War against a competitor.

What can we do?

[flaxmac]

My wife says living well is the best revenge, but she is the mentally stable one in this relationship, Not Me!

Something has happened, I wont go into details, needless to say that one of my competitors, has contacted my "day job" employer with a complaint that may cost me my job, due to strict internet code of conduct regulations where I work. All I did was post an article from works computer, silly mistake, I know.

What can I do to really increase my business, and listening to my wife, live well without doing something bad.

Ok she has gone now, forget the bit about not doing something bad, tell me all the bad stuff too. Then I will decide if I will use it or not.

[kaled]

If you're good at you're job and that is your only crime I can't see you being fired. However, if you're useless at your job or your company is trying to shed employees, spending time looking for employment elsewhere would be more profitable.

I subscribe to the policy of "don't get mad get even", however, if you've stuffed up, be a man and take it on the chin.

Kaled.

[Jon_King]

Revenge is for small-minded people that do not get the forever lasting implications to the physique. Walk away, you screwed up, move on to something better.

[Rosalind]

How do you know your competitor isn't reading this board?

What probably ticked off this person in the first place was your success. The best revenge is to be more successful. Wasting time by searching for ways to get petty revenge is playing into your competitor's hands.

[flaxmac]

Rosalind - have you been talking to my wife, sounds exactly the same.

I am good at my job, I know I wont be fired, pretty hard to get fired actually.

But this guy doesn't know that. Is he reading this thread, well he could be, if you are I want you to know I think you are a complete and total #$%&@^%#

Now that I have gotten that off my chest, thanks for the replies, but what I had in mind was something like doing something with a website name. His site name is something like this:
www.widgets.com.(country-code)
So I was thinking about making a site with:
www.widgets.com

But I can see it has recently been taken, not by him as I can recognise his code. I missed that chance.

The .net and so on are still there, anybody know if I could use these to my advantage?

[Automan Empire]

Sure! Grab the .net and build a hate site or whatever. Meanwhile, I bet you he spends the time building himself a better site than yours, and will soon be eating your lunch!
Or! Or, you could follow repeated advice, let this pass, and get cracking, being truly better than he. Your day job being threatened should give you pause.