Who is a well-known person in a prominent position who sucks at their job?
He sued the MLB for racial discrimination and they got the case dismissed by proving that he just sucks at his job lol
Truly one of the greatest things the MLB has ever done is explicitly lay out in the court of law why the dude sucks at his job and doesn't deserve more opportunities
racial discrimination
Which was obviously ridiculous, because if the MLB started firing people for being Caribbean then there wouldn't be an MLB anymore.
Angel and Laz make baseball so fucking brutal to watch at times. For a sport trying to make changes and increase viewership, the ump union really throws a wrench into the whole plan. Literally got mad typing this hahahah
Made for some funny videos of players and managers yelling at him though
This is the correct answer! If the general public knows your name as a baseball umpire it's bad enough, but this guy is legendary for how bad he is at being an umpire.
Sorry, but Im too lazy to write down every person in my countrys government
This is an international answer.
With all the replies, I'm glad it's not just America that is completely tired of who's running the government.
You will probably find all the governments of the world represented here. If it's legal for them to talk about their government.
North Korea not chiming in
"All's good!"
::Shot::
"You didn't protest hard enough about glorious leader's brilliance.
fun fact: that coment aplies to exactly every country on earth
Hello fellow Irishman
I was sure he was Canadian.
Nah. He's probably Polish.
Romanian?
I also choose this guys government
Dana at my work
Fuckin Dana
Our Dana was horrible at the job and always had complaints from customers but he was always early to work, never complained. He died in July. I never would wish that on him but the place has ran smoother then it ever had, with him gone. Oh and I am not playing his name really was Dana.
Edit… words
We all remember Dana.
There is no Dana, only ZUUL!
Sorry
Found Fox Mulder
Found the UFC employee.
Whats goin on everyone were back for FUCK IT friday
The City of Janesville, Wisconsin's Deputy City Manager RPM. There were 3 of us in the economic development office and we all quit within weeks of each other due to his incessant need to be involved. This dope is a huge micromanager because he's too stupid to understand basic economic development. He once asked what a speed bump was in a meeting. After that, I was told not to share my meeting notes. 😀 BTW, we all landed well with better-paying and fulfilling positions elsewhere and not in government.
He once asked what a speed bump was in a meeting. After that, I was told not to share my meeting notes.
This sent me!
Basically, it sounds like you lived a Parks & Rec offshoot.
Janesville strikes me as a city that is barely managing. If there is one universal hallmark of a bad manager, it's that they believe they are the ones who produce the work. No, your job is to do the things that allow labor to do ITS work. Good managers are the ones who empower labor and GTFO of the way.
It was depressing reading the book on Janesville. Sad that it’s not been able to see better times
I’ve been seeing a weird amount of posts from fellow Wisconsinites lately 🤔
In Wausau, idk who’s responsible but our city gets in legal trouble every few years for massive finance misuse. 6 or so years ago the city spent 50 thousand dollars on commissioned bird sculptures from rusted garbage and they did so without a vote lol
More recently, they tore down a massive landmark in town for new development and even though it’s been 3 years no construction has started. They keep giving the construction company that won the bid more money and more extensions but no work is being done. Just last week a third extension was given on their contract.
Eric Fuller - company had to sell because he literally ran it into the ground…his dad’s company…
Trucking industry if it’s too niche
Way common in trucking. The moderate and large sized companies last about 20-30 years, until dad retires and lets the kids take over. Right now my company is gobbling up these companies that are at the end of their run with dad looking to retire...
Craig went a different way with his stake and seems to be doing okay.
In my experience this happens to most moderately successful “family run” companies. Gen 1 builds it. Gen 2 burns it to the ground. Gen 3 liquidates the assets, sells the name and uses the family connections to network/nepo themselves into a position with a client or vendor.
Was he the leader of the transmission company?
Trucking and shipping industry is brutally competitive as it is.
Chris Cocks in the Magic: The Gathering business. Has no idea what's going on but is there for the money he can earn.
'how much money can we bilk from these nerds before the ship sinks.'
Exactly. I've just given up playing Magic because they pump out soooo much new stuff it's insane.
Hey
hey hey hey
I got an idea
What if we print advertisements on the cards themselves? That way we're not just selling cards to players, but we're selling the players to other companies!
Just Wizards of the Coast in general has tanked itself so much in the last year.
It was solely responsible for 70% of Hasbros income. When you consider how much stuff they make like nerf and things that's insane.
Had DnD and Magic. Arguably the most popular games in their genres.
And then (almost) killed both with poor decisions in an attempt to increase profits.
I'd love to see how much the OGL shitshow cost them. I know a bunch of people dropped dndbeyond and I know a bunch of people stopped buying the new books.
Be interesting to see how underwhelming the launch will be for 6e when it comes.
I'm really happy that they went back on that whole DnD license or the hammer will fall-shitshow last year.
They haven't gone back. They look like they have, but they'll just try again later. It might not be in the next year or two but they'll try it at some point in 6e or 7e. Next time they'll just try and be sneakier about it. Like starting with crushing other things like Roll20 and other VTTs in favour of their own one, and then once they have the only one start changing the terms of service for the website, which will be the only option. So they didn't change the OGL they just changed everything else.
So many people have switched to other systems and honestly good for them. 6e flopping will probably be a good thing.
DJ KHALED ANOTHER ONE WE THE BEST MUSIC
I was gonna say Drake. Everyone continually calls him mid, yet his albums always dominate the charts and he always gets Grammy noms. Even this year, despite boycotting the Grammys, he still got 2 or 3 noms from features. His new album got 2 #1s immediately, the lead single, and then the most popular song on release, despite everyone calling it terrible.
Drake is getting that Nickelback treatment. I'd say Nickelback spent the better part of the decade 2010-2020 being a meme for unoriginal, corporate rock but they're a multi platinum band so someone has been going to the shows and buying the tracks. Somehow it becomes trendy to hate on these artists.
I feel like it's slightly different. People never wanted to admit they liked Nickelback, whereas Drake actually had lots of openly admitting fans earlier in his career but now Drake has been around so long that people feel like his music has declined but they can't escape it cause it's Drake.
Yeah I think it's mostly this. I'm someone who really liked his earlier stuff but everything he's released the past few years has just been so lazy and uninspired. He's reached the point where there is no point in trying because he has a big enough fan base who will listen to whatever he puts out regardless
That and he’s got nothing interesting to make music about anymore. He’s already at the top, accomplished everything, successful beyond wildest dreams. How much creative juice is really left? A lot of music artists in the hip hop industry experience the same fate, the most interesting part of their career is the come up.
Spez
Today I finally found out what the fuck/who the fuck Spez is
What did he do?
CEO of Reddit, made the Reddit API cost money earlier this year which made 3rd party Reddit apps and moderation tools stopped working
Is that why Reddit has been so shit lately? I will click on a video or picture and it opens up a completely different post sometimes
That particular bug has been going on for years.
I've been having a new one where long text posts keep randomly scrolling to the top while I'm trying to scroll down to read them or read the comments. Frustrating as hell.
Fuck u/spez
As a blind person, fuck u/spez
Matt Canada
Nah, he's doing a great job and will hopefully stay in his position for at least a few more years.
Sincerely, the rest of the AFC North.
"Blame Canada" - every Pittsburgh Steelers fan
Is that what trump calls Trudeau?
Nah, he calls him Justin Maple.
No. Matt Canada is a guy who has the whole city of Pittsburgh plus the rest of Steeler nation calling for his firing, even at events that have nothing to do with the Steelers, like a Penguins game.
It took me a minute to remember that the penguins were a team and I was trying to figure out how penguins would even signal their decision. Throw fish at you?
No. -- His work is far more serious than geopolitics.
This is hilarious but in case you actually wanted to know, he’s the offensive coordinator for the Pittsburgh Steelers and can confirm, he’s terrible at his job.
I love that this is one of the most upvoted suggestions in this sub. This is hilarious lol
I'm not British, but isn't Liz Truss a good example?
I mean, her premiership didn't last longer than the shelf life of a lettuce.
Edit: terminology, used the word presidency instead of premiership. Sorry.
Yes, she feels destined to become a pub quiz question, PM for 49 days and in that short time managed to aggressively tank the economy and kill the, previously assumed to be immortal, Queen
Still crazy that there is an overlap between the shortest UK premiership and the death of the longest reigning monarch in UK history. What are the odds?
There’s a joke conspiracy theory going around that she became prime minister, tanked the economy, killed the Queen and resigned in less than 2 months. Perhaps the most successful villain ever.
Next 007 villain will be based on her
To be fair to Truss, she did give us the immortal Can This Lettuce Last Longer then the PM meme, which will be remembered long after the details of her total uselessness are forgotten.
Thank you for your services to the art of shitposting, Liz.
It actually caused a problem for some doctors trying to assess whether a patient has memory loss, e.g. from a head injury or dementia. Two standard questions in the UK are "what's the name of the Prime Minister?" and "who is the monarch?"
And Parliament was suspended for 10 of those days, a full 20% of her time in office.
Liz on Liz crime.
She's already a pub quiz question in the US. I run a weekly pub quiz and we asked what veg outlasted her about a month or so ago.
Outlasted by a lettuce and still fucked the economy
'The economy' is too vague - this woman is personally the biggest single reason why my mortgage has doubled, and I'll never forget that! Especially not when she's drawing on her generous pension, also funded by you & I. Really does make me sick.
Outlasted by a lettuce and she fucked u/rose_on_red specifically
To be fair I've been fucked by a lot of people who were outlasted by a lettuce. Maybe it's me?
comes in
kills Queen
tanks economy
refuses to leave by saying “I’m not a quitter, I’m a fighter!”
resigns the next day
refuses to elaborate
THEN shows up at the Tory party conference saying that she wants to do it all again.
I'm still convinced that the Queen's death was known to be imminent so the powers that be decided to get rid of Boris beforehand so he wasn't the face of the nation during the mourning period, funeral etc. They looked at available candidates and picked Liz Truss as her only redeeming qualities were that she owned a hairbrush, an iron and could speak in coherent sentences. She did the job required of her then off she went back to obscurity. Rishi couldn't do it as it would have been too complicated with his differing religious beliefs and the Prime Minister being required to read a Bible passage.
Interesting thought; changing a prime minister for the imminent death of the Queen.
Would it be because Boris didn't want to be remembered as the PM during the Queen's death? Or because the tories realised the people coudln't stand Boris as PM during that period?
Edit: corrected typo.
Boris would have loved to be PM when the Queen died. His absolute favourite things were giving long-winded speeches and hosting international dignitaries. Being around for historical moments also very much his thing.
If someone told me the Queen held on just so he wouldn't get to bloviate all over everything I wouldn't be entirely surprised.
Oh he would've absolutely LOVED to have been PM when that old lady died! Would've been that narcissist's greatest performance
This suggests the Tories are capable of thought.
Thing is, she was elected by the party membership. There was a contest and everything. Not exactly easy for an elite stitch up to manage. I think it’s more credible that she attracted support because she was the only vaguely hopey / changey candidate.
It’s just a shame she was fucking clueless about how to effect change
How about the Japanese Cybersecurity Minister admitting that he has never used a computer in his life.
Previous Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Fucking useless.
Oh, are we talking about Scott Morrison, who shit himself in a McDonald's? Scott Morrison gave Australia the honor of being the only country where their head of state shit his pants in a McDonald's.
He now claims that he 'stepped down' from the role.
What a self deluded, arrogant, ignorant, pompous, failed marketing manager.
His only mission was to fill parliament with Hillsong members, he succeeded at that
At least the memory of Engadine Maccas will live on.
A potato could do a better job... Oh wait!
Oakland A’s owner John Fisher
Most current world leaders
George Kliavkoff. The chairman of the PAC 12 (now PAC 2.) The guy oversaw the nearly certain dissolution of one of the top 3 college athletic leagues in the country, and throwing college sports overall into chaos.
Pac 12 was already a clusterfuck on the brink of collapse when he took the job. Larry Scott left a huge mess for George to try n clean up. He's a scapegoat that way it's collapse would be inevitable, his closest to relevant experience was being Chief Digital Officer for Hulu n NBCUniversal. The AD's of the bigger Pac12 money makers knew it'd be easier to get out on his watch.
Correct.....Larry Scott was disastrous for the Pac-12 but even worse was the conference presidents who stood idle while he ran the league into the ground.
Larry never should have been commissioner, he was already President and COO of the ATP and Chairman and CEP of the WTA.
But I believe the schools with the most pull in the Pac12 (USC Oregon Washington) let it sink without trying to stop it because they knew even if Pac12 got another TV deal it wouldn't be anywhere near as profitable as the other Power 5's. So they let the ship sink because they knew that huge life rafts in the form of the Big 10 and Big 12 would happily come to the rescue.
Fuck Larry Scott
Abdil fattah el-Sisi
Underrated comment. This guy is even worse than Mubarak which takes some doing. He’s an authoritarian goon and some of his utterances outdo Trump in their utter craziness.
Not to mention that he could do much to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza by opening the border crossing. But he won't.
The sad honest truth is that no one else in the Middle East cares about the Gaza Palestinians. Egypt doesn't want 1 million extra residents either. But the status quo let them judge Israel harshly (fairly) while not having to do any heavy lifting to improve things.
It's like how, now that it's been 70+ years since the Korean War and all the familial ties are old and dying off, South Korea doesn't have much of an interest in reuniting with North Korea even if they got all their terms agreed upon. How do you deal with an influx of 26 million refugees with almost no modern education and decades of totalitarian social programming?
Egypt is a rather poor country and already has hundreds of thousands of refugees from other countries in the area. Taking in a million Palestinians would be very difficult.
Saudi Arabia has no such excuse. With its immense wealth and its status as the de facto leader of the Arab and even Islamic world it has both the ability and the responsibility to do something about the situation. Except it won't.
DJ Khaled
Not well known but, my boss. He’s absolutely fucking useless.
James Corden - He was laughed out of Britain, we were glad to see the back of him. We sent him to the USA to float like the brick he is, but there's something funny in the water out there.
Celebrate Robin Wiliams! We still have people like Jim Carey. Homegrown pure talent like Sacha Barron Cohen and Kayvan Novak... James Fuckin Cordon? The shit one from Gavin and Stacy?... Why?
*Edited with an explanation (not that it was needed)
That second paragraph is so confusing.
Lol and their edit doesn’t appear to clarify anything. What does celebrating Robin Williams have to do with anything?
scott morrison. jobs, plural, apparently.
Judge Aileen Cannon
Almost all PH politicians
Louis DeJoy who's reason for getting up in the morning seems to be, ruin the post office. Him and the rest of the GOP who's agenda seems to be ruin democracy.
I know him personally. Have broke bread with him a couple of times. He inherited his daddies companies and would have run them out of business, but he bought his way into politics and got a lot of government contracts including USPS. He isn't fit to run a lemonade stand.
That’s exactly why Trump picked him.
He knows how to fuck things up and is a total stooge who will listen to the trumpanzies, without applying critical thinking.
I can't believe we still haven't been able to oust that fuck.
Jaysus, is he still in there?
I weep for the US mail.
As a mail carrier THIS was why I was scrolling down. I’m glad I didn’t have to scroll too far
His job as assigned by Trump was to fuck up the post office, hopefully in time to mess up the mail in voting in 2020.
He didn’t get that done enough to throw the election so in that sense he failed but he’s damn good at destroying one of our few decently functioning federal institutions.
He failed because federal offices have a lot of career people who keep political appointees from changing everything every election.
*Broadly gestures to government*
Musk. Bought paypal and almost ruined it, got kicked out as CEO and the guy who replaced him made it into a powerhouse causing Musks paypal stocks to be worth a shit ton. Every business he runs he makes bad decisions and makes a lot of extra unnecessary work for his employees.
People need to convince him to buy Ticketmaster.
You kinda have a point. But what if it becomes worse.
That would be difficult. Even Congress tried to get involved and they're an absolute shit-show
I forget if it was SpaceX or Tesla, but one of them had employees whose whole job it was to keep Elon distracted and away from anything of actual importance because they knew he'd just fuck it up
There are a lot of stories, sadly it's hard to fact check them. What I heard was one from SpaceX. It's said that they held meetings just for him, so that he could talk all his crazy ideas, and afterwards a real meeting where they decided how to proceed.
They would also undo his decisions after he left. Like he would show up and fire a random person just so he could look tough and serious, but he had no idea who that person was or how valuable they were to the team. So after he’d go away again they would reverse the firing and everyone would just roll their eyes and keep working.
I’ve also heard that many, many times his engineers heard of major changes or new projects when he tweeted about it. He didn’t tell them in person what he wanted, or email, or make a call. Just tweeted and then expected they would make it happen immediately, and truly wouldn’t understand why major changes in direction couldn’t happen instantly.
All of this is hearsay, of course. But with what we’ve seen of how he’s handled Twitter, I don’t think it’s at all far-fetched.
Like he would show up and fire a random person just so he could look tough and serious, but he had no idea who that person was or how valuable they were to the team.
Back in May he publicly humiliated and fired Halli Thorleifsson via Twitter, only to sheepishly walk it back almost immediately after someone pointed out just how much Thorleifsson's contract was worth and that things would be arbitrated in Icelandic courts with their exceptionally strong worker protections.
500 years ago a German town got sick of the sadistic knight who made their lives hell, they rose up, slaughtered his guards, killed his children, cooked them in front of him and made him eat them. Just saying
That is essentially what he is.
Age old "I have to be smart to have made all this money" fallacy. Trusting Elon Musk in business is like trusting lottery winners for investing advice. Yea, they're a fuckload richer that you are, but the idea that their "strategy" is able to be replicated is delirious at best.
One of the most damaging fallacies. Thinking someone is smart because they’re rich is like thinking they’re smart because they have nice teeth.
We had to do literally this at a previous job of mine. The owner did a lot of cocaine and had like 10 crazy ideas every morning. Maybe once a week, one of them would be decent, but we had to hear out the other 49, and then have the real meeting after she left.
Imagine putting "Elon wrangler" on your resume.
I'm pretty sure that's what the fucking ridiculous truck thing is for at Tesla.
Like letting a toddler play with an Eazy Bake oven in the kitchen.
It's lets them "contribute" in a way that they cannot fuck up.
Every worthless plutocrat who's received top positions solely because they have a lot of money, has handlers.
Ed Norton in Glass Onion is a perfect parody of Musk.
The guy who everyone thinks is a genius but is just a lucky moron who got where he is by other people's achievements.
Honestly I don't see that on here (the worship of Elon) the way it used to be. Maybe they all left after the blackout, but whatever fanboy sub they are in doesn't seem to leak everywhere anymore.
It's cos they were all 15 and now they've grown up enough to realise he's a charlatan, and today's 15 year olds know him as the guy who ruined twitter rather than the guy who (pretended he) made tesla
I suspect his mismanagement of Twitter has finally disenchanted some of his more rabid fans. Part of why he could get away with so much bullshitting in the past is because he was lying about industries where the average user didn’t have that much knowledge. When he said insane stuff about car manufacturing, or cave submarines, or tunnel boring, many of his fans didn’t have the foundation of knowledge to get why what he was saying didn’t make sense. In the absence of that preexisting knowledge, they defaulted to supporting him as a trusted authority.
In contrast, the average heavily online Musk fan does have knowledge about how a good social media site is supposed to work. They can is intuitively understand why Musk’s decisions are bonkers, and his near dictatorial leadership of the company prevents them from fobbing responsibility for the failures onto someone else. Musk’s behavior hasn’t changed much at all, but has fans are finally getting smacked in the face with evidence of his incompetence that they can neither misinterpret nor ignore.
Thank god. It was nauseating.
He always had the money to buy his way in as a CEO but never made his own position as CEO.
About 90% of politicians on the planet.
Brian Ferentz - offensive coordinator for Iowa football. Nepotism at its finest
Rishi sunak
You can just point at anyone in the current cabinet and find somebody incompetent.
This isn't just me being partisan. There have been governments in the past who I disagreed with, but at least I had the sense that things were running to a plan.
This lot are actually incompetent.
I disagreed heavily with Cameron, but you still felt it was a functioning government.
The Tory Party has been through too many rounds of ideological purges to really function as a government anymore. I swear it's just the Civil Service holding this country together at the moment.
When they purged anyone that criticised Brexit (I.e anyone with a brain) from the cabinet under Boris years ago then you’re left with the spineless or brainless (or both)
Then the 2019 election happened and the new influx of Tory MPs was made up of clinically moronic UKIP rejects.
Wdym? He’s great at helping his rich family and friends make more money
We are delivering for the British people!
We are delivering for the British people!
We are delivering for the British people!
We are delivering for the British people!
We are delivering for the British people!
We are delivering for the British people!
Deliverooing? All the promise are delivered cold, not what was ordered and with pubes on them.
And the mind-boggling thing is, still an improvement on his predecessor.
I disagree - I thought the lettuce was pretty competent as PMs go!
Gary Bettman. Switch the jersey colors back to the way they were…whites for home - colors for away!!
Jeez, if this is the be all and end all of issues you have with Bettman then I'm impressed. The man is utterly contemptible for his handling of awful awful scandals in recent years in hockey, and seems to think everyone booing him is light hearted ribbing or something, when in actuality hockey fans (rightly) despise this man.
Has he admitted that repeated blows to the head might be bad for long term brain health yet?
Fuck Gary Bettman.
His addiction to keeping hockey in Arizona is something else. Likely lost nearly a billion dollars propping up said team so far.
Any politician you may care to mention.
Mmm, probably gunna get some hate for this, but Iger. He lowkey dipped right at Covid (clever fucking move), fucked up in choosing his replacement (or did he?), then swept back in like a conquering hero only to... Basically keep the status quo from Chapeks changes. All his bluster about his rogue Padawan ruining things and he barely changed said things at all.
Remember folks, always two there are: One to hold power and the other to crave it.
It feels like we're on the verge of Disney going back into the dread "sequel movie" era, heck we may already be there!
I live for the day a decent human being becomes a CEO and pays people fairly. Disney could have set the fucking trend of treating their employees well. Can you imagine the upswell in pro-Disney support if they paid living wages and provided amazing bennies? But noooooo. -grumbles in late stage capitalism-
I went to Universal Studios & Disney this past August and our whole family noticed that the employees at Universal were much happier. Disney felt depressing after being at Universal. All the employees there seemed heavy and sad. So, reading your comment just made me realize why!
So, I worked at Disney in the mid-90's, so take this for what it's worth.
When you first start working there, Disney is a truly magical place to be working.
You have went through the training, where you are told that you are making dreams come true for the guests, you are literally "on stage" the entire time you are there, and you do everything you can to make everything special for each and every person who walks through the gates.
After 6 months, you are doing a job. Yeah, you still want to do your best for people, you know that your job depends on them coming to Disney, but...it's a job.
You may have just run across people that were just doing their job, and trying to get through the day.
Some days still had that magic, you would see that little kid that brought it all back too you for a few hours, but over-all....it was a job.
Even 20 years later I can still recite the speech that I gave 20 times a day at the front of the "Living with the Land" boat ride (that I understand is now completely automated...).
It was a GREAT job for what I was doing, when I was doing it, and I worked with some great people....
But, in the end, it was just a job.
Although 75,000 people work at Walt Disney World, the largest single-site employer in the country, there tend to be very few openings at an time. Usually well under 100, and many of them are technical jobs requiring specialized skills. It may not be a particularly "magical" place to work but there's obviously very low turnover.
Liz Truss has got to be top of the leaderboard surely.
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are both terrible at their jobs, which is why they do so much "Rule with an iron fist" nonsense, so nobody can see how bad they are.
Both guys are failures at making their countries a better place for the people who live in them, so instead they're working on making their countries bigger and hoping that's enough of a distraction. "We will soon achieve the great glorious takeover of fill-in-the-blank!" Like that's going to actually improve anything for the people who have to work 70 hours a week and live under constant censorship.
Glitch McConnell
Jim Jordan has had zero legislative victories in 16 years.
Well in all fairness, he is just an obstructionist.
That includes obstructing investigations into what went on in those showers at Ohio State.
"Jordan is a legislative terrorist." -Paul Ryan, Former House Speaker
David Zaslav
Bill Gates is doing a terrible job at being a world dictator.
I don't think he is cut out for it.
I'm pretty sure once 6G comes out and the next update... I mean vaccine.... comes out, he'll be running the place in no time!
/s because Reddit...
Doug Ford
Angel Hernandez