‘I did not indulge her insanity. So she quit’: 15 times coworkers, neighbors, and roommates let their enemies make colossal mistakes 


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    r/AskReddit Posted by u/Spinksy48 What is your "never interrupt an enemy while they are making a mistake" moment?
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    austexgringo I was doing a mortgage for a French guy in Miami Beach that had a French realtor. Even though both were completely fluent in English, she frequently did asides in French having no idea I spoke the language. When they settled on a property and we were riding the elevator down from the condo she told him that look, these guys are scumbags, and they're going to screw you over and I have a much better person that you can work with (even though the way foreign investment works is identic
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    ThrowingChicken. I let the lady who changed lanes into me run her mouth about how I rear ended her before pulling the cop aside to show him my DashCam footage. 17.9k ↓ Share
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    Hrekires. When a coworker who I hated got fired a few weeks after I decided to stop fixing his mistakes even if it impacted a client. 14.1k Share
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    Bmilvis. Guy stole a presentation from me, this is 25 years ago. We hated each other. When he started presenting I realized I had made a huge error, didn't say anything. Let him get through it. Asked him about the error, he couldn't answer. This was in front of coo. Got fired, not for just that, he was an overall . This was before everyone was on PCs, had one printer in one room. 11.7k Share
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    Gazcobain. I was accused by a neighbour of reversing out my drive and hitting his car. He gave me the date and time I had allegedly done it, and pointed to a (small) scrape on my car that supposedly matched perfectly the location of the dent on his. This was 7 weeks after the alleged event, by the way. I said it wasn't me but told him to contact his insurance and we'd see what they said. Few weeks later I get a letter from my insurance asking what had happened, to which I responded with the date
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    01 joosier Roommate's ex abandons their vehicle in front of my house. I tell them to please move it or I will have it towed. Vehicle suddenly has two flat tires. Ex files police report claiming my roommate and I had slashed their tires. Waited until ex made their statement to the police about how we had slashed their tires and that is why they couldn't move his vehicle and filed a claim against us in small claims court. Provided police and the court copies of my and our neighbors door cam footag
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    [deleted] In a meeting with my project manager who has not been in the office or worked a proper full day for MONTHS. she has increasingly been annoyed by people bypassing her to get things done by telling me and her other direct reports what to do. I was about to answer a question for stakeholders, she told me to let her speak one sentence and will let me have my bit. I did as I was told, and she told the stakeholder a completely wrong thing about the system we were handling and made a complete
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    Objective-Amount1379. An old boss who was awful to me after I took an extra few days of bereavement. She was just not smart so I emailed her a recap of a meeting we'd had about said days off. She responded not only confirming what she'd said but throwing in a bit of r I escalated. I'd been at the company in a different location for 8 yrs with an outstanding track record so I had some credibility. 2-3 weeks later my team was called into a last minute meeting where her early retirement was announc
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    Ohhhhhhthehumanity. I'm working on a job site and the architect is there one day. I've been given some light fixtures for the sconces in a leasing office lobby. The fixtures are meant to be hung from a ceiling, they can't be installed on a wall. I attempt to convey this to the architect, but he brushes me off and just tells me to follow the prints. I turn to the apprentice and say, well you heard the man, put them up. A bit later, we hear the crashing of glass. The architect asks what was that?
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    raccoonsonbicycles. There's a thing in law enforcement/legalese called a spontaneous utterance Many many people will bury their own cases with these while and moaning at their arresting officer on the way to jail 3.9k Share
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    JRTHEAMAZING. As I was being fired from a job, the district manager requested we record the conversation. He thought I was gonna be very upset, so I obliged. Then when he started to tell me why I was being fired he started with, "You are gonna be graduating college soon, and we want to make sure we get ahead of you leaving us." I very calmly asked he send me the recording right after he said that. Then later that day I called a lawyer. I now have no student loan debt. Edit:: To give context, I w
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    comfortablynumb15. I reminded my ex-wife the divorce court was the next day, and was invited to Get 1. So I went by myself, she failed to appear and I of the Judge so that he asked what would be my desired outcome for assets and Custody of the kids. He wrote down whatever I wanted and I could hear her screams when she read the Orders from 3500km away. 2.0k Share
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    hymie0. My wife was a school teacher with 20 years under her belt. She was paired with a "co-teacher" for (what we used to call) the special-ed students. Wife and co-teacher did not get along. It got to the point where wife and co-teacher (and their respective bosses) were sent to mandated mediation. Near the end of the mediation session, co-teacher asks the mediator "So what's the next step if this doesn't work?" Turns out, the next step is "The one without tenure gets let go." 1.8k Share
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    [deleted] I worked in a country-wide company and needed something done by a peer in another office. She was very uncooperative and was arguing with me that she should not do what I was asking because it was not the correct procedure. It was, in fact, the correct procedure as per my boss (who was her boss' boss), but before I could tell her where I had gotten my instructions, she took it upon herself to send me a very condescending email, CCing her boss and mine. She was clearly trying to put me
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    Hatecookie 10 years ago I had a coworker everyone found pretty annoying. She was an idiot who thought she knew better than everyone else, and would get offended at every opportunity. She took something I said the wrong way one day and got really upset, and I just, didn't say anything. I would not indulge her insanity. So she quit. Grabbed her stuff and walked out on a job she'd had for years. No one spoke a word to stop her. 1.2k Share

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