Initiatives by inexperienced people who fail to make any effort to understand sustainability.

Restaurants serving food that requires a knife, while forgetting the knife.

Restaurants lacking redundant food preparation systems, resulting in major menu items being unavailable for weeks.

Restaurants focusing way too much on show, and not enough on food quality and service.

When three layers of defense simultaneously fail in operations safety.

Already-pre-mixed spaghetti and sauce at restaurants.

Public officials willfully unconsciousness about compromising their integrity.

Public officials who attempt to enforce prejudice-based, unwritten rules.

Public buildings maintained so poorly as to needlessly accelerate further deterioration.

Unserviceable filters that only get clogged.

People naive about their own Streisand Effect.

When people are consumed by tunnel vision.

People too naive to understand how context can matter substantially.

Suboptimal waffle batter mixes.

Inefficient hotel check-in processes.

Flimsy-gauge wire on digital voltmeters.

People too ignorant to recognize that people see right through their insincerity.

People who get upset when they receive better than what they were promised.

People jealous of others who are the first to think of good questions.

People blissfully unaware of their own confusion.

Muffins inseparably stuck to cellophane wrapping.

Messengers careless with their understanding of the facts who unconsciously burden listeners to point out their inaccuracies.

Chunky peanut butter that settles wrong during shipping.

People who are too naive to think that people can't see through their manipulative ways.

People with cognitive dissonance about their own prejudices.

A la carte burger bars with stale buns.

Recycled plastic products quickly degraded by UV.

Cold solder points on flexible solar panels.

Quantized shift points designed purely for psychological medicine for people who don't understand continuously variable transmissions.

Satellite radio with multiple channels playing the exact same song at the same time.

Exceptionally time-consuming administrative processing of medical laboratory results.

Slow-acting bowel prep medicines.

Nominal-case-only software testing.

Space heater fan motor bushings not rated for thermal transients.

Poor quality control in expensive custom orders.

Taxpayer-funded agencies that impose rules to enhance administrator convenience, at the expense of inefficiency to the entire customer base.

Taxpayer-funded agencies that are decades behind the times in recognizing their own bigotry.

When university presidents are attacked for providing a legally-correct answer to an inquirer who fails to understand the answer.

Misuse of root-sum-square (RSS).

People with inconsistent sensitivities.

Expensive roof shingles that are less hail-proof than solar panels.

Online streaming versions of audio recordings that are recognizably a smite too slow or too fast.

Restaurants with suboptimal personnel resource management.

Restaurants lacking proactive supply maintenance strategies.

Scientists confused between steps and spikes in data.

People passing unwelcome judgment on two other consenting adults having a private conversation.

Intermittently functional scan-to-email devices.

Rotating sprinkler heads that fail to rotate.

Requirements employees are unable to fulfill, due to other, conflicting requirements.

Public agencies set up for failure as a result of bungled socialization.

The failure to widely distribute instructions to a wide audience of people requiring instructions to accomplish a given task.

Parties demanding a change from status quo, followed by requesting a recommendation for change specifics, from other parties who are against a change to begin with.

Hotel chains that fail to perform sufficiently frequent welfare checks on dysfunctional franchise locations.

Stuck Schrader valves.

People who cite their lack of understanding of the purpose of a question as rationale for refusing to answer the question.

Reviewers who respond to inquiries with the carelessness of a 7th grader B.S.-ing her/his way through a homework assignment.

Overextended workplace IT systems.

That pesky, inexplicable, uncontrollable cough.

Online auction sites that strangely change from <list view> to <gallery view> without the consent of browsing client.

Service companies that a) book appointments four days in advance, b) leave a message 2 business hours before the appointment asking a question, c) cancel the appointment 2 hours later, yet d) neglect to notify customer of appointment cancellation.

Four (4) consecutive hotels, all from the same chain, on the same road trip, all with business centers requiring restoration maintenance actions.

People upset about not being able to speak up, who don't actually have anything to say.

Cloud services that advertise “unlimited storage capability” …  that however are actually indirectly limited due to local hosting on space-limited PC (C:) drives.

Colleagues so emotionally defensive that they mistake agreement for disagreement.

Online shippers who accept exchanges for shipping the wrong items, only to exchange for the same wrong items.

Hardware stores that claim to offer free delivery for online purchases but in the end require in-person carry-out after the customer has paid for the items.

Document reviewers who carelessly find a keyword and make scenario-fulfillment-based inferences.

Online auction websites that identify an end time based on the website's timescale, yet provide a countdown clock based on client system time with one-second-level precision, failing to recognize that the website timescale and client system time may indeed be asynchronous by much much more than one second.

Service organizations that impede telephonic contact to try to cut administrative costs.

Disrespect of electromagnetic spectrum allocation.

Auto keyless entry systems with inadequate fail-safe measures.

Auto stop/start vehicle systems that cause disruptions to 12V outlets, and thus accessories.

People who employ passive voice as a means to attempt to construct faux rules/regulations that don't otherwise actually exist.

Sports bars with 45 televisions whose personnel don't know how to change channels.

Contextual twisting of the phrase, "Perception is reality!".

Cold solder joints.

Leaky drain plug gaskets.

People who attempt to hide a candy bar in a sleeping bag when a bear is outside the tent.

The confused eBay seller who complains about lack of payment even after receiving payment.

The eBay seller who acts resentful towards constructive private feedback.

The eBay seller who acts surprised when his account is disabled after abusive communication with buyers.

The eBay seller who pathetically attempts to re-negotiate the terms of a transaction after completion of payment.

Food supplement vendors that ship dl-Alpha tocopherol instead of the ordered d-Alpha tocopherol.

Tests using operational systems, that lack Test & data collection criteria.

Contractors behaving like spoiled brats.

Restaurant servers who deliver your food to the wrong table, and after another customer has placed her/his hands on your food, proceeds to deliver the contaminated food to your table, hoping you won't notice.

The human tendency towards scenario fulfillment.

Managers who want to receive improved reporting, but don't know what they want reported.

Retailers that a) don't update shipping tracking information for a full week, b) ship to the wrong address, and yet c) falsely claim completed shipment, and therefore d) refuse to offer customer service despite their own acknowledgement of incorrect shipping.

Workplace appraisal boards that falsely claim assessment objectivity.

Upper-level organizations that blame lower-level organizations for their own incompetent decision-making.

Managers who set themselves up for failure by directing, "Create a briefing," with no specific direction.

Waiters/Waitresses bringing someone else's food to your table, multiple times during one visit.

Cubicle farm neighbors who throw substantial quantities of unconsumed food into their personal garbage cans before a 4-day weekend and then lock their doors for the duration of said 4-day weekend.

Co-workers who lack cognizance of who has subject matter expertise.

Rubber bypass caps that crack under pressure.

Managers who fail to check with subject matter experts prior to publicly embarrassing themselves by presenting incorrect information.

Freeloaders overcrowding restaurants.

People who hurry to cover up a mistake, who in the process turn a bad situation into something worse.

Database managers who depend on bystanders unearthing documentation from 13.5 years earlier to correct mistakes of said database managers.

Support contractors who become irritated after receiving negative formal feedback after blowing off negative informal feedback.

Hotel clerks who won't stop talking while you're trying to read/sign documentation.

People who directly criticize patterns of others based on unsubstantiated hearsay.

Careless, sick slobs at the workplace.

Misleadingly-titled performance metrics.

Federally-funded "trusted agents" who act like slime balls.

The act of one receiving criticisms for decisions over which one had/has no authority/power.

Lack of transparency about which franchises are, or are not, "participating locations" for corporate promotions.

Improperly sealed artificial sweetener packets.

Flimsy quality office chair seat plates.

Poorly-coordinated network software installs at the workplace.

Leaky air conditioning refrigerant seals.

Sticky automatic transmission parking pawls.

Bureaucracies that advise customers to contact people who were fired months earlier, and furthermore refuse to acknowledge said indisputable personnel change.

Retail outlets with inefficient paperwork processing of $50 bills.

Managerial bullies who behave immaturely when subordinates call the bluffs of said bullies.

Customer service agents who talk but don't listen.

Colleagues who attempt to express disagreement with someone else's [apple] statement by deliberately making another statement about [oranges].

Agencies that point fingers only at each other in the presence of communication problems.

People who label problems as "temporary" without a path forward to resolve.

Public building cafeteria monopolies with lousy service and selection.

Legislative proposals based purely on emotional reaction to recent news events.

HOAs with dysfunctional internal communication.

Excessively talkative rental car agents.

Needlessly defensive nurse practitioners.

Rechargeable batteries designed to replace alkaline batteries, that are oversized relative to alkaline batteries.

People too ignorant to understand the importance of complying with burn restrictions.

Test activities that lack planning for contingencies.

Poorly secured garbage cans.

Frozen door locks.

Flimsy sprinkler valve gaskets.

Flimsy crescent wrenches.

Flimsy snow shovels.

Project managers who respond to requests for discussions by sending standoffish emails and subsequently claiming that such emails supposedly "close" the requests.

Managers who megaphone-effect orders without first checking for proper authorities.

Public agencies experiencing internal miscommunication, resulting in millions of people being falsely accused of failing to file appropriate paperwork.

Workplace lobbyists with "end justifies the means" shortcut mentalities.

Managers who set up meetings to solicit feedback only to say, "Let's take this offline.".

Retail outlets that try to harass prospective buyers who refuse to be opportunistically gauged.

Rebuild kits that don't include replacements for the most fail-prone parts.

Remanufactured items with clumsy cosmetic repairs.

Recliner spring cross-bars, inadequately clamped, that slide out and puncture seat cushions.

The program manager who pays exorbitant amounts of money for a product, but has no idea if/how the customer might use the product.

The ungrateful program manager who resents feedback about how his money is being wasted.

The middle-level manager who perceives impeding information flow as a perk of the position.

The manager, humiliated by losing a previous argument with someone, who tries to start a different argument with the same person solely for the purposes of trying to save face and vindicate the humiliation.

Flimsy quality compression water shut-off valves that fail on the first use/turn.

The manager who introduces meetings with a "no attribution" clause, only to not keep her/his word.

Micromanagers who expect recommendations, don't provide expectations, and then complain that the recommendations don't meet his expectations.

Hosts of 3-hour-long teleconferences who, at the 2 hour, 55 minute point, are politely reminded that they’re running out of time, but who in turn respond by saying, “Oh, well we have this line for the next hour anyway so let’s just keep pressing,” with complete disregard for participants who a) have other conflicting teleconferences commencing at the time of the end of the 3-hour-long teleconference, and b) need to take a humongous p*ss.

The manager who refuses meetings with his own people prior to making technical decisions involving meetings with external agencies.

The manager who expects personnel to be proactive with manager's intent, despite how the manager fails to proactively convey said intent.

Quasi-scientists who attempt to predict future climate behavior based solely on past climate behavior.

People who make unnecessary assumptions when knowledge resources are just a few feet away.

People who expect advice but nevertheless neglect to request, or be receptive to, such.

Operators who execute procedural steps out of order without any grasp of understanding for the necessity of step sequencing as written.

Condiment cases containing curdled cream.

Garden hose spray nozzles with busted return springs.

People creating song lyric web pages who B.S. their way through the words.

Spray bottles with dislodged internal straws.

Drunk bar patrons who, upon seeing a TV broadcast of an ARCA race at Kansas in May, yell out, "Hey, it's the Daytona 500!".

Co-workers who get upset as a result of you answering a yes/no question.

Co-workers who get upset as a result of you asking a yes/no question.

Workplace nudniks.

Appointments for national teleconferences that a) provide a time, but b) fail to unambiguously identify the associated time zone.

Contractors that refuse to share information for which the government has already paid, citing "proprietary" concerns.

Technical colleagues who accuse you of squandering opportunities that, in reality, didn't exist.

Public officials who attempt to blame others for their own conscious violations of instructions.

Public officials who attempt to assert requirements by claiming that inanimate entities supposedly have "needs".

People who follow orders without verifying the legality thereof.

People who lack the discipline to follow instructions.

Operations managers who lack understanding of human factors.

Brand new rubber cement that is dry upon first dispensing.

Waiters who leave the table without letting you finish your order.

Publicly-incentivized laziness.

Mechanical pencils with worn-out lead sleeves, resulting in frequent lead fractures.

Co-workers who participate in meetings without bothering to consider if the right people are participating.

Mobile teleconference participants undisciplined at muting microphones.

People who who assume that their resolution to your complaint is satisfactory, without bothering to check with you.

People who propose changes but don't understand what problems they're supposedly fixing.

Public officials who make offers with unstated strings.

People who show contempt for genuine courtesy.

People who don't understand the concept of backward-compatibility.

People who request document reviews by a short-suspense deadline, and then replace the original document draft with another draft mid-way through the review, after reviewers have already begun performing reviews.

Micromanagers, showing up uninvited, who attempt to commandeer meetings for personal control satisfaction reasons.

External agencies that perform end runs via management, while simultaneously becoming frustrated at the resulting lack of action-officer-level cooperation between agencies.

Public Records Managers who lack the competence to understand the difference between a Record and a Non-Record.

Web browser URL lines that attempt to auto-populate in an unconstructive fashion.

External agencies requesting written feedback on a proposal that itself isn't in writing.

People who become frustrated with other parties, and who in turn frustrate themselves further by uselessly attempting to address said frustration with outside, otherwise uninvolved, third parties.

Online sellers who fail to comply with conditions of a sale agreement, and instead of appropriately refunding the purchase price, attempt to re-negotiate the conditions of what is otherwise a binding agreement.

Hands-free Foot Pull openers on workplace doors that are so counter-sprung that attempted use poses serious risk of dislocating toes.

People who refuse to use logic when performing fault isolation.

Song information website contributors who merely bull$#!+ their way through lyrics.

Newscasters who incessantly begin speech with paralinguistic dental clicks.

CyberSecurity traffic monitoring software susceptible to trojan horses utilizing a weak root password.

Improperly sealed milk cartons.

TV Syndicates that use compression technology to speed up classic shows to squeeze in more commercials.

Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies completely devoid of chocolate chips.

Government contractors who ask you what you would like, only to subsequently engage in a profanity-laced criticism of your answer.

Upper-level managers who obligate subordinates to perform damage control against embarrassing comments made by said managers.

New printer cartridges that dry up after one print, months before stated expiration date.

The abuse of local ballots with unethical/illegal propositions/initiatives/amendments.

Packaging material that sticks to a product to the extent of necessitating product damage to remove.

Managers who take advice from external agencies, yet fail to remember to ask within for advice.

Managers who attempt to hold technical discussions at manager-only levels, and not surprisingly screw up the discussion because of their technical ignorance.

Workplace colleagues who misquote you for the sole purpose of constructing artificial paper tigers that they may in turn attack, as a diversion from the weakness of their own positions.

Aftermarket auto parts warehouses with exceptionally incorrect part number data bases.

Restaurants with staged waiting just to get a table, despite customers calling ahead an hour in advance.

Gyms closed for a pandemic that nevertheless charge monthly dues.

People who continuously cuss, however know only two cuss words.

People who refuse to answer your question, and yet insist on answering a question that you didn't ask.

Managers abusive to employees and yet sycophantic to external parties.

Auto service departments who drive customer cars in reckless fashion.

People who whimsically abuse government resources without justification or requirement, and then in turn use circular logic to rationalize.

Neoprene that deteriorates within weeks after purchase.

People who denounce sexism, but practice sexism.

Hurricane report graphics loaded with symbols, yet lacking a legend defining said symbols.

People overconfident in their knowledge and/or intelligence.

Sealed watches without battery replacement capability.

Working group members who attack another member for making a suggestion, despite the fact that the preponderance of the group has adopted said suggestion.

People who, with prejudice, but without foundation, presumptively accuse others of prejudice.

People who falsely criticize generalized tolerance comments as supposedly being racist.

People who twist the words of speakers 180 degrees, and then proceed to attack the speaker for their own slander.

People who equate silence to violence, and then proceed to violently react to non-silence.

People who don't make a distinction between logic and inference.

People who endorse written technical rationale that they haven't even read.

Problem identifiers who state artificially-elevated urgencies.

Teleconference participants dialed in from home who are less audible than their out-of-control children.

Leaky nozzles on fully pressurized paint spray cans.

Teleconference participants whose personal phones are constantly producing loud DINGs from received personal text messages.

Online sellers who refuse to take responsibility for problematic shipping.

People who have no judgment as to how much [6 feet] is.

People who say, "I'm not trying to argue....." and then proceed immediately to argue.

Teleconference moderators who frequently interrupt speakers by saying, "Who just dialed in?"

Disastrously unprepared Disaster Preparedness programs.

People too naive to understand when olive branches end up only rewarding bad behavior.

Television program guides that fail to account for Daylight Saving Time (DST) transitions.

Officials who mislabel a [recommendation] as [supposed direction].

Flimsy cereal box cardboard.

Restaurants that lose customer orders.

Careless adjudication.

Sports leagues that change season-strategy-affecting rules, mid-season.

HVAC repairmen who fail to communicate with homeowners prior to making incorrect assumption-based household modifications, despite said homeowners standing a few feet away.

HVAC repairmen lacking repair parts during repair appointments.

Bar tenders who attempt to turn on NASCAR when in fact NASCAR is off-season.

Managers who attack subordinates who illuminate said managers for telling white lies.

Public officials who don't stop to check the inappropriateness of the scope of their answers prior to answering questions.

Abuse of "end justifies the means" mentalities in public decision-making.

Bullies unprepared to handle when people stand their ground against bullying.

Concert ticket websites that are unable to process orders from landline IT devices.

Squeaky rubber isolators.

Falsely-advertised wattage ratings on retail solar panels.

Belt-driven mechanisms within CD players that could otherwise work better designed with gear-driven mechanisms.

Toilet adjustable ballcock repair kits that last less than a year.

The colleague who willfully lets alcohol attack the inhibition centers of the brain that exist for a reason.

Inter-agency interfaces that fail to track and update POC lists.

Charities that expend obscene percentages of donations on telephone solicitation.

Cable television/internet companies who opportunistically take illegal short cuts when burying cable.

Very poorly-planned office furniture moves.

Town Hall meetings with terrible wireless microphone PA systems.

Managers who refuse to accept their ignorance of the size of their blind spots.

Restaurant hosts who serve food you don't order, only for you to refuse said food, which said host promptly discards into the trash.

Auto salvage yards not organized by make.

Organizations that create excessive dependency on people enabling the incompetence of other personnel, based on expediency/convenience as opposed to respecting lanes of responsibility.

The organization who criticizes others for actions while being too misinformed to realize that said organization is actually responsible for said actions.

People who try to rationalize arguments they lose on substance, by criticizing someone else's "tone".

People who spend more time making excuses for their shortcomings than fixing their shortcomings.

Global Navigation Satellite Systems with inadequate redundancy in timescale management.

Supervisors who blindly trust systems they do not have understanding of, or experience with, despite cautions from subordinates who do.