Today, I spent all day organizing a list of electronic parts for my boss. I found the easiest way was to color problem parts in the spreadsheet red and okay parts green. After I finished at the end of the day, I found out my boss is red-green colorblind. FML
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Today, I found out I've been incorrectly sorting thousands of papers for the past two weeks. My boss wanted them sorted by date, but the co-worker who instructed me said to sort them into alphabetical order just to watch me fail. FML
Today, I was put in charge of painting a storage shed. The company owner ordered me to paint it a shade of blue. The site manager order me to paint it red. My boss ordered green paint. FML
Today, my boss wants to sort people in his contact list by last name, so I showed him how to switch the sorting from first to last. He tried to correct it by writing the first name in the last name spot and vice versa. Now he wants me to go through and change them all back. All 200+ of them. FML
Today, I learned my boss, the CEO of a multinational nonprofit, is so computer illiterate that he hadn't realized he could resize the File Explorer window on his computer, leading to days of delay of him getting work to my team, and a lot of unhappy notes. FML
Today, I discovered a large number of errors at my new job, wrote them down, and took them to my boss. Later, a coworker had a shout at me, because he was "saving them" so he could drip feed them to the boss, and look like he was always catching mistakes. FML
Today, I had to sit here for 8 hours copying and pasting thousands of product codes on a frigging spreadsheet. My job title is not data entry, I'm a graphic designer. FML
Today, after passing various interviews and tests, I was given a great job pending a pre-employment medical test. Now I'm jobless and colorblind. FML
Today, I found one of those online color blindness tests where you have to distinguish a colored number from the pattern. Not being able to, I spent hundreds of dollars on medical tests to discover that the pattern online was a joke. FML
Today, at work, I had to analyze timecards data and generate a report on the least billed / occupied people at work. I found myself at the bottom. I sent it to my boss too. FML
Today, my boss dropped a highly important and dense report on my desk that had to be finished by the end of the day. After the initial panic attack and hours of scrupulous work, I finished. She then asked me to pick up the revised copy, where my name was replaced with hers. FML
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someguy945 0
How about a column where you put "Good" or "Problem"? Then you can sort the spreadsheet by that column. And if you really want colors, you can sort the spreadsheet by good/problem and apply/change the colors in 2 seconds. Then you change back to the default sort.
me5 0
ironic. Utterly ironic!
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hXcsoccerplaya 0
haha one of my friends is colorblind, and he sees my brown hair as purple. FYL OP
blackllama 0
Sounds awesome, lol purple hair.
RavenXRampage 1
My hair is purple right now. o_______o
jessicams 0
so just select all the red parts and change it to s different color and all the green parts to a different color too. not a bug deal
idkweird 0
I agree with # 12. It's not that difficult to change a color in a spreadsheet.
CYNNER 0
Wow. thats funny. i know someone like that and when his wife is mad at him she mismatches his clothes or gets him new ones in pink or purple
suesblues 0
That's funny, Cynner. Evil, but funny.
ragsy 7
I am red/green colorblind, and it kills me when people do this. Actually, I find shading or fonts are a better way to differentiate, as you can print it on a B/W printer and still see the differences.
its_love2 31
yay to those of us who are colourblind! it drives me crazy when people choose to be ignorant to the fact that we might need things done differently!
Trumane 4
yo #35 im red green colour blind myself. i make sure my colleagues know that. its nothing to be ashamed of :)
Pg11 0
nah, what kills me is everyone asking me what color everything in sight is as soon as I tell them I'm colorblind.
GlaoigharAirm 0
Color the green over with blue or something durrr.
Quiet_one 22
FYL. And for the people who say the OP should have thought of this possibility ahead of time and used different colors, most people don't automatically assume others are colorblind. Yeah, colorblindness does happen a lot, but not often enough that people who aren't colorblind would think about it very much, if ever. Because we aren't colorblind and don't know many people who are (in 20 years I've known one colorblind person, and it's not the red-green type), it's just not something that occurs to us. I would probably have made the same mistake as the OP, because red and green are the first colors that I think of to differentiate things that are "good" and "bad."
Chuzza 2
Actually about 10% of men are colourblind, including myself. Most of them aren't aware of their colourblindness and I myself wasn't until 6 years ago when i took a test for fun. I can still tell reds and greens apart when theyre right next to each other however as can most red/greens, so I'm going to call fake.
callmecourtney 3
My father is completely colorblind but can still tell the difference between colors - as long as they're "normal" colors. Blue, red, yellow, green, etc. Mixes like oranges and purples throw him off and I highly doubt your boss will be unable to differentiate. My dad can associate shades of gray with their corresponding colors. For everyone's benefit I have done a quick comparison of red and green. http://i47.tinypic.com/u2f6d.jpg The colors used are the standard red and green on my computer. No maroon or hunter green, etc. Just red and green. And now I have greyscaled that same image: http://i46.tinypic.com/fcibe1.jpg There is a noticeable difference. Now, I imagine your boss would have problems if you threw in other colors onto the chart, but since it is all red or green? You're fine. Not a FML.
boatkicker 5
Why did you bother coloring both? That seems like a lot of needless work. It would have been perfectly acceptable to color just the good, or just the bad ones. But still FYL, because you now have to do it over again.
dspadres 0
Must be exciting to drive with that guy.