Today, I began training my replacement at work. She's a senior citizen. She got excited when I taught her how to highlight text on the screen and double-click the mouse because she "never knew how to do those fancy tricks." The job is entirely computer-based. I have to train her for 6 weeks. 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, the woman I'm training at work asked, while staring intently at the keyboard, "Now, which one of these buttons is the space-bar again?" She is 80 years-old, types about one word per minute, and I have just one week to get her completely trained. FML
Today, I started my new job, and was introduced to my colleague. She seemed old and quite experienced, so I thought she was going to teach me. I was wrong. It turns out I'm a replacement for her daughter, who used to secretly do all of her work for her because she has no idea how to do it herself. FML
Today, I started a new job. After being trained on several obscure computer programs I'm expected to use in just one day, my new boss informed me she's going on a week long vacation starting tomorrow. She's the only other person who knows how this program runs. FML
Today, I spent my working day teaching my new Supervisor the basics of Excel. Until two weeks ago, he was the Office Junior. He and I applied for the same job, but he got it based on the strengths of his "far superior" Excel skills. I'm now teaching him how to do the job that I didn't get. FML
Today, I found out the procedure manual I've been creating for months and finally finished is going to be used to train the person replacing me. FML
Today, I got demoted from my manager's position, only to be replaced by a 21 year-old who has never worked in retail in her life. I now have to spend the next month teaching her my job so they can fire me. FML
Today, my boss reached a new low when, after three software upgrades, she refused to let me update the user manual that I wrote a year ago. She has also cancelled the training sessions I set up to help people learn the new software. People are asking me why I'm not doing my job anymore. FML
Today, I became the senior receptionist at my job, which is supposed to have three receptionists. The others all had life changes, so they're moving on, which is fair, but now I have to train new people. I've been here three weeks. FML
Today, I learned that for the next two months I'll get to train physicians on how to use the computer program that has made my job obsolete. I've known this program was coming for months, but I didn't know it would be taking my job. FML
Today, I filled in for my absent pregnant co-worker like I have done since she went on disability a month ago, at the job I’ve been doing for 15 months. Today the replacement they hired also came to work, and I had to train her since she has more experience and got the maternity leave position over me. FML
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musicbeautiful 0
UGHHHH who HIRED HER too much pain. then again your helping her get out of potential pension debt
JocelynKaulitz 28
haha at least you know fancy computer tricks (:
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Comments (49)
hairt 4
kill her and say she died of a heart attack. after that you are free
letsstumphannah 0
I do IT support for a University. You cannot believe the number of faculty members, who are making more money than I do, as well as teaching kids that don't know how to do these basic steps. Its not cool or okay when I'm having to fix a presentation that you are making for the VP of the University and they get all the credit. The same goes for students how do you not know how to use a computer at 18 years old??
BlueEyesAsian 0
Ahaha hey at least your job will be easy for 6 weeks.
MustangGirL 0
Holy crap. You can double click?
Petman1325 5
Think on the plus side...for 6 weeks, you get to be a genius.
lolsucks4u 0
So if this is computer-based and she didn't even know how to double-click and highlight text than why the **** did your manager hire her for the job? You need to tell your manager that she doesn't have the requirements for the job.
starberries 0
Seriously! Unemployment is almost 10% and they can't find someone competent?
Griggy 0
Yeah... You're gonna have to find a new replacement...
sjokokokko 0
old people
Mr_spedo 0
Hey come on seriously I think it's wrong to even consider this a FML like she's old she didnt grow up in a computer based society such as we do now this is just plain rude. You can't blame someone for what they don't know because they've never adapted you sound very incompetent and ignorant.
Arancaytar 0
You can't blame someone for being ignorant about computers when applying for and getting a job that involves working at a computer? What kind of idiot/fraud applies to a job they are not competent to do?
amthony82 0
how is it that she got the job In the first-place??? RECRUTIMENT FAIL!