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
Collection
Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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
Feel like sharing it with the other FML users?
Thanks, your FML was submitted, and will appear in the moderation queue soon!
Top comments
disney_blonde 16
You're lucky a kid didn't drown.
YLIF 0
YDI YDI YDI
Add a comment · Reply to
You must be logged in to be able to post comments!
Comments (118)
derriduh 0
How can you not be aware how serious your job is? In the past 10 years in my city, 4 kids have drown in the 7 public pools in my city. It does happen. And there's almost always an inquest afterwards, to make sure that everyone was doing their job and not being a selfish piece of shit the way you were back there.
mistaken_fml 0
As a teacher; a day camp employee; a lifeguard; and someone who adores children; I am appalled by not only your selfishness, but your lack of professionalism. In the 5 years I've been guarding, we have not lost any one, but that does not mean we have not had our share of close calls. Just last week I had to pull out 2 children who were struggling.... imagine if I had been sleeping! To everyone that says parents need to be watching their children, I 100% agree. However, I guard for day camps and the parents are not there. There are counselors, but not all of them are trained guards. This person did not say in what situation he was guarding. There may not have been parents present. You need to go re-read your job description and figure out what it means to be a GUARD of LIFE.
Lisasimpsonfan 0
Hope your boss fired your lazy butt. What if someone got hurt and needed your help and you were sleeping?
ShortyBBangin 0
"I fell asleep while life guarding, thinking I could get away with it cause of my sunglasses"...ARE YOU FREAKIN SERIOUS?!?! I hope your boss FIRED YOUR ASS UP cause YOU DESERVE IT, freakin moron.
swagmonkey 0
You deserve it ten times over. Hope you got fired for it. In many lines of work, you'd slow down the production a bit by falling asleep on the job, but in yours you're putting people's LIVES at risk. Now, it's one thing if you're so tired you can't control it -- still a bad thing, but understandable. You, however, consciously CHOSE to let yourself fall asleep, putting others' lives at risk and accepting money for it. You asshole!
delly_fml 0
YDI that's how people drown
Kristoffer 35
What the **** is wrong with you? I hope you got fired on the spot. You're not there to take a goddamn NAP you're there to ensure that people don't drown. That's not some damn office job where you can sleep at your desk, you need to treat it as if you were a paramedic.
neo1738 0
somehow this is too infeasible to be true, probably someone trying to get a rise out of ppl, no one would really be THAT STUPID. man I wish as a paramedic i could just sleep in the back and not watch the monitor as i transports patients. This way when they flat-line I don't have to do any work
qwerty23 0
It's lifeguards like you that make people think it's an easy job, just sitting in the sun all day. YDI for putting a //lot// of people's lives in danger, asshole. As another lifeguard, this embarrasses me. And, btw, even if you were extremely exhausted, you should have called in for a replacement guard. You shouldn't guard unless you're at your top.
shadow14231 0
maybey this is a sign that you should do your ******* job you self-indulgent ****