19-year-old quits pizza restaurant, makes nonstop prank calls until owners are forced to close: 'I (possibly?) made my old job shut down'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
May 23, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

Everyone wishes they could get back at that first employer who did them wrong! This 19-year-old had enough confidence and conviction to follow through and sabotage the pizza place where she had her first job. 

At the time, she was the only female employee in the workplace and would frequently be unfairly tasked with doing way more while the men around her took constant breaks. Her manager was not only aware of these circumstances, but he also participated and encouraged that lack of proper balance. It was not long before the 19-year-old had had enough of this nonsense and quit on the spot. However, that did not mean she was necessarily done.

This woman hatched a plan using the video game RuneScape to get back at the pizza place, and believe it or not, it worked far more successfully than she ever could have anticipated. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the fallout!

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  • Who knew that tantalizing RuneScape gamers with a phone number would work so well? That phone number, of course, was actually the number for the pizza place where she used to work. This led to an incessant number of prank calls from “customers” looking for something entirely different. Somehow, it spiraled out of control to the point that the drive-thru needed to be shut down because they could not find the source of all the prank calls. That's what you get for underestimating an empowered 19-year-old, folks!

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    This was when I was 18 or 19, way back in the days of landlines and dial-up. I worked at a small local pizza place (which I won't name to protect myself), where I was the only female. Everyone
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    including the manager liked to go outside and s e during dinner rush and leave me by myself to answer calls, get the drive through window, and cook all at the same time, all while dealing
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    with the panic attacks this caused. Then they'd come back in and laugh at me and make S jokes about me. I finally had enough of this surreal nightmare and quit. That left me plenty of time to play RuneScape.
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    (For anyone who hasn't heard of it it's an online game with masses of people.) I had no life and I also had a grudge, which is a potent combination. So I made a female character whos name was the phone number of the pizza place,
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    and just stood around in the most populated place in the game (where all the new players have freshly come out of the tutorial),
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    every single day during what I knew from experience was their dinner rush hours, and spammed "call this number for a good time". I used an auto-typer program so I could do this nonstop. Thing is, this pizza
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    place had no seating and was drive-through/carry-out only, so 90% of their orders were placed over the phone. It closed down for some reason about a month into me doing this, and when I ran
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    into one of my ex co-workers, he told me they'd shut down because their business had taken such a hit due to constant "prank calls" that their phone line. Nobody ever figured out where they came from.
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    R... 17h ago Edited 16h ago . Big brain move to use RuneScape. Spamming in Lumbridge is the way to go.
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    TroublemakingB • 17h ago Oh well, this is what happens when stupid bosses sh on their workers. I love this kind of story. Low effort "Oh, me type a few numbers here and there" and BOOM, one less pizza place in business. Well done.
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    baronbloodbath 17h ago • No, we don't have ugthanki pizza, I don't even know what is! Pizza Palace! What kind of coupon? Buy two pizzas, get a free dragon ammy? What the h l is an ammy?!
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    Pizza Palace! What's my mining level? Who the h I are you people?!!?
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    justaman_097 · 17h ago . Well played! It sounds like tons of people were up for a good time.
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    missannthrope1 · 17h ago • Revenge is a dish best served hot from the oven.
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    TheHobbyWaitress 16h ago . I learned how to leave the phone slightly off the hook. F poor management & take-out orders.
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    GoodPhase3973 17h ago I'm going to note this down for just in case, nice job
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    delulu4drama 17h ago If they want to play games, then so can you
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    Commercial_Pea... • 13h ago Your diabolical cleverness is truly inspirational. I can only aspire to this level. Chef's kiss, woman! You are a serious bad a
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