Fail Pong

(N) A situation in which multiple levels of the chain of authority recurringly issue conflicting instructions or directives for appropriate action and punish any the inevitable resulting violations. Whichever side of the subordinate lands on, he will get the crap knocked out of him by someone.

This job is total fail pong. I go to the boss and tell him the solution is Y. The boss orders me to do X. I then get an email from the boss's boss asking why the fuck I did X instead of Y, and then I get bitched out by the client. No matter which way you go, you're screwed.

by Frustrated_Monolingual January 27, 2010

All-Fail

The complete and universal repeated failure at a task.

I was working on the car, but it went all-fail when everything I tried ended in failure.

by mdfiasco December 15, 2009

Nerd Fail

A nerd fail occurs when someone with exceptionally well grades (in the 95%ish area) receives anything below 85% on an assignment, quiz, test or exam.
It isn't a fail through the eyes of their peers, but to them THEY FAILED!

1: gah ...im so upset i got 83% on my science test. i failed.
2: you should be happy 83% is really good, totally not a fail.
1: 83% is a very big nerd fail to me.

by Sannah Banana October 3, 2011

senses fail

Senses Fail are awesome!! They are the best screamo band out there. The lyrics are depressing and a bit stupid about killing etc, so you could call them emo but the actual music isn't pop-punk its is kool as!! Senses Fail (btw if you like senses fail check out behind crimson eyes the awesome screamo aussie band)

Awesome senses fail songs:
Free falling without a parachute, the irony of dying on your birthday, one eight seven, cute when you scream, dreaming a reality...

by *_MiLLiE_* December 28, 2005

Failenware

When your Alienware computer decides to fail. This happens by not starting at all, freezing constantly, or giving one a "disc read error." You are fucking stupid if you buy a Failenware.

Fuck, my Failenware won't start again and I called customer support and they didn't help with shit...again.

by Jklo June 22, 2008

senses fail

a good emo/screemo band from the east coast. I saw they play in europe and they kicked ass. Seriously underrated, listen to them instead of Simple plan.

if you don't like Senses Fail, you're a penis battler

by davide November 23, 2004

Fail up

This timeless quote by Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett is inspiring and simply means to learn from ones missteps, learn our lessons and get going again. 'The most important thing is to strive to move forward continually. Some days we make great progress in some areas; other days we seem to slide a bit. If we were to chart our progress on a board, it has ups and downs, but overall it should move upward as we live and learn from our mistakes and failures. This is the heart of Failing Up.' Source: The Single Greatest Secret of Leadership: 'Fail Up', from an article in Forbes Magazine

"Ever tried. Ever failed.
No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." ~ Samuel Beckett

New mantra: Fail fast

Every day that we wake up, we get another chance to get it right, to bounce back from failures big and small - to fail up.

by Dumdum November 22, 2013