Episode 4: Reddit's Darkest Work Revenge Stories
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What shocking Reddit workplace revenge stories are introduced in the episode?
Here's my story of two distinct acts of revenge combining together in spectacular fashion to create something that I feel is nuclear. About 20 years back, I was a sales engineer supporting sales reps at Douchebag Tech Company, from here on in known as DTC. A new sales manager joins the team. He was a former co-worker of mine from a prior job, a petty little man. In our previous roles, we were peers. Now he was a manager over the sales reps that I supported. I had a separate chain of command, so he wasn't my boss, but he felt like he should be. Seems like he was resentful of the power that sales engineers in this new company had. In an attempt to show me up, he closed a very large deal with a banking company, ABC, and did so without any involvement from the sales engineers, just him as one sales rep.
He then gloats about it publicly, talks about how we don't even need sales engineers, the whole nine yards. Later, the manager calls me in a panic, and we talk with the customer. The sales rep and the rep's sales manager totally botched things and sold the customer an incompatible set of solutions. I say that the customer could exchange one bit of stuff for another bit of stuff, and everything should work. They're roughly the same price, so nobody would lose any money. But the sales manager, he doesn't want to do it.
How did the sales engineer weaponize a forum post to take down his former company?
because admitting that he fucked up would make him look bad. He bitches at me for bringing up prices because that's supposed to be the rep's job. He calls my boss and shits all over me. My boss took his side and continues the dumping parade right on me. So I'm like, fuck this, fuck you, I quit. I then sent a very lengthy, detailed letter to HR explaining how the sales rep had fucked up, lied to the customer, and how the sales manager and my boss tried to make me the scapegoat instead of actually trying to fix it, which, again, would have been easy and made everyone involved happy. I then move on, get a new job, do other things. At some point I'm chatting with an old friend from DTC and he mentions they fucked up a huge deal that they had spent an entire year on.
I myself am still bitter about the douchebag sales rep manager, along with my asshole boss. So I post about it on a forum that a bunch of investors use. The stock crashed $13 the next day. You should put a pin in that. I found out ABC is now suing DTC for fucking up that deal. It was the same deal that the douchebag sales rep manager had messed up on and tried to pin on me. I reach out to ABC, send them a copy of the letter that I sent to HR in which I detailed precisely how badly DCC had them over. I talk with one of their lawyers and it's hard to ignore just how happy he is, especially after reviewing the part of my letter where I describe how the sales rep had lied to ABC in the first place. DTC subpoenas me for a deposition.
I have to tell DTC's lawyers everything that I told ABC's lawyers. Lawyer stuff. The day before the deposition, DTC sues me directly. Remember DTC's stock crashing? They're suing me for badmouthing the company and attempting to short their stock. Which I wasn't. However, there's a twist here. Because DTC is suing me directly, I don't have to say shit to them at the deposition. Their preparation for the lawsuit goes completely out the window. They know they're fucked because they read the letter that I sent to HR, but they don't know exactly how fucked because they don't know what else I know or what I've told ABC's lawyers. Additionally, because they never deposed me, they can't catch me contradicting myself between what I say at the deposition and at trial.
They're dumbfounded. No idea how they could have fucked this up so badly. Turns out there were two legal teams one defending against ABC's lawsuit, and another trying to scare people away from talking about the company on the internet by indiscriminately suing their critics. Those two arms, they don't communicate with each other, and the one team didn't mention to the other team that they would be suing a key witness in their case.
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