Would you get revenge on someone who wronged you?

We work in retail. Sometimes the new recruits we get were people who acted crappy toward us and wound up falling from the high place they used to be in.

They're people like former homemakers who got the crappy end of the divorce, people who had better jobs but were fired and people who use their anxiety, depression, and other illnesses as a crutch.

These people really acted like slimebags back when they were customers. They'd scream at employees, literally say they're better, throw things, threaten some of them with things like

"my *insert parent, spouse, or other family* is important and can get you fired".

Also, these crazy customers and employees didn't start coming out of the woodwork until the pandemic.

But anyway, we recognize some of the faces and my coworkers will go out of the way to get revenge. They'll assign them impossible tasks, spread gossip about them, or just act like the person isn't there when they ask for help.

I kinda feel like the fact that they fell off their high horse and have to work like the rest of us is probably enough torture to them, so I just treat them like I treat any other person. IIN?

Would you get revenge on someone that wronged you?

Yes 9
No 8
Depends 3
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  • darefu

    Revenge is stooping to their level. It's admitting that you let what they did get to you and took it personal.

    I'd choose the high road, act like I didn't even remember them or their attitude. Nothing could be more of an insult in my book, than saying who you are, or what you did, wasn't even important enough to remember.

    Or just bidding a person who just went off on you, 'Thank you, you have a good day too'

    It's almost fun to watch their reactions!

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  • kikilizzo

    No. That is immature and petty, will likely backfire and keeps you stuck in time. Best revenge is always a good life and moving on as most people who's wronged you doesn't want that for you. I've never revenged on anyone who wronged me, i've moved on and i've had a few people who's wronged me then try to nestle their way back into my life, most likely mad I thrived without them. There's been instances even of criminals getting frustrated when parents and such of their victims have forgiven them, the reason having been they no longer have a hold on them emotionally. They lose control.
    Forgiveness sets you free.

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  • DADNSCAL

    I’ve learned from experience that revenge is futile and the pursuit of it only eats you up inside. Forgiveness is the better way.

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  • GuvnorsOtherWoman

    Whilst I see the sense in not stooping to their level and admitting they've got to you, as our friend Darefu said, I couldn't be like that because my temperament is far from placid.

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    • darefu

      It's not easy, sometimes I just have to do my best, keep my mouth shut and walk away.

      And the desire for revenge when you find or get the opportunity is hard not to give in to.

      It's kind of like road rage or someone riding my bumper, I try to stay calm and just make up a story 'that his wife is having a baby and he's got to get to her or to the hospital'. Better to just let them pass and go on their way.

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  • girlinadarkcorner

    I think having to be on the recieving end of the shit they put you through is enough to put them in their place. I don't see the point in putting them thtough further torment and making their lives hell for the sake of it.

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

    put a squirrel in their pants

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  • Somenormie

    No it's a waste of time.

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  • 1WeirdGuy

    This dude use to be a kissass to the supervisor at work. We are union so the union employee with the most seniority gets whatever trailer or job in the area they want. He would refuse to leave his post when I took his job (its nothing personal getting bumped is part of the job my best friends at work bumped me daily) and he would refuse and the supervisor would come and tell me to leave him alone, which is a violation of the union contract it was my position. So this went on for months.

    Then one night he got off at 3 am and I got off at 4am. When I went to the parking lot he was standing beside his car I said "why havent you left yet" he said what sounded like a rehearsed response "My car wont start, hey man its 4am we both live an hour away Im right down the street from you. My family lives in memphis I don't have a ride home". I looked at him and smiled I said "cant do it." And I walked off. He didnt say a word. He must have been desperate af to even ask me after all his shit he pulled. It was cold outside and everything. Fuck that guy.

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  • Ihidabody

    Yep.

    Eye for an eye.

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  • Lusty-Argonian

    Depends what they did.

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  • LloydAsher

    Wronged me? Nothing. I'm not petty.

    Someone who has wronged my love ones cant be found.

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  • raisinbran

    Is this an episode from Schitt's Creek?

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  • Tommythecaty

    *smirks

    No.

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  • ThatOneGuyYouNeverWantToMeet

    Would & have, multiple times.

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