Today, I fell asleep while on the toilet at work. When I woke up, I tried to quietly sneak back to my desk, only to be caught by my boss. He immediately sent me packing and gave his "best wishes" for me in the unemployment line. FML
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Today, I was so tired that I fell asleep on the toilet, and then had to give my boss a valid reason for why I was late. FML
Today, I fell asleep while taking a dump. At work. FML
Today, I was really, REALLY tired at work. I went to the restroom to take a little break, and must have dozed off, because I was awoken by my boss, knocking on the door of the stall. Apparently, I had been snoring. FML
Today, I fell asleep during my division emergency meeting. As I about to head home that evening, my boss patted me on the back saying, "Wrong move. Good luck". Turned out, it was a meeting to determine who will be kicked out of the company due to recession. My name was written first on the list. FML
Today, my boss left early, so I decided to take an extended break and run home. I found my wife in bed with my boss. I got fired for leaving work. FML
Today, at work, I stepped out for a few minutes to use the bathroom. Shortly after returning, I found out the hard way that one of my coworkers had used my computer to send a profanity-filled email to our boss, calling him an asshole and telling him to go fuck himself. I'm now jobless. FML
Today, I took a dump at work. When I went to flush the toilet, it clogged and began to overflow. I left the bathroom as it was and as I walked out, my boss came in. FML
Today, I fell asleep at work. I got woke up by my boss with a coffee and a referral letter. FML
Today, after a sleepless night, I fell asleep at my work desk. When I awoke, I found my co-workers had duct taped me to my chair. I was yelling at them to untape me, when our boss came in, scolded me for fucking about on the job, and left without saying a word to my colleagues. FML
Today, I worked 24 hours straight fixing my company's servers. After it was over, I breathed a huge sigh of relief and promptly fell asleep at my desk. My boss found me an hour later, refused to listen to me, and fired me for sleeping on the job. FML
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obviousboy 8
YDI simply because of your username.
xoxokelsey11 5
How long could you have been sleeping in there? Must've been comfortable.
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unknown_user5566 27
Unless your boss is a completely unreasonable asshole, I doubt this was the first time you screwed up. If you can't manage to get an appropriate amount of sleep prior to going into work, you must not have prioritized your job, and YDI.
smilepatrol 7
What if you had actually needed to use the restroom that long because you were sick? I mean, it couldn't been more than an hour. That's an overreaction by your boss. What an asshole.
thatonename 7
If you're that sick, stay home and don't get paid. Op basically just stole an hours wage. Not unreasonable of the boss at all to be upset.
pastywhitekid 10
OP does not cast their story in a good light by saying they were sleeping. We need details.
havocmike 3
too vague. why did you fall asleep? and for how long?
CaramelMacchiato 13
I can't speak for everybody here, but uh, I tend to fall asleep when, you know... I'm sleepy.
JustKittyKat 24
Why does everyone assume she deserved this? My girlfriend is narcoleptic and falls asleep in any situation. She is pretty difficult to wake up too. I mean, yes, it definitely could have been her fault, but who the hell wants to sleep on a toilette? She obviously did not mean to, and it seems she did value her job. What does it matter that she listens to a boy band by the way?
pastywhitekid 10
Idk, maybe it was an accident or medical condition, but why sneak back to her desk? Kind of raises a red flag.
JustKittyKat 24
I bet she snuck back out of embarrassment. Who wants to have everyone know you spent that long in the bathroom? Lol. She just worded her FML poorly, in my opinion.
unknown_user5566 27
If OP was narcoleptic her boss couldn't have reasonably fired her. I'm not 100% sure, but I'm assuming narcolepsy is considered a disability, and therefore OP would be protected from discrimination.
kirdypie 14
If OP had narcolepsy I'm guessing it would be a OHS issue that they would have had to tell their employer about anyway. No sympathy
JustKittyKat 24
What if it's not diagnosed? And I've known people who have passed out from the strain of..well..going. Hell, I've seen FMLs of people waking up after passing out because they tried so hard. And what if possibly, something was keeping her up all night? Ill loved one, annoying neighbor. I think there's more to this than the word limit allows.
Awsumuzzie 12
Yeah! What if OP was drugged!? What if OP was reading something hilarious and bumped her head and got a concussion!? What if, what if, what if.... I honesty think the OP deserves it.
Jessj958 19
38-I totally agree with your comment...I don't think OP deserved to be fired! It doesn't seem like OP intentionally went to the bathroom to take a nap, and I believe the sneaking back to the desk wasn't out of guilt, but rather out of embarrassment or simply trying to cover her ass.
asherm 15
Say you had vasovagal syncope while trying to dump. Or you have irritable bowel syndrome and that's why you were in there so long lol
nevershoutkendal_fml 11
If this isn't your first major incident there shouldn't be a problem if you let your boss know this won't happen ever again (and mean it!) If not, have fun in the cheese line.
seanc722 2
How is this a FML... You fall asleep at work (aka employer paying you to do your job) and expect Not ti get fired? Doesn't really matter where you fell asleep.. YDI
destroyer69 0
Hey stupid it's an FML because she lost her job! Frankly that's all that matters, not that she ACCIDENTLY fell asleep on the toilet!!!
nevershoutkendal_fml 11
*accidentally Okay, I misread an FML. This happens to a lot of people. Big ******* deal. Don't call me stupid. Greeting someone saying "hey, stupid!" proves your ignorance. Besides, you have no room to call anyone stupid, seeing as your grammar is pretty poor. I find it ******* HILARIOUS when people call other people stupid and they can't get simple language mechanics down-pat.
destroyer69 0
I hate you just b/c of 1direction
Laksejohn 2
You know, I felt sorry for you at first, I mean everybody makes mistakes... But then I read your nick, you totally deserve it ignorant fool!
DoubleBlumpkin 4
Tell him you have a hemmroid from gay anal sex and you will sue him for discrimination if he fires you.
neuroticallyyour_fml 17
*hemorrhoid and OP is a female so no gay anal sex.
perdix 31
#59, the OP's lesbian partner could own a strap-on. I don't mean to come to #53's aid, because I can't work out his name. I'm thinking it's only possible if you suspend the law of gravity, or do it on the space station.
neuroticallyyour_fml 17
True, but somehow I have serious doubts about OP having an anal loving lesbian lover.
perdix 31
#79, I'd tend to agree with you, but I'm having a hard time focusing on that issue. I'm just so freaked out about the double-blumpkin, How can that physically be possible?
neuroticallyyour_fml 17
Well if my understanding of such a thing is correct then maybe two girls and they take turns? But, I could way off base in my understanding of what a blumpkin is in the first place. If it is, disregard my statement.