Submitted by theantigrinch t3_104mklu in tifu
About ten days ago, on Christmas, my mother in law declared that I bought to many presents for my daughter. Due to that, she took removed the gift she got my daughter to avoid "spoiling her". My wife agreed with her mother, and out of rage I took back the $600 designer bag I bought my MIL. (Originally posted on r/amitheasshole but got removed so post can be found on r/pettyrevenge).
From the comments on r/amitheasshole many people gave me the idea to return the bag I got my MIL and use it towards a day out with my daughter. I thought that was brilliant but took the idea too far by posting a picture of the bag and my daughter with the doll and alluding to the fact that this was my MIL original gift. People kept messaging me on reddit asking for updates on how that day went, and sadly not the best.
My MIL saw the post and made comments under the post slandering me along with my wife and her family. Instead of being a bit of a more mature adult and talking things out in person, I engaged with the comments. My MIL was trying to pain my as the villain for not getting her a proper gift and her family was as awhile. I fought back with the comments and my section became a mess. I was tired of dealing with everything so I set my phone aside and fell asleep.
Then I wake up and start my day like no other and arrive at work. My job is very image conscious so I shouldn't have been surprised when I was called in to talk to my boss. He explained how my instagram post didn't display the equality and good-manner of the company and I needed to delete my instagram post.
Of course I complied, I wasn't going to lose my job over being petty. However, over the hours of being at my job my MIL and her family made posts insinuating bad thing about me while tagging me in them. Along I could untag myself from those posts my boss explained the situation kept gaining traction and he couldn't risk it damaging company image so I was fired.
Yes fired for being petty and my wife just responded with "its karma". Maybe it is, but I don't regret anything. Job searching will be fun.
TL;DR: Decided to be petty and mess with MIL online. Blew back on me and put the company I worked for in a compromising position and I got fired.