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By anahira6 - 27/09/2013 19:41 - United States - Houston

Today, my boss's son is training to take over my job as head translator, after having convinced his dad that he's fluent in Spanish, and that my skills suck. I soon walked in on him using Google Translate on a legal document. My boss refuses to believe me. FML

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Same thing different taste

By zoosmell pooplord - 02/09/2012 19:41 - Norway - Geilo

Today, my boss got angry at me because my English is better than his. He accused me of trying to steal his management position, and implied that I'll be lucky if I still have a job by the end of the month. FML

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Bosses gonna boss

By Anonymous - 15/12/2024 08:00 - United Kingdom

Today, I noticed I spend most of my day translating French, German, and other languages for my boss, as he talks to people overseas. As his assistant I make crap money. If I were promoted to a Translator I’d make a lot more. He won’t promote me. In fact he threatened to fire me if I asked again. FML

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By PuddlePirate - 07/09/2012 16:23 - United States - Mountain Iron

Today, my co-worker and I were having a conversation in Russian. Our boss overheard us talking, shouted, "I know you're talking about me! I speak Spanish too!" and threatened to fire us. FML

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By Claudine - 30/06/2015 06:18 - Belgium - Liège

Today, my boss is on the phone with a Russian customer, who keeps saying, "Speak Russian please!" My boss asks me to translate, as he hired me for my knowledge of Russian. He says something, I translate in Russian, then the customer says, "Speak English please!" FML

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Communication Breakdown

By rosie - 08/03/2021 13:59

Today, I was unable to communicate with a customer who only spoke French. As a result, my boss called me a "monolingual idiot." I speak Spanish, German, and Japanese. FML

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You deserved it 73

Get out

By hackshack - 08/06/2012 19:45 - Brazil - Porto Alegre

Today, my English teacher kicked me out of class for being "rude and disruptive." In actuality, I had called her out for having blatantly used Google Translate for several example sentences, all of which sounded as if a semi-literate foreigner had constructed them. FML

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Meritocracy

By Anonymous - 04/12/2023 05:00 - United Kingdom

Today, my boss brought his son in as our new manager. This kid has zero experience in our industry and yet waltzed into a £75,000 job where his sole responsibility is telling me how to do a skilled job I started before he was born. Plus half the stuff he tries to tell me is incorrect. Cretin. FML

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You deserved it 87

By anon_1996 - 08/05/2013 16:59 - United Kingdom - Haslemere

Today, my boss asked me to read through a document. I gave my feedback, saying it seemed like it had been written by an 8-year-old. Turns out it was in fact written by him. FML

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Differences

By Anonymous - 17/06/2014 15:28 - United States - Saint Louis

Today, I almost got written up for insubordination by my boss. All I did was explain to him that I couldn't help a tourist out because I speak Japanese, not Korean, and that it's not in fact "the same Asian shit" as he seemed to think. FML

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Genius

By cunting cuntface of a boss - 25/02/2014 20:42 - Australia

Today, I had to proofread a document my boss had written. When I pointed out that he spelled "college" as "collage" multiple times, he angrily accused me of trying to make him look stupid. This is the guy who constantly boasts about his "genius" IQ level to the whole office. FML

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hghrider123456 9

Saturday 28 September 2013 1:16

bad time gonna have he translate

hghrider123456 9

Saturday 28 September 2013 1:22

bad time have sarcasm with you

Comments

Nobody_Nowhere 12

Sunday 29 September 2013 5:35

...Google translate isn't even all that accurate. I was once texting a 'friend' and decided to translate a phrase to a foreign language and send it to her. It was supposed to say "You're mean. You think punching me is funny. I don't like you.". My 'friend' translated the phrase back into English also using google translate. Apparently it had translated to "You are meaning. I think if you punch me, you is interesting. I do not like you." ...yeahhhhh.

mrcbh 6

Sunday 29 September 2013 17:32

Snitches get stitches..

Bradley_Dillon 39

Thursday 10 October 2013 6:06

Snitches are bitches!

cho_bee 9

Monday 30 September 2013 1:15

Find a new job, quick. Using Google for legal documents; that's rich! I wish I could see that.

realjojo 11

Monday 30 September 2013 5:28

Google Translate on a legal document? Wow, don't bother to get evidence, get a new job. This company is going down...

katie1474 4

Monday 30 September 2013 20:05

and Google translate isn't a reliable source when translating. I'm a spanish major...trust me.

onemellowidiot 2

Tuesday 1 October 2013 3:52

OP, like all the guys above, I'm saying you gotta go and try for a new job elsewhere. Working under your current boss will only be mental torment for you. Good luck.

Bradley_Dillon 39

Thursday 10 October 2013 6:03

Finding a job can take months if you don't have good references, though!

razor12 2

Tuesday 1 October 2013 22:45

It doesn't prove anything. A translator can use Google Translate to see some better variants, synonyms etc. There is no crime in using it. As a translator I do usually use Google Translate, or search for some terms to better understand them etc. You are simply too angry on him. But his use of Google Translate doen't make him a bad translator. PS. No, I do not translate to - or from - English professionally.

Bradley_Dillon 39

Thursday 10 October 2013 6:01

Most of the time Google translate uses basic words, though.

razor12 2

Tuesday 1 October 2013 22:50

PS. And when you have a VERY big text, you may use a machine translation just not to type a lot of text. Sometimes it's easier (and faster) to edit machine text, however crooked it might be, than typing all the same long words. Machine translation enginges usually set in the text correct words, but with wrong grammatical connections between them.