Term for Laziness that Backfires [duplicate]
Solution 1:
shortsighted
There’s a phrase in Spanish — flojo trabaja doble — which translates as a lazy person works twice as hard. I mutter it to myself when I’m struggling to unload all the groceries in one trip instead of just making multiple trips. What happened was I was shortsighted TFD
Lacking in foresight
If I’d thought ahead, I would have realized unloading everything at once would be much more cumbersome than splitting it up.