Tech Savvy Employee Takes Revenge On Cookie-Stealing Coworker

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Sep 26, 2021 9:00 AM EDT

It's just never a good idea to play around with the people in your company that run the tech side of things. They have a whole lot of knowledge-backed power available at their disposal. In this case, it sounds like our tech wizard's coworker was a good enough sport about a weeks-long prank involving a wireless mouse that Reddit user u/Project-SBC connected to the co-worker's computer, allowing them to mess with him whenever they wanted to. All this as revenge for the coworker's misguided attempt to prank the original poster by hiding a plate of warm cookies. You don't mess with people's cookies, particularly not when they are fresh out of the oven.

So many revenge stories appear to have a nasty element to them; it's nice to see that this story wound up in a place where two coworkers have a solid laugh about it and go back to their lives afterward. Perhaps this sets off a new era of innocent workplace pranks: after all, why should the cast of The Office have all the fun?

Keep the revenge drama going with this tale about a grandpa who unleashed an act of pro revenge on some pranksters.

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    Font - r/pettyrevenge + Join u/Project-SBC • 21h 3 e 3 3 4 Never steal cookies from the computer saavy So this happened a few years ago... my office went to the open layout plan. They got rid of cubicles and basically it turned into what we called the "call center." Desks lined up next to each other and no privacy from coworkers. Each person gets a laptop, a dock, and two monitors on arms. I get placed next to this gentleman I'll call John. John was a fairly nice guy. We got along pretty well. H
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    Font - One day my coworker, I'll call Dan, showed up to talk to John. They start chit chatting and I decide to stroll to the cafeteria to see if they had any freshly made peanut butter cookies. And oh boy they did, still warm too. It should be a crime to sell them because they are addicting. I make my way back to my desk and Dan is still there. He says something to me and we start chatting. I place my cookies on my desk and turn to engage in conversation with him. We talk back and forth a minute
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    Font - Not wanting to waste the warmth of those delicious cookies I turn around to find them... not there. Hmm... did I misplace them? A bit of searching and I come to the conclusion I didn't. So I scope out my coworkers desk for signs of my cookies: empty plastic wrap, crumbs, etc. nothing. I ask my coworker John if he saw them and he denies any involvement but I wasn't buying it. A bit of pressure and he cracks, says he stole my cookies as a joke and gave them back, none were eaten.
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    Font - No harm done right? Wrong. They were cold. I wanted those cookies still warm and here I had three miserably cool but still pretty delicious cookies. So l verbally vowed revenge. Now I like to consider myself technically inclined. So my revenge couldn't be raged fueled but cold, like my cookies, calculated and intelligent. After a month of quiet contemplation, enough time for him to forget, I found the perfect tool: a wireless mouse. I slapped that dongle in the back of his dock, where he
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    Font - For example: coworker would come over to chat with John, John turns his chair to chat, I secretly get to work by pulling out the mouse, open an unrelated application like windows media player, (which was on his taskbar) and hide the mouse. He would turn around, confused, and continue his day. Another example would be lunchtime he would get up to warm his lunch without locking his computer. He would have some applications open and I would minimize them. He would come back and mumble under
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    Font - More subtle things would be changing where his cursor was in a word document or email, since he was a keyboard looker when he typed, he would type his current thoughts in the wrong spot, and it would take him a few seconds to realize his "mistake." This went on for weeks. Some days l'd hit him several times and others none. No harm done. Except... he started getting paranoid. Since he knew I was technically inclined he would ask "what could make windows media player start?" I asked him wh
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    Font - As time went on I became bolder in my revenge. Instead of waiting for him to get up or talk to a coworker I would do it when he would be writing on paper at his desk or looking at his phone. Cue my f weeks in when one day he was playing with his phone when I went to change his cursor location in an email and he saw it move! He looks at me, sees my hand under the desk and says "I suspected it was you!" The rouse was up. I admitted it. He laughed, checked the back of dock and found the dong
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