Exacting workplace revenge is dirty work — but these peeved peons don’t mind the mess.
Aggravated, burned out and cranky 9-to-5ers are virally revealing their most “unhinged” hacks for getting payback after being wronged by a colleague, manager or high-level executive.
It’s cruelly clever cattiness that’ll leave you screaming: “Oh shift!.”
“I had a boss with serious a Napoleon [Complex] (short man syndrome). He belittled everyone,” wrote a disgruntled staffer beneath a trending clip with over 2.6 million TikTok views. The vid invited subjugated jobholders to share their most malevolent acts of in-office mischief.
“When he went on vacation,” continued the commenter, “I removed all the furniture from his office and replaced it with dollhouse furniture.”
The hilariously sinister stunt is just one of many being pulled by wrathful workers who believe their worth has been undervalued.
It’s that feeling of being unseen and unsung, which has sparked a series of employee-led retaliation trends, such as the “quiet quitting” craze, the “malicious compliance” movement and the rising “revenge quitting” rage.
“Revenge quitting is the new idea of people choosing to quit their jobs in the most inconvenient way possible in order to disrupt the business,” social media influencer Ben Askins explained online. “It’s a form of protest against what they perceived as unfair treatment.”
But rather than angrily abandoning their posts and cutting off their cashflow in the name of retribution — especially in this kooky economy — petty pranksters are, instead, tormenting their way to the top.
Take a peek at some of their most deliciously devilish deeds.
- “I arrived early [and] took a screenshot of [an annoying coworker’s] desktop. Then removed all the icons on her computer and replaced the background with the screenshot. She called IT to the office. It took all day to ‘fix.’”
- “I applied for every weird job available and used their work email and our bosses phone number to call him.”
- “I (fake) befriended him at work, gaslit him into thinking he’s way too good for here and he’s wasting his talents, kept sending him job offers, within 5 weeks he was gone.”
- “I became their boss. they HATED that.”
- “When they say something ridiculous, I look them dead in the eye and say, ‘What an odd thing to say,’ and hold that stare just a little too long. The sheer panic is my reward.”
- “Be professional to an extreme and completely impersonal. No pleasantries. No small talk. Not an ounce more than what is required.”
- “I put my two weeks in and said I was quitting because I couldn’t stand working next to someone who doesn’t work. They fired the other person to keep me AND bumped my pay $20k a year.”
- “Plugged in an extra wireless mouse where they couldn’t see the fob. I’d move the curser when they were in the middle of things so that they’d have to retype it jump all over the screen.”
- “When I would overhear them talk about taking a vacation or day off, I would immediately request the same days so that theirs would get denied.”
- “She always kept a box of cereal on her desk for breakfast and I’d get in early and crunch up the flakes until they were dust.”
