Today, my boss wants to sort people in his contact list by last name, so I showed him how to switch the sorting from first to last. He tried to correct it by writing the first name in the last name spot and vice versa. Now he wants me to go through and change them all back. All 200+ of them. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I found out I've been incorrectly sorting thousands of papers for the past two weeks. My boss wanted them sorted by date, but the co-worker who instructed me said to sort them into alphabetical order just to watch me fail. FML
Today, I made it onto my boss's shit-list, after pointing out that he'd misspelled "customer" as "costumer" 6 times in his report, and "college education" as "collage education" twice. It'd be a dick move on his part even if making corrections like this weren't part of my damn job. FML
Today, I sent an email to my boss saying I'd fixed a glitch in our mail servers. He called me later, angrily shouting that I'd done a piss-poor job of fixing it, because my email had spammed his inbox with several hundred duplicate messages. FML
Today, I made a digital contact card for my department that needed to be sent to payroll. Since we didn't have one before, I sent a copy to the rest of the department to use if they wanted. I didn't send the blank though. I sent 100s of people all of my contact info. Somehow, I managed to misspell my own name too. FML
Today, my boss chewed me out for correcting several spelling and grammar mistakes in one of his reports. The words "Think you're so damn smart, don't ya?" were uttered. I'm his secretary, and proofreading his shit is part of my job. FML
Today, I went to my first day of work in over 2 years. As I approached the boss, he asked me what my name was. Turned out they hired the wrong person. FML
Today, my 73 year-old coworker has made a mountain of work for me to plough through due to her incompetence. I had to work through over 400 emails, since she thought unplugging the router would help, and in doing so, I have picked up on hundreds of mistakes she has made with clients, and had to apologise to each one. FML
Today, my boss shouted and screamed at me for my fuck ups that have humiliated the company and cost thousands to put right. It was only when he paused that I was able to tell him he had the wrong guy, he wanted my coworker down the hall. I’ve been here for four years and he still doesn’t know my name. FML
Today, my boss sent me some application forms to check over. After I spell-checked them and returned them, I found out they're going to be used to hire someone to replace me. FML
Today, my new boss lost his shit and flew into a ten minute rant against me about the "value of respect". He told me that if I wanted to stay in "his" company, I'd best start toeing the line. All this because I corrected his misuse of "your" and "you're" in one of his memos. FML
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protoskore 27
You should try my boss. he has just under 6000 contacts.
RichardPencil 32
You do get paid for working, right? Do the busy work and cash in. Otherwise, you can call out your boss for being an incompetent idiot for ******* up the data, and you're not going to fix his bungling ineptitude.
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Comments (18)
loxe_fml 15
Easy fix: have everybody legally (or illegally, whatever works) change their first name to their last name and vice versa. Should be easy enough.
Miss_080 21
I agree. Seems like the easiest and most reasonable thing to do. ;)
RichardPencil 32
You do get paid for working, right? Do the busy work and cash in. Otherwise, you can call out your boss for being an incompetent idiot for ******* up the data, and you're not going to fix his bungling ineptitude.
mitlaeufer 25
export the contacts as a csv file, import it in excel (or similar) and simply change the columns of all of them in one step. export again, import into phone
edmunson 22
Paid by the hour? Take your time and do the job, knowing that your boss is a ******* idiot.
liquifiednate 21
That's easy, write a python script to do the sorting for you.
Miss_080 21
What's the problem? You're getting paid for menial simple work. Just sit on a laptop or phone and then sit each name. Simple enough
marshm610 18
Could you not have it sort it by first names instead? If their last names are in the first name slot...
CliffyB03 28
I feel like we're the only ones who thought of the solution lol
igottapee 27
then he episode have to remember to put in everyone's names the wrong way each time he got a new contact
marshm610 18
Well he was already doing that, meaning he wouldn't have to change his habits
marshm610 18
#14^^
Lalala579121 28
This is when you send out a mass text about his micro penis.
jadums 5
Or you can work smart, not hard....and click the whole column and switch places and only rewrite the column title
qball577 0
I'd tell him/her to get ******.