To ask for payback ideas

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A ‘colleague’ at work went behind my back around a planned project and took all of the credit for 6 months worth of work I had done.
They are the kind of individual known for this and is disliked throughout the office due to their superiority complex and constant ego.
If anyone tries to raise concerns with those boss they claim bullying (absolutely not true, they just don’t like being challenged)

I know AIBU for asking for help but I need payback ideas, the pettier the better. E.g little things to inconvenience or annoy them. Nothing criminal but open to any suggestion

ooo i'm angry for you, did you get the credit in the end?

Glitter bomb.

Free STI test kit, delivered to them at work.

Ooh how annoying! Your colleague sounds like my last boss.

When I wrote my resignation my final petty act was to fart in the envelope before sealing it and handing it to her. Only I know but it still makes me feel better

We have one of these in my work! His line manger thinks the sun shine out his backside so any time anyone challenges him he claims bullying and his line manager takes his side!

Full office of over 20 people are regularly wrong, he is always right, and when anyone tries to take things further he claims he's being single out and bullied

It's the most frustrating thing I have ever dealt with. He regularly bigs himself up and tells lies about what he's done/achieved. What I've found works, is calling him out on these things in front of as many people as possible. It makes him look stupid and he really hates it

Send them a barbershop quartet like Monica did in friends

Shit in her coffee

Waits for someone to say being happy and living your life is best revenge...

I would eat smelly food next to just them.

The fart in the envelope idea hilarious

Things through the post are definitely great ideas. I have his address so easily done.

Where can I buy glitter bombs??

Never got the credit and they walk around thinking they are God’s gift after it.

I’m just bidding my time, thinking up evil plans.

I would suggest heaping coals of fire on their head, as the good book says in Proverbs! It's how to treat enemies. It means giving them part of your fire to carry home to their cold hearth, and this person has been helping themselves to your 'fire' anyway, so just publicise and authorise it. I'm thinking very public offers of help, as in "Would you like some of my ideas with project Y like the ones you used on project X?" and keep chatting away verbally AND IN EMAIL about collaboration. Be sure your boss heard and is copied in. It's not petty, it's big, and nobody could ever call it bullying!

Acts of revenge are petty etc...

So...staple all his items to his desk, unscrew his office chair so it collapses when he sits on it or even better - if it's a gas operated chair then attach an airhorn to the mechanism so when he alters the height he blasts an airhorn at the same time (saw that one on t'internet). Enjoy!

If he leaves glasses on his desk, make as many fingerprints as you can, as often as you can. Annoying, but no one would ever think someone did it on purpose, and if you get caught it's no big deal.

Whoopee cushion on her chair

This mug

Or take some ideas from ?

Do you have desk draws? Poor jelly in so it sets around all their stationary.

@Teapot13 you evil genius

Eat cereal next to them...every day.

Practice super annoying technique.

Clink, clink, clink.
Pat, pat, pat.
Clink, scrape, slurrrrp.
Chomp, chomp, gulp.
Murmur long Mmmmmmmmm.

With. Every. Single. Mouthful.

Scrape bowl to death for dregs.

Follow up by washing it down with a nice big slurpy cup of tea.

Elevenses, noisy and preferably strong smelling crisp eating.

I had someone like this- he was actually my manager taking credit for my work. I let slip to another manager and she in turn told his manager. During a meeting of approx 45 people she asked if he’d completed X piece of work, knowing full well I had, he said yes, she asked him again and he said yes. 2 days later we had an email to say he was suspended. 8 weeks later and he was dismissed. I was promoted to his job!

One of my favourites was to pop all the keys off a keyboard and put them back in the wrong order...or just pop one or two keys off so it's not immediately obvious (ctrl and c/v for example) only good if he's not a touch typist.
I also may have superglued a different person's pen to their desk.
I'd also start to think about putting everything in writing with this colleague, minute meetings and send to him put everything in emails and if necessary in future you'll have the evidence you need

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Offer to make him a lovely cuppa in this mug.

Buy some sugar free gummy bears. As he's so good at stealing he will hopefully pinch a few and have not just the trots but the roaring gallops within the hour.

Talk to the boss yourself, show him/her the evidence of your 6 months' worth of work. State that you know you can't do anything as the credit has been taken, but you hope that it won't happen again, but if it does, you would like some support. That is hardly a bullying approach because you are not looking for an outcome on this one. The boss will therefore understand that you are being reasonable. If the little shit cries bullying, tell him "Taking credit for other people's work is actual bullying and would you like to take it up with the boss, backed up by evidence of all the work you did on my project? Ah thought not, because you have none."

Sign him up for a dating site with an unflattering photo and a racy profile. Forward the link to your co workers 😆

Write 'TAWT ' on his rear windscreen so that he'll see it when he checks his mirror.

from now on make sure each step of anything you do is recorded as your work - leave a trail to prove it