People Share Their Most Dynamic Stories Of Revenge

Jack decided then was the time to enforce his 4-hour PT exercise rule, sacrificing the whole team to get to me.

I stayed in the office. Jack phoned me to get my butt out and hug the ground. I refused and started printing out my time logs.

Jack busted in angrily, and I dumped the stack of logs right in front of him, showing my perfect attendance. After getting nowhere in insisting that I work out “with the team,” he got the CO and other officers involved as it “looked bad for team morale” to have me just sitting there.

I retorted that it would “look worse if an officer didn’t keep his word and indiscriminately punished people. There would be no incentive to clock in on time, in this case.” CO took my side, which infuriated Jack to no end.

As a compromise, the CO personally took me for a leisurely jog around the compound as part of routine PT instead of a punishment. I took the chance to play up my part as a victim to the CO, listing several incidents in which Jack had tried to get me in trouble.

Having witnessed his outburst earlier, the CO agreed that Jack had a personal vendetta but had few grounds to terminate him. The most he could do was transfer him to another base, which I agreed to immediately.

“But wait, OP,” you ask.

“How is a lateral transfer wrecking his career?” Well, that half of the story happens 6 months later, when the bigwigs decided to shift my team to, you guessed it, Jack’s base.

When we got to the new base, I was shocked to hear how everyone sang Jack’s praises.

Oh, he was the golden child, he had brilliant ideas and was on track to make Captain soon. Jack’s attitude in the new base had changed 180 degrees. He was all friendly, helped out, continued buying drinks, and was never tough.