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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mybubbles2000 13
Oh No. It proves the world really is getting stupider. Kidding. Times are changing. Now I really feel old.
HighMan422 2
You mean the Sharp key right?
est000dog 11
Pound,sharp and hashtag... all mean the same symbol but not the same meaning
monnanon 13
the pound symbol is £ not #
BlesstheSilence 11
Tic Tac Toe sign
miianah1 22
Awesome name.
EvilLittleMan 23
As long as I can recall which is a long damn time I've know it as the pound key.
sassy2085 16
Well I have known it as the hash key for as long as I can remember which is an even longer time.
sinekt 9
Just suddenly end the conversation. You lose your job? So what? You will be just one more person who stops sustaining this idiotic generation... ******* shit, I'm in IT and still I have no idea what a hashtag does (besides irritating me).
sinekt 9
Also, as a sidenote, when the ******* hell did this world stop communicating using sentences?
professorchaosx 14
I never knew what the pound key was. Always viewed it as the number symbol.
A_nonny_moose1 28
Pound key = £. Hash key = #. Don't see why this is an fml really. Anyway, pounds have existed far far longer than the US has ;)
8313girl 28
That's so funny. I had no idea hash tag was so popular in other countries. I still can't bring myself to say it. Guess I'll always be down for the pound.