Today, the Chinese student I've been teaching English to got on stage in front of hundreds of people to read her final essay. She ended with, "What a fucking day." I don't swear, and I no longer have a job. FML
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Today, I kissed my 3.5 GPA goodbye because my English teacher was too caught up planning her parrot's birthday party to put in the credit I deserve for three different essays I completed for her class. FML
Today, I got back the essay I wrote about how my country's education system is fucked. At one point, I made a spelling mistake. My teacher wrote a note about it, basically calling me illiterate, and telling me to pay attention in school instead of whining about it. She misspelled "school". FML
Today, at a tutoring center, one of the tutors looked at my worksheet and laughed. She then showed all the other tutors my mistakes and they laughed along with her. The best part? They all speak Chinese and they think I can't understand them. I'm Chinese. FML
Today, it was the last day of school, and I said goodbye to one of my students. She then told me how to correctly pronounce her name. I'd said it wrong all year. FML
Today, one of my classmates got bullied and the whole class got to wrote 2000 words about that. FML
Today, in algebra, I took out my notebook. My Chinese teacher was so impressed with my "Chinese" writings on the cover that I'm now her "favorite student". Those "Chinese" symbols are actually Japanese, but I wanted someone to like me so badly that I didn't correct her. FML
Today, my English teacher kicked me out of class for being "rude and disruptive." In actuality, I had called her out for having blatantly used Google Translate for several example sentences, all of which sounded as if a semi-literate foreigner had constructed them. FML
Today, I’m a middle-school teacher. Handing back graded essays, only to realize halfway through that I’d left my personal notes visible on the projector. One said, “Great kid, but talks like a podcast on 1.5x speed.” The student read it out loud before I could close the tab. FML
Today, I had a Chinese test. Our teacher decided to wait until yesterday to tell us about it because she "knew" we wouldn't study anyway and she didn't want to stress us out. I'm pretty sure I failed. FML
Today, I collected my students' notes in class to check them. One girl, who is always drawing weird anime crap in her sketchbook, turned in just one piece of paper that read, "FUCK YOUR CLASS." FML
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MWidderAUDI 14
i bet you swore after that.
hipsterhunter 9
As a speaker of Chinese and Spanish, I can say firsthand that lots of innocent words in a language can end up sounding like others, especially when there's an accent involved and you're not careful. Try to talk to your student and help her understand the meaning of what she said, how it shouldn't be used in a professional setting, etc... and maybe work on her pronunciation! Alternatively, find out who thought it would be funny to teach her that word. Then kick their ass.
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PrinceDarko 13
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The only thing you can do in that situation is turn in your resignation. No amount of damage control would help
mr_sarcastic416 29
OP no longer has a job..... too late to turn on their resignation
iLike2Teabag 27
OP could say that the student had Tourette's, maybe. Tourette's guy certainly seems to get away with a lot of cussing in public.
lilhellian 26
Huh, the fml went into tl;dr territory for him, since he wanted to be number one..
countryrose92 23
It's very easy for people who are learning a new language to also learn the in wanted words because they are said so often around them. Op should have read over the essay first though.
Soloman212 28
Well I actually assumed that it wasn't in the essay, but was instead an exasperated remark the student made after finishing.
MWidderAUDI 14
i bet you swore after that.
NickaPLZ 26
Yeah, I would've.
Kamon97 23
I'm still gonna say YDI. It sounded like OP was just trying to cover their ass so they don't get raped btw YDI button lol well I'm not buying it ;)
hipsterhunter 9
As a speaker of Chinese and Spanish, I can say firsthand that lots of innocent words in a language can end up sounding like others, especially when there's an accent involved and you're not careful. Try to talk to your student and help her understand the meaning of what she said, how it shouldn't be used in a professional setting, etc... and maybe work on her pronunciation! Alternatively, find out who thought it would be funny to teach her that word. Then kick their ass.
wldd0g 9
I am not sure it would help, if OP already lost their job and all.
shyeahh_fml 19
It isn't extremely uncommon for people to get their jobs back after explaining a misunderstanding.
frecktured 14
你知道我在说什么吗？
ThriceWritten 21
当然知道。
Redlawnchair 9
Learning swear words in another language is middle school 101. I don't speak Spanish but can still say a whole lot of cuss words in Spanish. So, she probably already knew how to say it.
Uhscanherdarklee 10
ya but words from the same language have different meanings for different regions. For example I know words that are innocent to Spanish speakers from Puerto Rico but extremely offensive to Spanish speakers from Mexico. I always thought '****' would be pretty universal though, but who knows...its so commonly used these days I can see where someone might get confused if they don't know better.
bamagrl410 31
I feel like OP should have taught her that certain words aren't acceptable or polite to be sure that she didn't use them. If she's still in the process of learning, then more than likely she didn't know what it meant or was trying to use a different word.
Wimoweh 10
Not to be the pessimistic commenter of the thread, but seriously, what other word could she have been trying to say in the sentence, "What a ******* day."? I don't think either ducking, or lucking, or bucking would've been a suitable replacement.
Uhscanherdarklee 10
I don't think she misspoke, I think she misunderstood the word meaning.
Jarl_the_Elite 27
Like some people say that with a happy face but mean it sarcastically. She must have thought they were being serious.
gracehi 31
Well, ****.
gc327072 30
Pues, mierda.
Catkam623 27
Sabes que mierda = shit right?
KnifeStuff 8
They just fire you without even checking the paper for proof that that's written? Wow.
UsernameSara 10
What a ******* day.
StarThrower 17
Zao gao! D:
NeatNit 32
is that you in the picture?
perdix 29
#10, who else would it be? That's not a really good pick-up line. I hope your PM to #8 was a little more clever than that (and not just "ur hot"), you schvitzer!
StarThrower 17
#27 I feel like in a weird way you just stood up for my honor there...I liked it :D #10 Is it me? Or is the legend true, and there are there really no girls on the Internet? I guess we'll never know...
perdix 29
#51, aw, that's OK, but later on I egged him on to PMing you. I figure that way, you can deal with him or decisively reject him. Yes, I have found that there are some girls on the Internet, but you have to land a lot of catfish until you find a real one.
nottheyoungest 18
I like learning foreign swear words.
Megan639 16
**** that kid. Don't they know they just got you fired?