Today, my company told me that they refuse to buy me new safety footwear without a doctor's note, because my shoe size is three sizes smaller than the minimum size my company provides. I actually have to get my doctor to prove my shoe size. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my workplace demanded a doctor's note to prove that I can’t stand for long periods, and would benefit from a desk job. I guess my above-the-knee amputation and spinal surgery scars don’t count as evidence, but a piece of paper from a doctor is just fine. FML
Today, my boss got mad at me for not wearing the gloves I'm provided at work. They're way too small, not to mention the fact that I have a disability which makes it even harder to put them on. What do you expect me to do? FML
Today, I went to get new shoes. I'm a pretty tall girl and I have proportional feet. I asked the cute guy who worked there for a size 9.5. He burst into laughter before putting on a shocked face and saying, "Oh wait... You're serious." Goodbye, self esteem. FML
Today, I wore a new pair of shoes to work. By lunchtime, my feet were covered in blisters and I had to limp my way through the rest of the day. FML
Today, at work, an obese woman insisted she took a size 5 shoe, despite me measuring her at a size 11. Then when the 5 I politely fetched for her didn’t come close to fitting, she told the manager I was fatshaming her. Her feet were ham joints below cankles as thick as my thigh. She stank too. FML
Today, I was trying on some shoes when I felt the heels break underneath me. Not only did they cost two paychecks worth, but as I was leaving I heard the sales girl say that "we really should have a weight limit for who can try on our products." FML
Today, a middle-aged woman came into the shoe shop where I work, and asked me to help her put on a pair of boots that were obviously too small. Simultaneously as I knelt down by her feet, she booted me in the face while we tried to get them on. FML
Today, a male employee at a shoe shop helped me try on shoes. Once I found a pair, I went to pay for them. I was telling the cashier about how great of an employee he was when she told me there were no male employees. A guy with a foot fetish helped me find shoes. FML
Today, I went to the drugstore to get supplies for my broken toe. Because of the swelling, I could only wear open-toed sandals on this cold day. At the store, a tall, heavy man in winter boots tried to get by me, and ended up stepping on the toes of my good foot. FML
Today, at the DMV, I was told I had to prove, with a doctor's note, that I was an amputee and that my disability was permanent to get my placard. Apparently, placing my prosthetic leg on the counter wasn't proof enough, and is considered "threatening". The police were called. FML
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SoulEaterSE 23
The **** is wrong with your company?
gatorclay97 28
How small are your feet???
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Comments (53)
nyenisu 14
That sucks. :/ can't believe you had to go to your doctor to validate something like that!
Colon_Man 17
I had to get a doctor's note that said, yes, the poop draining out of my tube smells like poop. Companies can be stupid.
interesting33 37
#8 Relevant username :)
Colon_Man 17
Thanks. I'm outfitted with multiples, so it seemed appropriate. :)
interesting33 37
What like clothes, you just choose which of your many profiles to use that day? :P
SoulEaterSE 23
The **** is wrong with your company?
gatorclay97 28
How small are your feet???
zeffra13 31
A lot of places only provide down to women's 8 or some such nonsense. She probably works somewhere that's mostly guys considering she needs safety shoes, so they wouldn't bother stocking a range of women's sizes. It sucks.
Mauskau 36
A women's 8 is massive! I don't know many women who have feet bigger than a size 7. I'm a size 3.
TaoShaman 24
A women's 8 isn't that strange. If you're tall, it's going to be larger than an 8. Not all women are super short.
neuronerd 29
A US size 8.5 is average, and the average woman is 5'4." I have people telling me all the time I have tiny feet since I'm 5'10" and wear a 7.5-8.
hiitisbrooke 28
I'm a size 6 and I'm 5"10. ( I can wear my seven year old sister's shoes) Whenever people see my feet they're shocked at how small they are. Size 8 is probably the most common size. Me being such an anomaly seems to prove that.
datkenna 20
I'm 5'4 and wear a size 10 1/2.... An 8 is pretty average
bapbap_fml 15
What..? I'm a size 10 and most of my friends take size 9-10, some 11.
SpyroMello 29
I guess I'm gonna be screwed once I enter the work force because I'm 4'11 and wear a size 5 (U.S.)
Dale_shackleford 13
32, most places that require special shoes are construction or bowling allies. Most bowling allies have shoes that would fit you and construction usually makes you buy your own
LuxEtTenebris 11
My sister has all of these commenters beat. She's 5' 2", and wears the largest child size - 4. Very rarely, she can fit a woman's size 5.
Algorithm 24
I'm a 9 and 5'5".
a_n_i_k_a 6
36, child size 4 is equivalent to women's size 6 (I know -- it's my shoe size too), which would mean that a women's size 5, being equivalent to a child's size 3, would actually be smaller than child size 4.
crashBAMBIcute 3
I'm a US women's 5-6
southerngalslove 15
I am assuming that the sizes in England are extremely different.
TacoMortis 15
#32, I am literally in the same boat. 4'11, size 5 U.S. I had to buy a pair of heels for a dance, and we went everywhere and nobody had my size, I had to buy heels from the toddler section (they are cute anyways)
Brandi_Faith 34
People always comment on how small my feet/shoes are too. I've always been a size 5 and just recently my feet grew a bit to a small size 6. I was a size 5 from age 15-26 and then all the sudden they did this small growth spurt. But I always used to buy kids 4 runners because the size 5 runners (skater shoes) always seemed to fit a bit bigger. Unfortunately there's not a lot of choices in the size 5 shoes.
LuxEtTenebris 11
@ #39 - Asked my sis about that, and she said most of her life 4 has been = to a small-end 5. But that in recent years, shoe sizes have gotten larger measurements, and in many brands she wears a 3 or 3 1/2. She calls the phenom "the invasion of the Bigfeet" and laments the loss of tiny delicate feet in the world.
HelenLFC 27
Actually, in England a size 8 for a woman isn't at all common. I have size 7 feet as I'm tall, and that's pretty big.
HollyQuinn 21
That doesn't make any sense, your company is dumb.
emeraldisle 30
Can't you just show them your shoes to prove your size?
deathrise007 22
A shoe size is a shoe size. A stupid rule is a stupid rule. Talk to your boss please. Sorry about that OP.
BiGTiMeNeRD 29
Make sure they foot the bill.
joshklander 11
Yah, I know how that feels. I have been completely blind since birth, and I have had to get this proven by a doctor multiple times. The condition I have is not reversable.
wyatt2189 7
How did you read this and type a response if you're blind?
acs123acs 22
Text to type
acs123acs 22
Meant to say text to speech. Windows has accessibility features that take words and put them into speech
smallandroid 26
Also, I know there are different types of blindness. I know a person who is unable to see most everything, but has a specially made laptop screen that allows her to see and use it like anyone else. I believe her eyes are unable to process photons or something? In any case, some blind people are able to see computer screens.
gdeekay 9
Cinderella?
askullnamedbilly 33
What the hell is the logic behind that? Like, do they assume you just told them a wrong (smaller) shoe size as a joke, so you can force your big feet into tiny shoes and stumble around the workplace?