Today, my boss's son is training to take over my job as head translator, after having convinced his dad that he's fluent in Spanish, and that my skills suck. I soon walked in on him using Google Translate on a legal document. My boss refuses to believe me. FML
Collection
Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my boss got angry at me because my English is better than his. He accused me of trying to steal his management position, and implied that I'll be lucky if I still have a job by the end of the month. FML
Today, I noticed I spend most of my day translating French, German, and other languages for my boss, as he talks to people overseas. As his assistant I make crap money. If I were promoted to a Translator I’d make a lot more. He won’t promote me. In fact he threatened to fire me if I asked again. FML
Today, my co-worker and I were having a conversation in Russian. Our boss overheard us talking, shouted, "I know you're talking about me! I speak Spanish too!" and threatened to fire us. FML
Today, my boss is on the phone with a Russian customer, who keeps saying, "Speak Russian please!" My boss asks me to translate, as he hired me for my knowledge of Russian. He says something, I translate in Russian, then the customer says, "Speak English please!" FML
Today, I was unable to communicate with a customer who only spoke French. As a result, my boss called me a "monolingual idiot." I speak Spanish, German, and Japanese. FML
Today, a client came in and was struggling to speak properly. He said, “Sorry, no good English” so I offered a Spanish speaking colleague who could assist. He frowned and said he was from Greece. He threw a fit and got my manager involved. I got a write up and have to do an online sensitivity training. FML
Today, my English teacher kicked me out of class for being "rude and disruptive." In actuality, I had called her out for having blatantly used Google Translate for several example sentences, all of which sounded as if a semi-literate foreigner had constructed them. FML
Today, my boss brought his son in as our new manager. This kid has zero experience in our industry and yet waltzed into a £75,000 job where his sole responsibility is telling me how to do a skilled job I started before he was born. Plus half the stuff he tries to tell me is incorrect. Cretin. FML
Today, my boss asked me to read through a document. I gave my feedback, saying it seemed like it had been written by an 8-year-old. Turns out it was in fact written by him. FML
Today, I almost got written up for insubordination by my boss. All I did was explain to him that I couldn't help a tourist out because I speak Japanese, not Korean, and that it's not in fact "the same Asian shit" as he seemed to think. FML
Feel like sharing it with the other FML users?
Thanks, your FML was submitted, and will appear in the moderation queue soon!
Top comments
hghrider123456 9
bad time gonna have he translate
hghrider123456 9
bad time have sarcasm with you
Add a comment · Reply to
You must be logged in to be able to post comments!
Comments (124)
hghrider123456 9
bad time gonna have he translate
KatieMajestic 17
That comment looks like you translated it.
hghrider123456 9
No really, that's just th 'MURICAN language
hghrider123456 9
bad time have sarcasm with you
SMHsohard 22
All your base are belong to us?
rocker_chick105 31
"I anything can't do right since because pickles." -Spongebob
soccerstar1996 18
Translation setting: English---> Yoda
xWooker 5
lol, yoda translator
Bobby_007 9
Que?
sarah6786 14
Can just let he take job without fight. Win comes when you have new better job him and dad make bad business with together.
Bcfrmkc816 17
Well the as a translator you can get a good job wherever they need them. So good luck job hunting and find one and leave your boss and his son to figure out what is going on.
Llama_Face89 34
5- .......That's the joke.
tannara 12
And your comment looks like it got hidden:(
spicymeatballs 9
Perfect.
spicymeatballs 9
Excellent.
tjv3 10
Well hopefully you will still be employed so when he screws up you will be there to laugh your ass off
Bradley_Dillon 39
Pickles taste terrible.
worldclassrager 41
His secret will be known...if still not believed take a pic of him in the act of using google...
Dracoboxer357 36
Or just let time take care of that problem on it's own: If Google translate is the best he can do, especially on legal documents, it'll be obvious enough before long and your boss will come out looking like the stupid ass for One, not listening to you, and Two, firing his own son that he himself hired. Of course, that'd be just too perfect to happen that way. You may be unemployed and after a thousand **** ups, the boss may "promote" his son to a "different yet equal" job opening that just appeared. :p Truly a sad story.....
RedPillSucks 33
Unfortunately OP will probably be fired before his boss figures out how much damage the son has done.
nurchok 15
But then eventually, the boss will be fired for having approved a Google-translated document... Don't wait for something to happen, OP, just find another job, let karma take care of the assholes... Good luck.
Anyb0dyTh 8
It's not about whether the kid can speak Spanish or not. The father probably knows his kid can't speak Spanish. The father probably knows what he did was wrong and doesn't care. People do rotten things all the time. Don't assume your boss has a conscience, he probably doesn't. Hope you get through this. I've been there. GL
diving_fml 30
I hope the boss realizes his mistake soon.
TheCaramelKing 11
Did he hire him because he was his son or because he actually though he was fluent in Spanish? Nepotism is illegal.
firechicky 12
nepotism is illegal in government... not private business.
Bradley_Dillon 39
The boss won't care. It's his son.
pikachulove14 14
initiate spy cam!
frozen92_fml 12
At least it wasn't Bing.
eksyneet 23
bless you, frozen92.
BntyHntrSeattle 30
Bing is the bomb and you know it.
mFUNdo21 17
I Binged/banged? an essay once. never again
LynxieLynx 17
Here, take this award for being awesome. Bing sucks. I have no idea why my friends use it...
Bradley_Dillon 39
The only people who use Bing still use IE
FMLkoala 28
If you see him do it again film him and show your boss
sebmarks 1
Its all politics and family right there OP. If you get lucky and he does it again, hopefully your boss will witness and make a decision from there
Kyuubi_Rose 11
Why would he use google translate for anything, it's terrible, he should by a book and learn, op I'm sorry there are idiots like this in the world you should try to catch him in the act and get proof unless your boss is a moron too then your screwed
Dracoboxer357 36
12- Lol, and here, judging by your grammar and spelling, I was going to ask You if you were using Google translate yourself! ;) (Teasing, teasing, no hate here, nothing but love....) ;)
CharresBarkrey 16
I would suggest a book on run-on sentences for you.
Dracoboxer357 36
23- We all have our quirks. Run-on sentences is definitely mine. Point for you, Sir. ;)
Kyuubi_Rose 11
23- Yeah, no one really told me where commas go, either that or I didn't listen
ballpython 15
#36 - I usually just put commas where every I think they need to be, most of the time, but then there are the occasional instances like this, where a comma should be used in excess, just to make a point. Although, I am not sure how many is too many, even in a situation like this.
hashshim 23
51: Commas aren't necessarily used to make a point so much as to use an appositive phrase, an interrupting definition, in a sentence. An interrupting definition being used to clarify something the middle of a sentence. (I used one in the first sentence!) You can tell if that's what it is by seeing if the sentence makes sense without it. They are used for emphasis occasionally, but it's often the former. This is of course on top of the usual uses such as seperating clauses and listing nouns.
RedPillSucks 33
How about some periods too?
kaitlynjane 28
Periods suck. Commas RULE! :D
threer 30
#78. Story of every woman's life.
michelleJ11 25
Time to invest in a spy cam, OP.
Bradley_Dillon 39
I'm pretty sure that that's illegal.
rikitsumiatsu 11
How did he convince him without proof?
Dracoboxer357 36
14- Son- "Hey dad, gimmie a job." Dad- "Can you speak Spanish?" Son- "**** ya. Como Stan.....?" Dad- ".....Seems legit." :p