Do you pay an engineer for pressing buttons or do you pay an engineer for knowing which buttons to press? Definitely the latter, and some people learn that the hard way, like the sleazy customer in u/AwkLemon 's epic r/ProRevenge story. They thought they could get away with tricking a professional problem-solver into doing a day of free labor . They thought wrong.

Homeowner associations ( HOAs ) get a pretty bad rap, especially on Reddit. There's even a whole subreddit called r/fuckHOA dedicated to seething stories about the various ways in which HOAs piss people off. One redditor recently shared their own tale of petty revenge on their HOA to r/MaliciousCompliance . When one of u/FirstContribution236 's neighbors (who happened to be on the HOA board) threatened to take action against OP for refusing to take down their security camera, OP opted for playi…

Some 'friend'

More work ≠ more tips

This story takes you way back to the days of 'Blockbuster'

This employee has learned that a Glassdoor review they wrote when they quit their job has been giving their past-employer grief with hiring. They left their position after experiencing unprofessional treatment from their manager, which they felt necessitated the review being written. This thread was posted to Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit this week by a user who shared their experiences with the popular sub. They posted their topic with the title “Left my old place due to bad management - M…

Roommates from hell.

No one likes a snitch

Devious

A fine revenge

This landlord threatened legal action against their tenant if the tenant refused to let them show the apartment while they were still living there. The tenant did not want the grief of going through a legal process with their terrible landlord, so they caved under pressure and allowed the apartment viewings to occur. This thread was posted to the r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by the tenant after they faced a long list of issues with their current landlord. This included the landlord stealing…

In this world, you get what you pay for.

There's nothing worse than a boss who has it out for you for weird personal reasons. In a satisfying tale of malicious compliance, redditor u/Vanna-Black explains how she became the object of her manager's jealousy, and how she was able to escape.

When this bride-to-be accidentally sent a trash-talking text to her supposed best friend, her friend decided to exact revenge by canceling the party she had paid for.

This boss laid into an intern when she took a call from her mother telling her that she needed to hurry to the vet to see her dying cat.

This military audio engineer was told by an outranking Sergeant Major that their help wasn't necessary for setting up a VIP ceremony. They did as they were told and "f-ed off" which led to the ceremony being a disaster.