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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Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
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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22milesaway 13
I don't see how this is an FML. Change the colors - problem solved.
anna380 0
ummm, im not a doctor, but i dont really think people can be only red and green colorblind. oh, and if u r doing stuff like organizing spreadsheets, or somewhere along those lines, maybe you'd know things about your boss.
Bud_fml 16
I'm pretty sure they can
Thalymor 0
Actually, red/green colour blindness is the most common type of colour blindness. What it means is that people have issues distinguishing between the colours red and green and will often confuse the two. Sometimes if they try hard enough they can make a guess and get it right though. For instance one of my professors asked the class if anyone was colour blind today to make sure they could read the board properly (she was using a red marker). One guy in class was and he could see the mark but he couldn't really tell if it was green or red. As for not knowing it about their boss, OP might be new in the last few months or whatever and simply not have known. It isn't exactly something that comes up in everyday conversation. There are lots of reasons OP might not have known about the boss's colour blindness.
sorrymomsorrygod 0
This is fake.
rose12353 0
this is SOOOO fake. YDI for being a god damned liar.
althor 0
I am red-green colorblind and some shades I can distinguish from eachother and some I can't. But I don't think in terms of color, so even if I can tell the differance, color-coding is a poor system for me. So defining what colors are effected is a mute point. The color blind don't generally associate color with the memory of information. So if this story is true it is a valid FML.
Vayerman 4
Just like Dwayne in Little Miss Sunshine. He threw a fit when Uncle Frank told him the colorblind can't go to piloting school. :(
emanuer 0
Come on, that is not a problem, it will take you less than 1 min to fix that. Just press “Ctrl+F” → click “Replace” → in “Find what:” choose “Format” → “Fill” → select the same red you choose Do the same thing with “Replace with:” but choose BLUE so he can see it Repeat for green. Voila took you less than 1 min to fixed it
hatemylife6 0
who the hell is only red and greeen color blind ?
drewbell 0
cough cough! Oh sorry, Im severely allergic to bullshit!
123_45abc 0
My boss is red green color blind, he found out by saying the grass was a nice red as a child =P