[sotd] You Had One Job! [April 4, 2014]
- From: "Site of the Day" <amholm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 06:58:02 -0700
Site of the Day for Friday, April 4, 2014
You Had One Job!
Today's site delivers an ongoing roundup of those wonderful "what were they
thinking?" snaps so beloved by every camera capable cellphone user. Gentle
Subscribers will find an addictive way to waste vast quantities of time, the
perfect antidote for those Friday-5:00pm-can't-come soon-enough moments.
" 'You Had One Job' is an expression used to call attention to perceived
blunders made by individuals on the job.
According to KnowYourMeme, a website dedicated to documenting Internet
phenomena, the earliest known mention of the phrase took place in a scene from
the 2001 remake of the heist film Ocean's Eleven, in which Basher Tarr (a
character played by Don Cheadle) scolds his team for missing a step that
singlehandedly lead to the failure of an otherwise well-planned vault heist.
... hadonejob.com was developed to gather all these careless mistakes in one
place" - from the website
The site's opening salvo marshals dozens of jobs gone wrong in modestly sized
images; but clicking on an individual photo may be the preferred way to view
the collection through its slideshow format. While some of the bungles are
obvious -- the dairy case filled with Coke, the pedestrian traffic light
simultaneously indicating walk and stop, and sale signs with prices higher than
the regular price, others are slightly more subtle. Although some of the images
on the opening page have witty annotations, the slideshow simply offers the
snaps.
Sidle over to the site for this amusing collection of jobs gone terribly wrong
at:
http://hadonejob.com/
A.M. Holm
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