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By onefishtwofishes - 23/05/2013 20:15 - United States - Washington

Today, the communications expert I'm forced to work with added the line "as they can catch bigger fishes" to a film script. She does not believe me when I tell her that the plural of fish is "fish." This idiot not only has the final word, she makes twice what I do. FML

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By NathanA - 08/07/2013 23:54 - United States - Los Angeles

Today, I was verbally abused by a customer because her entrée was too fishy. I'm not the chef, just the waiter and I work at a fish grill. FML

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By Anonymous - 06/06/2019 20:01

Today, I found out that the airhead sitting next to me at work who can't get anything done on her own, makes more money than I do. FML

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By Anonymous - 10/08/2019 02:00 - Germany - Wuppertal

Today, my coworker keeps loudly saying things like, "Oh, now THIS!" If I don't ask, "What?" she pouts. If I do ask, she tells me, at length and with very bad grammar, how every one of our colleagues and partners is either stupid, rude or out to get her. FML

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By Anonymous - 25/11/2012 00:25 - New Zealand - Christchurch

Today, at work, I took an order from a stuck-up sounding lady over the phone. She said her last name was "duckling, but with an F". Bemused, I wrote her name on the order. When she arrived to pick it up later, she told me she'd said "s", not "f". FML

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Cursive

By Anonymous - 25/05/2011 13:55 - Australia

Today, my boss and I were preparing a lunch order for a nearby real-estate agency. I noticed that the order was riddled with spelling mistakes, so I laughed and mocked the realtors, calling them stupid and incompetent. My boss then pointed out that the order was written in his handwriting. FML

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By raquelcita - 26/08/2016 06:05 - United States - Winter Park

Today, I went to my boss with concerns that my manager is dumping her responsibilities on me. He agreed and told me to just do whatever she wants. She gets paid twice as much as me to talk on her cellphone all day. FML

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By Anonymous - 19/06/2014 08:24 - United States - San Francisco

Today, I shouldn't have told my boss that I was interested in management. She now throws any problem she doesn't want to solve at me and either gets mad when I can't work it out or takes credit when I do. FML

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Spelling Bee

By anda1000douchesscourthispostformistakes - 16/09/2015 13:42 - United States - Meriden

Today, I made it onto my boss's shit-list, after pointing out that he'd misspelled "customer" as "costumer" 6 times in his report, and "college education" as "collage education" twice. It'd be a dick move on his part even if making corrections like this weren't part of my damn job. FML

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That's not how that works

By christiner - 06/09/2010 03:01 - France

Today, I was at work and was confronted by a customer wanting to get a "Nemo" fish. I explained that 'Nemo' needs to live in saltwater, not freshwater, like their tank was. The customer then turns around and grabs a perforated tank divider and says, "Can't I just split them up with this?" FML

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By frustrated - 29/06/2011 12:59 - United Kingdom

Today, my boss yelled at me for ruining the report she was supposed to write with my "terrible spelling and grammar". I've checked it thoroughly, and all of her 'corrections' are wrong. She doesn’t believe me, and is refusing to look at a dictionary. FML

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Docbee 11

Friday 24 May 2013 9:07

Fish and fishes are both acceptable plural forms of "fish"; well that's what magic schoolbus told me!

Ylianaxoxo 9

Friday 24 May 2013 9:13

Fishes isn't exactly wrong, sweetie.

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Protagonist_ 9

Friday 24 May 2013 9:26

Oh look a fish! (single fish) Oh look some fish! (plural fish) Oh look some fishes! (what gollum calls fish)

Haraspms1 4

Friday 24 May 2013 9:26

"Fishes" can be used when referring to multiple types of fish! In your face bro!

NickaPLZ 26

Friday 24 May 2013 22:33

Correct, but MOST of the time you aren't talking about multiple types. So I'm still with OP. Doesn't anyone remember Dr. Seuss? "One fish (singular), two fish (plural)..."

HunterMark 14

Friday 24 May 2013 9:27

Many fish of single species = Fish Many fish of multiple species = Fishes

Dazzidian 3

Friday 24 May 2013 9:28

Yes, "fishes" is in fact a word and grammatically correct. It does, however, depend on the context. The appropriate use of "fishes" is when you are talking about a group of fish that contains various different species of fish. An example would be "Look at all the fishes in the aquarium." "I caught three fish yesterday." So in regards to the OP, there's not enough information for us to be truly sure if she is correct or not.

kdunb2 2

Friday 24 May 2013 9:37

Boss is right you're wrong Fish - one or many of the same type of fish.. Fishes - a collection of fish of many different types..

morbidbeauties 10

Friday 24 May 2013 9:38

I just knew that fact OP. Thank God English is not the native language here where I live, I would've looked like an idiot using fishes in the wrong context.

larsak 3

Friday 24 May 2013 10:04

If she's such an idiot try manipulate her into giving you her job ;)

Jharrist89 12

Friday 24 May 2013 11:11

At least you told her so, and hopefully you don't get blamed for her **** up. Some people are just retarded.

stormchaser24 24

Friday 24 May 2013 11:42

I have hear both being correct, my English teacher said if you are talking about multiple species then fishes can be used or fish.

Enslaved 36

Friday 24 May 2013 11:42

One Fish (single) Two Fish (plural) Red Fish Blue Fish Although both can be correct but "fish" is more commonly used. Just be glad she didn't write PHISH. Ugh! Now I have that "Fishy Fishy" song in my head! :P