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)
Danni91 8
Why would you just assume he was faking an accent? English is not the native tongue for everyone in America, you know.
thew_fml 14
#97 - why do assume it's america? the OP is posting from england - where they also happen to speak english
ravlol 6
@#97 you really fail at trying to sound like a smartass "english is not the native tongue for everyone in America" number one, it should be because america was founded by english speakers and number two the OP is living in the UK ya dipshit.
raphanne_fml 33
OP is English... English isn't just spoken in America you know. Edit: #105, #106 beat me to it.
herpitydurteedur 0
I think they mean English isn't the native language of all people in america. There could be someone In America whose first language was Spanish. Or French. Or Romanian.
trere 0
great way to be a jerk off
ScreamingFits 0
Wow, way to go assholr.
heygirlhey101 0
I'm Romanian
aardvarkish 17
"Where are you from?" Learn this question Makes sense Makes friends Saves ignorant embarrassment
THE_A_TEEN 28
Unlike the assholes here, I have sympathy for the op. WE are human, WE make mistakes, teachers get crap from students all the time (i witnessed it before). Racism? Uhh, its not racist whatsoever, DONT PULL THE ******* RACE CARD. People make mistakes, kids do stupid shit alot of the time, and all of you people really are jackasses. That is all...
seeinghourglass 0
Calm down dude, just calm down. It's not that deep.
zurisbloodyrose 0
ydi. you don't even have the authority to hand out detention yet.
mad_mav_lax 4
..sounds like a hate crime :P
SkardeyKat 3
Even if the kid HAD been using a fake accent, why is that a reason to give detention. You deserve it for being a hard ass of a teacher. As they say, you need to pick your battles.
synonymous 1
First and last day I hope.