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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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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 RIPcareer - 18/10/2015 19:18 - United States - Ellicott City

Today, after submitting my college application, I noticed that I mistyped "math enthusiast" as "meth enthusiast". FML

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By Typidiot - 25/10/2017 01:37

Today, I spent ages writing a draft press release as part of a copywriting job application. I worked really hard and read it through several times before submitting. They emailed me to point out that I'd misspelled the name of the company. Twice. 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 nobodyreadsmyemails - 27/10/2009 22:24 - Canada

Today, I noticed that I've been spelling my company's name wrong in my email signature for over a year. FML

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By Fml24609 - 09/08/2010 08:29 - United States

Today, I misspelled the word "failure" in front of all my co-workers. Now I'm not given any writing tasks. FML

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By figures - 29/11/2009 01:53 - United States

Today, I found out I've been misspelling my middle name for 25 years. FML

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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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By Damn - 06/12/2016 20:12

Today, I applied online for a position and typed, "OH&S Certificate." It autocorrected to, "OH&SHIT Certificate." I didn't notice until the site e-mailed me a copy of my completed application. They'd already received it. FML

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By IBS - 06/05/2014 09:11 - China - Shanghai

Today, after finishing a two hour essay exam that will determine the future of my career, I realized I misread the question. FML

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qwertyone 0

Tuesday 22 September 2009 20:13

An edumacation is a good thing.

hahaha6 0

Tuesday 22 September 2009 20:13

ALWAYS have someone, or more than one person look things like that over for corrections and whatnot. And thats exactly why...

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pjmaster86 1

Saturday 29 May 2010 10:44

spelling error on something as important as a resume? YDI.

TheDarkCynder 2

Monday 9 May 2011 3:36

"I have a great edumajacation."

newpaggliaci 0

Sunday 31 July 2011 0:47

Herp Derp!

Coleahjoan 0

Tuesday 1 November 2011 9:25

The irony of it is that you mispelled "mispelled."

FrinxYell 2

Thursday 21 February 2013 18:38

It's funny because you misspelled "mispelled".

germasian96 7

Wednesday 9 November 2011 6:36

just tell them that your dyslexic :D

friedchickenpie 14

Friday 9 December 2011 6:38

I misspell it like Edjucation a lot.. when I write on paper. Sad, isn't it?

doglover100 28

Thursday 6 March 2014 22:56

How have you been spelling it?

drew60 11

Thursday 14 August 2014 3:57

Edyewkshon

fantasyworld 37

Monday 8 December 2014 5:31

How were you spelling it?

JADsen 11

Wednesday 30 December 2015 19:29

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