Work: Thanks, I guess

Thanks, I guess

By ST3PH - 09/07/2009 19:17 - Canada

Today, my boss requested that I re-organize every file in the office, because she wanted the filing cabinets alphabetized right to left, not left to right. To thank me, she came into my office to give me one uncooked ear of corn. I think my boss has mistaken me for some kind of farm animal. FML

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Thanks mom!

By hatedatwork - 02/09/2019 13:00 - United States - Shreveport

Today, my CEO called and spoke to me like I'm a child. Apparently, she has a surprise for me, "but only if I clean up my office first." She hasn't been to my office in months because she works in another state. Turns out, someone texted her a picture of my messy office. FML

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Not like that

By Anonymous - 03/02/2023 22:00

Today, my boss told me to 'think outside the box'. I did and got lost in a corn maze for hours. FML

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By Anonymous - 10/01/2011 13:23 - Canada

Today, my boss asked for recommendations on how to improve the office. I sent her an e-mail full of my ideas. Later, my boss sent me a reply, saying, "Here's what head office thinks of your ideas." It contained a list of insults upper management made about me. FML

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By Anonymous - 24/05/2011 04:38

Today, my boss ate a small piece of paper off her desk, thinking it was frosting. I have to work for this woman. FML

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By Liz - 11/08/2011 02:21 - United States

Today, my boss became very angry over her own mistake on a spreadsheet. She lashed out by throwing a can of SpaghettiOs at my head. FML

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By MSURebel70 - 16/07/2010 23:48 - United States

Today, I found out I've been incorrectly sorting thousands of papers for the past two weeks. My boss wanted them sorted by date, but the co-worker who instructed me said to sort them into alphabetical order just to watch me fail. FML

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Let him cook

By last literate - 27/10/2011 16:15 - Canada

Today, my boss made me run yet another stupid errand. When I delivered the paperwork to his office, I saw an email printout on his desk. Apparently, he has a plan in the works to get me "fried" next month. I'm not sure whether to give him a letter of resignation or a bottle of barbecue sauce. FML

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By Anonymous - 15/09/2018 14:30 - United States - Buffalo

Today, during a meeting with my boss, she explained she's giving me one more chance before she has to fire me. Her reason? I accidentally ordered chicken on a salad last week for a meeting and she feels my performance has gone down the tubes. FML

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Help yourself

By Anonymous - 13/04/2023 22:00

Today my boss went digging through my drawer, took a pack of gum, and told me I got him the wrong flavor. He kept it anyway. FML

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Lackey

By Anonymous - 12/05/2022 12:00 - Australia - Batesford

Today, at 1 am, I got a message from a colleague, who I have never met, bossing me around requesting "immediately, ASAP" some information a monkey could've found online in 5 minutes. I told her that she sounded rude and unorganised. Ten minutes later, I got a mail from my boss asking me to apologise to her. I did. FML

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Friday 10 July 2009 1:19

Well, that's kinda corny.

vheissu 0

Friday 10 July 2009 1:09

at least you got some corn.

Comments

smoochiepooh213 0

Saturday 6 February 2010 6:38

That was messed up of your boss to do. It would have been better if she didnt give you anything at all.

jammer854 0

Wednesday 17 February 2010 17:07

maybe your boss was trying to tell you something ..*wink wink nudge nudge*

chicabonita5683 0

Monday 13 September 2010 22:14

I don't think this an FML...organizing or not...here in Michigan, it is not uncommon for someone to say thank you buy giving vegetables...especially around harvest time. In the last month my mom has come home with 4 cucumbers and enough cherry tomatoes to fill a small bowl, and she does a job that's a heck of a lot harder and can be more redundant than filing papers. Sounds like an ungrateful employee, not an FML. An FML would be "Today my boss fired me because she/he wanted the papers filed right to left, and I had filed them left to right."

chicabonita5683 0

Monday 13 September 2010 22:31

Also, slightly confused by the point of mentioning that it was uncooked...did you expect her to cook it for you? Shoot, she could have asked you...could you please go through the list and hire someone for that promotion that you applied for? Reorganizing isn't that difficult.

merrielp 13

Thursday 14 June 2012 21:28

I'm confused. Btw corn can be eaten raw. I do it all the time during corn season.

Scarshadow101 6

Sunday 23 September 2012 15:42

LOL. "Some kind of farm animal". Who knows? Maybe that's the way you thank someone greatly where she's from! Accept the corn, go home, cook it, and eat it. Words to live by.