Revenge/trolling: Real-life stories

[Anonymous]

Tell us about a time you took revenge, or just trolled someone...and why.

This isn't my story, but it did make me think of this thread:

A colleague of mine was part of a mass layoff during a company takeover. There were a few weeks of "transition."

When she was certain that billing had switched over, and a new FedEx account had been established, she filled several FedEx boxes with rocks and sent them to faraway locales, even international addresses, so that the new company would have to pay thousands in phantom shipping fees.

[Anonymous]

I'm so surprised someone like that was let go.

[Anonymous]

My dad mailed a girlfriend who had just broken up with him a fish filet sandwich. She lived in England and he sent the package by sea...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tell us about a time you took revenge, or just trolled someone...and why.

This isn't my story, but it did make me think of this thread:

A colleague of mine was part of a mass layoff during a company takeover. There were a few weeks of "transition."

When she was certain that billing had switched over, and a new FedEx account had been established, she filled several FedEx boxes with rocks and sent them to faraway locales, even international addresses, so that the new company would have to pay thousands in phantom shipping fees.

Lol that's amazing. Good one

[Anonymous]

A friend was getting a security clearance back in the mid 2000s when the clearance process was taking about a year and a half start to finish. When she started the process and filled out the paperwork, she was living with her long time boyfriend so she put him down on the application as someone she lived with. A few months later, the boyfriend broke up with her in a really nasty way and left. For some reason, even though he was the one to dump her, he did some pretty vengeful shit, including making up a bunch of crap about her when the clearance investigator called to interview him. Thankfully the investigator gave my friend the chance to provide other references that could refute the crap he made up (no, she in fact was not dealing drugs to kids or anyone else for that matter, crap like that). I think it actually worked in her favor that he made up such ridiculously over the top stuff about her. If he'd been more subtle, the investigator might have believed him and just denied my friend her clearance. It still caused her a lot of stress, though so I guess he got what he wanted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A friend was getting a security clearance back in the mid 2000s when the clearance process was taking about a year and a half start to finish. When she started the process and filled out the paperwork, she was living with her long time boyfriend so she put him down on the application as someone she lived with. A few months later, the boyfriend broke up with her in a really nasty way and left. For some reason, even though he was the one to dump her, he did some pretty vengeful shit, including making up a bunch of crap about her when the clearance investigator called to interview him. Thankfully the investigator gave my friend the chance to provide other references that could refute the crap he made up (no, she in fact was not dealing drugs to kids or anyone else for that matter, crap like that). I think it actually worked in her favor that he made up such ridiculously over the top stuff about her. If he'd been more subtle, the investigator might have believed him and just denied my friend her clearance. It still caused her a lot of stress, though so I guess he got what he wanted.

The investigators are trained in how to handle that. The ex is lucky he didn't get into trouble for giving false information!

[Anonymous]

XDH, who is a horrible person in many ways, got 1/2 of my pension in the divorce proceedings because that's standard. XDH wants to retire at 56 on his government pension. We just had our court hearing and should be getting the papers soon. I can wait to email him "just trying to be helpful here, but you need to know, I can't claim my pension until I'm 65 under my plan's rules, so if you try to retire early you'll be giving me half of your pension for many years."

If he'd been a nicer person I'd be more sympathetic....

[Anonymous]

When I lived in NYC, I participated on a music-related message board for many years. Since we were all based in NYC/LI/NJ, we would have meet-ups for happy hour and music shows.

Two of the regular posters on the message board got into heated arguments that usually devolved into personal insults. The female poster, K, was quite funny and very popular with the in-crowd on the board. The male poster, S, was a bit quirky/on-the-spectrum and not as popular. Ironically, both of them attended the same Ivy League university, though I'm not sure they knew each other from there. K would mercilessly lay into S. I believe she may have even humiliated him in-person a number of times.

After a while, S devised a plot to turn K's message board screen name (which included her real-life first name) into a street art meme. He began plastering the city with stickers of "STFU [K's screenname]" and taking photos, then uploading them to the message board. It caused quite a scandal as many message board posters thought it was hilarious, while others (mostly female) thought it was a form of harassment. He began a blog that documented the proliferation of his meme, giving out thousands of stickers to random strangers. He started getting photos of the sticker in random cities all over the world.

He made hundreds of t-shirts with the "STFU [K's screenname]" logo printed on them and gave them out to a ton of NY'ers. K would be out at a bar or on the subway and see a random person with the "STUF [K's screenname]" t-shirt. It completely pissed her off.

That all happened over 10 years ago. The message board shut down probably 5 years ago. S is still keeping up his art project and has successfully showed branded objects and photos with the "STFU [K's screenname]" logo at art gallery shows. He's sold tens of thousands of dollars woth of "STFU [K's screenname]" merchandise. I think he even trademarked K's screen name.

That is the most epic trolling I've ever seen in my life. The gag has been going on for close to 15 years.

[Anonymous]

In highschool there was a girl who was really nasty to me, we started as friends but were enemies by senior year. I was on the yearbook committee and in charge of Senior Class photos, both formal and candids. I switched a bad portrait of her (not embarrassing or anything just not an attrtactive version) with the good one she had chosen. The yearbook was published like that. She was very vain and so beyond furious and complained to the admonstration so I got yelled at but that was about all they could do.

I have felt bad about it for years. It was a far too permanent form of revenge. If I ever see her again I will apologize but 30+years later I have never seen her and she isnt in contact with any of our old friends. Because of this, I dont "do" revenge anymore. I figure the universe takes care of balance and try hard to just let things go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:XDH, who is a horrible person in many ways, got 1/2 of my pension in the divorce proceedings because that's standard. XDH wants to retire at 56 on his government pension. We just had our court hearing and should be getting the papers soon. I can wait to email him "just trying to be helpful here, but you need to know, I can't claim my pension until I'm 65 under my plan's rules, so if you try to retire early you'll be giving me half of your pension for many years."

If he'd been a nicer person I'd be more sympathetic....

A coworkers ex-wife demanded half of his (rather meager) 401k when she divorced him (she was leaving him for her boyfriend) but didn't think her much larger pension should be counted. He was willing to let her walk away with her pension intact but she wanted his money so he got hers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I lived in NYC, I participated on a music-related message board for many years. Since we were all based in NYC/LI/NJ, we would have meet-ups for happy hour and music shows.

Two of the regular posters on the message board got into heated arguments that usually devolved into personal insults. The female poster, K, was quite funny and very popular with the in-crowd on the board. The male poster, S, was a bit quirky/on-the-spectrum and not as popular. Ironically, both of them attended the same Ivy League university, though I'm not sure they knew each other from there. K would mercilessly lay into S. I believe she may have even humiliated him in-person a number of times.

After a while, S devised a plot to turn K's message board screen name (which included her real-life first name) into a street art meme. He began plastering the city with stickers of "STFU [K's screenname]" and taking photos, then uploading them to the message board. It caused quite a scandal as many message board posters thought it was hilarious, while others (mostly female) thought it was a form of harassment. He began a blog that documented the proliferation of his meme, giving out thousands of stickers to random strangers. He started getting photos of the sticker in random cities all over the world.

He made hundreds of t-shirts with the "STFU [K's screenname]" logo printed on them and gave them out to a ton of NY'ers. K would be out at a bar or on the subway and see a random person with the "STUF [K's screenname]" t-shirt. It completely pissed her off.

That all happened over 10 years ago. The message board shut down probably 5 years ago. S is still keeping up his art project and has successfully showed branded objects and photos with the "STFU [K's screenname]" logo at art gallery shows. He's sold tens of thousands of dollars woth of "STFU [K's screenname]" merchandise. I think he even trademarked K's screen name.

That is the most epic trolling I've ever seen in my life. The gag has been going on for close to 15 years.

What's the screen name? Obviously it's not private anymore. I'd love to see this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I lived in NYC, I participated on a music-related message board for many years. Since we were all based in NYC/LI/NJ, we would have meet-ups for happy hour and music shows.

Two of the regular posters on the message board got into heated arguments that usually devolved into personal insults. The female poster, K, was quite funny and very popular with the in-crowd on the board. The male poster, S, was a bit quirky/on-the-spectrum and not as popular. Ironically, both of them attended the same Ivy League university, though I'm not sure they knew each other from there. K would mercilessly lay into S. I believe she may have even humiliated him in-person a number of times.

After a while, S devised a plot to turn K's message board screen name (which included her real-life first name) into a street art meme. He began plastering the city with stickers of "STFU [K's screenname]" and taking photos, then uploading them to the message board. It caused quite a scandal as many message board posters thought it was hilarious, while others (mostly female) thought it was a form of harassment. He began a blog that documented the proliferation of his meme, giving out thousands of stickers to random strangers. He started getting photos of the sticker in random cities all over the world.

He made hundreds of t-shirts with the "STFU [K's screenname]" logo printed on them and gave them out to a ton of NY'ers. K would be out at a bar or on the subway and see a random person with the "STUF [K's screenname]" t-shirt. It completely pissed her off.

That all happened over 10 years ago. The message board shut down probably 5 years ago. S is still keeping up his art project and has successfully showed branded objects and photos with the "STFU [K's screenname]" logo at art gallery shows. He's sold tens of thousands of dollars woth of "STFU [K's screenname]" merchandise. I think he even trademarked K's screen name.

That is the most epic trolling I've ever seen in my life. The gag has been going on for close to 15 years.

What's the screen name? Obviously it's not private anymore. I'd love to see this.

Here's his main blog page:
http://stfukatielady.blogspot.com/p/whats-it-all-about.html

If you Google the screenname, you'll get hundreds of results.

[Anonymous]

My favorite STFU t-shirt is

How about a nice cup of STFU

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:XDH, who is a horrible person in many ways, got 1/2 of my pension in the divorce proceedings because that's standard. XDH wants to retire at 56 on his government pension. We just had our court hearing and should be getting the papers soon. I can wait to email him "just trying to be helpful here, but you need to know, I can't claim my pension until I'm 65 under my plan's rules, so if you try to retire early you'll be giving me half of your pension for many years."

If he'd been a nicer person I'd be more sympathetic....

A coworkers ex-wife demanded half of his (rather meager) 401k when she divorced him (she was leaving him for her boyfriend) but didn't think her much larger pension should be counted. He was willing to let her walk away with her pension intact but she wanted his money so he got hers.

I love this one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:XDH, who is a horrible person in many ways, got 1/2 of my pension in the divorce proceedings because that's standard. XDH wants to retire at 56 on his government pension. We just had our court hearing and should be getting the papers soon. I can wait to email him "just trying to be helpful here, but you need to know, I can't claim my pension until I'm 65 under my plan's rules, so if you try to retire early you'll be giving me half of your pension for many years."

If he'd been a nicer person I'd be more sympathetic....

A coworkers ex-wife demanded half of his (rather meager) 401k when she divorced him (she was leaving him for her boyfriend) but didn't think her much larger pension should be counted. He was willing to let her walk away with her pension intact but she wanted his money so he got hers.

I love this one.

I know. But where was her lawyer? Not that PP or the coworker would necessarily know, but it seems like idiocy to go forward with the ex-wife's claims based on what usually happens to pensions in divorce cases.