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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Black Friday
70% off something you didn't need, a stampede and a cart that crashes at checkout. Thanks, Black Friday.
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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Top comments
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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Comments (85)
Ada360 0
HAHAAHHHA THAT SHIT IS HILARIOUS!!
namnams 3
This is wrong. I'm "colour weak" - red and greens. But I can tell the difference between the two. It's only shades that affect us. Fake FML
24788 7
You should of found this out sooner.
Profkingfish 0
wow...there seems to be a lot of negativity here. This really isn't a big problem. Did your boss fire you?
ktbird 0
@28 by doing what? asking "hey are you colorblind?" do you really think the average person would just think of that?
littlebuddylee 0
i agree with 30, 28
icanfloat12 0
fake
roobear 2
It was not a big problem. It's an honest mistake because you didn't know better. Don't be so darn sensitive. Just apologize for the mistake that you didn't know about, and go back and change the colors. This is a problem that could have happened to anyone, and can be quickly and easily resolved. QQ.
its_love2 31
well i'm colour BLIND and its HARD believe me ... so shaddup before you start blabbing
Leprecon 3
Hint; Put a bit of blue in your green and you are always safe.