Today, a McDonald's employee had to correct my math after counting out $2.37 in change. I'm in AP Calculus and am currently learning how to find the derivative of an inverse of a logarithm. FML
Collection
Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I was tending the cash register. I scanned a lady's items which totaled $89.68. She paid with a $100 bill. I gave her $11.32 change. She angrily gave back the extra dollar and complained about "schools nowadays". I'm an AP Calculus student. FML
Today, while working at McDonald's a car full of obnoxious teens came through. They had made a $30 order, and handed me a tin of small change, claiming that on a McDonald's ad they saw that we, employees, liked counting change. I had to count out $30 in spare change during a rush period at work. FML
Today, an old man, while I was working, asked me to spell average-length words. Confused, I refused. Turns out I was apparently taking too long counting the large amount of small change he'd given to me, and he assumed I couldn't count or spell. I study law, and I've learned basic calculus. Welcome to retail. FML
Today, disappointed with my results on a mathematics test, I went over it and realized my teacher had added up the marks incorrectly, leaving me with 17% less than I earned. The person who's supposed to be teaching me math can't even perform basic arithmetic. FML
Today, I was working my job as a waitress near my college. I handed a customer her check, and she noticed that I had added her bill wrong. I apologized, and she pointed to my "student" labeled nametag, asking what I was studying. I said English. I'm a math major. FML
Today, McDonalds charged me 21 cents for a honey mustard packet. The jerk manager made me break a $50 bill. So I grabbed all their napkins, carried them into the parking lot and tossed them all into the air in protest and drove off. Down the road, I realized I left my wallet at the counter. FML
Today, while checking out a couple at work, I handed them their receipt and wished them a good day. The woman promptly pulled her husband to the side, and whispered to him about how much of a "fucking idiot" I was for making the prices so high. I work at McDonald's. FML
Today, I saw a man help an elderly lady with her tray at the local McDonald's. I wanted to do something nice for him, so I added a couple extra nuggets in his meal. He later came up to me and told me I was dumb and didn't know how to count, and that was why I was working at McDonald's. FML
Today, I have a final for my precalculus class. After hours of studying this week, I felt pretty optimistic. Until I got to class and realized that I'd forgotten my calculator. FML
Today, while working at a gas station, I accidentally changed the price of gas to 8.9 cents per litre. It took me fifteen minutes to figure out why everyone wanted only two or three dollars of gas. I fixed it, but now my managers are debating charging me for lost revenue. FML
Feel like sharing it with the other FML users?
Thanks, your FML was submitted, and will appear in the moderation queue soon!
Top comments
e11ie 0
No big deal. Simple mistake. I have a PhD in English and misstype/spell words weekly. That doesn't mean I'm any less intelligent.
popatia 0
Who the **** you think you are that someone from mcdonalds can't be smart? A lot of people work at chain restarunts to pay for school, medical bills, etc.
Add a comment · Reply to
You must be logged in to be able to post comments!
Comments (318)
mercury42 0
Dear Stoopid Dood: There's a difference between book smarts and common ******* sense. Get over it. You are not special because you are taking AP calc. Talk to me about ******* good at math when you get through abstract algebra. The counter guy at Micky D's might be a pHD candidate using that for a sociology experiment. I which case, prob/stats is a fave of theirs. Stop being a ******* stoopid snob and learn how to do some mental math. Love, Your math teacher
guy_on_the_couch 0
I have NO IDEA what you said at the end, so i'll definitely trust you know how to count money! I'm not mathematically inclined...
Snowlight_fml 7
The What of a What of a What?
iain08 2
For all you guys ******** yourself over the last sentence. He said it because it's obviously a fuckload more complicated than simply adding/subtracting and making such an elementary mistake is not acceptable, in his opinion.
ihatemylife2much 0
what the ****
juicyfruit23 0
i'm in calculus too! derivitives of logs suck. wait til you do integrals
SecsNoises 6
Whaa? The derivatives of ln functions is one of the easier parts of the maths course I'm doing... :(
ColdGold 6
No big deal.
Lehk 9
YDI for looking down your nose at a service industry worker.
MoobyTheCow 2
Logarithm IS the inverse... of an exponential function. You know, the functions that have the EASIEST DERIVATIVES. F'(e^x) = e^x. WOW! Way to try to sound smart in front of people with math degrees. Also, derivatives are not computation. The McDonald's dude computes all day. Of course he'd be more skilled at it than you.