Seriously? You would have fired someone over using the wrong font? I know everyone hates comic sans, and so do I, but that would be an overreaction. I hope you're not anyone's boss.

I'm sorry, but using comic sans in a professional environment can have no excuse. The fact is there is likely a required format for these reports, which would specify font type, point, and spacing. Hell, we had that level of restriction back in elementary school, why would you think it would be less formal in a corporate environment? I'd assume anyone using comic sans on a work document knows damn well what they're doing, and isn't taking their job seriously. If there's no backup, then you're double ****** because apparently you missed more than the last decade. Redundant backups. Always.

You need to keep in mind reports presented poorly can make the company look bad the boss looks stupid of accepting it and the worker looks stupid for thinking it was ok in a professional setting.

If I was his boss, yes I would have screamed at him, he definitely wouldn't be getting a raise anytime soon or a promotion, and he'd be on my shit list. I would be praying he gave me a good reason to fire him. I can't think of one person over the age of 12 (and I am being very generous with that age, many 10 year olds know this as well) in this computer oriented country that does not know Comic Sans is not only a generally disliked font, but also a very unprofessional one. That could have gone over very poorly if that copy had made it to the board, because they sure as hell know Comic Sans is unprofessional. It would be almost the equivalent of him hand writing the report and handing it to his boss. In elementary school they told us what font to use, in high school as well, in university they usually don't mention it because it is assumed by this point you can grasp what font is largely considered acceptable for professional reports, Times New Roman. He could have made his boss, himself, and his entire company branch look like a group of dumbasses, yes this man should be yelled at. Plus, if I was his boss I'd assume the piece of paper my employee handed me wasn't the ONLY copy of a report, that he wrote on the computer (you can save things to those you know); that even if the font hadn't sent me into a blind rage, I may have wanted him to edit, since it is a VERY important document. Has OP ever heard of saving his files? And when they are THAT important backing them up on a USB Drive, sending them to yourself in an email, or better yet BOTH! Just in case something happens to the computer you were working on.

I think from now on I'm going to use nothing but comic sans in my work. Middle finger to all you jerks.

Right because the FML clearly is about forgetting to save the document and lack of intellectual ability to change the font on the computer. All of this is clearly directly present in the FML.