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When it comes to blue-collar workplaces, you have to know your place and find your friends. This is done much more easily when you start as an apprentice. In fact, some even require it. This apprentice was working on becoming an upholsterer. Upholstery is in the furniture trade. It takes a lot of skill to become great at a trade like that. In fact, fun little side fact, Jack White was an upholstery and he even sewed up some vinyl pressings of his old old old band that are still in some unknown couches to this day.
But anyway, this apprentice was cool with everyone training him except for one guy. This dude was over 50 and only had the job because he was besties with the boss. He constantly got disrespected by this guy, so while he was till on the job, he took his revenge through a microwave. LOL
He didn't reveal that the karma was made by him until he put his two weeks in and moved on to become a professional himself.
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"About 12 years ago, I left college and got an apprenticeship at a factory for upholstery, working on furniture such as chairs, couches, mattresses, etc
It was my first job, and I was learning quite quickly. But as an apprentice, the wage wasn’t exactly much, but it was enough. My job was mainly getting materials for others as well as cleaning up after them, a few times, I would get to help build some of the arms on the chairs
Most people there were very nice and took me under their wing to train me. But this one person, M(54m), didn’t seem to like me that well. M saw me more as a burden than a colleague. He was the boss's best friend and seemed to think he was better than everyone else.
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He would throw things on the floor and demand me to clean it up immediately even when I was doing some other work, try to get me and other newbie’s run and grab his food and take it to his car, try to tell us when we were allowed to eat/use the toilet and tried to make us do unsafe work like trying to get us to climb up the shelves that need the forklift to pick up materials and bring them down. He would often say horrible things to us as well, like “why would they hire someone stupid and ugly that a donkey would look better next to you,” oh boy, was he a character.
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At lunch time, we had a vending machine, fridge, and microwave for 30-40 people to use in the one-hour break. Yeah it got busy at first but we all made it work out, and everything was fine, and one day M decided to get a microwave for our department to use only so about 10 people, and we were all happy with that until one day I was walking over to use the microwave and M stood in the way and said “what do you think you’re doing?” I told him I was just warming my food up, and he said, “no, people like you aren’t allowed to use the microwave, you’ll just break it and make it smell.”
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I decided I had enough of this and argued with him that he wasn’t the boss and this wasn’t his job. But as he was the boss's friend that didn’t go down well for me and he somehow talked the boss into giving me a warning for slacking off and take a wage deduction for something I apparently broke that I know for a fact he broke. M then threatened me and said, “I see you near the microwave again and I’ll make sure you regret it”
After that scenario I was furious with this guy and his disgusting behaviour and decided to get a little payback on M. One day I was working a bit late and everyone was just leaving for the day while I finished cleaning up, as I was just finishing up with no one around I went up to M’s microwave and already knowing that it was out of site of cameras, I unplugged it and took the fuse out and plugged it back in then went home.
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The next day when lunchtime came around I spotted M looking at the microwave all baffled and frustrated. Someone asked him what was wrong and he said “this stupid machine isn’t working and now I can’t eat my food!” I decided to chime in and said “oh, maybe someone broke it. Have you tried unplugging it and plugging back in?”
He turned around very abruptly said “don’t you dare talk to me you little hit!” So I just walked away with a little smirk on my face. Eventually M decided he would take the microwave to a repair shop over the weekend and came back in the next week beyond furious after the shop owner told him it would work if you had the fuse in the plug. M then started demanding about who took the fuse and to give it back to him immediately. After a few weeks he calmed down but was still treating the newbie’s like *rap.
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As I was getting to M leaving him for last I approached him and he started with “I’m surprised anyone else would even want to hire someone as heavy and useless as you at a different place” and I said “well at least I won’t have to be best friends with the boss to hide my horrible attitude and flaws” and just as I was about to walk away I turn to him and said “oh, you know that fuse that went missing from your microwave? I think you might want this back now then” and dropped the fuse in front of him cut into 2 pieces. I walked out of there with my head high and laughing as I could hear M screaming in rage, calling me a “little *hit”
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So yeah, that was my first of a few petty revenges I have done. Shout out to M if you’re reading this, just want to let you know that I’m a fully qualified joiner now with a very well-paying job and a beautiful wife who doesn’t think I’m ugly or stupid and definitely prefers me over a donkey."
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You should always be nice to your apprentices because you never know where they will be in several years after your training. Maybe they'll be your next boss…
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