A bomberazo, from bombero, firefighter, is a job that comes up unexpectedly and must be finished at once. The Diccionario del español de México of El Colegio de México records the word as popular.
One of its examples comes from soccer: “Acostumbrado a los bomberazos, todo apunta a que el Tuca Ferretti será el técnico interino de nuestra selección” (Used to bomberazos, everything suggests that Tuca Ferretti will be the interim coach of our national team).
In 2022, the job site OCC asked workers in its Termómetro Laboral survey why bomberazos happen. According to IDC Online, 57 percent named poor organization of daily work, 30 percent a shortage of staff, 7 percent poor planning by leaders and 6 percent errors that forced work to be redone.