Manager Makes Employee's Life Miserable, Gets Auto-Insulted Hundreds Of Times A Day

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Aug 31, 2021 12:00 PM EDT

A properly executed petty revenge is really its own kind of art form, courtesy of Redditor u/Magnus_40's post to the r/pettyrevenge community. The original poster detailed about a job they worked at next to an incredibly noisy printer room, but the manager who operated out f that room refused to do anything to tune down the noise or make it less intrusive to other employees. However, another manager — a hero we now know as Bob — came up with a genius way to insult the frustrating manager by coding a rude Morse message into everything the printers did. 

OP said they left the company at one point and rejoined threee years later, and though both Bob and the other manager had left the company by that point, he could still hear the insulting Morse code message any time he wanted. Just beautiful.

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    Font - r/pettyrevenge u/Magnus_40 · 3d + Join 1 4 3 1 2 5 11 S 7 8 IT manager made my life a misery so we auto-insulted him hundreds of times a day. TL;DR at bottom This happened a few years ago. And by few I mean a lot. I was student in the mid 80's and I got a job for the summer working for a major electronics company; it was low skill boring grunt work but it was a foot in the door and paid good money.
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    Font - I worked in the IT department next to a very noisy room filled with very wide dot matrix printers that buzzed and chattered all day long. It was the central printer room for the VAX system that we used back then. One of my jobs was to take the huge fan-fold printout (each stack was about 2x1 feet and about a foot high) and separate it into individual print jobs, lay them out on a table for people to pick up and also to refill the printer with new paper. The noise drove me nuts so I closed
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    Font - In a nearby room was Bob. Bob was an an odd guy, he was an absolute hippy, a relic from the 60s. Bob was a slacker, he appeared to do the minimum work necessary to stay employed but he was also a genius, a hobby electronics experimenter, proper old-school coder (COBOL and FORTRAN), radio amateur, he wrote for electronics magazines, designed and built his own computers, radios and hifi gear, he would happily fix any electronics you brought him and refused payment and he was the go-to perso
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    Font - I liked Bob, he was a genuinely nice guy, he had a lot of power in the company through a lot of favours but he never wielded it. He was always helpful to anyone who asked from MD to summer students like me, in fact he really liked students and often mentored us when we had a problem or just taught us how to work the system. I told Bob about the noise in passing. Bob went away and designed a remote Out Of Paper system that would indicate a paper outage on a light-board where I sat. He didn
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  • 05
    Font - Bob proposed an improvement to the printing system to Dick. The print header was a line of hash symbols, the print job name, the user name of the person who printed it and another line of hash symbols. Sometimes you could pick up on the Hash symbols sometimes not. It was hit or miss. Bob had experimented with a mix of text and ASCII block characters and came up with a distinctive 'song' that the printers could make by printing apparent gibberish. Based on his amateur radio experience he t
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    Font - In production I could hear the end of every print job as the printer changed it's random screeching buzz to the distinctive sounds and I pulled them off the printer as they finished instead of the finished paper stack speeding up the print job process and reducing the wait time for those waiting on the job. Dick was nominated for an innovation award (about £200 bonus) and accepted without acknowledging Bob. Bob didn't care and neither did I, after my ear had tuned in Bob gave me a Morse a
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  • 07
    Font - I rejoined the company after I graduated 3 years later. Bob had medically retired after a massive heart attack and died shortly after, Dick had moved on and we were beginning to move to the massive computing power of desktop 386 pcs with local printers instead of the VAX system but I went down to the print room one day to hear "F IKD K" over and over. It made me so so happy. I may have shed a little tear at that moment in memory of Bob. TL;DR I worked next to a noisy printer room, the man
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