I held off on cursing the dude and he actually ended up apologizing to me all on his own, just to give you an update. I really was angry when I typed the post and its good I didnt act on emotion, which is interesting since acting out of emotion is essential to cursing somebody.
Well I'm already late to the party but there's still something I want to say about your initial post, and I especially want to reply to this new post you made today after reading it. I don't see him just apologizing as enough, but it depends on the scope of the apology, so I have some questions.
There's nothing stopping all of the higher-ups whose minds he's already poisoned against you from continuing to persecute you and be biased against you (denying you promotions, giving you annoying tasks and "grunt work" on purpose, etc).
You said he apologized, but:
Did he clear things up with the higher ups to restore your image with them?
Did he apologize as publicly as he disrespected you to restore your image with the other workers?
If not, this might just be a "long con" on his part, to sabotage your upward momentum at work, while still getting to keep you in his back pocket as a "friend" or "ally" or even a neutral party that won't get in his way. There are some people that take a really machiavellian approach to climbing the corporate ladder.
A public disrespect and a private apology are not an equal exchange. If he didn't apologize as publicly as he disrespected you, in order to quell all of the gossip and ruination of your image, then his apology doesn't really have any value. You said it was like 100 people, if their minds aren't reintroduced to the version of yourself that is respected, you will just get more disrespect from them on the back end. Also there's the part I mentioned above about how the higher ups now look at you. If they now see you as a push-over, there goes any chance of you getting promoted to any leadership roles.
It seems like you were satisfied by his apology but I wonder if you will feel the same if he gets promoted in the next few months. That apology will hold a lot less weight then won't it?
So Ive been having some real troule with a coworker of mine, I wont go into detail but he disrespected me in front of half my coworkers (~100 people) and been causing me trouble with the higher-ups. Now revenge is very important in my culture but I dont want to go to jail nor loose my job. Give me your worst.
If magic as powerful and world altering as a curse/hex is within your capabilities, wouldn't it make more sense to ask about magic that could be used in some way to build wealth and get out of the work force to begin with?
There's nothing stopping you from meeting another A-hole after you've cursed (or forgiven) this one.
The best revenge is success, and it has the added bonus that you didn't actually have to harm him in any way (which I think is excessive for work place drama). Which you've kinda proven by how quickly you've changed your tune after his apology.
Me personally, the whole hex/curse magic thing only makes sense in life/death or violent situations. Let's say I live in a dangerous area and there's a local criminal who keeps robbing me every month, and I can't really do anything because he's part of a gang and they will retaliate. It makes perfect sense to curse/hex this guy.
Ironically though, if I used some form of magic to build wealth, I could just leave that dangerous area and skip all of the BS.
If both options are possible (blessing vs cursing), it just makes more sense to "bless" yourself than to "curse" someone else. Blessing yourself has secondary benefits, cursing others only has that single instance of a benefit.