New Firefighter Brags And Lies About Himself On Social Media, So Another Firefighter Printed Out The Social Media Posts And Got Him To Quit
by Jayne Elliott
Bragging about taking advantage of someone else’s kindness and generosity isn’t cool. In today’s story, one young firefighter learns that the hard way.
Another firefighter finds his MySpace account and is shocked at all of the things this young firefighter lies and brags about. He decides to get revenge.
Find out how the story plays out…
Young firefighter disrespects a Lieutenant so I shame him and get him to quit
I’m not sure if this is “Pro” or not, but I got revenge on a jerk I used to volunteer Fire Fight with. This was in the early/mid 2000’s.
I decided to going the local Fire Department as a volunteer fire fighter. I did it for about 5 years and it was great.
Training consisted of 3 months of Fire Training (2 nights a week and all day Saturday) and then you would go to EMT training (another 3 months of training).
I was about a year and I was asked to help train some new recruits.
Meet Amy and Aaron…
One of the Lieutenants, Amy, was a short, middle aged woman who was so full of fire she could make a grown man cry. One of those people who commands both fear and respect where ever she went. Honestly a great Lieutenant and great person.
When she wasn’t being a drill Sargent, she was extremely kind and generous. She would often bake people cakes and treats and deliver them to the various stations in our Department.
However, in this new Academy class that I was asked to help with, there was a cocky kid that we will call Aaron.
Aaron talked big during the training and acted like he was the all American hero. Like he was going to be the leader in Back Draft 2.
Amy treated her whole crew to Claim Jumper.
He performed moderately well in training but far from the top of the class.
He gets assigned to Amy’s station, which is a pretty quiet station in the Department.
A few month after he starts, Amy swings by my station one night to say hi. She brings us the “Motherlode” cake from Claim Jumper (massive 6 layer cake).
She explained that she had treated her crew to a night out a Claim Jumper, which must have cost a lot of money. I think she took out about 8 people and bought a whole cake to top it all off. They had eaten the first 2 layers so she gave us the remaining 4.
We thanked her profusely and she left.
OP found Aaron’s MySpace page and didn’t like what he read.
Back then, the big social media platform was MySpace and I decided to look up some of the people in the department to make friends.
I came across Aaron’s page and I noticed some photos of him and the rest of his crew at Claim Jumper with Amy. However, when I read the comments, he bragged about how he had purposefully ordered the most expensive dinner, appetizers and drinks since Amy was buying.
He bragged about how he was going to take advantage of her “stupidity”.
This alone pissed me off because she was doing this super nice and generous.
What an ungrateful, selfish jerk.
All Aaron did on MySpace was lie and brag.
Then I read the rest of his profile.
He had videos and memes on his page glorifying himself as a tough fire fighter, bragging about running into burning building and how he was such a hero.
He was flirting with girls, blatantly trying to impress them with how brave he is.
Bear in mind, he just graduated from the Academy 3 months prior and hadn’t even gone to EMT school. He had never been to a house fire and all he basically did was carry gear for the other fully qualified fire fighters.
It was too much for me to tolerate.
OP got revenge…
So here is the revenge.
I printed off copies of his MySpace page, including his comments about Amy and toxic bragging. I made multiple copies and took them to every station in the Department.
We all had pagers (God I’m old) and a small keyboard at each station to send out text messages.
I made an anonymous, all staff page to everyone in the department.
I had to keep it brief since I couldn’t fit a ton of characters, but I sent out his MySpace info and to told everyone about how he treated Amy.
Aaron tried to delete the evidence.
Within an hour, Aaron had cleared out his MySpace page of all posts, photos etc.
A couple of days later, he deleted his account.
It’s a good thing I made so many copies 🙂
Here’s how everything worked out for Aaron and Amy…
Immediately after this happened, he stopped coming to volunteer and a few weeks later, I heard that he had quit.
I later talked to Amy and admitted I was the one who sent the page. I told her I hated how he treated her and she thanked me.
She seemed really sad and hurt by what he had done. But being the tough short lady that she was, she quickly got back into being an actual tough fire fighter.
She later started dating and married a Fire Chief that also helped at the Academy. I’ve lost touch with her but I hope she did well. She seemed pretty happy last time I saw her.
I’m glad Aaron quit. He sounded horrible. OP’s revenge was certainly effective!
Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story…
This reader from Australia knows how good Claim Jumper cakes are!
Aaron was not cut out to be a firefighter.
This was definitely pro revenge!
This reader loves the revenge.
Here’s the perspective of a Claim Jumper manager…
He deserved to lose his job!
If you liked that post, check out this post about a woman who tracked down a contractor who tried to vanish without a trace.
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