Today, I fell asleep while lifeguarding, thinking I could get away with it due to my sunglasses. When I woke up, I saw my boss waving at me. Apparently she'd been trying to get my attention for five minutes. 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, I so obviously dozed off during a video call at work. Afterwards, my manager messaged me asking if I was OK. I was mortified, and now I'm "on his watch." FML
Today, I was at work as a lifeguard. The temperature was absolutely stifling, but I tried to tough it out. A couple of hours into my shift, I passed out, fell off my stand, and crashed into the water. Or so the medics tell me. FML
Today, someone at my workplace yelled at me and filed a complaint for staring at them too often. I'm a lifeguard. FML
Today, I was really, REALLY tired at work. I went to the restroom to take a little break, and must have dozed off, because I was awoken by my boss, knocking on the door of the stall. Apparently, I had been snoring. FML
Today, I fell asleep at my desk. It's bad enough that it was for 45 minutes and that I was snoring. What makes it worse? My boss woke me up. FML
Today, while taking part in a lifeguarding exercise, I was supposed to "drown" to get another guard to save me. After all was done, my boss called me into his office and screamed at me for "drowning the wrong way," and threatening our reputation. FML
Today, while I was at the beach I decided to go into the ocean even though the waves looked rough. While I was in the water, I got caught by the riptide and needed to be saved. The reason I was at the beach? I'm a lifeguard. Now all my co-workers won't stop laughing at me. FML
Today, I yelled out while I was asleep. However, I was sleeping during a very important meeting with customers and my boss. FML
Today, I was at work lifeguarding and saw a kid drowning on the far end of the pool. I decided running would be the quickest way to get to her, but as I ran across the pool deck I slipped and hit my head. The kid's mother jumped in to save her child and then called an ambulance for me. FML
Today, I got into trouble for sleeping at work. FML
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disney_blonde 16
You're lucky a kid didn't drown.
YLIF 0
YDI YDI YDI
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Comments (118)
redyellowgreen 0
Are you freakin kidding me?! People like you give a bad name to all lifeguards. I've been on stand so many times, dead tired but fought it and did my JOB because I actually want to help PROTECT LIVES, asshole. The fact that you thought you could get away with it is sick. That's basically planning to let someone die. I hope you got fired right then and all your certs taken away!
soccachicka9 0
haha i actually find this completely hilarious, cause ive definitely done this while guarding. minus the whole boss part. im pretty sure this is the real reason for having more than one guard on duty. lol.
the_happy_octopu 0
WHY THE F**K CAN I NOT GET A JOB AS A LIFEGUARD WHEN THIS IS MY COMPETITION?
discosoup 0
I was a lifeguard for five years, and we both know that five seconds is enough for a patron to die, let alone five minutes. If I was your manager, I'd can you. That being said, I've fallen asleep in the office when I was a guard.
shat_on 0
Why do people insist on putting up things about how they were messing up at work and got in trouble for it. You sleeping on the job isn't FML and shouldn't even get posted. Its just you being an epic failure at your job. Wanna fall asleep on the job? Get one where you don't put people's lives in danger.
Krabby_fml 0
That's just irresponsible.
insomniacdude 0
135: If it were any other job I'd agree with you, but the only reason OP is even employed and has a job to begin with is so that he can have a speedy reaction to emergencies, in which five seconds could literally mean the difference between life or death. If he were working in an office or cooking food somewhere, then yeah, I'd probably agree with you, because it iss stupid and irresponsible but it wouldn't be my place to judge. But when he actively increases the risk in a dangerous environment by limiting the full capabilities of his own judgment and reaction time - in scenarios in which it is likely that his own judgment and reaction could save a life - he doesn't deserve that job. Especially with people like no. 130 who could probably do it better, and wants to do it better.
gummibehrs 4
YDI, you idiot, what if a child had drowned while you took your nap? Would it have been worth it? Moron.
LoosechangeXxXx 0
oarisimo 4
I hope you got fired! what if somebody had started drowning??? dumbass!