It might not help anything in the long term, but in the short term, nothing feels better than a little sweet revenge. Bad bosses are on top of many "number one enemy" lists, and these five people took to the antiwork subreddit and shared times they were able to get even with their previous tormenters.

Rule number one of firing an employee, especially one you have a poor relationship with, is making sure they don't have a bunch of work on them they can dispose of. That's exactly the mistake one boss made after asking an IT worker to collect data on every single computer in the company. Realizing she was in sole possession of the binder with her last three months' worth of work, the worker dumped it on her way to collect her final paycheck. "The company that hired me doesn't exist anymore," she wrote. 

Read that story of work revenge and four other equally satisfying ones right here.