Ok, so at my job, which is only on Saturday nights, I'm a photo tech at a local newspaper. I've worked here for almost 4 years and since the day I got here, there was this girl, about my age, who absolutely hated me. Last year I found out she had somehow gotten onto my internet history and email even though I delete the history every night before I go home. But tonight I came in to work and sat down and said something like 'Damn, looks like no one's cleaned out the folders in a while on here!' (referring to the files on my computer of photos) and a co-worker says 'Yeah, Deloris isn't here anymore.' And I pause while this joy suffuses my being and go 'Oh? Where'd she go?' and my co-worker says 'She's been laid off.' I won't lie, the song 'Ding Dong the Witch is Dead' went off in my head. And I immediately texted my best friend who knows the whole situation I've had to deal with with this girl. I can't even bring myself to feel bad for the girl...she's been such a horrible person that she deserved this. I mean, yeah, I know how hard it is to come by a job in this time, but doesn't that mean you should do everything in your power to keep what you have (like not be a bitch to everyone at your job)? I just feel like karma finally came through on this one. So here's to you, karma!

tl;dr: This bitch at work got laid off and I'm HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY.

Anyone else have something happen like this lately? Something bad happening to someone else, but they so had it coming that you couldn't bring yourself to feel bad?

I totally tried to reason with her. I talked to her when she came in, I was always polite to her, I never said a cross word to her. I think when I started she just decided to hate me for funsies. I'm usually kind to everyone, unless someone tries to straight up harm me or my family/friends. I even go out of my way to help others. But this girl...as you say, 'some people are just out to be spiteful and horrid'...that pretty much sums her up perfectly.

I love your ha, btw...that is SO cute with the flower on the fox's ear!

Maybe she'll learn to be a nicer person as a result? One can hope!

[edit] Well, if that was the reason she was fired.

OMG I had a similar experience within this last week! One of my managers, who I absolutely hated, was laid off. He was very rude, and would call a lot of my coworkers names such as sluts, would make inappropriate comments, and he was just difficult to work with. Finally, a group of people went to the owner about this, and he was fired.

One of my friends was repeatedly blowing me off to hangout with his other friends. When we finally got time together, he confided that he was feeling down about his best friend blowing him off repeatedly to hangout with her other friends. It took SO MUCH in me to not yell "HOW DOES IT FEEL?!" and instead say, "I'm sorry to hear that, that must suck."

Ooh. I probably wouldn't have been so calm, lol. I would have been all "Yeah...meaningful stare Doesn't feel so good, does it."

nice

OMG! My ex boss - shes' a nice lady and all... but then again she really isn't. I worked at a bead store, and I'm an professional jewelry designer, and I LOVED my job! I loved working with the products and the customers that came in. I made a very strong rapport with customers and had MANY customers tell me they only come in when I'm there. Made me feel really good about working there and the work I do. I know that I had many customers come back because of me, brought on repeat customers because of me. But my boss, she didn't like this at all - me spending too much time with the customers. She'd rather have me get my work done than spend more than 5 minutes with a customer. Uuuhm.. I have been going to college for 5 years obtaining my bachelors of business administration. And throughout my schooling, AND my past experience working at department stores helping customers, I have learned ONE thing when it comes to customers. The customers always come FIRST, AND the customer 95% of the time are right. Even if you know you're right, in order to save face of the company you represent AND your own face, just agree with the customer they're right. Only in order to keep that customer from blowing up and making a scene... whatever.

So I have been working there for 7 years. I have earned a lot of loyalty and tenure, which doesn't really come along with the job description. Apparently, to my boss, I'm replaceable. But when it comes to MY customers, I really are not. So my boss, the first few months of working there were great! I had so much fun getting to know my boss and other co workers AND customers AND learning so much more about the products we sell. After a few months go by, my boss starts yelling at me. She becomes this mean ugly nasty hateful spiteful monster! I had NO idea what I did to warrant such anger from her! Over the years, her business had suffered. Where once we were making over 2k a day down to barely making $200 a day. Yah, it got BAD... but I also believe, not only due to the crappy economy we have now, but also to the fact that Jill (my boss) told a lot of customers they weren't welcome to come back because the customer got angry with her over returns, repairs, whatever. Jill would blow up and tell them they aren't welcome to come back. And I had to witness this many times, and I'd look at the customer and they'd look at me and I could see in their eyes the shock and anger... I understood. I also understood (tho it is difficult TO understand) Jill's declining behavior. She used to be so nice and easy going, but when her business went south, she started turning into this mean and angry and frustrated person that nobody wanted to deal with. SO I, me, get the brunt end of the stick. I am the only one she singled out to punish on a daily basis. She would yell at me in front of customers, and because of that, there have been reports on Yelp.com about how they felt uncomfortable about the manager yelling at an employee and they had to put down their stuff and leave... And there were more than one comment stating this. And there were people joining my side because they would see first hand how crappy Jill treated me. And they KNEW what kind of employee I was and were shocked she treated me like I was some uneducated, idiot of an employee. She didn't know WHAT she was risk losing during all this abuse. She would yell at me, get frustrated with me, treat me like SHIT, in the front and in the back. You could HEAR her yelling at me in the back room!

One time a customer came in and told her that they had to wake me up from sleeping at the counter. Heh... I have NEVER fallen asleep at the counter... and when I did close my eyes to relax (I take some strong pain medicine due to severe disabilities) and they do make me tired. But I have NEVER fallen asleep at the counter, especially when a customer is in the store! But for some reason, a customer told this to Jill. The next day I came in to work, she called me to the back. She told me what was said and I said well can I defend myself? And she said "NO! DAMMIT YOU'LL ONLY PISS ME OFF MORE AND IT WON'T DO YOU ANY GOOD" I'm like, WTF??? I can't defend myself over this insidious story? With the IRS and other government organizations after her monies, her anger and short temper grew stronger. And so did the abuse on me. Oh how I started to DESPISE HER! By the last two years, I said I have HAD IT! I would call my mom up on the way home from work crying my eyes out over what Jill did to me that day. My mom grew a great bitter taste in her mouth over this and her. So she only stayed friends with her for my sake - in order for me to keep my job because who knows what Jill would do to me if my mom and her got into it. So for my job safety, mom played the "friendship" game with her. By the last six months of working there, I had come to the decision that I HATED her GUTS! I despised her, didn't even want to be around her, and hated even talking about her. She moved her store to a cheaper rent place, which I do hope turns into something promising for the store, but if she continues that attitude towards employees AND the customer, she's gonna find herself with employees quitting and customers not coming back.

So, I don't work there anymore due to severe health disabilities, which is fine with me because work was getting more difficult for me physically. But I will always carry this bitter anger towards her.... unless she comes to me and actually apologizes to me, then I may change my opinion about her. But as she is now, she will always think she's right, ALWAYS.

She, deserved it! I dislike people who don't respect other peoples boundaries.