This wasn’t actually revenge but it was well earned.

I was promised a job, borrowed money, set up a company, pulled a permit, hired a master electrician. I arranged for a crew of electricians from a nearby city to do the work.

I started the job but was fired after a few weeks. I don’t remember why but I’m sure my inexperience must have played a part. The job was really too much for me. My ambitions exceeded my grasp.

The leader of the crew I had lined up went behind my back to take the job. They told the general contractor they had a master electrician lined up so bought $30,000 of materials on credit and went to work.

I turns out they had been lying about having a master.

My master had already pulled a permit so what they did was called for an inspection using his permit. Unfortunately they screwed the job up. When the inspector called my master asking what was going on the truth came out. The permit was belatedly cancelled, the job was red-tagged, and the crew was fired.

Someone owed the supply house $30,000.

The builder went broke; the house was razed to the ground.

I really didn’t care if they took the job over, it wasn’t mine and they were welcome to it. I wished them well. I even called up the leader of the pack to warn him my master was threatening him with jail time.

The irony is I had offered to allow my master to license the job for them for a portion of the profits. They turned me down.

So it wasn’t revenge, I actually felt sorry for them, but they got what they deserved.

I have since gone on to gain the experience I lacked and set up and ran a successful electrical contracting company for twenty years. My motto was always do the right thing.

It wasn’t theirs.