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Failure to plan is planning to fail!

The most clever comeback a teacher will ever make. It will be used against you if you forgot to do something.

Mr Broadhead: Where is your commerce book?
Yasmin: I forgot to pack it this morning.
Mr Broadhead: Failure to plan is planning to FAIL! :O
Yasmin: NOOOOOOOOOOO!

by gravedog February 2, 2010

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Single Point of Failure (SPOF)

The term used in an organization that is commonplace for no apparent reason to explain why leadership only designates ONE person in the whole organization to be the Point of Contact to be able to fix something that is broken. When this is person or entity isn't available the whole organization - or the specific people affected by the problem are at the mercy of this person returning to work to solve the problem. Single Point of Failure or SPOF is commonly used with another term known as FUBAR - (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition) because no professional organization would allow a Single Point of Failure to exist.

I'm sorry but we can't fix your computer today because we have a Single Point of Failure (SPOF) in that department. Pay no attention to the man behind the green curtain - he can't fix your computer - the only person who can do that isn't here today. You might want to try and click your heels together and say three times - "there's no place like home - there's no place like home - because if you were at home your internet service provider has an entire staff that is interchangeable and capable of completing most any IT-related task.

by smesc2002 January 13, 2022


Al Gore Failure Beard

An Al Gore failure beard is the cloak of shame worn by men who have been unemployed for over 90 days and don't have any job leads. I also used it for hopeless people and institutions.

"My dad's job search isn't going well. He is rocking an Al Gore failure beard."

"My buddy got laid off last year, and spends a lot of time on LinkedIn. He'll have to shave his Al Gore failure beard when he finally gets an interview."

"My flight was canceled last night, even though we only had an inch of snow. American Airlines is the Al Gore failure beard of the airline industry."

by PunkRockHR December 18, 2019


dump failure

when, to your surprise, you are unbelievably constipated, and you fail at making a bowel movement after many long minutes on the porcelain throne.

also in geography, dump failure is used to refer to bad waste disposal

I just had the biggest dump failure.

by kittttttten February 3, 2017


Five Man Failure

Five Man Failure:Small business with less than 10 people. The business is usually dysfunctional. The CEO of the company has 'observation blindness' and coddles bad employees. In a large company issue employees would have been sacked for more dynamic candidates.

That tube store employee is passive aggressive and never emailed me to tell me that my special order was cancelled two months ago. They're running a "Five Man Failure".

by Energysoul March 14, 2016


Miserable Failure

The 2011 Boston Red Sox

Marvin partnered up with Alicia in a Mixed Doubles Tennis match against Graham and Evelyn, they led 6-0 5-0 40-0, but lost the match 6-0, 5-7, 0-6, what a miserable failure!

by PhoenixGamer34 July 24, 2021


Government Failure

HS2

HS2 is stupid, literally defines government failure.

by Aoctavio March 28, 2022