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Netizen Inquired, “Who Really [Messed] Up Their ’One Job?’“, And 30 People Came Through
Some people can juggle multiple tasks at a time and successfully complete all of them on time while maintaining the highest standard. Then, there are some who will mess up anything and everything, even if they have just one job that they're responsible for.
While the former is always impressive, the latter usually makes for way funnier stories. That's why when a person online asked people to share stories about someone who really messed up their one job, the responses came pouring in. Scroll down to enjoy the best of those answers!
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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. .
Victoria 1 year ago
It's more than that. Sears already had a catalog that could be easily computerized, stores and logistics for delivery, a Sears MasterCard for transactions, Prodigy dial up internet for secure communication, etc. They already had the infrastructure in place which Amazon had to build from scratch. Remember Amazon started as a bookseller. Sears was already selling everything. What a colossal blunder.
ffeineandsugar 1 year ago
Yeah, but the real issue was treating the company as a giant real estate scheme. Once the takeover artists grabbed Sears, they practically made more money selling off leases than they did actually running the stores. Killed off both Sears and K-Mart (in North America) that way.
Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
I have a strong feeling many CEOs at top legacy automakers underestimate the impact of EV on their company's future. Their effort towards developing EVs are mostly half-asśed. Yes, ICE cars still outsell EV by huge margin today, but the writing is on the wall. You cannot just have 1 - 2 EV models (with a terrible performance & value) and call it a day. You have to pour huge resources developing them. Specifically for Toyota: There is no point of going into intermediate technology (read: Hydrogen fuel cell) to bridge the gap. It's a temporary stop gap measure at best. Once battery tech is matured and cheap enough to be able to travel (say) 1000km on a 5 minute (0 -100%) charge, you tech is obsolete. You and your company are dead.
E.V. 1 year ago
I read an article that the grandson who was running Toyota had to step down because of this. He thought EV was just a fad and now they're behind other automakers. They're trying to catch up. It's a good thing they have such a loyal customer base that will wait for however long it takes for them to make EVs.
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Peter Trudell Jr 1 year ago
Worked for Sears in one of their "Telecatelogue Centers"... Customers called in, gave us the SKUs of what they wanted to order, etc. It would have been ridiculously easy to have just had a front-end that took all that data (at the VERY least) and allowed the customer to use their own computer to place the order. I mean, no bells or whistles, just simple graphics and the data system we used. I still shake my head at their incompetency.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Especially annoying since Sears had a good reputation for quality in the hardware and parts departments. Good luck finding any tools that last nowadays.
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Has anyone mentioned that one guy who messed up with the suez canal ship and caused a massive economic chain of events?
David Paterson 1 year ago
Yeah. And the person responsible for the mess up was not the person hung out to dry for it. The lead pilot was totally responsible. From the Suez Canal Authority. Driving it 65% faster than the canal's speed limit. You had one job.
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Ken Beattie 1 year ago
And more recently (and more tragically) whoever is the ultimate cause of the Baltimore bridge disaster.
Chickens are fluffy 1 year ago
The ship actually lost power and they couldn't stear the ship away from the post of the bridge it hit, but actually the people on board are heros because they immediately reported it and I think law enforcement managed to get majority of people off the bridge making the death count a lot lower than it could've been
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Shawnna Clement 1 year ago
It was initially a doomed Project by the French before Americans actually built it...
Dragons Exist 1 year ago (edited)
The (sorta) funny thing is that the Ever Given (ship that blocked the Suez Canal) has had two major f-ups: Suez Canal and hitting and damaging a German ferry
Rich Black 1 year ago
Two shops were passing at the same time. This was more complicated than you understand
Pamela Scott 1 year ago
Yeh not one guy, saddly the Captain of the ship was female. Felt sorry for her.
Jrog 1 year ago (edited)
Quit your b******t. Captain Krishnan Kanthavel is an Indian man https://unimarintl.com/2023/12/13/captain-krishnan-kanthavel-the-man-who-steered-the-ever-given-through-turbulent-waters/
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The fake sign language interpreter from Tampa that was signing gibberish… people will figure that out.
John L 1 year ago (edited)
Yes. Surprisingly, there are no standards or requirements to be a ASL interpreter for the state. While I am sure it's different now that it's getting media attention it was quite common to pretend to be one. I think the turning point was the ASL interpreter at Nelson Mandela's funeral, that raised awareness of the problem. If you haven't watched videos of it, please do, it is funny as hell...
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Nonna_SoF 1 year ago
Oddly that wasn't the first instance of that kind of thing happening. It's disturbingly common for the sign language interpreter to be s**t. Sometimes it's just the one person in the office who has a passing knowledge of sign language and gets pressured into doing it by the higher ups.
My O My 1 year ago
That makes me very sad to hear! I wish sign language interpreters where more common in german tv
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Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 year ago
The same thing happened at Nelson Mandela's funeral - some guy just basically volunteered and nobody bothered to check his qualifications
Bozo B. Clown 1 year ago
This is hilarious but also sad. I have a friend who is going through college to be a real ASL interpreter
Bewarethere@gmail.com 1 year ago
This is such b******t! She wud go 4 maybe a month. And who hired anyway?!
From failing this iconic GTA San Andreas Wrong Side of the Tracks mission to the Evergreen cruise ship getting stuck in the Suez Canal, we keep encountering situations where people are tasked with a single task that they're expected to perform well, and yet they fail at it with all their might.
You might wonder how these things keep on happening. Well, as Enrique Rubio explained in his LinkedIn Post, it is usually due to something known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, which basically states that the less someone knows, the more they think they know, and the same goes for their competence.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias that reassures our ego and self-esteem, making us reject our limitations and overestimate our knowledge or ability to do something. It usually comes from a lack of self-awareness and an inability to assess our own skills accurately, so paradoxically, people who are actually good at something tend to underestimate their value.
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Secret service for allowing JFK to ride around in an open car. Protecting the man means you gotta say “no”‘to what he wants.
Strings 1 year ago
Having studied bodyguarding a bit, I can say that tye biggest problem is usually the principal
Mark 1 year ago
If you’re allowed to say, where did you study? Was it something like a police academy?
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Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
The armoured popemoblie was only a thing after the assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II. Likewise, on the day JFK got seriously unlucky, US presidents had generally been able to appear in public without getting shot at. And, if you were JFK - a man who had served in battle at sea (never mind how effectively: the point is he volunteered, got rejected, then pulled strings until he got into the military and did his duty in the firing line) - why would you think you'd have to be armoured to appear in public in the USA? I'm no fan of JFK, but I do have huge respect for his WWII service.
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Rich Black 1 year ago
Presidents riding on convertibles was a thing beginning with the model T. Don't blame the secrets service.
Pamela Scott 1 year ago
Might have helped if his Secret Service detail hadn't arrived in the hotel bar till the early morning hours.
Dre Mosley 1 year ago (edited)
I'm sure a lot of those agents have gone or will go to their graves regretting this.
Allen Packard 1 year ago
It's pretty obvious now that they were not trying to protect him. I know, I'll go get my tinfoil hat on. LOL!
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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.
Hugh Cookson 1 year ago
She was, and remains an utter, utter twat of the first order. She should have been prosecuted but will be getting her full pension from her time in office, full police protection for the rest of her (and her families) life and to put the insult cherry on top of the shitcake, is still an MP ffs. You couldn't make it up.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Her husband warned her that it would all end in tears. Still, Truss did less damage to the country than Boris the Clown, and less damage to the world than Tony Bliar. I say that while also holding the opinion that the country would have been better served had the infamous lettuce actually been the PM during Truss's time - at least a lettuce wouldn't have done anything...
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Awesome At Being Autistic 1 year ago
The last PM to see the Queen alive. Considering Truss's other FUBAR mistakes, it looks a bit suss, is all I'm saying.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
More than one satirical source has suggested that Liz’s first title for her memoires was going to be "I didn't kill the Queen." Meanwhile, am I the only person who thinks of our current head of state as "King Prince Charles"?
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Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Tastelessness alert and apologies to Mr Liz Truss (yes I did think about that). Liz herself does give the impression of washing frequently. She might well be very tasty where it counts - although I for one won't be asking Mr Liz to report.
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Why not? It makes at least as much sense as anything Liz Truss did or said as PM.
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LinkTheHylian 1 year ago
Pork markets! *turns side-on to audience with huge "I'm so proud of me!" grin, only for audience to remain completely silent*
Linus Nilsson 1 year ago
Liz truss must be one of my favorite stories in British politics. She stood up straight, said "if you elect me to be the prime minister, I will do this and this!". Then, she gets elected, does EXACTLY what she promised, everything went to hell, she resigns. Absolutely marvelous
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
No-one elected Liz Truss to be Prime Minister. She got the job by being selected as the Conservative Party leader by the Conservative Party (which did involve some people voting, but the full process is frankly insane), and convention meant that the monarch invited her to form a government.
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Fox with a Dragon Tattoo 1 year ago
Trying really hard to be as corrupt as the average American congress person.
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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 .
Captain Flapjack 1 year ago
Cat flap challenge sounds like a nutty tic toc thing.
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Bewitched One 1 year ago
Just put some wall stairs they make for cats on both sides of the wall. Problem solved lol
Happenings like these might be unfortunate and embarrassing for the people responsible, but for the rest, this usually becomes just another hilarious meme inspiration. In fact, there's a whole subreddit dedicated to memes like this, and it has nearly 800,000 members.
But while some memes like this are just a perfect display of pure incompetence, there are also those that come from the side of misfortune. That makes us wonder: Why do people tend to laugh at the failure of others?
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Costa Concordia's captain. 33 casualties and $2billion in manpower required to move the stuck ship.
ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
I mean, he SAID he was doing a sail by salute. But the exotic dancer on the bridge at the time of the crash said something else entirely...
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David Paterson 1 year ago
He claimed it was the navigator's fault. Whether or not, there was no way that he should have been allowed to captain that ship.
Pamela Scott 1 year ago
This had to be a nightmare for the poor people that were on the ship. 32 people died because of his choices!
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Robin Hood trading app. Was created to “level the playing field” between large equity trading firms and everyday traders. Then when the poors started making money and the big trading houses started losing money on their short positions, they shut down trading by regular people so the big guys could get their positions realigned and not go broke.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Can't have all those poor people getting rich. There wouldn't be enough yachts to go around.
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BK BigFish 1 year ago
I thought the issue with Robin Hood was that it was free/discounted trading, and as they say, when it's free, you're the product. They are being paid for order flow, which means other companies are paying them to see exactly what Robin Hood traders were trading, then trade against them, or ahead of them, eating their lunch in the short term. So, I don't really see this as "messed up their job." It's more like their job was correct, making money off of the poors (not making money FOR the poors), they just lied about what their job was.
Meagan Glaser 1 year ago
No. What happened was Robin Hood made it "easy" to trade by letting you deposit money with them and then letting you actively trade *before your deposit cleared*, essentially letting you gamble with THEIR money. When the gamestop stuff caught on and a ton of people started doing it, they shut off trading. Because a TON of people borrowing Robin Hood's money to all gamble on one very volatile stock based on memes...people who had never traded and had no idea what they were doing...well Robin Hood didn't like having ALL their money tied up in that nonsense.
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Joe Bloe 1 year ago
You know this person know nothing about finance and believe lies put forward by scammer of meme stock like gamestop. Robin Hood prevent thousands to loose even more money...
Loren Pechtel 1 year ago
Yup, Robin Hood basically allowed people to get into situations way over their head. They hit the normal limits on margin and screamed that Robin Hood was doing them evil when it was really the SEC limits meant to limit how badly things could go to avoid another 1929. Betting against the institutional investors rarely turns out well.
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Shawnna Clement 1 year ago
Don't be talkin bout penny stocks! That's how I made my fortune. Lol.
Peter Trudell Jr 1 year ago
lol, propagating the myth of the big nasty hedge funds screwing the little guys. What REALLY happened was that Robinhood didn't have the liquidity for the increased requirements for trading in the heavily volatile meme stocks and so had to suspend purchases on them. They didn't 'shut down trading' as you could still SELL at those high prices, just you couldn't buy more. Memestock incels think it's all a conspiracy against them.
Jrog 1 year ago
The liquidity thing is true, but you can't deny that allowing selling but preventing buying was a strategy extremely favorable to RH's owners, especially Sequoia Capital who was overextended on the Gamestop's positions. By asymmetrically limiting transactions, RH made possible for shares to re-enter the market and be made available to cover the exposed Sequoia short positions.
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Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago
It also killed a guy, essentially. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/01/business/robinhood-lawsuit-suicide-settlement/index.html
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My forties. How am I still getting zits at this age?!? YOU HAD ONE JOB, FORTIES!!
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
Acne and face hair. It's like my body can't decide if I want to be a teenager or an old woman and my face is caught right in the middle.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
And if anything, the one job of the 40s is to start making your hair go gray (or fall out depending on your genetics).
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Nykky 1 year ago
I still get zits at 31. It's your body's chemistry/biology mostly. I'm just glad it seems my lip hair will never get thick to the point I'd need to shave. Either give me the capability to style my mustache or don't give me one, nature
According to Mark Travers from Psychology Today, despite being generally frowned upon, this occurrence is actually quite common. It is called 'schadenfreude,' and it is a German conjunction word made of schaden (harm) and freude (joy).
However, while we all might enjoy some laughs at the cost of others' misfortune, like watching shows such as Impractical Jokers, it can become problematic when it becomes an overindulgence. High levels of schadenfreude are associated with Machiavellianism, narcissism, and even psychopathy, which usually lead people down darker paths in life.
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The guard at the gate in Troy that let the horse in.
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 year ago
yeah, its like when you see an awesome looking bead on the playground floor in 2nd grade and you MUST pick it up and take it home(or is that just me)
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David Paterson 1 year ago
Sorry folks. It's a total myth. The truth is far more horrifying, and more hilarious.
Justin Rogers 1 year ago
Look at my horse. My horse is amazing. Give it a lick. it tastes just like raisins
Jrog 1 year ago
The whole "horse" story is a mistranslation. The "hippos" mentioned in the greek text can be interpreted as "horse", but is also a name for a type of Phoenician-built cargo ships used in the era. They got the name from the typical horse-head decoration of the prow. It was reasonable for a leaving army to leave back unwanted equipment and goods in a ship, the whole horse sculpture doesn't make sense at all.
David Henry 1 year ago
I mean...if a bunch of people dragging a giant wooden anything behind them knocked on my door, I'd probably just let them do wtf ever they wanted to too, and run the other f*****g way.
Ralph Kretschmer 1 year ago
Afaik it wasn't "one guard" to let it in, it was the whole people of Troy who took it as a present and symbol of their victory
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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 f*****g box. Stop putting it on the label. Jesus christ.
John L 1 year ago
How to "tell us how old you are", without telling us how old you are.
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Dillon Sizemore 1 year ago
Funny thing is there is probaly a manager yelling about how the label goes on top of the other one at UPS because 'it looks better' whenever they find someone not putting it on the other label.
Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago
Whenever my email alert pings I ALWAYS compulsively say "I've got mail!" Then after checking it out, I sometimes add, "...it's not spam!" in honour of that episode of Futurama.
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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.
Hugh Cookson 1 year ago
Robert Liston. Had a reputation for being able to amputate limbs very quickly (a bonus in pre anaesthesia days). Still a bit brutal though.
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
Still love to know that I know about him, never has there been a medical procedure with a 300% mortality rate.
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Donkey boi 1 year ago
His one job that day was to show how fast an amputation could be done. Considering he did the amputation and an additional unplanned amputation of fingers (yes plural), faster than anyone could do any other amputation... I'd argue that he did his job very well(!)
liam newton-harding 1 year ago
Turns out the survivability rate of his patients was still orders above that of other surgeons of his time. The speed of his operations reduced blood loss, and shock.
Pamela Scott 1 year ago
Yeah that surgeon would tell the men in the surgical gallery to time him. He was very proud of doing amputations faster and faster. The gentleman in the crowd was graded by the saw and it cut the lapel of his jacket. He was a surgeon himself but was elderly and died from a heart attack. The patient died from imfection. Of course having been held down while his leg was cut off and hearing the guy holding him down screaming probably didn't help. Probably not a good idea to have a doc thay wants to set speed records. I had one that knew my allergies and even though I had a bright red bracelet that also listed thay I couldn't take NSAIDS because I was allergic and would go into anaphylaxis. He ignored that and gave me Motrin. The next day he told me I scared him more than any other patient ever had. He thought I had died while I was having the allergy attack. He was good at the surgery I needed but I would not have him do another one.
Lotekguy 1 year ago
Real or urban legend? It does not seem possible for all of that to occur in any length of time.
Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago (edited)
Real. The assistant's fingers were amputated because he was holding the patient's leg still. In those days a surgeon wasn't a medical doctor, just a man who was very fast with a saw. A good one could have your leg off in under three minutes. This is the historical region why surgeons still go by the title "Mr" or female equivalent rather than "Dr" in the UK. For minor surgery like lancing a boil, or to pull teeth, you'd go to a barber because they had steady hands and sharp blades.
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Stephanie Barr 1 year ago
According to Wikipedia, the tale is apocryphal and couldn't be verified. Robert Liston was a pioneer of fast amputations, though, and saved lives thereby.
In the end, no one is safe from messing up whatever task they have at hand, even if it seems to be the simplest thing in the world. It's human to overestimate ourselves, just as it is human to find the failure of others funny.
But everything has a healthy limit, so if these failures keep happening to you, perhaps you should reevaluate your approach. And if you get to the point where you laugh at someone for something like being unjustly fired, maybe it could be wise to talk to someone and figure out why it makes you feel that way.
What did you think about this story? Do you know any good examples that would fit this list? Share all of them in the comments below!
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The guy who sends out ballistic missile warnings in Hawaii.
Mad Dragon 1 year ago
On the morning of January 13, 2018, an alert was accidentally issued via the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alert System over television, radio, and cellular networks in the U.S. state of Hawaii, instructing citizens to seek shelter due to an incoming ballistic missile. It concluded with "This is not a drill". The message was sent at 8:08 a.m. local time. The state had not authorized civil defense outdoor warning sirens. 38 minutes and 13 seconds later, state officials blamed a miscommunication during a drill at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency for the first message.
JB 1 year ago
I know people who were on the Arizona in Pearl Harbor at the time. They had 3 minutes of warning and the boat back to shore took 5 minutes. That's two minutes of genuinely believing a missile was incoming, for those who can math. They redid their wills after and thought a lot about life.
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Sam Juan 1 year ago
Back in 2018, someone sent out a statewide warning via text message saying that a missile impact was imminent, going as fast as to include the line "THIS IS NOT A DRILL". Turns out, after the panic subsided, they discovered that someone pressed the wrong button.
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The person who works for the US government and sells jets to our enemies...
sofacushionfort 1 year ago
Data shows that record numbers of Hawaiians, believing they had only minutes left to live, logged onto Pornhub.
Libstak 1 year ago
Ha, rubbing one out while being blown up...the agony and the ecstasy
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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.
Papa 1 year ago
I can't help but think there's more to this story than we know. How does an interpreter have access to that kind of money in the first place, and how did he steal that much before someone noticed? I don't generally subscribe to conspiracy theories, but I think there's something else going on here, and maybe he's the fall guy to protect someone else.
Jessica Hedges 1 year ago
I agree. How does someone not notice that much money missing from your account. I think the interpreter is covering for Ohtani but is afraid to roll over on him
Load More Replies... Lotekguy 1 year ago
Which one? Embezzling must have been pretty easy, too, considering how much he swiped before anyone knew.
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RosenCranzLives 1 year ago
Gambling. He bloody lost it all, too. Like the Canadian bank manager that stole millions from the bank, went down to Vegas every month and lost it all, including his own house.
SCamp 1 year ago (edited)
THIS!!! I was hoping someone would post this. This dude had THE easiest best job on the entire planet - telling everyone what Shohei Ohtani just said and getting paid sh!tloads for it. Sheesh!! I cannot believe this one. The addiction of gambling must be intense but man, I just don’t get this guy. My wife is Japanese and the national shame over this bloke is intense
SCamp 1 year ago
Google ‘Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter’ and read about it. LSS - Japanese baseball player in the US earning trainloads of money - his interpreter also his friend ripped him off for millions literally, blew it all on a gambling addiction
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Refuse bag makers. Your ONLY job is to make a bag thick enough to put rubbish in without splitting- is it really that had?
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
The bags can be produced cheaper if the plastic is thinner because less material is used per roll of bags. That's literally the reason and it's shite
Joe Reaves 1 year ago
Also if the bag splits you need to use a second one and then need to buy more bags sooner.
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MrsFettesVette 1 year ago (edited)
They're getting worse- I've been using the same bags for years and only in the past few months have they been so weak my fingers go right through them. Making them thinner to use less plastic. More shrinkflation.
Nina 1 year ago
Not anymore.. Used to buy the one brand that had good bags, but even they offer subpar quality now. So it's not a matter of choice or money everywhere
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
If they make them any thinner they can write "ultrasensitive" on them
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The delivery driver
"attemped to deliver" 😭.
James016 1 year ago
I have had many attempted to deliver cards despite me being at home. Cue me running after them to get my package which leads to them saying they will try and redeliver it and me complaining to the company I bought the item from.
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 year ago
to all those delivery drivers who never gave you your packages: GIVE JAMES016 THE DANG PACKAGES JEEZ(it had to be said)
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Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
Before covid, I ordered an umbrella from Amazon for next day delivery. Despite being home all day, no umbrella appeared. Checked my account and the delivery stated it was handed directly to resident. Complained to Amazon, got a refund, went to the supermarket on my way to the event and bought an umbrella. Over a year later, I noticed a bit of cardboard peeking out behind a planter now that the plant in it had died back. Opened the cardboard envelope from Amazon and discovered a plastic wrapped umbrella in perfect condition. The mystery was finally solved and I ended up with a free umbrella which is still going strong.
ILoveMySon 1 year ago
This! The SAME driver kept leaving notices though I was literally feet away from my door. My cancer medicine was delayed for over a week.
Loren Pechtel 1 year ago
Yup, they figure nobody's going to answer the door and don't want to waste their time--never mind that some of us are home. I've had FedEx pull a "business is closed" on me. Residential, no signature required, I was 20' from the door at the supposed delivery time. I yapped at them and suggested they apply a fire extinguisher to his pants.
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Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
I have a 10x10 deck at my front door. FedEx & Amazon deliveries are literally thrown on the deck at the edge by the stairs. Forget ringing the doorbell, they don't get within 10 feet of the door.
Cosmo 1 year ago
Why would they ring the bell? Unless you are paying for a confirmed delivery no one is going to do that
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geezeronthehill 1 year ago
My one eighth mile mountain driveway absolutely defeats both fedex and ups. They leave packages in the ditch next to the mailbox. Down on the road. If I'm lucky, on a rainy day, they stick it in a garbage bag.
John Dilligaf 1 year ago
that's because of their time metrics. They've got X amount of time to deliver Y number of packages on their route. That quarter mile round trip on your driveway (plus having to turn around) eats into that time. Much much more time efficient for them to leave it by your mailbox at the foot of your driveway.
Load More Replies... Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago
In England and Wales the Consumer Credit Act 2005 says that any package has to be delivered *into your hands* or it's still the liability of the company you bought it from. Enough complaints about lost packages and the supplier might change their courier.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
A UPS guy who was delivering a computer for my new job knocked quietly ONCE on the door (we have an obvious doorbell) and immediately started to walk away. Luckily a family member happened to be standing there when he did it and opened the door. The dude was halfway back to his truck and looked annoyed that they actually wanted the package. WTF???
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That armourer in the Rust film comes to mind.
Kate 1 year ago
Oh, Hollywood learned. Why do you think they were filming in New Mexico? The production company was avoiding all those annoying safety regulations in California.
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Robert Trebor 1 year ago
Regardless of the real firearm, there was absolutely no reason for there to be live ammunition anywhere near that set. Numerous heads should roll for such blatant lack of supervision.
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Doesn't have to be live, a blank can kill, as can anything that results in a squib. A blank load ejecting an unknown squib is what killed Brandon Lee.
Load More Replies... White Sauce Hot Sauce 1 year ago
She was a nepotism hire and didn't have any real qualifications, training, or experience.
Steven 1 year ago
That wasn't the armorer's fault. Hexum's gun was loaded with a blank and he placed it against his temple, giving the hot gas nowhere to go but into his brain. He was bored and goofing around. It wasn't on _Voyagers_ but on his new series, _Cover Up_, with Jennifer O'Neill.
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Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago
The fact that she allowed live ammo anywhere near the set is rediculous. She deserves prison.
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
That's a complicated one. Who decided to have real live firearms rather than inert replicas on set in the first place? Who hired someone as "armourer" who wasn't up to the job which turned out to be the one she needed do to? Surely there should have been more persons employed for ensuring gun safety Where was the stringent safety culture on set? The fact that the actor - an actual actor on set! - is facing charges in this case show how badly things had gone wrong in the basic management of the production. I really don't understand why the production company chose to run the risk of having real firearms on set at all, given that fake/replica firearms are so convincing, cheap, and safe.
Leighton Broussard 1 year ago
I do believe baldwin hired her and insisted she stay on after numerous other crew complaints. Baldwin also didn't show up for firearms safety training with the rest of the crew, and instead was given training after, to which the trainer has remarked that he was more interested in sending selfies with guns to family and friends, than he was about learning gun safety. Additionally he was not supposed to be pointing the weapon at anyone. He was supposed to be practicing a cross draw. The cameras weren't even rolling. Instead he either holstered the weapon previously with the hammer cocked, then drew, and pulled the trigger, or drew and cocked the hammer and pulled the trigger. Any way you look at it, to be so disrespectful of what a gun represents, as to point it at any person, without first yourself, as the one operating the weapon, checking what you're holding to ensure it's innthe state its meant to be in for the situation its being utilize, you shouldn't be handling firearms at all.
Load More Replies... Captain Flapjack 1 year ago
I've been looking closely at movies and can't remember the last time I saw a real non deactivated weapon. It seems in most movies they use obvious dummies or air soft now.
Strings 1 year ago
Want to know the scary thing? There's a company that has been making fakes for decades, that look and function exactly like the real thing (but throw nothing down the barrel). I've known about them since I was a kid in the 80s
Load More Replies... Rich Black 1 year ago
Who points a loaded gun at the head of someone, even if it supposedly has blanks?
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
I don't understand why live rounds would be on a movie set in the first place.
BoredBranzino 1 year ago
Why. Are. There. Even. LIVE. Rounds. On. An. Entirely. Fake. "Set". Anyway???
Jrog 1 year ago
Because. The. Armorer. Was. Incompetent. And. Had. Inadequate. Safety. Protocols. In. Place.
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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 s**t what my coworkers doing unless it makes me look bad. The only thing I did to cover my a*s 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.
Nykky 1 year ago
For that kind of job, I'd bring a book and a backpack with writing/art stuff. Like...how stupid can you get. If she had a disorder, that's one thing, but literally bringing in sleeping stuff makes one an idiot
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Right, premeditated fail. I once had a coworker who was dipping into her child's Ritalin and kept nodding off during her training period, but she didn't actively prepare for comfy naps!
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General Stukov 1 year ago
I work for a security company and i used to do this, there was an abandoned site with one single gate, i had to sit in my car for 12 hrs and i would grab a 1hr nap. I'm a light sleeper so any car passing the road that was about 100ft away i'd wake up and hear them. It was finishing the contract so nothing really to do. I'm in a site now that's actually got a guard shack and stuff to do, no sleep needed
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That dude from Price Waterhouse Cooper's at the Oscar's a few years ago who mixed up the envelopes and f****d 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.
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Head of FEMA Michael Brown during hurricane katrina.
Mike F 1 year ago
The whole administration was useless during that hurricane.
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HappyShannon 1 year ago
Actually, if you read more into the situation, or read emails he sent to people in the field, Brown was desperately trying to get sh#t done. It was the government red tape that tied one hand behind his back. He was only the fall guy unfortunately. His emails are public record and they show his increasing desperation in getting people or other government agencies to step in and help or to simply do their job. One email said "Damn the forms, skip the forms. Get housing here now, on my direct authority" (paraphrasing). I always felt that Brown got the shaft on this one
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
And more recently, Ted Cruz vacationing in Cancún while Texans were freezing to death during Snovid.
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That person first in line at the light, yet texting. You have one job!
B Jones 1 year ago
A lot of people get mad when you catch THEM doing something wrong.
Load More Replies... Lotekguy 1 year ago
Same for the one ahead of you that doesn't make the right turn on red when it's legal and safe.
veryvenasaur 1 year ago
Hey so speaking on behalf of my fellow student drivers sorry it can be very scary to do that since I worry I didn't see the sign/another car. I understand your frustration driving is very scary I am doing my best. Have a lovely day.
Load More Replies... HappyShannon 1 year ago
My car actually alerts me if I pause to long at a green light or I don't follow the person in front of me
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Here being on the phone at all while in control of the car is illegal and has a large penalty (big fine and demerits). So shouldn't be texting unless you're a passenger.
Giraffy Window 1 year ago
I would never even if it WAS legal because I don't have dividable attention and it would make me very dangerous.
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Fox with a Dragon Tattoo 1 year ago
Sorry no. ALL PEOPLE texting when they're supposed to be driving. Not just that one person.
Giraffy Window 1 year ago (edited)
I have something that happens to me at traffic lights where I sometimes space out on the green, and snap back to attention just in time to watch some nutjob run the red. Unless you can see the driver ahead of you, it's unfair to assume they're on their cellphone; sometimes they're just very weakly "psychic" freaks who blank out when danger nears 😁
🩶🩷Marvin HoG🩷🩶 1 year ago
I had one of these this morning. The best part is she had cut in front of me a block prior. You just had to get to the light before me so you could text??
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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.
Sky Render 1 year ago
Seeing less of the lack of purse hooks these days. Unfortunately not seeing less of the most egregious stall design ever.
Nicola Mawson 1 year ago
Also, why are there only baby changing rooms I woman's loos? What about single dad's?
Rinso The Red 1 year ago
I'm seeing them all the time in US men's bathrooms. So there's progress/hope
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Lucy’s Human 1 year ago
Who looks through the gap in public bathrooms?? If you want to know if it's occupied look under for feet.
BoredBranzino 1 year ago
Not by choice, but when there's a line, you cannot help incidental exposure....especially when you have pole position. There's just no excuse. A pre-hung door is cheaper than the insanely engineered plans for the total gap doors.
Load More Replies... TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
If it's locked and you hear an obvious "clearing of the throat", it's occupied! No need to look through the gap!
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
If you're on the interstate, the Loves, Pilot, & Flying J truck stop chains almost always have stall doors that don't have gaps. I would rate Love's as consistently having the best restrooms.
tuzdayschild 1 year ago
USAlien. If you're attempting to slam us, get your spelling together.
Load More Replies... Noproblem 1 year ago
No purse hooks because people would reach over the door & steal bags while the owners were otherwise occupied.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
So hang the purse hook about midway on the door. Problem solved, unless the crim has 6 foot long arms.
Load More Replies... Johnnynatfan 1 year ago
Because the owner doesn’t want you to have a hook. It’s not the installers fault that there is no hook they simply installed what was ordered. Same for the gap. It’s part of the design
P Peitsch 1 year ago
So you want a clean, well-supplied, properly made public WC, in european style, without paying for it. Delusional much? -may I ask .... And now we are speaking about peanuts, like 50 cents or max. 1 euro/dollar.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
A hook costs what, 50c? Install it at the same time as the stall is being built and the labour cost is essentially nothing. As for the door gap. Why would it cost more to build without a large gap? It's not like they're saving a huge amount of money by making a door an inch narrower. Clean and well supplied is a completely different issue. But the basic design shouldn't be.
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Steve Harvey at Miss Universe when he announced the wrong winner.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
In my option, creating Miss Universe and every other beauty pageant was the royal mess up. Other opinions are valid and respected, I just don’t agree with them!
Fat Harry 1 year ago
It's tacky and it's tasteless, but no one forces the women to compete; they obviously want to take part, so it's not for us to say it shouldn't exist.
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Greyskull 1 year ago
Until they allow competitors from outside our solar system they have no right to claim the best in the universe. It's like that world series of baseball that includes only the US and Canada. I have a suspicion that a few of the World's Best Burger/Pizza/etc restaurants also haven't participated in worldwide competitions, but maybe there's an underground fight clubesque food scene.
🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 1 year ago
Miss universe is Earthist. What about the martians, or even the saturnians? Don’t get me started on the guys outside our solar system. 😀🤣
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Michael Jackson's personal doctor. (The propofol guy).
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
Michael Jackson was horribly injured when he caught fire filming a Pepsi commercial. His nervous system then fritzed (I cannot bring to mind the correct medical term) causing non-stop, unrelenting agony 24/7. People with this condition commonly kill themselves to escape, and it is a testament to his strength that he continued working and performing at all.
The Redhead 1 year ago
I'm not in the medical profession. However I know for a fact that when administering CPR it has to be done on a hard flat surface. Isn't that the first thing that is taught in medical school? 🤔
Loren Pechtel 1 year ago
His real mistake was permitting the situation without adequate backup. Propofol works well but is known for occasionally making the patient stop breathing--it's use requires a dedicated anesthesiologist whose job it is to monitor the patient and slap a ventilator on them if need be. If they have to leave for whatever reason someone needs to be there to take over.
Salty_Sasquatch 1 year ago
What an absolute waste of an extremely talented man. Granted, a guy with some personal issues, but geez.
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Kobe's chopper pilot not refusing to take off in adverse weather.
Lorraine Woollands 1 year ago
They did this on a episode of Air Crash Investigation. It had nothing to do with Kobe. The pilot flew in to bad instead of grounding or going round. He choose to fly, Kobe had NOT made him hurry up. AIR CRASH INVESTIGATION were able to prove that none of the passengers were to blame. Look up the episode
Loren Pechtel 1 year ago
We don't know if there was a general expectation about conditions. Those that provide services for the rich often fear saying no.
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Fox with a Dragon Tattoo 1 year ago (edited)
I know he was supposed to be a good person and all that.. but its impossible to care about rich peoples climate annihilating lavish bs.. his death is no more tragic or important than anyone elses.
Rich Black 1 year ago
But then again, it IS absurd to constantly take your helicopter for brief errands
Hugh Cookson 1 year ago
Hopefully the Chopper pilots' family got compensated by the arrogant bastard.
Ross “Sarcastic Dad” 1 year ago
I mean, Kobe paid with his life and that of his daughter. I don't think arrogant bastard is completely warranted.
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The writers of Star Wars Episode 7. Their one job was to reunite the OG trio (Han, Luke, Leia). They failed. Making a Star Wars sequel without reuniting the trio, is like making a Harry Potter sequel without reuniting Harry, Ron, and Hermoine. Just a fail.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
That was the fault of Harrison Ford, not the writers. HF agreed to return to Star Wars ONLY if Han Solo finally dies in episode 7. He did, and therefore couldn't meet Luke in the next movie.
Ace 1 year ago
Sounds like he did the world a favour by avoiding yet more sequels, prequels and remakes.
Load More Replies... Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
The biggest problem was not having one writer with one story for all 3 movies before they started. Round-robin storytelling can be fun, but not for multi-million dollar films.
Bec 1 year ago
Launching a trilogy for one of the biggest movie franchises in history without having a basic outline of where the plot was going is a pretty unbelievable fail
Marla 1 year ago
Everyone poops on 8 but i like 7 and 8, i was a bit worried how it will all come together in 9. Then 9 just basically ignored everything and made major decisions that weren't earned for almost no reason. It would have been a better movie if it were just clip reals of the earlier movies
Load More Replies... Libstak 1 year ago (edited)
Meh, they were all in it at some point and its was handing over to the next generation. Were we supposed to believe that the rebellion filled with young fit warriors was now gonna be going forward with octogenarians?
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Back in my day, we rebelled ten miles, uphill both ways, in the snow....
Load More Replies... Cammy Mack 1 year ago
The entire trilogy is complete and utter dog c**p. Disney should be shamed and embarrassed for eternity for making those three turds. You suck, Iger and Kennedy.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
While we are at it: Kathleen Kennedy, she ran the whole IP into the ground after George Lucas left and despite losing Disney money still has her job
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 year ago
What about the fact they just recycled previous plot lines instead of bothering with any new storyline.
M O'Connell 1 year ago
The term originates as "Original Gangsta," referring to those responsible for originating, or popularizing something (first in reference to a musical style, but now can refer to the first of anything).
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Whoever grounded the Exxon Valdez.
Jrog 1 year ago
Compounded with Exxon failing to provide adequate resting schedules for the crew, and failure maintain navigational equipment, that was disabled without proper notice to the crew.
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Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Whoever was at the helm is blameless. The captain was responsible. It was his job to ensure his ship was run properly.
Nonna_SoF 1 year ago
Note there is no verse of Drunken Sailor that advocates putting him at the helm.
nbfresh 1 year ago
funnily enough, i was in grade school choir when this happened and our director DID change the lyrics to say, "put him at the helm of an exxon tanker...." for our concert.
Load More Replies... Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Don't forget the yank government for giving back to Exxon ALL the money that was paid in fines.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
If I remember correctly, the Captain's wife was charged with his murder. (Anti-freeze in the orange juice?)
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Phil Tippett, dinosaur supervisor.
DeShotz 1 year ago
He was credited as the dinosaur supervisor in a movie famous for dinosaurs going out of control.
Load More Replies... BoredBranzino 1 year ago
"Phil, you were supposed to be supervising the dinosaurs! We had dinosaurs in the kitchen, Phil! They were opening doors! You had ONE job Phil!!"
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
"To be fair, there were a lot of dinosaurs. It was a large job."
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Caffeine72 1 year ago
Give Phil a break! He was hamstrung by his boss! And his bugs in Starship Troopers did way more damage.
#29
The Welder who blew up Beirut in 2020, [ended] over 200 people during the peak of Covid and basically caused the entire countrys collapse.
1 welder took down an entire country.
2x4b523p 1 year ago (edited)
I had no idea it was a welder who started the fire, however the explosion was result of incompetence of massive proportions going up to government officials who will never be punished. Fires happen, but storing tonnes of highly combustible chemicals improperly for years should have never, ever happened.
Bec 1 year ago
Agree, catastrophes happen because multiple things go wrong, multiple fail-safes are bypassed etc.
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Loren Pechtel 1 year ago
The welder was just the guy who hit the trap and not really to blame. The pile of ammonium nitrate that was stored badly would most likely have blown at some point anyway. Big, caked pile there's no safe way to defuse because it can detonate upon shifting. (It's quite insensitive but a big weight that ends up on a crystal can reach it's detonation threshold. Think of a grain of sand trapped between two plates, the forces are huge.)
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
Then there's the renovator who accidentally set Notre Dame on fire--
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Cigarette smokers burnt down the Notre Dame cathedral in France, too selfish and stupid not to smoke on the job on top of an old building.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
The country being Lebanon, and no offense to the Lebanese, causing its collapse wasn't much of a reach
#30
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LastPass. Their entire business model was protecting customer secrets. Had their customer database compromised. I went to BitWarden and then changed all my passwords.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Stuff like this is why I use pen and paper for my rarely used passwords. If someone wants to steal them they need to physically break into my house, figure out where I've written them down and steal them. Lot of effort for one person's passwords. Compare that to automated hacking, or massive password breaches online.
Kali Chaos 1 year ago
My husband is an IT engineer. I am a chef/artist. I will argue to the death that this is the way.
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Me. Just Me. 1 year ago
Just for clarification, LastPass software in itself was not insecure. It was the company not enforcing its own rules, such as forcing those using insecure master passwords to update them, or updating everyone's vaults with higher iteration counts. Unfortunately people tend to go with whatever is easiest, not what is most secure. While people are responsible for doing the right thing, the companies providing these resources need to have a policy to enforce the correct behaviors to ensure proper security, and for that policy to be their mandate.
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Nick Leeson. A trader that lost $1 Billion by doing unauthorized trades and bankrupted Barings Bank in 1995.
DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago
At some point you're think there would be someone to be like...woah, hold up there Nick.
aubergine10003 1 year ago
Why is the photo of someone using a NYC Metrocard vending machine? LOL
Libstak 1 year ago
It only took 1 billion to BANKRUPT a bank in 1995?. That's 1000 $1 million deposits, or 10,000 $100,000 deposits or 100,000 $10,000 deposits.....that's a small bank if you look at a mix of medium, small companies and private deposits?
Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago (edited)
It was a billion pounds sterling, but remember a bank doesn't have access to all the money deposited; it invests that money elsewhere. If it can't recall its investments quickly enough to cover its trading liabilities, then it's in deep sh*t.
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Gerald Ratner, a jewelry shop owner who said the product his company made was c**p and cost his company £500 million in one night.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
Just because it’s true, doesn’t mean you should say it publicly…
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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.
SBocker78 1 year ago
This is pretty normal for Microsoft. They roll out something no one wants(Vista, Kinect), then belittle consumers for not wanting it, only to have to course correct later.
AndThenICommented 1 year ago
If they didn’t have such a strong hold in the corporate world, I don’t think anyone would use them tbh. Have you ever checked out their troubleshooting forum? Omg it’s the absolutely worst.
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Guess Undheit 1 year ago
And now the idiots at microshart are forcing people to have a "microshart account". If you don't register and hand over dozens of pieces of private information, you can't install Lose11. You can't install without a windows connection, which some people don't want for ... I don't know, SECURITY REASONS, maybe? This is why Linux is up to 4% of the market and growing.
Meagan Glaser 1 year ago
To be fair, he did a LOT of other dumb things that hurt the brand too
#34
The CEO of "Max" seems to be doing a pretty good job of f*****g up a very successful, established brand, so I'll say him.
Kevin B 1 year ago
Seemed like a stream of awful decisions. Let's spend 40 years making HBO a premium channel. Let's make 2 apps for it call them Go and Now so that no one knows which one they need to use. Let's merge them into a terrible new app call it HBO Max that you can't really navigate. Wait now let's make it harder to navigate and find content. Let's just rename it to Max the inferior one of our two brands.
Stephanie A Mutti 1 year ago
Because no one would confuse MAX with any other premium movie channels... like CineMAX
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
You're wishing death on someone because you had a bad customer service experience? You're a horrible person. The CEO literally had nothing to do with your customer service experience.
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That lookout on the Titanic.
Donkey boi 1 year ago
The lookout did a fantastic job all things considered. They spotted the iceberg... at night... with no moon... and no binoculars. The Titanic was going too fast to be able to turn fast enough; Despite numerous iceberg warning AND SEEING several in the afternoon before the sinking. No, the person/people that failed there were the First Officer and Captain.
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 year ago
i think it was the white star line who failed, seeing as they didnt put enough life boats. it was because, according to them, it was "not needed" since the ship was unsinkable and the lifeboats also "crowded the view". hopefully learned a lesson after that
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Songbirdcaon 1 year ago
Not the lookout. That was all on the Captain. He had warnings of ice ahead and ignored them, continuing to go full-steam ahead. It was all his fault.
martin734 1 year ago (edited)
It was not the lookouts fault. With that ship going at that speed at night, by the time the iceberg would have been visible to the lookout a collision was already almost unavoidable. Ironically, it was the watch officer's attempts to avoid the iceberg that sealed it's demise. There was simply too much ship travelling way too fast to avoid a collision. Had the Titanic put it's engines into reverse and just rammed the iceberg head-on, it would have probably stayed afloat with just the bow smashed in and one or maybe two underwater compartments flooded. The blame for the sinking lies with Captain Edward Smith who ran his ship at an unsafe speed knowing that there were several iceberg warnings for that area. The responsibility for the loss of life lies with White Star Lines for their complacency and cost-cutting. The Titanic took over 2 1/2 hours to sink, more than enough time to evacuate the ship. With enough lifeboats and life rafts there could have been zero fatalities.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
I'm not trying to be a Debbie Downer, but realistically, organizing 2,224 people in various stages from panic to complacency (including some in steerage not allowed to proceed onto the deck for a time) and successfully evacuating them onto fully loaded lifeboats was virtually impossible. The movie was an approximation but the chaos was real and how likely was it really to get them all to safety?
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Going back to the yard and the design, if the transverse bulkheads had gone all the way up to the main deck (with quick closing watertight doors), the ship might have made it. Whoever made the decision to not do that because passengers might be inconvenienced is also culpable.
Max Fox 1 year ago
Not the lookout, not the captain, and even not the design. It was a classic "perfect storm" of everybody doing the best thing based on their understanding, and it all combining to create a disaster. The captain swerving to avoid the iceberg, which otherwise would have hit the ship head on. If it had hit the ship head on, only one compartment would have been compromised, and the ship wouldn't have sunk. People assuming that the ship was safer than lifeboats, which, based on the touted design, it should have. The design which was effective in almost every other situation than having such a massive tear across so much of the ship. There are many more wrong decisions that would have been right in any other situation.
What do you think ?
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 year ago
the weather reporter who said that no hurricane could destroy galveston. because of that, a bunch of people gathered near the shore to see the waves and when the hurricane hit, a bunch of those people were washed out to sea.
RosenCranzLives 1 year ago
Was that the 1900 one? I can't get mad at a 'reporter' on the weather back then.
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The guy at my old job at a state data center who mistook a boxed, alarmed and clearly labeled "Emergency Power Off" button for a button to open the door. Shut down half of the state's services for days. He was never allowed back onsite.
Keith Kowalski 1 year ago
when amazon couldnt deliver 3/4 packages on time in a single week. and no way to complain to a human
Mike F 1 year ago
And their claim to fame was overnight/next day shipping.
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8Yorkies-and-33cats 1 year ago
How about the pilot of Aeroflot Flight 593, in 1994, who allowed his 15-year-old son to sit in the cockpit, who accidentally disengaged the autopilot? They crashed into a mountain range, resulting in the deaths of all 63 passengers and 12 crew members aboard!
BoredBranzino 1 year ago
How about the smoking construction worker who flipped a still lit butt into Notre Dame and set it on fire? That, and whoever tf approved anyone even looking at Notre Dame being allowed to have a smoke.
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 year ago
the weather reporter who said that no hurricane could destroy galveston. because of that, a bunch of people gathered near the shore to see the waves and when the hurricane hit, a bunch of those people were washed out to sea.
RosenCranzLives 1 year ago
Was that the 1900 one? I can't get mad at a 'reporter' on the weather back then.
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The guy at my old job at a state data center who mistook a boxed, alarmed and clearly labeled "Emergency Power Off" button for a button to open the door. Shut down half of the state's services for days. He was never allowed back onsite.
Keith Kowalski 1 year ago
when amazon couldnt deliver 3/4 packages on time in a single week. and no way to complain to a human
Mike F 1 year ago
And their claim to fame was overnight/next day shipping.
Load More Replies... 8Yorkies-and-33cats 1 year ago
How about the pilot of Aeroflot Flight 593, in 1994, who allowed his 15-year-old son to sit in the cockpit, who accidentally disengaged the autopilot? They crashed into a mountain range, resulting in the deaths of all 63 passengers and 12 crew members aboard!
BoredBranzino 1 year ago
How about the smoking construction worker who flipped a still lit butt into Notre Dame and set it on fire? That, and whoever tf approved anyone even looking at Notre Dame being allowed to have a smoke.
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