Today, my boss chewed me out for correcting several spelling and grammar mistakes in one of his reports. The words "Think you're so damn smart, don't ya?" were uttered. I'm his secretary, and proofreading his shit is part of my job. 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 made it onto my boss's shit-list, after pointing out that he'd misspelled "customer" as "costumer" 6 times in his report, and "college education" as "collage education" twice. It'd be a dick move on his part even if making corrections like this weren't part of my damn job. FML
Today, I had to proofread a document my boss had written. When I pointed out that he spelled "college" as "collage" multiple times, he angrily accused me of trying to make him look stupid. This is the guy who constantly boasts about his "genius" IQ level to the whole office. FML
Today, my boss yelled at me for ruining the report she was supposed to write with my "terrible spelling and grammar". I've checked it thoroughly, and all of her 'corrections' are wrong. She doesn’t believe me, and is refusing to look at a dictionary. FML
Today, my boss fired me because I corrected him after he misspoke during a meeting. FML
Today, my boss reprimanded me for a huge screw-up that he was responsible for. FML
Today, my new boss lost his shit and flew into a ten minute rant against me about the "value of respect". He told me that if I wanted to stay in "his" company, I'd best start toeing the line. All this because I corrected his misuse of "your" and "you're" in one of his memos. FML
Today, my boss asked me to send an email on his behalf with an important report attached. I've already received 3 responses from directors commenting on poor spelling and factual errors. I get paid 1/4 the salary of my boss and he can't even write properly. FML
Today, my boss and I were preparing a lunch order for a nearby real-estate agency. I noticed that the order was riddled with spelling mistakes, so I laughed and mocked the realtors, calling them stupid and incompetent. My boss then pointed out that the order was written in his handwriting. FML
Today, I found out that absentmindedly correcting my boss's use of the word "whom" could result in my immediate termination. FML
Today, my supervisor told me off for doing something. When I reminded her that she told me to do it, she yelled at me for correcting her. FML
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ElephantCraze22 17
Generally, one can't fire their boss...
peanuty001 19
hes ungrateful. but either way its a lose lose bc if.you dont correct his shit he'll yell at you too
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Comments (59)
CharismaGeek 19
Either way, that asshole needs to learn grammar and how to spell correctly. I sympathize for you, OP.
vlader08 13
try an explain that you didnt meant to pick on his spelling even go as far as giving him the excuse that they wherw just typos.
expertsmilee 26
Eye for wun aplod yew for deweeng yor job korektlee and hope that yor boss lernz wat it meenz to respekt his sekretaree.
gracehi 33
Reading your comment hurt my brain, however "eye sea wat yoo deed their."
ChristianH39 30
I think I just had a seizure from trying to read your comments
gracehi 33
Someone has pride issues. What is it they say about pride and Autumn?
23lf 16
I hate people like that. FYL OP
kotake 7
Ask him to spell that sentence and see how bad he messes it up. I'm going with "you think, your so dam smart dontcha?" :P
Brandi_Faith 34
*u think *ur
SillyBeanie 8
Just ignore him OP, you are getting paid so do what you have to do. He may act that way because he's just embarrassed secretary has more smarts then the boss but just be proud of it. If you get fired because he can't realize what a great worker he has, then it's his loss, hang in there. :)
worldclassrager 41
It seems like you can't win that one...
SweetasCandy0609 28
Wow OP it sounds to me like you should be his boss and he should be working for you hopefully his boss above him will see how smart and a hard worker you are and give you a promotion my fingers are crossed for you OP.
boostedc 24
I don't understand people that choose YDI on this kind of stories ... It is really hard to have to stand those things. Sorry for you OP.