Today, I got pulled off a hugely important project, all because I accidentally spelled "country" as "cuntry" in an email to our client. FML
Collection
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
Feel like sharing it with the other FML users?
Thanks, your FML was submitted, and will appear in the moderation queue soon!
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 ****?
Add a comment · Reply to
You must be logged in to be able to post comments!
Comments (54)
writerchic85 26
Everyone giving the op a hard time about not checking. If it was a quick response to something maybe they checked it too quickly. Typos happen and I can't believe that was enough to have them take them off the project. It's not even like the op wrote "****". It was obviously just one missing letter and that kind of thing can be easy to miss. Don't think they deserved this at all.
Renisca 7
Looks like the "O" is missing...from their work life and probably their personal life too. Hey-o!
Bombergaler 2
it's called spell check for a reason...
peterblack67 9
I think you're lucky you didn't get fired.