Today, I was asked to dumb myself down so the people I was training could comprehend what I was saying. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, at work, I took a call from an angry customer. After listening to his problem and fully explaining how we could fix it, he called me a stupid girl and said I need more training as I obviously know nothing about my job. I'm the company training coordinator. FML
Today, I confidently answered a question in a meeting, only to realize everyone was staring at me because I’d misunderstood it completely. My boss gently rephrased it while I nodded like that was my point all along. It absolutely wasn’t. FML
Today, I had to go to a boring, never-ending "sensitivity training" session, all because my douchebag coworker filed a complaint against me last week after I apologized for being tardy. Apparently I was insulting people with mental disorders. Or as she put it, "differently-abled" people. FML
Today, the people who gave me no training or instruction on how to do my job tried to fire me, because asking for clarification apparently means I'm incompetent. FML
Today, I was fixing something for a guy at a steel manufacturing company. His employees told me that their boss can't hear properly, so I'd have to be loud when talking to him. When I'd finished, he asked me if I normally talked like that, or if there was something wrong with me. FML
Today, I tried to impress my boss with my knowledge of a subject and ended up sounding like a complete idiot. FML
Today, in class I was teaching 6 year olds about the difference between short and tall, and I asked them how they could see that I was shorter than the other teacher. One of them raised their hand and said it was because I'm fatter. FML
Today, I was warned that I was failing too many students and it had to stop, so I showed my boss all of the easy assignments a lot of students didn't even turn in. She told me to stop using so many "big words" in them. I teach at a four year University. FML
Today, I yet again had to pretend to be a dumb bimbo so that my boyfriend wouldn't get upset over the fact that, in some cases, I might be smarter than him. FML
Today, at work I put myself squarely in the lame / old people category when I foolishly asked out loud what FML meant. FML
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Top comments
Pleonasm 36
Look, if you're trying to teach preschoolers what the difference between a prepositional phrase and a subordinate clause is, you're going about this wrong.
zed34 18
You can't fix stupid
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Comments (116)
seekingasaviour 9
Don't happens to me, i don't know, EVERY SINGLE ******* DAY! So sick the idiots in this world.
rinoa_fml 10
Your grammar is terrible. If English isn't your first language then you are excused. If English is your first language then you are not as smart as you think you are.
October3461 12
Sometimes common sense isn't that common t(-.-t)
japtap81 16
Atleast you can be sarcastic and insult them without them knowing it.
blvcklvnd69 14
Simplicity is the better than trying to impress friends with words they dont understand.
Ksweety_fml 27
HEY! Sometimes I do that. Yeah.....
Selphis 20
I'm a software developer who sometimes has to train users. I've got to dumb down a lot too sometimes!
cmac86 24
take it as a compiment if nothing else.
interesting33 37
To be fair, you're training them. They don't know as much as you yet. Sometimes people accidentally assume people know things about the job because they themselves have worked there for so long it is second nature to them.
lostribe 3
I feel your pain. I got in trouble once for using "big words like 'redundant.'" It's a no-win situation once you get a boss like that who knows he doesn't deserve the position. In his case, he was the BIL of the owner, and he cost me my career.
LexiVerborg 11
wouldn't that actually be a compliment. they were calling you smart and the trainees dumb