Today, a council worker showed up on my doorstep for the final pool installation inspection, which was scheduled 10 years ago. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I finished a fence around my house that I have been working on all week. About an hour after I finished, a water company truck pulled into my driveway. They told me they would have to take down my fence to make repairs on a water pipe. FML
Today, after my landlord emailed to say someone would be inspecting the apartment at 10 AM, I cleaned everything and waited at home all morning. At noon, I called to ask where they were. The inspection was scheduled for next Tuesday. I'd read the date wrong. FML
Today, the maintenance workers finally came to my apartment to fix the shower-head that kept falling off the wall. I was annoyed because they had replaced it a few weeks ago and since then, it'd been a problem. They went into my bathroom, turned the shower head around, and left. FML
Today, after house sitting for my neighbor, I realized that he has a camera pointed at my pool. FML
Today, I woke up to a repairman at my door who was simply supposed to turn my water back on in my apartment. Two hours and 5 repairmen later, all I have now is a large hole in my ceiling. Still no water. FML
Today, a kid I taught to swim became my new boss, at the pool that I have worked at for nine years. FML
Today, after my landlord announced a "surprise" apartment inspection, I spent the entire night cleaning every room, scrubbing the oven, and organizing closets. The inspector walked in, looked around for 20 seconds, checked for a smoke detector, then left. FML
Today, on my second day as a lifeguard, I locked myself out of the pool. My angry guests and I had to wait for 45 minutes for my manager to arrive and unlock the gate. FML
Today, I came home from work to find construction workers repaving my street. I work the graveyard shift. FML
Today, I found out the works council won't let the company offer me the job for which I was the only applicant because the council requires 3 years experience with the company. I've only been here for 2 years, 10 months, and 26 days. FML
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Top comments
Annlon 9
Your tax dollars at work.
mysteryguy3039 33
Better late than never
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Comments (57)
Freda92 12
And I thought waiting months for a residence permit renewal was a long time....good to hear all public offices in the world get stuff done with no delay!
CaroAurelia 12
If repair and inspection people are as late in Australia as they are in the States, I'm not surprised.
Witchylady 18
Council workers are over paid and the most useless employees in the world. Why do we have them ?
xluciferx666 21
I've heard of back logs and paperwork getting lost but damn that's a bit much
ToxicMoo33 18
Wooooow. What awesome people.
SkitchOK 5
Did it pass??
Enkeria 30
I'm sorry, but this FML sounds really fake.
rocca2509 5
His slower then internet explorer.
vlalam 24
first world problems???
STRMfrmXMN 1
Well that could've gone more swimmingly.