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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davincidasecond 24
People, there's nothing wrong with calling the pound key a hashtag. British people have been calling it a hashtag for ages. I don't see a problem to be honest.
lysx84 24
No, it was the hash "key", it didn't become the "tag" until all that twitter pish. As a Scot, the original post did confuse me - I'd never heard of the "pound key"!
davincidasecond 24
I stand corrected.
Ms_ValS 27
Same here. I was wondering what the hell the pound key was. It's referred to as the hash key where I am.
rickAUS 22
And for what it's worth, I don't consider # on its own to be a hashtag. A # with a word of phrase after it such as #failpoundkey is what I'd think of as a hashtag, but each their own.
jonahwalzer 12
Thats probably what any girl with twitter would say....
ChakatBlackstar 29
#customersaremorons
SRNH 3
I've always called it the number sign, but according to Wikipedia they only do that in Canada.
perdix 29
#37, Wikipedia lies! It's sometimes called the number sign in the US.
Kstruggles 15
Me too. I always have to think on what a pound key is, since a) I barely every use it and b) it's a number sign. I'd probably recognize hashkey more then pound, since it reminds me of waffle fries. And well the recent association of the symbol to hashtag.
chosha_fml 26
#37 Nope. Australia, too. We also say hash. I've only ever heard it called a pound key, however, by Americans.
cryssycakesx3 22
I'd be OK if I've never heard: -TV shows (or anyone, really) begging you to follow them. -hashtag -viral -going green -selfie -foodie -that escalated quickly -a whole nother -acrossed
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Needafarm 22
I had to "Google" what the hell "hashtag" meant while watching a car commercial one day. It still makes no sense to me. We need to stop renaming things just to please younger generations.
SWC_Penguin 17
It's not re-naming anything. It's the "hash" sign that's used to "tag" posts on Twitter. That's perfectly logical, yeah? The FML is about using a Twitter thing in real life, not about the word existing.
monnanon 13
you already renamed it as a pound sign. pound refers to British currency or weight.
perdix 29
Are all of you idiots referring to what is obviously the tic-tac-toe board? (Or, to the Brits, the naughts-and-crosses board.) There can only be one right answer, right?
josh7279 7
Changing the pound key to hashtag is the stupidest thing..
erin37 27
I'm Australian and I have no idea what the 'pound' key is. I assumed it would be £ .....
jennaraaawrxoxx 7
Erin37 - me too! I saw it and had to look at the FML a few times to get what was wrong. Woops.
chosha_fml 26
#51 It's not pound as in currency. It's pound as in the measure of weight. They're still using the imperial system.
TheHeavyOne 15
You mean the number sign, right? Awesome, lol. Weird what things become. Turning of time.