Woman gets ‘silent revenge’ over and over again against an arrogant older colleague, other professionals chime in with their silent revenge stories: ‘Everyone on the team got a [candidate] veto.’

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  • "He has no idea I'm the reason he didn't get the job"

    Back in 2009, I was at a conference where I was introduced to a well- known established man in the same field as me. Our mutual friend introduced me a someone with over 10 years experience. I had recently completed a masters degree and was the only woman and the only person under 40 on a panel discussion at the conference. I extended my hand to shake his and he turned away and sneered that he had more experience
  • than I had years alive. I'd never met him before and have no idea why he held such animosity against me. Fast forward 15 years. I have a job in a large agency that hires contractors to complete some of our objectives that we lack capacity to do internally. He's
  • been considered on several contracts, and I've told the story of his arrogance and how i won't work with him. He didn't get those contracts. He likely has no idea and maybe he wouldn't care. Still feels good.
  • Acceptable_Unit_7989 Sadly I doubt he has a clue or has any idea that his hubris and superiority complex has cost him contracts. People like him often lack the ability to self reflect and grow from their arrogance. As a person fueled by spite I applaud your move. MizElaneous OP You're right, but I'm OK with silent revenge
  • gofl-zimbard-37 I'm a software developer, and at one time we were working on a small team doing great things. All of us were hand picked for this, and worked together closely. All of us had a lot of experience, and part of that experience included having worked with a h les in the past. So
  • we adopted a rule that when looking at a candidate, everyone on the team got a veto. Supposedly this rule was in place for SAS teams, where we got the idea. I exercised it once, for a guy I'd worked with who was very talented on paper, but very obnoxious and divisive. Having him on the team would've killed us.
  • BackItUp... I worked for the college I was attending. I caught a coworker (another student) stealing goods donated for charity. She got suspended from school for a year so graduated a year behind me. For revenge she accused me of stuff I didn't do. I was cleared of it all but it still made the rest of my school year h_l.
  • Fast forward a couple years. I'd graduated and got a good job. I saw her come in and go to HR. After she left I went to HR and asked if she applied for a job. They said yes and her resume looked very good so they were going to interview her. I asked,
  • if I have a reason you should not hire her, would you want to know? They said yes, I told them the whole story. She never got an interview. I wish she knew I was the reason.
  • quikdogs I once had to drive a couple contractors to the airport at the end of their job, and the whole drive one kept complaining to the other how awful this town was, how bad the airline connections were, how incompetent the local staff were. I'm
  • sure they thought I was an uber driver, but I could see the other contractor knew I was staff from the wild look in that one's eyes. I wanted to tell them no worries about ever returning to my sucky town because you won't be, but I just kept my mouth shut until the project wrap up meeting.
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  • Altaredboy Used to have a suprrvisor that was a massive sh. Used to buy everyone, but really used to bu y one of my co-workers who was new to the industry. Supervisor ended up not having his contract renewed as we wouldn't work with him. Bu ied co-worker ended up getting into mining & got
  • on the management track. He got put in charge of a massive oil & gas project. Our old supervisor had just started on the project for another contractor & was name dropping the co-worker he used to bu y. The bu ied co- worker called into our office & asked to be put on speaker phone & for the office to keep quiet. He fired him with us listening.
  • CharDeeMacDennisll A former boss of mine was unemployed. Total . Arrogant. Misogynistic. Condescending. We had an opening. I had a former coworker who also disliked him know about the opening. He showed up for the interview and was shown to the conference room, which had those huge floor to ceiling interior window walls. I made sure he saw me act
  • surprised to see him. Then I also made sure he saw me talking to my boss, who I was on great terms with, obviously shaking my head and indicating this was not someone they wanted to hire. My boss spent 10 minutes with him and terminated the interview. He mouthed "F you" to me as he left. I smiled and waved. The other coworker later told me he said he turned us down.
  • Bowerick_x_Wowbagger Had a similarly satisfying experience years ago, I was the lone marketer in a team of engineers (I learned so much from that job, but that's another story). One day the boss comes out with a candidate that he's considering for a sales job in another team and along the lines of "I believe you know [fred]". Awkward handshake because he was a
  • manager of mine in another company and I detested him. Smarmy, know-nothing that took credit for a lot of my work. He left and current boss says "so what do you think?". Easy I said... him or me. He laughed and said "understood".
  • supershinythings A long time ago I changed jobs from large company to small startup. A resume crossed my desk. I knew the guy from previous job - he was a contractor. His resume listed ALL MY accomplishments from that previous job as if they were his own.
  • I passed it around the office, mostly populated by other people who left the same place and knew my work. After all the laughter d d down his resume went into the NEVER EVER HIRE pile. I also let my friends from the previous workplace know what he did, because it's highly likely he would be claiming credit for their work too.
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