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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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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)
tj4234 36
Out of interest, where were they from? Could have been a dialectal thing. For example Inverness in Scotland is right on the border between the Gaelic speaking parts of Scotland, and the English speaking parts. So it acts as an isogloss between both of them. So they hybridise pronunciations in some words. An example of that is the word sight, which a lot of Invernesians would pronounce as shite because si is a sh sound in Gaelic. If the customer were from such an area, it is possible that that is just how they pronounce the word Asian. You also need to remember that due to the diversity of languages and dialects, there isn't really such a thing as pronouncing a word properly (to an extent of course).
lousms 6
Man, get over yourself OP. F your life over someone mispronouncing something in front of you? EGADS. Maybe this is more of a first world problem than an FML. My step day always says EYE-TAL-IAN instead of Italian. I'm not about to go complain about it.
T1A2Z3 35
Sounds like something I'd do if the other words were difficult to say.
juuuliaaa_fml 28
Just say it correct when reading the order back.