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 July 26, 2016

I’m going to be a failure

I’m never going to get anything. I might as well think about ending this life. I have no job skills. I’m way out of luck

I’m going to be a failure.

by confused cajun man January 23, 2021

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by Adujasty343 May 25, 2025

Educated failure

A person that is extremely well educated, maybe a lawyer even, but are very f*ing unimpressive and almost comically incompetent when it comes to running for president of a country and having to explain their policies to voters

What do Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren 🤔 have in common? They're educated failures irl.

by Sexydimma October 14, 2024

Failure

The hard part is not rushing through something when it seems like failure is inevitable if you don't hurry up, even though you only get it halfway done when you do that. It's better to fail and not fear it, than to succeed because you fear failure. You never really learn or improve if you only succeed because you're afraid of failure or don't like to lose (nobody really does). Otherwise, you're the kind of person who has a go to bag of nearly limitless tricks to reach for, hoping that the other guy forgot one that you haven't used in a long time.

Failure isn't meant to be fun, not everything in life is.

by Solid Mantis January 23, 2021

Educated failure

A very well educated person but one who is boring and unimpressive irl in terms of their career 🤔

A lot of politicians seem to be educated failures.

by Sexydimma November 2, 2024

sense of humour failure

A phrase used by a manager as an awkward semi-apology after they lose their temper at their employees. This is the closest to an apology you're likely to get.

Prevalent in the UK tech and consulting sector.

(after boss has stopped shouting obscenities at their staff)
"I'm afraid I've had a sense of humour failure..."

by QuartermasterGeralt June 3, 2020