37 Poor Choices That Led To Major Downfalls In These People’s Lives

Prince Andrew

He had the opportunity to do nothing or anything with his life and either way he'd still have been wealthy and lived an extremely comfortable life. All he had to do to secure the most comfortable life ever was to not be a a freaking pervert.

A couple years ago I would have said 'anyone who was found on Epstein's list', but alas, they all seem to be doing really well unfortunately.

You guys are all talking celebrities and social media scandals.

William Kampiles had always wanted to be spy and he was lucky enough to end up working for the CIA after college. Unfortunately, his job was not being a spy, it turns out that takes training. His job was boring and he didn't have time for training, so he hatched a plan.

He would steal a spy satellite manual from the CIA and quit his job. He would then fly to Greece, walk into the Soviet embassy and sell that manual. Now here comes the brilliant part: he would then call the CIA and let them know he had done this so they would be impressed and give him a job as double agent.

For some reason, the US government was not impressed and sent him to prison instead.

A woman I went to grad school with...she had just landed a job doing data analysis for this organization when covid lockdowns started.

She got drunk and started DMing Asian students from our University (some who graduated with us and some still finishing their degrees) telling them to go back to China, along with other much worse stuff I won't repeat.

They took screenshots and emailed them to the director of our graduate program as well as the organization where she worked. In less than 24 hours, she lost her job and all ties to our graduate institution, and gained significant infamy in the field.

Coldplay couple. That clip is still funny every time

Jussie Smollett.

He was already on a popular show, he had already made it as an actor. Faking a hate crime to try to increase his popularity and show salary?

Just dumb.

Probably John Edwards. He was running for president and had an affair and fathered a child out of wedlock while his wife was passing of cancer. Ruined his reputation and political career.

That lady from Smallville, Allison Mack. Decided to take a promising and active acting career, into feeding a crazed lunatic cult leader a steady diet of girls for him to use and hurt.

D4VD.

NetworkEcstatic:
Never even heard of this dude until my sister sent me an article saying a body had been found in his tesla. She was all... "this is terrible. He's on tour, I love him who would do this." I responded with...he did. I guarantee it. No one breaks into your tesla to hide a body.

Terry Kath, guitar player for Chicago. Playing with a weapon that he thought was unloaded he put it up to his head and pulled the trigger.

Ezra Miller

At the height of his career he groomed a twelve year old girl, strangled some woman at a night club, lots of weird incidents where he was either arrested or accused of doing shady things, and claiming he was a Messiah, to just name a few of the career ending things he did.

Anthony Weiner.

Up and coming young Democrat married to Hillary Clinton’s right hand woman.

Dumb photos and stupid scandals. Idiot.

I used to work with some guys in the Oil & Gas industry. They were actually really great to work with, and generally fun. They made very good money (especially since most of them had no formal education past high school) and bought houses, cars, trucks, toys, etc...

They got busted for falsifying expense reports.

Like they would go to a restaurant, and buy gift cards for that restaurant, and then expense it and then pocket the money. I can't imagine that they each maybe netted less than $2-3k on the "enterprise".

So, they went from being some of the top earners in the small-ish oil and gas tech company (that was a subsidiary of a very large company) to out on the street and probably branded a bit around the industry. All for like less than one week's worth of pay.

Lots of people these days who go online and post themselves doing something stupid in their work uniform or saying something horribly offensive.

Will Smith ruined his big Oscar win by slapping Chris Rock over a joke about his wife's hair.

Late to the party, but anyway:

I work for a major retailer. Screw it, I work for Nike.

One of our department managers went all in for the job. He was already a sneakerhead when he got hired, literally has a Swoosh (the Nike logo) tattooed ON HIS NECK and quit his university degree when he was offered a promotion.

He was promising, great feedback, well liked.

Then he stole from the company. Stupid way, freaking obvious. Was fired immediately, sued and is now unemployed, without a degree but has a criminal record.

Bill Burr. All this eat the rich, be principled grandstanding. Then turns around, takes a bunch of Saudi government money and got extremely weird and combative with his fans.

O.J. Simpson. Remember when he ended those folks?

Gerald Irving Ratner. He was formerly chief executive of the British jewellery company Ratner Group. Ratner achieved notoriety after making a speech in 1991 where he jokingly denigrated his company's products as "total trash", leading to the company's near-collapse and his exit from the business in 1993. The notorious speech led to the creation of the phrase "doing a Ratner", meaning to make ruinous comments about your company or products.

Remember that guy who posted on Reddit many years ago about how he was at a work conference at a hotel (fairly senior fellow IIRC) and harassed a guest (not affiliated with his work) at the hotel pool, and she reported it to the hotel staff, who reported it to his boss, who fired him?