“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers)

People say that laughing at others' misfortunes isn't nice. But people do like to see arrogant and mean people get the justice they deserve. Today, we're featuring some stories where people ruined their days, reputations, and lives or just generally messed up. And they did it all by themselves!

When someone started a thread, asking, "What's the best way you have seen someone screw themselves over?" people came to share many mistakes they've seen people make that came back to bite them in the rear. They burned bright but crashed perhaps even brighter.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) When my wife was married to her first husband, her second childbirth ended badly, with both her and her baby needing to be resuscitated. Daughter has lifelong medical issues and both ended up with financial compensation. Husband became distant and ended up breaking up 2 households. Wife sued for divorce, and he dragged it out, aiming to get some of her settlement. Enough time elapsed that she became fully vested in his retirement plan.
And he got none of the settlement.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) I worked with a literal idiot for a union job where he just didnt think it was needed or morally ok. We tried to explain to him that the union helps him a lot more than he realized but nope. In one ear, out the other.

He had some incident and went in to a meeting about it. He rebelled against the union rep, and she sat there and let him sign away his job. He thought he had finally freed himself from the union to work better and they fired him hours later after he was no longer protected.

Free healthcare, education expenses, guaranteed vacay and sick time, assistance with housing/legal, guaranteed pay raises. Threw it all away because of religious political philosophy.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) Cops were called to a buddy's house.

Cops told this buddy that they did not require any statement from him.

Buddy proceeded to tell "his side of the story".

Buddy went to jail.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) My friend's sister was engaged to a great guy. His only flaw was he was too "tough" to wear a seatbelt. Crashed his car and died. A few weeks later she found out she was pregnant, so now she's a single mother. So that's at least 3 lives he f****d up by not wearing his seatbelt.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) When I was young I realized if I threw up at school they’d call my mom to come get me. One day in 2nd grade I “got sick” because I wanted to leave, but my dumb**s forgot it was field trip day to the zoo. I tried to say I was feeling better but my mom was already on her way.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) The CEO of StickerMule recently sent out a mass email to the entire customer base over his support for Trump after the attempted assassination. The email preached “love for all”. After this, the sticker company lost users, followers, and StickerMule’s Instagram was flooded with comments that pointed people to alternate sticker companies.

So…morale of the story. No one wants to hear your political stance from a random email from a sticker company. Keep it to yourself.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) They were constantly badgering me to fix something (on a system I was tech support for) and I, time and time again, warned them that they shouldn't do what they were trying to do and that they should just do it the correct way to avoid their issue.

After 5 weeks of hassling me, they got fed up and emailed me complaining that they'd missed a deadline for a massive client because the system didn't work, and that I'd not supported them as my job required.

To make their 'point', they cc'd in many, many people. Their boss, my boss, their team, my team, their VP of operations, my VP (you get the idea).

I drafted my response, redrafted several times, then replied.

I attached every single one of their abusive emails, my professional responses explaining clearly that the issue is theirs and that they should correct it to make it work.

It's the only time I've made sure I *did* reply all.

I'm not overly sure of the fallout for them, but they were very quiet for at least 18 months before I heard from them again.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) Gym teacher got busted banging a 15 year old student.
He was found guilty and sentenced 6 to 30 years.
He later appealed claiming that some error in the sentencing process gave him more time than it should have.
He won the appeal and a resentencing was scheduled, but before that happened
it came to light that he was still contacting the girl by secretly passing messages to her (he'd give the letters to a family member who then left it in a drop spot for the girl to pick up).

Because of that they ended up giving him an even longer sentence.

[News Article](https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2015/06/former_teacher_who_had_sex_wit.html).

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) I know somebody who cheated on her husband of 15 years this spring and thought she would do it a few months and then go back to her marriage like nothing happened. Her husband found out after less than a month, left her and moved out, she can’t afford their house anymore and both kids refuse to live with her. Oh and she lost her job last week.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) My mother.

She told me one day “you’re the reason I wake up every day and want to kill myself”

I said “Good. You’re dead to me”.

She has been trying to come back into my life for almost 5 years.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) I worked for one of the government agencies everyone loves. We had a donation bin in one of the visitor centers that was empty one morning. The money in the employee honor system snack room thing was gone too. It was a huge scandal. A day or two later, the cash (but not the coins) from a satellite office’s employee snack money also disappeared. This was enough to get our in-house law enforcement to question everyone with access to either building.

Well, only one person had a key to the donation box AND a key to the satellite building. One was where he worked and the other was in the compound where he was renting government housing. Also, there were cameras around and he was the only one of a certain size currently employed.

The guy was a strange mix of really excited to make his job his career and complaining that it did not pay enough. He ended up throwing away his dream career and receiving federal theft charges for around $100 in small bills.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) A long while ago in a large computer corporation with looming layoffs. An employee set up a time bomb so that a lot of files would be destroyed if he didn't reset the trigger periodically thus creating a delayed revenge if he got fired.

Which eventually happened (without any severance package) because the time bomb went off when he was still an employee.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) I've seen friends talk themselves into tickets when dealing with police where they initially were just going to give them a friendly warning.

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Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 3 months ago

Here in Australia, treat them friendly but polite. Smile and say as little as possible. Don't argue with them. If I were in USA and the police pulled me over, I'd be s******g bricks regardless of why they pulled me over.

61points

Papa 3 months ago

Don't believe everything you see on television or read on the internet about the US. Reaching for their gun is not the first thing law enforcement officers do when interacting with citizens. I've been stopped a dozen or more times in almost 50 years of driving, and have never been the least bit frightened. Just being polite and not running off at the mouth works wonders.

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Donald 3 months ago (edited)

Weird, I do the same thing in the US and have never had any problem with police.

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Rabbit Of ill Portent(she/her) 3 months ago

It's the same here, darlin. Don't argue, be polite and if you can get them to genuinely laugh, your odds of getting out of a ticket just increased by about 50%

9points

Id row 3 months ago

In Australia, you've got dangerous and unpredictable wildlife. In the US, we have cops for that. I'd rather take my chances with a prowler than call the cops. Hell, I'd rather take my chances with the Aussie wildlife, lol.

4points

Barry Fruitman 3 months ago

No cop in the US has ever messed with me

3points

C.O. Shea 3 months ago

If you're brown in the US... it's very terrifying to get pulled over by the police.

2points

John Harrison 3 months ago

"I'd be sh***ing bricks ..." That's because you get all of your information about U.S. law enforcement from social media and "news" channels.

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Hans Georg 3 months ago

Some people are extra stupid. I once read that an idiot thought it was cool to drive over the speed limit in the Swiss. Total arrogant soccer player. Instead of keeping it low and accept the already high traffic ticket, he told the police officer that he has so much money, he could destroy his life. This is comparable to a death threat. The police officer and his partner pulled him out of his car. Next he kissed his cars hood and was arrested.

10points

Gabriele Alfredo Pini 3 months ago

A kid I know when asked at the Swiss border "Dichiara?" ([Anything to] declare) replied with "Chiara", because "di" in Italian is the imperative form of the verb "say". He laughed, the Swiss didn't laugh and proceeded to take apart every piece of his car to "search for contraband". Another man responded with "war to the Switzerland" and was arrested immediately...

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Lew k 3 months ago

We were drinking at the river when I was about 17-18 which is still underage here. One of the only cool cops I've ever encountered. Totally chill about the whole think. Shooting the chit with me about he was young once and gets it. Saying just do it at home where you can't really get into trouble. Was basically saying if we poured out the beer and hung out for a bit we were free to go. Anyhow my two friends acted like total morons and ended up arrested vehicles searched they got charged with possession (pot) and we all got minor consumption tickets.

6points

Regina Holt 3 months ago

I was pulled over twice in the span of 15 to 20 minutes, and I was damm polite that second time no matter how annoying it was to get the second warning. The first time I was pulled over by a state trooper on the highway, the second was on County road by county police. I had a tail-light burnt out, and the county cop gave me an order to fix it within a certain period of time and then show up to prove it was repaired.

4points

RabidChild 3 months ago

You have the right to remain silent. Use it.

4points

MalibuClassicMan 3 months ago

Yep, peoples hatred of cops will let that mouth overload their butts most of the time

3points

Jude Laskowski 3 months ago

As a former police officer, it's called the "attitude test."

2points

Nikki Gross 2 months ago

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Vermonta 2 months ago

Not if they had large cleavage

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Celtic Pirate Queen 3 months ago

I got pulled over for speeding between my house in San Diego and my Mom's in Phoenix. I am always polite and friendly, but don't offer any information I was not asked. Gave the trooper my license, reg & insurance. I was doing 110 (ish) in a 75mph zone. He came back and gave me a ticket for "traveling in excess of the posted speed limit." Huh? Then he looked down at my open wallet and said, "Thank you for your support". My NRA Lifetime Membership card was behind the license I'd removed. That's where it lives now, just in case.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) Friend agreed to child support outside of court. Got a new job and the ex came back asking for an increase. Friend said no, got sued. Judge did the calculations and she ended up getting less.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) My father was all tough and LOVED getting into fights with people. He was proud of himself and his muscles (all steroids) and people would genuinely be more scared of his attitude than his looks. He also had guns at home (my country doesn't allow it, so that was a BIG deal), so around the block when he would get into an argument with someone, he loved going home and getting the gun to scare whoever he was arguing with. People were generally scared of him, so he wouldn't end up getting in trouble or anything (unfortunately)

Well, one day he got into an argument with this guy who parked in front of his house but on the other side of the road (where the guy was allowed to park). My father was shouting at the guy, telling him to take the car out of that spot because it would disturb my father's illegal way to park his car. The guy didn't want to. My father went inside his house, got the gun and came outside to threaten the guy. The guy decided to leave, but he didn't go home, he went straight to the police and gave them the EXACT address of someone who threatened him with a gun. The police showed up at my father's house an hour later and found three guns. My father got arrested and spent the night at the police station, and my grandpa had to bail him out or he would go to jail the day after.

The prison system in my country is not that good, and normally if it's your first instance you get off of it pretty easily, but when you have your first instance you really really REALLY don't want to get a second, and now my father is scared of everything, because a small argument while driving could land him in jail if someone decides to call the police.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) We had an employee at another location sell company merchandise on social media on his own account for 10× the original retail price. Company found out and fired employee. The very next day the company gave every employee company wide a decent bump in pay. So he lost his job and the pay bump all for less than $100 reselling company merch. Truly one of the dumbest ways I've ever seen someone screw themselves over.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) D***s. Guy could have had it all. Beautiful GF, promising future. Wound up dead in a dirty basement. GF ended up looking like Keith Richards and may be dead also now.

Even before death, they lived in squalor and wound up homeless. Just destruction from beginning to end.

Dont f**k with opiates. They are truly the devil.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) My ex wife was so excited to go screw other guys that she didn’t think at all about how she would feed herself, where she would live….

Within a couple weeks of her saying she wanted a divorce, and living her best life via online dating, I drafted up a contract saying I would get the house, my retirement account, my pension, the paid off car, sole custody of our child, no alimony to her, and she would pay me child support.

To be clear, this wasn’t a case of her not knowing what she was signing. I made sure she understood all of it. She was just rose colored glasses about what an incredible new life she was going to live. Who needs anything from the old life, when the new life will be so much better???

Turns out guys don’t want her for long now that she’s obsese and pushing 40 instead of the cute little 20-something she was when we married. She thought that was the life she was going back to — it hasn’t been. Meanwhile, she can’t hold down a job and her parents had to buy her silverware because she lived off of me for so long that she had no concept of how to survive on her own.

I don’t rub it in. But I also don’t bail her out. She made informed decisions. It’s not my fault she was living in a fantasy land.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) Used to work as a house matron in a UK boarding school, where there was a team of four ladies who cleaned the house I was in charge of. Three had been there for years and were great - and then there was, let's call her "T", who'd been hired as a replacement for a lady who'd moved out of the area. "T" was lazy, unmotivated, called in "sick" frequently and had to be micromanaged to get any work out of her at all; I complained to HR, who basically told me to suck it up because it was hard to get cleaners who could work the hours the school required.

T reported that her father had died, and that she had to go halfway across the country to clear out his house. The following day was my day off, and I went into a nearby town to have lunch and run some errands; as I was sitting outside Starbucks with a coffee, who should emerge from the shop opposite me - laden down with shopping bags and laughing with a group of friends - but "T". The look on her face when she spotted me was classic "deer in the headlights" material.

She was called into work the following morning and fired on the spot.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) Old friend from high school “Eddie” was really good at pitching and got a full ride scholarship to play baseball at a D1 University. A week before we graduated high school, we were playing basketball in gym class. Eddie goes for a shot, misses, gets angry, punches a wall and breaks his hand. Long story short, the D1 school took his scholarship away because his hand was f****d and he would’ve missed summer training. Poor guy was devastated. 10+ years later and He still talks about how he could’ve been a pro player. He now operates a crane in Philly and makes really good money.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) I was waiting in a lobby once for a meeting room my work had booked to interview a possible new remote hire.

While I was in the waiting room a guy showed up then sat next to me and proceeded to brag about getting a new job that he was under qualified for and that he lied on his resume about college/work experience/etc. He was talking like he was some hotshot finance bro saying (to a stranger at a business center at like 10am) that he was going right from there to the strip club to celebrate.

Guess who I was there to interview? He was drastically unqualified, unable to tell me the meaning of the 3 letter acronym that the job was (and that he supposedly had 10 years experience in). During the meeting I called a referral location he claimed he worked (but with the number I had not the one he listed) and they had never heard of him. He thought he already had the job after a few interviews but unfortunately I was the veto. The offer was pulled after we looked into his resume that had somehow not been checked. If he had kept his mouth shut and done some homework on the job he might have slipped through and gotten at least a few paychecks.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) A guy at work on his first day jokingly asked 'how strict is the sexual harassment policy? nobody laughed.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) Donna Blanton sentenced to 28 years for killing her husband. Claimed discrimination and got herself a new trial. Outcome: sentenced to life. 🙂.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) Back in college, a friend of mine tried to impress everyone at a party by showing off his fire-breathing skills. he didn't realize that the bottle he grabbed was rubbing alcohol instead of the usual lighter fluid. when he took a big swig and tried to spit it out into the flame, it caught fire way too close to his face. he ended up with singed eyebrows and a trip to the ER. the next day, he found out the whole thing was caught on video and had gone viral on our campus. it was a painful lesson in thinking twice before showing off.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) My ex literally sent me a goodmorning message that was meant for another girl and it had her name in it.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) Had a dude who worked on a team that I wanted to join at work and kept putting himself in Teams meetings to look busy, then when he was asked to come to the office, he’d ask the boss how to do the simplest of tasks because he was never doing anything and thus never learned.

I replaced him 🫡.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) Had this lab partner in college that was premed. While rushing for a frat he wasn’t allowed to sleep for a month among other ridiculous things. He basically slept through all of his classes and ended up having to switch majors to something less academically demanding in order to survive rushing for his frat.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) I did some work in 2008 involving a lingering lawsuit regarding AOL (yes, America Online) and some computer hardware manufacturers. The core lawsuit had long been over but this was a shareholder derivative suit that just wouldn't die. We had to read documents (emails, early stage Powerpoint presentations aka "slide decks", and other stuff related to AOL).

I saw one presentation that has stuck with me for almost 15 years titled "Internet Search Companies." The slide deck was from 1999ish during AOL's hay day. The idea was that internet search companies were starting to become popular and AOL wanted to acquire one. It went through all the players and discussed their methods, strengths, and weaknesses. Think Ask Jeeves, Alta Vista, Excite, Lycos, etc. The slide for Google was hilarious. It said they used a complex algorithm to return results from a structured data set that it created from the public web.

The conclusion: "Not expected to be a major player in internet search."

I've never forgotten that. The slide even had a price tag for potential acquisition which I think was around $5-10 million. AOL completely fumbling the moment.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) During the dotcom boom my employer's stock price was riding high, and we were all millionaires .. on paper. You only got the riches if you exercised and sold your stock options. With the stock price going higher every day, exercising and selling you options today would feel like a loss tomorrow. This caused people to make all sorts of bad decisions.

One that stands out for me is a coworker who bough an enormous house. Instead of exercising and selling his options to pay for it all (which he could have done), paid the minimum down payment and took out a mortgage for the rest. Then he would exercise and sell just enough options every month to cover the monthly payment.

Cue the dotcom bust. Our stock options quickly became worthless. My coworker had no money to cover the mortgage payments and lost his house.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) Recently, a 20 year employee lost his management job because he couldn’t keep it in his pants. There was a blowup at work with him and a pregnant young lady, yup, his second with that young lady. Funny thing, it wasn’t the only woman he’d had relations and children with at work, and not the second, either…. Pregnant young lady went to HR and he was gone before lunch.

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63points

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) I got a pal who just can't keep a job. He "goes to war" with people when he feels out of his depth and can't make it past probation period..... Now he's almost f****d his life in a bad way... Been out of work for almost a year and can't find anything because it's a whole history of 6 month stints.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) I had a boss that regularly would take all of the credit for things me and my team members would work on. We work in special event and large event venue planning. Well… we had one of the largest events in my career pop up. Spent months planning. Budgets. Negotiations. Contacts. The works. He came into maybe 5 meetings in the months we spent planning. Long story short we had a few major slips that caused a HUGE loss on the clients end (mind you we made them whole in the long run). He got all the credit. Poetic justice imo.

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60points

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) My ex wife was trespassing on what used to be our home together, assaulted our roommate after they told her to leave, and then called the police on herself 😂.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) The girl that bullied me mercilessly in school had a baby at 18 years old. Recently her partner left her and now she's alone with a little kid to raise on her own. Can't say I feel sorry for her.

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“What’s The Best Way You Have Seen Someone Screw Themselves Over?” (35 Answers) My ex-wife. She had an eye put out when she was 12. She got a $250k insurance settlement. Some of that money was put into mutual funds. I opened a business while we were married. At one point, cash flow was very slim and we borrowed several thousand dollars from her mutual funds. We didn’t put it back over the remainder of our marriage.

When she filed for divorce I told her I was going to pay it back. She said I didn’t have to, but I insisted I was going to. We fought over how we were going to settle everything for months. Mainly because her attorney saw a cash cow in her and kept her stirred up. Every time we would come to an agreement she would take it to him and he would talk her out of it.

Eventually I told her in lieu of me paying her back the cash for the mutual funds she could have my half of the equity in the house. She jumped all over that. She wound up getting about 1/4 of the money we borrowed from the mutual funds in the end.

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What’s the best way you have seen someone screw themselves over?

Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 months ago

I have a relative who got promoted to assistant manager at a shoe store. Her first closing shift, she was supposed to take the day's money to the bank and use the night drop deposit box. Instead she called her boyfriend and they fled to Texas. She assumed since it was a different state, she was now safe. She had been living with her mom at the time and called home. The police happened to be there looking for her. Being a loud talker she immediately screamed loud enough for them to hear her give her exact location including hotel room number .

13points

Beth Wheeler 3 months ago

I guess some people are just naturally stupid.

7points

Rens 3 months ago

About 30 years ago when I did my thesis for my degree my boss decided to take my dissertation and credit himself as the only author. It involved culturing some insect and that laboratory that nobody else had managed to do. Within 6 months of leaving that job the whole culture collapsed and they were never able to recover

5points

Kurtis Wethington 3 months ago (edited)

Idiot underage (keep this in mind) ex-coworker got away with a LOT that should've gotten him fired before I even started at said job (management liked him)... until he rang himself up buying a vaping device AND the cartridges (because he didn't realize until buying the former that he needed to get the latter) that he thought he'd get away with just because management wasn't physically there even though MULTIPLE cameras saw him do it (including IN the self-check-out meaning he saw himself do it!) and he paid with DEBIT/ELECTRONICALLY (ironically, he was also a conspiracy theorist paranoid about government tracking people that way 🙃)! He even tried to toss the thing in the *office* trash can WHILE the store manager was there, which said manager obvious found. They tolerated a LOT/too much from him, but all the hell (legal, financial, etc.) from that would be too much and finally fired him.

Puppy Dancing! 3 months ago

Too many drüg ones, as if addiction is a choice

Mike Watkins 2 months ago

I’ve noticed it’s kinda rare anyone is forced at gunpoint to start using d***s. So there’s the choice you were unable to find.

Jessie 2 months ago

It is definitely a choice to become addicted, nobody is forced to start doing drügs.

María Hermida 2 months ago

Addiction is not a choice, but looking for help and trying to recover is. Being an addict is not an excuse to ruin everybody's lives around you.

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