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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Comments (65)
sab1 8
college.
dudechef 8
Living proof that you can be educated and still a moron
avd0865 11
If it wasn't for hr I wouldn't have some of the employees I have inherited taking this store
dino223 6
Way of the world I'm afraid op, the fool runs the world while the intelligent Lyes in a Ditch Seize the day and get a better job
qpsarah 10
She might be good at other things than emails. They are not thaaat importan. And i guess she is a bit older than you.
myeviltwin 20
I have worked with many a manager who was as incompetent as your manager seems to be. Most of them get there through nepotism, brown nosing or a combination of both.
Killersrage 5
Quit complaining, at least she is not senile.
RedPillSucks 33
Managing requires a lot of various skills. Reading emails might be only one of several things that need to be done. I know a lot of brilliant people who either couldn't manage themselves out of a wet paper bag, or micro managed, or had such an abrasive personality that no one would work for them for long.
worldclassrager 41
Some people are worthless on computers...and this looks like to be one...
kernelkat 16
I believe that's called the Dilbert principle.
redeagle1924 6
Walmart much??