Today, the woman I'm training at work asked, while staring intently at the keyboard, "Now, which one of these buttons is the space-bar again?" She is 80 years-old, types about one word per minute, and I have just one week to get her completely trained. 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, 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 84-year-old grandmother taught me a keyboard shortcut. FML
Today, I started a new job. After being trained on several obscure computer programs I'm expected to use in just one day, my new boss informed me she's going on a week long vacation starting tomorrow. She's the only other person who knows how this program runs. FML
Today, I was teaching a ten year old how to play piano. Halfway through the lesson, she made a minor mistake, which, trying to be a good tutor, I corrected her. She smiled up at me, paused, then slammed the key cover down onto my fingers. FML
Today, as I was helping a customer, she asked if it was my first day and who was training me. Evidently, I'm bad at my job, because I've worked there for 7 months. FML
Today, while working customer service, I instructed a customer to press the pound key on her cellphone. She hesitated a moment before asking, "Um, the pound key? You mean the hashtag, right?" FML
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
Today, my boss reached a new low when, after three software upgrades, she refused to let me update the user manual that I wrote a year ago. She has also cancelled the training sessions I set up to help people learn the new software. People are asking me why I'm not doing my job anymore. FML
Today, while working at a cell phone store, I helped an older woman learn how to use her newly updated phone. After trying to help her for over 20 minutes, she threatened to throw her phone at my head. FML
Today, my mom asked me why MS Word keeps underlining some words. After I tried to convince her that you're supposed to put a space after commas, she started yelling at me for making her look stupid. I can never win. FML
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mgsoloist 14
I think 36 couldn't find the space bar either.
kiran_fml 5
How does an 80 year old get a job while I can't? ?
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Comments (190)
laupow89 4
I would have thought there would even be more qualified 80 year olds...
kellyrebecca92 0
Out of all the people in this world that need jobs you would think they could at least hire someone who knows how to type.
whatever222 3
why is she working??
alphaskater09 9
whatsthespacebardo?
sweetheartxoxo88 7
You have to have patience with old people. Not being from the electronic generation, I'm impressed that she even knows what a computer is.
fricknugget 3
DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG THE PIANO,KEYBOARD,QWERTY SYSTEM, ETC HAVE BEEN AROUND? her not knowing that is just really sad.
StephShuffles 4
Someone hates you... Lol, Sorry bro.
marryjaneex0 7
why was she even hired? shes 80 years old...she should be retired .
i_wuz_nver_here 31
I read this exact same fml a few months ago so I'm calling a fake.
a_lenzmeier 11
F her life for you being an impatient asshole. Anybody realize what the economy is like nowadays? It's sad when the elderly have to get jobs when the should be retired. Just like the rest of us she works to get a paycheck, because she needs to support herself. At least she got a job and is trying, unlike most people who do nothing, complain, and expect everything to be handed to them.
Gri400 6
Yeah it's sad that she has to get a job but F his life too. When she can't do her job well don't you think it's going to make the OP look bad? it's not the OPs fault that someone that is clearly incapable of doing the job is hired. OP has a right to be upset because when this old lady doesn't learn enough in the week to be decent at the job people are going to look right at them. Good for the lady to try to support herself of she got a job that she clearly does not deserve and that someone who is capable and needs a job got passed over as well for her
sakforduc 0
at least you didn't have to explain how there isn't actually an "any" key.