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One of the holiday traditions in our house is to work on a puzzle throughout these quiet times. In 2019, we decided on a Clementoni 1,500 pieces puzzle of the Piazza di Spagna in Rome. The goal was to finish in a week but life happened, business travel and the puzzle was harder than I expected. Last weekend, we sat down and decided to get it done by Sunday.

Sunday came around and the one thing happened that should never happen with a puzzle:

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And this:

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And another one

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3 missing pieces. We looked everywhere but it was clear the pieces were never part of the puzzle.

Clementoni had one job: Deliver 1,500 pieces of a puzzle. Nothing else. And they failed. All the LinkedIn Marketing, all the Instagram posts, the terrible website: It’s meaningless and even counterproductive when you don’t do your job.

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And, so we decided not to do our job and spend hours completing the blue sky. Final destiny for this puzzle? Trash.