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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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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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)
Zzapper77 12
Most likely not the only reason but just the last ..
False_Stupidity 42
Possibly the client got really offended and caused a scene so OP's boss figured the best option was to drop him from the project.
Dexter83_fml 17
To be honest op I would take you off the project too. If you are making that sort of mistake without checking your work it would make me question the rest of it as that was just an email. I guess that will teach you to proof read things that you send out.
psyjoniz 12
its called 'proof reading'. ydi
fonkimonki 7
Pulled off the project? You're lucky to still be in the job. especially if you're reaction is to come on here bleating about how your life sucks.
LyricaSilvan 30
Spellcheck is your friend.
fuckfuckityfuck 16
You could try to see if you can take it back because some allow you to undo a sent email.
RedPillSucks 33
once the recipient reads the email, you cannot take it back
davek 36
Your boss is a count.
AyeJay101 25
YDI, you're lucky you only got pulled off and not fired for it. If it was that important, quality is key and taking an extra second to see spell check/prof read would've done you good.
Gloomzz 26
I always run it through spell check and run over it myself a few times before sending either way, no matter how important. YDI
WOTAN1488 24
I'd pull you off too asehol3 :)