Read a piece about this a while back, a management blog or something. The gist was that if you always fix the mistake, you're training your coworkers to be careless because they know you'll catch it. But it also said that you should never put your name on something you didn't check, that's your own dumb move. So maybe the real lesson is different: stop covering for people, but also stop signing off on their work until it's actually done right.

Knew a guy whose client wanted hourly check-ins, so he started sending photos of his cat instead.

Ugh, that is so frustrating! My buddy had almost the exact same thing happen in Barcelona last year, booked a desk for two weeks through some app, showed up and the place had literally closed down without telling anyone. He ended up camping out in a Starbucks near Placa Catalunya for three days before he found a new spot, and the original place just ignored his emails about a refund. He gave up in the end, said it wasn't worth the headache, but I would have been way more annoyed about those espresso prices honestly.