Today, while working at a client's house, I noticed that their sliding calendar was several months off. I fixed it. Later the daughter saw and started crying. Apparently the date was the last one her mother had set it to before she died. FML
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Today, my daughter decided it'd be funny to change the time on my clock. My boss didn't think it was funny. FML
Today, my coworker left a tiny mess in the break room. I cleaned it up and jokingly said, "Your mother isn't here to clean up after you." She started crying. I forgot her mom died last week. FML
Today, I went into work and noticed one of my fellow colleagues had a large bunch of flowers on her desk. As soon as I saw her, I immediately said, "Happy Birthday!" Everyone went quiet. It wasn't her birthday; her father had died. FML
Today, it was my daughter's birthday. I didn't know I had a daughter. FML
Today, at work, a customer cried because the cake I made her was not "exactly" the same as the display. I'm the one who made the display and it was the same but the display cake had faded a bit, since it had been there for a month. I'd mentioned this to the customer when she placed the order. FML
Today, I was doing a little victory jig after finally sending out the last of the invitation cards for my wedding when I realised that I had forgotten to put the date of the event on them. FML
Today, my coworker said that she suddenly got the shivers. I jokingly told her that it meant she must be being watched by a dead person and made stupid ghost noises. She then told me it was the anniversary of her dad's death and burst into tears. FML
Today, my mom was screaming and throwing things at me and I didn’t know why. Then I checked the date. Her birthday was yesterday. FML
Today, on the first occasion I've seen my boss since her brief leave, I brought up how I got to hear all our customers' heartwarming plans for their moms on Mother's Day. Her mother just died. That's why she was on leave. FML
Today, I was doing my job and trying to teach a lazy bunch of 16-year-olds. A girl entered the room just 15 minutes before class ended, so I snapped, "Someone had better have died for you to be this late!" She immediately burst into tears. Turns out, someone had. FML
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IHATEFMYLIFE 26
This is why you don't touch people's things when you're working at their house. Def YDI!
Rddvl 11
YDI, although it was a good gesture, you shouldn't mess with stuff at other people's houses especially if it's a client's.
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Comments (202)
wonderfulrosie 13
I'm a little on the fence about this one. There is no way you could have known and you were just trying to be helpful; however, you shouldn't mess with other people's stuff. Next time, just telling them about the calendar or whatever the issue is, rather than taking it upon yourself to fix it.
MikaykayUnicorn 36
You kinda were more to the YDI side on that.
singer0421 32
Dang that stinks! But it's not your fault OP, there's no way you would've known.
EmilianaLondon 14
If you're working in someone's house, don't touch what isn't a part of the job :/
dakatabg 31
You are in trouble
perdix 29
Tell her to stop living in the past and move on with her life. I hope her mom's spirit isn't looking down on her and seeing what a whiny crybaby her kid has become.
princessbits 17
What an insensitive thing to say. It hardly makes her a crybaby for wanting to keep one of the last things her mother did intact. Death is a hard thing to go through.
lazygirlWOW 9
There is just so many things wrong with this statement...be considerate and not an ignorant ass. How about that?
threer 30
Too far, Perdix. Toooo far..
NandaPanda 22
Wow Perdix. You're usually one of my favourite commenters, but I honestly can't believe anyone would be inconsiderate enough to say that. Are you saying that if you lost your mother, you wouldn't want just one thing to remind you of her? I can completely understand where she was coming from. I would be devastated by the loss of my mother, as would most people, and if all I had left was a calendar she had set, you'd better damn well believe that I wouldn't want anyone changing it. What's done is done, but OP never should have changed the calendar since that obviously wasn't what he was hired to do. Try to find some sympathy and don't be such an ass next time. Losing a loved one is hard, and she was definantly not being a crybaby.
King_paradox 22
Perdix XD you made My day but too far
skyttlz 32
I got a birthday card a few years ago signed from someone who is gone now. I'm always gonna keep it. It was my (now ex) best friends mom who loved me lots.
ChibiChibi_fml 27
That's reasonable. I recommend getting it laminated though. Cards are really easy to damage if you move them around at all.
addioty 19
I'll probably be seriously buried but I agree to an extent. I understand what it's like to lose someone close to you, I have recently, but she is living in the past! The memories live on - but she needs to cool down about the calendar. Just set it back to the date it was on before. OP was being nice but it backfired. The client, in my opinion, was overreacting. Surely the client has some other memento of sorts to remember her mother by!
Ibuki 15
That could be done, setting back the date, but it wouldn't be the mother who does it.
Neesalun 20
So sad for the girl! You didn't know.
Kateyez_26 13
Maybe you should've just told her that it was the wrong month before u started putting your hands on stuff that doesn't belong to you.
amu12 10
Did you get paid?
idkhaha 4
Unless calendars were something special to her mom..
EmilianaLondon 14
#31 is right, we don't know the connection. If it really was so 'trivial' then I doubt she would have cried, you never know.