Work: X marks the spot

X marks the spot

By Anonymous - 01/07/2013 21:14 - United States - Chicago

Today, I had to explain to a coworker that "the little red X" next to the email title she's been pushing out of curiosity is actually the delete button. Then, I had to restore the dozen emails she'd deleted even after I told her to stop. She's a manager. I stock shelves for a living. FML

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You deserved it 2 538

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By tired of my job - 29/10/2015 08:33 - Canada - Surrey

Today, I was at work, stocking shelves. A customer got mad because I was in the way of her "shopping time" and knocked down all the work I had done. FML

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You deserved it 1 385

By Anonymous - 14/12/2012 23:16 - United Kingdom - Bridgwater

Today, I sent an email to my boss saying I'd fixed a glitch in our mail servers. He called me later, angrily shouting that I'd done a piss-poor job of fixing it, because my email had spammed his inbox with several hundred duplicate messages. FML

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You deserved it 11 331

Monday Monday, so good to me…

By Anonymous - 27/06/2023 02:00 - Australia

Today, my 73 year-old coworker has made a mountain of work for me to plough through due to her incompetence. I had to work through over 400 emails, since she thought unplugging the router would help, and in doing so, I have picked up on hundreds of mistakes she has made with clients, and had to apologise to each one. FML

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You deserved it 122

Manager of the week

By Anonymous - 26/05/2024 21:00

Today, my boss yelled at me for ignoring emails on my day off. Our emails are only accessible from work desktops, so I’d have had to be at my desk to answer it, which I had to explain to him 3 times before he understood. This is what happens when CEO’s promote their nephews to middle management. FML

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You deserved it 63

Customers from hell

By GirlWhyyyy - 09/08/2023 14:00

Today, I reduced a customer to tears and she had a tantrum, saying that nobody loves her, her life is a joke, and she’d be better off dead. This ordeal happened to grab the attention of my manager who was nearby. All I did was tell her that an item she wanted was sold out and offered to help her order it online. FML

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You deserved it 103

By explosiveBAM - 26/05/2011 05:04 - United States

Today, I was texting at work when my manager walked in. I quickly dropped my phone in the garbage to avoid trouble. Since I was working so hard, she decided to do me a favor and throw the trash out for me. FML

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You deserved it 56 120

New management

By anonix - 21/12/2014 19:08 - Canada

Today, a customer came in with a laptop smashed beyond repair. She asked if we could recover her files, but thanks to my idiot boss's new store policy I had to ask her a bunch of questions, including if she had tried "turning it on and off." She stared at me, speechless, like I was a complete moron. FML

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You deserved it 4 406

By KatieElizabeth - 27/10/2013 04:57 - United States - San Francisco

Today, at work, I had a customer accuse me of taking the giftcard I had issued her for her return, after spending 15 minutes trying to fix her screwed up transaction. She began to yell, and follow me around the store. Security had to intervene and I had to be locked in an office until she left. FML

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You deserved it 2 738

Great, thanks

By Anonymous - 12/10/2015 09:18 - United Kingdom

Today, a woman at work told me that her kid had puked into "a storage bin" in the office. It wasn't a storage bin, it was the outgoing mail tray on the side of my desk containing important contract documents that had to be posted by 5pm that day. FML

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You deserved it 1 703

Thanks mom!

By hatedatwork - 02/09/2019 13:00 - United States - Shreveport

Today, my CEO called and spoke to me like I'm a child. Apparently, she has a surprise for me, "but only if I clean up my office first." She hasn't been to my office in months because she works in another state. Turns out, someone texted her a picture of my messy office. FML

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You deserved it 1 928

theQUEEN444 5

Tuesday 2 July 2013 8:58

not everybody is employed for their brains apparently

SuperDanielNL 23

Tuesday 2 July 2013 9:00

They joys of working below your level, surrounded by chimpanzees who make your weekly pay in a day...

Comments

lochiamochia 25

Tuesday 2 July 2013 9:19

Hold in there, OP, your time will come. Your patience and willingness to help others will eventually be noticed. You could be promoted or given a raise. You never know how your good deeds will be rewarded.

graceinsheepwear 33

Tuesday 2 July 2013 9:43

This is FML. Good deeds don't go unpunished here.

BadApple88 29

Tuesday 2 July 2013 9:27

Dont worry OP you'll have a higher position in no time

tehdarkness 21

Tuesday 2 July 2013 9:27

The beauty of corporate serf-dom. FYL.

Wakachulak 22

Tuesday 2 July 2013 9:36

Reading this site and NotAlwaysWorking.com, I'm starting to think managers are employed based on their inability to do actual work and so are given position where they will not be required to do anything.

random_commenter 9

Tuesday 2 July 2013 14:28

Have you ever heard of the Dilbert Principle? This explains why there are so many morons in management positions

Wakachulak 22

Tuesday 2 July 2013 18:59

Hadn't heard of it actually, thanks for telling me!

SleepWalken 5

Tuesday 2 July 2013 10:44

How do you "computer".

fleur_de_fevrier_fml 22

Tuesday 2 July 2013 11:06

I feel for you OP. I have been in the situation where my boss was not only incompetent but also very lazy. She used to delegate everything she could, last in the office, first to go. But she was a good BSer and even better at taking credit for her team's hard work so the higher management thought she was doing a great job. I know how frustrating it is to see someone like that making more than you. Hopefully things will get better for you. It did for me when I found another job.