r/ProRevenge - We Charged $8,000,000 In Idiot Tax! - Reddit Stories #677

hello and welcome back to the gays easy channel i'm rob and i hope you're having a wonderful day today today we're jumping into the pro revenge archives our first story today comes to us from mercury for real i recruited an unwitting army to annoy a butthole let's jump right in back in the early 90s my friend i'll call him lou because that's his name was selling his rx7 via an ad in the old print autotrader it came out every thursday so that first weekend was critical for sales the very first guy that came to see it on saturday said he wanted to buy it after driving it of course he had to finance so they couldn't finish the sale during the weekend lou was worried about losing all the bytes from the new ad so he asked for a deposit of 500 the guy wrote a check liu told the rest of the callers that weekend that it was sold and unfortunately didn't ask for their numbers in case it fell through this story predates caller id availability in my area by a couple years so those leads were gone as you surely expect by now the guy flakes on monday and lou deposits the check payment stopped big surprise sitting around my apartment we schemed revenge but all we had to go on was the check lucky for karma there was a phone number printed on it our first idea was to write a little program to dial his number repeatedly from my modem but that would be easily stopped and probably get us in direct trouble then lou got a page from his work this was back in the one-way pager days you call the pager's dedicated phone number it sounds a tone then you punch digits for the number you want to be sent to the pager the person with the pager receives the number you entered and presumably calls it everyone with a pager made sure that people who needed to get a hold of them had the number for their pager you'd see pager numbers in print and tv ads all the time for various services boom angelic choir sings heavenly light goes off lose pager number and my pager number have the same prefix middle three digits what if we randomly dial numbers with that prefix and page them all to this guy's number so we order a pizza open some beers and start looking through the yellow pages at locksmiths and tow truck services to find more pager prefixes we wind up with a dozen or so after that it's half an hour of coding in the old borland c plus i put together a program that would cycle through our list of known prefixes and add a random final four digits to get a random pager it calls the pager's number pauses then dials this butthole's number and throws a 911 suffix on there for good measure which is something people with pagers understood to indicate an emergency of some kind the whole thing was just generating a string like atdt 602 xxx yyyy but whole number 911 where xxx is the pager prefix and yyyy is random commas make pauses since you need to connect to the pager service before you can enter the message make string send to modem wait for no carrier hang up repeat we start eating the pizza and let it fly i was very picky about my devices so my modem was a us robotics courier you could set an s register to control how long it would sound each tone when dialing uber nerds like myself would keep tinkering with that to get it as fast as possible while still being recognized by the phone service it was very fast i swear it could run through 4 pages per minute so this guy would get 240 calls per hour we just watched it run and laughed our butts off we realized pretty early on that we didn't really know if it was working so we wandered down to the 7-eleven and called him from a pay phone just in case he could somehow trace it or the po-po were on the case and watching a man answered and i said hello i got a page at this number i heard an audible sigh and then he just hung up gold we ended up running it for a few hours then let it go quiet for a few days then we scheduled it to start dialing in the middle of the night every few days plus we'd fire it up by hand randomly whenever we had a party we checked again from the 7-eleven after a week and it went to an answering machine which did the rapid tone at the end of the greeting to indicate the tape was full we reasoned that the line was still ringing anyway so we kept at it for another month or so eventually we got the disconnect warning when we made one of our regular checkups i'm sure he just changed the number i like to think about that guy answering the phone after a few days of silence when we started it up i can vividly imagine his response at the did someone page me to this number as he slams the phone down and then rings it again a few seconds later or of course coming home from work and having an answering machine full of random people asking about being paged and yeah we annoyed several thousand people into calling this guy by the end but each of those people was only put out for a single call a cost yes but a necessary one for justice op mentioned in the comments down below that the card did get sold but it took a few more weeks because that first wave was absolutely huge because when that auto trader came out you'd have to wait another week for the next one to come out so people could see the ads again you know the days before the internet when everybody didn't want everything instantaneously i guess they learned in this case not to accept a check too and next time just ask for a deposit in cash even if it's only 50 bucks do me a quick favor have a look down below the video if that subscribe button still red it means you're not actually subscribed to the kcc channel please hit that subscribe button for more daily reddit stories our next story today comes to us from a deleted account how a man lost 8 million dollars for failing to be a decent human let's jump right in alright i have a story to tell from the finance industry for those of you who don't know what we do it's basically just being a realtor but for companies instead of houses this was a small investment banking firm and we specialize in smaller players we're talking companies worth 20 to 50 million dollars our customers are typically salt of the earth built their tire company from nothing but a shed and a truck over the last 30 years and now they want to retire but seeing as how many of them never learned accounting and whatnot they need representation now one company has two 50 owners and they hate each other can't have a civil conversation now having two 50 50 owners is always a recipe for conflict but this level of hatred was something i hadn't seen before it was pretty clear one of the two had done something pretty bad for it to devolve to this stage so let's call one tim and one roger my first impression of roger is that he's a nice dude down to earth chill and generally interested in things my first impression of tim is that he's a raging imbecile we were at a restaurant i and many other people in my city hold in very high regard and all he did for an hour and a half was complain about the food he talked down to and mocked a waiter who dared ask him what he'd like to drink and proceeded to order a thousand dollars of wine he knew we were paying my boss having none of that made it clear tim is paying for that bottle which i suppose put him in a bad mood i am somewhat obsessed with food i spend an unwise amount of money on food i can sing you all of the instrumental parts in the opening to heston blumenthal's cooking show we're here on my recommendation i love this darn restaurant and i am on first name terms with that waiter the man starts talking down to me about my taste after i order says kids these days have no palate and that i shouldn't be eating ex oh and also apparently donating to vaccine charities is a waste of money and i am some sort of idiot for doing so so to be short i don't like the guy but not liking the guy isn't really a reason to seek revenge however after talking to roger we found out why they hate each other you see tim had been stealing money from his employees and the company it turns out employees started getting random checks bounced and the company's line of credit kept drying up because tim had been making some rather extravagant purchases on the company dime he had adjusted employee payroll downwards and increased his own he had used capital expenditures to build himself a house apparently his continued justification is that none of what he did was illegal technically true he had helped grow the company i suppose and that he deserved more but not his business partner roger ended up comping employees out of his own pocket and tim refused to pay back a dime so at this point the deal talks are going nowhere as in tim and roger just cannot stand to communicate with each other at all but my boss he hatches an idea why don't we just buy one of them out we know how much the company is worth in the wider market we'll just see if either is willing to take some cash up front for their share of the equity i make models all day i know how much this company is worth it's worth about 24 million dollars tim's steak is there for worth 12 million dollars complex i know guess whose steak i suggest we buy tim's of course how much do i suggest we offer four million now to be clear this type of thing has a downside but tim's reputation in his industry isn't good in fact after some canvassing it turns out that most people know this company through roger and don't like to deal with tim turns out being a thieving butthole is something one simply cannot turn off boss says okay he'll send an offer letter and mda agreement etc tim bites for six million we sold the company six weeks later for 28 million dollars total f you tim now the interesting thing about the comments on this one is there was a bunch of comments from people doing corporate law right now that were mentioning that there was a big problem with what had been done in this story that there was a breach of fiduciary duty here and all of a sudden op deleted their account that's all i have to say about that story our next story today comes to us from gator boy actual cost a time share scam all their sales for lying and make five thousand dollars doing it let's jump right in this is the story of how a friend of mine nuked a timeshare scam a few years back and took them to the cleaners background friend of mine is a big dude maybe six foot three and 250 pounds and a no-nonsense military nco likes his boos and likes to have a good time when he's off the clock we'll call him jb one day he got one of those when a free week-long cruise all the expenses paid phone calls he decides to look into it because why the hell not calls the numbers back and gets a lady on the other end who gives him the rundown of how the cruise thing works it sounds too good to be true so he asks her is there some kind of timeshare bs or other strings attached to this she assures him that no there is not he goes for it and signs up for a cruise a few months later during a block of leave revenge in order to claim the cruise he and his wife had to show up a day early to a hotel near the port where the cruise was departing room is paid for already as a part of the cruise package they show up the day before and check in with the front desk the concierge asks if they'd like to upgrade to the vip package for twenty dollars which includes free drinks at the hotel bar f yes he takes the upgrade and heads to the bar jb is a social drinker and when he gets liquored up he starts socializing with the other bar patrons he finds out that they are also there for the cruise and that there is a mandatory presentation the next morning that everyone has to go to jb starts to smell a rat this sounds an awful lot like a timeshare scam well he's having none of it and being good and drunk he rallies all the cruisegoers around him about 30 people gets up on a table and delivers a william wallace style speech about how they don't have to deal with these timeshare scam artists within minutes he's whipped the crowd into a frenzy and convinced everyone not to buy into whatever the presentation is selling sure enough the next morning everyone shows up to the presentation to claim their cruise they are told the tickets will be given to them at the conclusion of the presentation jb is drunk again because well free booze and he's on leave jb starts to go back into braveheart mode getting real loud about how it's a scam and he was told explicitly that there is no timeshare bs attached to this cruise well the timeshare people instantly recognize jb is bad for business so they usher him away from everyone else into a side room and try to talk sense into him sir this is a mandatory presentation we cannot give you a ticket for the cruise unless you go to this bs y'all specifically said there was no time sure involved in this cruise sir we have all our calls recorded and it was very clearly outlined that you'd need to listen to this presentation good let's pull up my recording and you show me when they said that at this point a big beefy security looking dude not with the hotel clearly a part of the timeshare company tries to intervene because jb is getting louder and more angry putting a hand on jb's holder sir we're gonna have to back up mother effer i will rip off your head crawl down your neck and out your butthole he sure had a way with words security meekly turns tail and runs at this point it is clear that they can't let jb into the presentation or else he'll ruin everything so the director of the program pulls jb into his office basically tells jb that they listen to his call and he's right the lady had said there was no time share involved the director admits that they aren't able to print his ticket until 12 30 pm the time the presentation was scheduled to end because the company locks them in order to force people to go to the presentations he says come back at 12 30. i'll have your tickets and i will upgrade you to premium for free if you just don't go anywhere near our presentation too easy jb does exactly that and then heads to the boat premium was like the best cabin on the boat with again free booze and all sorts of awesome upgrades including 5 000 on his account turns out everyone else who had to sit through the timeshare presentation almost missed the boat because it went so long not a single person bought a timeshare and the presenters spent hours trying to convince them to eventually they gave up and handed everyone their tickets in defeat in total they made zero dollars in sales and lost another five thousand dollars to jb's free premium upgrade in the comment section down below there were a couple of things that really made me laugh it said if you're really good at putting up with the bs and absolutely will not buy into their crap you can game the timeshare system and get free stuff you walk in watch their presentation and when they try to sell something to you you just say my credit score is a 4.95 and i'm pretty sure my car will have been repossessed by the time i get home let's do this boom presentation over our last story today comes to us from restaurant throwaway the time a co-worker stole my tip let's jump right in the co-worker in question was a pain in the butt but she was a decent server and she did her side work so whatevs so this girl wanted to leave early one night she had one table left and asked me to take them because they would be camping out for a while i too had one table left that was just finishing up so i said i'd take them if she didn't cash them out first i wasn't going to stay on the clock to make zero extra dollars and cleaner section she threw an absolute fit but eventually transferred the table now i don't know why she transferred them because she stayed the whole time they were there she walked around the whole restaurant and bar trashing me to anyone who would listen when it came time to cash them out she went to the table and said something to them while i was running their cards and making change effing a i handed them their slips and cash to the one guy who paid in cash someone at the table said i don't know what you did to that girl but she told us to not tip you i said ah i think she's just having a bad night i thank them for coming in and wish them a good night i went to the pos and started entering tips while i waited for them to leave i was fuming but the table was happy with me so i wasn't going to let it get to me my b of a co-worker slides into the seat i was like the f so i hustled down there and i can see her looking at the slips when i get to the table she is getting up and has four dollars cash in her hand now everyone at the table left me a 20 ish tip except for the cash guy who left me nothing on a 20 check twenty percent times twenty dollars equals four dollars it was at this point that i lost my crap i asked her if she took money off my table i'd like to say i was calm and collected but i'm sure that i wasn't she runs screaming to the manager that i accused her of stealing i explained the whole situation to the manager who i'm sure will see reason he opts to check the security footage but no the recording wasn't working so now it's my word versus hers which should be a slam dunk in my favor but what can they really do if they fire her for cause they need proof and i didn't actually see her take the money just holding four dollars in her hand as she left my table okay b you won the battle but you will lose the war now here comes the really effed up part my next shift the regional manager comes in to talk to me about the whole situation she acknowledges that she believes me but there's nothing she can do about it and then she instructs me to apologize to the girl fat chance i agreed to do it but obviously never did well it was around that point that i moved to the bar full time i had several weapons of revenge at my disposal but the best one in my arsenal by far was that i now knew that she was extremely inflammatory i could set her off with the smallest of actions all while keeping my cool and appearing to do nothing wrong one time i coughed as she walked away from service bar she thought i called her a name instant meltdown run screaming to the manager one time i poured her service bar ticket but left the last beer sitting under the tap instead of on the service bar instant meltdown run screaming to the manager one time i said her name quietly under my breath so only she could hear it then i pretended like i didn't say anything instant meltdown run screaming to the manager the real key was to wait for a night when she was already in a bad mood then do it two or three times in a row then wait a few weeks to do it again that way it looked like she was just being a child and taking it out on me since she already had a beef with me it worked like a charm she got crappier shifts crappier sections and in turn crappier tips as her frustration grew so did her outburst eventually she got fired for threatening to have her boyfriend beat me up with an earshot of a manager fired on the spot check and mate b the whole process took about five months was it petty yes was it childish and passive aggressive absolutely was it all over four dollars yep was it satisfying oh it was so so satisfying i'm just loving the comments that i read down below today one of them says methodical sustained course of revenge all the while keeping your cool slowly chipping away at the other person causing them to lose their cool over time and in turn get themselves fired well played check out all 40ps linked in the description down below i thank you for watching have a wonderful day and we'll see you tomorrow

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Length: 20min 30sec (1230 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 15 2021