Today, I went through my spam folder. I found out that I'd received several emails telling me that I have been sending emails containing essays for a class of mine to the wrong address. The term ended yesterday. 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 discovered my ex has been signing my email up for various newsletters. I knew I was getting a lot of spam, but didn't know why. It became apparent when one of these emails had his name in it. FML
Today, I "answered" an email instead of "forwarding" it. As a result, there is a chance that my Master's thesis supervisor gets a message from me starting by the F-word, and complaining about my bad work and inability to understand a deadline. FML
Today, I realised that Gmail has been sending lots of important messages directly into the spam folder, where I never saw them. All were from people who I had either contacted myself, or had regular contact with in the past. One address even had a filter on it, specifying, "Never send it to spam." FML
Today, due to a change in our internal system, I set up an email filter at work that sent all incoming messages to spam. My boss had been sending me urgent updates all day, and I only realized when she came over and asked why I’d “gone radio silent.” FML
Today, I couldn’t figure out why I was getting so much spam in my professional email. My own mother thought it would be a hilarious “prank” to sign me up for a ton of random mailing lists. I missed an amazing job opportunity due to her bullshit. FML
Today, I found out there’s a university email platform I never knew about. I’m a freshman and I’ve been using my personal email to communicate with the lecturers. Now I’ve got a pile of assignments to do and most of them are overdue. FML
Today, I realized I had misspelled "Education" on all the resumes I've been submitting. FML
Today, I typed an essay on my friend's computer, so she forwarded it to me in a email and she made the subject "here bitch" as a joke. I then went to email the essay to my teacher. I forwarded it thinking nothing of it only to realize that I didn't change the subject name. 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 got a letter saying I was no longer a student at my college and my current work is void since I had ignored and refused to pay my tuition bill. Over the past month I've been deleting these pesky emails saying 'FINAL WARNING regarding payment' thinking it was more spam. They weren't. FML
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DocBastard 40
I see the meeting going something like this: Professor: I'm afraid I'm going to have to give you an F. OP: No! I'll lose my scholarship! Isn't there SOMETHING I can do? Professor: Well, there is ONE thing. OP: Oh, professor! Your shirt is so tight... Baw wah oh waoh wah oh wah /bad **** music poorly transliterated
marinus_fml 20
Shit, that sucks man! at least you should still be able to prove you had sent the email with the attachment! I'm sure if you show it to them, they might let you off the hook!
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Comments (57)
Gazarok 0
FYL and YDI. You could have checked to make sure you were sending it to the right place, so YDI. However, your professor might not have given you the correct address, a typo or something. FYL for that. But be more specific next time so I can vote properly will ya?
xshowmethehueix 0
well that sucks...
DocBastard 40
I see the meeting going something like this: Professor: I'm afraid I'm going to have to give you an F. OP: No! I'll lose my scholarship! Isn't there SOMETHING I can do? Professor: Well, there is ONE thing. OP: Oh, professor! Your shirt is so tight... Baw wah oh waoh wah oh wah /bad **** music poorly transliterated
sourgirl101 29
Haha, your role play is funny. Now play the Landlord asking for rent.
Quyzl 0
Your line of thought may be relevant to my interests.
PointAndLaugh 0
Your thought of lines may be interesting to my relevance.
sinnedrebel 0
in college and still stupid
DocBastard 40
Are you implying that there is a magical transformation from stupid, clueless high schooler to mature, responsible college student? Ha! Haha! Bahahahaha! Sorry. "Responsible" and "college student" are often mutually exclusive.
angel55033 12
I would talk to your teacher and show your email attempts as proof
Zmeilerr 22
agreed
dlangel 2
I just can't envision making it thru a semester with nothing turned in and not having gotten warnings about ur grade or checked your grade yourself. I mean- profs usually give back graded work and you can check your grades periodically through the semester. I can't see this being anything but fake honestly. if anyone puts effort into work, they get slightly suspicious if they never get a grade back thru a whole semester?
lifesluck 0
Agreed!
Necromal 2
OP could have been in an online class. therefore, no returned work. That said, it is op's fault for not staying on top of his grades.
boatkicker 5
If it was an online class, than grades should be online somewhere as well, and it's OPs fault for not checking.
weinerdog 2
I've taken online classes, and the class has a dropbox we use to upload our work. It shows the submission status instantly and sends an email confirmation to my student email address. It seems odd to be emailing assignments, and the OP is really lazy if they couldn't be bothered to confirm receipt.
Zebidee 9
Up until this semester, my uni course had all the assignments submitted by email. It's only now that they've gone to the drop-box plagiarism checker type system that you get any acknowledgement at all. Under the old system, the feedback or even acknowledgement you'd get would be really intermittent, depending on the lecturer. I only found out that one of mine had gone missing when my final grade for the subject was published, and was disproportionately low, based on the assignments I had got back before. I can completely see this happening, especially if it's a new student.
OMGEVILTACOS 0
wow you're stupid
perlie559 0
FCK!!!!!
melibear89 7
ydi for not paying attention.
sietseld 13
One time after my second interview with a company I sent thank-you emails and they kept getting sent back. I couldn't figure out why, then I realized I had spelled the company name wrong! (Nielson instead of Nielsen). That means the handwritten thank-you's I sent after the first interview were probably wrong too. I have a master's degree in math/stats and had straight A's in college; I swear I'm not stupid. Everyone makes silly mistakes sometimes. Hopefully your teacher will give you credit somehow.