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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Same thing different taste

Thanks Pam, FU too

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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mathsponge 0

Thursday 11 June 2009 23:34

She's trying to piss u off,.... Or she wants you. Hahaha I do that

dumbbbb 0

Thursday 11 June 2009 23:35

this isn't "fml" worthy.

Uzumaki_fml 0

Thursday 11 June 2009 23:37

- ...more than "I". FML. She probably had like one more English class than you did.

NoneOfTheAbove 0

Thursday 11 June 2009 23:38

Yet she proberbly knows how to watch ****... wierd...

rukusrazor 0

Thursday 11 June 2009 23:38

She's probably a chairperson of the company, an old gray hair.. You are in I.T.. So she had a problem with her mouse, which took you 2 seconds to remedy. Can you juggle employee hour sheets, department budgets and interface with partners and investors evaluating company stocks? Yeah, didn't think so. //Kinda made my own hypothetical situation there, but I think I made my point.

drakem 7

Saturday 25 September 2010 16:32

I think the old gray person would make more then just ten grand more then the OP

muzikmaestro 15

Wednesday 8 May 2013 13:22

no necessarily, actually. we don't know what level the OP is in the company either....

PlusShipping 0

Thursday 11 June 2009 23:40

Bullshit.

RIKANA 0

Thursday 11 June 2009 23:41

Well at least your smarter with the computer. So people are better at somethings, and other people are not. Just be glade that SHE asked you, for your help. RI

Postlude 1

Thursday 11 June 2009 23:42

It's FML worthy because this woman's salary is 10 grand more a year than someone who can figure out what a "Right click" is, #12

donner1423 0

Thursday 11 June 2009 23:42

Well, I think that since you know that she was left handed that you should have given her better directions, simple as though they were.

0kerael0 0

Thursday 11 June 2009 23:43

Does she know you can change the settings to use the mouse the other way round. Or do what most left handers, including me, do and use our right hand like the other 9 10ths of the population?