Anonymous
Zapped
Today, I got electrocuted at work. The boss thinks I'm faking, even though a chunk of my left hand is gone. FML
Collection
Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Same thing different taste
Anonymous
But… the economy!
Today, I found out that my boss was actually legally obligated to send me to the hospital after I was hit on the head while working. I had to finish the entire work day while heavily concussed, and by the time I got to the ER I had lost complete feeling in my right side. They asked me to come in the day after. FML
Lyn
United States
Today, I'm supposed to start my new job as a Crime Scene Tech. Instead, I managed to electrocute myself with my hairdryer. I'll now have to attempt to explain to them that I really am qualified to safely operate an electrostatic lifting device, and other expensive equipment. FML
thwack
United States
Today, during a workplace safety exercise at work, I managed to cut off the tip of my thumb. FML
sistermonster
Salon-de-provence, France
HOW CAN SHE SLAP?
Today, my boss fired me. I still can't really explain where the slap I gave him for it came from, though. FML
lowly worker
Today, I nearly lost a hand at work, because a supervisor decided to remove a 'useless' safety guard on a machine despite my warnings. He doesn't understand why I'm so upset with him. FML
nancypants1124
This FML is from back in 2015 but it's good stuff
United States
The Curse
Today, I was joking around with my manager about faking an injury to collect Worker's Compensation. Then I actually slipped and sprained my foot, and now my manager thinks I'm lying. FML
Anonymous
Australia
Priorities
Today, at work, I dropped a heavy block of lead on my hand. On my hunt for ice, I had to tell my manager - who told her manager, who told the chief - in the end, the whole department found out and they made me fill in two long-arsed incident reports. I had to fill them in myself with my busted up hand. FML
argh
Canada
Today, I had a seizure at work. My boss walked by and saw me, but didn't help or do anything because he thought I was "picking something up off the floor." FML
sparky83000
Canada
Don't look up
Today, at work on a construction site, my coworker dropped a small piece of metal from 4 stories, and it struck another worker. We quickly began to climb down to see if the person was OK, and the same coworker dropped a metal pole, and crushed my hand, two minutes after the first accident. FML
TexasGirl24
Houston, United States
Today, I was making a shake at work when the cup fell off the blender. I went to catch it, and instead caught the teeth of the still-spinning mixer. When my hand was still bleeding five minutes later, my supervisor told me to clock out until it stopped. I lost money for getting hurt on the job. FML
Top comments
RichardPencil 32
Unless you're a ghost writing from The Great Beyond, you did not get electrocuted, you got shocked. Electrocution is a portmanteau of "execution by electricity."
SirEnigM0nk 22
File a Worker's Compensation claim ASAP. That'll make him take it seriously. That really sucks! Best wishes for a speedy recovery!
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RichardPencil 32
Unless you're a ghost writing from The Great Beyond, you did not get electrocuted, you got shocked. Electrocution is a portmanteau of "execution by electricity."
Plop 17
That's shocking!
SirEnigM0nk 22
File a Worker's Compensation claim ASAP. That'll make him take it seriously. That really sucks! Best wishes for a speedy recovery!
J_Free_Woods 29
According to the Oxford dictionary any type of injury or killing of someone by electric shock is considered an electrocution.
RichardPencil 32
The word was coined to mean death by electricity. Any other use of the word just indicates the disintegration of our language into meaninglessness. It's like how literally and awesome have been rendered meaningless by the acceptance of careless and sloppy usage.
Larinda Chapman 13
how in the ever loving flim flam can you fake a chunk of your hand missing?!
Chazzster 32
Before I became an electronic engineer, electronics was my hobby. And my dad worked a long time as an electrical appliance repairman and I was his helper as a teen. I have had many electrical shocks, most were painful but not apparently dangerous. A few were pretty bad - no lasting damage but I felt bad for a few hours. When you get a significant electrical shock your muscles tend to clench involuntary. In the wrong circumstances this can be very dangerous in itself. When I was a teenager I was changing the letters on a drive in theater marquee. It was night and to see to do it, the sign was on. It had neon tubes around the sign, and one of them had broken and been replaced with a bare wire wired to the little glass standoffs. I accidentally touched that wire and the next thing I knew I was on my way to the ground from the ladder. Obviously my unconscious reaction was to jump away. Neon signs by the way run at several thousand Volts, but are current limited to a current level below the lethal threshold for humans. Fortunately I fell only about 6 feet onto a lawn and I was young - nothing broken or injured. A - OP obviously didn’t die, but he did get an electroshock. That can be either mildly painful to potentially lethal depending on the amount of current flowing through your body and it’s path - the worse case is through the heart. B - An electroshock can be very dangerous but it’s relatively rare that except with high Voltages capable of high currents that people die from it. Part of the genius of Edison was picking a Voltage low enough to not usually be lethal but high enough to be able to supply plenty of power for household use (but the high voltage transmission lines are a death sentence if you touch them). C - The involuntary muscle movement from an electric shock can lead to additional injuries - such as the time I jumped off a ladder. D - People who work with electricity professionally are taught electrical safety. The most important rule is do not work on live wiring unless there are no other options - and double check with a meter or tester that the power is off. The second most important rule is work one handed whenever possible to avoid the lethal circuit of a hand to hand circuit that passes through the heart. The third most is never work in a wet environment on electricity - the moisture reduces skin electrical resistance and that can be lethal.
dasin 18
how is a chunk of hand missing? thought electricity cooked not cleaved