r/NuclearRevenge - These friendly neighbors have had ENOUGH...

[Music] what's up guys welcome to daily dose of reddit this is your host zach and today's subreddit nuclear revenge alright this story is called standing up to my workplace bully led to unforeseen consequences let me start this one out by saying that i fully intended to seek revenge on the person in the story but the aftershock of the eventual confrontation is what led to the aforementioned consequences rather than by my direct actions i work in the uk for a large technology company doing software support i'm a part of a team that has members all over the world i've been in this job for around 10 years and other than the major issues i've had with this guy i truly enjoy my job when i started with the company i wouldn't say that i was green i had about seven years of experience under my belt i definitely was inexperienced with the company but the job that i had been hired to do used technology that i was more than comfortable with the point i'm trying to convey here is that i wasn't completely oblivious to all of the applications supported by our company everyone in my team around 30 of us was very nice and was very keen to help except for shane shane is probably what you'd term as the team guru about five years from retirement part of the office furniture metaphorically as we are all home workers he'd been with the company for nearly 40 years everyone labeled shane as the only guy to go to when you were truly in a bind when i was initially starting out i did indeed find that shane was highly knowledgeable and more often than not had the answers to whatever obscure questions you might have things were great and our team ticked over nicely i got to know the rest of the team well over the phone over time too and my best friend was a woman named mel she was of a similar age and experience level to shane and in my opinion was just as knowledgeable as him one day mel and i were on a brief call chatting about a work issue when we got to shooting the breeze for a while we talked about ourselves and also the team i'd say that i hadn't met anyone face to face yet and that was when she told me she'd once met shane in person a couple years ago they are both based in the u.s i'm in the uk and both got invited to a tech conference in new york she told me that he has serious health issues due to his weight around 450 pounds and when he was home he was often on oxygen and medication his plan was to write things out until he was able to take early retirement so that he didn't need to worry about paying for his medical insurance anymore that sounded like a reasonable enough plan to me and we were soon talking about something else the issue started about two years into my tenure with the company we started moving in a new direction with what applications we were going to be offering to customers and towards that end we were trained in a bunch of new stuff i saw this as a great opportunity and equalizer if no one on our team had any experience with this new software then i would be on equal footing with everyone this went really well for me and i put a lot of time and effort into learning as much as possible shane didn't show much interest in the new stuff he still continued to spend most of his time with the legacy tools in team meetings you could clearly tell he was getting pissed off that his status as a guru was gradually becoming more and more meaningless this wasn't anything personal we work in software you have to adapt in order to remain competitive as time went on it was becoming clear to the team how much work i was putting in and i was well on the way to becoming the go-to guy for the new software during this time shane would start sniping at me for anything he could plausibly manage for example if i was late to a team meeting because a customer call overran he'd make sure to interrupt whatever was being said to comment something like oh look oh he has bothered to grace us with his presence even though he'd been guilty of the same in the past things like email chains too almost anything i sent out that included him and our boss on an email he would reply with some unrelated complaints or observation completely irrelevant to what was actually being discussed one day mel called me and asked me what my beef with shane was i truthfully told her that i had no beef at all with him and he just seemed to have it in for me she said that if she managed to find anything out she'd let me know things continued like this for a couple of years i continued to be the go-to guy and he continued to try and discredit me and generally paint me in as bad a light as possible one day we had a major incident one that literally could have cost the company millions in sla fines if it was not solved quickly our manager split us into teams to troubleshoot specific areas and she paired me up with shane i wasn't happy about it but whatever i was a professional we got on a call and started working through the issue as our call progressed it was becoming abundantly clear why he didn't like me he knew nothing about the new application he hadn't done any work on it at all everything i asked him to check he needed hand-holding even for the most basic of tasks eventually i just shared my screen and said for him to watch me i went into the gods of the system through so many locks explaining to him what i was doing the whole time and eventually found the problem was with a recent patch we had installed at this point he dropped from the call i didn't think anything of this at the time we use skype for business and it can be flaky so i just continued what i was doing our process was not to roll back any charges until it had been approved by the senior manager as i was the one responsible for deploying and rolling back patches i made some notes about what we needed to do and then rejoined the main call i wasn't worried at all because bad patches happened every so often they just didn't usually have this level of impact as soon as i did i got absolutely destroyed by the incident manager apparently shane had returned to the group call and informed everyone present that the outage was caused by an error that i had made in the deployment process and that shane had told me what the correct fix was and i had refused to implement it then and there i was furious he had accurately told them the cause of the problem because it was me who literally demonstrated to him how to find it i had even foolishly mentioned to him what i thought would fix the problem because of how long he'd been with the company compared to me only our immediate team knew the truth about who was really the better skilled person in the situation his historical reputation still carried a lot of weight with people who didn't work day to day with him because this incident was so major over 100 people were on this call several of them too are three levels of management above our team he made me out to be a reckless incompetent idiot and he was believed despite my manager's protestations i was disciplined and given a verbal warning he meanwhile was congratulated for steering the company away from a potential disaster and given a commendation i was so angry and a while later mel gave me a call apparently shane had been bragging to her about putting that smart ass punk in his place she was shocked and asked him what he was talking about his real beef was that he thought i had disrespected him by trying to take over his role as go-to guy for the new software that wasn't my intention at all i didn't see it as my fault that he was too damn lazy to do the work again i lamented with mel that she should have recorded the call she laughed and said that skype shows when you're recording a call and he'd never have spilled his guts while being recorded i immediately had a brain wave i decided that i would confront shane one on one i pinged him on skype and said that i wanted to talk he responded with a smiley and just said sure i called him and let him know that i was recording this call and the skype notification popped up to let all participants know that this call was being recorded i went right for it and accused him of lying about the major incident and said that it seemed like he had a major beef with me as expected he lied and said that he was sorry that i felt like i had to react this way he said he would need to talk to our boss about it i said wait one second and turned off the skype recorder i then said that skype isn't recording and that he knew exactly what he had done his mask slipped at this point and he said that he was perfectly in his rights to put me in my place he said that you need to respect the longer serving people in jobs like this and that he would do it again in a heartbeat i didn't hold back i called him a dinosaur who refused to move with the times and wanted to coast out his days here without doing any work he said that he was a couple of years away from retirement and he'd be damned if he was going to bust his ass for some shiny new software i said to him speaking of new software has he heard of obs of course he hadn't and i suggested he google it i then hung up on him not long after the messages started he was begging me not to use the secret recording that i had taken he said that if he gets fired he will lose his retirement package and his medical benefits i told him to go love himself and that he should have considered that before trying to get me fired i passed all of this on to the relevant channels before really giving it any thought things set in motion and sure enough a few weeks later after a company investigation he was fired i heard from l that he had asked to take early retirement so as to keep his benefits but this was apparently rejected it all came out later that apparently he had significant debts and that he was counting on his retirement package to keep him financially afloat with no job and no package he had no money to pay for the medical treatment which he badly needed he was in no state to get himself a new job and his skills had stagnated so badly that he couldn't even get a new job online mel told me that he died about six months after this whole incident due to his ongoing health issues i felt conflicted about this for a while sharing that recording obviously contributed to his death but i don't know how bad i feel about it i am a young guy trying to build my career and he actively tried to destroy me i should have maybe held off when he pleaded for me not to reveal the truth but he was old enough and wise enough to not engage in the childish games he played if i'd known he'd be dead as a result of this i'd maybe have done things differently it's one that stays with me that's for sure i'm still at the company and i can tell you that i will never treat a new employee the way he treated me so maybe the breaking of that cycle is the positive to come out of all of this uh was his death unfortunate yeah it definitely was obviously he did a really bad and selfish thing but i don't think that means he deserved to die and i'm not saying that op caused him to die that was all on that guy it's just a sad sequence of events that this guy took and um well he's not alive anymore to regret it so this story's called piece of sushi man terrorizes town to the point where someone decides to take justice into their own hands i read it this is my first time posting something so sorry for formatting using my mobile this is not my story but something i watched on youtube about for those interested it's buzzfeed unsolved i'll try to pass the thing if i can also sorry about it being so long i tried to minimize as much as i could while painting a good picture this is a story about ken rex mcelroy but before i start you need to know a bit of backstory about him so you can see how much of a piece of sushi he is backstory this happened in skidmore missouri in 1981 mcalroy was injured at a construction site he was working at he had sustained a head injury that was said to maybe be the cause of his behavior he was indicted 21 times but escaped conviction each time except the last mcalroy would intimidate witnesses by parking his truck outside their house and watch them sometimes would show his gun he also bragged that his lawyer who was said to be involved in the mob would prevent him from getting convicted mcalroy sexually assaulted three girls 12 to 14 and would marry them to prevent them from testifying against him his third wife atrina macleod once fled from mcelroy to her parents house mcelroy then burned the house down and shot their dog he had 10 children from different women his crimes would include assault a violation of a horrible manner arson burglary and child molestation the lastra one of mcelroy's children tried to steal some candy but was caught by the owner 70 year old ernest bowenkamp and his wife lois mcelroy began stalking the bowen camp family and shot ernest in the neck he survived mcelroy was arrested and convicted of assault but was freed on bail pending his appeal after being released mcgelroy went to a local bar with a rifle with a bayonet attached and made graphic threats about what he would do to bowen camp the revenge while mcelroy was at the local bar with trina his third wife the townspeople met at the legion hall in the center of town to discuss how to protect themselves about 60 people after the meeting adjourned the citizens decided to go to the bar and waited for mcelroy to finish his drinks when mcelroy got to his truck and trina being in the passenger seat someone shot him multiple times with a rifle trina fled no one but trina called for help everyone was questioned by police but everyone denied seeing the shooter trina identified a man named del clement as the shooter but he was never charged the police never made any arrests a man that terrorized a town so much and the police failed to bring to justice having someone take justice into their own hands oh my gosh that is actually terrible um i mean good ending but terrible what he's done the sad thing is child's marriage is still legal in several different ways in multiple states and it's ridiculous you'd think something as disgusting and ridiculous and just predatory as that would would be outlawed like pretty much around the time when people realized that marrying 13 year old girls is not something we should be doing much less be legally allowed to do because what this guy did assaulting these girls then marrying them to avoid getting charged with doing what he did that exact thing still happens today in the united states alright guys as is tradition at this point a very hard to find wholesome story for you and it's called an unexpectedly wholesome story from a mental hospital i've been in a mental health unit seven times now i'm actually writing this from a hospital bed nice place lovely people most are in here for depression anxiety bipolar med reviews that sort of thing all voluntary one of my admissions a few years ago i met a group of really lovely people and we all stayed in contact in 2018 one of those friends hanged herself she was such a funny kind-hearted woman with an awesome sense of humor we organized a picnic by the lake in her memory as she was moving around one of the friends tripped over a rope holding up one of the gazebos she laughed it off saying who ups nearly necked myself we all stopped and there was this really awkward moment before someone else said ah screw it she'd have loved it and we couldn't stop laughing miss you jen alright that was pretty wholesome uh it's it's nice when people can find humor in tragedy so that was a very sweet story also quick little psa from your boy that cares about his audience if you ain't doing too well talk to somebody i'd like to close off by saying have a fantastic rest of your day also eat some watermelon if you can no reason in particular other than that watermelon is pretty good and most people seem to enjoy it so yeah enjoy yourself eat some damn watermelon don't forget to like subscribe and hit that bell to never miss an episode

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Published: Mon Jul 20 2020