Today, someone sent my boss a CD full of documents for an upcoming trial. It's my job to sort through the evidence, so he gave it to me. I looked on the CD. There's only one file; a 1020-page PDF of all the documents we need, and the pages weren't scanned in order. FML
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Today, my boss told me to sort and file all the paperwork he'd been randomly shoving into boxes since 2010. Apparently we're being audited, so he expects me to do eight years of filing in two weeks. There's enough paper to fully stock a large public library. Two weeks my ass. FML
Today, I found out I've been incorrectly sorting thousands of papers for the past two weeks. My boss wanted them sorted by date, but the co-worker who instructed me said to sort them into alphabetical order just to watch me fail. FML
Today, I emailed a bunch of documents to a potential client, only to later realise later I'd also emailed them a folder of mine and my husband's very intimate photos. There’s things in there we only do when I’m very drunk, and am very embarrassed by. I’ve been ducking my bosses calls for two hours. FML
Today, I went to work at my job as a secretary. I had been given the task to file my boss's collection of Playboy magazines alphabetically by name of the centerfold. There was one for every month from the years of 1980 until now. FML
Today, my boss asked if I could spare a few minutes to finish off the last of his paperwork backlog. I'm pretty desperate for a raise, so I said sure. Turns out the "small", "should-take-a-few-minutes" backlog consists of 3 desk-high stacks of documents. Goodbye, cruel world. FML
Today, I was fired because of a "poorly executed" task. My boss claims that I just copypasted an existing document in a new file; I was instructed exactly to take the document and move its content to a new table without changing anything. It was discussed beforehand, but looks like his own messages are not a proof. FML
Today, while visiting my in-laws, I went into their home office in search of a sheet of scrap paper. Instead, I found printed copies of every email and IM my husband and I had ever sent each other, including pictures. Highlighted and annotated by his mother. FML
Today, I knocked an old-school slide carousel off my desk, scattering nearly 100 individual slides everywhere, including the specific slides my professor asked me to digitally scan, which were placed carefully on top. None of them are numbered. FML
Today, my boss dropped a highly important and dense report on my desk that had to be finished by the end of the day. After the initial panic attack and hours of scrupulous work, I finished. She then asked me to pick up the revised copy, where my name was replaced with hers. FML
Today, I told the girl working the scanner that half the documents I was indexing from her were upside down. Now ALL of them are upside down. FML
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andyyroxx 20
What the actual **** did you comment for...
bidon121 9
Oops...I guess you are going to have to do your job!
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bidon121 9
Oops...I guess you are going to have to do your job!
tjv3 10
Well you will earn your money on that . Good luck
CCSA 12
And a pretty high paying job too, so I guess it will be less of a pain when OP thinks about the money he'll get for every billable hour sorting the evidence out
sens3sfailing 24
Look at it this way, all of the documents you need are there. I was honestly expecting there to **** or something instead of some of the documents.
djinnsnme 19
Have fun with that.
SirCharles83 13
This sounds like a job for interns. Tell them to have fun with that.
klutz44 28
Maybe OP is the intern.
billyz77 24
Hard to have fun when someone tells you to have fun. Sooooooo…..… Work hard, OP.
ramseytt69 8
Well atleast you have everything you need.. But fyl for having to sort through all that!
WcED 8
That really sucks
tj5810 21
Obviously. OP didn't post this on MyLifesAwesome.
Catkam623 27
If that was a site I'm betting Barney Stinson would own it.
WcED 8
#80....you're trying too hard.
aly_pinay22 8
FYL but there are worse jobs out there.
amillionbucks 5
He'll be wishin for those jobs after this assignment
Miss_Attitude96 24
Yeah #5, he could have one of the jobs from Dirty Jobs.. Like the one that had to stick their arm up a horse's butt to get poop samples (shudders)
calivianya 29
Sticking my arm up a horse's butt for poop samples actually sounds better than my job. I'll take it!
bwhahaha_fml 10
Indeed I hate writing the dam terms and conditions that no one reads :(
AliSama 17
you can save all the pages as files. worst case you need to rename them as you see them. There may be a technological solution as well. google it. with ocr etc.
Cupcake040 17
You could be working at McDonalds but FYL for how annoying that must be
man_in_black08 28
Hello :) i look upto ppl studying history!
Roevera 14
Damn, your duck face puts ducks to shame!
gc327072 30
^Then you haven't seen very many.
TheStormsFury 8
That doesn't even look like a duck-face.
lhamil64_fml 5
If you have a PDF printer installed (like CutePDF) or are on a Mac (which has it built in) you can take note of the pages that are of each document and print those specific pages to a new PDF.
cristy91 33
It's still a lot of work, plus with PDFs of that size, the program runs slow (at least with my experience). CutePDF is great, though. It allows you to really work the document and for free too!
Homer1975 14
I was quit my job since September 2012,Because my boss is a asshole.
andyyroxx 20
What the actual **** did you comment for...
lilhellian 26
Dat grammer. Also, I'm sure Op doesn't want to quit his job. Op is aware of the job description, but this is excessive..
poccocurantes 7
I am guessing to reply to OPs FML. And your reason is?
Livelife121 30
Plausible translations: 1. I decided to quit my job in September 2012, because my boss was an asshole. 2. I have been wanting to quit my job since September 2012 because my boss is an asshole.
Enslaved 36
Give the guy a break. I doubt English is his first language. At least he's got the curse words down.
MrPlopper 9
Hello troll, how are you?
zombieslayer83 19
Overtime!