Today, at work, I was reprimanded for not engaging with customers enough. In an effort to be more friendly, I complimented the next customer on her interesting accent. Turns out it was from a stroke she had last year. 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 asked a woman where her beautiful accent was from. The woman stared at me for a while. Then her daughter told me that the reason her mother talked like that was because she had a stroke a few months ago. FML
Today, at work, I misheard a customer telling me a story. To be polite, I did a slight laugh and nodded my head. She actually told me her mum had died. FML
Today, at work, I was helping someone who really sounded like she had a Boston accent. So, I asked her where she was from. She has never been out of state. Turns out she has a speech impediment. FML
Today, I had to call a customer. I usually try to avoid calling customers because I have a very prominent speech impediment. Well, it turns out the customer I called also has a speech impediment and thought I was mocking her. She hung up on me and filed a formal complaint with my company. FML
Today, a customer punched me in the face for repeating their order back to them because they thought I was making fun of their speech impediment. I have the same speech impediment. FML
Today, while at work, a customer refused to speak louder, despite me asking her to do it several times. As a result, I took her order incorrectly. The customer then finally decided to raise her voice, but only to yell at me about my poor listening skills. FML
Today, I got told off at work for not saying hello to someone in the corridor.. FML
Today, I was working when I delivered the standard "Hello, how are you?" to a customer. He took the opportunity to tell me about his deceased wife, his estranged children, and his anal tearing. After a while, I tried to help someone else, and he complained to my manager. I was written up. FML
Today, I got reprimanded by my boss for smiling and laughing too much. Last week, he reprimanded me for not smiling and laughing enough. FML
Today, another employee scolded me for being "socially awkward". The same employee who just before had a 10 minute discussion with a client about her poop. FML
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Mirorbo 27
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
unidentified_sta 5
How exotic
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Comments (80)
Arsonnist 3
You didn't try to recover, did you? Like complimenting her on her stroke? That wouldn't be good...
winslow310560 0
#9 be careful how you represent yourself, clearly you are a teenager and have minimal maturity to show or a really creepy older guy that makes friends with children and the same maturity level.
Sparkey 0
Why is this an FML? It's not like you insulted her. You gave her a compliment on something that was the effect of a stroke. Maybe she still enjoyed the compliment. You did nothing wrong.
a_girl_i_know 0
I like to read the back and forth arguing comments....they're funnier than the actual fmls.
unidentified_sta 5
He* :P
shadyecko 0
53 you look like keke palmer, just sayin'.
sweetiebabe05 0
Do you work at Chase? or some phone service? lol I get in trouble for the same thing daily.
iron_chefITALY 0
private school in Mexico doesn't count chicka
moonlight_daze 8
You shouldn't have even bothered...
moonlight_daze 8
That's the name of one of the chapters in the FML book, lol. :-X
mintcar 10
Aww, well it wasn't intentional.