Today, after getting my dream job and quitting my old one, I was told my position is strictly "experimental" and will only last 2 months. FML
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Today, it's been two months since I started a three-year contract at a new job. So far, 5 people have resigned. Pretty sure I've joined a sinking ship. FML
Today, I overheard my boss stressing out over finding a replacement for me. I didn't know I was leaving. FML
Today, I received an email from a temp agency trying to hire me. Surprisingly, it was the same job I was just laid off from after two years of great employment. They were trying to hire me at half my original salary. FML
Today, I was told it was inconvenient for me to take lunch breaks, because someone else has to answer the phones and no one else wants to actually do any work. FML
Today, I showed up for my first shift in my new night job; I now work at an apartment complex during the day and at a gas station at night. It turns out that our biggest problem tenant in the former happens to be my boss in the latter. FML
Today, my boss admitted that he seriously regrets hiring me, but can't really do anything about it because that would make the senior management question his judgment, making him look bad. So he's just 'putting up' with me. FML
Today, I finally started my job as an in-home caregiver. The man I was hired to care for died two hours after I made it to his house. FML
Today, my coworker insisted there must be an underlying, romantic reason for why I spend so much time teaching him everything, and that I didn't mean it when I told him that's what I'm paid to do. I'm actually supposed to train this guy for three weeks. Two more weeks to go. FML
Today, I was fired for having a haircut that was 'inappropriate for the workplace'. I have alopecia. My boss told me to stop making up excuses. FML
Today, I went to ask my boss for a raise. Turns out they are firing 35 people. I wasn't on the list until I asked for a raise. FML
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Top comments
PossiblyInDanger 24
Experimental often becomes permanent if things go well. Just work hard and you may be kept on. Good luck OP.
bahamit 18
Sounds like your temporary future boss likes hiding stuff in the fine print. Good luck finding another new job in the next two months.
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bahamit 18
Sounds like your temporary future boss likes hiding stuff in the fine print. Good luck finding another new job in the next two months.
ironmany_fml 23
shouldn't OP have checked this BEFORE quitting their old job? technically it is your responsibility to read all the papers carefully before signing up for anything. If there was nothing written before and this is a new "clause" added by the new boss. Then of course it is wrong, else it is a YDI for not paying attention.
Ms_ValS 27
Seems like it came out of nowhere likely cuz they knew it'd be virtually impossible to get someone to accept such a stupid offer.
Coolaidegirl 18
I'm sorry op. maybe you can get your old job back?
ThatOneGuy719 16
How would that go? "Heyyyy well... You guys remember how I quit? Well.. You know, I take that all back. Sorry... Guys..." Then OPs old boss would just say "Oh damn i thought you'd never see us again! Welcome back buddy!" And OP lives happily ever after.
theTravinator 21
Idk, depending on the job and the circumstances of how OP left a final impression, they could possibly go back. But obviously if it's some big professional job and/or their 2 week notice was written in feces saying "**** you", they wouldn't have a shot getting back. Every job I've ever had though I was told that if I ever wanted to go back all I'd have to do was ask. But that was a few retail jobs and fast food- nothing white collar or something of that nature.
PossiblyInDanger 24
Experimental often becomes permanent if things go well. Just work hard and you may be kept on. Good luck OP.
Mauskau 36
If they're not kept on, they have experience and can go elsewhere :)
engineerosaurus 26
Oh, yay, so OP can stay on permanently with a boss who withholds critical details. Sounds awesome.
MrsLighthouse 8
My mother was loaned out by her job to another private company being told it was going to last only a "few months". It's now been two years. "Strictly experimental" doesn't always work the way the company implies. Good luck OP, hopefully this change works out for you.
russiancat464 12
become an entrepreneur!
shemademedoit 20
does it look like OP is bill gates?
wakemeupplease 21
nope Bill Gates ***** other people lives!!
garrett_8614 14
You don't have to be Bill Gates to be an entrepreneur. Plenty of people start their own business after losing their job and it works out for them.
shemademedoit 20
shhh drake. you started from the bottom too
ImTheAlpha 30
Start selling chocolate bars!
gintwinsmoore 20
#36, your comment fits right with your profile pic...lol
mmmxr 11
#43 Chocolate!!!!CHOCOLATE!!!!!!CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!
mmmxr 11
Who ever down voted this must not get the spongebob reference......
Roxas_hearts 27
Everyone gets the reference.
tbear4prez 14
Well try to impress him. Maybe you'll get to keep your job OP!
rydin10 18
I don't wanna be that dick BC I do agree FYL, but don't you think you should have known that before you quit your old job?
LindseyTheMoose 24
Yeah they should have. Their boss didn't tell OP that their job was strictly experimental until they quit their previous job.
garrett_8614 14
Yea that would be why this is an FML. They didn't tell OP
Gubbon 17
Boss didn't tell? He signed something, and it was written in there. Totally OP's fault.
MattStro 23
You probably should've looked into that a bit more, if it was actually hidden then I do feel bad. Good luck OP!
emeraldisle 30
Don't they have to tell you that before you start? That doesn't seem legal.
Gubbon 17
Seems like they did, in the contract. And OP blindly signed it.
Steffi3 40
Is that also what your contract says? Because if not, they can't do that
kbecks87 16
Most states employee 'at will'. They can let you go at any time for anything with as much or as little notice as they choose. Just as you can quit for any reason at any time with as much or as little notice as you choose.
Mobetta_2300 22
Show how awesome you are, so experimental becomes permanent