'I nearly choked trying to eat it so quickly': Disgruntled employee devours his boss's cake as revenge for enduring years in a toxic work environment

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    Food - "Revenge is a dish best served frosted."
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    Font - r/pettyrevenge. Posted by u/litbeavis 7 hours ago Sc The company started out being family-owned and treated the employees great, casual dress code, easy going, I was young and it felt more like going to hang out with friends vs going to work. I was a you and your cake!
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    Font - shift supervisor at the start, and as I said, all the calls got answered, work was completed on time and everything was very laid back. The last family member dd during my 6th year and a new board of
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    Font - directors/CEO took over, and everything went corporate overnight, button-down shirt, dress pants, no sneakers (other than Friday's I guess Jeans and sneakers on a Friday doesn't lower the stock price ) The team I managed was all tech support, non-customer facing
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    Font - so forcing them into dress shoes and dress pants seemed dumb. This was the start of my disgruntled nature. One of our CEO's who had an office in our building, was so petty he would sneak into the call center on
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    Font - the weekends (when the rest of the office was closed ) take off his shoes so as to make no noise, and in his stocking feet, sneak in the back door of the call center to look under desks to make sure nobody was wearing sneakers! Then complained
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    Font - to me and my manager when he found somebody! (another fun petty fact, I started pouring water on the kitchen floor by the call center back door, so he could step it in with his stocking feet, and just shrugged it off as somebody must have spilled something when he ed!)
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    Font - I got a new manager, he was vastly untechnical and micro-managing, a very, very annoying man. He was also very very passive, he'd do something stupid, I'd yell at him, face to face in his office and he would say nothing after sitting down at my desk (10ft away from
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    Font - his office) I would get a strongly worded email about our " interaction" Along with the new "corporate overlord" chances the company got super cheap unless it was managers meetings or special occasions where they could put on the public appearance of being a "family-friendly" place to work.
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    Font - Cue the company's 10-year anniversary, all the big wigs come down to our office a few fly in from other states, they have a huge sheet cake that has the name of the company and "10 years" written on
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    Organism - it, it was sitting unguarded in the cafe, as I was walking through I noticed nobody was around, grabbed a knife from the table and cut out a perfect square out of the middle of the cake and like a fat kid
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    Font - I ate it with my bare hands (I nearly choked trying to eat it so quickly worried somebody would come into the cafe (imagine that Heimlich maneuver "hey whats he choking on? Stolen cake!") I wash my hands quickly of frosting and flee.
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    Font - A few minutes later, our CEO flanked by his cronies came storming through the call center, yelling that he wanted to know who ate the cake, they had a professional photographer who was going to take a photo of all of them
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    Font - behind the cake for the local newspaper, and now the 10 Years and a huge chunk of the company name is missing. I sat quietly and said nothing, in fact this is the first I've spoken about this in 15 years :) you and your cake!!!
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    Font - Quick-Possession-245 23 hr. ago So good. But I must commend you for the water on the floor as well. 930 Reply Share Taliesine 21 hr. ago Me and my sensory issues approve with no reserve. It's evil and perfect
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    Font - El_ha_Din 6 hr. ago The cake was nice but the water was what made this great. Also, I would have loved to see the security video of this. A grown man eating pettycake as quick as possible to not be seen and fleeing. I now see you in a mister Bean posture trying to T-rex arm the cake to your mouth ASAP.
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    Rectangle - litbeavis OP 3 hr. ago You aren't very far off, I was all hunched over, eyes darting around while stuffing my mouth with cake.
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    Font - IMAGINARIAN_photos 21 hr. ago Well played, PETTY CROCKER, well played! You're my hero! 115 Reply Share litbeavis OP 3 hr. ago Easily my favorite nickname so far, I might even get this on a tee shirt **
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    Font - Piddy3825 21 hr. ago petty revenge - best served partially eaten from the middle... 40 Reply Share Newbosterone 20 hr. ago Preferably a slice shaped like an upraised middle finger.
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    Font - missannthrope1 21 hr. ago Revenge is a dish best served frosted. ↑ 28 Reply Share ringo5150 20 hr. ago Mmmmmmm
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    Rectangle - night-otter 20 hr. ago 10 years and they provided ... cake. 28 Reply Share Petskin 11 hr. ago The cake is a lie!
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    Organism - MrsMull92 22 hr. ago Bold of you to claim you're a fat kid since you weren't eating it in the bathroom while crying. 60 Reply Share litbeavis OP 22 hr. ago hahaha!
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    Product - GrumpySnarf. 16 hr. ago LOL. I came for the cake and stayed for the wet socks. ↑ 15 ↓ Reply Share Safe_Caterpillar_209 14 hr. ago That should be a flair!

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