A couple of them-

Mediocre college and job search job. A guy there and I didn’t like each other. He spent a year undermining me to management and fellow employees. I said little about or to him in that time. Last day I worked there was New Years Day. He wasn’t there.

He was very fastidious about his white coffee cup. Always rinsed out and sitting upside down on a shelf with a sheet of paper towel underneath. I looked at the cup and then a can of red spray paint. A huge aha strolled through my mind.

Took the white cup and sprayed the red paint inside the cup. Let the paint cure thoroughly and returned the cup to its proper resting spot.

The next day he went to have his cup of coffee. Let a helluva of yell seeing my handiwork.

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Was looking for a job. Checked a vending company. They’d just received the contract for the local university. Needed a lot of people. But they probably would be underbid next time losing the contract. Was so-so on taking such a position.

Did the interview. Things seemed to go well. Got called back in a few days later. Manager/ interviewer made me wait 15 or 20 minutes when I got there 5 minutes early. Doing next to nothing. Not on the phone. Not talking to anyone. Maybe pushing some paperwork around on his desk. Looked up briefly without any real eye-contact and said they’d hire me pending the results of a needed drug test.

No problem. Took the test on my way home. Didn’t bother to answer the phone when the vending company called after the test was passed. After that last interaction at their office there was no way I would’ve taken the job. Only did the urine test to cost them money.