Boss steals employee's idea and fires him, employee gets back at him years later: 'I [bought] out the company he works for and [demoted] him'

People say success is about hard work and determination, but they could say the exact same thing about revenge.

Here, we have a former employee whose ideas were quite literally stolen from their boss at the time. After getting fired, the former employee would go on to buy the company years later and demote the former employer who wronged him. It's the kind of workplace triumph one dreams of, so one can only feel a sense of second-hand fulfillment reading about this decade-spanning revenge plot.

Personally speaking, while I have yet to see the day when I have my opportunity to enact vengeance on former employers and coworkers, I am sure I am not the only person who has ever sat through a meeting and heard a coworker re-articulate your idea and claim it as theirs. In fact, there is no greater way to create an enemy in the workplace, besides listening to music without headphones.

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