Today, there was an issue with the sewage system at work. It smelled like somebody took a turd, left it in the sun to marinate, threw up on it, then put in the air conditioning to fill the store with nauseating stink. I nearly threw up multiple times because we weren't allowed to leave early. 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 I had a customer come into my office smelling like feces, urine and body odor. I tried not to get sick to my stomach but failed miserably. I threw up in my trash can in front of him. It now smells like feces, urine, body odor and vomit in here. FML
Today, I had a terrible stomach ache and had some pretty bad gas at work. I tried to head down to the basement for a while to allow my coworkers to continue in peace. About an hour after I came back up, my boss called pest control due to the horrible smell that "must be dead rats". FML
Today, I was at work at a kiosk in the mall when I smelled something foul. I thought it was the weird dude who'd just walked by so I just carried on with my work. Minutes later, I looked to my right and there, lying on the floor a few feet from me, was a huge turd wrapped in toilet paper. FML
Today, a pipe leaked in the store I work at. I had to smell sordid waste for more than 8 hours. FML
Today, my office smells like a giant turnip green fart because of a sewage leak. FML
Today, a sewer main broke just outside of where I work. It smells like a latrine here but we are not allowed to close down, and the county won't do anything about it for two weeks. The only upside is that I'm not dealing with many customers, but having to smell the entire city's feces is way worse. FML
Today, I was stuck in a stiflingly hot port-a-potty for 30 minutes with the worst bowel issues ever due to food poisoning. To make things worse, the maintenance guy came two minutes in to drain the thing and had to wait outside till I was done, muttering angrily at me as I took the humiliating walk of shame to my car. FML
Today, I had to train a new guy whose body odor was killing me. After he'd left, I had to run two industry size fans to blow the stench out of my office. FML
Today, the fitting room of the store I worked in smelled really bad. The customers started to complain and since I was on fitting room duty I went to go investigate. A middle aged woman pooped on the floor and then put the chair on top to cover it. FML
Today, at work I had to spend two hours cleaning up stinky toilet water. Why? Because yesterday, I forgot to turn on the septic tank pumps. The tank overflowed, and so did all the toilets. My boss is not happy. FML
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L_1781 18
I will legitimately come to your house and decapitate you if you even ******* dare to write a 'shitty situation' pun ._. This is srious busnss
tintarroja 31
Throw up in front of your boss... Maybe this way him or her let you go.
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Comments (57)
Hildy93 21
I almost threw up reading this
nodeathtoall 19
This legit happened at my work today And everyone was mad that I wouldn't let them leave early because the store was going to reopen in like 40 minutes
TheMathMajor 26
... they were rightly mad at you and should have left. That's a major health risk. If the problem was going to be resolved in the next 40 minutes, you should have told them to leave and then come back if they were still scheduled for that time.
vikky538 29
You can explain shit very well
shinikageWolf 15
Why are you even working? I don't know about you but if I walked into a store to buy some things and smelled that nastiness, I'd turn around and walk right back out to go across town to shop at the store that doesn't smell like sewage.
bad_boyfriend 10
Anyone whose employer tries to make them stay through something like this, call OSHA (assuming you are in the US) Sewage in the building is not something you can legally be forced to just work through
Tannasgh 22
If it's a grocery store, go to the spice aisle. Find the spearmint extract. Next go to the cosmetic section and find a small thing of Vaseline. Add the spearmint oil to the Vaseline a bit at time mixing it in until the Vaseline smells strongly of spearmint. When things reek next time, wipe a small bit of the mixture under your nose. Voila! Mint will overwhelm the nastiness.
SunshineBoy_fml 16
A very vivid description. Tells us how much you have gone through!
derpyshy 16
I live a few minutes away from a valley that is mostly a rural farming community. When the valley starts fertilizing the fields, the entire town reeks for days until the wind changes. This FML reminded me that it's that time of year again. Blech.
Jenadpantano 7
I'm fairly certain you're required to leave the premises if there is any "fecal matter odor or presence" in the area. Same with public transportation, public buildings, educational locations, etc. It's a health concern. At least in the state of WA. I'd look it up in your state for future reference, OP.
Shade1982 21
I agree with you, this can't be legal at all. And aside from the health issues, you have the right to a clean and workable work environment too. But then again, I have read so many work related FML's from the US, I wonder if the department of labor even exists anymore...
DJDualScreen 4
I feel for you OP. Place I work at had a leaking sewage pipe that took more than two months to fix due to corporate bureaucracy. Seriously, they apparently couldn't spare the cash to have one of the maintenance guys put a pvc pipe on, but they sure as hell had the cash to go to motherf***ing Cancun. Didn't always smell, but I know that the pipe leaking was probably putting all kinds of nasty in the air.