All of us have those days where nothing goes quite right. You wake up to discover you didn’t put gas in your car or restock your coffee. You drop your phone the moment you open the door. The list goes on and on, but, fortunately, for most of us, these mistakes remain annoying but mercifully private.
The “One Job” online community is dedicated to sharing painful and hilarious moments when something has most definitely gone wrong. So get comfortable as you scroll through, prepare to bask in someone’s pain, upvote your favorite examples, and be sure to comment on your own thoughts and experiences below.
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Of All The Places You Could’ve Placed This Label…
I would 100% do that on purpose, sadly I don't work in this place.
Load More Replies...I bet that I am the only one who thought: "Is this how the porn version would be named?"
I don't know. I feel like placing that sticker there made it more likely to sell.
Probably Nelly, maybe Nancy, right??? Laura and her sisters too?!
Needed Some Blinds For Our Dark Room At Work The Guy Came To Measure The Window And Assured Us It Would Be 'Completely Dark' This Is What They Installed
You know, I'm not great at measuring. I've been off just a little bit but never that much.
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Had to look twice, I thought it was my Miami Airbnb, selected in part because of it's blackout blinds and curtains against a neon blue wall opposite.
The Irony Of Setting Up This Sign
I didn’t catch it immediately either! It’s funny how the brain seems to auto-correct ’thihgs’ depending on what it expects to be there from context and experience.
Load More Replies...I worked in advertising for two decades and I tell you: The customer checked it, nodded in approval and payed for it. Maybe the sign company asked: "Do you want the regular service or do you want the special with proofreading included which is a little bit more expensive?" and the customer answered: "Oh, that's not necessary. We know how to spell things correctly." ;)
On a (semi) serious note, how the hell did it get all the way from production to the customer to displaying it and leaving it?!?? That's a pretty long list of workers not paying attention!!
The more I look at it, the more I think that is entirely deliberate, because that would be a really carp slogan!
*bays the carp under the sofa*
Load More Replies...It's also supposed to be hung on the stand properly instead of dangling from the bottom of it.
Load More Replies...I Fixed It Myself
USE AN AIRBRUSH OR SPRAYPAINT OR REAL PAINT OR A PAINT MARKER OR EVEN ELMERS GLUE AND CONSTRUCTION PAPER
Good job! Thank you. Even though I don't even know where this photo was taken and most probably would never be there
I am OCD enough that I would need to fill in the entire tile. Plus the little chip on the other black tile to its left. And I am even eying the black tile to the far left of both of these . . .
Ah Yes, The Classic Mary Shelley Written By Frankenstein
Doctor Frankenstein once entered a body building contest, only to realize he had tragically misunderstood the concept.
Most people mix up frankenstein and the monster. This is the 1st time I've seen them mix up frankenstein and the author! So do they think that Mary shelley is the name frankenstein gave his creation then?!
It was the brain of shelley, but back then they preferred a bloke on the front cover.
A lot of people make this mistake. Frankenstein wasn't the name of the monster, but of the author.
That's a coincidence!!! I was just listening to Frankenstein as I saw this!!!
They Changed Arthur's Nose
Not quite. That's the animated version's design. This is what the actual book cover looked like.Still a slight design difference but not nearly as jarring. arthurseye...f52570.jpg
Drawing correct furgonomics isn't a thing every artist is capable of
Load More Replies...Something Tells Me This Will Not Help My Stomach
I mean, if you have an upset stomach and you REMOVE your stomach, you'll get some relief? o_O;
Sounds Like A Blast
Forget Something Here;)
Only worker of pure heart can take that showel and become a king of constitution site sort of...
Now we know what politicians mean when they promise "shovel-ready" infrastructure upgrades.
OMG, in Sri Lanka, surgeons some time closed the operation leaving forceps or cotton or scissors inside patients. Such doctors do road work in foreign countries I think
That is decidedly more epic a fail than the person whose key I used to walk by, embedded into the road surface. A lone key is easily dropped and not noticed, but a shovel???
Suddenly we came to a fork in the road ....... (doesn't really work does it ....)
Inana Jones And The Of Destiny
Inana Jones and the of Destiny. Yes. Honestly, would be better than the actual movie was...
That's what I heard, but I am looking forward to "Inana Jones adventures in assisted living"
Load More Replies...Okay What Is I Am Looking At ???
Well, it seems like everything is trying to kill you there, why not smoothies?
It’s Made In Where Exactly?
That’s just cunning marketing. Just like “made in Usa” can mean the town of Usa in Japan.
The Hole Is There For A Reason!
The hole is too large for the pin, it would fall straight through. Those holes are there for ropes if the sign is being suspended.
Exaxcly, we had this problem with a banner that kept falling casue everytime someone opened the door a current entered and made it wave a little.
Load More Replies...this sounds like a bad argument a dude uses to try and get his girl to do backdoor stuff
Something hot dog something something hallway
Load More Replies...🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️ Somebodies House Down The Block
Looks like the door and the left window is new. The stairs aren't. Hard to tell with the siding. I'm guessing they're installing a new door and for whatever reason, they've reconfigured the floor plan and ended up moving the door over several feet, but haven't yet built new stairs.
Load More Replies...Mobile home, put in after the stairs. Lining it up would have had the home in the driveway.
To Write Happy Birthday
feliz cumpleaños - high school Spanish to the rescue or Google translate
Joke right? "Feliz cumpleaños!" Is happy birthday. Feliz navidad is happy Christmas.
Load More Replies...Great Retro Tiles Ruined
I like the fact that if you scroll up and down, the tiles on the bad ones appear to move. I'm cool with this one.
thats not a mistake. leave a bomb there and pick up the treasure inside. it is clearly meant to stand out to show you (the NPC) that something is in here.
The Barista At A Starbucks Messed Up My Lemonade Order
Lemonade doesn't foam like that. This is homemade...by that I mean made inside a body. 🤢🤮
Load More Replies...To everyone saying it is urine, did you ever go to Starbucks? Where the drinks are made right in front of you? How would a barista be able to pour p**s in your cup in secret, unless it is already in a jug on the counter, and if so, why on earth would that be? ALSO: if your p**s is this colour, you'd better get your a** to the doctor's real fast.
Looks like the person who made this, has peed in the cup, (while they were dehydrated) and apparently heated it up.
Loading In Progress
When my brother had Matchbox and Hot Wheels, they sold little plastic carriers for them, with partitions so each spot could hold one car.
What about the rear view mirror in the foreground on the outside of the of the truck’s rear windshield looking in?!
Is Installing A Light Switch That Hard?
So, my American friends, it may interest you to know that in Australian (not sure about other countries) our light switches are different to yours: we would have it in the position you see above to switch it on (and the k**b at the top for off). Obviously this one is labelled so I know it’s different yadda yadda…but if the installer was used tot he Australian switch this would be an easy mistake to make.
Pretty much what I was going to say, but I'll add that the knôbs are also up for off in (from personal experience,) UK, Ireland, New Zealand, (and I'm pretty sure France, Italy, Germany, Belgium and Iceland....although my memory is not 100%.)
Load More Replies...Never Seen An Animal With The Name Milk Before
Multi Trillion Dollar University And They Settled On This?
Left door, right door. What'll you bet there's another one just like this, right down the street.
I honestly am more annoyed at the fact it is stated as a multi trillion dollar university when the amount of money in the world comes around to ~ 50 trillion USD. You expect me to believe that at least 2% of the worlds money was used here?
Multi Trillion?? All the universities on Earth combined throughout all of history would not have a value of even 1 trillion, let alone multiple trillions.
My Amazon Recs. I Don't Even Have A Baby
The heck with the baby stuff. What do you usually buy such that a shopper would generate a Freddy Krueger glove as a suggestion?
I occasionally buy items for fish tanks on Amazon. A while ago I had an ad pop up for some tropical fish medication, and the caption said something like "For your furry friend." If your fish is furry it's probably too late for medication to do any good.
I'm more concerned that Freddy Krueger got mixed in with the baby stuff. If I'm not mistaken, he was a pedophile.
ehh alleged. But that was why the parents killed him
Load More Replies...Looks like someone watched A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child and got a few ideas
Yes Reddit, The Similarities Are Striking
Lurchers, as a sighthound crossbreed, ARE spindly-legged, but not spider-legged XD
If you pronounce it, "tarantchurlers" (as some people in surprisingly diverse American states do), it's not that different from "lurchers"
Stand Left. And Right
And the feet facing backwards down the up escalator?
Load More Replies...Slide to the left... slide to the right... take it back now y'all... one hop this time...
Stay left, keep standing left, turn around, jump behind on the right while turning around...
I Think My Fortune Cookie Forgot How To Be A Fortune Cookie
Always add the words “in bed” when reading fortunes. Then it makes sense.
One of my cats is perfectly happy with string cheese
Load More Replies...Pr0stitution is OK as long as it's in your fortune/destiny
Always Fold Your Laundry Before Putting It In The Dryer
🎵first you pick up the aparil and stick it in a barrel, scrub, scrub
Even if they had got it right, who is decorating their home with instructions for chores?
In Europe we hang clothes outside on a line rather than shove everything into a dryer
Sadly, we have no choice in many areas in the US. If we try to hang our stuff out here in Michigan, we would have frozen laundry for nearly 5 months a year.
Load More Replies...Hey, I saw a lady in a laundromat take the clothes out of the washer, fold every item, and then toss everything in the dryer.
We Paid Money For This?
At least it's spelled right. There was one briefly that said Owls.
Load More Replies...Finally Built The Stairs
It's like a manual version of the escalator handrail moving faster/slower that the stairs...
I suspect it wouldn't pass inspection either. The gap on the bottom few steps looks too large. Council inspector here would make you redo it and/or fine you.
Load More Replies...Nothing wrong with this. As you walk up the stairs you get tired so you start slouching a little bit
That part should be fine. I can see what appears to be a bolt head attaching the stringer to the central post, and the end of a support beam that goes across to what is presumably a corresponding post on the other side to give additional support. There is absolutely no excuse for the hand rail to be at a different angle from the stairs though.
Load More Replies...This was built by whatever wood was discarded. The difference in the one by one's is very telling. No one wanted to look out that window either.
How Do You Even Park?
Yeah but the banana mobile is shaped like an onion.
Load More Replies...The cobbles have taken up for some reason & relaid all wrong!
Load More Replies...Perhaps More Aptly Named: Unhappy Doughnuts
Like Mehburger from the Sonic Boom cartoon. You could get a mehburger with so-so sauce
Load More Replies...Is This Supposed To Make People Separate The Things Cuz This Doesn´t Makes A Lot Of Sense
It's just so people can feel like they're doing some good and recycling/separating things out properly. Horribly deceptive of whatever company placed (or manufactured) the trash-cans :(
I believe those squares are for ashtrays. The place that cigarette butt is is not the ashtray. That way you put them somewhere other than the ground, or thrown in the trash not fully extinguished & starting a fire. Apparently smoking is down where that is & they have no need for them. Good for them.
Then Why Even Buy The Tshirt
Maybe their names are Veronica and Lorenz? And like riding bikes?
How Does This Happen On A Burger
Somebody realized they forgot the tomato slice, and gave *just* enough of a s**t to do that, but no more.
Was traveling down south, in USA. Stopped at Waffle House, asked for a grilled cheese with tomato, gave me the sandwich with the tomato on the side. Have also had a different restaurant give me a cheeseburger with the cheese on the side.
When you're traveling down south, it's best not to stop.
Load More Replies...I would be livid! My bread would be soggy, and there's nothing worse than soggy bread. I love bread, but not wet. I also don't eat tomatoes on my burgers so I shouldn't have that problem. Of course, they could always f*ck up everything else.
This Random Toilet In The Hall
Now I see why Europeans complain about the gap in American bathroom doors.
There isn't much to see when European. It's when eurapoopin that we have an issue.
Load More Replies...Perhaps reminded of the end of the hallway in The Shining?
Load More Replies...I Wondered Why These Numbers Looked So Weird
But it´s still kinda readable. Looks like the number 27 in extremely fancy.
What have they done to my favorite number!? I have always loved the number 27 & I don't know why. Just do.
If It Doesnt Fit, Cut It
I am german, and I gotta ask: Who even are these people? P.S.: this question is rhetoric, I don´t actually care.
Die zwei ganz rechts waren wohl bei "Tokio Hotel" und einer davon stupst jetzt Heidi Klum. Keine Ahnung welcher. Sie wird es wissen. ;) (Translation: The two on the right apparently were in "Tokio Hotel" and one of them screws Heidi Klum now. No clue which one. She may know.)
Load More Replies...I was wondering what the deal was with that chicks face. I just thought it was another weirdo.
I Try To Give The USPS Some Credit But Wtf Is This?
Utah, to Denver, to Boise, to Utah, but back to Boise (34 minutes earlier), to Utah. Wowsers. That package definitely broke some space/time rules.
Man , i've noticed some odd tracking progress , but this wins the prize!
I ordered a book from Amazon (remember when?) and it was shipped from a town about 1 hour south of me. My intention was to send it to my friend in the Detroit area upon receipt. When the shipping updates began arriving, it went to Detroit, Grand Rapids, then finally to me so I could repackage and send it to Detroit...again. It took 4 days to arrive from this little town I could have driven to in an hour, lol.
Load More Replies...My last Amazon package started in a warehouse 140 mi from my house in Washington State. it then travel to Las Vegas, Nevada then Tennessee then North Carolina and Newark, New Jersey before returning to Washington for delivery
I had a package that started in Las Vegas, flew past me to Colorado, to Mississippi, back around to California, then finally to me in West Valley City.
Load More Replies...So on June 16 it arrived at BOISE coming from WEST VALLEY 34m BEFORE it arrived at WEST VALLEY. I think we've found some signs of spooky quantum action here!
And it arrived in Boise on the night of the 16th before arriving in Boise the next morning. Makes total sense.
Load More Replies...I see something like this every so often. I tend to think the package, at some point early on, was put on the wrong truck, but also took a roundabout way back to where it should have gone in the first place.
I used to watch packages of medication from the VA. They would leave Murfreeborough TN and arrive in Denver a few days later. Then To Cheyenne, Then North Dakota, then back to Denver. From there they would finally arrive at our house in about 3 days. This was not an isolated incident. Almost all of my packages from there went on a 2 week vacation!
Absolutely Not In English
Of the Northumberland Cucumber-McCaerrbannoughs? I think my second cousin married into that branch of the family.
Load More Replies...No because none of the vegetable names in Hindi are near these many characters
Load More Replies...The website is giving the answers in Hindi. The answer for radish is wrong. Radish is मूलीं in Hindi and it’s definitely not 20 characters
I wanna know. In what situation are you required to know the longest named vegetable???? Would be an interesting job interview?
The Accessible Toilet At My School Being Completely Inaccessible To Everyone
*stretching arm to horrifying proportions* this is so discriminatory making a toilet just for eldritch beings
It's not inaccessible to either Stretch Armstrong or Mr Fantastic...
So Close To Clever, But Not Quite
Dublin Jet Bridge Rips Door Off Of American Airlines Boeing 787-8
They always try to leave the party before it's over
Load More Replies...Now Now. There is no need for that. Thats a Boeing door it will fall off on its own without your help
Rather it fall off (if it was going to anyway), on the tarmac, then in the air.
This Not Supposed To Go Here:)
It's a double decker balcony. The peasants must retire to the lower balcony only.
Have To See This 3 Times A Day!
Omg I'd wipe it with polish remover and redo it with a label maker!
So, THU is now hump-day? (Anyone else notice the pic was taken after the Tuesday afternoon dose?)
If they are like the ones I have, the writing rubs off pretty quickly
Parking Ticket Person Doesn’t Know What They’re Doing
Someone needs to pull them aside and explain what a car dealership is
If the park their display cars illegally on the public road they bloody deserve a ticket.
Load More Replies...Whenever I get a parking ticket I just put it on someone else's car
Charge By The Mile
Looks like the end cap is missing on the gutter, so it's not going to matter!
In their defense, they were avoiding the electrical wires...., no?.... anyone????
I love the elbow going uphill right above the electric. That will be fun!
Water is intelligent, it uses the same path it used to flow. AI is everywhere
My Teacher Printed The Video File On Paper
I did search it, but it was porn with safe search off, so I didn't play it.
Load More Replies...The teacher might be entitled to a refund from the university they attended. 🤷
Can you ask that teacher to come to Sri Lanka. The most suitable country
Street In Germany Be Like
I've seen similar. The white lines are basically peel and stick tiles and over time as you drive over them they tend to shift.
That's not a "you had one job" failure, it's just wear and tear on heavily used road.
How Did This Pass Qc
Oh, you sweet summer child, you think the company has a quality-control department? XD
I don't think he's a hot cup of p**s...
Load More Replies...I think some prisoners actually make some of these as part of their work programs.
Is this supposed to be something dirty-minded-esque? I mean if no it is annoying but I feel like there's something I'm not getting here 😅
Ok What Is The Code? How About Change It Up From Time To Time!!!
it's possible they have changed it. maybe it was 2222 then 3333 then 4444..
There was a whole deductive process on one of these : https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/266345765445509116/
The Replaced The Tiles In My Dorm Hallway. It’s Supposed To Be 3 Solid Blue Lines…
Me trying to do one of them sliding tile puzzles be like
heh. anyone else see what i'm seeing? or am I just dirty minded
Blue one on the left swaps with the one on its right. Blue one at the top in the middle switches with the brown one two to the right of the blue one that just moved. At least it's symmetrical.
Honestly, what bothers me most is that the blue tiles are nowhere close to the blue under the doors.
Honestly, what bothers me most is that the tiles are nowhere close to the matching blue by the doors.
Adutl Use Only (Yes, Age-Restricting A Pinwheel For Being Pride-Themed Is Problematic)
The faster it turns, the more gay you get. Seriously, this is getting ridiculous. Are rainbow colours adult only to protect kids from the dangers of an open mind?
There's people who honestly still believe that being gay, etc. is a choice. And if it's a choice, you can "convince" young people to also be gay. Honestly, I can't make this stuff up.
Load More Replies...I saw a little boy holding one of those, he was wearing a Superman costume, by time it spun around once, he was in a full-blown princess dress!! Beware the rainbow, the mighty powerful hypnotizing rainbow......
No. This would be classified as a toy and must adhere to some pretty strict safety standards. Just looking at it you can see it would fail lots of tests (sharp edges, small parts). By printing 'for adult use only' on it, the producer tries to protect themselves from legal action.
Next they'll be saying only adults can look at a rainbow or only an adult can draw a rainbow wtf?!
Yeah, How do they address a real rainbow that occurs in nature?
Load More Replies...Adutls deserve some recognition. You hear about adults, but never adutls.
WHY is it adult use only? these used to very much be something for children when I was little. especially at the beach. you'd put them in your sandcastles
Cleaner Used Haste: It Was Super Effective
My Dad’s Memorial Reef Has Been On Its Face For 13 Months And We Only Just Got Notified (Details In Comments)
Details from the comments: In 2021, my dad passed away after a long bout of cardiovascular issues and an infection that caused his aortic aneurism to rupture. My dad loved fishing in the Florida panhandle with my uncle and was a supporter of the artificial reef association, which creates artificial habitats for sea life. So, we made the decision to have him interred in a reef so that he could be part of the ocean he loved so much. His reef was placed last year, and we were told that the artificial reef authority would be regularly monitoring it so we could check the progress of the habitat. 13 months later, we still hadn’t heard anything so my brother asked when it would be surveyed as we were curious about how things were developing. On Saturday, we finally got an answer: the reef association had found the reef had tipped over as it was being placed, and even worse, the side in the sand is the side with our dad’s marker and urn embedded.
Because the bottom is open, it also provides no effective predator protection for the sea life that normally settles in the reefs, so it isn’t even really effective for its intended purpose. The reef association knew about this within two weeks of the drop, but never bothered to inform us, claiming they hoped to be able to fix it before we could find out. They then told us that they determined fixing it would be too dangerous as their divers have no experience with salvaging using airbags. Now, my family may have to spend thousands to have a professional salvage crew straighten the reef, which may not even be possible because they waited 13 months to inform us and there may now be an established ecosystem that can’t be disturbed. TL;DR: The artificial reef association knew the reef in which my dad’s remains were interred had been on its face for 13 months and only told us after my brother inquired about how the habitat was coming along.
Load More Replies...DETAILS: https://www.reddit.com/r/onejob/comments/14dtw72/comment/jorl1le/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
they're in the comments on the original post, not this re-post tBored Panda. LuckyL has copied those comments above
Load More Replies...I can't believe no one from the family was there when it was placed to witness it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/onejob/comments/14dtw72/comment/jorl1le/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Load More Replies...At My School, There Are No Adapters Anywhere
Inches On My Cutting Mat Are Less Than An Inch
If you look closely, you can see that the distance is increasing (only a slight difference at 19 inch, a slightly bigger difference at 20 inch, etc.). That means that if the measurement on the ruler is correct, the measurement on the mat is indeed wrong, and it won't ever match the ruler.
Load More Replies..."Measurement implies mistakes" is ont of the greatest science proverb ever. You'll be surprise if you start measuring random stuff.
Subway makes 11 inch footlong sandwiches. When they were sued, they said that the footlong was just the name of the sandwiches, and not meant to be taken as any sort of measurement. They won.
Load More Replies...The plastic may have shrunk due to cooling which should have been factored in.
Some materials expand when you process them so you have to cut them short; some contract so you have to cut them long. This would seem to help with neither, since it doesn't say what you're cutting…
