Customers, TV shows and Work: Floored

Floored

By smashyonewfloors - This FML is from back in 2013 but it's good stuff - Canada - High River

Today, my crew and I were berated by a client for not installing her new hardwood floor on time. We were only halfway through the day, but apparently it should have only taken "like, an hour?" because "The guys on the TV shows do it that fast." FML

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By Anonymous - 21/03/2024 14:00 - United States

Today, a coworker sent a last-minute request for a highly complex custom report based on a spreadsheet. It took most of the weekend and Monday to get right because he'd screwed up most of the calculations. The client was pissed; they'd wanted it done by 5PM GMT that Friday. He'd sat on the request until 5 EST Friday. FML

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Today, I got some lumber delivered to site and that shit was so bent and warped I could've cut it into foot long pieces and sold them as boomerangs. My boss is breathing down my neck about finishing on time to a high standard of work, yet he keeps buying subpar materials on the cheap. Tosser. FML

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Today, a customer filed a complaint against me because my coworker took too long to do a price check. I hate my job. FML

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Today, we're in the middle of remodeling our bathroom and the hallway of our apartment. We hired a great guy and he does a really good job, but there's a lot of dust and no way to clean properly until everything is done. My wife is pissed with me because I work from home and don't clean everything every day. FML

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Teamwork works

By Anonymous - 16/02/2021 01:58 - Australia

Today, I had a huge amount of work to get through. Two colleagues offered to help, because one had nothing else to do, and the other couldn't work until I was done. My boss got really pissed at me for "making" them do my job and wasting their time. FML

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Damn you, Ikea!

By xXrememberthisXx - 16/10/2023 06:30

Today, I attempted to assemble a piece of furniture that claimed to be "easy to build in minutes." Four hours and multiple arguments later, I realized I had misread the instructions, and half the parts were upside down. I'm pretty sure the furniture won this round. FML

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How many more to go?

By Joseph J - 06/10/2025 12:00

Today, my wife got home from a 8 day vacation with our daughter. She was instantly angry and yelling at me for not setting the new lights she asked me to install to the correct settings; mad at the paint job I spent hours on in our shower being “not professional enough”; irate that I got a Roomba. One hour down. FML

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Gimme a break

By Respect the handyman - 01/04/2025 20:00 - United States

Today, after days of my wife nagging me, I started working on the flat pack furniture she ordered. Every twenty minutes, she interrupted me to demand I stop and help her with something trivial and irrelevant. Now I remember why I postpone projects as long as possible. FML

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Dingus

By Anonymous - 20/04/2013 14:26 - United States

Today, my crew was called out to do some house maintenance. We were nearly done, when someone had the goddamned fucking brilliant idea of washing plaster off their hands in the kitchen sink, which clogged the pipes. Instead of getting paid, we now owe for damages. FML

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Monday, Monday, so good to me…

By tooefficient - 19/08/2019 22:00

Today, I was scolded by my boss, all because I can finish most tasks in a quarter of the time it takes him, and he doesn't want to be shown up. FML

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tiernang 21

Saturday 31 August 2013 12:34

some people need to do research before they do shit like this.

Nolimit2217 32

Saturday 31 August 2013 12:35

You can't fix stupid!

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nurchok 15

Sunday 1 September 2013 0:06

Those HGTV shows, eh?

ctlaltel 1

Sunday 1 September 2013 1:41

Good Lord!......where do you even begin explaining this to someone with so little common sense. We have interfered with natural selection.

WasabiMars 21

Sunday 1 September 2013 2:41

You could've sarcastically told him to recruit the TV commercial guys to install his floor.

jellenwood 35

Sunday 1 September 2013 6:42

TV shows like the house renovations and crime shows give people a fake sense of reality.

ChildishHumor 4

Monday 2 September 2013 2:48

next day fools they come to you!

fantasyworld 37

Tuesday 6 May 2014 3:32

What an idiot.

TheAnon1313 28

Tuesday 23 December 2014 23:05

Oh god... I hope that woman didn't breed....

nyf137 20

Tuesday 3 November 2015 5:48

The TV always tells the truth!!

DLBL 20

Thursday 4 September 2025 19:40

Good thing it was not a 40 second TikTok clip she watched.

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