'I'm sorry you doubted me': Employee's job offer gets revoked after they boldly lie to company during onboarding

It's never been harder to lie to your employer, thanks to the power of modern tech. But this employee found that out way too late, because they clearly didn't think through the consequences of lying about a car accident. 

As some folks in the comments reflected, if you needed to be late to work or lie to your boss in the past, it wasn't that difficult. This person, though, didn't count on being fact-checked by a website that tells you where a photo can be found online. When the employee's photo of their "car crash" was put into the site, it produced tons of times the image had been used. This lack of originality led to the lie being found out — after months of preparing for the gig. 

After that, check out these people who tried some DIY activities that didn't go quite as planned. 

'We're looking for someone age 22-26 with 30 years of experience': 20+ Memeable Interview Fails

Is there anything more humbling and potentially humiliating than a job interview? It doesn't matter if you're interviewing for an internship or if you've been working for 20 years. Interviews are always nerve-wracking, anxiety-inducing, and just all-around scary. 

 

Keep scrolling below for these interview memes, tweets, and fails. For more content like this, here's a story about someone who got "fired" 2 years after they resigned. 

'AITA for going to work while my wife was having her appendix out?' Wife accuses husband of abandoning her, internet reacts

People are really split on this one, folks. Some people are defending the husband for insisting that his wife go seek medical attention and are claiming that in doing so, he saved her life and thus deserves more credit. Other defenders believe that full abandonment is definitely an extreme accusation since his parents and his mother-in-law were all at the hospital taking care of her.

 

That being said, while we acknowledge that this was a tough situation and that the toxic workplace is to blame for instilling a sense of guilt for taking necessary time off, we will ultimately go with YTA on this one. Clearly, the Redditor's wife has anxiety about her condition and about going to the hospital. If she wanted his support, that was well within her right. Furthermore, no surgery is routine. Minimizing that fact is convenient for the sake of OP's argument. Keep scrolling below to see what others had to say. For more, check out this post about a Karen who demanded to use someone's wheelchair. 

'I was right': Worker gets back at boss that sent them home for wearing shorts according to a company policy that didn't exist

There's nothing worse than being uncomfortable at work; that's why you'll never catch me in a suit and tie. That and the fact that copywriting isn't really the field for dressing to the nines. So I'll rephrase: That's one of the reasons why you'll never catch me in a suit and tie.

Being told that you can't do something because of some inane policy or SOP is incredibly frustrating, especially when you come to find that it's not actually a written rule at all. The hilarious thing is how quickly the rule can be written and changed if they want it to be so, and yet they act like other ridiculous policies couldn't be changed in a hundred years. 

This worker, u/Sarasil, posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit to share one such story, telling of a time they were sent home by their boss for wearing shorts despite the fact that it wasn't even against the rules. Keep reading for some screenshots of the ensuing thread and follow the attribution links for the original Reddit thread.

For more, check out this worker who quit after their boss confiscated their lunch break as punishment.

‘Decided to come back and beg for your job back?’: Arrogant boss lashes out at coworker, entire department quits and gets him fired

If you're in need of a workplace story with a happy ending, it doesn't get much better than an entire department uniting with the goal of ousting their boss. The fact that it was a success is one thing, but the fact that the Redditor managed to get herself a promotion (her former boss's position, no less) is another.

 

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/ProRevenge subreddit, and if you're currently stuck in a job with an awful manager who lashes out and threatens you and/or your coworkers, feel free to take a few moments to live vicariously through OP's journey. Now, like many folks in the comments section, there are moments in which one has to assess the validity of this story (it's almost too good to be true), but if it is, in fact, real, then shame on us for living in a culture where that kind of horrible behavior from a manager is so widely accepted that his comeuppance has become hard to believe. 

 

Keep scrolling below for the full story. For more, here are some of the top petty revenge tales of the week!