Today, I arrived at work at 8, and business was abnormally slow, but we assumed it would pick up. Few hours later, we had not had a single customer. As I walk out of the restaurant, I realize the open sign has been off all day. 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, at the supermarket where I work, we had at least 40 people waiting outside for us to open our doors at 7:00 a.m. FML
Today, it was my first day of work at my new job. I got dressed and arrived early, only to find out that the store had closed due to a power outage. Then I found out that the person who'd hired me had totally forgotten about hiring me anyway. FML
Today, while working at my job at a lumber/hardware store, my coworker told me he was taking an hour break instead of the usual half-hour. Not only did he leave me with a store packed with customers on Customer Appreciation Day, but he never came back until closing time. FML
Today, I came in to work early at a restaurant to help out. I stocked, baked pies for the next day, cleaned and set over 50 tables, and vacuumed the entire two stories. When I went to send an order for the first customer of mine, I realized I hadn't even clocked on. Four and half hours of work wasted. FML
Today, after working all day and putting in hours of overtime, I realized I never clocked in. FML
Today, my boss told me I could do my university work as long as I served customers when they came in. No customers came in all day, then I realised I’d been so focused on my laptop, I'd never noticed I’d left the bolt on the door, so customers couldn’t get in. My boss sacked me. FML
Today, at the job I've had for eight years, I finally got the raise I was supposed to get a year ago. One hour later I found out the store was closing and we were all out of a job in two weeks. FML
Today, the train to work was both late and almost empty. The city deserted with barely a soul in sight. It wasn’t until arriving at the office that I realised everything is closed due to a Public Holiday. I’m new to this state and not one colleague or acquaintance mentioned it. FML
Today, 30 minutes before I was supposed to quit work at 6pm, my boss showed up. After telling him how the day went, he asked why I was still there. Apparently, for the holiday, we close early. 4 hours earlier. FML
Today, I showed up to work at 6am, only to find out the schedule was changed. I wasn't actually supposed to be there until 9:15. My boss never told me this. I didn't get to go home either, he just said, "Oh well. Get to work." FML
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Quinnjamin 0
Was the cashier out running "those errands"?
WonderBlunder 0
Not a single customer?? I bet your restaurant sucks. Usually people will try their luck even if the "open" sign is not on during normal business hour.. And don't you have regular customers??
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Comments (103)
t0phurius 0
How's this an FML???? You got a free day at work....stop your whining, do something worse with your life, then come back, and make me laugh.
leilaostara 1
My thoughts exactly.
wafflemonger 0
Your customers actually pay attention to whether the sign says Open or Closed? You have no idea how lucky you are.
Tabby0511 0
We usually get more customers when we forget to turn the open sign on. I don't even know why we have one actually.
besad_fml 0
I remember watching an episode of Spongebob just like this. Spongebob annoyed the hell out of Squidward and near the end of the day they forgot to change the sign to Open.
Christina21 2
Lol,genius
PoeticPixie 0
How is this bad? You got a free day at work where you still got paid but didn't have to do anything. When I was a waitress, the best times at work were the graveyard shift when no one would come in and we'd just have fun. Stop whining
__no_one__ 0
They may still get bitched out/written up by their boss/the owner of the restaurant, because the owner would indeed lose a remarkable amount of money by the restaurant being closed for an entire day, plus maybe a few customers are going to be pissed off. Oh, and in case OP's employer pays them next to nothing and the tips are supposed to be their salary, it probably *would* hurt her to lose a shift's worth of tips. So I do see the FML here.
night__shade 0
why does this constitute an FML? you got paid to do not a damn thing! didn't have to deal with douchebag customers, or serving them, or getting angry when they don't tip you. this is a win.
colonel_crunk 0
hahahhaha :)
phoenix03 0
this is probably fake, people would still come in, they'd probably see lights on inside and stuff. i don't believe that not ONE person would come in. and how is this an FML? you didn't have to do anything !
Sevventh 0
As somebody who used to own a retail store, people pay no attention to those signs.