r/Prorevenge How I Destroyed The Life Of My Roommate From Hell! 

"You can pay for my time, experience and skills, but you can't pay for my emotions" This. There's literally nothing more to say about it than this.

I LOATHE attempted forced enthusiasm. About 20 years ago I worked at a Target. We had "team meetings" in the back, and afterwards we all had to put our hands in a pile and yell, "TEAM!" It was so painful for a few of us. I just couldnt get into it. But that still wasnt NEARLY as bad as the "WE ARE WAL_MART" to the tune of "We will rock you". I felt so bad for those people.

Kevin in the first story : not the hero we want, but the hero we need

Hold on. Lucy gave a man, which she only knows for two weeks, a key to their apartment?. As soon as Lucy starts to lives alone, she will get rob within a year. Or worse

"He wanted to raid Looney Lucy's dungeon." Something tells me the loot wouldn't have been worth effort.

"I'm very active in the single scene and bring partners home all the time" Well, at least Lucy doesn't have to worry about being on the menu, it seems 😎

It's an admirable pursuit to try to foster a workplace culture of happiness, but when it's forced it obviously fails.

First story: "He keeps bringing men home!" Me: I was not expecting that.

That's something else I always tell my supervisor trainees: You pay for people to work for you. Don't try to buy their emotions. Make it a positive, fun work experience and you'll get their emotions and loyalty as a by product of the job. Try buying buying their emotions or forcing them to emote as part of the job will get you nothing but lost sales and/or employees..

Normally I'd expect the plot twist of Lucy and Kevin getting together after OP said that Kevin liked to bring people home and Lucy and Kevin sounded like a good roommate match. Specifying that he started bringing a bunch of *men* home was so satisfying.

The cardinal roommate rule was broken when your outfits were "borrowed"

First story : Honestly... If I was the "creepy guy", I would've waited for the girl I was "dating" to come home, before showing up. Even if I was given a key and was told to just go in. I would've just wasted time at a McDonald or something. I would NEVER just randomly invite myself in a new unfamiliar place even if I got the key to said place. Because frankly, that's just asking for theft allegations against you or worst.

I feel bad for the first guy. Not only did he get detergent on his eyes, also got tagged as creepy by a lady he doesn't even know and (judging by his reactions) did not want to mess with. He was like: "Well whatever, gonna just sit on the couch and pretend there is no half-naked woman around." Bad idea indeed, I'd pretend I got to the wrong address... Well, at least he won't stay with Lucy? That's a good compensation IMO.

That last one reminds me of something that my grandma did. There was a sanitation worker's strike in Milwaukee where she lived at the time, which basically meant no trash was being collected. Like, at all. So rather than have her trash keep piling up, she would pack it all into a box, gift wrap it, then leave it in the back seat of her unlocked car at night. Without fail, her trash was gone come morning.

Oh my gods Kevin sounds like an amazing guy! He seems to have known the story, and decided to be so smug when carrying it out for OP. Good man.

I feel bad for CLG, he spent all of his WoW money to see the stupid roomate

I love how rSlash changed word "bitch" for "2020"

Team Building: an art of substituting a decent salary with religious enthusiasm.

The big issue with the "team bonding activities" in companies is the fact they are created by extrovert people for extrovert people, ignoring the introvert ones. So to us introverts those activities are torture.

"Are you sure you want to delete folder system32 and all of its contents?" "Yes." "Are you ABSOLUTELY sure?" "Yes!" "lol k" **system not operational** "WHAT? WHYYYYYYY?!"

I love the story about the engineer. When you're good enough, you have that kind of leeway. At my job, we have no cell phone policies, but I work in the back room and when I'm on the clock things always run much more smoothly. So, my bosses have learned to recognize this and give me some healthy privilege. Hell, the store manager trusts and respects me so much that, after we closed last night, she handed me the keys to her car and asked me to get something for her. I joked about just driving away, but she didn't hesitate. It's a good feeling, when you have a strong professional relationship with someone like that. It sucks that OP lost that when the management changed over.

OP: *throws laundry detergent at Creepy Stranger* *FATALITY*

its said that one of the reasons walmart failed in germany is because they forced their employees to smile at costumers

I like the rslash community, everybody here is nice and cool

"PARTICIPATE" *in the most unenthusiastic tone ever* "whoo" *Sinfield theme starts

Oh my god, that forced enthusiasm culture is exactly what they did when I worked at Walmart. They'd do meetings in the afternoon around 5 pm with "every available associate" in the store where they'd go over the daily numbers and address any issues that were happening. The meeting would always end with this ridiculous cheering and clapping thing that was so cringe it caused me physical pain. I just stopped going to those meetings, instead working on sorting the freight leftover from the truck unload an hour prior. When my boss told me I had to go to those meetings and do that cheer thing, I told him pretty much what rSlash said in this video- "$12 bucks an hour buys my time and effort, but NOT my dignity."

Me: sees the title and thumbnail "Welp, the devil would be proud, but not since you sent her back from where she came from."

Hope everyone is having a dope day!!

Stories aside, I hope that "creepy guy" from the first story is ok, detergent really is a hurtful substance and my friend lost his right eye sight when he accidentally put detergent in his eye

"What are you gonna do ? Fire me ?" Pretty much the attitude I had at my previous job when they would try to push random over time on me. We both know you prefer to have me working 40h a week, than not have me at all, so cut the BS and enjoy what you have. Well until they don't since I resigned 3 years ago, for reasons like that. People gotta realize being an employee is a contract between 2 parties, one of them being you. If you have the bargaining chips, you don't get to take the BS.

I’m gonna be honest I really miss r/treelaws

Omg the "American" clapping and cringe workplace... I feel that so hard.

I feel bad for the creepy guy. He wasn't doing anything wrong, and just got the short end of the stick

I feel worse for “creepy guy” than I do for op in the first story

“Hindsight’s 2020” I see what u did there

I feel so bad for the aunt :( I hope she finds peace

They say its better to be pissed of than to be pissed on. That line made my day

I'm American, and I think the cheering and clapping thing is cringe as hell.

"you can't pay me for my emotions." Sir, that's called retail

As someone with an engineering degree that’s technically for mechanical, Mechanical Engineer Man is my hero. A stable income, not forced to work arbitrary overtime and gets to charge personal clients 3x and his old job 6x what he normally made just because he can. And on top of that he made one of the managers that fired him quit simply by using his resources to make their lives hell. Beautiful

I remember when I worked at Wendys (first job) they made us all ding a bell anytime we washed our hands, then everyone would have to drop what they were doing to clap and cheer anytime we heard that bell. I hated it so much. I got written up for not cheering before while I was trying to prepare burgers. I couldn't understand how we were supposed to be quick if we had to act like seals everytime someone washed their hands...

Is putting asbestos in my ENEMIES air-conditioner and not telling them nuclear revenge after they Laughed at my grandparents funeral?

Those lawyers coulda been disbarred if she could show her trash was being stolen by them.

13:58 I always had the same idea when asked “so why do you want to work *here* ?” How am I supposed to react? I want to live, pay rent, eat etc.

Don't forget. This man's Birthday is next Monday. Make sure to wish him a good one on the 16th.

Roomate from hell. That sounds like a rock band lead singer,

F to CLG, hopefully he found someone better

I had a job once who's idea of team building was to have desks back to back and a connect 4 or other 2 person game between the 2 desks. You were actively encouraged to play now and then through the day and if one of you had a particularly bad call, the two of you could pause your call queue and play multiple games. You would also have a different desk every day so you would regularly have different games with different people. Since it was a call centre that paid on commission rather than hourly, as long as they made over heads and a little extra for the bosses poker money, they were happy. Also there were bean bags instead of chairs in the conference room.

Once a 16 yo called me ugly so I was like : I’m about to do what’s called a pro gamer move... and her friends were like watcha gonna do ? I pulled out a uni reverse card. We all laughed except her saying it was a dumb thing and we were all nerds now she has no friends lmao

"do you people not get it?! I'm only here because you're paying me to be here!!" I've said this verbatim so many times... I haaaate team building exercises/work-life balance stuff. Edit: when I say work-life balance, I mean like "corporate has decided that you should do everything here in the office so it feels more like home".

I Love Hearing Listening to these reddit stories they always make my day when Rslash makes a video about them

Instead of keeping your friends close and your enemies closer, OP kept enemies at a distance and her Kevins close to her enemies

The post about the engineer had me questioning if that was my dad. I’d believe it if my dad didn’t work with tech/computers. I love the “I’ll help you the second you ask no matter what, but not wrap you in a fluffy blanket and carry you through” attitude. It’s always great to have someone with that perspective in your corner to support you.

Back at my first real job we had regular team buildings outside the building. Small things really, little games and stuff but real cringy... At a certain point we had to spell out the letters LOVE and they would take a picture of it. I took a deep breath, sighed heavily and asked if I could PLEASE go back to work and be productive instead. Was fired a few years later for being unproductive. XD

"Are you REALLY sure you want to do this?" should be a big warning to everyone in the spot to answer... Oh, the anticipation from *that* moment! 😁

The more R/ talks about his former job the more I’m convinced he is actually Jim from the Office

We had a podiatrist here whose brother did the anaesthesia for him. Well, turned out that the brother was doing bad things to women once he knocked them out. I know he ended up going to prison, but I don't know about the financial fallout from it. The podiatrist stayed in business until he retired. Scary to know that these things happen.

rSlash says Victoria’s Secret bathrobe. Me: Quickly turns up volume and is disappointed.

Karen be like: "a person who watch this video must be revengefull idiot and ungratefull brat who doesn't take our little sucky antique behaviour" Nice another content rSlash...

That last story had me HOWLING with laughter

Let this be a lesson for y'all: JOIN A UNION!

the first story is a rollercoaster from start to end and I love it

I love the Kevin/Lucy story. That is hilarious!

14:10 you know the phrase "never mess with the IT guy" a worse mistake is screwing over a guy who holds all the patents and registrations

my boss always ask me to smile and I just say "wait till Friday I sure will"

I love the cathartic feeling I get from listening to this

Poor CLG. He just wanted to show Lucy his lil Goblin. :(

I love revenge videos! Pro-nuclear-petty-malicious compliance, they're all just LOVELY.

I wish that all of the companies that force that "team building" crap on us like we're in grade school all over again should all feel this guy's revenge.

When I took a really good job that required us to do those cheer sessions I refused. I was fired for made up reasons but it didn't matter as I found another job with a manager that hated them just as much as I did. Those things are ignorant.

Props to the OP of the first story, she apparently nailed the creepy dude in the head with a laundry detergent bottle. Those things are big and unwieldy AF.

Yeah. I worked at Wal-Mart, and they kept trying to do this whole group thing. I just stood there, not giving a dang, and even called them out on wasting my time and I had work to do

I always find it funny how Management just expects everyone to act enthusiastic, if anything it just makes it more uncomfortable. The same goes for the bosses or managers that try to yell at you when you're off the clock. More of the story is, you might pay us, but that does mean you control us.

There's a reason the quote "It's hard to have fun when you're not having fun." exists. Maybe those companies who treat "team-building" as a religion should take that into account.

For the WoW ref on the first story more like he tried to raid her dungeon and got wiped on the first boss because the party leader didn't explain the mechanics to him.

As a nerdy girl who can appreciate the sacrifice of WoW money and the thoughtfulness of flowers, I wish it didn’t come at the cost of soap to the head but I very much hope that he found someone better than loony Lucy. He’s got the right moves and sounds like the kind of guy I’d wing-lady for :)

Anyone who's had any dealings with used cat litter knows how pungent the smell is, and how it seeps into everything, particularly upholstery - that BMW would have been stinking for a long time afterwards - possibly even needing the interior ripped out and replaced.

CLAI YER "One minute after release" TICKET HERE

Wow! Her friends dad was a mechanical engineer? That’s cool! I was going to go to college to study to be a mechanical engineer, but a chemical engineer is lookin’ pretty sweet now lol. Also I haven’t decided yet because college is 10 years away.

First story: I honestly think OP made CLG dodge a bullet on this one too, since he at least acted like a decent person, despite his outward appearance. Second story: For me, having an outwardly positive attitude is the better thing when it comes to customer interactions. I've had my own share of interactions with grumpy people at some businesses who've left me with a horrible impression of their business management, and their attitude alone have dissuaded me from ever wanting to have to deal with the businesses they work for ever again if I can avoid it. I even have a co-worker who just can't put a lid on his "selective" aggressive mannerism no matter where he is or who he talks to, which has made me reluctant to ever wanting to work alongside him. But at least I can agree that enforcing an positive internal business atmosphere is nothing short of pretentious, because there will always be disagreements and setbacks in all companies, and not getting to openly express your negative emotions to your co-workers and/or superiors is one of the factors behind stress, which will then affect your life on your free time negatively. If it's not okay to be a physical corporate slave, it's not okay to be emotional slave either. Third story: Bonus revenge if they'd taken the license plates of those lawyers' cars and reported them for theft. Who knows what other _dirty things_ the authorities would dig up if and when they'd went to investigate that case, because I'm sure that scumbag lawyers like that has something else hidden if they're willing to openly harass the victims of their clients.

That guy got sone dirty he wasnt even that bad also “hindsight’s 2020” 😂

I kind of feel bad for CGL, it appears OP essentially treated him like that because she didn't like the way he looked. Sure its weird Loony Lucy invited him but that's on her.

I always tune in at around 9 o'clock for this. When you still haven't uploaded after an hour i got a little worried lol glad to hear from ya

I hate it when people dislike the video without them even seeing it completely

Who is OP and why do they have so many stories?

I work for a company that expects that fake enthusiasm as well...I dont bite. Once a regional manager, super "corporate robot" vibes came in and as I was working on something said "I'm so sorry that I always come on your days off". I looked up and said "are you talking to me?" She said "yea, everytime I come in its your day off" I said "why would I care about that?" She just smiled and blew it off.

“But hindsight’s 2020” Okay why’s that funny?😂😂

The only problem I kind of have is that she calls the dude creepy guy even though she said he didn’t do anything bad and I’m assuming he thought he had permission

I've seen the loony Lucy story of the prorevenge Tumblr page and I'm so glad to see it here!!

Been watching these for so long, when I'm actually on reddit, THIS is the voice I read articles in... especially the whiner/bitchy voice! Thanks for helping keep me sane during this pandemic!

Can we start a petition to make these videos at least an hour long?? 17 mins is definitely not enough

Ive learned alot with my own roommate Manic Miranda! She was only 20 but had a well paying job. I quickly learned that she steals food, doesnt clean to the point of two months of old food and tampons in her 8 garbage bags shoved in her closet. I had to have emergency surgery and had to pay her one day pay from her work to take off and take me ($100 an hour). While in surgery the came back home and stole money I had kept in my car, you would think she would have taken out the trash. That night she comes to me at midnight telling me she is breaking our month to month lease to move to of state to take care of her dying grandfather. I was smart enough to have a legal agreement. She told me she needed $200 of the prepaid money she paid for next month…on top of it she reminded me she needed the money to drive me to the hospital and the $200 deposit. During this time our hot water heater had broken, turns out its from backed up drains for her failure to clean. = $500, a few days later when I was no longer on pain killers I reminded her that I cant sign or verbally agree to any contract right after surgery…She left without cleaning and after she read the lease saying she owed for the next month rent. When her daddy came to me threatening me, I slapped him with a restraining order! I wasnt all the way a witch, I did refund her the $100 for driving me to the hospital….my next roommate agreement will included many things mentioned here and what I learned from her.

Rose are red Tomato’s are too I got my first like Wait why is it blue?

All I can think of when you say you can’t pay for my emotions are mandatory fun days that the marines have

First one sounds like your typical sledgehammer to Crack a walnut.

He really emphasized that “T” lol “BiggesT pet peeves” 😂

The best way to shot down a team building exercise is to tell them something disturbing about yourself they'll swiftly move on

Food thieves are the worst. I once had one of those, and he ALWAYS stole my milk. Until I began making a show of drinking directly from the milk carton. Then it suddenly stopped.

Learning that I feel so bad for the man that is super sad I hope he finds someone actually worth those flowers

Regarding the "cheer policy" i always have a chuckle about how walmart tried to set foot here in germany... it was hilarious. Hint: we don't have walmart here today