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
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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 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
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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
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StayClassy 0
Staple-changing ability doesn't really having any bearing on her ability to her do job. If she can organize and orchestrate her subordinates, this particular detail is irrelevant. Do you suppose the corporate board of Toyota know how to build cars?
so_me_fml 0
I think this one is HIGH-larious. When I read FMLs I like to picture them in my head: Woman in business suit sneaks from her office holding stapler behind her back. She James-Bonds it to the nearest cash register and stealthily switches staplers so that she doesn't have to change her own staples.
JoshBarblahblah 0
You people are all morons. You defend the boss because it's not her job to change staplers....but you fail to understand the point of this post. One would reasonably assume that a grown woman can change a stapler. One would reasonably assume that an office store manager can change a stapler. One would reasonably assume that a woman who makes a large salary can change a stapler. However, I don't buy that an office supply store manager makes 6 figures.
ZiggyMorrison 0
For the love of God I hope you dont work at Staples that would just be too much
mikaela33194 0
#35 (JoshBarblah blah) I don't think anyone is a moron for "missing" the point. And if the point is that a grown woman can't change a stapler, I fail to understand how this is an FML for the OP. Just because the OP knows how to change a stapler and the boss doesn't, does not mean the OP is more qualified to make more than the OP does. It's more embarrassing for the boss to confess this.
Fields4mint 0
Managers are all about kissing ass, people skills, and management skills. One doesn't need the technical background in staplers to have a brown nose.
m0nicam0nster 0
lol because knowing how to refill a stapler is what she's getting paid for...get over it, she worked her way up the ladder and you're just going to have to deal with it until you do the same. besides, I've always found it fun to refill staplers. and hello, your life is practically like the movie Office Space so just be happy you entertain others.
bf88 0
ok... the details of the story are shady. There is no way that this woman makes 6 figures working at an office supply store unless she is the GM, in which case she wouldn't be the person you report to directly, and she definitely wouldn't be the person changing the staples in all the staplers or vying for rewards trips to aruba. She probably makes somewhere around 15-20 dollars an hour and does a good job, which is why she is going on the vacation not you. plus, certain staplers can be mind-boggling..
fmlAppleB 0
work if fun if you are a trader
BaldOuting 0
she is not paid to know how to put staplers in a stapler, she is paid to make sure you know how to and that you do it.