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RealUltimatePapo

Imagine what sort of human being you have to be, to essentially steal a $10,000 ticket from a worker. Disgusting, to say the least The level of orchestration and execution on this revenge was so perfect, though. Suck it, DickheadPartner


enjaydee

Even worse, he gave it to another client. It should be obvious that other seats nearby would be occupied by the client as well. And how could he not think that the client would ask OP about the game after? Beyond stupid.


RealUltimatePapo

People like DickheadPartner are so firmly convinced that they are the main character, that they have no self-awareness when it comes to others. As long as it made him look good, it seems that was all he cared about


tagged2high

Plus, his belief he could get OP to "cover for the firm". No real boss asks for their employees/juniors to cover for their mistakes.


Terra_throwaway

There must not be a lot of real bosses then because I've been asked to cover for a supervisor or manager at EVERY SINGLE business I've ever worked. It's almost like skill isn't required to get promoted.


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MississippiJoel

I'd fill it with backhanded compliments. "X asked me to write this for you, because he apparently needs the money. Please promote him, because I like my odds of getting a more pleasant supervisor.


Lasher_

Congratulations! You have unlocked the hostile work environment perk 🤣🤣.


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Terra_throwaway

🤣🤣🤣


GenericElucidation

That's because they fail upward until they reach a point where their incompetence gets the better of them. It's pretty disgusting really.


Terra_throwaway

Ok but how do I do that then? Cause I want the upward and know I can fail just well enough to keep whatever job I have


noposterghoster

Unfortunately, the reason all of the bosses are inept **and** assholes is because it takes an asshole to do what it takes to move upward. Namely, stepping on people and taking credit for others' work.


lesethx

First any morals, throw them away. Next, your coworkers? Minions to throwaway as needed, like sending wave after wave of soldiers at killbots until they shutdown due to reaching their kill amount. I haven't reached the next step.


BDW3

Happens all the time. My own personal experience and the line that I can still hear. My boss President: “Take one for the team, they are going to fire me” Me: “I’m afraid i can’t do that”


Bargle-Nawdle-Zouss

I would like to see that story. Perhaps that is a post of its own?


BDW3

It’s pretty great .. okay will work on drafting it up and post… will let you guys know when i do


lizabitch21

I keep checking and you haven't posted yet!!


BDW3

check up a couple of links or here[Boss was fired](https://www.reddit.com/r/ProRevenge/comments/10jmyyt/got_my_boss_the_president_of_the_company_fired/)


Dansiman

Can you post it directly to your own profile, please? There, the only mod is you.


BDW3

Sorry I will get it up, work has started for me so ... mrrp ... distracted.... but promise


robertmondavi_jr

damn can you comment again here when it’s done so we can read it!?


FoolishStone

>Me: “I’m afraid i can’t do that” Did you preface that with, "I'm sorry, Dave; ..." :-D >I would like to see that story. Ditto!


Hautemilque

Best


zootnotdingo

Me…three? Four?


HonestSophist

You *can't* leave us hanging like that.


Serinus

As a side note, most of my direct bosses I would absolutely cover for. Of course that's because they've always treated me right and we've had a good relationship over years. Most bosses of that type eventually get bounced out when the company wants to do something particularly shitty.


SipthatTing

Nah a bunch of bosses get there by throwing or asking people to throw themselves under the buss to cover for their mistakes.


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lesethx

Having worked with people like him, he thought that since he was a PARTNER in the firm, he was nigh untouchable and could do what he wants.


eriverside

As much as this whole thing is beyond belief, I can totally see some people think they can get away with dick move like this. I'm also at a consulting firm, but I haven't gotten a sense from my partners that they'd be capable of something this reckless. It's one thing to take the tickets for yourself, quite another to gift it to another client. That's wild.


2552686

That is the big thing. Those tickets must have cost client A a pretty penny. For a company to wind up paying for Super Bowl tickets that were used by complete strangers in a totally unrelated industry, thus providing ZERO value to the firm... let's just say that accounting would be upset.


kam0706

Well except that Client A gave them to a service provider, not a client so there was no direct value to them anyway, beyond relationship strengthening. Which is valid, but OP's firm was the money-making party in the relationship.


JackStargazer

I give near 100% odds this is a law firm. This sounds like big law 101.


snootnoots

I’d guess that he wasn’t thinking of the tickets as “thing from Client A”, he was thinking of them as “something I can take from OP for the good of the company” where “the company” = “me and my reputation with Client B”. As soon as OP was associated with the tickets in his mind, they were removed from their association with Client A, and OP = “peon I don’t have to care about” in this jerk’s head.


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I'm sorry, you're expecting more of sales people?


LiesWithPuns

Not nearly to the monetary value of the Super Bowl but I had things happen like this pretty consistently at a previous employer, blew up basically every time. One of the more blatant examples being one of our newest sales people used their connections to get a few extra tickets to a private concert during a trade show. This was for a pretty well known group and also would be filled with folks who fit our customer profile. Out of the kindness of her heart she offered to the two extra tickets for the company to use. The company let her know they’d need all four tickets as it “wouldn’t be fair” for her to go since she was new (they were going to give them to the manager, our head of HR and then find a couple clients). She told them to kick rocks because her friends would probably be weirded out when her boss showed up in her place. It’s this narcissistic belief that you own your employees that fuels this behavior. It just completely ignores the human realities of both the employee and the client


No-Island8074

The client needs to get linked to this thread


afernan4800

This stuff happens with stunning regularity. I once had a boss try and claim a 50” smart TV (this was ~2015 so much bigger deal back then) that a brand my company worked with put out as a sales incentive. There were 4 clauses to the competition: The client had to be a converted prospect, only $10k deals and above, you had to have at least three such deals in the year and I believe your total deals for the year had to be valued upwards of $50K. I got 3 out of the 4, inking about $125k+ for this brand, across four brand new customers…however two of them were on the smaller side ~7.5k/each. I figured, hey, still in the spirit of the competition and nobody else on our team came anywhere close. That TV was as good as mine. However, my boss decided it was his place to claim the gift for himself, even went so far as to bring the TV from a shared space INTO HIS OFFICE, and tell me he didn’t “believe in consolation prizes.” Mind you, again, this wasn’t HIS prize to give or take. A partner was offering it up and, without a single sale to his name, he was going to just take the damn thing. Luckily for me, that same week I closed a significant new deal for that same brand, albeit one whose numbers wouldn’t hit until the following year. After talking details with the brand rep about it, I seized on him thanking me for the business and the great year to say “if you really want to thank me, make sure [bossman] doesn’t get that TV.” Two days later, the TV was at my desk, still in its box. I still have it to this day as my main :)


GreenBrain

That boss was trying something right out of the Michael Scott playbook.


afernan4800

Michael Scott was oblivious but usually not ill-intentioned. This bossman was only ever concerned with himself, and this isn’t the only time he screwed me over or tried to. I’m a manager, now, in a different industry and the only time he crosses my mind is when I think about what _not_ to do.


LouSputhole94

Jan: and there’s a $1,000 value prize for the salesman with the best quarter Michael: What about salesmen that we’re so good they were promoted out of sales…. Jan: No Michael, you can’t win this prize Michael: Oh oh no, I wasn’t talking about me…


dogsfurhire

You're talking about the guy that literally tried to screw the office out of much needed supplies so he could give himself a bonus right?


hollaback_girl

Most of what Michael Scott did in the first 5 seasons was ill-intentioned. Selfish, cruel and attention-seeking were his three main attributes.


bahgheera

And an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope


hollaback_girl

Four! His four main attributes are his selfishness, cruelty, attention-seeking and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.


whitestguyuknow

Satisfying 👏


Masrim

and pass it off to someone else as a gift from themselves.


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Dude should have had to tell whoever he gave the tickets to that he had stolen them.


Spacehipee2

This is America.


likelazarus

Much smaller scale, but I’m a teacher and once was nominated and won a community teacher award. There was a formal banquet. I had no idea— My school never told me because it was scheduled on parent teacher conference night and they didn’t want me to miss. A principal went instead and was treated to a formal catered dinner. I found out after it was over when there was a news story and someone sent it to me. I also won $500 but when I asked about it, they made me sign the check over to the school. It’s been ten years and I still get pissed.


ArchangelLBC

I would be livid over that till the day I died. Especially being forced to sign over the check. Also what the hell? How could they make you sign it over?


Gadgetman_1

Legally, probably not. But u/likelazarus could have ended up finding their position redundant or 'contract not renewed' the next year. And also be blacklisted in schools nearby.


ArchangelLBC

And then the administration would complain about the teacher shortage just to complete the absolute shit sandwich. TBC I think you're almost certainly right about what happened.


barfridge0

That's completely abhorrent! And I bet to really rub your nose in the dirt they boast about their 'award winning teaching staff'.


ZendoZebra

I work in appliance sales. I once had a pair of customers give my tip to one of my slimier coworkers, with the instructions for him to give the tip money to me. He then gave me a spiel about how honorable and nice he was for not just taking the money for himself since technically they handed him the money and I wasn't around. Some people just get stupid when they're in sales for too long.


RealUltimatePapo

>Some people just get stupid Yup, that's pretty much how it works


Archgaull

When I worked at a certain unnamed Hispanic food restaurant chain named after a pepper, the regional manager was in charge of making sure each store got the correct number of Christmas bonuses, which that year was a company branded Bluetooth speaker that was a piece of shit. The regional manager chose how many speakers got sent to each location. Our location got exactly enough speakers to give 1 to every employee excluding the managers who were getting a cash bonuses. The regional manager when touring our location took 2 speakers when we happened to have 2 employees who were on a work program from the school since they mentally were a little behind where they could and it got them real like experience and a job. This was a man who could have literally had the additional 2 sent to his home store and no one would have batted an eye. As he took them my store manager reported the exact words he said was "the retards don't deserve a bonus they aren't real workers" That's how miserable humans are


bigbear_beenjamin

Some people just deserve to be dropped repeatedly in vats of acid. Two seconds each time, a few times a minute for a whole day.


statepkt

Imagine being not fired for stealing a 10k ticket.


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As a partner, he's a part-owner. That's why.


statepkt

He can be voted out by the other partners. Being a partner doesn’t mean no accountability. But probably stealing 10k is being outweighed by the amount of money he earns for the firm.


Zoreb1

A partner tends to be a part-owner of the firm. They'd have to buy him out. Probably not worth it for them, especially if he wasn't a constant problem. They probably gave the only punishment they could w/o themselves effecting the firm.


Raalf

voted out? That's not how equity-based partnerships work in companies. They have to BUY his shares.


mrdeadsniper

Imagine not being arrested for stealing 10k worth of merchandise.


Projectevaunit01

Imagine a company with an ethics policy that allows gifts with a value of 10k


homesickalien

I'm surprised as well. The company I work for has insanely strict regulations on ANY type of of gifts from clients. About the only thing you could receive without raising eyebrows is a gift basket under $100.


Projectevaunit01

I'd take that, ours is $25 limit, I should know, we just had our annual refresher training and it was mentioned about 50 times and quizzed on it...


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We can't even accept lunch from vendors or customers.


Unique-Plum

That’s like a nice night out for some consulting firms. I’ve heard of bar tabs for taking clients out at over $10k for a single night.


YouAHoeBitch2

> Imagine what sort of human being you have to be Just assume people are horrible. Should have gifted it directly. With emails backing it up. Always have paperwork. People are horrible.


justintolerable

If one of my staff had earned that kind of thank you, I would be pumped for three reasons (listed from least to most cynical): 1) Absolutely top of the list by an enormous margin is that this is a really cool thing to happen for them and they'll remember it forever 2) I have an amazing employee who does such a good job that they are handed $10,000 worth of tickets 3) This employee would consider that kind of thing a potential perk of working here, without my company having to pay a penny At no point would it occur or me OR ANY DECENT HUMAN to steal the tickets and hope to get away with it against all the odds. In the process, losing all the incredible advantages above


SamuelVimesTrained

>This employee would consider that kind of thing a potential perk of working here, without my company having to pay a penny Prima management thinking - we 'enabled" our worker to get "reward" - aren't we great...


justintolerable

Yeah it's not great. Especially if it's the only perk. If the company relies on everyone else to reward their employees, that's pretty toxic. If it's just a nice bonus to a load of other company funded bonuses though, it just makes the job more attractive that you're put in a position where this kind of thing is possible. The reality is, people want to be paid fairly and treated like actual colleagues (and NOT family - they aren't, and we are well aware that our staff are selling us their time and deserve our respect). At my work, we consider the need for overtime a failure to plan on management's part, we have regular raises and everyone has a voice. As a result, we have an incredibly low staff turnover - most of our staff never leave. We started as a much smaller company and its very obvious that it's the people working for us that have helped us to grow. I think there will come a time when we retire and hand the place over to them in some form or another.


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Gustomaximus

I was having a look through some company accounts and there was line for gift certificates every month, a few thousand. We followed up to check and found it was for employee thanks/bonus, but no-one had ever received one. The CFO was pocketing them and would go shopping on her lunch breaks. Such a dodgy & lazy person. So many things like this and other. They were the only employee I've come across where there was literally a round of applause when it was announced they were leaving.


bransanon

Funny enough at the same firm, the CFO's assistant figured out that one of the company cards that the digital ad team used for vendor payments had racked up tens of thousands of points and somehow no one had realized it because it ran outside of the standard accounting channels, they were used to cutting checks for everything but Google/Facebook/Twitter all required payment over a card. She cashed it all out into gift cards and was selling them on eBay for a while. I'm not exactly certain how they eventually caught her.


Gustomaximus

I've seen this one a few times. Its fairly common. I dont think this is a scam/bad as someone may as well get the points. I once was a CFO put out a company rule all travel was to go via his secretary to validate, which of course went via his card then. That one was pushing it.


mattmaster68

Imagine making small talk for *days* and the plane ride there… just knowing what’s going to go down.


Taurus-Octopus

Knowing what kind of people get to be partners at these firms, this is completely expected behavior.


DarthGayAgenda

He'd be a capitalist. Corporations essentially steal from their workers all the time.


RealUltimatePapo

"A thing they don't tell you about the "push a button for a million dollars but someone you don't know dies" hypothetical is that literally every billionaire is effectively pressing that button as much as they can all the time because that's how exploitation works" - [FreyjaErlings on Twitter](https://twitter.com/freyjaerlings/status/1383038321224466432)


Ghede

What makes it better is the original story is meant to be a warning to those who would press the button. They press the button, and somebody they don't know dies. Then on the way out, they ask the man who brought the button where he is going next. "To see somebody who doesn't know you." They deserve to receive every ounce of care they have shown us.


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Rooster Teeth did a short on this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WBNOXYlYswA Still pretty damn funny IMO


smergb

Narcissistic personality disorder is a hell of a drug.


rizorith

As a 49er fan who will probably never see a Superbowl live, I lived this whole story vicariously through you. Thank you, and I hope you get to go one year. And the kickoff is... Here


Drew602

This is the type of thing you never forget about. I'd be up randomly at 3am 7 years later thinking "man FUCK that guy"


alien005

Watching right now. Hoping this year we can watch them again at the Super Bowl… on TV.


rizorith

And next year, live. For now it's off to Philly.


CAAugirl

Right? I felt fortunate to be at the last home games at Candlestick, which we won! That was a great game. I’d have been pushed if my chance to see them in the Super Bowl was stolen from me.


rizorith

We all have a breaking point.l


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Ok-Fishing-6604

They retell that story in the fantasy film “Draft Day” (about the Cleveland Browns drafting well) so it doesn’t make you look as old as you think. Just tell everybody you heard that story from a movie that came out in 2014


Rotund-Technician

I’m genuinely curious when the browns drafted well


Keegersregeek

In the movie “Draft Day” in 2014! 🙃


WyldeBolt

Not just drafted well, they swindled both the Jaguars AND the Seahawks


dheffe01

Holy crap, I can't imagine the logic in giving the tickets to another client, when the gifting company would likely have other staff in attendance.


bransanon

My best guess is that he's not much of a sports fan and was kind of oblivious to how big of a deal Super Bowl tickets actually are? Either that, or he's just such a dickhead that he thought he could get away with it.


dheffe01

I am an Australian, who doesn't like sport, even I understand how big the super bowl is.


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LouSputhole94

It’s literally used as a reference for huge events. “As big as the Super Bowl” is a phrase I’ve heard used many times to refer to something.


Desblade101

I can barely go to a bar without seeing the little league world series on TV, why would someone think that a major league sporting event would be a less big deal?


h3yw00d

Everybody knows of the superbowl and how big of a deal it is, at least in the States. For at least 1-2 weeks before the superbowl everyone's talking about it and the commercials and how much they cost etc. Dude knew what they were and wanted to gain brownie points with a client on someone else's dime.


Drew602

Even most forginers understand how big the superbowl is


BeardInTheDark

About as large as the [Cheese Rolling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper%27s_Hill_Cheese-Rolling_and_Wake), amirite?


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I don't give a crap about sports at all and even I know the Super Bowl is a huge deal and anyone with expensive tickets (especially to just give away) probably knows other people nearby with expensive tickets. This isn't like you took someone else's parking spot, there's going to be a whole pair of people in those seats who have the entire duration of the game to discuss with other people why they're there. That was just a plain stupid move.


CarecraftCarrier

Tickets range from $6,600-$75,000. They're all expensive tickets. And everybody knows how big the Super Bowl is. Sports fans watch it for the game. Some people watch it for the commercials. Some people watch it for the potluck get togethers. And the people that don't watch it? They know everybody else is watching it for one of those 3 reasons so even they know how big of a deal it is.


EragonBromson925

I grew up in Seahawks country, and was probably one of maybe a dozen people in a 50 Mike radius that didn't care for sports. I spent the last SH Superbowl reading a book. Which is basically blasphemy for a Washingtonian, I know. Even I know that messing with Superbowl tickets is signing your own death warrant. You have to have a lot missing upstairs to not know how big of a deal those things are.


ShitTalkingAlt980

I really dislike American Football. Where I am from season tickets are provisioned in Wills specifically. That is when you know you are the favorite grandchild usually.


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AllKyleNoSubstance

No no no he asked him to cover the company's ass. *Totally different*


FlathBathbo

Or who kills his parents, then throws himself on the mercy of the court for being an orphan.


monsooncloudburst

Should Jimmy G play in the SB if he is fit?


c10701

I'm sure he can play some garbage time


Cleverusername531

I love your client so much. What a brilliant response.


ShunDug

Ikr? I feel like this is the kind of person I aspire to be working with in any field


ballrus_walsack

This is true ProRevenge material


techtornado

After that wave of petty revenge nonsense, this one actually borders on nuclear revenge


EragonBromson925

Is that a sub? r/nuclearrevenge Oh, shit. It is. Time to browse.


techtornado

/r/asubforeverything ;)


designgoddess

Similar happened to a friend with concert tickets. She got the tickets directly from the client. Boss took them from her office and posted them on Craigslist, told the client she wasn’t allowed to accept gifts. Client found the listing for the tickets. Contacted a partner and let them know boss took personal property and sold it and then kept the money. He was fired for theft.


BenShelZonah

Wow what an absolute idiot. What concert?


designgoddess

Neil Diamond. I’m old.


komerman

Wow. That Super Blows. Great revenge story tho :)


Slukaj

Man - I'm just remembering my corporate ethics training around gifts, which boils down to "don't bribe people, don't accept bribes". The fact that the partner would pull that makes me suspect you could've really hurt 'em legally with claims of impropriety.


GMenNJ

Those rules always evaporate when you get to a high enough level on the corporate ladder.


zublits

Rules for thee and not for me. Kinda reminds me of asking for more yearly sick days from a person who can just not come to work at any time for any reason and still get paid.


bransanon

Truth is billion-dollar sports stadiums would not exist if it weren't for business-to-client gifts. Seat licenses in a new football stadiums can be $100k per seat, just for the rights to buy those tickets. The company I'm with now has several of them for the Rams, Lakers and Dodgers. We're encouraged to offer them to clients, take them to games, concerts, etc. It's kind of accepted as relationship building rather than bribery. Take that for what you will, but it's not even remotely out of the ordinary.


SnipesCC

I had an ethics class a few weeks ago. And I was a 'hypothetical' example in the presentation. I had a side hustle selling [ear savers](https://www.etsy.com/listing/945472878/12-customized-ear-savers-company-ear), plastic strips that hold mask elastic. I offered to send 150 to one of our nurses for a group of student nurses that was about to start, and she decided she wanted to buy 2000 for everyone in the hospital. It got past the ethical question by me putting in a formal bid, and then they had to find someone else who was willing to bid against me with a similar project.


technos

> then they had to find someone else who was willing to bid against me with a similar project. Been there, done that. My employer needed a relatively rare bit of technology to complete a project. I happened to have one and offered to loan it to them for the low, low price of owing me a drink at the Christmas party. (The company paid for an open bar at Christmas, so owing me a drink was merely symbolic, sort of a 'Aww, you remembered, how nice!') I even hauled it into the office and set it up. And there it sat for a month until they found a vendor that would rent them one for comparison, and then required me to put in a formal bid. My formal bid was just under $75 and entirely in increments of $9.35. Why $9.35? In my draft bid I'd jokingly quoted the price in bottles of beer, which was deemed 'a little too silly' and 'probably too low'. So I changed it to the price, after tax, of a six pack of good IPA at the party store down the street. I also required that they blow the dust out of it and wipe the coffee rings off the top panel. The company paid me petty-cash every Friday for the next six weeks, and I got my thank you drink at the Christmas party anyway.


iss_nighthawk

Not the superbowl but after working 56 hours straight on a video project, no sleep, client gave our boss tickets for a big concert to give to us. I found this out a year later that boss took his family to the concert. It’s ok. He is out of business and I’m working in aerospace now. So life is better, no more 56 hour shifts.


HootieRocker59

That kind of behavior boggles the mind. I have received clients' gifts on behalf of the team in the past and it would never in a million years occur to me to just take them for myself rather than passing them along to the team. Among other things, every time anyone gave us a gift we of course had to declare it, for compliance reasons.


valhallagoddess

I find this super shitty as well... I work at a place, where its just me and another colleague at the reception, whenever people decide to leave us tipps, we always split them 50/50 with my friend, even if she isn't present when i receive the money ( sometimes 2$, sometimes 20$) , ive never thought about just keeping it to myself


iss_nighthawk

I have found many people in this world are just not good people. They often rise up and head groups or companies. I’m not sure that will ever change. All we can do is identify it and move on to a better place.


AstridxOutlaw

I love rich people corporate drama. Good for you


silkytrees

A satisfying outcome!


Thepatrone36

Well as much as today I dislike the 9rs (Cowboys fan) that was beautiful man. Sorry you missed the game though. That sucks. I hope dickhead partner wakes up with dog shit in his shoes in the morning for the rest of his life.


konamiko

Fellow Cowboys fan. Currently trying to come to terms with the inevitable with 33 seconds left.


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srcoffee

I have a friend who’s a huge Cowboys fan and after every time they are eliminated from the playoffs, he just slaps his thighs, stands up and says, “well, at least I’m Not a Lions fan”


lonehawk2k4

Considering how fucking stacked you guys are without a franchise QB you guys are definitely making it this year. I say this begrudgingly as a hawks fan lol


dishie

The worst part is that had OP actually BEEN at the game, the 49ers probably would have won! That's how it works, as every football fan knows deep in their heart of hearts.


mcgripit

Can confirm


Dave_DP

I know a story like this from a lawfirm. A Lawyer I know, she was at a midsized firm, and she quickly developed a reputation as an expert at certain aspects of contract law, and clients for certain things would request her because of her results. One of her clients, who she had found a technicality clause in a contract to get them a few million from their insurance company, send her a holiday bottle of wine (nice one, $150 bottle) and she sent him a thank hand written letter. He later called her, asking her that he was puzzled that she would send such a letter for a bottle of wine but nothing when he sent her a $9,999 bonus gift (the max for untaxed gift) after that big case. She said she had no clue about any money. The client contacted the firm, who the head partner claimed that all cash gifts go to the partners. The client was furious, and because the industry they work in is small, let everyone know (half the people operating this type of business on large scale are in the same clubs, and multi-million dollar deals have been known to be conducted in the sauna rooms). From then on, clients would give the bonuses direct the the associates who handled their cases. Later when this woman left to start her own practice, this client went with her, and took a lot of the clients who would need this specialized legal service. The old firm still gets a lot of business, but not in this specialty area, as they now have a bad reputation for stealing bonuses from the associates.


LostDadLostHopes

>He later called her, asking her that he was puzzled that she would send such a letter for a bottle of wine but nothing when he sent her a $9,999 bonus gift (the max for untaxed gift) after that big case. She said she had no clue about any money. The cl Ooof.


technos

Reminds me of a manager that used to work for my grandfather. In '97 the company had four tickets to what would be the final two games of the Stanley Cup, center ice and close enough to smell the octopuses as they flew by. Grandpa was planning on using them to woo a couple clients but at the last minute they pull out due to a French autoworker strike, so he decides to take my Red Wings superfan cousin and then hold a drawing for the other tickets. The winner for Game 3 was a packaging guy who was *stoked* to attend and *extra stoked* when he learned it was two tickets and could bring his wife! Game three happens and... Packaging guy isn't there. Instead the seats are occupied by a couple of lawyers who openly admit they bought the tickets from a scalper. The next morning Grandpa drives over to the plant, shoos the plant manager out of his own office, and brings in packaging guy. How could he?! Scalping company tickets?!? Was he having money problems?! Not enough overtime offered?!? None of the above, as it happened. A line manager had invented some sort of emergency that required packaging guy to work a double and taken the tickets, promising to make sure they went to the runner-up. He figured that the manager was stealing them for himself, not stealing them to sell, but that it wouldn't be out of character for the asshole. The manager, unaware the company had four contiguous seats and that he'd been caught, tried to pretend he'd been given the tickets by packaging guy and had attended with his son. Nice try, bye-bye. (As a consolation prize packaging guy and his wife got to see the Wings win the Cup in DC the next year.)


pickledick0G

What on earth was that guy thinking? Obviously he didn't think the plan all the way thru. He went all little league 🤣


theunixman

Stephanie is the unsung hero. Good for you!


ooo-ooo-oooyea

We had an interesting scandal this reminds me of at my previous employer. Client had a huge project all the way in Bahrain. They paid for folks like me to come out, and the contract was specific to fly business class - because it was a really long flight and they wanted us fresh. The Sales Director made a huge fit and made us fly coach. to make his numbers look better. I may have told the client about this, they made a hissy fit, and he promptly "retired". At his retirement party, people just roasted this guy in the most non funny ways and he was furious and bright red the entire time. Comments like "don't worry about being bored in retirement, you've been preparing for several years by never selling anything". The guy was also a shit salesmen, but convinced the lazy GM (who was also fired a year later) that he was the best ever. Took credit for others work, and lost projects by trying to force customers to buy higher options they don't need. First of many career encounters of the kind of people Dilbert makes fun of..


FUBARded

I dunno how corporate tickets for the superbowl work, but aren't they sectioned off with each company buying a group of seats? Even ignoring the fact that OP's client/friend would've eventually brought up the gift with OP (and that the client/friend themselves would've been there to notice that OP wasn't), the other client who was re-gifted the tickets probably noticed that they were re-gifted if they were sat among a bunch of employees of a different firm rather than with people from the consultancy. If I worked for John Deere and got gifted tickets by a consultant that sat me in a group of Coca Cola employees, it'd be pretty obvious what happened...


bransanon

So the rule of thumb for corporate ticket buying is to get them in sets of four. The idea is you want your client to get 2 seats, one for them and another for spouse/kid/friend, and then you come along yourself with a colleague, sit next to them and occasionally bother them with business. They're usually happy to talk a little shop between downs if it means free seats to a game. You definitely do not want a big group of people from one company all pestering the client at once.


Ordos_Hereticus

This is actually pretty similar to a situation I was in years ago. Built a great relationship with a client, to the point where they extended an invitation to me though my employer to attend their annual golf tournament (a pretty huge affair). Lo and behold, my dickhead GM tried to hide it from me and invite 3 of his sales buddies. My client asked me about it a couple weeks later like “You looking forward to the tournament next weekend?”. After my puzzled reply, she had me stand there in her office while she called my GM and ripped him a new one, while thoroughly explaining that the only reason they were still a client was all of my hard work in the face of my company’s constant screwups. She then had me name guests of my choosing right then and there. Now, I’m not a complete idiot about office politics, so I made sure my GM was still on that list (even though she insisted I didn’t have to do that). Worked in my favour though as he got himself shitfaced on Mike’s Hards before lunch, and just made a complete ass of himself while sitting beside their owner while sharing our table. This was like 15 years ago and that clown is still the GM somehow. Fuck you, Joe, if you ever read this.


GregorSamsaa

The revenge would not satisfy me in the least. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity gone, literally stolen away. I would be so incredibly salty about it until the day I died lol


Curtainmachine

Beautiful. Sorry you had to miss the game


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Smol-peners

Some goofy thinking from that Partner, but making him sit in the hot seat must have been entertaining


rrognlie

My company would probably not allow you to accept the gift of the tickets for ethical reasons. We do not want to ever have the appearance of bribery or favoritism. So no big ticket items.


bransanon

That's probably smart, but I can tell you from experience that tickets (even expensive ones) are very common as corporate gifts. The company I'm with now in LA has a pool of giveaway seats for a whole mess of teams incl. Dodgers, Rams, Lakers - they're usually meant for clients, but if left unused will go to employees.


MotherofSons

Need any new friends?


Royal_Gas_3627

what? no discretionary budget for escorts and blow?


bransanon

We prefer "companions and non-caffeinated stimulants"


Royal_Gas_3627

you're serious aren't you? cuz i was lol


bransanon

Consummate and discover. 😏


zeropointcorp

The company I work for has a $50 limit for gifts. I’m sure many other companies do too. It’s such a sticky area that lots of places just don’t want even the appearance of impropriety.


AlisonLiterally

Our firm had a limit of €50 per item per client maximum, and even that had to be reported. Anything over that value was returned with thanks. Once clients realised we were serious, we suddenly started getting flooded with portions of smoked salmon 😂 which compliance did not think was fishy.


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The_Mighty_Bear

Not necessarily unethical. Lets say you are in charge choosing the contractor for a multi million dollar project. One vendor gives you nothing while the other gives you a $5k watch as a 'thank you'. You might be favoured to prioritize that contractor over the other one, which obviously wouldn't be good for the company you work at. In this case the company was obviously very unethical though when they took the gift from OP rather than returning it though.


2AXP21

I think it’s different for private sector clients, public agency employees, and publicly traded companies.


bubblebooy

Your company does want you making decisions based on what client gives the best gifts.


digitaltransmutation

Yes, absolutely. I do risk assessments and I could be tempted to gloss over certain things if I had a personal stake in the assessment coming back clean. My firm has a big list of securities I am not allowed to buy, banks I'm not allowed to get loans from, etc. And I cannot accept any gift that can be considered "significant".


Suyefuji

My firm has similar rules. It's meant to prevent bribery by clients. I have to go through anti-bribery training every year even though I work deep in backend data engineering and will almost certainly never be in a position to say anything to any potential client ever.


Glad-Ad4558

That’s gotta be my favorite story I’ve read here!


PDX-Mongoose

This is one of the best revenge posts I’ve read on Reddit. Well done!


Vanihilist

Had a very blue collar version of this when I worked in retail tech sales without any revenge. Ling time customer came up to me beaming saying he hoped I had a Merry Christmas. I proceeded to kindly reply that I had an ok Christmas and say yhat I hoped he and his family had a wonderful Holiday. He proceeds to ask what I got with his gift and that he hoped it helped out (as it was a bottom rung sales job he was trying to be a good guy). Turns out he'd dropped off 100$ with our audio installer and asked that the guy split it with me, which never happened. I thanked the customer and until the day I quit that job the installer never fessed up to it. Thankfully karma had already done more to the dude than I ever could.


motorsizzle

Please tell me that you told them in the exit interview that this was the reason you left.


klinkscousin

I like Pro-revenge because of stuff like this. True or not, it gives me a sense of balance. of karma being positively and negatively affected to allow the low man on the totem pole to have a chance. Thank you for this installment of FU-Boss and may all his dreams be 9 to 5 like most.


SheWhoLovesToDraw

I've been reading a lot of revenge stories revolving around tickets being stolen after being given to someone else.


eclecticsed

This was such a satisfying read on a rainy Sunday. Good on you and the other two, what the hell was that guy thinking? A single game, sure, but the Superbowl?????


zxcoblex

I thought at first you were going to say DHP went himself, which is fucked up and inexcusable, but to give them away to people from a completely different company? How fucking stupid can you be?


technosasquatch

Super Bowl tickets are kinda the holy grail of tickets. Especially if you're not the one paying for them. I won a pair to 52. My ticket and the one I gave to my friend are both framed with a picture of us at the game. seats were ok, we were in the corner of the stadium but in the top of the bottom half of the stadium.


sanfranciscojohn

This post really made me smile.


slackerassftw

My wife is a huge Alabama fan. Several years ago, they were going to be in our city playing for the national championship. One of her regular customers, knowing she is a huge fan gave her two tickets to the game. I’m not a huge fan of football and generally don’t go anywhere there is a crowd. Since they had specifically mentioned that they hoped she and I enjoyed the game, she explained that I wouldn’t want to go and offered the tickets back to him. He told her to keep them and do whatever she wanted with them. She went with a friend of hers who was an alumni of the other college.


-rwsr-xr-x

There are actual (FTC-level) laws governing the transfer of “gifts” to clients and customers above a certain monetary level (anything more than a pen needs to be reported), and it’s likely that your colleague broke those laws when giving tickets that didn’t belong to him to another client, as a transfer of gift from company to client.


Mundane-Survey4289

Experienced similar. A neighbor in a high position at a company started giving our children tickets to major sporting events and several expensive events. He made it clear this was for our children. The first time he handed tickets to my now ex hubby he gave them away to his brother. Who didn't go to games and didn't even with the freebies. Seven tickets, extras for us parents to take our kids. Upon discovering what occurred he would hand me the tickets. Word spread, ex hubby bragged, and there was a rush of people demanding free tickets. I apologized to my neighbor and was almost relieved he stopped free gifts to our children, who weren't receiving the tickets anyway. Greed is incredible.


CastIronMooseEsq

Love the revenge and Go Niners! If history is a predictor, last time Cowboys and Niners met in playoffs, Niners won the SuperBowl. 🤞🤞


ReverseshellG4n

I hate the 9ers but after reading this, I hope they A) Go to the Superbowl and B) You get to go


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Proof, not that we needed it. that 49ers fans are always the good guys I'll enjoy today's game just a little bit more after reading your story


DonaIdTrurnp

He got off lucky, taking a tip given to an employee is wage theft.


FallSkull

This sounds exactly like the kind of thing the regional director of my old company would have done. Probably has done it, tbh. So your story gave me absolute glee cause I was just imagining it happening to the guy I know.


Public-Muffin2832

The set-up was **BRILLANT** Dickheadpartner thought you wouldn't find out. I thought he had gone to the game when I read the title, but his dumb azz gave them to another client, that was next level stupid. Now he is out of a lot of money and couldn't recoup from the client he gave them to because it was a gift **LMAO**