Today, I thought I'd finally finished the special project my boss gave me of changing the eligibility details on several hundred loans. My coworker later pointed out that the document was the same as it had been hours before, and that the changes I made hadn't saved at all. FML
Collection
Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, a group project for work was due. I honestly forgot about it and edited some words to make it seem like I worked on it. Did you know that Google Docs spreadsheet can track not only the changes made, but who made the changes? My colleagues were pissed. FML
Today, while trying to document another unfair incident, as well as suspected fraud in my toxic work environment, I accidentally replaced months of text in my document with a single period. Cloud backup saved over the actual note I needed. Months of diligence gone and I'll probably continue to be stepped on. FML
Today, I was fired because of a "poorly executed" task. My boss claims that I just copypasted an existing document in a new file; I was instructed exactly to take the document and move its content to a new table without changing anything. It was discussed beforehand, but looks like his own messages are not a proof. FML
Today, my boss dropped a highly important and dense report on my desk that had to be finished by the end of the day. After the initial panic attack and hours of scrupulous work, I finished. She then asked me to pick up the revised copy, where my name was replaced with hers. FML
Today, after retyping a 22-page report for work because the orginal had gone missing, i realized I had used a different laptop the first time. I now have 2 copies of the same report, both of which are late. FML
Today, I finished a very important but annoying presentation that took four hours to complete. Only after writing a paragraph to explain the presentation and sending it to my boss did I realize that I saved the document as "Shit I have to do to get a promotion." FML
Today, due to being stressed and overwhelmed by my tasks, I made a mistake and completed a few of my colleagues' tasks as well. When I informed my boss about it, he said that I did an outstanding job, but I shouldn't have messed with other people's documents. As a result, my promised raise is cancelled. FML
Today, I was working on entering a lot of information in the system. When I'd finished, I closed the screen to move on to the next steps, my boss came by to see how I was doing, just in time to see me looking at a now-blank screen. I'm convinced that my boss thinks I closed a screen that wasn't work related. FML
Today, there's a company I want to get a job at, and I've worked for a long time to get in. However, I realized that in the test task I'd been doing for almost a month, there was a small mistake in my calculations that makes all my results false. And, of course, I'd already sent this task to HR two days ago. FML
Today, thinking we'd still be able to finish our project in time for tomorrow's deadline, my work group put off doing any work until today. When we logged into the website we have to use, we found it was down for maintenance all day. FML
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Top comments
MortenM 17
Yea. Always use autosave. or Ctrl+s frequently. FYL
emilycardona7 18
Always make sure you save.
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MortenM 17
Yea. Always use autosave. or Ctrl+s frequently. FYL
TacoTrop 10
That's the golden rule of long arse projects. Don't follow it? You're going to be bit pretty hard on your backside when an unfortunate event occurs.
emilycardona7 18
Always make sure you save.
zandalee 20
I feel super sorry for all of those poor people waiting for their loans to be approved! Lives may be disrupted badly by OPs mistake.
AxNxNxIxEx12 7
Vaginas will always go back to their normal size. If a guy brags about how tight a girl was he is bragging about how he couldn't turn her on
coried91 28
Wrong FML buddy.
Welshite 40
#3: Man...those are some eligibility details.
zoPwNAgEzo 21
Wrong FML.
AxNxNxIxEx12 7
Wrong FML sorry
hexo21 13
I've been there and it sucks
olpally 33
Ahhh, Tough luck op. Hope you're able to redo it and finish without any backlash from your boss.
coried91 28
I did that with a ten page research paper before. Never made that mistake again. Sorry you had to learn the hard way but at least you'll be more cautious from now on.
nyahz1 7
I just shed a tear on your behalf...10pgs? Ahh !
coried91 28
Yes.. Ten. I was foolish enough to let it go until the last couple of days before it was due. I had been rushing through it just trying to get it done so I could receive some kind of grade on it other than an F. I was a fool and didn't save. My teacher was extremely nice and gave me two days to hand it in with a letter lower than what it would have been if I handed it in on time. Lesson learned.
appletreee 30
Hopefully your boss is understanding about it OP
Wizardo 34
Next time press that motha freaking floppy disk icon 10 times in a row just to be sure, everyone knows the power of the multi click of the floppy disk.
coried91 28
What if they used a USB? That floppy disk button will be worthless.
gracehi 33
Unless she had saved it previously to a USB and the USB was currently inserted into the USB port on the computer. Then it would work just fine.
gracehi 33
I just realized you were joking. My bad.
Sandsh8rk 36
I cannot stress this enough, always make sure you save! It is essential in the IT industry.
ShakeDisPlace 10
Save-A-Lot