 February 25, 2013 - 11:53am | Buddy from work was interviewed this morning for a position that he was actually over qualified for but he was hired. Owner thought he was familiar somehow. That was at 10:15 am. AT 12:15 the new boss calls him and tells him to not even bother showing up tomorrow. Turns out that the owner of the company was the father of the girl that this guy backed out of an engagement 20 years ago to marry the woman he happens to be divorced from now! That's a Monday for you. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 February 25, 2013 - 11:56am | LOL. Oh, but I'm sure it was a good day for the girl's father to get back at him. :) View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
February 25, 2013 - 12:47pm | Actually, I just got more of the story. He was 23 and 2 weeks before the wedding found out that she was sleeping with another of his friends so he opted to do the "mature" thing and just not show up on the day of the wedding. Her father was out a lot of money for the wedding and it now sounds like he knew exactly who Billy was when he applied and planned the 12:15pm phone call which he ended with "now have a nice F-ing day." before slamming the phone. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 25, 2013 - 1:46pm | LOL. Well, to be fair, his dad didn't deserve being stuck with the bill for what his daughter did, but hey, what are children for if not to break the wallets of their parents? View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
 February 25, 2013 - 6:06pm | so he opted to do the "mature" thing
The mature thing would have been to cancel it ahead of time. Given the circumstances, I can't exactly codemn what transpired either. ;) |
February 25, 2013 - 6:23pm | I gave Billy the business a little about it and he said, "Hey, I was 23 and a dick." He's not surprised just perterbed as he was all worked up about a new job. We did have a laugh talking about it. It did give me a good laugh today the irony of the whole thing. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 February 25, 2013 - 9:12pm | Wow. Payback - level midnight!!! |
February 26, 2013 - 5:19am | I can't help but think about the boss/father because I was recently watching a documentary on Hamlet and one of the talking heads said something that stuck with me, "Revenge delayed causes madness." I'm not wholely convinced of the vallidity of that statement but there is probably some merit to it. Obviously this guy has held a grudge for 20 years. You have to wonder how much that has eaten at him and if this little bit of payback has made him any happier. Does he feel better now or is he still pissed? I would think that he has gotten in the habbit of being aggrieved and that the revenge hasn't really changed anything for him. To me that is tragic. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 26, 2013 - 9:15am | Like they say revenge is a dish best served cold. The colder the better. If you let something sit out long enough, it will get cold. Some exact it right away, others let it drag out and take their time plotting the perfect course. Suffice it to say I lump myself in the latter: let it sit out long enough to get cold. For example, many years ago when I first started riding motorcycles I had a clown in my neighborhood attempt road rage on me. He'd repeatedly pull in front of me and lock the brakes for no reason --- I suppose he thought his Suburban had a shorter stopping distnace than my motorcycle. He turned off onto a side street and I made a U-turn afterwards to follow, letting him think he had evaded me...and I saw him parked/entering his house as I rode by. Yes, this one was a true brain surgeon: both in his assumptions as to which vehicle could out-stop the other and stirring the pot where he sleeps only to lead someone he just antagonized directly to his home. Fast forward a little over half a year and I had a friend looking to buy his first home. Road rage boy's house was for sale. I told my friend "You've gotta see this house near me." Not so he could live near me, mind you, I just wanted an excuse to legally enter the jack-off's home while he was away...realtor with my friend downstairs and me free to wander upstairs. What happened next probably shouldn't be viewed on a public forum. But I'll try to keep this as clean as possible --- long story short, hot dogs never agree with me. They come out wrong on one end or the other every time. When my friend made the appointment, the realtor drove us to the house. I had six hot dogs before hand. My guts were really churning by the time we got there. While in the master bedroom, those dogs came out all over the pillows and I wiped myself clean with the curtains. |
February 26, 2013 - 11:54am | I just went mind-blind. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
February 26, 2013 - 1:05pm | That one was rather mild compared to others. OF course I left a note to let him know what happened... |
 February 26, 2013 - 8:31pm | Obviously this guy has held a grudge for 20 years. You have to wonder how much that has eaten at him and if this little bit of payback has made him any happier.
Possible he didn't even think of it for that entire 20 years until he saw the persons name. Opportunity based revenge. I had something like this happen. Way back there was this programmer on the team whom a manager decided to lay off (mostly for personality, officially on paper for not following our coding standards (which was true)). The guy, after hearing he was history, asked the manager to get some music/doc files off his computer and against company policy the manager said "sure". Unsupervised for 120 seconds while retrieving personal files the guy clicked on the open project and selected "undo checkouts" then "yes to all" on source control, effectively wiping out 2 weeks worth of his development. Code that was due to QA testing the next day. I heard from a mutual friend a couple of weeks later the guy was laughing like crazy and bragging one drunken Friday night about what he did, hoping the client was furious and we had to work 20 hour days to "catch up". In reality it took me and another senior coder 2 days to redo all the work and get it through QA with zero defects, client thrilled since the QA cycle was usually a week long, delivered ahead of expectations! Fast forward ~4 years, I had not even thought of the guy once the entire time. Out of the blue I get a call from a professional tech/detective doing a background check on the guy for a top secret DoD job. My response? "Well, I am surprised he would put me down as a reference since he deleted several weeks worth of software changes when our manager laid him off. I really can not see my giving him a positive review." Then the caller thanked me for my input and said bye. He didn't get the job, heard from another mutual acquaintance a few names (mine included) were cursed sulfuriously at the bar the next Friday. Revenge of opportunity. :) |
February 26, 2013 - 9:12pm | I wouldn't call that revenge. That's simply satisfaction at telling the truth you would have told anyway. Simply the guy's own stupidity biting him in the rear. Revenge is something planned and carried out, even if on the fly. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
February 26, 2013 - 10:48pm | I wouldn't call that revenge.
Well, no, it was a calculated, on-the-fly, response based on his prior action of deleting several days worth of his work and causing his (former) coworkers extra work and stress. If he didn't leave in such a fashion my response would have been "corporate generic" as HR dictates. :) |
February 27, 2013 - 4:45am | This is really a case of being hoiste by his own petard - if I have that quote right. What gets me took money for the work and he undid - clearly he has no work ethic. And good for you executing a revenge of opportunity. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 27, 2013 - 5:28am | Two of my favorite stories of revenge from when my Dad was stationed at Plattsburgh AFB. Plattsburgh was an important SAC base, I think I remember Dad saying that 9 or 10 out of 11 past base commanders put on their star for general after commanding this base. Every year they'd have Bomb Comp and Plattsburgh won many of them. During one Bomb Comp a KC 135 that was in line on the flight line to fly with virtually all the other planes radioed in that its inertia Nav radar was not working which meant my father driving out to the plane can climbing on board to fix or replace it. He got there and asked the navigator if he had pushed the reset button to which the answer was a testy yes. My Dad walked over and pushed the reset button and bang it reset. Straight faced he told the officer, "I guess I just have the magic touch." Fast forward to a win and the flight crews through a party in their ready room and invited the enlisted techs to come for a beer. My father put a thumb tact through the pad of a band aid and wrapped the band aid around his thumb such that the point was sticking out. he then innocently and non chalantly poked a hole in that Lt.'s can of bud just below the lip of the can. You know a thumb tact hole gets lost in the designs on a can of bud- every time this LT. took a sip of beer it dribbled down his chin and all the other officers rode his case about not being able to drink or having had enough. Eventually, the guy discovered the hole and went an a triad trying to figure out which other officer that had been talking smack to him when he dribbled beer down his flight suit had done it. I always liked that prank though I have never implemented it in such a smooth fashion. The other revenge was that Dad had come to attention of a base commander who went on to become a 2 star general and this guy had a stable of senior sgt.s that he like to run ideas past for feed back when the air force was planning something new. Along comes a major who is over the whole maintenance shop and finds out my father is talking to a general by phone when said general calls to chat with him. So the major informs him that all communication with higher command was to go through the major and Dad said, "Yes Sir." The next time this general called he told him, "Sorry sir, I cant discuss this with you." Which immediately put the general out of sorts and my father went on to explain that he was under direct orders that all communication had to go through Major Micro manager. General Searock told him to cut the crap and answer his questions. 10 minutes after they hung up the major came running into Dad's shop and said, "You did have to do that." The end result was that the major had been informed to leave my father's shop alone as the general considered him one of the best managers the air force had. So for the rest of the major's time there he had to avoid micro managing my Dad. It helps to make friends on the rise to high places. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
