Work: Today, I spent all day organizing a list of electronic parts...

By Colormered - 12/01/2010 15:08 - France

Today, I spent all day organizing a list of electronic parts for my boss. I found the easiest way was to color problem parts in the spreadsheet red and okay parts green. After I finished at the end of the day, I found out my boss is red-green colorblind. FML

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Same thing different taste

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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Get creative

By Anonymous - 13/05/2021 00:01

Today, I was put in charge of painting a storage shed. The company owner ordered me to paint it a shade of blue. The site manager order me to paint it red. My boss ordered green paint. FML

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Dumbass

By SpookyBiscuits - 27/12/2016 16:27

Today, my boss wants to sort people in his contact list by last name, so I showed him how to switch the sorting from first to last. He tried to correct it by writing the first name in the last name spot and vise versa. Now he wants me to go through and change them all back. All 200+ of them. FML

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Timewaster

By DanielleinDC - 07/10/2023 17:30

Today, I learned my boss, the CEO of a multinational nonprofit, is so computer illiterate that he hadn't realized he could resize the File Explorer window on his computer, leading to days of delay of him getting work to my team, and a lot of unhappy notes. FML

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Tedious

By Lincoln - This FML is from back in 2009 but it's good stuff - Australia

Today, I had to sit here for 8 hours copying and pasting thousands of product codes on a frigging spreadsheet. My job title is not data entry, I'm a graphic designer. FML

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By RainbowSuck - 07/02/2017 16:00 - Canada

Today, after passing various interviews and tests, I was given a great job pending a pre-employment medical test. Now I'm jobless and colorblind. FML

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By colorblind - 05/07/2009 21:49 - United States

Today, I found one of those online color blindness tests where you have to distinguish a colored number from the pattern. Not being able to, I spent hundreds of dollars on medical tests to discover that the pattern online was a joke. FML

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Self report

By Anonymous - 07/12/2022 10:00

Today, at work, I had to analyze timecards data and generate a report on the least billed / occupied people at work. I found myself at the bottom. I sent it to my boss too. FML

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Great replacement

By Bottom feeder - 08/01/2016 03:41 - Hong Kong - Ngau Tau Kok

Today, my boss dropped a highly important and dense report on my desk that had to be finished by the end of the day. After the initial panic attack and hours of scrupulous work, I finished. She then asked me to pick up the revised copy, where my name was replaced with hers. FML

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Cones

By Blinkin - 08/09/2021 02:00

Today, I recently woke up colourblind and so far no doctor or surgeon can tell me why. I'm a graphic designer, I went to university and put years of practise into this specific skill set, I need to see in colour or this could cost me my job and ruin my career prospects. FML

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someguy945 0

Tuesday 12 January 2010 20:31

How about a column where you put "Good" or "Problem"? Then you can sort the spreadsheet by that column. And if you really want colors, you can sort the spreadsheet by good/problem and apply/change the colors in 2 seconds. Then you change back to the default sort.

me5 0

Tuesday 12 January 2010 20:21

ironic. Utterly ironic!

Comments

munchimonki 0

Friday 15 January 2010 20:41

Uh...a macro would fix that in like, 2 seconds. Unless you used conditional formatting, in which case you could fix it in 0.2 seconds. My husband is color blind and sheets that have green and red really close together confuse him, but seriously, this is not an FML.

brmcconnaughey 0

Friday 22 January 2010 1:13

haha, it seems like a coincedence but its true! lol, my dad is the same way

anton4223 3

Monday 31 January 2011 5:52

*shooting star** "the Moreee you know. "

grooglius 0

Sunday 7 August 2011 19:33

if you did this in a spreadsheet it should take about 1 minute to fix it...

jake3292 5

Thursday 8 September 2011 14:26

What are the chances of that happening?

Theclarksondales 8

Friday 4 November 2011 18:42

I'd just underline the red(or Green) Parts and them he should be ok

catielala 4

Wednesday 4 January 2012 4:28

them how does he drive?!

Steffi 26

Friday 21 June 2013 15:44

No-one said he could drive, and if he does, he would have just learnt the position of the red/green lights.

Malfurious 17

Saturday 5 October 2013 22:47

Fair play to you for having some ingenuity OP, I wouldn't sweat it too much unless it is a really serious form of R/G Colour Blindness then he should be able to distinguish shades of colours :)