Today, I laughed when I shouldn't have and am probably fired. What happened? My boss asked me if birds were reptiles. I thought he was kidding. FML
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Today, my boss fired me because of the way I laugh. Apparently it reminds him too much of his ex-wife's laugh. I'm a guy. FML
Today, my boss suspended me for laughing too hard at my desk and causing a big scene in front of our customers. I was laughing because he'd forwarded me a hilarious email. He was practically smirking as he handed me my official warning. FML
Today, I was getting lunch at a fast food restaurant. My boss was in front of me, and in order to get on his good side I offered to pay. Instead, I got fired because I guess my boss assumed I was making fun of his salary, which I knew nothing about. FML
Today, my boss called me into his office. After yelling and firing me, his assistant comes in telling him he had mistaken me for someone else. He did not give me my job back, as he claimed it would make an awkward work environment. FML
Today, my boss fired me because I corrected him after he misspoke during a meeting. FML
Today, I was fired for job abandonment. Yesterday, my boss told me to go home early because we were so slow. After I reminded him, he laughed and said, "Oh yeah... You're still fired." FML
Today, I got fired. My coworker decided to imitate my voice, stand outside of my boss's office door, and say insulting things about his daughter. FML
Today, just a few minutes after I got to work, my usually laconic boss came into my office and said, "Pack your stuff and get the f*ck out." Apparently, half my department was being downsized. Thinking it was an April Fool's, I burst out laughing and told him how funny the prank was. He wasn't kidding. FML
Today, I found out that my coworker shared a laugh with the boss about setting the office desk on fire (which he actually did), while ten minutes later I was threatened with being fired because I made paper snowflakes and hung a few of them next to the computer. FML
Today, my co-worker and I played a game where we give each other the bird in whatever creative manner we could come up with. Deciding to be sneaky, I hid behind a wall with my middle finger up as I heard him walking into the office. It was my boss. FML
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Top comments
redreynard 14
Well they aren't as different as you think. Birds are descended from dinosaurs.
FireFlie07 20
He seriously thought birds were reptiles???Lmao
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tammy0312 6
They're obviously not reptiles now but feathers are an adaption of scales. So maybe he was confused by the facts? Either way that wasn't even funny enough to laugh in his face, at best it was a scoff.
stemorrow 4
Like a boss!
bagelpie 6
Why is he The boss of anything?!
hateevryone 15
Somebody wasn't paying attention in school.
hornyunicorny 2
I hope you don't work at a zoo!
stevenmx86 8
It shouldn't matter that you laughed unless you laughed loudly like a moron...
serpentchick 4
dude...birds are evolved from reptiles, which means they are in the monophyletic group reptiles. Hell, there's even an XKCD comic on the subject, google the ornithology one. They are closely related to lizards (and snakes), turtles, and crocs. You know, ALL OF THE REPTILES. So OP, maybe you should learn not to laugh at people, else people like me start laughing at you, much, much harder.
stoptrying 9
While you're right that they evolved from reptiles, that doesn't make them reptiles. They have their own classification. Now the only people being laughed at are you and OP's boss.
serpentchick 4
We evolved from mammals, and though we also have our own classifications, that doesn't make us NOT mammals. The classifications for birds are there to have more descriptions. In biology, we prefer monophyletic groups (which includes ancestor and ALL descendants) to paraphyletic groups. If they evolved from reptiles, they are in the monophyletic group reptiles. They can be NOT part of the traditional paraphyletic group of reptiles, but paraphyletic groups are random (ancestor + not all of the descendants = random grouping that makes less sense) and are less useful when discussing evolution.
RedPillSucks 33
I don't know why everyone is calling the boss an idiot. Unless he's working as an evolutionary biologist, it's ok that he didn't know, or was uncertain. I didn't know uranus was a planet :-) and I'm a nuclear quantum verteron biologist
kaylanicole1695 12
actually birds are very closely related, they have a lot of the same characteristics. scientists have been considering putting them in the same class. learned this in my advanced biology class
darkenedone 27
Yeah, ridiculous question! Everyone knows that birds are diapsids; diapsida being a subclass of reptilia.