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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Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
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)
taylor_muse_fan 7
Suck it up your getting paid to do it
SiriusBlack97 17
More like you were ****** 1020-times to Sunday
radiocaf 29
Oh fudge. Well you got to take the rough with the smooth I suppose. Hang in there OP!
1zar1 10
At least you have a job, more than a lot of people have.
Arch27 27
This sounds almost exactly like my job. Welcome to the bullshit work club! Copy the entire CD to your computer then extract each document (page ranges) and delete them from the original document as you go. I know it seems like a total pain in the ass but I do this at least twice a week. People in my office get sent large documents but only need a few chapters out of the middle. I have it down to a science - 1. Find out what page range those chapters are 2. Extract those pages as a new document 3. Take that new document and find the page range of the first section 4. Extract that first section as a new document, deleting it in the process (it's one of the options) 5. Save that new document. 6. GOTO 3. Wash, rinse, repeat until done.
DanielleinDC 34
No doubt it was the opposition who did this to mess with you guys. Make sure your boss knows of the condition in which you got the document; maybe they can screw with the opposition in a similar fashion.
snapexp 4
Print them all!!
fnyunj 3
This is supposedly pretty common in business law, and is usually considered legitimate grounds for a continuance. (though you'll probably have to still pay your lawyer for an appearance to ASK for the continuance - if you're a real asshole, you can look into billing the ****** who sent you the documents that way. There's a certain amount of minimal usefulness that's required, but it is really up to the judge to decide.)
cartedor 18
Some fricking genius you work for
JimT99 2
EASY SOLUTION! There are a lot of software that can split and/or merge PDF files. Some paid, some free. To find them, either: A) Google these words: -split PDF file pages- or B) Go to download.com and search for: -PDF split- Good luck!