Today, I had to present a program to my supervisors in University. Not being a native English speaker, I used my own invented abbreviations for parameters in the program. Apparently STD is not an appropriate abbreviation for "standard deviation." I can still hear them laughing. FML
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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, my supervisor forced me to bring the image of a failed simulation to the group meeting, because he thought it looked funny. So did the others and it's now going on our webpage. I have to provide a scientific description of how I made a mistake in my code. FML
Today, I pronounced FAQ as 'fuck' to my boss. I'm not a native speaker. FML
Today, while not feeling well at work, I had to finish up some papers. I was so out of it, I couldn't remember how to spell my name. I had to improvise by pronouncing each syllable of my name out loud. My boss now thinks I'm a dumbass. FML
Today, I was warned that I was failing too many students and it had to stop, so I showed my boss all of the easy assignments a lot of students didn't even turn in. She told me to stop using so many "big words" in them. I teach at a four year University. FML
Today, I presented the worst seminar presentation probably in the entire history of my graduate department. I kept stumbling over questions, and overall, making an ass out of myself. I probably should leave my masters program at how thoroughly I burned myself. FML
Today, I wanted to look clever during a work meeting, so I used a thesaurus to find a fancy word for “important.” I ended up calling a project "pivotal" but mispronounced it as "pee-votal" in front of everyone. FML
Today, a tourist from an English-as-second-language country taught me a new word. In English. FML
Today, I misspelled the word "failure" in front of all my co-workers. Now I'm not given any writing tasks. FML
Today, I went for an interview at a great company. Everything was going well until I tried to demonstrate my knowledge of their industry by using a technical term. Turns out I'd completely misunderstood the term and used it in the wrong context. The interviewer raised an eyebrow, and I could see "Don't call us, we'll call you" flicker in their eyes. FML
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Pleonasm 36
They were all like " WTF LOL."
zingline89 18
Did they Clap?
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pheebs314 17
STD is the abbreviation that all of my statistics teachers used... and calculus. They were just being immature.
TheyCallMeDamien 18
You'll be okay. You just made my day. It's not that big of a deal but I guarantee they will never forget you. You'll get better over time so just keep working on it.
Chicharrin 3
What does STD means? I'm not native english speaker too...
dodzin 9
Sexually transmitted disease
venomlash 9
Huh? std is totally used to represent standard deviation. It's just not usually capitalized the way STD (sexually transmitted disease) is.
katiecherrie 4
Stds are called STIs now anyway. Sexually transmitted infection.
buckdharma 38
if you deviate from the standard that could cause an std. huh ?
jjmiller1001 17
that's awesome op. dont worry you will bounce back though
hurrican_fml 0
Could've just used SD
iwadasn 33
Even if "STD" didn't mean something else, how did you expect your supervisors to understand you if you just invented your own abbreviations? If you don't know how to abbreviate something, ask someone or Google it. It's as simple as that.
iwadasn 33
Read the FML again. "I used my own invented abbreviations."
acdance08 6
Yall are stupid std is a way to say standard deviation!!! Fml!!! Go back to high school
surfbumblonde 7
You first.