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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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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Comments (61)
thatlonelykid 0
Why would you put a water pipe by your computer...?
nomo_ideas 0
he didnt his work did
grassa 0
r u a north Babylon teacher because that happen in my school
grassa 0
r u a north babylon cuz that happen in my school answer back???
PedoBearTrap 4
even if the computer was drenched, unless it shorted something because u left it on. the information on the HD should still be salvageable, take it you a local computer store and you should be able to pay to get it placed onto a flash drive. Or, if you are lucky, you might be able to just let the computer sit for a long while, once dried out, it may still work.
andythecurefan 0
Put it in RICE. Sounds odd but I swear, try it. Lifehacker says you can recover wet electronics http://lifehacker.com/269427/dry-out-your-soaked-gadgets-in-rice
Comentator 0
YDI. You fail at every thing related to computers. Backup, backup, backup. Always backup. $hit send it to your self via email so you always have a back up copy that's on a server and not on a computer.
allihall127 0
How does he deserve it? As I said before, the condition of the building is NOT his responsibility. That belongs to someone else, who is supposed to make sure things like that don't happen.
Morphs 0
All hail network-drives!
zipl3r 0
lol yea and if u are dump enouugh to save stuff to C: drive instead of network drive then get an enclosure and put ur HDD in and try that on another comp... water shouldnt be able to get through a case and into a hard drive that easily :)
BloodFaerie 21
Dude, learn to back up files..... ever heard of zip drives and external harddrives...? I have several copies of all my homework files.........
catkat1988 17
ALWAYS make backups of important files. Always. Goes for personal pictures, important work projects, exam papers, business-related files - anything you'd regret losing. An external hard disc is not very expensive, and if it's just a few small files, get a usb stick, burn them onto a CD or simply email them to your hotmail, and possibly also to a friend or a second hotmail address of your own. There are so many ways to make backups, and it doesn't need to take much time or be expensive. I