Some tasks are more daunting than others, and the bigger the task, the more room there is for error. Occasionally though, it is the simplest and most straightforward of tasks that end poorly. It's okay to make mistakes, we all do it, but sometimes the mistake is so silly and unavoidable that whoever made it should have thrown in the towel long ago. To what can we attribute these simple yet obvious screw-ups to? Exhaustion? Mind-numbing repetition? Just plain stupidity? Perhaps just the malfunction of an overworked factory machine. Even machines aren't always perfect.

Whatever it may be, it does create something for us to laugh at. From switched labels to poor construction to downright offensive products, here are 15 people who should have called it a day long before they finished the job. Straight from Reddit's /r/onejob, these images will have you mentally screaming, "You had one job!"