Today, I got written up for asking my coworker a question that I should have asked my boss to ask my coworker. Yay bureaucracy. FML
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Wild Nights Out
Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
Today, I got in trouble with my boss for doing what she wanted me to do. I guess she didn't think I would do it, so she did it herself. FML
Today, my boss yelled at me for leaving on time. After months of management hounding us about our overtime, I get in trouble for doing what I was supposed to do. FML
Today, at my new job, a coworker offered to help me mop the floors since she wasn't busy. I ended up getting written up by my boss for supposedly being too lazy and making other people finish my work. FML
Today, I was given my marching orders because I corrected my supervisor on something he was actually doing wrong. It seems I deserve this for "not learning to obey my immediate superiors." FML
Today, my boss yelled at me, telling me that I can't answer the phone anymore. Not because I do a bad job, but because a co-worker whined about it being her job. People call her and complain about how rude she is and then ask to talk to me. FML
Today, I got written up at work over false accusations that I didn't do some safety tasks. The same tasks that were done before I had even arrived. FML
Today, I got a write up from HR because the new boss says we have to check our e-mail everyday, and I missed checking my e-mail for one single day. FML
Today, I learned that asking your boss, “Am I gonna get paid extra?” when he asks that you chip in for your co-worker-who-just quit’s duties is not an appropriate response. In fact, I was written up for “insubordination” and “inability to be a team player.” FML
Today, I got in trouble for following the rules at work. This is the third workplace where this has happened. Each time, when I provided the written document that showed the rules that I followed, I was told, "Well…" Don't make it a "rule" if it's really going to be a guideline with 50+ possible exceptions. FML
Today, I finished my last day of job training. At the beginning, the boss had told us to ask as many questions as possible. I was fired because I asked too many questions. FML
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Kindroth 12
If they want to be inefficient that's their choice.
cjwayy 22
It's weird that rules like that are so strictly enforced...
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Comments (74)
rollindadice 6
yeah we all go through some crap like that at our places of work
Aero_x 21
It sounds like that procedure was taken from the military. You have to talk to your superiors by order of rank. So you would have to go to the one just above you, and if he or she can't help you, then you would both consult the next ranking superior from them. If you skip through the ranks and talk to an office, it better be damn well worth wasting their time because they will feel insulted if you have annoyed them for something really trivial that could have been solved without their elite powers.
sweetsugar12477 4
My god. This is worse than anything I have ever encountered at my job as far as talking to employees... Who the hell do you work for and what was the question?
Brilliant66star 17
Ignorance of the law... blah, blah, blah..!
False_Stupidity 42
Dilbert, is that you?