I'm going to purposefully set up coworkers for failure
Why would you want to set them up to fail, don't you care about them at least a little bit?
I pretty much don't, especially when they are very irritating, arrogant and talk behind my back.
You really think fighting fire with fire will help? Why not just ignore your coworkers behavior and go about your day?
Nah. Fuck it.
Fair enough, but what you're doing is wrong. Even if you think you're leveling the playing field, you shouldn't sabotage them.