'The yolks on him': Prankster takes down coworker's Do Not Disturb sign during work trip, coworker gets even by charging a pricey breakfast on his room

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    "[!] spot one of my colleagues pulling the sign from another colleague's door. This guy is a known prankster who no one likes."
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    r/pettyrevenge Posted by u/Stu_Prek 2 hours ago Steal my Do Not Disturb sign? Enjoy your breakfast! tl;dr at the bottom. This happened back sometime in the 2010s, I forget the exact year. It was back when daily housekeeping was the default for hotels, and the only way to turn it down was to hang the Do Not Disturb sign on your door, or tell the front desk to add your room number to the "no housekeeping" list.
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    When I travel, I always refuse housekeeping unless I'm in the same hotel for more than a week. Well, in one instance, I managed to end up with a couple days off in the middle of a job, and since I'd been sleeping poorly, I decided I'd rather just stay in and catch up on rest than go out and about during the day. So imagine my surprise and disgruntlement when housekeeping knocks on the door on day one. I get up,
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    get to the door right about the same time that they're letting themselves in, and was about to ask them why they're ignoring the DND sign when I realize it's not on the handle anymore. I ask them for a new one, and watch as they pull one from their cart, hang it, and apologize for the disturbance.
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    Next day: same exact thing happens. Only this time, by dumb luck, I wise up to the issue. As I'm walking out to get lunch later on, I happen to spot one of my colleagues pulling the sign from another colleague's door. This guy is a known "prankster" who no one likes, for exactly this reason. Cue revenge:
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    I know that he's the kind of guy who basically ignores hospitality staff at every possible chance, including things like walking out of a hotel without checking out and just leaving his keys in his room.
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    It just so happens that this is one of those hotels that has a little card you can hang on your door to order breakfast. It gives you a place to indicate what time you'd like it delivered, and checkboxes for what you'd like. At the bottom, you write your name and room number. Let me tell you, it's not hard to get someone's room number from the front desk when you're traveling together as a group. And we had to leave the hotel the next day around 4:30am to get to the airport.
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    So the night before departing, I selected a 7:00am breakfast with all the fixings. Eggs, sausage, bacon, a breakfast sandwich, fresh fruit, juice, a large coffee, you name it. And I put that hanger up on his door, with his name and room number on it. When I did the math, it looked like it would be about $60 including fees, tax, and automatically added tip.
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    Sure enough, colleague didn't bother checking out, which meant that no one would have time to see that there was a large breakfast on order. And when his bill got emailed to him a couple days later, he was livid. Rooms are paid for by the company. Incidentals? Not so much. That breakfast went straight to his credit card.
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    tldr: jack colleague kept stealing our Do Not Disturb signs so housekeeping would interrupt our stays, so I sent an expensive breakfast to his room that he'd have to pay for despite not being around to eat it.
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    Grouchy-Ad4338 - 3 hr. ago Great revenge. You had his eggs cooked - not sure if they were sunny side up though :) Very bad prank from his end. I just came back from a trip to Beijing and they still had those breakfast cards - I hope that you ordered him two breakfasts :)
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    Tamalene 2 hr. ago Nice. And since he pranked more than one person, he can't immediately accuse you!
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    DynkoFromTheNorth · 2 hr. ago That trip turned out to be more than he could chew. Nice one!
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    CoderJoe1 1 hr. ago I travel with a regular group of jokers for work. One day I had enough. I can't remember what they did, but I went to the front desk of the hotel and told them I locked myself out of my room, gave them my coworker's room number and name. We'd stayed there often enough that I must have looked familiar because they gave me his room key without question.
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    It took me ten minutes to set my prank before I returned to my friends in the bar. The next day my coworker had us rolling in tears as he explained being too drk to realize why he couldn't get into the bed. He slept with his legs out the side and only realized when he woke up that I had short-sheeted him.
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    Piddy3825 2 hr. ago petty revenge - best served sunny side up with a side of bacon...
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    PhDTARDIS 1 hr. ago That was the perfect prank, in that he had no way to identify WHO did it.
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    Pristine_Ad5229. 2 hr. ago Nice! I hope he learned his lesson
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    LibraryMouse4321. 43 min. ago The yolks on him.

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