Today, my stupid coworker informed the managers that there were no more kids' menus downstairs. Trusting her word, they ordered 3 full boxes. She then asked me where we kept them. We now have 12,000 kids menus to fold. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my kids and I went to have dinner with a coworker. After everyone ate, the kids went to play while I helped clear the dishes. To my horror, instead of individually wrapping the kids leftovers, she scraped all the uneaten food back into the main pots. I wanted to puke on the spot. FML
Today, a woman at work told me that her kid had puked into "a storage bin" in the office. It wasn't a storage bin, it was the outgoing mail tray on the side of my desk containing important contract documents that had to be posted by 5pm that day. FML
Today, at the end of my 10-hour shift, my manager made me count exactly how many business cards were left in inventory before I could leave. She didn't believe me when the number came to exactly 3000. She made me count them all again. FML
Today, a customer asked for my manager's number, my bosses number, corporate's number and filled out a complaint form, all because we kindly asked him not to sit his kid on the counter due to safety concerns. FML
Today, I went through a drive-thru and ordered enough food for three people. The cashier asked if I needed extra napkins “for the group.” I panicked and said, “Yes, for the kids in the back.” There are no kids. Just me, alone, eating like a human trash compactor. FML
Today, I folded a stack of 2,500 brochures for the new exhibit we're putting on at the museum where I work. As I was finishing up, I got an email. The dates have just been changed, so all the brochures have to be reprinted and refolded. FML
Today, at my job in a pet store, my boss had me pull all the bags of food out and restock them so that they sat pretty. Five minutes later, the store is full of people. My manager screamed, "They're touching things!" and locked himself in the office with a cup of tea. He has the only open register. FML
Today, at work as a manager at pizza place, I got yelled by a customer because they got one fewer paper plates than they asked for. FML
Today, at work, a customer called in and asked me to read off every item on our menu, along with their ingredients. I work at Jamba Juice so that's a lot of reading. After about 10 minutes of this, I found out it was actually my stupid co-worker calling from the back phone. FML
Today, while at the restaurant I work at, a bunch of kids came in. They all gave incredibly complex orders, laughed at everything I did, and made a huge mess by "spilling" hot sauce and water all over the floor. After they left, I was tipped eleven cents. FML
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stryder9090 28
Make the stupid coworker fold them all
lexiieeex3 32
That's on the manager for trusting someone else's word without checking. Sorry you have to deal with the backlash of your coworker's ineptitude as a result OP.
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stryder9090 28
Make the stupid coworker fold them all
Anubis94 24
Even if your manager ordered half of what she did, that would still be way too many menus for any one restaurant..
Bibliovore 26
It really depends on the restaurant and the menus. In many places, kids' menus are use-once disposables that have drawing/marking games on them and sometimes double as placemats (these probably weren't placemats, as they needed to be folded). A large, popular "family" restaurant could go through 12,000 kids' menus in a matter of months.
Lalala579121 28
It also makes no sense that they would just trust an average employee out of the blue. I would think they should have people keeping inventory of what they have after every day, so that they know when they need to order more.
Chloe555_fml 27
I'm guessing this dumbass coworker plays dumb a lot to get out of working. You'll be in for a miserable time until they a) quit or b) get fired for some bigger FUBAR.
flyingflies 36
You just wanted to use "FUBAR", didn't you?
Chloe555_fml 27
Nope
Lalala579121 28
Tell her you keep them outside then lock her out.
lexiieeex3 32
That's on the manager for trusting someone else's word without checking. Sorry you have to deal with the backlash of your coworker's ineptitude as a result OP.
val_428 8
It's not on the manager to double check things like this. What is on the manager, though, is to hire competent employees. It is employee's job to know what they're doing.
lexiieeex3 32
And it's the manager's job to... Manage the employees and the establishment...
sylvienoir 18
Managers take that responsibility when they become managers. Whether they are directly or indirectly responsible does not matter, it's that it's their job in the end to double check stock (which seems to have been easy to do).
wow2mylife 25
see if you can send some to another location if it is a chain restaurant
species4872 20
Distance yourself from this person, least you be drawn into the depths of idiocy which you may never able to escape, forever trapped in an endless cycle of mediocrity, your friends will abandon you, your family disown you. Forever trapped. Or just tell him/her to check properly next time and move on.
nightstalker94 18
Yeah, don't bother helping her since she made the stupid mistake. Don't pay for what she messed up.
exum 15
It's all good, as long as they are done on their time (paid) and not in your own time.
trucker2 33
BONFIRE... Problem solved
GhostFox 34
Except for the possibly hundreds of dollars that would cost the business, since they already printed off the bastards. Keeping them is the best thing.