Today, at my internship, I was told we were going to do something fun. I was excited, until I found out that this "fun" thing was labeling 500 folders. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I found out I've been incorrectly sorting thousands of papers for the past two weeks. My boss wanted them sorted by date, but the co-worker who instructed me said to sort them into alphabetical order just to watch me fail. FML
Today, I'm a graduate but still an unpaid intern. My daily work is folding letters and putting them into envelopes. The sad thing is, I actually enjoy doing it. FML
Today, I started the internship of my dreams. The company has nothing for me to do, so I sit and stare at the clock. FML
Today, I went to orientation for college. They gave us a name tag and I tried to figure out how to put it on for a few minutes. After struggling with it I realized it was a sticker. FML
Today, my boss told me to sort and file all the paperwork he'd been randomly shoving into boxes since 2010. Apparently we're being audited, so he expects me to do eight years of filing in two weeks. There's enough paper to fully stock a large public library. Two weeks my ass. FML
Today, I was given a new responsibility at the law firm where I work. I'm now in charge of punching holes in every single piece of paper to be found in the office, estimated to be in the hundred-thousands. The reason? I finish my daily clerical work too quickly. FML
Today, I went in for my second day working at my internship. My bosses greeted me and told me we were going to have a meeting. The meeting was about the drunk voicemails I left them on Saturday. FML
Today, I discovered that "team building exercise" really means free labor with no snacks. FML
Today, my supervisor’s first words when looking at my work were, “What is this shit?!” I explained that I'd done it exactly like she told me to. She just kept on grumbling because she couldn’t find a single thing I had done wrong, which apparently ruined her day. FML
Today, I set out to organize my media files over several old hard drives, but I got so engrossed in creating intricate folders and subfolders that I forgot what I was organizing in the first place. My computer is now a labyrinth of folders titled "Stuff," "Things," and "What is this even?" FML
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Feklfekl2222 32
I sometimes find tasks like that fun, it depends if I can make a game out of it or not.
ant1078 7
That's how my boss gets me to empty the garbage bins :(
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Comments (131)
FMLCaseyFML 0
Give them funny names. ie. *****. Penis. Wanker. Etc. (:
thechamp101 0
fun means easy in the business world
Taurus_ChicKa 37
Wow, want to trade? I'd much rather do that than what I have to do at my job which involves handling germy money, cleaning bathrooms, sweeping, mopping, etc. And I have a degree to do the kind of work you're doing. Stop complaining and be grateful that you have such an easy job that probably pays more than mine does for doing less.
terrask 11
That's about much fun it's going to get in an office. Get used to it.
Dcm210 19
fun and work/interternship never go together.hope you get good pay after internship.
livingtolaugh1 0
thats always how internships r! what did u expect?
nframe 0
Same stuff happens all the time at school except mine isn't as bad
fallingapart777 7
If only you could color the folders, then it could be fun...you know for the first few.
emba_fml 13
Idno what your idea of fun is but that sounds awesome as hell.
msklinggolly 0
I had to label over 3,000 folders