Today, I'm not getting paid 400$ per month because I failed my Russian language proficiency test. Russian is my first language. FML
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Today, I was unable to communicate with a customer who only spoke French. As a result, my boss called me a "monolingual idiot." I speak Spanish, German, and Japanese. FML
Today, my boss is on the phone with a Russian customer, who keeps saying, "Speak Russian please!" My boss asks me to translate, as he hired me for my knowledge of Russian. He says something, I translate in Russian, then the customer says, "Speak English please!" FML
Today, I noticed I spend most of my day translating French, German, and other languages for my boss, as he talks to people overseas. As his assistant I make crap money. If I were promoted to a Translator I’d make a lot more. He won’t promote me. In fact he threatened to fire me if I asked again. FML
Today, my English teacher told me that I failed my grammar test. Her exact words were "You ain't gonna pass this class if you ain't gonna study." FML
Today, my crazy bitch of a boss fired me for inappropriate conduct. Apparently my "fake Nazi accent" is "offensive to our Jewish coworkers." I'm German. I have no way to change the way I speak, or to pay this month's bills. FML
Today, my co-worker and I were having a conversation in Russian. Our boss overheard us talking, shouted, "I know you're talking about me! I speak Spanish too!" and threatened to fire us. FML
Today, I didn't get my driver's license, even though I didn't make any mistakes because my examiner said it was only my first time taking the exam, so it wouldn't matter if I failed. Now I have to pay another €240 for a second exam. FML
Today, a customer came in who only spoke Spanish. I speak Spanish rather well so I helped the customer. She ended up buying $2300 worth of stuff. I got written up because not speaking English apparently "has the potential be offensive to other customers if they are not able to understand you." 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 began taking a French language class. After completing and submitting some homework, I got a response. A response that was completely in French. I can't understand shit. FML
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Top comments
DocBastard 40
I guarantee that their are a lot of native English speakers would fail an English proficiency test to. You're test was probably just a bit two hard. Just except that you need too study harder and due better next time. Good luck.
nightbirdblue 27
Native speakers tend to have more improper grammar and usages of slang than those that learned a language in an educational environment. Learning a language naturally tends to leave more room for twisting the rules of that language's grammar. Those who learn a language in an educational setting end up learning rules of that language at the same time as they learn the language itself. Natural learning of a language tends to get the language before full understanding of the rules of that language is learned and understood.
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Comments (146)
rycubed 24
$400... Not 400$... English lesson number one.
Mr_Loudmouth 9
Evidently not.
skipper2009 18
How does that even happen?
cactusdesu 15
$400 per month? That's it?
tukies 28
It looks like 400 a month extra.
EvilLittleMan 23
Honey... Did you pass your Russian Language Proficiency Test? Nyet.
Lang88 13
HET!!
kasmol 16
Vy govorite po-russki
rec_chem 22
That seems like a small amount to live on anyway. You dodged a bullet there. Take your language skills where they'll be appreciated.
cypherwars 15
#82, since it looks like a military test, $400 is more like a addon amount to a existing salary structure. Which is pure speculation of-course based previous comments :)
tukies 28
Yup I would argue that one. A lot of people will fail the English test if we had to take it to get a job. My god people be like what's a noun...
sydstoomuch 19
Dude, the dollar sign comes before the number...not after.
Xotoolyxo 16
Take it again! You can do it