Today, I got pulled off a hugely important project, all because I accidentally spelled "country" as "cuntry" in an email to our client. 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 misspelled the word "failure" in front of all my co-workers. Now I'm not given any writing tasks. FML
Today, I was emailing my department about a huge meeting we’re going to have. I was also emailing back and forth with another colleague about office gossip. I absentmindedly replied to the wrong email. I hit reply all to the meeting e-mail, saying that the new supervisor of X department was "so fucking retarded." FML
Today, while at work at a maternity and baby clothes store, I was supposed to send out an email about our "Beat the Clock" sale. After it was sent to over 500 people, I realized that I'd misspelled the subject line. It read, "Beat the Cock Sale." FML
Today, I was so tired at work that I typed out "wherehouse" instead of "warehouse" in a document shared with my co-workers. It took me several seconds to realize why the heck the spell checker had underlined "wherehouse" in red. FML
Today, I realized I had misspelled "Education" on all the resumes I've been submitting. FML
Today, I sent a polite yet strongly-worded email to one of my corporate clients in which I expressed my irritation at being asked the same question by the same team for the 4th day in a row. I ended it with "Regards!" but accidentally swapped the 'g' with a 't'. FML
Today, I noticed that I've been spelling my company's name wrong in my email signature for over a year. FML
Today, I "answered" an email instead of "forwarding" it. As a result, there is a chance that my Master's thesis supervisor gets a message from me starting by the F-word, and complaining about my bad work and inability to understand a deadline. FML
Today, I was fired. For "lack of attention to details", specifically spelling errors. My now ex-boss misspelled the name of his own company on my severance agreement. FML
Today, I made it onto my boss's shit-list, after pointing out that he'd misspelled "customer" as "costumer" 6 times in his report, and "college education" as "collage education" twice. It'd be a dick move on his part even if making corrections like this weren't part of my damn job. FML
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Top comments
Steffi3 40
If it's so important, you should have triple checked. So, YDI
loueasy 23
Don't you know it's impolite to call clients a ****?
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Comments (54)
trellz17 19
This country is full of ***** though...just saying.
aeryn97 17
YDI. no excuse for not triple checking important work.
the_real_dvd 21
There's spell check. If it was that important, why didn't you use it?
yenze 18
My email has spell check it will underline a misspelled word in red i thought all emails did that now
itwasntme14 19
I was thinking the same thing. Even with the spell check I have someone else proof read any important emails I send.
marcelmg 10
Sue them, they cun't do this!
Talonshere 14
as #23 said, you cunTRIED
KingLewisII 34
gigiddy
darshini_ii 24
I'm wondering why a simple spell check seemed so unnecessary if it was a really important project. Though it was kinda too much to pull you out of the project, I guess YDI. Should have been a little more careful about it.
Dekat121 24
That's abit stupid that you can be fired over a typo, but I guess it's a really important client that they can't afford to lose?
Dynosaur_dollie 38
OP wasn't fired though, merely removed from that project and likely assigned a different one. This could be because the client requested it, or maybe it wasn't the first error they've made. If this project is so bit why didn't OP use spell check, or have someone else proof read, or do it themselves?
MamaChey 24
Dear Fatman1970--People who do not have a good grasp on English grammar should not attempt to scold others on the subject of Spelling. You could end up looking like one of those awkward grown men who thinks putting sunglasses on a dog is so funny that they turn it into their profile picture...a little sloooow.
Mynamewontfi 40
At least he knows how to use the reply button and not sound like an asshole with his comment, unlike you right now.
chinaski7628 32
Dear 27, before criticizing others for petty errors, learn when to use an em dash and when to use a comma—they're not interchangeable! Also, learn the difference between proper nouns and common nouns. 'English' is a proper noun (the name of a language), therefore it is capitalized. 'Spelling' is a common noun (a general subject), and is not capitalized—unless, of course, it's at the beginning of a sentence. It's worth noting, too, that you can easily make both em dashes (—) and ellipses (…) on most phone and computer keyboards, thus eliminating any typographic inconsistencies and smoothing out your typing and making you look much more intelligent.
saffy66 34
Actually it's semantically appropriate, as country, ****, and kin all have the same word origin. But attention to detail is important, just proof read your submissions in future...