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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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Comments (65)
lochiamochia 25
Hold in there, OP, your time will come. Your patience and willingness to help others will eventually be noticed. You could be promoted or given a raise. You never know how your good deeds will be rewarded.
graceinsheepwear 34
This is FML. Good deeds don't go unpunished here.
BadApple88 29
Dont worry OP you'll have a higher position in no time
tehdarkness 21
The beauty of corporate serf-dom. FYL.
Wakachulak 22
Reading this site and NotAlwaysWorking.com, I'm starting to think managers are employed based on their inability to do actual work and so are given position where they will not be required to do anything.
random_commenter 9
Have you ever heard of the Dilbert Principle? This explains why there are so many morons in management positions
Wakachulak 22
Hadn't heard of it actually, thanks for telling me!
SleepWalken 5
How do you "computer".
fleur_de_fevrier_fml 23
I feel for you OP. I have been in the situation where my boss was not only incompetent but also very lazy. She used to delegate everything she could, last in the office, first to go. But she was a good BSer and even better at taking credit for her team's hard work so the higher management thought she was doing a great job. I know how frustrating it is to see someone like that making more than you. Hopefully things will get better for you. It did for me when I found another job.
emberge 0
I bet you work at Walmart.
peachfuzz74 8
They walk among us.
Ghazzie 7
Should have let her figure it out by letting all of her emails disappear.
simsgirlgem 25
I believe you should be manager and her being the one to stock shelves