Today, someone sent my boss a CD full of documents for an upcoming trial. It's my job to sort through the evidence, so he gave it to me. I looked on the CD. There's only one file; a 1020-page PDF of all the documents we need, and the pages weren't scanned in order. FML
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Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, my boss told me to sort and file all the paperwork he'd been randomly shoving into boxes since 2010. Apparently we're being audited, so he expects me to do eight years of filing in two weeks. There's enough paper to fully stock a large public library. Two weeks my ass. FML
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 emailed a bunch of documents to a potential client, only to later realise later I'd also emailed them a folder of mine and my husband's very intimate photos. There’s things in there we only do when I’m very drunk, and am very embarrassed by. I’ve been ducking my bosses calls for two hours. FML
Today, I went to work at my job as a secretary. I had been given the task to file my boss's collection of Playboy magazines alphabetically by name of the centerfold. There was one for every month from the years of 1980 until now. FML
Today, my boss asked if I could spare a few minutes to finish off the last of his paperwork backlog. I'm pretty desperate for a raise, so I said sure. Turns out the "small", "should-take-a-few-minutes" backlog consists of 3 desk-high stacks of documents. Goodbye, cruel world. FML
Today, I was fired because of a "poorly executed" task. My boss claims that I just copypasted an existing document in a new file; I was instructed exactly to take the document and move its content to a new table without changing anything. It was discussed beforehand, but looks like his own messages are not a proof. FML
Today, while visiting my in-laws, I went into their home office in search of a sheet of scrap paper. Instead, I found printed copies of every email and IM my husband and I had ever sent each other, including pictures. Highlighted and annotated by his mother. FML
Today, I knocked an old-school slide carousel off my desk, scattering nearly 100 individual slides everywhere, including the specific slides my professor asked me to digitally scan, which were placed carefully on top. None of them are numbered. 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
Today, I told the girl working the scanner that half the documents I was indexing from her were upside down. Now ALL of them are upside down. FML
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andyyroxx 20
What the actual **** did you comment for...
bidon121 9
Oops...I guess you are going to have to do your job!
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Comments (106)
The_sGTw_0979 4
Time's a-wastin'!
tiril1124 4
Paid by the hour I hope?
perdix 31
There are about 12 million Americans who feel real bad for you.
tdh186 1
It's better than having no job at all :)
BookWorm13 3
Suck it up buttercup and get to work. That's the only way it's going to get done
Catkam623 27
Um try to make a game out of it fyl op
magnetoo 4
Tell your boss. It's a pretty transparent attempt by the other side to make things unnecessarily difficult, and he will want to know that in order to use it to advantage.
myklknife 6
Classic stalling technique.
pradip 26
Install adobe acrobat, export the PDF file as jpg images, sort the file in any manner with date or time or size, you may find a proper arrangement, else try to separate different documents by their color, pages of a same document have same color, group similar looking pages, it would help to some extent. Sorting would do the job, I think no one would scan random pages, they might've scanned and converted to PDF randomly, so sorting and checking on the time of individual image exported may help, I'm not sure.
bigdipper32 5
then do ur job.. or get another one. I'm sure someone would he happy too lazy ******* American.