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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Wild Nights Out
Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
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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Comments (85)
exquisite 0
Easy fix... not an FML. IMO
PointMissed 0
Not necessarily fake. I have a friend who's red/green colorblind and he has a really hard time distinguishing between the two. He can't play call of duty well because he can't tell if someone's name is red or green, so he can't tell if they're on his team or not. Either way though, it's an easy enough fix.
SadieVincent 0
The only way a female can be colour blind is if her father is, and her mother carries the gene (ie, from her father). True story. Google that shit.
YG27 0
@60 you said from a distance you cant tell the difference well no duh the samething happens trying to read at a distance. the paper is right fcking in front of him. im sure he can see the difference. and the default red and green used in this spreadsheet are probably significant.
Crysta_fml 3
so? the red ones and the green ones will still look different - in shade and blah blah blah - not going to be technical ect. But i'm damn sure your boss is not thick enough to not understand what will be good or bad. and i'm damn sure he can also differenciate between the two different colours.
keenox_fml 0
It sucks, but it's easy to fix. Good luck next time!
althor 0
@62 You're damn sure a red-green colorblind person can tell the differance between red and green? So are you damn sure a blind person can see you waving to them? F your life
satanstoystore 0
dont organize by color. make a column to define the type of part. use a conditional format on the part to color it based on the new column. hide the new coluumn. coloring a whole row doesnt always make it useful. if you have to send it in a previous version to someone it will make it unsortable. it illustrates your lack of expertise. you should get a book.
Weijun 2
This
Reos_fml 3
Or you could just select by color, and then change it. Shouldn't take longer then 15 seconds if you know where to look. Only if you colored it by hand, wait then your just an idiot.
46plus0 0
Really, what are the odds? A simple mistake, I doubt he'll bold it against you.