Accidentally accepting a fake bill is one of the most annoying things that can happen to someone who handles money as part of their job. No one wants to deal with the aftermath of finding out there are fake bills in the register, where the best case scenario is that the money will be deducted from your pay, and the worst case is immediate termination.

The latter has happened to the employee in this Reddit story, and we can definitely understand their frustration in this situation. OP (original poster) followed the exact procedure when they received the bills, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. It was only when they were called by the boss that they found out that they had accepted two fake $100 bills, which led to their immediate termination from their job.

Keep scrolling to read what happened next. After you are done, click here for a story of a new hire convinced they were hiring by mistake.

This son-in-law reached his breaking point after his FIL and MIL refused to acknowledge his expertise at every turn. Although he was well-versed in financial advising, home building, and the cost of living in California, these old-fashioned Boomers from rural Missouri decided that they wanted to do things 'their way', losing everything in the process. 

We all want to help out our parents when they get older–we get it… things got complicated when computers got small enough to put in our pocket, but just because you've lived longer on this earth, doesn't mean you're up to date on the nuances of everything that's going on right now. Sadly, a lot of Boomers get caught in a weird echo chamber, believing the world is still like it was in 1990, as if you could still buy a house for $15,000, and every job has a pension. 

Sorry to break it to you guys, but that's just not the case anymore.

But after this young couple moved their family to some land on the outskirts of town, the parents made some hasty, thoughtless decisions that burned quickly through their savings, their retirement money, and the equity of their 'paid for' house. Perhaps they should have listened to the advice of their younger counterpart, but their snide astuteness cost them much more than just their pride.

If the horrible bosses of the world cannot respect their employees' vacation policies, then they should not be entitled to any vacation either.

Here, we have a seasoned HVAC technician who had been with the company since its early days and who always spent a considerable amount of his already limited PTO on the week after Labor Day. This was a time where he and his wife could send their kids off to school and plan for the fall. Unfortunately, when the company was sold to a larger monopoly, many of the benefits of the job were taken away and the new manager was less than respectful. This year, while he was off for the week after Labor Day, his manager contacted him to come in on short notice. He even went so far as to call the technician's wife, who shared this story, because he couldn't reach the husband. Talk about using the emergency contact information for the wrong purposes!

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more, check out this story about a warehouse employee's revenge.

When a family member is going out of their way to risk their job and hook you up with a discount, you better be the most respectful customer in the entire world. When you're not, something like this Reddit story can happen. 

A hotel employee gave a family member his "friends and family" discount so she could book a cheaper room. However, she ended up completely trashing the room in the most disgusting way. The cleaning staff had to spend an extra 2 hours just to clean it up. When she was charged for those extra hours, she called in furious and threw a top-level Karen tantrum. The concierge stood his ground and hung up. But they didn't stop there, they took it to an even higher manager and got her not only banned from the hotel, but got the family member who was staff in trouble, thus making her entire family hate her for almost getting their other family member fired. She really messed around and found out. Read the entire story below! 

We've all been there. Those mornings when the alarm "accidentally" gets snoozed one too many times, and then you're strolling into work with a coffee in hand, pretending you didn't just roll out of bed 20 minutes ago. After all, the day doesn't officially start until you've arrived, right? Plus, who needs to be a morning person anyway?

These 30 work memes are for all the employees out there who know exactly what it's like to time their arrival just right—fashionably late but still early enough to avoid HR's radar. From sidestepping the boss's side-eye to perfecting the "traffic was awful" excuse, these memes might hit a little too close to home for the chronically late employees.

So, whether you're sneaking into the morning meeting or just trying to look busy until lunch, take a little meme break to help you get through the workday. Let's be real; most of us are just trying to survive another day at the office with minimal eye contact and maximum sarcasm.

There's nothing worse in the workplace than being stuck with a slothful coworker who refuses to do any of their own work and is constantly asking you to help with their workload. Meanwhile, you know that if you were to refuse to help, you'd just be seen by the rest of the workplace as "unhelpful" or "not a team player," somehow earning you a negative reputation despite it being their shortcoming. Further, calling attention to the issue directly to your boss will probably result in a "he said, she said" or "meet somewhere in the middle" type of talk as your boss tries to dodge handling the issue like bullets in "The Matrix."

This leaves you with very little recourse, just about the only thing you can do is wait for your coworker to hoist themself by their own petard and do everything you can to help them along the way. That's exactly what this worker did when their coworker, "Seth," made every attempt to get out of doing their own work. Of course, when the worker did their coworker's work incorrectly, it sent the coworker scrambling in front of a client, bringing the issue to an unignorable head.

What's that one job interview question you hope the interviewer won't ask? For many people, being asked about their biggest weaknesses or five-year goals is intimidating. Others struggle to give examples of how they work well on a team or with customers. Not to mention that no matter how much you practice your questions in front of the mirror at home, when you get to the interview, you may just blank out and forget everything you prepared for. 

These people had some pretty rough interviews, as they shared to r/AskReddit. But it's not for the reasons you may think. While some folks did perform badly in the interview, a lot of candidates simply met the wackiest interviewers ever. Some asked inappropriate questions, while others basically told the candidate why they shouldn't work there. One candidate asked the interviewers why they enjoyed working at that job, which is an excellent question to gauge workplace morale. The interviewers paused for twenty full seconds before coming up with a weak answer. Thank you, next! 

Up next, this food processing CEO caused a giant tomato sauce spill that took two days to clean up, all because he wanted to show off to his bosses. 

Always think twice before naming your child. Seriously, just because you're itching to name your kid after a fruit, think about their experience for a brief moment. Think about how they might be treated at school. Think about how their name might sound with their last name. Look up your name and check if there are any strange meanings or cultural associations people may have with that word or sound. Say the name out loud multiple times to hear how it sounds and to ensure it's not accidentally humorous. 

If you do not follow these steps, you may very well end up like these folks, whose name choices are embarrassing at worst and slightly regrettable at best. Thankfully, the people who were sharing these unfortunate names were not the victims themselves, but rather passersby who came across them through school, work, or friends.

Keep scrolling below for the full list of top unfortunate things to name your children. For more content like this, check out this compilation of useless but high-paying jobs. 

These people are raising their eyebrows at some recent thrift store finds. They're not surprised at the great deals… instead, they're annoyed at the condition of the stores and the prices of the items!

Thrift shopping or antique shopping can be very hit or miss. Sometimes you find excellent clothing, a barely-worn pair of shoes, or some toys for the kids that are still in great condition. Instead of spending hundreds at a regular store, you can get some cheap stuff and feel good about saving the planet (reuse and recycle!). 

However, some people think that the more thrift shopping becomes a mainstream popular activity, the more it'll impact the quality of the shopping experience. There's plenty of clothing and household items to go around… but as the people below can attest to, there are a few issues that keep popping up. Some people were stunned to find the toy aisles were covered in toys---you can barely walk through the aisles without stepping on a Barbie house or a toy lightsaber. Others were irked to find that clothing was marked up to a higher price than the original tag price! You can check out a bunch of thrift store mishaps below. 

Up next, read about this frazzled mom who didn't have time for a car dealership's games. 

Never mess with a flight attendant. This lady was in a relationship with her pilot boyfriend and often stayed at his apartment when she was off and while he was still working. Unfortunately, she discovered that he had an entirely separate relationship with another girlfriend, who was staying at his second apartment in Hong Kong. It must be fairly easy to cheat and hide the truth when your job is to travel all over the world. 

Thankfully, this lady was not going to go without a fight. Before leaving his apartment for good, she decided to soak his carpet and curtains with water and then sprinkle mustard seeds everywhere. Essentially, this man's apartment became a literal salad. Although one takeaway from this anecdote might be to never engage in relationships with coworkers, another might be a new plan for petty revenge should you find yourself in a similar situation.

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more, check out this post about a barista who was "quiet fired."

This millennial employee and his buddies decided that internal promotions just weren't for them, fairly assessing their superiors' unfavorable work/life balance mantras and finding contentment in their lower positions. Because at the end of the day, unless a company is going to make your paycheck extra beefy, a 60-hour week isn't worth it.

Back in every Boomer's day, you could waltz into a corporate office with nothing but a firm handshake, a crisp shirt, and a bit of overconfidence, and you could get hired at a job that would employ you for the rest of your life. Did I mention they had a pension, health benefits, a company car, and no resume to speak of on hiring day? There was no reason for an employee to avoid climbing the corporate ladder, staying loyal to a company that stayed loyal to them. But these days things are far different–and Boomer bosses are starting to see the effects. 

Read on for the story of an office on the verge of collapse–not because millennials 'don't want to work anymore', but because millennials realize the intrinsic value of having a life outside of a job that couldn't care less if you never showed up again.

Depending on your age, you probably had a teacher who constantly reprimanded students for having their phones out in class or even just the presence of any sort of technology or devices that they felt detracted from their lessons.

When you get out of school, you come to find that some managers operate in exactly the same way, seemingly confusing effective management with policing their workers as if they were still children. You've probably worked for one of these places or one of these micromanagers at some point who constantly track your phone usage, bathroom breaks, and even water-drinking habits as if their own job depends on it. 

This, of course, is sometimes a result of incompetence but can also be intentional, there's a pervasive and cynical idea within some schools of thought in business operation that speculates that a comfortable worker is an inefficient one, giving rise to practices like depriving them of a place to sit in order to ensure they're always moving and never comfortable.

And what is there to discourage employers from such cynical behavior? Such attitudes and policies do little to directly affect business operations outside of the grumblings of disgruntled workers, decreasing workplace morale and eventually leading to higher turnover. But, these aren't things that most organizations even pay attention to, so they continue with their distrusting ways rather than trusting and empowering their staff.

This overbearing workplace policy, however, did cost this employer directly when this contractor's inability to use their phone led to a stall in operations that cost the employer big time.

Proofreading: who needs it? Not the boss at this company that u/drakon99 freelanced for! 

Freelancing can come with some excellent perks, like getting to choose your own hours and pick the jobs you accept. But then you've got the clients, who are notoriously picky about what they want. Sometimes the freelancer will have to work with a big team of people who will each request different edits to the project. Other times they're stuck with just one person who won't respond to any emails, leaving them confused about what to do. It can be tricky to find the right balance between working with a micromanager and a person who simply won't respond to any message. It just depends on the project, and the great thing about freelancing is that the freelancer can choose to drop a client whenever they need to. 

This freelancer was a bit confused by the request of the client. They went along with it anyway, as you can read about in their great malicious compliance story below. 

Next up, read about the people who said some hilarious things while sleeptalking, like one person who was a witness as "One kid shouted 'I SEE THE LIGHT!' and then sleepwalked into a wall." 

Sometimes you have to get creative when dealing with a incompetent and entitled manager. You would think, as managers, they would take their responsibilities seriously and have more concern for their employees. Unfortunately, that is not usually the case. So what do you do? Well, in this Reddit case, it was semantics that saved the day. 

The employee working was understaffed, but still managed through his shift. He saw it was coming time for him to clock out soon and needed to find his replacement so he wouldn't have to work past his hours. So he did exactly what he was supposed to do and rang up the on-call manager. However, this lazy manager refused to come in and was trying to force him to stay longer. The employee decided to use a little trick and said he had a 5-year-old and a 7-year-old that have been all alone since 8am and needed their father immediately. And he left without further discussion. The manager, just assuming he was talking about children, called protective services on him. But when he got the call, they both had a good laugh at the trick he pulled on the manager when it was exposed that he was talking about his dogs. Sometimes you have to make sure it's human youngins if you're going to be entitled like that. 

The first day of starting a new job is not at all as exciting as one imagines it to be. You always expect it to be a great new adventure and that people will welcome you with open arms, but that is often not the case. There are so many logistics when it comes to adding a new employee to a company, that the first day is usually just a chaotic bureaucratic mess, and you might go home at the end of the day and question whether or not you made a mistake.

The important thing to remember is that everyone feels this way on their first day, and possibly even on their first week. It would be best not to be so quick to judge a new workplace and give it time to prove itself. Many people recommend waiting at least three months to see if your new job is a good fit, so definitely don't give up after only one day.

That is the advice I would give to the employee in this story, who felt like their new place of work was extremely unprepared for their first day at the job, which made the new hire question their decision. Scroll down to read the full story. After that, click here for a story of a roommate who locked her food at a party to stop others from stealing it.

No one likes to be told what to do, especially after working hours. In theory, it's simple to remember that after your employee has clocked out, they are in no way entitled to follow your direction as a manager. However, every so often, we come across a story where someone takes that mentality a bit too far.

In this instance, we have an employee who was strictly told when he was first onboarded to never take on extra responsibilities after he clocks out. That's a nice, mutually beneficial workplace mentality. However, this employee overdid by refusing to turn off a light at the request of their boss because he had just finished his work day. As many folks in the comments section pointed out, this boss was clearly not asking a favor as an employer but rather as a human being.

While we would love to blame the boss in most scenarios here at FAIL Blog, every once in a while, it's the employee who's in the wrong, and this story perfectly exemplifies that rare occurrence. For more stories like this, check out this post about a warehouse employee who got back at his petty coworkers.

Listen, being a manager isn't easy. Dealing with scheduling alone is a laborious task if you're trying to find employees to keep the business running at any given moment. Especially in college towns, you run the risk of hiring students who can't work for days at a time. However, when an employee puts in a time-off request promptly, and you have no real reason to deny their request, that's when you step into nonsensical territory. This can be classified as workplace discrimination, especially when you clearly had a bone to pick with your employee moments before you sent out a heated message in the company chat.

When you hire students, you're signing up for this kind of runaround. The student in this story put in their time-off request for the day of their 21st birthday, not really worrying about the possibility of getting their request denied since that had never happened before. The student employee expressed that they by far have the most availability compared to their coworkers, and even stayed extra late during a shift because their coworker forgot they were scheduled to work. Well, this entitled manager grew upset when the student employee didn't want to stay an extra two hours after their initial shift was supposed to end, even though the manager was there to watch over the business until the forgetful employee got to work. The manager then denied the original poster's (OP's) time-off request and sent out a heated message. Did I mention that this manager is taking a week of PTO despite claims of needing availability? You can scroll all the way down to read the entire story with included photos of the messages their manager sent.

If you're a college student studying hard this semester and you plan on spending a lot of your time parked at your university coffee shop, beware of folks who might think that their inconveniences are something you have to remedy and resolve. You decided to go to college to worry about your next exam, not about Karens. Last time I checked, coffee shops are for folks who want to read, work, chat up a stranger, or study—especially if it's right next to your college campus.

Have you ever witnessed presumed regulars at certain establishments? Have you noticed that they feel like they're entitled to their favorite table? How about expecting a stranger to move all of their studying materials because they want to sit outside, just not in the sun?

The student in this story dealt with two Karens who asked her to get up and move tables so they could park where she was sitting. They didn't just ask once, either. After the student puts her foot down and declines their inquiry, they look as if the student "personally insulted them." So, instead of sitting inside (since the waitress can't make clouds move in front of the sun), the two ladies left. The original poster (OP) is baffled at their blatant entitlement. 

Scroll to read the whole story, and additionally, some comments from folks doubling down on the OP's surprise.

We all get a little weird and crazy about our pets; that's part of what you sign up for when you devote a significant portion of your time, energy, and financial resources to a fluffy little ball of chaos living with you in your home. I'd argue that, in fact, the entire concept is a little bit crazy, and if you weren't already when you decided to get a furry friend, I promise you that you will soon be driven so. Still, no matter how much we consider our pets members of our families, even the most pet-obsessed among us will need to stop and acknowledge that there are points where we can't expect others to treat them like human beings. And there's definitely a line somewhere there before you reach the point of insisting that your girlfriend or boyfriend contribute a portion of their money, even a sudden unexpected windfall of cash, to a "trust fund" for your pet. Especially when doing so would mean that you're keeping two-thirds of their winnings that they were gracious enough to share with you in the first place.

That was the situation that this woman found herself facing when her boyfriend of two years began insisting that she give him an additional percentage of the cut that she had already willingly offered him so that he could set up a trust fund for his dog, resorting to emotional manipulation and extortion in order to get her to fold and give him the cash. Things escalated when she resisted, resulting in her sharing the first thread six days ago twith his online community. She has now returned to share an update on what has happened since, sharing the fate of their relationship. See the original thread first below, followed by the updated thread from item 12 onwards. 

This person was having a major problem with their mail. 

It's almost the exact opposite problem of what many people deal with. A lot of folks get their mail stolen: whether it's packages or letters, some people will steal it. Other mail gets lost in transit somewhere, never to be seen again. But for this person, mail was piling up at their house, and almost all of it was for someone else! 

That probably happens to everyone from time to time: getting mail from a previous tenant or a letter for an entirely different address does happen. But if you're getting so many letters and worthless flyers that it's affecting your life, you've got to do something about it. This person had to contact their local post office official in order to get the problem to stop. I wonder if the woman whose mail they were getting has started the problem anew at her new home (since she enjoys getting endless mail, for some reason). 

After that, these people made some utterly bizzare choices while designing their dream homes, like one person who "spent $15,000 on this kitchen," then revealed that "It's been on the market for 415 days."