Today, I sent a cover letter to a potential employer. In the letter, I talked about my great attention to detail, my strong ability to focus, and my stellar writing skills. After hitting send, I reread the letter and noticed that I typed my name "B-R-A-I-N." My name is Brian. 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 finished doing a resume that I had spent three hours on. I e-mailed it to the business I was applying for, satisfied. I decided to look it over. The first thing I notice, I spelt my own name wrong. FML
Today, I sent a thank you note after a job interview, emphasizing my accuracy at editing written reports; I misspelled the company's name. FML
Today, I noticed that in my cover letter I wrote, "I also have an eye.", instead of, "I also have an eye for detail", and I have been sending it out for the past few weeks. No wonder I haven't gotten any replies. FML
Today, I spent ages writing a draft press release as part of a copywriting job application. I worked really hard and read it through several times before submitting. They emailed me to point out that I'd misspelled the name of the company. Twice. FML
Today, I wrote an email for a job offer. I checked it, double-checked it, triple-checked it, and then sent it. It's only THEN that I realised my CV wasn't attached. FML
Today, I was so nervous about a medical exam I was about to take, that I misspelled my own first name. It only has three letters. FML
Today, I realized I had misspelled "Education" on all the resumes I've been submitting. FML
Today, I was writing an email to our entire company regarding a fundraiser we are taking part in for children and adults with disabilities. I was rushing to get the email out and hit send before I realized that instead of "Best Regards" I had typed "Best Retards" as the closing line. FML
Today, I emailed my crush an anonymous love letter. It wasn't until twenty minutes later that I realized that the email address I used contained my full name. FML
Today, after spending four days having my resume, cover letter, and references proofread and perfected by professionals, I finally submitted it all to the summer internship of my dreams. I received a rejection letter ten minutes later. FML
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Top comments
vxjazz 0
Just say it's your nickname or something. If you wrote about how intelligent you are, "Brain" might be appropriate...
Ohdear1990 0
Ummm that's why you read your letters before you send it.... you deserved that.
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Comments (110)
firebrand111 0
Say it's your nickname. My girlfriend's brother is named Brian but people call him Brain. Try it.
Mahidevran 0
LMAO! #6, I second that. This is just so hilarious. If it wasn't in error, terribly witty too.
jSOPURE 3
Classic. :)
Leviathan_fml 0
stellar writing skills includes proofreading.....
ChrsR 0
#30. True
jaybirdka 0
That's some great ******* attention to detail there you ******* twit. It usually helps to read the ******* letter before hitting send.
PTERONOPHOBIA 0
Dudes, am I the only one who thought this wasn't an FML because he made a typo, but because he's afraid the potential employer will read about him saying how smart he is, and think he's just being a snotty douchebag by signing "Brain" at the end?
hipprep83 0
Proof read. YDI. Hopefully you'll learn when you don't get the job.
xkaokaox 0
You don't know how to spell your own name... that's just pitiful :(.
Occam 0
Family Guy??????