Anonymous wrote:I sort of have a different view of karma. I worked with an awful woman who supervised me and degraded me all the time. She was threatened by me and wanted to hold me back, though I didn’t realize it at the time. She gossiped about me and stripped away all my confidence and sabotaged my work. She eventually fanned the flames on a rumor that was false but made it impossible to stay in my job. I was devastated but dusted myself off and got another job eventually. I’m now about 1000 times more successful than she is, and I know she’s in therapy to deal with her issues. I’m glad she’s in therapy. I don’t wish mental illness on her. I wish for her to never contact me again, and I wish for my own peace. She did some messed up shit to me that I hope she does to no one else. But the karma piece and my horoscope for me really is my own happiness and success, which is a direct result of helping, not hurting, others. When I axed her from my life, or, more accurately, when she axed me from hers, it freed me to really spread my wings.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. Squirted soap into ex's gin which he would be sharing no doubt with his new girlfriend.
2. Squirted soap again into his jar of pickles.
3. Ordered lingerie catalogues in his name to his house
4. Took some rotting meat out of the compost bin and hid it behind his radio.
5. Spat in his toothbrush cup

Yeah. I don't allow people to mess me about.

You are crazy and disgusting and I see why he broke up with you. Get thee into therapy STAT.

Anonymous wrote:1. Squirted soap into ex's gin which he would be sharing no doubt with his new girlfriend.
2. Squirted soap again into his jar of pickles.
3. Ordered lingerie catalogues in his name to his house
4. Took some rotting meat out of the compost bin and hid it behind his radio.
5. Spat in his toothbrush cup

Yeah. I don't allow people to mess me about.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. Squirted soap into ex's gin which he would be sharing no doubt with his new girlfriend.
2. Squirted soap again into his jar of pickles.
3. Ordered lingerie catalogues in his name to his house
4. Took some rotting meat out of the compost bin and hid it behind his radio.
5. Spat in his toothbrush cup

Yeah. I don't allow people to mess me about.

You do allow people to mess you about. You then take a petty and childish revenge. Sad.

Anonymous wrote:1. Squirted soap into ex's gin which he would be sharing no doubt with his new girlfriend.
2. Squirted soap again into his jar of pickles.
3. Ordered lingerie catalogues in his name to his house
4. Took some rotting meat out of the compost bin and hid it behind his radio.
5. Spat in his toothbrush cup

Yeah. I don't allow people to mess me about.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was a graphic artist when I was 24 and had a cool job at a larger company. Our small design group got a new boss, Jane, and I was very excited to learn from her. I asked for book recommendations, for advice, I even asked Jane to be my mentor and she said yes. Then the next day she fired me because I "didn't have enough talent to support the group." She'd been there maybe two months.

I was devastated. I did not see it coming, I'd just had a great review. But the worst was is one month after my firing there was a company layoff, which if Jane had just waited, I would've gotten more severance. At the layoff she fired two more of our staff, so suddenly half the group was gone. And not much later she hired friends to fill the open positions.

I still had friends that worked there, and heard the gossip. Jane apparently was very rude with one of her management peers and the friction caused a lot of drama. A year or so later the management peer was promoted to be Jane's boss and not long after fired her. I was not sad to hear that news.

I have a similar story -- new boss ran off very talented people so he could hire his buddies. He was also threatened by anyone who was smart and rising star and worked hard at undermining them. A couple of years later, he was bypassed for the big promotion he wanted, and when he protested to the big boss, he was not only fired, but escorted from the building by security.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was a graphic artist when I was 24 and had a cool job at a larger company. Our small design group got a new boss, Jane, and I was very excited to learn from her. I asked for book recommendations, for advice, I even asked Jane to be my mentor and she said yes. Then the next day she fired me because I "didn't have enough talent to support the group." She'd been there maybe two months.

I was devastated. I did not see it coming, I'd just had a great review. But the worst was is one month after my firing there was a company layoff, which if Jane had just waited, I would've gotten more severance. At the layoff she fired two more of our staff, so suddenly half the group was gone. And not much later she hired friends to fill the open positions.

I still had friends that worked there, and heard the gossip. Jane apparently was very rude with one of her management peers and the friction caused a lot of drama. A year or so later the management peer was promoted to be Jane's boss and not long after fired her. I was not sad to hear that news.

I have a similar story -- new boss ran off very talented people so he could hire his buddies. He was also threatened by anyone who was smart and rising star and worked hard at undermining them. A couple of years later, he was bypassed for the big promotion he wanted, and when he protested to the big boss, he was not only fired, but escorted from the building by security.

Anonymous wrote:I was a graphic artist when I was 24 and had a cool job at a larger company. Our small design group got a new boss, Jane, and I was very excited to learn from her. I asked for book recommendations, for advice, I even asked Jane to be my mentor and she said yes. Then the next day she fired me because I "didn't have enough talent to support the group." She'd been there maybe two months.

I was devastated. I did not see it coming, I'd just had a great review. But the worst was is one month after my firing there was a company layoff, which if Jane had just waited, I would've gotten more severance. At the layoff she fired two more of our staff, so suddenly half the group was gone. And not much later she hired friends to fill the open positions.

I still had friends that worked there, and heard the gossip. Jane apparently was very rude with one of her management peers and the friction caused a lot of drama. A year or so later the management peer was promoted to be Jane's boss and not long after fired her. I was not sad to hear that news.

Anonymous wrote:I think of it more as poetic justice. I.e. you weasel your ex out of the family home in the divorce, and then it burns down. Or you leave your wife for your mistress but then the mistress has an affair and dumps you. Or some other circumstance that eerily recalls the original situation, but it rebounds on you in a negative way. Yes, bad things happen to ALL people. But when you drive like an ass and then a mile down the road, your "victim" sees you getting a ticket, man oh man, that is poetic justice or what we colloquially refer to as karma.