Today, I interviewed for a call center job making $13/hr, the only job where they called back. I used to live in a doorman luxury apartment in Manhattan with a prime skyline view and clubhouse. That was last month. FML
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Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, I took a very expensive flight to New York City for a job interview. I waited in my hotel room all day for the phone call to go to my once in a lifetime interview. By noon, I was nervous; eight, I was pissed. Around ten, I realized my phone was still in airplane mode. FML
Today, I work as a phone agent at a call center, which frequently brags about their awards as the "best workplace ever" because of their working conditions. In reality, we have to suck it up and ignore the burnouts from phone calls with Karen customers, and with the wage I get paid, I can barely make ends meet. FML
Today, I got a call from the only company that asked me to come in for an interview of the many applications I submitted. I answered it even though I was at my current job. My boss heard and chewed me out. The call was to cancel the interview since the position was filled. FML
Today, I interviewed potential employees for a job position that I was supposed to get promoted to. FML
Today, I went for an interview in the big city, with an expensive commute. Despite being an office-based management role requiring years of experience, they only offered minimum wage. After explaining it wouldn't be acceptable and tried to negotiate, they kicked me out and had the balls to call me "ungrateful." FML
Today, after three and a half years of working dead-end jobs with a bachelor's degree, I got a call from a potential employer in my degree field, who wanted to set up an interview. The problem: the interview is across the country, and I'm too broke to pay the travel expenses. FML
Today, I got a call from a job I had applied for. Everything went great until I realized I had applied to the wrong location, across town. I'm so broke, I went to the interview anyway. It will cost me more to pay for the gas to drive there to work, than what I will actually make. FML
Today, my mother told her friends that I work as a call girl. I'm a call center agent. FML
Today, I was taking phone calls. In my dreams. That's just how horrible my job is. FML
Today, I moved back home after unsuccessfully trying to find work in Florida, despite living there for nine months. About 45 minutes into my 18-hour drive home, a TV station called me to offer me a job interview. I applied for that job over three months ago. FML
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Top comments
lachef93 0
wtf? what happened? you are ridiculous. try rewriting this one so you don't make everyone on this site feel as small as your penis.
Crackerman 0
a) $13/hr in NYC is like $6/hr in most of the rest of the country when you factor in cost of living. Almost anywhere else, it's great. But NYC is INSANELY expensive. b) If you could afford the Manhattan Penthouse, most of you'd have one too. So, you can't really come down on him too hard about that. Now, that being said, I have absolutely no sympathy for you. People like you are the reason everyone else is suffering. Maybe this will teach you to appreciate the value of hard work and earning what you have.
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StormDewleaf 12
I feel bad for you, I really do...But speaking as someone who spent childhood on welfare and is now working through daily pain to make $7.25 an hour and being kept just -barely- under 40 hours, living paycheck to paycheck...I hope through this you learn to save your money and start budgeting a little. Really, even if you had your old job and were still making tons of money, things like buying the cheaper store brands when you go grocery shopping and keeping a car for more than two or three years won't kill you. (I don't know that you personally do or don't do that, but those are a couple of things that kinda irk me about people who actually have money. Seriously, why buy a brand new car when yours still works just fine. -.-;;)
zoeytrelyse 0
I work in a call center myself only making $10 an hour..which is really good money where I live and the most money I have ever made at a job....f MY life....
morgan020 0
I used to work in a call center before I had my son and it sucked! but thankfully my husband has a good job and I was able to quit and stay home with our son. but it really does suck for you. we put as much as we can each paycheck into savings but it still wouldn't cover our bills for long if something like that happened. $13 an hour isn't really all that much either. sure when i was a kid making $6 an hour it seemed like alot but with a mortgage car insurance and everything even living in a small town $13an hour wouldn't cover much. good luck finding a better paying job.
snagglepaste 0
it isn't. i make 7.28 an hour
krissy33 0
My husband, daughter and I live on one minimum wage job because daycare is more than I would make at a job, so stop whining. At least you have a job and a place to live. I'm assuming you have food, too. Three things that a lot of people would kill for, so stop feeling sorry for yourself and be happy with what you do have. (P.S. Both my husband and I are college graduates, but with the economy, neither of us can find a good job.)
Sway_NV 7
Then you should understand his situation. FML is where ppl go to post shit that happens to them that sucks. So if he should stop "whining" then so should everyone else. And FML wouldn't exist anymore. Not only that, but you're whining right now. So stfu and gtfo.
varunsolanki89 0
Dude.. Seriously that is the worse FML ever man.. What the **** happened?
resultsmayvary 5
shoulda put some $$ in savings instead of wasting it on an overpriced Manhatten condo. you get no sympathy here!!!
heavenleigh85 5
Exactly my thoughts. Having at least 6 months emergency fund would have saved him.
baseball154 0
amen Dude that's awesome
iPunchedBigFoot 5
I don't feel one ounce of sorrow for you. Be happy with $13 an hour. There are a lot of people that can't even get a job right now.
Kittysnatcher 0
Wow...your complaining? Just know many people will never make enough to experience the lavish lifestyle u HAD..just be grateful you actually had the chance to live that way for a while...so quitttt crying..pansy.