Work: Today, my co-worker and I were having a conversation in Russian....

By PuddlePirate - 07/09/2012 16:23 - United States - Mountain Iron

Today, my co-worker and I were having a conversation in Russian. Our boss overheard us talking, shouted, "I know you're talking about me! I speak Spanish too!" and threatened to fire us. FML

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By Claudine - 30/06/2015 06:18 - Belgium - Liège

Today, my boss is on the phone with a Russian customer, who keeps saying, "Speak Russian please!" My boss asks me to translate, as he hired me for my knowledge of Russian. He says something, I translate in Russian, then the customer says, "Speak English please!" FML

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By anonymous - 15/02/2015 22:39 - United States - Valdosta

Today, while working at Subway I joked with a customer asking him if he was going to order in Spanish. The women in front of him began yelling about how I was being racist and told my manager that I needed to be fired. The customer I was joking with was my Spanish teacher. FML

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By zoosmell pooplord - 02/09/2012 19:41 - Norway - Geilo

Today, my boss got angry at me because my English is better than his. He accused me of trying to steal his management position, and implied that I'll be lucky if I still have a job by the end of the month. FML

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By rosie - 08/03/2021 13:59

Today, I was unable to communicate with a customer who only spoke French. As a result, my boss called me a "monolingual idiot." I speak Spanish, German, and Japanese. FML

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By bronieswillrule5eva - 11/06/2012 18:16 - Canada - Summerside

Today, I overheard my boss and a co-worker talking about me. Apparently when I speak, I slur my words so badly that it sounds like I'm speaking in tongues. According to my boss, "he could be possessed by a demon right now, and we'd never even notice." FML

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By Anonymous - 09/07/2016 15:14

Today, I overheard my boss talking about me on the phone. Turns out he was drunk off his ass when he gave the go-ahead to hire me, and he's now searching for any excuse to legally fire me. FML

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By anahira6 - 27/09/2013 19:41 - United States - Houston

Today, my boss's son is training to take over my job as head translator, after having convinced his dad that he's fluent in Spanish, and that my skills suck. I soon walked in on him using Google Translate on a legal document. My boss refuses to believe me. FML

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By jalisc512 - 21/08/2014 20:16 - United States - Aurora

Today, my boss threatened to write me up, after I made a slightly rude joke about a coworker everyone hates. A while later, a colleague told me the same joke. Turns out my boss had gone around telling it to everyone else and taking all the credit. FML

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By robert - 31/01/2012 00:20 - United States

Today, I went to deliver some reports to my boss in his office. He was facing away from me and ranting about his "useless employees", so I slipped in and waited for him to put the phone down. Turns out he was talking to himself. When he noticed me, he bitched me out and threatened to fire me. FML

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Offended

By Anonymous - 04/09/2009 04:31 - Canada

Today, a customer came in who only spoke Spanish. I speak Spanish rather well so I helped the customer. She ended up buying $2300 worth of stuff. I got written up because not speaking English apparently "has the potential be offensive to other customers if they are not able to understand you." FML

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ifyacantbeatem 5

Saturday 8 September 2012 2:12

Se habla?

b1ggerb1tch 0

Saturday 8 September 2012 2:14

talk about a dumb boss, Russian sounds nothing like Spanish .-.

Comments

mrtodddr 0

Saturday 8 September 2012 3:26

He's in management obviously because not for what he knows but who he knows.

linkinpark98 23

Saturday 8 September 2012 3:34

How does a person mix up Spanish and Russian?...... I still don't get it.

1crabbygirl 10

Saturday 8 September 2012 3:48

I hope you laughed out loud.

glittercookies 12

Saturday 8 September 2012 3:51

Дурак

dannykazzy 1

Tuesday 11 September 2012 3:24

Я тоже самое сказаль лол!!:О

SeeNote 1

Saturday 8 September 2012 4:16

I could understand if the idiot mistook spanish for french or italian but russian? Good job boss your ignorant and you dont know shit either.

elephantsarecute 16

Saturday 8 September 2012 5:06

Actually Spanish sounds extremely different from French and significantly different from Italian. I speak the first two so I know.

saidoh_fml 26

Saturday 8 September 2012 21:16

Agreed 57, although I could be a bit biased since I have a bit of French background. Now Portuguese v. Spanish I could understand someone mixing up if they are unfamiliar with both languages.

mikeymayhem_87 15

Saturday 8 September 2012 4:17

Stolichnaya and Jose Cuervo does not look or sound alike to me. But who am I to judge?

TheyCallMeDamien 17

Saturday 8 September 2012 4:21

He's paranoid and stupid. Watch out for him. The two languages sound nothing alike.

1098765432 0

Saturday 8 September 2012 4:29

Well we're you...

klx125cross 9

Saturday 8 September 2012 4:31

Mabe don't speak Russian anymore...?? OP

allblacksfan 7

Saturday 8 September 2012 4:45

That's what you get for being rude and speaking other languages in the work place, which also leads to excluding all those around you.

Shrike 23

Saturday 8 September 2012 4:53

That's the point, genius. Now go criticize people for not being friends with everybody on the planet, because it "excludes" them. What a xenophobe you are.