People Share Their Short But Sweet Moments Of Passive Aggressive Revenge

Most stories of revenge are long and drawn out. Think of some of the storylines in Game of Thrones or Shakespeare’s Macbeth or any good old fashioned soap opera that’s been running for at least a decade! These calculated and complex stories involve cheating, lying, stealing and keeping secrets. But for one minute, let’s put big plots and grandiose revenge schemes aside. What happened to peeved off people returning the favor? What about minor injustices served and given back on an equally microaggressive scale? It’s these silly stories of *** for tat that stir something inside of us. Is this treatment warranted? Is it even worth going out of your way to do? What’s the return on investment? These moments of epically short but impactful revenge are so itty bitty, but that’s where things start to get funny!
Like the “hyper-spiritual” girl sending out her bad juju to people she doesn’t like when they’re not looking. Or the young woman who figured out that revoking wifi and walking around naked is a surefire combination to get rid of any unwanted roommates or house guests who stay too long. These are just a few of the many (and over-the-top hilarious) ways people let small things get under their skin, and in return do something just as irritating.

These are short but sweet moments of passive-aggressive revenge that are just so petty you’ll cringe. But hey, they’re entertaining and they reveal just how human some of us are.
30. Don’t Want To Move Your Bags? I’ll Call In The Professionals

“My mother does event services and deals with groups that book the venue. One time she had a cheerleading competition and the girls were little b******************. After one group yelled at my mom and talked down to her because she told them they couldn’t leave their belongings in the hallway unattended, they then proceeded to walk off and told my mom to go to ****.

This was about 3 hours before they were to perform. My mom’s job has a strict ‘unattended bag’ policy, so my mom calls it in: bomb squad and bomb-sniffing dogs come. These girls had items they needed for their competition in the bags. After the all-clear was given, all the bags were confiscated and brought to security. Girls show back up for the bags but they are all gone. They have an hour left until they perform at this point. The girls start freaking out.
Now my mom is really well-liked at her job. This matters because the whole staff knows what the girls said before my mom called it in.

These girls might have performed on time if they could get their stuff from the security office. However, what ensued was every single staff member giving these girls the run around trying to find security. After about 50 minutes they finally find it and get to meet some officers waiting to have a talk with the girls and their chaperones. They did not make it to their performance. It was a good day.” LollipopKirby

29. Burn My Pan? Ok, Sweetheart

“Last year I lived with three roommates. I provided all of the cookware and cooking utensils, and my only rule for other people using them was that they had to wash them when they were done.

Only one of them followed the rule, but it wasn’t super annoying I just dealt with it.
Then one day, someone used my pan to make a grilled cheese and burnt a bread shape into the bottom of the pan. They didn’t butter the ****** bread first like a total dumba*s. The pan was not usable anymore, so I said in the group chat that I needed to be reimbursed for it or the person who did it should buy a new pan. My one roommate responded with, ‘What you think you deserve isn’t always what you get, sweetheart. It’s called life.’ So I took all of my cookware and utensils and kept them in a laundry basket in my room.

Eff that girl.” [deleted]

28. The Seat Isn’t Taken? Great, That Means It’s Free, Right?

“I was both the victim and perpetrator of passive aggression at a coach station the other day. Some old dude had a bag on the only available seat, so I smiled at him and politely asked if the seat was taken. He gave me a death stare and said that it wasn’t taken, and so I waited for him to move his bag. He didn’t. He then said, ‘Well, sit there, then!’ and I realized that he was so p*ssed off with me for having the audacity to ask him to move his bag off the seat that he expected me to move it for him.

So I sat on the bag.” teashoesandhair
Another User Comments:
“Omg ****. What was his reaction?” Clutsy_Naive

User Replies:
“He snatched it away and I said, ‘Oops, sorry!’ as sweetly (oh, it was an incredibly sarcastic sorry, fear not) as I could, and then we sat in silence for an hour.” teashoesandhair

27. Use My Mug? Not On My Watch

“Something that I am currently doing: I work at a law firm and we live off coffee. I like having cute things around so I bought my own coffee mug that I liked and have been using it for more than a year at my office. Several months ago, a new paralegal was hired and I started noticing that my mug was missing.

Now, I don’t mind if someone uses my mug once in a while. All the mugs are kept together in the kitchen. It’s an unspoken rule that some people prefer certain mugs and we all tend to know who uses what. There are also a ton of simple mugs that everyone uses.
So, after two weeks without seeing my mug anywhere, I do a little snooping and find out that the new paralegal has been using it. Ok, fine. But even after mentioning how it was my mug that I bought, she still uses it. She’s a little on the weird side, but whatever.

I decide that I’ll just make coffee a few minutes before she does, so that I’ll get the mug before her. That worked for a few days, in which she was very confused and complained to several people that mugs had started going missing. Then she starts getting to work early (by at least 20 minutes!) and making coffee first thing. By the time I got to the office, the mug was long gone.
This weekend I had to go into the office for something. The mug was in the kitchen. I took the mug. The mug is now in my desk drawer.

The mug will stay in my desk drawer for several weeks until the paralegal forgets about it and moves on. My pettiness makes me very happy. I have meanwhile bought a new mug that I’ve been using that she has yet to attempt to steal.” Siareen

26. Drumming At Midnight? What Planet Do You Live On?

“I had a roommate who thought bringing a full-sized drum set into a shared house and jamming out for hours in the room next to mine starting at midnight was acceptable behavior. She also ruined some of my plates. Didn’t even apologize and just thew them out.

When I confronted her about it apparently it was my fault they weren’t microwave-safe and they were ‘tacky anyway.’ She took my clothes out of the washer in the laundry building and left them on the counter because ‘she had somewhere to be’ when I informed her that I also had somewhere to be she said I was less important. But I still finished my laundry first cause I was there first.
So she took a pink marker and cracked the ink tube open and poured it into my clothes in the dryer then denied it. She always hogged the bathroom and would stand outside the door when I showered to try to force me to come out sooner.

I took to showering at 3 am just to avoid her. But one day she came to the door at 3 am and was like ‘you’re using all the hot water. You better not be using my body scrub.’ I had never even touched her body scrub. Until that moment. I opened her scrub, I peed into it. I mixed it all up, and closed the lid and put it back. Enjoy scrubbing my pee into your skin you cow.” amitoughenouss
25. Make Noise? I’ll Make A Poster

“One of my neighbors barrels down the stairs in our foyer like a fat kid on Christmas and proceeds to slam the front door so hard I’ve had pictures fall over.

I made an informational poster about how to not be a *** when other people live near you and hung it next to the stairs.

My door is directly next to the front door. Everyone else is considerate.” Boof_Dawg

Another User Comments:
“I lived on the second floor of a 3-floor apartment and one of our upstairs neighbors would seemingly put on her boots right after she got up before getting ready for work and would stomp back and forth for like 45 mins at 6 am. we all went up there one day to ask her to please not her boots on until she’s ready to leave the house.

she was super apologetic and assured us she’d stop, but like a week later it continued.” xKittyForman
24. Who Would Put Away Dirty Cups? Oh No, Not Me…

“I have a colleague who is insistent that somebody keeps putting dirty cups back in the cupboard. Everybody keeps telling her she’s being daft because nobody would actually do that and it’s probably just the dishwasher not cleaning thoroughly.

I can safely say if she wasn’t such a miserable negative old bint I wouldn’t keep putting dirty cups back in the cupboard.” Girlguide80s

Another User Comments:
“I saw the twist coming but it didn’t make it any less satisfying.”nom_de_guerre_

User Replies:
“The best part is we are purchasing more expensive robust washing tablets to combat the apparent poor job the dishwasher does.

That is obviously not working, so 3 weeks from now we are having a new dishwasher put it.
I will not be beaten…. mwah ha ha!” Girlguide80s

Another User Responds:
“Once installed, slowly start stealing the cups to deepen the mystery..” nom_de_guerre_

23. Wanna Fight About It? Ok, After I Touch Every Jar

There’s an unspoken sweetness and understanding to this that most married people can certainly relate to! Instead of conceding or giving in, you just agree to disagree and realize that you both need each other!

“When I have a fight with my wife, I tighten all the jars in the kitchen.” BlackShirt

Another User Comments:
“This is sort of perfect because now she has to come to you for help (or at least, I usually do).

I’m pretty sure needing help with a jar has helped diffuse more than one argument in my household.” hihelloneighboroonie
Another User Comments:
“I think I might also hide step ladders and put things away on the highest shelves.” captainnoob

22. The Dog Always Knows

“My friend’s dog hated her new boyfriend. When he would first start staying the night at her house he would take a poop in this guy’s boots. We have no idea how he could aim his turds right into the boot. Magical really.” [deleted]

Another User Comments:
“My cat did the same thing. The first night my new boyfriend stayed over he got annoyed with her for trying to cuddle (he wanted the bed to ourselves if you know what I mean….) and told her he was going to eat her if she didn’t get out of the bedroom.

Woke up in the morning and she had p*ssed all over his shoes. Tons of other shoes in the front hall never did it before or since. She was so angry at him lol.” HeyYoEowyn

21. Stuck In A Petty Roommate War? No Sense In Choosing Sides If It’s Not Your Battle…

Well, there’s one way to totally annoy the person you live with! Being caught in the crossfire really sucks for the third person, especially when they don’t want to choose sides. This guy has it down to a science:

“I got stuck in the middle of roommate spat where my roommates would unplug the Internet modem when they left for work.

They slept and worked at opposite ends of the day, one really early and the other late. I had a normal day shift so I would wake up in the morning and have to plug in the modem in, and plug it in again when I got off work.” MaybeNotABear
20. Do Me Wrong And I’ll Steal Your Favorite Pair!

“I hated this woman at work, and she was very particular about which pair of scissors she used. One day I snapped and ****** annihilated these scissors man, I stamped on them, bent them out of shape, swiped them through my butt like a credit card, and then just put them back in her drawer.

It occurred to me that evening that putting them back in her drawer as if some sort of scissor gremlin had visited in the night and destroyed them, was utterly stupid. I turned up 90 mins early in the morning to dispose of them and kept my head down nice and quiet when she realized and kicked off. Eff you Barbara, you putrid vat of slime.” Bigdiq
19. Feel The Need To Blast Your Music? I’ll Return The Favor With The Sound Of Bagpipes

“I worked nights when I was younger. My apartment was for the most part dead quiet during the day as we weren’t too far from the local university.

So, it was perfect, until this family moved in next door and their teenager decided they were going to play hip-hop as loud as freaking possible. Even the management office in the building had enough after two days of this.

Day 3 and the letters from the management office didn’t work. So, I line up my stereo right next to the adjoining wall and pump bagpipes.
They pounded on the wall for an hour to get me to stop. I didn’t give in. They knocked on my door, I finally answered, and they asked me to stop. The apartment manager was just walking up behind the kid when I said, ‘The manager left notes on your door two days in a row warning you of excessive noise.

YOU ARE DISTURBING EVERYONE ELSE WITH YOUR CRAP MUSIC. And now you’re pleading with me to stop? Nah. YOU GET BACH NOW, ****!’ I slammed the door and for the rest of the day, she complained to the manager that she couldn’t hear her music over alternating Bach and bagpipes. I let up after that, but the manager loved the retribution and this 17-year-old kid in her office complaining and never once seeming to get the situation until it finally sank in. We never heard anything from her again. Ever.” a0x129
18. Make A Subtle Comment About My Book? I Don’t Even Know How To React

This is so smooth, it almost goes undetected, but is perhaps the most stealth outward display of being passive-aggressive, and to a stranger! Reading what he’s reading.

There’s no shame, right? It’s not like it’s a naughty magazine…

“I was reading a book on the bus when a stranger sat next to me. ‘Cool that you’re reading that out in the open. It’s like you don’t care what anyone thinks.’

The book was a bestseller, no ***, nothing salacious. Just a normal sci-fi thriller.” [deleted]

17. Single Me Out? I’ll Break Your “Leg”

Who thinks of this? Please, somebody, let me know! Either this person had it done to them, or they truly have a screw loose in their head. This is borderline savage, and could take anyone weeks to realize *** happened!

“One of the managers was singling me out.

I still do not know why. I excel at my work. Anyways, I went to her keyboard, super glued one of the legs in the standing position and snapped off the other so it forever wobbled.

*** you, Connie. You dried up ****.” smokesmagoats

Another User Comments:
“Oh that’s cold, good on you, you monster.” IhopTheBaker

16. Remove Every Lightbulb And Steal Appliances? It’s Time To Go

“I had a falling-out with a housemate and asked her to move out. Left to do some shopping and came back home after nightfall to find she had removed every single lightbulb in the downstairs area (our part of the house, not hers) because ‘she paid for them.’ We lived in a remote, rural area with no 24hr stores.

Lived in the dark till morning.
The next day, as I was making breakfast for both my child and my housemate’s child (both the same age, in grade school), I had toast cooking in both toasters (mine and hers) to save time. She swept downstairs, took the toast out of her toaster and threw it on the counter, unplugged her toaster, and swept back upstairs with it, without one word. The day she moved out, we celebrated like we won the lottery.” fluffyplague

15. Nobody Likes Being Cut Off, But Really…?

“A guy once followed me for miles on a state road because I accidentally cut him off.

He was behind a hedge that I couldn’t see past unless I was out in the road. I waved an apology in my rearview but he didn’t care, so after the first five minutes, I pulled onto the shoulder so he could just pass me. Instead, he chose to pull behind me and wait until I pulled back onto the road so he could tailgate me again. He did this four times.
I called the police and explained what was going on, they said without the license plate they couldn’t help. I was like… he’s behind me tailgating me. Can’t quite get that for you.

They said good luck and they’d have sheriffs ‘on the lookout’ for his car model. I finally used maps to find a police station in a town off the state road and he sped off when he realized what I was doing. I can’t imagine being THAT MAD for thirty miles..!” sweetrhymepurereason

14. Throw A Hissy Fit And Disrespect Your Roomies? Careful, They’ll Get You Where It Hurts…

“I used to know this guy named Adam.
To make a long story short, Adam was not a good human. I say ‘was’ because he died from drug use on Memorial Day 2018. I know it sounds mean to say, but the guy had it coming.

I feel bad for his family. Not him.

Anyway, he was living with his brother Jess, his other half brother, Jess’ mother and my now husband who was living with them at the time. He acted entitled over everything and enjoyed treating people like they were beneath him. He was also abusive towards his love interests and neglectful of his kids.

One particular time, Adam took some leftover pizza that my husband was saving for dinner and threw it away because ‘If I can’t have pizza then why should anyone else in this ****** house have it?’ My husband was going to kick his a*s and I was going to curse him out but we both didn’t want to bring drama towards him and didn’t want to disrespect Jess’ mother.

So we let our anger bottle up. We decided that it was a great idea to wait until Adam went to the movies with his girlfriend to act out our need for revenge.
You see… they had this nice set up in the basement. It was an entertainment area with several computers lined up next to a TV and game console set up. My husband’s computer was on the left. Adam’s in the middle and Jess’ on the right.

Adam LOVED World Of Warcraft. He was the type of WOW player that put the game first before his responsibilities. Shortly after he left for the theater, we put our plan into motion.

We stripped all of Adam’s characters of their items. Emptied the auction house, sold some items, deleted other items, gave items and thousands of gold to random players, and split the rest of the loot amongst ourselves.
The best part is when he came back home. I was on the couch watching a movie. My husband and Jess were on their computers playing a game. We all got quiet when Adam came downstairs. We heard the WOW log in music play in the background and tried not to look at his screen. He was quiet at first then started muttering ‘What the ***?’ repeatedly.

Then he shouted, ‘What the ***?’

My husband was the first to speak and asked him what was wrong. Adam showed us all his characters stripped of their items and yelled ‘SOMEONE HACKED MY ACCOUNT!’
We all looked at his screen and acted shocked. My husband finally spoke up after this moment and said, ‘****, my boy…….. that’s messed up.’

Adam then grabbed a phone and ran upstairs to call Blizzard customer support.

When he slammed the door we all burst out laughing.

So good. So good we did it several months later when he p*ssed us off. Then one more time when he tried to steal Jess’ mother’s credit card.

After that Adam got one of those authenticators to prevent himself from getting hacked AGAIN. Fun ruined. Thanks Blizzard.” KarmaticFox

13. I Thought ******* Were A Valid Way To Communicate

“This was about ten years ago, living with roommates, two brothers/friends of mine. I was extremely socially awkward then and fresh out of high school. First time trying to strike it out on my own as an adult. I couldn’t find a job for the life of me and yet, they allowed me to live with them rent-free. I did my best to keep costs down and minimize my presence in the house the longer my unemployment went on.

I didn’t even have a car and relied on one of them to give me rides to the dollar store for my own food (couldn’t even afford the regular grocery store). Despite everything, tensions understandably rose between us and we spoke less and less.
I started placing a series of ******* on the fridge, saying things like ‘Need to go to store soon,’ ‘Almost out of food,’ ‘Out of food, need store NOW,’ etc. I was simply aghast my notes were going un-responded to. Finally, one day I noticed a different colored Post-it placed over mine, that said, ‘IF SOMEONE NEEDS A RIDE TO THE STORE, SOMEONE NEEDS TO ASK LIKE AN ADULT.’

I felt terrible.

I still don’t know why I thought the notes were a better idea than just asking. Pride, I guess.” operarose

12. Someone Disrespects Her So She Sends Out “Bad Vibes”

“I used to work with a girl who seemed like the nicest person you could meet. After a while of working with her, however, she told me she was hyper-spiritual and whenever someone was mean to her or didn’t do what she wanted she’d spend X amount of weeks ‘sending bad vibes at them’ whenever they weren’t looking at her. After she told me that, I started looking for it and sure enough, any time someone would turn around she’d scrunch her face up into an **** shape and just look at that person until they turned back around.” TommF
11. Talk To Me Like I’m A Child? I’ll Stare You Down

“I worked for a pair of patronizing scumbags at a franchised sandwich shop.

Every month they held a mandatory meeting where they would grill us with dozens of basic questions about making sandwiches. We were required to answer in order to keep our jobs, and they asked each of us questions very sloooowwwly… with lots of, ‘Okay are you listening?’ and rephrasing, so that our feeble minds could grasp the questions. As an incentive, whenever we answered correctly, they would throw us a fun-sized candy.

We stopped catching the candy, and just let it bounce right off our stone-cold faces. For months.” DefinitelyNotALion
10. If She Has A Problem, She Won’t Treat You Like Everyone Else

“This girl at my current job frequently makes smoothies for everyone in the kitchen who is on the shift at the time.

She won’t make smoothies for people she’s upset with. So there are times where she’s made smoothies for over five people and casually just doesn’t have one for the cook she has beef with.” alumavirtutem

Another User Comments:
“This one’s gonna depend really hard on the level of upset that she was with people. If it’s stupid things like they didn’t agree with something she was saying, then she’s petty and on a power trip. If it’s legit reasons, then yeah I wouldn’t make a smoothie either. “DisgruntledDidgerido
User Replies:
“It would be things like she and a cook had a difference of opinion on what the special for the day in the cafe would be.

It was such minor stuff.” alumavirtutem

9. He Knows, But Just Doesn’t Care…

“My upstairs neighbor plays an electric piano with headphones in. I don’t know why the **** he’s banging the keys so hard, but I can hear the rhythmic thumping through the ceiling. He seems to always do this at either 12 am when I’m heading to bed or around 7 am on days I’m trying to sleep in.

I pointed out that he was making it difficult to sleep and he apologized and said he’d stick to more reasonable hours, but a week later it was the same story again.” Hoguera

Another User Comments:
“I once had a neighbor who apparently was learning the bongos.

It was Bongo City all day, every day. And I’d know when he’d ***ed up because he’d pause and scream at the ceiling.

That was a fun time. I didn’t mind the bongos as much as the screaming.” emptysee

8. Here Are Two Ways To Get Rid Of Unwanted Roommates:

“I had two junkies essentially squatting. They were a couple, which will be relevant in a minute. Here in my state, you can totally stay somewhere without paying rent or even being welcomed. You have to go to court, file eviction paperwork which is time-consuming and costly. They knew this loophole in our law here so they just stayed for weeks (which felt like forever because we were constantly fighting, my stuff kept turning up missing, etc…)
Now, they WERE paying rent until they started influencing one another to use until they both relapsed back into a full-blown addiction.

Kinda sad actually because before that, they were okay. One day my bf and I get the bright idea to call the cable company and change the WIFI password. That night we had exaggerated loud lovemaking, and I walked out of my bedroom in the nude in front of them both her and her boyfriend.  They freaked, and I said, ‘*** you, it’s my house.’ They were gone maybe 2 days later. When you don’t have wifi and your roommate is walking around naked in front of your man, I guess leaving is a solid choice.” thehotmegan
Another User Comments:
“****! You’re a genius! Wifi control plus the destruction of personal space = ultimate power move.

You’re my hero.” jdman5000

7. She’s As Cold As This Move

Does it get pettier than this? So passive-aggressive, so cold, so swift. This is poetry in motion, and can’t be read without chuckling!

“Girlfriend was upset with me over not cleaning something. I asked her for a glass of water and she brought me a glass of ice and told me to wait.” 3-7-77

Another User Comments:
“So you grabbed her hairdryer and did away with the ice?” nomeaningtothis

Another User Comments:
“People are downvoting you but the idea of him ever so calmly grabbing the hairdryer and melting the ice with a stoic expression and without saying a word, and then calmly putting the hairdryer back, is hilarious.” C_IsForCookie
6. Want To Cram In Because You’re In A Rush? I’ll Push Your Buttons And Make You Wait Just A Tad Longer

“I was in a small elevator at a big hotel one time.

The elevator was full because people had lots of luggage. I was first on the elevator, so I am by the buttons. Everyone is going down to the lobby to check out. We stop at the floor. Doors open, a person looks in and frowns. There’s no room. Another person, a woman pushes on and it is now so uncomfortable/borderline painful. It takes a good three minutes of people jamming themselves together to make room so the door can close because she is not getting off but also not fitting in.
We finally get the door closed and she says sorry, but she is in a rush.

So I pressed the button for every floor beneath us and we stopped at every floor on our way down to the lobby. It was like four or five floors, but still, I think the passive-aggressive point was made. I also didn’t press the door close button when we stopped on the floors.” goldiegoldthorpe

5. I Asked Her To Pay Up, But She Yelled At Me In Writing

“My roommate was supposed to pay me for utilities. When two weeks went by, I asked her for it again because I needed the money. She huffed at me and said it would be on the fridge in the morning.

She wrote the whole check in giant capital letters which she never had done before. Still got my money back tho.” j_britt
Another User Comments:
“How dare you ask her for utilities in that tone of voice, causing her to FEEL STRESSED.” Humptys_orthopedic

Another User Comments:
“Please take your microaggressions elsewhere!” zoomshoes

4. Can’t Be A Little Patient? Ok, You’ll Have To Be Extra Patient

“Back when I had just learned to drive a stick, I got honked out at the light because some impatient pr*ck thought I was taking too long going after a green light. I accidentally put the car in third instead of first, so it took me an extra second or two to get moving.

This guy just lays on his horn for a few seconds, then once we start moving, he changes to the other lane because he expects me to be slower than the car in the next lane.
Turns out the car in the other lane was stupidly slow, going 27 in a 35 zone. So naturally, I drive 27. Then when the guy tries to pass me, illegally, I edge out just enough so he can’t pass me, and he has to drive behind us for a solid 10 miles.” Colinox8

3. I Stole Your Spot And You Don’t Want It Back? Best To Leave It Then

“I was on a study abroad program in England, doing work in the school’s woodshop.

There was a big work table with stools around it but not enough for everybody and I was the odd man out. After a half-hour of standing and working, one of the other students got up and walked out of the room so I took his seat.
He came back in 5 minutes later and said: ‘Aw mate, you’ve nicked my seat!; I apologized, got up, and offered it back to him. He made a big scene of profusely refusing and insisted that I should keep it. So I sat back down.

A silent 5 minutes passed before he said: ‘Man, It’d be brilliant if I had a place to sit down…’ I stared at him for some time as he tried his damndest to avoid returning eye contact.” universeofdesign

2. Be A Pain To Work With? I’ll Make Your Parking Situation More Complicated Than It Has To Be

“I am not a passive-aggressive person at all but this happened.

We moved in April and had our condo listed for sale. We bought a new home in June and the condo still hasn’t sold. We finally got an offer that was well below asking but we were in a pinch and needed to sell. The buyer ended up being a huge jerk to work with so when the deal was all said and done, I kept the garage door opener and told them I left it in the unit for them. Note that it wasn’t a one-car garage. It was the opener for an entire subbasement garage and I had spent the whole time we lived there trying to get a second opener from the property manager with no luck.

Our agent contacted us a week later and told me they were having no luck finding it and were having a hard time dealing with the property manager. It felt so good.” catsby90bbn

1. Vying For My Job? At Least Dig Up Some Good Dirt

“When I worked as a tech writer, my company hired a bonafide sociopath (M) who quickly began jockeying to become the boss of me and the other writer there. At one point, M suggested she should be the ‘editor’ (i.e. do no real work and just critique ours) and my coworker pointed out I’d been an editor previously, so if anyone should do it, I should.

Later that day M requested my resume under the pretense that it would help us all become more familiar with each other.
We shut her nonsense down pretty well, but at one point M just up and printed out a document I’d written years ago and marked it up with a red pen, apropos of nothing, and came over to my desk to talk about fixing the errors she found. It was the pettiest crap I’d ever come across in the work world.” jesticide

These tiny injustices are just the little satisfying tidbits of revenge that hit the spot! Nothing big and orchestrated, just small nuggets of passive-aggressive goodness served on the spot.

Delightful, funny and sometimes planned, these instances are so extra. Really. Serving your significant other a glass of ice instead of a cup of water? Brilliant. Which one is your favorite? Tells us everything!