‘I left his office and laughed’: Employee gets back at micromanager by signing him up for hundreds of mailing lists

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Feb 5, 2024 1:00 PM EST

There is something about those extremely sophisticated petty revenge stories, that are just so satisfying to read. Because really, all you need in order to get back at someone is just a bit of creativity and courage, and you can get away with the funniest little tricks.

Here is the perfect example of one. This employee told Reddit about how they got back at an unreasonable boss who kept giving employees bad reviews for no reason. Instead of causing a scene, or threatening to quit, OP came up with a petty revenge that would keep them in the clear but will give them enough satisfaction. OP decided to sign up to countless websites and email chains using the boss' email address and then watched as bossman got more and more frustrated by the amount of spam mail he would receive. As I said, the perfect little petty revenge.

Scroll down for the full story and some matching petty responses from other Redditors. Once you are done, click here for a story of a lumber worker who piled trash at a neighbor's door to teach them a valuable lesson.

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    This is an automatic reply Membership renewal Booking information RE Beautiful apartment in the city Fast deals 70%off RE: Inquiry "I left his office and laughed"
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    Signed my boss up for every email list I could fine
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    Back in the early 2000s, I had a manager that would often be a to many of his employees, including me. He loved to tell people that they should be happy to have a job, gave no constructive feedback, it was all
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    just how bad we were. When I got my review for the year, he had given me a 1 of 5. When I asked his boss to review my review, his boss literally said "What the " as he had talked to lots of my internal
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    customers. His boss actually gave me a 4.7 or something out of 5 on the re-review because he knew the changes I had helped the team make.
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    Not long after the review, I would be on the internet and anytime that a website would ask me to sign up for their email (long before you had to opt-in) I would put his work email into the field.
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    I did this for a few weeks and then moved on with my life because I had a million other things to do. A year later, I was helping him with something on his computer and made a comment about having
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    10,000 unread emails and he made a comment about getting on some spam lists and now getting hundreds of emails a day weren't work related.
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    When I left his office after that, I suddenly remembered signing him up for email lists and smiled back to my desk.
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    CoderJoe1 9 hr. ago Having hundreds or thousands of emails in your work inbox for days on end should be grounds for firing. Incompetence.
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    Free-Industry701 · 9 hr. ago Well played my friend.
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    Andrew_Higginbottom. 7 hr. ago I asked his boss to review my review I would never have thought of doing that :)
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    centstwo 3 hr. ago Reminds me of The Office where Jim slowly added nickels to Dwight's phone to get him used to the phone being heavier, then took them all out at once. The next time Dwight used the phone, he punched himself in the face.
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    likeablyweird 5 hr. ago It's the little things, isn't it? <satisfied smile>
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    DynkoFromThe North - 2 hr. ago Definition of petty. I was kinda hoping he'd somehow got in trouble for it, though.
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    canadianmusician604 9 hr. ago similar to me i signed my boss up for run mailbait
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    survivor0000 8 hr. ago Years ago I was on a uni degree course which included a year in employment. I was advised that it was common to play a prank when departing after your year was complete. One of the
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    managers was absent at that time, so I sent an email to all of my colleagues in the department expressing my enjoyment working with them, wishing them well, which included a 'click me' button. Several told me they'd clicked it but nothing happened.
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    What actually did happen was that they sent a resignation email to the absent manager, from there own email addresses of course. I was gone so did not see the result, but was not too surprised when I failed to get an employment invitation after the course was complete.
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    GrannyB1970 6 hr. ago I did that to a nasty co-worker once. Went to a magazine rack in a big bookstore and took out every subscription card I could get my hands on. She deserved it and more.
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    Grouchy-Ad4338 · 6 hr. ago Good one. That would be some serious revenge. First not knowing how many or how many more we're headed her way. And second
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    all the effort to cancel the subscriptions. That was really getting even and some more (or may be a lot more)
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    Better-Ad9373 · 10 hr. ago Omg, that's amazing! Perfectly petty
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