Today, while working at Walmart, I was walking the sales floor and passed the end of an aisle. I saw a customer coming at me from the corner of my eye, so I jumped backwards. I hit a display case, and watched it topple over before turning to apologize to the customer. It was a ladder. FML
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Today, while at work, I walked head first into the edge of a clothing rack. I was looking right at it. People saw. FML
Today, I was at work at Walmart, casually walking in the middle of the store, when my foot caught on something, so I went flying forward and yelled, being caught off guard, to the point I had to pretend I was running for 3 seconds, then someone blocked my path so I suddenly had to stop. Everyone was staring at me. FML
Today, I was standing on a desk at work to run wiring in a suspended ceiling, since we have no ladder. My phone rang, I rushed to answer it, tripping and smashing my leg. It was my boss, calling to tell me he was bringing over a ladder. FML
Today, at work, I went to place a small item on a shelf. The shelf fell on me, trapping my hand. While lifting it, the top shelf fell against my chest and the products all dumped on my face. I then realized the shelves were only held up by zip ties. FML
Today, at my retail job, I was trying to get a large amount of cardboard to the trash and had a short path to maneuver through displays and customers. As I'm coming down the aisle, a customer sees me and stops to look at a coffee cup display, directly in my path. FML
Today, at work, I tripped and fell face-first into a food display. As I picked myself up, totally humiliated, I tripped again and fell right back into it, earning a bunch of pitying looks from nearby customers. FML
Today, my boss and I were stacking boxes in the back room of the store. One of the boxes fell and hit me in the face, causing me to lose my glasses. My boss stepped on my glasses as she ran to check the box for broken merchandise, which I then had to pay for. FML
Today, I was on a ladder at work, fetching some stock from one of the storage shelves. Some teenage kid thought it would be fucking hilarious to grab the ladder and violently shake it. He hadn't bet on me being startled enough to fall off and fracture my elbow on the floor. FML
Today, I was at work, stocking shelves. A customer got mad because I was in the way of her "shopping time" and knocked down all the work I had done. FML
Today, I was serving an incredibly rude woman at work. The ladder I had used to get her two pairs of shoes came crashing down, and hit my face and neck. She only bought one pair, and ten minutes later returned them after, complaining they were too expensive. FML
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Pleonasm 35
"I'm sorry, but you have the rung guy."
XDsmileyDX_fml 24
Imagining the looks you got, and how you tried to play it off.
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XDsmileyDX_fml 24
Imagining the looks you got, and how you tried to play it off.
Ambient25 24
Looks from where, the ladder? You're right! "Yes, this is ladder, I saw what you did, pick that shit up...".
XDsmileyDX_fml 24
No I mean looks from everyone else in the store. Like when you run into a spiderweb and people just see you freak out, but in OPs case it would've looked even weirder.
Djjooze 4
If you are in the 1% richest people on the planet which you have to make over $870,000 to be. You probably would not be working there.
HKCgrimmjow 15
First of all, you can never trust ladders. You can never be too careful. Second... What the hell are you talking about #30? I almost trust you less than the ladders themselves!
Djjooze 4
Come at me bro.
clever_name_here 7
#30 thats great to know except its completely off-topic
unknownfork 12
Haha, funniest thing I've read all day. I didn't read past the "while working at walmart" part though.
Pleonasm 35
"I'm sorry, but you have the rung guy."
EverestMelting 23
Quite the rung guy.
Blackcatluck 19
^ I see a girl posing but no duck face....where's the duck face?
andrekrivo 20
ladders are known to be pretty unpredictable!
XDsmileyDX_fml 24
I once knew a guy who got killed by a bunch of ladders. Or were they Latter Day Saints? I can never remember.
myoukei 31
The moment you started with "today at Walmart", i knew this was destined to be tragic. FYL indeed. Hope you still have your job...
zawesomee 14
This is FML. It would've been tragic anyway.
NickaPLZ 26
Not necessarily. There're plenty of YDI moments on here, too. And those I don't call tragic. Only pathetic.
fareith 15
Why do his other two identical comments get thumbed down yet this one is thumbed up?
Catkam623 27
Because its the first the other two are accidents
fareith 15
24 - This is the third one he posted. Not the first. Smartass.
jag3r 3
I work at Walmart as well and it seems like there's an FML there daily at least
myoukei 31
Sorry for the duplicate posts, school internet can be a butt sometimes... ^_^'
Catkam623 27
Actually it's the first one he posted that's why the other three came after it In #s
myoukei 31
The moment you started with "today at Walmart", i knew this was destined to be tragic. FYL indeed. Hope you still have your job...
myoukei 31
The moment you started with "today at Walmart", i knew this was destined to be tragic. FYL indeed. Hope you still have your job...
Pwn17 25
How exactly did you manage to repost twice?
myoukei 31
School internet? O_O; i only sent it once.
Pwn17 25
Ladders are clearly evil. Can't you tell?
worldclassrager 39
That's not a good reflex...
Hollandiscrazy 12
Well, people working at Walmart are at the bottom of the ladder anyway.
DocBastard 38
People working at Walmart have a job with one of the largest, most stable companies in the world, which is more than you can say about a lot of people. Get your judgmental head out of your judgmental ass.
Hollandiscrazy 12
The continuity of a company has absolutely no correlation with what you get paid and has little correlation with losing your job. Sorry, but your argument is invalid doc.
DocBastard 38
No, your argument that people who work at Walmart are somehow less than other people is not only invalid, but stupid, judgmental, asinine, and in all other ways ridiculous. Last I checked, Walmart is #1 in the Fortune 500. That isn't irrelevant. Your stupid arguments, on the other hand, are.
Hollandiscrazy 12
Of course that is irrelevant. It has nothing to do with the employees working there. Easy as that.
BubbleGrunge 18
Spoken like a true 1%-er, Doc! Walmart is on the Fortune 500 because the owners and high ups make enough money to make the list. It's regular employees make the largest corporation whose employees are on some sort of welfare. Yes, respect for anyone whose working, but I wouldn't wish a Walmart job on my worst enemy.
MrConcise 34
I feel like Doc's comment was a knee-jerk reaction to impending negativity against Walmart employees because the first comment of this thread was nothing more than a snide remark. So let's just leave it at this, which is the point that soared past us all: Job is hardly the measure of a man. I've met dealers more respectable than most everyone I know and doctors who act like they're dealers themselves. Drop the whole thing, it's not worth debating.
DocBastard 38
No, none of my comments are knee-jerk. It was a reaction to this moron considering people who work at Walmart to be "bottom of the ladder". Bubblegrunge, I realise the corporate policies there aren't great, and the job isn't great either. But thinking that someone is a lesser person based on a job is elitist and nothing less, and I will NOT apologise for defending people who do an honest day's work and deserve respect for it, no matter whom they work for.
jag3r 3
I guess I'm at the bottom of the ladder as well. As a Walmart associate I was quickly recognized for my hard work by getting promoted. I get full time hours on a set schedule, health benefits, paid vacations, and quarterly bonuses. Definitely the worst job ever. (Yes that was sarcasm)
klovemachine 24
As a Wal-Mart worker, I thank you, doc, for defending us because I work hard for what I have :-)
mrwawa 8
Walmart is the worst place to work, unless you're a manager. All they do is bitch about how everything isn't perfect and then go laugh with their manager friends. Ours do it all the time.
SenselessPattern 12
Sounds like he meant bottom of the ladder economically, rather than socially. This is based on the way he defended his comments. I'm just glad other people recognize his comment was more of a joke in possibly poor taste instead of a declaration about the social status of Walmart employees. If you all wish to continue this imaginary class battle, be my guest.
gabe222 25
Starting out at walmart, I may be inclined to agree, but what other company setting like walmart(say a grocery store or outlet store) gives you the potential to move up, gives you 40 hours with full-time benefits, gives decent yearly pay raises(40-50cents), and a quarterly incentive? I worked for a large grocery chain...no potential to move up, no bonuses, no full time or benefits, and certainly no pay increases worth a damn...
Rosicles 8
I also respect people who do a hard days work, no matter what they do. I can understand how this got your back up.
TwoOneFive 11
Security must be laughing there asses off watching this on camera