Last Updated on August 14, 2025 by Colby Droscher
Some tasks should be impossible to mess up, yet here we are. This roundup captures 25 times people who had one job found a new and hilarious way to miss the mark, from scrambled signage to baffling button layouts and poorly placed doors. It’s a fast, funny scroll packed with “you’ve got to be kidding me” moments.
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.”
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.
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.
Keep the laughs going
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