Today, my boss confessed to me that she doesn't know how to change the staples in the staplers at work, so she just switches them when they run out. We work at an office supply store. She makes six figures. I make $10 an hour. And she just got awarded a trip to Aruba for doing a "great job". FML
Collection
Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I found out that the airhead sitting next to me at work who can't get anything done on her own, makes more money than I do. FML
Today, my coworker got a raise by making our boss give me a pay cut for doing his job while he was slacking off. As we were heading home for the day, he found $100. FML
Today, I got a lot of tips at work, but little did I know our boss takes it out of our paychecks. FML
Today, my brat of a coworker tried to convince our boss that I should get paid half of what I'm making because I broke my right arm. I'm left-handed, broke it on the job, and still doing a better job than her. She makes double what I do. FML
Today, I started a new job. After being trained on several obscure computer programs I'm expected to use in just one day, my new boss informed me she's going on a week long vacation starting tomorrow. She's the only other person who knows how this program runs. FML
Today, my boss ate a small piece of paper off her desk, thinking it was frosting. I have to work for this woman. FML
Today, I was informed by my boss that he has been stealing quarters out of my change bowl to pay for his bus rides. He makes six times the amount I make. FML
Today, I was told I would also be covering some of my boss's shifts next week. She gets to go on a vacation to Europe with the bonus we earned her last year. That's why she was tightening our deadlines to the point where some of the employees had to hire babysitters for their children so we could stay at work. FML
Today, after six months of doing the job of 2 people, because all my coworker does is sleep and sit down with her phone, I told my boss that I can't be doing my coworker's job and getting the same salary as her. My boss added just $10 to my salary and told me to let her carry on doing nothing, while I still do the work of 2 people. FML
Today, I went to my boss with concerns that my manager is dumping her responsibilities on me. He agreed and told me to just do whatever she wants. She gets paid twice as much as me to talk on her cellphone all day. FML
Feel like sharing it with the other FML users?
Thanks, your FML was submitted, and will appear in the moderation queue soon!
Top comments
kooterintruder 0
I seriously doubt that anyone working at a supply store makes a six figure salary.
xxmollyxx 25
i'm sure theres more to the job than things like that
Add a comment · Reply to
You must be logged in to be able to post comments!
Comments (92)
Loe_307 0
#8, If it's a major chain like Office Depot, the upper management can make quite a nice salary.
Kat_MS 0
Well she certainly doesn't get paid to put staples in staplers anyway. Its likely that she has a lot of other more valuable skills that got her the position. Plenty of 'smart' people fail at some of the simpler things in life, while being incredibly successful with more complex tasks, because they invest their time and energy differently. Its always amusing to see when it occurs :P, but I wouldn't hate them for it. (Or she just slept her way up to the top, in which case, FYL indeed =/).
TeaPirate 0
Because I'm sure that you know how to do absolutely everything in the world. Obviously, the lack of a tiny piece of knowledge is enough to condemn someone, in your point of view. I'll have to check my facts, but last I looked, the equation was not "Stapler Incompetent = Terrible Work Ethic". At least she confessed to you that she doesn't know how; that shows strength of character; admitting your faults. I'm afraid that the same thing can't be said for you, whining about it on this site.
sux4uu 0
how do you get a six figure pay for working at a supply store?
wut_fml 0
How is this an FML? So your boss doesn't know how to change staples - who cares? If that was her job, it'd probably only take her 2 minutes to learn how to do it. Apparently investing time in other aspects of life has paid off for her. But if you knew how to manage a business, then I'm guessing you wouldn't be making $10 an hour. Chances are you can't learn how to do that in a few minutes.
plethora 3
Cry moar.
smelinapants 0
Albert Einstein couldn't do up his buttons.
repaolucci 0
that's why you shoulda stayed in school!
danedo 0
She isn't paid to switch out the staples in the staplers. Sure, it makes her sound stupid, but that sounds like your job.
Always4tehlolz 0
I do find the irony amusing that she works in management of an Office supplies store and can't put staples in a stapler and makes 6 figures while you work just above minimum. but at the same time, you don't really need to know how to fill up a stapler to be good with sales figures and things of that nature. I know plenty of people who can recite mile long equations and know how to solve them but wouldn't know how to put windsheild fluid in their cars. Granted not the exact same thing, but you get the point. Maybe you should go back to school and get a real job :-P