Relatable, Awkward and Work: The eyeball zone

The eyeball zone

By crazylobster - 14/11/2009 16:52 - Australia

Today, I noticed that in my cover letter I wrote, "I also have an eye.", instead of, "I also have an eye for detail", and I have been sending it out for the past few weeks. No wonder I haven't gotten any replies. FML

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By jusfonzin - 16/04/2009 04:09 - United States

Today, I sent a cover letter to a potential employer. In the letter, I talked about my great attention to detail, my strong ability to focus, and my stellar writing skills. After hitting send, I reread the letter and noticed that I typed my name "B-R-A-I-N." My name is Brian. FML

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Attention to detail

By MelodyPW - 19/12/2022 03:00 - Algeria

Today, I wrote an email for a job offer. I checked it, double-checked it, triple-checked it, and then sent it. It's only THEN that I realised my CV wasn't attached. FML

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By anonymouschicka - 01/08/2009 19:20 - United States

Today, I finished doing a resume that I had spent three hours on. I e-mailed it to the business I was applying for, satisfied. I decided to look it over. The first thing I notice, I spelt my own name wrong. FML

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By Max - 04/03/2017 22:00

Today, I sent a thank you note after a job interview, emphasizing my accuracy at editing written reports; I misspelled the company's name. FML

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By Anonymous - 22/09/2009 14:12 - United States

Today, I realized I had misspelled "Education" on all the resumes I've been submitting. FML

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Who am I?

By Frederick - 11/10/2024 20:00 - Canada

Today, I think I've figured out why I haven't had any replies to my job applications, or just weird ones. I was sending them from an old email address, which is something like "69_party_dude_420@…" (that's not the actual address, so don't @ me!) instead of my professional one, which is listed on my CV. FML

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By sam - 26/10/2017 08:00 - United States - Sun Prairie

Today, I realized I sent over 2 dozen job applications with my dating profile word doc instead of my resume. FML

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By Loser - 04/05/2009 20:15 - Canada

Today, I decided to modify my resume since I've handed out over 30 of them in the past couple of weeks and I haven't gotten any calls back. As soon as I opened it on word document, I noticed that I had forgotten to include my phone number for employers to contact me. FML

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You deserved it 74 102

By jobless - 07/02/2010 06:12 - United States

Today, I realized after sending out countless copies of my resume to companies, I failed to add my phone number on it. FML

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You deserved it 31 736

By KayIsKiwi99 - 29/08/2016 19:00 - United States - Houston

Today, I realized after turning in my resume to over 100 job openings over the past month, that the resume I've been submitting does not have my phone number or any other contact information besides my name. FML

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You deserved it 16 213

peroxideprincess 0

Saturday 14 November 2009 20:15

hmm...meaning you really don't have an eye for detail...but you do have eyes. so, what you sent out is basically correct. :)

abes22 0

Friday 15 July 2011 20:17

oh the eye-rony..

Comments

klorehore 24

Friday 4 May 2012 12:43

clearly you don't have that good of an eye for details as you thought ;)

FunkyDivaBird 2

Wednesday 13 June 2012 6:08

One of the best FML's on the site. I laugh every single time I read this!

Abracadavre_fml 9

Wednesday 29 August 2012 10:20

I have an eye, too, OP! :D

decidedlyvague 11

Sunday 28 October 2012 22:44

Looks like your eye isn't the best for details lol. FYL

DarthVader77 9

Wednesday 1 May 2013 16:28

Do not be too hard on yourself: had I been in a position to hire you, Iwould gladly choose s person with ab eye over the one without :)

DjMonroe95 11

Sunday 19 May 2013 12:28

In The wonderful words of Red Foreman "Dumbass!"

threer 30

Tuesday 18 March 2014 14:10

Eye for details indeed.

tlvv 12

Sunday 30 March 2014 21:44

Rule number one of cover letters, don't send out a standard letter to no one in particular. If you wrote a new letter targeted at each job then you would have only stuffed up one application.