35 Times Brands’ Online Presence Showed The Disarray Of The Company

Anyone who has experienced corporate life knows that things rarely run smoothly. Bureaucracy, jargon, and office politics constantly get in the way of progress. It’s remarkable that any work is accomplished, as people often lack a shared vision and tend to work independently. When you add social media to this already unruly situation, chaos increases.

That’s where the subreddit r/CorporateFacepalm comes in, cataloguing the tone-deaf and disorganised marketing attempts of companies. We’ve collected some of the most memorable and clueless examples to showcase in the gallery below.

#1 Sears Gets Into The Holiday Spirit

#2 Commas Matter

#3 How Did They Not See That Coming

#4 Glad To Hear That

#5 Purell Making Fun Of Sick Kids

#6 Pot, Meet Kettle

#7 Embrace Diversity

#8 A Very Heartfelt Personalized Thanks

#9 Ridiculous

#10 Congratulations! Also, Remember You Have A Brain Tumour! :)

#11 Um. Retinal?

#12 Snapchat Decided To Add Trees To Their Location Map

#13 Better Ingredients. Better Pizza. Papa Johns

#14 So Close, Yet So Far

#15 Capital One’s Very Reassuring Statement Regarding The Recent Data Breach

#16 And This Is Why You Don’t Have Idiots Write Articles

#17 Washington Post Creates Page On A Women’s March. Uses The Male Symbol

#18 “We’re Number One!”

#19 Waltonchain Forgets To Switch Twitter Accounts, Self-Owns By Posting As Winner Of Their Own Contest

#20 Feminist And Body-Positive Cosmo Promotes The Story Of A Woman’s Cancer Recovery As A Beach-Bod Strategy

#21 F

#22 My God What Bulls**t

#23 A Nightclubs Response To A Drink (Possibly) Being Spiked

#24 Forgetting To Switch From Your Work Account Before Tweeting

#25 Yahoo Not Even Using Their Own Search Engine

#26 Til Alaska Apparently Is Not Part Of North America

#27 Papa McDonald’s Doesn’t Even Recognize His Own Son

#28 Background Checks Are Important

#29 Do Local News Stations Count?

#30 Wow, People Must Hate Their Queso

#31 Wells Fargo Wants You To Get A Real Job

#32 Maccas In A Town Called “Yass”. It Took Them Years Until They Took It Down

#33 Time To Rethink Your Brand Name

#34 Black Friday

#35 Oh You’d Rather Make Your Customers Wait Rather Than Invest In Better Servers? Definitely A Surefire Way To Win Me As A Repeat Customer

Shanilou Perera

Shanilou has always loved reading and learning about the world we live in. While she enjoys fictional books and stories just as much, since childhood she was especially fascinated by encyclopaedias and strangely enough, self-help books. As a kid, she spent most of her time consuming as much knowledge as she could get her hands on and could always be found at the library. Now, she still enjoys finding out about all the amazing things that surround us in our day-to-day lives and is blessed to be able to write about them to share with the whole world as a profession.