In a perfect world, one should know that success is the best form of revenge and there's no need to go any further than that, but this is not a perfect world. Sure, if you know that you've found success and happiness following a breakup, then there should not be a need to publicize that in any way in order to feel gratification. Knowing that you're happy in and of itself should be enough. However, some moments are just too perfect that you have to post about them on all social media platforms to be sure that your ex sees them. 

Here, we have a guy who learned his partner of eight years had been cheating on him for at least three of those years with various people. Flash forward a couple of years: the Redditor has found another partner and seems to have moved on. Unfortunately, the feeling of being betrayed like that does not easily go away, so the original poster (OP) admitted to still harboring a tad bit of resentment. Well, this year, all of his ex's favorite artists were performing at Coachella, so OP made sure to attend with his new partner and publicize it… everywhere. 

Keep scrolling below to see what happened when his ex saw the evidence. For more stories like this, check out this collection of wedding fiascos. 

The interview process brings about a whirlwind of emotions. It's like buying a house. After sifting left and right through job postings, you finally find a job you could see yourself doing. It checks all the right boxes: perfect location, ideal salary, and matches your experience level. You do your research on the company, and you're sold. If only you could just start working there immediately. But, my friend, the rollercoaster has just begun. Now, you've got to look at your application materials and make sure they're meticulously tailored to the job posting so that you stand out. Sometimes it takes hours of work, and sadly, it doesn't even guarantee you an interview. But let's say you get an interview. Woohoo! Now you have to prep. A lot. Most jobs nowadays require multiple rounds of interviews, and each one has to be better than the last. It can be a lot of pressure trying to guess what kind of questions the hiring team will ask you so you can effectively prepare. And no matter how much you prepare, there's always that one off-the-wall question that catches you way off guard. Then you have to sit around twiddling your thumbs, waiting and hear back from HR about whether you got the job, or worse, if there's another interview round. The whole process almost makes you want to stay unemployed forever. And believe us, if we could, we would. 

Some employees think that the office manager, HR, or whoever organizes the office works for them personally. See, I was an office manager back in the day, and people would leave the dining room an absolute mess. When I opened the fridge, I frequently thought that people were growing fungi there on purpose, by leaving their containers for weeks on end. It was so frustrating that I sent out countless emails, and even held an office meeting regarding the whole thing. Nothing changed, and I eventually quit. One employee, much like me, was totally fed up with their coworkers who acted like children instead of grown-ups. They sent an angry email detailing what they would do if their coworkers didn't get it together, fast. Scroll down to read the amusing email and then check out what everyone had to say about it. For more, here is an employee who called tech support after soaking a printer. It was not savable.

Each year, millions of cats and dogs get adopted out, and someone at the shelters will have to name them. 

According to Forbes, the number of pups who got their fur-ever home in the US last year was 1.5 million. That's just counting dogs—but shelters also house plenty of cats, and about 978,000 of the little scoundrels were adopted last year. Now, there aren't millions of pigs, lizards, rabbits, or birds sitting in the shelters, but a few of them always come through these shelters' doors, too! 

Animal shelter workers tirelessly care for all of their critters. That includes assigning them names that are usually temporary. A lot of folks head to the shelter and fall in love with their new furry best friend, but end up changing their name. As you can see below, shelter workers will literally just name these pets anything. Why not? May as well! 

Next up, check out these super messy and badly burnt food fails… there's one person who accidentally made electric green custard! 

Rejection is a hard pill to swallow, no matter what form it comes in. You can sugarcoat it any way you like, throw around the whole "It's not me, it's you," "It's just not a good fit," or "I really don't like the cut of your jib," and your words are still going to have the same message: "I don't want to be around you anymore, and everything is over between us." While there are certain situations where this is more cutting, such as a clandestine rendezvous with a long-time associate, it's still a brutal affront to anyone's ego, even when it comes after a first meeting, shattering any prospective future you might have imagined with the other party. And, of course, when our ego is affronted, we tend to react poorly, even the most measured and nonconfrontational among us might be pushed to such ends as not going out of our way to open the door for the other party.

The relationship you have with your boss is almost as important as your personal relationships at home. Employees spend more than 8 hours a day with their employers and likely rely on them with every step they take on their job. You don't have to become best friends, but it is still important to maintain a good relationship with the person who is basically in charge of your professional life.

I would not call the relationship that is being described in this Reddit post a 'good working relationship', and I hope that is going to change for the sake of OP (original poster). OP is an American woman working in a German company, and she describes the difficulties she's been having with her boss. She tells stories about how her boss keeps making fun of her and mocking her, with the final straw being him telling her that 'nobody likes her' in front of her coworkers.

Scroll down to read the full story. When you finish, click here for a funny collection of AI memes.

Not honoring an employee's schedule when they have been following all the rules and going through the proper channels is about as disrespectful as it gets. When a manager rejects your request to not work a certain shift, the message is clear: your life and commitments do not matter. What matters is this silly arbitrary work schedule that is 100% malleable but apparently, that would require too much critical thinking on the manager's part. 

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by u/MochiCoran, who explained how their manager disregarded their request to not work one Sunday because of a serious personal conflict. Not only did their manager choose not to honor that request, but he also gave himself the day off that Sunday. Clearly, there was a workaround here and he thought he could get away with it. Well, that was the last straw for the employee, so he maliciously complied and managed to not show up that day with zero consequences. Thankfully, the manager's boss sided with the Redditor, which is a rare occurrence that brings those of us here at FAIL Blog a ton of satisfaction.

Keep scrolling below for the full tale. For more, check out this story about an employee who was able to help decide whether or not his ex-boss and coworker should be hired.

Customer service work can be difficult at times. The old adage 'the customer is always right' can reach unprecedented heights, depending on the circumstances and parties involved.

The story that follows is an account of a customer service representative. The Original Poster (OP) was involved in asset finance, namely with regard to land and cars. OP chose to go to his management about a situation in an effort to find a solution after encountering a disgruntled client who refused to meet the unreasonable demands of the business. However, instead of offering him direction or training, the manager scolded him for his alleged inadequacies and demanded that OP observe 'how it's done' as he dealt with the customer directly. To his dismay, however, the manager's hard approach was met with a terrible response from the client, and things quickly spiraled out of control.

So, read the story below if you're interested in learning the specifics of what happened and whether the manager's snarky attitude came back to haunt him. Furthermore, don't forget to read the story of the clever employee who beats a micromanager at her own play of power!

We've all been there, swiveling around in the barber's chair to see ourselves in the mirror for the first time after a haircut. Getting a transformative cut is always a little nerve-wracking, but when you catch sight of your hack job of a haircut your heart sinks. That's not you staring back in the mirror, that's some dummy who got their head stuck in a paper shredder. Although this is officially the worst haircut of your life, you lie and say you love it and leave the salon with a generous tip anyway. 

But for the people below, I don't think they're leaving behind a generous tip for their stylists–in fact, they're probably considering the G.I. Jane look right about now. Scroll onward for a good, hearty chuckle at some truly terrible hairstyles. It's guaranteed to make you feel a lot better about that one time you got a bad haircut. 

Property lines are sacred. Even in the frontier days when cowboys were hijacking their neighbor's land over a sack of potatoes, the two most important things about land ownership were that you had your name on the deed and that the property lines were drawn extra dark on the map. Without property lines, how would we know when our enemies have trespassed? For the dude in our next story, he learned quickly that his land was in danger of being encroached on by the one office he could trust to back him up in the case of a property line dispute: The county bureaucracy. 

After scraping together plans to start a construction project on his land, this homeowner was flabbergasted when the county presented him with an ultimatum. They would only approve his renovation plans if he gave them 3,750ft2 of his property. On a 250ft stretch of land at the edge of his property line, they needed an extra 15ft to build their new road. 

Sounds like if this happened in the 1800s we'd be witnessing a Jessie James scenario. 

Scroll for the entire story of how this modern property owner used petty revenge to have his cake and eat it too. 

Working in a contract role gives you a lot of protection from bad bosses. But no one told that to u/Wrong-Ad-2507's boss, who seemed clueless about how that all works. 

It can be really difficult, if not impossible, to stand up to your boss. For a lot of people, the intimidation of it all is too much. It can be hard to ask for a day off, for example, without your boss demanding to know what you're doing and why you need that time off. Other people will constantly work late hours at their boss's request. But those employees are probably salaried. Contract employees have a lot of protections through their contracts, and since they're working for multiple companies, they're not as afraid to stir the pot. 

This person shared that their team leader decided to assign them a project just 90 minutes before they were leaving for the day. Their next day was supposed to be a day off, but that didn't stop the team lead from bugging them to do unpaid work. Even if your boss has your cell phone number, they shouldn't be messaging you on your days off. That's your time, and you shouldn't have to spend any time thinking about work, paid or unpaid. 

Next up, check out the story of the assembly line worker who claimed he could "do the job of two workers," only for his bosses to call his bluff. 

You can learn more about people's lives from their online customer reviews than anywhere else. When people review products online, they are less concerned with how they are personally coming across and, if it's a negative review, are more concerned with airing out their grievances, thereby allowing their true personas to shine through. You can't get that level of unfiltered, uninhibited opinions from someone's personal social media profile. That's obviously curated in a very specific way. The only other window you can get into how someone really lives is through their public Venmo history. Don't pretend you don't also scroll through your feed when you open Venmo!

As for these instantly iconic customer service reviews, you not only get a sense of the effectiveness of the product they are discussing, but you also get a sense of who these people are and what their lives are like. Is that not a big reason why people look at what other people are writing on the Internet? I'm just saying that if you want the truth, there's no need to go to someone's Facebook page. Find their customer reviews instead.

Keep scrolling below for the full collection. For more, check out this list of the week's top Karen stories. 

The new CEO of a startup had a brilliant idea: why not make every employee work from 9 AM to 6 PM with no exceptions? 

There are benefits to working hourly and for working salaried. With hourly jobs, you better make sure you're on time, down to the second. Lots of retail or restaurant jobs depend on their workers being there on the dot, and there are consequences for clocking in too late or too early. But the good side to that is that when you clock out, you're done. Many places literally won't let you do a single thing while clocked out. 

Salaried positions on the other hand have their benefits and their drawbacks, and your happiness as an employee will depend on how cool your boss is. Maybe you have the type of boss who doesn't mind how long you work, so long as all your emails get sent and all your clients are smiling. Others take advantage of it: they'll want you to work late all the time or start early a few days per week, and you can't really say no. 

This boss doesn't seem to have much appreciation for the hard work his employees do. Instead of having pride in their jobs and solving problems as they came up, the employees were pushed to work a solid 9 hour day, no exceptions. Well, they found a way to push back! Check out u/deqb's story below. Then, sneak a peek at some perilous pickup trucks and messed up Mustangs that probably shouldn't be driving anywhere. 

Everyone's greatest fear when it comes to working on a group project is the group of people with whom you'll be working. If you're a type A person, you will likely fear having to do all of the work yourself. If you're a slacker, you will likely wonder how much you can get away with based on the work ethic of your partners. The unfortunate reality is that no matter where you fall on the scale of teacher's pet to slacker, group projects are not exactly thrilling for you no matter what.

Here, we have a rare instance in which a professor listened to the students who had been putting in all of the work and chose not to let them suffer because their team members shirked all of their responsibilities throughout the semester. Keep scrolling below to see what happened when these lazy college students learned that they were not, in fact, getting the same grades as their hard-working teammates. For more stories like this, check out this post about a teacher's epic payback on a group of slackers during Senior Ditch Day.

Some people work in jobs that are simply too important to be replaced by AI, and some people work in jobs that they absolutely know AI can do much better. Nurses are probably always going to be human (but who knows), but a content writer who writes about funny memes on the internet? well… 

Okay but, with all seriousness, even though AI still has a way to go (I tried getting ChatGPT to write the previous paragraph and it was not pretty), the future is still unclear with how much AI will be able to do, and how it will affect people's livelihood. People are already using it to create art, make entire films, do their homework, and write their codes, we are becoming more and more dependent on this tool, and that gives it a lot more power.

One thing that AI still does terribly, is create memes, so that is not what is waiting for you down below. Instead, scroll down to enjoy some hilarious memes about AI that were created by humans. After you finish with those, click here to read a story about a contractor who caused property damage that cost $100,000.

Parking permits are a scam in college. Schools know that broke students are barely scraping together enough pocket change to eat instant noodles every night, so why not squeeze out an extra $300 per semester to allow them to park on campus? Clearly, it's a luxury to park your car half a league from your classroom, but not one that every student can afford. 

Especially the sophomore in our next story. 

After having car troubles and dumping their grocery fund into their fixer-upper vehicle, the last thing on their mind was paying for a parking permit. However, the fear of campus police and another target on their back financially, u/Bwendolyn was in a bind. Should they pay hundreds to register their car for a permit? Or risk a parking ticket? 

Eventually, this particularly witty student found a hole in the school's permitting armor when they discovered that once you receive a parking ticket on campus, there's really no accountability to get it paid for unless your car is registered. Curiooous. 

Keep scrolling to read the entire story of how a young, broke college student outwitted their university, scoring free parking for 4 years simply by being audacious.

Food fails happen to all of us at some point. At least, I hope they do. I burnt an entire tray of bacon yesterday, and I'm a perfectly good chef who's nearly 30 years old. 

I put some bacon in the oven for 14 minutes at 400 degrees, thanks to the fastest Google search results. I was also making some scrambled eggs and pancakes at the same time, and, because I live my life on hard mode apparently, frantically waving a blanket in front of the fire alarm every minute or two. Lately, the fire alarm goes off every single time I cook. I don't know why (yes, I did clean my oven. Like three times. It didn't help). It's making my life super annoying, and my bacon inedible. C'est la vie or whatever. 

Anyway, the fire alarm still went off the whole time, even as I waved a blanket in front of it constantly. My eggs were okay, my pancakes were edible, and my bacon was a lost cause. This was a full tray of blackened bacon turned to charcoal. I guess I left it in for too long. That's what I get for not going to the local diner, where the professionals would cook the same brunch, but make it one hundred times more scrumptious. 

The people below may also be perfectly good chefs who can't catch a break. Some of them burnt their food pretty badly, while others tried new dishes and did not succeed. Next time I burn something, I'll try and remember to take a photo of it to add to the list of fails! You can check 'em all out below. 

Then, read about this dude who's trying to stop their friend from naming another of their children after Pokemon characters. 

There's no surer sign that you might need to reassess your leadership "style" than having multiple people opt out, in quick succession, of being under that leadership. After all, as the old adage famously goes, "People don't quit jobs; they quit bosses." There's no telling the level of miserable or monotonous job conditions some people will put up with just as long as they enjoy working with the people in their immediate team—especially their managers. Good managers are hard to come by, so when you find one that makes the working week tolerable, you'll be more reluctant to leave even if your remuneration hasn't kept up with the industry standard or inflation. 

Of course, this can take a turn for the worse when your beloved boss tells you they're leaving, putting the team in a precarious position of possibly ending up under the thumb of an egomaniac who is desperate to prove their authority and cares not for interpersonal relationships with their team.

That's essentially what happened when a new Director of Nursing started at the nursing home where this CNA worked. The new director quickly proved that she had little tact when it came to dealing with staff concerns, bringing changes that meant worse working conditions and treatment of the staff. But you can only push people so far before they abandon ship, and the director quickly found herself understaffed as more and more staff handed in their notice. The original poster of this thread reports that they, too, will soon hand their notice in, bringing the director one step closer to manning the entire ship alone without a crew.

Before social media, the only way to tell where your friends were was to ride around your neighborhood looking for the largest stash of bikes parked on someone's lawn. Once you found a heaping pile of junkyard bicycles, you were in the right place. 

There's something special and quaint about a time before the Internet. We played outside and scraped our knees. We climbed trees and curfew was when the streetlights came on. We weren't constantly inundated by ads, we could trust things at face value, and the only spam we got was ringing off the hook through the family landline. Life was simpler then. 

You could drink the hose water, candy was shaped like cigarettes, and nobody second-guessed that 6" long carpet. So if you're looking for a captivating snapshot of nostalgia, keep scrolling down to enjoy a bologna post-pool sandwich full of chips, and wash it down with this collection of nostalgic memes. 

Why would anyone want to be an HOA board member? That's just a one-way ticket to immediately becoming one of the most disliked people in the neighborhood. 

I'm convinced that some people in this world would rather be in the most unnecessary, fake position of power, even if it meant making all the enemies. We feel this even at a young age when classmates try to hog the playground and assume some sort of faux position of power. This also applies to the annoying teacher's pets in school and your high school class president. 

Well, unfortunately, this dynamic has managed to graduate to the homeowner level, but who isn't surprised here? Bossy people are going to find any way imaginable to be bossy at all stages of life. That is certainly not going to change any time soon, at least as long as these HOAs exist. Keep scrolling below for these top HOA horror stories. For more, check out these stories of regrettable interactions with HOA board members.