Work: Today, I found out that whenever a mistake is made at my work,...

By Brinty - 31/10/2009 05:20 - Australia

Today, I found out that whenever a mistake is made at my work, my boss assumes that it was me, unless indicated otherwise, but he has never said anything to me about it because of my 'learning disorder'. I don't have a learning disorder. FML

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By Clumsy & Forgetful - 27/11/2011 06:02 - Canada

Today, I found out why I'm always let off easy when I do something wrong at work. They think I have a mental handicap. I don't. I'm just clumsy and forgetful. FML

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By Anonymous - 12/12/2022 16:00 - United States - Helena

Today, I found out that several coworkers had been complaining about me behind my back for a couple of weeks, including to my manager. When my manager finally brought the issue up to me, he realized that I hadn’t done anything wrong; there was an error in our computer system. Nobody has apologized. FML

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By Should Have Gotten It In Writing - 27/06/2023 06:00 - United States - Morgan Hill

Today, my boss accused me of pursuing a project without his permission that he "wouldn't have approved." I DID get his permission, but he has early Alzheimer's and doesn't remember. He gets upset when anyone suggests that he's misremembering, so all I could do was apologize for not doing something I definitely did. FML

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By Anonymous - 02/03/2021 02:01 - United States

Today, like every day, my boss was complaining about something or other, but this time it was work that I knew he'd done himself, and he still blamed me. FML

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By rrefaat - 28/06/2019 07:00 - United Arab Emirates - Dubai

Today, I thought our CEO had clearly stated that I will only be focusing on my job, and all other stuff will not be my problem. Apparently, I was wrong, because I still get blamed for all the other departments' mistakes, even though I don't manage them. He does. FML

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By Anonymous - 19/06/2014 08:24 - United States - San Francisco

Today, I shouldn't have told my boss that I was interested in management. She now throws any problem she doesn't want to solve at me and either gets mad when I can't work it out or takes credit when I do. FML

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By LuckyLoser9 - 03/11/2011 15:44 - United States

Today, I found out that absentmindedly correcting my boss's use of the word "whom" could result in my immediate termination. FML

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By Anonymous - 08/07/2016 22:09

Today, my boss reprimanded me for a huge screw-up that he was responsible for. FML

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Spelling Bee

By anda1000douchesscourthispostformistakes - 16/09/2015 13:42 - United States - Meriden

Today, I made it onto my boss's shit-list, after pointing out that he'd misspelled "customer" as "costumer" 6 times in his report, and "college education" as "collage education" twice. It'd be a dick move on his part even if making corrections like this weren't part of my damn job. FML

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By Anonymous - 26/05/2016 16:58 - Belgium - De Pinte

Today, my co-workers decided in our meeting with my boss that everything is my fault. When asked for examples, they couldn't come up with any. Now they are mad at me, because I'm apparently good at my job. FML

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Savvysass 0

Saturday 31 October 2009 15:13

play it up....make some kickass mistakes that will make your boss shit himself. You have a get out of jail card, have fun using it.

owtom78 0

Saturday 31 October 2009 15:36

Wow that's mean of the boss to just assume that. And even if you did have a learning disorder, it doesn't make you totally incompetent and unable to be told of your mistakes. I have a learning disorder, and aside from extra services in school that many kids have, I am a perfectly normal, relatively smart student, and if I make a mistake I expect someone to address it to me.

Comments

FarSide 22

Sunday 1 November 2009 5:54

Maybe you just have a denial issue.

quarty165 0

Sunday 1 November 2009 6:20

at least he can't fire you cuz he feels bad...

lhamburgur 0

Sunday 1 November 2009 8:00

most people dont know they have a learning disorder. because they have a learning disorder.

ThisRandomChild 0

Thursday 9 June 2011 9:45

Exactly. How can they learn of their disorder if their disagree tecards learning about things, such as a learning disorder? Wow, thats a never ending vicious cycle

blastvortex 3

Sunday 1 November 2009 10:05

There's a likely reason why your boss would think that in the first place, which means that either you've screwed up one time too many or your associates are giving you problems. Of course, the latter case meaning that you don't stand up for yourself enough means that this probably is a YDI. FYL for having an ass of a boss though.

andrewms 0

Sunday 1 November 2009 12:24

I would play along with this "learning dissorder" thing though - it could possibly make it harder for your employer to fire you :)

Srain 0

Sunday 1 November 2009 13:23

AHAHAHAHA hi-five! I'm a bit of a klutz myself... XD

rachelbrianna25 0

Sunday 1 November 2009 18:43

lmao. easy.

lameshow 0

Wednesday 4 November 2009 0:38

ride it out. they will fire you soon enough.

Dwits 0

Sunday 6 December 2009 22:28

haha

Brinty 4

Sunday 14 March 2010 0:28

see, thing is, I never really stuff up at work, but when there is a stuff up, regardless of who iti s, he assume's it's me. -_- so everyone else benifits more than I do.