Monday, October 12, 2020

IT Guy Takes Revenge On Sleazy Brokers


We love a good old IT revenge. Especially when it involves some shady brokers that took their IT guy for granted, as they ran their firm like a candy store, and ultimately learned IT guy was absolutely crucial. Plus, the fact that they ended up having to pay another guy on contract basically a year's worth of IT guy's salary was truly the icing on the cake. 

Check out some more juicy IT revenge drama with this story about a military IT guy getting back at a meathead mercenary with an epic revenge.

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Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/Floridatrashburner • 2y Lie, Cheat, Layoff and Gamble with our wages, enjoy no IT department. Lurker finally coming out to share. Years back, I worked as the IT Director for a small brokerage firm. These types of places try to run lean so I was also the ONLY IT personnel. I took the job, but was a bit under-qualified if I am being truthful. The reason they gave it to me was because I was young, and they thought they could underpay me. They were right, it was 10k more

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Text - I struggled and had to do an endless amount of learning on the job, but I made huge improvements. The day to day was sketchy there. We only had 5 employees, supporting the 4 partners and the 70+ brokers. Brokers didn't really work there, they rented a desk for a percentage, so they didn't care how many brokers there were on staff. There were a couple of gems, but ultimately we were understaffed because they looked at full time employees like we were stealing from them. They made us work l

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Text - One partner would take money from broker commissions and go to Vegas with it. If he lost the money, we are talking 100k+ per trip. He would just let the brokers know there is a hold from the bank and their commissions are coming in slow. Another broker asked me straight up how to hide his affair from his wife. Another had me come to his house on company time and install some audio/video equipment after hours, without paying me. When I came on board, they were 10 years out of date on techn

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Text - Then the partners started doing REALLY sketchy stuff. They had me open employee exchange mailboxes and run mail queries on email addresses, turns out they were lawyer email between the lawyer and their client, a broker or employee. They had me do this all the time for anyone. I would have to collect it all then they would fire them and keep their clients. It is illegal in the brokerage firm to look at them, I didn't know that at the time. They somehow convinced a lending company to merge

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Text - I found out the plan was to fire everyone from the firm and just steal the name and the client list. They had only been there a few months. Long enough to learn their business. I also found out they were gonna fire me now that everything was more reliable. Guess how I found out? During an email query one of the partners had me do on another partner.

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Text - So, the ONLY nice people at this shit-hole were getting locked out of their offices over the weekend, I was getting fired now that I had essentially made myself redundant, in their mind. Well, let me tell you about the red folder. The red folder was locked in my file cabinet. It contained every password for admin access to every system. It also contained the fireplan, or downtime plan of every system in the company. My boss didn't really understand why we needed one, and he never really l

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Text - I told them that I was quitting and not to mention me. He said he understood, and thanks. I changed the only other admin password that my boss had access to. I shredded the red folder. T emailed my resignation. They begged me to come back. They offered me a 30% pay bump. They said they were shocked I was so disloyal. I heard years later from a secretary that worked there at the time it took them 4 months to get all systems under control again. They had to use a contractor they had relied

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Text - tldr; A group of sleazy brokers run their firm like a candy store. They eat up anyone nice and good and shit them out while stealing and cheating. They planned to fire me afterI made improvements to their infrastructure in IT. Well good luck getting anything working again with no passwords. Dummy Account 6.5k 254 1 Share

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Friends' Bookstore Idea Starts Out Positive, Keeps On Going


Anyone who has ever hatched up a dream business idea with a friend will resonate with this cheery, wholesome, genuinely adorable story about a couple friends starting a bookstore together. 

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Text - ll 3 00:55 @ O 89% Tweet Leanne Brown @LanLanLanBan A couple of nights ago I couldn't sleep because I spent three hours imagining myself owning a bookshop. That also sold baked goods. 20:19 · 08/08/2016 · Twitter for iPhone ili View Tweet activity 2 Likes Jasmine @_JAZZ.. · 09/08/2016 v Replying to @LanLanLanBan Leanne I reckon this is a viable business option and l'd like us to pursue the dream together Add another Tweet Q

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Text - ull 3 ? 19:57 O 13% Jasmine Stenhouse Active 4 hr ago 13 JUL 2018, 08:57 I'm sober and our bookshop idea still sounds genius 13 JUL 2018, 09:38 Yes it does I've read half that book already 13 JUL 2018, 09:58 Oh my god You're gonna be a business wizz 13 JUL 2018, 10:27 That's the plan!! 13 JUL 2018, 12:26 This is a fanta, .dea man Aa

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Text - ll 3 ? 19:58 © 13% Jasmine Stenhouse Active 4 hr ago 18 JUL 2018, 01:28 I had a name idea While I was sleeping It's simple but cute The Book Nook And at Halloween we can be The Spooky Book Nook Or Book Nooks and Broomsticks Like bedknobs and broomsticks get it 18 JUL 2018, 08:03 Oh my god I love it You my friend inspiration in Aa

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Stingy Boss Skimps On Employees, Ego Takes Hit With Taxes


The human beings that insist on being jerks deserve to pay those taxes. Love to see a stingy and toxic boss get their comeuppance. If you enjoyed this fine tale of revenge, check out another recent story of petty revenge with a dad who took down an inconsiderate county mower with a rebar.

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Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/anonymous_bun • 194d Stingy, narcissistic boss negs and skimps on employees, so I damage his ego with some asshole tax Let's call my asshole boss Eugene, since his stinginess reminds me of Eugene Krabs from SpongeBob Squarepants, except Krabs is nowhere near malicious. In order to display the full satisfaction of this revenge, I will have to describe a few (but not limited) things Eugene did that entitles him to being a complete jackass.

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Text - For the context, Eugene owns a small company that provides artistic services of some sort and never hired full-timers (which I later learnt that it was due to his stinginess). Initially, when I saw the open part-time position, I thought it was ideal for me as I had external commitments, and needed some sort of income. The job offers about 550USD per month (I don't live in the US, this is a rough conversion), but only required me to clock in about 90 hours a month. It wasn't a very good of

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Text - The first couple of months was fine, I worked the hours I was supposed to and got paid accordingly, occasionally extending my shift at my own time due to the nature of the work, but I didn't mind. I guess Eugene saw this as an advantage he could exploit later on during my employment. It is also important to note that Eugene would often ask about my well-being, how did I spent my weekends etc. At this point in time, it all seemed like courtesy talk so I didn't pay much attention to it. He

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Text - Eugene gradually began to grow more impatient towards me, often blaming me for not being able to match up to his ability. Remember when I was inexperienced thus the payrate? Eugene had over a decade of experience in this expertise and he expected me to be at his level when I was only 3 months in. The stress was intense and I began working longer hours just to keep up and produce work at the best quality I could. I was under the belief that if I worked hard enough, my effort will speak. Ev

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Text - Eugene pulled me into his office and lectured me on my work etiquette, saying that I wasn't putting enough effort he was considering letting me go. At this point, I was beyond confused. Did he really not see the effort I put in? Was I delusional in thinking that I was actually doing well and my work had been improving? I tried speaking up but he quickly diverted the topic, telling me he knew the reason why my previous employer hated me. It was because I was lazy and uncommitted. To say I

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Text - Now, if you read my title, you will see that Eugene was not only a narcissist but also stingy af. Eugene is obsessed with maximising his profits. Any business owner would love that, I agree, but Eugene is down to every cent in immoral and even possibly, illegal ways. He would sell a service to a client, and upon receiving the deposit, deliver something else. He was smart enough to keep his contracts vague (for both clients AND employees) so that nobody could not take legal actions against

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Text - So in my country, employers are required to pay a certain amount of tax for every local employee they hire. While it is not exactly tax, it is obligated by law and negligence will result in a hefty fine and possibly jail time. These "taxes" are technically contributions for the employee's retirement funds, which is payable by every employer. Employer can deduct a certain percentage of the contributions from the employee's wages. This law has its own complications since there are a certain

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Text - I stayed in Eugene's company for about 4 months, before I felt too mentally overwhelmed. On the day that I left, I called in to check on my Contribution account and just as I had expected, Eugene hadn't paid a single cent over the past 4 months. The officer on the other end of the line asked if I would like to report this as a case, guess my answer.

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Text - A week later, I received an update from the Contribution Board, saying that Eugene had disputed my case, claiming that I was only an intern and thus, exempted from the law. This jerk was playing dirty as a last attempt to steal from me. As I had mentioned, Eugene thought of himself as a smart man, and probably felt that the officer would rule the case in his favor since he had world-class convincing skills and his vague "contract" would have protected him either way. Fine, Eugene. So you

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Text - I didn't hear from the Officer for 2 weeks and when I finally did, he informed me that Eugene had agreed to pay my contributions. Remember when I said employers are permitted to deduct a certain percentage from employee's wages? Due to his negligence, Eugene could no longer do that and had to pay the full amount, on top of the fines that incurred along with it. If he had dutifully abide by the law, it would had only costed him a third of what he had to pay. So that's a bit of asshole tax

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Text - A ex-colleague of mine, NJ, who is still working for Eugene told me that during the 2 weeks I didn't hear from the Officer, Eugene was busy fighting for his stand by giving every reason that I an exempted individual. The officer, having seen my email, soon got tired of his nonsense and gave him a deadline to pay up or he'll be brought to court. NJ said he had never seen Eugene so defeated before. To top it off, it seemed like karma had finally caught up to him as he started losing more an

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Sunday, October 11, 2020

Total Downsides About Being An Adult


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the various downsides of being an adult that teenagers don't realize. It's funny, when we're younger we can give ourselves over to this notion that when we grow up everything's going to be a whole lot better; but then you get there, and it's just a new world of unforeseen responsibilities. Suddenly, you find yourself craving the days of your youth when all you had to worry about was getting to bed at a reasonable time for school the next morning. If that. 

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Text - LeicaM6guy • 5h 1 Award One day your body will betray you. Reply 1 3.5k ...

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Text - ecitruoc • 5h 8 Awards A $1000 pay check isn't nearly as exciting as an adult. Reply 30.4k ...

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Text - GiraffeMother • 5h 9 Awards There's never enough time for all the things you need to do. Definitely not enough time for the things you want to do. Reply 12.4k ...

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Text - TinyBig_JarOfPickles • 5h 2 Awards The repetition makes you lose time. Having the same job, workout regimen, schedule in general makes days blend into one another

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Text - mswoodie • 5h 4 Awards When something goes wrong or something unexpected happens, there's no one else to deal with it. Plugged toilet? You gotta clear it. Car outta gas? You gotta fill it. Run out of clean undies? You gotta do laundry. From small things to massive things, there's no one to make it go away but you. Reply 1 5.0k ...

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Text - soundecember • 6h 1 Award That ordering food is actually expensive and your parents weren't lying to you. Reply 14.2k ...

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Text - HilariousDisaster • 5h 3 Awards Being lonely. Making friends as an adult is difficult, sometimes verging on impossible. You don't see people in your age group who are doing the same things you are every day anymore. Reply 7.7k ...

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Text - MG_Scott12 • 6h 4 Awards Discipline is very hard to maintain when you are lacking purpose. When you are a teenager there's so much you think you can achieve: "I'll get into that college." "I'll get that degree." "I'll land that cool job after." "I'll date that person who will fulfill me." But what happens when those things fail. And you have to readjust. And the idea of progress turns into an idea of just a sustainment? My advice to teenagers as you enter adulthood. The most important thi

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Text - MontiBurns • 5h The importance and scarcity of time. Your "you time" gets seriously reduced as you get older and your other responsibilities mount up. Tused to think that spending half an hour cleaning 3 times a week was the worst thing ever. Now I spend about an hour cleaning pretty much every day. Between work, maintaining a house, and raising kids, the amount of you time gets reduced to.minutes a day. Anything else you want to do means sacrificing sleep. The other thing is how true "ti

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Text - irishamerican • 5h 14 Awards You can do whatever you want, but most of the time you either have commitments that prevent it, or you can't afford it. Reply 28.6k ...

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Text - decalime • 5h 4 Awards It's really annoying how much time is involved with food. As a teenager you don't really have to think about food much, but as an adult you have to shop for food and prepare it. You can eat at a restaurant, but that will get old after awhile assuming you can afford frequent dining out. Reply 1 16.7k ...

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Text - MelG146 • 6h Planning dinner every damn night. Reply 969 ...

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Text - Hollowman212 • 5h 3 14 Awards You are always cleaning the kitchen Reply 26.4k ...

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Text - lightskinkanye • 6h 2 Awards You come home from work and you're tired and if you don't feel like making dinner, then you're not eating dinner. Reply 11.9k ...

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Text - Hemenucha • 6h 2 Awards For me it's watching my parents get old. As a teenager I thought they were all about keeping me restricted and controlled. Now I realize they're just two people who never had a kid before, did the best they knew how, and fucked up at times like all other humans on the planet. I never realized how much I needed them emotionally until I saw my father through his open heart surgery, and saw Parkinson's take my mother's independence. So here I am still feeling like a t

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Text - keltoy1549 · 6h You will be held accountable. No excuses, no blaming. Reply 971 ...

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Text - mejlord • 5h Dental care. It's so damn expensive if you let your teeth degrade. Please floss my dudes. Reply 430 ...

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Text - Pontus_Pilates • 6h You don't fundamentally change, you are still you, even if you are older. It's the same you, you just need to survive in the adult world. You don't gain adult powers, you just have to do adult things. Reply 1.1k ...

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Text - KarmaPharmacy • 5h Life is long and complicated. You can never truly get a fresh start. Things wear you down over time. And you just get so tired. Getting excited about things is hard, and when you're an adult and you get excited about something, there's usually another adult in line that is ready to tear you down for it. Just because they're shitty and the only thing they get excited about, these days, is shitting on others. Reply 242 ...

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Text - imuncomfy5 • 5h Your "back up" is mostly gone. When you're a teen and screw up you can usually go to your parents to help you out of the hole you've put yourself in. As an adult that isn't there, whatever screw up is yours to dig yourself out of. Phone bill you can't pay? Ask mum for a loan (17 or 18) Phone bill you can't pay at 25 and it's an hour on the phone getting transferred to multiple people to ask for an extension which may be denied so instead of normal food you plan your meals

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Text - magicatom_87 • 5h Forgetting your age is a real problem. The only people who remind me how old I am are my kids, and i often have to double check. I used to ask my parents how old they were and they always "cant remember" or said "21" and it confused me. I get it now. Reply 816 ...

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Text - AmericanExpat76 • 6h 2 Awards You know all those things you thought you would do when you were out on your own? They cost money, and you have to work for it... Reply 10.6k ...

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Text - look_for_the_helpers • 5h Waking up and just aching for non discernible reason other than having slept 'a bit funny'. Oh, and the 3 day hangovers that make it barely worth drinking more than a couple glasses of wine Reply 203 ...

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Text - stupidlyugly • 5h Forty eight here Bills don't stop or go away. Ever. Work sucks. That's why they pay you to do it because nobody's doing that bullshit for free. Think of it as a means to your life and avoid it becoming your identity. The term "work life balance" is HR code for "We own you. You're at our disposal 24/7/365" Nobody owes you a damn thing and ain't nobody gonna give you nothing for free. They're much more likely to try to take what you have. If not married, we're pretty sexua

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Text - MrsTurnPage • 5h You have to pick and/or make every meal you eat for the rest of your life. It is not as flippant as you may think. Reply 1 23 ...

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Text - FormerSuggestion8 • 5h 1. Making your parents proud is important, but do not put your parents wants above your own. Going through college is important, but realizing the purpose behind going is even more important to your destiny. 2. Ahh, you're young, you have plenty of time to figure it out. No you do not, and this is bad advice teenagers are given all the time. We're told this even at 18–19 we have plenty of time to decide what we want to do. Once you graduate from high school, becomin

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Text - decidarius • 4h 2 O 3 Awards The power structures you hate as a teenager are real, and far more entrenched than you think. As an adult, challenging power and making changes in the world is revealed to be almost impossible. The best most people can hope for is to live more or less outside of the system, or else to band together and dedicate your life to change, and maybe move the needle by a tiny amount. Big changes, like the legalization of gay marriage, are the result of hundreds of thou

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Text - SmokeyFlannel • 6h 3 Awards When all the cliches that used to piss you off start making sense and meaning something, but you can't explain it to younger people because they haven't lived that life experience yet. Reply 1 4.6k ...

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Text - BigMilko • 6h Always prepare for the worst. Keep seeing more people that fought hard for their dream job. Now they're miserable. Reply 577 ...

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Text - InternetKidsAreMean • 5h Being an adult is basically being a teenager, except you're finally in charge of your own life and decisions. I hated being a child / teenager. I love being an adult. Reply 298 ...

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Text - whycantifindmyname • 5h Even though February is the shortest month, the rent is still the same Reply 674 ...

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