Today, whilst at work, my dad decided to call me and sing an entire rendition of 'The Gambler' by Kenny Rogers. There was a big line of people, and my boss had been standing nearby checking out my phone. I had to stand there and listen to the whole song. 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, at work, I was forced to listen to the Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers Christmas album on repeat for 8 hours. FML
Today, my dad yelled for me. It was an emergency. I ran down the stairs, tripped, fell, and limped over to my dad only to find that he wanted me to see a video of someone playing "Bohemian Rhapsody" on the ukulele. FML
Today, I came into work early to clean equipment, with my headphones on, singing to myself. I lost track of time, and wound up with the entire office watching me belt tunes out. FML
Today, my dad's boss called our house and I answered. He said, "Is your dad home?" I replied, "I'll go check." I put the phone on mute and asked my dad if he wanted to talk to his boss. My dad says, "Does that asshole not have a life?" Turns out the phone wasn't on mute, it was on speaker. FML
Today, I was singing and drumming on the steering wheel in my car while stuck in traffic, only to realize the car next to me was full of my carpooling coworkers, all staring at me in disbelief. They spent the day at the office requesting songs. FML
Today, I walked in on my dad singing along to a song on Sesame Street. He tried to divert attention from what I'd just witnessed by angrily grilling me over "just barging in" and not respecting people's privacy. Apparently he forgot that we were in the living room. FML
Today, at a company event, there was a break. The Blue Danube was playing. Bored, I absentmindedly start singing, “My butt is ugly” to the melody. I forgot that my mic was on and the whole auditorium heard. Not only was I sent home, but my boss wants to “discuss” it on Monday at the office. FML
Today, I was at work when an elderly lady casually mentioned it was her birthday. I motioned two of my coworkers over, and we sang a little "Happy Birthday" to her over the phone. Our boss stormed in mid-song and suspended all three of us on the spot for "unprofessional behavior." FML
Today, I was pouring my heart out to my dad about how I'm such a loser and how I have no friends. He listened sympathetically, until his phone buzzed with a text message. He said, "Balls, the guys from work wanna get shitfaced!" and took a rain check on me. FML
Today, I went to take a dump at work. The silence in the room was deafening, and I ended up singing to myself. After I proudly finished, there was a short silence, followed by a coworker in the next stall saying, "Um... don't quit the day job, Rick." I'll never live this down. FML
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AnneOminous 0
Um. No. You didn't have to listen to the whole thing. You should have hung up. YDI
_Mazza_ 0
"I'm sorry dad, I'm at work, I have to go." Polite and nonoffensive. Alternatively, just hang up. Is that so hard? You're at work, you have better things to do than to listen to someone sing, I'm sure your father would understand.
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bbyqrl123 0
I think what the OP is trying to get at was that while she was at work, her dad called her on her WORK phone; and well at work, it wouldnt really be right to hang up on a customer, no matter who they are, infront of your boss. I've seen some FML's before where people got fired for doing something somewhat similar to this...
OkageStarr 0
^This. The type of work we're referencing here could easily be call center work. Many call centers have a no-excuses policy on interrupting or, especially, hanging up on customers. Even customers the employee is related to. If this is the case, OP, then yeah, FYL... but better sitting through it then getting fired for BS reasons.
CosmicPossum 2
Except his name indicates he's in retail, not a phone monkey where they usually say queue instead of line.
jfoxxy6 15
How are you going to have a line of customers at a call center?
enough4 0
IF that's true, then OP was doing his job as he was instructed and has nothing to be upset over. So what if his dad was a dick for 5 minutes? It's an incredibly minor thing to cry "FML" over if it didn't result in being terminated or reprimanded. People need to sack the **** up.
enough4 0
Meant to be a reply to 55/56...
ItsAlexFool 0
Just an FYI, Kenny Rogers has THE softest hands I have ever shook....in case you were wondering.
biancster 0
awesome dad my parents sing to me on the phone too
jackblackscock69 0
HIIII! IM KENNY ROGERS WITH PUNKED! (madtv ftw)
yourefreakindumb 0
Why does everyone spell it whilst? It's while. Your freaking dumb.
nyuukou 0
Their freaking dumb what? Your sentence is missing a noun. Unless you meant, "You're freaking dumb." Which you certainly are, if you can't even type something with some degree of accuracy between your username and a post, especially since you do not seem to realise that whilst is an actual word. It is a somewhat antiquated form of while, more commonly used in England than in the United States. Of course, a few minutes with Google instead of posting your insipid comment would have spared you from looking like a fool.
GrammarNazisRule 0
Psssst. I do believe what you meant was "your sentence is missing a verb".
Ejigantor 0
No, the sentence was missing a noun. Your freaking dumb [umbrella] not Your freaking dumb [run] 10 / 10 for effort, but minus a couple billion points for actual correctness.
you_guys_r_fails 0
r u a ****** language arts teacher or sometin.
you_guys_r_fails 0
that goes to nyuukuo
KurouTenshi 0
you couldve always hung up on him, and you're at work in retail none the less, you shouldn't be on the phone. YDI for not telling your dad to chill and wait for your break.
otakuzakku 0
As the OP, I thought I'd clear this up. I was answering the work phone, which was expected of me as others were also serving. My boss was observing my phone manner and therefore I couldn't have hung up on what she thought was a customer, nor could have told them to call back later. I was not on my own phone at work, particularly as it was busy! By the way, there's nothing wrong with saying 'whilst'. :)
idkweird 0
Ok, this makes much more sense now!
xmagicgirlxx 0
why didnt you just hangup?
apfunction 0
WTF. you didn't have to sit and listen to it. phones have this really cool feature called hanging up, it ends the conversation immediately.