Work: Today, I sent an email to my boss saying I'd fixed a glitch in...

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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By Anonymous - 08/07/2016 22:09

Today, my boss reprimanded me for a huge screw-up that he was responsible for. FML

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By Anonymous - 26/03/2016 18:02

Today, my boss tried to fire me for not emailing him a screenshot to prove my email wasn't working. FML

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Freudian slip

By Anonymous - 24/02/2023 14:00

Today, I accidentally sent a text message meant for my best friend to my boss. The text was about how much I hated my job and my boss's constant micromanagement. FML

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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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By Is he stupid? - 26/12/2023 08:00 - United States

Today, due to being stressed and overwhelmed by my tasks, I made a mistake and completed a few of my colleagues' tasks as well. When I informed my boss about it, he said that I did an outstanding job, but I shouldn't have messed with other people's documents. As a result, my promised raise is cancelled. 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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By Anonymous - 26/01/2013 01:04 - Australia - Brisbane

Today, my boss put me on suspension for violating company policy by having non-work related mail in my inbox. They were spam emails. FML

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Smart

By Anonymous - 22/08/2014 16:56 - New Zealand - Auckland

Today, my boss chewed me out for correcting several spelling and grammar mistakes in one of his reports. The words "Think you're so damn smart, don't ya?" were uttered. I'm his secretary, and proofreading his shit is part of my job. FML

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By jeed(1) - 25/08/2013 21:36 - France - Marseille

Today, at work, I stepped out for a few minutes to use the bathroom. Shortly after returning, I found out the hard way that one of my coworkers had used my computer to send a profanity-filled email to our boss, calling him an asshole and telling him to go fuck himself. I'm now jobless. FML

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Never cross the streams

By FiredAF - 20/02/2024 00:00 - United States

Today, I was emailing my department about a huge meeting we’re going to have. I was also emailing back and forth with another colleague about office gossip. I absentmindedly replied to the wrong email. I hit reply all to the meeting e-mail, saying that the new supervisor of X department was "so fucking retarded." FML

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Saturday 15 December 2012 2:34

Wow, this is the first FML I've seen where a boss is actually right! Huzzah!

Bakarra 22

Saturday 15 December 2012 2:37

Problem...un-solved

Comments

OhAidan 7

Saturday 15 December 2012 2:45

And somewhere in between those several hundred messages is a seriously important e-mail.

drunkandfml 11

Saturday 15 December 2012 2:51

Like there was a glitch in the mail server or something

oj101 33

Saturday 15 December 2012 3:13

Not necessarily - the boss can easily filter his email to exclude messages from the OP.

oj101 33

Saturday 15 December 2012 3:11

Oh dear... a solution always begets another problem.

megzaz 10

Saturday 15 December 2012 3:16

This is perhaps the tamest FML I've ever read...

andyyroxx 20

Saturday 15 December 2012 3:22

The e-mails seemed pretty wild to me...

Tyrone78G 3

Saturday 15 December 2012 4:32

You misspelled 'tame' lol

megzaz 10

Sunday 16 December 2012 11:25

Wow, correcting mistakes that don't exist? That's a low point.

PipingMouse 14

Saturday 15 December 2012 3:34

Wow, you need to work on your glitch-fixing skills, OP.

Onmyzephyr 5

Saturday 15 December 2012 4:15

I did this to my boss once by messing around with outlook. don't ask me how, I have no idea.

gribbles 12

Saturday 15 December 2012 4:54

How?

CatsForLife 3

Saturday 15 December 2012 5:18

If she tells you, she'll have to kill you. Do you really want to know? ... ... ... Aliens.

RubenTheGreek 8

Saturday 15 December 2012 4:27

When I read this FML I thought that he did fix it but needed to send emails to check it's fixed.

Radius1 1

Saturday 15 December 2012 12:12

Then he should have sent the test emails to himself instead of the boss, then just the one final resolved email to the boss.

SaturnV 25

Saturday 15 December 2012 5:08

It's conceivable that a glitch other than the one OP was responsible for fixing caused the spam. Either way, OP has my sympathy. Debugging code and troubleshooting server issues can be extremely frustrating tasks.

fordneagles 34

Saturday 15 December 2012 5:35

Do a search in the email program for emails with that subject/from field/phrase within the email, Ctrl A the results, Delete. Not that big a deal... If he went through and individually deleted, that's his problem. Still want to fix that bug though OP.