Today, I woke up early to travel to the office headquarters 3.5 hours away for important meetings. After waking up at 5.30am, picking up all my colleagues and driving 40 min out of town, I realised I was wearing my woolen house slippers. They were the only pair of shoes I'd brought on the trip. FML
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Today, I made the long drive to work, got out of the car, and realised that I'd forgotten to put shoes on before I left the house. FML
Today, I woke up early for work and spent 30 minutes frantically looking for my keys. I had to take a 30-minute Uber ride to work, then drove an hour in the company truck, only to be stood up. FML
Today, I'm supposed to be starting on the first part of a 9 hour road trip. My only coworker called in sick, so instead I had to go into work. One hour there, one hour back, and a 9-to-5 day. This would have been my first holiday in 7 years. After getting to work, I realised I'd forgotten my work keys in my other clothes. FML
Today, I finally got up early enough to get to work on time. I arrived 15 minutes early only to realize that I'd left my work laptop at home. Ended up being 30 minutes late. FML
Today, I almost missed the bus. I grabbed my backpack and ran out the door. It wasn't until after we got to school that I realized I was still in my slippers. FML
Today, I had to wake up at 4am because my boss set an important business meeting for first thing in the morning. After making sure everything was ready, I went to work. My boss ended up oversleeping and moved the meeting to tomorrow. FML
Today, after 7 hours on my feet at work, my boyfriend picked me up. Relieved, I took off my shoes. Suddenly, he looked up and sniffed, asking, "Is that your feet?" I'd forgotten to put on socks in my rush to work. He made me put my shoes back on and sit in the back, windows open. FML
Today, I had to take the train from my hometown to my university for a very important meeting concerning my foreign exchange program. When I finally arrived, I noticed a Post-it on the door: "Meeting cancelled, sick". I basically made a 9-hour day-trip for a half-an-hour walk. FML
Today, I wore a new pair of shoes to work and spent the entire day hobbling around in discomfort. It wasn't until I got home that I realized I had forgotten to take remnants of the packing foam out of the tips of the shoes. FML
Today, I woke up at 5:30 and made the half hour drive to work only to find out that it was my day off. After finally getting back home and into bed, my boss called, requesting that I come back to work since I was "already up". FML
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vivian_rae 8
So find a shoe store when you get there. It sucks to have to pay for another pair, but it's an easy fix.
Fluffydemise 18
Considering your colleagues clearly didn't tell you about the slip up I'd say it's fair game to murder the one you like least and steal his shoes. It's the only rational thing to do!
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Comments (85)
SirTalkaton 22
Ah good ole co-workers. Gotta love em. Find the ones you like and tell them what day to call in sick.
zandalee 19
Then rock those slippers as though they were the hippest shoes since jandels.
bahamut357 16
Pardon my ignorance, but what are jandels?
zandalee 19
It's a Kiwi thing. In Australia they call them thongs. Rubber flip-flops...
andrekrivo 20
nothing says I love this company like the comfort of wearing the crappiest house footwear you've got!
Steffi 26
Buy some new ones.
sezzle17 11
Mate you crack me up
coldsteelstu 4
don't worry I'm sure they have stores where your going.
buddy51 23
"Casual Thursday!" Sorry OP but you've made yourself look pretty incompetent! Start looking for another job...
perdix 29
#24, I was going to say that the OP should propose to the big cheeses "Casual Footwear Thursday" as a lead-in to "Casual Friday." For, y'know, morale-building and all that bullshit.
worldclassrager 39
Not professional...but works right? If they bother you so much hope there is a shop to get a quick pair as a replacement.,,just make sure there is some time to spare...
theworldismad 10
you're in a slippery situation
caremedy 6
Even if OP's coworkers did see the slippers, they still may have thought that s/he just liked driving in slippers. I know several people who wear comfortable shoes for driving and just bring a nice pair along to wear when they get to their destination.
MissyMiss5 13
Yes I was thinking this! Thank you for being intelligent!
fading09 4
Agreed! That was my thoughts exactly! My mom used to wear her tennis shoes when driving then switch to heels when she got to work.