It's usually best to take responsibility for your own decisions and actions. Unfortunately, when you have a propensity for making bad ones, you're also more likely to not want to take responsibility for them, instead casting them off on the other people who had the misfortune of being in your immediate proverbial vicinity. Being eternally financially bound to one of these liabilities through other accountabilities is not a great situation to be in. But, as with anything in life, the best you can do is make the most of where you're at.

After an amicable divorce from his ex-wife, which seemed to be being handled with levelheaded reasoning and a positive outlook, this guy was surprised by his ex-wife's repeated poor choices that put her in increasingly adverse financial situations. Things began to take a turn for the worse between the pair before his ex-wife sought to level a lawsuit against him, seeking to rewrite the financial decisions that had been made in their separation. A move that was going to backfire spectacularly.

This person is completely blind to the consequences of their impatience. Luckily for the rest of us, their story is an unintentionally funny tale of workplace ignorance. 

There's always that one coworker that just doesn't pick up on the job. They could have all the training in the world, but they still don't understand basic tasks. They're the person who needs your help ten times per day when you're not even their supervisor. Other times, "that one coworker" will do their job so badly that everyone else is left picking up the slack. 

This dude sounds like a hilariously inept communicator, and a nightmare to work with. The non-suspended account u/Familiar-Jacket wrote that they worked for a large company of 10,000+ people, but they noticed that it was hard to communicate via email in such a large company. They write that they've taken to finding people in person to address their issues, but during remote work days, that solution just won't cut it. They revealed their newest solution to getting their work done, and commenters let them know just how irritating they were being to everyone around them. 

Next up, this tech support worker was told by their bosses to "smile more," so they decided to grin and bear it by refusing to stop smiling. 

Sometimes, there is no point in pretending you know the answer on a test. 

Perhaps you didn't study or perhaps you're just drawing a blank. For whatever reason, you have absolutely no idea what to say and you can't even venture an educated guess. At this point, you know you're not getting any points on this question (and maybe even on the whole test). So, what does one do in this situation? Do you leave the question blank? Do you waste time trying to fabricate an educated guess despite the fact that you know it will be totally wrong? Or do you just accept that you don't know it and lean into that fact, so to speak?

Now, for those of you who don't know what it's like to not know the answer to a question on a test, leaning into your lack of knowledge might sound foreign to you, but we promise it is not the end of your academic career. In fact, some teachers responded favorably to their clueless students' honesty. Well, only a few responded that way but still. You're at the very least likely to give your teacher a laugh with your transparency. 

Keep scrolling below for these top exam mistakes. When you're done, feel free to check out these server memes. 

This person gave their company half a year to replace them, and that still wasn't enough time. That's a generous offer! Most people give the usual two weeks' notice when switching jobs. It's the common courtesy to let your employer know that you're heading for the door, while also giving them time to strategize and start the hiring process for your replacement. 

U/Knowslittle wrote that their employer was making them do the jobs of three people. This worker was stretched so thin that it was becoming an unpleasant work environment. They proved that they cared about their company by giving them six whole months to figure out how to handle their departure. But still, the company just didn't move fast enough. Oh well, they did all they could to prepare their employers!

Commenters enjoyed the tale, and left stories of their own. Plus, in an edit to the post, the original poster shared their appreciation for the malicious compliance community, adding that workers should "value yourself and what you do." Sage advice for all of the workers of the world. 

Up next, if you're a Gen Xer who's ever programmed a VCR or rocked out to The Cure, you'll find these throwback memes totally relatable. 

People have their own personal reasons for quitting jobs. Sometimes it's justified, and sometimes it's not, Sometimes it's planned, and sometimes it's impulsive. And every so often, the reason behind someone's departure at a company is so bonkers and unexpected that it almost feels like you're living in a movie or some heightened version of reality.

This time, instead of telling these anecdotes from the perspectives of those who got fired or quit, we're going to see how things went down from the points of view of the head honchos. Perhaps they learned a lesson or two and their employee was completely in the right. Or perhaps for once, these bosses were not all that bad and they were legitimately dealing with ridiculous employees. Even in this heated cultural moment with respect to how we view the workplace, that dynamic may still exist as well. 

Keep scrolling below for these bizarre Reddit stories. When you're done, check out this post about a recruiter's unhinged response to a job candidate's choice to decline an opportunity.

The night shift is not for the weak. Whether you're working the third shift at a factory or a hospital, the real task is just staying awake. It takes a certain kind of grit and determination to work through the wee hours of the night while the rest of the world is fast asleep. It is possible shift your sleeping schedule, but it's tough when everyone around you is working different hours than you. You have to be willing to make some serious sacrifices to live the night shift life: no more daytime Netflix binges or lunchtime naps in the sun. Instead, you're forced to sleep during the day, like a vampire, and wake up groggy and disoriented, praying you don't sleep through your alarm and miss your shift. But it's not all doom and gloom. There are some perks to working the night shift, like higher wages and a slower pace of work. You just have to be prepared to miss out on brunch dates and daytime activities - unless you're into midnight breakfast and moonlit hikes, that is. 

Getting the Monday Blues is in employees' DNA. Nobody likes going back to work after having a nice, long relaxing weekend spent by doing absolutely zilch. Maybe some micromanagers enjoy the prospect of coming back to psychoanalyze their employees' work, but for the most part, everyone likes the weekend.

I don't know who came up with the 5 day work week, but it feels a bit extreme. Why do we only get 2 days to chill? After the Industrial Revolution, employees' work time was cut into 2, but we still work the same amount of time. It's not like bosses were like, 'Oh, productivity skyrocketed, let's give workers a break'. No, instead, we get to work 40 hrs a week. Yay, capitalism.

Scroll down for the funniest and most enjoyable posts of the week for employees who have caught the Monday Blues. Then check out this employee who quit on the spot after being chastised by their boss for sitting down during a 12-hour shift.

This employee was confused by their boss's latest comments, and they decided to comply to the best of their abilities. 

For many women, being told to smile more is an unfortunate rite of passage. It's usually said by some older dude as the woman is working or just walking around, minding her own business. There's no winning in this situation. If you smile back on request, you feel degraded, and definitely not smiley. If you don't smile, they'll say something about kids these days, and why can't anyone just lighten up? There's no reason anyone needs anyone else to smile at them. If you have to ask for it, it's telling of your personality. Do you mean to tell me you can't get people to smile for you organically? You have to request it? That just makes me feel bad for you. 

It's also difficult when the person demanding you smile more is your boss. Some people just have resting B face, but that doesn't mean they're actually grumpy or unhappy with their work. At least this tech support employee got their employer to regret ever giving that feedback. It was truly a win for them — that boss is never going to tell someone to smile ever again. 

Next up, check out some of these great memes for the Gen Xers of the world (or anyone who's set up a VCR!). 

Every generation since the dawn of time has probably looked down on the younger ones with a hint of smug satisfaction in knowing that their upbringing was simultaneously harder and better (and faster and stronger) than the upbringing the kids these days were getting. Sure, we got to eat dirt, drink out of the hose, and hit each other with sticks repurposed as makeshift swords or lightsabers. We also got to explore the last blocks of forests remaining around the towns where we grew up that hadn't yet been logged for housing developments. 

But by the time Gen Z came along, those forest blocks had probably (definitely) been logged, and parents had decided that letting their children roam unattended and aimlessly—and that losing a kid or two to the wild unknown—wasn't an acceptable risk anymore. So, whereas our parents did their best to keep us away from the dark horrors of the internet, their parents, who had embraced the technology, handed them an iPad and locked them in a room with it for 15 years. As a result, the generation was raised digitally, and as we older folk would argue, they might have missed out on some vital life experiences and social cues along the way. 

Your heart is racing as you make your way to your boss's office. The grey walls seem to be closing in on you, and you feel like every one of your coworkers knows exactly what's going on in your mind. You don't know how, but you know they do. Their eyes follow you up until you knock on your boss's door. Ahem, you clear your throat. They look up from their desk, tired, annoyed even. They wave for you to come in, and you take a seat. Then you clear your throat again…

'I quit', you manage to muster. They blink. Once, twice… three times. 'What?' They say faintly. You repeat yourself, in a stronger voice this time. How will they react? Well, one person screenshotted their resignation and uploaded it to Reddit, where people were aghast at how the company (or HR) replied. Scroll down to check the story out, and then, here is an employee who totally soaked a printer, expected it to work, and called IT.

If micromanaging bosses would rather do all of the work themselves, perhaps everyone would be happier if they just did. That way, no one would be looking over anyone else's shoulders. No one would feel like they're being watched at all times of the day. Furthermore, no one would feel like their process of getting things done was not respected. 

Here, we have a micromanaging boss who kept listening in on their employees' calls with customers and correcting them in the middle of the class. Not only was this distracting and unhelpful for the employee, but it was also just an all-around bad look from the customer's perspective. After a while of trying to strike a balance between doing their job and pleasing their boss, the Redditor decided that if their boss wanted to micromanage, they might as well just handle all these phone calls themselves. Slowly but surely, the employee had fewer responsibilities and their boss no longer had to breathe down anyone's neck. 

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. When you're done, take a look at this post about a manager who ignored an employee's conflict.

Not every employee who quits their job does it because they hated it. Some actually have a good relationship with their manager and hold a special place in their hearts for their place of work. Because of that, when the moment to leave arrives, they are actually happy to train the new hire and help the company as much as they can before they leave.

Unfortunately, that dream situation doesn't happen to many, and a lot of employees don't enjoy the process of training their replacement, like the person in this Reddit story (OP, original poster). OP put in their notice after a month on the job, and only when their final day arrived, did the manager bring the new hire to be trained. The training did not go well, and when the now-former employee told the manager about it, they demanded OP give it another day. But by this time, OP already had a new job lined up, so the conversation did not go well.

Scroll down to read the full story. After that, click here for some funny memes about overworked employees who are hardly working. 

If your employer can't wait 72 hours for you to start training for a new position, they have a serious understaffing problem that likely stems from bad management. They'll deny it until they're blue in the face, but management doesn't always know what's best for a company–especially when it comes to the hiring process. 

Hospitality industry jobs have a high turnover rate to begin with, but there are always a few loyal employees who stick around to climb the ladder. When management starts to mess with that loyalty, they're going to quickly realize that they're scraping the bottom of the interview barrel to fill other positions. In our next story, one hospitality company really fumbled the re-staffing of a supervisor position. After promising the job to an internal employee, they went back on their word and ended up compounding their short-staffing problem. 

Scroll for the entire story of how one guy's stomach bug turned into an 'I quit' situation after getting passed over for a promotion. 

Apparently, Gen Z is saying "Everclear" is the drink of the summer… So who's gonna tell them?

There are some trials and tribulations that parents just have to watch their kids go through. Ill-advised bangs, unsightly fashions, and a goofy minimum wage first job are some of the classic 'trials' that every teenager needs to learn about through experience. But when that goofy part-time job starts becoming exploitative, it's time for Mama Bear's gloves to come off. 

Our next story begins when a mom decides to let her teenage daughter get a job working for a local party planner. All of the local kids were thrilled for the opportunity to get the job, but what they found out later, was that this particular employer required an 8-week unpaid trial period where the teens would have to forego a paycheck. Mom finally found out about the blatant exploitation when her daughter stopped going to work suddenly. Apparently, all the kids were temporarily 'laid off' because the boss was going on a 1-month vacation. 

Scroll for the entire story of an enraged mother putting the pieces together on a $10,000 scam operation and how she intends to derail the entire thing. 

Ah, the weekend - the two days where we finally get to do what we've been dreaming of all week: absolutely nothing. No work emails, no deadlines, no annoying coworkers. Just us, our couch, and all the snacks we've been saving up for this very moment. Of course, the downside is that before we know it, Monday comes rolling around again like a freight train. But that's okay. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. For now, let's just revel in the joy of being able to wear the same pajamas for 48 hours straight. And what better way to celebrate the weekend than with some hilarious work memes? Because let's be real, if we can't laugh at our jobs, we'll just end up crying. So kick back, relax, and enjoy these memes we've curated just for you. Happy weekend!

This family has to have one of the worst neighbors out there. After over ten months of their ongoing feud, the family's Karen-neighbor finally got what she deserved. Evicted. It all started when this family got a new neighbor to share their duplex with. They knew nothing about the person who moved in, but her true character quickly came out in their first meeting. She was a middle-aged woman with lots of cats, whom the Original Poster (OP) nicknamed Karen, for good reason. When they first met, she immediately started laying out the ground rules on how their family can't use her side of the yard under any circumstances. Mind you, they all live in one house and share a garage. Avoiding Karen wasn't possible. After that first encounter, the OP decided to play a little prank on Karen to really stir her up. Well, that one prank led to a ten-month ongoing war, with the cops having to intervene on many occasions. But when Karen took her revenge a little too far (hint: she ended up ruining the neighbor's entire apartment, forcing them to move out for renovations), she finally got the karma she deserved. Keep scrolling to read the rest of this crazy neighbor drama.

All too often, management decisions are made on the basis of needing something to do or a desire to meddle with something for the sake of having something to meddle with. Sometimes, these silly little projects end in cost-cutting measures, resulting in you being out of your silly little job. Of course, despite your newly awarded unemployment status, business continuity must still be maintained (so why are they getting rid of you in the first place?). These types of decisions almost always follow the sale and acquisition of a company by new owners who have no emotional attachment to their workforce and no understanding of the understated efforts of the workers who made the company successful in the first place.

At this point, you're probably going to be asked to do the impossible task of teaching someone cheaper—probably with less to little to no experience—how to do your job. At that point it's up to you how you want to proceed…

Gen X, what's the technology that you miss the most? 

While I'm not Gen X myself, I miss when phones had physical keyboards. They used to have a physical qwerty keyboard built in, and it made little clicking noises as you typed. I also loved the kind that slid open longways to reveal the keyboard, or slid open the short way to reveal a number keypad. These things seem so obscure now, so I can't imagine how it must feel to watch computers or TVs or phones evolve. 

Growing up in the 1980s seems to have been a positive experience for a lot of Gen Xers. They were largely left to fend for themselves, since their parents trusted them to take care of themselves and come home before the streetlights came on. It was a childhood spent riding bikes and playing baseball with friends. There were no cell phones yet: you'd have to call your friends on the house phone, with the curly cord attached and all. 

If that sounds like you, you'll probably enjoy this fine selection of memes below. And after that, check out the tale of the video game store employee who witnessed a guy buy a video game with insurance, and proceed to break the game while still in the store. 

If there is anyone in this world who deserves to be called out for their nonsense, it's a greedy real estate agent. This is not to say that all real estate agents are greedy. We are sure there are two or three decent ones out there. All jokes aside though, we can all agree that this particular one had it coming.

This thread was shared to Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit by u/Otherwise_Gift_4123, who recently bought a home and tried to negotiate with their landlord and real estate agent to get out paying the last six weeks of rent if they gave three months' notice. Well, that attempt at negotiation didn't seem to get anywhere, but the real estate agent immediately took the opportunity to start scheduling open houses against the tenant's will. That's when the tenant decided to stop playing nice with this guy. 

Keep scrolling below to see how he played better at the real estate agent's own game. For more stories like this, check out this tale of petty revenge in which some slackers on a group project got the grade they deserved.