Top Tier Coworker Fails In The Form Of Memes (May 24, 2023)

Workplace environments can leave you with a bitter aftertaste at the end of the day, and make you wish you never even applied. Your boss may be condescending, your coworkers may not be the brightest, and the actual work you do is just overall frustrating combined with the habitat. The dark circles under your eyes become more apparent, your laugh lines slowly turn upside down, and one can just tell you're not having a good time. Karen customers are just the tip of the iceberg.

Whether you're working an office job, or dealing with problems that only retail workers understand, life becomes a dull, gray color. The clouds are looming, and they're full of rain. Luckily, we've got some memes to brighten the day. Below you'll find this week's collection of hilarious coworker fails in the form of memes. Need some serotonin? Want to procrastinate a bit? You deserve it. Scroll down and enjoy.

For more, here you can check out some more coworker memes for the tired soul.

'My boss puts applesauce on his pizza': 20+ Crispy, crunchy crimes against pizza

If you thought pineapple on pizza was bad, you ain't seen nothing yet. These are some cosmically cursed pizzas, chock full of odd ingredients. 

On the r/PizzaCrimes subreddit, folks from around the globe gather to share the most cringe-worthy, disgusting pizza pies they've ever seen. Some appear to be innoccent mistakes, such as the people who accidentally left their pies in the oven for hours longer than they were supposed to. But others, such as the "fan pizza," or the "peep-za," are just too disturbing to be of this world. We've entered a portal into pizza purgatory. I applaud the chefs for their creativity, but I do wonder: do they eat their own pizzas? 

Next up, this woman is newly wealthy, but she's having trouble getting her husband and her in-laws to stop begging her to foot the bill. 

'Why was my flight canceled?' Woman's credit card gets hacked, cancels flight booked by alleged hacker, he reaches out asking why

Travis may not be the brightest bulb. On the one hand, he could be an innocent victim of the real hacker. If that's the case, the real hacker probably sold him his air travel tickets via the Redditor's email for half the price or something much cheaper. Still, it's extremely fishy, and as annoying as it is, this is just further justification that you should always book your air travel through actual airlines. 

 

The other possibility here is that Travis was the real hacker and genuinely was confused as to why the Redditor canceled his flight. If that's the case, then the fact that he emailed OP with his name and number is truly baffling. Our sense is that it's more likely that the first scenario is the truth, but OP seems insistent that Travis is the hacker. Keep scrolling below to see what other folks thought. For more stories like this, here's one about an atrocious DMV experience.

'They will expect you to be the family piggy bank': Entitled in-laws expect DIL to pay for everything after receiving inheritance

Wealth makes people move differently, as this woman found out in an unfortunate rift with her husband's side of the family. 

Everyone wants money, and they can never get enough. You always need more and more cash, especially as the cost of living goes up. But you can't just demand it from people, even if they are significantly more wealthy than you are. 

This woman's in-laws did just that — they not only demanded their DIL's money, but randomly expected her to pay for an entire meal for their family. The OP shared that since she's received an inheritance due to her mother's passing, the family around her have been treating her differently. They're acting like she's entitled for not funding their lifestyle! Her husband is also treating her like the family piggy bank, and wanting her to fund basically everything he does. 

In the comments, helpful Redditors pointed the OP towards divorce proceedings and mentioned how she could protect her assets — hopefully after she finds kinder friends and family to surround herself with. 

Click here to read about one entitled mother who demanded a seat on a metro, and swiftly regretted her demands. 

'I'm going to need you to fix that': Karen and Kevin demand that neighbor's cat tower left for trash pickup be cleaned, daughter enacts petty revenge

Karen and Kevin clearly only deserve the cat tower as is. Thankfully, this isn't another story where a Karen or Kevin throws a tantrum and doesn't get the comeuppance they very much have earned. Here, it wasn't even the Redditor that delivered the final blow. That would be the Redditor's daughter, who enacted some dumpster-related petty revenge that proves she was raised correctly.

 

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit by u/JynxMama, who recounted that he and his family replaced their cat tower and left it on the curb for pickup at the end of the week. At this point, the old cat tower was torn up and also had some dried vomit on it. Clearly, it was time for it to go. Well, when this Karen and Kevin couple decided they wanted to take the cat tower from them, the Redditor said "by all means," but it wasn't until they requested that it be cleaned that the conflict really began. Keep scrolling below to see how it all turned out. For more stories like this, check out these top Karens of the week.

'Garlic is toxic to cats!': Internet condemns friend for feeding woman's cat toxic food and refusing to stop when asked

It's adorable how some folks treat their animals as humans—personifying them and giving them a voice and thoughts as if they can understand every word we say. 

I don't mean to sound cynical here. It's beautiful to see people treat their animals like family—they are—and where would mankind be without the companionship of pets? But, the personification should stop here; unfortunately, too many pet owners take personification a step too far and begin treating their pets in a way that doesn't suit their biology, feeding them food that is undigestible—or straight-up toxic.

Your cat, dog, and (insert other animal here) did not evolve to digest a human diet, so you need to be extra careful what you're feeding them daily; it's always best to stick to a diet that caters to their specific nutritional needs. Now, that's not to say that you can't occasionally give your dog a piece of cheese when he has been a good boy.

Breaking this rule occasionally is one thing when it's your pet, but it's another thing when an outside party repeatedly feeds your pet food that it shouldn't eat and refuses to listen when you ask them not to. Unfortunately, that's what this woman has to deal with from her husband's friend, who has repeatedly fed her cat "human food." Things reached a boiling point when he tried to feed her cat garlic bread, refusing to stop until she had physically revoked his meal. She then took to the internet to share her account of the resulting confrontation and see whether or not she was in the wrong.

Readers were quick to condemn the friend in the comments. Read on to see screenshots of the owner's account of events and the responses from readers in the ensuing thread. Next, check out this woman who stole her roommate's cat and wondered if she was wrong.

'My girlfriend sold my car [...] I am now suing her': Woman sells generations-old car because her BF didn't take care of their cats enough

Sometimes, people take petty revenge ever so slightly too far.  Here, we have a relationship that is clearly dysfunctional, and it's definitely the fault of both parties in different ways. Sure, the girlfriend's accusations that OOP doesn't take care of their cats enough is one layer, but then there's also this guy's potentially backward view of gender dynamics within their relationship (the number of times he says breadwinner is certainly eye-roll-inducing). But whatever compelled this lady to sell her boyfriend's generations-old car for just $400 and not expect any serious consequences as a result of these actions is baffling no matter how much we may empathize with her situation. 

 

This original post and its updates (screenshots included below) were compiled and posted to Reddit's r/BestOfRedditorUpdates by u/LucyAriaRose. Keep scrolling for the full play-by-play and to see what people had to say in the comments. For more stories like this, here's one about an employee calling out their former boss for lack of proper compensation.