Today, my left-handed boss needed PC help. I said "right-click for the menu." She said nothing happened. Three times we went through this. Eventually I went over, asking her to show me what she did. She was using her right hand on the left mouse button. She earns £10,000 more than me. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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 learned my boss, the CEO of a multinational nonprofit, is so computer illiterate that he hadn't realized he could resize the File Explorer window on his computer, leading to days of delay of him getting work to my team, and a lot of unhappy notes. FML
Today, I began training my replacement at work. She's a senior citizen. She got excited when I taught her how to highlight text on the screen and double-click the mouse because she "never knew how to do those fancy tricks." The job is entirely computer-based. I have to train her for 6 weeks. FML
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
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, my boss asked me to send an email on his behalf with an important report attached. I've already received 3 responses from directors commenting on poor spelling and factual errors. I get paid 1/4 the salary of my boss and he can't even write properly. FML
Today, at work, my computer started acting up. I told my boss I could fix it, but he told me to call the IT department instead. Neither the IT technician or his supervisor could figure it out, so I showed them what was wrong and how to fix it. I was promptly fired for wasting 2 hours of company time. FML
Today, my boss finally worked out that by not giving the lads a pay rise to £18 an hour, instead just offering them overtime when necessary, it actually cost the equivalent of raising each employees salary to £26 an hour, for a whole year. He’s is blaming me because I issue the pay checks. FML
Today, while at work taking notes on a pad of paper, my boss witnessed me trying to scroll down on the paper, as if it was a touch-screen phone. FML
Today, I sat down and worked out I get paid £26000 a year for working 40 hours a week. Meanwhile my boss gets paid £115000 to answer emails when he remembers to and to attend 5 hours of mandatory meetings a month, which he now does over video chat from his vacation cottage in Scotland. FML
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Butterbuns 1
Because using a different hand will automatically make your computer behave differently. Your boss is an idiot.
Rupus 0
Haha, I think you need a raise. Or she needs a pay cut.
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RazorbladeSmiles 0
This is why it's better to slack off in school.
Sugar_lipsXo 0
wow your life is sooo f*cked isn't it?
effmyyliifee 0
dude, #42 [the_master], you need to seriously calm down. lol dont take these thhings so personal...
monkey314159 0
I remember one horror story from my computer classes quite well. A lady who was in IT department had to keep "fixing" one the managers computers. i.e. showing him how to open up the CD tray and how to plug in a USB device. She spent more time showing people how to use a computer than fixing actual problems.
suaveneanderthal 0
ok so because your boss ****** up one time (if you can even call that a **** up more just a mistake) and you think you deserve 10,000 a year more? Thats just ignorance at its best right there, your boss is a person and people make errors and if you don't think so then i'll start working for you and ill work for free BUT every time you **** up i get 10,000 off your salary and ill be one happy camper next week. so **** off OP don't include the salary shit for one little mistake
lolfcknpwnt 0
DAMN!
jack01 0
you boss is to stupid to be called an idiot, your boss is a retard... she must have cheated her way through college.
thuryn 2
New solution: Alt-menu key. ;) When in doubt, use the keyboard. The mouse is a slow, imprecise device that leads to worse carpal tunnel injuries than the keyboard does. Of course, then you'll hve to explain about holding down the modifier key until after the command key is pressed... FYL
Invioletlight 0
honestly, people that stupid are quite common. something doesn't work one way so they'll try it again the same way another 4 times just to make sure.
supasqueak 0
Where do you work? I'd like to know where I can get by with being that stupid.