foul-up

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If the reverse happened, it would be seen as a foul-up. Facebook did the same when they announced "Likes" on external web sites.

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an embarrassing mistake

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noun

an embarrassing mistake

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for foul-up.

noun

an embarrassing mistake

Example sentences

If the reverse happened, it would be seen as a foul-up. Facebook did the same when they announced "Likes" on external web sites.

On the other hand you need just one cost-cutting round or one unforgivable support foul-up to lose 10% of your revenue overnight. Model A likely won't see that kind of volatility.

Below is the rant I sent to their complaints department after I had decided to ditch them after one foul-up too many. tl;dr: It took me weeks to register; they refused to expedite new codes to me after a cockup at their end; then when they eventually allowed me to use the service they declined EngineYard and Google apps payments every single month for over a year for "fraud prevention reasons".

I've experienced this in many different scenarios, from the time I was volunteering in high school for a big school performance event, the first time I was working a cash register and tried to return the correct change to a person, first big tech foul-up that majorly impacted a client, and various crisis-level incidents managing tech at the 2010 Olympics. As I've gone through life and experienced more and more difficult things, I've realized that stress very relative.