'I guess you're going to need a to-go box?': Guy exploits "no takeout" Taco Tuesday dine-in loophole

People love tacos… and people love a deal. So, it stands to reason that people would be willing to go to extraordinary lengths in order to get a deal on some tacos. This poster's story is exactly that, with the original poster sharing how they maliciously complied with a restaurant's requirements for their "Taco Tuesday" deal.

It may only be tacos, but you can't help but wonder about the taco ethics of this story. Restaurants and bars run these deals as "dine in only" in order to get butts in seats and mouths drinking alcoholic beverages. Restaurants don't really make much money off of food anyways—with slim margins and intensive labor requirements—there isn't much money to be made… So they'll often run deals on food as a loss-leader to get people there eating and, more importantly, drinking, which is where all the money is to start with. You'll usually even see these deals as advertised as "with purchase of beverage" to avoid the types of pedantic interpretation and malicious compliance that OP pulled in their original post. 

Maybe it's on the business for not using stricter terms when advertising this loss-leading deal—maybe OP is in the wrong for the way they went about ordering, although at least it seems that they were decent to the wait staff—hopefully, they tipped as if they were dining in…

See their story as it was originally shared with Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit, along with a selection of reactions from the original thread.

'They may have fired me, but I can still access the account': Social media manager keeps 'working' after being replaced by unpaid teenager

This person couldn't believe their eyes when their job position was suddenly taken over by a volunteer. Not just any volunteer — a nepotism hire, thanks to their boss. 

U/fjewioafjksldfhe created a throwaway account to tell r/pettyrevenge seekers about their crafty payback on their former boss. Social media is everywhere, and posting to various accounts in brand voice is a real and important job. Still, as with many types of undervalued jobs, like writers or artists or photographers, some bosses do not take social media management seriously at all. In fact, this boss had such a laissez-faire attitude about it that he decided to save money by letting his niece volunteer to do the job. 

It probably would have ended badly even without OP's interference. But still, they had a crafty plan to get back at this boss. Some commenters cheered the OP on, while others warned them against this plan. As the OP wrote, "You get what you pay for." I bet that boss is looking for a new social media manager right now, but it's too late to undo the damage that's already been done. 

Check out the entire story down below, plus the comments from well-wishers and haters alike. Then, these people told the stories of the most memorable times they were able to get even (or get pay back). 

'I've already filed the divorce papers': Husband wants wife to make him sushi, she divorces him, then learns just to make him jealous

Apparently, revenge is a dish best served cold, raw, and wrapped in rice. This woman was taking a week-long sushi cooking class and neglected to eat what she made at the end of the day, which made some of her classmates curious. When they asked why she hadn't eaten her sushi (and probably wanted to eat some of it themselves), they were not prepared for this lady's story.

 

The Redditor recounted how this woman never enjoyed sushi and was merely taking the course because her husband is obsessed with sushi and kept pestering her to take this class so she could make him sushi for dinner all the time. In case you hadn't figured it out at this point, this was a very backward marriage. However, the lady complied, albeit with malicious intent. She took the sushi-making class, but only after she handed her husband signed divorce papers. She wasn't divorcing him solely because of his constant sushi craving, but clearly, she knew that if she took the course anyway and flaunted photos of all the sushi was making that he couldn't eat, it would drive him crazy. Honestly, this is the kind of A+ petty revenge that requires too much follow-through for someone like me to pursue, but as a consumer of this kind of entertainment, I am forever grateful for this woman's commitment and sacrifice.

 

Keep scrolling below to see what folks had to say in the comments. When you're finished, take a look at this post about a passenger's petty revenge on a 12-hour flight.

30+ Stories of how "that one guy" got fired

There has been a lot of discourse online (and, specifically, on this site) around workers who have been mistreated by their employers, amid shared stories of toxic workplace cultures, hostile work environments, and even workers telling how they were wrongly fired from their jobs. But what about the other side of it? We're all the heroes of our own stories, but surely every story we read online, shared by a purportedly exploited worker, isn't being told by a reliable narrator. After all—we've all had terrible coworkers and seen people get fired in a wildly dramatic number of ways. So where are all these people? Surely some of them are sharing their stories, painting themselves to be the victim, when really there are specific important details they're leaving out.

These people shared stories of—well, those people—that guy… the one who got fired and well and truly deserved it. 

See this collection of stories below, shared across a range of online threads, all asking the same question… Why was that one guy fired from your workplace?

'I cost the property management company over $500k': Property owner gets back at scammy apartment management company for messing with his tenants

It's not often you'll find people rooting for landlords; there's not exactly anything about a group of people who have a reputation for milking their tenants for cash, increasing rent for improvements and repairs that they never actually completed, and taking deposits with little-to-no justification, that inspires people to root for them. It's worth recognizing, though, that this generalization doesn't remotely cover every landlord out there. There are plenty of landlords out there who are renting out homes for perfectly good reasons other than the pursuit of pure personal profit through the exploitation of people who can't afford to buy one.

The same can't be said for management agencies, who manage buildings on behalf of building owners purely as a for-profit operation, usually finding ways to scalp both tenant and landlord for extra coin. So, the fact that this story centers around a property management agency and their site manager not doing their job will come as little surprise to any of us.

Luckily, before he brought this property management agency on board, this landlord received some sound advice from some close associates, which protected him when the agency neglected to do their job and gave him an avenue for revenge by encouraging his tenants to see restitution. 

See the building owner's story below, as shared with Reddit's r/NuclearRevenge subreddit, along with a selection of reactions from readers of that original thread.

'I couldn't train them': New hires don't take printing job seriously, printer room shuts down, company loses over $20,000

Training new employees, teaching them the terrain, and getting them used to their new work habitat is often like taking toddlers to a playground and explaining how a slide works, or monkey bars. New hires are either energetic, upbeat, and willing to learn, or they are lazy, entitled, and demanding. Let's assume the latter, and let's imagine you report your new hires' lack of care to upper management. Let's go one step further and say that upper management couldn't care less. What would you do? If your first thought is to comply maliciously, then you and OP have a similar outlook on life.

 u/ActualMis shared their story on malicious compliance via Reddit. Back in the 90s, OP was working at a large company, in charge of a printer room. The company shipped a lot of products, and all those products had to have printed labels/documents. Without the paperwork, nothing could be loaded onto the trucks. When OP's coworker quit, the company found themselves in a bit of a jam and decided to fire OP and make them train their replacements.

Even though this was less than ideal, OP didn't really have a choice, as they needed a good recommendation for their next job. A dilemma arose when OP was attempting to train the new hires… which presented itself as laziness. It seemed that the new hires didn't want to work, and as they had connections to the head office, they weren't ashamed to show it.

Things quickly went downhill, and although OP did their best to inform upper management of what was going on, their warnings fell on deaf ears. You can't force someone to listen to something when they don't want to hear it. So, to put it lightly, chaos ensued. Scroll down to read how exactly these new hires ended up costing the company tens of thousands of dollars due to their own entitled, lazy attitude, and refusal to learn the basics of their new job.

Next, a boss who told their employees that they were under no circumstances allowed to discuss their wage with other workers.