TIFU because I cursed at the PC

My TIFU story starts at the fact that I have had a date yesterday and went to sleep very late considering the fact that I had to wake up at five am because of work.

So I slept like 4 hours, got ready, when I dropped a bottle of maple syrup on my big toe, causing it to turn into a weird pride flag consisting of blue, purple and other very nice colors creating a nice hue. This has caused me to get a neurological seizure (which can potentially cause me to die as my heart stops every time I faint and that’s exactly how my seizures been treating me)that ultimately got me late to work. Let me add up that I got some weird sort of climbing injury on my right wrist, doubling the pain amount I was dealing with.

Mind me to tell you that I work as a customer service agent. So I was late, every step I took hurt like hell, but I clutched my teeth and got to work.

I sat near my pc after explaining to a TL that I have potentially crippled myself for a week or so. No one from my team was there and I was getting ready for the shitstorm to start - angry customers and all of that. I was sleepy from the same beginning, doing my best to calm the customers and all of that.

My work fortunately isn’t based on calls, but live chats. Each time I get a live chat, although I love my work, I tend to tell the pc to “shut the fk up” or something in that sense as the sound of an incoming message is very sharp and could even bring a dead person back to life.

10 am, colleagues start to pile up. I already had like 15 of the chats behind me. Two colleagues who speak Arabic speak to each other very loudly. And of course I got a chat. My first reaction? A very tired “shut the fuuuuuu- up”. The customer was fortunately not responsive, but I had to say the stfu thingy again because not only the sound was triggering me but also the brightness of the screen. Mind me to tell you that I was already dead tired after all the fuss from morning.

Out of nowhere, the Arabic speaking guys went quiet and one of them went on me like:

“Now like what’s your problem? You have chosen to sit here, so stop behaving like this!”

Me: “Uhhh, pardon me? I’m not telling that to you but to the computer…”

He: “Yeah, the person isn’t replying to you, of course you are telling that to me”

That’s when I started to awkwardly apologize and he was looking at me in a weird way, very insulted.

After that I have gone for a smoke break after which I sat down with him and explained myself that to be honest, I’m just very tired, I didn’t mean to sound like an asshole. He has thankfully understood and we moved on with our lives.

TL;DR: Colleague got offended as I cursed on the computer, thinking I am talking to him.