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)
scottishoatmeal 22
This one made me Lol
maharb01 17
added that word to your spell check dictionary, have we?
laden_swallow09 35
Dat proofreading, tho.
pedinhuh 23
When sending an e-mail to a client, boss or whoever is important in your company, always proofread. You deserved that one. But I hope that didn't got you fired though...
anna31899 16
Mistakes happen
manuwish 9
always reread before you send..especially if it's an important client..if you did 5 times and didn't notice the mistake than you really need some rest..
0h_Boy 26
That's why you duble check your gramar
ThrottleJockey 36
I learned early on in my job that leaving it just one letter out of a word can have catastrophic results. For instance, leaving the 'f' out of 'shift' in an email to your boss and customer will result in disciplinary actions.
searchr999 14
In my business you would have been fired for that kind of mistake. Spellcheck is your friend.
ber4fun 23
Don't rush if your email doesn't automatically spell check for you.