You always need to protect yourself from vindictive people in life, but there is only so much you can do.

What would you do if an old coworker framed you for theft and got you fired?

That is what happened to the guy in this story, so once it was discovered that she was the actual thief, he helped to orchestrate some amazing revenge.

Everything went smoothly and she not only wound up in prison, but even got humiliated years later.

Co-worker gets me fired. My many years waiting for revenge.

If revenge is best served cold, then my revenge was many years in the freezer, and, this week, was finally pulled out and had whipped cream and a cherry put on top put before finally served.

Let’s set the stage.

Here is some background.

So, I worked for Company A for almost a decade that had a small team consisting of ten people doing commissioned work for businesses in my city.

The Owner treated us like family, knowing that we worked long and hard days, sometimes up to 60 hours in a week.

Working for a company that treats you right is a huge blessing.

He paid us better than expected, bonuses and perks he negotiated with businesses that commissioned our work, even gave the whole company a week off paid when his son was getting married so we could attend it.

We had our squabbles like any other family, and things weren’t always bright and perfect, but this is to show how nice Owner treated his employees. And didn’t screw me over.

You can’t get every job you apply for.

After working there for years, the manager position came open. Since by then I was one of the most senior workers with Company A, so I thought I would apply, which had a few others interested do as well.

I didn’t get the position, mainly because, despite my experience at Company A, I didn’t have a Business Administration degree.

Going back to school is a good idea.

Someone who worked for Owner did, so he got it. Realizing the education I would have to get, and the demand of this job, I thought long and hard and concluded that, if I wanted to go anywhere in life, I would have to get that degree.

Coming right of high school to work for Company A was great, but if I wanted to do something more I would have to go to university.

It is good that the owner of the company was understanding.

I talked to the Owner and gave my two weeks notice.

When I explained what I wanted to do and why, he understood that I was trying to make something of myself. This all becomes relevant later, I promise.

Working to avoid college debt is a good idea.

Going to university, I found that I had tuition covered through government grants but not things like food, rent, etc.

So, I looked around and eventually found work at Company B. Company B was a retail store, with a bigger staff than I had been used to, somewhere around 50 employees, but had such a huge employee turnaround that it was scary at times.

Ok, this is a good enough job.

They dealt with a wide arrange of goods from groceries to very expensive items. They had a certain niche clientele that they could order items for and catered to.

I ended up working part-time in their warehouse and answered to the Warehouse Supervisor, who answered to the Manager. There were other supervisors for other parts of the store, but for this only the Sales Supervisor is relevant.

He is moving up with this company.

Skip forward seven years. In that time I got my BA degree and worked at Company B the whole time, going from part time to full and eventually applied for the Warehouse Supervisor position.

I was interviewed, got the job, been supervisor for months when the Manager and I hired K as a warehouse clerk.

K isn’t the one to get the revenge, but she played a crucial part in the revenge.

And here is the antagonist of the story.

Then Brenda gets hired.

Brenda started out as a cashier, working quickly up the chain and brown-nosing as many co-workers as possible, including the Manager.

When a sales rep went on maternity leave, Brenda quickly jumped at the chance to work in sales and ended up permanently being a part of that team then the Sales Supervisor soon after.

They really don’t get along.

Me and Brenda got along like oil and water. We butted heads over things constantly; she would tell the Manager all the small things that I did, but called me a snitch when I reported the issues she was causing.

She would badmouth me and my warehouse staff, talk over me at meetings and try to take credit for my ideas. She openly told co-workers that I was the cause of many issues and couldn’t wait for me to leave.

Looks like she won in the end.

Oh, and she was NEVER at fault. It would be the customers fault, my fault, the delivery drivers fault, another co-workers fault, etc.

There were times when we got together well, but far and few between.

I get fired.

Let’s see what happened.

So, one day, a very, and I mean VERY, expensive ring set (over $5,000 I found out later), ordered by one of our customers, comes in.

Years ago I set up a procedure for any type of jewellery so that it will not get lost or stolen. The last step is, once we have done everything with it in the warehouse, we take it to the office and have someone put it in the safe immediately.

Don’t trust her.

This particular time, I was the one who received the rings so, once going through the procedure, told K that I was taking it to the office.

The only one available who had the combination to the safe was Brenda. I asked her if she could open the safe, she looked at me, looked at the jewelry box in my had, then said, ‘put it down here on my desk, I’ll put it away once I’m done this email’.

I can see where this is going.

Keep in mind that me and the Brenda had had a serious spat over something earlier that day, and I generally didn’t feel like being close to her if I could help it.

So, I never saw her put it in the safe myself.

You know that Brenda is going to lie.

The next day, I get a call from the Manager to come to the office. I head there to find Manager, Brenda, and the HR consultant they pull in when some real **** hits the fan.

Manager tells me that said ring set has disappeared. I tell them the procedure I followed and last I saw them was with Brenda.

She definitely took the rings.

Manager tells me that Brenda checked the box and that said box was empty. Manager then pulls the box out.

Sure enough, the box the rings were in was indeed empty. I swear to Manager that the rings were inside when I checked them before given to Brenda.

She threw him under the bus without hesitation.

At this point, it’s my word against hers; by stroke of bad luck, the in-store video recorder had broken down days before the incident so there was no way to verify what happened.

We all know someone has to take the blame for this, and that’s when Brenda strikes, saying that it was my fault, since it was last seen in my hands.

He has to take the fall.

Manager asks if this is true, then I realize that, yes, I was indeed the last person to touch the thing, and I never actually saw Brenda pick up the box.

Brenda gives me the look of that screamed ‘Gotcha!’. Manager and the HR consultant ask us both to leave.

There isn’t much he can do at this point.

After what seemed like forever, I get called in. Manager tells me that, since I was responsible for the rings at the time and now are lost, they would be firing me.

But, since they had no proof as to whether I stole the rings or not, they wouldn’t press charges (which scared the crap out of me as this was the first time I heard of them thinking this).

He isn’t doing well at this point.

I go back to the warehouse, tell K and the other warehouse clerks just what happened, grabbed my personal belongings and left that day.

After a couple weeks of trying to get my head around what happened and weighing my options, I decide my first priority is to try to get some sort of job, and consider it lucky if I get a job flipping burgers with the bad rep when they ask Company B.

Timing couldn’t be better.

I call the Owner of Company A to get a good reference from them and explain what happened and why I was calling, only to get the shock of a lifetime.

The manager position was about to be open; the guy who I lost the position to was retiring soon, due to complicated health reasons.

What a stroke of luck.

Owner had kept tabs on me while at university and understood when I didn’t immediately come back to him, but with a golden opportunity like this, he wanted me back and I wasn’t going to say no.

I dive into my new job I originally wanted with an Owner I enjoyed working for. I thought, then and there, everything would be behind me, not knowing it would come back, not to bite me, but to pay dividends.

This could be a happy ending, but there is more.

The Revenge – K’s Side

This I found out after Brenda’s Reckoning. After I was fired, K knew she had to do something about Brenda.

K knew that I wouldn’t lose or steal something like the rings. But also knew that, without proof, Brenda would deny that she did it and have K in her cross-hairs to attack next.

What is the plan going to be?

So, after talking with her husband, she hatched a plan.

She started hanging out with Brenda, telling her things like ‘I’m SO glad he’s gone!’ or ‘Wish he had been fired MUCH earlier!’

Brenda, feeling high from getting rid of one of her thorns in her side, soaked it all in, and after a couple weeks, invited K and K’s Husband (from now on KH) for drinks at her place with her and Brenda’s Husband (BH).

Keep your enemies close.

Months pass, K and KH do things regularly together with Brenda and BH, including drinking on weekends and couple-related events.

When together, K would occasionally bad-mouth me, and Brenda would agree. Finally, after over a year of playing nice, when K and KH were over at Brenda’s for one of their drinking parties, K randomly bad-mouthed me, mentioning the rings in passing.

I can’t believe she admitted it.

Then Brenda says something that K was waiting for:

I wanted those rings, so I stole them.

K, hearing this, asks for more details. KH looks at her tries to wave her off with one hand, then gives up when Brenda keeps talking.

What an awful person.

That day, Brenda had stopped writing her email and was going to put the rings in the safe. The safe was open and she was about to put the rings away when Brenda had an idea.

See, as mentioned above, Brenda wanted me gone from Company B. She also wanted those rings.

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She had way too much to drink.

She also knew that the cameras weren’t working. She figured that she could pocket the rings, tell the Manager they were missing, and spin it so I would take the blame.

K then asks where are the rings now, and Brenda, being too drunk and not seeing a reason not to brag, not only tells her, but shows her where they are in her room.

Wow, that couldn’t have gone better.

All while KH had been RECORDING THE WHOLE CONVERSATION on his phone (the hand waving was him saying he started recording).

K gives a copy of the recording to Manager the next work day. Police are called immediately, Brenda is arrested and her house is raided.

They find the rings. K and KH give the recording and testimonies to police. Brenda’s Reckoning has begun.

Wait, there is more?

Revenge – My side

I get a call from the prosecutor’s office after Brenda is arrested and charged with theft over $5000, among other things.

He wants me to testify about what she did to me. I didn’t skip a beat in saying yes.

Brenda is finally going to pay.

Fast track to the trial, prosecutor has me, K, and KH testify and plays the recording of Brenda admitting that she stole them.

Her attorney tries to throw out the case saying that K got Brenda deliberately drunk, but judge didn’t buy it, since there was proof she drank all the time.

Honestly, five years in prison seems excessive for theft.

Judge was lenient and gave her five years in prison, which she yelled was unfair, but I personally thought she got off easy.

Meanwhile, as the trial was happening, I was talking with a lawyer to sue Brenda for setting me up like she did.

She can’t maneuver her way out of this.

We were also going to sue Company B for wrongful termination, but they settled the day they got notice of the lawsuit and knew they would lose.

Brenda wasn’t so lucky. They tried some trickery by having BH divorce her and he received everything in the divorce, but my lawyer added him into the lawsuit as well.

He is going to get a lot out of this.

My lawyer asked overall for $3500 for emotional distress, back pay from when I was fired until I started up with Company A again and legal fees.

And now, you are wondering where the metaphoric cherry is on this story?

The revenge isn’t over yet.

Well, recently we had someone leave Company A, so we were hiring someone to replace them.

Owner was going over the resumes and set up interviews for the job this week. Lo and behold, Brenda was one of the people to apply, but he didn’t know that.

Her heart must have sunk.

I looked at the resume, was about to trash it, but then smiled. Owner set up the interview. She came in at her slotted time, looking to brown-nose her way through.

Then she saw me. I smiled an evil smile, she went white. All I said was, ‘Ah, Brenda, how are you? Remember me?’

She knew she wasn’t getting the job.

A deer in the headlight look from her. I look at her resume and say ‘I’m sorry, I do not think you will be a good fit for our company. Thank you for applying.’

She said not one word and left.

Wow, that is a lot of revenge. If this is true, it is quite an epic story.

Let’s see what the people in the comments have to say about it.

It is unlikely that this part was true.

This does seem unrealistic.

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His friend really deserves a big thank you.

He must have been a good guy.

It is hard to believe that this story is true, but I sure hope it is. This woman sounds awful, and she deserves what she got.

It is great when terrible people get revenge done upon them.