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Input: Text: important details have been changed to protect both the innocent and guilty. this did not happen today. it has taken over a year for me to build up the courage to speak of it, either publicly or privately.  some background: i work as a designer for a small but growing supplier to the automotive parts industry. due to the small size and relative prosperity of the company, employees have quite a few perks, including an office cake for our birthday, but more on that later.

let me introduce my former coworker "bill." bill was hired on as the full time it professional several years before i hired on. the decision to bring him on arose from a discussion along the lines of "growing companies have an it professional. why don't we have an it professional?" it so happened that bill was a friend of a friend of the owners of the company who had recently been laid off from his it position in a larger company, and the pieces just came together.

tor provide a fuller context and hopefully make me look like less of an asshat later, i will briefly describe bill's career at our company. he was a horrible it professional. he caused more problems than he prevented and the company often had to bring in an engineer from our local hosting company to fix the mess. fortunately for him, he had never screwed things up to the point of getting fired. bill was one of those awkward personalities who moved too slow, asked embarrassingly personal questions or struck up inane conversations at inappropriate times, and passively-aggressively used his personal morality (as a very conservative christian) as leverage whenever possible.

an example of the above was that he hated when employees streamed media at work. to my knowledge, the practice didn't interfere with our daily operations, and most of us enjoyed listening to internet radio while working, or checking social media during break, or enjoying many other non-employment pursuits that required a computer. for whatever reasons (usually because it crossed his personal morality), bill would use the workplace internet filter to block sites he didn't like. what started as revoking youtube access grew into something more monstrous as he had no accountability to anyone and as long as he made sure that whatever the upper management wanted to view on their computer wasn't blocked, everything worked out well for him (as employees felt stupid complaining to upper management that we couldn't access youtube during work hours.)

although we got along well at first, soon bill seemed to take a special dislike to me. maybe because i was far less conservative and employed judicious use of the internet during work hours (a large part of it was connected to work functions, but i am also the guy with 34 tabs open at any given time.) me and a few other employees began to notice a pattern that when we visited a website several times, it would mysteriously be blocked afterward, often with no stated reason on the denial screen (as was the norm for the filter).

things got so bad that i started using my design skills to passive-aggressively point out what a douche bill was being. when the industrial size coffee creamer ran out, i printed out an access denied block screen and taped it to the carton. when several of the dock employees complained about not being able to access internet radio, i printed out a alert system similar to the terror alert which showed the level never set lower than yellow, which i labeled, "what the hell?"  shenanigans like that went on for awhile. each time, i felt the consequences as the reigns on my internet access grew tighter and tighter. 

eventually, the dissent among the employees reached the ears of the boss, who didn't particularly care for bill, and only really put up with him because the boss' wife (also an employee) felt sorry for him. once the boss had a bug in his ear that other employees were fed up with bill, it gnawed at him until one week when he was in an especially bad mood, he decided to take care of the problem once and for all. in the aftermath of another it screwup, in which an engineer was again summoned to fix bill's ineffectiveness, three days before his birthday, on a friday afternoon, bill was called into the office and told that his position was being cut and he was out of a job. when our company hired an engineer from our hosting company to come in part time and reconfigure our system (which was a complete mess), it was discovered after the fact that bill had custom settings on the internet filter for each employee and had been selectively and purposefully monitoring and blocking our internet access as he saw fit.

the atmosphere the following monday was so much lighter than it had been the previous week. the palpable tension had dissipated, and everything was going fine...until i decided to be a sarcastic ass. i informed the boss that according to the rules of office cake giving, since bill had been laid off within a week of his birthday, technically, the office should still get a cake. for whatever reason that fate would allow, that comment tickled the fancy of my boss and he told me to go pick one up. (cue foreshadowing and fatal music) i photoshopped a pic of bill playing a trombone and emailed to the supermarket bakery with the text "wish you were here. (not really) wah-wah waaaaah!" fast forward a couple of hours later as i'm standing in the checkout lane with said cake and to my horror, who shuffles into line behind me, but the recently unemployed bill!  i tried my best to conceal the cake, but the box has that damn transparent top. there was literally nothing i could do. as i set the cake on the checkout conveyor, the cashier glanced down and read it, then laughingly read it out loud, then added, "bill must've really been a jerk, huh?"

i was mortified and felt myself sinking into the floor. apologetically, i glanced back at bill and all i could see was the shocked look on his face at the realization of what the management and employees really thought about him was shouting at him from the cake. red-faced,  i mumbled something unintelligible and paid as quickly as i could, then grabbed the cake and vacated the premises as quickly as possible. for reasons unknown, bill apparently decided not to sue the company, and thankfully, i haven't seen bill since then, and hope never to again. 

 

edit: many thanks to /u/zeekiz for my first ever reddit gold.

TIFU by taking my sarcasm much too far.