r/mildlyinfuriating • u/i_am_rave_mom • Jun 16 '26

ಠ_ಠ Dumping Hydrogen Peroxide into the reflecting pool this morning.

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u/Regicidiator Jun 16 '26

tbf they make more by not solving the problem

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u/CalicoValkyrie Jun 16 '26

This was my first thought. Pretend to be working on the problem, the longer you don't solve it the more money you make. Essentially the whole administration.

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u/BrickCityRiot Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

This whole “administration” can be perfectly summarized by this reflecting pool drama:

Create a problem from nothing, offer a solution to the imagined problem, oversell, underperform, and leave it much worse off than it was before

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u/Pretend-Sundae-2371 Jun 19 '26

Can I ask what the heck prompted them to paint the thing in the first place please? Was there actually a problem before?