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Sure, we'd like every sign, product and advertisement to be functional and efficient, but this is the real world, and things don't work out the way we'd like them to. Sprinklers spray right into garbage cans, shirts say the wrong thing, and people make ironic mistakes. People's laziness can result in some impressively unprofessional "not my job" moments.

And with the resounding deflating sound of a "yeah sure that'll do" a design fail is born. It's good that people build first and think later, or else there wouldn't be so many design fails that were someone's one job. Where would we be without prime fails from people not doing their jobs correctly? Well, probably in a more efficient and effective world; but it wouldn't be quite as much fun.

Sometimes it would take too much effort to do something the right way, so we resort to stunningly unprofessional "not my job" moments. We can't say we're proud of them, but boy do they save a whole lot of time. Sometimes it's actually harder to do it wrong. As long as there are annoying bosses and Friday afternoons, we'll have wonderfully incompetent "not my job" moments.

Hey, if someone tells you to install a toilet seat lid, it's not like it's your job to install the right sized one, and it's totally not your job to check and see if it's upside down or not. Here are some wonderfully unprofessional "not my job" moments from the world of the just lazy enough.

We're always impressed by the work of the lazy and negligent. It gives us impressively unprofessional "not my job" moments, ranging from telephone poles in the middle of roads to roadkill-shaped gaps traffic lines. Blessed be the sweet hot laziness that leads to these wonderfully unprofessional "not my job" moments.

We've all witnessed some majestically unprofessional "not my job" moments. Maybe someone at work was running out of time, money or patience and just went with what they had. Those moments can result in stairways to nowhere, cans of peaches that magically contain peas, and countless other mistakes resulting in people and things failing at their one job.

Maybe the task is too difficult, or maybe you're just too difficult. "Not my job" moments encapsulate how the laziest among us deal with problems. These "solutions" may be majestically incompetent and ridiculously unprofessional "not my job" reactions to a hard task, but we can't say we haven't done similar things at some time in our lives.

Work in any field long enough and you'll see your fair share of wonderfully unprofessional "not my job" moments. There's slides that go right off buildings, misspelled signs and extremely lazy line painting, just to name a few. It makes you feel good about yourself to see people's majestically incompetent "not my job" moments.

"Hey man, they told me to paint the wall. They didn't say anything about not painting over the security camera lense." Whether it's an honest mistake, a case of neglect or straight up dumbassery, things often don't get done the way they should. Here's to the wonderfully unprofessional "not my job" moments of the world. If we're lacking one thing, it isn't finely tuned incompetence.

Not everyone is super great at what they do. Is that bad in the long run? Probably, yes. But for now we get some wonderfully unprofessional "not my job" moments. People make some terrific misspellings, playground slides that go straight off the roofs of tall buildings, and incomprehensible construction decisions. 

When people decide a particular task is above or below their pay grade or not their responsibility, you get some interesting moments out of the deal. You get manholes in sandboxes, completely unusable fans, and newspaper headlines like "Headline Goes Here." It's like people are built to fail at their one job and create some masterful design failures.

No matter how hard we try, we'll never free ourselves from failures and mistakes that were someone's one job. Luckily, they're at least fun to see, and they make us better at our own jobs, since we don't want to look stupid. Here are some more design fails that were someone's one job.

Sometimes people are so focused on getting the job done that they fail to realize if they've done a job so wonky that it renders their own work confusing, laughable and useless. These design fails were someone's one job and frankly we're glad they did it bad so we could watch. These design failures need some help.

People are constantly making new things, and it seems like we're burdened with making every single mistake before getting things done the right way. It leads to some stupid oversights and design fails that were someone's one job. If you want to feel good at your own job, check out some stupid design fails that need some help.

There are a lot of reasons for failure at someone's one job. Sometimes it's negligence or laziness. Sometimes someone is in the process of learning something new. Sometimes an otherwise competent person has to do the same job with no resources and in a quarter of the time. Sometimes it's the profound ability to ignore common sense. That one is our favorite. It's the main force behind design fails that didn't go as planned.

The bad part about making a product or sign is that if you obviously screw up, a whole bunch of people are gonna see it and get to laugh at your mistake. The upside is that a whole bunch of people are going to see it, and they get to laugh at your mistake. Here are some more dumb design fails that were someone's one job.