Today, I had to explain to a coworker that "the little red X" next to the email title she's been pushing out of curiosity is actually the delete button. Then, I had to restore the dozen emails she'd deleted even after I told her to stop. She's a manager. I stock shelves for a living. 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 was at work, stocking shelves. A customer got mad because I was in the way of her "shopping time" and knocked down all the work I had done. FML
Today, I sent an email to my boss saying I'd fixed a glitch in our mail servers. He called me later, angrily shouting that I'd done a piss-poor job of fixing it, because my email had spammed his inbox with several hundred duplicate messages. FML
Today, my 73 year-old coworker has made a mountain of work for me to plough through due to her incompetence. I had to work through over 400 emails, since she thought unplugging the router would help, and in doing so, I have picked up on hundreds of mistakes she has made with clients, and had to apologise to each one. FML
Today, my boss yelled at me for ignoring emails on my day off. Our emails are only accessible from work desktops, so I’d have had to be at my desk to answer it, which I had to explain to him 3 times before he understood. This is what happens when CEO’s promote their nephews to middle management. FML
Today, I reduced a customer to tears and she had a tantrum, saying that nobody loves her, her life is a joke, and she’d be better off dead. This ordeal happened to grab the attention of my manager who was nearby. All I did was tell her that an item she wanted was sold out and offered to help her order it online. FML
Today, I was texting at work when my manager walked in. I quickly dropped my phone in the garbage to avoid trouble. Since I was working so hard, she decided to do me a favor and throw the trash out for me. FML
Today, a customer came in with a laptop smashed beyond repair. She asked if we could recover her files, but thanks to my idiot boss's new store policy I had to ask her a bunch of questions, including if she had tried "turning it on and off." She stared at me, speechless, like I was a complete moron. FML
Today, at work, I had a customer accuse me of taking the giftcard I had issued her for her return, after spending 15 minutes trying to fix her screwed up transaction. She began to yell, and follow me around the store. Security had to intervene and I had to be locked in an office until she left. FML
Today, a woman at work told me that her kid had puked into "a storage bin" in the office. It wasn't a storage bin, it was the outgoing mail tray on the side of my desk containing important contract documents that had to be posted by 5pm that day. FML
Today, my CEO called and spoke to me like I'm a child. Apparently, she has a surprise for me, "but only if I clean up my office first." She hasn't been to my office in months because she works in another state. Turns out, someone texted her a picture of my messy office. FML
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theQUEEN444 5
not everybody is employed for their brains apparently
SuperDanielNL 23
They joys of working below your level, surrounded by chimpanzees who make your weekly pay in a day...
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theQUEEN444 5
not everybody is employed for their brains apparently
friedpwnadge 25
Just had an image of a cybermen manager saying "You are incompatible. You will be deleted."
Kn0wledge123 21
Emails. Are. Inferior. They will be exteerrrminated. EXTERMINATE!
thatkidhesh 11
looks like someone won't be stacking shelves for too much longer.
hotshot0185 15
She might be useless on computers but a good manager.
Wakachulak 22
"she's been pushing out of curiosity" So much for that theory #2
monnanon 14
how does having a sense of curiosity make her a bad manager. we have a manager at my work who cannot use a computer but she is a great manager as her job is more hands on. anything she needs donr on the computer i do for her.
MilkyFilmz 26
32 and 2 I bet you two idiots are the manager's kids.
jhs578650 9
@32 People who do things with no regard to consequences are likely to possess poor leadership skills. A rational person would ask what the red X does before pressing it. Hell, a rational person might just infer that the button does something that warrants caution, because it is a red X.
Acrlyx 8
#46 and #40 Not that I do not agree, but I worked under a man who could barely write an email, he was in his late 50s, but we had the best stock and inventory crew in our tri-sector. Computing skills are important but she could be an older woman, she can be a leader and make flaws.
jhs578650 9
@49 I'm not talking (typing) about a lack of computer skills. I'm talking about a personality trait.
Acrlyx 8
#53 He couldn't open his email correctly without me there. I wasn't referring to typing but I see your point.
SuperDanielNL 23
They joys of working below your level, surrounded by chimpanzees who make your weekly pay in a day...
myoukei 31
Don't show her where her email's trash is; she may delete them from there too. (Then how would you restore them?) :)
bobak_can_ani 7
I see what you mean, #1 ;)
Pwn17 25
Does she even know how to close pages on the internet?
graceinsheepwear 34
What does that have to do with anything? You could ask endless questions. Does she know how to change a password, print in landscape, tie her shoe?
Pwn17 25
...Or it could be related to the fact that what deletes a page on the Internet is also a little red X.
graceinsheepwear 34
That depends on your browser among other things. I don't have red Xs.
Feedmyaddiction5 14
the things we do for our paychecks
TheRandomIndian 17
The things we don't get paid enough for.
soullyfe 33
Also the things we do that are not even part of our job descriptions.
MontvaleMayhem 11
Those things will become yours now that you've shown you can do it with no extra compensation.
relaxeazy 24
Hmm isn't it important for a manager to be able to use emails properly? Or is that just me?
girlbye23 15
Looks like you deserve a promotion.
Kruiser 16
Or the manager deserves a demotion.. Either way, that situation is totally unfair sorry op
MilkyFilmz 26
Why not both?
akagabby 12
Sadly, the older people aren't as advanced as us younger people with technology ;)
Wakachulak 22
So, we born after 1980 came with technology knowledge chips built in by default?
graceinsheepwear 34
That's a broad generalization.
SeedlessMe 13
Well, it's not just a 'broad generalization' if it's true! Older
SeedlessMe 13
(whoops, hit send a bit early! Chalk it up to my 'old age', I was born in '79) But older generations only learned how to use computers in adulthood... Surely the kid who's been using an ipad since he was 3 will have a better grasp of technology.
Wakachulak 22
Seedless, I did not even see a computer till I was 15. Guess what I do for a living? Program computers. It's not age, it's laziness.
manofmerr 27
52 needs to be thumbed way up, since anyone with a brain and a bit of spare time can learn the basics of computer function. The lack of both motivation and understanding both usually stem from a psuedo laziness that comes with the presumption that something is to difficult to understand, or will take too long to learn.