Today, I got chickenpox. I'm 28 and having chickenpox as an adult is excruciatingly painful. When I told my boss I wasn't going to be at work today because of chickenpox he replied, "That's the worst excuse I've ever heard. Adults don't get chickenpox." He then fired me. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I found out I could not go to the Philippines because I have never had Chicken Pox. The school took the radical decision to prohibit students who have never had Chicken Pox to leave the college. I am condemned to stay in Hong Kong in some shitty project because I am a healthy young man. FML
Today, I have food poisoning. My boss told me that if I didn't come into work, I'd be fired. Not 30 minutes after sitting down, I sneezed and shat my pants. My boss still won't let me leave. FML
Today, I got in trouble with my boss for not showing up to work yesterday. It seems going into anaphylactic shock isn't a valid excuse. FML
Today, while working as a veterinary assistant, an owner stood extremely close to me and kept accidentally petting me instead of her dog. After her dog was examined, she asked me if I'd ever had the chickenpox because she has shingles and it's contagious to those who haven't. I haven't. FML
Today, I'm halfway through of packing my stuff as we are moving to another flat. I discovered that I got chickenpox, which means that I should do no hard physical work. I've got a fever and a headache. It started raining in the morning, so loading stuff to truck is going to be so much fun. FML
Today, my boss slapped me across the face with a raw chicken breast. FML
Today, just three days into a much-needed vacation, my 5-year-old daughter has come down with chickenpox. FML
Today, at Church, the little boy sitting behind me asked his mother if I had the chicken pox, because there were red dots all over my face. I've had bad acne since I was twelve. FML
Today, my boss forced me to come into work despite having a bad cold. While waiting a table, I violently sneezed and sprayed a child's face with snot. His dad got so pissed that my boss had to pretend to fire me just to calm him down. FML
Today, I told my supervisor how awful my coworker was at her job. I then got fired. FML
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chili10 18
you should have taken a picture and sent it to him or something.
Timmy_Boy 17
your boss is an idiot
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Comments (158)
Jimboom 12
Sue his ass!! I know first-hand that adults can get chickenpox and I got it when I was 26. Bloody itchy, wasn't that painful apart from when trying to sleep and that's because you are lying on the sores themselves. And it is rare but you can actually get chicken pox even if you had it as a child. But usually adults get shingles.. Which again is not fun and a valid reason to not go to work.
robberry 11
Did you get a doctors note?
duburich 0
it's herpes dude lol
Drunkbunny 2
Wow, your boss is as dumb as a box of rocks. I got chicken pox at the age of 26, when I was in nursing school. I knew I had been exposed (stupid woman let her chicken pox infested daughter be a flower girl at a wedding, sickening over 20 people) so I had antiviral medication on standby, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Two adults at that wedding who had chicken pox as a child also caught it again - one had to be hospitalized!
soccerscout7 6
Shingles are what occurs after you get chickenpox and their much worse. your boss is an idiot. you should go into work and just start touching him... Give him jingles, those hurt like a bitch
sanem 0
:( That totally sucks.....
dwkiely 0
go show him idiot and u can sue for that shit
bear815 0
get a hold of your labour board, I'm pretty sure that is illegal
neppy 6
Yep, **** your life indeed. I had chicken pox last year and I'm 23 and I caught it off my mother who got it at 50! It also happened during final exam period so I had to get a doctor's note. You could take legal action over this because people with chicken pox are supposed to stay home for at least 2 weeks simply because of how highly contagious they are to others (it's dangerous for people with chicken pox to be around pregnant women, for example). Getting fired because your boss is a total idiot is definitely not fair.
SUEHIM 0
you can sue him for wrongful termination