30 Funny “One Job Fails” That Had One Simple Task And Blew It This Week (December 14, 2025)

One-job fails are funny because the assignment could not be simpler. There’s no room for interpretation, yet somehow things still go completely off the rails. You can almost feel the moment when someone stopped thinking and just powered through anyway.

These aren’t complicated mistakes or big disasters, just clean, avoidable misses. The kind where you stare at it for a second and say, “That was literally the whole job.” Here are the best (and funniest) examples from this week.

1. “Just Write ‘Happy Birthday'”

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2. “Hot Dog”

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3. “Someone Please Just Fix It With A Sharpie”

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4. “U Clear On The Concept, Much??”

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5. “You Had One Job, Cheese”

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6. “Go Make The Guests Some Lemon Water”

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7. “You Olny Had One Job.”

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8. “Cherry And Green Apple”

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9. “Did They Miss The Taco?”

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10. “IEC”

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11. “One Job! You Had One Job!”

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12. “You Had One Job”

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13. “They Missed The Most Essential Part Of The V-neck”

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14. “These Watermelons Taste Different”

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15. “Canada”

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16. “You Had One Job”

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17. “Lime Juice, Lemon Juice”

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18. “Man, You Only Had One Job”

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19. “You Had One Job, Grandpa”

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20. “Tomatoes”

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21. “You Had One Job, Milk”

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22. “Strange Onions”

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23. “You Had One Job”

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24. “You Had One Job, Burger King”

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25. “One Job”

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26. “Ordered Cheeseburger With Only Ketchup”

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27. “Upside Down Fanta”

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28. “Smarty Pants”

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29. “Thank God, My Feet Were Getting Tired”

30. “This Is Not Cool”

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