Today, I found out that I have to work Christmas Day. There's no public transport running and taxis are triple fare. It'll cost me more getting to work than I'll actually earn during the shift. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, it's Christmas day. Normally, I'd be spending it with family. However, my boss decided everyone has to work today, despite the fact that there's enough people who want to work to run the place. Apparently it's "fairer" if we all have to do it - except him. FML
Today, I went to work only to serve one table, make a $9.00 tip, get sent home because it was slow, have the city busses stop running because of weather, and have to pay a $20 cab fare to get home. FML
Today, I had to take a taxi to work, because I was pressed for time, and didn't have a ride there. When I got to work, I paid the cab driver, and realized I had spent more money on the cab than I was going to make at work. FML
Today, the bus I needed to catch, that replaced the train I needed to catch, to get the flight home was full. I had to get a taxi instead. £140 to the nearest working train station. FML
Today, my manager rejected my leave application for Christmas. Later I found out that I'm going to be the only employee working at the office during Christmas. FML
Today, I'm so broke that I had to call in sick to work because I couldn't afford to pay my bus fare. FML
Today, my boss thought it would be a great idea to delay paying me until after Christmas. There goes rent, bills, food and of course Christmas presents. FML
Today, after spending Christmas alone because my bus home got cancelled due to Covid, I found that I have to spend the New Year alone and potentially homeless because my flight home got cancelled. FML
Today, I'm supposed to be starting on the first part of a 9 hour road trip. My only coworker called in sick, so instead I had to go into work. One hour there, one hour back, and a 9-to-5 day. This would have been my first holiday in 7 years. After getting to work, I realised I'd forgotten my work keys in my other clothes. FML
Today, on Christmas Eve, as I was getting my car loaded for the holiday rounds to the in-laws and parents, my car decided now was the time to break down. I recently put in over $1000 fixing it. FML
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josh78 0
sick days???
Flamersplamer 0
fake your own death.
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Comments (85)
WhiteDelight 4
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
aw muffin. first
Starchild21 3
Either call a friend to come get you or find out if anyone else is coming in to work so you can carpool. And muffin? Really?? __________________________________ www.myspace.com/rapid99
Malinkrot 3
is muffin any more lame than advertising your myspace on every comment you make
mahnukka321 0
Did no one else realize that he said "I'll cost me more to get to work than I'll actually earn during the shift"?? I'll cost me more? no
Mustardnight 3
I noticed it but since im not an english teacher, and i understood the point of the fml, i kept my ******* mouth shut about it. Well, until i saw your stupid comment that is.
bailo 0
agree with #53. #44, no one cares.
153rdTrooper 0
I ******' hate Grammar Nazis, especially on the Internet because I can't punch them in the face.
reyemrein 0
OPs name should be Tiny Tim
bfrench95 0
**** ur boss. no seriously **** him and u can probably talk him into not making u work on christmas day.
notmrfreakster 0
Op fixed it.
josh78 0
sick days???
Bumlove89 0
Is there anyway you can talk to your manager about changing it? Surely, they're not that heartless. Or perhaps they are... happy holidays anyways. I'm working christmas as well. FML
blalien 0
What kind of boss informs you one day in advance that you'll be working on effing Christmas? You gotta quit that job, man.
truth215 0
hey maybe you can call a friend to take you in
nvenomous 0
what the hell. skip the days' work. :D
monbon6788 0
dude, that just sucks. no way you deserved that.
ensemble_coeur 0
Isn't there some kind of law that says that you don't have to work on Christmas Day? I would look into that if I were you.
skylarbee 8
you have to volunteer to work Christmas
evangldbrg 0
Yea, I've had to work Thanksgiving, Working today and tomorrow, New Years Eve, and New Years Day...luckily I got my sick days on handy for the remaining holidays.
Flamersplamer 0
fake your own death.
ZombieKnickers_fml 8
Brilliant idea. And when he needs money and has to go back in on monday he can be all like "FALSE ALARM! I'M ALIVE!"
8trickster8 0
"Hey, I thought you died!" "...I got better."
ZombieKnickers_fml 8
Oh that's genius.
grrrarrrg2 2
NCIS 8trickster8?
Hugorgy 0
xD Reminds of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. "Weren't you turned into a newt?" "... I got better." Or something to that effect.
lotrgeek 10
*"She turned me into a newt!!!!........ I got better!!"