Some tasks are so straightforward that you would think nothing could possibly go wrong. Then someone finds a way. Maybe they misunderstood the assignment, stopped caring halfway through, or were simply having the kind of day where every decision gets worse than the last.
Whatever happened, the results are hard to argue with. These are the kinds of fails that make you stare at the photo for a moment before realizing what went wrong. The instructions may have been simple, but apparently following them was asking far too much. Let’s take a look at 25 fails from people who were given one job.
1. 15 Straws. Thanks.
2. When you forgot the mission
3. Yes, it’s for me.
4. “My city celebrated unveiling these benches on a bridge downtown.”
5. “My school didn’t realize this page needs to be photocopied in color.”
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6. Maybe not the best design for doors at a hospital.
7. Great. Now, who do we call?
8. Someone didn’t place the display screens in the correct order at my KFC.
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9. Did they just spin it randomly and put it in?
10. Does Auto Zone understand the point of brakes?
11. My name is Andrew.
12. You sure about that?
13. Is that a nine or a six?
I see that it’s in the correct order to be a “9”, but they’ve repurposed a “6” button to make it work. Good luck to a blind person trying to get to the ninth floor.
14. “At the university I’m at, they decided to fence off a path to prevent people from using it.”
15. Got a parking ticket for not having a parking permit.
16. Now he has no job.
You were supposed to download and send the image, not the entire meme.
17. Do not block, so let’s lock.
18. Well, that will certainly slow people down.
19. Ah, well. Close enough.
20. A city worker was asked to increase the height of the goal’s crossbar. Instead of moving it up, he decided to dig up the ground instead.
21. This must happen a lot there.
22. So does this mean 8’2″?
23. How do you mess up the alphabet?
24. Check out where they put our radiator.
25. $60 million helicopter, meet bridge.
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