Today, my boss called me, furious about how I "never answer my phone", especially when important clients are trying to reach me, and how unprofessional I am. I make very sure to never miss any calls, my boss just keeps giving out the wrong number to people. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my boss yelled at me, telling me that I can't answer the phone anymore. Not because I do a bad job, but because a co-worker whined about it being her job. People call her and complain about how rude she is and then ask to talk to me. FML
Today, my boss rang me for the 5th time on my day off. Frustrated I pushed 'ignore' and yelled a string of obscenities at my phone. Turns out I pushed 'talk'. FML
Today, my phone rang during a meeting. I quickly silenced it, and put it in my pocket. A few minutes later, my boss’s phone rang. It was me, butt-dialing him while we were sitting in the same room. He answered and asked if I had something urgent to discuss. I did not. FML
Today, my boss called me to say that I'm fired because I was "deliberately ignoring" the messages from a head of another department who wanted to contact me regarding some "urgent" (not really) project. I was on "Do not disturb" because it's my vacation, and this SOB is not even my boss anyway. FML
Today, my boss threw me out of her office during a conference call for daring to correct her. The client fired the company because she subsequently got all the information on the call wrong, and plainly had no idea what was going on. From all the screaming, this is now all my fault. FML
Today, my boss was angry at me because I had filed a complaint about him refusing to change our phone service to something more reliable. Later, a customer called him and said I had hung up on him. I got fired. I didn't hang up on the customer, the phone service just dropped the call. FML
Today, my mom has been calling me every ten minutes, asking me questions about her new computer. She called me at work, and I rudely answered her question. She called back, talked to my boss, saying she was a customer that called in, and I was rude to her. FML
Today, I needed to call my mom to get some info so I dialled the number on my work phone. Not 2 seconds after, my cellphone rang. I got super pissed off because I hate when people call me on my cell at work. It was me. I'd dialled my own number. FML
Today, at work, my phone rang. My intern answered it and told me it was a coworker who'd just left. I picked up and said "What's up bitch? What are you going to complain about now?!" It was actually my boss. FML
Today, my boss "entrusted" me with the company's biggest client because I was handpicked. Immediately when our solo call started, she asked, "Are you married?", I honestly responded, "I sure am!" She abruptly hung up and no longer responds to our calls. She spends here more than all our other clients put together. FML
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firefox9778 20
Oof. Don't you hate it how people blame you for their own mistakes? Sorry OP! Hopefully it gets fixed :)
A07 48
Sorry OP, but you need to sit him down and explain it to him slowly and then hope he gets it.
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Comments (45)
sureshadow 23
Love being wrongly accused. Don't we.
khorstmye 15
You can't fix stupid.
Taolan 23
Take the initiative to solve the problem yourself. Have business cards made on your own dime, put your correct phone number in your signature for business emails. Get a statement of incoming and outgoing calls from your phone for the past three months from your phone service provider and keep it as evidence of your boss's incompetence on the subject.
baseball27LD 16
Sounds like something Michael Scott would do
exuberant_orange 17
Sorry OP that sucks. Maybe invest in some business cards with the correct phone number? ;P
ana_lee_bonde 17
I don't think I've ever had a boss that wasn't like that OP. I think we all can relate to that in some way, keep your head up.
Arokthis 21
Find out who has the number he has been giving out. If it's someone else in the company, see if you can trade phones. If it's not someone in the company, see if they are willing to sell you the number. It is possible to get multiple phone numbers connected to the same phone.
joeblow6969 5
Better yet, she should just switch names with the person receiving the calls! We're on a roll! High five
hardy24 9
What a jackass
Frillwee95 12
"Hey, I just met you, and this is craaaazyy, so here's my employee's number, blah blah blah..." 10 minutes later: "saxophooone"
False_Stupidity 42
Yeah.... No
Cozy_Blanket 16
Just go with it. That way if he tries to call you and fire you he can't, because he doesn't know your number!