Anonymous
France
Today, I marked 600 emails in my gmail inbox as spam and it will take me hours to go through and unmark them. FML
Collection
Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Same thing different taste
Anonymous
United States
Oh no…
Today, I went through my spam folder. I found out that I'd received several emails telling me that I have been sending emails containing essays for a class of mine to the wrong address. The term ended yesterday. FML
SonjaPea
Stevenage, United Kingdom
Mission: Do it all over
Today, I spent 5 hours working on emails for work in a desperate attempt to get back on top of my task list. Having written about 45 emails waiting in my outbox to go out first thing Monday morning, Outlook has "stopped responding". I might've just lost them all and worked through the day for nothing. FML
Anonymous
Emden, Germany
Triage
Today, I realised that Gmail has been sending lots of important messages directly into the spam folder, where I never saw them. All were from people who I had either contacted myself, or had regular contact with in the past. One address even had a filter on it, specifying, "Never send it to spam." FML
Anonymous
Brisbane, Australia
Today, my boss put me on suspension for violating company policy by having non-work related mail in my inbox. They were spam emails. FML
Anonymous
Bridgwater, United Kingdom
Today, I sent an email to my boss saying I'd fixed a glitch in our mail servers. He called me later, angrily shouting that I'd done a piss-poor job of fixing it, because my email had spammed his inbox with several hundred duplicate messages. FML
Anonymous
Salt Lake City, United States
Tech report
Today, due to a change in our internal system, I set up an email filter at work that sent all incoming messages to spam. My boss had been sending me urgent updates all day, and I only realized when she came over and asked why I’d “gone radio silent.” FML
Anonymous
Oak Park, United States
Lonely
Today. I checked my messages. No one has texted in three days and I have twelve friend contacts but it's Gmail. FML
Not funny mom!
United States
Thanks, I hate it
Today, I couldn’t figure out why I was getting so much spam in my professional email. My own mother thought it would be a hilarious “prank” to sign me up for a ton of random mailing lists. I missed an amazing job opportunity due to her bullshit. FML
Anonymous
Pittsburgh, United States
The past that suits you best
Today, I found out that sorting and deleting old unnecessary emails to free up space meant reliving the most horrific memories I've ever experienced. Worse yet, I have to keep certain old messages in case these things ever come up again. FML
loserman
United States
Today, I accidentally deleted my entire email inbox. Everything from the last 3 years. EV-ER-Y-THING. FML
Top comments
smileyawhiley 0
hrmmm ... that sucks. but you can definatley unselect all .:P
skatingweasel 0
Gmail has this awesome thing called "undo" after you mark something as spam. Or really anything
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nynjapyrate 0
dumbass... unselect all? I think so
dioxyde420 0
or hit select all twice.... damn
eehizle 0
congratulations?
iamsam2 3
wat a spaz u r
XxMoonGirlAshomi 0
sad
dabugera 0
text me?
cheyenne19 0
go write your own fml.
Voldy_fml 16
Wow, FYL for NOT knowing about undo, not for your original FML. And also, there's a "Select all" button. Ever heard of it?
xWITNESS_xX 0
I have 10,000+ emails in my inbox ... about 8000 unread. I did a 'minor' clean out a few months ago and deleted around 2000 (I was sitting at about 9k then, after clean up. They really rack up quick :|
NiceGuysDoWin 21
Can we please have a "this is crap" and "this is awesome" option in addition to "FML" and "YDI"? So many of these don't really qualify as either of the available options.