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)
littlefoott69 14
Remember. .every **** should have an O. some need it, some want it ,and some deserve it.
Steve97 32
Yet...
qpdoll 19
One word: spellcheck.
Busco7 6
Is that even a word?? Hahaha
Timothy469_fml 6
Welcome to the real world. That is not an "accident". It's a mistake you made. You just might be a millennial if you think mistakes should be overlooked.
andrmac 25
Bidness is bidness.
okudatwo 11
Screw you people. Mistakes are mistakes. We all screw up on important stuff sometimes, too. Go ahead, bury me. No balls if you don't do it
psychomantra 4
You deserved to be pulled off. You should have proofread your email. That's the professional thing to do.
Himejii 2
Never mind proofread... "cuntry" isn't even a word. Plain old spellcheck would have caught that. If it's an important client, then you need to be on the ball. Obviously you're not, so why should you get important projects if you can't even see the little red underline?
Oyas12 14
you guys are acting like *****