"Getting Even...will disabuse you of many of the ways you think of revenge. The book is filled with stories of revenge, and many readers will find themselves feeling more sympathy for the person seeking revenge than the person on the receiving end- in fact, you might, like me, unexpectedly find yourself sometimes cheering the revenge-seekers on. The book is a nice mix of the academic and the populist [and] has so many anecdotes, it is very easy reading. It will alert you to the real story of revenge in your workplace - perhaps even remind you of some of your own efforts to get even - and hammer home that revenge is an everyday occurrence when injustices are allowed to occur."
—Globe and Mail, April 22, 2009

"Don't buy this book if you think it's a good source of really devilish and totally untraceable ways to get the revenge you so totally deserve…the authors seem intent in decreasing the amount of revenge that gets expressed in our daily work lives. Managers, too, will learn how to nip workplace revenge in the bud…"
—Work Daze, February 19, 2009

"The authors find that, for many, workplace revenge is about justice and restoring the balance of what they think is fair and right. The duo offers managers advice on how they can prevent their employees from seeking revenge. Grounded in 15 years of research, including more than 500 interviews with managers and workers about on-the-job revenge and retaliation, Bies and Tripp use lively anecdotes to illustrate the ways in which employees get even."
—Georgetown University’s Blue and Gray, February 23, 2009