More You Had One Job . . .

“You had one job. . . “

Response to failing to do the one and only thing you had to do. This is told, either in a disgusted, mocking, or angry tone to people, animals, inanimate objects, and anything else that fails to complete the simple task for which it was designed.  A way to express total fail, epic fail, especially when the one job was very simple.

-        Urban Dictionary

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=you%20had%20one%20job

First recorded use:

Anne-Arky:

A Play in One Act

By Lindsay Price, 1995”

Pg. 25:

JULIE: You had one job. One job in the whole show. You had to lay a rope across the stage and you forgot.

https://www.quora.com/Where-did-the-expression-you-had-one-job-come-from-Was-it-a-film-a-TV-show-etc

Gallery:

Yass is a town in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, 280 km south-west of Sydney, on the Hume Highway.