Today, I sent an email to my boss saying I'd fixed a glitch in our mail servers. He called me later, angrily shouting that I'd done a piss-poor job of fixing it, because my email had spammed his inbox with several hundred duplicate messages. 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, due to a change in our internal system, I set up an email filter at work that sent all incoming messages to spam. My boss had been sending me urgent updates all day, and I only realized when she came over and asked why I’d “gone radio silent.” FML
Today, my boss reprimanded me for a huge screw-up that he was responsible for. FML
Today, my boss tried to fire me for not emailing him a screenshot to prove my email wasn't working. FML
Today, I accidentally sent a text message meant for my best friend to my boss. The text was about how much I hated my job and my boss's constant micromanagement. FML
Today, my boss asked me to send an email on his behalf with an important report attached. I've already received 3 responses from directors commenting on poor spelling and factual errors. I get paid 1/4 the salary of my boss and he can't even write properly. FML
Today, due to being stressed and overwhelmed by my tasks, I made a mistake and completed a few of my colleagues' tasks as well. When I informed my boss about it, he said that I did an outstanding job, but I shouldn't have messed with other people's documents. As a result, my promised raise is cancelled. FML
Today, I sent an email to my boss about a sensitive project. After hitting send and getting a response, I remembered I'd set my automatic reply to say, "I'm currently out of the office, enjoying a much-needed break from all the idiots I work with." My boss was not amused when he replied and got the automatic email in return. FML
Today, my boss yelled at me for ignoring emails on my day off. Our emails are only accessible from work desktops, so I’d have had to be at my desk to answer it, which I had to explain to him 3 times before he understood. This is what happens when CEO’s promote their nephews to middle management. FML
Today, I made it onto my boss's shit-list, after pointing out that he'd misspelled "customer" as "costumer" 6 times in his report, and "college education" as "collage education" twice. It'd be a dick move on his part even if making corrections like this weren't part of my damn job. FML
Today, my boss put me on suspension for violating company policy by having non-work related mail in my inbox. They were spam emails. FML
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DocBastard 40
Wow, this is the first FML I've seen where a boss is actually right! Huzzah!
Bakarra 22
Problem...un-solved
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Comments (53)
OhAidan 7
And somewhere in between those several hundred messages is a seriously important e-mail.
drunkandfml 11
Like there was a glitch in the mail server or something
oj101 33
Not necessarily - the boss can easily filter his email to exclude messages from the OP.
oj101 33
Oh dear... a solution always begets another problem.
megzaz 10
This is perhaps the tamest FML I've ever read...
andyyroxx 20
The e-mails seemed pretty wild to me...
Tyrone78G 3
You misspelled 'tame' lol
megzaz 10
Wow, correcting mistakes that don't exist? That's a low point.
PipingMouse 14
Wow, you need to work on your glitch-fixing skills, OP.
Onmyzephyr 5
I did this to my boss once by messing around with outlook. don't ask me how, I have no idea.
gribbles 12
How?
CatsForLife 3
If she tells you, she'll have to kill you. Do you really want to know? ... ... ... Aliens.
RubenTheGreek 8
When I read this FML I thought that he did fix it but needed to send emails to check it's fixed.
Radius1 1
Then he should have sent the test emails to himself instead of the boss, then just the one final resolved email to the boss.
SaturnV 25
It's conceivable that a glitch other than the one OP was responsible for fixing caused the spam. Either way, OP has my sympathy. Debugging code and troubleshooting server issues can be extremely frustrating tasks.
fordneagles 34
Do a search in the email program for emails with that subject/from field/phrase within the email, Ctrl A the results, Delete. Not that big a deal... If he went through and individually deleted, that's his problem. Still want to fix that bug though OP.
sarah6786 14
How is your life sucks winning?
MatteKudasai 17
This might be why he put a dick at the end of your slideshow.
sunkissedluster 20
theres kids on here stop posting sick comments like that, holy hell!!