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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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Top comments
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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Comments (129)
sjbartholome 14
Even if it wasn't done at home a possible scenario could be OP goes into the boss' office. Gets the pink slip. Then OP walks to his desk to clean out his stuff. Before he finishes, he deletes his data. Then the boss calls him back into the office before OP leaves and says its a joke. Has nothing to do with security problems.
Witchylady 18
I guess you might be losing your job still after all. I hope you have a photographic memory so you can retype up your work. And your boss is a jackass. How immature of him to prank firing someone!!
lina21 12
3 words OP: don't burn bridges. Hopefully you didn't erase it from your trash, but even if they weren't joking, don't burn bridges with future references
dangousity 21
Time to find a new job, after contacting HR
mhc91 10
What an asshole
Huhhman 2
You can recover it with software.
shay_serendipity 29
As I lazily and sleepily read over the first sentence, I thought the FML said: "my boss called me to inform me that I was getting laid." ... I should get some sleep.
marieluhh24 8
Well if he were to get med at you, he can't because he was the one joking around!
crazyginger103 5
what a jackass
tonyfan00 38
I've heard of pranks backfiring... but good lord... Hope that teaches the bastard a lesson!