Not Always Right / Laser Guided Karma

Not Always Right and its many sister sites often feature reprehensible people of all sorts. This makes it all the more satisfying when Laser-Guided Karma comes to town. So many examples, in fact, that the site has a "Karma/Comeuppance" tag for occasions like these:

Not Always Right

This guy is rude and misogynistic to a nursing home employee. When his wife finds out, she Dope Slaps him and calls him a jackass.
This boy is caught stealing candy and is forced to return it. However, his mother verbally attacks the store employee for being rude to him (even saying she doesn't care about the candy). She's about to physically attack the employee when her mother stops her and chews her out for her behavior.
This driver lashes out at a driver for being too slow while passing them and crashes into another car. Ironically, he also tells the driver to "learn how to drive" - when that driver was doing just that.
Another driver. She complains that she can't find an item at a store (which wouldn't be logically expected to carry it) and calls up to complain to the manager (who's actually the employee who told her they didn't carry said item). She then speeds out of the parking lot and cuts off a police officer who pulls her over.
A really expensive tantrum◊.^note
"Karma's a b**ch, ain't it?"
Never underestimate karma.
They tried to push their way through a line, and got escorted out for it.
This gym member savagely insulted another person, and got his membership revoked when some other people told the manager — by the manager tearing the membership right in front of him.
In this one, a woman decides to berate another person in a supermarket line because she "had an important meeting" and whatever the other person was doing was obviously not as essential as what woman was rushing for. The kicker was that the meeting was an interview for a babysitting job, and the person doing the interview was the one she had so rudely insulted. Needless to say, she didn't get the job.
This scammer's scheme finally comes back to bite him in the ass.
A man acted belligerently towards a bank for a long time to bully some interest refunds out of them. On this particular call, he threatens to close his account, and the bank follows through with the request. As a result, all of the man's outstanding debts were automatically paid with the money from his accounts, leaving him with very little that will be sent to him, a far cry from the thousands he normally made off with.
An employee witnesses two girls, referred to in the story as Girl #1 and Girl #2, checking out some pajamas. Girl #2 is the typical customer seen that doesn't put things back the way she found them because she's not paid to do that stuff, and Girl #1 tries her best to keep things neat. The karmic part comes when the employee later sees Girl #2 with her father, trying to blame Girl #1 for something she didn't do. The employee steps in and explains what actually happened, getting Girl #1 out of trouble and Girl #2 into it.
Here, a customer acts extremely rude to an employee and does not care one bit about the employee's complications, only that he has an interview to get to and that teenagers are lazy. Unfortunately for him, the employee happens to be the child of the owner of the company where the customer is interviewing. In the end, he wasn't hired.
There are several stories (like this one, this one, and this one) where some soldiers are using their service to justify terrible behavior, only to be overheard and chewed out by someone who outranks them.
After being told, time and time again, that her favorite coffee shop did not have room around the building for a drive-thru like its counterparts in neighboring towns, a lady tried to drive her car around the building to prove that they did have room for a drive-thru... operative word being "tried". Not only did the coffee shop sue her for damage to the building where she crashed, the neighboring residential area sued her for damage to their buildings from flying debris!
A old woman is constantly harassing the submitter, whom she believes is a teenager doing something illegal, despite the submitter repeatedly pointing out (which the old woman refuses to believe) that she's actually an adult who looks young. The old woman is banned from the store the submitter is working at, and four years later (having clearly not learned from the previous encounter), is also banned at the bar where the submitter and her friends were drinking.
This customer mocked another person who was paying with cash because the cashier was required by company policy to use a counterfeit-detection pen on the bills. Then she paid for her order with a counterfeit bill (and her reaction to the cashier reaching for the detection pen heavily implies she knew it was counterfeit).
A man who refuses to pay for a locksmith job claims that he'll have the charges reversed. The locksmith then proceeds to throw the man's keys back in the car and relocks the door. Her justification is pretty sound (but she did get reprimanded for it): "If you're reversing the charges, then I'm reversing the job."
A smug girl had a temper tantrum when a popular tattoo artist refuses to book her for an appointment as he's already fully booked due to his very busy schedule and didn't like her tattoo design. She then tried to discredit him by giving negative and rude reviews on his shop's Facebook page and Yelp, only to be called out for her lies by the artist's past customers and was blacklisted by other tattoo shops around the city.
This idiot wants directions to the submitter's office, but for some reason refuses to tell her where he is, presumably expecting magical directions that will get him there from any starting point. When her manager intervenes, the guy throws in casual sexism for good measure: "Thank God — a man who will be able to give directions." The manager, annoyed with the guy's attitude, proceeds to give him directions at random — which end up taking him to a garbage dump.
An egotistical bully who routinely terrorizes employees and customers alike at a supermarket ends up getting his just desserts when he provokes someone stronger than him and ends up beaten up so badly he doesn't show up at the store for a couple of weeks. When he does show up (with a black-and-blue face covered in casts and bandages), no one feels very sorry for him.
When a woman is intolerably cruel to a girl with Down syndrome, who has done nothing more offensive than exist in a coffee shop, this local CEO witnesses it - and cites it as the reason why he will be shredding the application she recently put in with his company. The humiliated woman flees without her coffee.
This Polish cashier was given an envelope from a group of customers, who paid 16 złoty (about $4). Thinking it was a scam, they ripped up the envelope only to find a torn up 100 złoty banknote, which is about $26.
While shopping for a wedding dress, an irresponsible mother lets her young son run around the store and get several bridesmaid dresses dirty with cheesy handprints. She ends up having to buy them all.
This guy with a fancy car loads up his groceries and then shoves the shopping cart in a random direction rather than dealing with it properly. The moment he gets in his car the wind picks up and blows the cart back into his car, leaving a large scratch on the paint job.
A snobby customer who has been treating a clerk at a cell phone kiosk poorly throughout her visit waves off the clerk's offer for insurance for her new phone, saying: "Do I look like I need insurance?". She then turns on her heel, loses her balance and falls down from the maneuver, and drops her new phone on the floor in process, shattering the screen and leaving her forced to pay full price for either a new phone or screen repair since she rejected the insurance.
This guy playing an MMORPG is a complete Internet Jerk, having no consideration for the female admin trying to help, as well as makes condescending, misogynistic, and racist comments to his party, and is a terrible player to boot – he claims credit and loot for raids from his “friends” when all he did was charge in and get killed constantly, to the point where his party attempts to actively ignore him, causing the “connectivity issues” the guy was trying to get fixed. When that fails, the party instead brings him on a raid and lets the guy charge in to his death, doing nothing to help him. They then complete the mission without him, and then promptly mock and unfriend him after he’s done. The now chastened guy logs out, and is noted to, as far as the OP knows, have never logged in again.
A toy reseller attacks the submitter over taking the last of a popular toy off the shelves and then claims they were the one being assaulted. She sticks with her story even after the police have reviewed the camera footage, and they give her the option to change it... and then she is the one arrested for assault, along with an existing felony charge.
A business owner needs an emergency window replacement and the OP's company is the only one in the area that can cut a piece of glass large enough. Owner accepts the price estimate, the glass is installed, and then the owner announces that a competitor gave her a lower estimate so that's all she's going to pay. "The glass is installed. You’re stuck. Take it or I will pay nothing." OP confirms with the installer that the window is fully installed ... and orders him to make sure the ladder falls through the glass as he leaves.
A teenaged TikTok-er is running around rooms in a movie theater disrupting the movies by swearing and/or shouting offensive phrases and recording people's reactions. Before management at the theater can catch him though, a fed-up dad in one theater catches the teen himself and throws the teen's phone on the floor with enough force to smash it to smithereens. The teen quickly flees with his ruined phone, crying hysterically with his tail between his legs, and later his mom forces him to call the theater manager to apologize.
This businessman, named Mr. ObNox due to his group's toxic masculinity, orders top-shelf whiskey on a business lunch without bothering to become aware of how expensive such a drink is and shouts over the submitter's attempt to warn him about the mistake he's about to make, resulting in a bill in the thousands of dollars that puts him well over budget. His misogyny and ableism ("Did I stutter?") have not endeared him to the restaurant's staff, and the only help he gets is an offer to split the bill among his party rather than put it all on the company card.
This woman parks in a store's fire lane during a bad storm, under the 'justification' that there's no way there's going to be a fire with all the rain. Less than a minute later the wind picks up and knocks a letter off a sign out the front which goes straight through her windshield. Even better, the letter happens to be a "K".^note
This hotel guest sneaks her miniature poodle into a hotel claiming it's a service animal. After seeing dog poo on the hotel floor, the staff suspects she's lying, so they check the security camera footage. What they find was that after closing out the hotel bar, the guest passed out in a stupor in the hallway for a while, during which time the poodle – contrary to what a genuine service animal would do – took the poo, then peed on their unconscious owner. After having a laugh among themselves over the incident, the hotel staff promptly fine the guest for the "deposit" and blacklist her.
These two women, going through many different pairs of jeans on Black Friday, attack a teenage girl with enough force to draw blood just because the poor girl happened to catch one of the pairs of pants the women had been tossing around. It turns out the girl is actually the daughter of the town sheriff, who happened to be there at the store on crowd control. The two women are arrested on the spot (and later have to post bail and pay full price for their precious jeans).
This motorist in a brand new sports car gets impatient with the cattle being herded ahead of him and moves his car forward enough that it bumps one of the cows, prompting the cow to unload her massive bowels on the car's hood.
These jokesters try pulling the classic "fire in the hole" gag, but the submitter closes the drive-thru window just in time for the carbonated drink's lid to bounce back into the car, soaking the driver and passenger and leaving the car's interior a sticky mess.
This hotel guest routinely acts like he's owed the world by the staff. Once, when the submitter just barely manages to carry his baggage due to the braces on his wrist and knees, the guest complains to the manager, saying "I don't like how you did it." When the submitter and a co-worker notice that he left his headlights on, they elect not to mention this to him, and get to watch as his now dead car gets carted away on a flatbed truck.
This caller, whenever he gets a male worker at his cable company's call center, routinely hurls homophobic verbal abuse at the worker. Eventually, the call center manager, preparing to retire and fed up with the caller's behaviour, totally does not lock the customer's account onto a gay adult channel.

Not Always Working

Make rude homophobic remarks about the submitter, based off of wrongful assumptions that he is gay? Your boss is right behind you and heard everything you said, confirming other reports he's received about your behavior. Oops.
"Perhaps you should be careful how you speak about your employees. You could offend someone."
Another boss, after refusing to allow the submitter to take her lunch break, orders her to climb down from a ladder she was at the top of to allow a customer to use the restroom. When the three customers the submitter was serving overhear what happened, they call the boss out on his laziness. The boss promptly claims Screw the Rules, I Make Them!, only for one of them to reveal himself as the district manager. The boss gives up and allows the submitter to take her break, and the district manager chews him out for his behavior.
This small store in Mexico gives a packet of gum in lieu of 50 cents, the smallest coin in their currency, without asking the customer if it's all right. Do it enough times, and the customer comes back, buys a quart of milk, and pays with $11.50 worth of packets of gum. The store employees quickly gave out proper coins as change.
Schedule a worker to work on their graduation day after he's requested it off? Especially after you promised it? Looks like YOU'LL be doing that work instead.
Yet another asshole boss is bitten by karma, after he puts himself above the customers the submitter is serving. To make it even sweeter, not only did the boss get fired for his blatant disregard of the customers, the submitter got a promotion!
Here's one where we see the customer invoke the trope after the Bad Boss yells at the cashier in front of them, and the others nearby follow suit as well.
Almost immediately after the unjust firing of an employee, this boss is found to have been Making Love in All the Wrong Places with a coworker; the firing of the first employee is reversed, and both the Bad Boss and his coworker are fired instead.
Both kinds are present in this story. After one coworker makes a rude comment about an elderly lady, the submitter then goes over to help her instead, being polite the whole time. The lady's granddaughter then delivers the appropriate karma to both employees — good karma (a hug) for the submitter, and bad karma (a kick to the shin) for the coworker.
Make vitriolic fat jokes to a plus-size customer and refuse her service? Her friend owns the store and also knows the manager. Enjoy the last moments of your job before it gets taken away from you.
Try to force a pregnant employee to do work that puts her unborn child in danger? You're doing the work yourself. Try that behavior again with another pregnant employee? You're not working in that store anymore.
Harass a mute worker and make him answer a phone (which he physically cannot do), then fire him when he presses a button repeatedly and hangs up instead of talking? He's actually talking in Morse Code with his brother, the company CEO, who then comes in to personally scold and fire you instead.
This worker refuses to help a customer find sweeping compound, claiming they don't have it. His supervisor orders him to clock out while she helps the customer get his item. The worker lies to the boss that she tried to fire him. Too bad for the worker, the customer told the boss what really happened and how the supervisor helped him, which got the worker actually fired instead.
This guy refuses to let a sailor take the days off to get married and have his honeymoon because he didn't schedule to have the ceremony at a church, calling his fianceé a whore and claiming they're ruining the sanctity of his marriage. A few days later, word slipped to said man's wife that he had been sleeping with a rear admiral's daughter — the last line of the sentence implying the aforementioned groom, or possibly the writer of the story, may have had something to do with it.
Being lazy by not making the shakes your coworker asked you to make, then lying that it was the coworker's job and they're the lazy one? The manager knows you're lying, and orders you to sweep the entire lot in the rain.
Deliberately throw away customers' orders because you don't like working during rush hour? Now you're transferred to the graveyard shift where you have to deal with drunks and stoners!
Rudely telling an American who's been living abroad in Ireland that she's a no-good lying foreigner and refusing to serve her? You final moments of employment at that job will consist of her humiliating you big-time by singing a Major General Song as proof that she's American, followed by your boss chewing you out and showing you the door.
This girl is nothing but snide and holier-than-thou to someone who got a speeding ticket that was most definitely an accident^note, calling him stupid multiple times; thankfully, the manager is more level-headed and offers to rectify the bogus ticket. When the submitter goes to the station to do so, the same receptionist continues to call him stupid right in front of her manager, who then fires her on the spot for her behavior.
This registrar and his boss purposely register girls into ballet and gymnastics classes regardless of what they actually wanted, because the registrar is a sexist who doesn't believe girls can play sports and his boss wants the classes to meet its quota of 9 students each so they won't get cancelled. They get their comeuppance when two mothers who wanted sports classes for their daughters, outraged over what these men did, organize a boycott, to the effect that only 16 of the 37 children who were signed up for sports (all boys) actually attend these classes, leaving most (possibly all, depending on what they were signed up for) of these classes cancelled! (Unless...)
This store manager went out of his way to avoid ever working on the holidays, against company policy, including scheduling a shift manager to work on Thanksgiving four years running. He was found out when one of the workers he screwed over called corporate, was forced to work Thanksgiving and possibly Christmas, and was demoted and transferred to another store.
This worker repeatedly sexually harassed other female employees, who could do nothing about it, since he ignored their requests to stop and his father was the boss, who likewise ignored any complaints. When someone to whom the boss is not actually a superior gets fed up and does something about it^note, the boss immediately threatens to fire her — only for the owner to fire him and his son instead, after which he assists the employee in filing a sexual harassment lawsuit on those two.
This lunch manager threatens to fire a worker who tried to call in sick because of pink eye. The morning manager, knowing how contagious pink eye can be, personally clocks out the worker and orders them to stay home until they recover. The lunch manager is then ordered to personally clean and sanitize everything the sick worker had touched as punishment for forcing them to come in.
Act rude and crass to a business secretary? Better to not do that, because that just might be the owner filling in, who will make sure you never get another contract.
An extremely racist carpet salesperson refuses to take their turn helping a customer because he is African-American, repeatedly calls him a racial slur, implies he's a criminal, etc. Then it turns out he's a sports player, and carpeted his entire home in expensive carpeting, and therefore the racist salesperson just missed out on a huge commission.
This club-goer is treated extremely poorly by a Jerkass bartender, who tries to sabotage his night by purposely ignoring him for long periods of time and intentionally pouring him a more expensive drink than he wanted. The karmic part comes when the bartender accidentally gives the club-goer $10 bills instead of $1 bills as change. The club-goer gets a female friend to pretend to be enamored with him as he returns to the bar, orders some expensive drinks, and leaves a penny tip for the bartender.
This salesperson immediately decides the submitter (dressed shabbily because she just got off from working at a dog kennel) is broke and possibly homeless, claiming she can't stay and trying to tell her what she can and can't afford even as the submitter buys a gift card for her father worth $250 — and a different salesperson gets the commission for it.
This cook has listened to a customer go into detail about what goes into a garden burger (said customer was vegan, and unlike many examples in Not Always Right, actually fit the definition), only to make the garden burger using butter (a dairy product, and not vegan). When the submitter brings this mistake to the cook's attention, the cook replies "F*** it. She won’t notice." Not only does the customer notice, she's enraged enough to throw the tainted garden burger directly at the cook who made it!
This demanding worker keeps pestering his coworkers and HR with unreasonable demands, barely staying behind the line between being retained and being fired. When he makes one more demand to HR, saying "if you won't give this to me, I quit"; the HR worker takes the ultimatum at face value — as if the problem worker is quitting.
This Welshcake seller ignores one family who wanted to order Welshcakes from her, due to their children speaking with English accents. She promptly gets the same treatment in turn when another Welshcake seller invites the family to order cakes from his stall, saying his cakes are better than hers. This leads all of the customers to ignore the first seller and go to the other seller.
This worker refuses to serve two Muslim women because he believes that they are terrorists, yelling at them to leave and saying "We don’t serve sand-n*** here." When the manager comes out to see what the commotion's about, the worker insists that the customers need to leave, citing the right to refuse service because he thinks they're terrorists. The worker is fired the next day for discrimination (though he doesn't understand what he did wrong), and the two customers get their orders for free.
This lingerie store worker who refuses to serve plus size customers and rudely flirts with the male customers in front of their wives/girlfriends finally gets her punishment when she makes a husband uncomfortable by first trying to flirt with him, then calling him a freak after learning he wants to buy a gift for his plus-size wife. As it happens, the regional manager — her boss's boss — is shopping nearby and sees the whole thing. The regional manager promptly fires the worker for her behavior and orders her to leave the store.
A manager charged with reducing company costs decides not to fire three workers himself, but to excuse himself with a "business trip", "promote" a lower-ranked employee in his absence, and charge them with firing three workers before his return. A friend in corporate authorizes the put-upon employee to fire the irresponsible manager instead, and formally promotes the submitter.
This submitter went Christmas shopping after work, only for a sales clerk and manager to both decide that because he's still in his work clothes (for a juvenile "boot camp"), he's obviously a homeless person planning to steal those items and sell them to buy drugs. This trope kicks in after the manager calls the cops, who address the submitter as "Sarge".
Manager: Why do you keep insisting on calling this bum 'Sarge'?
Police Officer: Because he's my boss.
File an incorrect repair order with the secretary instead of the janitors, refusing to cooperate and heaping abuse and threats on them both the whole time? The secretary shreds the work order since it's not her problem.
I have no idea why they haven't fixed that desk yet.
This poster got back from their lunch break to find that a coworker had rummaged through their desk and taken a bottle of hot sauce. Specifically, a bottle of Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce — the poster never uses more than a single drop on their food, but judging by the physical reaction the coworker used a lot more. The coworker had to take the day off without pay to recover (and no longer takes anything from the poster's desk).
This mail loader refuses to load mail for a driver because said driver isn't white, proudly admitting that she's not doing her job to her boss's face and even using a racial slur to describe that driver. Her boss, the submitter, fires her on the spot for her bigotry, and later rebuffs a Lawful Stupid-at-best union rep for trying to defend her.
Try to fire an employee for a pre-existing scanner malfunction that he had no control over in a way that would violate company discipline policy even if it was his fault? Enjoy causing a corporate crackdown on unfair discipline and falling victim to it.^note
Force a worker to go outside and push carts in a thunderstorm (which might we add, can have potentially lethal consequences), and then scream at and fire them when they (rightfully) voice their concerns? They'll go right to the owner, and you'll be the one out of a job.
Change an employee's schedule at the last minute without telling them, and fire them for showing up late while blaming them for not checking their schedule? They'll take it up with HR, who will then discover your history of pulling the same stunt on other employees you didn't like. Say goodbye to your job, missy.
Force an off-duty cashier to work off the clock even when he makes it clear that he's just there to shop on his day off, and then fire him for insubordination when he (rightfully) refuses? The store director knows what you're trying to pull, and fires you instead for breaking labor laws.
Fire an innocent employee just because you're having a bad day and want to take out your frustration on them? Good luck explaining that to the union... and the owner, who'll make you reinstate that employee with back pay, and later catch you trying to book an unauthorized vacation to Florida on the company's credit card.
Publicly scream at and belittle an interviewee for your bar, and describe them as unhireable by anyone? Half of your staff quits on the spot, including your cook and both managers, you'll get frustrated and fire the other half of your staff the next day, and you'll be forced to shut down your bar within the week because you can't find any replacements.
This teen who just got her driver's license finds out that the submitter just got their license at the age of 26 and proceeds to mock and gloat to the submitter about not getting their license when they were a teen like her. She is promptly scolded by the manager (who didn't get her own license until she was thirty) and quits the next day to avoid talking with the manager about her behavior and to avoid working with "losers who didn't get their license at sixteen". She loses her driver's license a mere two days later when she doesn't stop for a school bus.
Write up and then fire an employee for refusing to work during their unpaid lunch break? Not only does your boss know what's really going on, he suspends and then fires you instead when he discovers your history of forcing other employees to work off the clock.
A man on a motorcycle deliberately hits the submitter and insults them before speeding off. Later the same day, the submitter and their wife decide to order a pizza from a nearby restaurant. The person who delivers the pizza ends up being none other than the Jerkass who hit the submitter with his motorcycle earlier! The man, in full-on Oh, Crap! mode, attempts to flee, but the submitter gets their license plate number and reports them to the restaurant's manager. The bully is immediately fired.
After having enough working with a jerkass manager who constantly got away for his actions due to the manager being gay and his bosses afraid of being accused of homophobia, the submitter quits his job. And before the manager tries to accuse the submitter of quitting because of homophobia, the submitter shuts him up by revealing he's actually a pansexual who's in a polyamorous relationship with several partners including a transgender woman and another man, and he's actually quitting because the manager is an asshole and horrible human being and, unlike the manager, the submitter doesn't use his sexuality as an excuse for bad behavior. And in a last parting shot, the submitter reveals he told the manager's husband that the manager has been having an affair with another co-worker. As a result, the manager's husband left him, which caused the humbled manager to undergo a Heel–Face Turn.
A vendor at an anime convention refuses service to a person in a wheelchair and makes ableist comments at them. It turns out that the person the vendor insulted was a con staff member (to his horror). The staff member reports the vendor to security and the con's higher-ups, and the vendor is quickly kicked out of the con and is never invited to it again.
Several local telecom companies team up to send aggressive salesmen to harass a landlady with a "no solicitors" sign until she buys a contract from one of them. By coincidence, a salesman from an uninvolved company rings the doorbell without noticing the sign. When he realizes his mistake, he immediately apologizes and leaves. The landlady buys a contract from his company to screw over the aggressive companies for harassing her.
This supervisor apparently hates blondes for some reason, frequently issuing write-ups to two blonde employees for things such as being too quiet and dropping a ladder (the employee in the latter case was pregnant). One day, she meets a blonde woman whom she thinks has come for an interview, and is rude to her; when asked how employees at the store are treated, she casually declares the first two to be "crap" and "bimbos". Turns out the other woman hasn't come for an interview — she's from corporate. The supervisor is not only immediately fired, she's blacklisted from the company. Oh, and all the write-ups she issued are destroyed.
This story has the submitter conducting a job interview. The interviewee mentions they were in the same class in high school (ten years ago). The submitter didn't recognize him or remember him at first, until he gives more information which allow the submitter to eventually identify him... Turns out he took advantage of her, then turned into a bully. The submitter immediately decides the interview is over and the man won't get the job.
One particular victim of a recurring food thief runs out of peanut butter and grape jelly for their sandwiches and instead uses cashew butter and strawberry preserves. The thief has a horrible allergic reaction and is hospitalized.
An employee complains about a manager from a downsized location being retained at managerial pay rates when they're no longer managing anyone, refusing to hear out about skills, qualifications, and contract laws. When another manager retires and the unassigned manager takes over their team, the complainer is on it (and becomes insubordinate out of resentment, leading to her eventual termination).
A food delivery driver parks up over a mile away from their intended recipient, doesn't want to walk through a park because of some teenagers, and can't be bothered to drive any further. After the recipient rejects going to them, they just mark the food as delivered anyway. One complaint later, the driver is out of a job.
A fast-food manager who blatantly plays favorites and has a 0% Approval Rating among her employees forces all the employees she doesn't like to come in to work in the middle of a thunderstorm, even though the storm is heavily implied to be tornadic and no customers are coming in. She is in the middle of yelling at the employees for doing nothing despite the lack of business and threatening to write them up when a gust of wind rips the industrial air conditioner off the top of the building and it lands directly onto her expensive BMW (which was parked somewhere it wasn't supposed to in the first place). To top it off, the car wasn't paid off and her insurance didn't cover "acts of God".
Force the factory workers to churn out 2000 units in less than a month, with no overtime, and threaten "consequences" for the floor manager if he doesn't complete this impossible order? Have fun watching a surprise inspection fail every single one of those units in front of the shareholders you were sucking up to, and the floor manager you threatened proving that you as good as ordered him to throw quality control out the window.
By the next month, the entire management team was gone. Heads were rolling and there were legal consequences. Within the year the Floor Manager was in the proper management circle, and we never sacrificed quality to appease distant shareholders ever again.
This delivery driver's chronic carelessness with packages eventually results in a parcel of essential oils breaking in his car, filling it with a mixture of clashing scents that essentially gasses him. When he tries to deliver this veritable stink bomb, the submitter rejects it because the soaking wet box is clearly damaged, forcing him to return it to the distribution centre. Having to return the parcel prevents him from completing his tour for the day, and he's significantly more careful with parcels going forward lest he have to put up with a stench like that again.
This manager is a Jerkass who denies his staff raises but then rolls up in a brand new sports car. He then tells his subordinates not to interrupt him for anything. The workers then notice that said car is Stealing the Handicapped Spot and the submitter's co-worker decides that alerting the manager of this infraction would constitute an interruption, and uses their five-minute break to report the car. So they don't interrupt him when the car gets ticketed, or when it gets towed.
In this story, the company lays off the submitter and forces them to train their replacements, who are extremely lazy, and respond to the submitter's attempts to teach them by laughing and saying "Yeah, I'm not doing that." On the submitter's last day, they're told that to see how the replacements were doing, they're not to assist them in any way. Sure enough, the replacements are hopelessly out of their depths, and demand the submitter help, to which the submitter responds, "Yeah, I'm not doing that." And for added karma, the replacements' inability to do their jobs results in the company grinding to a halt (with the submitter pointing out that again, that they're not allowed to help), costing them tens of thousands of dollars.

Not Always Romantic

Happens occasionally, but rarely is it as satisfying as this story. A homophobic player in a shooter game keeps calling the submitter slurs, angering the players on both teams, who tell him to shut up. Instead, he turns the slurs on one of his own teammates, who is also gay. His teammates respond by completely abandoning him and permitting the submitter's team to repeatedly kill him in game which frustrates him to the point he quits. The homophobic player is banned from the team since he was only filling in for his sick brother, and the gay teammate later dates the submitter.
Comes with a side order of I Was Beaten by a Girl in this story, in which a guy with an extensive rap sheet for Domestic Abuse tries to slap around his current girlfriend for postponing a date because she was working late... as a prison guard. Cue Curb-Stomp Battle. And then he goes back to her house the next day to "teach her a lesson", which ends with another curb-stomping and his arrest.
This married would-be Don Juan co-worker sends love poetry to two of his co-workers and tries to badmouth each of them in front of the other to separate them. When they wind up meeting and gelling anyway, they tell his wife, who as it turns out had already packed her bags and was waiting for confirmation of his infidelity. As a result, his marriage falls apart in a heartbeat, and it's implied he loses the house.
This flaky, domineering fiancé splurges on costs for the wedding, booking an expensive venue, expensive dress, etc., all on her groom-to-be's dime as she has no job of her own. Then, a month before the wedding, she abruptly tells her boyfriend that "God told her they shouldn't be together." After being kicked out by her boyfriend, she finds a new fiancé, and tries to get married on the same day as their planned wedding, pretending her new boyfriend is her old one. Only, when her first boyfriend finds out, he cancels all the reservations, getting $75,000 in refunds, resulting in the girlfriend having to marry her new beau at a courthouse – oh, and this second relationship only lasts for six months.

Not Always Related

A sister who constantly takes her sibling's stuff without permission experiences this trope when she grabs an ice cream bar out of the freezer, throws away the "do not eat" label on it, and chows down. Turns out it wasn't an ice cream bar, it was a dog laxative.
This dad continues to insist that his son's adopted daughter is not his and he was tricked into taking care of a child that's not his. Even though the son has openly said that he doesn't care if she's biologically his or not, and given his dad a black eye to emphasize that point, the dad gets a DNA test to prove he's right, even turning up with a cake that reads "I f*** told you so". However, to his horror, it turns out that the daughter is his son's bio kid, meaning that the dad made an ass of himself and irreparably damaged his relationship with his son and granddaughter for no reason.
This dad who deliberately acts like a Card-Carrying Jerkass to other drivers while driving is finally knocked down a peg when he deliberately cuts off another driver trying to get over and drives up parallel to them just to roll down his window and flip them off for good measure. A passenger in the other car responds by throwing a cup that (for reasons that are a mystery to the rest of the family) is full of pee at the dad, causing him to have a vomiting fit so bad that he has to pull over. While he doesn't completely stop being a rude driver, he is still noted to be comparatively much more polite to other drivers after that.

Not Always Learning

After this incident, where a teacher flips a student's desk because she knew the student wouldn't pass a neatness check, the student's mother shows up in the classroom to respond in kind, then pulls her child from that teacher's class. The teacher is later investigated and fired, and her teaching license revoked.
A mean teacher who refuses to let a student with fifth disease rash leave class early to call her parents despite the evidence appearing on her skin. When the student came back to school after getting cured, she learned the mean teacher got fifth disease.
"It's A Con Text":
- Problem Teacher falls on his sword in Part 2 after not only failing to help solve a rash of petty thefts at the school and not learning his lesson after he was suspended for what he did to the OP in Part 1 but also harassing and nearly getting a wheelchair-bound student arrested after jumping to the conclusion that she was responsible for the thefts through Insane Troll Logic and then gloating at her when the OP's policewoman grandmother shows up in uniform to defend her.
- Part 1 is about Problem Girl pulling a Wounded Gazelle Gambit on the OP that fails due to her ruining her own scheme, all because she called her out on faking a Teen Pregnancy. While Problem Girl didn't get any official punishment from the school after getting caught, word about what she did spread throughout the school and all of the staff and students refused to trust her anymore out of disgust. It also resulted in her being the main suspect among the students for the thieving spree in Part 2 (while it wasn't her, her reputation as a liar, her taking off to “use the bathroom” in the middle of P.E. every day and her continuing her Attention Whore tendencies even after people wised up definitely didn't help her look innocent). Also, since the OP's mother, the OP's grandmother, and the wheelchair-using student's parents all worked together to get Problem Teacher fired out of disgust for how his actions harmed their children, Problem Girl now has nobody in the school to protect her from the consequences of her Compulsive Liar tendencies. All this never would have happened if she didn't try the Wounded Gazelle Gambit on the OP in the first place.
A substitute teacher holding a petty grudge against another teacher (the OP) for not making a big deal out of sending the sub's daughter home from school barrages the OP (who is sick at home) with phone calls just to annoy them and tries to get them in trouble with upper management by claiming that the OP was not giving her sufficient instructions in teaching the class. The sub's plan falls apart when another teacher she doesn't like discovers what the sub is doing, resulting in the sub losing her temper and throwing things at the other teacher right in front of class. Not only is the sub fired and made a Persona Non Grata at the school, but the OP gets in no trouble as the sub gloated about harassing the submitter as she was attacking the other teacher.
Another substitute refuses to believe the submitter's claims that she's really nauseous and denies her bathroom access until a scheduled break, resulting in her puking on the substitute's shoes.

Not Always Friendly

This woman assumed a caller was a telemarketer, yelled at them to be taken off the list... and then wondered why she wasn't invited to her best friend's party.
"Sorry, I took you off my list."
This guy, trying to buy 16 pounds' worth of items but only having 15, loudly objects to the submitter's offer of letting him borrow a pound. As the submitter is paying for his own items, the other guy is trying to lower his bill, but still ends up ten pence short. He turns to the submitter...
Guy: Hey, I don't suppose—
Submitter: No, I don't suppose either. (leaves)
This guy deliberately backs into the car behind him and pretends to have injured his neck when the police arrive. Luckily, the other driver had a dash cam in the car. The first guy turns white when he finds out.
In this story, a woman refuses to help a person with a broken arm, saying that they should've brought someone else to help them. Luckily, another man steps in to assist. Later, the woman drops her groceries and asks the same man to help her. The man refuses and walks by, saying that she should've brought someone else to help her.
The lead organizer of this camp insists on letting other campers use the submitter's personal tandem kayak (meant for the use of said submitter and their disabled daughter). It happens that the submitter had secured a location, food, and entertainment for lunch partway through a planned group kayak trip. The submitter is the only one who knows where the planned stop is, so they and their family pack up their kayaks and leave, rescheduling the food and live band as a private party at night, and leaving the organizer to try to salvage the event in some way.
This new neighbor kept harassing the submitter because she was convinced he was a teen thief that stole her packages, despite the submitter only taking packages addressed to his home. Despite all the evidence he shows, and later the police explaining to the crazy lady that he didn't steal anything from her, the neighbor refuses to accept the truth, accuses the submitter of lying to the police and demanding he "confess" his crime and pay a $500 compensation. Eventually, the crazy neighbor was arrested and sent to jail for disregarding a court order not to harass the submitter again; and because she was the sole breadwinner, her family (who also helped the crazy lady harass the submitter) was forced to move out as they couldn't afford to remain in the home without her.
An apartment-dweller not picking up after his dog steps in another dog's waste.
A guy in camo pants goes around kicking over the inukshuks (think 'stone person traditionally built by indigenous people') other people had built on a breakwater. He decides to do the same to a man building an inukshuk of his own, kicking the inukshuk over as the second guy's about to place a rather large stone in place, and nearly kicking the second man in the face. In retaliation, the second guy throws the large stone he was holding through the windshield of first guy's truck.
Another driver honks and flips off the submitter here for accidentally stalling their car's engine... then accidentally stalls his own at the next traffic light.
After relentlessly bullying a pregnant classmate for months, this submitter and his girlfriend have a Surprise Pregnancy.
This Homeowner's Association busybody accuses a children's fundraising lemonade stand of fraud, purely because the leader of the operation is from a Hispanic family. The police officer she's talking to is Hispanic, which she only realizes when he asks the kid for their side of the story in Spanish, after she's already yelled racial slurs about them. Then the submitter asks her, in front of the police, who's watching her small children in the swimming pool. The ensuing child endangerment investigation forces her to move out of the neighborhood three weeks later, and the newspaper reporter she made sure was present prints the story, ensuring everyone knows what she did.
An angry old man, who bullies and yells at anyone and anybody at a train station (even children) without provocation for weeks on end, eventually provokes the wrong person and ends up on the business end of a flying dropkick.
While waiting in the vet's office, this guy sees the submitter's Big Friendly Dog from a fighting breed being friendly with the cat he grew up with and insinuates that the dog's just biding his time before ripping the cat to shreds. Then the guy's dog nips at the cat, triggering the submitter's dog's Big Brother Instinct and causing him to shove the guy's dog away, prompting the guy to wait at the other side of the office.

Not Always Healthy

The doctor (nicknamed "Dr. Painful") in this story either refused to prescribe painkillers to his patients at all or (if somehow convinced the patient was in pain) seriously under-prescribed them. And then one day Dr. Painful was admitted in his own hospital with a hernia. The doctor handling his case gave a strict "no painkillers at all" order, and every member of the staff gleefully enforced the order using Dr. Painful's very own justifications for not giving painkillers every time he begged for some.

Not Always Legal

This driver decided to start tailgating another car for no apparent reason (there was almost no traffic on the road, so he could have simply passed the car at any time). Turns out the car being tailgated was an undercover cop car.
While two teenage shoplifters are being detained, two other teenagers steal their bicycles.
This woman's Wounded Gazelle Gambit not only ends up with her being legitimately hurt, but her lawyer drops the case after being handed evidence showing that the woman was completely at fault because she had been trying to scam the store.
Some kids throwing lit firecrackers into a crowded street hit a police car with one.
This customer threatens to shoot a pizza place and harm the submitter's girlfriend if the pizza place doesn't honor a (non-existent) 30 Minutes, or It's Free! policy for his large orders of pizza. He instead got arrested for his threat.
A guy rummaging in people's bags for loose valuables ends up with a handful of used tissues.
The father in this story is berating his daughter for losing control of her car in bad weather and going into a ditch (and describing anyone who would do such a thing as "very stupid"), up until the point when he gets chewed out by the emergency responder and the sheriff's deputy for making such a big deal over an honest mistake. The tirade is continued by the tow truck driver, who confirms that the car is still good to drive. The father angrily speeds off... then hits a puddle and slides his own car into the same ditch 300 feet further down the road, fast enough to do the car serious damage (at least $6,000, and due to its age, it could easily be done for).
Back when traveling from one European country to another required customs/border checks, this guy found himself behind at least 100 other cars at the Spain-France border. He decided to pull into the emergency lane and speed ahead of everyone else, pulling back into the line just before the border crossing station. Then the gendarme on duty flagged his car over and had him park in the median to wait until all the cars he'd cut in front of crossed the border.
A cook, when presented with a customer request for no cod in a mixed fish meal due to allergy, decides that the allergy isn't real and puts it in anyway. The customer has a severe allergic reaction and has to be hospitalized for two days. The cook loses her job, is blacklisted from her profession, and gets a ten year suspended prison sentence plus a criminal record for poisoning and attempted murder by negligence.

Laser Guided Karma / Not Always Right