If you act like a jerk, expect to be treated like one in return.

And the soldier in this story from Reddit’s “Petty Revenge” page definitely fits into that category!

Check out how this guy made sure that he saw the error of his ways.

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Obnoxious soldier gets what he deserves.

“When I was doing my service in the army (Greece) in 2014, we had one guy (around 18-19 y/o) who always acted like he was better and looked down on everyone else (even the officers).

This guy sounds like a lot of fun…

He wasn’t even pretending to be nice, his behaviour was downright nasty and obnoxious as hell, and always had the most infuriating sarcastic smirk on his face.

One of his worst traits was lying that his leg/arm/head/back etc hurt, to avoid performing his daily service/duty, and of course other people were burdened with them and missed days off because of him.

As usual one morning he complained that he had an issue with his knee. Before going to the doctor, he was standing in front of the stairs smoking and smiling while saying saying how he’s gonna easily avoid another duty.

The same afternoon, a couple of hours after he came back from the doctor, I saw him playing football with some other soldiers. Needless to say I was extremely ****** off.

That day my duty was, as always, the main cook, and he was supposed to have a kitchen/restaurant duty which was of course my domain, and I had some sort of informal power as the head cook and everyone had to obey everything I asked even though I did not have a rank.

When I arrived to the kitchens, I told an officer that the guy is supposed to be in bed under doctors orders and instead he’s playing football as we speak. Apparently his knee did not hurt when it comes to playing, only when it’s duty time.

He told me I must call the guy to the kitchen immediately and if he didn’t comply he would be severely punished. I made the call to the barracks, and the guard yelled at him from the window to quit playing ball and immediately present himself to the kitchens, which of course he ignored and kept playing.

When the second call came, it wasn’t from me and after he was threatened by the officer he literally ran to the kitchens.

It was payback time.

Now it was MY time to dispense justice for all the people he had screwed over including myself. The officer told me I can ask him to do whatever I need doing, and regardless of what I do, he would be severely punished by our commander for lying to the officers and the doctor (oh trust me he was!).

One of the kitchen duties included in his service was cleaning/scrubbing the enormous pans I used to cook large meals. We had like 15 of them and each was so large it could fit 10-12 whole chickens in it.

All of them had been cleaned by the two poor guys who had to do the service without him during lunch. Well I decided I was not satisfied with their cleanliness and he had to scrub each and every one of them, even the ones that hadn’t been used for days.

He protested angrily and tried to manipulate/intimidate me, but I am the cook and you will scrub these pans with your tongue if I say so.

The scrubbing was glorious and his anger delicious. He was cursing every single moment, while I visibly enjoyed myself supervising him. And of course no matter how much he cleaned each pan, there were always some tiny spots here and there, and guess what pal you gotta scrub this one all over again.

It was a loooooong day.

He was scrubbing pans for 4 hours straight until 22:15, before I permitted him to leave. The next day one of the officers found out what he had done and made him clean the entire dumpster compound with only one plastic glove.

On top of all that he received a good yelling from the colonel and 15 days of “prison time” for lying to superior officers, which is quite severe (essentially you can’t go outside the camp and those days stack and the punishments get worse over time).

He kept being annoying, but now he was much less confident and the smirk was wiped from his face from that point onward and of course he was never able to go to the doctors office again without proving he truly had a serious issue.”

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I think it’s safe to say that this soldier learned his lesson.

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