Best passive aggressive/petty moments..

[LittleMissUnreasonable]

The other day I was trying to park in one of those private run car parks where there are no designated spaces. There was only one quite awkward space left and there was another car behind me who was practically sat on my tail trying to get this awkward spot. I decided to reverse out and find another car park but this tailgating car was not letting me go go as they were so hell-bent on getting this space and were trying to go around me. I just thought screw it and drove into the spot as I had nowhere to go. You could practically see the red mist coming from the driver's ears as they had to reverse and find another car park 😤

Another consistent one is that we have a manager who will without fail walk up to a small group of colleagues with a query and direct it to the men, completely ignoring the women. So now, even if I know the answer and the male colleague doesn't, I will just get on with my work and not intervene. It's funny to see the manager flapping around trying to work out the answer when he could have just asked...you know...a woman😱

Replace the word "see" in the phrase for the letter "C".

Love it! How did he react?

@Indicatrice returning to continue clutching at straws, hoping posters have forgotten she also 'lied' and stated the manager said sorry in the Iceland post....

Still not getting it! What does C mean?

(I am not English)

@Indicatrice I'm just loving bursting your superior, rather smug bubble. I will continue to do so. Ad nauseum.

My elder brother and my mother's youngest sister were a couple of years apart in age and very close... to the point that my uncle was told she was seeing another man wearing glasses, and yes, he was my big bro. Anyway, she came to stay with us for Christmas, brother was also at home... he gave his nephew a drum for Christmas. Brother had been out with his mates for Christmas Eve, my aunt sent her son in at 8:30am to wake him up and show him what a fabulous gift it was! Apparently he had a headache after that...

See You Next Tuesday
C U Next Tuesday
C U N T

This was over 20 years ago, but I got a job to write reports for the new IT accounting program for a private company, plus I was the system admin. Most reports were sales reports used by the marketing department.

The marketing manager was quite incompetent and a bully to her team. She told the CEO that issues from her department were due to those in her team - and every couple of months she'd fire someone to cover her tracks.

She'd set them difficult tasks and it would take a few days to create a sales report - she had them run a generic report, export to excel, then manually shuffle the data around (it would take a few hours or few days, depending on what she wanted). There would be errors in these reports as data was lost with cut and pasting, and subtotal formulas were required to be manually entered.

As I could run queries and reports straight off the new database, I could write them a new report in just minutes, that then took them 20 seconds to generate the correct data - so when I saw them working on a difficult report, I would look at how it was structured and go create it for them. It didn't take long for the marketing staff to send me new report requests. Suddenly they were getting their work done in record time.

At the same time, the CEO was pretty excited that the new system and reports program meant I could create any type of report that he wanted - so he started sending me requests. (he didn't use the program, so I would create the report, generate the data and email it to him)

The marketing manager didn't like that I was making it easier for her team to produce sales reports, so she complained to the CEO with some stupid problem. I was called into CEO's office with my manager and the marketing manager. I was told by the CEO that I was no longer to spend time on creating new reports for marketing and they would have to make do with what they had, but I also had to reduce the number of reports available for the department.

I had already been cleaning the reports up - making them more generic so one report could cover different scenarios in which the user could select options.

In defiance, I created 2 menus for the marketing department and created 2 different user groups. I assigned the marketing manager to one "user group", and gave that "user group" access to one reports menu, with less reports. I assigned the other marketing staff to the 2nd user group and gave them access to both reports menu - the 2nd menu was now hidden from the marketing manager and contained all the reports they needed - I only gave staff access after talking to them and had them promise not to use them when their manager was in the room. I also secretly did some more reports for them when required.

As I was the only system admin - I knew my secret reports menu wouldn't get discovered. Also, as I was cleaning up a lot of things in the new program, and moving a lot of other reports around, things were still a bit of a mess, so it wouldn't have been obvious I had done it on purpose.

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Whoops - wrong thread can admin please remove it?

Thanks

🤣 considering you're wrong, it's not really that helpful, sweetheart but thanks for the warm cosy feels. Just like a snuggly hug it was. The exact same sentiment does not mean the exact same wording. Two sentences, for example, could be worded very differently yet both clearly mean 'fuck you and the horse you rode in on'.

I should probably stop wasting time arguing my pov given I can see we aren't going to agree and it's just so annoying when someone decides to latch on to something and go on about it for pages, just arguing the toss over something so, so trivial.

Enjoy your afternoon, sweetpea. Nice chatting with you.

I used to do the same at my old job. My name can be spelled with or without an 'e' on the end. Mine is without. It was clearly spelled without in my email signature. If people emailed me and added the 'e', I'd give them once chance to get it right next time, and if they didn't I would start adding an 'e' to their name.

Haha! Now I get it, thank you!

He laughed!

It worked as he has made much more of an effort with gifts since then.

I was working at a nursery, and a colleague had a display board, which she'd headed with "Writting". I pointed out that it was misspelled and she replied "it doesn't matter, they're only kids".

That comment really got my back up, so I waited until she left the room and took the offending heading off the board.

She found it in the bin and put it back up.

I took it down again next time she went out, cut it in half and overlapped the "t"s so it was at least a word (albeit looking a bit odd).

She took it off and re-stapled it as the wrong word.

Next time, I cut the excess "t" off the word and put it in a child's pocket as they were going home.

She complained to the manager, who pointed out that correct spelling does matter even to young children. She did not apologise but never pulled that shit with me again.

Garlic gnocchi why I don't get why you'd do that? Why don't you speak up? Why don't you show him what he's missing.

Probably for the same reason she doesn't keep hitting her head off the wall.

Letting ostriches learn the error of their ways the very hard way, is pretty effective strategy, often deployed by eagles .

My name can have a nickname that I absolutely hate and have never recognised it as my name or called myself it.

If anyone ever refers to me as XX I will either assume they aren't talking to me and carry on with what I'm doing or if they have emailed I will reply asking if they have emailed the correct person.

10000% petty but that's just who I am really 😂

@purpleboy

I'm sorry your mother was treated so badly by this awful woman - who even resented getting up so your mother could go to the loo! Assuming the other aisle seat was in the same class and no less comfortable what on Earth did she gain from being so nasty? I'd loved to have seen her face when she got to the "end" of her book! 🌹

My name also has a nickname that I hate. A few people, on discovering this, like to use it because they think it's funny. Well, let's just say my response is NOT in line with the petty/passive aggressive posts we're supposed to be highlighting on this thread! . Although I have been known to promptly start calling said person by some completely different and random name.

Worked in hospitality management.

Was fed up of the bar and the events team arguing over who's cutlery was who. These were two men in their early 50's!!

Removed all cutlery from both areas of the hotel one night, locked them in my office and left a note saying "if you want your cutlery come see ObjectionHearsay I am fed up of the arguing, I will divide it up with you individually to stop petty arguments

P.s grow up"

Pour encourager les autres

In order to encourage the others —said ironically of an action (such as an execution) carried out as a warning to others

Merriam Webster Dictionary Definition

Not my usual dictionary, but the very first hit on Google.

OP, I had a parking one like yours. Round here there are people who, on entering a full car park, just sit there waiting for someone to leave (even if no-one is about to). It means I'm stuck behind them when I want to go & find another car park. It occurs to me now that I could reverse out, but it's not always easy or safe.

One day this couple made me sit behind them right at the entrance to the car park. They refused to move their large Jaguar so I could be on my way. Then a space became available on the far side of the car park. They drove just past it, obviously intending to reverse into it & I thought, 'I'm going to be petty. They didn't care about ME,' so I drove into the space before they could reverse in.

It was a glorious moment. They were fuming, but in that British way the wife said to me as I walked past them to get a ticket, "Thank you very much!". I played dumb & said, "Sorry?". "We were going to have that space," she said. I didn't know what to say, then out of the corner of my eye I could see someone leaving from the next row of cars ahead of us, so I played dumb again & said, "Oh, I thought you were going for THAT space," & pointed at it. There was a fair chance she or her husband knew this was a lie because there hadn't been a space there, which made it even funnier.

What delights me about this is that I wouldn't normally have the guts to do this, but they'd annoyed me so much by selfishly blocking the way.

Even better is to sit in the car and pull out a snack

Added your own pettiness now to the petty post. Very clever.

I feel a bit sorry for SIL here. I was taught to always address cards/letters to women with Mrs or Miss, defined entirely by marital status. If you have told her you prefer Ms or Mrs or Dr or whatever, then your actions weren't unreasonable, but if you didn't say anything she had no way of knowing you would take offence. But it backs up my own feelings, as I do find titles these days a bit of a minefield and avoid them wherever possible. Plus, I hate all the female options. Why can't we just have one like men.