01/10/2026
My hands trembled as I stared at the email notification on my phone. Subject line: "Leadership Promotion Announcement - Congratulations Robert Chen!"
Robert. My boss. The man who'd just been promoted to Senior Vice President using MY strategy deck.
I felt the blood drain from my face as I sat in the empty conference room, my laptop still open to the presentation I'd spent three months perfecting. The same presentation Robert had "reviewed" last week. The same presentation he'd apparently delivered to the executive board this morning—with his name on every slide.
"You okay?" My colleague Maya poked her head in. "You look like you've seen a ghost."
I couldn't speak. I just turned my laptop toward her, showing the side-by-side comparison I'd been making. Left side: my original files, timestamped, with my digital signature. Right side: the screenshots from Robert's "winning presentation" that someone had leaked in the company Slack.
Word for word. Graph for graph. Even my typo on slide 34 was still there.
Maya's eyes widened. "Oh my God. He didn't just use your ideas. He literally stole your entire—"
"Six years," I whispered, cutting her off. "Six years I've been here. Six years of watching him take credit for my work. But this? This was supposed to be MY promotion. My breakthrough."
I thought about all those late nights. All those weekends I'd sacrificed. The client relationships I'd built from scratch, only to watch Robert swoop in for the handshakes and congratulations. The product launch that saved our division—my strategy, his award.
My phone buzzed again. A calendar invite from Robert: "Celebration Dinner - My Treat!"
Something inside me snapped.
I opened my desk drawer and pulled out the folder I'd been building for the past two months. Insurance, I'd called it. Documentation of every stolen idea, every forged email, every lie. I didn't know if I'd ever need it.
Now I knew.
I was shaking. I didn't know whether to scream or laugh. But what I did next shocked everyone... Read the full revenge story here (Link in First Comment) 👇