Miscellaneous: Today, I was giving a lecture to my class I heard a phone go...

By emkaycutie - 29/03/2009 18:41 - United States

Today, I was giving a lecture to my class I heard a phone go off. Aggravated and exhausted, I asked everyone to turn their phones off. Then the phone rang again. I lost my shit and spent the next half hour calling my students a bunch of "technology whores". Then I realized the phone was mine. FML

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By Tytonic - 03/02/2020 14:00 - United States - Chevy Chase

Today, my teacher yelled at me for using my phone in class. I apologized out loud, knowing that it would help me get off easier. She was yelling at somebody else. FML

I agree, your life sucks 756

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Vibrate mode

By ChiefKoala - 27/01/2020 14:00 - United States - Rockwood

Today, my stomach growled so loudly in class that my professor told us to make sure our phones were silenced. FML

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Surveillance

By HiddlePuff - This FML is from back in 2015 but it's good stuff - Australia

Today, while teaching my class, I hooked my laptop up to the projector and put on a documentary. I left it playing and went to the toilet. When I came back, the whole class was talking to my mother. She must've Skyped me while I was gone and someone answered the call. FML

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By King_of_hearts - 04/04/2014 23:46 - United States - Plymouth

Today, my phone rang just seconds after I left a conference meeting to go use the restroom. It wouldn't have been a problem, except it seems one of my friends thought it would be funny to change my ringtone to a woman having an orgasm. FML

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By :/ - 01/10/2013 10:18

Today, I purposely set my phone off in class to make it seem like I had friends. FML

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You deserved it 17 484

Are you OK?

By anon - 15/08/2024 20:00 - United States

Today, my phone rang during a meeting. I quickly silenced it, and put it in my pocket. A few minutes later, my boss’s phone rang. It was me, butt-dialing him while we were sitting in the same room. He answered and asked if I had something urgent to discuss. I did not. FML

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You deserved it 392

By Anonymous - 18/08/2019 22:00

Today, I needed to call my mom to get some info so I dialled the number on my work phone. Not 2 seconds after, my cellphone rang. I got super pissed off because I hate when people call me on my cell at work. It was me. I'd dialled my own number. FML

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Hello?

By Anonymous - 16/01/2021 04:01 - United States - Milwaukee

Today, my friend's phone rang in class and my teacher thought it was me, so now I have detention for a week. FML

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You deserved it 110

By NotInMiddleSchool - 20/11/2009 17:24 - United States

Today, as I was yelled at by a middle school teacher in front of 30 6th graders for breaking the rule of "no cell phones in school." Luckily, I escaped being sent to the office after explaining I'm a 21 year old college student doing student teaching observations, not a middle schooler. FML

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By Daniella - 12/11/2020 11:03 - Indonesia - Jakarta

Today, I accidentally unmuted my mic during a class, and normally it would've just been silence, but dumb old me just had to sing a song at the top of my lungs, and I only stopped when my phone blew up with notifications. Great. FML

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You deserved it 1 154

napoleandynamite 0

Sunday 29 March 2009 23:16

hahha happend to my teacher too. u shouldnt have yelled tho

andelizastrin 0

Sunday 29 March 2009 23:17

Way to go, champ. Don't you know? When you assume, it makes you look like an ass :)

Comments

NorfolkDude 2

Monday 30 March 2009 0:56

I think you should have given everyone an F----- that's like below 0.

insomniacdude 0

Monday 30 March 2009 0:57

You totally deserved it. 100%. One of my profs has a good tactic against cell phones. If a cell phone goes off in the middle of class, there will be a quiz at the beginning of the next class for everyone, no exceptions. Well he did that for the Freshmen intro-level course last semester. I'm in a senior level course with him this semester and he doesn't do that, so I guess he simply has higher expectations for the upperclassmen he teaches.

PollySighDevil 0

Monday 30 March 2009 0:58

It seems to happen a lot... my professors do it all the time

blackkohl 0

Monday 30 March 2009 1:06

never lose your cool.. even if it were a student's phone, you still would've looked like an ass for screaming. you don't have to yell to be strict and enforce a no-cellphone policy.

fudgemylife12 0

Monday 30 March 2009 1:06

Karma. I wonder what your kids said after you realized it was your phone.

Joshya 0

Monday 30 March 2009 1:11

Anyone else get the thought that this wasn't posted by the teach, but rather by a student slightly exaggerating the events that took place?

usaywhat 0

Monday 30 March 2009 1:12

as a student i hated teachers that did that and as a teacher know still do so i try to follow the same rules as the students to me you just lost all there respect

DickRice 0

Monday 30 March 2009 1:19

You should apologize to your students..

digitalangel 0

Monday 30 March 2009 1:26

Get off your high horse. Everyone forgets to turn their phone down once in a while, and you have no idea what might be happening on the other end of the line. There was a time I was texting in class because my dad had just been diagnosed with cancer and I was asking my sister for details while they were at the hospital. Getting up and leaving would have been far more distracting to other students than me sitting there silently looking at my phone.

HannahWho 8

Tuesday 21 February 2012 1:33

It still doesn't matter. No one knows why you are texting and it is not the responsibility of the teacher to be aware of all your problems in your life. If you need "details" then you leave class.