If you’re on LinkedIn, you must’ve noticed that companies and CEOs love to present themselves as sleek and efficient, but anyone who has ever worked in or around a big business knows the truth is usually a lot messier. Bloated hierarchies, endless meetings, and social media interns left unsupervised — you name it. The well-oiled capitalist machine sure has at least some cogs that are grinding and slipping.
The subreddit r/CorporateFacepalm is dedicated to collecting the silly, awkward, and downright baffling failures of white-collar workers — mostly online, but occasionally in real life, too — so we’ve rounded up the most memorable recent examples, perfect reminders that even billion-dollar brands can make total fools of themselves.
#1 How Did They Not See That Coming
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#2 Glad To Hear That
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#3 Purell Making Fun Of Sick Kids
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#4 Embrace Diversity
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#5 Commas Matter
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#6 Pot, Meet Kettle
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#7 Ridiculous
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#8 Wells Fargo Wants You To Get A Real Job
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#9 A Very Heartfelt Personalized Thanks
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#10 Til Alaska Apparently Is Not Part Of North America
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#11 Sears Gets Into The Holiday Spirit
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#12 Congratulations! Also, Remember You Have A Brain Tumour! :)
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#13 Time To Rethink Your Brand Name
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#14 Papa McDonald’s Doesn’t Even Recognize His Own Son
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#15 Washington Post Creates Page On A Women’s March. Uses The Male Symbol
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#16 Forgetting To Switch From Your Work Account Before Tweeting
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#17 Better Ingredients. Better Pizza. Papa Johns
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#18 USAF Has Zero Chill; Tweet Has Since Been Deleted
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#19 Wow, People Must Hate Their Queso
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#20 Nice One, Standard Bank Sa
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#21 Asus Tweeted And Then Almost Immediately Deleted This Howler
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#22 Social Media Intern Forgot To Log Out Of Ihop Account Before Retweeting
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#23 “My Only Choice Is Comcast” “Thanks For Choosing Comcast!”
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#24 “We’re Number One!”
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#25 So Close, Yet So Far
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#26 Oh No. I Think Verizon Customer Support Missed Something
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#27 Ign Uses A Comparison Between 1080p And 4K Graphics In Tweet; Is Viewed Mostly By Non 4K Devices
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#28 Georgia’s Official Ministry Of Defence Fb Page Went Live Few Minutes Ago
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#29 Black Friday
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#30 Madcatz Attempts To Show Support For France
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#31 Snapchat Decided To Add Trees To Their Location Map
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#32 …wow
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#33 Who Runs The World?
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#34 F
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#35 Do They Really Think Anyone Wants To Pay To Access Their Own Records????
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#36 My God What Bulls**t
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#37 Published This Article 3 Days Before Her Death, Quoted That She “Passed Away Peacefully In Her Home” Yikes
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#38 Found At My Local Target
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#39 Yahoo Not Even Using Their Own Search Engine
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#40 Displaying The Top Comment On Yahoo Front Page
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#41 Who Thought This Was A Good Idea?
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#42 Waltonchain Forgets To Switch Twitter Accounts, Self-Owns By Posting As Winner Of Their Own Contest
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#43 Wait, What?
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#44 Oh You’d Rather Make Your Customers Wait Rather Than Invest In Better Servers? Definitely A Surefire Way To Win Me As A Repeat Customer
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#45 This Madden NFL Giveaway
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#46 Light-Year Is A Measurement Of Distance
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#47 Verizon Strikes Back
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#48 My Sister Received This Email From Zillow
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#49 Um. Retinal?
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#50 I Don’t Think They Understand The Meme…
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#51 “Sorry About All The Corruption And Stealing Your Money For Those First 166 Years…”
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#52 Sky News Just Quoted A Scammer Twitter Account As If It Was Elon Musk Himself
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#53 Feminist And Body-Positive Cosmo Promotes The Story Of A Woman’s Cancer Recovery As A Beach-Bod Strategy
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#54 Celebrate Women’s Day By… Thinking Like A Man?
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#55 Do Local News Stations Count?
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#56 Maccas In A Town Called “Yass”. It Took Them Years Until They Took It Down
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#57 A Nightclubs Response To A Drink (Possibly) Being Spiked
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#58 Why Would You Pick That Particular Business To Go Up Against. Oh Dear
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#59 Someone Forgot To Login To Their Fake Account
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#60 Capital One’s Very Reassuring Statement Regarding The Recent Data Breach
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#61 And This Is Why You Don’t Have Idiots Write Articles
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#62 Ibm May Need To Update Its Job Applicant Page
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#63 Disney Really Didn’t Think This Through
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#64 Not Sure Abc Has This Pie Chart, Math Thing Down
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#65 Thanks, Amazon
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#66 The New Apple Card Needs To Avoid Contact With Leather And Denim
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#67 Wait A Minute
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#68 Person Managing National Stock Exchange Twitter Handle Forgot To Switch Accounts. Xd
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#69 Taiwanese Skin Clinic Uses Umbrella Corp. Logo
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#70 This Is Worse Than Baby Yoda
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#71 Orangetheory Literally Photoshopped A White Dudes Face Onto A Black Persons Body In Their Telephone Training Program
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#72 Radioshack Has Just Stopped Giving S**ts
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#73 Good Job Sign Operator
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#74 The Chief Minister Was Absent For The Meeting So They Photoshopped Him For The Press
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#75 Background Checks Are Important
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#76 Oprah Loves Her Surface!
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#77 Way To Go Casio, At Long Last
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#78 Amazon Prime Using Subtitles From A Pirated Release
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#79 They Are Really Speaking To Their Target Market Here
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#80 We Won’t Spoil It, We Promise
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#81 Corporate Solution To Poverty? This Is So Wrong
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#82 Abc
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#83 Burger King UK Supporting International Women’s Day
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#84 Paypal Support Responding To A Tweet 9 Years Later
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#85 How Thoughtful
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#86 The Official Cover Art For Fifa 21. Not A Highschooler’s First Collage
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#87 Very Confused By This
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#88 (Template)
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#89 Michigan Subaru Dealership Posted The Wrong Superbowl Winner On A State-Wide Advertisement
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#90 Chrysler Hired Someone To Manage Their Twitter Account, The Employee Forgot To Switch Accounts Before Dropping An F Bomb
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#91 Not Sure Their Caption Under The Photo Comes Off As Intended
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#92 Thanks Verizon. Love The Discount
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#93 Somehow, I Don’t Think This Is What MLK Dreamt Of…
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#94 This Contradiction On Linkedin
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#95 I Had No Idea Target, Thanks For Letting Me Know!
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#96 What I Learned In 8th Grade English Is.
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#97 Someone Appears To Have Gamed The System To Protest Counterfeiters On Amazon
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#98 Ah Yes, Alcoholism
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#99 Nice Bit Of Casual Sexism From Virgin Trains To Kick Off The Year
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#100 Hmm
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#101 Nailed The Population Estimate
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#102 Spongebob Tweet Gone Wrong
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#103 Thought This Belonged Here
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