Work: Today, the communications expert I'm forced to work with added...

By onefishtwofishes - 23/05/2013 20:15 - United States - Washington

Today, the communications expert I'm forced to work with added the line "as they can catch bigger fishes" to a film script. She does not believe me when I tell her that the plural of fish is "fish." This idiot not only has the final word, she makes twice what I do. FML

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By NathanA - 08/07/2013 23:54 - United States - Los Angeles

Today, I was verbally abused by a customer because her entrée was too fishy. I'm not the chef, just the waiter and I work at a fish grill. FML

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By Anonymous - 06/06/2019 20:01

Today, I found out that the airhead sitting next to me at work who can't get anything done on her own, makes more money than I do. FML

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By Anonymous - 10/08/2019 02:00 - Germany - Wuppertal

Today, my coworker keeps loudly saying things like, "Oh, now THIS!" If I don't ask, "What?" she pouts. If I do ask, she tells me, at length and with very bad grammar, how every one of our colleagues and partners is either stupid, rude or out to get her. FML

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By Anonymous - 25/11/2012 00:25 - New Zealand - Christchurch

Today, at work, I took an order from a stuck-up sounding lady over the phone. She said her last name was "duckling, but with an F". Bemused, I wrote her name on the order. When she arrived to pick it up later, she told me she'd said "s", not "f". FML

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Cursive

By Anonymous - 25/05/2011 13:55 - Australia

Today, my boss and I were preparing a lunch order for a nearby real-estate agency. I noticed that the order was riddled with spelling mistakes, so I laughed and mocked the realtors, calling them stupid and incompetent. My boss then pointed out that the order was written in his handwriting. FML

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By raquelcita - 26/08/2016 06:05 - United States - Winter Park

Today, I went to my boss with concerns that my manager is dumping her responsibilities on me. He agreed and told me to just do whatever she wants. She gets paid twice as much as me to talk on her cellphone all day. FML

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By Anonymous - 19/06/2014 08:24 - United States - San Francisco

Today, I shouldn't have told my boss that I was interested in management. She now throws any problem she doesn't want to solve at me and either gets mad when I can't work it out or takes credit when I do. FML

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That's not how that works

By christiner - 06/09/2010 03:01 - France

Today, I was at work and was confronted by a customer wanting to get a "Nemo" fish. I explained that 'Nemo' needs to live in saltwater, not freshwater, like their tank was. The customer then turns around and grabs a perforated tank divider and says, "Can't I just split them up with this?" FML

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Spelling Bee

By anda1000douchesscourthispostformistakes - 16/09/2015 13:42 - United States - Meriden

Today, I made it onto my boss's shit-list, after pointing out that he'd misspelled "customer" as "costumer" 6 times in his report, and "college education" as "collage education" twice. It'd be a dick move on his part even if making corrections like this weren't part of my damn job. FML

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By frustrated - 29/06/2011 12:59 - United Kingdom

Today, my boss yelled at me for ruining the report she was supposed to write with my "terrible spelling and grammar". I've checked it thoroughly, and all of her 'corrections' are wrong. She doesn’t believe me, and is refusing to look at a dictionary. FML

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Docbee 11

Friday 24 May 2013 9:07

Fish and fishes are both acceptable plural forms of "fish"; well that's what magic schoolbus told me!

Ylianaxoxo 9

Friday 24 May 2013 9:13

Fishes isn't exactly wrong, sweetie.

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crazedsyco 15

Monday 27 May 2013 9:01

I know this was already stated... But fishes a plural. Get a dictionary before you go insulting people publicly.

saraitkddh 47

Monday 27 May 2013 20:57

I am studying English Literature and fishes is not wrong. There's a difference between fish and fishes; fishes means many kinds of fish( like shark, salmon, sardines ), while fish can be singular or plural but for one kind of fish.

DesolateTree 12

Thursday 30 May 2013 5:19

"Fish" is the plural of one type of fish, "fishes" is the plural of multiple types of fish.

Vidimus 13

Friday 14 June 2013 5:50

You should verify your own knowledge before posting about your perception of other people's mistakes. "Fishes" is an acceptable term, especially in the scientific community. You should have noted that it is a legitimate term when your internet browser did not add the red squiggly line under it as you typed your post. Fishes is particularly used when referring to multiple species, as opposed to just an unspecified group of fish.

brunette427 3

Saturday 29 June 2013 0:41

Actually fishes is correct for more than one species.

AbbyMaexx 2

Wednesday 9 April 2014 1:37

If its all the same kind of fish, the plural is fish. If its different kinds, its fishes. ex: Several gold fish. ex: An aquarium of fishes.

miss_amphetamine 24

Thursday 14 August 2014 15:52

"Fish" is singular or plural for one type of fish. "Fishes" is plural for different types or species of fish. Both are grammatically correct in respective contexts. Source: AP English literature, and my mom, who has been a copy editor for years.