Today, my co-worker and I were having a conversation in Russian. Our boss overheard us talking, shouted, "I know you're talking about me! I speak Spanish too!" and threatened to fire us. FML
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Today, my boss is on the phone with a Russian customer, who keeps saying, "Speak Russian please!" My boss asks me to translate, as he hired me for my knowledge of Russian. He says something, I translate in Russian, then the customer says, "Speak English please!" FML
Today, while working at Subway I joked with a customer asking him if he was going to order in Spanish. The women in front of him began yelling about how I was being racist and told my manager that I needed to be fired. The customer I was joking with was my Spanish teacher. FML
Today, on my second shift at my job, I was fired for “ruining the communication of coworkers” AKA I don’t speak Spanish. This was known before I was hired and I live in California. FML
Today, my boss got angry at me because my English is better than his. He accused me of trying to steal his management position, and implied that I'll be lucky if I still have a job by the end of the month. FML
Today, I was unable to communicate with a customer who only spoke French. As a result, my boss called me a "monolingual idiot." I speak Spanish, German, and Japanese. FML
Today, I overheard my boss and a co-worker talking about me. Apparently when I speak, I slur my words so badly that it sounds like I'm speaking in tongues. According to my boss, "he could be possessed by a demon right now, and we'd never even notice." FML
Today, I overheard my boss talking about me on the phone. Turns out he was drunk off his ass when he gave the go-ahead to hire me, and he's now searching for any excuse to legally fire me. FML
Today, my boss's son is training to take over my job as head translator, after having convinced his dad that he's fluent in Spanish, and that my skills suck. I soon walked in on him using Google Translate on a legal document. My boss refuses to believe me. FML
Today, my boss threatened to write me up, after I made a slightly rude joke about a coworker everyone hates. A while later, a colleague told me the same joke. Turns out my boss had gone around telling it to everyone else and taking all the credit. FML
Today, a client came in and was struggling to speak properly. He said, “Sorry, no good English” so I offered a Spanish speaking colleague who could assist. He frowned and said he was from Greece. He threw a fit and got my manager involved. I got a write up and have to do an online sensitivity training. FML
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ifyacantbeatem 5
Se habla?
b1ggerb1tch 0
talk about a dumb boss, Russian sounds nothing like Spanish .-.
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Comments (128)
3pi 6
Russian doesn't sound anything like Spanish LOL well then maybe u should speak English at work from now on.
tygerarmy 35
While I understand that Russian and Spanish sound nothing alike, in most office spaces you have to speak to local language. For the OP that's English. While your boss may be an idiot, it was in their rights to yell at you for not speaking in English. Even if it's a private conversation it's rude. When my roommate walks in during a conversation I'm already having with someone I switch to English.
bfsd42 20
While clubbing seals is bad enough, being ignorant enough that to think that someone should speak your language just for you is just foolish.
3pi 6
I work with Spanish ppl and not knowing what they say while I'm there I gotta admit, it sucks.
tygerarmy 35
71 in public you're right. In the workplace you're not.
Kondustra 8
actually sonny jim, he was never in the right to threaten them with termination and scream at them. if hed understood what they were saying, and what language it was, maybe. but seeing as he doesnt, hes just an asshole yelling at two people
one11oh 2
hola.
JustDerpin 11
¿Cómo estas? Damn, I can never remember where the accents go. :p
annie_nk 23
You're so vain. You probably think this conversation is about you.
TheDrifter 24
Ask him all your questions today in Spanish, might as well have fun on your last day.
JustDerpin 11
Yes OP, ask him if he has una fiesta in his pantalones. ;)
8KAGE8 8
Well..fail on his part...
wildsweetchild 19
Дурачок этот ваш бос...he obviously not only can't speak Spanish, he can't tell it apart from completely different language, in this case Russian.
njgohard 16
Question...what does "durachok etot vashch bos" mean?
lostcrazydiamond 10
Your boss is a fool.
halliemarie1818 5
LOL. I would have died laughing.
Tshegs19 1
what a moron...russian doesnt sound anything like Spanish, pfft
Night777 4
I speak Russian and my mom knows some Spanish and my friends know alot of spanish and I can honestly say that they sound nothing alike and your boss is an idiot for mistaking them.
Arzu29 2
im russian and its true it doesnt sound anything like spanish