IT employees get kicked out of their office to accommodate shiny new marketing lead, they get revenge by leaving the office without AC for the whole summer: ‘He never thought to call maintenance about the temperature’

Giuliana Tiscioni • Writer

Jul 24, 2026 8:00 PM EDT

Is it fair to favour a new employee over the older ones? Doesn't seem like it.

Patience is a virtue, one that many people lack. An IT employee posted on r/pettyrevenge about a new coworker who had no patience or manners. The guy had a PhD in marketing, and the company hired him due to his promise of getting them a lot of money. Since he thought of himself as a big deal, he asked to be settled in a big office, which was the office the hardworking IT department shared. The company agreed and happily told the IT guys to leave the office on the very same day. Since they had so little consideration towards them, one of the guys played with the A.C to make it stop working. Mind you, it was the middle of summer. This led the new marketing guy to move in and spend all summer showing up sweaty to meetings, since it never occurred to him to ask maintenance for help.

When these things happen, it makes you wonder: how necessary is it to be really qualified for a job? The new guy apparently had no qualifications, besides having written a marketing book, while the IT guys had been there forever, doing their jobs properly. Still, they were pushed aside without a second thought for his sake.

When someone starts a new job, they inevitably have to pay their dues. But in this case, that never happened, so it raises the question: how fair is it? What's the difference between some employees who have to work hard for everything they have and others who just get what they want without anyone batting an eyelash?

Companies are hardly ever fair to their employees, and no one is irreplaceable. The boss or the owner can suddenly decide to fire people who have worked there for ages, and hire shiny new people who don't necessarily have a clue what they are doing. Not fair at all, but still a recurrent situation. There's not much in the real world that employees can do about it. But what they can do is make sure to leave a few surprises for those playing favorites. Being petty has its advantages, and if you can't beat them fairly, you should learn to play their own game.

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This was years ago. I worked at a small marketing company in IT. They had a couple of us IT people sharing a decent-sized office. It had a nice southern view. The company, in it's

infinite wisdom, hired this pompous PhD whose only qualification was that wrote a book about marketing. In his first week he decided everyone was doing everything wrong despite

having no actual experience in the field. Anyhow, he was an a with no humility and he rubbed all the staff the wrong way, the management loved him because he was a BS

artist who told them he would make them all the money with his revolutionary ideas about market research. He earned a PhD (in marketing let's remind ourselves - he wasn't

curing cancer) so he thought he was smarter and more valuable than everyone else even though most of out revenue was based on the computer system IT wholly supported and

customized. He decided that he wanted the office IT had. The company agreed that they would move the two of us to a smaller office that was really only big enough for one

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person, but we would both have to share it. We were literally told we had to move out the same day they informed us because Dr. VonDouchebag wanted to settle into the new

office. So, while we were scrambling to get our stuff out, I got on a chair and pushed the AC vent up into the ceiling and slid a spare tile in it's place. I did the same thing with the air

return, so the office was sealed. We moved out and Dr. Dementia moved in. The first day I knew we were going to love the show because he immediately closed his door so nobody

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could see him probably not working (I found out later he spent a lot of his time playing Solitaire and that is another revenge story). It - was May, in North Carolina, so it was already

warm outside. By June, he would show up to afternoon meetings visibly sweating. He never thought to call maintenance about the temperature, so much for PhD-level smarts.

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Xylorgos So often you hear about stories like this, where the company hires someone new and they start making changes......and it all goes to sh...

When are they going to start teaching these people to find out what's going on before they start making consequential changes? I can't believe how common this situation is these days.

xboxgamer2122 We had a coworker who played solitaire all the time in her cube. She put her monitor (this was before laptops) so you couldn't see it from the doorway in her

cube. You could hear click click click all the time. The 52 cards are in a small database. One of our IT guys went in one evening after she left, edited the

database,and removed a 4 and a King from different suits. We still heard the clicking, but knowing she could never win again made it satisfying.

Nalabu1 All those brains and no common sense.

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IT employees get kicked out of their office to accommodate shiny new marketing lead, they get revenge by leaving the office without AC for the whole summer: ‘He never thought to call maintenance about the temperature’

Is it fair to favour a new employee over the older ones? Doesn't seem like it.

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