Today, while working customer service, I instructed a customer to press the pound key on her cellphone. She hesitated a moment before asking, "Um, the pound key? You mean the hashtag, right?" FML
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Today, my store manager thought that it would improve morale to talk in hashtags. FML
Today, my daughter started speaking with hashtags. I told her to knock it off, to which she replied, "You don't get it, mom - hashtag white girl probs." Hashtag FML
Today, while at work as a telemarketer, I called a customer on his home phone. Once I was connected, an automated voice said, "To speak with a customer, please press 1." Confused, I pressed one. I then heard loud laughter followed by, "Oh my god! What a dumbass!" before they hung up. FML
Today, the woman I'm training at work asked, while staring intently at the keyboard, "Now, which one of these buttons is the space-bar again?" She is 80 years-old, types about one word per minute, and I have just one week to get her completely trained. FML
Today, my brother decided it would be funny for almost every sentence out of his mouth to start with the word "hashtag". FML
Today, my boss is out of the office and sent me an e-mail asking me to multiply two numbers together and send her the result. Apparently she doesn't know that her smartphone has a calculator app. FML
Today, my girlfriend got a Twitter account. Now she won't stop hashtagging everything she sends me. FML
Today, while I was working customer support, a lady hung up on me mid-sentence, and I trailed off, saying, "…aaannnddd you hung up on me like a bitch." Turned out she was still on the line and had just accidentally hit mute. FML
Today, working as a cashier, I had a customer come through and ask to purchase a bag of ice. I asked, "Eight pound or twenty pound?", referring to the clearly marked weight of the bags. He replied, "What's the difference?" FML
Today, I had to explain to a customer that she couldn't use the bathroom while going through the drive-thru. I still don't understand what exactly she had in mind. FML
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leocockle 11
octothorpe
sarahperez_fml 12
Wow just wow.....
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Comments (203)
Beepbeep7 14
What an idiot.
TheCaramelKing 11
Today's generation.
obnum 19
Yesterday's generation.
kmccain 27
Tomorrow's generation.
singer0421 32
Next month's Thursday's generation.
Zimmington 21
Next year's generation
KatieMajestic 17
#69, your profile pic goes perfectly with that. And so does the number of your comment.
aardvarkish 16
Yes, the cross chicken scratch.
ReeceThePiece69 6
Ahhh you gotta love working retail. You work with the biggest idiots ever.
HanBroman 20
It's not a universal thing. I've never heard of it; I've also never been to America. stop being so stuck up.
misspulkadot24 17
Pound her face.
dyehardxen 19
Over the phone. Just reach through the line and hit her in the face
TheDoctor10 28
If that was in reference to the music-related comment, I applaud you.
loneshade 7
What you on about pound key you Americans lol in England it's has always been known as the hash button
Zimmington 21
What you on about Americans?
Zomg_Okay 26
23 - Except it was. Not flawless but it wasn't exactly illegible.
luckyone365 7
You're a complete idiot. Hashtag does not equate hash button. Learn to read before you criticize all Americans, ****.
miss_sqwert 19
yea we call it a hash key in new zealand too
hopeless511 3
actually, in britain we don't call it a pound sign. this is a pound sign here- £ we have always called this a hash # - maybe they were british....?
OptimusVader 23
I'm pretty sure the point is that the person cannot stop thinking in Twitter terms as well as any other social networking. She can't distinguish the (natively) correct term from the "mainstream" term.
CrabbityAnn 10
In the UK it's called a hash key, not a pound key (pound key being £). So the confusion doesn't seem -that- idiotic... Unless you we're talking to an American :p
fucMyLifeSoHard 18
22- I understand what you are saying, but if she was British would she not have said "hash key" instead of "hashtag"?
OptimusVader 23
"Hashtag" was her making a direct reference to social networking.
Ki11erC 18
It was known as hash tag long before social networking or twitter even existed.
TheHezzer 17
91 - probably not. I'm (northern) British and everyone I know calls it the hash key in this kind of situation - it could be different in other parts of Britain though for all I know.
CrazyChiC42 10
You should always tell them to press the octothorpe just to see how much that confuses them :)
Bloink 25
#poundkeyisthenewhipster