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
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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
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hghrider123456 9
bad time gonna have he translate
hghrider123456 9
bad time have sarcasm with you
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Comments (124)
jansleevee 2
I would suggest for you to quit. When,and I say when not if, the bosses son messes up something major, he just might claim you set him up or trained him improperly.if you quit, and he messes up and you are not there to blame, then your boss will have to face the fact that his son screwed him over.
ballpython 15
#39 - The way your post reads is you are implying that the OP is responsible for teaching the kid Spanish.
an3ph 20
How would a father not know what languages his son is fluent in?
caitiebug1119 15
Ask him something complicated in Spanish in front of your boss and watch him struggle to respond. Tell him something ridiculous in Spanish and if he doesn't seem weirded out, pop out a Spanish-English dictionary and show them what you said.
ranger_13 5
Just seeing if my profile works
Bradley_Dillon 39
Congratulations! It works.
raecattach 7
It will very soon become apparent that this guy has no idea if he is left alone to mess up! There is no way he's going to be able to hide he has no Spanish language knowledge for too long.
Euphrates 10
ahh the world is an unfair place
Bradley_Dillon 39
Naaaw! The world can be fair.
hazardmuffin 21
At least he won't be able to get away with it for long. Hopefully you'll get an apology from your boss, and the son gets what's coming to him.
Obey_StudBoii 23
Wow that's terrible. Hopefully you can report this to corporate if this is a big company. Best of luck
castleofg1ass 19
Quit the job, apply for other jobs. Let the son take over and **** up the business, and when your boss wants you back go back on the condition of a pay raise
alycion 39
If reverse that. Apply, get a job, then quit. Why be unemployed out of spite?
BriCx 8
I agree with 74. It's not exactly smart to quit a job when you don't have a guaranteed job in line.
DedicatedNova 13
Google translator isn't even accurate ._.
piggle 9
That's why it's an fml
BriCx 8
That's the point...