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
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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 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
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, 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 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 fired me because I corrected him after he misspoke during a meeting. 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, 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, my boss shouted and screamed at me for my fuck ups that have humiliated the company and cost thousands to put right. It was only when he paused that I was able to tell him he had the wrong guy, he wanted my coworker down the hall. I’ve been here for four years and he still doesn’t know my name. FML
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Emma1562 35
Your boss needs to go back to "collage" and get himself a "collage education" so he can learn to spell.
Algorithm 24
He's probably afraid you'll be *his* boss soon, and one can only hope there's something to it. How do these guys even get promoted?
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Comments (55)
americanafrican 32
back to school, back to school, dont want my daddy to think im a fool!
FMLusername969 21
haha! Is that Adam Sandler??
worldclassrager 41
He needs to work on his phonics and read over it for issues like that spell check will miss
Lalala579121 28
Maybe he was talking about someone who makes costumes? And teaching people about collages?
rvontr88 21
Yeah... I agree with a few others in saying that there's much better ways to address your boss' spelling errors. You make him sound like an idiot. But somehow he got to the position he's in, and you're correcting his papers. Soooo.... Oh and the ending of your FML makes absolutely no sense.
tantanpanda 26
Yes, it does make sense. It means that even if correcting OP's boss' papers wasn't OP's job, it would still be a dick move.
pinkgirlee101 4
I totally agree! I was just going to post something about OP's own sentence and grammar!! I could not have said it better!
janfleury 19
Even though he is a bad speller, he is still your boss. It never is a good idea to point things like this out to bosses.
tantanpanda 26
Reality check: It's OP's JOB to do it.
gracehi 33
Reminds me of a particular incident when I was written up at work. My supervisor recommended further disciplinary action in the report "do to" previous interactions. Pointing out his mistake to him was pretty satisfying.
weswheatley 14
No man, your boss was just typing with an accent.
vikky538 29
You could have just turned on the spell checker on his computer. By the your bosses shit list would be read as chit list...
flammaefata 20
Spell check wouldn't have picked it up as both "costumer" and "collage" are legitimate words.
pete9913 23
some people just want to hear they're right. correcting them is offensive, no matter how wrong they are.
TheCutestLizard 28
This sounds like classic dyslexia.