You never know when someone from your past is gonna show up out of nowhere…

That can be a good thing OR it can be an incredibly bad thing for some people.

I’ll go ahead and let you guess what category this story falls into…

Check out what happened!

Block my promotion? I’ll block you from getting hired.

“I was working at a large company with plenty of politics.

Promotions within a division were reviewed by a group of middle managers in from different departments in that division during a live meeting with the head of the division.

I was up for promotion but didn’t get it (I ended up getting it 6 months later but the damage was done – I had sought out other jobs by then, had an offer, and quit).

They found out what was really going on.

A couple of my manager-level friends were in the meeting and told me why I got blocked: a manager from another department, who I hadn’t ever worked with, stood up and argued against my promotion probably because this person was upset that a promotion she had put up was successfully argued against by my own department head.

She had made up some totally untrue bull **** about my performance in order to get her way.

Well, what do you know?!?!

Four years later I’m a department head at a small company when we open a position as head of the function that my promotion blocker was a part of, and sure enough, she applies and is scheduled for an interview when I get contacted by HR because they notice we worked at the same company at the same time.

I remembered her blocking my promotion so I told HR that she wasn’t good, wouldn’t be a good fit, hiring her would be a mistake, blah blah blah.

Got her interview canceled – they just told her that we decided to elevate an internal candidate.

3 years later this small company would end up getting taken out by a larger company for a massive stock price increase over the price we were at when the position opened.

Because we had lots of stock options, I effectively cost her an enormous payday – so satisfying.

That what she gets for being a jerk in a very connected industry.”

Check out what folks had to say about this on Reddit.

This person chimed in.

Another Reddit user shared a story.

This individual spoke up.

Another reader weighed in.

And this individual was impressed.

That was some serious petty revenge!

I daresay Karma was involved.

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