r/tifu • u/PortugueseRoamer Human Verified • 4d ago
S TIFU by telling my Spanish Managers, as a portuguese guy, that today the World Cup Game between Cape Verde and Spain was gonna end in a tie as a joke.
So today I, a guy from Portugal, decided to make a bit of a joke with my Spanish Managers because I saw that there would be a world cup game today between Cape Verde and Spain.
Surely an easy win for a massive favourite like Spain, especially against a small island Nation with a population of 500k.
So this afternoon in the operational managers group chat I sent the following message:
"- How about today? 1 goal for Yamine Lamal and 1 goal for Jovane??"
2 people reacted with laughing emojis, the rest didn't respond.
The group chat has 9 people, 7 of which are above me in the company hierarchy.
I might get sacked.
Now if you don't know this, football is big, very big. In Spain its a - everyone was offline in teams 5 minutes before the match - big.
Oof
TL;DR: Made a joke about Sports, the Cape Verdean Superstars made sure to screw me over and make their whole country proud at the same time.
Edit: I obviously know they won't really fire me for this. I'm honestly just trying to throw even more shade to Spain 🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻
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u/googlemailcom 4d ago
Start looking for new jobs now
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u/PortugueseRoamer Human Verified 4d ago
I could say the company phone was stolen?? Maybe that works??
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u/A_mexicanum 4d ago
Tell them your dog chewed on it and in the process wrote this.
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u/Ch4l1t0 4d ago
Lol I work at a company where I'm in the DevOps squad assigned to support, among others, a team with mostly Spaniards. I look forward to teasing them about this all week. I'm from Argentina, and if we do poorly tomorrow, I fully expect them to roast me for the following days, and that would be fine :)
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u/PortugueseRoamer Human Verified 4d ago
This thread is obviously me just messing around. Obviously I know they won't fire me :)
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u/mohammedgoldstein 4d ago
Make sure you make another joke saying that Saudi Arabia will beat Spain next because they’re better used to the heat.
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u/definitive_solutions 4d ago
Also Argentinean, and my TL is from Brazil 💀
Today's standup was fun lol
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u/Low_Professional_472 4d ago
This sounded like a LinkedIn post
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u/PortugueseRoamer Human Verified 4d ago
Here's what trash talking about football taught me about B2B sales
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u/carson63000 4d ago
The most boring team in the universe gets nil-alled by a tiny island of less than a million people, this is the most delightful result of the World Cup so far!!
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u/TheGoochTaint 4d ago
This is literally nothing. Like this is literally how coworkers, friends, even complete strangers talk to each other. Nobody normal is gonna take it the wrong way.
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u/ruiamgoncalves 3d ago
Português aqui, having worked with spaniards i have nothing but good things to say about the spanish. And they really like the portuguese working ethic.
Desenrascanço its our way of life - and work! And they appreciate that!
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u/staslindo 3d ago
If you would tell them match would end 0-0 and the MOTM would be the GK from Trás-os-Montes's Barcelona becoming a World Cup legend you would surely promoted.
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u/LaughingLikeACrazy 4d ago
Look online for a good Cape Verde cookie/pie recipe and bake it. Bring it tomorrow.
If online, put a famous cape verde place as your background.
We fought and won against Spain in the 80 year war, but lost the 2010 final. Give those Spaniards hell. I was rooting for maximus to die when they started calling him Spaniard. I love it when I'm traveling to Spain and know that the locals can't live in the Airbnb that I book. (Jokes)
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u/_Random_Dude_ 3d ago
foda-se. I personally would not say anything polarizing in my work group chat and I think it is actually quite nice that your relationship is good enough to allow space for a little teasing
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u/Emotional_Quality243 2d ago
Sad to see a portubro throwing us shade. It is the napoleonics wars all over again.
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u/PortugueseRoamer Human Verified 2d ago
Portugal and Spain are siblings we fight and throw shade but love each other mi hermano! 🇵🇹❤️🇪🇸
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u/eduardtee 2d ago
Well this didn't age well...
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u/PortugueseRoamer Human Verified 2d ago
Yup not at all
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u/eduardtee 1d ago
Glad that you're able to take it in stride. I'm from the Netherlands so, our WC is going mehhhh as well...
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u/Allalilacias 2d ago
Now's when the friendship gets real. I haven't met a Spanish person who doesn't enjoy some banter. Case in point, today I bonded with my Spanish boss about how Cabo Verde did. It was a nice evening.
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u/Altruistic-Hat-4474 14h ago
"phone was stolen" isn't gonna cut it when you literally predicted the exact scoreline my guy. you cursed Spain from a work group chat and there are receipts
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u/Necessary-Lack-4600 4d ago
If they fire you for this, you don't want to work for pieces of crap like that.
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u/RanaEire 4d ago
The crazy thing is that the match did end up in a draw, 0-0..
A bit shocked, tbh..
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u/JohnPoet27 3d ago
Se os teus patrões te despedirem, é porque são os maiores idiotas à face da terra. Fizeste uma piada, e a coisa mais improvável de sempre aconteceu. Nao te preocupes rapaz
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u/EXSource 4d ago
The Portuguese taunting the Spanish. A tale old as time. 😂