Today, on an important call with a potential employer, he began to speak quieter and quieter until I couldn't hear him at all. When I finally hung up after waiting for 5 minutes, I realized that I had been pressing down on the volume button. 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, after months of job searching, I finally got a call for an interview. Right in the middle of the call, my phone hung up so the music app could open. I tried calling them back and got no response. FML
Today, I had a phone call from a company I was applying to. It was going really well, until the call ended. Now since I'm so used to calling my girlfriend, I ended the call with, "Love you, bye." And if things couldn't get any worse, I started swearing to myself. The recruitment officer heard me. I forgot to hang up. FML
Today, I was on the phone to a guy I really like from work. We'd been talking for about 2 minutes, when he said he was getting another call, and put me on hold. I was so excited to be on the phone with him, it took me a whole 15 minutes to realise he had actually just hung up on me. FML
Today, my phone rang during a meeting. I quickly silenced it, and put it in my pocket. A few minutes later, my boss’s phone rang. It was me, butt-dialing him while we were sitting in the same room. He answered and asked if I had something urgent to discuss. I did not. FML
Today, while I was working customer support, a lady hung up on me mid-sentence, and I trailed off, saying, "…aaannnddd you hung up on me like a bitch." Turned out she was still on the line and had just accidentally hit mute. FML
Today, my boss rang me for the 5th time on my day off. Frustrated I pushed 'ignore' and yelled a string of obscenities at my phone. Turns out I pushed 'talk'. FML
Today, while at work, a customer refused to speak louder, despite me asking her to do it several times. As a result, I took her order incorrectly. The customer then finally decided to raise her voice, but only to yell at me about my poor listening skills. FML
Today, I got through to the phone interview stage for a great job. When the phone rang, I answered and suddenly, spontaneously, burped really loudly. The interviewer hung up. FML
Today, I had a video call with a couple of old friends, but the conversation sort of got boring, so I started mouthing words so they'd think the connection was bad and end the awkwardness. Then, as soon as they hung up the call, I realized I'd left my music on in the background the whole time. FML
Today, I was in a video conference with my coworkers. They started arguing so much that I decided to turn off my video and started chanting ,"Let it be over, let it be over... Let me go!" The boss finally stoped everybody to comment, "We can hear you." I hadn't turned my mic off. FML
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mperniciaro 15
While you do deserve this one, you can always call back and say it was a bad connection and you couldn't hear them. Not completely lying anyway.
Kallian_fml 21
Oh dear. I hope he hung up before you started yelling "Hello? HELLO?" into the phone.
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Kallian_fml 21
Oh dear. I hope he hung up before you started yelling "Hello? HELLO?" into the phone.
IndigoFuckYou 9
Or worse, muttering curses and obscenities about the guy on the other end of the phone for supposedly hanging up on him...
fromthesuck 8
And instead of calling him back and trying to explain the volume "malfunction" you decide to post an fml about the event.
mperniciaro 15
While you do deserve this one, you can always call back and say it was a bad connection and you couldn't hear them. Not completely lying anyway.
onlychildFTW 34
That is if OP has their number. Most of the time I've been called its a blocked number. But good idea if OP had their number!
Life_sucks_13 6
Agreed with this.
Harpy20 24
That would have been the first thing to check. YDI.
newbiehere99 6
I check to see if I lost signal first, then raise my phone in the air in every direction of the room ... Then I check the volume.
Harpy20 24
Well if the volume seems to be decreasing, it would be the first thing logically speaking...
Lbeck 7
Blonde Canadian.
onlychildFTW 34
Hey, no, NO. No being mean to a country that is awesome. And has one of the top 3 most livable cities in the world. Lots of the time it is number 1. You don't see me generalizing Americans miss Kentucky.
Harpy20 24
32- you're cool. For the record, I was almost Canadian. Just born on the wrong side of the border xD
teresa96706 29
34- Yeah I would've been Canadian too, if my great grandparents didn't decide to move to Hawaii after my Great grandpa retired from the Canadian Navy.
thefella 10
I would have been Canadian also if I was born in Canada. Since I wasn't born there I guess I'm not. Weird...
wickedninja918 1
I would be an American if I were born in... wait I am an American
NeonPopRocks 14
I am Canadian and asshats like you piss me off. I was also a blonde before I dyed my hair.
NeonPopRocks 14
Up to my great great great grandparents lived there, I live there now, and so does all of my family cousins, aunts and all.
gc327072 31
57/ want a cook- Err... Some maple syrup?
jkmartinjk 16
@5: False. I'm brunette.
Autocorrected 11
Must have been a big ass phone or a touch screen.
Autocorrected 11
Or just very excited.
MatteKudasai 17
Or maybe it has volume control buttons on the side, such as an iPhone. I've accidentally done this before, fortunately the call was not an important one!
wickedninja918 1
What is an ass phone, and where would I be able to buy one?
SammyS2012 21
Do people usually put their hands on the volume button and then squeeze when they talk on the phone? I have had a couple of phones because I always get the hand me downs, and I've never turned down the volume when on a call
Meettitan 14
Hopefully you didn't say anything you'll regret....
xWhackedPanther 18
I did the same thing today hahaha :L
Cainicide 5
Nervousness happens to everyone, that's why I always plan hours beforehand.
swimgood 16
But..
SpikyG 3
How can you can not notice that. Now the people won't take your call backs.
Harpy20 24
That's a stretch...
SpikyG 3
WYF are you talking about
JoeRogansBEARD 15
Omg I'm not usually a grammar nazi, but this is unacceptable...
sens3sfailing 25
This would happen with my smart phone when I was laying down while talking to my girlfriend for long periods of time. I would rest my phone on the side of my head and screen would always light up and hit random buttons including the mute button. More than once she asked me why I wasn't talking after I thought we had been having a conversation...
Harpy20 24
I don't understand why they would make keys such as 'mute' so accessible. Before smart phones, you actually had to go through the options. Still quick and easy to access, but not easy enough to hit by mistake.
sens3sfailing 25
Yeah, it is really pointless and such a hassle when the mute feature is hardly even used! I just take the phone away from my face whenever I want to say something to someone in real life.
Harpy20 24
[I honestly thought you were gonna eat me alive there...]
Schizomaniac 24
"In real life" Because telephone communication is fake life. Hehe.
Harpy20 24
21- what he meant was obvious.
sens3sfailing 25
20-you made a good comment that I agree with, I had no reason to be mean, and thank you for the support on the real life thing
Schizomaniac 24
24. I'm incapable of detecting anything that isn't 100% literal. There is something wrong with my brain and I can't help it. It was a simple observation. I simply thought it was a bit funny.
Sinkhole 26
Leave it to many commenters to not understand that the "hehe" might have meant that you just found it funny.
sens3sfailing 25
I didn't take it in a negative way, I just want to make sure I was understood in what I meant