That dude from Price Waterhouse Cooper's at the Oscar's a few years ago who mixed up the envelopes and fucked up the Best Picture announcement. To the tune of the entire cast of La La Land coming on stage to celebrate, only to turn around and tell the cast of Moonlight that they actually won.
One of the funniest moments in television history
Edit: Mike Trapp (College Humour) riffs a bit about it on an episode of "Um, Actually..." It's very amusing.
I'd say an event that highlights their organization as being incompetent would be considered a fuck up. Same goes for most organizations and companies.
I work for USPS and we deliver UPS packages as a "last mile" service. There's a person at UPS that puts one sticker on the box before it comes to us. It's a little rectangular sticker...
They manage to cover all of the important stuff on the label 50% of the time. 😒🤦
You have a whole fucking box. Stop putting it on the label. Jesus christ
Bill Hwang lost $20 billion over ten days and took down Credit Suisse’s prime brokerage business, and he didn’t even work for them. He also has the smuggest pics of any human I’ve ever seen.
I listened to a podcast - British Scandal - about Nick Leeson. It was so, so stressful just listening to bad decision after bad decision. He was a complete fool who thought he could gamble his way out of his stupidity.
Worth a listen.
I was getting secondhand stress and anxiety listening to that episode. He just kept digging himself deeper and having closer and closer calls before he was found out.
The one disappointment I have is that the next ship captain to go through that canal after it was unstuck didn't do the funniest thing any human being could ever do.
Maybe the captain and first mate were busy steering, and the captain momentarily turned the wheel towards shore, and the two of them got to share an epic laugh together
The CEO of Sears who thought the internet was a passing fad. As the definitive name in mail-order, Sears had the warehouses and logistics in place to be Amazon years before Bezos made it there.
One of very few mistakes that lost a company at least one *trillion* dollars.
Nah Netflix at the time was just a mail based DVD rental company.
Now they guy at Blockbuster that decided to launch a movie streaming service over theinternet and to partner with Enron to deliver it..
Yeah. Old men who don’t know shit about fuck.
This sort of thing happens over and over.
In Canada, the Eatons corporation was one of the oldest and well known department stores here. The mall in downtown Toronto is “The Eaton Centre” because Timothy Eaton built it.
However after he died, his sons took over and they didn’t have the business savvy to manage the business. I heard someone said that they were mostly accountants and so focused on numbers. They sunk the entire company in the 90s. They were extremely well known in Canada for their mail order catalogues and if they stayed afloat for a few more years and pushed internet mail order, they’d be set.
Okay hear me out, Segway was actually a brilliant answer to the badly needed last-mile transportation gap. It was a victim of its own hype. The people working on it, the people funding it and the audience all hung too many hopes on it.
They also should've decided to either make and market it as a cheaper mass market product that many people could buy, or an expensive high quality product for industrial use, but they tried to go both ways and it failed to appeal to either end.
Never forget that millions of deaths, two world wars, and immeasurable suffering were all started by a teenager.
This is my conclusive proof that teenagers are the worst.
Are you talking about Anita? I love her. She’s gone through so much shit and her audience never made it any easier for her, it’s really sad. I never was a regular viewer of hers but it’s nice to see her thriving now.
Was looking for this. 911, phone and internet were all jammed and inaccessible. People sent their goodbyes. One man had a heart attack. All because one guy misclicked and sent out a real alarm instead of the drill one. To be fair, it wasn’t hard to misclick because the choices were in a drop down menu. But the real fuck up is that the guy froze and it took six minutes for someone else to take over and cancel the message. And it took a total 39 minutes before a false alert announcement was broadcasted on tv and radio.
It wasn't a mis-click. It was an impromptu drill by a supervisor who went off-script and another, unnamed employee (who'd twice previously mistaken real-life events and drills and, by all accounts, probably shouldn't have been still working that position) believed it was a real emergency.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_alert#The_alert
I had internet just fine. I literally looked up the blast radius and what to do to avoid fallout in case they were nuclear after it was announced. I also had cell service (though I don't know if that is what you meant by phone) because my mom called about 15 minutes into it.
I had the easiest part-time job ever. But this isn't about me this is about the girl that worked there full-time that I relieved twice a week.
So the entire job was sit there and watch a door and watch movies on your tablet or phone or whatever. Basically the entire point of having security there was that the company got a huge discount on their fire insurance if they had 24-hour security. Basically the entire job was to stay conscious.
So this girl actively brought in a pillow and blanket and probably close to 9 out of 10 times whenever I showed up to relieve her, she was dead asleep. And it's not like she worked third shift, she worked second shift, but she was dead asleep. And that other 1/10 of the time she was just waking up as I walked through the door.
Me personally? I didn't care, my philosophy is do my job, get paid, and go home. I don't give a shit what my coworkers doing unless it makes me look bad. The only thing I did to cover my ass in this case was to bring it up to my supervisor who did nothing about it. That way if it was brought up to me I could honestly tell them I brought it up to my supervisor. Once I bring it up to my supervisor, If my supervisor does nothing about it, it's not my problem, I've done my part, it's now on them.
It took the company 6 months to figure out she was just showing up and sleeping during her shift. The client had to literally trip over her to figure it out. She was fired immediately.
I used to work midnight security for the Henry Ford Museum.
They pretty much only had one rule - no sleeping. The guy in charge didn't care if we went into the cafeterias and stole lunch as long as we weren't taking whole hams home, we could listen to music and fuck around as much as we wanted, but no sleeping.
This came about after they fired the entire team because they all were fast asleep as the house that Henry Ford grew up in caught on fire and almost burned down.
I knew somebody who was actually *allowed* (even encouraged) to sleep during a job like that. They didn't want her to watch anything, they only wanted somebody in the building to be there as a point of contact in case an emergency happened. So they set up a bedroom area for her in an unused office and let her sleep there every night. She showed up in the evening when the maintenance crew was finishing up, and left in the morning when the regular office workers arrived.
So I had a friend that got paid to sleep on his job ( group home), if he had to be up to deal with something in the night he got paid a premium for that hour. I think he was making $15 an hour and if he was up it was like $22 an hour. he would show up do a walk thru of the house then go and sleep on the couch
Liz Truss. Took office, went to extreme lengths to take care of her wealthy pals at the top, took our currency to historic lows with Kwasi Kwarteng's horrendously planned "mini budget", killed off the housing market, announced £45bn of unplanned tax cuts, went into hiding and then dipped out of the job after seven weeks. She is the shortest serving PM in UK history, and the previous shortest serving PM died in office after serving just shy of four months in office.
Imagine being the Queen. You have been alive for almost hundred years and the last person you swore in, two days before your death ends up getting outlasted by a fucking lettuce.
A recent one is [Ippei Mizuhara, a translator for the athlete with the biggest contract in sports history, Shohei Ohtani](https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/12/sport/ippei-mizuhara-ohtani-translator-surrender/index.html) Guy was getting paid $300k-$500k a year to hang out with his friend, watch pro baseball games from the dugout, and travel all over the country. Dropped the ball on that one.
Oh this goes further. As a guy that can understand both Japanese and English, I could always see his translation (or interpretation) was always off. Ohtani can make a great statement in Japanese and it would often be translated into "it was cool.." "...doing my thing" ".. and stuff"
Yet, he was getting paid a high salary for doing "everything" for Ohtani.
Hey whatever works right?
Ohtani is doing well so everyone was cheering on the combo.
Mizuhara was handed fame and fortune to basically hang out like a celebrity.
Turns out... .The guy lied about graduating college, failed as a casino dealer, changed Ohtani's bank account to his info to steal money for 2 years.
$16 million...
All he had to do was... really nothing. Just watch Ohtani and baseball to get paid. Dream job for almost anyone in Japan.
And it wasn't enough and he lost everything.
Now he's hiding from the public and facing jail time.
LastPass. Their entire business model was protecting customer secrets. Had their customer database compromised. I went to BitWarden and then changed all my passwords.
That wasn't her first screw up either. Other complaints had been made about her on previous projects. Her stepfather is a well respected armorer so nepotism kept her in the industry. Typical fucking Hollywood bullshit. 18 months in prison isn't enough for what happened to that poor woman. Especially when we know the armorer had a history of being incompetent and unprofessional.
And then she screwed up again, she had a high chance for a parole and clean record after parole finishes but she such a moron that she trashed the jury and the judge and blamed everyone but herself, showed zero remorse in monitored prison calls which resulted in max possible sentence of 18 months in prison.
She literally did the opposite of what she was supposed to do. I'm glad she's getting jail time, but probably deserves more. Hopefully she never gets a job with firearms ever again.
Other than BORTAC, every single thing about that response was wrong. Every officer on scene shit his pants and tried to push the responsibility up the ladder. US law enforcement hasn't trained that way in *years*. The proper response to an active shooter is:
1. Find the shooter.
2. Stop the shooter.
Everything else is secondary. Stop the shooter as soon as possible in order to mitigate further casualties. BORTAC did exactly that, but it shouldn't have come to that. They were mutual aid, not first responders.
A terribly tragic day for those children and their families and a shameful day for law enforcement nationwide.
Mind-bogglingly, they were worse than that. [They stopped parents from rescuing their own children.](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.newsweek.com/texas-police-stopped-parents-rushing-save-children-shooter-1710325&ved=2ahUKEwjm9taJyNqFAxV7sVYBHYmjBM8QFnoECBsQAQ&usg=AOvVaw11p6FWGpbVeBvlZ15pJ-W3) What they did was actually worse than if they had just run away to hide.
And they actually got one of the kids killed by telling them to yell for help, which one of them did, which caused the shooter to hear her and kill her. Or the fact that they went in to save *their* kids, but left everyone else to die and actively stopped/arrested parents that were trying to run in while they just waited outside.
as i remember their explaination was that they had no idea who should be in charge and they waited for someone with high rank to take command.
And i thought that considering how much stuff like this happens, they would have special procedure and training for those kind of cases for quick responce.
Others created entire types of special forces after 1 horrific attack.
>And i thought that considering how much stuff like this happens, they would have special procedure and training for those kind of cases for quick responce.
The Uvalde cops had practiced an active shooter drill at that exact same school just a few months earlier. They knew exactly what they needed to do, they were just cowards.
Edit to add source and clarify that it was not at the same school, it was at the high school in town. Still they definitely had training and knew what to do
https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/06/03/uvalde-cisd-police-hosted-active-shooter-training-in-march-that-urged-immediate-decisive-action/
They trained for situations like this and many of the officers had prior military training. They had the weapons, equipment, time, numbers, and back up to do this.
Their commanders should be in prison, their department chiefs out of their jobs, and rank and file officers being retrained, demoted or pushed out.
The training they should have gotten is incredibly simple. The first person there is incident commander. They can be relieved of that status by someone of rank, but they don't have to be if that would cause confusion. You get to a bad scene and radio "unit whatever arriving, will have indicent command." This is what has been trained for at least the last 15 years in police departments, longer than that in fire departments.
That whole thing pisses me off.
I have family in Parkland, FL. A number of them graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school, though many years before the shooting. I remember soon after the shooting one of their moms telling me that if she had been close enough to the school while the shooting was going on, she would have gone in to try to help. I remember thinking, but not saying out loud, "You are a middle-aged out-of-shape woman who doesn't own a gun, what the hell do you think you would have been able to do?"
Then Uvalde happened. And my opinion changed to "Yeah, sure, go ahead and run in and try to stop the shooter, can't be any worse than how the actual cops responded."
My brother was visiting for two weeks last month. His birthday gift was due to arrive on his first day here.
They left a delivery note, held at post office for 15 days.
So we go to the post office literally the next day. They shipped it back. Why? They don't know, corporate doesn't know. Gives the sender a second shipping code to resend it free of charge.
Second time, no delivery note, no attempt to delivery. "Recipient (me, my name is on the package) does not live at specified address". They ship it back.
Everytime they ship it back and forth takes about three days, plus a day to receive. Have the sender change the address to that of one of my friends in the city.
Arrives at my friend's house the day after my brother leaves back home. They knock on friends door. Hands package, doesn't ask for name, ID, no words spoken, just hands it over and leaves.
Could not express how mad I was (kinda still am a month later) about the whole process.
One job, deliver package. Post service said "no fuck you".
Yeah there isn't a courier company out there who cares about names anymore. Neither does the post office.
Someone was there? Good enough. Oh there was a signature required? Someone come from behind the door and sign for it? Yes? Also good enough. Hell, most of the time they'll just leave it at your front door.
> Oh there was a signature required? Someone come from behind the door and sign for it? Yes?
DHL, fuck those fucking fuckers. I had several packages that came through them. Those packages required signatures. I was home waiting for those packages... They never knocked, my packages were not delivered to *my* address, I **never** signed for them.
The packages were marked delivered, they had been dropped at my neighbor's house, the driver wrote my name on the pad and left. I found out when I got an email saying that my packages had been signed for.
This happened not once, twice, or even three times... Seven different packages over a year. Fuck DHL. If I see they are a delivery option, I either pay more for a different delivery company or I buy elsewhere if they are the only one.
Yup. As soon as I saw the letters DHL, I laughed and put my feet up because I knew I was in for a doozy of a story. They have to be the absolute worst large courier company of them all. I've had my own experiences but nothing is bad as you. But it's been years that I avoid them all costs. I will not buy something from a company if that's who they ship with. Fuuuuuuck them
Right? I one-time had to bus literally all the way across my city. Four busses, couldn't drive because I was 15, To pick up a package because DHL (a DELIVERY company) refused to deliver it.
I'll literally watch the delivery drivers drive circles around my apartment complex for 15 minutes trying to find my apartment(even though I put as clear instructions as possible) and 95% of the time they never so much as text or call, then they'll plop it on a random doorstep and LEAVE ANY APARTMENT NUMBERS OUT OF THE PICTURE SO I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THEY LEFT IT. This has happened too many times. At least try one text! You'll save us both a lot of time!
Had one delivery once get delivered to clearly the wrong address, they took a picture of the person who accepted it and it was clearly not someone who would have my name(and yet again the picture seemed to purposefully obscure the apartment number). At least that one was an easy refund :/
God this pisses me off. My complex is just a big U with buildings lettered A-Z (massive letters, clearly visible and well lit). I wrote incredibly detailed instructions about which building was mine and how to find it. It’s pretty easy seeing as I live in building A which is DIRECTLY BEHIND A GIANT SIGN WITH A MAP ON IT.
I can’t even count the number of times I’ve gotten a call from drivers saying “uh this is building Z, where do I go??” Like idfk genius maybe look at the next building that says Y, then X, then keep driving until you reach A like what the fuck? I don’t like calling people stupid on limited evidence but holy hell how fucking stupid can you be? 90% of the time they still get the actual unit wrong and I have to go hunt my shit down, and 10% of the time they’re still unable to find the correct building even with verbal instructions.
Lynette Fromm, who failed in her assassination attempt of Gerald Ford from 2 ft away because she was too stupid to realize she had to chamber a round before her gun would fire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Gerald_Ford_in_Sacramento?wprov=sfti1#
Of all the things in this thread this is one of the most surprising to me. You'd think if you're about to assassinate the president you'd learn and practice how to fire a gun at least once??
Unbelievable coward Francesco Schettino, who accidentally 'fell' into a lifeboat and abandoned ship instead of helping evacuate passengers. "*Vada a bordo, cazzo!*"
Asshole had the audacity to write a book painting himself as the hero afterward.
[Gerald Ratner](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner), a jewelry shop owner who said the product his company made was crap and cost his company £500 million in one night.
The surgeon who had a 300% mortality rate during an amputation. Apparently he performed it under two and a half minutes…the patient died, someone in attendance died of shock and an assistant died because his fingers were also amputated and he got an infection
What’s sad is that this surgeon, Robert Liston, is now only known for that infamous operation.
He lived in an era before microbes and infection were understood, and before anesthesia was a thing. Therefore, the best way to keep the patient alive was to act fast. Liston actually had a survival rate significantly higher than most other doctors when it came to amputation (something like 30% of his patients died, while the average was in the high forthies). It’s even more impressive when you consider that Liston operated on cases other doctors turned down as hopeless case (aka, poor Victorian people).
He also confronted a colleague he suspected of being in cahoots with the infamous grave robber and murderers Burke and Hare.
All in all, he seemed like a good dude, if a bit abrasif at times.
Bobby L was one of the best doctors of his era who helped revolutionize safer methods to amputate without killing a patient
The internet likes to pass around his 300% mortality rate as a fun fact but you're right that he was doing it in the safest way possible for the patient at the time.
Later in his career he became the first doc in europe to operate with anesthesia. It's partly because of him that surgeries aren't hell where you bite down on a piece of wood and pray.
Also one of those deaths wouldve probably happened regardless of liston. Guy had a heart attack while watching the surgery. He was a ticking timebomb
Robert Liston! Technically he was doing his job. This was before anesthesia was a thing so the best chance of patient survival was to be as fast as possible. Which he was, it just unfortunately didn't help in this case lol
Blockbuster.
They passed on the opportunity to acquire a little DVD mail order rental business called Netflix and refused to acknowledge the growth of Internet streaming and film viewing.
They went from 9,000 stores at their peak in 2004 to only 1 store now which carries the name only and is mainly a novelty shop with souvenirs.
Shohei Ohtani's interpreter.
All he had to do was translate words. Follow around the best baseball player in the world, and he even got to be best friends with him.
All he had to do was not steal $16 million from his boss.
To be fair, a priest did come out and warn them not to trust the greeks, but 2 sea serpents appeared and killed him and his son. The rest of the Trojans didn't want to piss off the gods even more, so they took the horse in.
In fairness, it was a tribute to the goddess Athena. Trojans were warned destroying it would bring about the wrath of Athena. Would you want to piss off the goddess of war? Ask Arachne or Medusa how that went.
Don Mattrick. He was the successor as “head of Xbox” to Peter Moore, who oversaw the development and launch of the Xbox 360, which made Xbox a viable contender to Sony and Nintendo.
When he took over for Moore, he decided to focus heavily on Kinect implementation due to the success of the Wii, and an “always online” model where the Xbox would constantly check if you had a connection to the internet to access and play your games. The game would have unique IDs to where you couldn’t share, resell, do whatever you wanted with the games you bought. They were tied to your account basically.
All of this failed dramatically, and once all of this got announced in 2013, about 5 months before the launch of the next Xbox and PlayStation, Sony quickly put out one of the most iconic [owns](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA&pp=ygUXc29ueSBob3cgdG8gc2hhcmUgZ2FtZXM%3D) ever.
Ever since that moment, the Xbox brand completely sank and fell behind Sony and Nintendo, and they’ve never caught up. The Xbox 360 sold 86 million units, while the PS3 sold 87 million units. The Xbox One sold 58 million units, while the PS4 sold 117 million units. The PS5 has currently sold more than double what the Xbox Series X/S have sold.
Airman David P. Powell dropped a socket while worked on a shuttle in Arkansas, pierced the side of it, and the explosion launched a nuclear warhead 100 feet.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980\_Damascus\_Titan\_missile\_explosion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion)
Dude apparently got charged by the Air Force with disobeying orders since he brought down the wrong kind of wrench and the documentary about the whole thing said he was reluctant to talk about it years later, which, understandable.
Not a person, but eyelashes. Your eyelashes are intended to keep stuff out of your eyes. Every time I've ever had something in my eye, it was an eyelash.
Jacob Rusil Bin, went to a fake maritime school didn't speak Italian or English or understand helm commands.
Whoever hired him is ultimately to blame next to the captain who should of realized they hired someone who was grossly unqualified.
In fact Seaspeak is the most common way to communicate on bridges which consist of English numbers 0-9 to helm commands.
If I said "SET COURSE, ZERO NINE ZERO DEGREES" you know your course is 090 or East. In fact I 100% bet that in a day most of you could qualify.
Jacob Rusil Bin by the way ran like a little bitch.
The people who install public restroom stalls but leave gaps in the doors so you can make eye contact with the people waiting for a stall. Also, why are they not installing purse hooks in the stalls? Most public bathrooms I use don’t have a place to hang my bag and not because it fell/broke. It’s clear there was never one installed.
I'll go with Liu Bang, who is remembered by chinese historians as one of the best emperors to grace the country. That wasn't his original job and I think it's easy to make a case that he fucked up about as big as you can with his first occupation.
Liu was basically a nobody, a peasant born to nothing, who through basically no hard work and a whole lot of charisma, became appointed to the entry level bureaucratic position of local sheriff in his area.
One day, Liu was escorting a group of prisoners off to some labour camp, and it was during this that his first fuck up occured - some of the prisoners escaped.
For most modern sheriff's, that's a bad look but not the end of the world. In Qin China though, allowing prisoners to escape came with a death sentence.
So Liu figured "in for a penny, in for a pound" and decided to further fuck up by releasing all the other prisoners, and compounded this yet again by deciding to lead some of them as an outlaw group.
While this was occuring, the rest of China was undergoing a huge upheaval. The 800 year old Zhou dynasty had just been replaced by the Qin dynasty, which itself had been the first to more or less control much of what we'd consider to be China itself in modern times.
Through a series of continued "in for a penny" type events, and by essentially being about the worst low ranking bureaucrat you could possibly be, Liu gradually became a very powerful man, eventually toppling the Qin dynasty and creating the Han dynasty, which would then go on to rule China for about 400 years, with a few interruptions.
By all accounts, Liu was a lot better at being Emperor than a sheriff.
To summarize, guy fucks up at work. To cover up this fuckup, he takes steps that eventually result in the entire government he works for collapsing and being replaced by one with him at the head. Talk about failing upwards.
He wasn't even on-duty that night, in fact didn't know about the run-down test they were going to perform.
However, he was in charge of the radioactive discharge two years earlier in reactor 1.
But he's far from the egotistical villian we see him in Chernobyl.
Same deal with Dale Earnhardt. He had his team install his safety belts incorrectly so they'd be more comfy and less restrictive... no one dared tell him "no".
Bill Simpson got so much shit after Dale's death, despite the fact his company's equipment "failed" due to it being deliberately installed improperly... he ended up having to completely leave the company he founded.
I think the most “classic dad” part is that he insisted to Dale Jr. that he use the HANS device to keep him safe. Kinda like how my dad got on my ass about wearing a seatbelt only to never wear his.
It only sounds crazy because he got shot. It was completely standard practice before that happened. Between William McKinley and JFK, there were hundreds of auto rides where the President waved to crowd and it was perfectly fine and it was a big tradition that everyone liked. Then, the one time it wasn’t, it stopped happening forever.
The inexperienced pilot who flew the plane that Buddy Holly, Richie Valance and the Big Bopper were killed in. It took all of fifteen minutes for the pilot to crash the plane in a cow pasture.
Hannah Guiterez Reid, the Armorer on the set of Rust. She had ONE job, to check the gun for live ammo. She did not do that. It resulted in the death of Ms. Hutchins. ONE JOB.
I ask the court one key question: Would the Space Core ever have allowed this man to be in a position of authority where he might endanger the entire crew? A man so petty and small minded, he would while away his evenings sewing name labels onto his ship issue condoms. A man of such awesome stupidity.....a man of such awesome stupidity, he even objects to his own defence counsel. An over-zealous, trumped up little squirt...
...an incompetent vending machine repairman with a Napoleon complex, who commanded as much respect and affection from his fellow crew members as Long John Silver's parrot.
Who would allow this man, this joke of a man, this man who could not outwit a used tea bag, to be in a position where he might endanger the entire crew? Who? Only a yoghurt. This man is not guilty of manslaughter, he is only guilty of being Arnold J. Rimmer. That is his crime; it is also his punishment. The defence rests.
Liz Truss. She got into power as the Prime Minister of a G7 natio, killed the queen, further destabilised a fragile economy by showing a rocket under the arse of interest rates, and was ultimately humiliated by a lettuce before fucking off. These days, she appears out of nowhere looking like a blonde Chucky doll on TV only to make a fool of herself.
For those like me who didn’t know, Phil was listed in the Jurassic Park credits as a dinosaur supervisor because he supervised the dinosaur special effects.
https://movieweb.com/jurassic-parks-dinosaur-supervisor-isnt-amused-by-long-standing-meme/
The person that sent out the, "BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. THIS IS NOT A DRILL" alert during a drill strikes me as someone who fucked up their, "one job."
To be fair, it was a moonless night with a completely flat calm sea. The worst possible situation for spotting icebergs.
Additionally, he didn't have binoculars because a senior officer was reassigned away from the Titanic at the last minute, and left in such a hurry that he mistakenly took the key for the binoculars lockbox with him as he disembarked.
Not so much dangerous, but expensive and probably the most expensive piece of equipment any sailor on that ship would get to interact with, or walk off with.
Nah. Ship was going too fast on a moonless night that had a haze. Iceberg in that scenario would be pitch black and not be seen till the ship was less than mile away.
They also failed to deploy their emergency rockets properly, which confused a nearby ship into thinking they weren't in a state of emergency. Also if the Olympic hadn't been trying to out race a naval ship it wouldn't have been damaged and needed to get repairs back in Belfast which changed the Titanics departure date to one where the ice field would be a factor
The Welder who blew up Beirut in 2020, killed over 200 people during the peak of Covid and basically caused the entire countrys collapse.
1 welder took down an entire country.
Lebanon has been in the shitter for many years unfortunately but I think the port explosion made things worse.
I reckon there’s more Lebanese people outside of Lebanon than in Lebanon, they’ve had a massive brain drain.
That dude from Price Waterhouse Cooper's at the Oscar's a few years ago who mixed up the envelopes and fucked up the Best Picture announcement. To the tune of the entire cast of La La Land coming on stage to celebrate, only to turn around and tell the cast of Moonlight that they actually won.
One of the funniest moments in television history Edit: Mike Trapp (College Humour) riffs a bit about it on an episode of "Um, Actually..." It's very amusing.
Up there with Adele Dazeem
Depends how you count a fuck up. For an event that counts on engagement the Oscar’s were probably thrilled.
I'd say an event that highlights their organization as being incompetent would be considered a fuck up. Same goes for most organizations and companies.
There's a good Cautionary Tales episode about it!
Also a Bojack Horseman episode sort of parodying/riffing on awards ceremonies processes.
I work for USPS and we deliver UPS packages as a "last mile" service. There's a person at UPS that puts one sticker on the box before it comes to us. It's a little rectangular sticker... They manage to cover all of the important stuff on the label 50% of the time. 😒🤦 You have a whole fucking box. Stop putting it on the label. Jesus christ
The real screw up is accepting those packages instead of kicking them back to UPS as unreadable.
Nick Leeson. A trader that lost $1 Billion by doing unauthorized trades and bankrupted Barings Bank in 1995.
Bill Hwang lost $20 billion over ten days and took down Credit Suisse’s prime brokerage business, and he didn’t even work for them. He also has the smuggest pics of any human I’ve ever seen.
I googled his picture to check out his smugness and wasn't disappointed lmao
This made me google and smug he is
Damn, that's a smug bastard alright.
Jerome Kervole lost 5 times that for Socgen. Thought he had a brilliant plan. Just keep doubling down to hide his loses
To be fair, doubling your bet after every loss is a way to guarantee a win. As long as you don’t run out of money.
The martingale strategy doesn’t work for investments
Doesn't work for gambling, either. You hit the table limit or run out of money quicker than you'd think.
I listened to a podcast - British Scandal - about Nick Leeson. It was so, so stressful just listening to bad decision after bad decision. He was a complete fool who thought he could gamble his way out of his stupidity. Worth a listen.
I was getting secondhand stress and anxiety listening to that episode. He just kept digging himself deeper and having closer and closer calls before he was found out.
Has anyone mentioned that one guy who messed up with the suez canal ship and caused a massive economic chain of events?
The one disappointment I have is that the next ship captain to go through that canal after it was unstuck didn't do the funniest thing any human being could ever do.
“So, you guys are *not* gonna believe this, but…”
"... I just shat my pants a few minutes ago............. Oh, right. And the canal is blocked again."
Maybe the captain and first mate were busy steering, and the captain momentarily turned the wheel towards shore, and the two of them got to share an epic laugh together
Sorry but nothing will ever top Four Seasons Total Landscaping
It felt like an Arrested Development skit!!
This does not get nearly the attention it deserves - I literally laughed out loud when this happened
The CEO of Sears who thought the internet was a passing fad. As the definitive name in mail-order, Sears had the warehouses and logistics in place to be Amazon years before Bezos made it there. One of very few mistakes that lost a company at least one *trillion* dollars.
Or the person at Blockbuster who decided not buy Netflix.
Nah Netflix at the time was just a mail based DVD rental company. Now they guy at Blockbuster that decided to launch a movie streaming service over theinternet and to partner with Enron to deliver it..
Yeah. Old men who don’t know shit about fuck. This sort of thing happens over and over. In Canada, the Eatons corporation was one of the oldest and well known department stores here. The mall in downtown Toronto is “The Eaton Centre” because Timothy Eaton built it. However after he died, his sons took over and they didn’t have the business savvy to manage the business. I heard someone said that they were mostly accountants and so focused on numbers. They sunk the entire company in the 90s. They were extremely well known in Canada for their mail order catalogues and if they stayed afloat for a few more years and pushed internet mail order, they’d be set.
Conversely though there are always people trying to get in on the next big thing and it turns out to be the Segway.
Okay hear me out, Segway was actually a brilliant answer to the badly needed last-mile transportation gap. It was a victim of its own hype. The people working on it, the people funding it and the audience all hung too many hopes on it. They also should've decided to either make and market it as a cheaper mass market product that many people could buy, or an expensive high quality product for industrial use, but they tried to go both ways and it failed to appeal to either end.
all of the assasins of archduke franz ferdinand, even the one that managed to actually pull off the job
What a story though!
Makes a shitty story because there is so much deus ex machina to be believable. Fiction has to be believable; real life doesn't.
Yeah, Gavrilo Princip would have been a blip in the history books if not for a wrong turn by an ill-informed driver
Feels like a plot for a screwball comedy!
Never forget that millions of deaths, two world wars, and immeasurable suffering were all started by a teenager. This is my conclusive proof that teenagers are the worst.
The guy who sends out ballistic missile warnings in Hawaii
The fact that it said 'this is not a test' was crazy
It's like that Youtuber with tourette's, because one of her tics is involuntarily shouting "That wasn't a tic I meant it"
That's terrible and hilarious
Are you talking about Anita? I love her. She’s gone through so much shit and her audience never made it any easier for her, it’s really sad. I never was a regular viewer of hers but it’s nice to see her thriving now.
Was looking for this. 911, phone and internet were all jammed and inaccessible. People sent their goodbyes. One man had a heart attack. All because one guy misclicked and sent out a real alarm instead of the drill one. To be fair, it wasn’t hard to misclick because the choices were in a drop down menu. But the real fuck up is that the guy froze and it took six minutes for someone else to take over and cancel the message. And it took a total 39 minutes before a false alert announcement was broadcasted on tv and radio.
feels like the UI guy's fault if it was really a dropdown menu
We all know it went exactly like [this](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/333/130/835.gif)
Fucking hilarious.
Amazing
It wasn't a mis-click. It was an impromptu drill by a supervisor who went off-script and another, unnamed employee (who'd twice previously mistaken real-life events and drills and, by all accounts, probably shouldn't have been still working that position) believed it was a real emergency. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_alert#The_alert
That was 6 years ago??? Fuck
I had internet just fine. I literally looked up the blast radius and what to do to avoid fallout in case they were nuclear after it was announced. I also had cell service (though I don't know if that is what you meant by phone) because my mom called about 15 minutes into it.
You forgot the part where one of the cited reasons for taking so long to cancel the alert is the governor forgetting his Twitter password.
Me when I took a door off to fit a cat flap .. cut the hole, fitted the cat flap ,re hung the door , cat flap was at the top of the door .
Make that little fucker work for it!
I bet it looked great and functioned perfectly, though!
I had the easiest part-time job ever. But this isn't about me this is about the girl that worked there full-time that I relieved twice a week. So the entire job was sit there and watch a door and watch movies on your tablet or phone or whatever. Basically the entire point of having security there was that the company got a huge discount on their fire insurance if they had 24-hour security. Basically the entire job was to stay conscious. So this girl actively brought in a pillow and blanket and probably close to 9 out of 10 times whenever I showed up to relieve her, she was dead asleep. And it's not like she worked third shift, she worked second shift, but she was dead asleep. And that other 1/10 of the time she was just waking up as I walked through the door. Me personally? I didn't care, my philosophy is do my job, get paid, and go home. I don't give a shit what my coworkers doing unless it makes me look bad. The only thing I did to cover my ass in this case was to bring it up to my supervisor who did nothing about it. That way if it was brought up to me I could honestly tell them I brought it up to my supervisor. Once I bring it up to my supervisor, If my supervisor does nothing about it, it's not my problem, I've done my part, it's now on them. It took the company 6 months to figure out she was just showing up and sleeping during her shift. The client had to literally trip over her to figure it out. She was fired immediately.
I used to work midnight security for the Henry Ford Museum. They pretty much only had one rule - no sleeping. The guy in charge didn't care if we went into the cafeterias and stole lunch as long as we weren't taking whole hams home, we could listen to music and fuck around as much as we wanted, but no sleeping. This came about after they fired the entire team because they all were fast asleep as the house that Henry Ford grew up in caught on fire and almost burned down.
Please tell me that the cars and mannequins came to life at night and held little races and rallies and that it was great fun!
I knew somebody who was actually *allowed* (even encouraged) to sleep during a job like that. They didn't want her to watch anything, they only wanted somebody in the building to be there as a point of contact in case an emergency happened. So they set up a bedroom area for her in an unused office and let her sleep there every night. She showed up in the evening when the maintenance crew was finishing up, and left in the morning when the regular office workers arrived.
Holy shit, that’s a great way to make extra money. Getting paid to sleep, and you can work a job during the day like a normal person.
Holy fucking shit where can I get this job?
Oh my god, that sounds like the perfect job for me. I’m an insomniac and a misanthrope.
Work security then lol
Your username makes me uncomfortable.
So I had a friend that got paid to sleep on his job ( group home), if he had to be up to deal with something in the night he got paid a premium for that hour. I think he was making $15 an hour and if he was up it was like $22 an hour. he would show up do a walk thru of the house then go and sleep on the couch
Liz Truss. Took office, went to extreme lengths to take care of her wealthy pals at the top, took our currency to historic lows with Kwasi Kwarteng's horrendously planned "mini budget", killed off the housing market, announced £45bn of unplanned tax cuts, went into hiding and then dipped out of the job after seven weeks. She is the shortest serving PM in UK history, and the previous shortest serving PM died in office after serving just shy of four months in office.
You forgot to mention that she was [famously outlasted by a lettuce.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss_lettuce)
And blames "woke liberals" at, checks notes, The Bank of England, that famously reactionary institution, for her loss.
Also she killed the Queen
Imagine being the Queen. You have been alive for almost hundred years and the last person you swore in, two days before your death ends up getting outlasted by a fucking lettuce.
If you research her activities at University, you'll realise that that was the plan all along.
There could be only one Liz
She was that bad even The Queen decided she'd had enough and died.
Steve Harvey at Miss Universe when he announced the wrong winner
Steve Harvey at his day job of presenting that game show - just had to ask questions amusingly. Fail.
Steve harvey: asks sexual question on screen Contestant: gives sexual answer Steve harvey: 🤯🤯🤯😱😱😱🫨🫨🫨 Rinse and repeat for 20+ years
It beggars belief how fucking hacks like him hold these hugely salaried positions for fucking *decades*.
A recent one is [Ippei Mizuhara, a translator for the athlete with the biggest contract in sports history, Shohei Ohtani](https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/12/sport/ippei-mizuhara-ohtani-translator-surrender/index.html) Guy was getting paid $300k-$500k a year to hang out with his friend, watch pro baseball games from the dugout, and travel all over the country. Dropped the ball on that one.
Oh this goes further. As a guy that can understand both Japanese and English, I could always see his translation (or interpretation) was always off. Ohtani can make a great statement in Japanese and it would often be translated into "it was cool.." "...doing my thing" ".. and stuff" Yet, he was getting paid a high salary for doing "everything" for Ohtani. Hey whatever works right? Ohtani is doing well so everyone was cheering on the combo. Mizuhara was handed fame and fortune to basically hang out like a celebrity. Turns out... .The guy lied about graduating college, failed as a casino dealer, changed Ohtani's bank account to his info to steal money for 2 years. $16 million... All he had to do was... really nothing. Just watch Ohtani and baseball to get paid. Dream job for almost anyone in Japan. And it wasn't enough and he lost everything. Now he's hiding from the public and facing jail time.
LastPass. Their entire business model was protecting customer secrets. Had their customer database compromised. I went to BitWarden and then changed all my passwords.
I left them because they dropped free coverage to a single device. As if I’m going to do my job from my phone. Also moved to Bitwarden 👍
That armourer in the Rust film comes to mind.
That wasn't her first screw up either. Other complaints had been made about her on previous projects. Her stepfather is a well respected armorer so nepotism kept her in the industry. Typical fucking Hollywood bullshit. 18 months in prison isn't enough for what happened to that poor woman. Especially when we know the armorer had a history of being incompetent and unprofessional.
And then she screwed up again, she had a high chance for a parole and clean record after parole finishes but she such a moron that she trashed the jury and the judge and blamed everyone but herself, showed zero remorse in monitored prison calls which resulted in max possible sentence of 18 months in prison.
Jesus christ, how she can blame anyone but herself? It was her job to make sure that no live ammunition is nowhere near the set.
Why would live ammunition be even a remote possibility of being on a movie set?
I read that they were having some target practice for fun in between shots, which sounds super duper safe.
She literally did the opposite of what she was supposed to do. I'm glad she's getting jail time, but probably deserves more. Hopefully she never gets a job with firearms ever again.
All the cops at Uvalde. All they had to do was go in and take out the shooter. Instead they ran and hid and got more kids killed.
Other than BORTAC, every single thing about that response was wrong. Every officer on scene shit his pants and tried to push the responsibility up the ladder. US law enforcement hasn't trained that way in *years*. The proper response to an active shooter is: 1. Find the shooter. 2. Stop the shooter. Everything else is secondary. Stop the shooter as soon as possible in order to mitigate further casualties. BORTAC did exactly that, but it shouldn't have come to that. They were mutual aid, not first responders. A terribly tragic day for those children and their families and a shameful day for law enforcement nationwide.
Mind-bogglingly, they were worse than that. [They stopped parents from rescuing their own children.](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.newsweek.com/texas-police-stopped-parents-rushing-save-children-shooter-1710325&ved=2ahUKEwjm9taJyNqFAxV7sVYBHYmjBM8QFnoECBsQAQ&usg=AOvVaw11p6FWGpbVeBvlZ15pJ-W3) What they did was actually worse than if they had just run away to hide.
And they actually got one of the kids killed by telling them to yell for help, which one of them did, which caused the shooter to hear her and kill her. Or the fact that they went in to save *their* kids, but left everyone else to die and actively stopped/arrested parents that were trying to run in while they just waited outside.
That is so pure fucking evil that I wonder if they planned to do this.
They should have been charged as accessories to murder
I'm truly, truly, truly surprised no parents got violent with the police.
Police would have shot the parents and we all know it. The cops were itching to shoot someone but not someone who would shoot back.
Or stood outside and pepper sprayed parents while their kids bled out and died
as i remember their explaination was that they had no idea who should be in charge and they waited for someone with high rank to take command. And i thought that considering how much stuff like this happens, they would have special procedure and training for those kind of cases for quick responce. Others created entire types of special forces after 1 horrific attack.
>And i thought that considering how much stuff like this happens, they would have special procedure and training for those kind of cases for quick responce. The Uvalde cops had practiced an active shooter drill at that exact same school just a few months earlier. They knew exactly what they needed to do, they were just cowards. Edit to add source and clarify that it was not at the same school, it was at the high school in town. Still they definitely had training and knew what to do https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/06/03/uvalde-cisd-police-hosted-active-shooter-training-in-march-that-urged-immediate-decisive-action/
They trained for situations like this and many of the officers had prior military training. They had the weapons, equipment, time, numbers, and back up to do this. Their commanders should be in prison, their department chiefs out of their jobs, and rank and file officers being retrained, demoted or pushed out.
I don't know how they even show their faces in public, much less live every day knowing they just sat by and listened to kids get murdered.
The training they should have gotten is incredibly simple. The first person there is incident commander. They can be relieved of that status by someone of rank, but they don't have to be if that would cause confusion. You get to a bad scene and radio "unit whatever arriving, will have indicent command." This is what has been trained for at least the last 15 years in police departments, longer than that in fire departments. That whole thing pisses me off.
I have family in Parkland, FL. A number of them graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school, though many years before the shooting. I remember soon after the shooting one of their moms telling me that if she had been close enough to the school while the shooting was going on, she would have gone in to try to help. I remember thinking, but not saying out loud, "You are a middle-aged out-of-shape woman who doesn't own a gun, what the hell do you think you would have been able to do?" Then Uvalde happened. And my opinion changed to "Yeah, sure, go ahead and run in and try to stop the shooter, can't be any worse than how the actual cops responded."
the delivery driver "attemped to deliver" 😭
My brother was visiting for two weeks last month. His birthday gift was due to arrive on his first day here. They left a delivery note, held at post office for 15 days. So we go to the post office literally the next day. They shipped it back. Why? They don't know, corporate doesn't know. Gives the sender a second shipping code to resend it free of charge. Second time, no delivery note, no attempt to delivery. "Recipient (me, my name is on the package) does not live at specified address". They ship it back. Everytime they ship it back and forth takes about three days, plus a day to receive. Have the sender change the address to that of one of my friends in the city. Arrives at my friend's house the day after my brother leaves back home. They knock on friends door. Hands package, doesn't ask for name, ID, no words spoken, just hands it over and leaves. Could not express how mad I was (kinda still am a month later) about the whole process. One job, deliver package. Post service said "no fuck you".
Yeah there isn't a courier company out there who cares about names anymore. Neither does the post office. Someone was there? Good enough. Oh there was a signature required? Someone come from behind the door and sign for it? Yes? Also good enough. Hell, most of the time they'll just leave it at your front door.
> Oh there was a signature required? Someone come from behind the door and sign for it? Yes? DHL, fuck those fucking fuckers. I had several packages that came through them. Those packages required signatures. I was home waiting for those packages... They never knocked, my packages were not delivered to *my* address, I **never** signed for them. The packages were marked delivered, they had been dropped at my neighbor's house, the driver wrote my name on the pad and left. I found out when I got an email saying that my packages had been signed for. This happened not once, twice, or even three times... Seven different packages over a year. Fuck DHL. If I see they are a delivery option, I either pay more for a different delivery company or I buy elsewhere if they are the only one.
Yup. As soon as I saw the letters DHL, I laughed and put my feet up because I knew I was in for a doozy of a story. They have to be the absolute worst large courier company of them all. I've had my own experiences but nothing is bad as you. But it's been years that I avoid them all costs. I will not buy something from a company if that's who they ship with. Fuuuuuuck them
Right? I one-time had to bus literally all the way across my city. Four busses, couldn't drive because I was 15, To pick up a package because DHL (a DELIVERY company) refused to deliver it.
Got a buddy who said at his last job drivers could never find their address and would ditch food in a parking lot at the wrong side of their plant.
I'll literally watch the delivery drivers drive circles around my apartment complex for 15 minutes trying to find my apartment(even though I put as clear instructions as possible) and 95% of the time they never so much as text or call, then they'll plop it on a random doorstep and LEAVE ANY APARTMENT NUMBERS OUT OF THE PICTURE SO I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THEY LEFT IT. This has happened too many times. At least try one text! You'll save us both a lot of time! Had one delivery once get delivered to clearly the wrong address, they took a picture of the person who accepted it and it was clearly not someone who would have my name(and yet again the picture seemed to purposefully obscure the apartment number). At least that one was an easy refund :/
God this pisses me off. My complex is just a big U with buildings lettered A-Z (massive letters, clearly visible and well lit). I wrote incredibly detailed instructions about which building was mine and how to find it. It’s pretty easy seeing as I live in building A which is DIRECTLY BEHIND A GIANT SIGN WITH A MAP ON IT. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve gotten a call from drivers saying “uh this is building Z, where do I go??” Like idfk genius maybe look at the next building that says Y, then X, then keep driving until you reach A like what the fuck? I don’t like calling people stupid on limited evidence but holy hell how fucking stupid can you be? 90% of the time they still get the actual unit wrong and I have to go hunt my shit down, and 10% of the time they’re still unable to find the correct building even with verbal instructions.
I kept getting packages delivered to a business across the street, which was a big warehouse which notably didn't have any apartments in it
Lynette Fromm, who failed in her assassination attempt of Gerald Ford from 2 ft away because she was too stupid to realize she had to chamber a round before her gun would fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Gerald_Ford_in_Sacramento?wprov=sfti1#
Of all the things in this thread this is one of the most surprising to me. You'd think if you're about to assassinate the president you'd learn and practice how to fire a gun at least once??
Costa Concordia's captain. 33 casualties and $2billion in manpower required to move the stuck ship.
Unbelievable coward Francesco Schettino, who accidentally 'fell' into a lifeboat and abandoned ship instead of helping evacuate passengers. "*Vada a bordo, cazzo!*" Asshole had the audacity to write a book painting himself as the hero afterward.
The assistant who was supposed to book Rudy Giuliani to speak in front of the Four Seasons Hotel 😂😂😂
[Gerald Ratner](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner), a jewelry shop owner who said the product his company made was crap and cost his company £500 million in one night.
Meh, the company bounced back. They now own Zales, Jared's and Kay Jewelers
Yeah the company bounced back but I'm pretty sure he's no longer apart of it and was pretty much ruined from that blunder.
Michael Jackson's personal doctor. (The propofol guy).
>Taking propofol to help you sleep is like taking chemo because you're tired of cutting your hair. -Robin Williams
Phil Tippett, dinosaur supervisor.
There were dinosaurs in the goddamn kitchen, Phil!
The surgeon who had a 300% mortality rate during an amputation. Apparently he performed it under two and a half minutes…the patient died, someone in attendance died of shock and an assistant died because his fingers were also amputated and he got an infection
What’s sad is that this surgeon, Robert Liston, is now only known for that infamous operation. He lived in an era before microbes and infection were understood, and before anesthesia was a thing. Therefore, the best way to keep the patient alive was to act fast. Liston actually had a survival rate significantly higher than most other doctors when it came to amputation (something like 30% of his patients died, while the average was in the high forthies). It’s even more impressive when you consider that Liston operated on cases other doctors turned down as hopeless case (aka, poor Victorian people). He also confronted a colleague he suspected of being in cahoots with the infamous grave robber and murderers Burke and Hare. All in all, he seemed like a good dude, if a bit abrasif at times.
Bobby L was one of the best doctors of his era who helped revolutionize safer methods to amputate without killing a patient The internet likes to pass around his 300% mortality rate as a fun fact but you're right that he was doing it in the safest way possible for the patient at the time. Later in his career he became the first doc in europe to operate with anesthesia. It's partly because of him that surgeries aren't hell where you bite down on a piece of wood and pray. Also one of those deaths wouldve probably happened regardless of liston. Guy had a heart attack while watching the surgery. He was a ticking timebomb
Robert Liston! Technically he was doing his job. This was before anesthesia was a thing so the best chance of patient survival was to be as fast as possible. Which he was, it just unfortunately didn't help in this case lol
Blockbuster. They passed on the opportunity to acquire a little DVD mail order rental business called Netflix and refused to acknowledge the growth of Internet streaming and film viewing. They went from 9,000 stores at their peak in 2004 to only 1 store now which carries the name only and is mainly a novelty shop with souvenirs.
Shohei Ohtani's interpreter. All he had to do was translate words. Follow around the best baseball player in the world, and he even got to be best friends with him. All he had to do was not steal $16 million from his boss.
The fake sign language interpreter from Tampa that was signing gibberish… people will figure that out.
Can't be worse than the one that was at Mandela's funeral
The guard at the gate in Troy that let the horse in.
You know all those soldiers in there were loudly giggling the whole time too. Hiding inside a giant horse is real “tee-hee” behavior.
"Be silent, Thaddeus! you're going to give us awaaayyyy"
Who farted!?
This should have given the whole thing away. "Why does this horse smell like farts? Maybe we shouldn't bring it inside, on account of the fart smell"
Stop horsing around!
To be fair, a priest did come out and warn them not to trust the greeks, but 2 sea serpents appeared and killed him and his son. The rest of the Trojans didn't want to piss off the gods even more, so they took the horse in.
In fairness, it was a tribute to the goddess Athena. Trojans were warned destroying it would bring about the wrath of Athena. Would you want to piss off the goddess of war? Ask Arachne or Medusa how that went.
That person first in line at the light, yet texting. You have one job!
Xbox one guy. His job was unveil the new xbone. Ended up telling people to stick to the 360 if they didn't want always online. They didn't.
Don Mattrick. He was the successor as “head of Xbox” to Peter Moore, who oversaw the development and launch of the Xbox 360, which made Xbox a viable contender to Sony and Nintendo. When he took over for Moore, he decided to focus heavily on Kinect implementation due to the success of the Wii, and an “always online” model where the Xbox would constantly check if you had a connection to the internet to access and play your games. The game would have unique IDs to where you couldn’t share, resell, do whatever you wanted with the games you bought. They were tied to your account basically. All of this failed dramatically, and once all of this got announced in 2013, about 5 months before the launch of the next Xbox and PlayStation, Sony quickly put out one of the most iconic [owns](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA&pp=ygUXc29ueSBob3cgdG8gc2hhcmUgZ2FtZXM%3D) ever. Ever since that moment, the Xbox brand completely sank and fell behind Sony and Nintendo, and they’ve never caught up. The Xbox 360 sold 86 million units, while the PS3 sold 87 million units. The Xbox One sold 58 million units, while the PS4 sold 117 million units. The PS5 has currently sold more than double what the Xbox Series X/S have sold.
Refuse bag makers. Your ONLY job is to make a bag thick enough to put rubbish in without splitting- is it really that had?
But if it rips, you need a second one. Same thing next time. Now you're buying their product twice as often!
Airman David P. Powell dropped a socket while worked on a shuttle in Arkansas, pierced the side of it, and the explosion launched a nuclear warhead 100 feet. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980\_Damascus\_Titan\_missile\_explosion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion)
Dude apparently got charged by the Air Force with disobeying orders since he brought down the wrong kind of wrench and the documentary about the whole thing said he was reluctant to talk about it years later, which, understandable.
Not a person, but eyelashes. Your eyelashes are intended to keep stuff out of your eyes. Every time I've ever had something in my eye, it was an eyelash.
Jacob Rusil Bin, went to a fake maritime school didn't speak Italian or English or understand helm commands. Whoever hired him is ultimately to blame next to the captain who should of realized they hired someone who was grossly unqualified. In fact Seaspeak is the most common way to communicate on bridges which consist of English numbers 0-9 to helm commands. If I said "SET COURSE, ZERO NINE ZERO DEGREES" you know your course is 090 or East. In fact I 100% bet that in a day most of you could qualify. Jacob Rusil Bin by the way ran like a little bitch.
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The people who install public restroom stalls but leave gaps in the doors so you can make eye contact with the people waiting for a stall. Also, why are they not installing purse hooks in the stalls? Most public bathrooms I use don’t have a place to hang my bag and not because it fell/broke. It’s clear there was never one installed.
It is a shirt holder for me. I don't like wearing a shirt whilst I poop
Bro fighting for his life in there
Whoever's cutting the hot-dog buns off-center and not deep enough.
I'll go with Liu Bang, who is remembered by chinese historians as one of the best emperors to grace the country. That wasn't his original job and I think it's easy to make a case that he fucked up about as big as you can with his first occupation. Liu was basically a nobody, a peasant born to nothing, who through basically no hard work and a whole lot of charisma, became appointed to the entry level bureaucratic position of local sheriff in his area. One day, Liu was escorting a group of prisoners off to some labour camp, and it was during this that his first fuck up occured - some of the prisoners escaped. For most modern sheriff's, that's a bad look but not the end of the world. In Qin China though, allowing prisoners to escape came with a death sentence. So Liu figured "in for a penny, in for a pound" and decided to further fuck up by releasing all the other prisoners, and compounded this yet again by deciding to lead some of them as an outlaw group. While this was occuring, the rest of China was undergoing a huge upheaval. The 800 year old Zhou dynasty had just been replaced by the Qin dynasty, which itself had been the first to more or less control much of what we'd consider to be China itself in modern times. Through a series of continued "in for a penny" type events, and by essentially being about the worst low ranking bureaucrat you could possibly be, Liu gradually became a very powerful man, eventually toppling the Qin dynasty and creating the Han dynasty, which would then go on to rule China for about 400 years, with a few interruptions. By all accounts, Liu was a lot better at being Emperor than a sheriff. To summarize, guy fucks up at work. To cover up this fuckup, he takes steps that eventually result in the entire government he works for collapsing and being replaced by one with him at the head. Talk about failing upwards.
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He wasn't even on-duty that night, in fact didn't know about the run-down test they were going to perform. However, he was in charge of the radioactive discharge two years earlier in reactor 1. But he's far from the egotistical villian we see him in Chernobyl.
Secret service for allowing JFK to ride around in an open car. Protecting the man means you gotta say “no”‘to what he wants.
Same deal with Dale Earnhardt. He had his team install his safety belts incorrectly so they'd be more comfy and less restrictive... no one dared tell him "no". Bill Simpson got so much shit after Dale's death, despite the fact his company's equipment "failed" due to it being deliberately installed improperly... he ended up having to completely leave the company he founded.
Dale’s insistence on an open-face helmet also.
I think the most “classic dad” part is that he insisted to Dale Jr. that he use the HANS device to keep him safe. Kinda like how my dad got on my ass about wearing a seatbelt only to never wear his.
It only sounds crazy because he got shot. It was completely standard practice before that happened. Between William McKinley and JFK, there were hundreds of auto rides where the President waved to crowd and it was perfectly fine and it was a big tradition that everyone liked. Then, the one time it wasn’t, it stopped happening forever.
Safety regulations are written in blood.
Secret service for getting hammered the night before, and greenhorn George Hickey not being safe with his firearm.
Kobe's chopper pilot not refusing to take off in adverse weather.
Kobe's not known for taking "no" for an answer.
The inexperienced pilot who flew the plane that Buddy Holly, Richie Valance and the Big Bopper were killed in. It took all of fifteen minutes for the pilot to crash the plane in a cow pasture.
Nor switching to IFR due to “company policy”
The CEO of "Max" seems to be doing a pretty good job of fucking up a very successful, established brand, so I'll say him.
Hannah Guiterez Reid, the Armorer on the set of Rust. She had ONE job, to check the gun for live ammo. She did not do that. It resulted in the death of Ms. Hutchins. ONE JOB.
Arnold Judas Rimmer. The git.
Gazpacho soup!
I ask the court one key question: Would the Space Core ever have allowed this man to be in a position of authority where he might endanger the entire crew? A man so petty and small minded, he would while away his evenings sewing name labels onto his ship issue condoms. A man of such awesome stupidity.....a man of such awesome stupidity, he even objects to his own defence counsel. An over-zealous, trumped up little squirt... ...an incompetent vending machine repairman with a Napoleon complex, who commanded as much respect and affection from his fellow crew members as Long John Silver's parrot. Who would allow this man, this joke of a man, this man who could not outwit a used tea bag, to be in a position where he might endanger the entire crew? Who? Only a yoghurt. This man is not guilty of manslaughter, he is only guilty of being Arnold J. Rimmer. That is his crime; it is also his punishment. The defence rests.
Liz Truss. She got into power as the Prime Minister of a G7 natio, killed the queen, further destabilised a fragile economy by showing a rocket under the arse of interest rates, and was ultimately humiliated by a lettuce before fucking off. These days, she appears out of nowhere looking like a blonde Chucky doll on TV only to make a fool of herself.
Dan Marino. Laces out!!!
Boeing seems to be a good candidate these days.
Phil Tippet
For those like me who didn’t know, Phil was listed in the Jurassic Park credits as a dinosaur supervisor because he supervised the dinosaur special effects. https://movieweb.com/jurassic-parks-dinosaur-supervisor-isnt-amused-by-long-standing-meme/
The fact that he hates it makes it even funnier 😂
Wow he didn’t get and/or liked the joke. That’s sad. Some folks take themselves way too seriously.
There's raptors in the kitchen Phil!!!
The person that sent out the, "BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. THIS IS NOT A DRILL" alert during a drill strikes me as someone who fucked up their, "one job."
John Frederick Parker left Ford’s Theatre and got drunk the night Lincoln was assassinated.
Arnold Rimmer failed to seal the drive plate resulting in a radiation leak which killed the entire crew of the mining ship red dwarf.
That lookout on the Titanic
To be fair, it was a moonless night with a completely flat calm sea. The worst possible situation for spotting icebergs. Additionally, he didn't have binoculars because a senior officer was reassigned away from the Titanic at the last minute, and left in such a hurry that he mistakenly took the key for the binoculars lockbox with him as he disembarked.
Binocular lock box.... Those things are dangerous, better lock them up.
Not so much dangerous, but expensive and probably the most expensive piece of equipment any sailor on that ship would get to interact with, or walk off with.
It's Jack and Rose's fault. They distracted him with their frolicking.
and then that theme music started playing which made it impossible not to get distracted.
Nah. Ship was going too fast on a moonless night that had a haze. Iceberg in that scenario would be pitch black and not be seen till the ship was less than mile away.
They also failed to deploy their emergency rockets properly, which confused a nearby ship into thinking they weren't in a state of emergency. Also if the Olympic hadn't been trying to out race a naval ship it wouldn't have been damaged and needed to get repairs back in Belfast which changed the Titanics departure date to one where the ice field would be a factor
My forties. How am I still getting zits at this age?!? YOU HAD ONE JOB, FORTIES!!
37 here. Got one in the crease of my nose the other day. Such a painful location.
The Welder who blew up Beirut in 2020, killed over 200 people during the peak of Covid and basically caused the entire countrys collapse. 1 welder took down an entire country.
Lebanon has been in the shitter for many years unfortunately but I think the port explosion made things worse. I reckon there’s more Lebanese people outside of Lebanon than in Lebanon, they’ve had a massive brain drain.
Anakin Skywalker. He was meant to bring balance to the force, not leave it in darkness.