Today, my company is doing so bad that I had to take down my symbolic first dollar so that I could buy a roll of crackers for dinner. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I went to the bank to make a withdrawal in order to celebrate my last day here in Italy with my friends. Apparently I'm overdrawn by 187 dollars so I'm eating nothing but leftover stale crackers to survive until I get free plane food on my way back home. FML
Today, I'm so poor that I've been scrounging around my house all day trying to find quarters and dimes so that I can buy myself a cup of coffee tomorrow. FML
Today, after calling my bank to see where my paycheck was, and waiting on hold for my entire lunch break, my boss told me she forgot to submit my deposit. I was relying on that money to pay for lunch today as I used all I had for bills. Looks like I eat tomorrow. FML
Today, my boss declared total bankruptcy of the company and I lost my job. The good news is my coworkers and I all received McDonald's 10%-off coupons. They expired in 2003. FML
Today, my rather large boss told me how the company needs to save money, how we are going downhill fast, even suggesting that we might go bankrupt very soon. He then went on to ask me to go get him some very expensive scotch using the company credit card to, "help him cope with the stress." FML
Today, I just finished my first week of unemployment. I don't have any money. I also just finished the last toilet paper roll. FML
Today, I thought I was having a nice day at work, until I had a client who paid me $376 in rolls made of 0.05 and 0.10. It took me an hour to count. FML
Today, I get to stand in the unemployment line for the second time in a year because my company can't pay me. My parents own the company. FML
Today, I'm so broke that I had to call in sick to work because I couldn't afford to pay my bus fare. FML
Today, I was laid off on the day I was about to put in an offer on a house. This company promised me the world, and I broke myself working to prove my worth. Turns out, I wasn't getting paid for the lunches and breaks I didn't take either. FML
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Top comments
ariiewilliams 17
Don't give up OP it'll get better eventually.
the_real_dvd 21
Every success story usually starts out like this. A piece of advice: tell everyone, and I mean everyone, what you do and why they should hire you. Be shameless about it. Networking is the key to any successful business.
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Comments (39)
perdix 31
I'm wondering what kind of business it is and why it's doing so badly (other than poor employee grammar.)
iaintshityett 7
How could people pick you deserve it insensitive pricks
TheDrifter 24
Well, you have the businesses people, giving him the "sorry, but if your own business is failing ydi", then there's the commies and moon bats thumbing him down for being a capitalist, plus the random jerks.
ksks1234 33
I am curious to know, what is a moon bat?
RedPillSucks 33
@38 probably just random jerks. I don't think either commies or moon bats(???) think that owning your own business is the same as capitalism. Pretty much every communist country, including North Korea and Cuba, are allowing some sort of entrepreneurialism.
TheDrifter 24
Moon bats is an old derogatory term for anti societal conspiracy theorists (the CIA monitors the world's brain waves, paper money lets the illuminati/aliens/men in black track you, banking is an alien/rockefeller conspiracy sorts). Most major cities still have anti capitalism/pro anarchial communism rallies every summer, not to mention how popular railing against "greedy capitalist" bosses is here on fml. Pretty much every government gets it, but among academia the utopian communist dream is alive and well.
mFUNdo21 17
and some are saying ydi because of the grammar
Age_of_Asylym 3
To the moron's telling him to sell his phone/computer... He runs a business. That's right, cut off all methods of communication. That's great advice to get his business up and running.
deusraps 8
That's pretty much rock bottom.
RedPillSucks 33
Not really. OP has a business, even if it's not going well. Rock bottom would be homeless, no money, and in need of medical care (in America, anyway).
lollypop30001 19
I guess you never been poor before , you can get free crackers by going by fast food places. Also free water. If go by a chicken place you can get butter and honey for the crackers. Just say you went thur the drive thur and they didn't give you any. Also don't forget you can get food stamps if you really need it.
k84765 3
sorry hope things get better
worldclassrager 41
Tough times happen...you'll just have to use a replacement dollar...but things will pick up...
soopafreak 11
So your first dollar has become your last.
lb0812 18
I hope you stick to it. Entrepreneurship can be very hard but when it pays off, it can be more rewarding than any 9-5 would ever be. Just make sure you're networking, sales and marketing skills are up to par, (which is much easier/cheaper nowadays with social networking and internet) and when the customers start coming, give them flawless customer service. It should come together. As long as you're fulfilling a need and providing value, people will pay.
pedinhuh 23
I like how people tell to OP to switch jobs and completely ignore that he stated it that he runs a business, switching jobs in his position is not soo simple!