People Share Their Most Dynamic Stories Of Revenge

I guess he learned his lesson back in the old base and now tried his best to win the popularity contest before he screwed people over.

Jack was entirely too happy to see me, hinting that once he made Captain, he would have the power to affect personnel transfers and oversee promotions/demotions.

In fact, he was already acting Captain and would be doing my performance appraisal.

Screw that! I insisted, as was my right, to have another officer do my appraisal. That other lazy officer apparently farmed out the job to Mr. Helpful Jack anyways, who gave me a crap grade – which I protested up the chain of command and got it revised to something more reasonable but not what I expected to get.

Having almost been ruined by Jack, I had to act fast and take him down before he made full Captain.

During one of my admin duties, I dug out Jack’s records and pored through every section religiously. Jack apparently didn’t lie on his records (I called up to check), but the records were entirely unremarkable.

Barely passing out of Officer School, unremarkable testimonial, nothing. His academic records were horrible – he would not be able to secure his current salary in the private sector, for sure, but not a roadblock in the military.

I had zero allies in this new base and was grasping at straws, stalking him to catch him doing something – anything, outside of regulations.

Non-regulation shirts? Probably just a slap on the wrist. Coming in late and leaving early? Ditto. Spending all day working out in the gym instead of working? Nah, the other officers here would likely cover for him given how little work they do too.