People Share Their Best ‘Instant Karma’ Stories (r/AskReddit)

today I quit my job of six years effectively canceling my boss vacation plans read it what stories of Instant Karma do you have I'm a ducking terrible storyteller but all right I'll go first I've worked at the same company for over six years I was a loyal good employee with a perfect track record over the six years I've only called in sick twice I had the best results the least amount of errors on paperwork in the whole region and quite possibly the whole country my new boss decided that that wasn't enough he minimized my hours they get a bonus to keep label Oh expanded my workload and never had anything nice to say he seemed to think ruling with an iron fist is the way to go about this even after all this I'm the one who kept his head above water fixing his errors along the way so today I resigned my position with immediate effect which in terms canceled his vacation plans for next week on top of that there is no one to fill my position as soon as I mounted the words I quit you could see the terror in his eyes he realized how duct he was without me and tried to do whatever he could to keep me for at least another week I've never felt such a sense of instant cameras today I never meant to cancel his vacation but I wasn't going to put his needs before mine I have bills to pay I'd feel bad about it if he wasn't such a donk but he's a donk so read it what a musing funny or bizarre stories of Instant Karma do you have to share my first job out of high school was working for a rather famous a nationwide guitar store chain at first I thought it would be fun getting to be around guitars all day and talk music with fellow musicians turns out I was wrong that 10-hour shifts five to six days a week while listening to slightly too loud overhead music and 14 year-olds play the first five bars of crazy train over and over and over again wasn't actually all that great but I stuck it out I needed money and I have one of those don't quit ever attitudes when I got hired the store was in serious trouble they had recently fired a huge chunk of the staff for skimming profits and selling pot out of the warehouse their numbers were really low and corporate has breathing down their necks but as it turns out I have a ponch on tour selling stuff that I know about I was the accessories guy and got really really good at it I was routinely rolling thirty thousand dollars or better a month out the door and the most expensive thing I had in my department was only five hundred dollars I also had one of the lowest return rates on the west coast and a file with several letters from happy customers saying how much help I had been eventually the stores numbers improved especially my department eventually we were number one for our district and number three on the west coast behind Hollywood and San Francisco however none of that mattered to the GM or anyone from corporate all they wanted was more from me my numbers had to be better every month or I'd get yelled at I was written up for having a low sales month one January because I went on vacation I would get daily emails and phone calls from the district and regional managers demanding to know why I hadn't hit xxx dollars in sales yet my house got bumped up to the point where my days consisted of sleeping showering eating and working I had zero social life my girlfriend at the time would go weeks without seeing me eventually because of the stress I developed her alsa so I decided to quit I threw myself into my last month which just happened to be December the month all retail workers hate I worked extra hours sold as much as I could contact adult customers you name it blew everyone out of the water rolling just shy of 80 thousand dollars in gear my boss called me into his office and said I was doing a good not great good job and to keep it up I pointed to the sales numbers screen pointed out how well I had been doing and how well liked I was by the customers and asked for arrays he laughed and said no so I handed him my resignation letter two weeks later I was done and starting classes in college something I'd had to put off since work wouldn't allow me to cut hours for school I came back to the store a couple months later as someone who had worked with me called and said they'd found a jacket of mine in the warehouse when I showed up the GM wasn't there I asked and what I was told was that apparently corporate had noticed me and when my GM had failed to retain me they'd fired him also that department went from number one to number nine in the district out of eleven stores the district managers were scrambling to recover a few got demoted because of how things panned out and the extreme higher-ups were not happy that the district was in such a state I laughed the laugh of the vindicated TLDR quit the evil empire people got fired or demoted because of it and I had a good belly laugh over it two regions of my company merged into one the manager of the other region was a complete dog he was about five feet two and walked around like he had something to prove he treated all my employees like garbage and made them feel as though the reason they were choosing the other site over ours was because of the quality of work when in reality they got tax breaks in the other state our numbers were far better in every category but their labour was cheaper and that is what mattered to the company they gave my employees four months notice at first they all thought it was a good thing so they could get paid while looking for another job no he made their lives absolutely miserable he doubled their quota much higher than his own region cut Commission's down by 40% and made weekly visits chewing me and the other sales manager out for not hitting the new goals and that there was absolutely no excuse one month the second to last month we hit the new goal not for him to get our employees paid finally and he then we miss out because of the amount of vacation time you even after explaining employees needed days off because they were interviewing other places since we're laying them off and that I would not deny anyone time if they have it available he tried getting me fired for this but I had too many friends well here is how the Karma comes into play I had worked closely with some corporate folks over the two years I was there they found out my region was being shut down and thought I would make a great fit in their corporate office to be in charge of operations operations over the Midwest region a-holes region I kept it quiet I didn't make any mention of it until I showed up at his office with a clipboard and a laptop you should have seen the confusion in his eyes him are you visiting or something me you could say that him well I need to make sure security knows you're here me oh they know I just had to show them my badge I without my badge and show him my picture in front of the red white and blue flag only people that have a photo in front of a red white and blue flag are corporate employees his ass was mine and his face showed sheer terror behind his twitching lips I was fair to his employees but boy did I report every rude and ass Hollis incident that went down there his lack of cooperation his condescending demeanor towards his own employees it only took a few weeks for him to pack up boxes apparently employees had been complaining for a long time and it only took a little corporate push to get him out most satisfying moment in my working career ever edit my dad was a business man and always told me always treat everyone at work with respect because you never know who will be your boss one day good advice even during the revenge process everything was done by the books and professionally yet deep inside I was thinking Carla is a [ __ ] I was working with this complete [ __ ] at the sandwich shop where I work she was 17 I was 18 I was telling a co-worker about how my boyfriend had to me and [ __ ] comes up behind me and says I bet he only proposed because a condom broke it caused me to burst into tears because I'd also just recently found out that there was only a 2% chance that I could have kids and I was still very sensitive about it after coming out of the supply room I went in there to cry I asked her to come out the backdoor with me so I could have a word with her I didn't want customers to hear us because we likely would have ended up yelling anyway I told her to keep her nose in her own business and blah blah blah she decided to slap me pretty hard too I didn't hit her back because we were directly in front of a camera so I went inside and called my boss he had seen it on the live feed at home and had recorded it he was already on his way he came in and racked her out the back and fired her last I heard she was unemployed pregnant and stuck with some deadbeat [ __ ] she was unemployed pregnant and stuck with some deadbeat [ __ ] guess the condom broke I'm an IT consultant and have a rep of being really competent with Microsoft Exchange server a couple of years ago I bid on but did not get a project an upgrade an exchange 2003 environment to exchange 2010 multiple servers multiple sites and right up my alley the firm that won the bid did so by pricing it extremely low about 40% below my price which was on the low end to begin with totally unrealistic pricing but they thought they could pull it off with their people there people were good generalists but did not have a handle on exchange 2010 I told the customer who I'd done work for before and who I'd had a good relationship with that it was not going to end well for them they took it as sour grapes on my part fair enough I had plenty of other things to do anyway so I just moved on two weeks after they started the implementation phase of the job the other consulting firm or Garden the entire email system stopped working no mail coming in or out no mail flowing between any of the exchange servers everything just dead in the water I find this out when I get a call late one evening at my home from the other consulting company begging me to pull them out of the fire I told them no thanks an hour later the owner of the other firm is at my front door trying to convince me to help them for the sake of the customer this is well after dark and the conversation does not go well he ends up screaming at me and I slam the door then call the cops because I'm tired and afraid that I'll do something stupid if I continue to interact with the guy cops come he loses it they arrest him for disorderly conduct and I have his damn car blocking mine in my driveway I have it towed off I had to pay for the privilege - he spends the next 24 hours in jail about average for getting through the Dallas County Jail I'm told the customer called me the following day and I again declined to fix the mess by this time I decided I didn't want any of that [ __ ] on me period the customer ends up getting microsoft services and to fix everything cost them about five times what I was going to charge by the way the customer sues the other consulting firm which promptly files for bankruptcy closes its doors rather than deal with the lawsuit don't know if this was Instant Karma or not but it's the first time I've had the opportunity to tell this story on reddit my step that is a driving instructor I went to get my license pretty late twenty to one day he was giving me a lesson and we were going over one of the possible courses that the test takes while we're driving down a street in the suburbs a guy's tailgating the [ __ ] out of me really gangster looking guy looks pretty much exactly like scumbag Steve now that I think about it sideways hat a doll every time I come to a stop sign I do a full stop obviously and he throws his hands in the air and yells [ __ ] it's starting to stress me out but my stepdad says don't worry about it what this as we're going down the street he says okay now in about 50 feet I want you to start slowing down a little bit and right when you are in front of that school zone pull over to the right so I do it right after I pull over the guy who is right pissed at me now takes off like a bullet and about five seconds later a cop steps out from behind a tree and waves him over for going probably double the speed limit in a school zone we laughed hard I worked at a Kmart in high school it was a small store so I worked everything Electronics stocking cashier you name it I did it I asked a woman and her son about 12 or 13 if they needed help finding anything as I was out on the floor and the kid immediately britches me out for annoying him I ignore it and go about my business right after that I get called to checkouts as I'm working there here comes the pair the kid has gone all out back in the electronics area with some ea sports titles in the GTA game I'm checking them out when the age prompt comes up for the M rated game I decide to take a chance I flip the game over and inform the mother that this game has been rated M for the following reasons and read the list off the back of the case there is an awkward silence then she angrily informs me that the son said it was only a little violent kid wasn't able to get anything that day

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Length: 14min 36sec (876 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 13 2019