Today, my boss called me to inform me that I'm being laid off. In my ensuing fit of rage, I deleted the recent project I've been working on for weeks. Pretty soon after, he called me back to let me know it was a prank. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my boss let me know that I'm being laid off, via a text message that ended in "lmao". FML
Today, after three weeks of my boss telling me how much he appreciates my hard work and has submitted my name up for a promotion, he called me into his office to announce I'm being laid off. FML
Today, just a few minutes after I got to work, my usually laconic boss came into my office and said, "Pack your stuff and get the f*ck out." Apparently, half my department was being downsized. Thinking it was an April Fool's, I burst out laughing and told him how funny the prank was. He wasn't kidding. FML
Today, while trying to get my boss to reconsider laying off much of my department, I accidentally convinced him to lay me off too. FML
Today, my boss got a promotion and I got laid off. FML
Today, I was at work when a co-worker decided it would be funny to email me from my boss's computer to tell me I had been laid off. It wasn't funny when I was fired for real after "skipping work without giving notice." FML
Today, when I got to work, I found out that I was being laid off. Two hours later, I found out my boss had my name on the wrong list. I was elated. I went to lunch, but on the way back was rear-ended, in the rain. I was an hour and a half late getting back to work. I was fired upon returning. FML
Today, my boss called me to say that I'm fired because I was "deliberately ignoring" the messages from a head of another department who wanted to contact me regarding some "urgent" (not really) project. I was on "Do not disturb" because it's my vacation, and this SOB is not even my boss anyway. FML
Today, after I spent the last year working overtime to prove myself at my tech job, I got an email saying I was laid off due to “strategic restructuring.” My boss posted a vacation picture right after. FML
Today, my boss was fired by the board. A few days ago, he dropped several strong hints that he was going to promote me soon. FML
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otisnme94 14
Id be so mad. Bosses shouldn't joke about that kinda of stuff.
Vanessa_Leeann26 17
You can't pull it out of the trash can from the computer? Or were you so pissed that you fully deleted it? Either way, that way a dick move on your boss' part. Sorry, op.
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stealth647 1
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
You jumped the gun
avadakedabra 15
Your boss is a dick
SmoothPancakes 10
The boss deserves to get bitchslapped repeatedly. I don't care how much a jokester someone is, jokingly laying someone off is way across the line. The company I work for has made multiple nationwide layoffs in the last couple years. I've survived them all, but I've seen a couple of great, hard working guys and friends get let go. They didn't know where they were going to go from there as they were cut one morning when they came into work with no warning at all, leaving them and their families scrambling to replace the lost income. To even joke about something like that, OP's boss deserves an ass whooping.
mellyski 25
Well said #29, my company is going through a restructure. This week everyone finds out the verdict of their roles. Definitely not something to joke about.
SmoothPancakes 10
#32, hopefully it's not bad news. The dread and anxiety of those mornings, when the market manager makes an appearance in town and then calls an employee back to a closed door meeting with him and the station manager, everyone knew what was happening right then and then we were all just praying we weren't about to get called back as well. Then you have to deal with saying goodbye to friends and coworkers you had worked with for years and not seeing them or talking to them in the office anymore. It is never something to joke about.
Quackadoodledoo 13
Don't you get a month's notice or redundancy pay if you've worked there for years?
SmoothPancakes 10
Not where I work. You'll get a severance package, but no warning whatsoever. Last round of cuts, they made the decisions while all the managers from across the nation were meeting in Miami for a big managers conference. Everyone got envelopes and only when they were opened did corporate inform the managers that new layoffs were coming and those getting cut were named in the envelopes. Even then, the managers were not allowed to tell the people ahead of time. They had to sit on this news for over a week, still working with these people while knowing what was about to happen, until a specific date corporate had picked for all of the layoffs to occur nationwide so that they all happened on one day and on the same day.
mylifebitches666 18
if it's irreversible he wouldn't have posted.
mz135 12
Firing someone as a prank??
martin998877 12
Good luck hope it goes ok
Carrie_Chaos 28
oops..
otisnme94 14
Id be so mad. Bosses shouldn't joke about that kinda of stuff.
magickitten 26
You're right. I'd probably have do e something similar to OP too. I suppose now OP's boss is going to have to put some extra work in to help fix the mess!
clemsi 20
or not seeing as how ctrl+z is a thing
nix1993 41
So is permanent delete.
Vanessa_Leeann26 17
You can't pull it out of the trash can from the computer? Or were you so pissed that you fully deleted it? Either way, that way a dick move on your boss' part. Sorry, op.
Vanessa_Leeann26 17
Oops, was*, not way. Stupid autocorrect! >=(
M0rning_star 2
When you delete someone it's not gone until you overwrite the same disk area where your data was. The only way to truly delete something is to overwrite it with zeros or random data. Standard file systems don't do that. The operating system sees the file as deleted but the data is still there and there's a lot of software to recover deleted data. You can even do that manually but it's much harder and you have to know what you are looking for. if it happened recently and he hasn't been writing a lot of data to his HDD there's a big chance the data is still there.
Spyderbane 10
hopefully there are shadow copies.
JJ_86 22
Correct #86. And stop using the computer right now OP till you get the data back. Google a tool called "Restoration". It's a pretty simple and free program that can recover your deleted files.
fuckyourlifeOP 25
The **** kind of prank is that?
Vanessa_Leeann26 17
Exactly my thoughts... And why would he keep going with the prank long enough to let him get all the way home. If you're gonna play a stupid prank like that, that's the kind of prank that you immediately follow up with, "ha ha, just kidding"!
crazytwinsmom 25
There's nothing in the FML about getting all the way home.
SmoothPancakes 10
It sounds like he was at home at the time. Unless he works in a different building as his boss, I'd imagine the boss would give him the news face to face instead of calling him at his desk to tell him.
Uglyfeet 23
A Michael Scott prank... OP your boss sucks :/
Indianboy9321 25
You should have kept the project and sold it to the competition!
Tthug 34
That's illegal. He should have left responsibly and then his boss could at least give him a good reference.
LiliLatte 15
Is your boss Michael Scott by chance?
pistachiopanda 19
Rabies awareness!!!!
drunkmunkey 24
When it comes to your livelihood it's never a joke.
jellybeens_fml 16
What kind of prank was that???? Holy crap...
abeg157 14
Honestly, that is completely off the board. He should really lay off with the jokes.
onlychildFTW 34
Yeah, like damn. If it were me I would report him to HR or something. I'm sure there's something about joking around with people jobs/futures/lively hoods that isn't allowed. If there isn't there really should be. OP's boss is an idiot.
ddlovatolover 23
#43, see that? That's #11's puns that just flew over your head
Respect101 17
You have a couple minutes to edit the comment before it's permanant. I only use mobile and I've probably edited about 3-4 comments.