Work: Today, I interviewed three elderly residents at a nursing home,...

By Anonymous - 06/04/2013 21:39 - United States - Arcata

Today, I interviewed three elderly residents at a nursing home, hoping to use the transcript for a very important paper due next week. It went great, so I wrapped up and drove home. I sat down to start typing, and realized that my recording had stopped ten minutes in. FML

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By Stress - 06/02/2020 14:00 - Hong Kong - Central District

Today, after our teacher had said this class would be very important and that we should take notes, instead of writing notes, I brought a recorder to class. After class, I listened to the recording, and all I could hear was muffled voices. FML

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By taylah - 13/10/2022 10:00

Today, I had a phone interview, my first job interview in months. Two seconds in, I not only lost my signal, my phone froze up and stopped working completely. For six hours. FML

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By fazzems - 07/08/2009 03:10 - Canada

Today, I had a video call with a couple of old friends, but the conversation sort of got boring, so I started mouthing words so they'd think the connection was bad and end the awkwardness. Then, as soon as they hung up the call, I realized I'd left my music on in the background the whole time. FML

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By gotta euthanize em all - 29/11/2014 19:45 - Canada

Today, while at work, I had to spend an hour and a half on the phone, listening to an old lady relive her entire day in excruciating detail. We're not allowed to hang up on customers, and she was extremely quick to dismiss all my attempts to steer the call back on topic. FML

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Today, I scored an interview with a hospital nearby my house, and so I ordered a car 30 minutes before. There were four people in the same car that were picked up AFTER, and dropped off BEFORE me, causing me to miss my interview. The hospital then stopped interviewing for the same position I wanted. FML

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By LadyChristina25 - 05/06/2009 01:07 - United States

Today, I witnessed a horrible car accident and was interviewed by the local news. During the interview I said, "It was terrible. It was like watching a silent movie... but there was sound!" The interview has been aired 6 times. FML

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By Parental - 22/01/2010 05:08 - United States

Today, I spent 3 hours in my home recording studio. I was recording vocals and was trying to hit a very hard series of notes. I nailed it after 2 hours and listened. You can hear the vocals, but the EQ settings were tweaked in just the right way where you can hear my dog licking his nuts. FML

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By ihatelife - 14/05/2011 23:17 - Canada

Today, I was trying to listen to a phone message I'd received. I was excited because I'd been waiting for the coaches to call me back for tryouts for a week now. Trying to figure out how to listen to it, I ended up deleting it. FML

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By unemployed - 09/11/2018 15:30

Today, after months of job searching, I finally got a call for an interview. Right in the middle of the call, my phone hung up so the music app could open. I tried calling them back and got no response. FML

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slooby_fml 25

Sunday 7 April 2013 9:01

You can probably remember the jist of what they said; fill in the gaps with plausible things

FlyingPie 17

Sunday 7 April 2013 8:57

I bet that kind of thing gets old after a while.

Comments

dinosxxrawr 22

Sunday 7 April 2013 8:55

should have checked to make sure.

GRubi 17

Sunday 7 April 2013 9:43

OP said it stopped 10 minutes in, which means it was working initially. When and what was s/he supposed to check?

dinosxxrawr 22

Sunday 7 April 2013 10:27

during the interview.. can't trust technology completely. and there's nothing wrong with double checking.

shyeahh_fml 19

Sunday 7 April 2013 22:15

I usually double check at the beginning of doing something, right before starting. I don't know many people that stop in the middle of whatever they're doing to check the equipment or whatever again.

bamagrl410 31

Tuesday 9 April 2013 2:17

If whatever recording device he was using has a limited amount of space on it, he should have checked to be sure that he had enough for the entire interview. And glancing at it quickly to be sure it's still going takes very little effort.

lennelleong 33

Sunday 14 July 2013 17:58

i'm saving this fml because this is the sort of thing that *may* happen to me if i'm honest. i'm surprised the tape recorder button didn't push up make a loud sound signifying that it's not recording anymore? :(

FlyingPie 17

Sunday 7 April 2013 8:57

I bet that kind of thing gets old after a while.

ks23 9

Sunday 7 April 2013 8:57

If it went so great they won't mind doing it twice

Shenanigans9 8

Sunday 7 April 2013 15:40

For them it'l be first time.

zombieladi 14

Sunday 7 April 2013 8:58

go back and do the interview again

shyeahh_fml 19

Sunday 7 April 2013 22:16

I would go to a different nursing home so it's not as embarrassing.

B5B0N35 18

Sunday 7 April 2013 8:58

that sucks OP better luck next time

Snowkeys 11

Sunday 7 April 2013 8:59

Well I'm sure most of it was old war stories and senile conversations anyway.

slooby_fml 25

Sunday 7 April 2013 9:01

You can probably remember the jist of what they said; fill in the gaps with plausible things

cb1002630 11

Sunday 7 April 2013 9:02

Well, if it was that important then you probably should have written notes down as well for that interview. If you don't, then YDI, OP.

GRubi 17

Sunday 7 April 2013 9:46

Why would OP waste time taking notes when s/he thought s/he could go through the conversation again later? Best to give the subjects OP's full attention.