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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rickAUS 22
Depends entirely on where you grew up really and the context of conversation. I haven't heard of # being referred to as 'pound' in quite a long time, since primary school I think, and I personally think of it as a hash (for telecommunications), hexadecimal prefix (programming: #ff0000), or short-hand number prefix (e.g.: #1 to mean 'number 1').
ShunGokuSatsu 5
Kill it before it lays equally brain dead eggs
incidious 3
Lol funny
martin8337 35
Same difference.
Ray_of_midnight 22
Calling it the "pound key" is peculiar to the U.S. If she was more familiar with a non-U.S. dialect of English, she may not have understood that expression.
ViviMage 39
I work in phone support. I feel your pain!!
Alexis2742 31
When I was younger, the only way I could recognize the key is when people called it the tic-tac-toe key
derpyshy 16
Damn, I never understood why it's called the "pound sign" here in the US. "Hash" makes a bit more, but I grew up hearing it refered to as the "numeral sign".
vampirapaige 11
Does anyone remember when # meant number, pound or sharp and not hashtag
Janaynay2690 7
That's the point of the FML.
ITS_Arnold 7
I seriously cannot face palm myself any harder.