These People Followed Instructions A Bit Too Literally

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This is how you know a boss doesn't know how to run his company: he had asked his IT employee to send him all of the user permissions in the backlogs of the website. So, that's what the IT employee did despite telling him that's not really possible. Is this what he wanted? Probably not, but it's what he asked for. 

Not Quite, But It Works

They asked the cake designer to put "a big 50" on the cake. Instead, the cake designer wrote "Big 50." It's fine, since a lot of people like to say, "the big five-oh" when referring to their friends turning fifty, but it's definitely not what they had asked for! 

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.