Today, on my first day of being a trainee teacher in a classroom, I told a boy to stop using that stupid accent or else I'll give him a detention. Turns out he just moved here from Romania. FML
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Today, it was my first day at school in the United States. Being from France, my French accent is really strong. After being made fun of all day, I met someone from Montreal. I was so excited and said, "Parlez-vous Français?" And his response? "HUH?!" FML
Today, I had my first interview. Everything was going well until I made him repeat his name numerous times, as I couldn't understand what he was saying due to his thick accent. FML
Today, we had a substitute teacher. She was taking attendance and had trouble pronouncing my last name. When I corrected her, I heard her mutter under her breath about, “Goddamn Mexican immigrants…” I’m from Greek ancestry, born in the USA. FML
Today, my teacher, who's Irish, called me insensitive and stupid for imitating her accent. I'm Filipino and my parents immigrated to Ireland where I was born, and then we moved to Canada when I was 14. Her response to my explanation? "Bullshit." 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
Today, the parent of a student called to ask me about a homework assignment. At the end of the call, she told me that I seem to be losing my "Asian accent" from when she first talked to me in the summer. I was born in the US, grew up in NJ and speak perfect English. FML
Today, a customer asked me if I was English, because I was struggling to understand what he was saying. I said yes. He then called me a liar, and said I must be "one of them Polish immigrants." Oh, and he also had a thick Scottish accent. FML
Today, I started my first teaching job ever. As I was teaching, another teacher interrupted my class about 5 times because she thought it was her class. Not only did she ruin my confidence, her behavior caused my students to laugh at me. FML
Today, my English teacher kicked me out of class for being "rude and disruptive." In actuality, I had called her out for having blatantly used Google Translate for several example sentences, all of which sounded as if a semi-literate foreigner had constructed them. FML
Today, my French teacher set up a role-play scenario to act out in front of the class. During one of my lines, I mispronounced a phrase and called my teacher sexy. FML
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claiiire_fml 17
Way to be a jerk, OP.
raphanne_fml 33
Poor kid...
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Comments (271)
mspeacock 6
Wouldn't his name suggest he was a foreigner? Romania.. Come on. As an educator myself I think you screwed up on a professional level.
ajjucool 0
you are a racist!!!
yeah_notworthit 4
You shouldn't be giving detention to a kid who is playing an accent anyways. Seriously. WTF? Romanian accents are amazing (: not stupid. Way to fail.
Alycidon 1
This is why I cannot converse with an English person. Sooner or later they're going to utter a racist remark. **** you OP, YDI.
Daralea 21
Kind of like the remark you just uttered?
Alycidon 1
#214 I ain't anti-English, I just don't like to talk to some English people because I know most of them are racist...
ThePedestrians 0
*cough* ******* asshole *cough*
monkeyCanDoMYJob 7
You would give a kid detention just because you think he was faking an accent? I hate to see what kind of punishment you would give if the kid did something else like skip class or something
that_nerdy_sock 3
Haha!!! I'm romainian!!! Of course...I can actually speak English :)
JiggyBoo123 11
There are these two Mexican kids in my Micro class who pretend to have British accents for days at a time, so if the kid didn't LOOK Russian, how was OP supposed to know they WERE? They coulda been white-looking kids making fun of Russians. OP had no way of knowing without asking or finding out. Besides, I'm sure if anybody in that classroom had a sense of humor, they would have forgiven OP and moved on. :3
tweetbaby14 18
The kid is Romanian. Read before you post, fool.
kitsune3 20
way to miss the point, asshole.
huppypuppy 3
Haha, I'm Romanian!
berkahh 3
That's just being racist like most of the Americans