Work: Today, my boss finally checked the presentation I have been working...

By WorkWeirdo - 30/03/2016 20:26 - Peru - Lima

Today, my boss finally checked the presentation I have been working on for three weeks. She called me into her office, and told me everything was dreadful, and requested me to start from scratch. It's due in half an hour. FML

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By TTR - 13/11/2011 00:36 - United States

Today, I finished a very important but annoying presentation that took four hours to complete. Only after writing a paragraph to explain the presentation and sending it to my boss did I realize that I saved the document as "Shit I have to do to get a promotion." FML

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The blame game

By unemployed - 20/04/2013 00:16 - El Salvador - San Salvador

Today, my boss made me give a presentation to several senior company officials about the serious financial losses our division has made this year. Barely an hour later, my boss had palmed all the blame off onto me and gotten me fired. 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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By Anonymous - 28/01/2011 17:00 - Slovakia

Today, while presenting a project I've worked on for months, one of the professors exasperatedly cut in mid-sentence, saying, "Look, it's shit. Just stop already." FML

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By i tried so hard - 08/01/2016 15:54 - United States - San Francisco

Today, I tried really hard for once on an assignment. I was told it was my worst work yet and that I may as well have turned nothing in at all. FML

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Most likely

By lukey101 - 11/02/2021 14:01 - Australia

Today, I had my half-year performance review. My boss arrived 15 minutes late, paid basically no attention to my presentation, and left 30 minutes early. I guess I’ll go fuck myself then. FML

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All together now

By aloneagainnaturally - This FML is from back in 2015 but it's good stuff - Denmark - Søborg

Today, we were all put in groups to make a presentation together. And by "together" I mean I pulled an all nighter to finish it by myself. My group criticized my work. FML

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Stolen valor

By Anonymous - 18/09/2009 11:08 - Iraq

Today, I was at work, finishing a presentation for my boss. Five minutes after I presented it to him, his boss walked in and asked for the same presentation I had just given. My boss presented it. His boss then turned to me and asked me, "What use are you around here?" FML

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Unfair

By Anonymous - 09/05/2021 04:01

Today, I had to do a presentation. No one else in my group showed up, so I had to do it alone. I was given a failing grade for presenting by myself, and therefore not being a "team player". FML

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Runner up

By milamadeleine243 - 22/10/2020 14:00

Today, I finished a huge project for work. It took 3+ days and I was very proud of it. Except when I submitted it to my boss, he said that he'd already asked another person to do it. He used that person's project, not mine. FML

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JHPugh 19

Thursday 31 March 2016 9:37

Maybe you should have checked more than once in that three weeks to see if she liked the direction you were heading? Otherwise, hope it turned out well

el_bell3618 29

Thursday 31 March 2016 9:39

Maybe she can use her own ideas to make a better one since clearly she knew better than you :) Good luck OP, I really hope you figured something out!

Comments

jbivens1992 17

Thursday 31 March 2016 16:43

You should have asked for more frequent progress checks along the way so you would have been able to see a problem and fix it in a timely manner. If you did request that and she declined to do that then its her fault, her problem. Tell her to suck it up or do it her damn self then she can have it anyway she wants it. You may get fired sure, or she may respect you for standing up for yourself and defending your work. And if shes going to be such a bitchy tyrant maybe a new job is the best thing to do anyways. Good Luck OP!

guesswhatlifesux 14

Thursday 31 March 2016 17:26

So instead of working on your presentation, you decide to get on fml.

bahklava 8

Thursday 31 March 2016 17:50

Should have taken initiative to make sure the project was ok. YDI.

writerchic85 25

Thursday 31 March 2016 17:55

I need a follow up. I want to know what ended up happening to you.

FailStaff 15

Thursday 31 March 2016 23:25

Just like back in school

katluvr 22

Friday 1 April 2016 6:14

I'm sorry that you work for an ungrateful ...person. I've been there and done that and you need to find a way out. It's not worth the heartache.

sxdryv 14

Saturday 2 April 2016 20:27

...and yet even tho you're under a time constraint, you still found time to post on FML. Probably not the best example of time well spent.

Xamry14 10

Saturday 2 April 2016 21:07

I know. That 30 seconds could have been used to finish the construction on the project! Are you stupid? It's not a time constraint, it's ******* impossible and a minuet or so to post this FML would not have done anything to help OP even if they had used it on work.

CaptMacLeod 45

Saturday 2 April 2016 23:07

There's no proof this FML was posted right before the meeting. I'm going to give OP the benefit of the doubt, and assume he posted this during slack time, or after he got home. I may be unpleasantly surprised on a regular basis, but I prefer to assume people are reasonably intelligent until proven otherwise.