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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paradoxparadise 11
#hashtagsarefuckingstupid #whycantwebehashtagfree #swaggidy_daggidy_i_swear_these_are_faggoty
doraaa01 7
Okay I never knew it was referred to as pound key either... In Aus it's been called the hash key before hashtags even existed
MaryPoppins88 14
Oh god what has this world come to
why_the_face 5
Was she British? I just had to google "pound key"- first time I've ever heard it called that. We call it a hashtag here in the UK.
Shade1982 20
Well, that doesn't change the fact that is wrong. It wouldn't be 'hashtag', it would be 'hash key'. Twitter called it 'hashtag' because of the use of the hash key in tags...
imessedupagain 9
Face hoof
xxxkassixxx 8
First world problems
mvg004 0
# were called hashtags long before it became a viral term.This does not deserve an fml it's just proof that for some reason humanity has made it a trend to hate on absolutely everything or everyone.The problem with the world is not its stupidity,it's the superiority complex that somehow became a fad
mrgilbe1 2
OK, so we've figured out that no-one outside of the US calls the hash key the 'pound key'. But now I'm really puzzled why hashtags aren't 'pound-tags' in the US?!
Jeffy91 28
Ive commented other FML's before in the past about hash tags. I think its a very stupid trend that started over the internet. Hopefully itll die off. I mean... #You#can't#tell#me#this#isn't#idiotic. Hate that shit. damn.
missemixox 9
Oh god.