Money, Awkward Work Do it on company time

Do it on company time

Ayeya - - United States

Today, I wanted to print out a 100-page game strategy guide using company's printer. While not wanting anyone to find out about this, I picked a time when I thought no one would be printing. My CEO ended up standing next to me for 10 minutes, waiting for his stuff to print after mine. FML

9 865

74 970

Chinese New Year: Dragons and Laughter
Celebrate with stories where tradition and humor meet for a colorful Chinese New Year. …

Nathan - 17/01/2009 22:31 - United States

Today, I printed my 10 page econometrics problem set questions out on $15/100 sheet ivory resume paper that I'd accidentally left in the paper tray on my printer. It turned out to be the wrong assignment. FML

9 702

18 640

steffansk1997 - 15/12/2016 21:08

Today, I had an appointment with the CEO of a big company about a game I'm going to make for them. The first thing I did after sitting down was to throw my coffee all over his desk. FML

8 531

996

Anonymous - 20/10/2015 14:40 - United Kingdom - Oxford

Today, I went to the print shop to get some work printed. The guy serving me printed my entire order wrong because he pushed the wrong button, so it had to be done again. He tried to charge me a fine for the mistake he made because "it's not a viable business otherwise". FML

24 266

1 590

Anonymous - 03/09/2013 19:50 - United States

Today, I had to visit a client because his printer had broken down. After driving for an hour, then being screamed at about how horrible my company's service is, I walked over to his printer and found the problem: there was no paper loaded. FML

51 421

3 129

Self-care

Mee - 05/10/2009 10:49 - Kuwait

Today, I was frustrated at work so to have fun, I wrote an email to myself saying that I was great and loved myself and should relax. I used all different colors and fonts. Instead of hitting "delete", I hit "print" without realizing. My manager got it out of the printer and put it on my desk. FML

10 702

39 424

disgruntled - 09/12/2015 15:01

Today, my boss is writing me up for not signing a report before I left work. He refused to print the report that day, and I don't have access to the printers. FML

23 320

1 521

Wrong time, same place

Anonymous - 19/04/2025 15:30 - India

Today, I printed 500 event posters with the wrong venue because I copied from last year’s file. Client needs them by tomorrow. Now I’m pulling an all-nighter reprinting everything. Coffee is my only friend. FML

678

hanmart - 15/11/2009 05:12 - United States

Today, I found out that my coworker shared a laugh with the boss about setting the office desk on fire (which he actually did), while ten minutes later I was threatened with being fired because I made paper snowflakes and hung a few of them next to the computer. FML

29 494

2 650

MrandMrsRendon20 - 11/11/2010 00:26 - United States

Today, I complained to my boss about how my printer wasn't printing colored ink even though I had just installed a new cartridge yesterday. Upon investigation, she noted that I forgot to take off the protection sticker from the cartridge. Good job. FML

7 288

29 930

Got something for you

Anonymous - 01/05/2013 21:48 - United States

Today, my co-worker and I played a game where we give each other the bird in whatever creative manner we could come up with. Deciding to be sneaky, I hid behind a wall with my middle finger up as I heard him walking into the office. It was my boss. FML

18 177

40 920

donner1423 0

Friday 5 June 2009 2:10

Game strategy guide? 100 page? At work? Bound to happen.

cxal_fml 0

Friday 5 June 2009 2:15

why wouldn't you print it out 10 pages at a time - then even if you got caught no one would care?

PureGold 0

Friday 5 June 2009 2:13

Were you fired? Cause you deserve it. 100 pages DURING the work day?! And you thought you wouldn't get caught?? That's just stupid. I hope he at least made you pay for ink or something.

Bunnystomper 1

Friday 5 June 2009 2:13

share the game manual with your CEO

cxal_fml 0

Friday 5 June 2009 2:15

why wouldn't you print it out 10 pages at a time - then even if you got caught no one would care?

roflcopterlmao 0

Friday 5 June 2009 2:16

This is why when I print out things at work or something like that I print out 10 pages at a time and make sure to print out a business-like first page (e.g. cover page of an essay) so no one knows. Plus, why do you need to print out the whole thing? Doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose of the game? LOL FAIL YDI

servitude 0

Friday 5 June 2009 2:16

Wow videogames! @ work did you get fired?

Meow34 0

Friday 5 June 2009 2:17

I'm pretty sure there's more than one printer at your company....

fmlAllStar7274 0

Friday 5 June 2009 2:18

really, 100 page strategy guide.... YDI for being obsessed with video games, I mean, play good ones for gods sake, like Battle field Bad Company....

Loosechange 0

Friday 25 June 2010 0:56

Ok Battlefield bad company is garbage don't make fun of someone unless you know what you are talking about.

dragonaair 5

Tuesday 4 January 2011 23:57

When does printing out a strategy guide equal an obsession?

VaultDweller106 7

Wednesday 12 September 2012 0:54

Yes because battlefield is the best video game of all time lol *sarcasm* Strategy guides are used for playing games that are challenging and have good game play.