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I have never tried to revenge myself on anyone. I firmly believe God has the best vengeance for Christians. That being said, There was someone who was the recipient of the perfect vengeance of the Lord.

When I was working in a lab in MD on an important project, I had someone there harassing me. It was not sexual harassment, just work place hostility. The first thing he did was try to get me fired because he screamed at me as loud as he could. I think he was afraid I would go to HR so he struck first.

Lets call him Dude as his name. Dude was in the hood working while I stood off to the side waiting for him to finish so that I could determine some information on sampling. If he did sampling I had to be ready with chemicals to detox his highly toxic waste once he prepped the sample for the Gas Chromatograph. It had to be done immediately after prepping. He finally turned to me and said “What do you want Kruba?” I asked him if he would be going out to sample today. He turned to me and started screaming at me as loud as he could. He indicated I was endangering him and everyone in the lab by distracting him. He could have been working with toxic chemicals. Had he been working with that type of chemical he would have needed a buddy observing ready to step in and no one was there at the time. So that was untrue. I had quit smoking two weeks before that. After he finished berating me and calling me one name after the other, I started crying and went outside to smoke a cigarette.

He reported me to HR and I had a meeting with the bosses and him. They felt like his claim was frivolous at best. How was I supposed to do my job if I couldn’t communicate with him? There were too many witnesses for him to lie. Other employees had told HR how he yelled at me and I did not yell back. My co-workers had my back. Managenent warned him he needed to get along with other employees and they would be watching him. In our line of work, team work was a priority. We all had to keep each other safe. This was not what he expected at all. He thought I would be the one disciplined.

Dude was very upset and took the opportunity to start harassing me. If no one was around, he would whisper in my ear, “I haven’t forgotten Kruba. I am going to get you”. He started stealing my lunch and my food out of the company fridge every chance he got.

I was on a volunteer safety team. We met once a month at lunch time. As a reward I got to order lunch once a month. I had a family emergency and could not make the meeting. Dude went to the meeting and told them I had asked him to pick up my lunch for me. He took it and ate it himself. I don’t know how he knew I was not going to be there. I definitely did not tell him anything.

We had to share computers. I was working on a computer doing my job. He started screaming at me to get off the computer because he wanted that one. There were other computers around and he was not using the computer for work purposes. He grabbed my arm and was attempting to remove me frm the seat. The boss came charging out of her office demanding to know what was going on. She told him to find another computer. She did try to have him disciplined. Apparently, he knew where the bodies were buried. Nothing happened to him.

We both had a job interview in Utah after we finished the project we had been working on. The company we worked for was committed to finding us all work after the completion of our mission. There were plenty of jobs in Utah and we were not in competition. When he found out when my interview was scheduled, he made arrangements to go before me. My boss told me about it.

It was the worst interview I have ever had in my entire life. When the interviewers looked at my resume and kept saying “bullshit” over and over again, I knew he had told them some lies during his interview. I could not prove it. . Every line on that resume was true and not embellished. I could not figure out what happened. Arguing with the people interviewing me was not going to help. Dude got one of the positions and I got none.

Now for the revenge part: On the way to Utah, the moving van was involved in a fire(To clarify, it was God’s vengeance, not mine) and every stick of furniture, every piece of tech, and all of his clothing was burned. Since he was moving right into his new abode, he sent all of his clothes on the truck except for the ones on his back and one change of clothing. He did not get the money from the insurance company for months. They gave him the minimum allowed. He refused to buy anything until he got the insurance money. He slept on the floor during the whole time.

Dude did not last long on that job. The Company eventually found out who had been embellishing who’s resume. He was a very abrasive individual and eventually he was asked to leave. The reason I have all of this information is because of my wonderful former co-workers. They also got positions there. They have kept in touch with me via social media. I am still in touch with them today.

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