If you were ever in the drive through at a fast food restaurant and wondered why your order was messed up or what was taking so long, it’s possible that there was a situation like in today’s story where two employees deliberately bully and sabotage the new hires.

One new hire who puts up with it the longest ends up getting revenge in a way the bullies never saw coming.

Let’s see how the story plays out…

McVengeance

Strictly speaking, I was not the one who undertook the revenge here.

But I did play a small part, and it was one of the most rewarding things I have ever experienced in my entire life. It was seriously like something out of a movie.

Back in my college days, I slaved away flipping burgers under the good ol’ golden arches to help pay for my tuition.

It wasn’t a terrible job, all of my co-workers were great people… well, almost all my co-workers.

There were two, let’s call them Bryan Bully and Jerry Jerk, who were workplace bullies.

Both these goons had been at the same place for several years, and thus felt like they had the right to taunt and outright sabotage new crew members.

The rest of us had been around long enough to push back and tell these guys to back off, so they left us alone.

We did what we could to protect newbies that fell under Bryan and Jerry’s wrath, but we couldn’t always be there for them.

Bryan and Jerry would try to sabotage the new hires’ work.

Things that the bullies did to new hires included, but is not limited to:

walking over and clearing the order screen before newbies had time to see what needed to be made

changing settings on the grills/fryers when newbies weren’t looking so that the food wouldn’t cook properly

tampering with the condiment dispensers in various ways

dirtying equipment at the end of the shift so the newbies would have to clean it again

and of course all the usual name-calling, taunting, etc

Management did nothing to stop Bryan and Jerry.

As you can imagine, these antics greatly messed up drive-thru times and genuinely hurt us as a store.

This was all brought up to the managers time and again, nothing much was ever done. The goons would get a stern but spineless talking-to once in a while and that was it.

Bryan and Jerry had worked there forever, considered themselves the head cooks or whatever, and management probably didn’t want to bother hiring a new set of staff, even though a well-trained monkey could do it.

A lot of new hires quit after a few days and blamed it on the bullying, and I can’t say I blame them.

One night was so bad Lance looked like he wanted to cry.

There was one new crew member in particular, though, who stuck around despite getting the worst of it from the bullies.

We’ll call him Lance.

Lance was a good guy, always very pleasant and good to work with even when Bryan and Jerry tormented him. There were times, though, that they got to him.

One night, I found Lance sitting on the hood of his car with his head in his hands after a particularly brutal round of sabotage.

The bullies had cleared his order screen multiple times before he could read it and a lot of angry customers came back with messed up orders, on top of the stress of drive thru times being absolute garbage.

Lance didn’t strike me as a crying man, but you could tell he was just barely holding it together.

Lance and OP both eventually moved on to different jobs.

I asked if he was okay and we talked for a little bit. Lance said not to worry about it because he was going to get the last laugh against those two, but he wouldn’t elaborate further.

We went back inside and I told the bullies to back right off, but they just snickered, as usual. They knew they were virtually immune to discipline unless they straight up murdered someone.

Lance stuck around for about six months, a pretty typical tour of duty for a college town, and then moved on to pursue “other career interests,” as he told me.

I missed him and we stayed in touch for a bit.

I ended up transferring to a university the next town over, which meant transferring to another McDonald’s as well. Ah well, at least I would be free of the goons.

Little did I know, vengeance was coming…

OP was surprised to see Lance.

Fast forward to my last day at that particular McDonald’s.

I had just come in for my shift, along with Bryan and Jerry.

Man, how I hated working with them, but at least it was my last day.

I was a bit early, so I sat in the dining area and played on my phone for a bit before it was time to clock in. I felt a tap on my shoulder and looked up to see my old buddy Lance, who was, to my surprise, wearing a manager’s uniform.

“Hey Lance, my main man!” cue enthusiastic bro hug “Moving up in the world I see!”

Lance smiled and said he had been promoted to assistant manager at another store in the franchise, but had come back to take care of some things.

Turns out that Lance is related to the franchise owner.

An older man was standing behind in a full suit, who Lance introduced me to as his uncle… and the franchise owner.

Lance was the franchise owner’s nephew. The whole time he was doing grunt work and getting awful stuff from the goons, he was the franchise owner’s nephew. My heart rate went up a few notches. I knew it was about to go down.

Lance and the owner disappeared behind the counter. I was not privy to what happened back there with the goons, but of course I asked later what happened.

Bryan and Jerry got fired and possibly worse…

When Lance told his uncle all the stuff that had been going down, he asked Lance to stick around and keep a log of everything.

The goons, after getting an eyeful of Lance in a manager uniform and being informed of his relation to the franchise owner, crapped their collective pants. Not only were they being terminated, they were facing the possibility of legal action for all the stunts they pulled. Something about affecting profits and staff turnover.

Jerry couldn’t bear to even look Lance in the eye, he just kept his head bowed like a child.

Bryan cried and begged for his job.

Lance also put in a good word for OP.

Lance then proceeded to tell them, in front of the owner, that they were the two most worthless pieces of garbage he had ever seen in his entire life, and as their superior, he was personally firing them and barring them from any further employment with the company.

On top of that, Lance put in a good word for me with the owner, so that if I ever wanted a pay increase or promotion at my new location, it would most likely be mine.

I worked at the other McDonald’s for eight months with an extra dollar per hour before graduating and getting a college level job, but I never forgot about the bullies and Lance.

Dude must have had incredible self-control to report for work and put up with them knowing that his uncle would be getting him a manager job anyway.

Sadly I did not keep up with Lance, so I never found out if the bullies were taken to court, but I like to think that they were.

And I like to think that, as former fry-cooks at a fast food joint, they probably were unable to pay up, landing them in a place where they would undoubtedly fit in just fine: jail.

This is a great story of justice. Lance was a really good actor to put up with the bullies without giving away that he was really a spy for his uncle.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted…

This reader made a joke about the title.

Another reader thought the story was “rewarding.”

This reader hopes Lance continued to get promoted.

Here’s a positive experience at McDonald’s…

Unfortunately, the bullies probably didn’t go to court.

I’m going to think about this story every time my order is wrong at McDonald’s.

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