Today, my boss told me to go outside and take part in the company's stupid Harlem Shake video. When I declined, he threatened to fire me if I didn't take part. I ended up being the guy who had to furiously pelvic thrust before the music dropped. 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, my boss caught me singing and dancing in the office when I thought no one was around. Trying to save face, I told him I was just practicing for a team-building event. He smiled and said, "Great, you can lead the next one." Now I have to choreograph a team-building dance. FML
Today, I took a video of a fellow employee doing nothing but watching YouTube videos at work. When I showed the video to my boss, hoping he'd be reprimanded, I got fired for operating video equipment on company grounds. FML
Today, I was demoted from my job because the security cameras caught me dancing in the elevator, and it was considered "inappropriate behavior." I was celebrating getting a promotion. FML
Today, I went to a work event and was having my picture taken with a coworker. Since we had done karaoke together, someone said we should pose like we were singing. I held my hand up like I was holding a mic and opened my mouth. It looked like I was performing a sex act. My boss glared at me. FML
Today, my boss fired me for causing a "commotion" at work while running the vacuum. FML
Today, I found out that my coworker shared a laugh with the boss about setting the office desk on fire (which he actually did), while ten minutes later I was threatened with being fired because I made paper snowflakes and hung a few of them next to the computer. FML
Today, my boss suspended me for laughing too hard at my desk and causing a big scene in front of our customers. I was laughing because he'd forwarded me a hilarious email. He was practically smirking as he handed me my official warning. FML
Today, at my new job at a funeral home, my boss threatened to fire me if I didn't "lighten the hell up" while dealing with our grieving clients. FML
Today, my boss decided to start a sport challenge where we should set a training goal and report about achieving it. Okay, I go to the gym a few days a week, but I'm really not interested in this collective motivation crap. Later, our boss hinted that if I don't take part, I may get fired for breaking the team spirit. FML
Today, I thought it would be cool to make a TikTok dance routine while at work. Today is also the day the District Manager chose the perfect ass fucking day to pay my unit a visit. I was fired. Christmas is now ruined. FML
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ollie179 21
This better be on youtube!
ocramavaf 15
just laugh it off op at the rate these Harlem shake videos are popping up on the web your company's will just be another grain of sand in the desert and consider the pelvic thrusting an endurance exercise for when you get to sleep with your bosses wife.
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ollie179 21
This better be on youtube!
oj101 33
Come on OP. Don't be selfish. Give us the link!
LetThereBeFMLs 10
( I hope I'm not thread jacking.)Our teachers made us take down the videos two classes made of the dance from YouTube, claiming we were desecrating the honor of the school they graduated from. They even threatened to expel the people who uploaded them and any other person who tries to take part in any of these projects. Both videos were successful on YouTube with more than a thousand views. :(
Megan98 18
31- That happened to a school a few of my friends go to, but they got suspended because they wouldn't take it down.
LetThereBeFMLs 10
I don't see a point in it though, yes the Harlem shake is an epitome of human ridicule at its finest, but that doesn't mean putting threats against it are going to stop it. If anything, it just makes it wanted more by the majority.
Megan98 18
That's very true, and anyways it's going to get old soon.
picante72 24
A thousand views isn't very successful on Youtube. Try 1 million.
picante72 24
I hope he wore a horse head mask.
Quinn32 16
77- You seem to think they go to a public school. A private school can and will expel students for stuff they do outside of school if it makes the school look bad. My school has a kind of morality clause in the student handbook which we all have to sign along with our parents in order to attend the school. They have already expelled a couple kids for stuff they did on YouTube/Facebook/Twitter.
LetThereBeFMLs 10
77and 79, true I am at a private school in Lebanon, and likewise we too are forced to sign a student handbook that no one( not even the teachers sometimes) reads. This video was done in class during school time, but during a period in which teachers were on strike( such that they supervise us, but do not teach). The teacher approved of he video before it was taken and even took part in it and was mentioned in the description. As for copies of the video. They still exist, but on the cameraman's camera.
SorryForYourLoss 9
Why so manh dislikes
ocramavaf 15
just laugh it off op at the rate these Harlem shake videos are popping up on the web your company's will just be another grain of sand in the desert and consider the pelvic thrusting an endurance exercise for when you get to sleep with your bosses wife.
natsaysheyyy 16
Agreed. Laugh it off! Don't be such a downer.
oj101 33
OP should have the confidence to take part in it- just for the fun of it, plus paid time off, fame and a possible promotion. 1 hours worth could make OP's entire life a lot easier.
Dr0reos 8
Consider yourself lucky you got the best part. My boss made me fist a stuffed turtle while licking penut butter off a framed portrait of the bassist of van Halen. A
ocramavaf 15
your boss is ****** in the head
skellingtonfart 18
Why would you even say no to the Harlem Shake? It's just a bit of fun you party pooper!
CamcAmIaM 10
Because it's really, really stupid, most likely.
JasonEP 3
Because its idiotic and no grown person should be excited to be doing that.
Faff 20
well then I prefer to not grow up.
kniggit 10
Actually, I kind of agree. The series of Harlem Shake videos I just watched do look idiotic but the amount of time it takes to film that thing is not worth calling in a lawyer and potentially losing the job.
DasHaas 9
If he can legally fire you for that, consider moving out of the third world and into civilization.
nnnope 26
>California
Sandsh8rk 36
Well, you got your 30 seconds of fame.
HeartOfLead 24
Dang right, I'm going to look this up on YouTube...
Tempest151 11
You were born for the part bro.
A100893 30
Links or it didn't happen.
Voldy_fml 16
I don't even get the whole point of it!
still_guns 16
whats so ******* good about the harlem shake... btw your boss is a retard.
enormouselephant 15
It's so mean to say the word 'retard'.
nnnope 26
I'm having doubts about your workplace NEEDING a Harlem shake video for "the company" to the extent that termination is a reasonable punishment for not wishing to participate. You should've said no and then called your lawyer if you got fired.
therealslim 15
Calm down, yeah?
andyyroxx 20
I nearly lost 5 years of age at "lawyer".
nnnope 26
16 & 21: what the **** are you guys talking about
Faff 20
what if he's working for a company that produces parodies and such of viral videos?
nnnope 26
If it was what OP does for a living, I doubt it would've been posted on FML. Also are there really companies that do that
Faff 20
I was joking. I hope those companies don't exist haha
N1ghtmar3 5
68, College humor.
nnnope 26
97 - shit, you're right :|