Coworker Gloats About His Luxurious Airport Lounge Access, So His Colleagues Humble Him by Sharing the Wrong Gate Number; He Misses the Flight

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Sep 28, 2023 7:00 AM EDT

Even the most experienced traveler gets stressed out about a lot of things at the airport: boarding times, your luggage's weight, TSA scanners, and the classic worry of going to the wrong gate for your flight. These are all things that most people check (and re-check) diligently, that is, of course, unless you're a little too loosey-goosey at the luxury airport lounge. And when you travel for work and are privy to business-class fancies and frequent flier perks, you might forget the most important details of your day in the comfort of a reclining lounge chair.

In this case, a group of coworkers were nearing the end of an insufferable business trip. While one of the guys was a frequent flier, the others were not, so when Mr. Flies-A-Lot started gloating about his airport lounge access, the others in the group got a little salty. They quickly got over the man's overinflated ego and found the perfect way to teach him a lesson. 

Scroll for the full story of how one luxurious flier got knocked down a few pegs when he rubbed his coworkers noses in his fancy-pants airport access, missing their flight because of his arrogance. For more stories of entitled coworkers getting what they deserve, check out this tale of a colleague who gets back at a his coworker for stealing lunches, but boobytrapping a sandwich with prescription-grade laxatives. 

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    Font - r/pettyrevenge Posted by u/cattledog222 12 hours ago Coworker gloated about having access to the airport lounge when we didn't. I told him the wrong gate.
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    Font - We work for a national agricultural supply company but I am in a central role while he flies frequently and therefore has lounge access with the airline. We were flying from
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    Font - one city back to our own. He was bragging about it the whole day and when we got to the airport, he wished "us peasants" a nice time in the airport food court "slumming it with the mouth breathers" and so on.
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    Font - He'd bruise his own tonsils if he could. That kid of bloke. Anyway, our flight nears and he texts through asking what the gate is. The rest of us are walking down the skybridge onto the plane at this
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    Font - point. Now, this airport isn't exactly small. It's actually massive. We were getting on at Gate 4. I told him we were at Gate 44. We're laughing on the plane, imagining this bloke having to run through the terminal to catch it.
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    Plant - Next minute, the foring doors on the plane lock and we're getting pushed back. That's when I thought I was f d. He'd complain and the boss would throw the book at me.
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    Smile - He texts "hey where are you guys?" and I told him we're taxing down the runway and that we tried holding the plane for him and the ng explodes. I put bloke just my phone on airplane mode and
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    Font - breathe out. When we land, he's blown up my phone and I've got a missed call from my boss. I call my boss back and say I accidentally pushed 4 twice and he
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  • 09
    Font - just laughed and reckons he would've paid big money to see old mate's meltdown. Anyway, it ruined his day. He had to pay for his own ticket home and now I think my life is in danger. lol.
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    Rectangle - Separate-Ad-9916 10 hr. ago Too lazy to look up at one of the screens all over the airport to find the gate number... he can't blame anyone but himself.
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    Font - Ill_Patient_3548 10 hr. ago If you have high enough status with the airline a member of staff will take you from the lounge to your gate and ensure you have priority boarding
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    Rectangle - TimeZarg. 6 hr. ago Only airport royalty get those perks, he's just one of the upjumped peasants who think they're 'better' than the others.
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    Font - classactdynamo . 5 hr. ago I definitely love and use the upgraded-peasant airport lounge, but I have no illusions about what it is. Anyone bragging because they have a credit card or bought a membership is a moron.
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    Smile - Frexulfe 6 hr. ago Yes, it could be BS, but you would wonder how many people are too stupid / entitled that they always rely on other people. For me it is absolutely credible.
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    Font - Just Another_Pilot. 4 hr. ago Never underestimate the stupidity of self-loading cargo. I frequently get asked for gate information while standing in front of the departures board. Mix in some free booze at the lounge and this story is very plausible.
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    Font - YeltoThorpy 3 hr. ago I work with enough morons who would be dumb enough to text me rather than look at the screens so I'd say this is plausible.
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    Rectangle - a1b2c3000 11 hr. ago Gold. Whoops, fat finger "mistake" Also just putting this out there, as someone with airline status..lounges are really NOT that big of a deal.
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    Rectangle - oztiks. 9 hr. ago Yeah, but if OP didn't have to type in the gate number through watering eyes due to being surrounded by mouth breathers, he might have caught the mistake. LOL
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    Font - CoderJoe1 11 hr. ago "What's the problem? You got more time in your fancy lounge." "Relax, you made it home eventually. It's not like it's terminal." "Don't blame me, I sent you the correct gate info twice!"
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    Rectangle - Phormitago 4 hr. ago "Relax, you made it home eventually. It's not like it's terminal." beautiful
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