Work: Today, my left-handed boss needed PC help. I said "right-click...

By girlfriday - 11/06/2009 15:21 - United Kingdom

Today, my left-handed boss needed PC help. I said "right-click for the menu." She said nothing happened. Three times we went through this. Eventually I went over, asking her to show me what she did. She was using her right hand on the left mouse button. She earns £10,000 more than me. FML

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By BossesLittleBrat - 25/09/2016 12:47 - United States - Jamestown

Today, my brat of a coworker tried to convince our boss that I should get paid half of what I'm making because I broke my right arm. I'm left-handed, broke it on the job, and still doing a better job than her. She makes double what I do. 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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By Anonymous - 17/11/2010 01:34 - United States

Today, I began training my replacement at work. She's a senior citizen. She got excited when I taught her how to highlight text on the screen and double-click the mouse because she "never knew how to do those fancy tricks." The job is entirely computer-based. I have to train her for 6 weeks. FML

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By Idiocracy - 24/04/2009 04:36 - United States

Today, my boss confessed to me that she doesn't know how to change the staples in the staplers at work, so she just switches them when they run out. We work at an office supply store. She makes six figures. I make $10 an hour. And she just got awarded a trip to Aruba for doing a "great job". FML

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Meritocracy

By Anonymous - 24/02/2024 09:00 - Jamaica

Today, after six months of doing the job of 2 people, because all my coworker does is sleep and sit down with her phone, I told my boss that I can't be doing my coworker's job and getting the same salary as her. My boss added just $10 to my salary and told me to let her carry on doing nothing, while I still do the work of 2 people. FML

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I'm not paid enough for this shit

By FabFor87 - 19/12/2016 16:15 - United Kingdom - Stockport

Today, my boss asked me to send an email on his behalf with an important report attached. I've already received 3 responses from directors commenting on poor spelling and factual errors. I get paid 1/4 the salary of my boss and he can't even write properly. FML

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Unionize!

By worksux - 05/01/2011 20:25 - United States

Today, at work, my computer started acting up. I told my boss I could fix it, but he told me to call the IT department instead. Neither the IT technician or his supervisor could figure it out, so I showed them what was wrong and how to fix it. I was promptly fired for wasting 2 hours of company time. FML

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Bad at maths

By Anonymous - 21/05/2022 22:00

Today, my boss finally worked out that by not giving the lads a pay rise to £18 an hour, instead just offering them overtime when necessary, it actually cost the equivalent of raising each employees salary to £26 an hour, for a whole year. He’s is blaming me because I issue the pay checks. FML

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By mdg - 04/12/2012 17:16 - United States - North Windham

Today, while at work taking notes on a pad of paper, my boss witnessed me trying to scroll down on the paper, as if it was a touch-screen phone. FML

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Boss makes a pound…

By Anonymous - 12/04/2024 08:00 - United Kingdom

Today, I sat down and worked out I get paid £26000 a year for working 40 hours a week. Meanwhile my boss gets paid £115000 to answer emails when he remembers to and to attend 5 hours of mandatory meetings a month, which he now does over video chat from his vacation cottage in Scotland. FML

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Butterbuns 1

Thursday 11 June 2009 23:32

Because using a different hand will automatically make your computer behave differently. Your boss is an idiot.

Rupus 0

Thursday 11 June 2009 23:31

Haha, I think you need a raise. Or she needs a pay cut.

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El_Oh_El 0

Friday 12 June 2009 10:36

Your boss is a moron seriously, overpaid!

philosopher 0

Friday 12 June 2009 11:17

See, the problem here is that you all think that ability is directly correlated with social class, job title, and salary. =) Welcome to the real world. Enjoy your stay. On a side note, I'm left-handed too and I can kind of understand what happened, but I still use a mouse with the right (among other things), so I guess I'm kind of ambidextrous.

drakerd 0

Friday 12 June 2009 12:18

Epic. Absolutely ******* epic.

thuryn 2

Friday 12 June 2009 14:12

* Thuryn introduces "testing" to the recent FML about a girl losing her bikini and getting stuck in a funnel slide. WAY more idiots in that one, yo. This thread only has 120-ish comments so far. ;) P.S. If you suck at English, don't be a whiner too and complain when people correct you. Don't act like you have some God-given right to talk like a three-year-old. Or if you do, expect to get treated like one.

DankJemo 0

Friday 12 June 2009 14:24

It is crazy how people aren't asked if they know how to use computers when they are hired for a job. Every job needs some computer experience, yet people know next to nothing about them. I work with people like this every day, it is my job to make sure that they essentially don't do something they aren't supposed to... And there are way too many people to keep track of, so needless to say i have idiots who generate a lot of extra work. The problem is people like this are everywhere.

Dogmaw 0

Friday 12 June 2009 17:04

Someday you too will have an underling who understands the tech and the lingo better than you, and they'll be making just as much less than you...cuz yer the BOSS.

pernicious_pink 12

Friday 12 June 2009 19:42

That's freaking hilarious!!

nuga 0

Friday 12 June 2009 20:08

Geez it seems like there have been a lot of stories about incompetent bosses lately; no wonder our economy is so crappy right now. =(

damnstopmessinup 0

Friday 12 June 2009 20:27

sorry, i'm left-handed but even I know how to use a computer better than that. your boss is an idiot. FYL that you have to put up with that!!!

4ube_fml 6

Friday 12 June 2009 21:16

There's an option for left handed to use the mouse as lefties. the Rightclick is on the left and normal clic on the right (opposite hands, left clic stays on the index finger;))