Got a clever way to "get back" at a co-worker?

You really want to get back at him? Do your job super awesomely and talk to your boss about bettering yourself or being promoted, really throw yourself into your job. Take the high road and don’t do anything to him. Then, when it comes time to cut a job, you will look much better than he does. That’s the clever route I would take.

be careful, if you do something, it could put your job in danger! just keep doing what you’re doing, if your boss is happy, that’s good enough. odds are this guy will talk his way right out of job.

Your Boss is on your side. Your job is safe.

Dreaming about getting even is fun but if acted on can backfire.

Bad karma will get him.

@imhellokitty sorry to hear that you work with such a Greedy Butt Face! Post his office/desk number on a gay dating webpage or site. Not only will it be hilarious but you can’t really get in trouble for it.

oooohh Emdean1 – you are evil and I lurve it!

I would want to know from the boss WHY that employee thinks others can pick up your workload and, more importantly, why the boss does NOT think that employee is right. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater, i.e., is that employee correct? CAN they do without your job?

I’d also think about ways they could do without THAT employee’s job, if possible, and present them to your boss when you meet to talk about the above.

Nevertheless, you take the high road and don’t retaliate.

You could also switch his keys on his keyboard if you work in an office and he will send out emails that make no sense blame it on the cleaning ladies :)

I agree with the majority of the answers. I’d be very careful with this getting-back at him business. Things like that usually backfire. If you’re doing a good job & the boss reassures you, I’d NOT give him a reason to question his opinion of you. I know the temptation is great to get back at this guy, but epony is right. He’ll probably take care of this situation all by himself.

The problem you have with any sort of retaliation is that it can make the COMPANY look bad as well as him and, for that, you can get fired. Big time!

And they’d be RIGHT.

Do your work the best you can, and his attitude will take care of him without you having to do anything.

If you play a prank on him, and it’s traced back to you, you can kiss your job goodbye, and he’ll get what he wants.

I agree with everyone else. I just have so many ideas for pranks in the office.

@Emdean1 once place i used to work, for fun, we would try to catch the person’s computer when they were away from the desk, and try to find the most homoerotic thing we could on google images and set it to the wallpaper.

my personal best was when one fella went away for a week on vacation, and left his machine ON and UNLOCKED. took care of that. when he came back, he booted up and was greeted with the sight of a man with assless chaps on. he was standing, trying to cover the monitor as everyone walked into work that morning. epic.

@eponymoushipster Thats great!

@Emdean1 it was hilarious. if someone ever looked into my google search during that period of my life, they’d think i was elton john, circa 1974. “assless chaps”, “richard simmons”, “the hoff topless”, etc. it was so fun, and you’d sneak around the cubicles, waiting for them to leave.

Oh! one time, a coworker was covering the main phones, so i called in, speaking Russian, screaming at him to connect me to the president of the company. he’s like “what? who is this? i. don’t. understand. you.” it was hilarious. then he heard us all laughing in the one conference room.

Naw, I’m not really gonna “get back”, it would make me feel a whole lot better if I could. Everyone’s right, it would only come back and bite me. But, already this afternoon, he had trouble with his computer and asked for my help. I told him he could “do without me” and then I walked away. I hope he doesn’t get a thing done this afternoon!

@imhellokitty There you go :) Karma at work :)

@imhellokitty oh yeah…. it comes as it is dished! Nice job!

I love the way so many of these “pranks” are really sexual harassment in disguise.

Hint: putting dirty pictures, regardless of orientation, on a coworker’s computer is a very good way to get fired, or at least a serious letter of reprimand in your file.

@cwilbur even if the boss is involved and doing it as well?

well, in any case, didn’t happen. yeah, don’t do it if your office is full of stiff shirts.

@eponymoushipster: especially if the boss is involved and doing it as well. That changes it from being a firing offense to being a lawsuit waiting to happen—it’s called “creating a hostile work environment.”

@cwilbur eh. <shrugs> i think they were ok with it. they had a receptionist that was selling sex toys on the side, using her time at the office to sell online. richard simmons doing “jazz hands” really wasn’t stressing anyone.

and my boss was essentially dane cook. got caught with a pro in atlantic city, twice.

Depends a lot on the place you work I guess… We had a workplace where everybody was laidback and we had a lot of fun, while doing our jobs… It reduced stress, made us like our job more, and thus made us better at it…
And pranks were a daily ocurence :)

@Staalesen amen! lurve for not killing the mello!