Today, I interviewed for a call center job making $13/hr, the only job where they called back. I used to live in a doorman luxury apartment in Manhattan with a prime skyline view and clubhouse. That was last month. 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 took a very expensive flight to New York City for a job interview. I waited in my hotel room all day for the phone call to go to my once in a lifetime interview. By noon, I was nervous; eight, I was pissed. Around ten, I realized my phone was still in airplane mode. FML
Today, I work as a phone agent at a call center, which frequently brags about their awards as the "best workplace ever" because of their working conditions. In reality, we have to suck it up and ignore the burnouts from phone calls with Karen customers, and with the wage I get paid, I can barely make ends meet. FML
Today, I got a call from the only company that asked me to come in for an interview of the many applications I submitted. I answered it even though I was at my current job. My boss heard and chewed me out. The call was to cancel the interview since the position was filled. FML
Today, I interviewed potential employees for a job position that I was supposed to get promoted to. FML
Today, I went for an interview in the big city, with an expensive commute. Despite being an office-based management role requiring years of experience, they only offered minimum wage. After explaining it wouldn't be acceptable and tried to negotiate, they kicked me out and had the balls to call me "ungrateful." FML
Today, after three and a half years of working dead-end jobs with a bachelor's degree, I got a call from a potential employer in my degree field, who wanted to set up an interview. The problem: the interview is across the country, and I'm too broke to pay the travel expenses. FML
Today, I got a call from a job I had applied for. Everything went great until I realized I had applied to the wrong location, across town. I'm so broke, I went to the interview anyway. It will cost me more to pay for the gas to drive there to work, than what I will actually make. FML
Today, my mother told her friends that I work as a call girl. I'm a call center agent. FML
Today, I was taking phone calls. In my dreams. That's just how horrible my job is. FML
Today, I moved back home after unsuccessfully trying to find work in Florida, despite living there for nine months. About 45 minutes into my 18-hour drive home, a TV station called me to offer me a job interview. I applied for that job over three months ago. FML
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Top comments
lachef93 0
wtf? what happened? you are ridiculous. try rewriting this one so you don't make everyone on this site feel as small as your penis.
Crackerman 0
a) $13/hr in NYC is like $6/hr in most of the rest of the country when you factor in cost of living. Almost anywhere else, it's great. But NYC is INSANELY expensive. b) If you could afford the Manhattan Penthouse, most of you'd have one too. So, you can't really come down on him too hard about that. Now, that being said, I have absolutely no sympathy for you. People like you are the reason everyone else is suffering. Maybe this will teach you to appreciate the value of hard work and earning what you have.
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Comments (65)
sallyw12 0
i actually feel bad for you. i would die if that happened to me.
ahti546 11
Welcome to America.
turners_syndrome 0
Been there, done that. Within about a week, went from a condo right off the lake in Chicago and white tie balls to working at a Potbelly's. Be grateful, Potbelly's starts at $9.50/hr but also requires no real skills.
w00t_fml 0
I feel for you. The credit crunch SUCKS!
lachef93 0
wtf? what happened? you are ridiculous. try rewriting this one so you don't make everyone on this site feel as small as your penis.
NickK49 0
Win!
brizzibelle 0
I'm guessing you're a victim of lehman? I am, and when they went down so did my financial stability...
ramonajay 0
yea...6.90/hr
Berg_fml 0
by far the worst FML ever
cantwhistle 0
your lying.
iamf___d 0
I definitely feel the pain same thing happened to me but I have yet to find a job y would I take 13 an hour and make less than unemployment can't afford my bills as is
I_Hate_Tpyos 0
13$ an hour is much more than unemployment, asshole.
sugarbear0727 19
They pay you unemployment based on the previous hourly payment of the job you had, dumbass.
ohjeez89 0
Hey asshole just b happy u have a job... ur making more than the rest of us! 9.15/hr here which im overjoyed about. but u should saved. No pity for u at all, u deserved this...
EmreArslan 11
Hey asshole you dont know OP so dont directly say he deserved it. Most of us can live easily with that... But if you go from rich to poor its a bit different. And no im not rich :p