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
Collection
Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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elrcastor 8
they probably scrambled the pages on purpose
fruitslut 11
You don't need to convert to Jpegs if you open in Acrobat. You can rearrange pages within the doc or cut and save pages to smaller docs. If you are on a Mac and only have Preview, I think you can do it there too. Good luck OP.
kelliannxo 1
Sucks being a paralegal!
kobelstone23 13
Look on the bright side! You can play where's Waldo just with page numbers and a chance of loosing your job:)
Old_Iron_Sides 6
Maybe you can do a search of the document using find to help sort the pages. i.e. Find "pg 2"
clokwrkpig 6
Someone is being a bit of a dick with their discovery and inspection of document obligations...
chelsinator 8
Get to work!! I wouldn't even be typing this fml!
Obey_StudBoii 23
I couldn't agree more with you.
Obey_StudBoii 23
Are you a Legal Assistant? If so I know the feeling. I studied the Law and graduated as a Legal Assistant. What I'm getting at here is if your the Legal Assistant it's your to go through and organize, brief the case and do discovery on it as well. Sorry for some of the Law lingo I'm using. Don't complain because you have to put everything In order, good luck with everything.
Obey_StudBoii 23
Meant to say it's your job•. Sorry for the typos.
drew4691 1
If you have Adobe Pro, you can extract the different pages to new files and organize them that way. It's no big deal.
FMLbutYDI 17
This is by far the biggest FML ever.
Thatscori 0
Not really. Actually, not at all.