Today, a strong storm knocked the power out at our office. I was dismissed five hours early, had my desk locked up and was walking toward the doors to leave when the power came back on. 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, after climbing eight flight of stairs due to electricity outage, I got to work only to find the office locked. FML
Today, I woke up to find my power was out. After taking a shower in the dark and being unable to make myself lunch, my power came on two minutes before I had to leave for school. FML
Today, the power at work was out. This would be fine, if they didn’t make me stay for another hour to wait for it to come back on in the Texas heat. FML
Today, there was a power outage at my apartment. I ended up deciding that the power wasn't going to come on any time soon, and that I should go to a hotel for the night. Just after I unpacked at the hotel, my neighbor called to say the power had come back. FML
Today, the power went out at school. If it's out for more than twenty minutes, standard procedure is to let us go home. They came back on almost nineteen minutes later. FML
Today, I finished working a 70 hour work week. I'm a lineman for the electric company, and worked extended hours all week getting people's lights back on after a wind storm. When I got home, my power was out. FML
Today, the power went out to my house a second time after coming on a few days ago due to a series of severe storms that rolled through the area. The first knockout took less than 12 hours. This one? A little over three days in a heat wave. FML
Today, the power went out at work. As everyone left the building to go home, the owner came in to inform me that, since the phones were on a battery back up, I would be staying to man them. The phones rang 2 times in the 4 hours I sat in the dark by myself. Both times were telemarketers. FML
Today, I was doing an online live exam with the camera on when the power suddenly went out. FML
Today, I had one minute to go before a team meeting from my work, a blackout occurred in my block. The outage lasted an hour. The meeting was about 40 minutes long. FML
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KungFuJack3 16
RUN FORREST RUN
snarkytruth 37
At least your check won't be 5 hrs short. It's hard to get enough hours to make ends meet these days.
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Comments (37)
ohsnapword 21
You're lucky. A lot of places won't pay you for the time you missed. You would have either had to use personal time or make up the hours.
FYlife604 18
it's called being salaried, you work more or less and you get paid the same. obviously depends on performance, if I can do same work in 6 hrs vs 8 hrs bonus to me. if it takes me 10 hours to do 8 hrs work minus for me.
madscientist_17 15
Not gonna lie I would pretend the power never came back on and ran out quickly. Lol
Kers3054 16
Almost. You almost made it to freedom. x'D
Carlos_bh 10
You should have acted like you didn't notice it.
mywolfie 10
Next time, just keep going like it didn't even happen.
sherman77 5
You should've ran... Its faster.
Taurus_ChicKa 37
Were they going to pay you for the work you missed? If not, be grateful you can go back to work and make more money. If they were still going to pay you, well, yeah it sucks that you don't get more free time, but you do have a job to do. A lot of people don't.
fictionaldiary 11
I don't get it. Am I supposed to feel bad for you because you had to have a regular day at work? Or was it the inconvenience of having ten less minutes of your work day? Or was it that you almost had to drive home in the strong storm? None of these things seem like "FML" material.
G3N1US 7
Just in time..., for lunch ?