'I was the lucky person tasked with "printing the intranet"': 30+ Employees share their funniest facepalm moments at the workplace

What would you do if your boss asked you to print the whole internet page by page? Or what if they asked you to water the plants while it was literally raining outside? These people shared stories of the absolute dumbest things their bosses have ever done---including those two examples above!

Some bosses rely heavily on their employees to keep things running. For example, in some offices, the assistants will be the first ones in and the last ones out, tasked with answering phones, working with clients, or keeping the office clean and stocked. Then bosses will stroll into the office around noon with questions about how things are being done. No matter if the office is working perfectly well---some managers think they need to implement their own changes in order to prove they're good at bossing people around. But if your office is already running smoothly, and the boss's ideas make your life harder, it's hard not to facepalm at your supervisor's decisions.

And, as you can read below, these bosses span a variety of industries. Some people just fail upward, I suppose.

Check out these dumb-as-a-rock bosses below. Then, check out these people who had one job, and still couldn't get it right.

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