F#!K-UP Festival Turns Failure Into a Contest

Field notes

The format moves from small-group storytelling to a full-room final: participants answer five standard questions, groups select representatives by pointing, and the audience chooses the winner by applause. The site’s Wall of Shame is framed as a searchable lesson library rather than a humiliation device, with anonymization available where needed. A sample entry, fuf-0001, records a new employee who passed workplace criticism up the chain after only one week on the job.