Revenge on a rotten boss

Most of us have had one boss that we loathed. But while many of us have been left seething with rage after a snide comment from a rude supervisor, only a few have actually hatched a plan for revenge and followed it through.

We went to question-and-answer site Quora for some of the best boss revenge stories. Here’s what respondents had to say.

By now, executives should know to treat their assistants with respect. Case in point: early in Greg L Alston’s career, an unpopular new president arrived to head up his firm, a major pharmacy in California.

The new boss was “terrified of public speaking” but obligated to address the 500 staff members. He wrote his speech on notecards, handed them to an assistant for safekeeping and went “to have a few drinks to steel his courage,” Alston wrote.

The assistant “’accidentally’ shuffled the 3 x 5 notecards, not once but three times, insuring that they were in random order,” wrote Alson. “The knucklehead was not even smart enough to number the cards. He took the podium slightly inebriated and proceeded to read his entire speech off the cards even though the order now made absolutely no sense. He was mercifully terminated soon after.”

Revenge on a rotten boss