'I got my revenge': Retail manager gets back at a supervisor who snubbed their career; they get promoted at the corporate level and become their boss's boss

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Aug 2, 2023 10:00 AM EDT

Some say that success is the best revenge. I've often taken a similar stance of placated vengeance, where you don't need to take direct action against a person. It's said that the strongest backlash is when you are able to elevate your own self to a level that your enemy will never achieve. In the retail world, this kind of revenge is unbeatable, using your rank to outweigh any sort of animosity and effectively shutting down the competition with one glance– and by pulling the rank card.

In this case, one employee had an enemy at work that just so happened to be their supervisor. Everything was going fine until OP was ready for an upward promotion in their store, getting closer and closer to their enemy supervisor's workflow and threatening their managerial status. The supervisor had a voiceless vendetta against OP and continually snubbed their career until OP found the most epic revenge in the form of self-elevation. After getting demoted by the bitter supervisor, OP went off to find success elsewhere– in the corporate sector. Using their newfound success and sublime status, OP served up the pettiest revenge by flexing their newfound power over their old boss. 

Scroll for the full story of promotions, demotions, and an epic moment where pulling rank actually proved a perfect point. For more tales of vengeance against a bad supervisor, check out this story of a trucker who pulled all the stops with safety protocol, putting his negligent supervisor to the chopping block.

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  • 01
    Font - Posted by u/kaltics 1 day ago Boss caused me to lose a management position through a mass redundancy, I was able return the favor
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    Font - I held a position as a manager in a retail store of a Telco company a while agol had previously been a store consultant that got promoted up so I had experience both of what it was like to be backed by a manager and walked over
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    Font - by others, I knew I wanted to be a manager that backed his staff. So that is what I did, however my boss was one who would happily throw the staff under the bus and cave to most customer demands if they got even a little upset.
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    Font - Due to our differences of opinion I didnt last very long in that position, a Redundancy was announced for all management and my boss kept her job but used the chance to get rid of me,
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  • 05
    Font - ended up back as general staff. I was pretty p sed off about it and nearly threw my career away with the company with poor performance as i stopped caring about it, I held on as I was a system expert and was frequently consulted on
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    Font - how to fix issues that arose (happened on a daily basis). Life moved on and bounced to a few different stores within the company and started a new relationship. that made me want to start caring about being able to
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  • 07
    Font - provide again, luck had me land a secondment in a new position which was out of retail ( Lockdowns were good too me, only reason the opportunity existed). Managed to
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  • 08
    Font - perform well in that and get some good contacts and a glowing recommendation. from a very senior executive that then help me apply for and get a permanent position for the companies. call center development and processes team
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  • 09
    Font - Got my revenge when my team was rolling out a pilot for a new process that would see our call center and retail channels working closer together, was forecasted some pretty large sales and time benefits.
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    Font - Pretty much every store wanted to be apart of it and I was the one who got to pick which retail stores which would be due to my background of coming from retail. When the meeting
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  • 11
    Font - was being held to discuss this and it was thrown over to me to ask the store managers to submit their interest in participating I saw my old boss notice me then and see how disheartened she looked in knowing it was up to me.
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    Font - Unsurprisingly I chose to not select her store, I did pick most of the ones around her though, which saw their performance improve considerably while hers didn't.
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  • 13
    Font - Not long ago learned that the store got closed and she got made redundant due to the store underperforming compared to others in the
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  • 14
    Font - area as the company decide to close some stores to reduce expenses as a lot of customer interactions had started moving to digital platforms
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    Font - Rabid Dingo 22 hr. ago +3. "Be careful of the toes you step on while climbing the corporate ladder, they may be attached to the a s you have to kiss one day."
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    Font - Proud_Fisherman_5233 23 hr. ago Bro, you're only supposed to get her fired. 116 Reply Share pieceofbluecheese 22 hr. ago bro went for that extra credit petty
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    Font - DrinkMaximum5573 12 hr. ago ● Watch your step, you never know whose tushy you'll have to smooch later on!
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    Human body - perusmummo · 1 day ago She was not the only one that lost her job, nice.
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    Font - kaltics OP 20 hr. ago the rest of the staff were offered a redundancy package or positions in other stores as there were ongoing staff shortages
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    Font - leigh10021 18 hr. ago ● I mean, if you had to pick, and you picked her store over another, then THEY would be out of a job. Someone's becoming redundant no matter what OP does. It is a zero sum game....
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    Font - HoraceorDoris 17 hr. ago +1. People at the top of the ladder look down to see people looking up to them All the people at the bottom of the ladder see is Ar eholes...
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