For the moment, the person who is doing the paying back gets some satisfaction, but in the long run, the fight goes on and satisfaction is never reached. This is not to say paybacks stop after the person realizes it is getting them nowhere. Payback for many people becomes a way of life. They are either in the middle of paying someone back, just getting over paying someone back, or they are waiting for the next person to offend them, so they can begin to pay them back. There is no telling how much time and energy is wasted every day by people trying to pay other people back.
Many people know the frustration of working in a payback environment.
Each day is met with dread. The idea of having to go to work where payback is the rule literally makes many people physically and emotionally sick. One of the biggest mistakes made by people who live or work in a payback environment is trying to meet payback with payback. If you go against someone who eats, drinks and sleeps payback, the best you can hope for is a bloody draw. These people will stop at nothing to even the score.