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50 Times Companies Made Social Media Fails That Left Everyone Facepalming Online (New Pics)
If you're on LinkedIn, you must've noticed that companies and CEOs love to present themselves as sleek and efficient, but anyone who has ever worked in or around a big business knows the truth is usually a lot messier. Bloated hierarchies, endless meetings, and social media interns left unsupervised — you name it. The well-oiled capitalist machine sure has at least some cogs that are grinding and slipping.
The subreddit r/CorporateFacepalm is dedicated to collecting the silly, awkward, and downright baffling failures of white-collar workers — mostly online, but occasionally in real life, too — so we've rounded up the most memorable recent examples, perfect reminders that even billion-dollar brands can make total fools of themselves.
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#1
How Did They Not See That Coming
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#2
Pot, Meet Kettle
According to the iHire's 2025 Toxic Workplace Trends Report, which surveyed 2,285 U.S. employees and employers, three in four (75%) workers have been a part of a toxic workplace at some point in their careers, and more than half (54%) have quit a job because of a negative work environment.
Of the 75% of employees who had experienced a toxic workplace, 79% said poor leadership or management was to blame.
When asked why they believed their company’s leadership contributed to workplace toxicity, 72% of respondents said management showed a lack of accountability, 66% noted favoritism or biased treatment of employees, and 52% witnessed unethical behaviors or practices.
#3
Sears Gets Into The Holiday Spirit
#4
Embrace Diversity
#5
A Very Heartfelt Personalized Thanks
Interestingly, employees and employers view things differently, with the latter having a much brighter outlook.
83% of employers rated their organization's work environment as "very positive" or "somewhat positive," while just 45.0% of employees said the same about their current or most recent job's atmosphere (although respondents did not necessarily work for the same companies).
Despite employees’ grievances with leadership, 76% of employers rated relationships between employees and managers at their company as "excellent" or "good." Additionally, 57% of employers rated employee morale as "very high" or "high."
#6
Ridiculous
#7
Glad To Hear That
#8
Um. Retinal?
#9
Commas Matter
81% of employees believe clear communication from the higher-ups helps ensure a positive workplace—more than staff recognition and appreciation (70%) and strong work/life balance (69%).
Perhaps unsurprisingly, 70% of workers who had experienced a toxic environment reported poor communication across the entire organization. Of that group, 89% encountered mixed or inconsistent messages from leadership, and 65% observed a lack of transparency.
#10
And This Is Why You Don’t Have Idiots Write Articles
Schrödinger's Douchebag 3 months ago
Imagine being the coworker who reminds them about WWII...
#11
Purell Making Fun Of Sick Kids
#12
F
#13
Congratulations! Also, Remember You Have A Brain Tumour! :)
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 months ago
Oh I love Simone! She's the Queen of Sh!tty Robots. She's hilarious. Cancer is done and dealt with now but her YouTube channel is super fun. She makes goofy inventions and has an adorable puppy named Scraps who only has three legs.
iHire's report also showed that 60% of employees had experienced stress-related health issues, and high stress levels/burnout was the fourth most cited characteristic of a toxic environment.
Of the 65% of employees whose toxic workplace comprised high stress levels/burnout, 72% said stress was due to unmanageable workloads, and 68% reported a lack of support for a healthy work/life balance.
#14
Washington Post Creates Page On A Women's March. Uses The Male Symbol
#15
Til Alaska Apparently Is Not Part Of North America
Schrödinger's Douchebag 3 months ago
All the rumours are true - education is still illegal in the US.
#16
Maccas In A Town Called “Yass”. It Took Them Years Until They Took It Down
#17
Snapchat Decided To Add Trees To Their Location Map
Employers are aware of most of these problems. 79% of them claim they are regularly gathering worker feedback on how to improve their companies, relying mostly on 1:1 meetings (74%), informal conversations (65%), and anonymous surveys (57%).
However, just 53% of them admit to using employee feedback to foster a positive work environment.
#18
My God What Bulls**t
#19
A Nightclubs Response To A Drink (Possibly) Being Spiked
#20
Wells Fargo Wants You To Get A Real Job
Jerome Lenovo 3 months ago
when will you get a real job , son ? ... some people heard this sentence quite a lot. I'm a musician, sooooooooo....
#21
“We’re Number One!”
#22
So Close, Yet So Far
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 months ago
How do you get a job at Reuters and somehow you don't know how Venn Diagrams work?
#23
Papa McDonald's Doesn't Even Recognize His Own Son
Data1001 3 months ago
It's like Siri and Alexa having a conversation. "You can't be an official McDonald's page. *I* am the official McDonald's page." "No, I am an official page. And so are you." "Yes. I am the official page." "And so am I. For McDonald's Cyprus." "That's great! Would you give us permission to share your story?" "I already did give you permission." (and so on, and so forth)
#24
Better Ingredients. Better Pizza. Papa Johns
#25
Time To Rethink Your Brand Name
Jerome Lenovo 3 months ago
nobody thought it was inappropriate in the process of creating the product ? Come on !
#26
Waltonchain Forgets To Switch Twitter Accounts, Self-Owns By Posting As Winner Of Their Own Contest
#27
Do Local News Stations Count?
#28
Background Checks Are Important
#29
Black Friday
Schrödinger's Douchebag 3 months ago
Too bad associate's name, it was really coming together.
#30
Capital One’s Very Reassuring Statement Regarding The Recent Data Breach
#31
Feminist And Body-Positive Cosmo Promotes The Story Of A Woman's Cancer Recovery As A Beach-Bod Strategy
#32
Yahoo Not Even Using Their Own Search Engine
Schrödinger's Douchebag 3 months ago
How do you fail at your one marketing job this epically?
#33
Celebrate Women's Day By... Thinking Like A Man?
#34
Wow, People Must Hate Their Queso
#35
The New Apple Card Needs To Avoid Contact With Leather And Denim
#36
Forgetting To Switch From Your Work Account Before Tweeting
Schrödinger's Douchebag 3 months ago
Those bloody Dems, trying to take our right to vape and shoot all them school kids.
#37
My Sister Received This Email From Zillow
#38
Asus Tweeted And Then Almost Immediately Deleted This Howler
#39
Do They Really Think Anyone Wants To Pay To Access Their Own Records????
Schrödinger's Douchebag 3 months ago
How much are you willing to pay me for the privilege of keeping my personal data?
#40
Ibm May Need To Update Its Job Applicant Page
#41
Oh You’d Rather Make Your Customers Wait Rather Than Invest In Better Servers? Definitely A Surefire Way To Win Me As A Repeat Customer
Schrödinger's Douchebag 3 months ago
This one is wild. I cannot imagine there being hundreds of thousands of concurrent users on this site. Their servers are from the 90s.
#42
Who Runs The World?
#43
"My Only Choice Is Comcast" "Thanks For Choosing Comcast!"
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 months ago
Not sure how old this is but its still true and I HATE Comcast with the passion of the burning sun. I have two options, Comcast or Starlink and I will die a thousand deaths before I send Muskrat a single dime.
#44
This Madden NFL Giveaway
#45
...wow
#46
Found At My Local Target
#47
"Sorry About All The Corruption And Stealing Your Money For Those First 166 Years..."
#48
I Don’t Think They Understand The Meme…
#49
USAF Has Zero Chill; Tweet Has Since Been Deleted
Schrödinger's Douchebag 3 months ago
This is literally what Dump posts every day. Sick old f**k.
#50
Ign Uses A Comparison Between 1080p And 4K Graphics In Tweet; Is Viewed Mostly By Non 4K Devices
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 months ago
Yeah the perfect application for a 4K laptop is browsing Xitter.
#51
Published This Article 3 Days Before Her Death, Quoted That She “Passed Away Peacefully In Her Home” Yikes
#52
How Thoughtful
#53
Thanks, Amazon
#54
What I Learned In 8th Grade English Is.
MonsterMum 3 months ago
I wouldn't donate to homophobes anyway. Charity with a big helping of judgement
#56
Displaying The Top Comment On Yahoo Front Page
#57
Social Media Intern Forgot To Log Out Of Ihop Account Before Retweeting
#58
Oh No. I Think Verizon Customer Support Missed Something
Jrog 3 months ago (edited)
Ah, the innocent times when we thought of Assange as an herald of free press and information freedom. Turns out, HE WAS A RUSSIAN ASSET ALL ALONG. Leaked documents were traced back to a GRU team (Guccifer 2.0), specifically released to harm parties threatening Russian interest, while withholding material damaging to Russia. The DNC email hacks have been run by Russian GRU hackers and passed to Wikileaks by people linked to the GRU (proven in the Mueller Report). Wikileaks collaborators openly bragged on Russian newspapers about how they "joined forces" with Russian agencies. Assange in London was documented meeting regularly with known Russian agents and staff from Russia Today (a propaganda op), up to receiving USB drives a few days before "leaks" were dropped on the site. He has been on payroll of Russia Today since a 2012 propaganda op, even participated in some propaganda productions early in his career, and he held a Russian visa since 2011.
#59
Light-Year Is A Measurement Of Distance
Bell-icose 3 months ago
Yes…but isn’t that the joke? Star Wars misused parsec (another unit of unimaginable size) in the exact same way. Seriously asking here.
#60
Nice One, Standard Bank Sa
michael Chock 3 months ago
If any feminists want to make me smile, I am willing to throw away toxic masculinity and accept your credit cards.
#61
Georgia's Official Ministry Of Defence Fb Page Went Live Few Minutes Ago
michael Chock 3 months ago
The ministry of defence is AFK for a juice and animal cracker break.
#62
Madcatz Attempts To Show Support For France
#63
Disney Really Didn’t Think This Through
#64
Abc
#65
Thanks Verizon. Love The Discount
#66
I Had No Idea Target, Thanks For Letting Me Know!
#68
Wait, What?
#69
Verizon Strikes Back
#70
Someone Forgot To Login To Their Fake Account
Phantom Phoenix 3 months ago
& Misspelled the company's name in the promo post using the company's account
#71
The Chief Minister Was Absent For The Meeting So They Photoshopped Him For The Press
#73
Paypal Support Responding To A Tweet 9 Years Later
#74
Thought This Belonged Here
The_Nicest_Misanthrope 3 months ago
Ah yes. I can't afford to live and WW3 is right round the corner, but at least we have facon. 🙄
#75
Taiwanese Skin Clinic Uses Umbrella Corp. Logo
#76
Radioshack Has Just Stopped Giving S**ts
#77
Good Job Sign Operator
#78
Way To Go Casio, At Long Last
#79
Amazon Prime Using Subtitles From A Pirated Release
Data1001 3 months ago
On their more obscure shows and movies, Amazon's subtitles are sometimes VERY bad. Not just wrongly interpreting what's being spoken on screen, but also with timings that are way off. Although I supposed that's less of a problem now than it used to be, since speech-to-text algorithms have gotten a lot better in recent years.
#80
They Are Really Speaking To Their Target Market Here
#82
Nailed The Population Estimate
#83
Why Would You Pick That Particular Business To Go Up Against. Oh Dear
#84
Not Sure Abc Has This Pie Chart, Math Thing Down
#85
Chrysler Hired Someone To Manage Their Twitter Account, The Employee Forgot To Switch Accounts Before Dropping An F Bomb
#86
Somehow, I Don’t Think This Is What MLK Dreamt Of…
#89
Orangetheory Literally Photoshopped A White Dudes Face Onto A Black Persons Body In Their Telephone Training Program
Michael Largey 3 months ago (edited)
According the current US administration, admitting black people exist is "racially divisive".
#90
Corporate Solution To Poverty? This Is So Wrong
#91
(Template)
#92
Person Managing National Stock Exchange Twitter Handle Forgot To Switch Accounts. Xd
#93
Nice Bit Of Casual Sexism From Virgin Trains To Kick Off The Year
#94
Oprah Loves Her Surface!
#96
We Won't Spoil It, We Promise
#97
The Official Cover Art For Fifa 21. Not A Highschooler's First Collage
#98
Very Confused By This
#99
This Contradiction On Linkedin
#100
This Is Worse Than Baby Yoda
#101
Michigan Subaru Dealership Posted The Wrong Superbowl Winner On A State-Wide Advertisement
#102
Burger King UK Supporting International Women's Day
#103
Not Sure Their Caption Under The Photo Comes Off As Intended
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Barrie Verdin 2 months ago
Honestly? I found most of them impossible to read, and of those that I could a lot may no wense at all,
Barrie Verdin 2 months ago
Honestly? I found most of them impossible to read, and of those that I could a lot may no wense at all,
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