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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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)
pdp_fml 21
Do you work at McDonald's?
PDN 12
It's a shame how often that happens. I have to do that on a daily basis, I'm still in high school.
catmcross 7
Been there, done that. Sorry OP.
HeartOfLead 24
This should be expected if you work at a translation agency...
bubblyhayley 16
'the people I was training' ... erm dont you mean the people you were training? ???
amisenho 11
Based on the way you wrote it, "the people you were training" is correct; however, "I" would be the singular noun that the verb "was" is clarifying, not the plural "people", so "the people I was training" is correct from OP's perspective. If you look at it another way, it's a shortened way of saying "the people that I was training", so the preposition is understood. If you look at it from yet another way, "the people Mark was training" sounds normal, but "the people Mark were training" does not. I'm sorry that this turned into a grammar lesson.
MisUnFortunate 31
112 I'm glad you were polite about it, because I wasn't going to be
hillgerb 16
Well at least that means you're smart!
fictionaldiary 11
You were training them, so I'm assuming that they didn't know as much as you about the subject, otherwise they wouldn't need training. You're just a snob.
Bebbo_fml 21
OP as a trainer myself and once an instructor for a difficult course, I can honestly say YDI. If none of your trainees understand what you are teaching the you are doing it wrong. As someone said, know your audience.
veryunluckygirl 19
Um...Excuse me? Are you calling those people retarded? I work/hang out with special needs children in my school. I don't take that work lightheartedly. Too many people use that word for the wrong reason. Just because something is dumb doesn't make it retarded. Let me tell you this one thing. "Retarded" people (special needs, I still don't like the word) are smart. It may take a second for them to realize what they're trying to do. But they are really smart.