. I would probably sue if someone did that to me.

That's a cracker 😂