Today, I had to proof-read a terrible paper containing a bunch of mistakes. It took me 4 hours and I didn't eat dinner until I was done. His response when he got it back was, "What the fuck did you do to my paper?! You bitch!" FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I got an email from my professor with my grade for a paper. It said, "Solid writing, but you should have proofread your final draft more carefully." In a moment of annoyance, I typed in the reply box, "God should have proofread your FACE more carefully." My elbow hit the send button. FML
Today, my boss chewed me out for correcting several spelling and grammar mistakes in one of his reports. The words "Think you're so damn smart, don't ya?" were uttered. I'm his secretary, and proofreading his shit is part of my job. FML
Today, I pulled an all-nighter to finish an essay. I submitted it one minute before the deadline. Later, I opened the file to double-check and realized I'd uploaded my rough draft, containing notes like “THIS PART MAKES NO SENSE, FIX LATER.” The professor then replied, “I agree with your assessments.” FML
Today, my professor handed me back a paper I spent hours hours working on. At the bottom in red it said "D" followed by, "That was a gift." FML
Today, I had to proofread a document my boss had written. When I pointed out that he spelled "college" as "collage" multiple times, he angrily accused me of trying to make him look stupid. This is the guy who constantly boasts about his "genius" IQ level to the whole office. FML
Today, I had my teacher look over my essay before turning it in. He said it was extremely well-written, so I handed it in. When I got it back, the feedback he left said it was one of the worst essays he'd ever read. FML
Today, after I'd being sick all day, my boyfriend volunteered to do my very long sociology paper. I was later notified by my professor that the paper I'd submitted was completely plagiarized. FML
Today, a friend of mine asked me to proofread her essay. "Don't hold back," she said. I took a look at it. It looked like it was written by a third grader, and she's in college. After spending a huge amount of time marking all of her mistakes, I gave it back. She got upset at me for being "extremely critical." FML
Today, my boss asked me to read through a document. I gave my feedback, saying it seemed like it had been written by an 8-year-old. Turns out it was in fact written by him. FML
Today, I turned in an essay after staying up late to work on it. I was away when the teacher assigned it, so I'd asked my friend what the subject was. It transpires that she'd given me the wrong one, all because she was mad at me for not returning her pencil. FML
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Sir_ND_Pity 35
"I took all of the stupid out of it! " Too bad you can't do that with people. Sorry, OP, FYL!
Grootensliven 10
He's just pissed off that you could improve on his work that he thought was perfect.
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joshiepo0 18
Well what did you do?
Smokingweenies 3
I'll tell you what he should have done. He should have just highlighted the guy that wrote the paper and said, "That's what is wrong with the paper."
AKGirlinSD 20
Why isn't anyone noticing the error in this FML post? "I took me 4 hours..." should be, "It took me 4 hours..." OP did so much editing, she forgot to make sure her FML was grammatically correct. How ironic!
joshiepo0 18
19- I see your comment as a post of its own and not a reply to mine or 7's. You do make a good point but this is not the place to post it.
ihomie 5
No one's noticing it because it says 'it took me four hours' there was nothing wrong with it
joshiepo0 18
Hmm it has changed from it to I back to it.
cupcakeluv26 7
A simple F would have sufficed
RpiesSPIES 27
#36 OP was proofreading, not grading. Had she written an F on the paper, she would really appear as a b*.
thepokemonkid 9
nice c&h reference
TourettesGuyFTW 26
F... fot *******.
Coolada 15
Ouch. It's always sad to see wasted potential.
buckeyed 20
at least its all practice...but people are so ungrateful
Sir_ND_Pity 35
"I took all of the stupid out of it! " Too bad you can't do that with people. Sorry, OP, FYL!
Grootensliven 10
He's just pissed off that you could improve on his work that he thought was perfect.
AbstraktThoughts 13
It's kinda crazy to see how many college students (assuming OP is in college) still make mistakes with the your/you're, it's/its, there/they're/their. Lol the most armed country in the world and we can't even use correct English...
StarThrower 17
That's exactly right. People assume that just because they have experience with the talking, it translated into writing. Thus, they take criticism of their writing as a personal attack on their perception of themselves as competent communicators. TL;DR Oh that hubris
Bakarra 22
#15, your wrong, its not lyk its there fault that they're teachrs didnt teach them da correct way 2 do contractions good, besides hoo cares NEways text tlk is da whey of da future mayne. #swagyolo420
chlorinegreen 27
The English language is so difficult and confusing as it is. I'm in college and I could go to the tutoring lab many times, have several different people look over my paper, and I would still get a low grade. How do I know? Because it has happened before. I hate English class. Math and science is where it's at.
rawr_ily96 24
#32 If I didn't know that was a joke, I would be ripping your face off.
dashizam 10
15- I've got it all down pat except for to/too. Couldn't understand in second grade and no one has helped since. Like long division.
DropBearMeat 23
dashizam, "Too" means "additionally" or "as well." Try using either of those every time you want to use one of those two words. For example: "I'd like to go too." = "I'd like to go as well." Both work, so "too" is correct. "I'm going as well the store" sounds really strange and is clearly wrong. In that sentence, "to" is correct.
DropBearMeat 23
I almost forgot to mention that "too" also can mean "in excess." Example: "I have too much housework to do." = "I have excessive housework to do."
klorehore 24
Call him out on his terrible paper and make sure he's made aware of what an unappreciative prick he is for reacting like he did when you just tried to help. However I hope you didn't delete the original paper he made, you should have made a new save file assuming this was digitally.
SaxophoneHero 12
Eh, that is way to much effort. Just burn his house down.
joshiepo0 18
Maybe he was striving to fail. I tried doing that when writing a poem for creative writing class, the teacher loved it.
interesting33 37
If he was, he probably wouldn't have asked OP to proof read it though.. :/
BeccaHugs 17
Next time don't edit it for him and just let him fail. Ungrateful bastard.
StarThrower 17
Oh boy. As a professional writer/editor myself, I can attest that this happens all the time. Directors, Managers, CEOs, Interns...somehow managed to forget their English classes. It is indeed frustrating to see them take their inadequacy out on you. And it will never ever stop. >.
Ameel_fml 19
It's especially annoying when they ask you to be brutally honest...then get pissy when you edit/correct their work anyway. I used to write and edit people's resumés during university to earn a bit of extra money, and people would get SO MAD when I'd tell them their resumé needed more information or that it needed a complete overhaul. Sometimes I felt like yelling, "DON'T GET PISSY AT ME! WHY DID YOU PAY ME TO EDIT IT IF YOU THOUGHT IT WAS PERFECT TO BEGIN WITH!!" I was only trying to be helpful. :( It's like people think their work is perfect, that when they say, "be brutally honest," they really mean, "be brutally honest to everyone but me."
StarThrower 17
I recently received a press release written by a senior member of our staff. My mentor explained that I have to be "sensitive" when editing it. When I read it, I couldn't believe my eyes - it was so poorly punctuated and randomly capitalized that one could barely get through it! I did my best, but my mentor rewrote it anyway...
ambitiousnygrl 17
I'm looking to go into either Proposal Writing or Copywriting. Guess this is what I have to look forward to. Wonderful! ._.
TourettesGuyFTW 26
StarThrower, if you're a professional editor/writer, then why do you have/need a mentor to re-write your editing for you? Surely that's an oxymoron right there?
MissMess 12
Professional doesn't mean you still don't have anything to learn, or that you don't occasionally need someone to look at your work with fresh eyes. I think you are mistaking the word mentor for the word teacher.
StarThrower 17
"Professional" only means that it's my profession; I get paid to produce and edit writing. Doesn't mean I'm so far up the food chain, that I don't have anything else to learn, or anywhere else to climb. Also, you meant "contradiction," not "oxymoron." It's good that you are watching out, and trying to call people on their BS though, keep it up :)
TourettesGuyFTW 26
I was just asking a question, not trying to be a pedant. You wont move very far up the professional ladder with misplaced snobbery like that. Oh, and oxymoron is correct, but thanks anyway.
StarThrower 17
What would I do without you, love ;)
TourettesGuyFTW 26
Erm...probably still get the last word in?
M3DIC4T3 29
Don't dish it out if you can't take it. Some people just can't handle being corrected. Cover everything in white-out OP! Then he can rewrite his entire paper.
fishstick557 14
Wow how unappreciative definitely don't help that person again OP