Today, I returned to work after a restful week-long holiday. Before I left, I'd finished a huge assignment which is due this week. I walk in to find a water pipe has burst just above my desk, flooding our office with water and ruining my computer. Happy New Year to me. FML
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Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, I came home from work to find my house was flooded from a broken pipe under the sink. My house had just recently had new wood floors, carpet and electrics installed because 6 months earlier my house had been flooded by the same pipe breaking. FML
Today, I found out that a water pipe at my work had burst over the weekend. There is absolutely no water in the building, including the bathrooms. It's a 9-hour day, and I took a laxative this morning before I came in. FML
Today, I worked a short shift at work, getting sent home early because it was slow. In the time I was gone, my family decided surprise me by rearranging my room and put in my new desk. They also surprised me when I learned that they'd spilled a slushie on my very expensive computer. FML
Today, after five months of working overtime and doing my own repairs around the house, such as patching my own roof to save money, I walk into my home office. I find my $2500, week old, top of the line laptop won't turn on because it's drenched in water. Apparently there's a leak in the roof. FML
Today, my work finally hired someone to replace some leaky pipes. I work in the basement by myself, and just as I walked under the newly-fixed pipes, I got soaked with what appeared to be water. Apparently it was connected to a toilet. My boss couldn't find a replacement, so they made me work covered in piss. FML
Today, when I came home from work, my computer was drenched with water. My sister claimed there was smoke coming out of it. FML
Today, I went for my daily post-op doctor's appointment, where I was told I can resume normal activities. Which was handy when I came home to half-an-inch of water throughout my apartment, due to my washing machine drainage pipe coming undone while I was gone. FML
Today, I took a dump at work. When I went to flush the toilet, it clogged and began to overflow. I left the bathroom as it was and as I walked out, my boss came in. FML
Today, workers came to my house to fix residual moisture damage in my walls left behind by Hurricane Irma. Said workers then burst a water pipe and flooded my entire apartment in the time it took figure out how to turn it off. FML
Today, I woke up to my living room covered in 8 cm of water. My $2k computer was on that floor. FML
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capthavoc123 0
Back up your work. And if you'd finished it, why didn't you submit it early? You don't exactly deserve it, but by taking basic steps you could have avoided it.
JackDark 0
It's possible the Hard-drive is still salvageable, depending on where the water went. Unless the whole things screwed, see if you can get the IT guy to retrieve the Hard-drive.
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cel123456789 0
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QTp13 10
That sucks. Im sorry Oh and Happy New Year to you ;)
wolfvision 0
How did this FML get approved.. you deserve it.
Brave_Sir_Robin 4
obvious troll is obvious.
allihall127 0
How in the world did he deserve it? He has no power over the condition of the building that his job is in, i.e. the pipes. He was doing everything he was supposed to do by getting the project done early and saving it on the computer. YDI's are for people who knowingly do something stupid and have control over what happens but this guy had no control over this. The building isn't his responsibility, it's someone else's. No way did he deserve this!
JackDark 0
It's possible the Hard-drive is still salvageable, depending on where the water went. Unless the whole things screwed, see if you can get the IT guy to retrieve the Hard-drive.
capthavoc123 0
Back up your work. And if you'd finished it, why didn't you submit it early? You don't exactly deserve it, but by taking basic steps you could have avoided it.
allihall127 0
Yeah but he shouldn't have to worry about it, that's the thing. The condition of the building isn't his responsibility, so there's no way it could possibly be his fault. Even if he took no steps to make sure the file was saved for good, it's not his fault because the pipes freezing was completely out of his control.
mr_suicidal 3
#6 another way would be to use Google docs. It's like MS Word, but it automatically saves to the cloud instead of your computer.
razorp 0
agree with #5 hardrive should be usable, don't throw out the computor yet
shoieb9 14
Hey! don't panic u can recover ur hard drive.
Brave_Sir_Robin 4
assuming you are in an extremely small company with no network support whatsoever, you should keep critical files such as this project on a backup media such as an external hard drive (if you have one available or the funds to buy one) or on a network drive that hopefully your IT department keeps available. However, being that as it may, you may still be able to salvage the hard drive, assuming that you didn't keep the computer on over the week-long rest. If you did, there's a chance that the drive may have been fried and the information lost. If not, try contacting your IT department and see if they can recover the information using the drive in another available computer. And Happy New Year!
Brave_Sir_Robin 4
my first sentence meant to read, "Assuming you are not in an extremely small company..." The backup media (thumb drive, etc.) should be done regardless. Proofreading and coffee are my boss this morning...
Hermyoni 0
They can't blame you since most people don't bring work home to store in their own computer. Contact your IT department and show *if he doesn't know* your boss what happened.
vt_mruhlin 0
Water very rarely destroys hard drives. Take it to a local shop and see what they can do. Next time, back up the data off site.