Today, I worked 12 long hours cooped up in my office. Before leaving, my boss asked me whether I'll ever take my job seriously. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I worked 24 hours straight fixing my company's servers. After it was over, I breathed a huge sigh of relief and promptly fell asleep at my desk. My boss found me an hour later, refused to listen to me, and fired me for sleeping on the job. FML
Today, 30 minutes before I was supposed to quit work at 6pm, my boss showed up. After telling him how the day went, he asked why I was still there. Apparently, for the holiday, we close early. 4 hours earlier. FML
Today, after my boss asked me to work late on a Friday and I'd agreed, thinking it would show him my dedication to the corporation, I got to the office. I realized after a while that I was the only one there, and the building's security system had locked me in. I spent my Friday night talking to our office goldfish in an empty row of cubicles. FML
Today, I worked from home to actually be able to concentrate and make a presentation about my project. My boss then sends me a long email about how he wants us to work in the office, and how important it is for team building, giving me feelings of guilt for actually getting some work done. FML
Today, my boss told me that my attitude to work is awesome and that he'd follow my example of coming in half-an-hour early every day from now on. I relish those 30 minutes as the only time I can get work done without him constantly interrupting me. So much for that. FML
Today, after informing my boss that I needed stress leave from my 70-hour-a-week shifts, I got my new work assignment. Sixty hours a week, starting at 2 a.m. FML
Today, my boss yelled at me for leaving on time. After months of management hounding us about our overtime, I get in trouble for doing what I was supposed to do. FML
Today, my boss told me to "act more professionally." So… I sat in the corner and cried for an hour. FML
Today, after working for 7 hours straight, I sat down for a second to wait for an elevator. My manager told me I wasn't allowed to sit and that I had to get back to work. FML
Today, after working for over a decade at the same place, I was formally written up with two days of leave without pay for refusing to work extra overtime. I've been working over 80 hours a week for four months now and even cancelled some very important plans so I could work every day. FML
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Top comments
IndigoFuckYou 9
Look like you're working harder?
iAmScrubs 19
Start an angry mob protesting your boss with fire and pitchforks.
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Comments (148)
jdeshnerx3 0
maybe you shoulda worked 13 hours
SnailJamsss 6
just because you worked 12 hours or stayed In your office for 12 hours doesn't mean you work hard.
Smoke234 3
Your boss sounds like a dick, although he could have seen how much work you did in said twelve hours. Which by what he said sound like piss all.
missmaryb 0
Sounds like cooped up in your office doing nothing.
andymus_maximus 0
I'm sorry OP but either put up with it and work harder or quit. The boss was probably at work before you, and you indicated he was there as you left...
Egnar 19
Being cooped up in your office for 12 hours doesn't mean you were working the whole time. I hate my boss at my second job, she doesn't know what she's doing and I'm leaving the job in 2 months, right after my vacation to Vegas. Me producing High Quality work means she'll end up going to her boss showing it off as her own stuff. Thus, on 8 hour shifts like today where she decides to take the day off I bring in a book and read the entire time. . . I was there for 8 hours, doesn't mean I took it seriously.
VasilisaUzhasnaj 29
I did the same at my old cubicle job. I'd occasionally stay late and draw caricatures of my shitty coworkers on post-it notes the whole time. It's so easy to be a time-leech, but you have to do it in moderation and weeks apart, so they don't catch on. Be smart, think ahead, PROFIT.
mbrooks5110 0
Just because you're there for 12 hours doesn't mean you actually do a good job.
Sixpakastan 0
well. will you?
guy0ne101 0
fml mods suck they ban you for no reason and think they are funny when they arnt. so they can. go get a life rather then use the fml ap 24/7 and stop banning people for no reason. I swear ttheese mods are like 10yrs Old. they are extremly immature and annoy everyone on this ap including me. they even suck at making a nearly good joke because they didn't go to school because they were to busy sitting here banning peole or making non funny comments. kkthnxbai bye
goldieglock 5
just because you were there 12 long hours doesn't mean you worked hard for 12 long hours. I work long days but work hard and see people around me who just show up. so maybe some effort while there might help.