Today, a customer at work pronounced the word "Asian" as "Ah-See-Awn" when ordering a salad. I wasn't allowed to say anything. FML
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Today, at work a lady asked for a burrito, large coke, and hot sauce. While repeating back the order, the words got stuck and I accidentally said large cock. I got written up for being inappropriate. FML
Today, I was eating at a Chinese restaurant, when I stopped the waitress to tell her that even though I am of Chinese heritage, I can't understand a word of Chinese. After an awkward silence, she told me she was actually speaking English. FML
Today, a new coworker asked me how to pronounce my name and made a dismissive remark that, "all Asian names are so hard to pronounce and they all sound the same." My name is Christopher. FML
Today, at work, I took an order from a stuck-up sounding lady over the phone. She said her last name was "duckling, but with an F". Bemused, I wrote her name on the order. When she arrived to pick it up later, she told me she'd said "s", not "f". FML
Today, a customer called me "chink eyes", "dog eater", "bloody Chinese communist" and "ching chong." I'm black. FML
Today, my boss gave me a verbal warning. My crime? Calling people "Hon'", "Darlin'", and the like. I work at a Texas diner. 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
Today, while registering at the grocery store, a customer came into my lane with a 100 piece boiled shrimp platter. Feeling hungry, I muttered, "Nom nom" under my breath. The old man called my supervisor. Apparently I called him a moron. FML
Today, I went to the Asian Grocery. I politely smiled, bellowed, “Hello!” and kind of waved to the cashier as I walked in, to which he gave me a blank, scared-for-his-life kinda look. Turns out he was actually just another customer. FML
Today, at my work in a self-service chinese restaurant, a lady came up to me, pointed to the plate she loaded with honey king prawns, and yelled at me because she was allergic to seafood. She demanded a refund and another plate. Everything is clearly labeled. FML
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Jseldi 10
Better to leave it rather than to start crap and lose your job. Someone else will eventually deal with him
JellyBalls 18
Here's your Saw-ooo-Lad.
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Comments (34)
Jseldi 10
Better to leave it rather than to start crap and lose your job. Someone else will eventually deal with him
SmokeyBear420 19
lol They were definately sounding it out
ComoEsJuan 24
What gave you that im-press-shin?
gshocker20 21
*Definitely
cryssycakesx3 23
impress-see-awn
donkinator 24
you should have given him a dictionary and asked him which pronunciation is correct...
evilamoebaattack 20
no, being hostile would probably have made OP lose their job. subtly correcting them was the key, only if possible.
Ali_Br_fml 33
"So, you want Asian salad?" The Easiest way to correct someone subtly is to repeat what they said, but in the correct way. You're not correcting them, and you get to show them the proper way to say it.
donkinator 24
oh i didn't realise i had to point out the sarcasm in my comment, thanks for the thumbs down everyone lol
tj4234 36
Not every dictionary has phonetic transcript. Also, dialects can vary by quite a large amount. I mean for example, look at American and British English. That means that there isn't really such a thing as 'correct' pronunciation.
JellyBalls 18
Here's your Saw-ooo-Lad.
Guizmo90000_fml 6
Goo-De B-Eye
MomentoMori 23
Just smile and keep moving on. There's always gonna be people like that.
funky303 6
maybe it was ze görman speaker with an terrible accent.
fleuretta 19
Ignorance >
MomentoMori 23
People mispronounce words all the time. Simple mistake. It's really not that big of a deal.
ComoEsJuan 24
7- what exactly is ignorance greater than? Cheese? Elephants? Niether of those, obviously, but you didn't specify.
Bano360 25
There's mispronouncing and then there's ignorance. Surely every adult would be able to pronounce "Asian". I would understand if English isn't their first language.
LennyComa 39
Some times people are just jerks. Deep breath and Move on
tomwantssnow 14
Sounds more like an idiot than a jerk.
yeti37 16
Clearly he was not one himself.
telli164 30
You should have subtly corrected them, by repeating their order back to them. "So that was the Asian salad?" Ha what a spaz though
Dcm210 19
#13 beat me to it. Yes repeat their order back to them.