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Word of the Day: Fiasco
Show me an idiot in a leadership role, and I’ll show you a fiasco waiting to happen.
Why? Well, because a fiasco is a complete and utter failure.
Not only is a fiasco a failure, but it is a humiliating and stupid one.
A perfect and very timely example of a fiasco is the so-called Abenomask program.
The last numbers I have seen in the Mainichi Shimbun say that it will cost 26 billion yen or US$241.96 million to manufacture and deliver 130 million masks to Japanese households.
First of all, the cost is way too expensive.
Second, the money is going to companies that no one has ever heard of.
Third, they have not been delivered yet.
Fourth, many have been recalled.
Last, the only one I’ve ever seen wearing the stupid things is the Prime Minister himself.
The total program is a failure or, in other words, a textbook example of a fiasco.
That is, of course, an extreme, expensive and very public example of a fiasco.
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I’m sure that you’ve had your own personal example.
When my wife and I were living in Vancouver, Canada, she decided to make pizza from scratch.
I won’t go into too much detail, but let me tell you, I am now the only one in our house who makes pizza.
My wife did the best she could, God bless her heart, but what came out of the oven that evening was not pizza – we had to eat it with a spoon because it was more like soup than a pizza.
Yes, we did eat it, and yes, we did laugh at it, but until today, I have never discussed the Great Vancouver Pizza Fiasco.
It’s quite a touchy subject for my wife.
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