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)
mrtodddr 0
He's in management obviously because not for what he knows but who he knows.
linkinpark98 24
How does a person mix up Spanish and Russian?...... I still don't get it.
1crabbygirl 10
I hope you laughed out loud.
glittercookies 12
Дурак
dannykazzy 1
Я тоже самое сказаль лол!!:О
SeeNote 1
I could understand if the idiot mistook spanish for french or italian but russian? Good job boss your ignorant and you dont know shit either.
elephantsarecute 16
Actually Spanish sounds extremely different from French and significantly different from Italian. I speak the first two so I know.
saidoh_fml 26
Agreed 57, although I could be a bit biased since I have a bit of French background. Now Portuguese v. Spanish I could understand someone mixing up if they are unfamiliar with both languages.
mikeymayhem_87 15
Stolichnaya and Jose Cuervo does not look or sound alike to me. But who am I to judge?
TheyCallMeDamien 18
He's paranoid and stupid. Watch out for him. The two languages sound nothing alike.
1098765432 0
Well we're you...
klx125cross 9
Mabe don't speak Russian anymore...?? OP
allblacksfan 7
That's what you get for being rude and speaking other languages in the work place, which also leads to excluding all those around you.
Shrike 24
That's the point, genius. Now go criticize people for not being friends with everybody on the planet, because it "excludes" them. What a xenophobe you are.
lostcrazydiamond 10
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or serious.