Today, I woke up to a text from my manager, saying, "Hed's up dude, ur gettin fired tomoz. CEO's pissed. No hard feelins m8." Great. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my boss let me know that I'm being laid off, via a text message that ended in "lmao". FML
Today, my boss sent me a text message saying, "You're fired. Merry Christmas!" FML
Today, I got fired via text. The last sentence was, "Wish you the best, take care!" FML
Today, I called in sick to work for a second day. After months of my boss trying to get me sacked by spreading vicious rumors about me, taunting me into retaliating, and generally making my life a living hell, he finally got his chance. He sent me a text saying, "yeh dont bother son ure fuckin fired." FML
Today, my boss was fired by the board. A few days ago, he dropped several strong hints that he was going to promote me soon. FML
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Today, I had a major falling out with my best friend. Angry, I sent a short text message to him explaining how I felt. I soon noticed I'd accidentally texted "I'm going to fucking kill you, asshole." to my boss instead. I'm still waiting on a reply. FML
Today, I was driving to work and I got a text from my girlfriend. She said she was breaking up with me. I was a little heartbroken, but I had to get on with my day. I got to work and my boss fired me. Turns out, my boss and girlfriend have been having an affair and she told him to fire me. FML
Today, my boss called me into his office. He then fired me. Upset, I asked him, "Well, who's gonna replace me?" His answer was, "I don't know and don't care. Everyone who works here hates you. Now go away." FML
Today, I got a heads-up that my boss suffered a death in the family, but was coming into work anyway. I thought he'd be depressed, but it seems he deals with grief with anger instead. I found that out when he yelled at me, threatening to rip my spine out my ass over a typo I made in a report. FML
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devildog562 33
Sounds like you may be better off . At least you co worker sounds like a teenager not a professional.
lifa 16
Tell him he can only fire you if he can spell it right.
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Comments (80)
devildog562 33
Sounds like you may be better off . At least you co worker sounds like a teenager not a professional.
nix1993 41
Manager. That idiot is in a position of authority.
may14th 26
I find that more adults type like that than kids tbh
xxBFMVAAMIWxx 18
17 - Yeah definitely they do. I guess though they would be used to it when sending a text with proper grammar was actually an effort, before full keyboards came into play. 10 and 1 - Something my boss would do, and he's very professional. at least he gave OP some warning
iAmPaul 49
I suppose professional etiquette isn't as prevalent in South Africa as it is elsewhere...
everton99 16
Agree with that statement completely.
munchie_omnom 10
Generally poor english is spoken by most english speakers of today
Lalala579121 28
36 - Not to support this manager, but since when are texts spoken?
zombiekiller52 24
They could be friends and that's how they talk to each other.
tdawg91 17
#26 Professionalism is a thing for for letters, phone calls, clients and meetings, not between staff texts. My extremely organised and professional manager text me this morning and said "hey babe, a lot people here don't know how to tie a tie like you, could please start a little earlier to do that so I don't get my arse reemed Xx"
Demoniq 25
Yes #26, an occurrence such as this is exclusive to South Africa and I have never seen behaviour on such an unprofessional scale exercised in another country.
iAmPaul 49
54 - That's a fallacious argument. I never implied that it was exclusive to South Africa. Learn to read and learn basic ******* logic.
Micah_Nobot 10
Awe man I'm sorry best of luck Op!
sayyestothedress 24
At least he warned you! So when you walk in the next day you can be prepared!
lifa 16
Tell him he can only fire you if he can spell it right.
devildog562 33
Fired is almost the only word he did spell right...
cadillacgal79 32
No he spelled "up, dude and pissed" right, but that hurt my brain to read.
mif_fml 27
What about "no" and "hard"? Those are words.
Helpfulman 17
I know, it'd spelled gr8.
LisaDay 14
if he is a manager, hes probably a bit older than OP and didnt have full keyboards on the flip phone he learned to text on. i had a flip phone without a full keyboard and it was a huge effort to use proper language. thats why this text lingo came about. it was just way easier to text it.
emmaaadotcom 20
Aw, no. Hope you find a new job soon!
guinea_pigs 9
Hey, at least now you have the push to go get a better job, and by the looks of it, that won't be so hard! Sorry your manager is so unprofessional.
Khaleesi_26 30
I think your manager should be the one who is fired for that text message!
zinoxity 23
I agree. OP should show it to the CEO.
xleanne_aLly 23
It may have been unprofessional. But he and OP must have been friends for him to warn him. If he's already going to be fired. Showing them that text won't help OP. It will only cause him a loss a of a good reference and a friend.
HylianWarrior 21
Really, thinking that someone should get fired for an informal text. Outside of work, casual language is fine to use. Sending some a warning that they are getting fired by someone else tomorrow does not warrant having the person sending that message getting fired. Also, you seem to be forgetting that the CEO, not the manager, was pissed off at op causing him to get fired.
Khaleesi_26 30
Annnnnd you missed my sarcasm.
meli1195 31
well that was some terrible sarcasm
Im2Shy 16
As soon as I read this, I thought of Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times At Ridgemont High.
WCARlover 35
On the bright side, you'll never have to read another text message from said manager again. That was painful.
LisaDay 14
he probably learned to text from a flip phone that didnt have a full keyboard. it was so much effort to use proper language that people texted like this. thats why its usually adults who use this text lingo,
FrutLoopDingus 19
Very unprofessional
cocacola999 27
"No hard feelins m8" sounds like OP was blamed for something the manager did/didn't do.
Brandi_Faith 34
I took it to mean that the manager doesn't want any hard feelings between him and Op even though he has to fire him. I assume the CEO would have the manager fire Op as oppose to doing it himself. I also took it to mean that they were friends and he is basically saying he feels sorry for him and hopes they can still be friends.